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The photo shows people queueing in the gas station. Bali is judged to have not been ready to perform the conversion of fuel to gas effective the upcoming April 1. The program started from Java and Bali has not been preceded with comprehensive studies and feasibility test.

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DENPASAR - Bali is judged to have not been ready to perform the conversion of fuel to gas effective the upcoming April 1. The program started from Java and Bali has not been preceded with comprehensive studies and feasibility test.

Chairman of the Bali land transportation organization (Organda), Ketut Eddy Dharma Putra, judged the issuance of fuel to gas conversion policy by government was too early. Moreover, govern-

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sion has serious impact, both in terms of security and economic aspect,” Darma Putra told Bali Post.

He said that government needed to examine the plan carefully. Likewise, the public safety and risks aspect

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Avalanches kill 14 in Afghanistan Associated Press

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ment had not done careful studies and feasibility test.

“The fuel to gas conversion plan should carefully and clearly designed.

By doing so, it will not make people confused. Moreover, the fuel conver-

should be thoroughly considered.

So, the conversion policy should not even make people uneasy.

“We are pessimistic if the public can follow the program because the gas fuel station has not been ready yet. In addition, the community must equip their vehicles with converter to support the use of gas. Obviously, this will cost much,” he said.

KABUL — Avalanches caused by heavy snowfall have killed at least 14 people in a mountainous region in northeastern Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday.

Rescue crews were trying to reach the remote areas of Badakhshan province where a number of houses were reported to have been destroyed

on Monday, said Shams ul-Rahman deputy provincial governor.

Between 6-9 feet (2-3 meters) of snow have fallen in the area, making roads to the provincial capital of Faizabad impassable.

“We have reports of at least 14 dead and several others injured,” ul-Rahman said, adding that several other people were missing.

Avalanches present a constant

danger in many parts of Afghanistan during the winter.

In February 2010, an avalanche killed at least 171 people near the 12,700-foot (3,800-meter) high Salang Pass, a major route through the Hindu Kush mountains that connects the Afghan capital of Kabul to the north of the country.

Meanwhile, Afghan President Hamid Karzai urged the Taliban

to allow teams conducting a polio vaccination campaign access to areas under the insurgents’ control.

Afghanistan is one of just three nations where polio remains endemic. The two others are Nigeria and neighboring Pakistan. “Whoever prevents the polio vaccination is the enemy of our children’s future,” Karzai said in a statement.

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Bali News Health Center Services in Denpasar

Evaluated every six months

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The patients must wait on the hall because the room in Sanglah Hospital are fully occupied

Room fully occupied, patients queued Denpasar (Bali Post) –

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Ken Wirasnsadhi, MARS stated BOR of the hospital especially third FODVV KDYH EHHQ ÂżOOHG DOWKRXJK ZLWK infectious illness has to be hospitalised plus with patients owning either Bali Mandara Health Insurance (JKBM) and Public Health Insurance (Jamkesnas), it cause

public easier to get facilities at Sanglah Hospital. “These insurances also support third class rooms yet it’s always over capacity. Usually those who did not get it are being placed to a higher one yet at this time Sanglah Hospital have every NLQG RI URRP ÂżOOHG VR D TXHXH RFcurred,â€? Ken explained.

Sanglah Hospital has 700 beds where third class got around 40 percent of it. To avoid queues, one way to be taken is to shorten long stays of patients treated at Sanglah where the usual 11 days could be quickened to 9 days.

This will give smoother exchanging rooms. (kmb24)

In one year, 71 people died at Denpasar-Gilimanuk route Negara (Bali Post) –

It was noted that there are around 71 people that died due WR WUDIÂżF DFFLGHQWV DW 'HQSDVDU Gilimanuk route which means approximately 5-6 people died a month as informed by Jembrana 7UDIÂżF 3ROLFH ZKLFK DSSDUHQWO\ is less than in year 2010 although more accidents occurred last year, stated by Head of the Police, APC Dewa Gede Putra, last Monday (16/1) with the total 252 cases with black spots 78-88 kilometer spots where 37 of it took 14

lives. “The total increased from 177 in 2010 to 256 in 2011. Yet for casualties it decreased from 79 becoming 71 people,� Putra explained.

Besides that, the accidents mostly happened at village roads also coming from Padang Bai and Denpasar. It seemed that it is caused due to Jembrana route became the tiring point for motorcycle drivers as usually those from Gilimanuk usually already got some rest when actually there DUH VL[ WUDIÂżF SROLFH SRVWV EHWZHHQ

Yehembang and Sumbersari can be used to rest especially motorcycle drivers. Besides tiredness, the road factor being damaged seemed to have caused a number of vehicles slipped or fell then driven by other vehicles. Now a number of suggestions have been placed on sensitive points also suggestion through SMS to public has also been sent. “Besides patrol, some operations will be GRQH WR VWUDLJKWHQ WUDIÂżF RUGHUV including safety riding,â€? Putra concluded. (kmb26)

SOME people at present complain about services provided by community health center because no doctors are of service. However, this does not apply to services in the community health center in Denpasar. When Bali Post made a visit to several health centers in Denpasar, many people looked to come for treatment.

One of them was Meiti, 39, a resident from Jalan Wijaya Kusuma Denpasar who visited the community health center of North Denpasar I to check up her teeth. “I have come here for seven times. By and large, I take a treatment for ailments VXFK DV FROGV Ă€X RU D WRRWKDFKH ZKHQ suffering a relapse as today,â€? she said.

As a community member, she admitted if the service in the health center was excellent. To her knowledge, the paramedics and doctors were always of service pursuant to their duty hours. “BeVLGHV WKH RIÂżFHUV KHUH DUH YHU\ IULHQGO\ too. When having ailments, I prefer the community health center to Sanglah Hospital. All the doctors and nurses here are friendly, while nurses in Sanglah Hospital DUH ELWFK\ ´ FRQÂżGHG 0HL Regarding the treatment cost, continued Mei, she just needed to present her Bali identity card when asking for treatment. Therefore, she did not have to pay for medical care and medicine. “Simply by presenting ID card, I do not have to pay,â€? she said. The Head of Public Health Center for North Denpasar III, AA Tarumawijaya, explained the health center in Denpasar was urged to provide excellent service and evaluated every six months through the Society Satisfaction Index (IKM). It was undertaken by spreading

questionnaires to patients visiting the health center.

So far, added Tarumawijaya, there ZHUH QR VLJQLÂżFDQW REVWDFOHV LQ SURYLGLQJ VHUYLFHV 2IÂżFHUV LQ FKDUJH RI WKH KHDOWK center of North Denpasar consisted of 4 general practitioners, 2 dentists (plus a temporary one), 8 nurses, 8 midwives, QXWULWLRQLVWV ODE RIÂżFHUV DQG HQYLURQPHQWDO KHDOWK RIÂżFHUV +H DVFHUWDLQHG WKDW DOO WKH RIÂżFHUV ZHUH RI VHUYLFH LQ WKH Community Health Center.

0HDQZKLOH WKH RIÂżFH KRXUV RI WKH health centers in Denpasar started at 07:30 a.m. until 12:00 a.m. Local Time.

Regarding the service rate, continued Tarumawijaya, it had been increased since last November as an improvement from government. “Previously, medical treatment of each patient in the health center was charged at IDR 3,000. Now, it had been raised to IDR 11,000,� he said.

With the rate increase, he admitted, the PHGLFDO RIÂżFHUV DQG GRFWRUV ZRXOG IHHO to be more appreciated and had a passion to serve the community. Nevertheless, people who had the Bali identity cards did not feel it because it was covered by the Bali Mandara Health Insurance or JKBM. Daily average of visit to the health center of North Denpasar III reached 150 people with patients dominated by the upper respiratory infection (ISPA) sufferers. In years to come, he expected the services in the health centers could be better. “We always make coordination with the health agency regarding the facilities required. Today, we need blood test equipment for dengue fever disease,â€? said Tarumawijaya. (san)

Rainy Season, boats unemployed Tabanan (Bali Post) –

The bad weather that keep on continuing seemed to affect tourism facilities such as at Beratan Lake, Baturiti, hardly any tourists come causing a decrease on the tourist boats income up to 50 percent as stated by Marzuki (50) one of the managers of the boats last Sunday (15/1). “Most were afraid the rain will pour while they’re on the boat,� Marzuki explained.

In normal condition, the rent would reach 5-7 units per day yet for this season at most 2 units were rented. Even though rain hasn’t poured, only one unit was used so far last Sunday. To prevent the boats dragged to the mid lake, the boats were parked securely on the

sides. The tariff seemed to be staying despite the fewer visitations where rowing boat IDR 50,000 while using a guide become IDR 65,000 per hour, then rent boat idr 10,000 per four people while a boat with a roof top is IDR 185,000 with maximum eight passengers.

Not only those, duck boats are also hardly used where it cost IDR 35,000 per 30 minutes hire plus fishing equipments hiring are also affected where usually in a weekend 40 people would hire it, now maximum 20 people which its tariff IDR 5,000-15,000 per equipment. The tourism managers are hoping the bad weather will end soon so normal situation can occur. (udi)

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Miss the target, Wantilan Hall of Art Center re-tendered Denpasar (Bali Post)—

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To continue the project, it would be scheduled a re-tender this February 2012. As planned, the wantilan could have been completed before the Bali Arts Festival (BAF) 2012, so that it could be used to support the performing arts in the event.

When contacted separately by phone, the Head of Bali Cultural $JHQF\ .HWXW 6XDVWLND FRQÂżUPHG the wantilan development project would be re-tendered because the project contractor was unable to

achieve the volume of work as per contract. It could only accomplish about 27 percent of the total volume.

As consequence, the contract agreement was terminated. Eventually the contractor was only paid in accordance with the achievements of the volume of work, approximately IDR 600 million of the contract value worth some IDR 2.5 billion.

The remaining budget was taken back to local treasury.

Suastika further said that government would continue the rest of the project work by re-tendering. “The remaining work will be auctioned again. We are now preparing the tender documents,� said Suastika.

He hoped the wantilan project could be completed before implementation of the Bali Arts Festival 2012.

Additionally, he hoped to get serious contractor who truly had the ability to accomplish the project work punctually.

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The concrete poles are seen on the Wantilan Hall of Art Center Denpasar.

Palm sugar makers sluggish in rainy season Hard to get jaggery and ďŹ rewood

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Desak Suci, one of the palm sugar maker is showing her product

Palm sugar makers at Besan Village, Dawan, Klungkung, turned sluggish after the rainy season since the past few ZHHNV ,W PDGH FUDIWHUV GLIÂżFXOW WR JHW jaggery because they did not dare to climb slippery coconut trees. Besides, WKH\ KDG GLIÂżFXOW\ WR ORRN IRU ÂżUHZRRG for processing the palm wine into sugar as well as they needed sunlight for compaction process.

Moreover, so far the local customary village does not allow residents to cut down trees around the hill area haphazardly. The logging is feared to potentially cause landslides that can be harmful IRU SHRSOH ,QGHHG WKH XVH RI ÂżUHZRRG can save the spending rather than using kerosene or gas stoves. Hence, they are DOVR RIWHQ IRUFHG WR EX\ ÂżUHZRRG OLNH LQ WKLV FRQGLWLRQ EHLQJ GLIÂżFXOW WR JHW ÂżUHZRRG Most residents of Besan Village are palm sugar makers. It can be said, the sugar production is one of the most important livelihoods for local residents. Ironically, most of those getting involved in the profession live below

the poverty line or are categorized into poor households.

One of the palm sugar makers, Desak Suci, mentioned that under normal condition she could produce four kilograms of palm sugar every day. The price was Ă€XFWXDWLQJ EHWZHHQ ,'5 DQG IDR 14,000 per kilogram. However, that price could rise to IDR 15,000 during a holiday season. “The sugar making highly depends on weather. If it rains, my husband automatically does not dare to climb coconut trees for tapping palm wine used as jaggery,â€? she said.

6LPLODU GLIÂżFXOW\ ZDV DOVR UHYHDOHG by another sugar maker, Sugiarti. She said the weather would also determine the quality of sugar. “If there is no sunlight, the sugar produced is not good,â€? said Sugiarti.

When not making sugar due to rain, Desak Suci and Sugiarti admitted to be forced to seek other jobs like as porter of coconut or sand in the house of residents who were establishing a new building. Even for such a side job, Desak Suci claimed to make a group of eight. NPE

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Twelve more killed in Syria despite Arab monitors Reuters

BEIRUT - Twelve people were killed on Monday in Syria, where a peace plan monitored by Arab observers has failed to douse a 10-month-old struggle between President Bashar al-Assad and his foes. Arab foreign ministers meet on Sunday to discuss the future of the mission sent last month to check if Syria was abiding by the accord it accepted on November 2. The mission ends on Thursday but the monitors may extend their stay to January 22.

The Arab plan required Syria to halt the bloodshed, withdraw the military from cities, free detainees and hold a dialogue.

Hundreds of people have been reported killed in Syria even since the monitors deployed on December 26 as pro-Assad forces try to crush peaceful protests and armed resistance to his rule.

Random gunfire by pro-Assad militiamen killed five people, including a woman, and wounded nine in the restive city of Homs, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. A sniper later shot dead a 16-year-old girl

there, it added. It said five soldiers were killed when they tried to change sides during a clash with rebels in the northwestern province of Idlib, adding that 15 soldiers had succeeded in defecting.

The state news agency SANA said an “armed terrorist group” had shot dead Brigadier-General Mohammed Abdul-Hamid alAwad and wounded his driver in the countryside near Damascus. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reiterated a call for Assad to “stop killing, and listen to his people.”

During a visit to Abu Dhabi, he said: “I hope the U.N. Security Council handles Syria in a coherent manner and with a sense of gravity,” but did not recommend any specific action. “The casualties have reached such an unacceptable stage we cannot let the situation continue this way,” Ban said.

The harsh response to the uprising by Assad’s security forces has killed more than 5,000 people, by a U.N. count. The Syrian authorities say 2,000 members of the security forces have also been killed. The deaths of 32 civilians and soldiers were reported on Sunday.

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This file photo shows Australia’s Prime Minister Julia Gillard (R) speaking to Queen Elizabeth II during the official reception at Parliament House in Canberra, last October.

Australia plans donation for queen’s jubilee Agence France Presse

Australia said it planned to make a donation to the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust rather than buying the monarch a gift to mark her 60 years on the throne.

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Demonstrators take part in a protest against Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad after Friday prayer in Talbiseh near Homs January 13, 2012.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard made the comment on Tuesday, as a row flared in Britain after a minister suggested taxpayers could pay for a new royal yacht to mark the occasion.

The extravagant idea was shot down by British leader David Cameron, although London said it would consider plans for a privatelyfunded ship.

Gillard said Buckingham Palace had indicated that the queen’s

preference was for donations to be made to the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust, a charity that will make investments across the 54-nation Commonwealth.

“We are considering making a donation to her trust,” Gillard said when asked what Australia planned.

“I actually stood with Prime Minister Cameron when he indicated that the advice from the palace was that the queen’s preference was

for a Diamond Jubilee Trust.

“Prime Minister Cameron certainly indicated that the UK government would be making a contribution to her trust,” she added.

British Education Minister Michael Gove this week suggested the queen’s “highly significant contribution” to the Commonwealth should be recognised with a yacht to replace Britannia, which was decomissioned in 1997.

The queen is warmly regarded in Australia, a former British colony, though from time to time debate flares about whether ties to the monarchy should be cut and the nation become a republic.

Obama, Occupy marchers mark Martin Luther King holiday Reuters

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama led Americans on Monday in honoring slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., while the Occupy Wall Street movement staged a new march protesting economic injustice. Obama, the first African-American president, joined his wife, Michelle, and daughter Malia in helping build a library reading nook at a school in Washington.

Speaking beneath a sign with the words, “United we serve,” Obama said service and diversity strength-

ened America. “At a time when the country has been going through some difficult economic times, for us to be able to come together as a community, people from all different walks of life, and make sure that we’re giving back, that’s ultimately what makes us the strongest, most extraordinary country on earth,” he said.

On the first King holiday since the Occupy movement reignited debate in the United States over inequality, hundreds of protesters marched in wintry temperatures in Manhattan, stopping at a Bank of America branch to shout, “The banks got

bailed out, we got sold out.”

Protest leaders said in a statement the march was held “because Dr. King dedicated the last months of his life to planning a campaign for the right of all to a decentpaying job.” At least two protesters were put in a police van.

King, a Baptist pastor who advocated for nonviolence, racial brotherhood and equal rights and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, was assassinated in 1968 as he stood on his motel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee, where he had gone to support striking sanitation workers.

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U.S. President Barack Obama (C) greets people as he arrives to participate during a day of service to honor Martin Luther King, Jr, at the Browne Education Campus school in Washington, January 16, 2012.

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Activities Ma a Ubu Resort

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

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Equip with new facilities

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UBUD – The award winning Maya Ubud Resort & Spa opened its new Fitness Center and Yoga Pavilion. Located on the western side of the resort adjoining the tennis court and overlooking the pitch & putt golf green.

The fully air-conditioned Fitness Center features the latest state-of-the-art exercise equipment offering our resort guests the opportunity to enjoy their regular workout whilst on vacation. On the upper level, a generous 187 square meter space provides an excellent venue for daily yoga in a tranquil atmosphere, with stunning views over the resort gardens and the adjacent rice terraces.

The Fitness Center is open from 6.00 am to 9.00 pm daily and offers the services of a Personal Trainer. As part of our wellness program on the floor above, a one hour complimentary “Yoga for Beginners” session is conducted each morning for all to join. Following this, the pavilion is available for private yoga lessons, group sessions or yoga retreat activities.

These new facilities complement the resort’s other holistic wellness programs. “Since the inception of Maya Ubud, we have constantly striven to upgrade and improve our product to meet the every growing requirements of our guests”, commented Paul Blake, General Manager.

Other recreational facilities and activities available in Maya Ubud Resort & Spa include two infinity-edge swimming pools, a hard surface, floodlit tennis court, pitch & putt golf green, Pilates lessons, Balinese cooking classes, nature walks, village trekking excursions and mountain biking.

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

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

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

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

11 Jan Buda Wage Warigadean.

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

Odalan Ida Ratu Puraus Merajan Salonding Besakih.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Missing snowshoer found alive on Mount Rainier Reuters

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An oil removal ship near the cruise ship Costa Concordia, leaning on its side, Monday, Jan. 16, 2012, after running aground near the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, last Friday night.

Missing raised to 29 in Italian cruise disaster Associated Press Writer

ROME — Italy’s cruise liner tragedy turned into an environmental crisis Monday, as rough seas battering the stricken mega-ship raised fears that fuel might leak into pristine waters off Tuscany that are part of a protected sanctuary for dolphins, porpoises and whales.

The ship’s owner accused the jailed captain of causing the wreck that left at least six dead and 29 missing, saying he made an “unapproved, unauthorized maneuver� to divert the vessel from its programmed course.

Earlier, authorities had said 16 people were missing. But DQ ,WDOLDQ &RDVW *XDUG RIÂżFLDO Marco Brusco, said late Monday that 25 passengers and four crew members were unaccounted for three days after the Costa Concordia struck a reef and capsized off the coast of the tiny island of Giglio.

He didn’t explain the jump, but indicated 10 of the missing are Germans. Two Americans are also among the missing.

Brusco said there was still “a glimmer of hope� there could be survivors on parts of the vast cruise liner that have yet to be searched. The last survivor, a crewman who had broken his leg, was rescued on Sunday.

Waters that had remained calm

IRU WKH ÂżUVW GD\V RI WKH UHVFXH turned choppy Monday, shifting the wreckage and raising fears that any further movement could cause some of the 500,000 gallons of fuel on board to leak into the waters off Giglio, which are popular with scuba divers and form part of the protected Tuscan archipelago. Rescue operations were suspended for several hours because of the rough seas.

Italy’s environmental minister raised the alarm about a potential environmental catastrophe. “At the moment there haven’t been any fuel leaks, but we have to intervene quickly,� the minister, Corrado Clini, told RAI state radio.

Even before the accident there had been mounting calls from environmentalists to restrict passage of large ships in the area.

The ship’s operator, Costa Crociere SpA, has enlisted one of the world’s leading salvagers, Smit of Rotterdam, Netherlands, to handle the removal of the 1,000-

foot (290-meter) cruise liner and extract the fuel safely. Smit has a long track record of dealing with wrecks and leaks, including reÀRDWLQJ JURXQGHG EXON FDUULHUV DQG securing drilling platforms in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Meanwhile, the Italian cruise operator said Capt. Francesco Schettino intentionally strayed from the ship’s authorized course into waters too close to the perilous reef, causing it to crash late Friday and capsize.

The navigational version of a ³À\ E\´ ZDV DSSDUHQWO\ PDGH DV a favor to the chief waiter who is from Giglio and whose parents live on the island, local media reported. A judge on Tuesday is to decide whether Schettino should remain jailed. “We are struck by the unscrupulousness of the reckless maneuver that the commander of the Costa Concordia made near the island of Giglio,â€? prosecutor Francesco Verusio told reporters. “It was inexcusable.â€?

SEATTLE - A 66-year-old snowshoer missing for two nights in harsh conditions on Mount Rainier in Washington was found alive on Monday by PHPEHUV RI D VHDUFK SDUW\ D 1DWLRQDO 3DUN 6HUYLFH RIÂżFLDO VDLG Yong Chun Kim was leading a hiking club from Tacoma on a snowshoe outing near the 5,400-foot-high Paradise region of the mountain on Saturday afternoon when he slipped and fell down a steep incline, park spokeswoman Lee Taylor said.

Kim radioed his group to continue the hike, saying he would traverse the area where he fell, but rangers began the search about an hour after he failed to show up, Taylor said.

Kim, who has 10 years of experience as a snowshoer, was found alive by a team of three searchers midafternoon in a steep river valley called the Stevens Creek drainage.

He had no obvious injuries but was extremely cold, Taylor said, adding that he could have hypothermia. “We have not yet gotten a detailed statement about how he stayed alive.

Searchers right now are focused on keeping him warm and safe until he can be evacuated from the remote area where they found him,� she said.

Kim was well-equipped for a day hike but not for overnight blizzard conditions, with icy winds whipping up to 50 miles per hour, temperatures at 10 degrees Fahrenheit and up to 30 inches of fresh snow falling in parts of the park on Saturday night.

The weather eased somewhat on Sunday, with calmer winds, “but we did get several inches of snow the second night,� Taylor said.

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From page 1 An owner of petrol station in Tabanan, IB Raka Wiryanata, also complained about the program.

To make the conversion program VXFFHVVIXO JRYHUQPHQW VKRXOG ÂżUVW provide the infrastructure before it ZDV DSSOLHG LQ WKH ÂżHOG According to him, several steps should be undertaken by government before starting the program.

One of them was multiplying the gas station (SPBG) throughout Bali. “At least, it will take a long time to complete the infrastructure.

The infrastructure is not ready but it has been touted,� he said.

For information, government has prepared the budget worth IDR 965 billion for fuel to gas conversion program related to the control of fuel volume coming into effect on April 1. The funds are considHUHG VXIÂżFLHQW IRU WKH LQLWLDO VWDJH of fuel to gas conversion program.

In the near future, the Presidential Regulation on the control against the fuel volume will be immediately issued by government.

People are expected to consider BBG as alternative fuel to replace Premium fuel that had been restricted due to the control policy against the volume of subsidized fuel. To that end, the socialization on the fuel to gas conversion will be implemented earlier preceding the implementation of the subsidized fuel volume control policy on April 1.

Government, particularly Minister of Finance, ensuring the converters distributed freely by government remained to prioritize the quality and safety. Such converter would be produced by domestic industry, but it stilled required the help of imports for the early stage. (par)

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From page 1 Last year, the government registered 80 new cases of polio, most of them in the restive VRXWKHUQ SURYLQFHV 7KDW ÂżJXUH was three times higher than the total for 2010.

The polio virus, which usually infects children in unsanitary conditions, attacks the central nervous system, sometimes causing paralysis, muscular atrophy, deformation and, in some cases, death. “Karzai called on the armed opposition to the government to allow the medical teams to vaccinate the children and rescue

them from polio,� the government statement said.

Karzai said that although millions of Afghan children had been inoculated in successive vaccination campaigns, many remained outside the reach of KHDOWK RIÂżFLDOV EHFDXVH RI WKH security situation in areas in the south and along the border with Pakistan.

Karzai’s appeal came just days after another country in the region, India, celebrated a full year since its last reported case of polio, a major victory in a global eradication effort.

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Indonesia cracks down on train ‘surfers’ Associated Press

AP Photo/Dita Alangkara

Commuters take a crowded bus as they head home after work during rush hour in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Jan. 13, 2012. Indonesia has gone to imaginative extremes to try to stop commuters from riding the roofs of trains — hosing them down with red paint, appealing for help from religious leaders, and threatening them with dogs.

JAKARTA — Indonesia has gone to imaginative extremes to try to stop commuters from riding the roofs of trains — hosing them down with red paint, appealing for help from religious leaders, and threatening them with dogs.

Now they have an intimidating and possibly even deadly new tactic: Suspending rows of grapefruit-sized concrete balls above railway lines a few inches (centimeters) above the tops of carriages at points where trains enter or pull out of stations, or where they go through crossings.

Authorities hope the balls — which could deliver serious blows to the head — will be enough to deter defiant roof riders.

“We’ve tried just about everything, even putting rolls of barbed wire on the roof, but nothing seems to work,” said Mateta Rizahulhaq, a spokesman for the state-owned railway company PT Kereta Api. “Maybe this will do it.”

Trains that crisscross Indonesia on

poorly maintained tracks left behind

by Dutch colonizers six decades ago usually are packed with passengers, especially during the rush hour.

Hundreds seeking to escape the overcrowded carriages clamor to the top. Some ride high to avoid paying for a ticket. Others do so because — despite the dangers, with dozens killed or injured every year — “rail surfing” is fun.

The first balls were being installed Tuesday hundreds of yards (meters) from the entrance of a train station just outside the capital, Jakarta, and others were to be placed near railway crossings.

If successful, the project will be expanded, said Rizahulhaq.

Asked about worries that the balls could hurt or even kill those who defy the roof-riding ban, he insisted that wasn’t really his problem.

“They don’t have to sit on top,” he said. “And we’ve already told them, if the train is full, go to the office. We will be happy to reimburse their tickets.”

Police violate human rights the most in 2011 Antara

JAKARTA - The police as an institution have violated human rights the most during the 2011 period, according to the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas-HAM) said here on Monday.

“In 2011, the Commission received 6,000 complaints from the

people but only 4,000 cases could be processed further. Among the num-

ber, the police were the institution people had complained about most,” Komnas-HAM Chief Ifdal Kasim said here on Monday at a meeting with members of the House of Representatives from Commission III. Ifdhal said the Commission had received a total of 1,262 complaints

from the people against the police during the 2011 period. He said the number was an indication that supervision by the police`s internal affairs did not run well.

“If not handled properly, the number of violations by the police will keep growing,” he said.

The chief added complaints related to land dispute placed second as the most cases reported to Komnasham while corporate dispute took third place.

“The scale and quality of human rights violations in Indonesia in 2011 had increased in 2011 compared to 2010,” he added.

President advised to handle Aceh elections problem Antara

JAKARTA - An Acehnese political observer, Teuku Kemal Fasya, has advised President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to take action immediately to settle the problem of regional elections scheduled in Aceh next month.

“The President could mediate in the conflict between two parties who are all former members of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), namely current Governor Irwandi Yusuf and the Aceh Party, which has so far been the source of clashes,” Teuku Kemal Fasya from the Department of Social and Political Science of the local Malikussaleh University said here on Monday.

Kemal said the problem could no longer be settled at local levels as the turbulence has already entered into the central executive and judicial institutions.

“The demand of the home affairs minister to the Constitutional Court to re-open registration of candidates to give an opportunity to a number of political parties that have not yet registered themselves to register shows that the internal conflict between former GAM members have already affected national politics,” he said.

Kemal said the conflict emerged after the Constitutional Court met the demand for a judicial review on Article 256 of the Law on Aceh Administration to allow independent candidates to run in the elections.

“The meeting of the demand allows current governor Irwandi Yusuf who is not nominated by Aceh Party as a candidate to run through individual nomination for his re-election as governor. On the other hand, the Aceh Party is worried Irwandi would make use of his bureaucratic machine to win the elections,” he said.

That is why the Aceh Party has not yet registered itself to participate in the elections. Their fear has received legitimacy following a statement from the Aceh Independent Election Commission (KIP) which said that “the elections in Aceh could only be done if `Qanun` (by-law) as their legal basis has been made.”

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A worker arranges large joss sticks in preparation for Chinese New Year celebrations in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. People of the Chinese descent in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim country, are gearing up to celebrate the Lunar New Year next week.

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Bali Today 53 crew members of Costa Concordia from Bali Antara

DENPASAR - Bali overnor Made Mangku Pastika stated that 53 FUHZ PHPEHUV RI &RVWD &RQFRUGLD DUH IURP %DOL +H KDV H[SUHVVHG hope that Indonesian crew members who survived from ill-fated Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia be repatriated soon. “We have to be grateful because all Indonesian crew members, including those from Bali, were safe in the sea accident in Italy and , WKLQN WKH\ QHHG WR UHWXUQ VRRQ WR WDNH D UHVW DW KRPH H[FHSW WKRVH ZKR ZDQW WR ÂżQG DQRWKHU MRE LQ WKH FRXQWU\ ´ *RYHUQRU 3DVWLND VDLG here on Tuesday.

Pastika said that based on the latest data which was made available to him, there were 53 crew members from Bali on board the ill-fated cruise ship.

Meanwhile, Foreign Affairs Ministry Information and Media DiUHFWRU 3/( 3ULDWQD VDLG LQ -DNDUWD RQ 0RQGD\ WKDW DOO ,QGRQHVLDQ crew members of Costa Concordia survived in the sea accident. uoting an information from Indonesian Embassy in Rome, Italy, 3ULDWQD VDLG LW KDG EHHQ FRQÂżUPHG WKDW QR ,QGRQHVLDQ QDWLRQDOV ZHUH among 40 people who remained missing.

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Deputy Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy Sapta Nirwandar said a cruise ship named MV Legend of the Seas was the biggest yacht to berth in Benoa Harbor, Bali.

First big cruise ship berths at Benoa Port Antara

DENPASAR - Deputy Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy Sapta Nirwandar said a cruise ship named MV Legend of the Seas was the biggest yacht to berth in Benoa Harbor, Bali. “Previously, cruise ships of the same size as the Legend could not berth at any Indonesia port. They could only throw anchor some distance from the coast and transport passengers to the shore by small boats,� he said here Monday.

Sapta Nirwandar also said the 264.3-meter-long Legend of the Seas was the biggest cruise ship to berth at an Indonesian port, in this case Benoa, Bali.

Meanwhile, the harbor and dredging director of Bali’s Transportation 2IÂżFH .HPDO +HU\DQGUL VDLG %HQRD harbor was ready to receive big ships from overseas. .HPDO +HU\DQGUL VDLG FRUDO UHHIV in the harbor waters had been removed in 2011 to ensure the navigation safety of big ships, even of ships bigger than WKH 09 /HJHQG %HVLGHV .HPDO added, the local government had also dredged the coastal waters up to a depth of 11 meters. “In 2012, the dredging will reach 12 meters to enable big cruise ships to berth easily and VDIHO\ ´ .HPDO VDLG President Director of PTIndonesia

+DUERU 3HOLQGR ,,, 'MDUZR 6XUMDQWR had previously said Benoa would EH WKH ÂżUVW SRUW LQ ,QGRQHVLD DEOH WR receive the Legend of the Seas.

The cruise ship had 2,300 passengers and a 1,000-strong crew on board when it arrived in Benoa. “The Legend’s visit will attract ZRUOG DWWHQWLRQ EHFDXVH LW LV WKH ÂżUVW time for a big cruise ship to berth at an ,QGRQHVLDQ SRUW ´ 'MDUZR VDLG According to eneral Manager of 37 3HODEXKDQ ,QGRQHVLD 3HOLQGR RI Benoa Branch, Iwan Sabatini, they were scheduled to be in Bali for three GD\V XQWLO :HGQHVGD\ -DQ

“In 2011, this cruise ship also DQFKRUHG LQ %HQRD +DUERU 1RZ it comes again by carrying 2,300 foreign tourists,� he said. +H VDLG WKDW WKRXVDQGV RI WRXUists berthing would visit a number of tourist attractions in Bali. DurLQJ WKHLU VRMRXUQ LQ %DOL WKH\ ZHUH handled by a travel agency that had previously established cooperation for the land handling. +RZHYHU LQ KDUPRQ\ ZLWK WKH GHYHORSPHQW SURMHFW RI WKH JURRYH deepening and pond widening, said

Iwan Sabatini, the vessels of more than 200 meters long could now berth in the biggest seaport in Bali. “We did a deepening of the pond to 12 meters and widening of the groove to 150 meters in the ship groove. On WKDW DFFRXQW WKH %HQRD +DUERU KDV been prepared to receive the visits of larger cruise ships,� he said. +H H[SODLQHG WKDW %DOL ZRXOG EH GURSSHG LQ E\ FUXLVH VKLSV LQ transporting thousands of tourists. For that purpose, Pelindo would continue to improve the services by human resources and supporting facilities in the seaport. In years to come, more and more cruise ships were estimated to come to Indonesia. They would be of larger ships over 200 meters in length DQG HYHQ ZLWK OHQJWK RYHUDOO /2$ RI more than 300 meters.

These conditions, according to him, would require the development of pier infrastructure with more adequate depth of the groove and pond up to 12 meters LWS. “Up to the end RI WKH %HQRD +DUERU KDG EHHQ YLVLWHG E\ FUXLVH VKLSV ,W H[FHHGHG WKH WDUJHW RI YLVLW DPRXQWLQJ WR units,� he said. (par)

Bali textile export increase 13% Antara 'HQSDVDU %DOL JDLQHG PLOOLRQ RI LQFRPH IURP WH[WLOH H[SRUWV RQ -DQXDU\ WKURXJK 1RYHPEHU SHULRG 7KH VSRNHVPDQ RI %DOL *RYHUQPHQW , .HWXW 7HQHQJ VDLG WKDW WKH LQFRPH LQFUHDVHG 13 compare to the same period in the previous year which was 102.19 million. +H VDLG WKDW WKH LQFRPH JDLQHG IURP WKH VKLSPHQW RI PLOOLRQ SLHFHV RI WH[WLOH LQFUHDVHG FRPSDUH WR WKH VDPH SHULRG LQ ZKLFK ZDV PLOOLRQ SLHFHV %DOL DOVR H[SRUWHG PLOOLRQ PHWHUV RI WH[WLOH SURGXFWV ZRUWK PLOOLRQ GXULQJ -DQXDU\ WKURXJK November 2011 period. ,W LQFUHDVHG VLJQLÂżFDQWO\ FRPSDUH WR WKH VDPH SHULRG LQ ZKLFK ZDV PLOOLRQ PHWHUV RI WH[WLOH ZRUWK PLOOLRQ 7HQHQJ VDLG WKDW WKH WH[WLOH H[SRUW KDV VWUDWHJLF YDOXH EHFDXVH GRQDWH TXLWH ODUJH QXPEHU RI LQFRPH IURP WKH QRQ RLO DQG JDV H[SRUW ,W LV IURP WKH WRWDO QRQ RLO DQG JDV H[SRUW IURP %DOL LQ -DQXDU\ WKURXJK 1RYHPEHU SHULRG GHFUHDVH FRPSDUH WR WKH VDPH period in 2010 which was 469.93 million.

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Balinese Culture Babi Kecap (Pork Cooked in Soya Sauce) Ingredients 1/2 kg (1 1/4 lb) fillet of pork -or leg of pork 1 tb Clear soya sauce 2 tb Plain flour 1/2 ts Powdered ginger 20 g (4 oz) button mushrooms 4 Cloves garlic 1 sl of root ginger, about 2 cm -(1”) across and 1/2 cm -(1/4”) thick 3 tb Dark soya sauce Pepper or a pinch of chilli -powder 2 tb water 2 tb Medium dry sherry or rice -wine (optional) 2 ts Lemon juice 6 tb Oil or pork fat Directions This, as its name suggests, is pork cooked in soya sauce.

Cut the pork into small cubes. Put the flour into a bowl and add the clear soya sauce and ginger powder, mixing them well together. Coat the pork with the mixture and then let it stand for at least 30 minutes.

Clean and slice the mushrooms. Peel the garlic and ginger and slice them very thin; you can use these thin slices as they are, or cut them again into very tiny sticks.

AFP PHOTO / SONNY TUMBELAKA

Two women clean a holy statue after cleaning it at Buddhist temple in Denpasar on the Hindu majority island of Bali on January 17, 2012, ahead of the Chinese Lunar new year. Indonesia will celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year on January 23, 2012.

Heat the oil or fat in a wok or thick frying pan and fry the meat, half of it at a time, turning it from time to time, for 5 minutes.

Repeat the process for the remaining half of the meat. The flour that coated the meat will tend to stay in the pan or stick to the bottom of it, but leave it there-it will thicken the sauce later. Now take most of the oil out of the pan, leaving only about two tablespoons which you then heat again. In this, fry the tiny slices of garlic and ginger and the mushrooms, stirring continuously, for i minute. Add the soya sauce, the water and the meat. mix well, season with pepper or chilli powder, and stir continuously for 1 or 2 minutes. just before serving, add the sherry or rice wine and the lemon juice. Serve hot.

This dish keeps extremely well in the freezer, and it is worth making a large quantity from, say, half a legof pork, which is much cheaper than buying pork fillet.

If you are going to freeze your Babi Kecap, however, do not add the sherry or lemon juice at the time of cooking. To serve from the freezer, thaw the meat out completely and heat quickly on a high flame for 2 to 3 minutes, stirring or shaking the pan well all the time. Add the sherry or rice wine and lemon juice just before serving.

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Kerthagosa

Klungkung Ancient Kingdom KERTHAGOSA Justice located at Klungkung was the oldest kingdom on the island and its “Raja� the most exalted. Kerthagosa (The Court Hall) and Taman Gili (The Floating Pavilion) were formerly parts of Semarapura Palace of Klungkung Kingdom, built in the 18th century.

A main gate or the royal palace well known as “Pemedal Agungâ€? is hitherto standing intactly at the Western part of the Court Hall and the Floating Pavilion. For its ceiling painted in the traditional wayang style portraying punishment in hell and the rewards in heaven and other aspects of moralities. The oating pavilion, garden and lotus ponds in this walled- in complex, located on the main intersection of town are a reminder of the former glory of this kingdom.

Taman Gili, Royal Courts of Justice Pavilions, with their surrounding lotus ponds, are a graceful reminder of the former glory of this kingdom. These pavilions, built in the

18th century, are located at the main road intersection side of the town of Klungkung (40 km. from Denpasar).

They are especially known for their ceiling murals, painted in the traditional “Wayangâ€? style, depicting the punishments in hell for miscreants, and higher up, the rewards in heaven for those that lead a good and honest life. The courts were presided over by three pedandas (high priest), and continued to fulďŹ ll their function through Dutch colonial times. The Kerta was the island’s highest court of justice.

The old buildings were renovated and restored in 1960. Behind the Kerthagosa stands a tall gateway. This gateway is all that remains of what was once the ďŹ rst and most elaborate palace in Bali, which was destroyed by the Dutch artillery when they bombarded the town of Klungkung and Gelgel into submission in 1908.

As had happened in other kingdoms in Bali, the Dewa Agung led a great “Puputan�, or ceremonial fight to

death, and so ended 600 years of rule in Bali by the lineal descendents of the emperors of Majapahit. After this conquest, the Dutch had gained control of all of Bali.

The town of Klungkung centers around the Puri Smarapura or ‘Palace of the God of Love� former home of Bali’s most illustrious line of kings.

Unfortunately, all that remains now are the great gate and garden, and two pavilions with magnificently painted ceilings. These are the Kerta Gosa Hall of Justice overlooking the town’s main intersection, and the larger Bale Kambang or Floating Pavilion just behind it.

The rest of this splendid complex was razed to the ground in 1908, during the royal mass suicide or puputan (‘ending�) against the Dutch invaders. This event removed the last obstacle to Dutch domination of the island. A monument commemorating the puputan now stands across the road.

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The Kerta Gosa was a place for the administration of traditional justice in precolonial times by a council consisting of the great king and his priests. The Paintings on the ceiling tell of the punishments awaiting evildoers in hell, and of the delights of the gods in heaven. Different levels and stations in heaven and hell are described through the story of the hero Bima, who journeys to the underworld to save the souls of his parents. These scenes were used to

alternately threaten and cajole anyone who appeared before the court.

Like the Sistine Chapel, the Kerthagosa presents a whole complex of ideas on the workings of fate and the role of the divine in human affairs.

The ceilings themselves have been repainted three times in recent memory. The last complete refurbishment occurred in 1960 under the famous artist Pan Seken, although in 1984, weather damage caused a number of panels to be repaired.

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BUSINESS Samsung Group plans record $41 billion investment in 2012 Reuters

SEOUL - Samsung Group, which includes Samsung Electronics Co, said on Tuesday it is raising its 2012 investment to a record $41.4 billion, underscoring the widening gulf between the dominant South Korean conglomerate and its faltering competitors.

Best known for making massive investments in new technologies ahead of rivals, Samsung is now banking on logic chips and OLED displays to repeat its roarLQJ VXFFHVV LQ ÀDVK FKLSV FRPputer memory chips and LCD ÀDW VFUHHQV HYHQ DV D JORRP\ global economic and IT spending outlook forces its peers to be conservative in spending.

Samsung Group, South Korea’s biggest business group, did not provide a breakdown of the 47.8 trillion won investment. But analysts have widely expected it to raise investment in mobile chips and next-generation OLED (organic light emitting diode) Ă€DW VFUHHQ GLVSOD\V “Samsung’s got strong cash Ă€RZ WR PDNH EROG EHWV LQ QHZ technologies,â€? Lee Sun-tae, an analyst at NH Investment & Securities. “No other IT company can beat it in terms of investment and that’s how Samsung finds new revenue sources ahead of rivals and widens its gap.â€?

The group also said on Tuesday it would add a record 26,000 employees this year, up from last year’s 25,000, at a time when tens of thousands of jobs in the financial industry are being cut globally due to continuing turmoil in markets.

Samsung now employs around 350,000 in total.

The investments will be in everything from building factories to research and development activities to doing mergers and acquisitions and hiring.

Of the total investment, capital spending will amount to 31 trillion won, up 11 percent from a year ago, Samsung said in a statement.

Some 25 trillion won, or 80 percent of the capital spending, will be from Samsung Electronics, the world’s biggest

technology firm by revenue, and its display unit, mainly to boost capacity of system chips and OLEDs, said analysts.

Investment in system chips such as mobile processors and sensors used in smartphones, tablets, and cameras is likely to exceed spending on its breadand-butter memory chips for the first time, reaching 7.5 trillion won, or some 1 trillion won higher than investment in memory chips, they predicted.

Investment in OLED is likely to rise to 7 trillion won from last year’s some 5 trillion won, and the rest will be spent on LCDs, rechargeable batteries and LEDs, they said.

Samsung Electronics makes mobile processors to power Apple’s iPhone and iPad as well as its own Galaxy line of mobile products. Its display unit, Samsung Mobile Display, is also a near monopolistic supplier of OLED displays, which are mainly used in high-end mobile gadgets and are set to become dominant in TV screens to replace LCD. OLED display revenues are expected to exceed $20 billion by 2018 to account for 16 percent of the total display industry, up from the current 4 percent, according to research firm DisplaySearch.

The record investment plan comes after Samsung Electronics said on Monday its U.S. unit was planning to sell around $1 billion in bonds, its first major overseas debt sale in more than a decade, to fund its chip plant operation.

Samsung didn’t detail whether the funds will be used to expand capacity at Austin, Texas, its sole and biggest overseas chip plant, which makes chips for Apple products.

Samsung normally finances

its investment with internal cash and had around 22 trillion won in cash as of end-September.

It is set to report a record 5.2 trillion won in fourth-quarter operating profit next week, according to its preliminary results.

The record spending, which is up 12 percent from last year’s 42.8 trillion won, comes as its key home rival LG Group cut its 2012 investment by some $3 billion amid an uncertain global business outlook. LG Electronics Inc and LG Display are part of the LG Group.

LG Display, which vies with Samsung for the title of the top flat-screen maker globally and is also aggressively expanding into OLED, plans around 4 trillion won investment this year, little changed from last year and just around half of the budget Samsung is likely to spend on flat screens this year.

Major Japanese firms -- Sony Corp, Toshiba Corp, Hitachi Ltd and Sharp Corp -- are planning to invest a combined 1.3 trillion yen ($16.6 billion) in the current fiscal year to end-March, smaller than Samsung Group’s capital spending of 27.9 trillion won for 2011.

Samsung Group comprises around 80 companies. Its business portfolios expand from financial, construction and shipbuilding to medical services and consumer electronics and total revenues account for some 20 percent of South Korea’s 1,200 trillion won GDP. Shares in Samsung Electronics, Asia’s biggest technology firm by market value, ended up 0.6 percent on Tuesday, lagging a 1.8 percent rise in the broader market. Samsung, which now has a market value of about $144 billion, gained 11.5 percent last year.

S&P downgrades euro zone rescue fund Reuters

BRUSSELS - U.S. rating agency Standard & Poor’s cut its credit rating of the euro zone’s EFSF rescue fund on Monday, and Greece was under pressure to break a deadlock in debt swap talks if it is to avoid an unruly default.

French Finance Minister Francois Baroin said there was no need to shore up the European Financial Stability Facility after S&Pdowngraded it by one notch toAA+ from triple-A, echoing the view of Germany, the only major euro zone member to retain a top-notch credit rating.

S&P said in a statement the decision was all but inevitable following identical cuts three days earlier to the creditworthiness of France and Austria, two of the EFSF’s guarantors. “We consider that credit enhancements that would offset what we view as the now-reduced creditworthiness of the EFSF’s guarantors and securities backing the EFSF’s issues are currently not in place,� the agency said in a statement. “We have therefore lowered to AA+ the issuer credit rating of the EFSF, as well as the issue ratings on its long-term debt securities.�

Financial markets, which had fallen after the mass downgrades of euro zone members on Friday, showed little reaction to the latest blow -- which had been expected -- and Japan, a major buyer of EFSF bonds, said they remained an “attractive� investment.

Agrowing number of experts, inFOXGLQJ D 6WDQGDUG 3RRUœV RI¿FLDO warned that a Greek default was on the cards, after Greece’s talks with creditors broke down on Friday.

Greece was under growing pressure to secure a last-ditch agreement with its private creditors to accept voluntary losses on their holdings of Greek bonds.

Athens risks going bankrupt when 14.5 billion euros of bond redemptions fall due in late March.

Without a private sector bond swap involving a voluntary writedown, a 130 billion euro second international bailout for Greece could fall apart.

The talks with creditor banks broke down because of different views on what interest rate is acceptable, the head of the group leading private sector talks said.

Charles Dallara, managing director of the Institute of International Financial, said the banks were “very surprised� at the stance taken by some officials representing both

governments and multilateral institutions, without naming them.

The EFSF was set up by the 17 governments that share the European single currency in May 2010 and has so far been used to provide emergency loans to Ireland and Portugal. It is also expected to contribute to a second bailout of Greece.

The fund has an effective lending capacity of 440 billion euros, which depends on guarantees, mainly from the euro zone’s AAA countries, only four of which now remain: Germany, Luxembourg, Finland and the Netherlands.

In a statement, the EFSF said the downgrade would not affect its lending capacity, and emphasized that its short-term rating remained at S&P’s top level. “The downgrade to ‘AA+’ by only one credit agency will not reduce EFSF’s lending capacity of 440 billion euros,� said the fund’s chief executive, Klaus Regling. “EFSF has sufficient means to fulfill its commitments under current and potential future adjustment programs until the ESM becomes operational in July 2012,� he added.

The ESM -- the European Stability Mechanism -- is a permanent rescue fund that is expected to have an effective capacity of 500 billion euros, based on paid-in capital of 80 billion euros and callable capital of 620 billion euros.

French Finance Minister Francois Baroin said there was no need to shore up the EFSF despite the S&P rating downgrade. “The EFSF has kept intact its ability to lend, with enough means and guarantees to fulfill the full range of its present and future commitments,� he said in a statement. “There is therefore no need to act on the EFSF at the moment.�

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman, Steffen Seibert told reporters: “The government has no reason to believe that the volume of guarantees that the EFSF KDV QRZ VKRXOG QRW EH VXIÂżFLHQW WR IXOÂżOO LWV FXUUHQW REOLJDWLRQV “We should not forget that it has EHHQ GHFLGHG WR VLJQLÂżFDQWO\ PRYH forward the ESM and to have it in place in mid-2012, one year earlier than planned.â€?

There was also support from Japan,withFinanceMinisterJunAzumi sayingTokyo’strustinEFSFbonds,in which it has so far invested 21 billion euros, had not been shaken.

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Lohan returns to court for ODWHVW SUREDWLRQ XSGDWH Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — Lindsay Lohan is returning to court to give a judge her second update on how she’s faring under strict new probation requirements.

The hearing on Tuesday is expected to be much like Lohan’s last progress update: short and without surprises.

The starlet has been doing cleanup work at the county morgue and attending psychotherapy sessions in an effort

to avoid problems with her probation for separate drunken driving and theft cases.

Lohan’s spokesman Steve Honig says the actress has made her community service her “primary focus” and is eager for Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner to receive the details.

The 25-year-old struggled with her probation until Sautner imposed a series of tough new rules, including monthly meetings with the court, in November.

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‘Artist,’ ‘Tinker Tailor’ XS IRU 8. ‫ۋ‬OP DZDUGV Associated Press Writer

LONDON — It’s spry versus spy as frothy silent movie “The Artist” and moody thriller “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” lead the race for the British Academy Film Awards, Britain’s equivalent of the Oscars. “The Artist” received 12 nominations and “Tinker Tailor” 11, with each film up for best picture and director, and best actor nominations for leading men Jean Dujardin and Gary Oldman.

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FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011 file photo, Lindsay Lohan appears in court during progress report session at the Los Angeles Superior Court in Los Angeles.

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The other best-film nominees announced Tuesday were “The Descendants,” ‘’Drive” and “The Help.” In a diverse field not dominated by any single film, there are also multiple nominations for “Hugo,” ‘’My Week With Marilyn,” ‘’The Iron Lady” and “The Help.” The nominations are another feather in the cap of “The Artist,” a black and white French film about a silent film actor’s fall with the rise of talkies.

And they are a boost for “Tinker Tailor,” an atmospheric adaptation of John le Carre’s espionage classic

that has received rave reviews but has so far been snubbed during the U.S. awards season. The best actor contest pits Oldman and Dujardin against Brad Pitt for “Moneyball,” George Clooney for “The Descendants” and Michael Fassbender for “Shame.”

The best actress category includes two performers playing real-life icons — Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe in “My Week With Marilyn” and Meryl Streep as former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady.”

The other nominees are Berenice Bejo for “The Artist,” Tilda Swinton for “We

Need to Talk About Kevin” and Viola Davis for “The Help.”

The prizes will be awarded at a ceremony at London’s Royal Opera House on Feb. 12. They are considered an important indicator of prospects at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles two weeks later. In recent years, the awards, known as BAFTAs, have helped small British films gain momentum for Hollywood success.

In 2010, Danny Boyle’s “Slumdog Millionaire” won seven BAFTAs, including best film; it went on to take eight Oscars. Last year “The King’s Speech” won seven BAFTAs and four Oscars, including best picture.

“My Week With Marilyn,” the story of the movie legend’s time shooting an ill-starred comedy in England, received six BAFTA nominations, including a supporting-actor nod for Kenneth Branagh, who plays Laurence Olivier.

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CANBERRA, Australia — A newly discovered horse fly in Australia was so “bootylicious” with its golden-haired bum, there was only one name worthy of its beauty: Beyonce.

Previously published results from Bryan Lessard, a 24-year-old researcher at Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, were recently announced on the species that had been sitting in a fly collection since it was captured in 1981 — the same year pop diva Beyonce was born.

He says he wanted to pay respect to the insect’s beauty by naming it Scaptia (Plinthina) beyonceae. Lessard said Beyonce

would be “in the nature history books forever” and that the fly now bearing her name is “pretty bootylicious” with its golden backside. “Bootylicious” was the title of a song by Beyonce’s previous group, Destiny’s Child.

It’s unknown if the rare species is a bloodsucker like many female horse flies. Lessard says he was unable to find any live specimens when he went looking in 2010 in northeast Queensland’s Atherton Tablelands, where it was captured three decades ago. However, at least one member of the public has alerted him that he was recently bitten by what’s locally called the “gold bum fly.”

The description of the fly was earlier published in the Australian

Journal of Entomology, but the results were announced last week.

Lessard says he hasn’t heard from Beyonce, who recently gave birth to her first child, but he is a fan and hopes she will take his scientific gesture as a compliment. He also said the name was picked to help draw attention to the importance of his field and the need for more researchers to catalog and study insects.

Horse flies are “vital pollinators of native plants, not just in Australia, but all over the world,” Lessard said. “It’s extremely important to name all the undescribed species so we can measure our human impact on the environment and hopefully protect it for future generations to enjoy.”

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8. VFLHQWLVWV ‫ۋ‬QG ‘lost’ Darwin fossils Associated Press Writer

LONDON — British scientists have found scores of fossils the great evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin and his peers collected but that had been lost for more than 150 years. Dr. Howard Falcon-Lang, a paleontologist at Royal Holloway, University of London, said Tuesday that he stumbled upon the glass slides containing the fossils in an old wooden cabinet that had been shoved in a “gloomy corner” of the massive, drafty British Geological Survey.

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This image made available by the Royal Holloway, University of London on Tuesday Jan. 17, 2012 shows a polished section of fossil wood from the cabinet of Reverend John Henslow, Charles Darwin’s mentor at Cambridge, comprising a 150 million years old tree.

Using a flashlight to peer into the drawers and hold up a slide, Falcon-Lang saw one of the first specimens he had picked up was labeled ‘C. Darwin Esq.” “It took me a while just to convince myself that it was Darwin’s signature on the slide,” the paleontologist said, adding he soon realized it was a “quite important and overlooked” specimen.

He described the feeling of seeing that famous signature as “a heart in your mouth situation,” saying he wondering “Goodness, what have I discovered!”

Falcon-Lang’s find was a collection of 314 slides of specimens collected by Darwin and other members of his inner circle, including John Hooker — a botanist and dear friend of Darwin — and the Rev. John Henslow, Darwin’s mentor at Cambridge, whose daughter later married Hooker.

The first slide pulled out of the dusty corner at the British Geological Survey turned out to be one of the specimens

collected by Darwin during his famous expedition on the HMS Beagle, which changed the young Cambridge graduate’s career and laid the foundation for his subsequent work on evolution.

Falcon-Lang said the unearthed fossils — lost for 165 years — show there is more to learn from a period of history scientists thought they knew well. “To find a treasure trove of lost Darwin specimens from the Beagle voyage is just extraordinary,” Falcon-Lang added. “We can see there’s more to learn. There are a lot of very, very significant fossils in there that we didn’t know existed.”

He said one of the most “bizarre” slides came from Hooker’s collection — a specimen of prototaxites, a 400 million-yearold tree-sized fungi.

Hooker had assembled the collection of slides while briefly working for the British Geological Survey in 1846, according to Royal Holloway, University of London.

Dancer saved from capsized cruise liner after Facebook plea AFTER the devastating crash of the Carnival Costa Concordia cruise liner on Italy’s coast, relatives and friends of the survivors have been seeking information about their loved ones through social media channels like Facebook and Twitter according to a recent report from Reuters. A 22-year old British dancer by the name of Rose Metcalf used Facebook to post a cry for help while the ship was sinking. Included as a Facebook caption on a photo of herself within a dark portion of the ship, she posted “My name is Rose, it’s Friday the 13th and I’m one of the last survivors still on board the sinking cruise ship off the coast of Italy. Pray for us to be rescued.” Hours later, Rose was airlifted to safety off a slanted deck by a rescue helicopter.

According to a new report from The Telegraph, the sister of the head waiter on the Costa Concordia posted on Facebook about the incoming ship just minutes before the ship smashed into the rocky

shore. She stated ”In a short period of time, the Concordia ship will pass very close. A big greeting to my brother who finally gets to have a holiday on landing in Savona.” Captain Francesco Schettino had alerted the head waiter to the bridge to watch the ship pass by the nearby shore. Despite warnings from crew members, the captain continued on the same course and ultimately capsized the luxury cruise liner. Police have taken Captain Schettino into custody and he is currently facing multiple manslaughter charges for the deaths of at least six passengers.

Survivors and family members have turned to Facebook groups to post information about missing friends as well as vent their anger toward the captain’s actions. They are also using Twitter to post real-time updates with pictures of the salvage operation as well as any information on the recovery effort. Twenty-two passengers and four crew members are still missing.

The cruise ship Costa Concordia leans on its side Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012, after running aground on the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, on Friday evening.

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The number of US pedestrians who have been killed or badly injured while wearing headphones has tripled in six years, according to a study published Tuesday.

Toll from pedestrians wearing headphones triples Agence France Presse

The number of US pedestrians who have been killed or badly injured while wearing headphones has tripled in six years, according to a study published Tuesday. The annual tally rose from 16 in 2004 to 47 in 2011, bringing the total of cases to 116 over this period, say the authors.

More than half of the incidents involved pedestrians who were run down by trains. Two-thirds of the victims were males and under the

age of 30.

The research, published in the British journal Injury Prevention, was headed by Richard Lichenstein of the University of Maryland Hospital for Children in Baltimore. The paper warns of “inattentional blindness” when wearing headphones, meaning a distraction that lowers the resources the brain devotes to external stimuli.

The trawl of US accident statistics covered iPods, MP3 players and other musical devices. It did not include mobile phones.

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Unpredictable Napoli scrape draw with Bologna Reuters

0,/$1 Unpredictable Napoli continued their erratic season by scraping a 1-1 home draw with lowly Bologna on Monday, needing a controversial penalty to snatch a point.

Napoli, who lack the strength in depth to perform consistently at their best, fell behind after 14 minutes when Nico Pulzetti found Robert Acquafresca, giving him a clear run on goal and he slotted past Morgan De Sanctis.

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They created plenty of openings but needed a highly controversial incident to grab the equaliser.

Napoli were originally awarded a free kick just outside the area for handball but the referee then changed his mind after consulting with the linesman and gave a penalty.

Cavani step up to convert for his 16th goal of the season in all competitions in the 71st minute amid angry Bologna protests.

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Manchester City’s Edin Dzeko, centre, is congratulated by teammates including Stefan Savic, left, after scoring against Wigan Athletic during their English Premier League soccer match at The DW Stadium, Wigan, England, Monday Jan. 16, 2011.

Dzeko ends goal drought to give Man City win Agence France Presse

(GLQ ']HNRœV ¿UVW JRDO IRU WZR PRQWKV HDUQHG 0DQFKHVWHU &LW\ D KDUG IRXJKW ZLQ DW :LJDQ ZKLFK VHQW 5REHUWR 0DQFLQLœV VLGH WKUHH SRLQWV FOHDU DW WRS RI WKH 3UHPLHU /HDJXH The 25-year-old Bosnian’s sublime 22nd minute header proved enough to sink the bottom club after Wigan goalkeeper Ali Al Habsi had threatened to frustrate the leaders.

Al Habsi produced a string of excellent saves both before and after Dzeko had netted his 14th goal for City this season.

David Silva, Sergio Aguero and Dzeko were all denied by the Oman international but City returned to winning ways to pull clear of nearest rivals Manchester United ahead of Sunday’s big home game with third-placed Tottenham. “I could have scored one or two more goals in the end, but I’m happy with the three points because it was a tough game and Wigan played very well,� Dzeko told Sky Sports. “I’m happy to score and help my team win. In football sometimes you score and sometimes

not, but I’m happy today.�

Having suffered back-to-back defeats in cup competition, an away game against basement team Wigan provided City with a perfect opportunity to snap out of their winter blues.

The FA Cup elimination at the hands of Manchester United DV ZHOO DV WKH /HDJXH &XS ¿UVW leg home defeat to Liverpool, together with captain Vincent Kompany’s four-match suspension, had resulted in a poor start to 2012 for Mancini’s expensivelyassembled side.

But they found relief at Wigan, whose record against the so-called big four is nothing short of diabolical.

Since winning promotion to the top-flight in 2005, Wigan have lost all 14 league and cup games against Manchester United while they have now gone eight hours 15 minutes without scoring against City.

Mancini was relieved to have stopped the rot. “It was about the victory not the performance tonight,â€? he said. “It was really important to win tonight. We knew that was difÂżFXOW EHFDXVH :LJDQ WKLV PRQWK have played very well and Roberto Martinez is a fantastic manager.â€?

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Ronaldinho joins Flamengo on Bolivia trip despite wage debt Reuters

5,2 '( -$1(,52 5RQDOGLQKR ÀHZ RII ZLWK WKH )ODPHQJR squad to Bolivia on Monday for a Libertadores Cup match in one of the world’s highest stadiums despite having threatened not to play ZKLOH KH LV RZHG ¿YH PRQWKVœ ZDJHV The former Barcelona and AC Milan forward was among 16 players who left for next week’s match away to Real Potosi, who, at 4,070 PHWUHV DERYH VHD OHYHO DUH EHOLHYHG WR KDYH WKH ZRUOGœV KLJKHVW ¿UVW division stadium.

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Fisher hooks Mavs with late three Reuters

LOS ANGELES - Derek Fisher’s game-winning three-pointer put a pretty ribbon on a workmanlike 73-70 victory for the Los Angeles Lakers over the defending NBA champion Dallas Mavericks Monday. Fisher nailed an arching three to snap a 70-70 tie with three seconds left on the clock on a night Lamar Odom returned to the place of his past glory. “I’ve seen that before,� Odom told reporters of the winning shot from his former team mate. “We doubled off Kobe and he hit the shot. He’s done that over and over.�

Odom, who spent the previous seven seasons in Los Angeles, where he helped the team to two NBA titles before he was traded in the off-season, received a rousing ovation and a video tribute when he took the court at the Staples Center in the first quarter.

Odom finished with 10 points and the good vibes were fleeting as the crowd watched the Lakers (10-5) stumble through a seasonlow point total before overcoming the opponent that swept them out of last season’s playoffs. Kobe Bryant’s run of four consecutive 40-point games came to a jarring end as he managed just 14 on 7-for-

22 shooting, but Andrew Bynum provided a rare bright spot with 17 points and 15 rebounds.

Dirk Nowitzki produced a teamhigh 21 for Dallas (8-6), who erased a seven-point deficit in the final four minutes to tie the game but ultimately had their five-game win streak snapped. Dallas, who have retooled with several new faces this season, had been riding their defense on their recent run and could have extended it but for some poor shooting.

The Mavs shot just 35 percent for the night, while the Lakers were barely more clinical at 38 percent.

The visitors opened up an advantage by outscoring Los Angeles 16-7 in the third and grabbing a six-point lead early in the fourth.

The Lakers responded with a stretch of their own that put them ahead 66-59 with just four minutes

left. It was short-lived and Jason Terry’s running shot tied the score with nine seconds left. But on Los Angeles’ final possession, Dallas rushed to double-team Bryant and Fisher made them pay with a long three. “I don’t think that’s ever the plan (for me to shoot the last shot),� said Fisher, who finished with 13 points. “I just try to stay ready to help my team win. This is what I do.�

Los Angeles Lakers’ Derek Fisher hits the game winning three-pointer over Dallas Mavericks’ Dirk Nowitzki with less than ďŹ ve seconds left in an NBA basketball game in Los Angeles on Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. The Lakers won 73-70.

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Nadal, Federer play down Open feud degrees Celsius (93 degrees Fahrenheit), Australian teen Bernard Long-time rivals Roger Federer Tomic came from two sets down to and Rafael Nadal sought to play beat Spain’s Fernando Verdasco in down a rare public spat between the pick of the men’s action.

Nadal admitted he probably them as both enjoyed crushing round-one wins at the Australian should not have taken Federer to task so publicly. He had complained Open on Monday.

Federer said he was “completely that the ATP Player Council presicool� despite Nadal accusing him of dent was not speaking out on issues not pushing hard enough for better such as more prize money and an players’ rights, while the Spaniard easier schedule. “These things can stay, must regretted his comments made to stay in the locker room,� Nadal told media earlier. “Things are fine between us, journalists. “I always had a fantastic relationyou know. I have no hard feelings ship with Roger. I still have a fantastowards him,� Federer said. “He’s mentioned many times tic relationship with Roger. That’s how he gets a bit tired and frustrated what it should be, in my opinion. through the whole process, and I Don’t create crazy histories about shared that with him. It’s normal,� what I said yesterday, please. “We can have different views he added. “But for me, obviously nothing about how the tour needs to work. changes in terms of our relationship. That’s all.�

Nadal also revealed he suffered I’m completely cool and relaxed about it. He seemed the same way sudden and crippling knee pain on Sunday which threatened to end his -- or at least I hope so.�

The short-lived row threatened tournament, before recovering after to overshadow day one action at intensive medical attention.

The 2009 champion, who has WKH \HDUœV ¿UVW JUDQG VODP ZKHUH women’s champion Kim Clijsters had injury problems on his past went through in straight sets along- two visits to Melbourne Park, side last year’s runner-up, Li Na of put the emergency behind him to beat American Alex Kuznetsov China.

And as temperatures soared to 34 6-4, 6-1, 6-1.

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Switzerland’s Roger Federer waves to the crowd following his win over Russia’s Alexander Kudryavtsev in their ďŹ rst round match at the Australian Open tennis championship, in Melbourne, Australia, Monday, Jan. 16, 2012.

Federer had an easy 7-5, 6-2, 6-2 workout against Russia’sAlexander Kudryavtsev, a player so obscure that he had to scour the Internet in an effort to learn about his game. “I heard a few things about him on the Internet and I knew what to expect although I didn’t know his favourite shots or weaknesses,� he said.

Nineteen-year-old Tomic had the performance of the day when he came from two sets behind to win 4-6, 6-7 (3/7), 6-4, 6-2, 7-5 against Verdasco, who draped himself in ice packs and battled nausea in the hot afternoon sun. “If it was someone else, I think they would have thrown in the towel,� Tomic said. “I don’t know how I found the energy today.�

Former US Open champion Juan Martin del Potro saw off Adrian Mannarino in four sets, and China’s French Open champion Li also suffered in the heat during her 6-3, 6-1 win over Kazakhstan’s Ksenia Pervak.

Defending champion Kim Clijsters raced into the second round and third seed Victoria Azarenka maintained her winning start to 2012 with a comprehensive 6-1, 6-0 demolition of Britain’s Heather Watson.

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Robert Kubica leaves hospital after leg surgery ROBERT Kubica has returned to his home in Monaco to continue rehabilitation, following the latest operation required after a fall that injured his leg last week. Kubica reopened a fracture in his right tibia, originally broken in his horrific rally crash last year, when he fell near an apartment he was staying at in Viareggio in Italy.

Medical tests on the leg at Mantova Hospital showed that the calcification of the bone had not happened properly last year as a result of the Polish driver being forced

to remain in bed for a long period after his crash.

Following an operation last week to reduce the fracture and pin the bone, doctors cleared Kubica to return home - but he must wait another two or three weeks before resuming his physical training.

Despite the injury setback, it is believed that the leg fracture will not have an impact on Kubica’s final recovery time - because that is still limited by the nerve regrowth of his right arm and hand which will still take several months.

Trulli safe, despite Petrov talks?

JARNO Trulli’s place on the 2012 F1 grid looks safer than of late amid suggestions that potential replacement Vitaly Petrov is now chasing the third seat at Caterham F1.

The Italian veteran inked a one-year extension to his contract with tony Fernandes’ team, but the announcement that accompanied the deal failed to refer specifically to a race seat, prompting speculation that Trulli may be relegated to another role.

That rumour gathered pace as more and more drivers found themselves on the market this ‘silly season’, with Petrov just one several linked to Trulli’s ride.

While the likes of Jerome d’Ambrosio and Bruno Senna now appear to be chasing jobs elsewhere, Petrov remained a candidate for the seat alongside Heikki Kovalainen - particularly if he was to

bring Russian backing.

The latest reports, however, now suggest that the former Lotus Renault driver is in talks about filling the reserve role at Caterham previously held by Karun Chandhok.

According to Finland’s Turun Sanomat newspaper, Petrov’s manager, Oksana Kosachenko, was at the team’s Hingham base to discuss terms last week, amid suggestions that Petrov would become the third driver with an eye to replacing Trulli next season. d’Ambrosio, meanwhile, remains in contention to fill a similar role at Lotus

Renault and hopes to announce his plans win the next week or so, while Senna appears poised to finally confirm that he will replace fellow Brazilian Rubens Barrichello at Williams for 2012.

Although there have been a couple of false starts to the same story, a number of reputable sources believe that Petrov’s former Lotus Renault team-mate has finally seen off the threat of both Barrichello and Force India outcast Adrian Sutil, and could be confirmed alongside Pastor Maldonado as early as today [Tuesday 17 January].

According to Italy’s Autosprint magazine, Senna has increased the amount of sponsorship that he can bring to the Grove-based team, including the addition of oil company OGX.

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Jarno Trulli is driving his car in the rain