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Red Bull Formula One driver Sebastian Vettel of Germany drives during a training session at Circuit de Catalunya racetrack in Montmelo, near Barcelona, February 21, 2012.

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1. Vettel Red Bull 2. Hulkenberg Force India 3. Hamilton McLaren 4. Ricciardo Toro Rosso 5. Alonso Ferrari 6. Schumacher Mercedes 7. Perez Sauber 8. Senna Williams 9. Kovalainen Caterham 10. Grosjean Lotus 11. Pic

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Vettel quickest on first day of F1 testing at Barcelona

Sebastian Vettel put Red Bull on top of the first day of pre-season testing at Barcelona. The German had risen to the top of the timesheets shortly before lunch, displacing compatriot and Force India pilot Nico Hulkenberg. With warmer track conditions not as conducive to chasing times, many teams opted for longer run programmes, but Vettel was able to slightly better his time to end the day with a 1m23.265s.

That effort, set on Pirelli’s hard compound - rather than the medium on which he set his morning best - put him 0.175s clear of the field as the chequered flag brought the first day of testing to a close. Vettel’s improvement proved the exception rather than the rule, with second through to seventh position not changing in the afternoon.

That meant Nico Hulkenberg ended the day second fastest for Force India, having set the pace for much of the morning until Vettel’s late lap. The German managed nearly 50 laps in the afternoon, but did not get within a second of his previous benchmark.

The same was true of Lewis Hamilton,

who completed several long-lap simulations in the second half of the day. The Briton trialled a variety of compounds, and was consistently in the mid to high 1m28s. Daniel Ricciardo likewise set his best time in the morning, less than three hundredths of a second down on Hamilton. The Australian was the last man to break the 1m24s barrier.

Fernando Alonso ended the day fifth fastest in the Ferrari F2012, having also completed an 18-lap run with an average of 1m26.208s in the final hour. The Spaniard ended just five hundredths clear of Michael Schumacher, who managed 51 laps in what was the first day of testing

medium and high-speed corners, but on the slow speed we still need to work.” Senna admitted he had run out of time to test solutions to try to solve the problem today.

“We’ll have to wait and see if the changes we make are going to be enough to mitigate the issue that we have. I didn’t have enough time today to try enough stuff to see.” Despite that, he was still pleased with his day’s work after completing nearly 100 laps.

“We did a lot of laps today and again, reliability seems to be in a good place,” he said. “The tyres are behaving differently here than they were in Jerez so we need to understand what we are doing, but overall we have learned a bit about the car.”

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for Mercedes’ new W03.

Sergio Perez was the last driver to get within a second of Vettel, although the Mexican’s afternoon programme was disrupted by an issue with the rear antiroll bar. Heikki Kovalainen too suffered a truncated day, as a broken track rod left him stranded sideways at the final turn after just nine laps of running.

The team was able to fix the issue and he returned in the afternoon, eventually getting down to a 1m26.035s – enough for ninth, just behind Bruno Senna in the Williams FW34. There were issues too for Lotus, with Romain Grosjean reporting a strange sensation from the team’s second chassis. As a consequence the Frenchman completed just seven laps before the team decided to halt operations.

With HRT opting not to run, Marussia’s Charles Pic rounded out the day’s runners, 4.7s down on Vettel. The Frenchman racked up 121 laps – the most of any driver - on his first day in the car.

Senna : Williams needs to work on low-speed corners Bruno Senna believes Williams has to improve its consistency on slow corners following his first day of testing at Barcelona. The Brazilian had another productive day in Spain on Tuesday, covering 97 laps on his way to the eighth fastest time of the session.

Senna said he was pleased with the car’s handling over medium and highspeed corners, but he reckons there is still room for improvement on lower-speed ones. “I think we are learning about it,” said Senna at the end of the day. “Today I don’t think we managed to improve as much as I think we need to. There is still room for improvement.

“Our car seems to be consistent on the

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Indonesian fireman work at the Kerobokan prison in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012 after a violence erupted Tuesday night at the prison following the stabbing of an inmate. Security forces have stormed the prison after rioting inmates temporarily took control of the facility, setting fires and throwing rocks at guards.

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DENPASAR - Indonesian police stormed a prison on the resort island of Bali on Wednesday to regain control after inmates burned offices and seized weapons in a riot during which two prisoners were shot and wounded, officials said.

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Indonesian police said none of about 60 foreign prisoners at Kerobokan jail were among the casualties.

The prison holds 1,200 inmates and is about 10 km (six miles) north of Kuta beach, one of the biggest holiday destinations on an island that attracts tourists from around the world.

Australia’s Foreign Ministry said earlier it was urgently checking on the welfare of 12 Australian prisoners at the jail, including convicted drug traffickers Schapelle Corby and the so-called Bali Nine.

Fighting at the prison broke out late on Tuesday when inmates attacked a guard post near the entrance, forcing officers to flee. Police said they shot two inmates in the legs when they confronted a mob wielding sticks and throwing bricks.

Hundreds of armed police and army personnel stormed the prison at around 7 a.m. (midnight Tuesday GMT).

Steady gunfire could be heard for 15 minutes coming from inside the prison, according to a Reuters witness.

Police later said they fired only warning shots and regained control about an hour later.

However, several inmates could still be seen at a guard tower in a different part of the prison near the main road about an hour after police said they had retaken control. “Long live Kerobokan’s inmates,” the prisoners shouted.

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Chronology of Kerobokan Jail’s riot Tuesday (2/21) around 22.30 Wita Clash between prisonners.

Prisonners throwing stones and started to set fire.

Wednesday (2/22) p 01.15 Wita Kerobokan Jail was set on fire.

Three fire engine were deplored but prisonners throwing stones at the firemen.

Hundreds of armed police patrolled stand guarded outside the Kerobokan Jail. p 01.45 Wita Fireman succeed on putting out the fire.

The police try to enter the prison but failed because prisonners throwing bricks at them. p 02.50 Wita The riot have been ceased out, prisonners were not throwing bricks anymore.

Hundreds police personnels still guarding outside the prison. p 05.20 Wita Mobile Brigadier accompanied prison

officers entering the prison.

Around 800 policemen and army guarding outside the prison. p 07.00 Wita Sound of rifles begun to heard inside the jail. p 07.13 Wita Two prisonners was carried outside and rushed to the hospital.

Policemen confiscated several rifles. p 10.00 Wita Three prisonners injured by rubbled bullets.

Around 30 rifles estimated to be possesed by prisonners that they snatched from gun warehouse.

All foreign prisonners are safe.

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The killer captured at Situbondo Purnabawa Killed at Garage Padangasmbian, DenPost

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The Trans Sarbagita bus is seen on the Baypass Ngurah Rai Road.

Sarbagita bus first corridor still unclear Denpasar (Bali Post) –

The operation of Trans Sarbagita First Corridor that covers Denpasar City until now is still unclear even though it was stated to be operated after the Second Corridor (Batubulan – Nusa Dua). Head of Denpasar Transportation Agency, I Gede Astika, when met at Denpasar House of Representatives last Tuesday (21/2) admitted still not knowing when it will be as his side will meet the team at Province to discuss about it the next day (22/2).

The unclear situation have affected small bus (bemo/microlet) route. When asked about the number of vehicles that will be used for this corridor, Astika admitted can’t confirm it yet due to the vehicles are still in Semarang although it is admitted there are around ten vehicles for

Denpasar. Meanwhile, as seen on the field by Bali Post, a number of stops like the one at Surapati Street have received repair when actually hasn’t been used. It was stated before that the Second Corridor operating from Batubulan Terminal towards Nusa Dua and back hasn’t been able

to get all public attention to use it. Public still prefer using private vehicles to get to their working place. “Public who works at Nusa Dua are not ready to use the bus as the route did not reach to the hotel or the place they worked at,” one of the bus workers stated a while ago. (kmb12)

Flash flood hit Wayan Hendri’s hut Pura Puseh Kayang threatened Bangli (Bali Post) –

The heavy rain that hit Bangli last Monday (20/2) afternoon caused overloaded water on a drainage at Kayang Desa Kayubihi. The drainage water went fast from the north of BangliKintamani route and hit a pondok (house) owned by a resident, Wayan Hendri causing a collapse of walls as far as 8 meters, an adult knee high flood, a bed on a room soaked also other households wet.

Hendri stated last Tuesday (21/2)

that the flood was not the first time and caused by the volume of the drainage that was built six years ago couldn’t hold the waters. Not only Hendi’s house, a temple Pura Puseh Kayang located next to it also threaten. It is hoped Bangli Government will take action soon.

Head Village of Kayang, I Nyoman Toko and Banjar Krama Head of Puseh Tempek Kaler akayang Village, Nengah Mudiara, also stated the same. It

was admitted a number of times the locals have proposed for the drainage repair through Head of Village or Sub District Leader yet it is still not responded. They were just asked to wait when actually the situation worsen.

The same situation also admitted

by Head of Kayubihi Vilalge, I Wayan Suganda. “I hoped Bali Province Government will take action as soon as possible as the condition has gone too worrying,” Suganda pled. (kmb17)

The hard work of Denpasar Police Criminal Research Team in finding Purnabawa and family killer have come to a result. Heru Ardianto, who was suspected to be the killer was finally captured at Situbondo, East Java, last Tuesday (21/2) morning led by Second Inspector Sulhadi. A number of officers confirmed to DenPost that the capture happened when Heru was seen riding a Mio Soul motorbike formerly owned by Purnabawa with his wife. After victims’ bodies were found at Jembrana and investigated, Denpasar Police officers crossed to Banyuwangi, East Java straight away and found information that Heru escaped to Situbondo.

“Another five people are still on the chase suspected to be involved in this case. The car and one motorcycle are still being searched,” the officer stated.

Meanwhile PC Arif Sugiarto, who was asked for confirmation while revealing the robbery case of Vila Santika, Goa Gong Street, South Kuta, at Bali Police Headquarters asked media to be patient for 24 hours to find out about the case which will be revealed more. Meanwhile, Head of Denpasar Police Public Relation Section, IB Sarjana, last Tuesday stated the intensive inspection on Purnabawa family bodies also witnesses investigation have been done by the Denpasar Police special team with Denpasar Forensic Lab and Sanglah Hospital Foresnsic Section. From the analysis, the wife of Purnabawa, Ayu Sri Mahayoni and daughter, Risna Ayun Dewi, was attacked while sleeping at the daughter’s room. Meanwhile Purnabwa was hit to death at the garage after driving his guest to Ngurah Rai Airport, Tuban. It was also indicated the three were killed six to

seven days ago between Monday (13/2) evening or Tuesday (14/2) early morning moreover the maggots gave evidence. “It is more likely Tuesday early morning as connected to the 17 witnesses’ investigation,” Sarjana added.

From witnesses investigation, it was stated on Monday (13/2) at 11 pm local time Purnabawa was bringing his guest to Ngurah Rai Airport, Tuban, while family lost contact with him since Tuesday (14/2) and it is more likely at that time Purnabawa’s wife was sleeping with her only daughter. “Mother and daughter were sleeping facing each other then was hit on the head several times. It was strengthening by the blood stain as huge as the head on the bed cover. Both victims’ head were broken due to non-sharp item.

Besides that we also found a part of wood skin and the same with the wood that was found where the victim’s body was found,” Sarjana continued.

After the mother and daughter dead, the killer that was suspected more than three people wrapped them using a bed cover. At that time Purnabawa came from the Airport, the killers got ready to finish the freelance guide as stated by the witnesses, Purnabawa usually parks reversely. When the man who’s origin from Peminge, South Kuta, was attacked on the garage until dead and it is suspected the two teeth found there was his as it has been straightened (mepandes) then also wrapped in a bed cover.

Purnabawa died in standing position and due to his head so wrecked, there was a difficulty for forensic to unite it again.

Sarjana stated there hasn’t been any clear explanation to where the killers came in from, either a duplicated key or the house was unlocked as no damage were found on the main door nor the garage door. (109)

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Super subs spark Heat to seventh straight win Reuters

Miami’s reserves starred in a critical late-game stretch to hand the Heat their seventh consecutive victory with a 120-108 home win over the Sacramento Kings on Tuesday. Following three tight quarters, the red-hot Heat rode their reserves during a 13-2 run early in the fourth that gave them a 106-92 advantage and a clear path to their latest triumph.

The team’s bench scored all but two points during the game-breaking stretch, and finished with 32 for the game, to aid a game-high 30 points and 10 assists from Dwyane Wade.

Wade had the crowd on their feet in the second quarter after a spectacular play that saw LeBron James block a shot then lob a near full-court pass to the guard, who caught it in midair and finished it.

“We did some nice things in spurts and stretches,” Heat coach Erik

Spoelstra told reporters. “You do have to give the Kings credit, they played very well. They pushed us there until the very end.”

Chris Bosh added 20 and 10 rebounds and James chipped in 18 points to fuel NBA-leading Miami (26-7), who have won their last seven games by at least 12 points. The struggling Kings (10-22), who were without the injured John Salmons (hip), have now lost six straight.

Isaiah Thomas put up a team-high

24 points and Marcus Thornton finished with 23 for Sacramento who took a six-point lead after the first quarter but fell behind late in the second and had to play catch up the rest of the way.

“We had to play a perfect game to win this against this team and we were pretty close to a perfect game,” said Sacramento coach Keith Smart.

“We had moments but when you give up 25 points off turnovers, you are not going to beat many teams.”

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Miami Heat’s Dwyane Wade, left, goes to the basket over Sacramento Kings’ DeMarcus Cousins (15) during in the first half of an NBA basketball game in Miami, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012.

Woods not a top seed, but still a target Prime Minister gets involved in fighting discrimination

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MARANA, Ariz. — Tiger Woods must be mellowing with age. There was a time when a comment from his opponent in the Match Play Championship, even tongue-in-cheek, would be an extra bit of motivation that Woods didn’t need. Most famous at this event was in 2006, when Stephen Ames was asked about playing Woods and said that anything could happen, adding with a big smile, “Especially where he’s hitting it.”

Woods beat him 9 and 8, the most lopsided score in tournament history.

But that was when Woods was No. 1 in the world. He is the No. 19 seed this week at Dove Mountain.

That was when Woods was winning two majors a year. Now he hasn’t won a tour event in more than two years.

So when Gonzalo FernandezCastano, who faces Woods in the opening round Wednesday, said that his opponent is “beatable,” Woods didn’t seem the least bit bothered.

“I feel exactly the same way as he does,” Woods said. “I feel he’s beatable, too.”

Then again, that goes for all 64 players in the field for the first World

Golf Championship of the year. The difference in talent at this level of golf is miniscule. Over 18 holes of match play, it’s even smaller.

The best example might be Luke Donald, the defending champion and No. 1 player in the world. For his opening round, he gets to play Ernie Els, a three-time major champion and seven-time winner of the World Match Play Championship at Wentworth, where each match is contested over 36 holes.

Not since the inaugural Match Play Championship in 1999 has No. 1 against No. 64 featured such big stars, when Woods beat Nick Faldo.

Tiger Woods hits out of a sand trap to the second green during a practice round at the Match Play Championship golf tournament,

Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, in Marana, Ariz.

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LONDON - The battle against discrimination in soccer moves to Downing Street on Wednesday when British Prime Minister David Cameron and Jeremy Hunt, the sports minister, meet senior soccer officials and representatives from anti-discrimination groups.

The idea of the roundtable, according to Downing Street, is to identify what more can be done to make soccer more inclusive with the Government pledging its commitment to working with the football community as a whole to address and tackle the issues.

“In recognising that great progress has been made .. there is more to be done across a range of issues,” Downing Street said in a statement before the meeting.

The meeting was arranged following a rise in racistrelated incidents this season, especially those involving high-profile players John Terry of Chelsea and Luis Suarez of

Liverpool.

Terry is facing a court trial in July charged with racially abusing Queens Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand in a Premier League match in October, a charge he denies.

Suarez was handed an eightmatch ban by the English FA after he racially insulted Patrice Evra of Manchester United in a League match, in the same month.

On Wednesday the Government will also announce 3 million pounds ($4.75 million)of funding towards the FA’s new National Coaching Centre at St George’s Park.

The Downing Street statement continued: “The Centre will help to identify and train the next generation of coaches, with a particular emphasis on ensuring that more coaches from black and minority ethnic backgrounds can take advantage of the facilities and progress to the professional game.”

There have been a number of recent initiatives to tackle discrimination, particularly homophobia in football.

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Lavezzi makes it Napoli nightmare for Chelsea Reuters

NAPLES, Italy - Ezequiel Lavezzi and Edinson Cavani combined to spark Napoli’s 3-1 comeback win over Chelsea in their Champions League last 16 first-leg match on Tuesday that deepened the gloom hanging over the London club. The South American pair made the difference in a match where the visitors had taken the lead through Juan Mata before squandering two more chances and putting under-fire manager Andre Villas-Boas under yet more pressure.

Lavezzi scored Napoli’s first and third goals, the first of the competition for the Argentine and both laid on by Cavani who notched the other himself.

The prolific Uruguayan took his tally to six in the Champions League and 19 in his last seven outings.

Napoli’s win left England in danger of missing out on the quarter-finals after Arsenal, the Premier League’s only other team in the last 16, were thumped 4-0 at AC Milan last week. It also left Villas-Boas facing more questions about his future as the poor run of form continued for the London team, who have won only two of their last 10 Premier League games and who drew against second tier opponents in the FA Cup last weekend.

Asked if he expected to be in charge by the time his side host Napoli for the return leg on March 14, the Portuguese told Sky Sports: “Yeah, for sure.” Chelsea’s day had got off to a bad start with news that captain John Terry could be sidelined for several weeks after aggravating a knee injury and it soon got worse.

“After the first goal, we missed opportunities to go 2-0 up and then we should have defended better but we made a couple of mistakes against Napoli with their attack you are going to get punished,” said Villas-Boas.

“I think the third goal was perfectly avoidable ... We can create problems with our attacking options and we created problems (for them) today.

“It is a game of efficiency and Napoli had it. I think the statistics are very similar for both teams. Both teams created a lot. The game was open.”

Napoli were missing coach Walter Mazzarri who was banned for both legs after he was sent off for pushing Villarreal forward Nilmar in a group match, a move he said was intended to galvanise his team.

They were fired up enough without him, although Lavezzi refused to get carried away, saying: “I was happy to score but the important thing was that the team won. We haven’t qualified yet.”

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Napoli, unbeaten at home since returning to European competition in 2008 following a 13-year absence, were quickly on the attack and goalkeeper Petr Cech twice prevented Chelsea from shipping an early goal.

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CSKA strike late to draw with Real Reuters

MOSCOW - A last-minute strike by CSKA Moscow newcomer Pontus Wernbloom snatched a 1-1 draw for the Russian side against Real Madrid in their Champions League last 16 first-leg match on Tuesday. Cristiano Ronaldo had given the visiting Spaniards a deserved 1-0 lead after 28 minutes, taking full advantage of a CSKA defensive mix-up and beating nervous-looking goalkeeper Sergei Chepchugov with a low volley into the far corner.

It was Ronaldo’s 17th goal in his 23rd Champions League game for Real and 32nd in total in Europe’s premier club competition. He missed a chance to double the lead shortly after the restart, but this time Chepchugov, making his Champions League debut, averted the danger.

The home side sorely missed their first-choice keeper Igor Akinfeyev, who is still recovering following knee surgery. Chepchugov made a fine double save early on, first stopping Gonzalo Higuain, who had just replaced injured Karim Benzema, then denying Sami Khedira from close range seconds later.

Ronaldo had another chance late in the game but fired just wide of the post with a low shot from the edge of the box. The visitors, who lost France forward Benzema just 15 minutes into the game after he appeared to pull a muscle while taking his first shot on goal, dominated for most of the match despite playing in sub-zero temperatures and on Luzhniki’s unfamiliar artificial pitch.

CSKA’s Ivory Coast striker Seydou Doumbia, who has scored five goals in five Champions League games this season, was kept off the ball for most of the match by Real’s tight defence.

The Russians rarely threatened until Sweden midfielder Wernbloom, who joined CSKA in January, beat Iker Casillas from 10 metres following a goalmouth scramble in the last minute of added time, sending a record 70,000-strong home crowd wild.

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Bird flu claims another fatality Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Having had time to spread and claim two fatalities of a brother and sister from Jehem village, Bangli, in October 2011, the bird flu showed the latest outbreak. The disease caused by the H5N1 virus and transmitted by poultry claimed another fatality on Tuesday (Feb 21) of a boy aged 12 years with the initial WM from Klungkung but lived in Kerobokan, Badung.

The Head of Special Treatment Installation of Sanglah Hospital, Ken Wirasandhi, when asked for his confirmation justified that Sanglah Hospital had treated a patient who eventually died of bird flu. WM came to Sanglah Hospital on Monday (Feb 20) around 10:00 p.m. local time. “He was a referral patient from Puri Raharja Hospital,” said Ken when met on Tuesday (Feb 21).

According to him, WM was suspected of suffering from bird flu when entering the fifth day of his treatment in the Puri Raharja Hospital. “He came in with typhous symptoms. However, when entering the fifth day of treatment, the patient showed the symptoms of influenza-like illness (ILI) such as shortness of breath. Moreover, the result of laboratory test gave an in indication of virus infection so that WM was ultimately referred to Sanglah Hospital,” explained Ken. The delay of medical officers to know if WM suffered from bird flu, explained Ken, happened because WM initially did not show any characteristics of ILI as initial characteristic of bird flu such as the shortness of breath. “The symptoms just

appeared on the fifth day, so he was then rushed to Sanglah Hospital,” said Ken. WM was immediately treated in isolation room in the Nusa Indah. Based on the interrogation made by Sanglah Hospital, according to Ken, it could not be ascertained yet whether WM had contact with poultry or not. “The family still denied if the victim had contact with poultry. On that account, our bird flu team still attempts to find out the more profound information about where the victim got the virus,” explained Ken. However, the result of VCR examination in Sanglah Hospital indicated if the victim WM was positive to bird flu. Due to poor condition when taken to Sanglah Hospital, WM could only survive for 5 hours and finally died at 03:00 a.m. local time on Tuesday (Feb 21). His body was immediately brought home by the family. So far, the bird flu had claimed five fatalities. They were a resident of Negara and Tabanan in 2005, two residents of Bangli in 2011 and WM from Klungkung who lived in Kerobokan, Badung, in February 2012. (kmb24)

Kerpuk River positively contaminated by dyeing waste Denpasar (Bali Post)—

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Napoli’s Edinson Cavani, center, of Uruguay, celebrates with his teammates Argentina’s Ezequiel Lavezzi, left, and Slovakia’s Marek Hamsik after scoring, during a Champions League, round of 16, first-leg soccer match, at the Naples San Paolo stadium, Italy, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012.

He saved a dangerous Cavani shot with his foot and then turned Christian Maggio’s angled effort around the post as the Italians quickly showed their attacking potential with fast, pinpoint passing.

But the visitors went ahead with their first real chance after Napoli captain Paolo Cannavaro sliced Daniel Sturridge’s cross and the ball fell at the feet of Mata, who beat Morgan De Sanctis with a first-time shot Brazilians David Luiz and Ramires went close for Chelsea as the usually passionate Sao Paolo stadium went eerily quiet.

Luiz beat De Sanctis to a corner but his header just cleared the bar while Ramires fired over from the edge of the area.

The crowd came back to life in the 38th minute when Cavani fed Lavezzi on the edge of the area and he curled a delightful shot inside the near post, although the Chelsea defenders allowed him too much space for the shot. Chelsea’s rearguard got into

another mess in first-half added time as Gokhan Inlan delivered a teasing cross which bounced six metres from goal and Cavani stole in front of two defenders to head Napoli in front.

The visitors started the second half brightly with Florent Malouda having a shot saved by De Sanctis and Didier Drogba just failing to take advantage of confusion in the Napoli defence.

At the other end, Chelsea had a letoff when Lavezzi missed a golden opening and Gary Cahill was lucky to escape with yellow card for a dangerous late tackle on Lavezzi.

But the Argentine was not to be denied and fired the third goal with a shot into the far corner in the 65th minute after Cavani blocked Luiz’s clearance and laid the ball on a plate for his striking partner.

Marek Hamsik had a close-range effort cleared off the line 10 minutes from time while substitute Frank Lampard saw a long-range effort saved by De Sanctis at the other end.

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Both scoreres of the game, CSKA Moscow’s Pontus Wernbloom, right, and Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo, left, collide as they head the ball during their UEFA Champions League round of 16 first leg soccer match at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012.

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Concerns of some farmers in Denpasar whose farmland contaminated by the dyeing waste of garment industry seems reasonable. Evidently, the results of research made by the Denpasar Environment Agency (BLH) indicated the water of Kerpuk River in West Denpasar had been contaminated by the dyeing waste of garment industry.

Results of the laboratory examination made by the Bali Health Agency indicated that the dyeing waste existing in the river watershed was on the threshold of tolerance. It indicated the threat of contamination against the farmland was quite high.

The Head of the Denpasar Environment Agency (BLH), AA Bagus Sudharsana, when met in his office on Tuesday (Feb 21) said that maximal value of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) for wastewater was 60 milligrams per liter (mg/l) but after being examined it showed 141.5 mg/l. Similarly, the maximal value of chemical oxygen demand (COD) allowed was 150 mg/l, but when examined the result increased five times higher, namely 8,840 mg/l.

“Both elements are very hazardous.

Additionally, there are other elements violated,” he said.

He said the results of the investigation had also been forwarded to the office of

civilian security guard (Trantib) and the public order officer (Satpol PP) of Denpasar. To follow-up, the case would be handed over to the office of the civilian security guard. “We have also forwarded the results of examination to the office of civilian security guard,” he explained.

Bagus Sudharsana said that based on the results of the sample test, it could be concluded the river water in the vicinity of the dyeing activity had been surely polluted. Worryingly, the pollution on the watershed of Kerpuk River on Jalan Buana Raya, Padangsambian would also have an impact on the downstream area.

“Possibly, the entire downstream area has been polluted. It happens because most of the dyeing activities of garment industry in Denpasar do not have a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP),” explained the former head of the Denpasar Agency for Regional Development (Bappeda).

On the other hand, the head of Denpasar civilian security guard and public order agency, IB Alit Wiradana, when contacted in a separate occasion claimed that his party would follow up the letter of the BLH. His party promised to follow it up. Even, the action taken would temporarily close the dyeing business that did not have a wastewater treatment plant. “We will temporary close the business premises that do not care about the environment,” he said. (kmb12)

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A truck is filling a gas in a gas station

Increase in fuel price encumbers community Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Price hike of fuel will become a bitter pill received by the people of Indonesia. Such a hike will have an impact on the price of commodities becoming their necessities.

Ultimately, it leads to the addition of the economic burden of the community.

It was revealed by the Dean of Faculty of Economics, Udayana University, Prof. Dr. Gusti Bagus Wiksuana, when met in Denpasar on Tuesday (Feb 21). The price hike of fuel in the middle of the uneven prosperity would be burdensome to the community of Indonesia, chiefly the people belonging to the category of poor family.

“The price hike of fuel will certainly affect the food that also ultimately has an impact on the welfare of society. However, we must be aware of the difficulties faced by the government that the subsidy disbursed is very high,” he said.

According to him, the price hike of fuel would directly have an impact on the high living cost borne by the community. The impact would be very significant to the changes in the life patterns and the patterns of satisfying the basic needs of the people of Indonesia because the increase was not accompanied with the rise in the level of

welfare or income.

“Government should think how to minimize the impact of the price hike by pressing the unit cost. By doing so, the price hike of fuel will not be too high. As a result, the increase in fuel will surely have an impact on the people’s economy,” he said.

Bagus Wiksuana estimated the inflation rate would be higher if the price of Premium fuel would be raised despite not too high.

Such an increase would consequently trigger the increase in the tariff of freight transportation services. If the price hike was carried out indiscriminately, then all the sectors would experience the price hike.

“By rights, the impact of fuel price hike will resemble a circle. On that account, the investment associated with the fuel production must be persistently promoted by the government.

By doing so, government will not only burden the consumption with the rising fuel price but also increase the investment,” he said.

Discussion about the increase in the price hike of fuel had indeed not been final, but the government policy remained to become a scourge to society. It could be imagined it would equally make the small community anxious because at the end the policy would usually be detrimental to them. (kmb27)

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Karzai invites Taliban leaders for direct talks Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday invited the Taliban for direct talks with his government, while urging Pakistan to facilitate negotiation efforts towards ending Afghanistan’s decade-long war.

“In order to realise the objectives of the peace process, I invite the leadership of the Taliban to engage in direct talks with the Afghan government,” Karzai said in a statement issued by his office.

Taliban representatives have begun contacts with US officials in the Gulf state of Qatar designed to build confidence and pave the way for a prisoner exchange, but the militia has publicly refused to talk to Karzai’s government.

Relations between Kabul and Islamabad are traditionally mired in distrust, but both sides have made overtures towards reconciliation in the hope that a political solution in Afghanistan can ease regional instability.

“I hereby request our brotherly government of Pakistan to support and facilitate our direct negotiation efforts as part of the peace process,” Karzai said, calling Pakistan’s support “crucial” to any success in negotiations.

The statement came after Karzai

spoke by telephone to US President Barack Obama about Afghan-led reconciliation moves and a visit last week to Pakistan, where he said it was time to take action for peace.

Wa s h i n g t o n w e l c o m e d Karzai’s offer of talks with the Taliban, saying people in the wartorn country need to take the lead in reconciliation efforts.

“We have been gratified to see President Karzai speaking out publicly in support of Afghanto-Afghan reconciliation,” State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters.

“Our goal is to work ourselves out of a job... because when we get to the point where it’s Afghans and Afghans talking to each other, then we’ll really have a true reconciliation process,” she said.

The United States, which leads the 130,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan, says NATO combat troops will withdraw from the country by the end of 2014 and officials have backed negotiations as the only long-term solution to the war.

“The peace process, which envisions the return of all Afghans... including the Taliban, to peaceful lives in their country, is the surest way to peace and stability in Afghanistan,” Karzai said in his statement.

Associated Press Writer

AFP Photo/Fabio Muzzi

Marco Rosa-Clot (R) and his team members, Paolo Rosa-Clot (C) and Raniero Cazzaniga, stand on a photovoltaic floating plant on the lake of Colignola in Tuscany on January 11. The system is designed to exploit unused areas of artificial reservoirs or disused quarries.

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Pakistan is in the final stages of asking Interpol to help arrest former military ruler Pervez Musharraf (pictured in London last month) over the murder of ex-premier Benazir Bhutto, says Interior Minister Rehman Malik

Pakistan to ask Interpol to help arrest Musharraf Pakistan is in the final stages of asking Interpol to help arrest former military ruler Pervez Musharraf over the murder of ex-premier Benazir Bhutto, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said Tuesday.

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“We will bring Musharraf back to the country soon with a red notice issued through Interpol,” Malik told lawmakers in the provincial assembly of Bhutto’s home province of Sindh.

“We are in the final phase of doing this,” he said without elaborating.

Bhutto was assassinated on December 27, 2007, while leaving an election rally in Rawalpindi, the headquarters of Pakistan’s army.

Musharraf, who has lived in selfimposed exile in London and Dubai since August 2008, last month

indefinitely delayed plans to return home to contest elections after the government warned he would be arrested upon arrival.

Pakistani courts have issued warrants for his arrest over the 2006 death of Akbar Bugti, a Baluch rebel leader in the southwest, and the 2007 assassination of Bhutto, whose widower is Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari.

Malik, who was a close aide of Bhutto, accused Musharraf of refusing to provide her with adequate

security and of threatening her by telephone when she was in Washington before returning to Pakistan in October 2007.

“Musharraf threatened her on phone: If you come to Pakistan, you will be responsible for the consequences. If you come to Pakistan before the elections, I will not be responsible for your security,” said Malik.

He quoted Bhutto as replying: “General, the decision to come to Pakistan is mine, not yours.”

Khalid Qureshi, head of the investigation team, said that slain Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud had plotted the murder.

Malik said that overall 27 Taliban militants were involved in the assassination plot.

Italian engineer invents floating solar panels Agence France Presse

Rays of the winter sun bounce off gleaming mirrors on the tiny lake of Colignola in Italy, where engineers have built a cost-effective prototype for floating, rotating solar panels. “You are standing on a photovoltaic floating plant which tracks the sun, it’s the first platform of its kind in the world!” said Marco Rosa-Clot, a professor at Florence University, proudly showing off his new project.

Rosa-Clot and his team say they are revolutionising solar power and that their floating flower-petallike panels soaking up the Tuscan sun have already attracted a lot of interest from international buyers.

Standard solar panels on buildings or in fields have been criticised for taking up valuable agricultural land,

being unsightly and losing energy through overheating -- issues the floating plants would resolve.

The Floating Tracking Cooling Concentrator (FTCC) system is designed to exploit unused areas of artificial reservoirs or disused quarries.

While the water keeps the panels at low temperatures, reflectors are

CANBERRA - Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd resigned his ministry on Wednesday, saying he could no longer work with Prime Minister Julia Gillard, stoking speculation he would mount a leadership challenge and plunging the government into a new crisis.

The government has sunk in popularity as Gillard and Rudd, who she ousted in 2010, have waged a personal feud. They differ little on policy, but their battle threatens to lead to an early election and a defeat for its

economic reform agenda.

Rudd’s supporters have called on Gillard to hold a leadership ballot, believing only he can stem hemorrhaging voter support, but a move back to Rudd risks losing the backing of independents who give the minority Labor government a one-seat majority.

“If they go down this stream it is a very high risk strategy and it would more than likely lead to an early election,” said Tony Windsor, one of the independents.

Rudd told a news conference in Washington he would return to Australia this week before deciding his future, but ended

his announcement asking his ruling Labor party colleagues “who is best placed to defeat (opposition leader) Tony Abbott at the next election?.”

The latest leadership turmoil has been fuelled by an ongoing poll slump, with Rudd’s backers saying he remains more popular with voters and would help revive party support ahead of the next election, due in late 2013.

But while Rudd is more popular with voters, he is not as well liked within the Labor Party and he alienated may colleagues with imperious style when he was prime

minister.

Labor insiders say Gillard has the strong support of the ruling Labor Party, with Rudd supporters numbering around 30 of the 103 Labor Party lawmakers.

Earlier, Gillard was reportedly considering sacking Rudd from the ministry in order to reassert her authority over the government.

While Rudd would be unlikely to win a leadership vote, any surprise Rudd victory could force a snap election as he would need to re-negotiate support from the Greens and independents.

positioned to maximise solar capture at different times of day, making it more efficient than a traditional installation, Rosa-Clot said. The head of Scintec, a small family business which produces a variety of renewable energy and industrial devices, Rosa-Clot said the pilot plant set up on the lake near Pisa, Tuscany, was a model of efficiency.

“It’s a small-scale design, 30 kilowatts, which would suffice for a dozen or so families. The standard is set at 3kW per apartment,” he said.

At an estimated price of around 1,600 euros per kW including installation, a plant the size of Colignola could cost some 48,000 euros ($63,000).

NEW YORK — Sony is intensifying its push in handheld gaming with a gadget aimed at hardcore players looking for something with a bit more punch than “Angry Birds,” ‘’Words With Friends” and other smartphone pastimes. The PlayStation Vita, already available in Japan, debuts in the U.S. and Europe on Wednesday. A basic, Wi-Fi version will retail at $250, while one that can access 3G cellular networks will go for $300 plus monthly service fees from AT&T. Sony Corp. is promoting the device with a $50 million marketing blitz “everywhere gamers are and where the general population is,” said Jack Tretton, CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America. Tretton acknowledges

it won’t be an easy sell.

People have grown accustomed to playing games on handheld devices that also make phone calls, shoot videos, connect to the Internet, play songs and send text messages. The devices do practically everything but wash your socks. Why buy a gadget that does only one thing?

“Ultimately, if you consider yourself a gamer, you are going to find yourself migrating up the food chain to dedicated gaming consoles and the Vita,” Tretton said.

Don’t tell that to Christian Thomas, a 20-year-old New York University student who tried out the Vita at a temporary lounge Sony set up to promote the system.

At the “social club” in Manhattan’s trendy Lower East Side, players were able to try out Vita before it goes on sale.

AP Photo/Reed Saxon

This Feb. 15, 2012 photo, shows Playstation PSVita, foreground, and its predecessor. In the age of “Angry Birds” and “Words With Friends” dominating people’s on-the-go playtime, Sony is making a push into the world of handheld gaming with a gadget aimed at loyal gamers and fans of the PlayStation.

Stem cell implants boost monkeys with Parkinson’s Agence France Presse

Australian foreign minister quits in leadership crisis

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Sony makes mobile gaming push with handheld Vita

Agence France Presse

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, seen here in December 2011, has invited the Taliban leadership to direct talks with his government, while urging Pakistan to facilitate negotiation efforts towards ending 10 years of war

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File illustration photo shows embryonic stem cells being microinjected into an embryo. Monkeys suffering from Parkinson’s disease show a marked improvement when human embryonic stem cells are implanted in their brains, in what a Japanese researcher said Wednesday was a world first.

Monkeys suffering from Parkinson’s disease show a marked improvement when human embryonic stem cells are implanted in their brains, in what a Japanese researcher said Wednesday was a world first. A team of scientists transplanted the stem cells into four primates that were suffering from the debilitating disease.

The monkeys all had violent shaking in their limbs -- a classic symptom of Parkinson’s disease -- and were unable to control their bodies, but began to show improvements in their motor control after about three months, Kyoto University associate professor Jun Takahashi told AFP.

About six months after the transplant, the creatures were able to walk around their cages, he said.

“Clear improvements were confirmed in their movement,” he said.

Parkinson’s disease is a progressive neurological illness linked to a decrease in dopamine production in the brain. There is currently no medical solution to this drop off in a key neurotransmitter.

The condition, which generally affects older people, gained wider public recognition when Hollywood actor Michael J. Fox revealed he was a sufferer. Takahashi said at the time of the implant about 35 percent of the stem cells had already grown into dopamine neuron cells, with around

10 percent still alive after a year.

He said he wants to improve the effectiveness of the treatment by increasing the survival rate of dopamine neuron cells to 70 percent.

“The challenge before applying it to a clinical study is to raise the number of dopamine neuron cells and to prevent the development of tumours,” he said. “I would like to make this operation more effective and safe” before clinical trials, Takahashi said. Takahashi said so far he had used embryonic stem cells, which are harvested from foetuses, but would likely switch to so-called Induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) cells, which are created from human skin, for the clinical trial.

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Adele and Blur lined up for UK music’s Brit Awards

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Thursday, February 23, 2012

All Seasons Legian Get Three Awards IBP

On January 2012, during the annual GM meeting of Accor MIS (Malaysia Indonesia Singapore), all seasons Legian get three best awards for the great effort in term of Human Development and Services. These three awards are for “The Best Team Development in 2011”; “The Best Housekeeping Team in 2011”; and “The Best Guest Book in 2011” amongst all Accor hotels in Malaysia Indonesia and Singapore.

These awards will be as the encouragement for all the staff to maintain the quality of service constantly, so we could keep as the best.

Associated Press Writer

LONDON — Soulful songstress Adele and tousle-haired singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran lead the race for the U.K.’s Brit music awards ahead of Tuesday’s ceremony in London.

Sheeran, 21, has four nominations including breakthrough act, best British album — for the curiously titled “+’’ — best single for “The A Team” and best British male solo act. The red-haired singer has been panned as bland by some critics, but has amassed legions of young fans through online releases and a relentless calendar of shows. He’s up against James Blake, James Morrison, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds and Professor Green in the solo act category.

Adele, who won six Grammys last week in Los Angeles for her sophomore album “21,” is nominated for three Brits — British album, British single for “Someone Like You” and British female artist, an eclectic category that also includes Florence and the Machine, Jessie J, Laura Marling and Kate Bush, who won the same prize 25

years ago.

Adele, who gave a show-stopping performance of “Someone Like You” at last year’s Brits, is also due to perform for the first time in Britain since undergoing vocal cord surgery to fix a potentially career-threatening throat condition. It has been an amazing year for the singer from north London, who based her chart-topping songs of heartbreak on a rocky relationship. The “21” album has sold more than 6 million copies in the United States alone.

Sheeran said before the Brits ceremony that he expected Adele to clean up at the awards. “She will definitely walk away with best album,” he said. “It is Adele’s year.”

Coldplay could win their fourth best British group trophy if they beat Elbow, Kasabian, Arctic Monkeys and Chase & Status.

Chris Brown, Rihanna collaborate on 2 song remixes Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Chris Brown and Rihanna are back together, musically speaking. Two songs featuring the singers hit the Internet on Monday. Brown sings on the remix of Rihanna’s sexually charged song “Birthday Cake,” and she’s on the remix of his upbeat tune “Turn Up the Music.”

Brown tweeted a link to the new version of “Turn Up the Music” on Monday, and Rihanna later

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retweeted it. She also tweeted about the remix for “Birthday Cake.” Brown attacked his then-girlfriend Rihanna at a preGrammy Awards party in 2009. He pleaded guilty to a felony charge and is serving five years of probation.

Last year, a judge eased a restraining order after an attorney for Rihanna said she didn’t object to removing the stay-away provisions. The order had required Brown to stay 50 yards away from Rihanna, but the restriction was reduced to 10 yards if they were at a music industry event.

After a three-year absence from the Grammys, Brown made his return this year, performing twice at the show and winning best R&B album. Rihanna also performed and picked up a trophy.

Rihanna, whose full name is Robyn Rihanna Fenty, told Esquire magazine in its October 2010 issue that she no longer resented Brown and that she enjoys his music. The two singers first collaborated musically in 2007 on the remix to her monster hit “Umbrella.”

Brown also tweeted “HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROBYN” to Rihanna, who turned 24 on Monday. A representative for Rihanna said she had no comment.

An email seeking comment from Brown’s representatives went unreturned Monday.

In this Feb. 12, 2012 photo, Chris Brown accepts the award for best R&B album for “F.A.M.E.” during the 54th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.

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Temple Ceremony

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From left, Alex James, Dave Rowntree, Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, of Blur arrive for the Brit Awards 2012 at the O2 Arena in London, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012.

Sugarland blames fans for state fair injuries

Associated Press Writer

INDIANAPOLIS — Fans who were killed and injured when stage rigging and sound equipment collapsed onto them as they awaited a Sugarland concert at the Indiana State Fair failed to take steps to ensure their own safety and are at least in part to blame for their injuries, the country duo’s attorneys said.

The statement, part of a Feb. 16 response to a civil suit filed by survivors and families of some of those killed, comes in sharp contrast to earlier statements by lead singer Jennifer Nettles and appears to be an attempt to cast blame elsewhere.

Calling the powerful winds that toppled the stage on Aug. 13 an “act of God,” Sugarland’s attorneys said fair officials and Mid-America Sound Corp. were responsible for the stage setup, and that the fans voluntarily assumed

FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2011, file photo the American country music duo Sugarland, featuring vocalist Jennifer Nettles, right, and guitarist Kristian Bush perform a benefit concert in Indianapolis for victims of the Aug. 13 Indiana fair stage collapse.

risk by attending the show.

“Some or all of the plaintiffs’ claimed injuries resulted from their own fault,” according to the band’s response. Sugarland attorney James H. Milstone did not immediately respond to a phone call seeking comment Tuesday. Seven people died and 58 were injured in the crush beneath the metal rigging and concert sound equipment.

Nettles told The Associated Press in a statement issued through her manager two days after the collapse that she was “moved by the grief of those families who lost loved ones.

Moved by the pain of those who were injured and the fear of their families. Moved by the great heroism as I watched so many brave Indianapolis fans actually run toward the stage to try and help lift and rescue those injured.

Moved by the quickness and organization of the emergency workers who set up the triage and tended to the injured.

Calendar Event for February 19 through March 17, 2012 19 Feb Redite Pon Medangsia Pura Agung Pentilan Kesiman-Denpasar Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kerambitan Tabanan 20 Feb Soma Wage Medangsia Pura Nataran Desa Getas Blahbatuh Merajan Pasek Gelgel Aan-Klungkung Pura Pasek Bakbakan Gianyar 21 Feb Tilem Kawulu Pura Ulun Kulkul Besakih Pura Dalem Yang Taluh Sidemen - Karangasem Pura Dalem Kangin Sidemen - Karangasem 22 Feb Buda Umanis Medangsia Pura Gede Perancak-Jembrana Pura Dalem Dauma-Batuan Sukawati Pura Nataran Kacangdawa Klungkung Odalan Bhatara, Gede Apol Ubung Denpasar Pura Puseh Brahmana Kawasan-Klungkung Pura Kahyangan Jagat Dalem Purwa Denbantas Tabanan Pura Dalem Sukehet Klungkung Pura Dalem Muaspatih Guwang Sukawati Pura Taman Tegalalang Pura Desa Sanding-Tampaksiring Merajan Pasek Tohjiwa Batanbuah-Kesiman.

Pura Sahab Nusa Penida Merajan Agung Gorokgak Dalem Sukawati 23 Feb Wraspati Paing Medangsia Pura Ulun Swi Kediri Tabanan Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Bitera-Gianyar 26 Feb Redite Keliwon Pujut Merajan Pasek Tohjiwa Kekeran Mengwi 4 Mar Redite Paing Pahang.

Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kekeran Pura Pasek Sandra Peguyangan Badung.

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6 Mar Anggara Wage Pahang Pura Batu Madeg Besakih(Meru Tumpang Sanga)

Pura Hyang Tibha Batuan Sakah.

7 Mar Purnama Kesanga Pura Penataran sasih Pejeng - Gianyar Pura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah Desa Batur Kintamani.

7 Mar Buda Keliwon Pahang Pura Luhur Puncak Padang Dawa Baturiti Tabanan Pura Silayukti Padangbai-Karangasem Pura Aer Jeruk Sukawati Pura Dangin Pasar Batuan-Sukawati Pura Penataran Batuyang-Batubulan Pura Desa Lembeng Ketewel-Sukawati Pura Pasek Bendesa Dukuh-Kediri-Tabanan Pura Kawitan Dalem Sukawati Gianyar Pura Kresek Banyuning-Buleleng Pura Puseh Bebandem-Karangasem Merajan Pasek Kubayan-Gaji.

Merajan pasek Gelgel Jeroan Abang-Songan Merajan Pasek Subrata Temaga Merajan Pasek Subrata Temaga Merajan Pasek Gelgel Bungbungan Sad Kahyangan Batu Medahu Swana Nusa Penida Pura Buda Kliwon Penatih-Denpasar Pura Penataran Dukuh Nagasari Bebandem Karangasem Pura Pasek Bendesa Tagtag Paguyangan.

Pura Pulasari Sibang Gede Abiansemal Pura Batur Sari Ubud Pura Penataran Agung Sukawati.

12 Mar Soma Keliwon Krulut Pura Pasel Gelgel Kekeran Mngwi Badung Merajan Pasek Subadra Kramas-Gianyar.

17 Mar Hari Tumpek Krurut Pura Pasek Gelgel Br Tengah Buleleng Pura Dalem Pemuteran Desa Jelantik Tojan Pura Pedarmaan Bhujangga Waisnawa Besakih Pura Taman Sari Desa Gunungsari Penebel - Tabanan Pura Dalem Tarukan Bebalang Bangli Pura Benua Kangin Besakih.

Pura Merajan Kanginan Besakih.

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

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

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

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

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

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Strauss-Kahn held in prostitution probe Associated Press Writer

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Members of the media wearing protective suits and masks report, escorted by an official of Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, second left, at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s tsunamicrippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan, Monday, Feb. 20, 2012.

Radiation detected 400 miles off Japanese coast Associated Press Writer

SALT LAKE CITY — Radioactive contamination from the Fukushima power plant disaster has been detected as far as almost 400 miles off Japan in the Pacific Ocean, with water showing readings of up to 1,000 times more than prior levels, scientists reported Tuesday.

But those results for the substance cesium-137 are far below the levels that are generally considered harmful, either to marine animals or people who eat seafood, said Ken Buesseler of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.

He spoke Tuesday in Salt Lake City at the annual Ocean Sciences Meeting, attended by more than 4,000 researchers this week.

The results are for water samples taken in June, about three months after the power plant disaster, Buesseler said.

In addition to thousands of water samples, researchers also sampled fish and plankton and found cesium-137 levels well below the legal health limit.

“We’re not over the hump” yet in terms of radioactive contamination of the ocean because of continued leakage from the plant, Buesseler said in an inter-

view before Tuesday’s talk. He was chief scientist for the cruise that collected the data.

The ship sampled water from about 20 miles to about 400 miles off the coast east of the Fukushima plant. Concentrations of cesium-137 throughout that range were 10 to 1,000 times normal, but they were about one-tenth the levels generally considered harmful, Buesseler said.

Cesium-137 wasn’t the only radioactive substance released from the plant, but it’s of particular concern because of its long persistence in the environment.

Its half-life is 30 years.

The highest readings last June were not always from locations closest to the Fukushima plant, Buesseler said. That’s because swirling ocean currents formed concentrations of the material, he said.

Most of the cesium-137 de-

tected during the voyage probably entered the ocean from water discharges, rather than atmospheric fallout, he added.

Hartmut Nies, of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said Buesseler’s findings were not surprising, given the vastness of the ocean and its ability to absorb and dilute materials.

“This is what we predicted,” Nies said after Buesseler presented his research.

Nies said the water’s cesium137 concentration has been so diluted that just 20 miles offshore, “if it was not seawater, you could drink it without any problems.”

“This is good news,” he said, adding that scientists expect levels to continue to decrease over time.

“We still don’t have a full picture,” Nies said, “but we can expect the situation will not become worse.”

PARIS — French police questioned former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn all day Tuesday in a probe into a suspected hotel prostitution ring.

Strauss-Kahn, a one-time French presidential hopeful whose chances were derailed by a sexual assault accusation in New York, arrived at the police station in the northern city of Lille for a prearranged morning appointment. He hadn’t emerged by Tuesday night and French media reported that he would be held overnight.

Police are probing a suspected prostitution ring in France and neighboring Belgium that has implicated police and other officials.

They have questioned prostitutes who said they had sex with StraussKahn during 2010 and 2011 at a luxury hotel in Paris, a restaurant in the French capital and also in Washington, D.C. French law permits police to question Strauss-Kahn for up to 96 hours with a judge’s approval.

Strauss-Kahn lived in the U.S. capital while he was head of the IMF before resigning his position in May after he was charged by New York police with making a hotel maid perform oral sex. The charges were later dropped.

Two men with ties to Strauss-Kahn have been put under preliminary investigation in France on charges including organizing a prostitution ring and misuse of corporate funds.

Nepal jails minister in corruption case Agence France Presse

Nepal’s highest court on Tuesday jailed a serving government minister for corruption in a first for a nation fighting an ingrained culture of graft.

The Supreme Court handed information and communications minister, Jaya Prakash Prasad Gupta, an 18-month sentence and an 8.4 million-rupee fine after he failed to account for a vast portfolio of property accrued while in office.

Gupta, 52, has held a number of ministerial posts and was appointed to the information ministry after his party struck a deal with the Maoists to form a coalition government in August last year.

“This bench has reached the conclusion that the defendant’s source of income and the property he earned during the given period doesn’t match,” Sushila Karki, one of two presiding judges, told reporters.

“He failed to verify the source of income for 8.4 million rupees.

Therefore, it has been proved that Gupta has committed a crime as per the Corruption Prevention Act,” she said, reading from the verdict.

Riot...

From page 1 National police spokesman Saud Usman Nasution told Reuters: “We are trying to make the inmates go back into their blocks.”

Authorities shut down electricity to reduce movement inside the prison and sealed off surrounding streets as water cannon, police trucks and Red Cross vehicles crowded an area normally full of handicraft sellers.

A burnt-out guard block smoldered in the early dawn and armed police patrolled perimeter fences looking down into the prison.

Police also displayed what they said were rifles prisoners had snatched from wardens during the riot but which were recaptured later.

Conflict at the prison first started about a week ago when two inmates had a knife-fight, leading to a split in the wider prison population that developed into a bigger fight between two rival groups, Nasution said.

Corby, a former beauty therapist, is serving a 20-year sentence after she was caught with about 4 kg (9 lb) of cannabis in a surfboard bag at Denpasar airport in 2004.

The Bali Nine were arrested on Bali in 2005 and found guilty of attempting to smuggle more than 8 kg (18 lb) of heroin into Australia.

Their sentences have varied from 15 years in jail to death.

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Europe’s debt crisis set to dominate G20 talks

Reuters

MEXICO CITY - Europe’s debt crisis will dominate talks between Group of 20 (G20) policymakers this weekend as the rest of the world looks for pledges that the euro zone will boost its crisis safety net.

Advanced and developing nations alike are keen for reassurances that the European Union will do whatever it takes to limit fallout from the crisis and convincing answers could help officials inch closer to boosting the firepower of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) so it can better help victims.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Financial Stability Board Chairman Mark Carney are among those scheduled to attend the February 25-26 meeting, along with officials from developing powers such as Brazil, India and China, whose support is crucial for any boost to IMF resources.

But G20 finance ministers and central bankers are not expected to decide specifics when they gather in Mexico City ahead of talks between EU leaders on their firewall plans the following week.

“It is highly unlikely that the G20 will reach a concrete agreement on IMF funding this month,” one official from the bloc said. “It’s impossible that a decision on IMF resources could come first before the euro zone comes up with its own firewall.”

The IMF is seeking to more than

double its firepower by raising an extra $600 billion to help countries deal with the fallout from the debt crisis, but the plan faces resistance from countries including the United States and Canada.

Many countries outside the 17member euro zone say the region must first put up more of its own money to contain contagion, for example by combining the lending abilities of its two bailout funds, which together would add up to about 750 billion euros ($992 billion) of still-uncommitted funds.

EU leaders will decide whether to combine the temporary and permanent funds at a March 1-2 summit and draft conclusions seen by Reuters show they plan to call for the G20 to boost IMF funds in April, when policymakers meet again in Washington.

Analysts also see little chance of major progress at the meeting given the down-to-the-wire negotiations over every step of Europe’s response to the debt crisis so far.

“It’s all about Greece, the euro zone crisis and containing contagion from that,” Capital Economics economist Neil Shearing said. “The expectations bar is very low.”

Economy set for moderate recovery Reuters

LONDON - The economy looks set for a moderate recovery starting later this year as falling inflation eases the squeeze on household incomes, Bank of England deputy governor Charles Bean said on Tuesday.

While he welcomed the latest bailout deal for Greece, Bean said in a speech due for delivery at a business event in Glasgow that the euro zone debt crisis remains the single biggest risk to the UK economy, which may see slow growth until mid-year.

“Despite the recent more encouraging signs, we continue to expect underlying growth to remain sluggish in the first half of the year,” Bean said.

The expected fall in inflation should help a modest pickup in

household spending, he said, noting that the strong retail sales seen in January could be a first sign of this.

“But while growth should gradually strengthen, the continuing headwinds from the unwinding of excessive debt and the government’s continuing fiscal consolidation mean that the pace of recovery is likely to remain moderate by historical standards,” he said.

Bean’s analysis largely echoed the views presented in the Bank’s February inflation report in which the bank predicted that growth would improve later this year and that inflation would be close to its 2 percent target over the key two-year horizon.

That forecast has fuelled the view that the Bank may not add further stimulus when the latest 50 billion pound round of asset purchases is complete in May.

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South Korean activists hold red banners reading “South Korea-US FTA, approved unilaterally (in parliament), is void!” during a protest against the Korea-US free trade agreement near the US embassy in Seoul on February 22, 2012. South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak said that a sweeping free trade pact with the United States would help draw Chinese and Japanese investment to his country and create more jobs.

55 Boeing Dreamliners ‘have potential’ shimming problem Agence France-Presse

Boeing said around 55 of its flagship 787 Dreamliners “have the potential” to develop a fuselage shimming problem, but reiterated that the fault was being fixed.

Shims are used to fill in space between parts and industry publication Flightglobal has reported that improperly joined pieces had caused “parts of the aircraft’s carbon fibre structure to delaminate”.

The discovery of the issue in early February is the latest snag to hit the showpiece but troubled jet, which suffered extensive production delays.

“In all the airplanes that we built, up to airplane 55 in round numbers have the potential for the shimming issue,” said the aviation giant’s vice president Jim Albaugh at a media roundtable in Singapore.

“It’s very fixable and we are in the process of fixing the airplanes that are in flow, there is not a safety or flight issue on the airplanes that we’ve delivered and

this is a long term issue that has to be addressed,” he added.

Boeing has previously said the problem arose because “incorrect shimming was performed on support structure on the aft fuselage” of some 787s.

Albaugh -- who is concurrently the chief executive of Boeing Commercial Airplanes -- stated the problem would not impact total Dreamliner deliveries scheduled for this year.

“It’s something that we can address in a short period of time.

It will impact some short-term deliveries but in terms of the number of deliveries for the year, it shouldn’t have any impact at all,” he said.

Albaugh also said Boeing did not agree with European Union’s imposition of its Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), effectively charging airlines a carbon tax on travel within the region.

“I don’t think the ETS approach is the right one,” he said, describing it as “a carbon tax where you don’t know where the money is going and you don’t

know if the money is going to be used in an efficient way”.

“I really believe that the right approach is for the governments to tell us what the emissions standards are and we will use our money and we will spend that money wisely to come up with a way of addressing what those new requirements are,” Albaugh added.

Boeing joins a growing chorus of airlines as well as countries including China, India, Russia and the US in decrying Europe’s carbon tax scheme, saying it violates international law.

Albaugh said any softening in airplane demand if the global economy tanks as a result of European and US economic woes, would be an opportunity for Boeing to clear their backlog of orders, rather than a severe financial setback.

“We’ve got a backlog of 4,000 airplanes right now, we got a backlog of $300 billion. If there’s a softening I really see it as an opportunity for us to burn that backlog down,” he said.

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Museum is an interesting place to see many things depending on what it displays. In Bali you can find many painting museum because except famous with natural beauty, Bali also famous with its cultural activities, such as painting and sculpture.

The famous and often visited by tourists that holidaying in Bali is painting museum that located about 200 meters from Puri Saren / Ubud Palace and it is dissociated by dell, climb a piece of wide plain with beautiful view call Puri Lukisan.

It is situated in calm and peaceful area of Ubud Bali so that this place is an ideal place for who wish to see and enjoy result of art from all big actor like I Gusti Nyoman Lempad, Ida Bagus Nyana, Anak Agung Gde Sobrat, I Gusti Made Deblog, Rudof Bonnet, Walter Spies and more.

This museum is opened in the

year 1956 by minister of Education and Culture, Mr. Moh. Yamin.

This museum is consisted of three special buildings in U-shape. In the middle of this museum is the courtyard and fishpond with the beautiful lotus flower. The building no 1 is a place for a permanent exhibition of puppets dressy or puppets style painting. This building is collecting the painting from I Gusti Nyoman Lempad and the clarification about the existence of Pita Maha Organization. The Building no. 2 is also a place for permanent exhibition or still from masterpiece result of all artist of Balinese modern dressy style. The Building no.3 is for a temporary exhibition.

There is only one museum is exist in Ubud Village that is Puri Lukisan Museum, but Ubud sub district area until the year of 2003 is built with 4 new painting museums those are: Puri Lukisan Museum, Neka Museum, Arma Museum and Rudana Museum.

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Imam of New York Islamic Centre asks FPI to rethinking their methods Antara

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Indonesian Youth and Sports Minister Andi Mallarangeng (2nd L) gestures as he answers the judge’s questions at a corruption court in Jakarta on February 22, 2012 whilst testifying against ousted Democratic Party treasurer Muhammad Nazaruddin in the scandal involving a 21.3 million USD construction contract issued by his ministry. Nazaruddin fled the country in May, 2011 when investigators linked him to a bribery scandal and was returned to Indonesia from Colombia in August after four months on the run.

Government to apply one-door system to food imports Antara

JAKARTA - The Agriculture Ministry is to propose the application of a “one-door” system with regard to food imports whereby the staple is only brought into the country by the central government and no longer by regional governments, the ministry`s deputy chief said.

“In the national interest, food imports will only be conducted by the central government or through a one-door system,” Deputy Agriculture Minister Rusman Heriawan said here on Tuesday.

“So, in the national interest, food imports can only be conducted through the one-door

system,” he said.

The change was necessary to prevent regional governments with huge revenues from conducting the imports by themselves.

Through the one-door system, rich regions are expected to develop their agriculture products, he said.

Democrat questions cadres over money at Bandung congress

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JAKARTA - The head of the Democrat Party`s Oversight Commission TB Silalahi has confirmed he had summoned a party cadre who claimed to have received a large amount of money at the party`s 2010 congress in Bandung for a clarification.

“That`s right, we have asked Diana Maringka to clarify her statement to the media because the matter is actually an internal matter of the party,” TB Silalahi said when contacted over his cellphone.

In fact, he said, his commission had called a number of party cadres also for clarifications regarding Diana`s statement which was widely quoted by the media and had tended to create a negative public opinion about the party.

“Therefore, the Oversight Commission will have to respond to the media reports,” he said.

Silalahi questioned Diana`s failure to report her experience to the party leadership and her decision to talk to the media instead.

The Oversight Commission was

now still collecting more data and needed time to verify them. It had asked Diana to show proof of her statement to the media.

Diana, chairwoman of the Democrat Party`s Southeast Minahasa district branch, came to the office of the party`s Oversight Commission on Tuesday accompanied by a few associates.

A few days ago she told a local television station she had received Rp100 million in cash during the party`s congress in Bandung in May 2010 to vote for Anas Urbaningrum in the party`s chairmanship election.

JAKARTA - Imam Shamsi Ali of the New York Islamic Centre, US, has asked the Islam Defender Front (FPI) to rethink their methods to achieve their goals.

He announced his statement in response to the Indonesia Without FPI phenomenon that has been much discussed in Indonesia in the last few days.

“I ask FPI to reflect on their methods, and question whether their way has been consistent with Islamic ethics or not,” Ali told ANTARA News in Jakarta, Tuesday night.

According to Ali, the mass organization of Islam is still needed to seek solutions to the socio-cultural problems found in society.

“FPI still exists because there is public pressure to reduce unjust things in society. But, I disagree that you reduce unjust things through unjust ways, which contradicts the ethics of Islam,” said Ali. Ali added that the dissolution of FPI would not solve the problem because of the supportive public which thinks its aspirations are represented by FPI.

“That is why I really ask FPI to rethink their ways, because Islam will always leads towards peace, not cruelty,” he said.

Ali further said, according to the Quran, every time the word “jihad” is used, it is always followed by the word “fisabilillah”, which means “connected with Allah`s way” which is a truthful and good way.

Therefore, God forbids achieving a good aim through cruelty.

“According to history, Mohammad always uses persuasive and peaceful methods to teach his messages,” he said.

Imam Ali visited Indonesia, along with 13 interfaith figures in the US, to deliver a message of peace and that religion is not the source of conflict, instead it brings harmony into the world.

Those religious figures include representatives of three elements of Judaism, Christianity and Islam in the US. The group arrived in Jakarta on Tuesday, Feb 12 and has visited Darun Najah Boarding School in Jakarta. On Wednesday, Feb 22 they were scheduled to meet President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to deliver their message.

Orangutans to watch film ‘Born to be Wild’ Associated Press

JAKARTA — A film about one woman’s efforts to rescue orangutans and return them to Indonesia’s rapidly disappearing jungles has made its way home.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said “Born to be Wild 3D” tugged at his heart. He hopes it will inspire his countrymen to work harder to save the red apes from extinction. Producer Drew Fellman said a special viewing will be held on the island of Borneo, where much of the film is set, so the orangutans can get a peak for themselves.

He’s setting up a screen in the rain forest to see if they’ll pay attention. It’s also his way of saying thank you.

“They worked pretty hard on it,” Fellman said Tuesday as he headed to the site. “They came to be like members of the crew.”

The 40-minute Warner Bros. and IMAX documentary, narrated by Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman, follows two women and the animal orphanages they built on opposite sides of the globe.

Daphne M. Sheldrick has spent a lifetime in Kenya caring for

elephants whose mothers were poached for their tusks.

Canadian Birute Mary Galdikas, who arrived in Indonesia in the 1970s, has more than 300 young orangutans at her care center just outside Tanjung Puting National Park.

Many of their mothers were killed when they strayed into agricultural plantations in search of food. Others have been hunted by villagers as pests or, occasionally, for their meat. Galdikas is glad the movie, which wowed audiences last year in the United States, finally made its way here.

“It helps raise awareness,” said the 65-year-old primatologist. “The average person in Indonesia still doesn’t yet understand the orangutan is a close relative and that they are a protected species and on the verge of extinction.”

Indonesia — home to 90 percent of the orangutans left in the wild — has lost half of its rain forests in the last half century in its rush to supply the world with timber, pulp, paper and, more recently, palm oil.

The remaining 50,000 to 60,000 live in scattered, degraded forests, putting them in frequent, and often deadly, conflict with humans.

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Bali Today Bali getting more insecure Realization of Bali Mandara concept questioned

Bali Post

DENPASAR - Security of Bali is disturbed due to the increasingly criminal cases. Recently, it was reported about the case of a disappearing family that was eventually found to have died.

By all means, this makes people anxious. Thus, the realization of Bali Mandara concept is then questioned when the government has been unable to provide security to the community.

A criminologist from the Faculty of Law, Udayana University, Gde Made Suardana, said the quality of crimes occurred in Bali had started to rise as the occurrence of robbery, murder and abduction. In terms of casualties, they were not only locals but also foreigners. With the increasing quality of crime, according to him, the community should be more alert against the extension of the crime target that did not only happen in big cities but also in rural areas. “There is a phenomenon if the crime sets to shift to rural areas,” he said.

According to him, the role of communities and police should be synergetic. Any small actions that could cause harm should be alerted. “Spirit of togetherness in the society should be encouraged to maintain the security.

Other than legalistically relying on the security matter to police, the community members, groups and pecalang should be able to realize and maintain the security of their village,” he said.

He added that to minimize the crime, the first thing to do was to improve the welfare of the community. Additionally, there should be a forum to resolve the security problem through a discussion putting emphasis on togetherness and mutually encourage creating the security of Bali.

Meanwhile, a social and political observer, IG Wardhana, questioned about the realization of the Bali Mandara concept.

He did hope the concept could be thoroughly realized, not only a kind of jargon. To realize the Bali Mandara, he said, the government should seek security approach and prosperity approach. Both approaches should be implemented consistently. He said if security continued to be disturbed, tourists would not be willing to come to Bali. As consequence, it would have an impact on the public welfare.

IG Wardana assessed that Bali

could not have declared itself as a region with an international standard safety pursuant to the discourse of Governor of Bali because there were so many security disturbances at the local level. “We are unable to talk about local security, let alone about international security. We still have many disturbances to local security such as robbery, murder case of one family and some others. The security of Bali must be strengthened first,” said the man who is currently taking his doctoral program in the University of Indonesia (UI).

He added that government should raise the spirit and moral of the security apparatus. As long as there was no vivacity of the security apparatus, according to him, people would be more apathetic. “If the authorities solely accentuate on the material interest, everything will be accepted,” he said. He affirmed, the security system in each village should be reinforced and people should have a sense of belonging so that there was a concern among the fellow humans. According to this former deputy regent of Buleleng, the sense of belonging should be grown. Otherwise, it meant the Bali Mandara program had failed.

In the meantime, a legislator of Bali House, Wayan Adnyana, said the infrastructure in the security field should be improved.

One of the endeavors was the installation of Security Gate at the entrance to the harbor such as at Padang Bay and Gilimanuk.

Additionally, he hoped the security apparatus had alacrity in policing the migrant workers and this continued to prevent any potential of the safety problems in Bali earlier. “Performance of the security apparatus should not be stagnant and have to work systematically,” he said.

This politician of Democratic Party added that security of Bali in general was still far from the expected condition, namely the

IBP/Eka Adhiyasa

Criminals were captured and being showed by police during the press conference that held by police office. Security of Bali is disturbed due to the increasingly criminal cases. Recently, it was reported about the case of a disappearing family that was eventually found to have died.

By all means, this makes people anxious. security of Bali had international standard. According to him, many criminal cases occurring recently posed one of the indi-

cators that security system of Bali had not been maximal yet.

“On that account, many aspects must be managed and improved.

Similarly, the cooperation of all the parties should be solid to maintain the security of Bali,” he said. (kmb29)

Nyaagang Tradition, Ushering Ancestral Spirits to Nirvana Kuningan feast day falling on Saniscara Kliwon, Saturday, was celebrated with various traditions

by Hindu devotees in Bali. In Klungkung, for instance, most people organized Nyaagang, a ritual held in front of the entrance gates of their house compound before midday. Most Hindu devotees of Klungkung interpreted this ritual as the return of the ancestral spirits to Nirvana. They were believed to come down to earth during the period of Galungan to Kuningan.

According to Jero Mangku Mujana, a former chief of Dalem Gede Temple supporting devotees at Gelgel, Klungkung, the ancestral spirits were believed to come down to the mundane world to see their descendants on the Penampa-

han Galungan. “Penampahan Galungan is interpreted as nampe or hosting the coming of the ancestral spirits,” said Jero Mangku.

Offerings presented during the Nyaagang ritual consisted of tipat food offerings included cooked and raw food such as Balinese sausage, fruits and fruit salads put in front of the house as the food supply for the ancestors. “The Nyaagang tradition is undertaken by Klungkung residents at the customary village of Gelgel, Satra and some others. It was dominantly executed before midday. According to the customary hamlet chief of Jelantik Kuribatu, Tojan village, Made Suryawan, the Nyaagang ritual posed a tribute of the descendant to their ancestors.

“Such a tradition is also strengthening the familial relationship as an expression of Hindu devotees to always remember their ancestors,” he said. According to Sundarigama palm-leaf manuscript, the peak of the victory of dharma (truth) against adharma (untruth) was interpreted as the coming down of deities to give blessings in the form of welfare to descendants being still alive on the mundane world.

On the Kuningan Day, they were presented with ritual in the nuance of all-yellow paraphernalia representing the devotion of their descendants to the ancestors. “According to scriptural injunction, the deities will come back to their abode before midday,” said a religious leader, Dewa Ketut Soma.

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Balinese Culture Bali free from rabies case in 2012 Vaccination of third phase carried out

Bali Post

DENPASAR - Rabies cases spreading in Bali since the yearend of 2008 have killed around 138 people. Many actions have been performed ranging from mass vaccination to rabies carrier animals, dog elimination up to the supply of anti-rabies vaccine (VAR) and antirabies serum (SAR).

For three years, the cases of rabies positive dog, bite victim up to human death have begun to decline.

This can be seen from the data in 2010 indicating about 81 deaths of rabies suspect where 34 deaths with positive confirmation to rabies.

Then in 2011, the victim declined to 23 deaths of rabies suspect and 6 of them were tested positive. The use of VAR also decreased in 2011 compared to 2010. To that end, Bali in 2012 is going to free itself from rabies cases, especially in dogs.

For that purpose, the Bali Livestock Agency, Health Agency and NGOs will work together to achieve the goal. The Head of Bali Livestock Agency, I Putu Sumantra, said that to make Bali free from rabies cases in dogs in 2012, his party would hold the third phase mass vaccination commenced in Klungkung Regency on March 27, 2012. The mass vaccination would take place from March to June by involving 108 teams comprising approximately 649 personnel.

Sumantra added that strategy to implement the vaccination should be appropriate, mass, and simultaneous. Additionally, it would be accompanied with a search to enable the vaccination to displaced dogs and dogs in certain places like in the market as well as to do animal population control. “In 2012, other than performing vaccination, we will also do a population control by applying sterilization hormone to female dogs and policing the displaced dogs,” he said when met in the Media Gathering in the office of the Bali Livestock Agency, Tuesday (Feb 21).

Coverage of the vaccination would be targeted to reach at least 70 percent of villages where the rabies case occurred and 100 percent of villages still becoming the active cycle of rabies. Displaced dogs or dogs that were not cared for properly by the owner would also get a attention. Pursuant to the Center for Bali Veterinary Laboratory, 86 percent of rabies positive dogs and displaced dogs with unclear history of vaccination became a threat to public safety.

For the third phase vaccination, it has been prepared 555,000 doses of rabies vaccine and 108 teams with budgetary costs sourced from the national budget and the regional budget reaching IDR 13,817,359,500.

Meanwhile, according to the FAO’s national technical advisor

(NTA), Ahmad Gozali, quoting the research of the international rabies expert of the Food Agriculture Organization (FAO), Dr. Sunny Townsend, said the eradication of rabies in Bali would be a realistic if successfully implemented the dog vaccination in 2012. According to Sunny, there were several keys to successful eradication of rabies virus at the end of 2012. Firstly, the mass dog vaccination should be carried out throughout the hamlets for 3 months to reach at least 70 percent of the dog population at each hamlet.

Secondly, the displaced dogs that had been vaccinated should be taken care in order they stayed alive to maintain the high vaccination coverage. Thirdly, the dog population should be reduced by sterilization to female dogs and continuing the vaccination against the displaced dogs and puppies in the whole regencies for six months after the third phase campaign.

According to Sumantra, the vaccination in 2012 was also focused on puppies because a research indicated that puppies had a great potential to transmit rabies. This happened because puppies were very close to humans. To that end, the vaccination and sterilization to the female dog were also major measures in 2012 to reduce the birth rate of new dogs in Bali reaching 20 percent per year. (san)

BEBEK MENYANYAT (Duck Curry)

OVERVIEW: Ducks waddling along the banks of the rice fields or following the flag held by their owner (or his children) are a common sight in Bali. On festive occasions, duck is great favorite. Spiced stuffed duck baked in banana leaf is one popular recipe; this curry-like dish is another.

Chicken could be used as a substitute for duck if preferred.

INGREDIENTS: 1 whole duck, weighing about 2 kg 8 cups coconut milk 2 lemon grass, bruised 2 salam leaves 1 tbsp salt 1 tsp black peppercorns, crushed fried shallots SPICE PASTE: 12 shallots, peeled and sliced 6 cloves garlic, peeled and sliced 4 red chilies 2.5 cm galangal (laos), peeled and sliced 2.5 cm kencur, peeled and sliced 5 cm fresh turmeric, peeled and sliced 2 tsp coriander, crushed 3 candlenuts 1 tsp dried shrimp paste ¼ tsp black peppercorns, crushed pinch of freshly grated nutmeg 2 cloves 3 tbsp oil PREPARATION: Cut the duck into 12 pieces and pat dry.

Prepare the spice paste by grinding or blending all ingredients except oil. Heat the oil and sauté the spice paste for 2 minutes. Add the duck, increase heat and sauté for 3 minutes, stirring frequently. Add the coconut milk and all ingredients except fried shallots and simmer, uncovered, until the duck is tender and the sauce has thickened.

Garnish with fried shallots and serve with white rice.

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Bali Today Bali getting more insecure Realization of Bali Mandara concept questioned

Bali Post

DENPASAR - Security of Bali is disturbed due to the increasingly criminal cases. Recently, it was reported about the case of a disappearing family that was eventually found to have died.

By all means, this makes people anxious. Thus, the realization of Bali Mandara concept is then questioned when the government has been unable to provide security to the community.

A criminologist from the Faculty of Law, Udayana University, Gde Made Suardana, said the quality of crimes occurred in Bali had started to rise as the occurrence of robbery, murder and abduction. In terms of casualties, they were not only locals but also foreigners. With the increasing quality of crime, according to him, the community should be more alert against the extension of the crime target that did not only happen in big cities but also in rural areas. “There is a phenomenon if the crime sets to shift to rural areas,” he said.

According to him, the role of communities and police should be synergetic. Any small actions that could cause harm should be alerted. “Spirit of togetherness in the society should be encouraged to maintain the security.

Other than legalistically relying on the security matter to police, the community members, groups and pecalang should be able to realize and maintain the security of their village,” he said.

He added that to minimize the crime, the first thing to do was to improve the welfare of the community. Additionally, there should be a forum to resolve the security problem through a discussion putting emphasis on togetherness and mutually encourage creating the security of Bali.

Meanwhile, a social and political observer, IG Wardhana, questioned about the realization of the Bali Mandara concept.

He did hope the concept could be thoroughly realized, not only a kind of jargon. To realize the Bali Mandara, he said, the government should seek security approach and prosperity approach. Both approaches should be implemented consistently. He said if security continued to be disturbed, tourists would not be willing to come to Bali. As consequence, it would have an impact on the public welfare.

IG Wardana assessed that Bali

could not have declared itself as a region with an international standard safety pursuant to the discourse of Governor of Bali because there were so many security disturbances at the local level. “We are unable to talk about local security, let alone about international security. We still have many disturbances to local security such as robbery, murder case of one family and some others. The security of Bali must be strengthened first,” said the man who is currently taking his doctoral program in the University of Indonesia (UI).

He added that government should raise the spirit and moral of the security apparatus. As long as there was no vivacity of the security apparatus, according to him, people would be more apathetic. “If the authorities solely accentuate on the material interest, everything will be accepted,” he said. He affirmed, the security system in each village should be reinforced and people should have a sense of belonging so that there was a concern among the fellow humans. According to this former deputy regent of Buleleng, the sense of belonging should be grown. Otherwise, it meant the Bali Mandara program had failed.

In the meantime, a legislator of Bali House, Wayan Adnyana, said the infrastructure in the security field should be improved.

One of the endeavors was the installation of Security Gate at the entrance to the harbor such as at Padang Bay and Gilimanuk.

Additionally, he hoped the security apparatus had alacrity in policing the migrant workers and this continued to prevent any potential of the safety problems in Bali earlier. “Performance of the security apparatus should not be stagnant and have to work systematically,” he said.

This politician of Democratic Party added that security of Bali in general was still far from the expected condition, namely the

IBP/Eka Adhiyasa

Criminals were captured and being showed by police during the press conference that held by police office. Security of Bali is disturbed due to the increasingly criminal cases. Recently, it was reported about the case of a disappearing family that was eventually found to have died.

By all means, this makes people anxious. security of Bali had international standard. According to him, many criminal cases occurring recently posed one of the indi-

cators that security system of Bali had not been maximal yet.

“On that account, many aspects must be managed and improved.

Similarly, the cooperation of all the parties should be solid to maintain the security of Bali,” he said. (kmb29)

Nyaagang Tradition, Ushering Ancestral Spirits to Nirvana Kuningan feast day falling on Saniscara Kliwon, Saturday, was celebrated with various traditions

by Hindu devotees in Bali. In Klungkung, for instance, most people organized Nyaagang, a ritual held in front of the entrance gates of their house compound before midday. Most Hindu devotees of Klungkung interpreted this ritual as the return of the ancestral spirits to Nirvana. They were believed to come down to earth during the period of Galungan to Kuningan.

According to Jero Mangku Mujana, a former chief of Dalem Gede Temple supporting devotees at Gelgel, Klungkung, the ancestral spirits were believed to come down to the mundane world to see their descendants on the Penampa-

han Galungan. “Penampahan Galungan is interpreted as nampe or hosting the coming of the ancestral spirits,” said Jero Mangku.

Offerings presented during the Nyaagang ritual consisted of tipat food offerings included cooked and raw food such as Balinese sausage, fruits and fruit salads put in front of the house as the food supply for the ancestors. “The Nyaagang tradition is undertaken by Klungkung residents at the customary village of Gelgel, Satra and some others. It was dominantly executed before midday. According to the customary hamlet chief of Jelantik Kuribatu, Tojan village, Made Suryawan, the Nyaagang ritual posed a tribute of the descendant to their ancestors.

“Such a tradition is also strengthening the familial relationship as an expression of Hindu devotees to always remember their ancestors,” he said. According to Sundarigama palm-leaf manuscript, the peak of the victory of dharma (truth) against adharma (untruth) was interpreted as the coming down of deities to give blessings in the form of welfare to descendants being still alive on the mundane world.

On the Kuningan Day, they were presented with ritual in the nuance of all-yellow paraphernalia representing the devotion of their descendants to the ancestors. “According to scriptural injunction, the deities will come back to their abode before midday,” said a religious leader, Dewa Ketut Soma.

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Balinese Culture Bali free from rabies case in 2012 Vaccination of third phase carried out

Bali Post

DENPASAR - Rabies cases spreading in Bali since the yearend of 2008 have killed around 138 people. Many actions have been performed ranging from mass vaccination to rabies carrier animals, dog elimination up to the supply of anti-rabies vaccine (VAR) and antirabies serum (SAR).

For three years, the cases of rabies positive dog, bite victim up to human death have begun to decline.

This can be seen from the data in 2010 indicating about 81 deaths of rabies suspect where 34 deaths with positive confirmation to rabies.

Then in 2011, the victim declined to 23 deaths of rabies suspect and 6 of them were tested positive. The use of VAR also decreased in 2011 compared to 2010. To that end, Bali in 2012 is going to free itself from rabies cases, especially in dogs.

For that purpose, the Bali Livestock Agency, Health Agency and NGOs will work together to achieve the goal. The Head of Bali Livestock Agency, I Putu Sumantra, said that to make Bali free from rabies cases in dogs in 2012, his party would hold the third phase mass vaccination commenced in Klungkung Regency on March 27, 2012. The mass vaccination would take place from March to June by involving 108 teams comprising approximately 649 personnel.

Sumantra added that strategy to implement the vaccination should be appropriate, mass, and simultaneous. Additionally, it would be accompanied with a search to enable the vaccination to displaced dogs and dogs in certain places like in the market as well as to do animal population control. “In 2012, other than performing vaccination, we will also do a population control by applying sterilization hormone to female dogs and policing the displaced dogs,” he said when met in the Media Gathering in the office of the Bali Livestock Agency, Tuesday (Feb 21).

Coverage of the vaccination would be targeted to reach at least 70 percent of villages where the rabies case occurred and 100 percent of villages still becoming the active cycle of rabies. Displaced dogs or dogs that were not cared for properly by the owner would also get a attention. Pursuant to the Center for Bali Veterinary Laboratory, 86 percent of rabies positive dogs and displaced dogs with unclear history of vaccination became a threat to public safety.

For the third phase vaccination, it has been prepared 555,000 doses of rabies vaccine and 108 teams with budgetary costs sourced from the national budget and the regional budget reaching IDR 13,817,359,500.

Meanwhile, according to the FAO’s national technical advisor

(NTA), Ahmad Gozali, quoting the research of the international rabies expert of the Food Agriculture Organization (FAO), Dr. Sunny Townsend, said the eradication of rabies in Bali would be a realistic if successfully implemented the dog vaccination in 2012. According to Sunny, there were several keys to successful eradication of rabies virus at the end of 2012. Firstly, the mass dog vaccination should be carried out throughout the hamlets for 3 months to reach at least 70 percent of the dog population at each hamlet.

Secondly, the displaced dogs that had been vaccinated should be taken care in order they stayed alive to maintain the high vaccination coverage. Thirdly, the dog population should be reduced by sterilization to female dogs and continuing the vaccination against the displaced dogs and puppies in the whole regencies for six months after the third phase campaign.

According to Sumantra, the vaccination in 2012 was also focused on puppies because a research indicated that puppies had a great potential to transmit rabies. This happened because puppies were very close to humans. To that end, the vaccination and sterilization to the female dog were also major measures in 2012 to reduce the birth rate of new dogs in Bali reaching 20 percent per year. (san)

BEBEK MENYANYAT (Duck Curry)

OVERVIEW: Ducks waddling along the banks of the rice fields or following the flag held by their owner (or his children) are a common sight in Bali. On festive occasions, duck is great favorite. Spiced stuffed duck baked in banana leaf is one popular recipe; this curry-like dish is another.

Chicken could be used as a substitute for duck if preferred.

INGREDIENTS: 1 whole duck, weighing about 2 kg 8 cups coconut milk 2 lemon grass, bruised 2 salam leaves 1 tbsp salt 1 tsp black peppercorns, crushed fried shallots SPICE PASTE: 12 shallots, peeled and sliced 6 cloves garlic, peeled and sliced 4 red chilies 2.5 cm galangal (laos), peeled and sliced 2.5 cm kencur, peeled and sliced 5 cm fresh turmeric, peeled and sliced 2 tsp coriander, crushed 3 candlenuts 1 tsp dried shrimp paste ¼ tsp black peppercorns, crushed pinch of freshly grated nutmeg 2 cloves 3 tbsp oil PREPARATION: Cut the duck into 12 pieces and pat dry.

Prepare the spice paste by grinding or blending all ingredients except oil. Heat the oil and sauté the spice paste for 2 minutes. Add the duck, increase heat and sauté for 3 minutes, stirring frequently. Add the coconut milk and all ingredients except fried shallots and simmer, uncovered, until the duck is tender and the sauce has thickened.

Garnish with fried shallots and serve with white rice.

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Painting Museum IBP

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Museum is an interesting place to see many things depending on what it displays. In Bali you can find many painting museum because except famous with natural beauty, Bali also famous with its cultural activities, such as painting and sculpture.

The famous and often visited by tourists that holidaying in Bali is painting museum that located about 200 meters from Puri Saren / Ubud Palace and it is dissociated by dell, climb a piece of wide plain with beautiful view call Puri Lukisan.

It is situated in calm and peaceful area of Ubud Bali so that this place is an ideal place for who wish to see and enjoy result of art from all big actor like I Gusti Nyoman Lempad, Ida Bagus Nyana, Anak Agung Gde Sobrat, I Gusti Made Deblog, Rudof Bonnet, Walter Spies and more.

This museum is opened in the

year 1956 by minister of Education and Culture, Mr. Moh. Yamin.

This museum is consisted of three special buildings in U-shape. In the middle of this museum is the courtyard and fishpond with the beautiful lotus flower. The building no 1 is a place for a permanent exhibition of puppets dressy or puppets style painting. This building is collecting the painting from I Gusti Nyoman Lempad and the clarification about the existence of Pita Maha Organization. The Building no. 2 is also a place for permanent exhibition or still from masterpiece result of all artist of Balinese modern dressy style. The Building no.3 is for a temporary exhibition.

There is only one museum is exist in Ubud Village that is Puri Lukisan Museum, but Ubud sub district area until the year of 2003 is built with 4 new painting museums those are: Puri Lukisan Museum, Neka Museum, Arma Museum and Rudana Museum.

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Imam of New York Islamic Centre asks FPI to rethinking their methods Antara

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Indonesian Youth and Sports Minister Andi Mallarangeng (2nd L) gestures as he answers the judge’s questions at a corruption court in Jakarta on February 22, 2012 whilst testifying against ousted Democratic Party treasurer Muhammad Nazaruddin in the scandal involving a 21.3 million USD construction contract issued by his ministry. Nazaruddin fled the country in May, 2011 when investigators linked him to a bribery scandal and was returned to Indonesia from Colombia in August after four months on the run.

Government to apply one-door system to food imports Antara

JAKARTA - The Agriculture Ministry is to propose the application of a “one-door” system with regard to food imports whereby the staple is only brought into the country by the central government and no longer by regional governments, the ministry`s deputy chief said.

“In the national interest, food imports will only be conducted by the central government or through a one-door system,” Deputy Agriculture Minister Rusman Heriawan said here on Tuesday.

“So, in the national interest, food imports can only be conducted through the one-door

system,” he said.

The change was necessary to prevent regional governments with huge revenues from conducting the imports by themselves.

Through the one-door system, rich regions are expected to develop their agriculture products, he said.

Democrat questions cadres over money at Bandung congress

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JAKARTA - The head of the Democrat Party`s Oversight Commission TB Silalahi has confirmed he had summoned a party cadre who claimed to have received a large amount of money at the party`s 2010 congress in Bandung for a clarification.

“That`s right, we have asked Diana Maringka to clarify her statement to the media because the matter is actually an internal matter of the party,” TB Silalahi said when contacted over his cellphone.

In fact, he said, his commission had called a number of party cadres also for clarifications regarding Diana`s statement which was widely quoted by the media and had tended to create a negative public opinion about the party.

“Therefore, the Oversight Commission will have to respond to the media reports,” he said.

Silalahi questioned Diana`s failure to report her experience to the party leadership and her decision to talk to the media instead.

The Oversight Commission was

now still collecting more data and needed time to verify them. It had asked Diana to show proof of her statement to the media.

Diana, chairwoman of the Democrat Party`s Southeast Minahasa district branch, came to the office of the party`s Oversight Commission on Tuesday accompanied by a few associates.

A few days ago she told a local television station she had received Rp100 million in cash during the party`s congress in Bandung in May 2010 to vote for Anas Urbaningrum in the party`s chairmanship election.

JAKARTA - Imam Shamsi Ali of the New York Islamic Centre, US, has asked the Islam Defender Front (FPI) to rethink their methods to achieve their goals.

He announced his statement in response to the Indonesia Without FPI phenomenon that has been much discussed in Indonesia in the last few days.

“I ask FPI to reflect on their methods, and question whether their way has been consistent with Islamic ethics or not,” Ali told ANTARA News in Jakarta, Tuesday night.

According to Ali, the mass organization of Islam is still needed to seek solutions to the socio-cultural problems found in society.

“FPI still exists because there is public pressure to reduce unjust things in society. But, I disagree that you reduce unjust things through unjust ways, which contradicts the ethics of Islam,” said Ali. Ali added that the dissolution of FPI would not solve the problem because of the supportive public which thinks its aspirations are represented by FPI.

“That is why I really ask FPI to rethink their ways, because Islam will always leads towards peace, not cruelty,” he said.

Ali further said, according to the Quran, every time the word “jihad” is used, it is always followed by the word “fisabilillah”, which means “connected with Allah`s way” which is a truthful and good way.

Therefore, God forbids achieving a good aim through cruelty.

“According to history, Mohammad always uses persuasive and peaceful methods to teach his messages,” he said.

Imam Ali visited Indonesia, along with 13 interfaith figures in the US, to deliver a message of peace and that religion is not the source of conflict, instead it brings harmony into the world.

Those religious figures include representatives of three elements of Judaism, Christianity and Islam in the US. The group arrived in Jakarta on Tuesday, Feb 12 and has visited Darun Najah Boarding School in Jakarta. On Wednesday, Feb 22 they were scheduled to meet President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to deliver their message.

Orangutans to watch film ‘Born to be Wild’ Associated Press

JAKARTA — A film about one woman’s efforts to rescue orangutans and return them to Indonesia’s rapidly disappearing jungles has made its way home.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said “Born to be Wild 3D” tugged at his heart. He hopes it will inspire his countrymen to work harder to save the red apes from extinction. Producer Drew Fellman said a special viewing will be held on the island of Borneo, where much of the film is set, so the orangutans can get a peak for themselves.

He’s setting up a screen in the rain forest to see if they’ll pay attention. It’s also his way of saying thank you.

“They worked pretty hard on it,” Fellman said Tuesday as he headed to the site. “They came to be like members of the crew.”

The 40-minute Warner Bros. and IMAX documentary, narrated by Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman, follows two women and the animal orphanages they built on opposite sides of the globe.

Daphne M. Sheldrick has spent a lifetime in Kenya caring for

elephants whose mothers were poached for their tusks.

Canadian Birute Mary Galdikas, who arrived in Indonesia in the 1970s, has more than 300 young orangutans at her care center just outside Tanjung Puting National Park.

Many of their mothers were killed when they strayed into agricultural plantations in search of food. Others have been hunted by villagers as pests or, occasionally, for their meat. Galdikas is glad the movie, which wowed audiences last year in the United States, finally made its way here.

“It helps raise awareness,” said the 65-year-old primatologist. “The average person in Indonesia still doesn’t yet understand the orangutan is a close relative and that they are a protected species and on the verge of extinction.”

Indonesia — home to 90 percent of the orangutans left in the wild — has lost half of its rain forests in the last half century in its rush to supply the world with timber, pulp, paper and, more recently, palm oil.

The remaining 50,000 to 60,000 live in scattered, degraded forests, putting them in frequent, and often deadly, conflict with humans.

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Strauss-Kahn held in prostitution probe Associated Press Writer

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Members of the media wearing protective suits and masks report, escorted by an official of Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, second left, at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s tsunamicrippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan, Monday, Feb. 20, 2012.

Radiation detected 400 miles off Japanese coast Associated Press Writer

SALT LAKE CITY — Radioactive contamination from the Fukushima power plant disaster has been detected as far as almost 400 miles off Japan in the Pacific Ocean, with water showing readings of up to 1,000 times more than prior levels, scientists reported Tuesday.

But those results for the substance cesium-137 are far below the levels that are generally considered harmful, either to marine animals or people who eat seafood, said Ken Buesseler of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.

He spoke Tuesday in Salt Lake City at the annual Ocean Sciences Meeting, attended by more than 4,000 researchers this week.

The results are for water samples taken in June, about three months after the power plant disaster, Buesseler said.

In addition to thousands of water samples, researchers also sampled fish and plankton and found cesium-137 levels well below the legal health limit.

“We’re not over the hump” yet in terms of radioactive contamination of the ocean because of continued leakage from the plant, Buesseler said in an inter-

view before Tuesday’s talk. He was chief scientist for the cruise that collected the data.

The ship sampled water from about 20 miles to about 400 miles off the coast east of the Fukushima plant. Concentrations of cesium-137 throughout that range were 10 to 1,000 times normal, but they were about one-tenth the levels generally considered harmful, Buesseler said.

Cesium-137 wasn’t the only radioactive substance released from the plant, but it’s of particular concern because of its long persistence in the environment.

Its half-life is 30 years.

The highest readings last June were not always from locations closest to the Fukushima plant, Buesseler said. That’s because swirling ocean currents formed concentrations of the material, he said.

Most of the cesium-137 de-

tected during the voyage probably entered the ocean from water discharges, rather than atmospheric fallout, he added.

Hartmut Nies, of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said Buesseler’s findings were not surprising, given the vastness of the ocean and its ability to absorb and dilute materials.

“This is what we predicted,” Nies said after Buesseler presented his research.

Nies said the water’s cesium137 concentration has been so diluted that just 20 miles offshore, “if it was not seawater, you could drink it without any problems.”

“This is good news,” he said, adding that scientists expect levels to continue to decrease over time.

“We still don’t have a full picture,” Nies said, “but we can expect the situation will not become worse.”

PARIS — French police questioned former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn all day Tuesday in a probe into a suspected hotel prostitution ring.

Strauss-Kahn, a one-time French presidential hopeful whose chances were derailed by a sexual assault accusation in New York, arrived at the police station in the northern city of Lille for a prearranged morning appointment. He hadn’t emerged by Tuesday night and French media reported that he would be held overnight.

Police are probing a suspected prostitution ring in France and neighboring Belgium that has implicated police and other officials.

They have questioned prostitutes who said they had sex with StraussKahn during 2010 and 2011 at a luxury hotel in Paris, a restaurant in the French capital and also in Washington, D.C. French law permits police to question Strauss-Kahn for up to 96 hours with a judge’s approval.

Strauss-Kahn lived in the U.S. capital while he was head of the IMF before resigning his position in May after he was charged by New York police with making a hotel maid perform oral sex. The charges were later dropped.

Two men with ties to Strauss-Kahn have been put under preliminary investigation in France on charges including organizing a prostitution ring and misuse of corporate funds.

Nepal jails minister in corruption case Agence France Presse

Nepal’s highest court on Tuesday jailed a serving government minister for corruption in a first for a nation fighting an ingrained culture of graft.

The Supreme Court handed information and communications minister, Jaya Prakash Prasad Gupta, an 18-month sentence and an 8.4 million-rupee fine after he failed to account for a vast portfolio of property accrued while in office.

Gupta, 52, has held a number of ministerial posts and was appointed to the information ministry after his party struck a deal with the Maoists to form a coalition government in August last year.

“This bench has reached the conclusion that the defendant’s source of income and the property he earned during the given period doesn’t match,” Sushila Karki, one of two presiding judges, told reporters.

“He failed to verify the source of income for 8.4 million rupees.

Therefore, it has been proved that Gupta has committed a crime as per the Corruption Prevention Act,” she said, reading from the verdict.

Riot...

From page 1 National police spokesman Saud Usman Nasution told Reuters: “We are trying to make the inmates go back into their blocks.”

Authorities shut down electricity to reduce movement inside the prison and sealed off surrounding streets as water cannon, police trucks and Red Cross vehicles crowded an area normally full of handicraft sellers.

A burnt-out guard block smoldered in the early dawn and armed police patrolled perimeter fences looking down into the prison.

Police also displayed what they said were rifles prisoners had snatched from wardens during the riot but which were recaptured later.

Conflict at the prison first started about a week ago when two inmates had a knife-fight, leading to a split in the wider prison population that developed into a bigger fight between two rival groups, Nasution said.

Corby, a former beauty therapist, is serving a 20-year sentence after she was caught with about 4 kg (9 lb) of cannabis in a surfboard bag at Denpasar airport in 2004.

The Bali Nine were arrested on Bali in 2005 and found guilty of attempting to smuggle more than 8 kg (18 lb) of heroin into Australia.

Their sentences have varied from 15 years in jail to death.

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Europe’s debt crisis set to dominate G20 talks

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MEXICO CITY - Europe’s debt crisis will dominate talks between Group of 20 (G20) policymakers this weekend as the rest of the world looks for pledges that the euro zone will boost its crisis safety net.

Advanced and developing nations alike are keen for reassurances that the European Union will do whatever it takes to limit fallout from the crisis and convincing answers could help officials inch closer to boosting the firepower of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) so it can better help victims.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Financial Stability Board Chairman Mark Carney are among those scheduled to attend the February 25-26 meeting, along with officials from developing powers such as Brazil, India and China, whose support is crucial for any boost to IMF resources.

But G20 finance ministers and central bankers are not expected to decide specifics when they gather in Mexico City ahead of talks between EU leaders on their firewall plans the following week.

“It is highly unlikely that the G20 will reach a concrete agreement on IMF funding this month,” one official from the bloc said. “It’s impossible that a decision on IMF resources could come first before the euro zone comes up with its own firewall.”

The IMF is seeking to more than

double its firepower by raising an extra $600 billion to help countries deal with the fallout from the debt crisis, but the plan faces resistance from countries including the United States and Canada.

Many countries outside the 17member euro zone say the region must first put up more of its own money to contain contagion, for example by combining the lending abilities of its two bailout funds, which together would add up to about 750 billion euros ($992 billion) of still-uncommitted funds.

EU leaders will decide whether to combine the temporary and permanent funds at a March 1-2 summit and draft conclusions seen by Reuters show they plan to call for the G20 to boost IMF funds in April, when policymakers meet again in Washington.

Analysts also see little chance of major progress at the meeting given the down-to-the-wire negotiations over every step of Europe’s response to the debt crisis so far.

“It’s all about Greece, the euro zone crisis and containing contagion from that,” Capital Economics economist Neil Shearing said. “The expectations bar is very low.”

Economy set for moderate recovery Reuters

LONDON - The economy looks set for a moderate recovery starting later this year as falling inflation eases the squeeze on household incomes, Bank of England deputy governor Charles Bean said on Tuesday.

While he welcomed the latest bailout deal for Greece, Bean said in a speech due for delivery at a business event in Glasgow that the euro zone debt crisis remains the single biggest risk to the UK economy, which may see slow growth until mid-year.

“Despite the recent more encouraging signs, we continue to expect underlying growth to remain sluggish in the first half of the year,” Bean said.

The expected fall in inflation should help a modest pickup in

household spending, he said, noting that the strong retail sales seen in January could be a first sign of this.

“But while growth should gradually strengthen, the continuing headwinds from the unwinding of excessive debt and the government’s continuing fiscal consolidation mean that the pace of recovery is likely to remain moderate by historical standards,” he said.

Bean’s analysis largely echoed the views presented in the Bank’s February inflation report in which the bank predicted that growth would improve later this year and that inflation would be close to its 2 percent target over the key two-year horizon.

That forecast has fuelled the view that the Bank may not add further stimulus when the latest 50 billion pound round of asset purchases is complete in May.

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South Korean activists hold red banners reading “South Korea-US FTA, approved unilaterally (in parliament), is void!” during a protest against the Korea-US free trade agreement near the US embassy in Seoul on February 22, 2012. South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak said that a sweeping free trade pact with the United States would help draw Chinese and Japanese investment to his country and create more jobs.

55 Boeing Dreamliners ‘have potential’ shimming problem Agence France-Presse

Boeing said around 55 of its flagship 787 Dreamliners “have the potential” to develop a fuselage shimming problem, but reiterated that the fault was being fixed.

Shims are used to fill in space between parts and industry publication Flightglobal has reported that improperly joined pieces had caused “parts of the aircraft’s carbon fibre structure to delaminate”.

The discovery of the issue in early February is the latest snag to hit the showpiece but troubled jet, which suffered extensive production delays.

“In all the airplanes that we built, up to airplane 55 in round numbers have the potential for the shimming issue,” said the aviation giant’s vice president Jim Albaugh at a media roundtable in Singapore.

“It’s very fixable and we are in the process of fixing the airplanes that are in flow, there is not a safety or flight issue on the airplanes that we’ve delivered and

this is a long term issue that has to be addressed,” he added.

Boeing has previously said the problem arose because “incorrect shimming was performed on support structure on the aft fuselage” of some 787s.

Albaugh -- who is concurrently the chief executive of Boeing Commercial Airplanes -- stated the problem would not impact total Dreamliner deliveries scheduled for this year.

“It’s something that we can address in a short period of time.

It will impact some short-term deliveries but in terms of the number of deliveries for the year, it shouldn’t have any impact at all,” he said.

Albaugh also said Boeing did not agree with European Union’s imposition of its Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), effectively charging airlines a carbon tax on travel within the region.

“I don’t think the ETS approach is the right one,” he said, describing it as “a carbon tax where you don’t know where the money is going and you don’t

know if the money is going to be used in an efficient way”.

“I really believe that the right approach is for the governments to tell us what the emissions standards are and we will use our money and we will spend that money wisely to come up with a way of addressing what those new requirements are,” Albaugh added.

Boeing joins a growing chorus of airlines as well as countries including China, India, Russia and the US in decrying Europe’s carbon tax scheme, saying it violates international law.

Albaugh said any softening in airplane demand if the global economy tanks as a result of European and US economic woes, would be an opportunity for Boeing to clear their backlog of orders, rather than a severe financial setback.

“We’ve got a backlog of 4,000 airplanes right now, we got a backlog of $300 billion. If there’s a softening I really see it as an opportunity for us to burn that backlog down,” he said.

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All Seasons Legian Get Three Awards IBP

On January 2012, during the annual GM meeting of Accor MIS (Malaysia Indonesia Singapore), all seasons Legian get three best awards for the great effort in term of Human Development and Services. These three awards are for “The Best Team Development in 2011”; “The Best Housekeeping Team in 2011”; and “The Best Guest Book in 2011” amongst all Accor hotels in Malaysia Indonesia and Singapore.

These awards will be as the encouragement for all the staff to maintain the quality of service constantly, so we could keep as the best.

Associated Press Writer

LONDON — Soulful songstress Adele and tousle-haired singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran lead the race for the U.K.’s Brit music awards ahead of Tuesday’s ceremony in London.

Sheeran, 21, has four nominations including breakthrough act, best British album — for the curiously titled “+’’ — best single for “The A Team” and best British male solo act. The red-haired singer has been panned as bland by some critics, but has amassed legions of young fans through online releases and a relentless calendar of shows. He’s up against James Blake, James Morrison, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds and Professor Green in the solo act category.

Adele, who won six Grammys last week in Los Angeles for her sophomore album “21,” is nominated for three Brits — British album, British single for “Someone Like You” and British female artist, an eclectic category that also includes Florence and the Machine, Jessie J, Laura Marling and Kate Bush, who won the same prize 25

years ago.

Adele, who gave a show-stopping performance of “Someone Like You” at last year’s Brits, is also due to perform for the first time in Britain since undergoing vocal cord surgery to fix a potentially career-threatening throat condition. It has been an amazing year for the singer from north London, who based her chart-topping songs of heartbreak on a rocky relationship. The “21” album has sold more than 6 million copies in the United States alone.

Sheeran said before the Brits ceremony that he expected Adele to clean up at the awards. “She will definitely walk away with best album,” he said. “It is Adele’s year.”

Coldplay could win their fourth best British group trophy if they beat Elbow, Kasabian, Arctic Monkeys and Chase & Status.

Chris Brown, Rihanna collaborate on 2 song remixes Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Chris Brown and Rihanna are back together, musically speaking. Two songs featuring the singers hit the Internet on Monday. Brown sings on the remix of Rihanna’s sexually charged song “Birthday Cake,” and she’s on the remix of his upbeat tune “Turn Up the Music.”

Brown tweeted a link to the new version of “Turn Up the Music” on Monday, and Rihanna later

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retweeted it. She also tweeted about the remix for “Birthday Cake.” Brown attacked his then-girlfriend Rihanna at a preGrammy Awards party in 2009. He pleaded guilty to a felony charge and is serving five years of probation.

Last year, a judge eased a restraining order after an attorney for Rihanna said she didn’t object to removing the stay-away provisions. The order had required Brown to stay 50 yards away from Rihanna, but the restriction was reduced to 10 yards if they were at a music industry event.

After a three-year absence from the Grammys, Brown made his return this year, performing twice at the show and winning best R&B album. Rihanna also performed and picked up a trophy.

Rihanna, whose full name is Robyn Rihanna Fenty, told Esquire magazine in its October 2010 issue that she no longer resented Brown and that she enjoys his music. The two singers first collaborated musically in 2007 on the remix to her monster hit “Umbrella.”

Brown also tweeted “HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROBYN” to Rihanna, who turned 24 on Monday. A representative for Rihanna said she had no comment.

An email seeking comment from Brown’s representatives went unreturned Monday.

In this Feb. 12, 2012 photo, Chris Brown accepts the award for best R&B album for “F.A.M.E.” during the 54th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.

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From left, Alex James, Dave Rowntree, Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, of Blur arrive for the Brit Awards 2012 at the O2 Arena in London, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012.

Sugarland blames fans for state fair injuries

Associated Press Writer

INDIANAPOLIS — Fans who were killed and injured when stage rigging and sound equipment collapsed onto them as they awaited a Sugarland concert at the Indiana State Fair failed to take steps to ensure their own safety and are at least in part to blame for their injuries, the country duo’s attorneys said.

The statement, part of a Feb. 16 response to a civil suit filed by survivors and families of some of those killed, comes in sharp contrast to earlier statements by lead singer Jennifer Nettles and appears to be an attempt to cast blame elsewhere.

Calling the powerful winds that toppled the stage on Aug. 13 an “act of God,” Sugarland’s attorneys said fair officials and Mid-America Sound Corp. were responsible for the stage setup, and that the fans voluntarily assumed

FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2011, file photo the American country music duo Sugarland, featuring vocalist Jennifer Nettles, right, and guitarist Kristian Bush perform a benefit concert in Indianapolis for victims of the Aug. 13 Indiana fair stage collapse.

risk by attending the show.

“Some or all of the plaintiffs’ claimed injuries resulted from their own fault,” according to the band’s response. Sugarland attorney James H. Milstone did not immediately respond to a phone call seeking comment Tuesday. Seven people died and 58 were injured in the crush beneath the metal rigging and concert sound equipment.

Nettles told The Associated Press in a statement issued through her manager two days after the collapse that she was “moved by the grief of those families who lost loved ones.

Moved by the pain of those who were injured and the fear of their families. Moved by the great heroism as I watched so many brave Indianapolis fans actually run toward the stage to try and help lift and rescue those injured.

Moved by the quickness and organization of the emergency workers who set up the triage and tended to the injured.

Calendar Event for February 19 through March 17, 2012 19 Feb Redite Pon Medangsia Pura Agung Pentilan Kesiman-Denpasar Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kerambitan Tabanan 20 Feb Soma Wage Medangsia Pura Nataran Desa Getas Blahbatuh Merajan Pasek Gelgel Aan-Klungkung Pura Pasek Bakbakan Gianyar 21 Feb Tilem Kawulu Pura Ulun Kulkul Besakih Pura Dalem Yang Taluh Sidemen - Karangasem Pura Dalem Kangin Sidemen - Karangasem 22 Feb Buda Umanis Medangsia Pura Gede Perancak-Jembrana Pura Dalem Dauma-Batuan Sukawati Pura Nataran Kacangdawa Klungkung Odalan Bhatara, Gede Apol Ubung Denpasar Pura Puseh Brahmana Kawasan-Klungkung Pura Kahyangan Jagat Dalem Purwa Denbantas Tabanan Pura Dalem Sukehet Klungkung Pura Dalem Muaspatih Guwang Sukawati Pura Taman Tegalalang Pura Desa Sanding-Tampaksiring Merajan Pasek Tohjiwa Batanbuah-Kesiman.

Pura Sahab Nusa Penida Merajan Agung Gorokgak Dalem Sukawati 23 Feb Wraspati Paing Medangsia Pura Ulun Swi Kediri Tabanan Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Bitera-Gianyar 26 Feb Redite Keliwon Pujut Merajan Pasek Tohjiwa Kekeran Mengwi 4 Mar Redite Paing Pahang.

Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kekeran Pura Pasek Sandra Peguyangan Badung.

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6 Mar Anggara Wage Pahang Pura Batu Madeg Besakih(Meru Tumpang Sanga)

Pura Hyang Tibha Batuan Sakah.

7 Mar Purnama Kesanga Pura Penataran sasih Pejeng - Gianyar Pura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah Desa Batur Kintamani.

7 Mar Buda Keliwon Pahang Pura Luhur Puncak Padang Dawa Baturiti Tabanan Pura Silayukti Padangbai-Karangasem Pura Aer Jeruk Sukawati Pura Dangin Pasar Batuan-Sukawati Pura Penataran Batuyang-Batubulan Pura Desa Lembeng Ketewel-Sukawati Pura Pasek Bendesa Dukuh-Kediri-Tabanan Pura Kawitan Dalem Sukawati Gianyar Pura Kresek Banyuning-Buleleng Pura Puseh Bebandem-Karangasem Merajan Pasek Kubayan-Gaji.

Merajan pasek Gelgel Jeroan Abang-Songan Merajan Pasek Subrata Temaga Merajan Pasek Subrata Temaga Merajan Pasek Gelgel Bungbungan Sad Kahyangan Batu Medahu Swana Nusa Penida Pura Buda Kliwon Penatih-Denpasar Pura Penataran Dukuh Nagasari Bebandem Karangasem Pura Pasek Bendesa Tagtag Paguyangan.

Pura Pulasari Sibang Gede Abiansemal Pura Batur Sari Ubud Pura Penataran Agung Sukawati.

12 Mar Soma Keliwon Krulut Pura Pasel Gelgel Kekeran Mngwi Badung Merajan Pasek Subadra Kramas-Gianyar.

17 Mar Hari Tumpek Krurut Pura Pasek Gelgel Br Tengah Buleleng Pura Dalem Pemuteran Desa Jelantik Tojan Pura Pedarmaan Bhujangga Waisnawa Besakih Pura Taman Sari Desa Gunungsari Penebel - Tabanan Pura Dalem Tarukan Bebalang Bangli Pura Benua Kangin Besakih.

Pura Merajan Kanginan Besakih.

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

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

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

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

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

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Karzai invites Taliban leaders for direct talks Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday invited the Taliban for direct talks with his government, while urging Pakistan to facilitate negotiation efforts towards ending Afghanistan’s decade-long war.

“In order to realise the objectives of the peace process, I invite the leadership of the Taliban to engage in direct talks with the Afghan government,” Karzai said in a statement issued by his office.

Taliban representatives have begun contacts with US officials in the Gulf state of Qatar designed to build confidence and pave the way for a prisoner exchange, but the militia has publicly refused to talk to Karzai’s government.

Relations between Kabul and Islamabad are traditionally mired in distrust, but both sides have made overtures towards reconciliation in the hope that a political solution in Afghanistan can ease regional instability.

“I hereby request our brotherly government of Pakistan to support and facilitate our direct negotiation efforts as part of the peace process,” Karzai said, calling Pakistan’s support “crucial” to any success in negotiations.

The statement came after Karzai

spoke by telephone to US President Barack Obama about Afghan-led reconciliation moves and a visit last week to Pakistan, where he said it was time to take action for peace.

Wa s h i n g t o n w e l c o m e d Karzai’s offer of talks with the Taliban, saying people in the wartorn country need to take the lead in reconciliation efforts.

“We have been gratified to see President Karzai speaking out publicly in support of Afghanto-Afghan reconciliation,” State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters.

“Our goal is to work ourselves out of a job... because when we get to the point where it’s Afghans and Afghans talking to each other, then we’ll really have a true reconciliation process,” she said.

The United States, which leads the 130,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan, says NATO combat troops will withdraw from the country by the end of 2014 and officials have backed negotiations as the only long-term solution to the war.

“The peace process, which envisions the return of all Afghans... including the Taliban, to peaceful lives in their country, is the surest way to peace and stability in Afghanistan,” Karzai said in his statement.

Associated Press Writer

AFP Photo/Fabio Muzzi

Marco Rosa-Clot (R) and his team members, Paolo Rosa-Clot (C) and Raniero Cazzaniga, stand on a photovoltaic floating plant on the lake of Colignola in Tuscany on January 11. The system is designed to exploit unused areas of artificial reservoirs or disused quarries.

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Pakistan is in the final stages of asking Interpol to help arrest former military ruler Pervez Musharraf (pictured in London last month) over the murder of ex-premier Benazir Bhutto, says Interior Minister Rehman Malik

Pakistan to ask Interpol to help arrest Musharraf Pakistan is in the final stages of asking Interpol to help arrest former military ruler Pervez Musharraf over the murder of ex-premier Benazir Bhutto, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said Tuesday.

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“We will bring Musharraf back to the country soon with a red notice issued through Interpol,” Malik told lawmakers in the provincial assembly of Bhutto’s home province of Sindh.

“We are in the final phase of doing this,” he said without elaborating.

Bhutto was assassinated on December 27, 2007, while leaving an election rally in Rawalpindi, the headquarters of Pakistan’s army.

Musharraf, who has lived in selfimposed exile in London and Dubai since August 2008, last month

indefinitely delayed plans to return home to contest elections after the government warned he would be arrested upon arrival.

Pakistani courts have issued warrants for his arrest over the 2006 death of Akbar Bugti, a Baluch rebel leader in the southwest, and the 2007 assassination of Bhutto, whose widower is Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari.

Malik, who was a close aide of Bhutto, accused Musharraf of refusing to provide her with adequate

security and of threatening her by telephone when she was in Washington before returning to Pakistan in October 2007.

“Musharraf threatened her on phone: If you come to Pakistan, you will be responsible for the consequences. If you come to Pakistan before the elections, I will not be responsible for your security,” said Malik.

He quoted Bhutto as replying: “General, the decision to come to Pakistan is mine, not yours.”

Khalid Qureshi, head of the investigation team, said that slain Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud had plotted the murder.

Malik said that overall 27 Taliban militants were involved in the assassination plot.

Italian engineer invents floating solar panels Agence France Presse

Rays of the winter sun bounce off gleaming mirrors on the tiny lake of Colignola in Italy, where engineers have built a cost-effective prototype for floating, rotating solar panels. “You are standing on a photovoltaic floating plant which tracks the sun, it’s the first platform of its kind in the world!” said Marco Rosa-Clot, a professor at Florence University, proudly showing off his new project.

Rosa-Clot and his team say they are revolutionising solar power and that their floating flower-petallike panels soaking up the Tuscan sun have already attracted a lot of interest from international buyers.

Standard solar panels on buildings or in fields have been criticised for taking up valuable agricultural land,

being unsightly and losing energy through overheating -- issues the floating plants would resolve.

The Floating Tracking Cooling Concentrator (FTCC) system is designed to exploit unused areas of artificial reservoirs or disused quarries.

While the water keeps the panels at low temperatures, reflectors are

CANBERRA - Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd resigned his ministry on Wednesday, saying he could no longer work with Prime Minister Julia Gillard, stoking speculation he would mount a leadership challenge and plunging the government into a new crisis.

The government has sunk in popularity as Gillard and Rudd, who she ousted in 2010, have waged a personal feud. They differ little on policy, but their battle threatens to lead to an early election and a defeat for its

economic reform agenda.

Rudd’s supporters have called on Gillard to hold a leadership ballot, believing only he can stem hemorrhaging voter support, but a move back to Rudd risks losing the backing of independents who give the minority Labor government a one-seat majority.

“If they go down this stream it is a very high risk strategy and it would more than likely lead to an early election,” said Tony Windsor, one of the independents.

Rudd told a news conference in Washington he would return to Australia this week before deciding his future, but ended

his announcement asking his ruling Labor party colleagues “who is best placed to defeat (opposition leader) Tony Abbott at the next election?.”

The latest leadership turmoil has been fuelled by an ongoing poll slump, with Rudd’s backers saying he remains more popular with voters and would help revive party support ahead of the next election, due in late 2013.

But while Rudd is more popular with voters, he is not as well liked within the Labor Party and he alienated may colleagues with imperious style when he was prime

minister.

Labor insiders say Gillard has the strong support of the ruling Labor Party, with Rudd supporters numbering around 30 of the 103 Labor Party lawmakers.

Earlier, Gillard was reportedly considering sacking Rudd from the ministry in order to reassert her authority over the government.

While Rudd would be unlikely to win a leadership vote, any surprise Rudd victory could force a snap election as he would need to re-negotiate support from the Greens and independents.

positioned to maximise solar capture at different times of day, making it more efficient than a traditional installation, Rosa-Clot said. The head of Scintec, a small family business which produces a variety of renewable energy and industrial devices, Rosa-Clot said the pilot plant set up on the lake near Pisa, Tuscany, was a model of efficiency.

“It’s a small-scale design, 30 kilowatts, which would suffice for a dozen or so families. The standard is set at 3kW per apartment,” he said.

At an estimated price of around 1,600 euros per kW including installation, a plant the size of Colignola could cost some 48,000 euros ($63,000).

NEW YORK — Sony is intensifying its push in handheld gaming with a gadget aimed at hardcore players looking for something with a bit more punch than “Angry Birds,” ‘’Words With Friends” and other smartphone pastimes. The PlayStation Vita, already available in Japan, debuts in the U.S. and Europe on Wednesday. A basic, Wi-Fi version will retail at $250, while one that can access 3G cellular networks will go for $300 plus monthly service fees from AT&T. Sony Corp. is promoting the device with a $50 million marketing blitz “everywhere gamers are and where the general population is,” said Jack Tretton, CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America. Tretton acknowledges

it won’t be an easy sell.

People have grown accustomed to playing games on handheld devices that also make phone calls, shoot videos, connect to the Internet, play songs and send text messages. The devices do practically everything but wash your socks. Why buy a gadget that does only one thing?

“Ultimately, if you consider yourself a gamer, you are going to find yourself migrating up the food chain to dedicated gaming consoles and the Vita,” Tretton said.

Don’t tell that to Christian Thomas, a 20-year-old New York University student who tried out the Vita at a temporary lounge Sony set up to promote the system.

At the “social club” in Manhattan’s trendy Lower East Side, players were able to try out Vita before it goes on sale.

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This Feb. 15, 2012 photo, shows Playstation PSVita, foreground, and its predecessor. In the age of “Angry Birds” and “Words With Friends” dominating people’s on-the-go playtime, Sony is making a push into the world of handheld gaming with a gadget aimed at loyal gamers and fans of the PlayStation.

Stem cell implants boost monkeys with Parkinson’s Agence France Presse

Australian foreign minister quits in leadership crisis

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Sony makes mobile gaming push with handheld Vita

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai, seen here in December 2011, has invited the Taliban leadership to direct talks with his government, while urging Pakistan to facilitate negotiation efforts towards ending 10 years of war

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File illustration photo shows embryonic stem cells being microinjected into an embryo. Monkeys suffering from Parkinson’s disease show a marked improvement when human embryonic stem cells are implanted in their brains, in what a Japanese researcher said Wednesday was a world first.

Monkeys suffering from Parkinson’s disease show a marked improvement when human embryonic stem cells are implanted in their brains, in what a Japanese researcher said Wednesday was a world first. A team of scientists transplanted the stem cells into four primates that were suffering from the debilitating disease.

The monkeys all had violent shaking in their limbs -- a classic symptom of Parkinson’s disease -- and were unable to control their bodies, but began to show improvements in their motor control after about three months, Kyoto University associate professor Jun Takahashi told AFP.

About six months after the transplant, the creatures were able to walk around their cages, he said.

“Clear improvements were confirmed in their movement,” he said.

Parkinson’s disease is a progressive neurological illness linked to a decrease in dopamine production in the brain. There is currently no medical solution to this drop off in a key neurotransmitter.

The condition, which generally affects older people, gained wider public recognition when Hollywood actor Michael J. Fox revealed he was a sufferer. Takahashi said at the time of the implant about 35 percent of the stem cells had already grown into dopamine neuron cells, with around

10 percent still alive after a year.

He said he wants to improve the effectiveness of the treatment by increasing the survival rate of dopamine neuron cells to 70 percent.

“The challenge before applying it to a clinical study is to raise the number of dopamine neuron cells and to prevent the development of tumours,” he said. “I would like to make this operation more effective and safe” before clinical trials, Takahashi said. Takahashi said so far he had used embryonic stem cells, which are harvested from foetuses, but would likely switch to so-called Induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) cells, which are created from human skin, for the clinical trial.

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Lavezzi makes it Napoli nightmare for Chelsea Reuters

NAPLES, Italy - Ezequiel Lavezzi and Edinson Cavani combined to spark Napoli’s 3-1 comeback win over Chelsea in their Champions League last 16 first-leg match on Tuesday that deepened the gloom hanging over the London club. The South American pair made the difference in a match where the visitors had taken the lead through Juan Mata before squandering two more chances and putting under-fire manager Andre Villas-Boas under yet more pressure.

Lavezzi scored Napoli’s first and third goals, the first of the competition for the Argentine and both laid on by Cavani who notched the other himself.

The prolific Uruguayan took his tally to six in the Champions League and 19 in his last seven outings.

Napoli’s win left England in danger of missing out on the quarter-finals after Arsenal, the Premier League’s only other team in the last 16, were thumped 4-0 at AC Milan last week. It also left Villas-Boas facing more questions about his future as the poor run of form continued for the London team, who have won only two of their last 10 Premier League games and who drew against second tier opponents in the FA Cup last weekend.

Asked if he expected to be in charge by the time his side host Napoli for the return leg on March 14, the Portuguese told Sky Sports: “Yeah, for sure.” Chelsea’s day had got off to a bad start with news that captain John Terry could be sidelined for several weeks after aggravating a knee injury and it soon got worse.

“After the first goal, we missed opportunities to go 2-0 up and then we should have defended better but we made a couple of mistakes against Napoli with their attack you are going to get punished,” said Villas-Boas.

“I think the third goal was perfectly avoidable ... We can create problems with our attacking options and we created problems (for them) today.

“It is a game of efficiency and Napoli had it. I think the statistics are very similar for both teams. Both teams created a lot. The game was open.”

Napoli were missing coach Walter Mazzarri who was banned for both legs after he was sent off for pushing Villarreal forward Nilmar in a group match, a move he said was intended to galvanise his team.

They were fired up enough without him, although Lavezzi refused to get carried away, saying: “I was happy to score but the important thing was that the team won. We haven’t qualified yet.”

UNBEATEN RECORD

Napoli, unbeaten at home since returning to European competition in 2008 following a 13-year absence, were quickly on the attack and goalkeeper Petr Cech twice prevented Chelsea from shipping an early goal.

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CSKA strike late to draw with Real Reuters

MOSCOW - A last-minute strike by CSKA Moscow newcomer Pontus Wernbloom snatched a 1-1 draw for the Russian side against Real Madrid in their Champions League last 16 first-leg match on Tuesday. Cristiano Ronaldo had given the visiting Spaniards a deserved 1-0 lead after 28 minutes, taking full advantage of a CSKA defensive mix-up and beating nervous-looking goalkeeper Sergei Chepchugov with a low volley into the far corner.

It was Ronaldo’s 17th goal in his 23rd Champions League game for Real and 32nd in total in Europe’s premier club competition. He missed a chance to double the lead shortly after the restart, but this time Chepchugov, making his Champions League debut, averted the danger.

The home side sorely missed their first-choice keeper Igor Akinfeyev, who is still recovering following knee surgery. Chepchugov made a fine double save early on, first stopping Gonzalo Higuain, who had just replaced injured Karim Benzema, then denying Sami Khedira from close range seconds later.

Ronaldo had another chance late in the game but fired just wide of the post with a low shot from the edge of the box. The visitors, who lost France forward Benzema just 15 minutes into the game after he appeared to pull a muscle while taking his first shot on goal, dominated for most of the match despite playing in sub-zero temperatures and on Luzhniki’s unfamiliar artificial pitch.

CSKA’s Ivory Coast striker Seydou Doumbia, who has scored five goals in five Champions League games this season, was kept off the ball for most of the match by Real’s tight defence.

The Russians rarely threatened until Sweden midfielder Wernbloom, who joined CSKA in January, beat Iker Casillas from 10 metres following a goalmouth scramble in the last minute of added time, sending a record 70,000-strong home crowd wild.

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Bird flu claims another fatality Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Having had time to spread and claim two fatalities of a brother and sister from Jehem village, Bangli, in October 2011, the bird flu showed the latest outbreak. The disease caused by the H5N1 virus and transmitted by poultry claimed another fatality on Tuesday (Feb 21) of a boy aged 12 years with the initial WM from Klungkung but lived in Kerobokan, Badung.

The Head of Special Treatment Installation of Sanglah Hospital, Ken Wirasandhi, when asked for his confirmation justified that Sanglah Hospital had treated a patient who eventually died of bird flu. WM came to Sanglah Hospital on Monday (Feb 20) around 10:00 p.m. local time. “He was a referral patient from Puri Raharja Hospital,” said Ken when met on Tuesday (Feb 21).

According to him, WM was suspected of suffering from bird flu when entering the fifth day of his treatment in the Puri Raharja Hospital. “He came in with typhous symptoms. However, when entering the fifth day of treatment, the patient showed the symptoms of influenza-like illness (ILI) such as shortness of breath. Moreover, the result of laboratory test gave an in indication of virus infection so that WM was ultimately referred to Sanglah Hospital,” explained Ken. The delay of medical officers to know if WM suffered from bird flu, explained Ken, happened because WM initially did not show any characteristics of ILI as initial characteristic of bird flu such as the shortness of breath. “The symptoms just

appeared on the fifth day, so he was then rushed to Sanglah Hospital,” said Ken. WM was immediately treated in isolation room in the Nusa Indah. Based on the interrogation made by Sanglah Hospital, according to Ken, it could not be ascertained yet whether WM had contact with poultry or not. “The family still denied if the victim had contact with poultry. On that account, our bird flu team still attempts to find out the more profound information about where the victim got the virus,” explained Ken. However, the result of VCR examination in Sanglah Hospital indicated if the victim WM was positive to bird flu. Due to poor condition when taken to Sanglah Hospital, WM could only survive for 5 hours and finally died at 03:00 a.m. local time on Tuesday (Feb 21). His body was immediately brought home by the family. So far, the bird flu had claimed five fatalities. They were a resident of Negara and Tabanan in 2005, two residents of Bangli in 2011 and WM from Klungkung who lived in Kerobokan, Badung, in February 2012. (kmb24)

Kerpuk River positively contaminated by dyeing waste Denpasar (Bali Post)—

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Napoli’s Edinson Cavani, center, of Uruguay, celebrates with his teammates Argentina’s Ezequiel Lavezzi, left, and Slovakia’s Marek Hamsik after scoring, during a Champions League, round of 16, first-leg soccer match, at the Naples San Paolo stadium, Italy, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012.

He saved a dangerous Cavani shot with his foot and then turned Christian Maggio’s angled effort around the post as the Italians quickly showed their attacking potential with fast, pinpoint passing.

But the visitors went ahead with their first real chance after Napoli captain Paolo Cannavaro sliced Daniel Sturridge’s cross and the ball fell at the feet of Mata, who beat Morgan De Sanctis with a first-time shot Brazilians David Luiz and Ramires went close for Chelsea as the usually passionate Sao Paolo stadium went eerily quiet.

Luiz beat De Sanctis to a corner but his header just cleared the bar while Ramires fired over from the edge of the area.

The crowd came back to life in the 38th minute when Cavani fed Lavezzi on the edge of the area and he curled a delightful shot inside the near post, although the Chelsea defenders allowed him too much space for the shot. Chelsea’s rearguard got into

another mess in first-half added time as Gokhan Inlan delivered a teasing cross which bounced six metres from goal and Cavani stole in front of two defenders to head Napoli in front.

The visitors started the second half brightly with Florent Malouda having a shot saved by De Sanctis and Didier Drogba just failing to take advantage of confusion in the Napoli defence.

At the other end, Chelsea had a letoff when Lavezzi missed a golden opening and Gary Cahill was lucky to escape with yellow card for a dangerous late tackle on Lavezzi.

But the Argentine was not to be denied and fired the third goal with a shot into the far corner in the 65th minute after Cavani blocked Luiz’s clearance and laid the ball on a plate for his striking partner.

Marek Hamsik had a close-range effort cleared off the line 10 minutes from time while substitute Frank Lampard saw a long-range effort saved by De Sanctis at the other end.

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Both scoreres of the game, CSKA Moscow’s Pontus Wernbloom, right, and Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo, left, collide as they head the ball during their UEFA Champions League round of 16 first leg soccer match at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012.

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Concerns of some farmers in Denpasar whose farmland contaminated by the dyeing waste of garment industry seems reasonable. Evidently, the results of research made by the Denpasar Environment Agency (BLH) indicated the water of Kerpuk River in West Denpasar had been contaminated by the dyeing waste of garment industry.

Results of the laboratory examination made by the Bali Health Agency indicated that the dyeing waste existing in the river watershed was on the threshold of tolerance. It indicated the threat of contamination against the farmland was quite high.

The Head of the Denpasar Environment Agency (BLH), AA Bagus Sudharsana, when met in his office on Tuesday (Feb 21) said that maximal value of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) for wastewater was 60 milligrams per liter (mg/l) but after being examined it showed 141.5 mg/l. Similarly, the maximal value of chemical oxygen demand (COD) allowed was 150 mg/l, but when examined the result increased five times higher, namely 8,840 mg/l.

“Both elements are very hazardous.

Additionally, there are other elements violated,” he said.

He said the results of the investigation had also been forwarded to the office of

civilian security guard (Trantib) and the public order officer (Satpol PP) of Denpasar. To follow-up, the case would be handed over to the office of the civilian security guard. “We have also forwarded the results of examination to the office of civilian security guard,” he explained.

Bagus Sudharsana said that based on the results of the sample test, it could be concluded the river water in the vicinity of the dyeing activity had been surely polluted. Worryingly, the pollution on the watershed of Kerpuk River on Jalan Buana Raya, Padangsambian would also have an impact on the downstream area.

“Possibly, the entire downstream area has been polluted. It happens because most of the dyeing activities of garment industry in Denpasar do not have a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP),” explained the former head of the Denpasar Agency for Regional Development (Bappeda).

On the other hand, the head of Denpasar civilian security guard and public order agency, IB Alit Wiradana, when contacted in a separate occasion claimed that his party would follow up the letter of the BLH. His party promised to follow it up. Even, the action taken would temporarily close the dyeing business that did not have a wastewater treatment plant. “We will temporary close the business premises that do not care about the environment,” he said. (kmb12)

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A truck is filling a gas in a gas station

Increase in fuel price encumbers community Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Price hike of fuel will become a bitter pill received by the people of Indonesia. Such a hike will have an impact on the price of commodities becoming their necessities.

Ultimately, it leads to the addition of the economic burden of the community.

It was revealed by the Dean of Faculty of Economics, Udayana University, Prof. Dr. Gusti Bagus Wiksuana, when met in Denpasar on Tuesday (Feb 21). The price hike of fuel in the middle of the uneven prosperity would be burdensome to the community of Indonesia, chiefly the people belonging to the category of poor family.

“The price hike of fuel will certainly affect the food that also ultimately has an impact on the welfare of society. However, we must be aware of the difficulties faced by the government that the subsidy disbursed is very high,” he said.

According to him, the price hike of fuel would directly have an impact on the high living cost borne by the community. The impact would be very significant to the changes in the life patterns and the patterns of satisfying the basic needs of the people of Indonesia because the increase was not accompanied with the rise in the level of

welfare or income.

“Government should think how to minimize the impact of the price hike by pressing the unit cost. By doing so, the price hike of fuel will not be too high. As a result, the increase in fuel will surely have an impact on the people’s economy,” he said.

Bagus Wiksuana estimated the inflation rate would be higher if the price of Premium fuel would be raised despite not too high.

Such an increase would consequently trigger the increase in the tariff of freight transportation services. If the price hike was carried out indiscriminately, then all the sectors would experience the price hike.

“By rights, the impact of fuel price hike will resemble a circle. On that account, the investment associated with the fuel production must be persistently promoted by the government.

By doing so, government will not only burden the consumption with the rising fuel price but also increase the investment,” he said.

Discussion about the increase in the price hike of fuel had indeed not been final, but the government policy remained to become a scourge to society. It could be imagined it would equally make the small community anxious because at the end the policy would usually be detrimental to them. (kmb27)

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The killer captured at Situbondo Purnabawa Killed at Garage Padangasmbian, DenPost

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The Trans Sarbagita bus is seen on the Baypass Ngurah Rai Road.

Sarbagita bus first corridor still unclear Denpasar (Bali Post) –

The operation of Trans Sarbagita First Corridor that covers Denpasar City until now is still unclear even though it was stated to be operated after the Second Corridor (Batubulan – Nusa Dua). Head of Denpasar Transportation Agency, I Gede Astika, when met at Denpasar House of Representatives last Tuesday (21/2) admitted still not knowing when it will be as his side will meet the team at Province to discuss about it the next day (22/2).

The unclear situation have affected small bus (bemo/microlet) route. When asked about the number of vehicles that will be used for this corridor, Astika admitted can’t confirm it yet due to the vehicles are still in Semarang although it is admitted there are around ten vehicles for

Denpasar. Meanwhile, as seen on the field by Bali Post, a number of stops like the one at Surapati Street have received repair when actually hasn’t been used. It was stated before that the Second Corridor operating from Batubulan Terminal towards Nusa Dua and back hasn’t been able

to get all public attention to use it. Public still prefer using private vehicles to get to their working place. “Public who works at Nusa Dua are not ready to use the bus as the route did not reach to the hotel or the place they worked at,” one of the bus workers stated a while ago. (kmb12)

Flash flood hit Wayan Hendri’s hut Pura Puseh Kayang threatened Bangli (Bali Post) –

The heavy rain that hit Bangli last Monday (20/2) afternoon caused overloaded water on a drainage at Kayang Desa Kayubihi. The drainage water went fast from the north of BangliKintamani route and hit a pondok (house) owned by a resident, Wayan Hendri causing a collapse of walls as far as 8 meters, an adult knee high flood, a bed on a room soaked also other households wet.

Hendri stated last Tuesday (21/2)

that the flood was not the first time and caused by the volume of the drainage that was built six years ago couldn’t hold the waters. Not only Hendi’s house, a temple Pura Puseh Kayang located next to it also threaten. It is hoped Bangli Government will take action soon.

Head Village of Kayang, I Nyoman Toko and Banjar Krama Head of Puseh Tempek Kaler akayang Village, Nengah Mudiara, also stated the same. It

was admitted a number of times the locals have proposed for the drainage repair through Head of Village or Sub District Leader yet it is still not responded. They were just asked to wait when actually the situation worsen.

The same situation also admitted

by Head of Kayubihi Vilalge, I Wayan Suganda. “I hoped Bali Province Government will take action as soon as possible as the condition has gone too worrying,” Suganda pled. (kmb17)

The hard work of Denpasar Police Criminal Research Team in finding Purnabawa and family killer have come to a result. Heru Ardianto, who was suspected to be the killer was finally captured at Situbondo, East Java, last Tuesday (21/2) morning led by Second Inspector Sulhadi. A number of officers confirmed to DenPost that the capture happened when Heru was seen riding a Mio Soul motorbike formerly owned by Purnabawa with his wife. After victims’ bodies were found at Jembrana and investigated, Denpasar Police officers crossed to Banyuwangi, East Java straight away and found information that Heru escaped to Situbondo.

“Another five people are still on the chase suspected to be involved in this case. The car and one motorcycle are still being searched,” the officer stated.

Meanwhile PC Arif Sugiarto, who was asked for confirmation while revealing the robbery case of Vila Santika, Goa Gong Street, South Kuta, at Bali Police Headquarters asked media to be patient for 24 hours to find out about the case which will be revealed more. Meanwhile, Head of Denpasar Police Public Relation Section, IB Sarjana, last Tuesday stated the intensive inspection on Purnabawa family bodies also witnesses investigation have been done by the Denpasar Police special team with Denpasar Forensic Lab and Sanglah Hospital Foresnsic Section. From the analysis, the wife of Purnabawa, Ayu Sri Mahayoni and daughter, Risna Ayun Dewi, was attacked while sleeping at the daughter’s room. Meanwhile Purnabwa was hit to death at the garage after driving his guest to Ngurah Rai Airport, Tuban. It was also indicated the three were killed six to

seven days ago between Monday (13/2) evening or Tuesday (14/2) early morning moreover the maggots gave evidence. “It is more likely Tuesday early morning as connected to the 17 witnesses’ investigation,” Sarjana added.

From witnesses investigation, it was stated on Monday (13/2) at 11 pm local time Purnabawa was bringing his guest to Ngurah Rai Airport, Tuban, while family lost contact with him since Tuesday (14/2) and it is more likely at that time Purnabawa’s wife was sleeping with her only daughter. “Mother and daughter were sleeping facing each other then was hit on the head several times. It was strengthening by the blood stain as huge as the head on the bed cover. Both victims’ head were broken due to non-sharp item.

Besides that we also found a part of wood skin and the same with the wood that was found where the victim’s body was found,” Sarjana continued.

After the mother and daughter dead, the killer that was suspected more than three people wrapped them using a bed cover. At that time Purnabawa came from the Airport, the killers got ready to finish the freelance guide as stated by the witnesses, Purnabawa usually parks reversely. When the man who’s origin from Peminge, South Kuta, was attacked on the garage until dead and it is suspected the two teeth found there was his as it has been straightened (mepandes) then also wrapped in a bed cover.

Purnabawa died in standing position and due to his head so wrecked, there was a difficulty for forensic to unite it again.

Sarjana stated there hasn’t been any clear explanation to where the killers came in from, either a duplicated key or the house was unlocked as no damage were found on the main door nor the garage door. (109)

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Super subs spark Heat to seventh straight win Reuters

Miami’s reserves starred in a critical late-game stretch to hand the Heat their seventh consecutive victory with a 120-108 home win over the Sacramento Kings on Tuesday. Following three tight quarters, the red-hot Heat rode their reserves during a 13-2 run early in the fourth that gave them a 106-92 advantage and a clear path to their latest triumph.

The team’s bench scored all but two points during the game-breaking stretch, and finished with 32 for the game, to aid a game-high 30 points and 10 assists from Dwyane Wade.

Wade had the crowd on their feet in the second quarter after a spectacular play that saw LeBron James block a shot then lob a near full-court pass to the guard, who caught it in midair and finished it.

“We did some nice things in spurts and stretches,” Heat coach Erik

Spoelstra told reporters. “You do have to give the Kings credit, they played very well. They pushed us there until the very end.”

Chris Bosh added 20 and 10 rebounds and James chipped in 18 points to fuel NBA-leading Miami (26-7), who have won their last seven games by at least 12 points. The struggling Kings (10-22), who were without the injured John Salmons (hip), have now lost six straight.

Isaiah Thomas put up a team-high

24 points and Marcus Thornton finished with 23 for Sacramento who took a six-point lead after the first quarter but fell behind late in the second and had to play catch up the rest of the way.

“We had to play a perfect game to win this against this team and we were pretty close to a perfect game,” said Sacramento coach Keith Smart.

“We had moments but when you give up 25 points off turnovers, you are not going to beat many teams.”

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Miami Heat’s Dwyane Wade, left, goes to the basket over Sacramento Kings’ DeMarcus Cousins (15) during in the first half of an NBA basketball game in Miami, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012.

Woods not a top seed, but still a target Prime Minister gets involved in fighting discrimination

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MARANA, Ariz. — Tiger Woods must be mellowing with age. There was a time when a comment from his opponent in the Match Play Championship, even tongue-in-cheek, would be an extra bit of motivation that Woods didn’t need. Most famous at this event was in 2006, when Stephen Ames was asked about playing Woods and said that anything could happen, adding with a big smile, “Especially where he’s hitting it.”

Woods beat him 9 and 8, the most lopsided score in tournament history.

But that was when Woods was No. 1 in the world. He is the No. 19 seed this week at Dove Mountain.

That was when Woods was winning two majors a year. Now he hasn’t won a tour event in more than two years.

So when Gonzalo FernandezCastano, who faces Woods in the opening round Wednesday, said that his opponent is “beatable,” Woods didn’t seem the least bit bothered.

“I feel exactly the same way as he does,” Woods said. “I feel he’s beatable, too.”

Then again, that goes for all 64 players in the field for the first World

Golf Championship of the year. The difference in talent at this level of golf is miniscule. Over 18 holes of match play, it’s even smaller.

The best example might be Luke Donald, the defending champion and No. 1 player in the world. For his opening round, he gets to play Ernie Els, a three-time major champion and seven-time winner of the World Match Play Championship at Wentworth, where each match is contested over 36 holes.

Not since the inaugural Match Play Championship in 1999 has No. 1 against No. 64 featured such big stars, when Woods beat Nick Faldo.

Tiger Woods hits out of a sand trap to the second green during a practice round at the Match Play Championship golf tournament,

Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, in Marana, Ariz.

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LONDON - The battle against discrimination in soccer moves to Downing Street on Wednesday when British Prime Minister David Cameron and Jeremy Hunt, the sports minister, meet senior soccer officials and representatives from anti-discrimination groups.

The idea of the roundtable, according to Downing Street, is to identify what more can be done to make soccer more inclusive with the Government pledging its commitment to working with the football community as a whole to address and tackle the issues.

“In recognising that great progress has been made .. there is more to be done across a range of issues,” Downing Street said in a statement before the meeting.

The meeting was arranged following a rise in racistrelated incidents this season, especially those involving high-profile players John Terry of Chelsea and Luis Suarez of

Liverpool.

Terry is facing a court trial in July charged with racially abusing Queens Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand in a Premier League match in October, a charge he denies.

Suarez was handed an eightmatch ban by the English FA after he racially insulted Patrice Evra of Manchester United in a League match, in the same month.

On Wednesday the Government will also announce 3 million pounds ($4.75 million)of funding towards the FA’s new National Coaching Centre at St George’s Park.

The Downing Street statement continued: “The Centre will help to identify and train the next generation of coaches, with a particular emphasis on ensuring that more coaches from black and minority ethnic backgrounds can take advantage of the facilities and progress to the professional game.”

There have been a number of recent initiatives to tackle discrimination, particularly homophobia in football.

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Red Bull Formula One driver Sebastian Vettel of Germany drives during a training session at Circuit de Catalunya racetrack in Montmelo, near Barcelona, February 21, 2012.

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Sebastian Vettel put Red Bull on top of the first day of pre-season testing at Barcelona. The German had risen to the top of the timesheets shortly before lunch, displacing compatriot and Force India pilot Nico Hulkenberg. With warmer track conditions not as conducive to chasing times, many teams opted for longer run programmes, but Vettel was able to slightly better his time to end the day with a 1m23.265s.

That effort, set on Pirelli’s hard compound - rather than the medium on which he set his morning best - put him 0.175s clear of the field as the chequered flag brought the first day of testing to a close. Vettel’s improvement proved the exception rather than the rule, with second through to seventh position not changing in the afternoon.

That meant Nico Hulkenberg ended the day second fastest for Force India, having set the pace for much of the morning until Vettel’s late lap. The German managed nearly 50 laps in the afternoon, but did not get within a second of his previous benchmark.

The same was true of Lewis Hamilton,

who completed several long-lap simulations in the second half of the day. The Briton trialled a variety of compounds, and was consistently in the mid to high 1m28s. Daniel Ricciardo likewise set his best time in the morning, less than three hundredths of a second down on Hamilton. The Australian was the last man to break the 1m24s barrier.

Fernando Alonso ended the day fifth fastest in the Ferrari F2012, having also completed an 18-lap run with an average of 1m26.208s in the final hour. The Spaniard ended just five hundredths clear of Michael Schumacher, who managed 51 laps in what was the first day of testing

medium and high-speed corners, but on the slow speed we still need to work.” Senna admitted he had run out of time to test solutions to try to solve the problem today.

“We’ll have to wait and see if the changes we make are going to be enough to mitigate the issue that we have. I didn’t have enough time today to try enough stuff to see.” Despite that, he was still pleased with his day’s work after completing nearly 100 laps.

“We did a lot of laps today and again, reliability seems to be in a good place,” he said. “The tyres are behaving differently here than they were in Jerez so we need to understand what we are doing, but overall we have learned a bit about the car.”

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for Mercedes’ new W03.

Sergio Perez was the last driver to get within a second of Vettel, although the Mexican’s afternoon programme was disrupted by an issue with the rear antiroll bar. Heikki Kovalainen too suffered a truncated day, as a broken track rod left him stranded sideways at the final turn after just nine laps of running.

The team was able to fix the issue and he returned in the afternoon, eventually getting down to a 1m26.035s – enough for ninth, just behind Bruno Senna in the Williams FW34. There were issues too for Lotus, with Romain Grosjean reporting a strange sensation from the team’s second chassis. As a consequence the Frenchman completed just seven laps before the team decided to halt operations.

With HRT opting not to run, Marussia’s Charles Pic rounded out the day’s runners, 4.7s down on Vettel. The Frenchman racked up 121 laps – the most of any driver - on his first day in the car.

Senna : Williams needs to work on low-speed corners Bruno Senna believes Williams has to improve its consistency on slow corners following his first day of testing at Barcelona. The Brazilian had another productive day in Spain on Tuesday, covering 97 laps on his way to the eighth fastest time of the session.

Senna said he was pleased with the car’s handling over medium and highspeed corners, but he reckons there is still room for improvement on lower-speed ones. “I think we are learning about it,” said Senna at the end of the day. “Today I don’t think we managed to improve as much as I think we need to. There is still room for improvement.

“Our car seems to be consistent on the

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Indonesian fireman work at the Kerobokan prison in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012 after a violence erupted Tuesday night at the prison following the stabbing of an inmate. Security forces have stormed the prison after rioting inmates temporarily took control of the facility, setting fires and throwing rocks at guards.

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DENPASAR - Indonesian police stormed a prison on the resort island of Bali on Wednesday to regain control after inmates burned offices and seized weapons in a riot during which two prisoners were shot and wounded, officials said.

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Indonesian police said none of about 60 foreign prisoners at Kerobokan jail were among the casualties.

The prison holds 1,200 inmates and is about 10 km (six miles) north of Kuta beach, one of the biggest holiday destinations on an island that attracts tourists from around the world.

Australia’s Foreign Ministry said earlier it was urgently checking on the welfare of 12 Australian prisoners at the jail, including convicted drug traffickers Schapelle Corby and the so-called Bali Nine.

Fighting at the prison broke out late on Tuesday when inmates attacked a guard post near the entrance, forcing officers to flee. Police said they shot two inmates in the legs when they confronted a mob wielding sticks and throwing bricks.

Hundreds of armed police and army personnel stormed the prison at around 7 a.m. (midnight Tuesday GMT).

Steady gunfire could be heard for 15 minutes coming from inside the prison, according to a Reuters witness.

Police later said they fired only warning shots and regained control about an hour later.

However, several inmates could still be seen at a guard tower in a different part of the prison near the main road about an hour after police said they had retaken control. “Long live Kerobokan’s inmates,” the prisoners shouted.

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Chronology of Kerobokan Jail’s riot Tuesday (2/21) around 22.30 Wita Clash between prisonners.

Prisonners throwing stones and started to set fire.

Wednesday (2/22) p 01.15 Wita Kerobokan Jail was set on fire.

Three fire engine were deplored but prisonners throwing stones at the firemen.

Hundreds of armed police patrolled stand guarded outside the Kerobokan Jail. p 01.45 Wita Fireman succeed on putting out the fire.

The police try to enter the prison but failed because prisonners throwing bricks at them. p 02.50 Wita The riot have been ceased out, prisonners were not throwing bricks anymore.

Hundreds police personnels still guarding outside the prison. p 05.20 Wita Mobile Brigadier accompanied prison

officers entering the prison.

Around 800 policemen and army guarding outside the prison. p 07.00 Wita Sound of rifles begun to heard inside the jail. p 07.13 Wita Two prisonners was carried outside and rushed to the hospital.

Policemen confiscated several rifles. p 10.00 Wita Three prisonners injured by rubbled bullets.

Around 30 rifles estimated to be possesed by prisonners that they snatched from gun warehouse.

All foreign prisonners are safe.