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Domenicali ‘very sad’ there are no Italian drivers in F1 Ferrari team boss Stefano Domenicali says he is very sad Formula 1 will have no Italian drivers on the grid in 2012.

Jarno Trulli was the only Italian with a contract for the upcoming season, but on Friday Caterham announced he will be replaced by Vitaly Petrov.

The move leaves the grid for the first race of the season without an Italian for the first time since 1970.

“I am very sad that, after so many years there will not be an Italian driver in the Formula 1

world championship field,” said Domenicali on Ferrari’s website.

“I say this on the sporting front and on a personal level when it comes to Jarno, who only on a few occasions has had a car capable of showing off his talents.

“So here, I wish him all the best for the future, both in racing and away from the track. It’s a difficult moment for our sport, partly for external reasons.

“For a few years now, Ferrari through its Driver Academy, has established a long term plan to create a new generation of young drivers,

which works also in collaboration with the CSAI and I am pleased to see that just now, we can announce that two talented youngsters, Raffaele and Brandon, will be given a great opportunity to progress in the sport.”

Fellow veteran Rubens Barrichello, also without a drive for 2012 after nearly 20 years in the sport, lamented Trulli’s situation too.

“Sad to see that Trulli won’t be on the 2012 grid...Money is dominating everything,” he wrote on Twitter.

Formula 1 legend Stirling Moss believes current world champion Sebastian Vettel is the modern equivalent of Juan Manuel Fangio. Moss, who was one of five-time champion Fangio’s biggest rivals in the 1950s and his team-mate at Mercedes in 1955, said Vettel’s current superiority over the F1 field was comparable to Fangio’s.

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“Vettel is a modern Fangio, really, in Formula 1. I can’t see, other than his natural ability, how he is that good, how he can be that good,” Moss was quoted as saying by Reuters. “I think Vettel is quite outstanding, but then he has got the best car, which is fair enough because normally the best driver gets the best car.

“Fangio went around and took what he wanted and one took whatever was left.”

Asked how he felt Britain’s current leading duo Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton compared, Moss said he did not believe the McLaren pair were on Vettel’s level.

“Vettel is outstanding. They are up there, but not as far as he is,” he said.

“Lewis does funny things, so one can’t be sure. I would put my money on Jenson.

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Sebastian Vettel of Germany drives the new Red Bull Racing RB8 during Formula One winter testing at the Circuito de Jerez, on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012, in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain.

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DENPASAR - A number of road sections to tourist attractions in Bali are damaged.

Ironically, though they have often been reported to local government, the response of government seems less optimal to resolve the problem. Government in this regard the Highways Construction Agency is urged to immediately repair those damaged roads.

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Motorist pass a damage road in Bali Island. A number of road sections to tourist attractions in Bali are damaged. Ironically, though they have often been reported to local government, the response of government seems less optimal to resolve the problem.

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about certain things better than Lewis will. Like when it’s raining and whether or not to go in for a change of tyres.

“For all those sorts of things he has a better understanding of it, and experience is a lot of it.” The 82-year-old added that he admired Vettel’s personality and approach to the champion’s role as well as his driving talent.

“Where we’re lucky is that Vettel has a great sense of humour,” Moss said.

“He is a damn good world champion.

I can think of a lot of other people who get to that position and they don’t give back as much as they get out, but he really does.

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“The quality of roads to tourist attractions in Badung and Denpasar is still relatively good. However, the road sections to tourist attractions at the villages like from Marga to Jatiluwih and a number of tourist objects in East Bali and North Bali are badly damaged,” said an owner of a travel agency, Nyoman Kandia.

He said, aside from the road to Jatiluwih, many other roads to tourist objects in Karangasem and Lovina Singaraja had

also been damaged. Similar damage also happened to the road section from Ubud to Kintamani, from Rendang to Selat Duda and from Sidemen to Klungkung.

“Other than reducing the convenience of tourists, such condition can also jeopardize the journey of tourists if the driver of tourist transport is not careful when conveying tourists due to such damaged roads,” he said.

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Whitney Houston’s voice soars at hometown funeral Associated Press

NEWARK, N.J — After all the testimonials from relatives and friends, the songs from legends and pop stars, the preaching and even laughter, the raw emotion of Whitney Houston’s funeral came down to just one moment: The sound of her own voice.

As the strains of her biggest record, “I Will Always Love You,” filled the New Hope Baptist Church at the end of the nearly four-hour service Saturday and her silver-and-gold casket was lifted in the air, the weight of the moment was too much for mother, gospel singer Cissy Houston, to bear.

As she was held up by two women, she wailed, “My baby!

My baby!” as she was led out the church behind her daughter’s body.

A few steps behind her was the pop icon’s daughter, Bobbi Kristina, also crying uncontrollably as she was comforted by Houston’s close friend, singer Ray J. It was the most searing scene on a day with mixed moods as family, friends and a list celebrities — sometimes one in the same — came to the humble New Hope Baptist Church where she first wowed a congregation to remember one of music’s legends, but also a New Jersey hometown girl.

Fans sign artwork by artist Mark G at the funeral service for Whitney Houston on February 18, 2012 in Newark, New Jersey.

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Vitali Klitschko unanimously out-pointed Dereck Chisora for a 10th successive defence of his World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight title in a stormy clash at the Olympiahalle on Saturday.

Confusion afflicted the seaweed farmers of Nusa Penida. In this massive harvest season, the price of seaweed slumped. As a result, not all famers could enjoy the yields of good harvest because the white tip disease is still attacking in this season.

Disaster management board simulated fire incident Denpasar (Bali Post) –

The high threat of Denpasar’s flammability caused Denpasar Disaster Management Board (BPBD) keep on increasing their ability in handling a fire especially on fire brigades which last Friday (17/2) a fire incident simulation took place and competed between villages as stated by Head of the Committee, I Ketut Mudastra, SH. The competition involving 86 candidates actually has been a routine done on the same time as Denpasar City’s anniversary. This competition is divided to two categories, a traditional way using sacks and modern one using a spraying equipment called Apar.

This simulation is done to in-

crease the people’s knowledge and ability also for the workers to evaluate candidates ability that have been given a socialisation on how to turn off a fire in the right way.

“It is hoped the people will get a knowledge how to act fast, quick and right if such situation happen around the environment or outside,” Mudastra continued.

Meanwhile Denpasar Mayor in his speech stated Denpasar City’s condition with its population relatively crowded has a huge possibility for a fire to happen and to act upon this problem it is hoped the entire public component can participate in managing so in Denpasar City. (kmb12)

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arguably the harvest yield of this season is good,” he said.

A slightly different opinion was revealed by a resident of Lembongan, Nusa Penida, Wayan Suarbawa.

For this season, the white tip disease was even rampantly disrupting the growth and seaweed harvest yield.

It was also aggravated by the strong winds blowing some time ago. “The most severe condition of the white tip disease was in January. Then starting in February, it will be back to normal. But before Nyepi in March 2012, it is worried to be getting more severe,” said Suarbawa.

According to him, the normal condition was the most favorable time for seaweed farmers and usually happened during the period of June to November. “If there is indeed a price drop, it will happen to the species of spinosum in this harvest time,” he said. (kmb20)

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Price slumps, seaweed farmers confused A resident of Batumulapan, Nusa Penida, when contacted on Friday (Feb 17) said that currently was the massive harvest season for seaweed in Nusa Penida. However, local farmers were confused because the selling price of the prominent commodity of Nusa Penida slumped. It especially happened to the seaweed belonging to the spinosum species whose price usually reached IDR 15,000 per kilogram. Currently, it was only sold in the range of IDR 6,000 to IDR 7,000 per kilogram. “Meanwhile, the price of cottoni species is still around IDR 2,500 to IDR 3,000 per kilogram,” said Kasta.

Since they did not want to lose due to the declining sale price, farmers preferred to stock their seaweed yields in their warehouse. They would sell it when the prices began to rise. “In terms of the results,

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The damage pedestrian in Jasri, Karangasem Regency

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Pedestrian collapse after seven months damaged and unfixed Amlapura (Bali Post)

A number of locals at Jasri, Karangasem, admitted disappointed as many pedestrians are collapsing at Ayani Street, Galiran – Jasri route yet either Regency or Province Government are not fixing it. One local, I Wayan Daging, last Saturday (18/2) stated the pedestrian was so due to being hit by a truck seven months ago causing three meters collapse and putting walkers to danger. “No workers or officials looking at it even though we have reported it several days after it collapsed seven months ago,” Daging exclaimed.

With the pedestrian so, the past seven months locals including children have to brace themselves walking on the road with fast speeding vehicles. Not only here, this route has

several collapsing pedestrian points, which not long ago caused a tourist fell and hurt badly. Daging admitted he doesn’t know to whom to report again as it seemed not responded at all even though there were workers taking pictures of it several times.

From that incident, a tree was also hit causing it much forward to the road and now its branches are putting road users in danger too. “Regency officials are not bothered, moreover the Bali Governor. If I am an official I better resign if I’m not working well in giving service and protecting the people’s safety,” Daging further exclaimed.

In other hand, Head of Karangasem Regency Government Public Relation Section, Ir. I Gede Wastika Suta Dewa, MM, when confirmed

about this complain straight away contacted Head of Public Works Agency, IB Oka and Head of Karangasem Transportation, IBP Swastika.

From the two respond, they stated Jasri is on the Provincial route and should be the Province Government obligation to protect and fix it. It was stated it has been reported to them and promised to be fixed yet nothing has been done. Wastika stated there has been a budget for pedestrian fixing around IDR 75 million, if provincial won’t be doing it, a part of this budget will be used for Jasri’s damaged pedestrians. “Head of Transportation Agency stated will coordinate and fight towards Province Government so Jasri pedestrians will be fixed by provincial government,” Wastika stated. (013)

Hundred of foreign workers existed in Denpasar

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This Island of Gods not only attract foreign tourists but with its absorbance on dollars, it also absorbed foreign workers with at least 400 of them existed working in Denpasar until 2012. This condition is also due to the weakness of Human Resource that Bali specifically Denpasar can’t be off from foreigners’ involvement. Head of Denpasar Workers, Transmigration and Social Agency, Erwin Suryadarma, stated foreign workers who work in three sectors

were mostly from Taiwan, Russia, America and China. “That total has actually been decreasing yet we ask companies to effectively use accompanying workers,” Erwin explained last Friday (17/2) in Denpasar.

It was stated these workers are expert worker on a tuna fish company located at Tanjung Benoa, Denpasar, with their position as marketing and quality control. Most have worked quite long and contracted either for years, one year or six months. Based on routine guidance done by supervi-

sors from police and immigration, no problems were ever found with companies with foreign workers. “They complete their permits and extent it when its expired,” Erwin continued.

To be known, in year 2011 Denpasar pocketed 563 foreign workers dominantly working on the tourism, fishery and education. The Agency also noted there have been an increase on Taiwanese and Chinese foreign workers of 30 percent on 2011 compared to 2010 with total 180 of them. (kmb27)

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After being slapped by Briton Chisora at Friday?s weigh-in, Ukrainian Klitschko got revenge over his provocative challenger but he spent a lot of the fight on the back foot before earning scores of 118-110, 118-110 and 119-111 from the judges.

“He was very motivated. It was not easy but I saw every punch, he was slow. I am upset because I wanted to finish the fight before the 12th round,” said Klitschko.

The Briton said: “The only thing that beat me tonight was experience. I don’t hold back. I keep coming and I want a rematch.”

Despite the wide margin of the scores, Klitschko’s 40-year-old legs were made to work for every moment of the 12 rounds in a plucky effort from Chisora.

Klitschko won the title in 2004 but ?retired? later that year through injury only to resume his untroubled reign four years later.

Like all the other younger challengers who have stepped up to face the 6ft 7in Ukrainian, 6ft 1in Chisora fell short but he did

give Klitschko some worrying moments.

Germany-based Klitschko improved his record to 44 wins, and two losses with his 41st stoppage while Zimbabwe-born Chisora, who moved to London aged 16, suffered his third defeat in his 18th fight.

It means all the world title belts remain in Klitschko hands, with Vitali?s younger brother Wladimir owning the other three.

Chisora, 28, had lost his previous fight -- controversially on points to Finland?s Robert Helenius for the European title in December -- but his aggressive start showed the Briton had bad intentions for Klitschko and was not intimidated, unlike a lot of Vitali?s previous challengers.

Chisora climbed through the ropes to a chorus of boos from 13,000 German fans who had turned up to see Dr Ironfist for one of the last times in his career.

The challenger had hardly endeared himself to the locals by slapping their hero at Friday?s

weigh-in and there were more antics from Chisora moments before the fight.

Chisora continued to upset by Klitschko by threatening to pull out of the fight an hour before it started.

Vitali?s younger brother Wladimir -- the IBF, WBA and WBO champion -- asked for Chisora?s hand wraps to be reapplied and the challenger initially objected.

The row was eventually resolved and the fight delayed but Chisora?s outrageous antics were not over.

Chisora got in Vitali?s face as soon as the champion climbed through the ropes and then spat water in Wladimir?s face which may earn him another fine from boxing authorities.

Despite the wind-ups Klitschko, who won the belt in 2004 only to retire later that year through injury before making a comeback in 2008, still made a reserved started.

Chisora marched forward in the second round but got caught by a right on the temple before landing a short right hook of his own.

Switzerland’s Roger Federer returns a shot to Nikolay Davydenko of Russia during their semi final tennis match at the ABN AMRO tournament at the Ahoy Arena in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012.

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Federer beats Davydenko to book Del Potro final Reuters

R O T T E R D A M - To p s e e d Roger Federer battled past Russian Nikolay Davydenko in an entertaining 4-6 6-3 6-4 triumph on Saturday to reach the World Indoor Tournament final. The Swiss former world number one now faces third seed Juan Martin Del Potro of Argentina who brushed aside second-seeded Czech Tomas Berdych 6-3 6-1 in Saturday’s first semi-final.

Federer, who has admitted struggling with the surface and his rhythm, recovered after losing the first set having been broken in the ninth game and early in the second set.

Davydenko dominated from the baseline using his powerful forehand but dropped his serve in the sixth game of the second with Federer taking four straight games to force a decider. Davydenko wasted four break points in the third set while Federer, whose serve was never convicning, failed to take six

chances before finally breaking to love to settle the match.

“We often played big matches and today again,” said Federer. “It is good so see him performing so well again.”

Asked about his previous showdowns with Del Potro ahead of Sunday’s final, the Swiss added: “He beat me in the 2009 U.S. Open final in a tough five setter, while our last match at the Australian Open was my 1,000th match on the tour.

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Ukrainian WBC World Champion Vitali Klitschko celebrates after his fight against British boxer Dereck Chisora (R) in the WBC World Heavyweight Championship in the Olympic hall in Munich.

Struggling Nets halt streak, upset Bulls Reuters

The New Jersey Nets snapped an eight-game losing streak with a surprisingly easy 97-85 road win over the Central Divisionleading Chicago Bulls at the United Center on Saturday.

New Jersey (9-23), taking advantage of the absence of NBA MVP Derrick Rose who missed his fifth straight game due to back pain, opened up a 22-3 lead five minutes into the game and never trailed as they handed the Bulls (25-8) just their second loss at home this season.

Deron Williams led the Nets’ attack with 29 points including five three-pointers from nine attempts. Kris Humphries added 24 points and had a game-high 18 rebounds. Despite the early offensive surge, Williams applauded the team’s defensive effort as the Nets had relinquished double-digit leads in their two previous games.

“This was definitely the best defensive game of the season for us,” Williams told reporters.

“We got going early, built a lead

and didn’t let it evaporate.”

Chicago’s five starters struggled, combining for just 45 points, led by Carlos Boozer with 16, while Joakim Noah was held without a point in 21 minutes on the court. Reserve Mike James matched Boozer with 16 points for the Bulls.

“Sometimes, games are won in the first quarter,” James said.

“Even though the Nets’ record is what it is, this is the NBA, and if a team starts hitting their shots, it is hard to get them out of their rhythm.”

The Bulls bench cut into the lead in the second quarter to narrow the deficit to as few as seven points before New Jersey pushed it back to a 14-point cushion at halftime leading 59-45.

“You can deal with a hardfought game where you play well and they hit a tough shot at the end,” Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau said.

“To dig a hole like we did is disappointing. And that’s more my responsibility to make sure we’re ready. You get what you deserve in this league.”

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Woeful Arsenal dumped out of Cup, Chelsea held LONDON - Arsenal’s miserable week got worse on Saturday when they were knocked out of the FA Cup in a 2-0 fifth round defeat at Sunderland while beleaguered Chelsea fared only slightly better by scraping a 1-1 draw against second tier Birmingham City.

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Sunderland’s Stephane Sessegnon, left, vies for the ball with Arsenal’s Bacary Sagna, right, during their FA Cup fifth round soccer match at the Stadium of Light, Sunderland, England, Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012.

before halftime after giving away a free kick.

Djourou had pulled back Craig Gardner needlessly to concede the kick, which Seb Larsson delivered only for Arsenal to half clear straight into the path of Richardson who blasted the ball into the back of the net thanks to a deflection off Squillaci.

Wenger’s side, who last weekend came from behind to beat the same opponents 2-1 in the Premier League, allowed their hosts to go further ahead in the 78th minute when OxladeChamberlain sent the ball into his own net after Larsson had hit the post.

“We have to take the critics on board and stay together and face the critics.

There is only one response in our job at the club -- to stay united and fight and focus on the next game,” Wenger told a news conference.

But facing a mountain to climb to overturn their Champions League deficit and trailing Premier League leaders Manchester City by 17 points, Arsenal’s search for a first trophy since they won the FA Cup in 2005 is set to continue for another year.

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The picture is only marginally more positive for 2010 winners Chelsea, who went behind to an under-strength Birmingham team when David Murphy scored before levelling when Sturridge climbed to head in Branislav

Ivanovic’s 62nd-minute cross. Chelsea squandered an earlier chance to level straight after Murphy’s opener when Juan Mata’s penalty was well saved by diving Birmingham keeper Colin Doyle and home fans expressed their unhappiness by chanting ex-manager Jose Mourinho’s name.

“It is a poor result of course,” said Villas-Boas who added he had the “unconditional” support of owner Roman Abramovich. “But it was an excellent performance in the second half compared to the first... 1-1 is not what we expected but it gives us another chance at Birmingham to try to reverse things,” he told ESPN. Chelsea went into their match on the back of a poor run of form in the league, where they have won just two of their last 10 games, and came out of it with a chorus of boos ringing in their ears.

Villas-Boas, appointed in the close season to replace the sacked Carlo Ancelotti who led the club to an FA Cup and Premier League double in 2010, said this week there was no panic at the club and that his position was not under threat.

Abramovich has shown no mercy with managers who have failed to deliver silverware and while the team are still in the running for the Champions League, the trophy he covets the most, this draw may not sit well with the Russian.

Real 13 points clear after crushing Santander

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MADRID - A Cristiano Ronaldo header set Real Madrid on their way to a 4-0 win at home to 10-man Racing Santander on Saturday that stretched their advantage over second-placed Barcelona at the top of La Liga to 13 points. Ronaldo’s sixth-minute goal from a clever Kaka assist was his 28th of the season in the league, putting the Portuguese forward five clear of Barca’s World Player of the Year Lionel Messi at the top of the scoring chart.

Santander, who are 18th in the standings, were reduced to 10 men six minutes before the break when the referee ruled defender Domingo Cisma had handled the ball for a second time in the game and showed him a second yellow card. Real doubled their lead in added time when a dinked Karim Benzema effort was deflected over the line

by Santander defender Bernardo under pressure from Sergio Ramos.

Substitute Angel Di Maria, back after injury, netted the third goal and the best of the night in the 73rd minute when he powered a left-foot strike

past goalkeeper Tono from just outside the area. Benzema’s deflected effort made it 4-0 a minute from time to seal an 18th win for Jose Mourinho’s side in 19 league matches since the end of September and lift them to 61 points from 23 games.

“The best thing is that we have three more points and one less game to play,” Mourinho told a news conference. “We won without sparkle, but without much effort,” the Portuguese added. “At this stage of the season, winning without suffering and without much effort is the most positive thing.”

IMPERIOUS FORM

Barca, who beat arch-rivals Real 3-1 at the Bernabeu in December but have otherwise suffered patchy away form, can trim the gap to 10 points with a win at home to third-placed Valencia on Sunday. However, with Real in such imperious form and unlikely to drop many points, the world and European champions’ bid for a fourth straight domestic title already appears a lost cause.

Benzema said the comfortable win was ideal preparation for the Champi-

ons League last-16 first leg at CSKA Moscow. “It was a great game for us tonight and now we’ll try to do the same on Tuesday,” the French international told Spanish television.

In the earlier kickoff, Espanyol climbed above Levante into the fourth Champions League qualification place despite surrendering the lead in a 1-1 draw at Getafe. Espanyol have 33 points, one ahead of Levante who host Rayo Vallecano on Sunday.

Sevilla ended a run of three straight defeats and eight games without a win when they beat Osasuna 2-0, a first success for new coach Michel. Gary Medel netted the opening goal in the 16th minute at the Sanchez Pizjuan when he crashed a low shot into the corner of the net before substitute Piotr Trochowski turned in the second in second-half added time.

The victory lifted the Andalusian club to 10th on 29 points as they seek to get their bid to qualify for Europe next season back on track. Osasuna, who beat Barca 3-2 at their Reyno de Navarra stadium last weekend, are eighth on 31 points.

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Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo from Portugal celebrates his goal during a Spanish La Liga soccer match against Levante at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012.

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Three days after a 4-0 Champions League defeat at AC Milan that manager Arsene Wenger branded their “worst performance in Europe”, Arsenal’s sloppiness was back as Kieran Richardson’s strike and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain’s own goal sealed their fate.

Sunderland were joined in the quarter-finals by Everton and Bolton Wanderers who recorded 2-0 wins over Championship (second division) Blackpool and Millwall respectively, while Norwich City were upset 2-1 at home by second tier Leicester City.

Chelsea needed Daniel Sturridge’s equaliser to force a replay with Birmingham after a draw at Stamford Bridge that did nothing to alleviate the pressure on manager Andre VillasBoas.

While Chelsea at least stayed in the competition, London rivals Arsenal seem certain to finish without a trophy for the seventh year in a row as their last realistic chance of silverware this season turned to dust against hardworking Sunderland.

Arsenal’s day at the Stadium of Light started badly when they lost Francis Coquelin to a hamstring injury with less than 10 minutes gone.

Lacking any sort of attacking spark while looking vulnerable at the back, with Johan Djourou and substitute Sebastien Squillaci short of confidence, Arsenal went behind five minutes

Monday, February 20, 2012

Trunyan tourism tries to revive from downturn

THE act of a few individuals interested to enjoy the excessive tourism pies by blackmailing and intimidating tourists on board that would cross to Trunyan had become a scourge. Such frequent incidents made a lot of travel agencies in Bali think twice to take their guests to Trunyan for having a closer look at the most unique funeral procession in the world.

Such an act makes the tourism of Trunyan increasingly get immersed in the world tourism arena. Local village has a unique tradition where the dead body is not buried but being laid on the ground. However, the body does not give out an odor. It happens because the presence of the taru menyan or benzoin tree considered becoming the embryo of the village’s name.

Now, in the endeavor to restore the former bad image of Kintamani tourism in the eyes of tourists because of irresponsible individual action, the Trunyan community on Wednesday (Deb 15) declared if they were ready to provide security and comfort for tourists making a visit to Trunyan village.

The declaration was witnessed by the Regent of Bangli Made Gianyar, Deputy Regent of Bangli Sang Nyoman Sedana Arta, Chairman of the Indonesian Tour Guides Association (HPI) of Bali Chapter Sang Putu Subaya, expert team of Bangli development Bagus Sudibia, Chairman of the regional working units (SKPD) of Bangli, leaders and community of Trunyan village.

Headman of Trunyan, Ketut Sutapa, told that to restore the image of Trunyan in the eyes of tourists, all components of the Trunyan village ranging from the customary

village, administrative village, pecalang (customary security officer), boat operators, tour guides and youth club of Trunyan declared that they were ready to jointly maintain the security and comfort of tourists visiting the Trunyan village for the advancement of Bangli tourism.

According to him, the Trunyan village along with tourist attraction in the form traditional cemetery was once becoming the belle of local and foreign tourists. However, recently few irresponsible individuals had caused the beauty of Trunyan as a Balinese ancient village with its unique tradition began to be abandoned and forgotten.

Therefore, to restore the tourism image of Trunyan village as a tourist attraction was not easy. It required various improvement efforts in terms of facilities and human resources.

“We do hope with this declaration, tourists will no longer be afraid to come and make a visit to Trunyan village. Besides, we are ready to ensure the safety and comfort of the community when visiting the Trunyan village. No more tourists will be charged with illegal fees imposed by irresponsible individuals. If such violations are found, we will immediately take action against the violators in accordance with the agreed rules,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Regent of Bangli, Made Gianyar, said that his party targeted to attract 1.5 million tourists visiting the Bangli Regency in 2014. To him, it was not an easy task, especially considering the tourism of Bangli, chiefly Kintamani, was under degradation due to decline in physical quality of tourism and human resources involved.

Nevertheless, his party did not only keep silent on witnessing the downturn of Bangli tourism.

Throughout this year, his party would focus on revamping and improving the quality of tourism in Bangli starting from physical improvements in several tourist objects to improving the quality of tourism human resources. One of the realizations was the making of statement by Trunyan village declaring they were ready to maintain the safety and comfort of tourists visiting the Trunyan village.

“I demand the community should have a commitment to the agreed declaration. If this goes properly, we do hope the other villages in Bangli, especially those having tourism potential, can follow the measure taken by Trunyan community for the image recovery of Bangli tourism in the eyes of foreign tourists,” he said. (puj)

WHAT kind of description can we get when scarecrows are on display in crowded area in Lovina, Singaraja? Perhaps, it will be obtained a caricatural description on unique human getting lost amidst the modern media. Alternatively, it can be a critical overview on the agricultural area gradually disappearing, and then the scarecrow commonly displayed as a bird repellent in the rice field should be showed off on the former fields now transformed into the location of hotel and restaurant. Or, probably it is a fun of the artists only earmarked for an exhibition of installation art by offering the broadest possible meaning for anyone who happens to see it.

Scarecrow exhibition in Lovina was begun on the Valentine’s Day, Tuesday (Feb 14). Dozens of scarecrows displayed in an empty area in Lovina area were the works of the students majoring in the Fine Arts, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Undiksha, Singaraja. Simply, it was a series of exhibitions of young artists’ creativity. But more seriously, the scarecrow exhibition can be interpreted with a broader meaning. For instance, it signifies a rebellion against the human behavior surrendering to the symbols of modernization.

As a work of art, the scarecrow in Lovina displayed a blend of tradition and modern art. The scarecrow itself is a traditional product often found when Bali was still strong as an agricultural area. Farmer artists usually made the scarecrow by simple materials and manner. Dry straws woven and shaped like a person can actually be called a scarecrow. To be more convincing, the scarecrow can be applied with used clothes and its head is filled with palm fibers. Or there is also a scarecrow made of dried coconut leaf midrib. Dry coconut leaves on the midrib are woven like an outstretched hand shape, and then stuck in the rice field.

Originally, the scarecrow indeed served as a bird repellent in the rice field. It was usually equipped with a tin or objects that could generate noisy sounds. Afterward, it was shaken from a considerable distance by using a rope.

So, that it could move like a person expelling birds. Mys-

tically, it can also serve as a repellent of misadventure and accompanied with particular offerings and mantra. For example, it is applied to protect the fields from the disruption of black magic.

But related to the scarecrows displayed in Lovina, what kind of bird would be cast out, what kind of misadventure will be dismissed? Of course, such scarecrow will not function as the one made by farmers in the past agrarian period. Scarecrow in Lovina can be called a work of modern art because it no longer acts as a functional object. It can be interpreted pursuant to the desire of the audience. Some people may call it a satire or some may consider it an art to complement the beauty of Lovina. At least, the scarecrow display can provoke the memories of farmers on the passage of farmers and the agricultural sector in Bali. With such memories, the agricultural sector can be saved.

Obviously, creativity of the fine art students of the Undiksha is part of an effort to oppose the process of forgetting what people face today. Advanced communication devices, such as cellular phone, computer and internet with various amenities are objects that can record the entire process of history. But on the other hand, it can also act ironically, namely fades memories by taking out the symbols and meanings.

Scarecrow is an object of meaningful traditional communication. It does not only serve as a bird repellent, but also more than that where it represents a part of long process of a passage for a piece of paddy seed to become a seed again.

Scarecrow can be interpreted as a guardian of the true life processes. If the scarecrow is extinct, the paddy seed will certainly continue to proceed until becoming the next seed, but the process will lose its sense of beauty.

Wayan Sudiarta, a coach of the Fine Art students of Undiksha, said that such an exhibition did not show of the opposition to the recent technology. “But, we want to behave more meaningfully. It does not require much money to do so. What we do tends to convey a criticism against our all-sophisticated lifestyle today, including in communicating,” he said.

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Republican Presidential Candidate Rick Santorum speaks during a Tea Party Rally in Columbus, Ohio February 18, 2012.

Santorum says Obama agenda not “based on Bible”

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COLUMBUS, Ohio - Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum challenged President Barack Obama’s Christian beliefs on Saturday, saying White House policies were motivated by a “different theology.”

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Flags with portraits of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin are displayed during a car rally to show support for Putin’s presidential candidacy in Moscow February 18, 2012.

A devout Roman Catholic who has risen to the top of Republican polls in recent days, Santorum said the Obama administration had failed to prevent gas prices rising and was using “political science” in the debate about climate change.

Obama’s agenda is “not about you.

It’s not about your quality of life. It’s not about your jobs. It’s about some phony ideal. Some phony theology.

Oh, not a theology based on the Bible.

A different theology,” Santorum told supporters of the conservative Tea Party movement at a Columbus hotel.

When asked about the statement

at a news conference later, Santorum said, “If the president says he’s a Christian, he’s a Christian.”

But Santorum did not back down from the assertion that Obama’s values run against those of Christianity.

“He is imposing his values on the Christian church. He can categorize those values anyway he wants. I’m not going to,” Santorum told reporters.

A social conservative, Santorum is increasingly seen as a champion for evangelical Christians in fights with Democrats over contraception and gay marriage.

“This is just the latest low in

a Republican primary campaign that has been fueled by distortions, ugliness, and searing pessimism and negativity - a stark contrast with the President who is focused everyday on creating jobs and restoring economic security for the middle class,” said Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt.

The campaign’s response signaled a new respect for Santorum.

Until this week, the Obama campaign appeared exclusively focused on Mitt Romney. Republicans are waging a state-by-state contest to pick a candidate to challenge Obama in November’s election.

At a campaign appearance in Florida last month, Santorum declined to correct a voter who called Obama, a Christian, an “avowed Muslim.”

Bird flu still a menace in Asia and beyond

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In this photo taken on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012, Nguyen Quang Duong, left, the owner of a poultry farm in Nhat Tan commune, Kim Bang district, Ha Nam province, Vietnam, stands still as a health worker wearing a protective gear sprays disinfectant at Duong’s farm where a suspected outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus among ducks was discovered in early February 2012.

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HANOI, Vietnam — Thought bird flu was gone? Recent human deaths in Asia and Egypt are a reminder that the H5N1 virus is still alive and dangerous, and Vietnam is grappling with a new strain that has outsmarted vaccines used to protect poultry flocks. Ten people have died in Cambodia, Indonesia, Egypt, China and Vietnam since December during the prime-time flu season when the virus typically flares in poultry.

“We are worried, and we will be very cautious,” said To Long Thanh, director of Vietnam’s Center for Animal Health Diagnostics in Vietnam.

The H5N1 virus has killed 345 people worldwide since 2003, when it rampaged across large swaths of Asia decimating poultry stocks before later surfacing in parts of Africa, the Middle East and Europe. The number of poultry outbreaks has greatly diminished since then, but the virus remains entrenched in several countries and continues to surface sporadically,

resulting in 20 to 30 human deaths globally in recent years.

Bird flu remains hard for people to catch, with most people sickened after being in close contact with infected poultry, but experts have long feared it could spark a pandemic if it mutates into a form that spreads easily among people.

The fresh wave of cases comes amid a controversy involving scientists who created new lab-only versions of the virus that spread more easily among animals, hoping

Leadership tensions within Australia’s ruling Labor party have erupted with the release of a video showing ex-prime minister Kevin Rudd on an expletive-ridden rant about a Chinese interpreter. The two-minute video, uploaded onto YouTube by a mystery user calling themselves “HappyVegemiteKR”, shows an irate Rudd trying to record a message in Mandarin and railing against the embassy official who wrote the text.

Rudd was ousted as leader in a shock partyroom coup in June 2010 by his deputy, Julia Gillard, who scraped back into power at elections and is now badly lagging in the polls.

Speculation has intensified in recent weeks that Rudd, currently Australia’s foreign minister, is preparing to challenge for the top job.

He denied this but said a suspicious person would question the “unusual” timing of the video’s release, given that it was shot several years ago when he was still prime minister.

Such out-takes footage is usually destroyed but Rudd said the video in question had clearly been archived by the prime minister’s office or some other government department. Gillard’s office denied leaking the footage.

Rudd also insisted that he was a changed man and had learned to be less controlling and to consult more broadly -- two key criticisms that saw him lose office.

“As to whether (I have) changed in any fundamental way, that’s a judgement for others to make, but I’ve certainly reflected a lot in the past several years,” Rudd told Sky News.

He said he was “embarrassed” by the swearing

and he had been frustrated with himself, not the interpreter. Independent lawmaker Andrew Wilkie fuelled speculation of a challenge to Gillard, claiming that he and Rudd discussed the issue back in November and he “clearly wants the job back”.

“There will be a challenge and I suspect he may well be successful,” said Wilkie.

Gillard admitted that the leadership tensions were hurting her government.

“This kind of focus over the last few weeks means it’s more difficult for me to be out there ex p l a i n i n g to people what’s happening in our economy,” Gillard said.

to better understand it. After a loud uproar over whether publishing the research would put the recipe for a bioweapon into the hands of terrorists, the researchers have agreed to temporarily halt their work.

They are set to wrap up a two-day meeting on the issue Friday with international experts at the World Health Organization in Geneva.

After the meeting, WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl told The Associated Press the work would not be published until a full discussion could be held about both the risks and benefits of the research and risks of the virus itself. He said the consensus among experts voiced by a lead researcher was that the work should be published eventually since there was only a small chance the virus could be used as a bioweapon.

Wildfires, peat fires and controlled burns on farming lands kill 339,000 people worldwide each year, said a study released on Saturday that is the first to estimate a death toll for landscape fires. Most of those deaths are concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa, where an estimated 157,000 people die as a result of being exposed to such fires annually, with southeast Asia ranking second with 110,000 deaths.

“I was surprised at our estimate being so high when you consider that the exposure to fire smoke is quite intermittent for most people,” said lead author Fay Johnston of the University of Tasmania. “Even in southeast Asia and Africa, (fire) is a seasonal phenomenon. It is not year round,” Johnston said at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Vancouver where she presented her research.

The study, which Johnston

said was the first of its kind to attempt to estimate a death toll from wildfires and landscape burns, was published Saturday in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. Researchers looked at the number of deaths from all causes in areas that were exposed to heavy smoke and landscape fire between 1997 and 2006.

They used satellite data and chemical transport models to assess the health impacts of particulate matter smaller than 2.5 micrometers, a major byproduct of landscape fire smoke. The number of deaths from wildfires came in far below the previously estimated global tolls for indoor air pollution at two million people per year and urban air pollution at 800,000.

However, the study authors said their findings indicated that “fire emissions are an important contributor to global mortality.”

The research also suggested a significant link between climate and fire mortality.

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A fire fighting crew from the Lassen National Forest in California clean up hot spots after the destructive wildfire in Bastrop, Texas in 2011. Wildfires, peat fires and controlled burns on farming lands kill 339,000 people worldwide each year, said a study released on Saturday that is the first to estimate a death toll for landscape fires.

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MOSCOW - Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in cities across Russia in support of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Saturday in a show of force two weeks before a March 4 presidential election that is expected to return him to the Kremlin. The rallies began in the Pacific coast port of Vladivostok and culminated with a late-night demonstration on wheels in Moscow, where motorists took to the streets with slogans such as “Putin rules” on their cars.

“One wish unites us: we want to be sure of tomorrow,” said a declaration read out at the rally in St. Petersburg, which like many others was organized by trade unions that have close government ties. The declaration urged Russians to vote on March 4 and “defend the right to the stable future.”

In central Moscow, about 10 people staging a street protest against Putin were detained, Ekho Moskvy radio reported. The pro-Putin rallies are aimed at showing that the prime minister, who could remain president until 2024 if he wins two straight terms, has majority support despite the biggest opposition protests of his 12-year rule.

Opponents say state workers are pressured to attend the pro-Putin rallies with a combination of threats and payments, and that police exaggerate the size of the crowds while underestimating the size of opposition protests.

Tens of thousands of people have turned out for opposition protests in recent months, venting anger over suspected fraud in December’s parliamentary election, and over what they see as a lack of say in Putin’s tightly controlled political system.

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This image provided by Aereo shows a screenshot from the iPad showing Aereo.com streaming ìBob the Builderî on New Yorkís PBS station, WNET 13. The service launched this week in New York, giving access to live TV from local stations on the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.

NEW YORK — A startup backed by media billionaire Barry Diller has launched a service that sends live local TV feeds to iPhones and iPads. But the service may be shortlived, since TV stations are likely to challenge its right to use their broadcasts.

The service, Aereo, launched in New York this week, but it is available only by invitation. It hopes to broaden access to more people next month, and then launch in other cities.

Subscribers pay $12 per month and use their web browsers to access streams from 27 local channels, including the major broadcast networks ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox. For now, the service works

only on iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches, but Aereo is planning to make it accessible to PC browsers and Android-powered phones as well.

In a test by an Associated Press reporter, the service provided highquality streams over Wi-Fi to an iPad, but often it wouldn’t show particular channels. The company says kinks are still being worked out of the system. Aereo has more than $25 million in venture capital backing, with more than $20 million of it coming from a funding round led by InterActiveCorp, which owns Match.com, Ask.com and other websites.

Diller, the chairman of InterActiveCorp and the former CEO of Fox, says he’s “excited” about Aereo and the chance it has to dis-

rupt the way TV is consumed.

Aereo exploits what it believes is a loophole in the laws governing retransmission of local broadcasts.

Yet TV networks and stations are unlikely to buy that legal justification, and could drag Aereo to court.

Representatives of CBS, NBC and ABC and the National Association of Broadcasters had no comment on Aereo’s launch.

Cable companies pay local broadcast stations for the right to retransmit their signals to subscribers. Aereo doesn’t, and founder and CEO Chet Kanojia says it doesn’t have to. That’s because Aereo doesn’t use one big antenna to pick up the local broadcasts and relay them to the Internet. Instead, it uses one tiny antenna for each subscriber that’s watching.

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The director, cast and producers of “The Help” (L-R) producers Brunson Green,Chris Columbus, actresses Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, director Tate Taylor and producer Michael Barnathan pose with the Image Award for best motion picture at the 43rd NAACP Image Awards in Los Angeles, California February 17, 2012.

“The Help” wins big at Image Awards; Houston remembered Reuters

LOS ANGELES - “The Help,” which chronicled the experiences of black maids in the 1960s, and the comedy “Jumping the Broom” were honored at the NAACP Image Awards on Friday, and the life and career of Whitney Houston was celebrated with rousing gospel songs a week after the singer’s untimely death.

The box-office hit about black maids speaking out against their white employers in Mississippi in the early 1960s won best movie and acting awards for Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer. The film, Davis and Spencer have been nominated for Academy Awards.

Davis said “The Help” was an important movie because “the maid hadn’t been humanized before. I felt she remained a cardboard cut-out” before the movie was made. “Jump-

ing the Broom” also took home three award, for best actor Laz Alonso, Salim Akil and supporting actor Mike Epps.

The two-hour ceremony recognizing the accomplishments of people of color was tinged with grief over the death on Saturday of Houston, best known for her hit song “I Will Always Love You.” Yolanda Adams, singing with a gospel choir, led the tribute on Friday, belting out a version of “I Love the Lord” from Houston’s

film “The Preacher’s Wife” after video clips of a smiling Houston were shown receiving NAACP awards in the 1990s.

Presenter Sanaa Latham, one of the stars of the movie “Contagion,” asked the audience to remember Houston as “a loving mother and extraordinary performer.” The show closed with NAACP best gospel album winner Kirk Franklin singing a version of another Houston hit, “The Greatest Love of All.” Private funeral services will be held for Houston, 48, in her Newark, New Jersey, hometown on Saturday.

The singer, who struggled with drug and alcohol addiction for years, was found dead in the bathtub of a Beverly Hills hotel. The cause is still under investigation.

Aretha remembers Whitney at Radio City

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NEW YORK — Aretha Franklin was thankful to be alive Saturday night and thinking about lost friends, among them Whitney Houston. Hours after she canceled an appearance at Houston’s funeral because of spasms in her legs, the “Queen of Soul” (the “undisputed” Queen, the capacity audience was reminded by the show’s announcer) was quick on her feet, feisty in voice and sentimental and sassy in spirit at Radio City Music Hall.

It was the latest stop on a “greatest hits” tour featuring old favorites and, since Houston’s shocking death a week ago, a tribute to her fallen goddaughter.

Franklin herself was rumored a year

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lowed along.

Combs pinched Ali’s cheeks LAS VEGAS — A casino and whispered in his ear, then owner paid more than a million closed out the nearly 5-hour gala dollars for boxing gloves Mu- by professing his deep admirahammad Ali used to defend his tion for the fighter. Ali’s eyes title. Samuel L. Jackson dedi- widened. He pointed at Combs, cated a rendition of “Stand By then back at his own head, twirlMe” to the boxer. And President ing his index finger as if to tell Barack Obama told the icon in a Combs he’s crazy. birthday tribute that he inspired “The greatest of all time,” the world.

Combs said after leading the By the end of the night, all crowd in shouting “Happy birthAli needed to do to capture the day, Ali.” The moment closed out hearts of 2,000 revelers in Las the celebration of Ali’s life and Vegas Saturday was go onstage fundraiser to generate millions and smile. Ali sat next to Stevie of dollars for brain research, Wonder, who played keyboards a mission Ali’s family says is and sang his version of “Happy important to him in part because Birthday,” while stars including of his nearly 30-year battle with Sean “Diddy” Combs, Kelly Parkinson’s disease.

Rowland, LL Cool J, Quincy “Happy birthday, champ,” Jones, Sugar Ray Leonard and Obama told Ali through a video boxing promoter Bob Arum fol- message, saying he wished he could have attended a swanky dinner gala in Las Vegas featuring some of the biggest names in sports, film, television and music.

“As a fighter, you were something spectacular,” Obama told Ali, who turned 70 last month.

“You shocked the world, and you inspired it, too.

And even after all the titles and legendary bouts, you’re still doing it.”

A set of gloves Ali used to defeat Floyd Patterson in 1965 in Las Vegas — the first heavyweight title fight in Sin City — sold for $1.1 million. It came with one of the original posters used to promote the fight, which AP Photo/Jeff Bottari had Muhammad Ali’s choFormer boxer Chuck Wepner arrives sen name as a subscript to at the Keep Memory Alive 16th An- Cassius Clay, the name he nual “Power of Love Gala” honoring was born with. When Ali Muhammad Ali with his 70th birthday converted to Islam, many celebration on Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012, people resisted calling him in Las Vegas. by his new name.

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ago to be mortally ill, hospitalized with an undisclosed illness and asking her fans worldwide to pray for her health. On Saturday, the 69-year-old singer looked young enough to joke about a man who had mistaken her for being in her 50s.

She danced and shimmied, kicked off her heels and paced the stage barefoot, and even smirked and gave herself a couple of satisfied pats on the rear.

She looked back over a 50-year career and those who helped her along. Franklin praised the late Luther Vandross as she kicked off the R&B hit he wrote for her, “Get It Right.” She introduced her most heartbreaking ballad, “Ain’t No Way,” with a brief word about her sister and the song’s composer, Carolyn

Franklin, who died in 1988.

She sang the title from the classic Motown anthem of devotion, “You’re All I Need To Get By,” and two giant flat screens on opposite sides of the stage flashed a picture of one of the writers, Nick Ashford, who died last summer.

Franklin then called out to Ashford’s widow and songwriting partner, Valerie Simpson, among several friends and family members in attendance.

Houston’s turn came during the second half of the roughly 100-minute concert, after Franklin had changed from a glittery green and silver caftan into a caftan of white and gold, and settled behind the piano and sketched out the words and melody to “I Will Always Love You.”

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Temple Ceremony 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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In this July 26, 2010 photo, performer Aretha Franklin looks out a window, in Philadelphia.

JAKARTA – Aston International and PT. Nyiur Mas Mandiri celebrated the ground breaking of Luwuk’s largest and most important hotel development to date, the Aston Luwuk Hotel & Conference Center.

The Aston Luwuk Hotel & Conference Center was conceptualized to support Luwuk’s development by providing international standard accommodations and conference facilities to the city’s growing industry and commerce. The future Aston will features 92 oversized guest rooms and suites and a wide range of facilities befitting of an international hotel including an all day restaurant, a coffee shop , a swimming pool, several meeting rooms and a grand ballroom for up to 1000 persons.

Luwuk is the capital city of Indonesia’s Banggai Regency, located in the eastern

part of Central Sulawesi and is known for the beauty of its natural surroundings offering various attractions such as the Salodik and Tontoun waterfalls, Lalong Bay, and the pristine Bua Lemo Beach.

Aston International has in recent years been on the forefront of hotel developments throughout the Indonesian archipelago focusing not only on major destinations such as Jakarta and Bali but also on up and coming regional centers.

“We aim to offer Indonesia’s largest and most consistent network of first class business and conference hotels. Aston currently has a portfolio of more than 40 hotels stretching as far West as Medan in Sumatra and as far East as Jayapura in Papua and we are set to open a new hotel literally every second week from now until the end of 2013,” commented Norbert Vas, Aston’s Vice President of Sales & Marketing.

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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This file photo shows a pile up of vehicles after a recent crash along a highway in China. At least 28 people have been killed and dozens injured in three bus crashes in one day in southern China, state media reported on Sunday

China bus crashes kill 28 in one day: state media Agence France Presse

At least 28 people have been killed and dozens injured in three bus crashes in one day in southern China, state media reported Sunday.

A bus overturned on a mountainous road in southwestern Yunnan province late Saturday, killing at least nine passengers and injuring 24, Xinhua news agency said.

The injured were all taken to local hospitals, and the cause of the crash is under investigation, the report said.

The bus, which was carrying 37 passengers, started its journey in the city of Chuxiong and was bound for

the tourist town of Dali.

In neighbouring Guizhou province, 13 people were killed and 22 injured when the tyre of the bus they were riding in blew out, causing the vehicle to career off the road, Xinhua said.

In the southern Guangxi region, six people were killed when their bus collided with a truck, Xinhua said.

China’s roads are among the

world’s most dangerous, with traffic laws and safety widely flouted.

According to police statistics, about 70,000 people die and 300,000 are injured in road accidents every year in China, Xinhua said.

But the World Health Organisation said in a recent study the true figure is almost twice that number, citing hospital and medical clinic statistics.

Clashes in Senegal ahead of presidential poll Reuters

DAKAR - Senegalese police fired tear gas and chased protesters from the center of the West African nation’s capital Saturday in a fourth day of protest against the candidacy of incumbent President Abdoulaye Wade in the February 26 presidential poll.

As about 23,000 security personnel including the police and army voted in early balloting Saturday, protesters took to the streets, strewn with debris from the previous night’s protest, setting up barricades, burning tires and trash, and clashing with riot police.

The protesters are trying to gain access to Dakar’s Independence Square, near the presidential palace,

but have been pushed back by riot police using tear gas and water cannons. The government has banned all opposition protest around the square citing security reasons.

Opposition leaders and civil society group M-23 have vowed to make the country ungovernable if Wade does not step down and withdraw his bid to seek a third term, arguing that his bid breaches rules setting a two-term presidential limit.

Authorities said a 21-year-old tailor died in the city of Kaolack, about 190 km (125 miles) southeast of Dakar, from wounds he suffered during a protest Friday.

At least five people have been killed in street clashes since last month when Wade’s candidacy was validated by the country’s top legal

body. World leaders have called on all sides to show restraint, warning the West African nation’s democratic credentials are at stake.

Leaders of the West African regional bloc ECOWAS, meeting in Nigeria Friday, said they would send a joint mission with the African Union, headed by former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, to engage Senegalese politicians in dialogue.

“I’m counting on President Obasanjo to come and look at President Wade eye-to-eye and tell him that at nearly 90 years old, it is time to retire,” said Cheikh Tidiane Gadio, a former foreign minister in Wade’s government who is one of the 13 candidates in the presidential poll.

Houston died last Saturday in Beverly Hills, Calif., on the eve of the Grammys at the age of 48. Her death marked the end of a life that was marked by stunning achievements: Blessed with a voice of great power and beauty, Houston became one of pop music’s most successful artists over a career that spanned nearly three decades and segued into film with hits like “The Bodyguard.”

Kevin Costner, her co-star in “The Bodyguard,” said for all of Houston’s beauty and success, she was still yearning for approval from the public — and still somewhat insecure, a superstar who “still wondered, ‘Am I good enough? Am I pretty enough? Will they like me?’”

“It’s a tree we could all hang from — the unexplainable burden that comes with fame,” he said. “Call it doubt. call it fear. I’ve had mine. And I know the famous in the room have had theirs.”

Many who spoke talked about Houston’s unshakable faith in Jesus Christ, which got her through some of her most difficult times. Perry recalled a conversation where Houston would look sad when reflecting on her troubles, but then would hasten to add that God was taking care of her.

Fittingly, music played a major role in the send-off to one of music’s greatest voices.

Stevie Wonder rewrote lyrics to “Ribbon in the Sky” for Houston — “you will always be a ribbon in the sky,” he sang.

And Keys, her voice breaking at times, dedicated her song “Send Me An Angel,” to Houston.

Brown briefly appeared at her funeral, walking to the casket, touching it and walking out. He later said in a statement that he and his children were asked repeatedly to move and he left rather than risk creating a scene.

Close family friend Aretha Franklin, whom Houston lovingly called “Aunt Ree,” had been expected to sing at the service, but said early Saturday she was too ill to attend. Franklin said in an email to The Associated Press that she had been up most of the night with leg spasms and sent best wishes to the family. Saturday night, Franklin performed at Radio City Music Hall and remembered Houston with a light gospel rendition of “I Will Always Love You.” Warwick presided over the funeral, introducing speakers and singers and offering short insights about her cousin; she joked that Houston’s Super Bowl performance of “The Star Spangled Banner” became almost as big as the telephone book.

As the funeral began, mourners fell quiet as three police officers escorted Houston’s casket, draped with white roses and purple lilies. White-robed choir members began to fill the pews on the podium. As the band played softly, the choir sang in a hushed voice, “Whitney, Whitney, Whitney.”

To the world, Houston was the pop queen with the perfect voice, the dazzling diva with regal beauty, a troubled superstar suffering from addiction and, finally, another victim of the dark side of fame. To her family and friends, she was just “Nippy.” A nickname given to Houston when she was a child, it stuck with her through adulthood and, later, would become the name of one of her companies.

Houston is to be buried Sunday next to her father, John Houston, in nearby Westfield, N.J.

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From page 1 The tourism perpetrator who is also Chairman of the Central Executive Board of the Indonesian Tour Guides Association (HPI) stated the road access to tourist attractions was a vital infrastructure. For instance, the road section from Payangan to Kintamani was a shortcut from the South Bali to North Bali. Unfortunately, quality of the roads had been decreasing.

“This damage has occurred since the enforcement of local autonomy.

Public officials are only busy to manage the regional budget and political issues,” he said.

According to him, the government should not only keep silent when observing the damage to the road infrastructure leading to tourist attractions in Bali. Definitely, the stakeholders in Bali tourism should felt embarrassed to tourists who spent holidays in Bali in relation to the poor quality of road to tourist attractions in Bali.

Regional Coordinator of ASITA for Bali, NTB and NTT Region, Bagus Sudibya, also acknowledged that many road infrastructures heading for the tourist objects had been damaged amid the many tourist attractions raising their admission fees. “We did not oppose to the rate increase, but it should be accompanied with improvements of infrastructure,” he said.

According to him, the good quality of road determined the smoothness of traveling, and complaints of tourists due to a less convenient journey could be minimized. If neglected, the damage to road access to tourist attraction would result in the reduction in the tourist visits to the tourist object. (kmb27)

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Private jet makers woo Asia’s super rich Agence France-Presse

AFP PHOTO/Peter PARKS

Shoppers buy trinkets off of a vendor on a street in Shanghai on February 17, 2012. China’s central bank cut the amount of cash banks must hold in reserves on Saturday, boosting lending capacity by an estimated 350-400 billion yuan ($55.6-$63.5 billion) in a bid to crank up credit creation as the world’s second-biggest economy faces a fifth successive quarter of slowing growth.

China to crank up credit as lending, economy slow Reuters

SHANGHAI/BEIJING - China’s central bank cut the amount of cash banks must hold in reserves on Saturday, boosting lending capacity by an estimated 350-400 billion yuan ($55.6$63.5 billion) in a bid to crank up credit creation as the world’s second-biggest economy faces a fifth successive quarter of slowing growth.

The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) is on the course of gentle policy easing to cushion the world’s fastest-growing major economy against stiff global headwinds as Europe’s debt crisis grinds on, although it has been treading warily.

The PBOC cut big banks’ reserve requirement ratio (RRR) by 50 basis points to 20.5 percent, effective from next Friday, after repeatedly defying market expectations for such a move after it first cut the ratio last November.

“It’s not a big surprise. Although they (Chinese leaders) stress policy stability, an RRR cut is necessary.

Trade and monetary data in January pointed to some downward pressure on the economy,” said Hua Zhongwei, an economist at Huachuang Securities in Beijing.

“But policy easing will be gradual given the central bank sounded

cautious about inflation in its fourthquarter monetary policy report.”

China’s economy is likely to slow to an annual growth rate of 8.2 percent in the first quarter from 8.9 percent in the previous quarter, according to the latest Reuters poll.

Data for January came in below market expectations, with exports contracting 0.5 percent from a year earlier and money supply growth falling to 12.4 percent from the previous month’s 13.6 percent, which analysts said argued for more easing.

“The growth implications of the below-normal lending in January are dire, should that lending pace be continued,” said Paul Markowski, President of New York-based MES Advisers, a long-time investment adviser to China’s monetary authorities, who calculates lending was on a 7.9 percent growth path.

“The implication of that is sub-7

percent GDP growth for the year -- a real recession,” he said.

Economists broadly believe China’s economy needs to grow at around 8 percent a year to absorb the annual influx of new entrants to the workforce and rural migrants leaving the land to find jobs in the country’s vast factory sector.

Slower growth also has ramifications for the world economy -- already hampered by decaying demand from debt-ridden Europe and still under-spending U.S. consumers -- given that China now adds more each year to net global growth than any other nation.

China’s leader-in-waiting, Xi Jinpeng, assured an audience of business executives on Los Angeles on Friday that China’s growth would not falter it would continue to rebalance its economy to import more from other countries.

SINGAPORE - If you have money and want to flaunt it, mansions, limousines and yachts are no longer enough. For the super rich of Asia, owning a private jet has become the ultimate status symbol.

Executive-jet makers aiming to woo Asia’s growing ranks of billionaires and multi-millionaires were out in force at the Singapore Airshow, which drew to a close over the weekend.

Brazil’s Embraer had Jackie Chan’s personal Legacy 650 jet -- with a unique white, red and yellow livery inspired by a mythical Chinese dragon -- flown to Singapore for the trade fair.

The Hong Kong-born martial arts movie star, who has a massive following in China, was appointed this month as the company’s first ever brand ambassador.

Chan’s 13-seat plane, which has a list price of $31.5 million, was one of several executive aircraft put on display by exhibitors including Canada’s Bombardier and US-based Gulfstream Aerospace Corp.

“Asia-Pacific, as you all know, is a market that is growing very, very nicely,” Embraer president Ernest Edwards, whose company also makes commercial planes, said at the airshow.

Asia now has the world’s second largest concentration of millionaires after the United States, with China and India producing them at a dizzying rate, according to a study by Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management and Capgemini.

Jet makers are catering to the so-called “ultra high net worth” individuals and families with investable assets of at least $30 million.

Their number rose to 23,000 in Asia in 2010, the report said, while US business magazine Forbes estimates that China alone has close to 150 billionaires.

An entry-level Phenom 100 from Embraer starts at $4.055 million -- a trifling sum, relatively speaking, for the target customer.

Embraer expects that $40-$48 billion worth of executive jets will be sold in Asia in the next 10 years -- half of them in China.

The company delivered its first executive jet in Asia to an unidentified customer in 2004 and now has 40 of them in operation in the region.

Not to be outdone, Gulfstream has opened a sales office in Beijing and set up a joint venture to operate a business jet service centre in the Chinese capital’s international airport.

It will thus be the first private jet company to offer maintenance, repair and overhaul services for its customers in China, said Mark Burns, president of Gulfstream Product Support.

“In the long run, we see this expansion of our service capability as essential to maintaining our number one position in the Chinese market in terms of market share and reputation,” he said.

Gulfstream said almost half of its orders in the third quarter of 2011 came from the Asia-Pacific region, and more than 40 of its planes are now being used in China.

Most recently, Gulfstream received a firm order for 20 jets from China’s Minsheng Leasing firm in October last year.

Jostling for a piece of the Chinese pie is Hong Kong-based Sino Jet, a specialist business aviation firm started in May last year by Chinese businesswoman Jenny Lau, a former private banker.

Lau’s company, hired by superstar Chan to take care of his jet, offers a variety of services to its clients ranging from plane maintenance and sourcing of air crew to flight scheduling and inflight meals.

“I do believe this is a booming industry in China. With cultural advantage and language advantage, I have the absolute advantages of starting this business,” Lau told AFP.

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Singsing Waterfall IBP

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When summer, waterfall volume relatively decrease. Road to the waterfall which is mounting represent the pleasant activity for the activity of “ trekking”. The location is near from area Lovina, reachable even by foot walking from Lovina, making this object a lot visited by the tourist which generally those who live in the area of Lovina.

Not far from singsing waterfall, there are Dutch monument. This Monument is develop/builded by Government of Dutch Colonial to commemorate the killed of its Heroic of Dutch army in Banjar war in the year 1868. About 1956 this monument is broken because assumed to respect colonist.

However in the year 1992 this monument is rebuilt by Local Government of Regency of Dati II Buleleng for the purpose of that history cannot be vanished, beside that monument also symbolise the warrior of Banjar peoples capable

to defeat heroic of Dutch army.

Singsing Waterfall located in Banjar Labuhan Haji the Countryside of Temukus of Subdistrict Banjar, 3 km from Lovina and 13 km from Singaraja.

To go to the this tourism object is reachable with the motor vehicle to majors of countryside Tigawarsa. A signpost sign show the road which must be followed walkedly ( as long as more or less than 600 metre) to come to the first waterfall. To reach the second higher waterfall you have to passing precipitous road.

Park facility developed and laboured by local banjar, and booth have been made available. Local tourist and also foreign countries a lot of visiting waterfall this is because its atmosphere is calm, peace and suited for corporeal freshness.

Waterfall Located in hilly area, giving coastal carpet view of Lovina in North direction, becoming interesting which enough captivate to all tourist.

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Nine swept away in collapsed bridge BOGOR - Nine people were reported to be carried away by the current in Ciampea in Bogor district, West Java, when a suspended bamboo bridge they were crossing collapsed on Sunday.

AP Photo/Gembong Nusantara

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Indonesian youths play puppets traditionally called ‘wayang’ during a carnival commemorating the 267th anniversary of the city of Solo, in Solo Central Java, Indonesia, Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012.

Classic Stage

Monday, February 20, 2012

FPI involved in 34 violence cases in 2010-2011 Antara

JAKARTA - The police have recorded a total of 34 cases of violence or destructive behavior

by FPI (Islam Defenders Front) members across the country in the period 2010-2011, a spokesman said.

“According to our records, the FPI engaged in violence and destructive behavior in 29 cases in 2010 and in 5 cases in 2011 in the following regions: West Java, Banten, Central Java, North Sumatra, and South Sumatra,” Insp Gen Saud Usman Nasution, head of the National Police`s public relations division, said.

So far, he said, the police had mainly played a role in facilitating the central and regional governments in supervising and nurturing existing mass organizations to keep them from taking high-handed or arbitrary actions in exercising their freedom of expression. “There are certain rules that must be observed and if a violation happens, it is our job to legally process it,” he said.

A mass organization could be freezed or disbanded if it had committed or was responsible for certain unlawful acts such as fan-

ning inter-ethnic, inter-religious or inter-racial enmity, discrediting the government, obstructing development, disrupting political and security stability, Saud said.

Before a mass organization was disbanded, the governor, district chief or mayor of the region concerned must reprimand the mass organization involved in writing.

If in three months` time, the warning is ignored, the government can dissolve the organization, he said.

Meanwhile, FPI chairman Habib Rizieq , accompanied by some of his associates, on Friday came to the religious affairs ministry where he was received by Minister Suryadharma Ali and the ministry`s secretary general, Bahrul Hayat.

Habib told reporters he had come to the ministry to explain that the aims of FPI`s struggle were justice and eradicating corruption.

He also said the FPI had undergone a paradigm change.

Referring to the violent incidents that recently happened at the home affairs ministry and a few other places,he said they were no longer characteristic of FPI`s activities. “We have abandoned that paradigm.” he said.

The incident took place at 11.30 am when Bobor district was showered by rain. The rain caused the river water to be muddy and its current to be strong so that it was difficult for rescuers to search the victims.

“We have deployed all members of the Search and Rescue Team and prepared a rubber dingy, but due to the swift and muddy current it is difficult for rescuers to dive. We have put a net about one km in the river`s down stream,” Bogor Fast Reaction Team head Budi Askomo said.

Orangutan hunting still continuing in East Kalimantan

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SAMARINDA - The Center for Orangutan Protection (COP) said orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus moria) continue to be targeted by hunters in East Kalimantan.

Arfiana Khairunnisa COP manager for Kalimantan, said here Saturday the discovery of a wounded orangutan in East Kutai district recently, was proof that the nearextinct and protected mammal was still being hunted and slaughtered.

“The finding of an orangutan with a

bullet embedded in its head and a slash wound on its arm is proof the animals are still being hunted.” Arfiana said.

COP deeply regretted that conflicts between orangutans and humans still occur, especially in forest areas that are the animal’s habitat.

“We ask the law enforcing agencies to investigate how the orangutan came to be injured and who was responsible,” he said.

“Almost all of East Kalimantan is orangutan habitat but the forested area is continuing to shrink and therefore we ask the government to

stop issuing permits for the use of the existing forest areas,” he said.

Meanwhile, Asep Sugiharto, curator of the Kutai National Park, said the park was also an orangutan habitat.

According to a survey conducted in 2009 by Yaya Rayadin, a researcher with Mulawarman University in Samarinda, the orangutan population in the Kutai National Park was about 2,000. But another survey was now underway to determine the present orangutan population in the park which was 198,629 hectares wide.

The Center for Orangutan Protection (COP) said orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus moria) continue to be targeted by hunters in East Kalimantan.

FOTO ANTARA/Regina Safri

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Bali Today AFCTA market, Bali hard to dam invasion of import products Bali Post

DENPASAR - Entering the global market and the current AFCTA, various onslaughts of import products come into Bali. A wide range of quality to the blackmarket products increasingly overwhelms the market. “Invasion of import products is difficult to dam in the global trade, especially after the agreement of AFCTA. As a result, more and more Chinese products are offered in the market,” said the Division Head of Domestic Trade, Bali Industry and Trade Agency, IB Ardhana.

Admittedly, the import products from China ranging from clothing, food, to electronic goods at low prices began to flood Bali. The number of item was more and more with a similar quality to branded products. Differently, the products of China could be offered at cheaper prices. However, there were also people complaining about the cheap products with quality far from it should be.

“Circulation of the import products in the market is difficult to prevent from entering into Bali. It happens because we are currently entering the era of global market so that we cannot stop or restrict the quality of products entering the market,” he said.

According to him, the agency could only conduct surveillance against the products entering the market related to the permit of distribution, use of Indonesian manuals, application of the national standard of Indonesia (SNI) and others.

“Regular supervision has also been applied to the electronic products distributed in the market,” he said.

Supervision was only persuasive, namely starting from the provision of coaching to any businesses that did not meet the requirements like the permit of distribution. The unsalable products or those having no SNI, the business would

be nurtured in order they would not be resold.

He further said that people should not be really brand-minded against overseas products. They should love the domestic products because their quality was not so inferior. To that end, his party hoped the active role of community to jointly conduct surveillance. Among others, it could be done by reporting to the authority when encountering any items that were inappropriate or suspicious.

Meanwhile, an economic analyst, Sri Darma, said that in 2012 employers had no choice but should receive the amount of foreign products coming into Indonesia, especially Bali. Uncontrollable foreign products coming into the country, he admitted, were our mistake, because so far the government only cared about political affairs, economic interest and struggle for power. “As a matter of fact, there has been a rule issued in 1994 addressing and preventing the onslaughts of foreign products into the country.

However, on entering the reform era in 1997 the government and parliament did not even think that our country would face the free trade and the ASEAN economic community. They were very absorbed in political affairs and struggle for power,” he said. (kmb28)

Monday, February 20, 2012

Balinese Culture

From Palm-leaf to Keyboards

Probably, you have watched or are going to watch arja operetta or Ramayana Ballet during the visit in Bali. It would be more convenient if it is enjoyed while having dinner of Balinese cuisine. At the same time, you watch the beauty of culture and taste the delicacy of local culinary.

You may hear the language spoken by players or puppeteer was not understandable. Of course, it is Balinese language.

As Japanese and Chinese, Balinese language also has its own characters. They consist of some 18 main characters and 10 vowel sounds. Ordinarily, Balinese characters are used to write palm-leaf manuscript or lontar. Such characters are incised with sharp knife or stylus. When the writing works have completed, they should be rubbed with a blend of oil and lamp shoot to blacken them. So they are visible easily. Since the works were performed manually, the copying of a manuscript took a long time.

At a glance, Balinese characters look like Old Javanese, Tamil (India). It is inseparable from historical aspect where they had similarity of genealogical lines. Today, Balinese characters still have restricted use, namely at school for local subject from elementary school to senior high school. It is becoming the

responsibility of local government to preserve and develop Balinese language in order it could survive in the midst of the growth of other languages like Bahasa Indonesia and foreign languages.

Balinese language poses a medium and spirit of Balinese culture.

To preserve Balinese culture should also simultaneously maintain and use of Balinese language in daily life. In other words, speaking Balinese language also characterizes one of the identities as a Balinese.

Among the use of other languages, Balinese language should remain to give a space to grow and develop.

Other than speaking and teaching it at schools, it should also accommodate the need of modern community or use in wider functions of language.

Balinese community receives abundant heritages of lontar or palm-leaf manuscripts from the predecessors retained by individuals and museums. They carry many aspects of knowledge, ranging from philosophy, local healing, literature, architecture, agriculture, herbal practice, astrology and so forth.

Therefore, if they could be interpreted and presented in popular language, they could become attractive information for young generation and saleable books for commercial

needs. Today, there is also a trend of poising the tradition with modern science namely by re-interpreting the indigenous wisdoms that are relevant to the current time. People will get balanced inputs from the past and current orientation.

Of course, such treasures will be beneficial for the conservation and future development of Balinese culture because it stays in touch with its original roots. Young generation should be introduced to these roots at early stage. Later, they will not lose their identity and even could feel proud of it. Moreover, it could give them inspiration in making their creativities, either in fine arts, performance, traditional architecture or herbal healings.

Thanks to modern technology, the writing of Balinese characters now can be made easy by Bali Simbar font. It is the innovative thinking of I Made Suatjana (1986) lies behind the composing of this font. His work has helped the writing of Balinese characters in word processing application like Microsoft Word. Hopefully, there would be more creative software helping the development and learning of Balinese language so it would not come into extinction or be far left behind with the modern life. (BTN/punia)

Perkedel Ingredients 2 lb Baking potatoes, boiled and -mashed 1 1/2 ts Salt 1/2 ts Freshly ground pepper 2 ts Ground coriander 1/8 ts Nutmeg 1/4 c Chopped parsley leaves 1 lg Egg 2 tb Peanut oil, plus more for -deep frying 4 Shallots, finely chopped 2 Garlic cloves, minced 1/2 lb Lean ground beef.

Directions In Indonesia, these fritters are served as part of a rijstaffel (rice-table) or as a side dish to embellish a main course. You will find they work well as a delicious appetizer for a Western meal.

Mix together the mashed potatoes, 1 teaspoon of the salt, half the pepper, the coriander, nutmeg, parsley and egg.

Preheat a wok until hot. Add 2 tablespoons of the oil, the shallots and garlic; saute until soft. Add beef and stir to break up clumps; brown until meat is no longer red, about 2 minutes. Season with remaining salt and pepper. Cool.

Combine the meat with the potato mixture. Form into 16 balls and flatten them into cakes about 2 inches round by 1 inch thick. Set on a tray. Refrigerate, if not fried immediately.

Pour 2 inches of oil into a preheated wok. Heat to 365F. Add 4 or 5 cakes, or as many as will fit into the pan without crowding or reducing the temperature of the oil. Deep fry, turning occasionally until golden brown, about 3 minutes. (If preferred, the cakes may be pan-fried in a flat skillet.) Remove to paper towels to drain. Serve hot or at room temperature. (http:// asiarecipe.com)

Satay Ingredients FOTO ANTARA/Nyoman Budhiana

Tourists coming to Bali from Ngurah Rai International Airport. Entering the global market and the current AFCTA, various onslaughts of import products come into Bali. A wide range of quality to the blackmarket products increasingly overwhelms the market.

Bali expanding handicraft market to Russia, Africa Antara

DENPASAR - Bali has begun expanding its overseas handicraft market to Russia and Africa to offset a slump in exports to traditional destinations caused by the global crisis, a local trade and

FOTO ANTARA/ Andreas Fitri Atmoko

International

Craftsman is making a horse statue. Bali has begun expanding its overseas handicraft market to Russia and Africa to offset a slump in exports to traditional destinations caused by the global crisis, a local trade and industry official said.

industry official said.

Bali`s handicraft exports to traditional destinations in the January-September 2011 period dropped 10.22 percent from 167.9 million US dollars to 150.7 million US dollars, according to Putu Bagiada, head of the export section of Bali`s trade and industry office.

The decline was caused by unfavorable world economic conditions, especially in countries that were the traditinal markets for Bali`s handicraft products.

Therefore, Bali had now begun trying to find new markes in Russia and Africa.

So far, only a relatively small volume of handicraft products had been exported to

the alternative markets.

But basically there was great interest for Balinese handicraft items made of wood or metal in Russia and Africa, he said.

One of the handicraft products that had begun to rise in demand in Russia and Africa was ready-made wooden houses, he said.

Bali`s exports of wooden handicraft items such as sculptures and household articles to its traditional markets in the January-September 2011 period reached a total value of 46.9 US dollars or down 21.37 percent from a year earlier when the figure was 59.7 million US dollars.

350 gr beef 1/2 coconut 3 pieces of garlic 4 pieces of red chili peppers 1 spoon brown sugar 10 grams corriander 10 grams kencur 1 lime galanga 1 teaspoon shrimp paste salt and pepper.

Directions Shred beef, shred coconut. Slice garlic and brown it. Heat shrimp paste a little bit. Mix lime juice garlic, chili pepper, brown sugar, corriander, kencur, galanga, shrimp paste in a blender. Mix evenly the beef and coconut with the spice mix. Add salt, pepper, and orange juice. Form thumb-sized pieces from this mix, and stick each on a skewer. Barbecue until done

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Bali Today AFCTA market, Bali hard to dam invasion of import products Bali Post

DENPASAR - Entering the global market and the current AFCTA, various onslaughts of import products come into Bali. A wide range of quality to the blackmarket products increasingly overwhelms the market. “Invasion of import products is difficult to dam in the global trade, especially after the agreement of AFCTA. As a result, more and more Chinese products are offered in the market,” said the Division Head of Domestic Trade, Bali Industry and Trade Agency, IB Ardhana.

Admittedly, the import products from China ranging from clothing, food, to electronic goods at low prices began to flood Bali. The number of item was more and more with a similar quality to branded products. Differently, the products of China could be offered at cheaper prices. However, there were also people complaining about the cheap products with quality far from it should be.

“Circulation of the import products in the market is difficult to prevent from entering into Bali. It happens because we are currently entering the era of global market so that we cannot stop or restrict the quality of products entering the market,” he said.

According to him, the agency could only conduct surveillance against the products entering the market related to the permit of distribution, use of Indonesian manuals, application of the national standard of Indonesia (SNI) and others.

“Regular supervision has also been applied to the electronic products distributed in the market,” he said.

Supervision was only persuasive, namely starting from the provision of coaching to any businesses that did not meet the requirements like the permit of distribution. The unsalable products or those having no SNI, the business would

be nurtured in order they would not be resold.

He further said that people should not be really brand-minded against overseas products. They should love the domestic products because their quality was not so inferior. To that end, his party hoped the active role of community to jointly conduct surveillance. Among others, it could be done by reporting to the authority when encountering any items that were inappropriate or suspicious.

Meanwhile, an economic analyst, Sri Darma, said that in 2012 employers had no choice but should receive the amount of foreign products coming into Indonesia, especially Bali. Uncontrollable foreign products coming into the country, he admitted, were our mistake, because so far the government only cared about political affairs, economic interest and struggle for power. “As a matter of fact, there has been a rule issued in 1994 addressing and preventing the onslaughts of foreign products into the country.

However, on entering the reform era in 1997 the government and parliament did not even think that our country would face the free trade and the ASEAN economic community. They were very absorbed in political affairs and struggle for power,” he said. (kmb28)

Monday, February 20, 2012

Balinese Culture

From Palm-leaf to Keyboards

Probably, you have watched or are going to watch arja operetta or Ramayana Ballet during the visit in Bali. It would be more convenient if it is enjoyed while having dinner of Balinese cuisine. At the same time, you watch the beauty of culture and taste the delicacy of local culinary.

You may hear the language spoken by players or puppeteer was not understandable. Of course, it is Balinese language.

As Japanese and Chinese, Balinese language also has its own characters. They consist of some 18 main characters and 10 vowel sounds. Ordinarily, Balinese characters are used to write palm-leaf manuscript or lontar. Such characters are incised with sharp knife or stylus. When the writing works have completed, they should be rubbed with a blend of oil and lamp shoot to blacken them. So they are visible easily. Since the works were performed manually, the copying of a manuscript took a long time.

At a glance, Balinese characters look like Old Javanese, Tamil (India). It is inseparable from historical aspect where they had similarity of genealogical lines. Today, Balinese characters still have restricted use, namely at school for local subject from elementary school to senior high school. It is becoming the

responsibility of local government to preserve and develop Balinese language in order it could survive in the midst of the growth of other languages like Bahasa Indonesia and foreign languages.

Balinese language poses a medium and spirit of Balinese culture.

To preserve Balinese culture should also simultaneously maintain and use of Balinese language in daily life. In other words, speaking Balinese language also characterizes one of the identities as a Balinese.

Among the use of other languages, Balinese language should remain to give a space to grow and develop.

Other than speaking and teaching it at schools, it should also accommodate the need of modern community or use in wider functions of language.

Balinese community receives abundant heritages of lontar or palm-leaf manuscripts from the predecessors retained by individuals and museums. They carry many aspects of knowledge, ranging from philosophy, local healing, literature, architecture, agriculture, herbal practice, astrology and so forth.

Therefore, if they could be interpreted and presented in popular language, they could become attractive information for young generation and saleable books for commercial

needs. Today, there is also a trend of poising the tradition with modern science namely by re-interpreting the indigenous wisdoms that are relevant to the current time. People will get balanced inputs from the past and current orientation.

Of course, such treasures will be beneficial for the conservation and future development of Balinese culture because it stays in touch with its original roots. Young generation should be introduced to these roots at early stage. Later, they will not lose their identity and even could feel proud of it. Moreover, it could give them inspiration in making their creativities, either in fine arts, performance, traditional architecture or herbal healings.

Thanks to modern technology, the writing of Balinese characters now can be made easy by Bali Simbar font. It is the innovative thinking of I Made Suatjana (1986) lies behind the composing of this font. His work has helped the writing of Balinese characters in word processing application like Microsoft Word. Hopefully, there would be more creative software helping the development and learning of Balinese language so it would not come into extinction or be far left behind with the modern life. (BTN/punia)

Perkedel Ingredients 2 lb Baking potatoes, boiled and -mashed 1 1/2 ts Salt 1/2 ts Freshly ground pepper 2 ts Ground coriander 1/8 ts Nutmeg 1/4 c Chopped parsley leaves 1 lg Egg 2 tb Peanut oil, plus more for -deep frying 4 Shallots, finely chopped 2 Garlic cloves, minced 1/2 lb Lean ground beef.

Directions In Indonesia, these fritters are served as part of a rijstaffel (rice-table) or as a side dish to embellish a main course. You will find they work well as a delicious appetizer for a Western meal.

Mix together the mashed potatoes, 1 teaspoon of the salt, half the pepper, the coriander, nutmeg, parsley and egg.

Preheat a wok until hot. Add 2 tablespoons of the oil, the shallots and garlic; saute until soft. Add beef and stir to break up clumps; brown until meat is no longer red, about 2 minutes. Season with remaining salt and pepper. Cool.

Combine the meat with the potato mixture. Form into 16 balls and flatten them into cakes about 2 inches round by 1 inch thick. Set on a tray. Refrigerate, if not fried immediately.

Pour 2 inches of oil into a preheated wok. Heat to 365F. Add 4 or 5 cakes, or as many as will fit into the pan without crowding or reducing the temperature of the oil. Deep fry, turning occasionally until golden brown, about 3 minutes. (If preferred, the cakes may be pan-fried in a flat skillet.) Remove to paper towels to drain. Serve hot or at room temperature. (http:// asiarecipe.com)

Satay Ingredients FOTO ANTARA/Nyoman Budhiana

Tourists coming to Bali from Ngurah Rai International Airport. Entering the global market and the current AFCTA, various onslaughts of import products come into Bali. A wide range of quality to the blackmarket products increasingly overwhelms the market.

Bali expanding handicraft market to Russia, Africa Antara

DENPASAR - Bali has begun expanding its overseas handicraft market to Russia and Africa to offset a slump in exports to traditional destinations caused by the global crisis, a local trade and

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Craftsman is making a horse statue. Bali has begun expanding its overseas handicraft market to Russia and Africa to offset a slump in exports to traditional destinations caused by the global crisis, a local trade and industry official said.

industry official said.

Bali`s handicraft exports to traditional destinations in the January-September 2011 period dropped 10.22 percent from 167.9 million US dollars to 150.7 million US dollars, according to Putu Bagiada, head of the export section of Bali`s trade and industry office.

The decline was caused by unfavorable world economic conditions, especially in countries that were the traditinal markets for Bali`s handicraft products.

Therefore, Bali had now begun trying to find new markes in Russia and Africa.

So far, only a relatively small volume of handicraft products had been exported to

the alternative markets.

But basically there was great interest for Balinese handicraft items made of wood or metal in Russia and Africa, he said.

One of the handicraft products that had begun to rise in demand in Russia and Africa was ready-made wooden houses, he said.

Bali`s exports of wooden handicraft items such as sculptures and household articles to its traditional markets in the January-September 2011 period reached a total value of 46.9 US dollars or down 21.37 percent from a year earlier when the figure was 59.7 million US dollars.

350 gr beef 1/2 coconut 3 pieces of garlic 4 pieces of red chili peppers 1 spoon brown sugar 10 grams corriander 10 grams kencur 1 lime galanga 1 teaspoon shrimp paste salt and pepper.

Directions Shred beef, shred coconut. Slice garlic and brown it. Heat shrimp paste a little bit. Mix lime juice garlic, chili pepper, brown sugar, corriander, kencur, galanga, shrimp paste in a blender. Mix evenly the beef and coconut with the spice mix. Add salt, pepper, and orange juice. Form thumb-sized pieces from this mix, and stick each on a skewer. Barbecue until done

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When summer, waterfall volume relatively decrease. Road to the waterfall which is mounting represent the pleasant activity for the activity of “ trekking”. The location is near from area Lovina, reachable even by foot walking from Lovina, making this object a lot visited by the tourist which generally those who live in the area of Lovina.

Not far from singsing waterfall, there are Dutch monument. This Monument is develop/builded by Government of Dutch Colonial to commemorate the killed of its Heroic of Dutch army in Banjar war in the year 1868. About 1956 this monument is broken because assumed to respect colonist.

However in the year 1992 this monument is rebuilt by Local Government of Regency of Dati II Buleleng for the purpose of that history cannot be vanished, beside that monument also symbolise the warrior of Banjar peoples capable

to defeat heroic of Dutch army.

Singsing Waterfall located in Banjar Labuhan Haji the Countryside of Temukus of Subdistrict Banjar, 3 km from Lovina and 13 km from Singaraja.

To go to the this tourism object is reachable with the motor vehicle to majors of countryside Tigawarsa. A signpost sign show the road which must be followed walkedly ( as long as more or less than 600 metre) to come to the first waterfall. To reach the second higher waterfall you have to passing precipitous road.

Park facility developed and laboured by local banjar, and booth have been made available. Local tourist and also foreign countries a lot of visiting waterfall this is because its atmosphere is calm, peace and suited for corporeal freshness.

Waterfall Located in hilly area, giving coastal carpet view of Lovina in North direction, becoming interesting which enough captivate to all tourist.

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Nine swept away in collapsed bridge BOGOR - Nine people were reported to be carried away by the current in Ciampea in Bogor district, West Java, when a suspended bamboo bridge they were crossing collapsed on Sunday.

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Indonesian youths play puppets traditionally called ‘wayang’ during a carnival commemorating the 267th anniversary of the city of Solo, in Solo Central Java, Indonesia, Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012.

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FPI involved in 34 violence cases in 2010-2011 Antara

JAKARTA - The police have recorded a total of 34 cases of violence or destructive behavior

by FPI (Islam Defenders Front) members across the country in the period 2010-2011, a spokesman said.

“According to our records, the FPI engaged in violence and destructive behavior in 29 cases in 2010 and in 5 cases in 2011 in the following regions: West Java, Banten, Central Java, North Sumatra, and South Sumatra,” Insp Gen Saud Usman Nasution, head of the National Police`s public relations division, said.

So far, he said, the police had mainly played a role in facilitating the central and regional governments in supervising and nurturing existing mass organizations to keep them from taking high-handed or arbitrary actions in exercising their freedom of expression. “There are certain rules that must be observed and if a violation happens, it is our job to legally process it,” he said.

A mass organization could be freezed or disbanded if it had committed or was responsible for certain unlawful acts such as fan-

ning inter-ethnic, inter-religious or inter-racial enmity, discrediting the government, obstructing development, disrupting political and security stability, Saud said.

Before a mass organization was disbanded, the governor, district chief or mayor of the region concerned must reprimand the mass organization involved in writing.

If in three months` time, the warning is ignored, the government can dissolve the organization, he said.

Meanwhile, FPI chairman Habib Rizieq , accompanied by some of his associates, on Friday came to the religious affairs ministry where he was received by Minister Suryadharma Ali and the ministry`s secretary general, Bahrul Hayat.

Habib told reporters he had come to the ministry to explain that the aims of FPI`s struggle were justice and eradicating corruption.

He also said the FPI had undergone a paradigm change.

Referring to the violent incidents that recently happened at the home affairs ministry and a few other places,he said they were no longer characteristic of FPI`s activities. “We have abandoned that paradigm.” he said.

The incident took place at 11.30 am when Bobor district was showered by rain. The rain caused the river water to be muddy and its current to be strong so that it was difficult for rescuers to search the victims.

“We have deployed all members of the Search and Rescue Team and prepared a rubber dingy, but due to the swift and muddy current it is difficult for rescuers to dive. We have put a net about one km in the river`s down stream,” Bogor Fast Reaction Team head Budi Askomo said.

Orangutan hunting still continuing in East Kalimantan

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SAMARINDA - The Center for Orangutan Protection (COP) said orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus moria) continue to be targeted by hunters in East Kalimantan.

Arfiana Khairunnisa COP manager for Kalimantan, said here Saturday the discovery of a wounded orangutan in East Kutai district recently, was proof that the nearextinct and protected mammal was still being hunted and slaughtered.

“The finding of an orangutan with a

bullet embedded in its head and a slash wound on its arm is proof the animals are still being hunted.” Arfiana said.

COP deeply regretted that conflicts between orangutans and humans still occur, especially in forest areas that are the animal’s habitat.

“We ask the law enforcing agencies to investigate how the orangutan came to be injured and who was responsible,” he said.

“Almost all of East Kalimantan is orangutan habitat but the forested area is continuing to shrink and therefore we ask the government to

stop issuing permits for the use of the existing forest areas,” he said.

Meanwhile, Asep Sugiharto, curator of the Kutai National Park, said the park was also an orangutan habitat.

According to a survey conducted in 2009 by Yaya Rayadin, a researcher with Mulawarman University in Samarinda, the orangutan population in the Kutai National Park was about 2,000. But another survey was now underway to determine the present orangutan population in the park which was 198,629 hectares wide.

The Center for Orangutan Protection (COP) said orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus moria) continue to be targeted by hunters in East Kalimantan.

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This file photo shows a pile up of vehicles after a recent crash along a highway in China. At least 28 people have been killed and dozens injured in three bus crashes in one day in southern China, state media reported on Sunday

China bus crashes kill 28 in one day: state media Agence France Presse

At least 28 people have been killed and dozens injured in three bus crashes in one day in southern China, state media reported Sunday.

A bus overturned on a mountainous road in southwestern Yunnan province late Saturday, killing at least nine passengers and injuring 24, Xinhua news agency said.

The injured were all taken to local hospitals, and the cause of the crash is under investigation, the report said.

The bus, which was carrying 37 passengers, started its journey in the city of Chuxiong and was bound for

the tourist town of Dali.

In neighbouring Guizhou province, 13 people were killed and 22 injured when the tyre of the bus they were riding in blew out, causing the vehicle to career off the road, Xinhua said.

In the southern Guangxi region, six people were killed when their bus collided with a truck, Xinhua said.

China’s roads are among the

world’s most dangerous, with traffic laws and safety widely flouted.

According to police statistics, about 70,000 people die and 300,000 are injured in road accidents every year in China, Xinhua said.

But the World Health Organisation said in a recent study the true figure is almost twice that number, citing hospital and medical clinic statistics.

Clashes in Senegal ahead of presidential poll Reuters

DAKAR - Senegalese police fired tear gas and chased protesters from the center of the West African nation’s capital Saturday in a fourth day of protest against the candidacy of incumbent President Abdoulaye Wade in the February 26 presidential poll.

As about 23,000 security personnel including the police and army voted in early balloting Saturday, protesters took to the streets, strewn with debris from the previous night’s protest, setting up barricades, burning tires and trash, and clashing with riot police.

The protesters are trying to gain access to Dakar’s Independence Square, near the presidential palace,

but have been pushed back by riot police using tear gas and water cannons. The government has banned all opposition protest around the square citing security reasons.

Opposition leaders and civil society group M-23 have vowed to make the country ungovernable if Wade does not step down and withdraw his bid to seek a third term, arguing that his bid breaches rules setting a two-term presidential limit.

Authorities said a 21-year-old tailor died in the city of Kaolack, about 190 km (125 miles) southeast of Dakar, from wounds he suffered during a protest Friday.

At least five people have been killed in street clashes since last month when Wade’s candidacy was validated by the country’s top legal

body. World leaders have called on all sides to show restraint, warning the West African nation’s democratic credentials are at stake.

Leaders of the West African regional bloc ECOWAS, meeting in Nigeria Friday, said they would send a joint mission with the African Union, headed by former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, to engage Senegalese politicians in dialogue.

“I’m counting on President Obasanjo to come and look at President Wade eye-to-eye and tell him that at nearly 90 years old, it is time to retire,” said Cheikh Tidiane Gadio, a former foreign minister in Wade’s government who is one of the 13 candidates in the presidential poll.

Houston died last Saturday in Beverly Hills, Calif., on the eve of the Grammys at the age of 48. Her death marked the end of a life that was marked by stunning achievements: Blessed with a voice of great power and beauty, Houston became one of pop music’s most successful artists over a career that spanned nearly three decades and segued into film with hits like “The Bodyguard.”

Kevin Costner, her co-star in “The Bodyguard,” said for all of Houston’s beauty and success, she was still yearning for approval from the public — and still somewhat insecure, a superstar who “still wondered, ‘Am I good enough? Am I pretty enough? Will they like me?’”

“It’s a tree we could all hang from — the unexplainable burden that comes with fame,” he said. “Call it doubt. call it fear. I’ve had mine. And I know the famous in the room have had theirs.”

Many who spoke talked about Houston’s unshakable faith in Jesus Christ, which got her through some of her most difficult times. Perry recalled a conversation where Houston would look sad when reflecting on her troubles, but then would hasten to add that God was taking care of her.

Fittingly, music played a major role in the send-off to one of music’s greatest voices.

Stevie Wonder rewrote lyrics to “Ribbon in the Sky” for Houston — “you will always be a ribbon in the sky,” he sang.

And Keys, her voice breaking at times, dedicated her song “Send Me An Angel,” to Houston.

Brown briefly appeared at her funeral, walking to the casket, touching it and walking out. He later said in a statement that he and his children were asked repeatedly to move and he left rather than risk creating a scene.

Close family friend Aretha Franklin, whom Houston lovingly called “Aunt Ree,” had been expected to sing at the service, but said early Saturday she was too ill to attend. Franklin said in an email to The Associated Press that she had been up most of the night with leg spasms and sent best wishes to the family. Saturday night, Franklin performed at Radio City Music Hall and remembered Houston with a light gospel rendition of “I Will Always Love You.” Warwick presided over the funeral, introducing speakers and singers and offering short insights about her cousin; she joked that Houston’s Super Bowl performance of “The Star Spangled Banner” became almost as big as the telephone book.

As the funeral began, mourners fell quiet as three police officers escorted Houston’s casket, draped with white roses and purple lilies. White-robed choir members began to fill the pews on the podium. As the band played softly, the choir sang in a hushed voice, “Whitney, Whitney, Whitney.”

To the world, Houston was the pop queen with the perfect voice, the dazzling diva with regal beauty, a troubled superstar suffering from addiction and, finally, another victim of the dark side of fame. To her family and friends, she was just “Nippy.” A nickname given to Houston when she was a child, it stuck with her through adulthood and, later, would become the name of one of her companies.

Houston is to be buried Sunday next to her father, John Houston, in nearby Westfield, N.J.

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From page 1 The tourism perpetrator who is also Chairman of the Central Executive Board of the Indonesian Tour Guides Association (HPI) stated the road access to tourist attractions was a vital infrastructure. For instance, the road section from Payangan to Kintamani was a shortcut from the South Bali to North Bali. Unfortunately, quality of the roads had been decreasing.

“This damage has occurred since the enforcement of local autonomy.

Public officials are only busy to manage the regional budget and political issues,” he said.

According to him, the government should not only keep silent when observing the damage to the road infrastructure leading to tourist attractions in Bali. Definitely, the stakeholders in Bali tourism should felt embarrassed to tourists who spent holidays in Bali in relation to the poor quality of road to tourist attractions in Bali.

Regional Coordinator of ASITA for Bali, NTB and NTT Region, Bagus Sudibya, also acknowledged that many road infrastructures heading for the tourist objects had been damaged amid the many tourist attractions raising their admission fees. “We did not oppose to the rate increase, but it should be accompanied with improvements of infrastructure,” he said.

According to him, the good quality of road determined the smoothness of traveling, and complaints of tourists due to a less convenient journey could be minimized. If neglected, the damage to road access to tourist attraction would result in the reduction in the tourist visits to the tourist object. (kmb27)

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Private jet makers woo Asia’s super rich Agence France-Presse

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Shoppers buy trinkets off of a vendor on a street in Shanghai on February 17, 2012. China’s central bank cut the amount of cash banks must hold in reserves on Saturday, boosting lending capacity by an estimated 350-400 billion yuan ($55.6-$63.5 billion) in a bid to crank up credit creation as the world’s second-biggest economy faces a fifth successive quarter of slowing growth.

China to crank up credit as lending, economy slow Reuters

SHANGHAI/BEIJING - China’s central bank cut the amount of cash banks must hold in reserves on Saturday, boosting lending capacity by an estimated 350-400 billion yuan ($55.6$63.5 billion) in a bid to crank up credit creation as the world’s second-biggest economy faces a fifth successive quarter of slowing growth.

The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) is on the course of gentle policy easing to cushion the world’s fastest-growing major economy against stiff global headwinds as Europe’s debt crisis grinds on, although it has been treading warily.

The PBOC cut big banks’ reserve requirement ratio (RRR) by 50 basis points to 20.5 percent, effective from next Friday, after repeatedly defying market expectations for such a move after it first cut the ratio last November.

“It’s not a big surprise. Although they (Chinese leaders) stress policy stability, an RRR cut is necessary.

Trade and monetary data in January pointed to some downward pressure on the economy,” said Hua Zhongwei, an economist at Huachuang Securities in Beijing.

“But policy easing will be gradual given the central bank sounded

cautious about inflation in its fourthquarter monetary policy report.”

China’s economy is likely to slow to an annual growth rate of 8.2 percent in the first quarter from 8.9 percent in the previous quarter, according to the latest Reuters poll.

Data for January came in below market expectations, with exports contracting 0.5 percent from a year earlier and money supply growth falling to 12.4 percent from the previous month’s 13.6 percent, which analysts said argued for more easing.

“The growth implications of the below-normal lending in January are dire, should that lending pace be continued,” said Paul Markowski, President of New York-based MES Advisers, a long-time investment adviser to China’s monetary authorities, who calculates lending was on a 7.9 percent growth path.

“The implication of that is sub-7

percent GDP growth for the year -- a real recession,” he said.

Economists broadly believe China’s economy needs to grow at around 8 percent a year to absorb the annual influx of new entrants to the workforce and rural migrants leaving the land to find jobs in the country’s vast factory sector.

Slower growth also has ramifications for the world economy -- already hampered by decaying demand from debt-ridden Europe and still under-spending U.S. consumers -- given that China now adds more each year to net global growth than any other nation.

China’s leader-in-waiting, Xi Jinpeng, assured an audience of business executives on Los Angeles on Friday that China’s growth would not falter it would continue to rebalance its economy to import more from other countries.

SINGAPORE - If you have money and want to flaunt it, mansions, limousines and yachts are no longer enough. For the super rich of Asia, owning a private jet has become the ultimate status symbol.

Executive-jet makers aiming to woo Asia’s growing ranks of billionaires and multi-millionaires were out in force at the Singapore Airshow, which drew to a close over the weekend.

Brazil’s Embraer had Jackie Chan’s personal Legacy 650 jet -- with a unique white, red and yellow livery inspired by a mythical Chinese dragon -- flown to Singapore for the trade fair.

The Hong Kong-born martial arts movie star, who has a massive following in China, was appointed this month as the company’s first ever brand ambassador.

Chan’s 13-seat plane, which has a list price of $31.5 million, was one of several executive aircraft put on display by exhibitors including Canada’s Bombardier and US-based Gulfstream Aerospace Corp.

“Asia-Pacific, as you all know, is a market that is growing very, very nicely,” Embraer president Ernest Edwards, whose company also makes commercial planes, said at the airshow.

Asia now has the world’s second largest concentration of millionaires after the United States, with China and India producing them at a dizzying rate, according to a study by Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management and Capgemini.

Jet makers are catering to the so-called “ultra high net worth” individuals and families with investable assets of at least $30 million.

Their number rose to 23,000 in Asia in 2010, the report said, while US business magazine Forbes estimates that China alone has close to 150 billionaires.

An entry-level Phenom 100 from Embraer starts at $4.055 million -- a trifling sum, relatively speaking, for the target customer.

Embraer expects that $40-$48 billion worth of executive jets will be sold in Asia in the next 10 years -- half of them in China.

The company delivered its first executive jet in Asia to an unidentified customer in 2004 and now has 40 of them in operation in the region.

Not to be outdone, Gulfstream has opened a sales office in Beijing and set up a joint venture to operate a business jet service centre in the Chinese capital’s international airport.

It will thus be the first private jet company to offer maintenance, repair and overhaul services for its customers in China, said Mark Burns, president of Gulfstream Product Support.

“In the long run, we see this expansion of our service capability as essential to maintaining our number one position in the Chinese market in terms of market share and reputation,” he said.

Gulfstream said almost half of its orders in the third quarter of 2011 came from the Asia-Pacific region, and more than 40 of its planes are now being used in China.

Most recently, Gulfstream received a firm order for 20 jets from China’s Minsheng Leasing firm in October last year.

Jostling for a piece of the Chinese pie is Hong Kong-based Sino Jet, a specialist business aviation firm started in May last year by Chinese businesswoman Jenny Lau, a former private banker.

Lau’s company, hired by superstar Chan to take care of his jet, offers a variety of services to its clients ranging from plane maintenance and sourcing of air crew to flight scheduling and inflight meals.

“I do believe this is a booming industry in China. With cultural advantage and language advantage, I have the absolute advantages of starting this business,” Lau told AFP.

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Ali smiles as Wonder, others sing Happy Birthday

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The director, cast and producers of “The Help” (L-R) producers Brunson Green,Chris Columbus, actresses Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, director Tate Taylor and producer Michael Barnathan pose with the Image Award for best motion picture at the 43rd NAACP Image Awards in Los Angeles, California February 17, 2012.

“The Help” wins big at Image Awards; Houston remembered Reuters

LOS ANGELES - “The Help,” which chronicled the experiences of black maids in the 1960s, and the comedy “Jumping the Broom” were honored at the NAACP Image Awards on Friday, and the life and career of Whitney Houston was celebrated with rousing gospel songs a week after the singer’s untimely death.

The box-office hit about black maids speaking out against their white employers in Mississippi in the early 1960s won best movie and acting awards for Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer. The film, Davis and Spencer have been nominated for Academy Awards.

Davis said “The Help” was an important movie because “the maid hadn’t been humanized before. I felt she remained a cardboard cut-out” before the movie was made. “Jump-

ing the Broom” also took home three award, for best actor Laz Alonso, Salim Akil and supporting actor Mike Epps.

The two-hour ceremony recognizing the accomplishments of people of color was tinged with grief over the death on Saturday of Houston, best known for her hit song “I Will Always Love You.” Yolanda Adams, singing with a gospel choir, led the tribute on Friday, belting out a version of “I Love the Lord” from Houston’s

film “The Preacher’s Wife” after video clips of a smiling Houston were shown receiving NAACP awards in the 1990s.

Presenter Sanaa Latham, one of the stars of the movie “Contagion,” asked the audience to remember Houston as “a loving mother and extraordinary performer.” The show closed with NAACP best gospel album winner Kirk Franklin singing a version of another Houston hit, “The Greatest Love of All.” Private funeral services will be held for Houston, 48, in her Newark, New Jersey, hometown on Saturday.

The singer, who struggled with drug and alcohol addiction for years, was found dead in the bathtub of a Beverly Hills hotel. The cause is still under investigation.

Aretha remembers Whitney at Radio City

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Aretha Franklin was thankful to be alive Saturday night and thinking about lost friends, among them Whitney Houston. Hours after she canceled an appearance at Houston’s funeral because of spasms in her legs, the “Queen of Soul” (the “undisputed” Queen, the capacity audience was reminded by the show’s announcer) was quick on her feet, feisty in voice and sentimental and sassy in spirit at Radio City Music Hall.

It was the latest stop on a “greatest hits” tour featuring old favorites and, since Houston’s shocking death a week ago, a tribute to her fallen goddaughter.

Franklin herself was rumored a year

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lowed along.

Combs pinched Ali’s cheeks LAS VEGAS — A casino and whispered in his ear, then owner paid more than a million closed out the nearly 5-hour gala dollars for boxing gloves Mu- by professing his deep admirahammad Ali used to defend his tion for the fighter. Ali’s eyes title. Samuel L. Jackson dedi- widened. He pointed at Combs, cated a rendition of “Stand By then back at his own head, twirlMe” to the boxer. And President ing his index finger as if to tell Barack Obama told the icon in a Combs he’s crazy. birthday tribute that he inspired “The greatest of all time,” the world.

Combs said after leading the By the end of the night, all crowd in shouting “Happy birthAli needed to do to capture the day, Ali.” The moment closed out hearts of 2,000 revelers in Las the celebration of Ali’s life and Vegas Saturday was go onstage fundraiser to generate millions and smile. Ali sat next to Stevie of dollars for brain research, Wonder, who played keyboards a mission Ali’s family says is and sang his version of “Happy important to him in part because Birthday,” while stars including of his nearly 30-year battle with Sean “Diddy” Combs, Kelly Parkinson’s disease.

Rowland, LL Cool J, Quincy “Happy birthday, champ,” Jones, Sugar Ray Leonard and Obama told Ali through a video boxing promoter Bob Arum fol- message, saying he wished he could have attended a swanky dinner gala in Las Vegas featuring some of the biggest names in sports, film, television and music.

“As a fighter, you were something spectacular,” Obama told Ali, who turned 70 last month.

“You shocked the world, and you inspired it, too.

And even after all the titles and legendary bouts, you’re still doing it.”

A set of gloves Ali used to defeat Floyd Patterson in 1965 in Las Vegas — the first heavyweight title fight in Sin City — sold for $1.1 million. It came with one of the original posters used to promote the fight, which AP Photo/Jeff Bottari had Muhammad Ali’s choFormer boxer Chuck Wepner arrives sen name as a subscript to at the Keep Memory Alive 16th An- Cassius Clay, the name he nual “Power of Love Gala” honoring was born with. When Ali Muhammad Ali with his 70th birthday converted to Islam, many celebration on Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012, people resisted calling him in Las Vegas. by his new name.

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ago to be mortally ill, hospitalized with an undisclosed illness and asking her fans worldwide to pray for her health. On Saturday, the 69-year-old singer looked young enough to joke about a man who had mistaken her for being in her 50s.

She danced and shimmied, kicked off her heels and paced the stage barefoot, and even smirked and gave herself a couple of satisfied pats on the rear.

She looked back over a 50-year career and those who helped her along. Franklin praised the late Luther Vandross as she kicked off the R&B hit he wrote for her, “Get It Right.” She introduced her most heartbreaking ballad, “Ain’t No Way,” with a brief word about her sister and the song’s composer, Carolyn

Franklin, who died in 1988.

She sang the title from the classic Motown anthem of devotion, “You’re All I Need To Get By,” and two giant flat screens on opposite sides of the stage flashed a picture of one of the writers, Nick Ashford, who died last summer.

Franklin then called out to Ashford’s widow and songwriting partner, Valerie Simpson, among several friends and family members in attendance.

Houston’s turn came during the second half of the roughly 100-minute concert, after Franklin had changed from a glittery green and silver caftan into a caftan of white and gold, and settled behind the piano and sketched out the words and melody to “I Will Always Love You.”

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Temple Ceremony 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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In this July 26, 2010 photo, performer Aretha Franklin looks out a window, in Philadelphia.

JAKARTA – Aston International and PT. Nyiur Mas Mandiri celebrated the ground breaking of Luwuk’s largest and most important hotel development to date, the Aston Luwuk Hotel & Conference Center.

The Aston Luwuk Hotel & Conference Center was conceptualized to support Luwuk’s development by providing international standard accommodations and conference facilities to the city’s growing industry and commerce. The future Aston will features 92 oversized guest rooms and suites and a wide range of facilities befitting of an international hotel including an all day restaurant, a coffee shop , a swimming pool, several meeting rooms and a grand ballroom for up to 1000 persons.

Luwuk is the capital city of Indonesia’s Banggai Regency, located in the eastern

part of Central Sulawesi and is known for the beauty of its natural surroundings offering various attractions such as the Salodik and Tontoun waterfalls, Lalong Bay, and the pristine Bua Lemo Beach.

Aston International has in recent years been on the forefront of hotel developments throughout the Indonesian archipelago focusing not only on major destinations such as Jakarta and Bali but also on up and coming regional centers.

“We aim to offer Indonesia’s largest and most consistent network of first class business and conference hotels. Aston currently has a portfolio of more than 40 hotels stretching as far West as Medan in Sumatra and as far East as Jayapura in Papua and we are set to open a new hotel literally every second week from now until the end of 2013,” commented Norbert Vas, Aston’s Vice President of Sales & Marketing.

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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Thousands rally for Putin before Russian election

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Republican Presidential Candidate Rick Santorum speaks during a Tea Party Rally in Columbus, Ohio February 18, 2012.

Santorum says Obama agenda not “based on Bible”

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COLUMBUS, Ohio - Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum challenged President Barack Obama’s Christian beliefs on Saturday, saying White House policies were motivated by a “different theology.”

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Flags with portraits of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin are displayed during a car rally to show support for Putin’s presidential candidacy in Moscow February 18, 2012.

A devout Roman Catholic who has risen to the top of Republican polls in recent days, Santorum said the Obama administration had failed to prevent gas prices rising and was using “political science” in the debate about climate change.

Obama’s agenda is “not about you.

It’s not about your quality of life. It’s not about your jobs. It’s about some phony ideal. Some phony theology.

Oh, not a theology based on the Bible.

A different theology,” Santorum told supporters of the conservative Tea Party movement at a Columbus hotel.

When asked about the statement

at a news conference later, Santorum said, “If the president says he’s a Christian, he’s a Christian.”

But Santorum did not back down from the assertion that Obama’s values run against those of Christianity.

“He is imposing his values on the Christian church. He can categorize those values anyway he wants. I’m not going to,” Santorum told reporters.

A social conservative, Santorum is increasingly seen as a champion for evangelical Christians in fights with Democrats over contraception and gay marriage.

“This is just the latest low in

a Republican primary campaign that has been fueled by distortions, ugliness, and searing pessimism and negativity - a stark contrast with the President who is focused everyday on creating jobs and restoring economic security for the middle class,” said Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt.

The campaign’s response signaled a new respect for Santorum.

Until this week, the Obama campaign appeared exclusively focused on Mitt Romney. Republicans are waging a state-by-state contest to pick a candidate to challenge Obama in November’s election.

At a campaign appearance in Florida last month, Santorum declined to correct a voter who called Obama, a Christian, an “avowed Muslim.”

Bird flu still a menace in Asia and beyond

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In this photo taken on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012, Nguyen Quang Duong, left, the owner of a poultry farm in Nhat Tan commune, Kim Bang district, Ha Nam province, Vietnam, stands still as a health worker wearing a protective gear sprays disinfectant at Duong’s farm where a suspected outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus among ducks was discovered in early February 2012.

Associated Press Writer

HANOI, Vietnam — Thought bird flu was gone? Recent human deaths in Asia and Egypt are a reminder that the H5N1 virus is still alive and dangerous, and Vietnam is grappling with a new strain that has outsmarted vaccines used to protect poultry flocks. Ten people have died in Cambodia, Indonesia, Egypt, China and Vietnam since December during the prime-time flu season when the virus typically flares in poultry.

“We are worried, and we will be very cautious,” said To Long Thanh, director of Vietnam’s Center for Animal Health Diagnostics in Vietnam.

The H5N1 virus has killed 345 people worldwide since 2003, when it rampaged across large swaths of Asia decimating poultry stocks before later surfacing in parts of Africa, the Middle East and Europe. The number of poultry outbreaks has greatly diminished since then, but the virus remains entrenched in several countries and continues to surface sporadically,

resulting in 20 to 30 human deaths globally in recent years.

Bird flu remains hard for people to catch, with most people sickened after being in close contact with infected poultry, but experts have long feared it could spark a pandemic if it mutates into a form that spreads easily among people.

The fresh wave of cases comes amid a controversy involving scientists who created new lab-only versions of the virus that spread more easily among animals, hoping

Leadership tensions within Australia’s ruling Labor party have erupted with the release of a video showing ex-prime minister Kevin Rudd on an expletive-ridden rant about a Chinese interpreter. The two-minute video, uploaded onto YouTube by a mystery user calling themselves “HappyVegemiteKR”, shows an irate Rudd trying to record a message in Mandarin and railing against the embassy official who wrote the text.

Rudd was ousted as leader in a shock partyroom coup in June 2010 by his deputy, Julia Gillard, who scraped back into power at elections and is now badly lagging in the polls.

Speculation has intensified in recent weeks that Rudd, currently Australia’s foreign minister, is preparing to challenge for the top job.

He denied this but said a suspicious person would question the “unusual” timing of the video’s release, given that it was shot several years ago when he was still prime minister.

Such out-takes footage is usually destroyed but Rudd said the video in question had clearly been archived by the prime minister’s office or some other government department. Gillard’s office denied leaking the footage.

Rudd also insisted that he was a changed man and had learned to be less controlling and to consult more broadly -- two key criticisms that saw him lose office.

“As to whether (I have) changed in any fundamental way, that’s a judgement for others to make, but I’ve certainly reflected a lot in the past several years,” Rudd told Sky News.

He said he was “embarrassed” by the swearing

and he had been frustrated with himself, not the interpreter. Independent lawmaker Andrew Wilkie fuelled speculation of a challenge to Gillard, claiming that he and Rudd discussed the issue back in November and he “clearly wants the job back”.

“There will be a challenge and I suspect he may well be successful,” said Wilkie.

Gillard admitted that the leadership tensions were hurting her government.

“This kind of focus over the last few weeks means it’s more difficult for me to be out there ex p l a i n i n g to people what’s happening in our economy,” Gillard said.

to better understand it. After a loud uproar over whether publishing the research would put the recipe for a bioweapon into the hands of terrorists, the researchers have agreed to temporarily halt their work.

They are set to wrap up a two-day meeting on the issue Friday with international experts at the World Health Organization in Geneva.

After the meeting, WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl told The Associated Press the work would not be published until a full discussion could be held about both the risks and benefits of the research and risks of the virus itself. He said the consensus among experts voiced by a lead researcher was that the work should be published eventually since there was only a small chance the virus could be used as a bioweapon.

Wildfires, peat fires and controlled burns on farming lands kill 339,000 people worldwide each year, said a study released on Saturday that is the first to estimate a death toll for landscape fires. Most of those deaths are concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa, where an estimated 157,000 people die as a result of being exposed to such fires annually, with southeast Asia ranking second with 110,000 deaths.

“I was surprised at our estimate being so high when you consider that the exposure to fire smoke is quite intermittent for most people,” said lead author Fay Johnston of the University of Tasmania. “Even in southeast Asia and Africa, (fire) is a seasonal phenomenon. It is not year round,” Johnston said at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Vancouver where she presented her research.

The study, which Johnston

said was the first of its kind to attempt to estimate a death toll from wildfires and landscape burns, was published Saturday in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. Researchers looked at the number of deaths from all causes in areas that were exposed to heavy smoke and landscape fire between 1997 and 2006.

They used satellite data and chemical transport models to assess the health impacts of particulate matter smaller than 2.5 micrometers, a major byproduct of landscape fire smoke. The number of deaths from wildfires came in far below the previously estimated global tolls for indoor air pollution at two million people per year and urban air pollution at 800,000.

However, the study authors said their findings indicated that “fire emissions are an important contributor to global mortality.”

The research also suggested a significant link between climate and fire mortality.

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A fire fighting crew from the Lassen National Forest in California clean up hot spots after the destructive wildfire in Bastrop, Texas in 2011. Wildfires, peat fires and controlled burns on farming lands kill 339,000 people worldwide each year, said a study released on Saturday that is the first to estimate a death toll for landscape fires.

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Profane video stokes Australia PM tensions

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Wildfires kill 339,000 people per year: study

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MOSCOW - Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in cities across Russia in support of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Saturday in a show of force two weeks before a March 4 presidential election that is expected to return him to the Kremlin. The rallies began in the Pacific coast port of Vladivostok and culminated with a late-night demonstration on wheels in Moscow, where motorists took to the streets with slogans such as “Putin rules” on their cars.

“One wish unites us: we want to be sure of tomorrow,” said a declaration read out at the rally in St. Petersburg, which like many others was organized by trade unions that have close government ties. The declaration urged Russians to vote on March 4 and “defend the right to the stable future.”

In central Moscow, about 10 people staging a street protest against Putin were detained, Ekho Moskvy radio reported. The pro-Putin rallies are aimed at showing that the prime minister, who could remain president until 2024 if he wins two straight terms, has majority support despite the biggest opposition protests of his 12-year rule.

Opponents say state workers are pressured to attend the pro-Putin rallies with a combination of threats and payments, and that police exaggerate the size of the crowds while underestimating the size of opposition protests.

Tens of thousands of people have turned out for opposition protests in recent months, venting anger over suspected fraud in December’s parliamentary election, and over what they see as a lack of say in Putin’s tightly controlled political system.

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Kevin Rudd

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This image provided by Aereo shows a screenshot from the iPad showing Aereo.com streaming ìBob the Builderî on New Yorkís PBS station, WNET 13. The service launched this week in New York, giving access to live TV from local stations on the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.

NEW YORK — A startup backed by media billionaire Barry Diller has launched a service that sends live local TV feeds to iPhones and iPads. But the service may be shortlived, since TV stations are likely to challenge its right to use their broadcasts.

The service, Aereo, launched in New York this week, but it is available only by invitation. It hopes to broaden access to more people next month, and then launch in other cities.

Subscribers pay $12 per month and use their web browsers to access streams from 27 local channels, including the major broadcast networks ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox. For now, the service works

only on iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches, but Aereo is planning to make it accessible to PC browsers and Android-powered phones as well.

In a test by an Associated Press reporter, the service provided highquality streams over Wi-Fi to an iPad, but often it wouldn’t show particular channels. The company says kinks are still being worked out of the system. Aereo has more than $25 million in venture capital backing, with more than $20 million of it coming from a funding round led by InterActiveCorp, which owns Match.com, Ask.com and other websites.

Diller, the chairman of InterActiveCorp and the former CEO of Fox, says he’s “excited” about Aereo and the chance it has to dis-

rupt the way TV is consumed.

Aereo exploits what it believes is a loophole in the laws governing retransmission of local broadcasts.

Yet TV networks and stations are unlikely to buy that legal justification, and could drag Aereo to court.

Representatives of CBS, NBC and ABC and the National Association of Broadcasters had no comment on Aereo’s launch.

Cable companies pay local broadcast stations for the right to retransmit their signals to subscribers. Aereo doesn’t, and founder and CEO Chet Kanojia says it doesn’t have to. That’s because Aereo doesn’t use one big antenna to pick up the local broadcasts and relay them to the Internet. Instead, it uses one tiny antenna for each subscriber that’s watching.

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Woeful Arsenal dumped out of Cup, Chelsea held LONDON - Arsenal’s miserable week got worse on Saturday when they were knocked out of the FA Cup in a 2-0 fifth round defeat at Sunderland while beleaguered Chelsea fared only slightly better by scraping a 1-1 draw against second tier Birmingham City.

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Sunderland’s Stephane Sessegnon, left, vies for the ball with Arsenal’s Bacary Sagna, right, during their FA Cup fifth round soccer match at the Stadium of Light, Sunderland, England, Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012.

before halftime after giving away a free kick.

Djourou had pulled back Craig Gardner needlessly to concede the kick, which Seb Larsson delivered only for Arsenal to half clear straight into the path of Richardson who blasted the ball into the back of the net thanks to a deflection off Squillaci.

Wenger’s side, who last weekend came from behind to beat the same opponents 2-1 in the Premier League, allowed their hosts to go further ahead in the 78th minute when OxladeChamberlain sent the ball into his own net after Larsson had hit the post.

“We have to take the critics on board and stay together and face the critics.

There is only one response in our job at the club -- to stay united and fight and focus on the next game,” Wenger told a news conference.

But facing a mountain to climb to overturn their Champions League deficit and trailing Premier League leaders Manchester City by 17 points, Arsenal’s search for a first trophy since they won the FA Cup in 2005 is set to continue for another year.

‘POOR RESULT’

The picture is only marginally more positive for 2010 winners Chelsea, who went behind to an under-strength Birmingham team when David Murphy scored before levelling when Sturridge climbed to head in Branislav

Ivanovic’s 62nd-minute cross. Chelsea squandered an earlier chance to level straight after Murphy’s opener when Juan Mata’s penalty was well saved by diving Birmingham keeper Colin Doyle and home fans expressed their unhappiness by chanting ex-manager Jose Mourinho’s name.

“It is a poor result of course,” said Villas-Boas who added he had the “unconditional” support of owner Roman Abramovich. “But it was an excellent performance in the second half compared to the first... 1-1 is not what we expected but it gives us another chance at Birmingham to try to reverse things,” he told ESPN. Chelsea went into their match on the back of a poor run of form in the league, where they have won just two of their last 10 games, and came out of it with a chorus of boos ringing in their ears.

Villas-Boas, appointed in the close season to replace the sacked Carlo Ancelotti who led the club to an FA Cup and Premier League double in 2010, said this week there was no panic at the club and that his position was not under threat.

Abramovich has shown no mercy with managers who have failed to deliver silverware and while the team are still in the running for the Champions League, the trophy he covets the most, this draw may not sit well with the Russian.

Real 13 points clear after crushing Santander

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MADRID - A Cristiano Ronaldo header set Real Madrid on their way to a 4-0 win at home to 10-man Racing Santander on Saturday that stretched their advantage over second-placed Barcelona at the top of La Liga to 13 points. Ronaldo’s sixth-minute goal from a clever Kaka assist was his 28th of the season in the league, putting the Portuguese forward five clear of Barca’s World Player of the Year Lionel Messi at the top of the scoring chart.

Santander, who are 18th in the standings, were reduced to 10 men six minutes before the break when the referee ruled defender Domingo Cisma had handled the ball for a second time in the game and showed him a second yellow card. Real doubled their lead in added time when a dinked Karim Benzema effort was deflected over the line

by Santander defender Bernardo under pressure from Sergio Ramos.

Substitute Angel Di Maria, back after injury, netted the third goal and the best of the night in the 73rd minute when he powered a left-foot strike

past goalkeeper Tono from just outside the area. Benzema’s deflected effort made it 4-0 a minute from time to seal an 18th win for Jose Mourinho’s side in 19 league matches since the end of September and lift them to 61 points from 23 games.

“The best thing is that we have three more points and one less game to play,” Mourinho told a news conference. “We won without sparkle, but without much effort,” the Portuguese added. “At this stage of the season, winning without suffering and without much effort is the most positive thing.”

IMPERIOUS FORM

Barca, who beat arch-rivals Real 3-1 at the Bernabeu in December but have otherwise suffered patchy away form, can trim the gap to 10 points with a win at home to third-placed Valencia on Sunday. However, with Real in such imperious form and unlikely to drop many points, the world and European champions’ bid for a fourth straight domestic title already appears a lost cause.

Benzema said the comfortable win was ideal preparation for the Champi-

ons League last-16 first leg at CSKA Moscow. “It was a great game for us tonight and now we’ll try to do the same on Tuesday,” the French international told Spanish television.

In the earlier kickoff, Espanyol climbed above Levante into the fourth Champions League qualification place despite surrendering the lead in a 1-1 draw at Getafe. Espanyol have 33 points, one ahead of Levante who host Rayo Vallecano on Sunday.

Sevilla ended a run of three straight defeats and eight games without a win when they beat Osasuna 2-0, a first success for new coach Michel. Gary Medel netted the opening goal in the 16th minute at the Sanchez Pizjuan when he crashed a low shot into the corner of the net before substitute Piotr Trochowski turned in the second in second-half added time.

The victory lifted the Andalusian club to 10th on 29 points as they seek to get their bid to qualify for Europe next season back on track. Osasuna, who beat Barca 3-2 at their Reyno de Navarra stadium last weekend, are eighth on 31 points.

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Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo from Portugal celebrates his goal during a Spanish La Liga soccer match against Levante at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012.

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Scarecrow art in Lovina Intrigue memories of farmer’s life process

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Three days after a 4-0 Champions League defeat at AC Milan that manager Arsene Wenger branded their “worst performance in Europe”, Arsenal’s sloppiness was back as Kieran Richardson’s strike and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain’s own goal sealed their fate.

Sunderland were joined in the quarter-finals by Everton and Bolton Wanderers who recorded 2-0 wins over Championship (second division) Blackpool and Millwall respectively, while Norwich City were upset 2-1 at home by second tier Leicester City.

Chelsea needed Daniel Sturridge’s equaliser to force a replay with Birmingham after a draw at Stamford Bridge that did nothing to alleviate the pressure on manager Andre VillasBoas.

While Chelsea at least stayed in the competition, London rivals Arsenal seem certain to finish without a trophy for the seventh year in a row as their last realistic chance of silverware this season turned to dust against hardworking Sunderland.

Arsenal’s day at the Stadium of Light started badly when they lost Francis Coquelin to a hamstring injury with less than 10 minutes gone.

Lacking any sort of attacking spark while looking vulnerable at the back, with Johan Djourou and substitute Sebastien Squillaci short of confidence, Arsenal went behind five minutes

Monday, February 20, 2012

Trunyan tourism tries to revive from downturn

THE act of a few individuals interested to enjoy the excessive tourism pies by blackmailing and intimidating tourists on board that would cross to Trunyan had become a scourge. Such frequent incidents made a lot of travel agencies in Bali think twice to take their guests to Trunyan for having a closer look at the most unique funeral procession in the world.

Such an act makes the tourism of Trunyan increasingly get immersed in the world tourism arena. Local village has a unique tradition where the dead body is not buried but being laid on the ground. However, the body does not give out an odor. It happens because the presence of the taru menyan or benzoin tree considered becoming the embryo of the village’s name.

Now, in the endeavor to restore the former bad image of Kintamani tourism in the eyes of tourists because of irresponsible individual action, the Trunyan community on Wednesday (Deb 15) declared if they were ready to provide security and comfort for tourists making a visit to Trunyan village.

The declaration was witnessed by the Regent of Bangli Made Gianyar, Deputy Regent of Bangli Sang Nyoman Sedana Arta, Chairman of the Indonesian Tour Guides Association (HPI) of Bali Chapter Sang Putu Subaya, expert team of Bangli development Bagus Sudibia, Chairman of the regional working units (SKPD) of Bangli, leaders and community of Trunyan village.

Headman of Trunyan, Ketut Sutapa, told that to restore the image of Trunyan in the eyes of tourists, all components of the Trunyan village ranging from the customary

village, administrative village, pecalang (customary security officer), boat operators, tour guides and youth club of Trunyan declared that they were ready to jointly maintain the security and comfort of tourists visiting the Trunyan village for the advancement of Bangli tourism.

According to him, the Trunyan village along with tourist attraction in the form traditional cemetery was once becoming the belle of local and foreign tourists. However, recently few irresponsible individuals had caused the beauty of Trunyan as a Balinese ancient village with its unique tradition began to be abandoned and forgotten.

Therefore, to restore the tourism image of Trunyan village as a tourist attraction was not easy. It required various improvement efforts in terms of facilities and human resources.

“We do hope with this declaration, tourists will no longer be afraid to come and make a visit to Trunyan village. Besides, we are ready to ensure the safety and comfort of the community when visiting the Trunyan village. No more tourists will be charged with illegal fees imposed by irresponsible individuals. If such violations are found, we will immediately take action against the violators in accordance with the agreed rules,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Regent of Bangli, Made Gianyar, said that his party targeted to attract 1.5 million tourists visiting the Bangli Regency in 2014. To him, it was not an easy task, especially considering the tourism of Bangli, chiefly Kintamani, was under degradation due to decline in physical quality of tourism and human resources involved.

Nevertheless, his party did not only keep silent on witnessing the downturn of Bangli tourism.

Throughout this year, his party would focus on revamping and improving the quality of tourism in Bangli starting from physical improvements in several tourist objects to improving the quality of tourism human resources. One of the realizations was the making of statement by Trunyan village declaring they were ready to maintain the safety and comfort of tourists visiting the Trunyan village.

“I demand the community should have a commitment to the agreed declaration. If this goes properly, we do hope the other villages in Bangli, especially those having tourism potential, can follow the measure taken by Trunyan community for the image recovery of Bangli tourism in the eyes of foreign tourists,” he said. (puj)

WHAT kind of description can we get when scarecrows are on display in crowded area in Lovina, Singaraja? Perhaps, it will be obtained a caricatural description on unique human getting lost amidst the modern media. Alternatively, it can be a critical overview on the agricultural area gradually disappearing, and then the scarecrow commonly displayed as a bird repellent in the rice field should be showed off on the former fields now transformed into the location of hotel and restaurant. Or, probably it is a fun of the artists only earmarked for an exhibition of installation art by offering the broadest possible meaning for anyone who happens to see it.

Scarecrow exhibition in Lovina was begun on the Valentine’s Day, Tuesday (Feb 14). Dozens of scarecrows displayed in an empty area in Lovina area were the works of the students majoring in the Fine Arts, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Undiksha, Singaraja. Simply, it was a series of exhibitions of young artists’ creativity. But more seriously, the scarecrow exhibition can be interpreted with a broader meaning. For instance, it signifies a rebellion against the human behavior surrendering to the symbols of modernization.

As a work of art, the scarecrow in Lovina displayed a blend of tradition and modern art. The scarecrow itself is a traditional product often found when Bali was still strong as an agricultural area. Farmer artists usually made the scarecrow by simple materials and manner. Dry straws woven and shaped like a person can actually be called a scarecrow. To be more convincing, the scarecrow can be applied with used clothes and its head is filled with palm fibers. Or there is also a scarecrow made of dried coconut leaf midrib. Dry coconut leaves on the midrib are woven like an outstretched hand shape, and then stuck in the rice field.

Originally, the scarecrow indeed served as a bird repellent in the rice field. It was usually equipped with a tin or objects that could generate noisy sounds. Afterward, it was shaken from a considerable distance by using a rope.

So, that it could move like a person expelling birds. Mys-

tically, it can also serve as a repellent of misadventure and accompanied with particular offerings and mantra. For example, it is applied to protect the fields from the disruption of black magic.

But related to the scarecrows displayed in Lovina, what kind of bird would be cast out, what kind of misadventure will be dismissed? Of course, such scarecrow will not function as the one made by farmers in the past agrarian period. Scarecrow in Lovina can be called a work of modern art because it no longer acts as a functional object. It can be interpreted pursuant to the desire of the audience. Some people may call it a satire or some may consider it an art to complement the beauty of Lovina. At least, the scarecrow display can provoke the memories of farmers on the passage of farmers and the agricultural sector in Bali. With such memories, the agricultural sector can be saved.

Obviously, creativity of the fine art students of the Undiksha is part of an effort to oppose the process of forgetting what people face today. Advanced communication devices, such as cellular phone, computer and internet with various amenities are objects that can record the entire process of history. But on the other hand, it can also act ironically, namely fades memories by taking out the symbols and meanings.

Scarecrow is an object of meaningful traditional communication. It does not only serve as a bird repellent, but also more than that where it represents a part of long process of a passage for a piece of paddy seed to become a seed again.

Scarecrow can be interpreted as a guardian of the true life processes. If the scarecrow is extinct, the paddy seed will certainly continue to proceed until becoming the next seed, but the process will lose its sense of beauty.

Wayan Sudiarta, a coach of the Fine Art students of Undiksha, said that such an exhibition did not show of the opposition to the recent technology. “But, we want to behave more meaningfully. It does not require much money to do so. What we do tends to convey a criticism against our all-sophisticated lifestyle today, including in communicating,” he said.

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Vitali Klitschko unanimously out-pointed Dereck Chisora for a 10th successive defence of his World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight title in a stormy clash at the Olympiahalle on Saturday.

Confusion afflicted the seaweed farmers of Nusa Penida. In this massive harvest season, the price of seaweed slumped. As a result, not all famers could enjoy the yields of good harvest because the white tip disease is still attacking in this season.

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The high threat of Denpasar’s flammability caused Denpasar Disaster Management Board (BPBD) keep on increasing their ability in handling a fire especially on fire brigades which last Friday (17/2) a fire incident simulation took place and competed between villages as stated by Head of the Committee, I Ketut Mudastra, SH. The competition involving 86 candidates actually has been a routine done on the same time as Denpasar City’s anniversary. This competition is divided to two categories, a traditional way using sacks and modern one using a spraying equipment called Apar.

This simulation is done to in-

crease the people’s knowledge and ability also for the workers to evaluate candidates ability that have been given a socialisation on how to turn off a fire in the right way.

“It is hoped the people will get a knowledge how to act fast, quick and right if such situation happen around the environment or outside,” Mudastra continued.

Meanwhile Denpasar Mayor in his speech stated Denpasar City’s condition with its population relatively crowded has a huge possibility for a fire to happen and to act upon this problem it is hoped the entire public component can participate in managing so in Denpasar City. (kmb12)

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arguably the harvest yield of this season is good,” he said.

A slightly different opinion was revealed by a resident of Lembongan, Nusa Penida, Wayan Suarbawa.

For this season, the white tip disease was even rampantly disrupting the growth and seaweed harvest yield.

It was also aggravated by the strong winds blowing some time ago. “The most severe condition of the white tip disease was in January. Then starting in February, it will be back to normal. But before Nyepi in March 2012, it is worried to be getting more severe,” said Suarbawa.

According to him, the normal condition was the most favorable time for seaweed farmers and usually happened during the period of June to November. “If there is indeed a price drop, it will happen to the species of spinosum in this harvest time,” he said. (kmb20)

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Price slumps, seaweed farmers confused A resident of Batumulapan, Nusa Penida, when contacted on Friday (Feb 17) said that currently was the massive harvest season for seaweed in Nusa Penida. However, local farmers were confused because the selling price of the prominent commodity of Nusa Penida slumped. It especially happened to the seaweed belonging to the spinosum species whose price usually reached IDR 15,000 per kilogram. Currently, it was only sold in the range of IDR 6,000 to IDR 7,000 per kilogram. “Meanwhile, the price of cottoni species is still around IDR 2,500 to IDR 3,000 per kilogram,” said Kasta.

Since they did not want to lose due to the declining sale price, farmers preferred to stock their seaweed yields in their warehouse. They would sell it when the prices began to rise. “In terms of the results,

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A number of locals at Jasri, Karangasem, admitted disappointed as many pedestrians are collapsing at Ayani Street, Galiran – Jasri route yet either Regency or Province Government are not fixing it. One local, I Wayan Daging, last Saturday (18/2) stated the pedestrian was so due to being hit by a truck seven months ago causing three meters collapse and putting walkers to danger. “No workers or officials looking at it even though we have reported it several days after it collapsed seven months ago,” Daging exclaimed.

With the pedestrian so, the past seven months locals including children have to brace themselves walking on the road with fast speeding vehicles. Not only here, this route has

several collapsing pedestrian points, which not long ago caused a tourist fell and hurt badly. Daging admitted he doesn’t know to whom to report again as it seemed not responded at all even though there were workers taking pictures of it several times.

From that incident, a tree was also hit causing it much forward to the road and now its branches are putting road users in danger too. “Regency officials are not bothered, moreover the Bali Governor. If I am an official I better resign if I’m not working well in giving service and protecting the people’s safety,” Daging further exclaimed.

In other hand, Head of Karangasem Regency Government Public Relation Section, Ir. I Gede Wastika Suta Dewa, MM, when confirmed

about this complain straight away contacted Head of Public Works Agency, IB Oka and Head of Karangasem Transportation, IBP Swastika.

From the two respond, they stated Jasri is on the Provincial route and should be the Province Government obligation to protect and fix it. It was stated it has been reported to them and promised to be fixed yet nothing has been done. Wastika stated there has been a budget for pedestrian fixing around IDR 75 million, if provincial won’t be doing it, a part of this budget will be used for Jasri’s damaged pedestrians. “Head of Transportation Agency stated will coordinate and fight towards Province Government so Jasri pedestrians will be fixed by provincial government,” Wastika stated. (013)

Hundred of foreign workers existed in Denpasar

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This Island of Gods not only attract foreign tourists but with its absorbance on dollars, it also absorbed foreign workers with at least 400 of them existed working in Denpasar until 2012. This condition is also due to the weakness of Human Resource that Bali specifically Denpasar can’t be off from foreigners’ involvement. Head of Denpasar Workers, Transmigration and Social Agency, Erwin Suryadarma, stated foreign workers who work in three sectors

were mostly from Taiwan, Russia, America and China. “That total has actually been decreasing yet we ask companies to effectively use accompanying workers,” Erwin explained last Friday (17/2) in Denpasar.

It was stated these workers are expert worker on a tuna fish company located at Tanjung Benoa, Denpasar, with their position as marketing and quality control. Most have worked quite long and contracted either for years, one year or six months. Based on routine guidance done by supervi-

sors from police and immigration, no problems were ever found with companies with foreign workers. “They complete their permits and extent it when its expired,” Erwin continued.

To be known, in year 2011 Denpasar pocketed 563 foreign workers dominantly working on the tourism, fishery and education. The Agency also noted there have been an increase on Taiwanese and Chinese foreign workers of 30 percent on 2011 compared to 2010 with total 180 of them. (kmb27)

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After being slapped by Briton Chisora at Friday?s weigh-in, Ukrainian Klitschko got revenge over his provocative challenger but he spent a lot of the fight on the back foot before earning scores of 118-110, 118-110 and 119-111 from the judges.

“He was very motivated. It was not easy but I saw every punch, he was slow. I am upset because I wanted to finish the fight before the 12th round,” said Klitschko.

The Briton said: “The only thing that beat me tonight was experience. I don’t hold back. I keep coming and I want a rematch.”

Despite the wide margin of the scores, Klitschko’s 40-year-old legs were made to work for every moment of the 12 rounds in a plucky effort from Chisora.

Klitschko won the title in 2004 but ?retired? later that year through injury only to resume his untroubled reign four years later.

Like all the other younger challengers who have stepped up to face the 6ft 7in Ukrainian, 6ft 1in Chisora fell short but he did

give Klitschko some worrying moments.

Germany-based Klitschko improved his record to 44 wins, and two losses with his 41st stoppage while Zimbabwe-born Chisora, who moved to London aged 16, suffered his third defeat in his 18th fight.

It means all the world title belts remain in Klitschko hands, with Vitali?s younger brother Wladimir owning the other three.

Chisora, 28, had lost his previous fight -- controversially on points to Finland?s Robert Helenius for the European title in December -- but his aggressive start showed the Briton had bad intentions for Klitschko and was not intimidated, unlike a lot of Vitali?s previous challengers.

Chisora climbed through the ropes to a chorus of boos from 13,000 German fans who had turned up to see Dr Ironfist for one of the last times in his career.

The challenger had hardly endeared himself to the locals by slapping their hero at Friday?s

weigh-in and there were more antics from Chisora moments before the fight.

Chisora continued to upset by Klitschko by threatening to pull out of the fight an hour before it started.

Vitali?s younger brother Wladimir -- the IBF, WBA and WBO champion -- asked for Chisora?s hand wraps to be reapplied and the challenger initially objected.

The row was eventually resolved and the fight delayed but Chisora?s outrageous antics were not over.

Chisora got in Vitali?s face as soon as the champion climbed through the ropes and then spat water in Wladimir?s face which may earn him another fine from boxing authorities.

Despite the wind-ups Klitschko, who won the belt in 2004 only to retire later that year through injury before making a comeback in 2008, still made a reserved started.

Chisora marched forward in the second round but got caught by a right on the temple before landing a short right hook of his own.

Switzerland’s Roger Federer returns a shot to Nikolay Davydenko of Russia during their semi final tennis match at the ABN AMRO tournament at the Ahoy Arena in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012.

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R O T T E R D A M - To p s e e d Roger Federer battled past Russian Nikolay Davydenko in an entertaining 4-6 6-3 6-4 triumph on Saturday to reach the World Indoor Tournament final. The Swiss former world number one now faces third seed Juan Martin Del Potro of Argentina who brushed aside second-seeded Czech Tomas Berdych 6-3 6-1 in Saturday’s first semi-final.

Federer, who has admitted struggling with the surface and his rhythm, recovered after losing the first set having been broken in the ninth game and early in the second set.

Davydenko dominated from the baseline using his powerful forehand but dropped his serve in the sixth game of the second with Federer taking four straight games to force a decider. Davydenko wasted four break points in the third set while Federer, whose serve was never convicning, failed to take six

chances before finally breaking to love to settle the match.

“We often played big matches and today again,” said Federer. “It is good so see him performing so well again.”

Asked about his previous showdowns with Del Potro ahead of Sunday’s final, the Swiss added: “He beat me in the 2009 U.S. Open final in a tough five setter, while our last match at the Australian Open was my 1,000th match on the tour.

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Struggling Nets halt streak, upset Bulls Reuters

The New Jersey Nets snapped an eight-game losing streak with a surprisingly easy 97-85 road win over the Central Divisionleading Chicago Bulls at the United Center on Saturday.

New Jersey (9-23), taking advantage of the absence of NBA MVP Derrick Rose who missed his fifth straight game due to back pain, opened up a 22-3 lead five minutes into the game and never trailed as they handed the Bulls (25-8) just their second loss at home this season.

Deron Williams led the Nets’ attack with 29 points including five three-pointers from nine attempts. Kris Humphries added 24 points and had a game-high 18 rebounds. Despite the early offensive surge, Williams applauded the team’s defensive effort as the Nets had relinquished double-digit leads in their two previous games.

“This was definitely the best defensive game of the season for us,” Williams told reporters.

“We got going early, built a lead

and didn’t let it evaporate.”

Chicago’s five starters struggled, combining for just 45 points, led by Carlos Boozer with 16, while Joakim Noah was held without a point in 21 minutes on the court. Reserve Mike James matched Boozer with 16 points for the Bulls.

“Sometimes, games are won in the first quarter,” James said.

“Even though the Nets’ record is what it is, this is the NBA, and if a team starts hitting their shots, it is hard to get them out of their rhythm.”

The Bulls bench cut into the lead in the second quarter to narrow the deficit to as few as seven points before New Jersey pushed it back to a 14-point cushion at halftime leading 59-45.

“You can deal with a hardfought game where you play well and they hit a tough shot at the end,” Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau said.

“To dig a hole like we did is disappointing. And that’s more my responsibility to make sure we’re ready. You get what you deserve in this league.”

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Domenicali ‘very sad’ there are no Italian drivers in F1 Ferrari team boss Stefano Domenicali says he is very sad Formula 1 will have no Italian drivers on the grid in 2012.

Jarno Trulli was the only Italian with a contract for the upcoming season, but on Friday Caterham announced he will be replaced by Vitaly Petrov.

The move leaves the grid for the first race of the season without an Italian for the first time since 1970.

“I am very sad that, after so many years there will not be an Italian driver in the Formula 1

world championship field,” said Domenicali on Ferrari’s website.

“I say this on the sporting front and on a personal level when it comes to Jarno, who only on a few occasions has had a car capable of showing off his talents.

“So here, I wish him all the best for the future, both in racing and away from the track. It’s a difficult moment for our sport, partly for external reasons.

“For a few years now, Ferrari through its Driver Academy, has established a long term plan to create a new generation of young drivers,

which works also in collaboration with the CSAI and I am pleased to see that just now, we can announce that two talented youngsters, Raffaele and Brandon, will be given a great opportunity to progress in the sport.”

Fellow veteran Rubens Barrichello, also without a drive for 2012 after nearly 20 years in the sport, lamented Trulli’s situation too.

“Sad to see that Trulli won’t be on the 2012 grid...Money is dominating everything,” he wrote on Twitter.

Formula 1 legend Stirling Moss believes current world champion Sebastian Vettel is the modern equivalent of Juan Manuel Fangio. Moss, who was one of five-time champion Fangio’s biggest rivals in the 1950s and his team-mate at Mercedes in 1955, said Vettel’s current superiority over the F1 field was comparable to Fangio’s.

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“Fangio went around and took what he wanted and one took whatever was left.”

Asked how he felt Britain’s current leading duo Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton compared, Moss said he did not believe the McLaren pair were on Vettel’s level.

“Vettel is outstanding. They are up there, but not as far as he is,” he said.

“Lewis does funny things, so one can’t be sure. I would put my money on Jenson.

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about certain things better than Lewis will. Like when it’s raining and whether or not to go in for a change of tyres.

“For all those sorts of things he has a better understanding of it, and experience is a lot of it.” The 82-year-old added that he admired Vettel’s personality and approach to the champion’s role as well as his driving talent.

“Where we’re lucky is that Vettel has a great sense of humour,” Moss said.

“He is a damn good world champion.

I can think of a lot of other people who get to that position and they don’t give back as much as they get out, but he really does.

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“The quality of roads to tourist attractions in Badung and Denpasar is still relatively good. However, the road sections to tourist attractions at the villages like from Marga to Jatiluwih and a number of tourist objects in East Bali and North Bali are badly damaged,” said an owner of a travel agency, Nyoman Kandia.

He said, aside from the road to Jatiluwih, many other roads to tourist objects in Karangasem and Lovina Singaraja had

also been damaged. Similar damage also happened to the road section from Ubud to Kintamani, from Rendang to Selat Duda and from Sidemen to Klungkung.

“Other than reducing the convenience of tourists, such condition can also jeopardize the journey of tourists if the driver of tourist transport is not careful when conveying tourists due to such damaged roads,” he said.

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Whitney Houston’s voice soars at hometown funeral Associated Press

NEWARK, N.J — After all the testimonials from relatives and friends, the songs from legends and pop stars, the preaching and even laughter, the raw emotion of Whitney Houston’s funeral came down to just one moment: The sound of her own voice.

As the strains of her biggest record, “I Will Always Love You,” filled the New Hope Baptist Church at the end of the nearly four-hour service Saturday and her silver-and-gold casket was lifted in the air, the weight of the moment was too much for mother, gospel singer Cissy Houston, to bear.

As she was held up by two women, she wailed, “My baby!

My baby!” as she was led out the church behind her daughter’s body.

A few steps behind her was the pop icon’s daughter, Bobbi Kristina, also crying uncontrollably as she was comforted by Houston’s close friend, singer Ray J. It was the most searing scene on a day with mixed moods as family, friends and a list celebrities — sometimes one in the same — came to the humble New Hope Baptist Church where she first wowed a congregation to remember one of music’s legends, but also a New Jersey hometown girl.

Fans sign artwork by artist Mark G at the funeral service for Whitney Houston on February 18, 2012 in Newark, New Jersey.

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