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Tires burn as Yemenis take to the street during a protest in the southern coastal city of Aden on February 19, 2011, as one protester was shot dead and five wounded in clashes with Yemeni government supporters near the capital Sanaa’s university campus an AFP correspondent reported.

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Libya, Yemen crack down; Bahrain pulls back tanks Associated Press Writer

CAIRO – Security forces in Libya and Yemen fired on pro-democracy demonstrators Saturday as the two hard-line regimes struck back against the wave of protests that has already toppled autocrats in Egypt and Tunisia. At least 15 died when police shot into crowds of mourners in Libya’s second-largest city, a hospital official said.

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Even as Bahrain’s king bowed to international pressure and withdrew tanks to allow demonstrators to retake a symbolic square in the capital, Libya’s Moammar

Gadhafi and Yemen’s Ali Abdullah Saleh made clear they plan to stamp out opposition and not be dragged down by the reform movements that have grown in nations

from Algeria to Djibouti to Jordan.

Libyans returned to the street for a fifth straight day of protests against Gadhafi, the most serious uprising in his 42-year reign, despite

estimates by human rights groups of 84 deaths in the North African country — with 35 on Friday alone.

Saturday’s deaths, which would push the overall toll to 99, occurred when snipers fired on thousands of mourners in Benghazi, a focal point of unrest, as they attended the funerals of other protesters, a hospital official said. He spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal.

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Governor says NATO and Afghan forces kill 64 civilians Reuters

ASADABAD, Afghanistan – Joint operations by Afghan forces and NATO-led foreign troops have killed 64 civilians in eastern Kunar province, including many women women and children, over the past four days, the provincial governor said.

“They were killed by ground and air strikes in Ghazi Abaddistrict,” Fazlullah Wahidi, governor of Kunar province, told Reuters on Sunday. Wahidi said 20 of the dead were women, 29 were children or young adults aged 7 to 20, and the remaining 15 were adult men.

Civilian casualties in NATO-led military operations, often caused by air strikes and night raids, have long been a source of friction between the Afghan government and its Western partners.

Rules governing air strikes and night raids have been tightened significantly by NATO-led forces in the past two years, leading to a sharp drop in civilian casualties caused by such incidents.

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A US Marine from 2nd Batallion, 1st Marines Regiment talks to a child during a patrol in Gamser on February 20, 2011.

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Bali News

Ogoh-ogoh on fire, 7 people rushed to hospital Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Due to the burning of ogoh-ogoh (papier mache demon) at Sedahan Hamlet, Munggu, Mengwi, Badung, Friday (Feb 18) night, around seven people should be rushed to hospital as suffering from burns. The seven victims intensively treated in Sanglah Hospital consisted of I Gede Widarsa, 27, Putu Widana, 14, and Gede Sukrawan, 17. Meanwhile, four others such as Gede Suwita, 24, Rai Karnos, 24, Dikik, 15, and Lecir, 28, were only examined at Badung Hospital.

The tragedy occurred when these youths organized a party of grilling satay. According to father of Widarsana, Nyoman Wija, his son and other youths was grilling satay by using charcoal. “The activity was held at the local hamlet hall near the ogoh-ogoh,” said Wija. The ogoh-ogoh itself had not been accomplished yet.

The incident happened around 11:00 p.m. Local Time.

Since the charcoal used to grill was unable to simmer for long time,

one of the youths in the group poured diesel fuel and gasoline mixed in jerrican with capacity of 20 liter onto the charcoal. Estimated, the jerrican contained eight liters of diesel and gasoline. Unfortunately, they did not manage to enlarge the fire, but the small fire emerging in charcoal instantly grabbed the fuel inside the jerrican. Afterward, the fire bursting from the jerrican made the man who held it shocked and he threw the jerrican in his hand. Since he threw it haphazardly, the jerrican with

flames impinged the half-finished ogoh-ogoh that eventually caught fire. Shot of fire also afflicted the body of seven young men near the ogoh-ogoh.

One of the victims, Lecir, was not seriously injured. He then helped rush his friend to Kapal Hospital, Badung. Meanwhile, three others were referred to Sanglah Hospital.

On average, the victims hospitalized in Sanglah suffered from burns on the face, legs, and the ends of the hand. (kmb24)

Cafe increases rapidly

Money shouldn’t be main consideration Speaking about cafe, it indeed results in pros and cons. People disagree because they see it in terms of disturbance-prone in security. A lot of quarrels frequently occur in café. Similarly, it concerns with the threat of drug distribution and human trafficking. Meanwhile, other people agree as they quibble if café can open business opportunities and job creation. Cafe is also for entertainment. In response to this matter, all components of society should be wise. Does café provide more advantages or disadvantages?

A member of Commission A of Klungkung House, Wayan Mastra, Friday (Feb 18), called on all parties—government, village officials and customary village—not think pragmatically. They should not merely consider how many revenues promised when the building permit of café was issued. However, they should comprehensively consider the impacts on the surrounding community, both in terms of economic, social, cultural and other aspects. “It is fair that everyone has the rights to run business, including the cafe business. But, most importantly, it must be lawful,” said Mastra.

In essence, he said, the problem did not lie in cafes. However, it was more in the individual who could not prevent themselves from being

a troublemaker in cafe. On that account, the troublemaking individual should be disciplined. “We can analogize it to traffic signs. Many violations occur against them. But, the authority will take strict action to the offenders, not dismantle the traffic signs,” he said. In regard to the existence of cafe, supervision should also be tightened.

If conclusion said that cafe resulted in more disadvantages and disturbing, according to him, it should be stopped. Customary village ideally could become the main filter. As adjacent party, customary village had the right to approve or disapprove the establishment of cafe.

A number of cafes had been already operating in Klungkung. Some of them are Café Longpang at Jumpai, Café Putri and Café Exotic in the region of Negari, Cafe Sembilan near the office of Klungkung Subdistrict Head, Cafe Jepun and Café Sinta in Nusa Penida and some others. Among the existing cafes, some of them are unlicensed. Meanwhile, each cafe averagely employs six sexy waitresses.

Some girls are brought in from outside Bali, while the remaining waitresses are Balinese girls. ”It’s the cultural shift. All parties must think clearly in order to counteract the negative effects of the mushrooming cafes in Klungkung,” said an-

other legislator, Ketut Panca.

Some of those cafés had been frequently raided by justiciary team through the public order officers (Satpol PP) regarding to the examination of alcoholic drink, drugs distribution, woman trafficking, prostitution and population. Unfortunately, the raid committed had been known in advance. So, the raid did not work accordingly. In fact, quarrel was often heard in café commenced by boozing alcoholic drinks by the perpetrators. “We have performed regular control and we admit that some cafés are indeed not licensed yet. Now, we are still inventorying them,” said Chief of Satpol PP, Komang Darma Suyasa. If proven unlicensed, Darma Suyasa claimed that his party would take strict action against those cafés.

Visitors of cafe are not merely the youth. Many of them have got married. Even, their occupation indeed varies such unemployment, labor and civil servants. Some of them admitted that they did not obtain much entertainment in the café.

They only drank liquor and were served by sexy girls plus listening to loud music. “As for the matter of quarrels, they mostly occur because of mutual touch. Otherwise, it occurred due to the matter of girl,” confessed few people who liked to hang out to cafe. (bal)

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Puser Tasik Temple which located at Bangbang Village, Tembuku Subdistrict, Bangli.

Puser Tasik Temple at Bangbang Village

Brings out bizarre springs PUSER TASIK Temple located at Bangbang Village, Tembuku Subdistrict, Bangli, poses one of the universal temples. Its construction was initiated during the reign of King Masula Masuli in Caka Year 1100 or 1278 AD. In Usana Bali palm-leaf manuscript (in Sejarah Pembangunan Pura di Bali or History on Temple Development in Bali written I Ketut Soebandi) is mentioned that once upon a time king Masula Masuli reigning in Pejeng summoned the deputy regents and all sages.

Among the figures present on that occasion were Mpu Geni Jaya, Mpu Semeru, Mpu Gana, Mpu Kuturan, and village chief of Bali.

The King promptly instructed to establish Tirta Empul Temple as the abode of Lord Indra and Parhyangan Mangening as the abode of Lord Suci Nirmala that would irrigate the earth.

Such good news made Balinese people happy. All community members contributed rock stones and other building materials.

Shored up by contribution and hard work of all subjects, construction of a series of temple eventually could be accomplished. Those temples consisted of the Tirta Mangening, Ukir Gumang, Jampana Manik or Gulingan, Alas Arum, Penataran Wulan, Puser Tasik, and Manik Ngereng. Design of the temple was prepared by King Masula Masuli together with Mpu Rajakreta.

Ultimately, the King uttered a curse to anyone who would like to stop building the temple.

In later development, establishment of Puser Tasik Temple at Bangbang Village was followed by other temples on the same courtyard. They consisted of Luhuring Akasa, Puser Tasik, Puseh, Maksan and Sakenan. Similarly, on the same area was established a shrine

whose door faced three directions functioned as storing chamber of Puser Tasik and Luhuring Akasa Temple.

Within the same complex there are also some other shrines such as a five-tiered meru as the abode the Lord Gede Puseh, Sanggaran, a chamber shrine, representative shrine of Lord Mount Agung, Lord Mount Batur, Mount Lebah, grand pavilion-like shrine, a sacred building known as the dasar (former location of spring), and five pieces of Rishi Markandeya effigy.

Meanwhile, Chief of Bangbang Customary Village, Nyoman Kartika, explained that the main supporting devotee of the temple was the King of Bangli. However, in the later development the main supporting devotee was the Bangbang society. Then, the temple anniversary fell on Buda Kliwon Ugu, while the Ngusaba Agung ritual was regularly held once every 10 years right on the full moon of the third month in Balinese calendar (around September).

Uniquely, aside from retaining many effigies, the temple has a spring whose water only comes out during the dry season or the day before the temple anniversary. The spring itself is situated in the east of the temple.

Today, the spring has been made a shrine, so not everyone is allowed to enter the sanctum. According to local people, the spring has efficacy to cure various diseases, both of medical and non-medical.

Being efficacious and bizarre, many devotees request the holy water. The most requests usually occur ahead of the temple anniversary.

“The main supporting devotees of the Puser Tasik Temple are 625 families of the Bangbang community,” he added. (puj)

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A grandpa cut own neck Amlapura (Bali Post)

An unbelievable act was taken by grandpa Made Widnya (70) last Friday (18/2) around 10 am in his own bed room at Banjar Tampuangan, Amlapura, where he cut his own throat opened 7 cm with deep cut 2 cm.

Widnya was suspected on trying to commit suicide while his house was empty as his children are working. The suicide was able to be stopped by one of the children who came home in mornings.

Widnya was found weak and bleeding severely. With neighbors help the wound was hold tightly by towel and the grandpa was brought to IRD Karangasem Hospital. The medics were shocked looking at it and so the wound was covered. As it is advance to take care of, the med-

ics then send him to Perjan Sanglah Hospital.

One of the IRD medics said this wound is too serious and it is suspected its pen vein got cut. It is also said that this grandpa is lucky that it’s not the artery vein or blood vein that supplies oxygen to the brain that got cut.

A family member stated that their father has his life contentment gone as his longing stroke disease did not get better after many kind of medications. (013)

Kebo Iwa statue need reassessment Gianyar (Bali Post)

Regent Tjokorda Oka Artha Ardana Sukawati’s idea to create a statue of Mahapatih Kebo Iwa in the middle of the Gapura (entrance gate) of By Pass Dharmagiri Buruan – Gianyar became a polemic. Before it’s too late, the Regent that’s been said a culturist was told to reassess again on this idea as it has caused controversies.

One artist from Banjar Anggarkasih, Medahan Village, Blahbatuh, Made Cangker, criticize this idea as stated last Fri-

day (18/2). As a culturist, the Regent should know what’s best to put on this protocol road moreover it’s a three way. In Hindu’s concept, it is clear that a three way or a four way has a meaning and it is clear what needs to be built.

All this time many mistakes has been done in placing Hindu symbols as a number of Gods and Goddesses including public figures which becomes decorations on the roads as it is someone to be admired, “To me this is a wrong policy.”

If it is a God/Goddess and sacred to the people, it is best to place it in the right place so the government in this situation should have given the right example. Also for public figures such as Kebo Iwa as besides its inviting controversial views on its form, at least it’s placing needs to be right. If it will be made with tens of meters height, of course the tremendous Kebo Iwa who was the uniting individual in making the whole nation one is still far. And if it is to build up the spirit for the people in today’s condition, of course it’s not only become a monument moreover it will finish up budget up to IDR 300 million. (kmb16) Photo: Kebo Iwa Statue. A Kebo Iwa form that has been placed in a resident’s land next to Pura Dalem Blahbatuh’s wantilan, specifically when entering Blahbatuh, still sparks controversies. Is it actually Kebo Iwa?

The statute of Kebo Iwa which become the topic of discussion in Gianyar.

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The situation in Anyar Market in Singaraja.

The messy Anyar Market Traders will be relocated All this time Regent Bagiada only have heard or read about the messy Anyar Market at Diponegoro Street, Singaraja which as a main recreation area from the mass media. Yet as he took action by raiding the market last Friday (18/2) he really saw on his own eyes how messy this biggest market in Buleleng can be. The Regent then asked Regency Management for Markets to do arrangements.

Bagiada came to the market with the First Director of the Markets Regency Management, Putu Gede Satiwka Yadnya. Bagiada seemed shocked and disappointed when seeing the situation itself like the pedestrians and terraces for the buyers to walk on but became the place where the sellers sell their items. The tarpaulin above these areas also disturbed the scenes and causing more mess.

Actually there are many los on the

upper floor empty yet these sellers don’t want to sell there as buyers don’t want to go upstairs. The condition caused a number of corners did not have friendly smell and wastes are overtaking. A number of drainage also blocked due to the rubbishes causing rain waters overloaded and flooding sellers area.

Bagiada kept shaking his head seeing the condition. For that he promised to do a better guidance, “Sellers are hard to be told and violates regulations instead. So for this we will give a more intensive guidance.”

To make Anyar Market and other markets in Singaraja becoming much beautiful and better to see, the Regent will do some arrangement also disciplinary based on the meeting result with the Markets Regency Management Directorate a while ago, “With a good arrangement, the

facility we build will be used well and sellers can give services to the people.”

Gede Satwika Yadnya mentioned that this messiness was caused by the over stacking sellers in one los. Moreover there are several sellers chasing the same one spot so causing most of them selling on the pedestrians, “Like in Anyar Market the poultry sellers are very near to the fruit sellers, it seemed unpleasant.”

For that, sellers that sell similar items will be placed in one los, for example fruit sellers will be grouped in one los. Also for poultry sellers, fish also meat. Therefore in the near time those poultry sellers in Anyar Market I, Singaraja, will be relocated to Banyuasri Market. Meanwhile the empty los on the upper floor will be occupied by other groups of sellers with similar items. (kmb/ole)

Bali spatial arrangement planning chaos Tourism workers demands best solution Denpasar (Bali Post) –

Pro and contra of the Regional Regulation 16/2009 on Bali Spatial Arrangement Planning (RTRW) disturbs the tourism workers as they are worried the chaos will affect their ongoing jobs. It is suspected 200-300 thousands workers in Bali working in tourism sector that is connected to the RTRW Bali.

“We as workers don’t want to be involved in this pro and contra. We only want a win-win solution for all sides,” Head of Tourism Workers Union Federation for Bali, Putu Satyawira Marhaendra, stated last Wednesday (16/2).

According to him, Governor, Regent, Representatives and all public elements has to be involved in finding

a solution to this problem and as Bali is a tourist destination it needs investments from inside and outside the country. Investments are the creator of job fields to the people. “We still can work if the company we work in still operating. All the workers can work if there are new investment coming in and absorbing workers or labors.”

He admitted his side have realized and understood fully if an investment that came to ali can’t surrender Bali’s holiness yet if the investment has to be taken down because of a different perception on the holiness it will cause a new social problem, “This is an unusual problem that needs its solution so it will benefit Bali and its people.”

It is stated from the 200-300 thousand people that worked in tourism

sector part of them has worked in a hotel that has been built in an area forbidden for hotels or villas to be built. With the action took by regional officials a while ago, there is hope to finish this problem to be better, “If there are demolishing of these places being in the holiness radius, so what will happen to them (workers-red)? Will they be redundant?

And so what will the government do about it.”

These workers are hoping governor, regent and public figures to sit with them and find a solution to this. All has to be finished with dialogues so it will produce a best solution for all, “We are supporting with one saying of a public figure where it’s stated that a permitted tourism accommodation should not be demolished.” (par)

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International

China tries to stamp out ‘Jasmine Revolution’ Associated Press Writer

BEIJING – Jittery Chinese authorities staged a show of force Sunday to squelch a mysterious online call for a “Jasmine Revolution” apparently modeled after pro-democracy demonstrations sweeping the Middle East.

Authorities detained activists, increased the number of police on the streets and censored online calls to stage protests in Beijing, Shanghai and 11 other major cities. Citizens were urged to shout “We want food, we want work, we want housing, we want fairness” — a slogan that highlights common complaints among ordinary Chinese.

Many activists said they didn’t know who was behind the campaign and weren’t sure what to make of the call to protest, which was first posted on the U.S.-based Chineselanguage advocacy website Boxun.com.

China’s authoritarian government has appeared unnerved by recent protests in Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain, Yemen, Algeria and Libya.

It has limited media reports about them, stressing the instability caused by protests in Egypt, and restricted Internet searches to keep people uninformed.

The call to protest in China did not seem to garner much traction

among citizens. In Beijing, 25-year-old Liu Xiaobai was stopped by police after he placed a white jasmine flower on a planter in front of a McDonald’s restaurant that was the planned protest site and took some photos with his cell phone.

“I’m quite scared because they took away my phone. I just put down some white flowers, what’s wrong with that?”

Liu said. “I’m just a normal citizen and I just want peace.” Security agents tried to take Liu away, but he was swarmed by journalists and eventually was seen walking away with a friend.

Two other people were taken away by police, including a shabbily dressed old man who was cursing and shouting, though it wasn’t clear if he was there because of the online call to protest.

Any potential protesters were far outnumbered by hundreds of rubberneckers at the busy Wangfujing pedestrian mall, who wondered if there was a celebrity in the area because of the heavy police presence and dozens of foreign journalists and news cameras.

In Shanghai, three people were taken away by police after scuffling in front

AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko

A man, 3rd from left, is detained by police officers near a cinema that was a planned protest site in Shanghai, China, Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011. Jittery Chinese authorities staged a show of force Sunday to squelch a mysterious online call for a “Jasmine Revolution” apparently modeled after pro-democracy demonstrations sweeping the Middle East.

of a Starbucks coffee shop in what appeared to be an attempt to attract attention. They were not holding placards and their intentions were unclear.

There were no reports of protests in other cities where people were

urged to gather, such as Guangzhou, Tianjin, Wuhan and Chengdu. Ahead of the planned protests, more than 100 activists in cities across China were taken away by police, confined to their homes or were missing, the Hong

Kong-based group Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy said. Families and friends reported the detention or harassment of several dissidents, and some activists said they were warned not to participate.

Iran warns opposition rally may turn violent Associated Press Writer

TEHRAN, Iran – In an apparent attempt to discourage protesters, an Iranian pro-government news agency claimed on Sunday that armed opposition groups plan to fire on people participating in a rally set for Sunday afternoon. The report from the hardline Fars news agency said that teams from the Mujahedeen Khalq, an Iraq-based Iranian opposition group, have entered the country to shoot people during the protest.

Iran’s opposition has called for a rally Sunday to mark a week since the deaths of two people in Feb. 14 clashes between security forces and opposition protesters in Tehran. The opposition maintains the dead were killed by government forces.

Last week’s rally called by opposition leaders Mir Hossein

AP Photo/Vahid Salemi

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks on next year’s budget bill, in an open session of parliament, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011.

Mousavi and Mahdi Karroubi in solidarity with the Egyptian uprising was the largest demonstration by the opposition in more than a year. On Sunday Karroubi sent an open letter to judiciary reaffirming his backing for opposition demands on his website Sahamnews.net.

“God willing, there will be no doubt in Mahdi Karroubi continuing to defend the rights of Iranian people and I will stand by the people until my final moment,” the statement said.

The opposition leader said hundreds of hardliners have gathered in front of his home over the past night and filled the air with anti-opposition chants and threats to his life. Both opposition leaders have been under tight house arrest since calling the 2009 reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad fraudulent.

Hundreds of thousand of people poured into the streets in protest to the result of the election. Opposition says scores were killed in massive crackdown on the protest demonstration. Government brought the number to about 30. Authorities detained hundreds and sentenced about 80 of them to prison terms from six months to 15 years.

Egypt’s largest factory strikes despite warning Agence France Presse

CAIRO – Workers at Egypt’s largest factory will remain on strike, an independent labour group said on Saturday, in defiance of warnings by the ruling military junta that it will no longer tolerate protests.

Around 15,000 workers from the Misr Spinning and Weaving — which employs 24,000 people in the Nile Delta city of Al-Mahalla al-Kubra — “are holding a sit-in for a fourth day in front of the administration building,” the Centre for Trade Union and Workers’ Services (CTUWS) said in a state-

ment.

“The workers have refused to end their protest until their principal demand is met, and that is to remove the head of the company Fuad Abdel Alim,” who is accused of corruption,” it said. On Friday, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which took power after president Hosni Mubarak stepped down on February 11 — said the strikes are harming national security and will no longer be tolerated, after two initial milder warnings.

Some groups “organise protests that obstruct production and create critical economic conditions that can lead to a worsening of the country’s economy,” the military council said in

a statement.

“The continuation of instability and its consequences will lead to harming national security,” it added.

“The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces will not allow the continuation of these illegal acts which pose a danger to the nation, and they will confront them and take legal measures to protect the nation’s security,” it said.

The roughly 24,000 employees at the Misr Spinning and Weaving Company walked out on February 10 in support of demonstrations against Mubarak, who was ousted the next day after more than two weeks of mass protests across Egypt.

AFP PHOTO/W.G. DUNLOP

A tank is stationed outside the Misr Spinning and Weaving factory in Mahallah, north of Cairo, on February 17, 2011.

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Nyepi Package at Aston Denpasar Hotel & Convention Center IBP

DENPASAR - Westerners culture open the New Year in revelry, however in contrast, the Balinese culture open their New Year in Silence. This is Called Nyepi Day, the Balinese day of Silence, which falls on a New Year of the 1933th Saka Hindu era.

During Nyepi Day, Aston Denpasar Hotel & Convention Center offering The “Nyepi Package” from 4th – 6th March 2011 with special rates starting from Rp. 1.350.000/nett for 3 Days and 2 Nights in our Studio Room to Rp. 1.650.000/nett for One Bedroom and Rp. 2.500.000/net for Two Bedrooms. The packages are inclusive with welcome drinks upon arrival, buffet breakfast for 2 or 4 persons daily depends on your room type, attractive souvenir, complimentary all you can eat buffet dinner on Nyepi Day at Jempiring Restaurant for 2 adult at Studio & One Bedroom and 4 adult at Two Bedrooms and for additional children under 10 years old will entitled for 50% discount. Also experience kids entertainment with several exciting children activities such as balloon twisting workshop with clown, fun games with parents and kid, funny magic parade also kids meal corner and last but not least you can also enjoy our relaxing spa treatment with 20% discount for the spa treatment at Giri Loka Spa. Aston Denpasar Hotel & Convention Center offers a delightful condominium concept Hotel & Convention Center right in the heart of the central business district in Bali. Known as one of the city hotel with the biggest convention facility in Denpasar, Aston Denpasar Hotel offers you some of the very best meeting facilities in Bali. Aston features a Grand Ballroom that caters up to 2000 people; along with function rooms that available for the capacity from 20 – 200 people at Agung room, Batukaru room and Abang room located right on the lavish lobby area.

Temple Ceremony Calendar Event for February 1 through March 2, 2011 1 February AnggarKasih Tambir Dalem Puri Temple in Batuan - Sukawati Dalem Kediri Silakarang in Silakarang Singapadu - Gianyar Dalem Temple in Sukawati Village - Gianyar Dalem Temple in Singakerta Village - Ubud Gianyar Dalem Lemben in Ketewel - Sukawati Gianyar Paibon Pasek Tangkas in Peliatan - Ubud Puseh ngukuhin in Keramas - Gianyar Pemerajan Agung Ki Telabah in Tuakilang Tabanan Karang Buncing in Blahbatuh - Gianyar Dalem Bubunan in Seririt - Buleleng Desa Badung Temple in Denpasar Merajan Pasek Gelgel Gobleg in Turupinghe Banjar - Buleleng Luwur Pedengenan Bedha in Bongan Tabanan Merajan Dukuh Sebudi in Keramas - Gianyar Merajan Pasek Ngukuhin in Keramas - Gianyar Pucak Payongan in Kedewatan - Ubud Gianyar Tanah Kilap “ Griya Anyar” in Suwung Kawuh - Denpasar Selatan Selukat Temple in Keramas - Blahbatuh Gianyar Dalem Tampuagan in tembuku - Bangli Dalem Waturenggong in Desa Taro - Gianyar Dalem Bentuyung in Ubud - Gianyar Puseh Temple in Ubud - Gianyar Dalem Temple Peliatan Ubud - Gianyar 2 February Buda Umanis Tambir, Tilem Kawulu Sari Bankar Titih Kapal - Badung Ulun Kulkul (Aci Sarin Tahun) Besakih Karangasem Dalem Yang Taluh Sidemen Karangasem

Dalem Kangin Sidemen - Karangasem.

16 February Buda Keliwon Matal Puseh & Desa Temple Sukawati Village - Gianyar Merajan Agung Batuyang - batubulan Pasek Gelgel Bebetin Sawan - Buleleng Maspahit Temple Sesetan - South Denpasar Pasek Bendesa Manik Mas Dukuh Kendran Tegalalang Panti Pasek Gaduh Sesetan - South Denpasar Merajan Pasek Kubayan Wangaya Gede Pedarman Arya Kanuruhan Besakih Karangasem 17 February Purnama Kesanga Penataran sasih Temple Pejeng - Gianyar Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah Batur Village Kintamani - bangli 26 February Tumpek Kandang Day Puseh Temple Gianyar City Luhur Dalem Sagening Kediri - Tabanan Merajan Pasek Gelge Tegal Gede - Badung 2 March Buda Wage Menail Dalem Tarukan LinggihCemenggaon Sukawati Gianyar Pasek Dangke Bambang - Bangli Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Pejeng Kaja Gianyar Puseh Menakaji Peninjoan - Bangli Merajan Agung Blangsinga Blahbatuh - Gianyar Kawitan Gusti Agung Blangsinga Blahbatuh Gianyar Kawitan Gusti Celuk Celuk - Sukawati - Gianyar Baler Sada Temple Banjar Pemebatan, Kapal 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 “umbul-umbul”, 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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From page 1 Mistakes still occur, although U.N. and other figures show that insurgents cause at least threequarters of the civilian casualties in Afghanistan.

The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement a team would investigate “allegations of ISAFcaused civilian casualties” during operations in Kunar, which it said

were carried out in a remote and rugged area. It said it was aware of Wahidi’s comments “that coalition forces killed more than 50 civilians,” and that ISAF reporting and weapons system video showed 36 armed insurgents were killed.

“We take allegations of civilian casualties very seriously. We are conducting an immediate assessment of these allegations and will report our findings,” U.S. Army Colonel Patrick Hynes, a senior ISAF spokesman, said in the statement.

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AP Photo/Dinh Tran Trung Hau

Vientamese crews check the tour boat after it is pulled from the water at the famed Ha Long Bay in northern Quang Ninh province, Vietnam Friday, Feb. 18, 2011, a day after at least 12 sleeping travelers from nine countries drowned when the vessel suddenly filled with water while anchored for the night.

Vietnam death boat owner ‘had bad record’ Agence France Presse

HANOI – A Vietnamese tour boat that sank killing 12 tourists is owned by a company linked to another deadly accident two years ago, police said Sunday, as they wrapped up their probe into the latest tragedy. Twelve people, mostly foreign tourists, drowned before dawn on Thursday when their boat suddenly sank as they slept on Halong Bay in Quang Ninh province, one of the country’s most popular tourist attractions.

Vu Tuan Hung, of the Quang Ninh water police, confirmed media reports that the boat owner, Truong Hai Co, was involved in another deadly accident in September 2009 when it operated under a different name. In the previous tragedy a boat of the company’s sank during heavy rain, killing three foreign tourists and a local guide, Thanh Nien newspaper reported this weekend.

At the time Thanh Nien said the boat, which was new, had breached several regulations, prompting authorities to pledge stricter enforcement of seaworthiness standards and registration rules. Hung said officials planned to announce the results of their probe into the latest sinking to foreign ambassadors and families of the victims on Monday.

“Police investigators continue to

find the reasons for the sinking of the boat, and the results of their probe are going to be announced at a meeting on Monday morning,” he said. Attempts to reach the company Truong Hai since Thursday’s tragedy have been unsuccessful, but Tuoi Tre newspaper reported that the boat which sank had been in service since 2008.

The crew have been questioned but no one has been arrested. Initial information from the sailors suggested the boat, “Dream Voyage”, sank because of a break in the lower hull, police said.

It took on water so fast that sleeping passengers had almost no time to escape the torrent that filled their cabins. Nine tourists and six crew survived. The salvaged boat has been moved to an island and will be transferred to the mainland for fur-

ther examination, Hung said.

Visitors from the United States, Sweden, Russia, Britain, Japan, France and Switzerland died in the tragedy. An Australian of Vietnamese origin and a tour guide from Vietnam were also among the victims, the official Vietnam News Agency said. Authorities have pledged a safety crackdown after the accident and said they will prosecute anyone responsible.

Hung said the bodies of eight foreign victims were returned to diplomatic representatives and relatives on Saturday. Two others would be handed over on Sunday, he added. Halong Bay is a UNESCO World Heritage site known for its stunning limestone cliffs, about 160 kilometres (100 miles) east of the capital Hanoi. It attracted more than two million visitors last year.

“Many of the dead and the injured are relatives of doctors here,” he told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. “They are crying and I keep telling them to please stand up and help us.”

Earlier, special forces had attacked hundreds of demonstrators, including lawyers and judges, who were camped out in front of a courthouse in Benghazi, Libya’s second-largest city.

Authorities also cut off the Internet across Libya, further isolating the country. Just after 2 a.m. local time in Libya, the U.S.-based Arbor Networks security company detected a total cessation of online traffic. Protesters confirmed they could not get online.

Reports could not be independently confirmed. Information is tightly controlled in Libya, where journalists cannot work freely, and activists this week have posted videos on the Internet that have been an important source of images of the revolt. Other information about the protests has come from opposition activists in exile.

200 Dead

A doctor in the Libyan city of Benghazi says his hospital has seen the bodies of at least 200 protesters killed by Moammar Gadhafi’s forces over the last few days. The official spoke on condition of anonymity be-

cause he fears reprisal.

Witnesses told The Associated Press a mix of special commandos, foreign mercenaries and Gadhafi loyalists assaulted demonstrators on Saturday with knives, assault rifles and heavy weapons. Those protesters were burying 35 marchers who were slain Friday by government forces.

Benghazi has been a center of a six-day revolt by Libyans inspired by uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia and frustrated by Gadhafi’s more than 40 years of authoritarian rule. The doctor said the hospital, one of two in Libya’s second-largest city, is out of supplies and cannot treat more than 70 wounded who were hit in the attacks and need attention. “I am crying,” the doctor said. “Why is the world not listening?”

Getting concrete details about the protests in Libya has been difficult because journalists cannot work freely inside the country. Information about the uprising has come through telephone interviews, along with videos and messages posted online, and through opposition activists in exile.

The U.S.-based Arbor Networks reported another Internet service outage in Libya just before midnight Saturday night. The company says online traffic ceased in Libya about 2 a.m.

Saturday, was restored at reduced levels several hours later, only to be cut off again that night. People in Libya also said they can no longer make telephone calls on their land lines.

Uganda’s Museveni on brink of huge poll win Reuters

KAMPALA – Veteran Ugandan leader Yoweri Museveni was on the brink of a massive win in a presidential election the opposition says was a sham, provisional results showed on Sunday.

Provisional results from almost all the 23,968 polling stations handed Museveni 68 percent of the votes counted, with his rival Kizza Besigye trailing on 26 percent, confounding expectations of a closely fought contest.

Many Ugandans complain their country is riddled with corruption and lacks investment in public services and infrastructure. Others respect Museveni for

restoring stability and overseeing a period of sustained economic growth in a country previously plagued by despots such as Idi Amin.

The opposition plans to meet on Sunday to plot its next move.

Facing off against Museveni for the third consecutive poll, Besigye has said his supporters could take to the streets and that the country was ripe for an Egypt-style revolt.

“The lack of a level playing field and strong advantage of incumbency compromised the competitive nature of the poll,” Dame Billie Miller, head of the Commonwealth observer team said in a preliminary statement on Sunday.

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Indonesia’s ‘rebel’ referees shown red cards Reuters

AFP PHOTO / CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN

Muslim Rohingya boat people attend Friday prayers at a refugee camp in a Krueng Raya port, in Aceh province, on February 18, 2011. Indonesia officials say they have picked up nearly 130 starving, dehydrated people from the Rohingya minority in Myanmar, whose boat was found drifting in Indonesian waters.

JAKARTA - ‘Rebel’ Indonesia referees who have officiated games in the a breakaway local league have had their international licenses stripped by the Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI).

In the latest fallout from last month’s launching of the Indonesia Premier League (LPI), the referees were also booted out of the PSSI, the Jakarta Post reported.

The PSSI’s director of referees Bambang Irianto said revoking the international licenses of the match officials would leave the LPI struggling for credibility.

“How can they claim that their matches are professional when the (referees) presiding over the matches are referees whose licenses were revoked,” he said.

The LPI is an independent professional league launched without recognition from soccer’s governing body FIFA or the PSSI. The PSSI, which has banned LPI players from playing for Indonesia’s national side, has said it had received permission from FIFA to sanction the referees.

Two Singaporean players planning to join LPI side Medan Chiefs have also put their international careers at risk as the Singapore Football Association also refuses to recognise the breakaway league.

Indonesians in Bahrain still safe Antara

CAIRO - Anti-government demonstrations in Manama, capital of Bahrain, are still continuing but they have not affected the Indonesians living there.

“There is no need yet to evacuate the Indonesian citizens living here because they are still safe,” Indonesian ambassador to Bahrain, Agus Salim, said when contacted by ANTARA from here

on Saturday.

Around 8,000 Indonesians are currently living in Bahrain including 5,623 migrant workers, 877 professionals, 19 embassy staff and their families, eight students and a

number nurses working in various hospitals.

The Indonesian embassy in Manama was just established two years ago. It was inaugurated by foreign minister Marty Natalegawa on December 29, 2010 along with some other embassies in other countries such as Baku (Azerbaijan), Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Quito (Equador), Astana (Kazakhstan),

Zagreb (Croatia), Muscat (Oman), Panama City (Panama), Maputo (Mozambique), consulate general in Tawau (Malaysia) and ASEAN permanent representative in Jakarta.

Agus Salim said the Manama embassy compound was not just being finished and would soon be occupied.

“It has a large yard so that evacuees could be accomodate there if necessary,” he said.

Demonstrators had called for

the Bahraini government to resign although King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa had already offered a dialog to resolve the problems.

The demonstration on Friday left five people dead and dozen others wounded following a clash with police.

It followed demonstrations in Egypt and Tunisia before that had forced their presidents to resign.

Japan lauds Indonesia for mediating ThaiCambodian conflict Antara

JAKARTA - Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara has lauded Indonesia for its effort to mediate the ThaiCambodian border conflict in its capacity as ASEAN chairman.

Maehara extended the appreciation at the first ever ministerial strategic dialog with his Indonesian counterpart, Marty Natalegawa, at the Iikura Guest Palace in Japan on Friday, the Japanese Embassy in Indonesia said in a press statement issued on Saturday.

The Japanese minister said Japan was ready to assist Indonesia as the current chair of ASEAN in enhancing regional cooperation through the meetings of foreign ministers and heads of government/state.

He also expressed the Japanese government‘s wish to hold talks with ASEAN member states in working out new documents on ASEAN-Japan relations.

On bilateral relations, Maehara underscored the need to intensify bilateral dialogs at the level of heads of government/ state as well as strategic dialogs and economic dialogs at ministerial level.

On the occasion, Maehara pledged US$100 million in loans to finance the third phase of development program in the field of infrastructure reforms aimed at improving the investment climate to attract investment in government-private cooperation projects in Indonesia.

Meanwhile, Marty underscored the importance of talks between the two heads of government/state and of ministerial strategic dialogs in the near future. While in Japan, Marty also paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Naoto Kan. At the meeting Kan hoped that he could hold long dialogs with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, and although he had several times met with Yudhoyono, the dialogs lasted a short time.

AFP PHOTO / KAZUHIRO NOGI

Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa (L) chats with his Japanese counterpart Seiji Maehara at the Iikura guesthouse in Tokyo on February 18, 2011. Natalegawa is on a two-day visit to Japan.

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Bali Today 110 km of roads in Denpasar severely damaged Bali Post

DENPASAR - Condition of roads in Denpasar area is not completely good. The Denpasar Public Works (PU) records that out of 550 km of the existing roads downtown Denpasar, 20 percent of them or some 110 km are in severely damaged and up to now cannot have been improved. As consequence, such road conditions often lead to traffic accidents causing to death.

The Head of Denpasar Public Works, I Ketut Winarta, said that many damaged roads had not been addressed because of budget restrictedness. In the fiscal year 2011, the amount of budget allocated for road maintenance and improvement was only worth IDR 14 billion.

“Budget allocation of this year is very limited, namely IDR 14 billion. As much as IDR 3.3 billion

is used for maintenance of roads, irrigation canals and sidewalks.

Meanwhile, the remaining IDR 10.7 billion is allocated for road improvement,” explained Winarta in Denpasar, Friday (Feb 18).

He mentioned that road improvement would be carried out on Jalan Bung Tomo, Jalan Wibisana, Jalan Ciung Wanara, and Jalan Pemuda. Then, sidewalk repairs would be performed in the area of

Jalan Surapati and Jalan Kapten Agung, while construction of bridge would be made on Jalan Tukad Yeh Aya. The bridge was previously broken.

Based on observation of Bali Post, the most serious damage was around Jalan Taman Pancing. Almost the entire road was in badly damaged condition. Indeed, such condition had been repeatedly reported and complained but up to

these days it had not been handled.

Actually, it is an alternative road from Denpasar to Badung. Considering, it is bordered with Kuta.

Meanwhile, other road section that has not been improved yet is the Jalan Ahmad Yani Utara. Even, a few days earlier, such damaged condition caused successive traffic accidents until injured some motorists.

With regard to the matter, Winarta said that Jalan Ahmad Yani belonged to provincial authority. In other words, improvement of the road was under responsibility of the Bali Public Works.

“We have coordinated it with the province. Based on information, the budget of improvement has

been allocated in this year 2011,” he said.

Previously, Winarta said the project belonging to Denpasar Sewerage Development Project (DSDP) had indirectly provided some benefits for Denpasar City.

Other than for sanitation, it also helped repair the roads that were previously damaged and would indirectly be smoother with the overlay performed by DSDP. “Undeniably, before the excavations made by DSDP, many roads, especially the main road, were in damaged condition and have not been improved because of limited budgets. But with the excavation of DSDP, the road will automatically be overlaid,” he added. (par)

What is the Meaning of Nyepi?

ANTARA/Nyoman Budhiana

A man making ogoh-ogoh for the Nyepi celebration.

This week, the Balinese Hindu community celebrated another New Year. They celebrated it with a religious ceremony. Tawur Agung Kesanga (a ceremony to celebrate the end of the Çaka year), which is designed to sacrificially cleanse the universe and all within it). Hari Raya Nyepi follows this the next day.

Nyepi falls on March 5, 2011; Hindu people stay quietly at home. They are not allowed to go out in the streets, light fires or switch on the lights; they should not engage in entertainment nor make a noise that might disturb others. During that time they are also forbidden to cook any meals.

Nyepi is preceded by two ceremonies. The first is Melasti, a ceremony praising the power and glory of God through the parading of symbolic effigies, which are believed to emanate holiness, which vibrates through the cosmos, eliminating negative characteristics in society and nature.

The second is Tawur Kesanga, one of the Bhuta Yadnya ceremonies, which are conducted to purify the universe, ritually and spiritually.

Nyepi marks the beginning of the Çaka New Year. The purpose is to purify ourselves so that as we enter the New Year we will be ‘re-born’, cleansed of all wrongdoings committed in the previous year. According to the Bhagawad Gita (a Hindu holy scripture), in the life of humankind there are two opposing tendencies: towards

the good and towards the bad.

Kedewaan, tending towards the good literally means ‘having qualities like the deities’ where people try to be good and honest and over time come closer to God. Keraksasaan, tending towards the bad means ‘having demon-like qualities’ where people work against dharma (truth) and grow further and further away from God. How do such tendencies arise in human beings? According to Hinduism, human beings were created through the joining of Purusa (soul) and Pradana (matter).

When soul and matter met they resulted in human beings born with Chitta (positive characteristics) and Klesa (negative characteristics).

There are five sorts of Klesa or negative characteristics (a bit like the western concept of the seven deadly sins): Awidia (stupidity), Asmita (egoism and arrogance), Raga (desire), Dwesa (anger and revenge), and Abhiniwesa (fear).

Ironically, the most frightening thing in life is, in fact, death, and yet it is the one thing that is certain. Timorous people always feel threatened; because they are afraid of death, they attack everything that threatens their life. Thus, human beings will suffer if they are under the power of Klesa. If, however, Chitta can control Klesa, it can transform it into a power to support Chitta. Human beings will then be encouraged to act and behave well. Thus, Nyepi is a cer-

emony to remind people to keep Klesa away and to cultivate the characteristics of Chitta.

The Meaning of the Çaka New Year The Hindu religion calculates years according to the Çaka calendar. By this calendar, the current year is 1931, ending on 15 March 2010. New Year’s Day is known as Nyepi. This is a day on which everyone is encouraged to engage in quiet reflection and meditation because the coming of the New Year (1932) has a special meaning for Hindus.

In the days of the Hindu kings in Bali, every Saka New Year brought a re-evaluation of self and environment. Those aspects, which are already positive and appropriate, should not, of course, be tampered with. However, if there are theoretical or practical aspects of life that are obsolete, they need to be replaced with systems more relevant to today. If these adjustments are not made, this will lessen the meaning of the ceremonies themselves.

The Balinese New Year’s Eve is called Ngerupuk It is one of the most exciting days for the Balinese but most terrifying for the bad spirits since it is the time to scare the demons away. At dusk, all kinds of noises are made; fire and torches are lit; and thousands of ogoh-ogohs, gruesome figures such as the above, are paraded through Balinese villages and towns.

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Balinese Culture Commercial companies aim for online media Antara

DENPASAR – The head of Indonesian Advertising Association (PPPI), Haris Thajeb said that the members of the association are now aiming the online media which grows rapidly. The development of the media is predicted to be around 11% through 12% this year.

“Even the number of transaction is

still lower than the conventional shopping but the number is increasing,” he added. The total number of advertisement shopping in 2010 was around 65 trillion rupiah and the number in online media was just 2% of it.

Haris said “the online media will develop because the increasing number of the gadget to access the media such as laptop and phone.”

The PPPI was launching a new logo

on Saturday, February 19, 2011. Haris explained that the new logo shows that the association is heading to a new era which is the online media. During the event, there were also awards given to the advertisement people. The award is Dharma Nyata and Prawira Awards.

The new logo of PPPI has brighter color with a more dynamic design. It has green and purple color which representing the young spirit.

Dog vaccination is the key to prevent rabies

Nasi Goreng (Fried Rice) OVERVIEW: There are about as many different ways of preparing

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Nasi Goreng in Bali, as there are cooks. The only

DENPASAR – The dog vaccination program is the key to prevent the spread of rabies in Bali.

Every regency in Bali must carry out the program properly. The Director of Bali Animal Welfare Association (BAWA), Janice Girar, said “the vaccination had been done in 2010 and it is also the key to prevent the spread of rabies this year.”

According to Janice, the mass vaccination will be able to prevent the spread of the disease as long as the strategy is done properly.

Since 2010, BAWA has cooperated with Bali Animal Department and other organization to erase rabies from Bali.

Based on the data from BAWA, the number of dog population in Bali is around 300,000 dogs and 152,865 dogs have been vaccinated. Bali Government declared

constant ingredient is rice; everything else is determined by the cook’s taste or the availability of ingredients.

Please be certain to use only cold rice, as warm rice will stick to the wok.

INGREDIENTS: 6 tbsp oil 6 shallots, peeled, halves length wise and sliced 6 cloves garlic, peeled and sliced 200 gr (6 ½ oz) chicken meat, sliced http://media.vivanews.com

A doctor give a rabies vaccination shot to a dog. the island is conducting a anti ra- spread of the disease, all regencies bies movement. must cooperate. However, “Last year, 45 teams of vacci- Klungkung Regency refused to nator were able to give vaccine to sign the MoU regarding the mass 125 dogs throughout Bali,” she vaccination. It is not clear what the added. In order to prevent the reason of that objection is.

150 gr (5 oz) medium size shrimp, peeled ¼ small white cabbage, shredded 4 eggs, beaten 2 tbsp sambal tomat 700 gr (1 ½ lb) cold cooked rice 2 tsp salt 1 tsp sliced bird’s eye chilies 2 tbsp fried shallot

PREPARATION: 1. Heat vegetable oil in wok or heavy fry pan until very hot.

2. Add shallots and garlic and fry for 1 minute until golden yellow.

3. Add chicken and shrimp and fry for 1 minute, and then add cabbage and fry for 1 minute. Add sambal and mix well.

4. Add eggs and continuously stir for 30 seconds before adding rice and salt. Increase to very high heat and fry for 3 more minute, stir continuously.

5. Add chilies, mix well and serve immediately, garnished with fried shallots.

Note: Throughout Bali there are as many different ways of preparing Nasi Goreng as there are ingredients of chef’s. (www.baliguide.com/balifood) C.045 ibp

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Mas Village is one of villages in Bali fundamentally identified as an artistic countryside by focusing in artistic of wood carving. Mas Village is located in Ubud sub district and Gianyar Regency, east part of Bali. It owns the typical style of wood carving art by placing forward the distinguish synergy the humanism and naturalism. The village’s popularity as an art village is famous in the national and world level which is not forgetting from the highness name of some maestros which has borne and found the spirit (taksu) and soul. The famous maestro who was borne in this village is Ida Bagus Tilem.

This Artistic countryside owns the long history root. The result of wood carving art in this village owns the immeasurable and wide dimension like idol for the devoting (arca idol), representative dimension of everyday Balinese social society life (farmer, fisherman, worker, intellectual, merchant etc), the abstract dimension as existing of actor imagination which is listening carefully of reality, dynamics and life philosophy. The villagers are same as villagers at other tourism countryside in Bali that have also experienced the transformation from agrarian society to the crafting society. Even nowadays, it is continued to service society from commerce service until levying service of the souvenir for overseas and domestic tourist.

It is strategically located in the main road from Denpasar to Ubud and it can be reached from several of angle. It is about 15 km easterly go to the majors road to Ubud from Denpasar town. If you wish to go to this place from Denpasar, the starting spandrel points step into Mas Village is Sakah, where a big baby idol monumentally existing in the middle of road. The Baby idol is a symbol and representative of human being life early which is believed by local residents with full of philosophic value, religious and dynamism.

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BUSINESS (From L) Ramon Fernandez, Director General of the French Treasury and Economic Policy Directorate General (DGTPE), French Finance minister Christine Lagarde, French Central Bank Governor Christian Noyer and his second deputy Jean-Pierre Landau (R) give press conference as part of a G20 Finance summit at France Finance Ministry in Paris, on February 19, 2011.

AFP PHOTO / MIGUEL MEDINA

G20 ministers fudge deal on imbalance indicators Reuters

PARIS - Finance ministers of the world’s major economies reached a fudged accord on Saturday on how to measure imbalances in the global economy after China prevented the use of exchange rates and currency reserves as indicators.

French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, who chaired the Group of 20 talks, said the deal nevertheless represented a significant step toward better coordination of economic policies worldwide to help prevent another financial crisis.

“It wasn’t simple. There were obviously divergent interests but we were able to reach a compromise on a text that seems to us to be both balanced and demanding in its implementation,” she told a news conference.

Ministers and central bank governors agreed on a list of indicators including public debt and fiscal deficits, private savings and borrowing, the trade balance and other components of balance of payments such as net investment flows.

But at Chinese insistence there was no mention of the real effective exchange rate or of foreign currency reserves.

“Reserves have been dropped,” Lagarde acknowledged, adding that the deal included a mechanism to take account of exchange rates when assessing the overall balance of payments.

The United States and other western countries accuse Beijing of keeping the yuan artificially undervalued to boost its exports; hence accumulating massive foreign currency reserves that they say distort the world economy.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner repeated after the talks that China’s currency “remains substantially undervalued” and its real exchange rate had not moved much despite a slow appreciation since a reform last June.

“There is broad consensus that the major economies, not just Europe, Japan

and the United States but also the large emerging economies, need to allow their exchange rates to adjust in response to market forces,” he said. The world’s number two economy, which overtook Japan this week, has resisted Western pressure to substantially revalue its currency to help rebalance global growth.

China’s trade surplus has shrunk of late, perhaps explaining why it prefers that measure.

Western and Japanese officials said the indicators would in practice cover balance of payments and foreign reserves, even if those terms had been omitted to assuage Beijing. Chinese Finance Minister Xie Xuren left without speaking to reporters. “We needed to be inventive about wording in the communique in consideration for a country that did not want to use the term ‘current account balance’... The statement lists components of the current account balance,” Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda told reporters.

Lagarde said the indicators were not binding targets but would lead to the drafting of guidelines for coordinated economic policies to reduce distortions, and then to a mutual assessment process.

Germany, Europe’s biggest exporter, which has resisted U.S. efforts to set numerical targets for current account surpluses, said no specific goals would be set for certain indicators.

The G20 ministers acknowledged that economic recovery was diverging between developed and developing economies, but they differed in their assessment of global inflation risks.

The communique noted that while

growth was subdued in most developed economies, with unemployment high, major emerging markets were roaring ahead, “some with signs of overheating.”

European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet said inflationary pressures coming from energy and commodities prices must be taken seriously, and the ECB was determined to avoid second-round effects on wages.

But Geithner said inflation risks in the United States were moderate.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who holds the G20 presidency this year, urged ministers on Friday not to get bogged down by the indicators dispute and welcomed the fact that China had agreed to host a seminar on reforming the international monetary system in Shenzhen in late March.

France has also run into opposition with its two other G20 priorities — greater transparency and regulation of commodities prices and reform of the international monetary system. The G20 communique said ministers agreed to work on strengthening the international monetary system to help avoid disruptive fluctuations in capital flows and disorderly movements in exchange rates.

China and Brazil complain that “hot money” inflows risk destabilizing the economies of emerging countries, pointing the finger at the U.S. Federal Reserve’s money printing via a $600 billion bond purchase program.

With world shares at 30-month highs, investors seem content for the G20 to take its time, whereas at the height of the crisis two years ago markets were baying for policy action.

China raises bank reserves to record in inflation fight Reuters

BEIJING - China on Friday raised required reserves to a record 19.5 percent, adding to an increasingly aggressive effort by Beijing to stamp out stubbornly high inflation.

The fifth increase since October, all in increments of 50 basis points, will force the country’s lenders to lock up a bigger chunk of their deposits at the central bank from next week, removing cash from the fast-growing economy that otherwise would be pushing prices higher.

The move by the People’s Bank of China followed an acceleration in inflation to 4.9 percent in the year to January, which was accompanied by worrying signs that price pressures were spreading beyond food to property and consumer goods.

Over the past four months, China has also raised interest rates three times and ordered banks to issue fewer loans in an attempt to make sure it can meet a 2011 inflation target of 4 percent.

By themselves, the individual tightening steps have been small, but taken together they amount to an increasingly intensive effort by Beijing to rein in inflation, which has been a source of political unrest throughout Chinese history.

China is not alone. Central banks across emerging markets have tightened monetary policy during the past year as they rebounded from the global financial crisis much faster than the developed world.

Both India and Brazil raised policy rates in January to quell inflationary pressures.

“China has been moving pretty swiftly in monetary tightening this year,” said Zhu Song, a senior trader at Bank of Communications in Beijing.

Sensitive to demand from a country that helped lift the world economy out of the global crisis, copper dipped, oil lost ground and the currencies of commodity exporters such as Australia weakened.

“We think there is more to come in terms of reserve requirements and higher rates and a more rapid appreciation of the currency than the market is discounting,” said Adam Cole, global head of currency strategy at RBC Capital Markets.

Soaring food costs have driven Chinese inflation, rising 10.3 percent in the year to January and accounting for nearly three-quarters of the jump in overall prices.

But pressures have been broadening. Non-food inflation, long

subdued, rose at its fastest pace in more than a decade in January. And property prices have also been picking up steam again, despite a battery of measures by the government to cool the real estate market.

The latest decision to raise required reserves was, in fact, widely expected by investors in China because a raft of central bank bills will soon be maturing, adding more liquidity to an economy already awash in cash.

“The central bank has to raise banks’ reserve requirements to mop up liquidity,” said Wang Hu, economist at Guotai Junan Securities in Shanghai.

“It’s possible for the central bank to raise required reserve ratios further, but the room is becoming limited,” he added.

Despite the lack of a surprise factor, traders said the impact of the higher reserves on Chinese markets would be big, potentially putting an end to a recent run up in equities, setting a floor on money market rates and boosting sentiment toward the yuan.

Excess cash in the economy, stemming from China’s trade surplus, is a root cause of fast-rising prices, prompting the central bank to use reserve requirements to lock up a bigger share of deposits and thereby slow money growth.

Along with about 1 trillion yuan in central bank bills that are maturing in February and March, there is also a vast amount of cash that was withdrawn before the Chinese New Year earlier this month that will soon be returning to banks, analysts said.

In a short statement posted on its website, the People’s Bank of China said the increase would be effective from February 24.

The rise will officially take the level for the country’s biggest lenders to a record 19.5 percent. The ratio will be somewhat lower for smaller banks.

Anti-inflation talk from the central bank in recent months has primed investors for more policy tightening and, even with the latest move, many believe more is to come and is likely to be frontloaded.

Economists polled by Reuters expect the central bank to raised benchmark interest rates twice more in the first half of this year, before keeping them steady in the second half.

“Currently, China’s economic growth is strong and inflation pressures are big. It’s necessary to continue to manage liquidity,” said Lu Zhengwei, economist at Industrial Bank in Shanghai.

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Lady Gaga breaks iTunes records, says on “drunk diet” Reuters

LOS ANGELES – Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” has become the fastest-selling single ever on Apple’s iTunes store worldwide, racking up more than one million downloads in five days, Apple said on Friday. Apple said the song — a Madonna-influenced dance track that the 24 year-old singer performed after “hatching” from a giant egg at the Grammy Awards — had hit the No. 1 spot on iTunes in 23 countries.

“Born This Way”, the title track of a new album to be released in May, also went straight to the top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles charts earlier this week.

The flamboyant performance artist also revealed her secret for staying so thin, and how she gets her creative juices flowing. “I am on the drunk diet,” she told Sirius XM radio on Friday.

“I live my life as I want to, creatively. I like to drink whiskey and stuff while I am working. But the

deal is I’ve got to work out every day, and I work out hung over if I am hung over. And it’s about the cross-training and keeping yourself inspired. I have to say, I do a ton of yoga,” she added. The singer said in a television interview last weekend that she also smoked marijuana while writing her songs.

After headline-grabbing outfits, live performance stunts and a bestselling tour, Lady Gaga may be turning her thoughts to a possible new career — in movies.

Asked if she saw herself becoming an actress, she told Sirius XM ; “I think at some point, yes. I think I’m sort of destined for that screen at some point.”

But if there was a movie of her life, Lady Gaga said she would like to be played by Marisa Tomei — the Oscar-winning actress from “My Cousin Vinny”.

“I am such a Marisa Tomei fan.

All my friends call me Marisa when I get angry. Because my New York accent just flies out of my body and I start smacking my gum,” she said.

Kobe Bryant gets Hollywood walk of fame honour Agence France Presse

HOLLYWOOD, California – Kobe Bryant became the first athlete to have his foot and hand prints placed in the cement outside Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.

The honour, usually reserved for Hollywood’s brightest and most glamorous film stars, is another feather in the cap of the 13-time all-star Bryant who has five NBA championship rings and an Olympic gold medal. Some fans lined up as early as 6:00 am (1400 GMT) on Saturday to get a good viewing spot for the ceremony. But because of rain the ceremony had to be moved inside the iconic movie theatre.

The Los Angeles Lakers star guard Bryant, who wears a size 14 (European 48) shoe, joins such celebrities as John Wayne, Marilyn Monroe and Brad Pitt who have had their hands and feet set in cement in front of the luxury Hollywood movie theater.

Bryant had hands and feet set during a ceremony which coincided with the National Basketball Association’s all-star weekend festivities.

The annual NBA all-star game will take place Sunday at Staples Center arena the home of Bryant’s Lakers.

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FILE - In this Nov. 16, 2010 file photo, Britain’s Prince William and his fiancee Kate Middleton are seen at St. James’s Palace in London, after they announced their engagement. St. James’s Palace said Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011.

Beckhams ‘among 1,900 invited to UK royal wedding’ Agence France Presse

LONDON – Prince William and Kate Middleton have invited 1,900 guests to their April wedding, officials said Sunday, filling Westminster Abbey with foreign royals, family, friends and reportedly David Beckham.

Gilded invitations issued in the name of Queen Elizabeth II began dropping onto doormats this week after being sent out on Wednesday and Thursday, with the monarch’s EIIR cypher die-stamped in gold.

While names of the guests were not released, the list of dignitaries due to attend the wedding on April 29 is likely to meet Kate’s expectations that marrying into the royal family would amount to “quite a daunting prospect.” David and Victoria Beckham are reportedly among the few celebrities who have been invited, after William worked with the footballer on England’s failed bid for the 2018 World Cup. While British Prime Minister David Cameron has been invited, President Barack Obama and other

world leaders will miss out because William is only second in line to the British throne, not the heir, The Sunday Times said. William has invited ex-girlfriends Jecca Craig and Olivia Hunt, both 28, and Kate has invited former boyfriend Rupert Finch, 32, the newspaper reported.

Relatives of William’s late mother, Diana, have also reportedly been invited, with the guest list set to include her sisters Lady Jane Fellowes and Lady Sarah McCorquodale and her brother, Earl Charles Spencer. More than 1,000 guests will be drawn from

Elizabeth Taylor improving but still hospitalized Associated Press Writer

AFP/Gabriel Bouys

Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant’s hand and footprints are seen here at the Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California.

Bryant become the first athlete to have his hands and feet imprinted at the legendary venue.

LOS ANGELES – Elizabeth Taylor’s health is improving, but the Oscar winner is still hospitalized in Los Angeles. A spokeswoman for the 78-year-old actress says Taylor “has continued to show great improvement, and her family and friends are very pleased with her progress.” Publicist Jamie Cadwell said Friday that Taylor will remain under observation at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center “for the time being.” She was admitted more than a week ago.

Taylor is being treated for symptoms of congestive heart failure, a condition she disclosed in November 2004.

William and Kate’s family and friends, including most likely friends from St Andrews university, where the couple met, St James’s Palace revealed.

The queen and her husband Prince Philip will be at the head of the royal family group filling the pews, along with William’s father Prince Charles and his best man and brother Prince Harry. Kate’s parents Michael and Carole Middleton will also have front row seats along with sister Pippa, her maid of honour, and her brother James.

However, only 600 people have been invited to a lunchtime reception at Buckingham Palace hosted by the queen, and an even smaller group of 300 will attend a dinner and dance hosted by Prince Charles in the evening. Guests received the invites in pale brown envelopes in the past few days.

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Cosmic census finds crowd of planets in our galaxy Agence France Presse

WASHINGTON – Scientists have estimated the first cosmic census of planets in our galaxy and the numbers are astronomical: at least 50 billion planets in the Milky Way. At least 500 million of those planets are in the not-too-hot, not-too-cold zone where life could exist. The numbers were extrapolated from the early results of NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler telescope.

Kepler science chief William Borucki says scientists took the number of planets they found in the first year of searching a small part of the night sky and then made an estimate on how likely stars are to have planets. Kepler spots planets as they pass between Earth and the star it orbits.

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This Aug. 6, 2010 photo shows the Milky Way above wind turbines near Lake Benton and Hendricks, Minn. Scientists have estimated the first cosmic census of planets in our galaxy and the numbers are astronomical: at least 50 billion planets in the Milky Way.

So far Kepler has found 1,235 candidate planets, with 54 in the Goldilocks zone, where life could possibly exist. Kepler’s main mission is not to examine individual worlds, but give astronomers a sense of how many planets, especially potentially habitable ones, there are likely to be in our galaxy. They would use the one-four-hundredth of the night sky that Kepler is looking at and extrapolate from there.

Borucki and colleagues figured one of two stars has planets and one of 200 stars has planets in the habitable zone, announcing these ratios Saturday at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual conference in Washington.

And that’s a minimum because these stars can have more than one planet and Kepler has yet to get a long enough glimpse to see planets that are further out from the star, like

Earth, Borucki said.

For example, if Kepler were 1,000 light years from Earth and looking at our sun and noticed Venus passing by, there’s only a one-in-eight chance that Earth would also be seen, astronomers said.

To get the estimate for the total number of planets, scientists then took the frequency observed already and applied it to the number of stars in the Milky Way. For many years scientists figured there were 100 billion stars in the Milky Way, but last year a Yale scientist figured the number was closer to 300 billion stars.

Either way it shows that Carl Sagan was right when he talked of billions and billions of worlds, said retired NASA astronomer Steve Maran, who praised the research but wasn’t part of it. And that’s just our galaxy. Scientists figure there are 100 billion galaxies.

Borucki said the new calculations lead to worlds of questions about life elsewhere in the cosmos. “The next question is why haven’t they visited us?” And the answer? “I don’t know,” Borucki said.

Scientist finds Gulf bottom still oily, dead Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON – Oil from the BP spill remains stuck on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, according to a top scientist’s video and slides that she says demonstrate the oil isn’t degrading as hoped and has decimated life on parts of the sea floor. That report is at odds with a recent report by the BP spill compensation czar that said nearly all will be well by 2012.

At a science conference in Washington Saturday, marine scientist Samantha Joye of the University of Georgia aired early results of her December submarine dives around the BP spill site. She went to places she had visited in the summer and expected the oil and residue from oil-munching microbes would be gone by then. It wasn’t.

“There’s some sort of a bottle-

neck we have yet to identify for why this stuff doesn’t seem to be degrading,” Joye told the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual conference in Washington. Her research and those of her colleagues contrasts with other studies that show a more optimistic outlook about the health of the gulf, saying microbes did great work munching the oil.

“Magic microbes consumed maybe 10 percent of the total discharge, the rest of it we don’t know,” Joye said, later adding: “there’s a lot of it out there.”

The head of the agency in charge of the health of the Gulf said Saturday that she thought that “most of the oil is gone.” And a Department of Energy scientist, doing research with a grant from BP from before the spill, said his examination of oil plumes in

the water column show that microbes have done a “fairly fast” job of eating the oil. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab scientist Terry Hazen said his research differs from Joye’s because they looked at different places at different times. Joye’s research was more widespread, but has been slower in being published in scientific literature.

In five different expeditions, the last one in December, Joye and colleagues took 250 cores of the sea floor and travelled across 2,600 square miles. Some of the locations she had been studying before the oil spill on April 20 and said there was a noticeable change. Much of the oil she found on the sea floor — and in the water column — was chemically fingerprinted, proving it comes from the BP spill. Joye is still waiting for results to show other oil samples she tested are from BP’s Macondo well.

AP Photo/ University of Georgia, Samantha Joye

This Dec. 1, 2010 photo provided by the University of Georgia, made from the submarine Alvin, shows a dead crab with oil residue near it on a still-damaged sea floor about 10 miles north of the BP oil rig accident.

Early baldness doubles risk of prostate cancer: study Agence France Presse

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A nurse carries a patient on a stretcher in a hospital. Men who start to lose their hair by age 20 — a syndrome known as pattern baldness — are twice as likely to develop prostate cancer later in life, according to a new study.

PARIS – Men who start to lose their hair by age 20 — a syndrome known as pattern baldness — are twice as likely to develop prostate cancer later in life, according to a new study. The findings, published this week in the Annals of Oncology, could help identify men who should be screened early and more often for disease, the researchers said.

Prostate cancer is the commonest non-skin cancer among men worldwide and, after lung tumours, is the second biggest cause of death from cancer

among men in the United States and Europe. Most cases occur among men aged in their sixties.

Earlier research has shown that sex hormones called androgens play a key role in the development of both pattern baldness and cancer of the prostate, a walnut-sized gland near the bladder crucial to the male reproductive system. But the link between the two remained obscure, with at least one study suggesting that premature baldness actually pointed to a reduced risk of cancer.

To probe further, a team of scien-

tists led by Philippe Giraud of Georges Pompidou European Hospital in Paris asked 669 men — 338 of whom had a history of prostate cancer — how bald they were at ages 20, 30 and 40, using standardised images for reference.

Men who did not start to lose their hair until age 30 or 40 showed no increased risk compared to the control group of developing the dreaded disease.

But for those who had early-onset balding — a condition known to doctors as androgenic alopecia — at age 20, the risk doubled.

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Inter title charge rolls on over Cagliari Agence France Presse

ROME – Inter Milan’s title charge gained momentum on Saturday as the champions squeezed past Cagliari 1-0 to close the gap on leaders AC Milan.

Inter’s bitter city rivals can push their lead over their neighbours back out to five points with victory on Sunday at Chievo but the nerazzurri’s ninth win in 11 league games ensured they kept up the pressure ahead of their Champions League clash with Bayern Munich on Wednesday. Centre-back Andrea Ranocchia scored the only goal of the game in contentious manner as he appeared to be offside.

Inter coach Leonardo admitted the champions had struggled to get through this game. “We did what we wanted to do, we scored early, we controlled the game but it was a big struggle,” he told SkySport.

“We had balance in defence, we were at risk of conceding a goal for a long time, we created little.

“We suffered, we struggled to create chances and close out the game while Cagliari pushed men forward and they have quality players. It was very difficult.” The game began at break-neck speed with Cagliari goalkeeper Michael Agazzi plunging to his right to save a vicious Goran Pandev stike after just two minutes.

The visitors went straight up the other end and Inter shot-stopper Julio Cesar tipped over an Andrea

Lazzari volley after a clever chip forward from Alessandro Agostini.

From Andrea Cossu’s resulting corner Cesar tipped over a Daniele Conti header.

Inter took a controversial lead on seven minutes as Samuel Eto’o took advantage of Cagliari players arguing with the referee to take a quick free-kick. He played in Houssine Kharja behind the defence and his deflected cross was kept out by Agazzi’s leg only for the ball to rebound to the Morocco midfielder, who fired in a cross that hit Ranocchia and a defender on it’s way in.

However, television replays showed Ranocchia had been offside as Kharja struck his shot.

Cagliari were straight back on the attack and Cesar tipped a skimming Davide Biondini shot around the post. After that blistering first 10 minutes, the game settled a little, not in terms of pace but in terms of clear-cut chances. On 21 minutes quick feet from Eto’o created a chance after a flowing Inter move but Agazzi got down well to stop his shot.

The Cameroon captain enjoyed the best of the rest of the half’s chances but sent a free-kick over

the bar before he had another shot comfortably saved by the Sardinians’ goalkeeper.

The second period struggled to live up to the promise of the first and it wasn’t until the 70th minute thata clear chance came by as Conti’s strike from range deflected off Thaigo Motta and wrong-footed Cesar, only to plop the wrong side of the post.

By now Inter seemed to be paying for the efforts of their midweek win over Fiorentina and Cagliari were pushing hard for an equaliser, with Lazzari’s rasping drive sailing just wide.

However, Leonardo moved to hold onto what he had and brought on Esteban Cambiasso, Dejan Stankovic and McDonald Mariga to shore up his midfield.

Inter Milan defender Yuto Nagatomo, of Japan, controls the ball during the Serie A soccer match between Inter Milan and Cagliari at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 19, 2011.

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Fergie slams lacklustre United after Crawley test Agence France Presse

MANCHESTER, United Kingdom – Sir Alex Ferguson accused his Manchester United players of failing to understand the importance of the FA Cup after the 11-times winners struggled to reach the sixth round at the expense of non-League opposition.

The Premier League leaders were given an uncomfortable time by Crawley Town before edging past the team from the fifth tier of English football 1-0 at Old Trafford on Saturday to book a quarter-final spot.

But United’s victory came at a cost as Anderson, Rafael da Silva and Fabio da Silva were injured and are now all doubtful for Wednesday’s Champions League game away to Marseille. Ferguson made his feel-

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Manchester United’s Wes Brown, right, vies for the ball against Crawley Town’s Matthew Tubbs during their English FA Cup fifth round soccer match at Old Trafford, Manchester, England, Saturday Feb. 19, 2011.

ings clear after his players failed to perform. Although the likes of Edwin van der Sar, Patrice Evra, Nemanja Vidic and Dimitar Berbatov were given the afternoon off, the likes of Bebe, Michael Carrick and Gabriel Obertan failed to impress.

“Some players came in and didn’t do themselves justice. No doubt about that,” said Ferguson. “In the second half, we weren’t at the races.

It was disappointing. We might have some players who don’t understand what the FA Cup is all about. That is the biggest lesson for them.”

Anderson suffered a hamstring problem while brothers Rafael and Fabio da Silva also suffered knocks.

Ferguson said he will assess them before deciding whether they are capable of making the midweek journey to France. “It was a big problem, having to take our two fullbacks off and Anderson with his hamstring,” added the United manager.

“It unbalances the team. We will assess them on Sunday. We had to play Darren Fletcher at right-back and he did well, but it didn’t help.”

Ferguson was full of praise for Crawley, who were denied a replay when substitute Richard Brodie hit the woodwork in stoppage time in

front of their 9,000 travelling fans at Old Trafford.

“All the criticism about the FA Cup, it tells you what it means to a small club like Crawley,” added Ferguson. “They showed more desire in the second half. They made it very difficult for us. We were second to every ball. They could have equalised. They deserved a draw really, we never had a shot at goal in the second half.

“First half we did very well, no complaints. We could have been three or four up. It wasn’t to be and if you are only 1-0 up in a cup-tie it only takes a second to lose a goal, and we nearly did.”

Crawley did not leave Old Trafford completely empty handed.

They will make over one million pounds (1.6 million dollars) from the tie via television rights and gate receipts from a sellout 75,000 crowd.

Manager Steve Evans challenged his players to use the performance as a springboard to win promotion to the Football League. “We want to play in the Football League but there are some good clubs trying to stop us,” said Evans.”I am very proud of my players. I’ve spoken to Alex and he’s given me a bottle of wine to take away.”

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Wozniacki leads star field in Qatar tennis open Agence France Presse

DOHA – The WTA Tour returns to Doha after a two-year break this week with world number one Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark leading the field in the 721,000 dollar Qatar Ladies Open beginning on Monday.

Wozniacki, who reclaimed the top ranking last week in Dubai after losing it briefly to Kim Clijsters, will be back at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex once again in a matter of four months after finishing second to the Belgian in the season-ending finale last November.

The Qatar Open was last held in 2008, but was scrapped as the country was chosen as the hosts of the more prestigious WTA Championships for three years, the next three editions of which will be held in Istanbul.

And with seven of the world top 10 confirming their participation, organisers say they couldn’t have asked for a better platform to showcase the tournament.

“This is one of the best fields ever assembled in Doha in a regular WTA event and obviously we are delighted,” said tournament director Karim

Alami, the Moroccan former player.

“World number one Wozniacki is obviously the top draw but the fact that seven of the leading 10 are in Doha means we couldn’t have asked for a more auspicious relaunch.” The top four seeds in Doha have been given first round byes, with Wozniacki likely to clash with Italian Francesca Schiavone in the quarter-finals and Vera Zvonareva in the final if there are no upsets along the way.

Zvonareva, the world number three and the second seed, has an excellent record in Doha. She was runner-up to fellow Russian Maria Sharapova in 2008 and later that year stormed into the final of the season-ending event undefeated before being beaten

by Venus Williams for the title.

Sharapova, too, was supposed to play in Doha and vie for an unprecedented third title here, but opted out after suffering a viral illness before the Paris Indoors two weeks ago and failing to recover in time.

Schiavone, the world number four and the reigning French Open champion, is the third seed in Doha, while China’s Li Na, the Australian Open finalist is fourth.

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Los Angeles Clippers’ Blake Griffin dunks over a car as teammate Baron Davis looks on from inside the car during the Slam Dunk Contest at the NBA basketball All-Star weekend, Saturday, Feb. 19, 2011, in Los Angeles.

Clippers’ Griffin leaps car to win dunk contest Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES – With a gospel choir at midcourt encouraging him to fly, Blake Griffin soared over a car and threw down a two-handed dunk. The rookie’s remarkable leap won the slam dunk contest, and it also drove home the clear point of All-Star Saturday: The Clippers’ rising star is just at the beginning of one thrilling ride.

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Carolina Wozniacki of Denmark reacts after she wins the macth opposite Serbia’s Jelena Jankovic during the first semi final of the Emirates Dubai WTA Tennis Championships in Dubai, United Arab Emirates Saturday, Feb.19, 2011.

Griffin easily cleared the hood of the 2011 Kia Optima and caught a pass from teammate Baron Davis out of the sunroof while the berobed Crenshaw Select Choir sang “I Believe I Can Fly,” winning the 26th NBA dunk contest in iconic style before his hometown fans.

“There’s a little pressure on us to really put on a show, but I thought those guys all did a great job,” said Griffin, who beat Washington’s Javale McGee in the final.

Griffin grew up watching and rewatching every dunk contest on videotape with his brother in Oklahoma, studying the event’s evolution. He said the car dunk was his idea from the very start — a perfect way to show off his combination of raw athleticism and Hollywood flair.

“When they first came to me ... they said there were no rules,” Griffin said. “I was like, ‘So I can jump over a car? Yeah? Oh, maybe I have to do it now.’ I figured I could probably clear it, and Baron came up with the choir.”

The move could have petrified the Clippers, with the star-crossed franchise’s epic history of bad luck — even with Griffin, who missed all of last season after breaking his kneecap in the final preseason game before what was supposed to be the

No. 1 pick’s rookie campaign. Griffin has become internationally famous for his incredible dunks, but a leap over a car? Sounds like a Clipper Curse moment just waiting to happen.

Clippers owner Donald Sterling was in attendance, perhaps watching between the fingers of the hand over his eyes. “I could have clipped my foot, I guess,” Griffin said.

“That’s what I was afraid of — just clip my foot on the side and smash my face into the car. Fortunately, it worked out.”

Griffin barely made it out of the first round after missing several attempts at his second dunk of the first round. But with an entire building solidly behind him, McGee and Toronto’s DeMar DeRozan — a Los Angeles native — really didn’t stand a chance despite their own creative dunks at Staples Center.

McGee earned a 99 with two spectacularly inventive slams in the first round, but kicked himself for using a three-ball stunt earlier than he intended after Oklahoma City’s Serge Ibaka did something similar to what he had planned for the first round.

“Definitely, he came prepared with a car,” said the 7-foot McGee, who scored a perfect 50 by dunking

on two baskets simultaneously in his first attempt. “Nothing is going to beat that, unless I bring a plane out or something.” Earlier, Miami’s James Jones held off Boston teammates Paul Pierce and Ray Allen to win his first 3-point shootout, and Golden State’s Stephen Curry won the Skills Challenge.

But Saturday was all about Griffin, who started the contest with a 360-degree spin dunk before converting a bounce pass off the side of the backboard to finish the first round. The first rookie All-Star in eight years then brought back an impossibly difficult favorite with his first dunk of the final, sticking his arm into the hoop and hanging from it by his elbow, just as Vince Carter did while winning the 2000 contest.

And when fans saw a car driving out of the arena tunnel, they waved the checkered flag on this race.

Griffin is in the midst of the busiest All-Star weekend for anybody in the NBA’s recent history. He scored 14 points in Friday’s Rookie Challenge, and he stayed in the dunk contest even after getting chosen for the West squad in Sunday’s main event.

All four dunkers distinguished themselves in Hollywood, showing planning and invention in what’s sometimes a slapdash event.

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Donaire stops Montiel to take bantamweight titles Agence France Presse

LAS VEGAS, Nevada – Filipino fighter Nonito Donaire stopped Mexico’s Fernando Montiel in the second round to take the World Boxing Council and World Boxing Organization bantamweight titles. Donaire on Saturday took a right to the head from the champion, then immediately countered with a devastating left to the head that sent Montiel crumpling to the canvas.

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(L-R) Nonito Donaire of the Philippines sends Fernando Montiel of Mexico to the canvas in the second round of their WBC/WBO bantamweight championship bout as referee Russell Mora moves in at the Mandalay Bay Events Center February 19, 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Donaire won by TKO in the second round to claim Montiel’s titles.

Button: Lack of laps hindering McLaren BARCELONA - Jenson Button feels McLaren is at a disadvantage compared to his rivals because of the lack of running the team has had with its new car. Neither Button or team-mate Lewis Hamilton have been able to complete the sort of distances done by some of their main rivals, and the 2009 world champion had another frustrating day today in testing at Barcelona.

Button lost valuable time in the morning while the team fitted new parts to his car following a hydraulic failure, and he ended up covering just 54 laps. The Briton conceded the situation was far from ideal with time running out before the first race.

“We are not doing as many laps as we would like,” Button told reporters after the test. “The most laps we’ve done I think it was yesterday with 77 laps. But we are testing a new car so we are a lot of mileage down on most teams. “It’s obviously a disadvantage but that’s something we are addressing and hoping that over the next two days the reliability and the spare parts are all here and we can get some more mileage done.

“Mileage is important to help the reliability and find out more things, but also for set-up work. We haven’t had a lot of time to do set-up work.

Most of our running has been to put miles on the car and make sure everything is working correctly.”

Button, however, admitted it was impossible to compare the performance of cars at the moment, but

insisted it was too early to judge his McLaren team’s pace given its lack of running.

“There are so many different things going on,” he said. “Normally in testing it is very difficult to get a an understanding anyway. In the old days without refuelling you could pretty much understand, but now it’s so difficult what people are running, also what tyres people are running.

So it’s very difficult to know the pace of people.

“I think the thing that’s interesting is to look at people’s consistency.

That’s where you can really see a good car. The Ferrari does look very competitive in terms of consistency, but other teams do as well. Even Toro Rosso looks reasonably strong in terms of consistency. The Red

Bull is pretty good, but not as good as the Ferrari.

“I still don’t know where we stand, and I think it’s unfair to judge us at this point because the amount of laps we have done is not massive and we really need some good days of running to really unlock this car.”

Despite the lack of mileage, the McLaren driver believes his team made the right decision in waiting until the second test of the winter to try the new car for the first time.

“I still think it was the right thing to do, because we were to back-toback the tyres, which I reckon it was important for us to do and I also think it was important to spend as much time possible on the car to bring it to the second test. So yes, I think it was the right thing to do.”

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Mclaren Mercedes British driver Jenson Button drives during a testing session on February 18, 2011 at the Catalunya’s racetrack in Montmelo, near Barcelona.

Montiel rose to continue and Donaire rushed over to land a left and a right before referee Russell Mora stopped the fight after two minutes and 25 seconds of the second round. “I wanted to see how his body was, exactly where his head was going to be, so I had to take some (punches) in order to gain some knowledge,” Donaire said.

“That’s why I knew exactly what was going to happen, exactly where he was going to be. That’s how I did it.”

Donaire, a 28-year-old former world flyweight champion, rose to 26-1 with his 18th victory inside the distance and his 25th triumph in a row over the past decade. Montiel, 31, fell to 44-3 with two drawn and suffered his first loss in 13 fights dating to 2006. Montiel, who had been a world champion since 1999, was taken for medical treatment after the defeat without comment.

The fighters were cautious at the start, Donaire landing a left hook in the opening seconds of round one and a combination early in round two, setting the stage for the punishing blow that decided the fight. “I just came out there believing in this talent God has given me,” said Donaire, who in recent months has become estranged from the father who taught him boxing over the direction of his career. Donaire, who is based in San Francisco, was born in General Santos, also the hometown of his idol, boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao. “Pacquiao has given me this opportunity and I will always thank him for that,” Donaire said. “I’m happy being number two.”

Asked about his future plans, Donaire took aim at his new rival champions. “I want to be undisputed in this weight class,” Donaire said.