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Senna was the busiest man during the test, covering a massive 250 laps, and finishing as 15th quickest overall out of 23 drivers. He reckons, however, that it is very hard to tell where his team stands, although he believes Williams is on par with other teams in the midfield.

“It’s hard to say. We were not following the same sort of testing programme as everybody else,” said Senna of the competitiveness of the Williams.

“I think we are there together with other guys in the midfield but we will only find out for real in Barcelona when people start doing more straightforward test programmes and then we will see.”

He added: “I think we have a strong platform and we have a few ideas in terms of what we want to do with direction, but you know each track is different. Jerez is very unique track in terms of how it makes the car behave, so for sure we are

there was going to be any drama it would be on the Day of Rage,” Ecclestone told The Telegraph.

“They would have to do something then. People there seem confident that a

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going to get to Barcelona and learn a bit more about the traditional circuits.”

Senna is confident Williams’s car will be stronger in the next test at Barcelona as a result of the productive work done at Jerez.

“Well we have been testing a lot of stuff in the car to try and improve tyre consistency, to improve it in the high and low speed, every test we did had an objective and we getting to know the car better and this is the main objective of this test at Jerez.

“And now when we come to Barcelona we know the car better, we know the tendencies and the most important thing to know is which direction to go in when we face a problem.”

race two months away will be alright.

“The teams are not the slightest bit concerned. They seem happy that things will go ahead without problems. Last year was a more clear-cut decision not to go but things have changed a lot since then.”

Last year’s race was first postponed and then cancelled. On Tuesday, armoured vehicles patrolled Bahrain’s capital Manama on the one-year anniversary of the uprising, with police firing tear gas at protesters.

“The only message I got was that there were some kids in trouble with the police,” Ecclestone added.

Last week, a group of British politicians urged the FIA to cancel the event, scheduled for April, because of the unrest in the country.

“We’ve always been non-political,” Ecclestone said. “Any decision will be made on grounds of safety.”

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A Thai Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) official makes a check on a backpack that was left on the bomb site by a suspect bomber in Bangkok, Thailand Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012. Two explosions boomed through a busy neighborhood in the Thai capital Tuesday, police said, but it was not immediately clear what caused the blasts or whether there were any fatalities.

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BANGKOK — An Iranian man carrying grenades blew off his own legs and wounded four civilians Tuesday after an earlier blast shook his house in Bangkok, Thai authorities said. The explosions came a day after an Israeli diplomatic car was bombed in India — an attack Israel blamed on Iran.

Ecclestone : F1 teams not concerned with Bahrain situation Bernie Ecclestone says Formula 1 teams have absolutely no concerns about the situation in Bahrain, and insists the race will go ahead as planned. “We are planning to go. I’ve always said that if

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Bruno Senna thinks the second F1 test at Barcelona will show a truer picture than Jerez about where his Williams team stands. The majority of the Formula 1 teams ran with their new cars at Jerez last week, in the first of three pre-season tests in 2012.

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Authorities say it’s unclear whether the Bangkok explosions were linked to the New Delhi attack, but Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said, “we

can’t rule out any possibility.”

Thai security forces found more explosives in a house where the Iranian man was staying in Bangkok, but the possible targets were not known,

Police Gen. Pansiri Prapawat said.

A passport found at the scene of one blast indicated the assailant was Saeid Moradi from Iran, Pansiri said.

Authorities in Tehran could not immediately be reached for comment.

Tuesday’s violence began in the afternoon when a stash of explosives apparently detonated by accident in Moradi’s house, blowing off part of the roof. Police said two foreigners quickly left the residence, followed by a wounded Moradi.

Thai bombs said similar to India, Georgia attacks

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BANGKOK — The bombs discovered in a Bangkok house after a series of blasts in the Thai capital were similar to those used in attacks on Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia, the Israeli ambassador said Wednesday.

While the targets of the bombs was not clear, “we can assume from the other experiences that we were the target,” Ambassador Itzhak Shoham told The Associated Press.

Thai police found and defused two magnetic bombs that could be stuck on vehicles after Tuesday’ blasts, he said.

“They are similar to the ones used in Delhi and in Tbilisi,” Shoham said.

“From that we can assume that there is the same network of terror.”

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Map showing a series of blasts and attempted bombings across the world this week that Israel has linked to Iran.

“He tried to wave down a taxi, but he was covered in blood, and the driver refused to take him,” Pansiri said. He then threw an explosive at the taxi and began running.

Police who had been called to the area then tried to apprehend Moradi, who hurled a grenade to defend himself. “But somehow it bounced back” and blew off his legs, Pansiri said.

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TORONTO - ‘Linsanity’ slammed into hockey-mad Canada with the force of a winter storm on Tuesday as Jeremy Lin, the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) newest sensation, set hearts aflutter with a Valentine’s Day visit to the league’s most northern outpost.

Indonesia represented by a number of sectors under the coordination of the Ministry of Tourism and the Creative Economy invested a fund worth EUR 2.3 million to participate in the Dutch flower exhibition entitled Venlo World Expo Floriade 2012. “The investment spent for the event lasting over six months is about EUR 2.3 million,” said Deputy Minister of Tourism and the Creative Economy, Sapta Nirwandar, in the press conference of Venlo World Expo Floriade 2012 in Jakarta, Tuesday (Feb 14).

Potential markets

So far, the Netherlands and Germany were the potential markets for Indonesian tourism in the European region. Recorded, the number of

foreign tourist visit from the Netherlands and Germany to Indonesia in 2011 respectively amounted to 91,753 people and 75,397 people.

Meanwhile, the number of the Dutch and German tourists who traveled around the world in 2010 respectively came to 18.38 million and 85.17 million people.

Private sector representative, Marketing Director of PT Vidya Citrapradhana, Iing Wardah, on the same occasion said that Indonesia would bring a variety of endemic flowers becoming the pride of the country such as orchids, jasmine, palm, and Euphorbia. “We know the Netherlands are very advanced in this regard, but we are also superior, specifically for orchids, jasmine, and some other flowers,” she said.

Similarly, she hoped the participation of Indonesia in the event would be able to enhance the tourism image of Indonesia, especially in Europe. (010)

Ten displaced bodies in Sanglah Hospital cremated Denpasar (Bali Post)—

After having stored for virtually a year, finally the bodies abandoned by their family in Sanglah Hospital were cremated by the Sanglah Hospital with a fund from Bali regional government.

Approximately there were 10 displaced bodies where the longest was commended from February 2011 and has been cremated at Mumbul area, Nusa Dua. The Head of Medical Forensic Installation of Sanglah Hospital, Dudut Rustyadi, when met on Tuesday (Feb 14) explained that among the 10 cremated bodies, six of them were adult bodies consisting of four men and two

women. Meanwhile, the remaining comprised the infant’s body (3) and skeleton (1).

Of the six displaced bodies, two bodies were unidentified, namely male body found in Tabanan in February 2011 and a female body found in Sanur in March 2011.

“Most of their death was caused by illness and traffic accidents. None of the cremated bodies were the victims of murder,” said Dudut.

Apart from cremating the displaced bodies, the mortuary of Sanglah Hospital would also send three identified immigrant bodies to their place of origin. Having previously identified four immigrant bodies, later on two others who died in the

waters of Trenggalek, East Java could be identified. “The two bodies were identified as Ali Kalili, 34, from Iran and Muhammad Akram, 24, from Pakistan,” said Dudut.

With the success to identify two more bodies, finally 6 bodies could have been identified of the total 19 immigrant bodies.

“On this Wednesday, two bodies under the name of Ali Hasan, 28, and Barkat Ali, 19, will be taken home by their family. Both immigrants are Pakistanis,” said Dudut. Next Friday (Feb 17) the body under the name of Nazzer Hosseni, 27, from Pakistan would also be picked up by his family to be taken home. (kmb24)

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His party launched the participation of Indonesia in the Venlo World Expo Floriade 2012 in which the theme of Indonesia would be the Indonesia-Wonderful Islands. According to him, the participation of Indonesia in the Floriade 2012 also posed an effort to strengthen bilateral friendship, especially with the Dutch, improve imaging, art and cultural diplomacy, and campaign of Indonesia toward the environmental awareness. “Currently the Indonesian pavilion is under construction.

Hopefully, all the works such as the establishment of a miniature of Borobudur, Betawi House, Jineng House, Joglo House, or ‘jungle dome’ could be accomplished at the end of March,” he said.

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Such amount, said Sapta, was a joint financing from the private sector, sponsors and government.

Indonesia would participate in the Venlo World Expo Floriade 2012 in Venlo, Limburg Province, the Netherlands, on April 4 until October 7, 2012. “Participation of Indonesia in the event held every 10 years is the third time after in 1992 held in Zoetermeer, Rotterdam, and in 2002 in Harlemmermeer, Amsterdam,” he said.

Sapta added that Floriade 2012 would be taken advantage as a venue to promote tourism and economic potential of the creative industries and agriculture, forestry and plantations as well as attracting investment and trade. “Venlo World Expo Floriade 2012 will be utilized to promote Tourism, Trade and Investment (TTI) and to improve the image of Indonesia, so we need to intensify the TTI promotion in various international exhibitions,” he said.

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The hut of Ida Bagus Ketut Susena is destryed by a falling tree

A hut toppled over by falling tree

Ida Bagus Ketut Susena overnights at neighbor’s house Many poor people remain to have no habitable house. Even, some do not have a house at all, so they must take refuge or stay with their neighbor. One of them is Ida Bagus Ketut Susena aka Ida Bagus Tegeg, 61. This dweller of geriya (house of high priest) at Culik village, Karangasem, belongs to less fortunate resident. The poor family met at Culik a few days ago said that his hut covered with tarp had collapsed to the ground three weeks ago due to toppled over by a guava tree.

The hut with the area of 20 square meters had long leaked because the roof made of dried palm leaves ran thin. So, to shelter from rain it had been covered by tarp since 2006.

However, two weeks ago it collapsed as toppled over by a guava tree precisely at the courtyard in Geria Taman, Yeh Malong, Culik village.

Ida Bagus Ketut Susena who was formerly an artist had lived a widowing life since 2006. His wife Ida Ayu Sri died of a disease and left two children. His younger daughter was attending high school in Singaraja and stayed with one of her uncles, while his son worked in Denpasar.

“Frankly speaking, I expect the help in the form of house refurbishment because I do not have anything.

Currently, I am forced to stay with a neighbor or family,” he admitted.

He admitted to have nothing. To

earn his life, like eating and buying coffee he should work every day.

One of his livelihoods was transplanting rice seedling in the rice field. When met, he was transplanting in one of the farmlands at Yeh Malong, Culik. Formerly, Ida Bagus Ketut Susena was also a fisherman at Amed. When he was growing older, he stopped it and just relied on working in rice fields. Among his families, such as Ida Made Giur Dipta, he was known to be happy and industrious to attend social works. Similarly, he was good at playing gamelan and flute.

Pursuant to the existing data, the poor family in Karangasem reached over 32,000 families and it had slightly decreased from 42,171 families in 2007. Out of 32,000 poor families, almost 11,000 families did not have a habitable house. Deputy Regent of Karangasem, Made Sukerana, delivered some time ago that his party and the Regent I Wayan Geredeg were determined to help resolve the poor families who did not have appropriate housing in the next few years. Related to the poor family, Ida Bagus Ketut Susena wishing to get the help of house refurbishment had been proposed and recorded. Obviously, since his hut collapsed due to strong winds, it could be proposed through the budget of natural disaster fund. (bud)

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A game between two losing teams would not normally qualify as a must-see event but Lin, the anonymous benchwarmer turned NBA superstar in a week, made the New York Knicks’ visit to the Toronto Raptors the hottest ticket in town.

Part of Lin’s immense appeal is his made-for-Hollywood back story of sleeping on a team mate’s couch one day and living the American dream the next.

The ‘Linderella’ story continued at the Air Canada Centre as the Taiwanese American stepped up and coolly dropped a three-pointer from the top of the arc with a half-second to play to stun the Raptors 90-87.

That spell-binding piece of magic gave the Knicks their sixth straight victory, with Lin the driving force after starting in the last five games.

On a day dedicated to love, Lin’s last-minute heroics to cap an occasionally ragged performance gave Knicks coach Mike D’Antoni hope the 23-year-old might be set for a long-term relationship with the NBA, rather than the occasional one-night stand.

“He’s a tough kid, you don’t know that until you go into games with him,” D’Antoni told reporters. He’s really tough, mentally he’s there. “I

have complete faith in him. He was pretty confident that was going in.

“He’s a marked man now. He isn’t going to sneak up on anybody.”

Lin committed eight turnovers but with the game on the line he was again the Knicks go-to guy, scoring New York’s last six points, including his long-range winner to finish with a game-high 27-points with 11 assists. The first Taiwanese-American to play in the NBA, Lin’s rise from obscurity to toast of the Big Apple is an extraordinary tale that is hard to resist.

The point guard from Harvard, a college better known as a springboard to the U.S. presidency than the NBA, went undrafted and was cut by Golden State and Houston before finding a place at the end of the Knicks bench in December.

MARKETING DREAM

Given his chance, Lin seized the NBA spotlight with both hands, and has inspired the Knicks with a string of stunning performances. “You have to have luck in life ... he had an opportunity and took advantage of it,” said D’Antoni. “There are a lot of NBA players who don’t make it.

Sometimes you get lucky.

Clijsters withdraws from Indian Wells with injury Reuters

Kim Clijsters has pulled out of next month’s Indian Wells WTA tournament in California because of an injured left ankle, the Belgian former world number one said on Tuesday. The elite March 5-18 event in the California desert, which attracts most of the leading players in the world, would have marked Clijsters’s third tournament of the year.

“I’m very disappointed,” Clijsters said in a statement. “Indian Wells has been a very special tournament for me, winning in 2003 and again in 2005 when I returned from injury. “I have great memories of Indian Wells and have always enjoyed the fan support there. I wish the tournament a great success this year.”

As defending champion, she reached the semi-finals of last month’s Australian Open where she was beaten 6-4 1-6 6-3 by Victoria Azarenka of Belarus.

Clijsters, a four-times grand slam singles champion, has confirmed 2012 will be her last on the WTA tour and she has spoken longingly of winning a medal at the London Olympics. The 28-year-old, whose world ranking has slipped to 30th, has already retired once, married, become a mother and notched up 41 tour wins.

“It’s a great story, so enjoy it, hopefully it will last.” As the first ripples of “Linsanity” hit Asia, marketing men have rubbed their hands with glee as they contemplate a candidate to fill the very large shoes left by last year’s retirement of Yao Ming.

But nowhere has the fascination been greater than New York, where Lin’s No. 17 jersey is the NBA’s top seller and shares of Madison Square Garden Co, owner of the Knicks, have shot to record highs. Some experts say Lin has the potential to be a bigger marketing force than any current athlete, provided ‘Linsanity’ does not prove to be a passing fad.

“He is Tiger Woods before the scandal, I think he has everything going for him,” Ronn Torossian, chief executive of 5W Public Relations, told Reuters. “If he can continue to deliver on the court his possibilities off the court are limitless. “I don’t think he needs to put up MVP numbers but I do think when you look at marketing greatness over the last few years, whether it is David Beckham, Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods, let’s not forget they were all winners. “Before anything else he has to be a winner. If he is, I can’t tell you if we have ever seen anything like this.”

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New York Knicks guard Jeremy Lin celebrates his gamewinning 3-pointer in the final seconds of an NBA basketball game against the Toronto Raptors in Toronto on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012. The Knicks won 90-87.

Making weight key to female boxers’ Olympic dreams Associated Press Writer

AIRWAY HEIGHTS, Wash.

— After slugging away for years in the unglamorous ranks of amateur women’s boxing, Marlen Esparza was thrilled when her sport finally became an Olympic one.

But the invitation to London came with a catch: The petite, 106-pound national champion from Houston would have to gain six pounds to compete against bigger, stronger women if she wanted to qualify.

“It was another mountain to climb,” said Esparza, who fights Tuesday night to try to win a spot on the three-member U.S. team.

“I already thought it was going to be tough to make it to the Olympics, and now I’m going to have to cross this other obstacle.”

The International Olympic Committee’s 2009 decision to cram female boxers from 10 traditional weight classes into

just three divisions — at 112, 132 and 165 pounds — raised safety concerns and altered the entire structure of a sport that’s still chasing worldwide acceptance.

Many fighters spent the past two years struggling to put on or take off a few pounds to fit the IOC’s guidelines, while others didn’t even try.

“For some of them, that’s what ended their Olympic dream,” said Christy Halbert, a veteran coach and the Chair of USA Boxing’s Women’s Task Force.

Six pounds might not seem like much, even on Esparza’s compact frame, but it’s a problem in such a finely calibrated sport. From Floyd Mayweather Jr. to the newest club fighter, boxers of all sizes obsess over the strength and mobility contained in every pound lost or gained.

“Some boxers that we’ve seen worldwide just figured they

couldn’t do it. They were too small to go up, so they didn’t really feel like they could be competitive, or they were too big to try to make that 165,” Halbert said.

Just 36 fighters — 12 in each of the three weight classes — will appear in the first Olympic women’s boxing tournament this summer; trials began this week at the Northern Quest resort-casino outside Spokane. When the IOC created its weight classes for women, the governing body cited its need to limit the total boxers at the Games to 286; one of the 11 normal weight classes for the 250 male boxers was also cut.

After her initial dismay, Esparza — a six-time national champion — began the twoyear process of meticulously building up her body to another weight class, approaching it as a challenge both athletic and intellectual.

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Argentina pick Lamela, give Rodriguez recall Reuters

BUENOS AIRES - AS Roma teenager Erik Lamela and 31year-old Napoli defender Hugo Campagnaro have earned their first Argentina call-ups for a friendly against Switzerland in Berne on Feb. 29. Liverpool winger Maxi Rodriguez also earned a recall in the 18-man squad of foreign-based players named by coach Alejandro Sabella on Tuesday, while Real Madrid’s Angel Di Maria returns from injury.

The squad will be increased in the leadup to the match with the inclusion of players from the local league, the Argentine Football Association said on its website (www.

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Barcelona’s Lionel Messi, right, is stopped by Leverkusen’s Lars Bender during the Champions League round of the last sixteen soccer match between Bayer 04 Leverkusen and FC Barcelona in Leverkusen, Germany, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012.

Barca avoiding La Liga hiccups on the road in Europe Reuters

MADRID - Barcelona’s bid for a fourth straight La Liga title is foundering due to their erratic away form but Tuesday’s 3-1 Champions League victory at Bayer Leverkusen suggests they are unlikely to suffer the same problem in Europe. Winning a lucrative third continental crown in four years is the obvious priority for the Catalan club, especially if they can do so at the expense of arch rivals Real Madrid, who are 10 points clear in Spain’s domestic league.

Jose Mourinho’s Real side have pulled away at the top due to Barca taking only 17 points from a possible 33 on their travels. In the Champions League group stage, however, Barca won all their away matches, including a 3-2 success at AC Milan.

A dominant performance in Tuesday’s last-16 first leg at Leverkusen’s BayArena stadium, in which Barca had 72 percent of possession and had a Lionel Messi effort come back off a post, answered some of the questions hanging over the team following Saturday’s shock 3-2 La Liga defeat at Osasuna.

However, coach Pep Guardiola will still be concerned about a number of issues, including the fitness of key playmaker Xavi. Without the 32-year-old, who has been sidelined by a leg injury and watched Tuesday’s game from the stands, Barca have at times struggled to exert their customary control over opponents.

The patchy form of Xavi’s Spain team mate and centre back Gerard Pique, who was at fault for two, if not all three, of Osasuna’s goals on Saturday and was not even on the bench in Germany, is also a worry.

Asked whether Pique had been punished for his performance in Pamplona, Guardiola told reporters he had rested him only because he did not want to lose him for Sunday’s La Liga game at home to Valencia.

“Pique knows that I have lots of love for him,” Guardiola said. “For us, he’s untouchable.”

RANDOM FACTOR

One reason Barca may have struggled away from home is that some of the smaller pitches are less suited to their free-flowing playing style than the wide-open spaces of the Nou Camp. Guardiola picked out what he called “the random factor”, which he said the players were allowing to feature more in Barca’s games this season than in

previous campaigns.

“We have a problem,” he told a news conference. “We’ve dominated the game for a lot of years and in the past the random factor didn’t figure in our play. “We didn’t give it any room. We must get back to that level and not let randomness feature in our games. We have to control it by playing better,” the former Barca and Spain midfielder added.

One bright spot for the coach has been the emergence of forward Alexis Sanchez, especially in the absence of long-term injury casualty David Villa. Chilean Sanchez, bought from Udinese for some 40 million euros ($52.5 million) in the close season, netted twice on Tuesday and has eight goals in La Liga.

“He allows us to use the space on the pitch better,” Guardiola said.

“He has good movement and he is a humble lad who helps us a lot.

Those two goals will be good for him.” Barca host Leverkusen for the last-16 return leg on March 7.

afa.org.ar). The gifted Lamela has been in good form for Roma since his transfer from relegated Argentine giants River Plate in mid-2011.

Rodriguez, who played for Argentina at the 2006 and 2012 World Cups, last turned out for his country in the 4-0 quarter-final defeat by Germany in Cape Town in July, 2010. He was overlooked for the Copa America in Argentina last July.

AS Roma centre back Nicolas Burdisso and Paris St Germain midfielder Javier Pastore, both in the squad that beat Colombia 2-1 away in Argentina’s last World Cup qualifier in November, were unavailable due to injury.

LYON, France - Olympique Lyon laboured against a resolute APOEL Nicosia before a secondhalf goal from the lively Alexandre Lacazette earned them a 1-0 home win in their Champions League last 16 first leg on Tuesday.

France Under-21 striker Lacazette netted his maiden Champions League goal in the 58th minute as Lyon, who only made this stage for the ninth straight time after a 7-1 thrashing of Dinamo Zagreb, gained a victory they just about deserved.

APOEL, the first Cypriot team to reach the last 16 having topped a group featuring Zenit St Petersburg, Shakhtar Donetsk and Porto, had little to show for themselves offensively as they waited for the perfect counter-attack that never

materialised.

“We expected this kind of game but I wish we had been more efficient. I now hope we will not regret it after the second leg,” Lyon coach Remi Garde, whose side lost 2-1 at home to lowly Caen on Saturday, told France’s Canal+ TV .

“They were supposed to have chances on counter attacks and they did not get any, it’s because we also defended well.”

Lyon, who will travel to Cyprus for the second leg on March 7, could have gone ahead early on but were denied a possible penalty in the third minute after Ederson appeared to have been brought down by goalkeeper Dionisios Chiotis in the box. The hosts piled on the pressure thereafter but APOEL held on thanks to their stout defence.

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The ambience of the day of romantic love in Gianyar also came into the bureaucratic realm of Gianyar Regency. As an endeavor to improve the quality of service and comfort for people administering their licensing, the Integrated Licensing Service Agency (BPPT) of Gianyar distributed tens of cut roses to license applicants in the Office of BPPT Gianyar. “Valentine commemorated as the day of romantic love becomes the right moment to provide better service to the community,” said Secretary of BPPT Gianyar, Putu Ngakan Darmajati.

In 2011, BPPT Gianyar could accomplish 3002 permits belonging to 18 types served. The dominant license was the building permit (IMB) for residential houses amounting 45.66 percent, cottage/inn (18.04 percent), store (11.30 percent), office (8.79 percent), restaurants (2.86 percent) and the rest was IMB of budget hotels .

In the meantime, the permit of business location and permit of disturbance (HO) were required by cottage/inn business (23.46 percent), trading services (20.00 percent), tower (11.85 percent), business services (9.88 percent), hotel and budget hotel business (6.87 percent) and the rest was for food stall, bar/restaurant and craft enterprises.

Additionally, the Gianyar Regency also managed to draw an investment worth IDR 1.089 trillion or in foreign currency amounted to USD 2.3 million. (kmb16)

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The pond in the office of Jembrana Regent

Pond at Regency Government has unclear functions Negara (Bali Post)—

A pond within the office area of Jembrana Regent has unclear function. Despite containing water, its condition seems poorly maintained. If it is used as landscaping element to beautify the building, it is inappropriate with the designation as situating on the back corner and rarely visited or seen.

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Lyon’s Kim Kallstrom of Sweden, left, challenges for the ball with Apoel Nicosia’s Constantinos Charalambides during their Champions League soccer match at Gerland stadium, in Lyon, central France, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012.

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The pond is precisely located behind the Niti Praja Temple of Jembrana Government and adjacent to the Jembrana House. It is equipped with seats surrounding the pond but the purpose of the building is unclear. Even, based on the observation made last Tuesday, the pond seemed to be poorly maintained and the water looked very dark. Similarly, the landscaping around the pond had been overgrown by rarely trimmed grass.

According to information, such location is indeed rarely visited by staff or anyone as situating at the very back corner and even it is a dead end street. Though it is close to the canteen or the licensing office, the public or employees rarely visit it. It is unknown exactly about the purpose to build the pond.

Other than being unlike a park, near the location is also used for waste disposal.

Meanwhile, when the Regent of Jembrana I Putu Artha was asked

about the pond, he said it was formerly a rubbish disposal site. Later on, it was developed and better arranged into a single unit with the temple and made a pond.

According to the future plan, the Niti Praja Temple would be expanded and better arranged so that location of the pond could be arranged together with the pond. According to him, his party remained to consider the budget because the arrangement was not so urgent. (kmb26)

A clash case between two groups is getting more prevalent lately. It does not only involve the youth group belonging to the mass organizations (ormas), but also frequently involves the residents as happened in Tabanan and Badung region. Fortunately, there were no casualties in such a number of incidents. Nevertheless, those incidents are quite disturbing other people.

What are the anticipative measures of police lineups to prevent similar incidents in the future?

Clash incidents have been familiar in the ears of society because they occur in almost all regions in Indonesia, including Bali. In Bali, there are at least three cases of clash occurred over the past a week. The latest was the clash at Pangkungkarung village, Kerambitan, Tabanan.

The house of Bedha customary village chief, Nyoman Surata, was crushed with stoned by a mass on Sunday night (Feb 12). Allegedly, the clash related to the fission of Pangkungkarung customary village. The violence of mass did not only target the house of Surata, but also a number of other houses.

Luckily, such incident did not claim any casualties and had been handled by the authorities.

Before the incident, a number of clash incidents also occurred at Peneng hamlet, Mekar Sari village in Baturiti, Tabanan. Allegedly, the clash case involved two mass organizations whose real motive had not been known yet. Not only that, the clash between two youth groups also occurred on Jalan Raya

Sempidi, Mengwi, Badung. “Each case has been handled by local regency police,” said the Spokesperson of Bali Police, Hariadi, Tuesday (Feb 14).

According to Hariadi, those clash incidents were just a misunderstanding. And those were also committed by individuals. “Such a clash has frequently happened in Bali. It is a logical consequence of the existence of many mass organizations. However, it does not necessarily mean we blame on them (mass—Ed),” said Hariadi. In terms of humanity aspects, such a conflict or friction happened in the field due to psychological factor.

For example, they considered themselves the most fabulous. Well, it had become the task of police to conduct a precaution and it should be definitely carried out by working closely with other parties such as government and the community elements. More importantly, it required an approach to community leaders who were competent against their social environment. “To that end, we should work hand in hand to anticipate it,” he said.

In particular, it should be attempted to take anticipative or preventive endeavor where police and all the societal elements should work together to take anticipative measure and prevent the conflict. On that account, the anticipation could only be done together. “For that purpose, we appeal to all the societal elements to jointly maintain the security of Bali. We will also do policing against the mass organizations in Bali,” he added. (kmb21)

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OTTAWA - The son of one of the greatest defenders of Canadian unity, former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, has stirred up a hornets’ nest by speculating about backing Quebec separatism if the country moves too far right Trudeau’s 40-year-old son, Justin, now a Liberal member of Parliament, said in an interview with the French-language service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp (http://link.reuters.com/ gud66s) on Sunday that he was enormously saddened by the direction of the country under Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

He said that at some point he might even back independence for his home province, Frenchspeaking Quebec. Referendums in Quebec on independence in 1980 and 1995 both failed, the last one by a mere 1.2 percentage points.

“I always say, if at a certain point I thought that Canada was

really the Canada of Stephen Harper - that we were going against abortion, and we were going against gay marriage and we were going backwards in 10,000 different ways - maybe I would think about wanting to make Quebec a country,” he said.

That statement caught the CBC interviewer off guard, and he asked him to verify what he had just said.

“Yes, yes, absolutely. If I no longer recognized Canada, I know my values very well,” he said, and then added: “But I believe deeply in Canada.”

His father was Liberal prime minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and again from 1980 to 1984, and he fiercely defended a united Canada that included his native Quebec.

It took a little time for Justin Trudeau’s remarks to be noticed broadly but they exploded on the Internet on Tuesday and his name was trending on Twitter, drawing him into the fray with a Tweet of his own.

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LOS ANGELES — The one thing 14-year-old Moshe Kai Cavalin dislikes is being called a genius. All he did, after all, was enroll in college at age 8 and earn his first of two Associate of Arts degrees from East Los Angeles Community College at age 9, graduating with a perfect 4.0 grade point average.

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Obama friendly but firm with China heir apparent Reuters

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama told Chinese leaderin-waiting Xi Jinping on Tuesday that Beijing must play by the same trade rules as other major world powers and vowed to keep pressing China to clean up its human rights record.

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Liberal MP Justin Trudeau speaks following Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa December 14, 2011.

country’s relationship with Washington for the next decade.

Obama’s firm message on trade, currency, human rights and global issues such as Syria was notable, given that the meetings were previewed as essentially sizing-up sessions.

He has assumed a tougher tone with China in recent months, and is under election-year pressure from Republican presidential candidates, who say his approach has been too conciliatory.

“With expanding power and prosperity also comes increased responsibilities,” Obama said as he sat side by side with Xi in the Oval Office.

“We want to work with China to make sure that everybody is working by the same rules of the road when it comes to the world economic system, and that includes ensuring that there is a balanced trade flow,” he said.

But Xi, who must also show a domestic audience he is ready to defend China’s interests, later insisted to American business leaders that Beijing was acting on U.S. concerns and asked for similar consideration from the Obama administration.

Syrian forces attack Hama, Homs despite pressure to stop Reuters

AMMAN - Syrian government forces launched an offensive on the city of Hama early on Wednesday, firing on residential neighborhoods from armored vehicles and mobile anti-aircraft guns, opposition activists said. Troops also shelled Sunni Muslim neighborhoods in Homs, the 13th day of their bombardment of a city that has been at the forefront of the uprising against 42 years of rule by President Bashar alAssad and his late father Hafez.

An explosion hit a major oil pipeline feeding a refinery in Homs, sending a large plume of smoke rising into the sky, witnesses said.

The blast hit the pipeline near a district being shelled by govern-

ment troops, they said. France said it had created a one million euro emergency fund for aid agencies looking to help the Syrian people and would propose a similar one at an international level next week at a meeting in Tunisia to discuss the escalating crisis.

Paris had previously proposed “humanitarian corridors” with Syrian approval or with an international mandate for shipping food and medicine to alleviate civilian suffering.

Tanks deployed near the citadel of Hama were shelling the neighborhoods of Faraya, Olailat, Bashoura and al-Hamidiya, and troops were advancing from the airport, opposition sources said.

An activist called Amer, speak-

Now, at 14, he’s poised to graduate from UCLA this year. He’s also just published an English edition of his first book, “We Can Do.” The 100-page guideline explains how other young people can accomplish what Cavalin did through such

President Obama listens to China’s Vice President Xi Jinping during their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House, February 14, 2012.

In White House talks, Obama sought to reassure Xi that Washington welcomed China’s “peaceful rise.” But he also signaled that frictions would remain in a growing economic and military rivalry between the two countries, even as Beijing’s political transition moves forward.

Xi’s meeting with Obama was the centerpiece of a heavily scripted visit that could help the Chinese vice president boost his international standing and show he is capable of steering his

ing briefly by satellite phone, said that “landlines and mobile phone networks have been cut in the whole of Hama,” a Sunni city notorious for the massacre of some 10,000 people when the present president’s father Hafez sent in troops to crush an uprising there in 1982. Activists said no casualty reports were available from Hama, Syria’s fourth largest city, because of communications problems.

Assad’s determination to crush the revolt, regardless of widespread condemnation of his use of force against civilians, prompted Arab countries led by Saudi Arabia to prepare a new resolution at the United Nations in support of a peace plan forged at a meeting in Cairo on Sunday.

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Trudeau son Justin mulls possible separate Quebec Reuters

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FILE - In this May 2, 2008 file photo, Moshe Kai Cavalin, 10, strikes a martial arts position as he poses for photos at his home studio in Downey, Calif.

Featherweight songbird is a long-distance champ Agence France Presse

A tiny songbird weighing just two tablespoons of sugar migrates from the Arctic to Africa and back, a distance of up to 29,000 kilometres (18,000 miles), scientists reported on Wednesday.

The size of an undernourished sparrow, the northern wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe) tips the scales at just 25 grammes (0.9 of an ounces).

But biologists who tagged the tawny-andwhite insectivore were stunned at its flight endurance. They attached minute geolocators, each weighing just 1.2 grammes (0.04 of an ounce) to the legs of 46 wheatears in Alaska and on Baffin Island in northeastern Canada.

The Alaskan birds spent the winter in Africa before returning back home, a journey of about 14,500 kms (9,000 miles) each way, in which they flew on average 290 kms (181 miles) a day. They travelled over Siberia and across the Arabian desert, heading to Sudan, Uganda and Kenya, a trip that took about 91 days on the outward trip but 55 days for the return leg.

A tagged bird from Baffin Island flew over the North Atlantic, landed in Britain, travelled southwards across continental Europe, the

Mediterranean and Sahara to winter on the coast of Mauritania, West Africa, taking 26 days out and 55 days back for a trip of about 7,500 kms (4,700 miles).

“They are incredible migratory journeys, particularly for a bird this size,” said Ryan Norris of the University of Guelph in Ontario.

“Think of something smaller than a robin but a little larger than a finch raising young in the Arctic tundra and then a few months later foraging for food in Africa for the winter.”

The study appears on Wednesday in Biology Letters, a journal published by the Royal Society, Britain’s de-facto academy of sciences.

Birds with larger wingspans such as the cuckoo and albatross are famous for their transcontinental migrations, but this study provides incontrovertible evidence that a songbird can do the same, say the scientists.

“Scaled for body size, this is one of the longest round-trip migratory journey of any bird in the world and raises questions about how a bird of this size is able to successfully undertake such physically demanding journeys twice a year, particularly for inexperienced juveniles migrating on their own.”

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Damaged cars are seen in Bab Amro, in the city of Homs, February 13, 2012.

simple acts as keeping themselves focused and approaching everything with total commitment. He’s hoping it will show people there’s no genius involved, just hard work.

“That’s always the question that bothers me,” Cavalin, who turned 14 on Valentine’s Day, says when the Gword is raised. “People need to know you don’t really need to be a genius.

You just have to work hard and you can accomplish anything.” And maybe cut out some of the TV.

Although he’s a big fan of Jackie Chan movies, Cavalin says he limits his television time to four hours a week. Not that he lacks for recreational activities or feels that his parents pressured him into studying constantly. He writes in “We Can Do” of learning to scuba dive, and he loves soccer and martial arts. He used to participate in the latter sport when he was younger, winning trophies for his age group, until his UCLA studies and his writing made things a little too hectic.

Indeed one of the key messages of his book is to stay focused and to not take on any endeavor half-heartedly. “I was able to reach the stars, but others can reach the ‘Milky Way,” he tells readers.

Handout photo from NASA shows a sunset over the Arctic. A tiny songbird weighing just two tablespoons of sugar migrates from the Arctic to Africa and back, a distance of up to 29,000 kilometres, scientists reported on Wednesday.

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Apple chief says factory labor under scrutiny

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Apple chief executive Tim Cook said that ensuring safe working conditions at plants making its coveted gadgets is a priority, as an audit of a key supplier continued in China. “Apple takes working conditions very seriously and we have for a very long time,” Cook said during an on-stage interview at a Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday.

“We know people have a high expectation of Apple; we have an even higher expectation of ourselves.” Cook’s comments came a day after a labor watchdog group began sanctioned checks of working conditions at a massive Foxconn plant in southern China that makes products for the California-based gadget-maker.

Apple agreed last month to allow inspections by the Fair Labor Association (FLA) following reports that employees were overworked and underpaid at Foxconn factories in China. The Taiwan-owned Foxconn is the

largest manufacturer of Apple products.

FLA teams will also inspect factories owned by two other Taiwan-owned manufacturers, Quanta and Pegatron, which also make Apple products. Apple said the FLA’s findings and recommendations will be posted on its website, fairlabor.org, in early March.

“In terms of problems we are looking to fix, no one in our industry is doing more to improve working conditions than Apple,” Cook said. “We are constantly auditing facilities looking for problems, finding problems and fixing problems, and we report everything because we think transparency is incredibly important.”

Apple has taken to micro-managing schedules at plants to safeguard against employees working more than 60 hours weekly and considers intentionally hiring underage labor a “firing offense,” he added. Apple reported blockbuster quarterly earnings last month with net profit more than doubling to a record $13.06 billion and revenue soaring to an all-time high of $46.33 billion.

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For Houston mourners, a dearth of places to grieve Associated Press Writer

NEWARK, N.J. — In Whitney Houston’s hometown, her family plans a private church service, with no public memorial set. In Los Angeles, where she died, there’s not even a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for fans to pile flowers. So for the legion of music lovers mourning a global superstar, where do broken hearts go?

Fans who have gathered outside the church where Houston will be eulogized Saturday at an invitation-only service — and outside the funeral home where her body now rests — say they understand why the family wants to keep the world out the best they can. But they also yearned for the chance to fully share in the grief and the remembrance of a native daughter who made it big and made them proud.

Samuel Turner Jackson, of Newark, said he was looking forward to heading down to “The Rock,” as the Prudential

Center is known. Before, that is, the funeral home announced Tuesday that no public service would be held at the 18,000-seat arena, an option that had been discussed.

The arena, home to home to the NHL’s New Jersey Devils, displayed an image of Houston on a screen outside Tuesday.

“We don’t know what the circumstances are, but we’re sure that the family did want to share something with the community that she gave so much to,” he said. “But they have their reasons, and we’re going to do the best we can to pay our respects and to mourn her.”

Antonio Ballinger, of Newark, also hoped to attend a public service and “see her off,” and said he was saddened to hear he wouldn’t get the opportunity. “But my blessings go out to the family, and I wish them nothing but the best,” he said. The family said Tuesday it had no plans right now for a public memorial. Still, fans in this downtrodden city held out hope.

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People walk past, a large image of Whitney Houston displayed on the side of the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012.

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Angelina Jolie on Tuesday premiered her film “In the Land of Blood and Honey” in Bosnia, where the fictional tale of a romance between a Bosnian Serb man and a Bosnian Muslim woman has shone a spotlight on the ethnic anger still left over from the country’s brutal conflict.

Jolie, who arrived in Sarajevo with partner Brad Pitt to attend the screening, greeted the crowd of 5,000 in Bosnian, before acknowledging in English that it would bring back painful memories of the bloody 1992-95 war.

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In this film image released by The Weinstein Company, a scene is shown from “Undefeated.”

Review: ‘Undefeated’ inspires effortlessly Associated Press Writer

It seems impossibly feel-good, this tale of sacrifice and redemption, tragedy and triumph. It may also sound like the kind of uplifting football drama you’ve seen countless times before — and comparisons to both “Friday Night Lights” and “The Blind Side” will be inevitable.

Still, the Oscar-nominated documentary “Undefeated” knocks you over with a power all its own; told in intimate, unadorned fashion, it comes from a pure place that’s irresistible.

It isn’t trying too hard to inspire us — and that’s precisely why it does.

Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin, who directed, shot and edited the film, know well enough to get out of the way and let the story and the characters work their magic.

Their focus is the 2009 football team at Manassas High School in North Memphis, a predominately black school in a blighted part of town which hadn’t won a playoff game in its 110-

year history. The filmmakers show us the boarded-up houses that are all-too common in the neighborhood, the random guys drinking 40s out of paper bags in the middle of the day, but rather than depicting an urban stereotype, they reveal a vividly sad sense of place.

Coach Bill Courtney hopes that by working with these kids and developing their strengths on the field, they’ll recognize the importance of being strong men off the field. Or as he puts it: football doesn’t build character, football reveals character. A husband and father of four, he has devoted a ridiculous amount of hours over the past six-plus years to turning this team

around from perennial cellar-dwellers to serious contenders in the division.

What’s mind-boggling is that he’s doing it all as a volunteer, which he can afford as the owner of a successful lumber company. Courtney also happens to be white, which is simply never an issue. He gets through to these kids through the sheer force of his personality; portly and boisterous, he can be charming and demanding in equal measure, and he ends up becoming the film’s de facto star.

“Undefeated” also follows three of the Tigers’ main players. When we first meet Montrail “Money” Brown, he’s showing off his science fair project and humbly mentioning that he has a 3.8 grade point average. He lives in a modest house with his grandmother but has dreams of leaving town and going to college — and as a small offensive lineman, he realizes it won’t be football that gets him there.

Jolie hopes her film draws notice to Syria Associated Press Writer

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As the film ended to a standing ovation, Jolie tearfully said, “To share this with you means the world to me.”

At an earlier press conference, Jolie said the movie was “heavy” but that she was happy with it because it shows what horrors can occur in the absence of a timely intervention.

She said she hoped the film could serve as a “wake-up call” for the international community to pay more attention to atrocities and act to prevent them — including in Syria.

“I am satisfied with what we made, I feel very strongly about it and I believe that its core issue — which is the need for intervention

and need for the world to care about atrocities when they are happening — is very, very timely and especially with things that are happening in Syria today,” she said.

The film, which has already been released in the U.S. follows what happens when the man becomes an army officer and the woman is held in a military prison camp where rape occurs. Some Serbs have accused the film of demonizing them.

“I think it is very important that this film is out at this time and ... if this film points the finger at anybody it is the international community,” she said.

JIMBARAN - Newly appointed chef-tothe-stars joins the team with an arsenal of flavor-power to leave your taste buds in a comfortable coma.

Enjoying a long affair with Four Seasons in London, Milan and Damascus, Samuele brings a wealth of experience, innovation and authenticity to menus and The Wantilan kitchens.

Soon to be treating guests and residents to specialized authentic Italian cooking-classes, Baudoino will soon be calling Bali his newest home.

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.

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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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Demonstrators take part in a protest demanding the army to hand power to civilians, at Tahrir square in Cairo February 10, 2012.

Egypt to hold presidential poll in May: report

Israel has accused Iran of waging a covert campaign of state terror.

Shoham said the arrest of two Iranians in the blasts “again leaves not too much room to assume who was behind it.”

A bombing of an Israeli diplomatic car in New Delhi on Monday injured four people, including a diplomat’s wife. A similar bomb found under a car in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Monday was defused.

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CAIRO - Egypt’s first presidential election since Hosni Mubarak was overthrown a year ago will be held by late May, Wednesday’s state newspaper al-Ahram quoted a government minister as saying. Army leaders who took over from Mubarak in February last year have faced street protests and widespread demands that they hand power to civilians sooner than the end-June deadline they had set themselves.

Photos of the wounded Iranian showed him covered in dark soot on a sidewalk strewn with broken glass.

He lay in front of a Thai primary and secondary school. No students were reported wounded.

A dark satchel nearby was investigated by a bomb disposal unit. Pansiri said police found Iranian currency, US dollars and Thai money in the bag.

Three Thai men and one Thai woman were brought to Kluaynamthai Hospital for treatment of injuries, said Suwinai Busarakamwong, a doctor there.

Another Iranian was detained Tuesday night at Bangkok’s international airport as he attempted to leave for neighboring Malaysia, said police commander Winai Thongsong. Authorities were interrogating the man, but it was not yet known whether he was involved in Tuesday’s blasts.

Last month, a Lebanese-Swedish man with alleged links to pro-Iranian Hezbollah militants was detained

by Thai police. He led authorities to a warehouse filled with more than 8,800 pounds (4,000 kilograms) of urea fertilizer and several gallons of liquid ammonium nitrate.

Israel and the United States at the

Affairs and Local Development Mohamed Attia told al-Ahram the election would be held by late May, giving candidates three weeks to declare their candidature and 45 days for campaigning. Most candidates have already begun campaigning

unofficially.

The judicial election committee is the only body with the authority to set the election date.

Under new rules approved in a referendum last year, presidents will in future be limited to two consecutive, four-year terms.

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are now incontinent and have experienced memory loss, with some unable to remember simple maths such as calculating one plus two.

Others are unconscious.

Doctors quoted in the report said their central nervous systems had been damaged, with some of the patients’ hands continuously shaking. Wang Min, an official at the Guangzhou Number 12 People’s Hospital where 33 of the workers have been admitted since November, told AFP they had all been poisoned by dichloroethane -- a chemical compound used to make glue.

She said one had since died, another had recovered, and three had been transferred to another hospital.

According to the newspaper report, another three people have died from the same form of poisoning.

“Currently, there are still 28 people being treated in our hospital, including 16 in serious condition, although their lives are out of danger,” Wang said. “The patients all came from small workshops that made shoes, leather products and bags.” The city’s work safety administration refused to comment when contacted by AFP.

China glue poisoning kills four, leaves 30 ill

Four workers have died and about 30 have fallen ill in south China from suspected glue poisoning that caused severe nerve damage, health authorities and state media said Wednesday. The victims worked in Guangzhou city in shoe and bag factories with poor ventilation -- most of them illegal -- and started falling ill last year after handling poor quality glue, the Beijing Morning Post said.

According to the report, those still alive but in serious condition

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Officials announced earlier this month that nominations for the race would be accepted from March 10, signaling that the generals have accelerated their planned handover of power by about a month.

Minister for Parliamentary

France’s economy grew 1.7 percent in 2011

TOKYO — Four days before a tsunami devastated a Japanese nuclear plant, its operator promised a fuller assessment of the risk of such a disaster — but not for seven months.

The disclosure in a three-page briefing paper obtained by The Associated Press raises questions about whether the utility and regulators were too complacent about studies that suggested a tsunami could overwhelm the defenses at the 40-year-old Fukushima Dai-ichi plant.

It also highlights Japan’s slow pace of decision-making on an issue that experts had been warning about for at least 20 months.

“If they had made the decision earlier, then they could have been prepared on March 11,” said Hideyuki Hirakawa, an Osaka University expert on governance and the sciences. “There is absolutely nothing you can do in four days.”

On March 11, 2011, a 9.0-magnitude offshore earthquake triggered a tsunami that killed about 19,000 people along Japan’s northeastern coast. The surge of water knocked out power at the coastal Fukushima plant, leading to the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. Tens of thousands have had to leave the area, and it’s unclear whether some will ever be able to move back.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. presented the briefing paper, stamped “handle with care,” at a meeting with Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency on March 7. The agency released the document to the AP under a public records request.

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time warned their citizens to be alert in the capital, but Thai authorities said Thailand appeared to have been a staging ground but not the target of any attack.

Pansiri said that “so far, we haven’t found any links between these two cases.”

Immigration police are trying to trace Moradi’s movements, but initial reports indicated he flew into Thailand from Seoul, South Korea on Feb. 8, Pansiri said. He landed at the southern Thai resort town of Phuket, then stayed in a hotel in Chonburi, a couple hours drive southeast of Bangkok, for several nights.

Bangkok’s blasts came one day after bombs targeted Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia. The attack in India wounded four people, while the device found in Georgia did not explode. Iran has denied it was responsible. In Jerusalem, Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said there was not yet any sign that any targets in Bangkok were Israeli or Jewish.

Israeli police have increased the state of alert in the country, emphasizing public places, foreign embassies and offices, as well as Ben-Gurion International Airport.

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Reflected in a window, people walk in London’s City financial district, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012.

China will continue to invest in euro zone government debt and it remains confident in the euro, the country’s central bank governor said on Wednesday, while calling on Europeans to produce more attractive investment products for China.

China to keep investing in euro zone debt Reuters

BEIJING - China will continue to invest in euro zone government debt and it remains confident in the euro, the country’s central bank governor said on Wednesday, while calling on Europeans to produce more attractive investment products for China.

Zhou Xiaochuan admitted that China and other emerging nations like Brazil, Russia or India were waiting for the right time to help the bloc, after a European Union state visit was once again met with encouraging words but no concrete public commitments on fresh funding from China.

But he also suggested Europe needed to work harder to entice Beijing to part with its capital.

“We also hope that the euro zone and EU can innovate their mechanisms to offer new products that are more helpful for Sino-Europe cooperation,” he said.

The central bank governor reiterated previous comments from Premier Wen Jiabao that China was ready to play a bigger role in solving Europe’s debt problems, noting China had not cut its reserves exposure to the euro zone.

“At the G20, our state leaders promised European leaders that, amid the global financial crisis and the Europe sovereign debt crisis, China will not cut the proportion of

euro exposure” in its reserves, Zhou said in a speech at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing.

“Some people had cast doubt or suspicion over the currency, but for the People’s Bank of China, we have always been confident in the euro and its future,” he added.

Although Zhou’s comments largely underlined China’s established stance, the remarks helped push the euro higher and were cited in markets for supporting stocks buying in Asia.

Vice Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao, who is visiting the United States with leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping, also sought to reassure Europe of China’s support.

“China’s commercial investment in Europe has continued, under the principles of safety, liquidity and appropriate returns,” he said.

“We have not adjusted out investment structure. That, it should be said, has been China offering its true trust and support at a crucial moment in European countries addressing their

sovereign debt problems,” he said.

Any bigger role in solving the debt crisis would be via the International Monetary Fund and the European Financial Stability Fund, or EFSF, Zhou said, echoing Wen’s comments.

“We strongly believe European countries can work together to handle the challenges. They are able to solve the sovereign debt crisis,” Zhou said.

“The PBOC firmly supports the ECB’s recent measures to address the difficulties.”

Verbal reassurances from Zhou and senior Chinese leaders come as European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso are visiting Beijing for a China-EU summit.

Van Rompuy assured his Chinese hosts that they should not underestimate the strong political incentive to keep the euro zone intact.

The summit had been delayed from late last year as European leaders struggled to deal with an escalating debt crisis.

PARIS — France’s GDP grew slightly in the last quarter of 2011, the national statistics agency said Wednesday, bringing total economic growth for the year to 1.7 percent, just off government estimates.

The figures beat the Insee agency’s own estimates — it had predicted the economy would contract in the fourth quarter. Instead, GDP advanced 0.2 percent. Insee has also said it expects a contraction in the first quarter of this year.

It’s still unclear, though, whether that will be sufficient to keep France on track for reducing its deficit over the next several years and balancing its budget by 2016.

President Nicolas Sarkozy, who is expected to seek a second term in spring elections but is trailing his Socialist opponent in polls, has staked his credibility on meeting those targets. In recent months, his government has repeatedly revised its budgets to slash more spending as its growth forecasts proved overly rosy.

Most recently, the government halved its growth forecast for this year to 0.5 percent.

Finance Minister Francois Baroin said the figures released Wednesday indicated it could meet that target. He also noted that 2011 growth was in line with the government’s projection.

Airlines forecast to buy $3.5 trillion of new jets by 2030 Associated Press

SINGAPORE — Global airlines will need $3.5 trillion of new planes through 2030, with more than a third of that demand coming from Asia, Airbus’s chief executive said Wednesday.

The aviation industry will require 27,800 new planes of 100-plus seating capacity between 2010 and 2030 while Asia will likely take delivery of about 9,370 of those planes worth $1.3 trillion, CEO Tom Enders said.

“Our business isn’t moving to the East, it has moved to the East,” Enders said during a news conference at the Singapore Airshow. “We’re focused on Asia because that’s where most of our growth comes from.”

Airbus is wrestling longtime rival Boeing for the burgeoning Asian market. Asia provided half of Airbus’s 1,600 firm orders last year. Boeing scored its biggest deal ever in November when Indonesian budget carrier Lion Air agreed to buy 230 planes for $22 billion.

Boeing said earlier this week it expects airlines will need 33,500 new planes worth $4 trillion by 2030, with Asia accounting for about 35 percent of that total.

Asia is expected to account for 33 percent of global air passengers by 2030, up from a current 28 percent, according to Airbus. Europe will likely drop to 23 percent from 27 percent and the U.S. will fall to 20 percent from 27 percent, Airbus said.

Enders reiterated that Airbus is fixing small cracks found on the wings of some of its A380s. Airbus is inspecting all 69 A380s it has delivered so far after carriers such as Singapore Airlines and Qantas reported small wing fissures in December.

Airbus delivered 22 of the super jumbos to Asian carriers last year and expects to deliver 30 more worldwide this year.

“We made a mistake and it will cost the company quite some money,” Enders said, declining to specify how much money. “We understand the root causes and we’ll soon have a final fix.”

“This plane is absolutely safe to fly,” he said.

The A320neo, which seats up to 180 passengers, has become a favorite of Asia’s growing budget airline sector. Airbus delivered 546 of the planes to Asia last year.

Asian banks are also taking a bigger role in financing plane purchases, accounting for 20 percent of deliveries to the region last year, Enders said.

“If we should lose some financing capacity in Europe, I’m quite confident we can substitute that in Asia,” Enders said.

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Denpasar Traditional Market is a center of town’s economics which is located in Gajah Mada Street, that is main road and become a shopping centre of Bali. This traditional market is apposite to the village temple that is one of three biggest temples in Denpasar.

It is initially does not as big as like now because have changed experiences and modification which is adapting to the requirement and town growth. This market cannot be discharged from the existence of an existing market in the cross Badung’s river that is called Kumbasari Market because the local society will feel incompletely go for shopping if they are not come to Kumbasari Market, especially for the Balinese who want to buy the ceremony items.

Denpasar Market is a market selling the costume and clothing items with the prices are relative cheaper than clothing items sold at the shops in Gajah Mada Street

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which are most owned by citizen of Chinese clan. Kumbasari Market is previously called by Peken Payuk (pot market), it sell the items from gerabah /jar like pot, pengedangan, cubek (plate from land), paso (pail from land), caratan (water jug from land), jeding (barrel from land), penyantokan (mixer from land), coblong (cup from land), kekeb (rice cover) and others. All of these items are the kitchenware and also the items for ceremony. Since this market most popular as a place to sell payuk/pot, hence Kumbasari Market in the past referred as Peken Payuk or pot market. But now it sell the material or art items for tourist therefore it is one of tourist destinations in Denpasar Town.

Denpasar Market is opened on 24 April 1984 by Bali ‘s Governor, Prof. Dr. Ida Bagus Mantra. Then after experiencing of the fire accident, it has been repaired in year 2000 at that moment Bali ‘s Governor is Mr. Dewa Made Berata. This market owns the broadness about 14.544 M² and broadly park 9064

M² which is built in four floors.

The local people who go for shopping at this market are not only from environment of Denpasar community but also come from outside of town. The moment be-

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fore the big holiday like Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi and others, this market is always crowded by the buyer which are most of them the local society.

Denpasar Market is opened at 5

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o’clock in the morning and close at 5 o’clock in the evening. Then, it is changed by the evening market opened from 05:00 pm until at 05:00 am the day after. Meanwhile at Senggol Market in Kumbasari is opened at 02:00 pm and closed at 11:30 pm. The unique of Senggol Market’s name is possibility taken away from the situation and condition of people movement on shopping where they each others jog because of visitor denseness.

This Senggol Market is selling the variety of food, from the cheap Balinese, Javanese and Chinese cookery. It is also sell the various types of clothes from adult until children one.

Denpasar Market is encircled by shop along the street of Gajah Mada, in the right side there is Sulawesi Street which is famous of cloth items. Denpasar Traditional Market is progressively strengthening the identity of a center of Denpasar’s economics which is opened within 24 hours and never silent by visitor.

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Indonesia buys nine Airbus military transport jets SINGAPORE - Indonesia on Wednesday signed a $325.0 million contract with Airbus Military for nine C-295 transport planes to be used for defence, logistical and humanitarian purposes.

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The first plane will be sent to the Southeast Asian nation this year, with the remainder scheduled for delivery by 2014.

“This is a proud moment for our country as well as for the Indonesian aerospace industry,” said Indo-

nesian Defence Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro, at the signing of the deal at the Singapore Airshow.

“The C-295 provides the ideal capacity to respond to Indonesia’s current and future military and humanitarian transport needs,” he added.

The model is a medium-sized transport plane which can be configured for different operational purposes such as ground surveillance, anti-submarine warfare and search and rescue operations.

The planes will be used for “a variety of roles including military, logistical, humanitarian and medical evacuation missions,” according to a statement. Yusgiantoro did not rule out future purchases of the C-295, saying other branches of the armed

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Mohammed Nazaruddin (far L), the former treasurer of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s party, sits with his lawyers (C) as they listen to graft suspect Angelina Sondakh (R), a suspended lawmaker from the ruling Democratic party, as she testifies as a witness during Nazaruddin’s trial at an anticorruption court in Jakarta on February 15, 2012. Sondakh and Nazaruddin are both implicated in the high profile bribery case involving the construction of the Southeast Asian Games athlete’s village. Nazaruddin fled the country in May, 2011 when investigators linked him to a bribery scandal and was returned to Indonesia from Colombia in August after four months on the run.

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JAKARTA - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said that Indonesia has established a foreign policy doctrine to cooperate in bilateral and multilateral programs in accordance with the national interest.

“In this 21st century, Indonesia upholds the all-directions foreign policy, with a `million friends zero enemy` tagline. Indonesia has become a regional power by playing an important role in global responsibilities and interests. We are always actively strengthening cooperative relations with any country, in accordance with our national and common interests,” the president said during a speech at a meeting with the ambassadors of friendly countries and international organization representatives at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Complex here on Wednesday.

President Yudhoyono said that political and international cooperation

changes have also made Indonesia adapt an increasingly international role, while believing that national interests can be achieved while still maintaining a moral obligation as a part of the global community.

“The world`s state is currently full of dynamism and changes, we are still facing critical and fundamental issues. I think you could agree that global cooperation is needed to tackle global issues. We have the passion and energy, and with a global collaboration we could, together, build a safer, peaceful, and more fair world and could bring prosperity to all,” he said.

Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said in his speech that the Indonesian role continues to increase in international cooperation. Jakarta`s position as a diplomatic capital of the East Asia region is also becoming stronger.

“Representatives are here from various countries around the world, from Azerbaijan to Zimbabwe, Panama to

Finland, and other foreign missions from developed to developing countries, from the islands to landlocked nations. There are also international organizations in various fields, such as the ASEAN Secretariat, UNDP, ILO and WHO that is based in Indonesia`s capital,” Marty said.

This diversity reflects the multidimensional aspects of Indonesia`s foreign policy with various growing developments in Indonesia and ASEAN, as eventually Jakarta becomes the diplomatic capital inEast Asia, said Marty. At present, there are 128 representatives of friendly countries and international organization in Jakarta.

Further, Marty expects that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s meeting with the ambassadors of friendly countries and representatives of international organizations is an effective means of highlighting Indonesia`s development to friendly countries, as well as expanding bilateral and multilateral cooperation opportunities.

forces were interested in the plane.

“The police for instance... are also interested in this. And you know that (the) 295 version that we ordered now is for the Air Force, and probably the army is also interested,” he said.

The deal includes a collaboration between state-owned aviation firm PT Dirgantara Indonesia (PTDI) and Airbus Military, with Indonesia manufacturing parts for the C-295.

The partnership will allow the Indonesian firm to “grow its aerospace business as a tier-one supplier,” said PTDI Chief Executive Budi Santoso.

“This will position PTDI on the global aerospace scene and allow us to enhance our skills and workforce,” he added.

Indonesia’s defence budget totalled $6.39 billion in 2011, ranking second in Southeast Asia behind Singapore.

Garuda to by six Bombardier jets, 18 on option

Agence France-Presse

SINGAPORE - Indonesia’s Garuda will buy six Bombardier CRJ1000 next generation jets with an option for 18 more in a deal that could be worth a total of $1.32 billion, according to the Canadian aircraft maker.

The six firm orders are worth $297 million, Bombardier said in a statement issued at the Singapore Airshow.

If Garuda exercises the 18 options, this will raise the deal to “approximately $1.32 billion”, it said.

Garuda president and chief executive Emirsyah Satar said the CRJ1000 NextGen would meet the flag-carrier’s requirements for 100seat planes to service domestic and regional markets.

“These new... aircraft will be an important part of our ongoing fleet expansion and rejuvenation programme under our quantum leap

strategy,” Satar said.

“With this new aircraft in our fleet, we will be able to add new destinations and more frequent connections which will provide travellers with more convenient access to our regional and long-haul network.”

A Garuda statement, issued separately, said the carrier would take delivery of five of the aircraft in the fourth quarter of this year.

They will be used on highdensity short and medium-range routes out of its domestic hubs in the cities of Makassar, Medan and Balikpapan.

Under its “quantum leap” strategy, Garuda is aiming to boost its competitiveness significantly by 2015 by nearly doubling its current fleet of 89 aircraft to 154.

Mike Arcamone, president of Bombardier Commercial Aircraft, said Garuda would be the CRJ1000 jet’s launch customer in the Asia Pacific region.

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Thursday, February 16, 2012

Bali Today President visit Bali

Sabda Palon Naya Genggong Shrine Inaugurated

Jakarta – Indonesian President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, carry out working visit for three days started on February 15 through 17, 2012 to Bali and Central Java. The President flew from Halim Perdanakusuma Airport in Jakarta yesterday. the Law Association President, Pham Quoc Anh. After that, the President will continue his working visit to Central Java to inspect the crops in Bener Village, Ngerampel District, Sragen, on Friday, February 16, 2012. Accompanied the President is the First Lady Ani Yudhoyono, Indonesian Minister for Law and Security Djoko Suyanto, Indonesian Secretary Minister Sudi Silalahi.

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President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono giving speech in Pancasila Building on Wednesday, February 15, 2012. SBY will conducting three days working visit to Bali and Central Java. He goes to Bali to officially open the ASEAN’s Lawyer Associates on Thursday.

Target of economic growth 2012 at 6.5 percent, hard to reach Bali Post

DENPASAR - The economic growth of Bali in 2012 was predicted to be better than in the previous year, but the target of 6.5 percent seemed difficult to achieve. It was revealed by a banking and economic analyst, Viraguna Bagus Oka, in Denpasar on

Tuesday (Feb 14). According to him, prediction of the Bali’s economic growth in 2012 would face various problems leading to the slightly hampered growth due to the influence of continuing global crisis, especially that happened in Europe and the United States. Likewise, it was affected by the issues on the Bali’s

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The President left Jakarta after giving the current situation in Indonesia to the foreign consulates. In Bali, the President is scheduled to open the 11th Meeting of the Law Association of South East Asian Nation (ASEAN) today.

The annual meeting is held in Bali International Convention Center (BICC) Nusa Dua and attended by 300 participants from 10 ASEAN countries including

International

carrying and supporting capacity of the infrastructure progressive turning crowded and irregular.

“Not only that, other issues also suppress the rate of Bali’s economic growth in 2012 such as the restriction or price hike of fuel that will take effect starting April 2012. Similarly, the financial and banking sector have not

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been optimal in the productive business sector,” he explained.

Though the economic growth was predicted to reach 6.5 percent in 2012, it was difficult to achieve.

Meanwhile, different predictions were revealed by a number of economists. On the contrary, they had confidence if the economic growth would reach the target. In a separate location, an economic observer from the Udayana University, Prof. Wayan Ramantha, said that other than seeing a positive trend in the economic growth since the past few weeks, the prediction on the constant moving of the economic growth in 2012 seemed to come true. It could be triggered by the increase in the number of tourist visits, both foreign and domestic.

He added that Bali becoming the belle of the world tourism remained to exist up to these days and it ultimately drove the growth in the Economic activity shows in traditional market at Bali Island. The economic growth of Bali in 2012 was predicted to be better than in the previous year, but the target of 6.5 percent seemed difficult to achieve.

tourism sector.

“Other than being supported by tourism sector, the economic growth in 2012 is also triggered by the increase in investment because the investment grade and investment in the developed countries slumped,” he explained.

Data of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali indicated the economic growth during 2011 was 6.49 percent. It was higher than 6.36 percent of the target set. The Head of BPS Bali, I Gede Suarsa, said that to achieve the target of better economic growth than in previous years it was required a larger investment. “All the economic sectors of Bali in 2011 experienced a significant growth. This condition is expected to be better in 2012,” he explained.

Even, based on the existing data, the rate of consumer tendency index (ITK) of Bali in the first quarter of 2012 was estimated at 109.64 and it indicated the consumer’s economy was expected to improve, despite the level of optimism slightly declined compared to the fourth quarter of 2011 only reaching 111.38. Estimation on the improvement of the consumer’s economy in the coming quarters was caused by the estimation of the increasing consumer income (index coming to 112.74). (kmb28)

THE Majapahit temple named Sabda Palon Naya Genggong with the height of approximately 2.5 meters was inaugurated coinciding with the auspicious day falling on the full moon of the sixth month in Balinese calendar. In the history, Sabda Palon and Naya Genggong were spiritual advisers to the King Brawijaya.

They both practicing the Shaivism and Buddhism had agreed not to follow their king who converted to Islam in accordance with the invitation of Raden Patah. It is believed the two people had a high spiritual power and immediately attained moksha (liberation) without leaving any traces as soon as the king had religious conversion. Their famous saying was that they would come back to this archipelago with the same culture and substance 500 years later since it happened in 1511.

Duration of the five centuries was believed to fall in 2011.

A total of three high priests consisting of Ida Pandita Mpu Nabe Sri Rasta Jaya Kerti from Griya Antasari, Selemadeg; Ida Pandita Mpu Nabe Acharya Prami from Griya Agung Padang Tegal, Ubud; and Ida Pandita Sri Biksuni Ari Wijati from Puncak Giri Kusuma Ashram Luwus, Baturiti chaired the inauguration of the sanctum located

at Kerajan Hamlet, Kandangan Village, Senduro, Lumajang, East Java.

Other than high priests from Bali, the ritual also involved five sanctified people from Senduro Lumajang, namely Romo Argotai, Romo Atim, Romo Mistari, Romo Sai and Romo Suparman. They led the procession of the inauguration by using a simple ritual in accordance with local tradition. Strangely, they were not prepared with a special place, but still sitting calmly on the ground next to pavilion of the three high priests.

Location of the Sejati Lingga Bhuana Ashram is about 3 kilometers after the Sumeru Agung Temple.

Atmosphere in the ashram is very cool and remains to preserve some large trees with diameter of 70 cm to 2.5 m in the middle of the ashram covering an area of 0.6 hectare. To keep the natural impression, the ashram is not fenced by compound wall forever. It simply uses nut trees as the wall. Location on the height of Mount Semeru’s slope also supports the temperatures to remain cool. The ritual was attended by hundreds of devotees from Kerandan, Senduro, Lumajang, as well as devotees from all over Bali, the host Romo Dukuh Hardjo Wardoyo (Chairman of Committee), Didik Supono (Secretary), founder of the Dharma Santi

Foundation, Ketut Nedeng, including Satria Naradha as well as other figures and devotees. As expected, the procession of inauguration and implantation of pedagingan could take place solemnly and sacredly.

Aside from the Majapahit Temple to venerate Sabda Palon and Naya Genggong, there are also other shrines such as the Padmasana, Panca Tirta, Mpu Hyang Gni Jaya, Mpu Semeru, Mpu Gana, Mpu Kuturan, Mpu Beradah, Hyang Pasupati, Goddess Danu, Buddha, Ganesha, stone inscriptions, and also three sets of lingam-yoni. The three sets of lingam-yoni located near the temple entrance are believed to be very magical. According to Ketut Nedeng, when people took some pictures there, each would have different aura.

After the inaugural procession, Ngenteg Linggih ceremony will be held around July 2012. Meanwhile, piodalan or temple anniversary was decided to fall on the day before full moon of the first month in Balinese calendar (around July) or one day before the piodalan in the Semeru Agung Temple. In the future, a small wantilan hall will be built here to organize Dharma Tula (sermon), discussion and learn spirituality and various cultures. (BTN/kmb)

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(Clear Tripe Soup) OVERVIEW: This is usually served with sambel tomat as a contrasting condiment. The sugar cane is used to help soften the tripe rather than to add any sweetness to the soup.

INGREDIENTS: 600 gr beef tripe, cleaned and washed well 3 liter water 1 liter beef stock 1 cup beef spice paste 5 cm sugar can stem, split lengthwise (optional) 2,5 cm ginger, peeled and sliced lengthwise 4 cloves garlic, peeled and sliced 1 tbsp distilled white vinegar 200 gr giant white radish, peeled and diced in 1 cm cubes 5 sprigs celery leaf chipped 1 tbsp fried shallots PREPARATION: Rinse tripe well under running water until very clean.

Bring water to boil in a large pan, add tripe and simmer until soft approx 1 hour.

Strain water and cool tripe in ice water. Cut in pieces approx 2,5 cm x 1cm. Bring beef, beef spice paste, sugar cane, ginger, garlic and vinegar to boil. Add tripe and radish. Simmer until vegetables are soft. Garnish with celery leaf and fried shallots.

Helpful hints: Any type of summer squash or Chinese winter melon can be used instead of giant white radish (Japanese daikon). This soup reheats well.sing cabbage, the cooking time will be much shorter. Season to taste with salt and pepper and garnish with fried shallots.

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Thursday, February 16, 2012

Bali Today President visit Bali

Sabda Palon Naya Genggong Shrine Inaugurated

Jakarta – Indonesian President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, carry out working visit for three days started on February 15 through 17, 2012 to Bali and Central Java. The President flew from Halim Perdanakusuma Airport in Jakarta yesterday. the Law Association President, Pham Quoc Anh. After that, the President will continue his working visit to Central Java to inspect the crops in Bener Village, Ngerampel District, Sragen, on Friday, February 16, 2012. Accompanied the President is the First Lady Ani Yudhoyono, Indonesian Minister for Law and Security Djoko Suyanto, Indonesian Secretary Minister Sudi Silalahi.

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President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono giving speech in Pancasila Building on Wednesday, February 15, 2012. SBY will conducting three days working visit to Bali and Central Java. He goes to Bali to officially open the ASEAN’s Lawyer Associates on Thursday.

Target of economic growth 2012 at 6.5 percent, hard to reach Bali Post

DENPASAR - The economic growth of Bali in 2012 was predicted to be better than in the previous year, but the target of 6.5 percent seemed difficult to achieve. It was revealed by a banking and economic analyst, Viraguna Bagus Oka, in Denpasar on

Tuesday (Feb 14). According to him, prediction of the Bali’s economic growth in 2012 would face various problems leading to the slightly hampered growth due to the influence of continuing global crisis, especially that happened in Europe and the United States. Likewise, it was affected by the issues on the Bali’s

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Balinese Culture

Antara

The President left Jakarta after giving the current situation in Indonesia to the foreign consulates. In Bali, the President is scheduled to open the 11th Meeting of the Law Association of South East Asian Nation (ASEAN) today.

The annual meeting is held in Bali International Convention Center (BICC) Nusa Dua and attended by 300 participants from 10 ASEAN countries including

International

carrying and supporting capacity of the infrastructure progressive turning crowded and irregular.

“Not only that, other issues also suppress the rate of Bali’s economic growth in 2012 such as the restriction or price hike of fuel that will take effect starting April 2012. Similarly, the financial and banking sector have not

IBP/Eka Adhiyasa

been optimal in the productive business sector,” he explained.

Though the economic growth was predicted to reach 6.5 percent in 2012, it was difficult to achieve.

Meanwhile, different predictions were revealed by a number of economists. On the contrary, they had confidence if the economic growth would reach the target. In a separate location, an economic observer from the Udayana University, Prof. Wayan Ramantha, said that other than seeing a positive trend in the economic growth since the past few weeks, the prediction on the constant moving of the economic growth in 2012 seemed to come true. It could be triggered by the increase in the number of tourist visits, both foreign and domestic.

He added that Bali becoming the belle of the world tourism remained to exist up to these days and it ultimately drove the growth in the Economic activity shows in traditional market at Bali Island. The economic growth of Bali in 2012 was predicted to be better than in the previous year, but the target of 6.5 percent seemed difficult to achieve.

tourism sector.

“Other than being supported by tourism sector, the economic growth in 2012 is also triggered by the increase in investment because the investment grade and investment in the developed countries slumped,” he explained.

Data of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali indicated the economic growth during 2011 was 6.49 percent. It was higher than 6.36 percent of the target set. The Head of BPS Bali, I Gede Suarsa, said that to achieve the target of better economic growth than in previous years it was required a larger investment. “All the economic sectors of Bali in 2011 experienced a significant growth. This condition is expected to be better in 2012,” he explained.

Even, based on the existing data, the rate of consumer tendency index (ITK) of Bali in the first quarter of 2012 was estimated at 109.64 and it indicated the consumer’s economy was expected to improve, despite the level of optimism slightly declined compared to the fourth quarter of 2011 only reaching 111.38. Estimation on the improvement of the consumer’s economy in the coming quarters was caused by the estimation of the increasing consumer income (index coming to 112.74). (kmb28)

THE Majapahit temple named Sabda Palon Naya Genggong with the height of approximately 2.5 meters was inaugurated coinciding with the auspicious day falling on the full moon of the sixth month in Balinese calendar. In the history, Sabda Palon and Naya Genggong were spiritual advisers to the King Brawijaya.

They both practicing the Shaivism and Buddhism had agreed not to follow their king who converted to Islam in accordance with the invitation of Raden Patah. It is believed the two people had a high spiritual power and immediately attained moksha (liberation) without leaving any traces as soon as the king had religious conversion. Their famous saying was that they would come back to this archipelago with the same culture and substance 500 years later since it happened in 1511.

Duration of the five centuries was believed to fall in 2011.

A total of three high priests consisting of Ida Pandita Mpu Nabe Sri Rasta Jaya Kerti from Griya Antasari, Selemadeg; Ida Pandita Mpu Nabe Acharya Prami from Griya Agung Padang Tegal, Ubud; and Ida Pandita Sri Biksuni Ari Wijati from Puncak Giri Kusuma Ashram Luwus, Baturiti chaired the inauguration of the sanctum located

at Kerajan Hamlet, Kandangan Village, Senduro, Lumajang, East Java.

Other than high priests from Bali, the ritual also involved five sanctified people from Senduro Lumajang, namely Romo Argotai, Romo Atim, Romo Mistari, Romo Sai and Romo Suparman. They led the procession of the inauguration by using a simple ritual in accordance with local tradition. Strangely, they were not prepared with a special place, but still sitting calmly on the ground next to pavilion of the three high priests.

Location of the Sejati Lingga Bhuana Ashram is about 3 kilometers after the Sumeru Agung Temple.

Atmosphere in the ashram is very cool and remains to preserve some large trees with diameter of 70 cm to 2.5 m in the middle of the ashram covering an area of 0.6 hectare. To keep the natural impression, the ashram is not fenced by compound wall forever. It simply uses nut trees as the wall. Location on the height of Mount Semeru’s slope also supports the temperatures to remain cool. The ritual was attended by hundreds of devotees from Kerandan, Senduro, Lumajang, as well as devotees from all over Bali, the host Romo Dukuh Hardjo Wardoyo (Chairman of Committee), Didik Supono (Secretary), founder of the Dharma Santi

Foundation, Ketut Nedeng, including Satria Naradha as well as other figures and devotees. As expected, the procession of inauguration and implantation of pedagingan could take place solemnly and sacredly.

Aside from the Majapahit Temple to venerate Sabda Palon and Naya Genggong, there are also other shrines such as the Padmasana, Panca Tirta, Mpu Hyang Gni Jaya, Mpu Semeru, Mpu Gana, Mpu Kuturan, Mpu Beradah, Hyang Pasupati, Goddess Danu, Buddha, Ganesha, stone inscriptions, and also three sets of lingam-yoni. The three sets of lingam-yoni located near the temple entrance are believed to be very magical. According to Ketut Nedeng, when people took some pictures there, each would have different aura.

After the inaugural procession, Ngenteg Linggih ceremony will be held around July 2012. Meanwhile, piodalan or temple anniversary was decided to fall on the day before full moon of the first month in Balinese calendar (around July) or one day before the piodalan in the Semeru Agung Temple. In the future, a small wantilan hall will be built here to organize Dharma Tula (sermon), discussion and learn spirituality and various cultures. (BTN/kmb)

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(Clear Tripe Soup) OVERVIEW: This is usually served with sambel tomat as a contrasting condiment. The sugar cane is used to help soften the tripe rather than to add any sweetness to the soup.

INGREDIENTS: 600 gr beef tripe, cleaned and washed well 3 liter water 1 liter beef stock 1 cup beef spice paste 5 cm sugar can stem, split lengthwise (optional) 2,5 cm ginger, peeled and sliced lengthwise 4 cloves garlic, peeled and sliced 1 tbsp distilled white vinegar 200 gr giant white radish, peeled and diced in 1 cm cubes 5 sprigs celery leaf chipped 1 tbsp fried shallots PREPARATION: Rinse tripe well under running water until very clean.

Bring water to boil in a large pan, add tripe and simmer until soft approx 1 hour.

Strain water and cool tripe in ice water. Cut in pieces approx 2,5 cm x 1cm. Bring beef, beef spice paste, sugar cane, ginger, garlic and vinegar to boil. Add tripe and radish. Simmer until vegetables are soft. Garnish with celery leaf and fried shallots.

Helpful hints: Any type of summer squash or Chinese winter melon can be used instead of giant white radish (Japanese daikon). This soup reheats well.sing cabbage, the cooking time will be much shorter. Season to taste with salt and pepper and garnish with fried shallots.

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Denpasar Traditional Market is a center of town’s economics which is located in Gajah Mada Street, that is main road and become a shopping centre of Bali. This traditional market is apposite to the village temple that is one of three biggest temples in Denpasar.

It is initially does not as big as like now because have changed experiences and modification which is adapting to the requirement and town growth. This market cannot be discharged from the existence of an existing market in the cross Badung’s river that is called Kumbasari Market because the local society will feel incompletely go for shopping if they are not come to Kumbasari Market, especially for the Balinese who want to buy the ceremony items.

Denpasar Market is a market selling the costume and clothing items with the prices are relative cheaper than clothing items sold at the shops in Gajah Mada Street

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which are most owned by citizen of Chinese clan. Kumbasari Market is previously called by Peken Payuk (pot market), it sell the items from gerabah /jar like pot, pengedangan, cubek (plate from land), paso (pail from land), caratan (water jug from land), jeding (barrel from land), penyantokan (mixer from land), coblong (cup from land), kekeb (rice cover) and others. All of these items are the kitchenware and also the items for ceremony. Since this market most popular as a place to sell payuk/pot, hence Kumbasari Market in the past referred as Peken Payuk or pot market. But now it sell the material or art items for tourist therefore it is one of tourist destinations in Denpasar Town.

Denpasar Market is opened on 24 April 1984 by Bali ‘s Governor, Prof. Dr. Ida Bagus Mantra. Then after experiencing of the fire accident, it has been repaired in year 2000 at that moment Bali ‘s Governor is Mr. Dewa Made Berata. This market owns the broadness about 14.544 M² and broadly park 9064

M² which is built in four floors.

The local people who go for shopping at this market are not only from environment of Denpasar community but also come from outside of town. The moment be-

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fore the big holiday like Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi and others, this market is always crowded by the buyer which are most of them the local society.

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o’clock in the morning and close at 5 o’clock in the evening. Then, it is changed by the evening market opened from 05:00 pm until at 05:00 am the day after. Meanwhile at Senggol Market in Kumbasari is opened at 02:00 pm and closed at 11:30 pm. The unique of Senggol Market’s name is possibility taken away from the situation and condition of people movement on shopping where they each others jog because of visitor denseness.

This Senggol Market is selling the variety of food, from the cheap Balinese, Javanese and Chinese cookery. It is also sell the various types of clothes from adult until children one.

Denpasar Market is encircled by shop along the street of Gajah Mada, in the right side there is Sulawesi Street which is famous of cloth items. Denpasar Traditional Market is progressively strengthening the identity of a center of Denpasar’s economics which is opened within 24 hours and never silent by visitor.

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Indonesia buys nine Airbus military transport jets SINGAPORE - Indonesia on Wednesday signed a $325.0 million contract with Airbus Military for nine C-295 transport planes to be used for defence, logistical and humanitarian purposes.

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The first plane will be sent to the Southeast Asian nation this year, with the remainder scheduled for delivery by 2014.

“This is a proud moment for our country as well as for the Indonesian aerospace industry,” said Indo-

nesian Defence Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro, at the signing of the deal at the Singapore Airshow.

“The C-295 provides the ideal capacity to respond to Indonesia’s current and future military and humanitarian transport needs,” he added.

The model is a medium-sized transport plane which can be configured for different operational purposes such as ground surveillance, anti-submarine warfare and search and rescue operations.

The planes will be used for “a variety of roles including military, logistical, humanitarian and medical evacuation missions,” according to a statement. Yusgiantoro did not rule out future purchases of the C-295, saying other branches of the armed

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Mohammed Nazaruddin (far L), the former treasurer of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s party, sits with his lawyers (C) as they listen to graft suspect Angelina Sondakh (R), a suspended lawmaker from the ruling Democratic party, as she testifies as a witness during Nazaruddin’s trial at an anticorruption court in Jakarta on February 15, 2012. Sondakh and Nazaruddin are both implicated in the high profile bribery case involving the construction of the Southeast Asian Games athlete’s village. Nazaruddin fled the country in May, 2011 when investigators linked him to a bribery scandal and was returned to Indonesia from Colombia in August after four months on the run.

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JAKARTA - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said that Indonesia has established a foreign policy doctrine to cooperate in bilateral and multilateral programs in accordance with the national interest.

“In this 21st century, Indonesia upholds the all-directions foreign policy, with a `million friends zero enemy` tagline. Indonesia has become a regional power by playing an important role in global responsibilities and interests. We are always actively strengthening cooperative relations with any country, in accordance with our national and common interests,” the president said during a speech at a meeting with the ambassadors of friendly countries and international organization representatives at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Complex here on Wednesday.

President Yudhoyono said that political and international cooperation

changes have also made Indonesia adapt an increasingly international role, while believing that national interests can be achieved while still maintaining a moral obligation as a part of the global community.

“The world`s state is currently full of dynamism and changes, we are still facing critical and fundamental issues. I think you could agree that global cooperation is needed to tackle global issues. We have the passion and energy, and with a global collaboration we could, together, build a safer, peaceful, and more fair world and could bring prosperity to all,” he said.

Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said in his speech that the Indonesian role continues to increase in international cooperation. Jakarta`s position as a diplomatic capital of the East Asia region is also becoming stronger.

“Representatives are here from various countries around the world, from Azerbaijan to Zimbabwe, Panama to

Finland, and other foreign missions from developed to developing countries, from the islands to landlocked nations. There are also international organizations in various fields, such as the ASEAN Secretariat, UNDP, ILO and WHO that is based in Indonesia`s capital,” Marty said.

This diversity reflects the multidimensional aspects of Indonesia`s foreign policy with various growing developments in Indonesia and ASEAN, as eventually Jakarta becomes the diplomatic capital inEast Asia, said Marty. At present, there are 128 representatives of friendly countries and international organization in Jakarta.

Further, Marty expects that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s meeting with the ambassadors of friendly countries and representatives of international organizations is an effective means of highlighting Indonesia`s development to friendly countries, as well as expanding bilateral and multilateral cooperation opportunities.

forces were interested in the plane.

“The police for instance... are also interested in this. And you know that (the) 295 version that we ordered now is for the Air Force, and probably the army is also interested,” he said.

The deal includes a collaboration between state-owned aviation firm PT Dirgantara Indonesia (PTDI) and Airbus Military, with Indonesia manufacturing parts for the C-295.

The partnership will allow the Indonesian firm to “grow its aerospace business as a tier-one supplier,” said PTDI Chief Executive Budi Santoso.

“This will position PTDI on the global aerospace scene and allow us to enhance our skills and workforce,” he added.

Indonesia’s defence budget totalled $6.39 billion in 2011, ranking second in Southeast Asia behind Singapore.

Garuda to by six Bombardier jets, 18 on option

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SINGAPORE - Indonesia’s Garuda will buy six Bombardier CRJ1000 next generation jets with an option for 18 more in a deal that could be worth a total of $1.32 billion, according to the Canadian aircraft maker.

The six firm orders are worth $297 million, Bombardier said in a statement issued at the Singapore Airshow.

If Garuda exercises the 18 options, this will raise the deal to “approximately $1.32 billion”, it said.

Garuda president and chief executive Emirsyah Satar said the CRJ1000 NextGen would meet the flag-carrier’s requirements for 100seat planes to service domestic and regional markets.

“These new... aircraft will be an important part of our ongoing fleet expansion and rejuvenation programme under our quantum leap

strategy,” Satar said.

“With this new aircraft in our fleet, we will be able to add new destinations and more frequent connections which will provide travellers with more convenient access to our regional and long-haul network.”

A Garuda statement, issued separately, said the carrier would take delivery of five of the aircraft in the fourth quarter of this year.

They will be used on highdensity short and medium-range routes out of its domestic hubs in the cities of Makassar, Medan and Balikpapan.

Under its “quantum leap” strategy, Garuda is aiming to boost its competitiveness significantly by 2015 by nearly doubling its current fleet of 89 aircraft to 154.

Mike Arcamone, president of Bombardier Commercial Aircraft, said Garuda would be the CRJ1000 jet’s launch customer in the Asia Pacific region.

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Demonstrators take part in a protest demanding the army to hand power to civilians, at Tahrir square in Cairo February 10, 2012.

Egypt to hold presidential poll in May: report

Israel has accused Iran of waging a covert campaign of state terror.

Shoham said the arrest of two Iranians in the blasts “again leaves not too much room to assume who was behind it.”

A bombing of an Israeli diplomatic car in New Delhi on Monday injured four people, including a diplomat’s wife. A similar bomb found under a car in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Monday was defused.

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CAIRO - Egypt’s first presidential election since Hosni Mubarak was overthrown a year ago will be held by late May, Wednesday’s state newspaper al-Ahram quoted a government minister as saying. Army leaders who took over from Mubarak in February last year have faced street protests and widespread demands that they hand power to civilians sooner than the end-June deadline they had set themselves.

Photos of the wounded Iranian showed him covered in dark soot on a sidewalk strewn with broken glass.

He lay in front of a Thai primary and secondary school. No students were reported wounded.

A dark satchel nearby was investigated by a bomb disposal unit. Pansiri said police found Iranian currency, US dollars and Thai money in the bag.

Three Thai men and one Thai woman were brought to Kluaynamthai Hospital for treatment of injuries, said Suwinai Busarakamwong, a doctor there.

Another Iranian was detained Tuesday night at Bangkok’s international airport as he attempted to leave for neighboring Malaysia, said police commander Winai Thongsong. Authorities were interrogating the man, but it was not yet known whether he was involved in Tuesday’s blasts.

Last month, a Lebanese-Swedish man with alleged links to pro-Iranian Hezbollah militants was detained

by Thai police. He led authorities to a warehouse filled with more than 8,800 pounds (4,000 kilograms) of urea fertilizer and several gallons of liquid ammonium nitrate.

Israel and the United States at the

Affairs and Local Development Mohamed Attia told al-Ahram the election would be held by late May, giving candidates three weeks to declare their candidature and 45 days for campaigning. Most candidates have already begun campaigning

unofficially.

The judicial election committee is the only body with the authority to set the election date.

Under new rules approved in a referendum last year, presidents will in future be limited to two consecutive, four-year terms.

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are now incontinent and have experienced memory loss, with some unable to remember simple maths such as calculating one plus two.

Others are unconscious.

Doctors quoted in the report said their central nervous systems had been damaged, with some of the patients’ hands continuously shaking. Wang Min, an official at the Guangzhou Number 12 People’s Hospital where 33 of the workers have been admitted since November, told AFP they had all been poisoned by dichloroethane -- a chemical compound used to make glue.

She said one had since died, another had recovered, and three had been transferred to another hospital.

According to the newspaper report, another three people have died from the same form of poisoning.

“Currently, there are still 28 people being treated in our hospital, including 16 in serious condition, although their lives are out of danger,” Wang said. “The patients all came from small workshops that made shoes, leather products and bags.” The city’s work safety administration refused to comment when contacted by AFP.

China glue poisoning kills four, leaves 30 ill

Four workers have died and about 30 have fallen ill in south China from suspected glue poisoning that caused severe nerve damage, health authorities and state media said Wednesday. The victims worked in Guangzhou city in shoe and bag factories with poor ventilation -- most of them illegal -- and started falling ill last year after handling poor quality glue, the Beijing Morning Post said.

According to the report, those still alive but in serious condition

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Officials announced earlier this month that nominations for the race would be accepted from March 10, signaling that the generals have accelerated their planned handover of power by about a month.

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TOKYO — Four days before a tsunami devastated a Japanese nuclear plant, its operator promised a fuller assessment of the risk of such a disaster — but not for seven months.

The disclosure in a three-page briefing paper obtained by The Associated Press raises questions about whether the utility and regulators were too complacent about studies that suggested a tsunami could overwhelm the defenses at the 40-year-old Fukushima Dai-ichi plant.

It also highlights Japan’s slow pace of decision-making on an issue that experts had been warning about for at least 20 months.

“If they had made the decision earlier, then they could have been prepared on March 11,” said Hideyuki Hirakawa, an Osaka University expert on governance and the sciences. “There is absolutely nothing you can do in four days.”

On March 11, 2011, a 9.0-magnitude offshore earthquake triggered a tsunami that killed about 19,000 people along Japan’s northeastern coast. The surge of water knocked out power at the coastal Fukushima plant, leading to the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. Tens of thousands have had to leave the area, and it’s unclear whether some will ever be able to move back.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. presented the briefing paper, stamped “handle with care,” at a meeting with Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency on March 7. The agency released the document to the AP under a public records request.

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time warned their citizens to be alert in the capital, but Thai authorities said Thailand appeared to have been a staging ground but not the target of any attack.

Pansiri said that “so far, we haven’t found any links between these two cases.”

Immigration police are trying to trace Moradi’s movements, but initial reports indicated he flew into Thailand from Seoul, South Korea on Feb. 8, Pansiri said. He landed at the southern Thai resort town of Phuket, then stayed in a hotel in Chonburi, a couple hours drive southeast of Bangkok, for several nights.

Bangkok’s blasts came one day after bombs targeted Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia. The attack in India wounded four people, while the device found in Georgia did not explode. Iran has denied it was responsible. In Jerusalem, Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said there was not yet any sign that any targets in Bangkok were Israeli or Jewish.

Israeli police have increased the state of alert in the country, emphasizing public places, foreign embassies and offices, as well as Ben-Gurion International Airport.

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Reflected in a window, people walk in London’s City financial district, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012.

China will continue to invest in euro zone government debt and it remains confident in the euro, the country’s central bank governor said on Wednesday, while calling on Europeans to produce more attractive investment products for China.

China to keep investing in euro zone debt Reuters

BEIJING - China will continue to invest in euro zone government debt and it remains confident in the euro, the country’s central bank governor said on Wednesday, while calling on Europeans to produce more attractive investment products for China.

Zhou Xiaochuan admitted that China and other emerging nations like Brazil, Russia or India were waiting for the right time to help the bloc, after a European Union state visit was once again met with encouraging words but no concrete public commitments on fresh funding from China.

But he also suggested Europe needed to work harder to entice Beijing to part with its capital.

“We also hope that the euro zone and EU can innovate their mechanisms to offer new products that are more helpful for Sino-Europe cooperation,” he said.

The central bank governor reiterated previous comments from Premier Wen Jiabao that China was ready to play a bigger role in solving Europe’s debt problems, noting China had not cut its reserves exposure to the euro zone.

“At the G20, our state leaders promised European leaders that, amid the global financial crisis and the Europe sovereign debt crisis, China will not cut the proportion of

euro exposure” in its reserves, Zhou said in a speech at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing.

“Some people had cast doubt or suspicion over the currency, but for the People’s Bank of China, we have always been confident in the euro and its future,” he added.

Although Zhou’s comments largely underlined China’s established stance, the remarks helped push the euro higher and were cited in markets for supporting stocks buying in Asia.

Vice Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao, who is visiting the United States with leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping, also sought to reassure Europe of China’s support.

“China’s commercial investment in Europe has continued, under the principles of safety, liquidity and appropriate returns,” he said.

“We have not adjusted out investment structure. That, it should be said, has been China offering its true trust and support at a crucial moment in European countries addressing their

sovereign debt problems,” he said.

Any bigger role in solving the debt crisis would be via the International Monetary Fund and the European Financial Stability Fund, or EFSF, Zhou said, echoing Wen’s comments.

“We strongly believe European countries can work together to handle the challenges. They are able to solve the sovereign debt crisis,” Zhou said.

“The PBOC firmly supports the ECB’s recent measures to address the difficulties.”

Verbal reassurances from Zhou and senior Chinese leaders come as European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso are visiting Beijing for a China-EU summit.

Van Rompuy assured his Chinese hosts that they should not underestimate the strong political incentive to keep the euro zone intact.

The summit had been delayed from late last year as European leaders struggled to deal with an escalating debt crisis.

PARIS — France’s GDP grew slightly in the last quarter of 2011, the national statistics agency said Wednesday, bringing total economic growth for the year to 1.7 percent, just off government estimates.

The figures beat the Insee agency’s own estimates — it had predicted the economy would contract in the fourth quarter. Instead, GDP advanced 0.2 percent. Insee has also said it expects a contraction in the first quarter of this year.

It’s still unclear, though, whether that will be sufficient to keep France on track for reducing its deficit over the next several years and balancing its budget by 2016.

President Nicolas Sarkozy, who is expected to seek a second term in spring elections but is trailing his Socialist opponent in polls, has staked his credibility on meeting those targets. In recent months, his government has repeatedly revised its budgets to slash more spending as its growth forecasts proved overly rosy.

Most recently, the government halved its growth forecast for this year to 0.5 percent.

Finance Minister Francois Baroin said the figures released Wednesday indicated it could meet that target. He also noted that 2011 growth was in line with the government’s projection.

Airlines forecast to buy $3.5 trillion of new jets by 2030 Associated Press

SINGAPORE — Global airlines will need $3.5 trillion of new planes through 2030, with more than a third of that demand coming from Asia, Airbus’s chief executive said Wednesday.

The aviation industry will require 27,800 new planes of 100-plus seating capacity between 2010 and 2030 while Asia will likely take delivery of about 9,370 of those planes worth $1.3 trillion, CEO Tom Enders said.

“Our business isn’t moving to the East, it has moved to the East,” Enders said during a news conference at the Singapore Airshow. “We’re focused on Asia because that’s where most of our growth comes from.”

Airbus is wrestling longtime rival Boeing for the burgeoning Asian market. Asia provided half of Airbus’s 1,600 firm orders last year. Boeing scored its biggest deal ever in November when Indonesian budget carrier Lion Air agreed to buy 230 planes for $22 billion.

Boeing said earlier this week it expects airlines will need 33,500 new planes worth $4 trillion by 2030, with Asia accounting for about 35 percent of that total.

Asia is expected to account for 33 percent of global air passengers by 2030, up from a current 28 percent, according to Airbus. Europe will likely drop to 23 percent from 27 percent and the U.S. will fall to 20 percent from 27 percent, Airbus said.

Enders reiterated that Airbus is fixing small cracks found on the wings of some of its A380s. Airbus is inspecting all 69 A380s it has delivered so far after carriers such as Singapore Airlines and Qantas reported small wing fissures in December.

Airbus delivered 22 of the super jumbos to Asian carriers last year and expects to deliver 30 more worldwide this year.

“We made a mistake and it will cost the company quite some money,” Enders said, declining to specify how much money. “We understand the root causes and we’ll soon have a final fix.”

“This plane is absolutely safe to fly,” he said.

The A320neo, which seats up to 180 passengers, has become a favorite of Asia’s growing budget airline sector. Airbus delivered 546 of the planes to Asia last year.

Asian banks are also taking a bigger role in financing plane purchases, accounting for 20 percent of deliveries to the region last year, Enders said.

“If we should lose some financing capacity in Europe, I’m quite confident we can substitute that in Asia,” Enders said.

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For Houston mourners, a dearth of places to grieve Associated Press Writer

NEWARK, N.J. — In Whitney Houston’s hometown, her family plans a private church service, with no public memorial set. In Los Angeles, where she died, there’s not even a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for fans to pile flowers. So for the legion of music lovers mourning a global superstar, where do broken hearts go?

Fans who have gathered outside the church where Houston will be eulogized Saturday at an invitation-only service — and outside the funeral home where her body now rests — say they understand why the family wants to keep the world out the best they can. But they also yearned for the chance to fully share in the grief and the remembrance of a native daughter who made it big and made them proud.

Samuel Turner Jackson, of Newark, said he was looking forward to heading down to “The Rock,” as the Prudential

Center is known. Before, that is, the funeral home announced Tuesday that no public service would be held at the 18,000-seat arena, an option that had been discussed.

The arena, home to home to the NHL’s New Jersey Devils, displayed an image of Houston on a screen outside Tuesday.

“We don’t know what the circumstances are, but we’re sure that the family did want to share something with the community that she gave so much to,” he said. “But they have their reasons, and we’re going to do the best we can to pay our respects and to mourn her.”

Antonio Ballinger, of Newark, also hoped to attend a public service and “see her off,” and said he was saddened to hear he wouldn’t get the opportunity. “But my blessings go out to the family, and I wish them nothing but the best,” he said. The family said Tuesday it had no plans right now for a public memorial. Still, fans in this downtrodden city held out hope.

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People walk past, a large image of Whitney Houston displayed on the side of the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012.

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Angelina Jolie on Tuesday premiered her film “In the Land of Blood and Honey” in Bosnia, where the fictional tale of a romance between a Bosnian Serb man and a Bosnian Muslim woman has shone a spotlight on the ethnic anger still left over from the country’s brutal conflict.

Jolie, who arrived in Sarajevo with partner Brad Pitt to attend the screening, greeted the crowd of 5,000 in Bosnian, before acknowledging in English that it would bring back painful memories of the bloody 1992-95 war.

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In this film image released by The Weinstein Company, a scene is shown from “Undefeated.”

Review: ‘Undefeated’ inspires effortlessly Associated Press Writer

It seems impossibly feel-good, this tale of sacrifice and redemption, tragedy and triumph. It may also sound like the kind of uplifting football drama you’ve seen countless times before — and comparisons to both “Friday Night Lights” and “The Blind Side” will be inevitable.

Still, the Oscar-nominated documentary “Undefeated” knocks you over with a power all its own; told in intimate, unadorned fashion, it comes from a pure place that’s irresistible.

It isn’t trying too hard to inspire us — and that’s precisely why it does.

Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin, who directed, shot and edited the film, know well enough to get out of the way and let the story and the characters work their magic.

Their focus is the 2009 football team at Manassas High School in North Memphis, a predominately black school in a blighted part of town which hadn’t won a playoff game in its 110-

year history. The filmmakers show us the boarded-up houses that are all-too common in the neighborhood, the random guys drinking 40s out of paper bags in the middle of the day, but rather than depicting an urban stereotype, they reveal a vividly sad sense of place.

Coach Bill Courtney hopes that by working with these kids and developing their strengths on the field, they’ll recognize the importance of being strong men off the field. Or as he puts it: football doesn’t build character, football reveals character. A husband and father of four, he has devoted a ridiculous amount of hours over the past six-plus years to turning this team

around from perennial cellar-dwellers to serious contenders in the division.

What’s mind-boggling is that he’s doing it all as a volunteer, which he can afford as the owner of a successful lumber company. Courtney also happens to be white, which is simply never an issue. He gets through to these kids through the sheer force of his personality; portly and boisterous, he can be charming and demanding in equal measure, and he ends up becoming the film’s de facto star.

“Undefeated” also follows three of the Tigers’ main players. When we first meet Montrail “Money” Brown, he’s showing off his science fair project and humbly mentioning that he has a 3.8 grade point average. He lives in a modest house with his grandmother but has dreams of leaving town and going to college — and as a small offensive lineman, he realizes it won’t be football that gets him there.

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As the film ended to a standing ovation, Jolie tearfully said, “To share this with you means the world to me.”

At an earlier press conference, Jolie said the movie was “heavy” but that she was happy with it because it shows what horrors can occur in the absence of a timely intervention.

She said she hoped the film could serve as a “wake-up call” for the international community to pay more attention to atrocities and act to prevent them — including in Syria.

“I am satisfied with what we made, I feel very strongly about it and I believe that its core issue — which is the need for intervention

and need for the world to care about atrocities when they are happening — is very, very timely and especially with things that are happening in Syria today,” she said.

The film, which has already been released in the U.S. follows what happens when the man becomes an army officer and the woman is held in a military prison camp where rape occurs. Some Serbs have accused the film of demonizing them.

“I think it is very important that this film is out at this time and ... if this film points the finger at anybody it is the international community,” she said.

JIMBARAN - Newly appointed chef-tothe-stars joins the team with an arsenal of flavor-power to leave your taste buds in a comfortable coma.

Enjoying a long affair with Four Seasons in London, Milan and Damascus, Samuele brings a wealth of experience, innovation and authenticity to menus and The Wantilan kitchens.

Soon to be treating guests and residents to specialized authentic Italian cooking-classes, Baudoino will soon be calling Bali his newest home.

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.

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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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OTTAWA - The son of one of the greatest defenders of Canadian unity, former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, has stirred up a hornets’ nest by speculating about backing Quebec separatism if the country moves too far right Trudeau’s 40-year-old son, Justin, now a Liberal member of Parliament, said in an interview with the French-language service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp (http://link.reuters.com/ gud66s) on Sunday that he was enormously saddened by the direction of the country under Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

He said that at some point he might even back independence for his home province, Frenchspeaking Quebec. Referendums in Quebec on independence in 1980 and 1995 both failed, the last one by a mere 1.2 percentage points.

“I always say, if at a certain point I thought that Canada was

really the Canada of Stephen Harper - that we were going against abortion, and we were going against gay marriage and we were going backwards in 10,000 different ways - maybe I would think about wanting to make Quebec a country,” he said.

That statement caught the CBC interviewer off guard, and he asked him to verify what he had just said.

“Yes, yes, absolutely. If I no longer recognized Canada, I know my values very well,” he said, and then added: “But I believe deeply in Canada.”

His father was Liberal prime minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and again from 1980 to 1984, and he fiercely defended a united Canada that included his native Quebec.

It took a little time for Justin Trudeau’s remarks to be noticed broadly but they exploded on the Internet on Tuesday and his name was trending on Twitter, drawing him into the fray with a Tweet of his own.

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — The one thing 14-year-old Moshe Kai Cavalin dislikes is being called a genius. All he did, after all, was enroll in college at age 8 and earn his first of two Associate of Arts degrees from East Los Angeles Community College at age 9, graduating with a perfect 4.0 grade point average.

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Obama friendly but firm with China heir apparent Reuters

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama told Chinese leaderin-waiting Xi Jinping on Tuesday that Beijing must play by the same trade rules as other major world powers and vowed to keep pressing China to clean up its human rights record.

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Liberal MP Justin Trudeau speaks following Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa December 14, 2011.

country’s relationship with Washington for the next decade.

Obama’s firm message on trade, currency, human rights and global issues such as Syria was notable, given that the meetings were previewed as essentially sizing-up sessions.

He has assumed a tougher tone with China in recent months, and is under election-year pressure from Republican presidential candidates, who say his approach has been too conciliatory.

“With expanding power and prosperity also comes increased responsibilities,” Obama said as he sat side by side with Xi in the Oval Office.

“We want to work with China to make sure that everybody is working by the same rules of the road when it comes to the world economic system, and that includes ensuring that there is a balanced trade flow,” he said.

But Xi, who must also show a domestic audience he is ready to defend China’s interests, later insisted to American business leaders that Beijing was acting on U.S. concerns and asked for similar consideration from the Obama administration.

Syrian forces attack Hama, Homs despite pressure to stop Reuters

AMMAN - Syrian government forces launched an offensive on the city of Hama early on Wednesday, firing on residential neighborhoods from armored vehicles and mobile anti-aircraft guns, opposition activists said. Troops also shelled Sunni Muslim neighborhoods in Homs, the 13th day of their bombardment of a city that has been at the forefront of the uprising against 42 years of rule by President Bashar alAssad and his late father Hafez.

An explosion hit a major oil pipeline feeding a refinery in Homs, sending a large plume of smoke rising into the sky, witnesses said.

The blast hit the pipeline near a district being shelled by govern-

ment troops, they said. France said it had created a one million euro emergency fund for aid agencies looking to help the Syrian people and would propose a similar one at an international level next week at a meeting in Tunisia to discuss the escalating crisis.

Paris had previously proposed “humanitarian corridors” with Syrian approval or with an international mandate for shipping food and medicine to alleviate civilian suffering.

Tanks deployed near the citadel of Hama were shelling the neighborhoods of Faraya, Olailat, Bashoura and al-Hamidiya, and troops were advancing from the airport, opposition sources said.

An activist called Amer, speak-

Now, at 14, he’s poised to graduate from UCLA this year. He’s also just published an English edition of his first book, “We Can Do.” The 100-page guideline explains how other young people can accomplish what Cavalin did through such

President Obama listens to China’s Vice President Xi Jinping during their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House, February 14, 2012.

In White House talks, Obama sought to reassure Xi that Washington welcomed China’s “peaceful rise.” But he also signaled that frictions would remain in a growing economic and military rivalry between the two countries, even as Beijing’s political transition moves forward.

Xi’s meeting with Obama was the centerpiece of a heavily scripted visit that could help the Chinese vice president boost his international standing and show he is capable of steering his

ing briefly by satellite phone, said that “landlines and mobile phone networks have been cut in the whole of Hama,” a Sunni city notorious for the massacre of some 10,000 people when the present president’s father Hafez sent in troops to crush an uprising there in 1982. Activists said no casualty reports were available from Hama, Syria’s fourth largest city, because of communications problems.

Assad’s determination to crush the revolt, regardless of widespread condemnation of his use of force against civilians, prompted Arab countries led by Saudi Arabia to prepare a new resolution at the United Nations in support of a peace plan forged at a meeting in Cairo on Sunday.

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FILE - In this May 2, 2008 file photo, Moshe Kai Cavalin, 10, strikes a martial arts position as he poses for photos at his home studio in Downey, Calif.

Featherweight songbird is a long-distance champ Agence France Presse

A tiny songbird weighing just two tablespoons of sugar migrates from the Arctic to Africa and back, a distance of up to 29,000 kilometres (18,000 miles), scientists reported on Wednesday.

The size of an undernourished sparrow, the northern wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe) tips the scales at just 25 grammes (0.9 of an ounces).

But biologists who tagged the tawny-andwhite insectivore were stunned at its flight endurance. They attached minute geolocators, each weighing just 1.2 grammes (0.04 of an ounce) to the legs of 46 wheatears in Alaska and on Baffin Island in northeastern Canada.

The Alaskan birds spent the winter in Africa before returning back home, a journey of about 14,500 kms (9,000 miles) each way, in which they flew on average 290 kms (181 miles) a day. They travelled over Siberia and across the Arabian desert, heading to Sudan, Uganda and Kenya, a trip that took about 91 days on the outward trip but 55 days for the return leg.

A tagged bird from Baffin Island flew over the North Atlantic, landed in Britain, travelled southwards across continental Europe, the

Mediterranean and Sahara to winter on the coast of Mauritania, West Africa, taking 26 days out and 55 days back for a trip of about 7,500 kms (4,700 miles).

“They are incredible migratory journeys, particularly for a bird this size,” said Ryan Norris of the University of Guelph in Ontario.

“Think of something smaller than a robin but a little larger than a finch raising young in the Arctic tundra and then a few months later foraging for food in Africa for the winter.”

The study appears on Wednesday in Biology Letters, a journal published by the Royal Society, Britain’s de-facto academy of sciences.

Birds with larger wingspans such as the cuckoo and albatross are famous for their transcontinental migrations, but this study provides incontrovertible evidence that a songbird can do the same, say the scientists.

“Scaled for body size, this is one of the longest round-trip migratory journey of any bird in the world and raises questions about how a bird of this size is able to successfully undertake such physically demanding journeys twice a year, particularly for inexperienced juveniles migrating on their own.”

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Damaged cars are seen in Bab Amro, in the city of Homs, February 13, 2012.

simple acts as keeping themselves focused and approaching everything with total commitment. He’s hoping it will show people there’s no genius involved, just hard work.

“That’s always the question that bothers me,” Cavalin, who turned 14 on Valentine’s Day, says when the Gword is raised. “People need to know you don’t really need to be a genius.

You just have to work hard and you can accomplish anything.” And maybe cut out some of the TV.

Although he’s a big fan of Jackie Chan movies, Cavalin says he limits his television time to four hours a week. Not that he lacks for recreational activities or feels that his parents pressured him into studying constantly. He writes in “We Can Do” of learning to scuba dive, and he loves soccer and martial arts. He used to participate in the latter sport when he was younger, winning trophies for his age group, until his UCLA studies and his writing made things a little too hectic.

Indeed one of the key messages of his book is to stay focused and to not take on any endeavor half-heartedly. “I was able to reach the stars, but others can reach the ‘Milky Way,” he tells readers.

Handout photo from NASA shows a sunset over the Arctic. A tiny songbird weighing just two tablespoons of sugar migrates from the Arctic to Africa and back, a distance of up to 29,000 kilometres, scientists reported on Wednesday.

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Apple chief says factory labor under scrutiny

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Apple chief executive Tim Cook said that ensuring safe working conditions at plants making its coveted gadgets is a priority, as an audit of a key supplier continued in China. “Apple takes working conditions very seriously and we have for a very long time,” Cook said during an on-stage interview at a Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday.

“We know people have a high expectation of Apple; we have an even higher expectation of ourselves.” Cook’s comments came a day after a labor watchdog group began sanctioned checks of working conditions at a massive Foxconn plant in southern China that makes products for the California-based gadget-maker.

Apple agreed last month to allow inspections by the Fair Labor Association (FLA) following reports that employees were overworked and underpaid at Foxconn factories in China. The Taiwan-owned Foxconn is the

largest manufacturer of Apple products.

FLA teams will also inspect factories owned by two other Taiwan-owned manufacturers, Quanta and Pegatron, which also make Apple products. Apple said the FLA’s findings and recommendations will be posted on its website, fairlabor.org, in early March.

“In terms of problems we are looking to fix, no one in our industry is doing more to improve working conditions than Apple,” Cook said. “We are constantly auditing facilities looking for problems, finding problems and fixing problems, and we report everything because we think transparency is incredibly important.”

Apple has taken to micro-managing schedules at plants to safeguard against employees working more than 60 hours weekly and considers intentionally hiring underage labor a “firing offense,” he added. Apple reported blockbuster quarterly earnings last month with net profit more than doubling to a record $13.06 billion and revenue soaring to an all-time high of $46.33 billion.

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Argentina pick Lamela, give Rodriguez recall Reuters

BUENOS AIRES - AS Roma teenager Erik Lamela and 31year-old Napoli defender Hugo Campagnaro have earned their first Argentina call-ups for a friendly against Switzerland in Berne on Feb. 29. Liverpool winger Maxi Rodriguez also earned a recall in the 18-man squad of foreign-based players named by coach Alejandro Sabella on Tuesday, while Real Madrid’s Angel Di Maria returns from injury.

The squad will be increased in the leadup to the match with the inclusion of players from the local league, the Argentine Football Association said on its website (www.

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Barcelona’s Lionel Messi, right, is stopped by Leverkusen’s Lars Bender during the Champions League round of the last sixteen soccer match between Bayer 04 Leverkusen and FC Barcelona in Leverkusen, Germany, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012.

Barca avoiding La Liga hiccups on the road in Europe Reuters

MADRID - Barcelona’s bid for a fourth straight La Liga title is foundering due to their erratic away form but Tuesday’s 3-1 Champions League victory at Bayer Leverkusen suggests they are unlikely to suffer the same problem in Europe. Winning a lucrative third continental crown in four years is the obvious priority for the Catalan club, especially if they can do so at the expense of arch rivals Real Madrid, who are 10 points clear in Spain’s domestic league.

Jose Mourinho’s Real side have pulled away at the top due to Barca taking only 17 points from a possible 33 on their travels. In the Champions League group stage, however, Barca won all their away matches, including a 3-2 success at AC Milan.

A dominant performance in Tuesday’s last-16 first leg at Leverkusen’s BayArena stadium, in which Barca had 72 percent of possession and had a Lionel Messi effort come back off a post, answered some of the questions hanging over the team following Saturday’s shock 3-2 La Liga defeat at Osasuna.

However, coach Pep Guardiola will still be concerned about a number of issues, including the fitness of key playmaker Xavi. Without the 32-year-old, who has been sidelined by a leg injury and watched Tuesday’s game from the stands, Barca have at times struggled to exert their customary control over opponents.

The patchy form of Xavi’s Spain team mate and centre back Gerard Pique, who was at fault for two, if not all three, of Osasuna’s goals on Saturday and was not even on the bench in Germany, is also a worry.

Asked whether Pique had been punished for his performance in Pamplona, Guardiola told reporters he had rested him only because he did not want to lose him for Sunday’s La Liga game at home to Valencia.

“Pique knows that I have lots of love for him,” Guardiola said. “For us, he’s untouchable.”

RANDOM FACTOR

One reason Barca may have struggled away from home is that some of the smaller pitches are less suited to their free-flowing playing style than the wide-open spaces of the Nou Camp. Guardiola picked out what he called “the random factor”, which he said the players were allowing to feature more in Barca’s games this season than in

previous campaigns.

“We have a problem,” he told a news conference. “We’ve dominated the game for a lot of years and in the past the random factor didn’t figure in our play. “We didn’t give it any room. We must get back to that level and not let randomness feature in our games. We have to control it by playing better,” the former Barca and Spain midfielder added.

One bright spot for the coach has been the emergence of forward Alexis Sanchez, especially in the absence of long-term injury casualty David Villa. Chilean Sanchez, bought from Udinese for some 40 million euros ($52.5 million) in the close season, netted twice on Tuesday and has eight goals in La Liga.

“He allows us to use the space on the pitch better,” Guardiola said.

“He has good movement and he is a humble lad who helps us a lot.

Those two goals will be good for him.” Barca host Leverkusen for the last-16 return leg on March 7.

afa.org.ar). The gifted Lamela has been in good form for Roma since his transfer from relegated Argentine giants River Plate in mid-2011.

Rodriguez, who played for Argentina at the 2006 and 2012 World Cups, last turned out for his country in the 4-0 quarter-final defeat by Germany in Cape Town in July, 2010. He was overlooked for the Copa America in Argentina last July.

AS Roma centre back Nicolas Burdisso and Paris St Germain midfielder Javier Pastore, both in the squad that beat Colombia 2-1 away in Argentina’s last World Cup qualifier in November, were unavailable due to injury.

LYON, France - Olympique Lyon laboured against a resolute APOEL Nicosia before a secondhalf goal from the lively Alexandre Lacazette earned them a 1-0 home win in their Champions League last 16 first leg on Tuesday.

France Under-21 striker Lacazette netted his maiden Champions League goal in the 58th minute as Lyon, who only made this stage for the ninth straight time after a 7-1 thrashing of Dinamo Zagreb, gained a victory they just about deserved.

APOEL, the first Cypriot team to reach the last 16 having topped a group featuring Zenit St Petersburg, Shakhtar Donetsk and Porto, had little to show for themselves offensively as they waited for the perfect counter-attack that never

materialised.

“We expected this kind of game but I wish we had been more efficient. I now hope we will not regret it after the second leg,” Lyon coach Remi Garde, whose side lost 2-1 at home to lowly Caen on Saturday, told France’s Canal+ TV .

“They were supposed to have chances on counter attacks and they did not get any, it’s because we also defended well.”

Lyon, who will travel to Cyprus for the second leg on March 7, could have gone ahead early on but were denied a possible penalty in the third minute after Ederson appeared to have been brought down by goalkeeper Dionisios Chiotis in the box. The hosts piled on the pressure thereafter but APOEL held on thanks to their stout defence.

Gianyar (Bali Post) -

The ambience of the day of romantic love in Gianyar also came into the bureaucratic realm of Gianyar Regency. As an endeavor to improve the quality of service and comfort for people administering their licensing, the Integrated Licensing Service Agency (BPPT) of Gianyar distributed tens of cut roses to license applicants in the Office of BPPT Gianyar. “Valentine commemorated as the day of romantic love becomes the right moment to provide better service to the community,” said Secretary of BPPT Gianyar, Putu Ngakan Darmajati.

In 2011, BPPT Gianyar could accomplish 3002 permits belonging to 18 types served. The dominant license was the building permit (IMB) for residential houses amounting 45.66 percent, cottage/inn (18.04 percent), store (11.30 percent), office (8.79 percent), restaurants (2.86 percent) and the rest was IMB of budget hotels .

In the meantime, the permit of business location and permit of disturbance (HO) were required by cottage/inn business (23.46 percent), trading services (20.00 percent), tower (11.85 percent), business services (9.88 percent), hotel and budget hotel business (6.87 percent) and the rest was for food stall, bar/restaurant and craft enterprises.

Additionally, the Gianyar Regency also managed to draw an investment worth IDR 1.089 trillion or in foreign currency amounted to USD 2.3 million. (kmb16)

To anticipate subsequent clash

Authority approaches public figures Denpasar (Bali Post)—

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The pond in the office of Jembrana Regent

Pond at Regency Government has unclear functions Negara (Bali Post)—

A pond within the office area of Jembrana Regent has unclear function. Despite containing water, its condition seems poorly maintained. If it is used as landscaping element to beautify the building, it is inappropriate with the designation as situating on the back corner and rarely visited or seen.

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Lyon’s Kim Kallstrom of Sweden, left, challenges for the ball with Apoel Nicosia’s Constantinos Charalambides during their Champions League soccer match at Gerland stadium, in Lyon, central France, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012.

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Lacazette ends APOEL resistance as Lyon take charge Reuters

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The pond is precisely located behind the Niti Praja Temple of Jembrana Government and adjacent to the Jembrana House. It is equipped with seats surrounding the pond but the purpose of the building is unclear. Even, based on the observation made last Tuesday, the pond seemed to be poorly maintained and the water looked very dark. Similarly, the landscaping around the pond had been overgrown by rarely trimmed grass.

According to information, such location is indeed rarely visited by staff or anyone as situating at the very back corner and even it is a dead end street. Though it is close to the canteen or the licensing office, the public or employees rarely visit it. It is unknown exactly about the purpose to build the pond.

Other than being unlike a park, near the location is also used for waste disposal.

Meanwhile, when the Regent of Jembrana I Putu Artha was asked

about the pond, he said it was formerly a rubbish disposal site. Later on, it was developed and better arranged into a single unit with the temple and made a pond.

According to the future plan, the Niti Praja Temple would be expanded and better arranged so that location of the pond could be arranged together with the pond. According to him, his party remained to consider the budget because the arrangement was not so urgent. (kmb26)

A clash case between two groups is getting more prevalent lately. It does not only involve the youth group belonging to the mass organizations (ormas), but also frequently involves the residents as happened in Tabanan and Badung region. Fortunately, there were no casualties in such a number of incidents. Nevertheless, those incidents are quite disturbing other people.

What are the anticipative measures of police lineups to prevent similar incidents in the future?

Clash incidents have been familiar in the ears of society because they occur in almost all regions in Indonesia, including Bali. In Bali, there are at least three cases of clash occurred over the past a week. The latest was the clash at Pangkungkarung village, Kerambitan, Tabanan.

The house of Bedha customary village chief, Nyoman Surata, was crushed with stoned by a mass on Sunday night (Feb 12). Allegedly, the clash related to the fission of Pangkungkarung customary village. The violence of mass did not only target the house of Surata, but also a number of other houses.

Luckily, such incident did not claim any casualties and had been handled by the authorities.

Before the incident, a number of clash incidents also occurred at Peneng hamlet, Mekar Sari village in Baturiti, Tabanan. Allegedly, the clash case involved two mass organizations whose real motive had not been known yet. Not only that, the clash between two youth groups also occurred on Jalan Raya

Sempidi, Mengwi, Badung. “Each case has been handled by local regency police,” said the Spokesperson of Bali Police, Hariadi, Tuesday (Feb 14).

According to Hariadi, those clash incidents were just a misunderstanding. And those were also committed by individuals. “Such a clash has frequently happened in Bali. It is a logical consequence of the existence of many mass organizations. However, it does not necessarily mean we blame on them (mass—Ed),” said Hariadi. In terms of humanity aspects, such a conflict or friction happened in the field due to psychological factor.

For example, they considered themselves the most fabulous. Well, it had become the task of police to conduct a precaution and it should be definitely carried out by working closely with other parties such as government and the community elements. More importantly, it required an approach to community leaders who were competent against their social environment. “To that end, we should work hand in hand to anticipate it,” he said.

In particular, it should be attempted to take anticipative or preventive endeavor where police and all the societal elements should work together to take anticipative measure and prevent the conflict. On that account, the anticipation could only be done together. “For that purpose, we appeal to all the societal elements to jointly maintain the security of Bali. We will also do policing against the mass organizations in Bali,” he added. (kmb21)

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TORONTO - ‘Linsanity’ slammed into hockey-mad Canada with the force of a winter storm on Tuesday as Jeremy Lin, the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) newest sensation, set hearts aflutter with a Valentine’s Day visit to the league’s most northern outpost.

Indonesia represented by a number of sectors under the coordination of the Ministry of Tourism and the Creative Economy invested a fund worth EUR 2.3 million to participate in the Dutch flower exhibition entitled Venlo World Expo Floriade 2012. “The investment spent for the event lasting over six months is about EUR 2.3 million,” said Deputy Minister of Tourism and the Creative Economy, Sapta Nirwandar, in the press conference of Venlo World Expo Floriade 2012 in Jakarta, Tuesday (Feb 14).

Potential markets

So far, the Netherlands and Germany were the potential markets for Indonesian tourism in the European region. Recorded, the number of

foreign tourist visit from the Netherlands and Germany to Indonesia in 2011 respectively amounted to 91,753 people and 75,397 people.

Meanwhile, the number of the Dutch and German tourists who traveled around the world in 2010 respectively came to 18.38 million and 85.17 million people.

Private sector representative, Marketing Director of PT Vidya Citrapradhana, Iing Wardah, on the same occasion said that Indonesia would bring a variety of endemic flowers becoming the pride of the country such as orchids, jasmine, palm, and Euphorbia. “We know the Netherlands are very advanced in this regard, but we are also superior, specifically for orchids, jasmine, and some other flowers,” she said.

Similarly, she hoped the participation of Indonesia in the event would be able to enhance the tourism image of Indonesia, especially in Europe. (010)

Ten displaced bodies in Sanglah Hospital cremated Denpasar (Bali Post)—

After having stored for virtually a year, finally the bodies abandoned by their family in Sanglah Hospital were cremated by the Sanglah Hospital with a fund from Bali regional government.

Approximately there were 10 displaced bodies where the longest was commended from February 2011 and has been cremated at Mumbul area, Nusa Dua. The Head of Medical Forensic Installation of Sanglah Hospital, Dudut Rustyadi, when met on Tuesday (Feb 14) explained that among the 10 cremated bodies, six of them were adult bodies consisting of four men and two

women. Meanwhile, the remaining comprised the infant’s body (3) and skeleton (1).

Of the six displaced bodies, two bodies were unidentified, namely male body found in Tabanan in February 2011 and a female body found in Sanur in March 2011.

“Most of their death was caused by illness and traffic accidents. None of the cremated bodies were the victims of murder,” said Dudut.

Apart from cremating the displaced bodies, the mortuary of Sanglah Hospital would also send three identified immigrant bodies to their place of origin. Having previously identified four immigrant bodies, later on two others who died in the

waters of Trenggalek, East Java could be identified. “The two bodies were identified as Ali Kalili, 34, from Iran and Muhammad Akram, 24, from Pakistan,” said Dudut.

With the success to identify two more bodies, finally 6 bodies could have been identified of the total 19 immigrant bodies.

“On this Wednesday, two bodies under the name of Ali Hasan, 28, and Barkat Ali, 19, will be taken home by their family. Both immigrants are Pakistanis,” said Dudut. Next Friday (Feb 17) the body under the name of Nazzer Hosseni, 27, from Pakistan would also be picked up by his family to be taken home. (kmb24)

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Jakarta (Bali Post)—

His party launched the participation of Indonesia in the Venlo World Expo Floriade 2012 in which the theme of Indonesia would be the Indonesia-Wonderful Islands. According to him, the participation of Indonesia in the Floriade 2012 also posed an effort to strengthen bilateral friendship, especially with the Dutch, improve imaging, art and cultural diplomacy, and campaign of Indonesia toward the environmental awareness. “Currently the Indonesian pavilion is under construction.

Hopefully, all the works such as the establishment of a miniature of Borobudur, Betawi House, Jineng House, Joglo House, or ‘jungle dome’ could be accomplished at the end of March,” he said.

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Such amount, said Sapta, was a joint financing from the private sector, sponsors and government.

Indonesia would participate in the Venlo World Expo Floriade 2012 in Venlo, Limburg Province, the Netherlands, on April 4 until October 7, 2012. “Participation of Indonesia in the event held every 10 years is the third time after in 1992 held in Zoetermeer, Rotterdam, and in 2002 in Harlemmermeer, Amsterdam,” he said.

Sapta added that Floriade 2012 would be taken advantage as a venue to promote tourism and economic potential of the creative industries and agriculture, forestry and plantations as well as attracting investment and trade. “Venlo World Expo Floriade 2012 will be utilized to promote Tourism, Trade and Investment (TTI) and to improve the image of Indonesia, so we need to intensify the TTI promotion in various international exhibitions,” he said.

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The hut of Ida Bagus Ketut Susena is destryed by a falling tree

A hut toppled over by falling tree

Ida Bagus Ketut Susena overnights at neighbor’s house Many poor people remain to have no habitable house. Even, some do not have a house at all, so they must take refuge or stay with their neighbor. One of them is Ida Bagus Ketut Susena aka Ida Bagus Tegeg, 61. This dweller of geriya (house of high priest) at Culik village, Karangasem, belongs to less fortunate resident. The poor family met at Culik a few days ago said that his hut covered with tarp had collapsed to the ground three weeks ago due to toppled over by a guava tree.

The hut with the area of 20 square meters had long leaked because the roof made of dried palm leaves ran thin. So, to shelter from rain it had been covered by tarp since 2006.

However, two weeks ago it collapsed as toppled over by a guava tree precisely at the courtyard in Geria Taman, Yeh Malong, Culik village.

Ida Bagus Ketut Susena who was formerly an artist had lived a widowing life since 2006. His wife Ida Ayu Sri died of a disease and left two children. His younger daughter was attending high school in Singaraja and stayed with one of her uncles, while his son worked in Denpasar.

“Frankly speaking, I expect the help in the form of house refurbishment because I do not have anything.

Currently, I am forced to stay with a neighbor or family,” he admitted.

He admitted to have nothing. To

earn his life, like eating and buying coffee he should work every day.

One of his livelihoods was transplanting rice seedling in the rice field. When met, he was transplanting in one of the farmlands at Yeh Malong, Culik. Formerly, Ida Bagus Ketut Susena was also a fisherman at Amed. When he was growing older, he stopped it and just relied on working in rice fields. Among his families, such as Ida Made Giur Dipta, he was known to be happy and industrious to attend social works. Similarly, he was good at playing gamelan and flute.

Pursuant to the existing data, the poor family in Karangasem reached over 32,000 families and it had slightly decreased from 42,171 families in 2007. Out of 32,000 poor families, almost 11,000 families did not have a habitable house. Deputy Regent of Karangasem, Made Sukerana, delivered some time ago that his party and the Regent I Wayan Geredeg were determined to help resolve the poor families who did not have appropriate housing in the next few years. Related to the poor family, Ida Bagus Ketut Susena wishing to get the help of house refurbishment had been proposed and recorded. Obviously, since his hut collapsed due to strong winds, it could be proposed through the budget of natural disaster fund. (bud)

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A game between two losing teams would not normally qualify as a must-see event but Lin, the anonymous benchwarmer turned NBA superstar in a week, made the New York Knicks’ visit to the Toronto Raptors the hottest ticket in town.

Part of Lin’s immense appeal is his made-for-Hollywood back story of sleeping on a team mate’s couch one day and living the American dream the next.

The ‘Linderella’ story continued at the Air Canada Centre as the Taiwanese American stepped up and coolly dropped a three-pointer from the top of the arc with a half-second to play to stun the Raptors 90-87.

That spell-binding piece of magic gave the Knicks their sixth straight victory, with Lin the driving force after starting in the last five games.

On a day dedicated to love, Lin’s last-minute heroics to cap an occasionally ragged performance gave Knicks coach Mike D’Antoni hope the 23-year-old might be set for a long-term relationship with the NBA, rather than the occasional one-night stand.

“He’s a tough kid, you don’t know that until you go into games with him,” D’Antoni told reporters. He’s really tough, mentally he’s there. “I

have complete faith in him. He was pretty confident that was going in.

“He’s a marked man now. He isn’t going to sneak up on anybody.”

Lin committed eight turnovers but with the game on the line he was again the Knicks go-to guy, scoring New York’s last six points, including his long-range winner to finish with a game-high 27-points with 11 assists. The first Taiwanese-American to play in the NBA, Lin’s rise from obscurity to toast of the Big Apple is an extraordinary tale that is hard to resist.

The point guard from Harvard, a college better known as a springboard to the U.S. presidency than the NBA, went undrafted and was cut by Golden State and Houston before finding a place at the end of the Knicks bench in December.

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Given his chance, Lin seized the NBA spotlight with both hands, and has inspired the Knicks with a string of stunning performances. “You have to have luck in life ... he had an opportunity and took advantage of it,” said D’Antoni. “There are a lot of NBA players who don’t make it.

Sometimes you get lucky.

Clijsters withdraws from Indian Wells with injury Reuters

Kim Clijsters has pulled out of next month’s Indian Wells WTA tournament in California because of an injured left ankle, the Belgian former world number one said on Tuesday. The elite March 5-18 event in the California desert, which attracts most of the leading players in the world, would have marked Clijsters’s third tournament of the year.

“I’m very disappointed,” Clijsters said in a statement. “Indian Wells has been a very special tournament for me, winning in 2003 and again in 2005 when I returned from injury. “I have great memories of Indian Wells and have always enjoyed the fan support there. I wish the tournament a great success this year.”

As defending champion, she reached the semi-finals of last month’s Australian Open where she was beaten 6-4 1-6 6-3 by Victoria Azarenka of Belarus.

Clijsters, a four-times grand slam singles champion, has confirmed 2012 will be her last on the WTA tour and she has spoken longingly of winning a medal at the London Olympics. The 28-year-old, whose world ranking has slipped to 30th, has already retired once, married, become a mother and notched up 41 tour wins.

“It’s a great story, so enjoy it, hopefully it will last.” As the first ripples of “Linsanity” hit Asia, marketing men have rubbed their hands with glee as they contemplate a candidate to fill the very large shoes left by last year’s retirement of Yao Ming.

But nowhere has the fascination been greater than New York, where Lin’s No. 17 jersey is the NBA’s top seller and shares of Madison Square Garden Co, owner of the Knicks, have shot to record highs. Some experts say Lin has the potential to be a bigger marketing force than any current athlete, provided ‘Linsanity’ does not prove to be a passing fad.

“He is Tiger Woods before the scandal, I think he has everything going for him,” Ronn Torossian, chief executive of 5W Public Relations, told Reuters. “If he can continue to deliver on the court his possibilities off the court are limitless. “I don’t think he needs to put up MVP numbers but I do think when you look at marketing greatness over the last few years, whether it is David Beckham, Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods, let’s not forget they were all winners. “Before anything else he has to be a winner. If he is, I can’t tell you if we have ever seen anything like this.”

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New York Knicks guard Jeremy Lin celebrates his gamewinning 3-pointer in the final seconds of an NBA basketball game against the Toronto Raptors in Toronto on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012. The Knicks won 90-87.

Making weight key to female boxers’ Olympic dreams Associated Press Writer

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— After slugging away for years in the unglamorous ranks of amateur women’s boxing, Marlen Esparza was thrilled when her sport finally became an Olympic one.

But the invitation to London came with a catch: The petite, 106-pound national champion from Houston would have to gain six pounds to compete against bigger, stronger women if she wanted to qualify.

“It was another mountain to climb,” said Esparza, who fights Tuesday night to try to win a spot on the three-member U.S. team.

“I already thought it was going to be tough to make it to the Olympics, and now I’m going to have to cross this other obstacle.”

The International Olympic Committee’s 2009 decision to cram female boxers from 10 traditional weight classes into

just three divisions — at 112, 132 and 165 pounds — raised safety concerns and altered the entire structure of a sport that’s still chasing worldwide acceptance.

Many fighters spent the past two years struggling to put on or take off a few pounds to fit the IOC’s guidelines, while others didn’t even try.

“For some of them, that’s what ended their Olympic dream,” said Christy Halbert, a veteran coach and the Chair of USA Boxing’s Women’s Task Force.

Six pounds might not seem like much, even on Esparza’s compact frame, but it’s a problem in such a finely calibrated sport. From Floyd Mayweather Jr. to the newest club fighter, boxers of all sizes obsess over the strength and mobility contained in every pound lost or gained.

“Some boxers that we’ve seen worldwide just figured they

couldn’t do it. They were too small to go up, so they didn’t really feel like they could be competitive, or they were too big to try to make that 165,” Halbert said.

Just 36 fighters — 12 in each of the three weight classes — will appear in the first Olympic women’s boxing tournament this summer; trials began this week at the Northern Quest resort-casino outside Spokane. When the IOC created its weight classes for women, the governing body cited its need to limit the total boxers at the Games to 286; one of the 11 normal weight classes for the 250 male boxers was also cut.

After her initial dismay, Esparza — a six-time national champion — began the twoyear process of meticulously building up her body to another weight class, approaching it as a challenge both athletic and intellectual.

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Senna was the busiest man during the test, covering a massive 250 laps, and finishing as 15th quickest overall out of 23 drivers. He reckons, however, that it is very hard to tell where his team stands, although he believes Williams is on par with other teams in the midfield.

“It’s hard to say. We were not following the same sort of testing programme as everybody else,” said Senna of the competitiveness of the Williams.

“I think we are there together with other guys in the midfield but we will only find out for real in Barcelona when people start doing more straightforward test programmes and then we will see.”

He added: “I think we have a strong platform and we have a few ideas in terms of what we want to do with direction, but you know each track is different. Jerez is very unique track in terms of how it makes the car behave, so for sure we are

there was going to be any drama it would be on the Day of Rage,” Ecclestone told The Telegraph.

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going to get to Barcelona and learn a bit more about the traditional circuits.”

Senna is confident Williams’s car will be stronger in the next test at Barcelona as a result of the productive work done at Jerez.

“Well we have been testing a lot of stuff in the car to try and improve tyre consistency, to improve it in the high and low speed, every test we did had an objective and we getting to know the car better and this is the main objective of this test at Jerez.

“And now when we come to Barcelona we know the car better, we know the tendencies and the most important thing to know is which direction to go in when we face a problem.”

race two months away will be alright.

“The teams are not the slightest bit concerned. They seem happy that things will go ahead without problems. Last year was a more clear-cut decision not to go but things have changed a lot since then.”

Last year’s race was first postponed and then cancelled. On Tuesday, armoured vehicles patrolled Bahrain’s capital Manama on the one-year anniversary of the uprising, with police firing tear gas at protesters.

“The only message I got was that there were some kids in trouble with the police,” Ecclestone added.

Last week, a group of British politicians urged the FIA to cancel the event, scheduled for April, because of the unrest in the country.

“We’ve always been non-political,” Ecclestone said. “Any decision will be made on grounds of safety.”

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A Thai Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) official makes a check on a backpack that was left on the bomb site by a suspect bomber in Bangkok, Thailand Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012. Two explosions boomed through a busy neighborhood in the Thai capital Tuesday, police said, but it was not immediately clear what caused the blasts or whether there were any fatalities.

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BANGKOK — An Iranian man carrying grenades blew off his own legs and wounded four civilians Tuesday after an earlier blast shook his house in Bangkok, Thai authorities said. The explosions came a day after an Israeli diplomatic car was bombed in India — an attack Israel blamed on Iran.

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Authorities say it’s unclear whether the Bangkok explosions were linked to the New Delhi attack, but Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said, “we

can’t rule out any possibility.”

Thai security forces found more explosives in a house where the Iranian man was staying in Bangkok, but the possible targets were not known,

Police Gen. Pansiri Prapawat said.

A passport found at the scene of one blast indicated the assailant was Saeid Moradi from Iran, Pansiri said.

Authorities in Tehran could not immediately be reached for comment.

Tuesday’s violence began in the afternoon when a stash of explosives apparently detonated by accident in Moradi’s house, blowing off part of the roof. Police said two foreigners quickly left the residence, followed by a wounded Moradi.

Thai bombs said similar to India, Georgia attacks

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BANGKOK — The bombs discovered in a Bangkok house after a series of blasts in the Thai capital were similar to those used in attacks on Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia, the Israeli ambassador said Wednesday.

While the targets of the bombs was not clear, “we can assume from the other experiences that we were the target,” Ambassador Itzhak Shoham told The Associated Press.

Thai police found and defused two magnetic bombs that could be stuck on vehicles after Tuesday’ blasts, he said.

“They are similar to the ones used in Delhi and in Tbilisi,” Shoham said.

“From that we can assume that there is the same network of terror.”

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Map showing a series of blasts and attempted bombings across the world this week that Israel has linked to Iran.

“He tried to wave down a taxi, but he was covered in blood, and the driver refused to take him,” Pansiri said. He then threw an explosive at the taxi and began running.

Police who had been called to the area then tried to apprehend Moradi, who hurled a grenade to defend himself. “But somehow it bounced back” and blew off his legs, Pansiri said.

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