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The Federal Emergency Man-agement Agency (FEMA) urgedresidents to prepare in earnest forthe fury of the storm as it barrelseastward across the country.

“A storm of this size and scopeneeds to be taken seriously,” saidFEMA Administrator Craig Fugate,who warned that “it’s critical that the

Associated Press Writer

TOKYO – A revived volcano insouthern Japan erupted Tuesdaywith its biggest explosion yet,shooting out a huge plume of gas,boulders and ash and breaking win-dows 5 miles (8 kilometers) away.

The danger zone aroundShinmoedake volcano was wid-ened to keep residents safe. Thelargest eruption since it burst backto life last week covered wide ar-eas in ash, shot boulders onto dis-

AP Photo/Takaharu Town Office, Shuji Uchimura

In this Jan. 27, 2011 photo released by Takaharu Town Office,lightening is pictured with time exposure during an eruptionfrom Mount Shinmoedake in the Kirishima range on the bor-der of Kagoshima and Miyazaki prefectures, southern Japan.Continued on page 6

Japan volcano erupts withbig blast of ash, rocks

tant roads, knocked down trees andbroke hundreds of windows in ho-tels and offices.

No serious injuries have beenreported since the initial eruptionlast Wednesday, but public broad-caster NHK said a woman sufferedcuts from shattered glass inTuesday’s blast. NHK said theeruption was five times larger thanthe initial activity last week, whichwas Shinmoedake’s first majoreruption in 52 years.

AFP PHOTO/Emmanuel Dunand

Seagulls rest along a snowy riverside walk after heavy snow falls in New York, January 27, 2011. New York shut down twoairports, public schools and most city services in the wake of a rare thunder-snow storm that paralyzed air and ground travelover a vast area from Washington to as far north as Boston.

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CHICAGO – A mammoth storm threatens to dump mounds of fresh snow, sleet and ice onabout 100 million already winter-weary people from the US heartland to the east coast, fore-casters said Monday. Blizzard, winter storm and freezing rain warnings were issued for morethan 25 states, from North Dakota and Colorado down to New Mexico, then up through Texas,Kansas and Missouri to the Great Lakes region and across Pennsylvania to New England.

public does its part to get ready.”Fugate urged residents in storm af-fected regions to “check on yourneighbors, especially the elderly andyoung children — those who can bemost vulnerable during emergencies.”

Scores of schools and govern-ment offices in US Midwest wereclosed Monday as freezing rain be-

gan to fall, threatening to turn roadsinto deadly ice rinks and downpower lines and trees. Airlineswarned of significant delays andcancellations and offered customersa chance to rebook flights at no fee.

The worst of the storm was ex-pected Tuesday as a large amountof moisture sucked up from the Gulf

of Mexico feeds the huge systemand is transformed into snow andthunderstorms. Powerful winds andheavy snow could create white-outconditions and drifts as high as sixto eight feet (1.8 to 2.4 meters),making travel impossible.

“Lurking behind this impressivewinter storm is a powerful shot ofArctic air as a frigid surface highdrops down from central Canada,”the National Weather Servicewarned. Wind chills were forecastto drop to 30 to 50 below in Colo-rado, Wyoming, the Dakotas, Kan-sas, Idaho and even parts of Texas.

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“Of the total airports cooperated, 11airports of them have the status as civilenclave. Meanwhile, the remaining 49airports have the status as military en-clave or military aviation activities uti-lizing the airport facilities,” said the AirForce Chief of Staff Sukirno KS inKuta, Monday (Jan 31).

Utilization of the air base (mili-tary enclave) as an airport (civil en-clave) is based on Joint Decree is-sued by three ministers including theMinister of Defense and Security/Commander of the Armed Forces,Minister of Transportation and Min-ister of Finance. Similarly, the de-cree stipulated that 11 air bases couldbe used as an airport and 49 airportscould be used as an air base.

“Utilization of the airports posesan attempt to save the state’s assets

Civil aviation takesCivil aviation takesCivil aviation takesCivil aviation takesCivil aviation takesadvantage of 11 Indonesianadvantage of 11 Indonesianadvantage of 11 Indonesianadvantage of 11 Indonesianadvantage of 11 Indonesian

Air Force BasesAir Force BasesAir Force BasesAir Force BasesAir Force BasesMangupura (Bali Post)—

Dozens of air bases belonging to the Indonesian Air Force (TNI AU) is now taken advantage ascivil enclave or operation of civil aviation carried out at the air base owned by the Indonesian AirForce). Some of those air bases are the Abdulrahman Saleh, Adisucipto, Achmad Yani, AtangSanjaya, Halim Perdana Kusuma, Husein Sastranagara, Iswahyudi, Juanda, Kalijati, Panasan,and Sulaiman.

while providing benefits to the com-munity that is not merely orientedfor financial interest,” he said. AirForce base in Singkawang, WestKalimantan and Morotai, NorthMaluku, recognized Sukirno, wouldsoon be operated for civil aviation.As a matter of fact, it physicallycould be operated when some re-quirements had been complied with.

According to him, the relationshipof the Indonesian Air Force and rel-evant authorities regarding to the uti-lization of civil and military airporthad been going on for so long. How-ever, so far the implementation re-mained partial and did not have aclear legal reference. “The use ofjoint airport as a base in an emer-gency situation, and on the contrary,air base for civil aviation in the in-

terest of business, is expected to pro-vide mutual benefit,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Director Generalof Air Transportation, Ministry ofTransportation, Herry Bakti, said thedeal would bring benefits to the air-line in improving the operational ef-ficiency and business developmentfor both the airline and the airportoperators. “In the future, pursuant tothe needs in the country’s border ter-ritory, the military enclave as an air-port of civil aviation would possiblyincrease,” he said.

He also admitted the plan to openother new civil enclaves for flightoperations in Morotai and Saumlakiby using military air base there. Itwas intended to trigger the increaseof maritime economic activities ofthe local communities. (par)

Mangupura (Bali Post)—In addition to the procurement of official vehicles in the

Badung House considered contradictory to the condition ofthe current society, in 2011, the traveling habit of BadungRegency entourage remains to go on. On the upcoming Feb-ruary 15-21, the first entourage will leave for Italy to par-ticipate in BIT tourism exhibition. The Badung RegencyGovernment argued that billions of rupiahs taken from thepublic money through the Badung Regional Budget wereeffective for promoting Bali tourism in general and Badungtourism in particular.

The Head of Badung Government Tourism Office(Kadisparda), Tjok Raka Darmawan, Monday (Jan 31), saidthe promotion to Italy would involve a number of partici-pants. Among others, there would be an envoy of the Indo-nesia Hotels and Restaurants Association (PHRI), a dancer,a décor artist, stand management in the BIT consisting ofthe Head of Badung Government Tourism Office and threestaff and involved the members of the Badung House. TheRegent of Badung A.A. Gde Agung would also be expectedto lead the entourage.

The fund of Badung Regional Budget taken to financethe participants (excluding the members of the House) ap-proximately amounted to IDR 600 million. Tjok Raka couldnot explain how much fund required for financing the de-parture of those legislators as it lay in the authority of theBadung House’s Secretariat. In addition, there would be agroup of tourism entrepreneurs. Differently, the employerentourage did not use the regional budget.

Tjok Raka countered if the departure of Badung Regencyentourage was only intended to have leisure and squanderthe public money. Instead, he argued, the entourage wouldperform direct promotional efforts to boost the tourist visitsfrom Europe. European tourists remained a minimal marketcompared to that of Australia and East Asia. Therefore, itshould be worked on seriously. “Promotion like this is veryeffective because we can meet the European businessmen inperson. There we can directly interact and offer the poten-tial we have. Moreover, we will also invite the foreign massmedia,” he said.

Furthermore, the position of Badung in the trip was toparticipate in the national campaign held by the Ministry ofCulture and Tourism of the RI. All provinces were invited toattend the activity. In addition to Badung, Bali ProvincialGovernment would also take part. BIT was seen as a poten-tial tourism promotional event in addition to two other eventssuch as ITB (Germany) and WTM (London). “Obviously,the purpose of the activity is not for fun, but for promotingtourism that later on can be expected to boost the touristvisits,” he added.

Meanwhile, Secretary of the Badung House, IGN RaiSudharma, revealed the promotion involved ten members ofthe House. Document submission of five participants hadbeen approved in the embassy. Related to the budget, hewas not able to explain. He simply referred to the budget ofthe House’s Secretariat in the form of annual allocation.However, based on the account of overseas official travel ofthe Badung House’s Secretariat, the budget set was IDR 3.2billion for four departures. In other words, each departurewould spend maximally at IDR 800 million. (kmb25)

Badung entourage leaves for Italy

Arguing forpromotion, spendbillions of rupiahs

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The picture shos the Halim Perdana Kusuma Airport which is located in Jakarta.

3Wednesday, February 2, 2011International News

According to the Head of BaliHealth Services, Nyoman Sutedja,the habitat of Legionella bacteriacausing the Legionnaire disease wason the water with a temperature be-tween 35o to 45o. By and large, thebacterium causes pneumonia if theimmune system of the body de-creased. On that account, for thosehaving water heaters and swimmingpools should pay attention to theirsanitation because the bacteriumliked living in those places.

Sutedja appealed the hotels andvillas in Bali to pay serious atten-tion to the sanitation of water reser-voir, especially the hot water reser-voir tower and swimming pool. By

Legionnaire diseaseLegionnaire diseaseLegionnaire diseaseLegionnaire diseaseLegionnaire diseasekindled by poor sanitationkindled by poor sanitationkindled by poor sanitationkindled by poor sanitationkindled by poor sanitationDenpasar (Bali Post)—

Within the past few weeks, Bali has been staggered by the presence of Australians sufferingfrom Legionnaire disease. Though it seems new, the Legionnaire disease has actually been foundin Bali in 1987. So, what is really the Legionnaire disease? Legionnaire disease is an acute respi-ratory tract infection caused by Legionella pneumophilia bacterium and other species of Legionella.The diseases caused are such as cough, fever and pneumonia. As a matter of fact, the disease is notdangerous for those having good bodily resistance, but highly susceptible to the elderly, smokersand people with diabetes.

Denpasar (Bali Post) –In finishing the revision of build-

ing permit (IMB) regional regula-tions which is done by Special Com-mittee VII of Denpasar House ofRepresentatives (DPRD) last Mon-day (31/1), they visited the PermitAgency. This visitation was re-ceived by Head of Denpasar PermitAgency, A.A. Ray Soryawan andthe committee discussed further therevised regulations.

Interestingly, in the meeting theyjust discovered that a special build-ing has to have a Mayor Recom-mendation before a permit wasgiven. Besides that, on field super-visions are so minim which causesmany violations have been done.

Member of the committee A.A.Susruta Ngurah Putra questionedthe recommendation as he just knewof this regulation. MeanwhileSoryawan stated that special build-ings there are now have been fol-lowing regulations such as fivestarred hotel, “There has been aregulation on it. But I don’t knowthe details or specification to a spe-cial building.”

In the meeting it was revealedthat the on field supervisions doneby Spatial Planning and HousingAgency, Peace and Order Agency

A housewhich hasmultiple airconditioners.Water from airconditioner isone the causeof Legionnairedisease.

doing so, the disease would notflourish well in the future. “Thewater must contain chlorine withconcentration of about 0.2-0.5 ppm,mainly on the streams of hot waterand swimming pool,” said Sutedja.If the sanitation of water was notconsidered properly, these bacteriawould possibly develop easily.

For the case of pneumonia dis-ease, resumed Sutedja, caused byLegionella bacterium was found in1987 and the case had disappeared.Then, some foreigners were seenagain suffering from the Legionnairedisease in Kuta in October 2010.“However, it was known that the af-fected residents had traveled every-

where. Therefore, it could not bemade sure if they were infected inBali or elsewhere,” said Sutedja. Nev-ertheless, the infection of pneumoniacaused by Legionella bacterium wasnot sporadic as bird flu. “The case islike any other pneumonia. It is cur-able and the potential of death is notas severe as bird flu,” said Sutedja.

In Indonesia, the pneumoniacaused by Legionella bacterium wasnot specifically identified but be-longed to the pneumonia disease ingeneral. “Essentially, if our environ-mental sanitation is good and clean,of course the bacteria or virus willnot be able to develop flourishingly,”added Sutedja. (kmb24)

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Singaraja (Bali Post) –Even though there has been do-

nation towards the internationalairport project in Buleleng,Buleleng Government seems to notgive up either. After MoU wassigned, a number of Buleleng of-ficials did not give up on keep re-searching and supervising on howto minimize negative affect fromit.

Head of Public Relation andProtocol Buleleng Regional Sec-retary, Made Juniadi, last Monday(31/1) stated that the airport projectwas a strategic way for theBuleleng Government to develop

Special Building, MayorRecommendation Needed

and Police Civil Service are stillweak as many violation keep on hap-pening.

According to one of the commit-tee member who is also Head ofCommission B, Eko Supriadi, re-vealed that many facts on permits arenot matching to what the Agency hasas the lowest officials such as Headof Villages tend to just sign in agree-ing to giving permits without under-standing the rules and regulations ofgetting an IMB, “The fact that there’smany violation on the field was be-cause of a weak supervision.”

He asked for the lowest officialsto be given intensive and guidancein supervision so they realize the re-sponsibility to face a violation intheir area, “If it’s ignored then it willdamage Denpasar, especially if theseofficials keeps being weak in super-vising.”

Meanwhile, Ketut Resmiyasaquestions the number of IMB thathas been done yet it’s not taken bythe owners. He said violation likethis tends to lessen income and vio-lating rules, “The owner only got thecopy of IMB as evidence yet the realone is never taken which causes IMBretribution gone. If this let it willmake us lose regional taxes (PAD).”(kmb12)

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One of the five star hotel in Bali in Nusa Dua area.

the area further. As in the future, thisairport will answer transportationproblems also opening accessibilityfor the Buleleng people in manythings, even for the whole Bali.

According to Juniadi, the airportconstruction needs a specific anddeep research or visibility studyfirstly first. This research not onlysee from the affect towards theeconomy and agriculture, but alsoon geology, physic, biology, sociol-ogy, economy and culture.

It is explained Buleleng is a suit-able location to build the interna-tional airport remembering the landneeded is around 1.000 hectare

meanwhile there are 43.000 hect-are unproductive land here somany things can be developedfrom here.

It is also said that it can’t bedenied that it can cause a nega-tive risk even though positive af-fect will be much bigger such asopening a market towards localgoods from agriculture, small andmedium industries, from sea andmore, “For the people pleasedon’t be negative to the risks thatmight happen, but let’s get to-gether in reaching safety and dis-ciplinary so the plan of creatingan airport can happen.” (kmb15)

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More than 10,000 people beatdrums, played music and chantedslogans in Tahrir Square, which hasbecome the epicenter of a week ofprotests demanding an end toMubarak’s three decades in power.

With the organizers’ calling fora “march of a million people,” thevibe in the sprawling plaza —whose name in Arabic means “Lib-eration” — was of an intensifyingfeeling that the uprising was near-ing a decisive point.

Reuters

MOSCOW – Russian policedetained several dozen people atanti-Kremlin rallies in Moscowand St Petersburg on Monday asthey tried to protest against limitsto freedom of assembly.

A crowd of about 600 chanted“Freedom, Freedom!” in sub-zerotemperatures on Moscow’s Tri-umph Square, heavily outnum-bered by riot police, who draggedmore than a dozen activists off towaiting buses after detaining themat a metro exit as they headed tothe rally. “This is our democracy.Look at what happens in Russia!”yelled one youth as black-helmetedOMON riot police arrested him.

Rights activists and Kremlinopponents have staged demonstra-tions on the square on the last dayof each month with 31 days, in asymbolic reference to the right tofree assembly enshrined underArticle 31 of Russia’s constitu-tion.

President Dmitry Medvedevhas promised to allow more pub-

Associated Press Writer

SEOUL, South Korea – SouthKorea’s president pressed North Ko-rea on Monday to take responsibilityfor two deadly attacks last year andto change its pattern of provocationsif it wants to improve relations withthe outside world. President LeeMyung-bak also said he was open tomeeting North Korean leader KimJong Il for talks — but that NorthKorea must change its behavior andshow sincerity first.

“North Korea has a good oppor-tunity to change” its behavior,” he saidduring a panel discussion televisedlive. “I have high hopes for a change.”Lee’s appeal comes as the two Koreasnegotiate on holding high-level de-fense talks, the first in more than three

AP Photo/ Jo Bo-hee, Yonhap

South Korean President LeeMyung-bak speaks with experts atthe presidential Blue House inSeoul, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. Lee isurging North Korea to show respon-sibility for two deadly attacks lastyear, ahead of looming defensetalks between the divided countries.

South Korea’s Lee open to summit with Kim Jong Ilyears, to ease months of hostility onthe Korean peninsula that have raisedfears of war.

Tensions have been at one of thehighest levels in decades since NorthKorea’s artillery bombardment of aSouth Korean island in Novemberkilled four people.

The attack on a front-line civilianarea — one of the gravest assaults byNorth Korea since the 1950-53 KoreanWar — came eight months after thedeadly sinking of a South Korean war-ship blamed on Pyongyang. The Northhas denied its involvement in the sink-ing, which killed 46 South Korean sail-ors.

After weeks of threatening war, theNorth has pushed recently for talkswith South Korea and the resumptionof six-nation negotiations over its

nuclear weapons program. Last week,South Korea agreed to defense talksin what would be the rivals’ first offi-cial contact since the November ar-tillery barrage. The two Koreas havenot yet agreed on a date for prelimi-nary talks.

Lee said North Korea must changeits pattern of behavior — raising re-gional tensions with provocations andthen seeking negotiations to wrestbadly needed aid — if it wants toimprove ties with the South or see theresumption of nuclear-disarmament-for-aid negotiations. “When (NorthKorea) has a position that it really in-tends to have genuine talks rather thanarmed provocation, we can haveSouth-North Korea talks and eco-nomic exchanges, and discuss the six-party talks,” Lee said.

Asked whether a summit withNorth Korea’s leader was possible, Leesaid: “Yes. I don’t deny it. I’d hold asummit if necessary.” Before last year’sattacks, the two Koreas reportedlypushed for a summit but failed to agreedue to differences over North Korea’sdemand for food aid.

Lee has said in the past that he waswilling, in principle, to meet Kim atany time if that would help foster peaceon the Korean peninsula, which hasremained in a technical state of warsince the Korean War ended in a truce.

The leaders of the two Koreas heldtheir first-ever summit in 2000, withthen-South Korean President Kim Dae-jung traveling to Pyongyang to meetwith Kim Jong Il. The second summitwas held in 2007 between then-Presi-dent Roh Moo-hyun and Kim.

AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky

Police officers detain an opposition activist during a banned anti-Kremlin protest in St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday, Jan. 31, 2011.Opposition groups have been calling rallies on the 31st day of eachmonth to honor the 31st article of the Russian Constitution, whichguarantees the right of assembly.

Russian police arrest dozensat anti-government rallies

lic criticism of the authorities sincehe was steered to power by hisclose ally Vladimir Putin, nowprime minister, in 2008. But mostopposition groups say little haschanged and their activities are stillrestricted.

In St Petersburg, police saidthey had detained about 60 peopleat a rally in the heart of city whereprotestors cried: “We demand free-dom of speech, freedom of assem-bly and an end to censorship.”Opposition leader Boris Nemtsov,who spent 15 days in jail after aNew Year’s eve protest, rallied theMoscow crowd with calls for anend to Putin’s grip on power sincehe became president in 2000 andlater prime minister.

“The rubbish tip of historyawaits Putin just like all dictators,”he told Reuters, raising chants of“Putin resign” and “Russia with-out Putin.” Moscow authoritiesgave permission for 1,000 peopleto gather, but in the past policehave beaten or detained demon-strators they accused of infractionsat such rallies.

Protestersshout slogansas they set onfire to a hugeposter ofEgyptianPresidentHosni Mubarakduring a rallyat the USEmbassy insolidarity withthe Egyptiananti-govern-ment protest-ers in Manila,PhilippinesTuesday Feb.1, 2011.

AP Photo/Bullit Marquez

Egypt’s army promises noEgypt’s army promises noEgypt’s army promises noEgypt’s army promises noEgypt’s army promises noforce against protestersforce against protestersforce against protestersforce against protestersforce against protestersAssociated Press Writer

CAIRO – Egypt’s military pledged not to fire on protesters in a signthat army support for President Hosni Mubarak may be unravelingon the eve of a major escalation — a push for a million people to taketo the streets Tuesday to demand the authoritarian leader’s ouster.

“He only needs a push!” was oneof the most frequent chants, and aleaflet circulated by some protesterssaid it was time for the military tochoose between Mubarak and thepeople.

The latest gesture by Mubarakaimed at defusing the crisis fell flat.His top ally, the United States,roundly rejected his announcementof a new government Monday thatdropped his highly unpopular inte-rior minister, who heads police

forces and has been widely de-nounced by the protesters. Thecrowds in the streets were equallyunimpressed.

“It’s almost the same govern-ment, as if we are not here, as if weare sheep,” sneered one protester,Khaled Bassyouny, a 30-year-oldInternet entrepreneur. He said it wastime to escalate the marches. “It hasto burn. It has to become ugly. Wehave to take it to the presidentialpalace.”

Another concession came lateMonday, when Vice President OmarSuleiman — appointed by Mubarakonly two days earlier — went on stateTV to announce the offer of a dia-logue with “political forces” for con-stitutional and legislative reforms.

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Temple CeremonyCalendar Event for February 1 through March 2, 2011

EVERY Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annualCeremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Ba-linese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine whicheach family possesses. Because of this practically every fewdays a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in someVillage in Bali. There are also times when the entire islandcelebrated 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 consid-ered its birth day and celebration always takes place on thesame day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When newmoon is used then the celebration always happens on new moonor full moon. The day of course can differ the religious cel-ebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some templecelebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakihtemple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and mostof the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importanceof the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed withpieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, deco-rations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold andChinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the fourcorners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, whiteor black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped inthe shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrel-las soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, longflags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. Infront of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles,decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, riceand other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are thegirls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangementsof all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Everyvisitor admires the grace with which the carry their load ontheir heads.

Balinese TempleCeremony

1 FebruaryAnggarKasih Tambir

Dalem Puri Temple in Batuan - SukawatiDalem Kediri Silakarang in Silakarang -Singapadu - GianyarDalem Temple in Sukawati Village - GianyarDalem Temple in Singakerta Village - Ubud -GianyarDalem Lemben in Ketewel - Sukawati -GianyarPaibon Pasek Tangkas in Peliatan - UbudPuseh ngukuhin in Keramas - GianyarPemerajan Agung Ki Telabah in Tuakilang -TabananKarang Buncing in Blahbatuh - GianyarDalem Bubunan in Seririt - BulelengDesa Badung Temple in DenpasarMerajan Pasek Gelgel Gobleg in Turupinghe -Banjar - BulelengLuwur Pedengenan Bedha in Bongan -TabananMerajan Dukuh Sebudi in Keramas - GianyarMerajan Pasek Ngukuhin in Keramas - GianyarPucak Payongan in Kedewatan - Ubud -GianyarTanah Kilap “ Griya Anyar” in Suwung Kawuh- Denpasar SelatanSelukat Temple in Keramas - Blahbatuh -GianyarDalem Tampuagan in tembuku - BangliDalem Waturenggong in Desa Taro - GianyarDalem Bentuyung in Ubud - GianyarPuseh Temple in Ubud - GianyarDalem Temple Peliatan Ubud - Gianyar

2 FebruaryBuda Umanis Tambir, Tilem Kawulu

Sari Bankar Titih Kapal - BadungUlun Kulkul (Aci Sarin Tahun) Besakih -KarangasemDalem Yang Taluh Sidemen -Karangasem

Dalem Kangin Sidemen - Karangasem.

16 FebruaryBuda Keliwon Matal

Puseh & Desa Temple Sukawati Village - GianyarMerajan Agung Batuyang - batubulanPasek Gelgel Bebetin Sawan - BulelengMaspahit Temple Sesetan - South DenpasarPasek Bendesa Manik Mas Dukuh Kendran -TegalalangPanti Pasek Gaduh Sesetan - South DenpasarMerajan Pasek Kubayan Wangaya GedePedarman Arya Kanuruhan Besakih -Karangasem

17 FebruaryPurnama Kesanga

Penataran sasih Temple Pejeng - GianyarBukit Mentik Gunung Lebah Batur VillageKintamani - bangli

26 FebruaryTumpek Kandang Day

Puseh Temple Gianyar CityLuhur Dalem Sagening Kediri - TabananMerajan Pasek Gelge Tegal Gede - Badung

2 MarchBuda Wage Menail

Dalem Tarukan LinggihCemenggaon Sukawati -GianyarPasek Dangke Bambang - BangliPenataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Pejeng Kaja -GianyarPuseh Menakaji Peninjoan - BangliMerajan Agung Blangsinga Blahbatuh - GianyarKawitan Gusti Agung Blangsinga BlahbatuhGianyarKawitan Gusti Celuk Celuk - Sukawati - GianyarBaler Sada Temple Banjar Pemebatan, KapalMengwi

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Aston International’s E Commerce Manager, Ms. Tenaiya Brookfied,said:” For years we have consistently developed and improved our elec-tronic distribution capacities making web based distribution one of Aston’smost important priorities and a core competency. This has resulted in usbeing able to generate often more than 50% of hotel’s revenue via theinternet, making Aston an industry leader in Indonesia. The new enhancedwebsite with its many innovative features will further enhance our E-com-merce strength and leadership role”.

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Wednesday, February 2, 20116 News

“This storm is huge and it is life-threatening,” Queensland PremierAnna Bligh said. “I know many ofus will feel that Queensland has al-ready borne about as much as wecan bear when it comes to disastersand storms, but more is being askedof us — and I am confident that weare able to rise to this next chal-lenge.”

Yasi was barreling toward theQueensland state coast as a strongCategory 3 storm with winds up to137 mph (220 kph), but was ex-pected to turn into a Category 4storm with wind gusts up to 155mph (250 kph) by Wednesday.Bligh said the military would airlift250 patients from the waterfontCairns Base and Cairns Private hos-pitals to Brisbane, the state capital.

Although there were no manda-tory evacuation orders yet, residentsin waterfront and low-lying areasfrom the cities of Cairns to

Cyclone roars towardCyclone roars towardCyclone roars towardCyclone roars towardCyclone roars towardAustralia’s flooded northAustralia’s flooded northAustralia’s flooded northAustralia’s flooded northAustralia’s flooded northAssociated Press Writer

SYDNEY – Authorities scrambled to airlift hospital patientsfrom the path of a cyclone roaring toward waterlogged north-eastern Australia and urged low-lying communities to evacuatebecause of potentially deadly flash floods. Cyclone Yasi was ex-pected to slam into the coast of Queensland state Wednesday asa Category 4 storm and dump up to three feet (one meter) ofrain on communities already saturated from months of flooding.

AP Photo/Tertius Pickard, File

FILE - In this file photo taken Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011, two local residents walk through floodwaterafter getting ice and food to take to their flooded residence in the suburb of New Farm in Brisbane,Australia.

Townsville were being advised toleave.

Ian Stewart, the state’s disastercoordinator, said many people weredeciding on their own to evacuateand that he would discuss with may-ors whether forced evacuationswere needed. “In reality, we wouldlike people to get as far south aspossible, as quickly as possible,without of course breaking therules,” he told reporters.

Another storm, Cyclone An-thony, hit Queensland early Mon-day but quickly weakened and didlittle more than uproot some treesand damage power lines.

Queensland already has sufferedflooding since heavy rains startedin November. The floodwaterskilled 35 people, damaged or de-stroyed 30,000 homes and busi-nesses and left Brisbane, Australia’sthird-largest city, under water fordays.

Japan’s Meteorological Agencyhas restricted access to the moun-tain, and on Tuesday broadened theno-go zone to anywhere within a 21/2-mile (four-kilometer) radius ofthe crater. Two lodges and scat-tered homes are within the perim-eter.

Dozens of domestic flights inand out of Miyazaki — about 590miles (950 kilometers) southwestof Tokyo — were grounded last

Officials warned the public tostay at home rather than try to bravethe crippling storm. “It doesn’t takea whole lot to make everything slickand if roads aren’t treated they’regoing to get icy and then it’s goingto snow on top of that, which is go-ing to make matters worse becauseyou can’t see the ice,” Pat Slattery,a spokesman for the weather ser-vice, told AFP.

“One of the concerns about thefreezing precipitation is if it getsheavy and starts taking down powerlines and trees because people haveno way to keep their homes warm,and a bitter cold will follow right

From page 1Storm on the heels of the snow and freezing

rain.”As much as 18 inches (45 centime-

ters) of snow was expected in the Chi-cago area and officials warned thatploughs would not be able keep up,making side streets impassable. Gustsup to 60 miles per hour could also leadto flooding along the lake shore aswaves build up to 25 feet.

Many other areas were predicted toget over a foot (30 centimeters) of snow.“The east coast will begin to get in onthe winter weather action Mondaynight as the precipitation begins tonose its way over the Appalachians,”the weather service warned. “By Tues-day morning the mid-Atlantic andsouthern New England states will bein the mix.” The storm arrived just

Associated Press Writer LAHORE, Pakistan – A Paki-

stani court has ordered the govern-ment not to release an Americanofficial arrested in the shootingdeaths of two Pakistanis.

The Lahore High Court has alsotold the government on Tuesday toplace the American on the “exit con-trol list” that would prevent himfrom leaving the country.

The U.S. has argued that theAmerican, who has not been named,

Pakistani court blocks releaseof American suspect

has diplomatic immunity and hasbeen detained illegally by Pakistan.The embassy has said he acted inself-defense when he shot the twomen in Lahore last Thursday be-cause they were trying to rob himat gunpoint. The chief justice of theLahore High Court, Ijaz Chaudhry,demanded the federal governmentdetermine whether the Americanhas diplomatic immunity within 15days. He said he will review thedecision.

AP Photo/Hamza Ahmed

Pakistani security officials escort a U.S. consulate employee,who has not been named by US authorities, second from left,at a local court in Lahore, Pakistan on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011.

days after a rare thunder-snowstorm paralyzed air and groundtravel from Washington to Boston.

After building up earlyWednesday with ice and freezingrain, last week’s storm blindsidedthe US capital at the height of theevening rush hour Thursday, noteven sparing President BarackObama, who faced travel delaysupon returning from a day trip tothe US Midwest.

There was no word yet onwhether the latest storm would im-pact Groundhog Day on Wednes-day, when the nation watches Phil,the weather predicting groundhogin Punxsutawney (Pennsylvania),to see if six more weeks of winterare still to come.

Japan volcano eruptsFrom page 1

week and more cancellations followed.Train service was temporarily sus-pended in the area and many schoolsclosed.The local government also re-ported damages to crops.

Officials in the town of Takaharuhave urged about 1,100 residents wholive near the volcano to go to evacua-tion centers because of the danger ofdebris, ash and landslides. The warn-ing was not mandatory, however, andsome residents were returning to theirhomes.

Experts said a dome of lava wasgrowing larger inside the 4,662-foot

(1,421-meter) volcano’s crater, butit was not certain whether thedome would grow enough to spillover the rim and create large flowsdown the volcano’s sides. Ava-lanches of superheated gas, ashand rock have already been ob-served.

The Japanese islands, part ofthe seismically active Pacific“Ring of Fire,” are volcanic in ori-gin and dozens of volcanos still areactive. In 1991, 43 people died inthe eruption of Mount Unzen, alsoon Kyushu island.

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Antara

JAKARTA - The Association of In-donesian Tour and Travel Agencies(Asita) believed that the ongoing politi-cal unrest in Egypt will not disrupt tour-ism in Indonesia.

“The political crisis in Egypt has noimpact on our tourism business,” spokes-man of Yogyakarta’s chapter of Asita,Edwin Ismedi Himna, said here on Tues-day.

He said Egypt has so far not been apotential market of and contribution toIndonesia’s tourism.

According to Edwin, not many tourand travel agencies in Indonesia workedin the Egyptian market.

“Not many of tour operators offertourism packages in Egypt,” Edwin said,

AFP PHOTO / ROMEO GACAD

Indonesian pro-democracy demonstrators release a dove during a rally in Jakarta on January 31,2011. The demonstrators support the Egyptians democratic struggle and demanded accountabilityfor the Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak and condemning the violence by Egytian security forcesagainst protestors as angry nationwide revolt to topple Mubarak regime raged into seventh day. Therepatriation of Indonesian migrant workers from Egypt will be coordinated by the foreign affairsministry, Manpower and Transmigration Minister Muhaimin Iskandar said here on Tuesday.

The extended memorandum ofunderstanding between Indonesiaand India on marine and fishery wassigned by President Susilo BambangYudhoyono and Indian Prime Min-ister Manmohan Singh in India lastJanuary 25, Marine Affairs and Fish-ery Minister Fadel Muhammad saidat a press conference here Monday(Jan 31).

On January 24, Minister Fadelhad a meeting with Indian Minister

Antara

JAKARTA - The repatriation of In-donesian migrant workers from Egyptwill be coordinated by the foreign af-fairs ministry, Manpower and Transmi-gration Minister Muhaimin Iskandarsaid here on Tuesday.

“Indonesia actually has a very smallnumber of workers in Egypt, only a fewhundred people, and their repatriation fol-lowing political unrest in Egypt will becoordinated by the foreign affairs minis-try,” Muhaimin said after the installationof echelon IV officials at his ministry.

Following the political unrest inEgypt to demand President HosniMubarak’s resignation, the Indonesiangovernment is currently making effortsto repatriate all its citizens from theMiddle Eastern country.

Muhaimin said there were around6,000 Indonesian citizens includingmigrant workers, students, and touristsin Egypt and thus the governmentwanted them all repatriated.

Besides Indonesia, other countrieswhose citizens are in Egypt at presentare also repatriated to their countries

Antara

JAKARTA - The government is now wary ofa potential surge in the world oil price as a con-sequence of the political upheavals in the MiddleEast, according to a minister.

“We definitely must be wary about a possiblesurge in oil prices. I don’t think there are coun-tries that like high prices when the world econo-mies are in difficulty,” Coordinating Minister forEconomic Affairs Hatta Radjasa said on Monday.

He said if world oil prices soar too high, manu-facturing production might come to a halt and theimpacts might be substantial. Oil producing coun-tries are cognizant about the possible eventualities.

“I think, the impact of the chaos has not beenhere yet,” he said, adding that the chaos in Egyptand Tunisia had no impact yet on the adjustmentof Indonesia’s oil price assumption (ICP) and the

Foreign ministry to coordinate RIworkers repatriation from Egypt

of origin.Meanwhile, Xinhua news agency

reported that a chartered flight of ThaiAirways left Bangkok on Tuesdaymorning for Jordan to evacuate strandedThais in violence-stricken Egypt.

Quoting a Thai Foreign Ministryspokesman, Xinhua said that earlyTuesday morning, a chartered flightfrom Jordan already evacuated some 87Thais who had been trapped at the CairoInternational Airport for three days.

Those stranded passengers will bethen moved out from the Amman QueenAlia International Airport in Jordanwhen the flight of Thai Airways arrivesthere in the afternoon.

The flight is expected to arrive inBangkok at about 2.45 a.m.

Thani Thongpakdi, the spokesmanof the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, saidfive Thai officials including psycholo-gists and high- ranking officers from thecustom department also went with theThai Airways’ flight in case those Thaisneed help. All Thai nationals in Egyptwere now safe and officials from theembassy were standing by at the CairoAirport to help, he said.

RI signs fisheries accords with three countriesRI signs fisheries accords with three countriesRI signs fisheries accords with three countriesRI signs fisheries accords with three countriesRI signs fisheries accords with three countriesAntara

JAKARTA - Indonesia’s marine affairs and fisheries ministry re-cently signed fishery agreements with three countries consecutively -India, Sri Lanka and Maldives, a minister said.

of Earth Sciences Pawan KumarBansal to discuss the two countries’responses to the impact of climatechange and the need to conduct fur-ther research on the role of theoceans in global climate change,Fadel said.

The two nations’ cooperationcovered marine productivity, marineecosystem health research andmonitoring, climate change joint re-search and observation, marine re-

sources management and applica-tions, he said.

As the world’s second most popu-lated country, India was a potentialmarket for Indonesia’s fishery prod-ucts, especially tuna, the ministersaid. India also planned to invest inseaweed processing in Luwuk andBanggai, Central Sulawesi Province.

From India, Minister Fadel pro-ceeded to Sri Lanka for a workingvisit. Fadel and Sri Lankan Fisheriesand Aquatic Resources DevelopmentMinister Dr Rajitha Seranatne at theirmeeting had discussed bilateral co-operation in the marine and fisherysector as well as in aquaculture, par-ticularly in the Indian Ocean.

Minister Fadel on the occasionalso emphasized the importance oferadicating Illegal, Unregulated andUnreported (IUU) fishing to supportsustainable and wise marine andfishery resources management in theIndian Ocean especially.

Both countries agreed to preparea draft memorandum of understand-ing on marine and fishery coopera-tion expected to be signed in middleof 2011.

Sri Lanka and Indonesia alsoplanned to organize a forum of busi-nessmen engaged in the fisheryindustry.After visiting Sri Lanka,Minister Fadel went to Maldives tomeet Maldives Fishery and Agricul-

ture Minister Dr. Aminath Jameel inMale.

The two ministers agreed to fol-low up their meeting by drafting aLetter of Intent expected to be signedin March.

Fadel expressed his interest oflearning Maldives’ experiences andpolicies in managing their small is-lands.

In the meeting with MaldivesPresident Mohamed Nasheed, Min-ister Fadel said Indonesian business-men were interested in investing inthe fishery sector in Maldives, ac-cording to a press statement of theIndonesian marine affairs and fish-eries ministry.

Government wary to possiblesurge in world oil price

national economy.“Based on the oil supply in Indonesia, a hard

work is needed to increase the national oil pro-duction,” Radjasa said. The national oil liftingtargets as amount of 970,000 barrel to reach in2011, considering Indonesia’s oil production hasbeen in a decline every year.

“I’ve already asked the Executive Agency forUpstream Oil and Gas (BP Migas) to keep oilproduction consistently at 970,000 barrels perday,” he said. Exploration must be increased, in-vestment be maintained, enhanced oil recovery(EOR) operations be spurred and old oil wellsmust not be deserted.

On the demand, it is need to retrenchment stepand fuel diversification to anticipate a surge inworld oil prices. “Don’t speculate and don’t bepanic, I believe OPEC will keep the stabilizationby increasing their productions,” Radjasa said.

Egyptian crisis not disrupt RI tourismadding that if any, it was combined withreligious tourism because Egypt wasclose to the city of Jeddah in SaudiArabia.

Therefore he said the political crisisin Egypt did not affect tourism businessin Indonesia.

Edwin said that even inYogyakarta, the number of Egyptiantourists visiting the cultural city wasonly a few, and even according to sta-tistics they were mixed with touristsfrom African and Middle Easterncountries.

“Thus the political unrest in Egypt hasno significant impact on our tourism, es-pecially in Yogyakarta,” he said, addingthat so far he has been working more inregional tourist market in Malaysian andSingapore.

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Bali TodayTourists visit to Bali increase 8%Tourists visit to Bali increase 8%Tourists visit to Bali increase 8%Tourists visit to Bali increase 8%Tourists visit to Bali increase 8%

He said that the high number of tourists wasbecause the promotion which is often done by thegovernment and other tourism private sector fromBali. Most of the foreign tourists were comingthrough Ngurah Rai International Airport and only30,628 tourists came using sea transportation.

Suarsa explained that from the top ten coun-tries on the lists of the origin of the tourists, sixcountries show significant increase and the otherswere decreasing. The increase happened on thetourists from Australia which increased 43%, Ma-laysia increase 16%, Taiwan 1.5%, Singapore 73%,Germany 12% and England 2.9%.

While the four countries that decrease are Ja-pan which decreased 26%, China 4%, South Ko-rea 0.13% and the tourists from France also de-creased 8%.

Singaraja (Bali Post) –In this past four days, another baby

disposal at Singaraja City happensagain. After a baby was thrown to ariver in Lovina, this time another babywas found irrigation in Merak Street,Gang Setia Kawan, Kayu Buntil Area,Singaraja, last Monday (31/1).

The baby was found floating on KaliMumbul irrigation around 7.15 am localtime. It was first found by a nearbylocation resident while bringing hischild to school. It was then reported tothe Singaraja Police.

Head of Public Relation for BulelengPolice, Police Commissioner I NyomanSukasena, accompanied by Head ofCriminal Research Singaraja Police,First Inspector Agus Dwi Wirawan, onMonday stated that the baby wasalready not breathing when brought toSingaraja General Hospital to bechecked medically. It was then statedthe baby was a boy and was born 6hours before it was found. The weight is2,8 kg and height 45 centimeter, “Policeis still investigating to find out whohave done it.” (kmb15)

AntaraKuta – The development of Ngurah Rai

Airport which will be finish in 2013 willequip the international airport with hotel.The Director of Angkasa Pura I, TommySutomo, said Monday that hotel is one ofthe supporting facilities needed in an airport.

“If there is a delay on a flight and thepassengers will need time to rest, so the pas-sengers will be accommodated there. Thehotel is special for that kind of purposes,”he added.

Ngurah Rai Airport equiped with hotelEven tough there will be a hotel in the

airport area but he stated that it will not forbusiness. “It will not be a huge hotel butonly a small place for the passengers to stay,just like an inn. The main area is the airportand the hotel is only the minor supportbuilding,” Tommy said.

The hotel will be built together with theterminal in one development package.Tommy explained that the development ofNgurah Rai Airport will start with the ac-cess road, parking lot, terminals, and han-

dling package with sophisticated system.“Package handling with modern system is a

part of automatic baggage system. In all air-ports in Indonesia, there is no similar system.We are targeting to be made in March 2011,”Tommy said.

He also explained that near the APEC con-ference in Bali in November 2013, the devel-opment of the airport has been started sinceearly 2011 where 130,000 square meters of ter-minal will be built and it will cost more than 2trillion rupiah.

AntaraDenpasar – The number of foreign tourists

came to Bali in 2010 was 2,576,142 people,increased 8% compared to the previous yearwhich was 2,385,122 tourists. The head ofBali Statistics Department, Gede Suarsa, said“the number of tourists was over the targetset by the government which is 2.3 milliontourists.”

Again, BabyDisposed At

Irrigation

Tourists crowded at Kuta beach.IBP/Yudi Karnaedi

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The photo shows activity on Ngurah Rai International Airport on Bali island.

Balinese Culture

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On the way home from provid-ing lectures overseas, SwamiVivekananda, a Hindu monk of In-dia, dropped in the house of hisfriend, who is also a king. There,he was entertained in familial atmo-sphere. In the meantime, they alsotalked about religion passionately.

His friend asked why the Hindusworshiped idol like statue. Thisyoung monk smiled while askingpermission to his friend to borrowthe picture of his grandfather on thewall. Having been taken and handedover by a servant, Vivekananda ex-amined and placed it on the carpet.Afterward, Vivekananda politely re-marked if his friend would not havethe heart to touch the photo by thetoe of his boots. Finally, the friendrealized his mistake that worship-ping a statue or the like would helpin conceptualization.

Meanwhile, according to aFrench linguist, Ferdinand deSaussure, in the language of signthere are the signifying (object) andthe signified (concept or reference).In this context, photograph is theobject, while grandfather is the ref-erence. God has been universallyacknowledged to be the most per-fect. To help concentrate the mindon God, the Hindus apply a mediumlike various kinds of sanctified ef-figies. Each devotee has differentability to contact Him. Commonpeople may use a medium, whilethose having higher spiritual knowl-

Batun Bedil(Sticky Rice Cake In Brown Sugar Sauce)

OVERVIEW:The uninteresting appearance of this dessert belies

its delightful flavor and creamy texture.

DUMPLINGS:1 cup glutinous

rice flour½ cup tapioca

flour¾ cup water¼ tsp saltMake

dumplings first.Place rice andtapioca flour indeep mixing bowland make a wellin the center. Addwater and salt, mix well and knead dough until it can berolled and shaped. Dough should not be too dry. Rollsmall dumplings 1 cm (1/2 in) in diameter. Bring 4 liters(8 cups) of water to boil. Add dumplings, bring back tothe boil and simmer for 5 minutes. Drain and setdumplings aside.

SAUCE:3 cups water 1 cup coconut milk 1/3 cup palm sugar

syrup 1 pandan leaf Pinch of salt To make sauce,combine water, coconut milk, palm sugar, pandan leaf,and pinch of salt in small stockpot. Bring to boil. Addflour dumplings and simmer for 20 minutes. Cool andserve at room temperature.

TO MAKE PALM SUGAR SYRUP:Combine 2 cups of chopped palm sugar with 1 cup of

water and 2 pandan leaves. Bring to boil, simmer 10minutes, strain and store in refrigerator.(www.baliguide.com/balifood)

Dadar(Coconut Pancake)

OVERVIEW:This pancakes, with a sweet coconut filling known as

Unti, are a popular snack food and also sometimeseaten for breakfast.

INGREDIENTS:100 gr (3 ½ oz) rice floor2 tablespoons sugar¼ teaspoon salt3 eggs1 cup fresh coconut milk2 tablespoons oil

PREPARATION:Combine rice flour, sugar, salt, eggs, coconut milk

and coconut oil in a deep mixing bowl. Stir well withwhisk until all lumps dissolve. Strain through strainer.Batter should be a very liquid in consistency. Heat non-stick pan over low fire. Add 4 tablespoons of mixture andfry very thin pancakes. Cool pancakes down to roomtemperature. (www.baliguide.com/balifood)

Statue of Great HeroesGuarding Denpasar

edge do not need any medium.Therefore, none is wrong and it isa freedom.

Inspired by puranic or mytho-logical stories, many Hindu artisansin Bali manage to make variouskinds of sculpture. When visitorshappened to have island excursion,you may encounter many statuessuch as outside the temple, at theend of each bridge, intersection,hotel’s gardens or even on the pave-ment on the protocol roads inDenpasar. Sacred statues are placedin the sanctum representing godsand goddess as well as heavenlycreatures, decorative statue in-stalled in commercial premises andthe last one is statue to commemo-rate the great heroes.

Statues depicting the great he-roes can be encountered in the re-gencies pursuant to their respectiveorigin. One of the great heroes ofBali is I Gusti Ngurah Rai as thename of local international airport.Right in the east of the airportstands still the Statue of NgurahRai. He was the commander ofCiung Wanara troops of Bali strug-gling bitterly against the Dutch co-lonial for the sake of freedom.

With him, there were some othercompanions in arms. For instance,I Gusti Ngurah Bagus Sugianyar,his statue is strategically installedin the intersection of Jalan GatotSubroto and Jalan Cokroaminoto,Ubung. As if he welcomes every-

one entering the city from outsideDenpasar and outside Bali from thewest. Then, Cokorda AgungTresna—Head of Badung StruggleHeadquarters. His statue is installedon the intersection of Jalan GatotSubroto and Jalan Nangka, right inthe east of Sugianyar’s statue. Mean-while, Ida Bagus Putu Japa was amember of Pembela Tanah Air (em-bryo of the Indonesian Military) im-mortalized with a statue put in theRenon roundabouts.

In the meantime, Puputan BadungSquare located right in the heart ofDenpasar City also retained statutesof other great heroes. The statues areplaced in the northern side of thesquare. They depict the bitterstruggle of the Badung Kingdomagainst the colonial until their lastbloodshed. This heroic incident oc-curred on September 20, 1906 andnow it is celebrated as the PuputanBadung Day.

Those statues are intended toshow an appreciation over the mer-its of great heroes of Bali that haddedicated their entire life sincerelyfor the nation. Similarly, they denotean educational medium to introducethe heroes to younger generation sothey get a simple illustration aboutthe heroes living before their time. Lastbut not least, they also give good vi-sual impression to the arrangement ofurban landscaping and attraction totourists reflecting one of the artistictreasures owned by Bali. (BTN/punia)

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Welcome to Gua Gajah (Elephant Cave) which is located in westside of Bedulu countryside, Blah Batuh Sub district and Gianyar Re-gency. It is about 27 km from Denpasar town. This cave is built at cre-vasse edge from the federation of 2 rills that is called Pangkung River,where the irrigation is mixed with Petanu River flow. The federationarea of two rivers is called Campuhan/Mixture. It owns the magicalenergy on the basis of Rwabineda Concept/two different matters on thisbasic concept hence Gua Gajah (Elephant Cave) is intentionally builtamong two rivers.

The word of Gua Gajah is anticipated coming from the word of LwaGajah, the name of Buddhist Temple or hermitage for Buddhist monk.The Gua Gajah’s name is written on Negarakeertagama papyrus whichis compiled by Mpu Prapanca on 1365 M. Lwa or Lwah/loh mean theriver and it reflect to the meaning that the hermitage is located at GajahRiver or in Air Gajah. In the year inscription 944 Saka, it is mentionedwith the name of ‘ser ring Air Gajah’ that is meaning the Subak leaderin Air Gajah. The word has mentioned that the hermitage of Lwa Gajahis located in Subak Air Gajah.

There is a relief which is almost looking like the form of mountainon the entrance of this cave. It was carved many designed on the relieflike grove with the stick, close leaf, animal for example forest pig, tor-toise and specters. The cave mouth is decorated by the bas-relief withthe eye turn around to the right or west side. There is an article letter ofKediri type from the early of 11 century was written on the wall leftside or east side. There is a pool (Patirthaan) as a place to take the holyTirtha water for Hindu ceremony which is located in the middle of thecave courtyard. This Holy Pool is previously piled up by land and it hasbeen found on 1954 by Krijgsman from the Ancient Department. TheHoly pool is equipped by the statue douche which is parallel arrangedin two groups.http://www.kesumatours.com

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BUSINESS

An Interbrand report released Tuesday saidthat the value of the Toyota Motor Corp.brand dropped 16 percent to $25.66 billioncompared with its last report released a yearago. New York-based Interbrand assessesbrands from around the world based on fi-nancial strength, influence on purchasingdecisions and earnings potential — a methodconsidered a global standard for rankingbrands. Toyota’s Lexus luxury model name-plate, which placed seventh last year, droppedto eighth, losing 19 percent of its value,Interbrand said. Toyota has suffered a series of qualitylapses since late 2009, and has announcedrecall after recall, mostly in the key U.S.market. The latest recall came last week. Mostof the affected vehicles were in Japan, mak-ing for the second biggest auto recall in Japa-nese history. Interbrand said rival Japanese automakerHonda Motor Co. placed second, followedby electronics makers Canon Inc. and Sony

Recalls erodevalue of Toyota’s

global brandAssociated Press WriterTOKYO – Toyota remains Japan’s No. 1 global brand, but its value has

fallen by nearly a fifth because of the recent massive recalls that dentedconsumer trust in the quality of its cars, according to an international con-sultant.

Agence France-Presse TAIPEI – Taiwan’s economy grew 10.47percent in 2010, its fastest rate in 23 years,but it will slow to half that figure in 2011,the government said in a preliminary esti-mate. The growth rate last year was the high-est since 1987, the Directorate General ofBudget, Accounting and Statistics said ina statement posted on its website late Mon-day. “China was a major contributing fac-tor to Taiwan’s trade growth last year, andthe two economies are closely linked,” saidCheng Cheng-mount, an economist atCitibank Taiwan. Taiwan’s exports jumped 34.8 percentto $274.64 billion last year, with those toChina and Kong Kong hitting a record high$114.75 billion, or 41.8 percent of the over-all figure, the finance ministry said earlier. For 2011, the directorate general pre-dicted growth of 5.03 percent, stating that

Agence France-Presse SINGAPORE – World oil prices stayed above$100 a barrel in Asian trade Tuesday on fears theescalating turmoil in Egypt will disrupt supplyflows through the strategic Suez Canal. Prices barrelled through the psychologicalthreshold overnight for the first time since the 2008economic crisis as protests in Egypt demandingthe removal of President Hosni Mubarak mounted. Egypt is not a major oil producer, but is hometo the vitally important Suez Canal, which carriesaround 2.4 million barrels of oil a day — roughlyequivalent to the daily output of Iraq or Brazil. New York’s main contract, light sweet crudefor March delivery, was down 20 cents at $91.99per barrel in afternoon trade. Brent North Sea crude for March fell 50 centsto $100.51 after touching 101.73 overnight, thehighest level since October 2008. Prices were slipping in early Asian trade as

Corp., and then video-game maker NintendoCo. Honda and Nintendo had the sameplacings last year. Canon and Sony switched places from theprevious year, with Canon moving up this yearfrom fourth to third, and Sony sliding fromthird to fourth. Interbrand also comparedbrands in Japan with brands in China. Although China has surpassed Japan asthe world’s second-largest economy, Japan hadmore of what are considered top global brandsthan did China, it said. Japan had six brands Interbrand classifiedamong the best global brands for 2010 —Toyota, Honda, Canon, Sony, Nintendo andPanasonic Corp. China had none. Interbrand said China had powerfulbrands that had yet to go global but were pow-erful in their home market such as ChinaMobile, a telecommunications company. China Mobile is already worth more thanToyota, underlining the sheer size and growthpotential of Chinese companies, according toInterbrand.

Taiwan economic growthat 23-year high in 2010

uncertain factors in the year ahead includedslow progress in improving the employmentsituation in developed countries. The economy expanded 6.48 percent inthe fourth quarter of 2010, the directorategeneral said. Although Taiwan is highly dependenton overseas markets, domestic demand ac-counted for a bigger share of growth thanexports in the fourth quarter, it said, citing arebound in consumer confidence. In 2009, under the influence of the glo-bal economic crisis, the island’s economyshrank 1.93 percent. The government called the data an ad-vance estimate, with the official growth fig-ure for 2010 due to be announced at a pressconference later this month. Taiwan’s economy was the world’s 20thlargest in 2010, according to US governmentdata based on purchasing power parity,which takes into account the cost of livingin different countries.

Oil stays above $100 abarrel in Asian trade

traders cashed in their profits, said Ong Yi Ling,investment analyst at Phillip Futures in Singapore. “One of the factors might be profit-takingsince we’re at 27-month highs,” she told AFP, add-ing that the dip might be temporary as the Egyp-tian political crisis dragged on. “For Brent, we can still see more upside... Ifthe tensions continue, it will continue to providesupport for the oil prices,” she said But the ebullient gains on the crude marketwould eventually be capped by “many parties thatare concerned that high prices might form a threatto the economic recovery,” Ong said. Egypt hasbeen engulfed in more a week of street protestsdemanding an end to President Hosni Mubarak’s30-year rule. Analysts from Barclays Capital said while theconcerns over Egypt fuelled the oil price increase,“we think that the probability for closure of the SuezCanal is extremely unlikely at the moment.”

ReutersLONDON – BP confirmed an expected returnto paying dividends, which it cut at the height ofthe Gulf of Mexico oil spill last summer, andsaid it planned to sell two refineries and refocuson oil and gas production. The news could be overshadowed by a courtcase later on Tuesday at which the company’soligarch partners in TNK-BP will seek an in-junction to block BP’s planned Arctic explora-tion joint venture with Russian state-controlledRosneft. BP said on Tuesday it would pay afourth quarter dividend of 7 cents per share and42 cents per American Depositary Share — inline with analysts’ expectations.

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A sign is displayed at Lexus of Marin on January 26, 2011 in San Rafael, California.Toyota remains Japan’s No. 1 global brand, but its value has fallen by nearly a fifthbecause of the recent massive recalls that dented consumer trust in the quality ofits cars, according to an international consultant.

BP returns to dividend list The company said it would sell two refiner-ies in the U.S. — halving its capacity there —and invest more in oil and gas exploration. However, the company also flagged that thepain from the oil spill continued to flow, addinganother $1 billion to its earlier $40 billion esti-mate of the total bill. Analysts had recently startedto cut their own estimates of the oil spill bill. BP said fourth-quarter Replacement Cost(RC) net income was $4.61 billion, as a big risein oil prices outweighed a 9 percent drop in oiland gas production. Excluding one-off itemsof $250 million, RC net income came in at $4.36billion, behind the $5.09 billion average forecastgiven by nine analysts polled by Reuters.

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice An-thony M. Kennedy presided over amock trial Monday night at the Uni-versity of Southern California, an eventsponsored by the Shakespeare Centerof Los Angeles. The hung jury, whichincluded actors Helen Hunt and TomIrwin, deliberated with the audienceeavesdropping by video feed.

Of the 12 jurors, two found theprince insane, while 10 found him tobe sane at the time when he stabbedPolonius, the adviser to the king in theclassic Shakespeare play. Noted LosAngeles attorneys filled in as prosecu-tors and defense lawyers before an au-dience of other lawyers, students andonetime Hamlet actor Mel Gibson.

“It has taken well over 400 yearsfor our client to get his day in court,”

Agence France Presse

TOKYO – A renowned Japanese pianist onTuesday announced plans to break his ownGuinness world record by playing all 212 ofcomposer Frederic Chopin’s solo piano piecesat an 18-hour concert in Tokyo. YukioYokoyama told a news conference he wantedto “better understand Chopin and let many morepeople know about Chopin”.

He said he would play the 212 Chopin piecesby ear at the May 3 concert at Tokyo OperaCity from 8:00 am (2300 GMT) to 2:00 am thefollowing day, with intervals.

Yokoyama’s record-breaking Chopin con-cert in May last year saw him play 166 piecesin chronological order over more than 16 hoursto commemorate the bicentennial of thecomposer’s birthday, without using sheet mu-sic. The feat saw Yokoyama take the Guinnessworld record for “most pieces of music per-

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES – Halle Berry has pulled outof a film job to prepare for a custody fight overher young daughter. A spokeswoman for the Os-car-winning actress says Berry backed out of arole in “New Year’s Eve” that was scheduled toshoot in New York this week “due to pendingcustody litigation involving her daughter.”

Publicist Meredith O’Sullivan did not saywhere or when the custody case would be heard.Berry and her ex-boyfriend, Gabriel Aubry, havea daughter, Nahla, who will turn 3 in March. At-tempts to reach Aubry on Monday were unsuc-cessful.

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK – David Arquette’s publicistsays the actor has checked out of rehab. In ane-mail Monday to The Associated Press,Cindy Guagenti confirms the 39-year-old ac-tor left Sunday after completing treatment foralcohol and other problems. He entered an un-disclosed rehab center nearly a month ago.

Arquette and Courteney Cox announcedtheir separation in October after 11 years ofmarriage. They have a 6-year-old daughter,Coco. The couple met on the set of the movie“Scream” in 1996 and married three years later.

They are co-starring in the fourth install-ment of the “Scream” series, due out this year.Arquette co-starred with Drew Barrymore inthe 1999 romantic comedy “Never BeenKissed.”

David Arquette’s repsays he’s out of rehab

Rep: Halle Berry quits filmto fight for custody

Japan pianist plansmarathon Chopin concert

formed by a solo artist in 24 hours”.Along with the 166 pieces played last year,

the pianist said the upcoming concert will seehim play 46 pieces that the Polish-born Chopinhimself decided not to publish, including a workthat he composed at the age of seven. “Ratherthan perfectly finished works, you can glimpsethe human nature of Chopin in his unpublishedworks,” he added.

Born in 1971, Yokoyama studied from the ageof 16 at the Paris Conservatoire. After graduat-ing in 1990, he was awarded the third prize atthe XII International Chopin Piano Competitionin the same year.

“I have kept playing pieces of music by Chopinsince my debut and have been trying to see howclose I can get to him,” Yokoyama said. “I hopeto convey the beauty in some of Chopin’s worksthat he himself was not even aware of,” he said.The concert will be open to the public and willalso be broadcast by a Tokyo radio station.

Japanese pianistYukio Yokoyamahas announced

plans to break hisown Guinness

world record byplaying all 212 of

composerFrederic Chopin’ssolo piano pieces

at an 18-hourconcert in Tokyo.

AFP/Toru Yamanaka

AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes

Actor Graham Hamilton portrays Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, during amock trial at the University of Southern California. in Los Angeles onMonday, Jan. 31, 2011.

Jury deadlocked overJury deadlocked overJury deadlocked overJury deadlocked overJury deadlocked overHamlet’s mock murder trialHamlet’s mock murder trialHamlet’s mock murder trialHamlet’s mock murder trialHamlet’s mock murder trial

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES – A notorious criminal case that waited 400 yearsto go before a jury resulted in no definite answer to the question ofwhether the defendant — Hamlet Prince of Denmark — was sane whenhe committed murder.

said Blair Berk, who representedHamlet. “To be sane, or not to besane, at the time he killed Polonius.That is the question.”

Berk and the other defense attorney,Richard Hirsch, played onShakespeare’s words in arguing thatHamlet had a classic personality disor-der. “He was truly a melancholy Dane,”said Hirsch, noting that Hamlet’s ownmother proclaimed him to be mad.

But the prosecutors, Deputy Dis-trict Attorney Danette Meyers andattorney Nathan J. Hochman, arguedthat Hamlet was sane — though ob-sessed with avenging the death of hisfather, the king. Meyers told the jurythat Hamlet’s murderous behaviorwas not a result of insanity. “This isanger, and what today would be

called payback,” she said.She also said that his vision of his

father as a ghost giving him orderswas not evidence of his mental state.“Seeing ghosts was not uncommonin the state of Denmark,” she added.Both sides called to the witness standfamed forensic psychiatrists whohave testified in high profile casesincluding those of O.J. Simpson,Charles Manson and the Unabomber.

Dr. Saul Faerstein said Hamletwas “totally crazed and unhinged,”citing soliloquies in which “he’s talk-ing to himself with no one else there.”

He said Hamlet “was experienc-ing was an auditory hallucination”when he saw his father’s ghost.“That was a sign of a significant psy-chological disorder,” Faerstein said.Dr. Ronald Markman disagreed,saying that Hamlet knew right fromwrong and did not meet the currentaccepted criteria for having a majordepressive disorder. “My opinion is,he was sane-based on his behaviorbefore, after and during the act.”

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“The skies over Denali were apretty busy place,” he said. Thebirds are considered new speciesand now have names given byFiorillo and his team —“Magnoavipes denaliensis,” incor-porating the park’s name for a birdthat left especially large tracks, and“Gruipeda vegrandiunis,” roughlytranslating to “tiny one,” for a birdthat left small tracks.

Fiorillo, lead researcher on theproject, published his findings in thecurrent issue of the Journal of Sys-tematic Paleontology. Previous re-search determined that pterosaurs— flying winged reptiles — alsodwelled during the Cretaceous pe-riod in what is now Denali, he said.

Denali National Park, one of the

Agence France Presse

SHANGHAI – Chinese au-thorities have ordered online videogame operators to allow parents tomonitor their children’s playingsessions as part of a nationwidecrackdown on the growing prob-lem of Internet addiction. TheMinistry of Public Security wasone of eight government depart-ments that issued a joint notice onMonday ordering online gamingcompanies to comply with the newguidelines by March 1.

Upon proving their identity,parents will be able to put daily orweekly restrictions on their child’sgame playing time, the notice said.They would also have the optionof putting in place a total ban.Some parents and experts howeverexpressed doubts that the orderwould be effective.

“It’s unnecessary and it willprompt more rebelliousness fromthe children,” Xie Guangji, the fa-ther of a 14-year-old boy inCangzhou in northern Hebei prov-ince, was quoted as telling theChina Daily newspaper. Gu Jun, asociologist at Shanghai University,said the order seemed unfeasibleand a recipe for family conflicts.

“It’s a governmental gesture

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON – A type of diabe-tes that strikes during pregnancy maydisappear at birth, but it remains a bigred flag for moms’ future health — onethat too many seem to be missing.

Roughly half of women who’vehad gestational diabetes — the preg-nancy kind — go on to develop full-fledged Type 2 diabetes in the monthsto years after their child’s birth.

Yet new research shows fewer thanone in five of those women returnsfor a crucial diabetes test within sixmonths of delivery. That’s the first ofthe checkups they’re supposed tohave every few years to guard againstdiabetes’ return, but no one knowshow many do.

The research, by testing-lab giant

Diabetes in pregnancy a risk for mom years laterQuest Diagnostics, is sobering be-cause if they only knew, many ofthese new mothers could take stepsto reduce their chances of later-in-life diabetes that can bring with itsuch complications as heart diseaseand kidney damage.

“It’s almost as if you got a pre-view ... a window to the future,” saysDr. Ann Albright, a diabetes special-ist with the Centers for Disease Con-trol and Prevention. “This is a popu-lation that really should be targetedfor intervention.”

And more mothers-to-be soonmay join the ranks. The AmericanDiabetes Association is recommend-ing a change in how pregnant womenare tested that will identify more mildcases than today, based on some re-cent studies that found treating even

those mothers leads to easier deliver-ies. If obstetricians eventually sign on,it has the potential to double diagnoses— although most mild cases wouldneed only better nutrition and exer-cise, not diabetes medications, theassociation cautions.

New CDC estimates show nearly26 million Americans have someform of diabetes, the vast majorityof them the Type 2 kind that’s linkedto being overweight. Tens of millionsmore have high enough blood sugarto be classified as pre-diabetic.

Women can have either Type 2 dia-betes or the insulin-dependent Type 1variety at the time they become preg-nant. That’s a separate issue, and thosewomen are urged to have their diabe-tes tightly controlled to avoid a rangeof risks to baby and mother.

AFP/File/Liu Jin

Chinese authorities have ordered online video game operators to al-low parents to monitor their children’s playing sessions as part of anationwide crackdown on the growing problem of Internet addiction.

China gives parents controlof kids’ online gaming

rather than an efficient solution,”Gu told the newspaper. The noticealso spelled out that online gamecompanies had a responsibility tohelp parents restrict “inappropri-ate” video game playing. It urgedgame operators to employ specialstaff to assist with the project andto set up web pages and hotlines.

The document suggested childrenshould spend less than two hours aweek playing online games andshould spend no more than 10 yuan($1.50) on online games a month.The number of teenage Internet ad-dicts in China has risen to 33 mil-lion, the China Daily reported, cit-ing the Chinese Academy of SocialSciences, a government think-tank.

Concerns over Internet addic-tion have spurred a new industry,with unlicensed Internet treatmentcentres springing up around China.

Last year, two web “boot camp”instructors were sentenced to up to10 years in prison after a 15-year-old was beaten to death at a treat-ment facility in the southern regionof Guangxi.

At another rehabilitation centre ineast China’s Jiangsu province, 14youths staged a mutiny in June, ty-ing up their instructor and fleeing thefacility over its tough military-liketechniques, state media reported.

Tracks of two prehistoricTracks of two prehistoricTracks of two prehistoricTracks of two prehistoricTracks of two prehistoricbirds found in Alaskabirds found in Alaskabirds found in Alaskabirds found in Alaskabirds found in AlaskaReuters

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Fossilized tracks from two newly discoveredprehistoric birds have been found in Alaska’s Denali National Park, ac-cording to findings released by an expert in Arctic paleontology. The pre-viously unknown birds were among a wide variety of birds that left fossil-ized tracks in Denali, Tony Fiorillo, a paleontologist and curator at theMuseum of Nature and Science in Dallas, told Reuters in an interview.

most popular visitor destinations inAlaska, is also drawing increasedattention from paleontologists.

Because of the characteristics ofthe rock formations there, Denali hasproven to be one of the best placesin the world to find prehistoric birdtracks, Fiorillo said. Thousands ofprehistoric bird tracks have beenfound there, but what is particularlyimportant is the variety. “It’s themost biodiversity represented by thetracks (in the world),” he said.

Some of the tracks match speciesthat dwelled during that period inmore southern latitudes of NorthAmerica or in Asia — suggestingbirds migrated from great distancesto Alaska to breed and nest in Creta-ceous summers just as they do today.

70 MILLION YEARS AGO“Isn’t it kind of neat to think about

the idea that in the Cretaceous, 70million years ago, Alaska might haveserved the same kind of avian needsthat it does today?” Fiorillo said.

Fiorillo has been conducting pa-leontological digs in search of pre-historic bird tracks in Denali since2006 and has been examining otherfossils in the park since before then.

He helped discover the first dino-saur track in the park in 2005, whichhappened to be in a location close tothe park road that carries busloads ofsummer tourists.

Along with birds, hadrosaurs —duckbilled, plant-eating dinosaurs —were plentiful in Alaska during theCretaceous period, according to hisresearch.

Fiorillo and colleagues from theUniversity of Texas and the Univer-sity of Alaska Fairbanks calculate thatAlaska held about 500,000hadrosaurs at any given time duringthat period — roughly equivalent tomodern caribou populations inAlaska.

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But Chelsea owner RomanAbramovich was determined torevitalise his faltering Englishchampions and the Russian finallygot his man late on Monday. In theend, total spending by English Pre-mier League clubs approached 200million pounds (321 million dol-lars) compared to 29 millionpounds (46 million dollars) lastJanuary as the transfer market wentwild.

A remarkable day in the PremierLeague gathered pace from the mo-ment Liverpool had a bid acceptedfor England striker Carroll.

Liverpool had two previous of-fers for Carroll rejected but theplayer — who despite an impres-sive first season in the PremierLeague has also made the frontpages with some unsavoury head-lines — forced Newcastle’s handby delivering a transfer requestwhich the Magpies reluctantly ac-

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Torres Chelsea Torres Chelsea Torres Chelsea Torres Chelsea Torres Chelsea movemovemovemovemoveAgence France Presse

LONDON – Chelsea smashed the British transfer record to sign Spain striker FernandoTorres for £50 mln ($80 mln) from Liverpool, who had earlier made a club record swoop forNewcastle forward Andy Carroll on a dramatic January deadline day. The Blues last week hada 35 million pounds (56 million dollars) offer for Torres rejected, a move which prompted the26-year-old to submit a written transfer request on Friday, which was also turned down.

cepted. The conclusion of that dealjust before the 2300GMT transferdeadline on Monday allowedLiverpool to accept Chelsea’s jaw-dropping offer for Torres.

“These have been some hard daysfor me, especially because of every-thing I am leaving at Liverpool, but Iam sure I am taking one of the big-gest steps forward in my career,”Torres told Chelsea’s official website.“Chelsea are the kind of team I wantto play for. They are one of the big-gest teams in Europe and are alwaysfighting for everything.

“The target for every footballer isto play in one of the top-level clubsin the world and I can do it now.”Torres was not the only arrival atChelsea as they struck a deal withBenfica for Brazilian defender DavidLuiz. The transfer is believed to beworth 17.1 million pounds (27.3 mil-lion dollars) up front, with another 4.3million pounds (6.8 million dollars)

AP Photo/Tim Hales, File

FILE - In this Jan. 1, 2011 file photo, Liverpool’s Fernando Torrescelebrates after scoring a goal against Bolton Wanderers dur-ing their English Premier League soccer match at Anfield,Liverpool, England.

Turin - Juventus have allowedItaly forward Amauri to joinformer club Parma on loan untilthe end of the season. The Brazil-ian-born 30-year-old has struggledto make an impact with the Turingiants after joining in 2008 follow-ing two excellent seasons withPalermo, and has been deemed

McClaren shells outcash to save jobAgence France Presse

WOLFSBURG, Germany –Wolfsburg manager Steve McClarenmade probably his last roll of thedice on Monday in a bid to revivehis club’s fortunes and retain his jobas he made five signings.

Attacking midfielders Koo Ja-Cheoul of South Korea and Venezu-elan Yohandry Orozco, German in-ternational Patrick Helmes, Turkishinternational striker Tuncay Sanli andJan Polak were all brought in asMcClaren spent some of the moneymade from Edin Dzeko’s 27millionpounds departure to Manchester City.

McClaren, who won the Dutch titlelast season with FC Twente, got thedreaded vote of confidence before thewinter break after an underwhelmingstart to his tenure at the club.

The 21-year-old Koo, top scorerin the recent Asian Cup with five insix matches, signed a three-and-a-half year deal from Jeju United,while Orozco, 19, signed throughuntil 2015 from Zulia FC. Helmes,who had been relegated to the benchat Bayer Leverkusen, cost 5millioneuros.

Later on Monday the German

club brought their final day transfersignings to five with the arrival ofTuncay from English PremierLeague side Stoke City, and JanPolak from Anderlecht. Tuncay, whojoined Stoke from Middlesbrough in2009, has joined on a 5.2 millioneuro transfer as was confirmed laterby his former club.

“Stoke City have today finaliseda 5.2 million euros deal to provideTurkish international Tuncay Sanliwith his “dream move” to the Ger-man Bundesliga,” read the statement.“The 29-year-old striker signed forthe 2008-09 champions Wolfsburgafter agreeing personal terms andpassing a medical on transfer dead-line day.

“Manager Tony Pulis insisted thatTuncay’s desire to play in Germanyand to further his international am-bitions as captain of the Turkish na-tional side had been important fac-tors behind that decision to leaveCity after 17 months at the Britan-nia Stadium. “Tunny came to me atthe weekend and asked me if the clubwould help him to achieve hisdream,” said City’s manager follow-ing confirmation of the deal.

Amauri returns to Parmasurplus to requirements by coachLuigi Del Neri.

A statement on the Juventuswebsite read: “Juventus FootballClub announces that an agreementhas been reached with F.C. Parma forthe loan of Amauri Carvalho DeOliveira until 30th June 2011.’’

Although Amauri spent three sea-

to be paid in 2013 and midfielderNemanja Matic to join Benfica as amakeweight.

Young striker Daniel Sturridge leftChelsea to join Bolton on loan for therest of the season. As well as Carroll,Liverpool boss Kenny Dalglish alsolanded prolific Uruguay forward LuisSuarez from Ajax in a 22.6 millionpounds (36 million dollars) swoop.

Suarez agreed a five-and-a-half-year contract and the 24-year-old,who scored 111 goals in 159 matchesfor Ajax, will wear the iconic num-ber seven shirt made famous by thelikes of Dalglish and Kevin Keegan.

Liverpool defender PaulKonchesky’s unhappy spell at Anfieldwas ended by a loan move to Cham-pionship club Nottingham Forest.Blackpool, who held on to CharlieAdam after possible moves for theirplaymaker to Liverpool andTottenham fell through, made foursignings.

sons as a Parma player earlier in hiscareer, he never played a first-teamgame as he was sent out on loan toNapoli, Piacenza, Empoli andMessina during that time. But withParma struggling near the foot of thetable, he is likely to be the mancharged with scoring the goals tokeep the Gialloblu in the top flight.

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Eric Gordon, the Clippers’ lead-ing scorer who was expected to beout for a month because of a rightwrist injury, is now day-to-day andwill join the team for its upcoming10-game road trip, a team spokes-person said.

Randy Foye added 20 points inhis fourth consecutive start in placeof Gordon, while Baron Davis added18 and DeAndre Jordan had 16. TheClippers were 25 of 27 from the freethrow line in a game that featured18 lead changes. Corey Maggettescored 25 points against his formerteam as the Bucks’ three-game win-ning streak ended. Ersan Ilyasovaadded 15 and Andrew Bogut 14points and 11 rebounds.

Griffin shot 13 of 20 from thefloor, made all six of his free throwsand had six assists, although he wason the bench for part of his team-mates’ game-winning rally.

The Clippers ran off 11 straightpoints to turn a one-point deficit intoa 94-84 lead with 5:17 remaining.Five different players scored, al-though none of them was Griffin.

Maggette scored the next sixpoints for the Bucks before CarlosDelfino added a basket, drawingthem to 96-92. Foye missed, butDavis scrambled to collect the re-

Clippers beat Bucks 105-98Clippers beat Bucks 105-98Clippers beat Bucks 105-98Clippers beat Bucks 105-98Clippers beat Bucks 105-98Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES – Blake Griffin had 32 points and 11 reboundsfor his 39th double-double, and the Los Angeles Clippers with-stood a fourth-quarter challenge to beat the Milwaukee Bucks105-98 Monday night for their ninth straight home win. The Clip-pers tied the third-longest consecutive home victory streak infranchise history set when the team was known as the BuffaloBraves and won nine in a row from Oct. 22-Nov. 23, 1974. Theygot another bit of good news, too.

bound, then dribbled several secondsoff the clock before kicking out toFoye, whose 3-pointer kept the Clip-pers ahead 99-92 with 42 seconds left.Delfino turned the ball over when hestepped out of bounds, and the Buckswere forced to foul over the finalseconds.The Bucks outscored the Clip-pers 16-8 in the third to take their larg-est lead, 71-64. Maggette, Ilyasova andBogut had four points each in the spurt.

The Clippers by closing with a 13-2 run, including six by Ryan Gomes,led 77-73 going into the fourth. Jor-dan kept his cool when Jon Brockmangrabbed the front of his jersey andnearly dragged him to the court afterJordan’s alley-oop dunk.

After shooting 26 percent in the firstquarter, the Bucks found their offfensein the second. Brandon Jennings, whofinished with 12 points, hit back-to-back 3-pointers to launch a 16-6 runthat gave Milwaukee its first lead ofthe game. From there, the teams tradedleads until Griffin’s jumper put theClippers ahead 49-47 at the break.

The Clippers rolled through an easyopening quarter when they shot 58percent and led by 12 points. The high-light of Griffin’s array of dunks was afast-break one-handed windmill heslammed down to cap his own run ofsix straight points.

AP Photo/Chris Carlson

Los Angeles Clippers forward Blake Griffin, left, shoot over Milwaukee Bucks center AndrewBogut during the first half of a NBA basketball game in Los Angeles, Monday, Jan. 31, 2011.

Agence France PressePARIS – Australian Open winner Kim

Clijsters has risen to second place in the worldrankings and within close range of CarolineWozniacki who holds on to the top spot despiteonce again failing to win a Grand Slam title.

China’s Li Na, who lost in Saturday’s finalin Melbourne, moves up to a career-best sev-enth place with Francesca Schiavone of Italyup to fourth behind Vera Zvonareva.

Former world number one Serena Williams,who has not played since winning theWimbledon title last year, falls out of the top10.

Clijsters up to secondin world tennis rankings

Associated Press WriterBENTON, Ark. – A man who

died at a hospital after an Arkansasboxing match had been examinedby a doctor before he entered thering, a member of the state AthleticCommission said Monday.

Authorities say Anthony Jones,28, of El Dorado, Ark., died Sun-day morning at University Hospi-tal in Little Rock, where he wastaken Saturday night after his fightwith Quincy Palmer in Benton wasstopped in the second round. Jones,making his professional boxing de-but in the heavyweight division, hadbeen scheduled to go four roundsagainst Palmer.

Athletic Commission memberJason Stuart of Little Rock, a law-yer, said he was the supervisingcommissioner in charge at ringsidein the Fitness Unlimited facility atBenton. He said everything at theevent followed proper proceduresand Jones had been examined by aphysician before getting into the

Arkansas boxer whodied was examined

before matchring with Palmer.

Larry Harris, promoter of the“Benton Beatdown,” said refereeMartin Tunstall of Sheridan stoppedthe Jones-Palmer fight after Joneswas sent to the mat by a blow to thehead. Emergency medical person-nel stationed ringside went into thering to attend to Jones, Harris said.

“He was talkative, alert, havinga few problems,” Harris told theArkansas Democrat-Gazette. Joneswas taken to Saline Memorial Hos-pital before being transferred laterSaturday night to the hospital at theUniversity of Arkansas for MedicalSciences in Little Rock.

Harris said he was told after thefight was stopped that Jones mighthave suffered from a kidney ail-ment. Stuart said that might havebeen the case. “Preliminary reportsindicate there might have been pre-existing conditions that weren’tknown to (Jones) and weren’t de-tectable by pre-bout medical exami-nations,” Stuart said.

AFP PHOTO / William WEST

Kim Clijsters of Belgium poses with the women’ssingles championship trophy in front of the bath-ing boxes on Melbourne’s Brighton Beach on Janu-ary 30, 2011 a day after winning the Australian Opentennis tournament women’s singles title.

WTA world top 10:

1. Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) 8655 pts2. Kim Clijsters (BEL) 8515 (+1)3. Vera Zvonareva (RUS) 7405 (-1)4. Francesca Schiavone (ITA) 5055 (+3)5. Samantha Stosur (AUS) 4862 (+1)6. Venus Williams (USA) 4645 (-1)7. Li Na (CHN) 4450 (+4)8. Jelena Jankovic (SRB) 43859. Victoria Azarenka (BLR) 393510. Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) 3340 (+4)

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“I’m really excited and it’s a greatemotion to wear the Repsol Hondacolours for the first time,” Stoner saidduring the official presentation of theteam in Kuala Lumpur.

“When I was a child, I used to

SEBASTIAN Vettel said that heis very happy at Red Bull and hasdismissed speculation that he maybe tempted to join Ferrari in thenext few years. The world cham-pion, speaking at the launch of RedBull’s new RB7, says he remainsfully committed to the team andthat his focus is very much on de-fending the drivers’ and construc-tors’ crowns they won in 2010.

“It is smart to not put too muchweight in those things,” he saidwhen asked about the Ferrarirumours. “In the off-season thereare no wheels turning unfortunatelyand obviously there are still pagesto be filled with ink - something tobe written or something to be said.

MERCEDES has officiallylaunched its new MGP W02 chas-sis at Valencia ahead of the start ofofficial 2011 testing this morning.The team issued a head-on ‘teaser’image of the car to the media overthe weekend, but has now fullytaken the wraps off the new design.

Having made a disappointingstart to 2010 - its first season in itsnew factory Mercedes guise - RossBrawn’s team opted to halt devel-opment on the W01 early and focusall its efforts on the 2011 rules pack-age and the W02 design instead.

Notable features of the new carinclude changes to the airbox andsidepods, plus the higher nose thathas been common on 2011 chassisso far.

The livery has also received

Vettel happy in hisrole at Red Bull

“So it is easy to see some thingscome up and they don’t understandthe whole idea, so that is the so-calledoff-season and I think I said manytimes I am very happy where I am.”

Vettel added that he is very happywithin Red Bull and was lookingforward to opening up his 2011 cam-paign - adding that he isn’t thinkingfar beyond that at this point.

“I feel very comfortable in the team,and obviously our focus is on the newcar, on today’s test and we have alwaysgone step by step so we should not thinkahead too much,” he said. “I don’t wantto get too personal about it but if I wasto ask you where you see yourself infive or 10 years, for every one of us it isa difficult question to answer...”

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Germany’s Red Bull Formula One driver World Champion 2010Sebastian Vettel, second left, and Australia’s Red Bull For-mula One driver Mark Webber, right , poses and Team Princi-pal, Christian Horner, left, and Chief Technical Officer, AdrianNewey, second right, with the RB7 car during the official pre-sentation of the Red Bull Formula One Team 2011.

Mercedes launches its 2011 contenderslight adjustments for the new sea-son, with a larger amount of greencolouring for title sponsor Petronas.

Nico Rosberg and MichaelSchumacher will both get a chance

to drive the car today, withSchumacher keen to find outwhether the W02 will prove better-suited to his style than last year’smachine.

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Repsol Honda MotoGP rider Casey Stoner of Australia listens to a question during a pressconference at a hotel in Sepang, Malaysia, Monday, Jan. 31, 2011.

Stoner excited tobe part of Honda

CASEY Stoner says he is excited to wear the Honda team coloursfor the first time after four years with Ducati. The Australian ad-mitted he is overwhelmed to be joining the same team his child-hood star Mick Doohan once won many championships for.

watch Mick Doohan winning cham-pionships one and the other withthese colours and for me it’s anhonour to be part of this team.

Stoner is determined to gain un-derstanding of the RC212V’s strong

and weak points as he knows it willbe a tough season competing withstrong drivers such as his team-mates Dani Pedrosa and AndreaDovizioso.

“It will be important to under-stand better the strong points of theRC212V and where we have to im-prove to be competitive at everytack. I’m very motivated for the newchallenge,” Stoner said.