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Sunday’s game was streamed for free by both CBSSports.com and NFL.com, as well as via Verizon on mobile. The 3 million unique viewers showed that while the televised broadcast is emphatically more desirable to viewers, increasing numbers are following the Super Bowl online.

The game between the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers was seen on TV by an average of 108.7

million people, down from the last two years but still ranking as the third most-watched show in U.S. TV history after the last two Super Bowls.

Networks have not sought to make online viewing as appealing as telecasts, but have presented streams with a few al-ternatives, like social media integration, camera-view options and on-demand commercials. This year’s webcast was the first to also include the halftime show

live to U.S. viewers.NBCSports.com last year streamed

the Super Bowl for the first time ever. There were a total of 10 million live streams Sunday for CBS, with an average engagement of 38 minutes. The figures include NFL.com viewers, who were fed CBSSports.com’s video player.

The game was perhaps more record-breaking in its second-screen usage. The social media research firm Bluefin Labs found that 30.6 million comments about the game were made on social media during the broadcast. The previous record, according to Bluefin Labs, was 28.3 million for the 2012 presidential election.

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — Disney is mining The Force for even more new films. Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger said Tuesday that screenwriters Larry Kasdan and Si-mon Kinberg are working on stand-alone “Star Wars” movies that aren’t part of the new trilogy that’s in the works.

“There has been speculation about

some standalone films that have been in development, and I can confirm to you today that in fact we are working on a few stand-alone films,” Iger told CNBC.

Iger said the movies would be based on “great ‘Star Wars’ characters that are not part of the overall saga.” The films would be released during the six-year period of the new trilogy, which starts in

2015 with “Star Wars: Episode VII.”Disney confirmed last month that

“Star Trek” director J.J. Abrams will direct the seventh installment of the “Star Wars” saga. Disney bought “Star Wars” maker Lucasfilm last year for more than $4 billion.

The last “Star Wars” trilogy, a prequel to the original films, was released from 1999 to 2005.

Disney working on stand-alone ‘Star Wars’ films

AP Photo/Lucasfilm Ltd., file

FILE - In this publicity photo released by Lu-casfilm Ltd., actor Jake Lloyd portrays Anakin Skywalker, a young Darth Vader, in “Star Wars: Episode I, The Phantom Menace.

A record 3 million stream Super Bowl onlineAssociated Press Writer

NEW YORK — The Super Bowl was streamed online by 3 million people, an increase from the 2.1 million who watched the big game online last year, according to U.S. network CBS.

AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, Chase Stevens

People wait in line to place bets before the start of Super Bowl XLVII in the sports book at Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas on Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013.

North Korea threatens “stronger” measures than nuclear test

Authorities canceled warnings for tsunamis on more distant coasts.

Solomons officials reported two 1.5-meter (4 foot, 11-inch) waves hit the western side of Santa Cruz Island, damaging around 50 homes and properties, said George Herming, a spokes-man for the prime minister. Many villagers had headed to higher ground as a precaution, Herming said.

Solomon Islands Police Commissioner John Lansley said local police patrols had reported that several people were presumed dead, though the reports were still being verified.

“Sadly, we believe some people have lost their lives,” he said. “At the moment we potentially know of four, but there may of course be more.”

Four villages on Santa Cruz were impacted

by the waves, with two facing severe damage, Lansley said. Other areas of the Solomons did not appear to have been seriously affected.

The tsunami formed after an 8.0-magnitude earthquake struck near Lata on Santa Cruz in Temotu province, the easternmost province of the Solomons, about a 3-hour flight from the capital, Honiara. The region has a population of around 30,000 people.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said a tsunami of about a meter (3 feet) was mea-sured in Lata wharf, in the Solomon Islands. Smaller waves were recorded in Vanuatu and New Caledonia.

The center cancelled earlier warnings for tsunami waves further away.

A powerful earthquake off the Solomon Islands generated

a tsunami of up to 1.5 meters (about 5 feet) that damaged dozens of homes and likely killed several people in the

South Pacific island chain on Wednesday.

Quake and tsunami hits solomon

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Associated Press

SYDNEY — A powerful earthquake off the Solomon Islands generated a tsunami of up to 1.5 meters (about 5 feet) that damaged dozens of homes and likely killed several people in the South Pacific island chain on Wednesday.

Tsunami around the world- December 26, 2004: Southeast Asia - A 9.3-magnitude undersea quake off the coast of Sumatra island triggers a tsunami that kills 226,000 people in countries around the Indian Ocean, including 168,000 in Indonesia.

- July 17, 2006: Indonesia - A 7.7-magnitude undersea quake strikes off Indonesia’s Java island, unleashing a tsunami and killing at least 654.

- April 2, 2007: Solomon Islands - An 8.0-magnitude quake in the Western Solomon Islands triggers a tsunami that kills 52 people and displaces thousands.

- September 29, 2009: Samoa - A tsunami sparked by an 8.0-magnitude earthquake flattens villages and resorts in Samoa and the neighbouring Pacific islands of American Samoa and northern Tonga, killing more than 190 people.

- February 27, 2010: Chile - An 8.8-magnitude earthquake strikes just three kilometres (two miles) off Chile, unleashing a tsunami and killing at least 521 people. Most of the dead are in the coastal area of Maule, 400 kilometres (250 miles) southwest of the capital Santiago.

- October 25, 2010: Indonesia - At least 350 people are killed and hundreds more missing after a tsunami unleashed by a powerful 7.7 magnitude quake strikes off the island of Sumatra.

- March 11, 2011: Japan - A 9.0-magnitude undersea quake triggers a powerful tsunami that smashes into northeastern Japan. Waves up to 40 metres (130 feet) are reported in parts. The tsunami left some 19,000 people dead or missing and crippled the Fukushima nuclear power plant in the world’s worst atomic disaster in 25 years.

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Mexico seeks culprits in rape of 6 spaniards

United’s pampered players humbled by Munich memories

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

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

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

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

Balinese Temple Ceremony

Calendar Event for January 27 through February 27, 2013

27 Jan Redite Umanis Ukir Sanggah Gede Dukuh Segening Tegal Tugu Gianyar

30 Jan Buda Cameng Ukir Pura Pejenengan Kawitan Arya Tauman Banjar Jelantik Kuri Batu Desa Tojan Gelgel KlungkungPura Pasar Agung Besakih (Alit) Be-sakihPura Pasek bendesa Pasar Badung Legian KutaPura Gede Gunugn Agung Dukuh Munggu BadungHyang Agung Pura Ibuwanasari TegalPura Puseh, Desa di Bebablang BangliPura Dalem Peruncak BadungPura Pasek Bendesa Hyang Selat Ker-obokan BadungPura Kereban Langit Desa Sading Mengwi BadungPemerajan Sareng Kangin Baleran Ubud

5 Feb Anggara Sasih Kulantir Pura Penataran Tangkas SukawatiPura Dalem Lagan Babalang BangliPura Puseh Lembeng Ketewel Suka-watiPura Pasek Gelgel Penulisan Kerambi-tan Tabanan

Pura Gaduh SandingPura Dalem Gandamayu KlungkungPura Sang Hyang Tegal Banjar Tarokaja-Tegalalang

6 Feb Buda Umanis Kulantir Pura Pasek Tangkas Pasekan Kaler TabananPura Gaduh - Benoh Ubung Denpasar

10 Feb Tilem Kawulu Pura Dalem Alas Harum - Tegal Kepuh kabe - kabe Kediri TabananPura Ulun Kulkul BesakihPura Dalem Yang Taluh Sidemen Karan-gasemPura Dalem kangin Dusun Dukuh Side-men Karangasem

11 Feb Soma Umanis Tulu Pura Puseh/Balai Agung Ubung Kupang Penebel TabananPura Kawitan Sakula Gotra Pasung Grigih Banjar Tegal Kepuh Kaba-kaba Kediri TabananPura Bhujangga Rsi Tumbak BayuhPura Paibon Tangkas Kori Agung Ceningan Kangin lembonganPura Batu Madeg BesakihPura Penataran Agung penatih Banjar Saba Penatih

13 Feb Buda Pon Tolu Pura Catur Buana Sanding Tampak Siring

14 Feb Warespati Wage Tolu Pura Peninjoan Besakih

20 Feb Buda Kliwon Gumbreg Pura Pasek Gelgel Kukuh Marga Ta-bananPura Pasek Gelgel Dukuh Selemadeg TabananPura Pasek Gelgel Mambang Selema-deg TabananPura Puseh, Pura Desa Desa Guwang SukawatiMerajan Pangeran Tangkas Kori Agung Jeroan SandingPura Dalem Setra Batu Nunggul Desa Swana Nusa PenidaPura Dadia Agung Pasek Gelgel Ketewel

25 Feb Purnama Sasih Kesanga Pura Nataran Sasih Pejeng GianyarPura Bukit Mentik - Gunung Lebah Batur Kintamani

27 Feb Buda Paing Wariga Merajan Pasek Gaduh Kayubihi Bangli

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aquatonic pool.jpgAn ancient heal-ing ritual from France dating back 5,000 years, thalassotherapy’s main objective is to increase blood circulation and restore

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Ayana offers freeflow bubblesIBP

JIMBArAN -There are spa junkies and then there are Aqua-Spa Junkies, who once they experience thalassotherapy, quickly become addicted to the ancient healing benefits especially muscle toning, ten-sion relief, anti-ageing, improved sleep quality and detoxification. It is with this latter group in mind that Ayana resort and Spa Bali has launched a new Freeflow Bubbles Package, offering guests unlimited access to the world’s largest Aquatonic Seawater Therapy Pool.

Tabanan (Bali Post)-Due to broken brake, a fuso truck flew to the river of Yeh Empas, Banjar Pe-

nyalin, Samsam Kerambitan Village, Tabanan last Monday (4/2) evening which at the time the truck that brought goods hit a bridge fence in the Denpasar-Gilimanuk route. Luckily the truck driver, Santoso (50) from Banyuwangi, East Java was safe. Due to the incident that happened around 10.20 pm local time, the truck was damaged and its goods scattered also dragged by the river including the driver’s mobile phone and wallet. The DK 9427 WF was going towards Denpasar then when passing Penyalin turning point, the truck lost its control. When trying to go right it failed and collapsed the steel fences. Up to Tuesday (5/2) victim was still confused on how to contact his colleague. According to one witness, Komang WIyadi, the driver was soaked wet and slightly wounded when found. Widya admitted that the incident gave a huge sound causing some residents came to see. Due to it was dark, residents weren’t brave to go down the river to see what’s happening yet at the time driver was coming up. “Driver was then brought to the nearest health center and his condition is only slightly wounded,” Widya stated.

Up to Tuesday afternoon, the truck is still being left on location and its goods evacuated to another truck. The incident became an interesting thing to watch who passed the location. This is not the first time it happened on Yeh Empas River, uniquely the driver is safe. (kmb30)

They walk to the KPU of-fice which is located on Cok Agung Tresna Street, Renon accompanied by thousands of supporters and also Bali tradi-tional music. There were also all officers of the party started from the lowest level up to the highest one.

The arts were also coming from other area such as Barong

Sai, Rodat and Ponorogo art from East Java. The paper works for the registration was received by the Head of KPU Bali Ketut Lanang Sukawati Perbawa.

After the registration, the Head of PDI-P Bali , Anak Agung Ngurah Oka Ratmadi suggested that the candidate to do socialization to the people in Bali. “I hope that the candi-

date that is already officially registered to the KPU must ap-proach the society in the effort to gain victory,” he added.

He also ordered all the sup-porters of the party to support the candidate. “Bali is the base of PDI-P so our candidate must win on the election which will be held on May 15, 2013,” Ratmadi said. (kmb)

Singaraja (Bali Post)—Maternal mortality rate of Buleleng County in 2011 was ranked highest. At

that time, it was recorded to reach eleven per thousand births. Such high maternal mortality rate in Northern Bali happened because people were reluctant to take maternity service in hospital.

Deputy Regent of Buleleng Nyoman Sutjidra revealed the matter when making a visit to Gerokgak community health center last weekend. During his visit, he was accompanied by Deputy Head of Buleleng Health Agency Made Puja Arianta and a number of officials in the scope of Buleleng County.

Deputy Regent explained the maternal mortality rate in the region was quite high, and even the highest in Bali. For this condition, his party directly instructed the Health Agency to browsing the trigger of such high maternal mortality rate. As a result, in fact most patients still underestimated the importance of maternity service in hospital having proper equipment. Even, they preferred to give birth in a midwife clinic or maternal shaman. “From the search, it was found if patients preferred to choose midwife or shaman alone and were reluctant to take maternity service in hospital,” he said.

Other than bad behavior, added Deputy Regent, in maternity process many patients suffered from complications. Such condition was also very risky and led to maternal mortality. As a matter of fact, the emergence of such complication disease was preventable provided that during the pregnancy patients regularly controlled theirs. Therefore, the condition of fetus and mother was well controlled and if there were any signs of complication disease could be detected early. “We do not deny that complication disease such as bleeding or other diseases also lead to maternal mortality,” he explained.

Deputy Regent added that to reduce the maternal mortality, local government would pursue a variety of endeavors. One of them was regularly sending obstetri-cian to each community health center. Aside from obstetrician, specialists of other disease were also scheduled to be commissioned in the existing health centers. Thus, consultation on pregnancy or childbirth assistance would be handled by a specialist to suppress the maternal mortality. Besides, the equipment to support the childbirth would also be attempted for some health centers located quite far from the city.

“We will also provide the health center with more sophisticated USG equipment and other equipment by degrees. Thus, patients can be helped in the community health centers and should not be rushed to hospital in urban area,” said Deputy Regent justified by Made Puja Arianta. (kmb)

Brake broken, truck flew to river

Residents reluctant to go to hospitalMaternal mortality remains high

Bali Governor Election

Puspayoga-Sukrawan register to KPU

IBP/Yudi Karnaedi

Puspayoga and Sukrawan (middle), the candidate from Indonesia Democratic Party Of Struggle (PDI-P), holding hands after registering as a candidate for governor and vice governor of Bali for governor and vice governor election of Bali on May 15 in electoral commission of Bali.

Bali PostDenpasar – Thousand supporters of Indonesian Democratic Struggle Party (PDI-P)

escorted the candidate for Bali Governor and Vice Governor Anak Agung Ngurah Pus-payoga and Dewa Nyoman Sukrawan registering in to Bali Election Committee (KPU) on Wednesday, February 6, 2013.

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Bali Post

DENPASAR - Bali Police Chief Arif Wachyunadi con-firmed that his party had set up security strategies related to the Bali gubernatorial election in May 2013. However, the prepa-ration had not been final cecause his party was still waiting for the policy of the Bali Electoral Commission (KPUD) consider-ing the dynamic was still evolv-ing in relation to the permanent electoral register and polling stations (TPS). By all means, the dynamic was still controlled by the Commission.

“We are ready to secure the next gubernatorial election,” he said in the coffee morning with reporters at the lobby of Director-ate of Traffic Affairs, Bali Police,

Tuesday (Feb 5). As it had not been final, his party could not de-cide the amount of personnel to be deployed in the security. “Later, when the decision has been made by the Electoral Commission, then we will start the calculation related to the amount of personnel deployed,” he explained.

Further he explained if there had been a decision such as re-garding the amount of polling stations, his party would prepare the personnel for that. His party would do a mapping which polling station was considered vulnerable. His party would surely deploy more personnel at prone polling stations. “We’ll secure until the final day. Hopefully, everything will run well,” he said.

As previous regular activity, this two-star general on shoulder

mentioned if his party used to deploy one third of his person-nel. Well, the total number of personnel in Bali Police came to about 12,000. For that, his party expected everything would go smoothly, so that the security of gubernatorial election and public service could run maximally.

When touched about the prone areas, the former police chief of NTB explained that to determine whether a region considered vulnerable or safe, it could be seen from the geographical and demographic condition. His party always made synergy in the field. “Obviously, we are still waiting for the policy of the Electoral Commission. If the policy has been issued, the strategy applied will be adjusted,” he added. (kmb21)

A member of Commission IV of the Bali House in charge of tourism, Tjok Gede Asmara Putra Sukawati, considered it necessary to set the bylaw on tourist ac-commodation if it was basically inspired by a tariff war among the hotels. It was expected to set the standard of hotel rate and hotel class.

“If it was indeed triggered by tariff war between the five-star hotels and the lower category having an impact on the lower-category hotel, it is needed a bylaw governing the standardiza-tion of hotel room rate,” said Cok Asmara, in Denpasar, Tuesday (Feb 5).

According to him, many bou-tique (jasmine category) hotels offered higher room rates than that of five-star hotels. They set room rates like star hotels, but they still use permit of boutique hotel. On the contrary, there were five-star hotels offering room rate as that of boutique hotels.

“It triggers a tariff war harm-ing the Bali tourism because they are potential to become cheap tourism. If hotel sets prices below the standards, it will be detrimen-tal to the community and tourism in Bali,” said the politician from Ubud Palace, Gianyar.

As suggested by GIPI, Cok Asmara asked the executive to discuss it with stakeholders such as the PHRI, GIPI and ASITA to formulate the regulations ex-pected to enhance the image of tourism in Bali. “Regulation on tourist accommodation has to be designed to avoid negative im-pacts on Bali tourism,” he said.

He said, in the issuance of per-mit, the government was also asked to do it selectively, lest the standard was five-star hotel but asking for license of boutique hotels. As a result, it harmed the Bali tourism. “The government must issue the permit of hotel or tourist accom-modation based on the fact in the field, not by order,” he said.

When the regulations were drafted, this Democratic politi-cian told there would be many obstacles faced. One of them was the hotels getting the revenue like five-star but their permit belonged to boutique hotel would

probably object if they were set to increase their hotel standard-ization and asked to submit for permit of five-star hotel.

“It will be difficult. But for the sake of tourism advancement and orderliness in hotel room rates, a discussion is required to find out a solution and discuss it together whether the regulation designed for tourist accommodation can be realized,” he concluded.

The Dean of the Faculty of Tourism, Udayana University, Putu Anom, also argued that moratorium of tourist accommo-dation issued by Bali government should be implemented on the basis of law in the form of local regional bylaw, not based on an appeal.

“Calculation of these rooms should be based on the needs for rooms pursuant to prediction of tourist visits to Bali. It is intended to balance the concept of supply and demand for rooms/accom-modation in Bali,” he said.

According to him, if the hotel room was too excessive it would surely trigger a tariff war of the accommodation in Bali. This could happen especially in low season and potentially harm the lower classification hotel. When the higher category hotels reduced their room rates, it would suppress the lower category hotels.

“With the PHRI, the govern-ment needs to set a standard of hotel room rates. As the current problem, the authority to issue permit of the accommodation lay in the county or municipal gov-ernment. Bali government can no longer do much,” he explained.

He assessed though Bali Gov-ernment had issued the mora-torium in the accommodation, the county/municipality would continue to issue permit for the establishment of accommoda-tion. It was intended to pursue the higher regionally generated income (PAD) through hotel and restaurant tax.

“As the best solution, there should be a concept of one island management. It is embodied in a single unity with the licensing of tourism and related sectors at the provincial level,” he said. (kmb27/kmb29)

As for bylaw on Bali tourist accommodation

Executive should discuss with stakeholdersBali Post

DENPASAR - Insistence of the Tourism Industry Association of Indonesia (GIPI) Bali in order that the government sets a regional bylaw draft on the accommodation is also supported by the Bali House. The House calls for the executive to discuss it with stakeholders such as the PHRI, GIPI and ASITA to formulate the bylaw as an effort to improve the image of Bali tourism.

Bali Police ready to secure gubernatorial election

IBP/Budana

Bali Police Chief Arif Wachyunadi confirmed that his party had set up security strategies related to the Bali gubernatorial election in May 2013.

The bulbous, helium-filled “aerostats” - each more than three quarters the length of a football field at 243 feet - are to be stitched into existing defenses as part of an exer-cise of new technology ordered by the Defense Department.

The coming addition to the um-brella over Washington is known as Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System, or JLENS. Raytheon Co is the prime contractor.

“We’re trying to determine how the surveillance radar information from the JLENS platforms can be integrated with existing systems in the National Capital Region,” said Michael Kucha-rek, a spokesman for the North Ameri-can Aerospace Defense Command.

NORAD, a binational command, is responsible for defending air space over the United States and Canada, includ-ing the Washington area with its many

pieces of important infrastructure.The most significant air attack in the

area took place on September 11, 2001, when Al Qaeda militants hijacked American Airlines Flight 77, a Boeing 757, and crashed it into the Pentagon.

To expand the time available to detect and defend against any future attacks from commercial aircraft, major changes were made under Operation Noble Eagle, combat air patrols begun after the September 11 attacks.

Airspace restrictions were ex-tended. U.S. Army Sentinel radars for low-altitude radar coverage and short-range Stinger/Avenger missile batteries were deployed.

Washington is currently guarded by an air-defense system that includes Federal Aviation Administration radars and Department of Homeland Security helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft on alert at Reagan National Airport to intercept slow, low-flying aircraft.

Aphids may not be able to fly, but they can fall pretty well: Like defenestrated cats, the common insects usually land upright, to paraphrase a new study.

The study, published yesterday

REUTERS/John Hamilton/DVIDS/Handout

A Raytheon Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System (JLENS) aerostat is pictured at the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, in this February 24, 2012 photo obtained on February 1, 2013.

Blimps to bolster Washington’s air shield in testReuters

WASHINGTON - A pair of big, blimp-like craft, moored to the ground and flying as high as 10,000 feet, are to be added to a high-tech shield designed to protect the Washington D.C. area from air attack, at least for a while.

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Like Cats, Aphids Land on Feet After Falling(Feb. 4) in the journal Current Biol-ogy, found that a common insect called pea aphids land upright 95 percent of the time after falling off a leaf. Pea aphids, which live off the sap of plants, don’t possess any

specialized appendages to help them glide or fall, unlike certain insects. So how do they do it?

In the study, aphids were made to let go of a leaf and freefall when researchers placed aphid-eating ladybugs nearby. The researchers then filmed the falling aphids and analyzed the footage, creating a mathematical model to explain how these sap-swilling insects accom-plish this feat.

“What puzzled us was that the aphids did not seem to do much in order to right themselves,” Gal Rib-ak, study co-author and a researcher at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, said in a statement. “Their body posture remained fairly constant during the entire fall.”

The researchers found that it all has to do with the body shape of the aphid, as well as the position of its legs. When the aphids fall, they as-sume a uniform position, with legs outstretched. The air whistling past the falling insect gradually forces the body into the upright position, where it is most aerodynamically stable, ac-cording to the study. This trait, called “static longitudinal stability,” is an important design feature of aircrafts that allows them to fly as straight as possible with minimal input from a pilot, keeping the plane from being

knocked off course by wind and turbulence. The body shape of pea aphids also possesses this quality, the study found.

This trait was likely selected for by evolution because it allows aphids to escape near-certain death at the jaws of a predator like a ladybug. In the study, more than half of the aphids examined were able to latch on to an angled plant stem with their feet after falling, preventing

them from hitting the ground, where their chances of survival would plummet.

Researchers also dropped dead aphids to see if the positioning of the legs made a difference. It did: Only 52 percent of the dead bugs landed upright. Somehow the aphids know where to orient their legs to maximize their aerodynamic stabil-ity, letting gravity carry them to the ground feet-first.

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Pyongyang frequently employs fiery rhetoric aimed at South Korea and the United States and in 2010 was blamed for sinking a South Korean naval vessel. It also shelled a South Korean island in the same year, killing civilians.

It did not spell out the actions it would take. North Korea is not ca-pable of staging a military strike on the United States, although South Korea is in range of its artillery and missiles and Japan of its missiles.

“The DPRK (Democratic Peo-ples Republic of Korea, or North

Korea) has drawn a final conclusion that it will have to take a measure stronger than a nuclear test to cope with the hostile forces’ nuclear-war moves that have become ever more undisguised,” the North’s KCNA state news agency said.

The United States and South Korea are staging military drills that North Korea says are a rehearsal for an invasion, something both Washington and Seoul deny.

New U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry discussed North Korea in “remarkably similar” telephone

conversations with his counterparts from Japan, South Korea and China, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.

“We are all concerned that, de-spite the strong measures taken in (UN Security Council Resolution) 2087, the provocative rhetoric con-tinues, which means we’ve all got to stay unified in watching this and making absolutely clear to Pyong-yang that if it takes further actions, so will we,” she told reporters.

North Korea successfully launched a long-range rocket in December in violation of U.N. resolutions that banned it from developing missile or nuclear tech-nology after nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009. UNSC 2087 was adopted in late January in response to the December launch.

Associated Press Writer

YANGON, Myanmar — The United Nations will be allowed into Myanmar’s strife-torn Kachin state to deliver humanitarian aid for the first time since a recent escalation of fighting between ethnic rebels

and government troops.An announcement of the deliv-

eries came Wednesday after the two sides agreed Monday to work toward ending a bloody conflict that has forced thousands of civilians to flee the area in northern Myanmar.

A U.N. spokesman, Aye Win,

said it was “significant” that aid could be delivered for the first time since fighting escalated in December.

The timing of the first aid deliv-ery was still being discussed. The U.N.’s last aid mission to Kachin state was in July.

The conflict in Kachin state has cast a shadow on Myanmar’s prog-ress toward democratic reforms af-ter a half-century of military rule.

Reuters

WASHINGTON - As many as 54 countries allegedly helped with CIA programs in which ter-rorism suspects were held in secret prisons overseas or turned over to foreign governments for interroga-tion, a human rights organization said in a report on Tuesday.

The report by the Open Society Justice Initiative said it focused mainly on human rights abuses associated with the CIA’s secret detention and “extraordinary rendition” operations after the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.

The report, titled “Globalizing Torture,” said its information was based on “credible public sourc-es” and “reputable human rights organizations.” The CIA declined comment on the report.

“Secret detention and extraor-dinary rendition operations, de-signed to be conducted outside the United States under cover of secrecy, could not have been implemented without the active

participation of foreign govern-ments. These governments too must be held accountable,” the report said.

Extraordinary rendition in-volved the transfer without a legal process of a detainee to the custody of a foreign government for the purposes of detention and interrogation, the report said.

It catalogs the treatment of 136 individuals and what help each of the 54 countries provided.

The governments accused of helping the CIA programs includ-ed some staunch U.S. allies such as Australia, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom and Ireland, and some not usually viewed as U.S.-friendly such as Iran. The report said Iran had transferred some individuals to Afghanistan, which transferred them to the U.S. government.

“The United States and most of its partner governments have failed to conduct effective inves-tigations into secret detention and extraordinary rendition,” the report said.

Myanmar to allow UN aid deliveries to Kachin state

AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan

Girls play near a bunker recently dug for people to take shelter from artillery shells at Je Yang IDP camp, where 8,000 people have been living after they fled from their villages since June 2011.

Some 54 countries helped CIA detention efforts: report

REUTERS/Larry DowningThe lobby of the CIA Headquarters Building in McLean, Virginia, August 14, 2008.

REUTERS/KCNANorth Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (C) presides over a consultative meeting with officials about state security and foreign affairs in this undated recent picture released by North Korea’s official KCNA news agency in Pyongyang on January 27, 2013.

North Korea threatens “stronger” measures than nuclear testReuters

SEOUL - North Korea stepped up its bellicose rhetoric on Tuesday, threatening to go beyond carrying out a promised third nuclear test in response to what it believes are “hostile” sanctions imposed after a December rocket launch.

Gianyar (Bali Post)-

A long Ciungwanara and Ngu-rah Rai Street (front of Gianyar Regency Government Office) last Tuesday (5/2) seemed to be quiet as the vehicles usually parked there were gone when a disciplinary by police took place. What they did was deflating the wheels of those parking this vehicles free zone. From what’s seen there have been barricades placed so no one would park there yet it seemed not appre-ciated, moreover moved the barri-cades to the pedestrians. Police then had to deflate the vehicles which were owned by visitors of District Court, hospital including a doc-tor’s car who works at Sanjiwani Gianyar Hospital.

Before this act police did use a speaker to remind vehicles’ users not to park there yet was stopped by a court visitor as a trial was taking place. Head of Gianyar Traffic Police, APC Putu Sugiar-tini, explained that this act was a part to ask the public obey existing traffic regulations which have been coordinated with Transportation, Information and Communication Agency Head, agencies that had their office along Ciungwanara and to the Regent itself through two letters. Those parking on the body of the road were not workers of the agencies around instead all are owned by public or visitors. This road has been a national road and so it should be in good condition. (kmb16)

Negara (Bali Post)—

Regular blood stock in the Blood Transfusion Unit, the Indonesia Red Cross of Negara Hospital, ran out earlier this month. It happened due the lack of blood donors lately. As consequence, the patients needing blood outside the emergency needs must seek outside Jembrana.

Unit Head of the Jembrana Blood Transfusion, Agung Avatara, said on Tuesday (Feb 4) the regular blood stock was indeed empty lately. There were two blood stocks that should be provided, namely the one for regular and emergency purposes.

At the moment, the unit only had blood for emergency purposes. There were five bags for each blood type. “The regular stock is indeed

rare due to lack of blood donors. But in the middle of this month, there are some agencies planning to orga-nize blood donation. Hopefully, the stock can be met,” he explained.

In addition, the blood users rarely found substitute blood. As a result, the circulation of blood availability did not run. Being empty, the patients needing regular blood should pursue it to other units of blood transfusion in Bali such as in Tabanan or Badung, but it took time. “If it is really lacking, our staff or the Blood Donor Associa-tion of Indonesia (PDDI) in Jembrana are forced to help,” he added. Ac-cording to him, the blood stock for emergency maximally amounted to five bags. The monthly average of blood required by patients, according to him, came to 150 bags.

He said it was stored in the re-frigerated blood storage having the capacity of 70 to 100 blood bags. However, he said it was rarely full as before expiring it was distributed to other regions in need. To get the blood, patients were required to provide a replacement cost of blood processing with cross-subsidies pursuant to the classification of treatment room in use.

“Normally, class III pays IDR 250,000, while class II and I pays more. As for patients using health insurance, they take class III, includ-ing the civil servant health insurance (Askes),” he said. This year, the maximal blood stock, particularly for the emergency, would be increased from the current amount of five bags per blood type. (kmb26)

Parked at road side, wheel deflated

Regular blood stock in Negara Hospital runs out

Tornado in Penebel

Victims confused to get help

As observation of Bali Post on site, Tuesday (Feb 5), military personnel and residents had been able to remove the stem of tree toppling over a house and family shrine. Having been removed, all the home furnishings buried were shattered. None could be saved. “All furniture and clothes are damaged, while some others were missing in the mud,” complained Wayan Sendi, one of the victims whose house was razed to the ground. This man admitted that only his gold was found intact. Other assets vanished as struck by tree branch. Even, the entire part of the house was razed to the ground.

To survive, Wayan Sendi with his wife was forced to flee to the home of relatives. He did not know where to go for help. With a job as farming worker, he could only submit to his fate to accept the disaster. “Nothing can be saved. The only solution is to re-build the house,” he complained. Two houses and a kitchen belonged to Wayan Sendi were destroyed as exposed to tree trunks. Being seri-ous, the officers were forced to bring in heavy equipment for the evacuation. Other than Wayan Sendi, similar condition was also experienced by Made Sudiarka. This priest of Puseh Temple also lost his property.

Headman of Biaung Gede Nyoman Oka Arsana said his party still focused on the evacuation of the hampering trunk, including the five houses affected and destroyed. After the evacuation, his party would think of the making of proposal for the government aid. “We’ve given a signal to make the proposal for help,” he said. He explained that until last Tuesday, four households were still in refuge because condition of their house could no longer be occupied. Other than evacuation, local customary villagers began preparing a purificatory rite in the temple area.

The tornado was raging in Penebel, Sunday afternoon (Feb 3). Five houses of resident were destroyed and two temples were dam-aged after toppled over by a fallen tree. There was no loss of lives in the disaster. However, the victims of totally 18 people whose houses were damaged were forced to flee. Other than houses, the fallen tree also destroyed a family shrine, kitchen and compound wall of Bale Agung Temple at local hamlet. (kmb30)

IBP/fileThe damage house in Penebel due to fallen tree during the tornado a few days ago

Tabanan (Bali Post)—

Three families becoming the victims of fallen tree due to tornado at Pemanis Kaja hamlet, Biaung village, Penebel, can-not breathe conveniently. Though the pile of wood hitting their house had been evacuated, they were still confused about their survival because all the furniture and belongings were destroyed. More sadly, they have to submit a proposal first to get assistance from the government.

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Agence France-Presse

TOKYO - Japanese automaker Suzuki said Wednesday it will resume produc-tion in Myanmar, the latest in a push by Asia’s second-biggest economy to tap the once-isolated state.

Small-vehicle producer Suzuki, which has seen huge success in India with its Maruti Suzuki unit, said it will invest about $7.0 million to restart its wholly-owned Suzuki (Myanmar) Motor in the commercial capital Yangon.

Production will start from May at the factory, which was operated as a joint venture with Myanmar’s government between 1998 and 2010, a Suzuki spokes-man said.

The plant shuttered after the contract expired, the spokesman added, without saying why the agreement was not extended at the time.

The factory will initially produce just 100 Carry mini-trucks monthly for the local market, with up to 90 local employees.

“With Myanmar’s democratisation efforts, investment activities (by foreign firms) are in a full swing,” he said.

“The auto market might be in a transition period. But we expect the market to grow, and we wanted to be there when it does.”

On Tuesday, a delegation of Japan’s biggest business lobby, known as Keidanren, told Myanmar President Thein Sein that it will provide money and expertise for the country’s development.

Tokyo, meanwhile, has said it would forgive 300 billion yen ($3.2 billion) of the 500 billion yen owed by Myanmar.

Last month, the government said it would extend 50 billion yen of new loans to the long-isolated Southeast Asian nation to help upgrade power systems, boost rural development and fund a planned industrial park.

Myanmar is one of the poorest countries in Asia after decades of economic mis-management and isolation under army rule. But it has undertaken big economic and social reforms, sparking renewed interest in the country from business abroad.

Obama said the fragile US economy could not afford the hit from huge cuts to defense and other government programs, known as the sequester, and the jobs of Americans should not be held hostage to partisan wran-gling in Washington.

The president said if Con-gress could not act on a big-ger deficit cutting package by March 1, lawmakers should pass a smaller plan of spending cuts and tax reforms to delay the economically damaging impact of the sequester.

“There is no reason that the jobs of thousands of Americans

who work in national security or education or clean energy, not to mention the growth of the entire economy, should be put in jeopardy,” Obama told reporters.

“Let me repeat, our econ-omy right now is headed in the right direction. It will stay that way as long as there aren’t any more self-inflicted wounds coming out of Washington.”

The Congressional Budget Office reported Tuesday that if the sequester is put through, the US budget deficit will shrink sharply this year but that also economic growth will

be crunched from 2012’s 1.9 percent to just 1.4 percent.

“If all of the fiscal tighten-ing still embodied in current law for 2013 was removed, growth in real GDP would be about 1.5 percentage points higher this year than CBO currently projects,” the study said.

Obama said his short-term spending would al low the White House and Congress more time to come up with a plan to cut the deficit, which he insists, despite Republican opposition, must include new revenue from higher taxes.

Agence France-Presse

BRUSSELS - The European Commission said Tuesday it needs to step up the fight against money laundering as criminals and terrorists constantly find new ways around existing regulations.

Accordingly, it plans to make it more difficult to get illicit funds through the financial system and to tighten up information disclosure on money transfers so as to make them more transparent and traceable.

“Flows of dirty money can damage the stability and reputation of the fi-nancial sector, while terrorism shakes the very foundations of our society,” EU Internal Markets Commissioner Michel Barnier said in a statement.

“Our aim is to propose clear rules that reinforce the vigilance by banks, lawyers, accountants and all other professional concerned,” Barnier said.

EU Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmstroem said “dirty money has no place in our economy, whether it comes from drug deals, the illegal guns trade or trafficking in human beings.

“Our banks should never function as laundromats for mafia money, or enable the funding of terrorism.”

Notably, the new measures will cover the gambling sector, rather than just casinos as previously, while the minimum cash payment threshold covered will be reduced to $7,500 from $15,000.

The Commission’s proposals require approval by the EU’s 27 member states and the European Parliament.

Separately, EU Justice Commissioner proposed new legal measures against the counterfeiting of the euro, including strengthening cross-border investigations and introducing minimum penalties for the most serious offences.

AP Photo/Charles Dharapak

President Barack Obama speaks in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013. The president will ask Congress to come up with tens of bil-lions of dollars in short-term spending cuts and tax revenue to put off the automatic across the board cuts that are scheduled to kick in March 1.

Obama unveils plans to avert budget cutsAgence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama Tuesday called for a balanced program of stop gap spending reductions and tax reforms to avert punishing multi-billion dollar automatic budget cuts due to kick in on March 1.

EU steps up measures against money laundering

Japan’s Suzuki to resume production in Myanmar

Bali PostNEGARA - Rabies cases in

Jembrana subdistrict spread to Me-laya subdistrict. During a month, there are dozens of victims bitten by dogs at Sumbersari, Melaya and Sarikuning, Tukadaya village, Jembrana. At Sarikuning, a dog known to be infected by rabies gobbled six puppies belonging to local resident. As troubling, the residents then killed the dog.

Hamlet Chief of Sarikuning, Ko-mang Wirata Putra, said the rabies cases first happened at the village. Residents felt anxious and fright-ened after knowing the dog having been infected by rabies.

His party then asked the officers from relevant agencies to eliminate the stray dogs in order it would no longer cause fear to residents.

The Livestock Division Head of the Jembrana Agriculture Agency,

Ni Wayan Puriawati, said the ra-bies cases at Tukadaya were the umpteenth time at the beginning of this year. From the checking, it was found two cases of rabies in Melaya. She said that from January, her party sent eight samples and only two were positive for rabies, namely at Tuka-daya and Sumbersari. Afterward, the officers eliminated the stray dogs at two locations with a radius of 1 to 2 kilometers. (kmb26)

To minimize the presence of slums, the DTRP Denpasar has designed an arrangement for the area. Even, its detailed engineering design had been prepared, espe-cially for the area at Jematang and Poh Gading hamlet, Ubung Kaja. However, the physical construction could not be done this year. “Possi-bly, it will be worked on next year,” said the Head of the DTRP I Kadek Kusuma Diputra in Denpasar.

The land area becoming the target of arrangement amounted to 88 ares at Jematang and one hectare at Kaja Ubung. The con-cept of arrangement at Jematang

included the entry and elevation of land which was quite vulner-able to flood when the water of Badung River overflowed. So far, the houses located at riverside often took advantage of the river to dispose rubbish. In the next ar-rangement, the house of residents would be redirected to overlook the river. Besides, it would also be made a pathway so that its condi-tion would be better.

At Ubung Kaja, the slums would be designed in two and three-storied building but remained to be adjusted to local culture. Cur-rently his party was still making

socialization because the arranged area was still occupied by people. “Though there is no friction, we will do socialization to the com-munity,” he said.

Previously, the Division Head of Housing of the DTRP Denpasar, AA Bagus Airawata, said his party had made data collection on slums in Denpasar. As per the last provi-sions, the designation of slum area referred to the number of house unit per area. “At least, ten houses in one location can be declared as slum. We do not record the number of house less than such amount,” he said. (kmb12)

Antara

JAKARTA - Indonesia will initiate infrastructure development and agriculture subsidies as part of trade fairness in World Trade Organization (WTO) forum in Bali in December this year.

The Indonesian trade ministry’s Director General of APEC and International Organizations Dany Kurnia said here on Tuesday evening that those initiatives were introduced during the APEC Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM) in Jakarta, on Feb 6-7, in order to gain the support from other APEC member countries.

“The reasons why we will initiate the infrastructure develop-ment and agriculture subsidies are to avoid arbitrariness and unfair-ness imposed by stronger countries on the developing countries in the multilateral connectivity of trade and investment, which is an agenda of WTO,” he said.

Therefore, Indonesia took the chance as the chairman of APEC 2013 to propose connectivity on trade and investment, infrastruc-ture development and agriculture subsidies issues as the stand points of APEC during the next WTO forum in December.

“APEC member nations include major members of WTO, hence we will have more deliverable stand point to enact the initiatives in the WTO declaration through the support from the Asia-Pacific countries,” he said.

Indonesia, as one of developing countries which boost free trade and investment connectivity, also uses its role as the host of the WTO forum to propose those initiatives that also accommodate the domestic interests, he explained.

“After the APEC Economic Leader meeting in October, we do hope the initiatives will be more concrete and ready to be proposed in the WTO forum. Thus, it will be an Asia-Pacific’s call of trade facilitation to the global community,” he said.

According to Kurnia, Indonesia is very concerned about the trade fairness for the interest of developing country as well as about the continuing progress of the Doha Round where those three initiatives to be proposed.

“It has been 11 years since the Doha Round was established, but the current trade and investment policies are mostly covered the regional agreement, instead of multilateral coverage. Those have given impacts on the different policies and regulations in each region and caused complexity in trying to reach the connectivity goal,” he said.

“If we can achieve at least two out of the three points of the WTO declaration, we can cut off the complexity of the ‘spaghetti ball’ in business,” added Kurnia.

IBP/Yudi Karnaedi

Denpasar slums cannot have been handled properly. A control made in one place will trigger another emer-gence elsewhere. As a result, the efforts to minimize the slums will never succeed. As evidence, it is now recorded 35 points of slum in Denpasar.

Denpasar slums have not been handled properlyBali Post

DENPASAR - Denpasar slums cannot have been handled properly. A control made in one place will trigger another emergence elsewhere. As a result, the efforts to minimize the slums will never succeed. As evidence, it is now recorded 35 points of slum in Denpasar. As the existing data, they belong to large scale area, while the house coming to less than ten units is not recorded in the data of the Denpasar Spatial Planning and Housing Agency (DTRP).

Two rabies cases occur in Melaya

IBP/Eka Adhiyasa

Indonesia will initiate infrastructure development and agricul-ture subsidies as part of trade fairness in World Trade Organi-zation (WTO) forum in Bali in December this year.

WTO Forum in Bali

Indonesia to initiate infrastructure and agricultural subsidies

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The vicious, hours-long attack at a beach home on the outskirts of Acapulco before dawn Mon-day was the latest chapter of violence that has tarnished the once-glamorous Pacific coast resort celebrated in Frank Sinatra songs and Elvis Presley movies.

“Fortunately we have strong evidence to lead us to those respon-sible for this reprehensible act,” Guerrero state Attorney General Martha Garzon Guzman told Mexi-co’s Radio Formula on Monday.

The beach home on an idyl-lic stretch of coastline had been rented by six Spanish men, six Spanish women and a Mexican woman.

The attackers gained access to the house because two of the Spaniards were in the yard and apparently were forced to open the door, Acapulco Mayor Luis Walton told a news conference late Monday.

The five attackers burst into the house and held the group at gun-point, he said. They tied up the six men with phone cords and bathing suit straps and then raped the six

Spanish women. The Mexican woman was not raped.

Garzon said the Mexican woman begged the men not to rape her and the assailants told her they would spare her because she is Mexican. The attack began on Monday about two hours after midnight and the victims were only able to report the crime five hours later, at nearly 7 a.m.

“This is a regrettable situation, and of course it is going to dam-age Acapulco,” Walton said.

The once-glittering resort that attracted movie stars and celeb-rities in the 1950s and 60s has already been battered by years of drug gang killings and extor-tions, but except for very few incidents, the violence has not touched tourists.

Walton said he believed, but wasn’t sure, that the assailants in Monday’s attack didn’t belong to a drug gang. Garzon said witness descriptions of the attackers were more difficult to obtain because they wore masks.

“From what the attorney gen-eral has told me, I don’t think this

was organized crime,” Walton said. “But that will have to be investigated, we don’t know.” Mexico’s Foreign Relat ions Department issued a statement saying it regretted the attack.

“Up to now, the investigations are being carried out by local authorities and they will be the ones to provide information,” the statement said. In Mexico, it’s up to local authorities to determine if organized crime is behind an attack, and, if so, turn the case over to federal authorities.

Security and drug analyst Jorge Chabat said that, after years of drug gang activity in Acapulco, the distinction may be merely semantic.

“At this point, the line be-tween common and organized crime is very tenuous, there are a lot of these gangs that take advantage of the unsafe situa-tion that currently exists, they know the government can’t keep up,” Chabat said. “ The Spanish Embassy in Mexico City said the victims were receiving consular assistance.

Associated Press Writer

SINGAPORE — Police are investigating two Chinese men’s allegations that officers assaulted them while they were in custody over participating in Singapore’s first strike in three decades, the city-state said Tuesday.

The men said in separate interviews with a local documentary filmmaker in January that they were threatened and beaten by police during questioning. Both were among five bus drivers charged for involvement in the Nov. 26-27 strike which saw 171 Chinese immigrant bus drivers of a public transport company protesting over being paid nearly a quarter less than their Malay-sian colleagues. The labor action disrupted about 5 percent of bus services in the city-state where such labor actions are almost unheard of.

The Ministry of Home Affairs said in a statement on Tuesday evening that it takes a serious view of the public allegations and that an independent office within the police force was investigating the men’s claims.

AP Photo/Bernandino Hernandez

Police patrol on the beach outside a home after masked armed men broke into the home in Acapulco, Mexico, Tuesday Feb. 5, 2013.

Mexico seeks culprits in rape of 6 Spaniards

Associated Press Writer

ACAPULCO, Mexico — Authorities have information they hope will lead them to the gang of armed, masked men who raped six Spanish tourists in the Mexican resort of Acapulco, the attorney general in the southern state of Guerrero said.

S’pore probing bus drivers’ allegations of assault

AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim

Indonesian worker march during a protest rally in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013. Thousands of Indonesian workers staged the rally demanding the government for imple-mentation of minimum wage.

Luthfi who is former Chair-man of Islamic-background Prosperous and Justice Party (PKS) will be questioned here on Wednesday as witness for suspect Juard Effendi.

Juard who is Director of PT Indoguna Utama was arrested last January after handing over a bribe worth Rp1 billion to Ahmad Fathanah (Luthfi’s right man).

The amount of cash money was said to be part of a total of Rp40 billion bribe money to be given to Luthfi in exchange for his effort to influence Ministry of Agriculture to give meat im-port quota to the company.

The anti-graft commission has named Luthfi Hasan Ishaaq and Juard Effendi as suspects in the bribery case. Juard is said

to have violated Regulation Number 5 Article 1, Regulation Number 20/2001 and Regula-tion Number 55 Article 1 about bribing public officials.

Meanwhile Luthfi is charged with Regulation Number 12, Number 5 Article 2, Regula-tion Number 20/2001 about public official who received bribe money.

Antara

JAKARTA - State-owned port operator Pelindo II said it was preparing Rp7 trillion to build Kalibaru (North Jakarta) and Sorong (Papua) ports.

“The investment funds of Rp7 trillion will be used to build the ports of Kalibaru and Sorong. The construction of Kalibaru port has been un-dergoing while Sorong has not yet because its permit is still under the issuance process,” President Director of Pelindo II RJ Lino told the press here on Tuesday.

He said that the investment funds increased drastically from the total funds in 2012 which were Rp2.1 trillion. The funds were obtained from the company’s internal sources and from strategic partners.

The Kalibaru port of North Jakarta will be used as a con-tainer terminal and fuel ter-minal. It is also expected to increase the capacity of load-ing and unloading activities which have so far been done at Tanjung Priok port.

In the meantime, Sorong port will be used to reinforce

the country’s pendulum sys-tem to reduce logistics sea transportation costs and to generate equitable economic activities in Indonesia.

It was reported last year that the Kalibaru port project’s first phase will include the instal-lation of container terminal and related equipment worth US$1.38 billion, while a fur-ther US$730 million will be made available for construct-ing a new petroleum product terminal in the port.

According to Lino, IPC II is enthusiastic about the project and believes that it will rise up to the challenge offered by the presidential instruction to make Indonesia’s dream come true - that is, to build a port that the country can be proud of.

IPC II’s challenge is to build the port without fund-ing support from the gov-ernment or the state budget. “It does not involve a state budget fund. The funds will come from the investors and be facil i tated by PT Pengembangan Indonesia, a subsidiary of the IPC II,” Lino added.

IPC II may also raise funds

for the port by forging part-nerships with and receiving investments from major ship-ping and port operators as well as loans from national and international lenders.

The New Priok (Kalibaru) Port will be built to allevi-ate the load on the currently over-burdened Tanjung Priok Port. Therefore, the New Priok Port’s construction will be accelerated to reduce the old port’s burden by about 1 million TEU containers.

Upon its completion in 2023, the New Priok Port will more than triple the annual capacity of Tanjung Priok Port, from 5 million TEU to 18 million TEU.

Lino remarked that the construction of the New Priok Port, which was previously called Kalibaru Port, will el-evate Indonesia’s reputation to the level of countries with international scale ports.

Earlier, Pelindo II which has changed name into Indo-nesia Port Corporation (IPC) posted a net profit of Rp1.79 trillion, which increased by 21 percent from the profit it gained in 2011.

Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - The world’s third-largest paper producer Asia Pulp and Paper said Tuesday it had stopped using logs from Indonesia’s natural forests, after fierce cam-paigning by green groups against the company.

The firm has in recent years lost packaging contracts with big brands such as foodmaker Kraft and Barbie’s Mattel after Greenpeace accused APP of clearing carbon-rich forest, home to endangered Sumatran tigers and orangutans.

“APP has committed to stop logging in all natural forest,” the firm’s sustainability head Aida Greenbury told AFP. “We will only expand operations on open land and scrubland.”

In a statement the company said that from “February 1st, all of APP’s suppliers have suspended natural forest clearance”, and that it was conducting assessments to identify high-conservation-value forest for protection.

The Indonesian firm has failed to carry out similar commitments before, includ-ing an agreement with environmental group WWF signed in 2003 to protect high-conservation-value forests over an initial 12-year period.

WWF cancelled the agreement in 2004, saying the company had failed to make any progress on its commitment.

“Unfortunately, APP has a long history of making commitments to WWF, custom-ers and other stakeholders that it has failed to live up to,” said the WWF’s conservation director in Indonesia, Nazir Foed.

“We hope this time the company does what it promised,” Foed said, adding that it would independently monitor APP’s activities.

Greenpeace’s forest campaign chief in Indonesia, Bustar Maitar, said that if APP fully implements its new policies “it will mark a dramatic change in direction, after years of deforestation in Indonesia”.

The APP has also been accused of greenwashing (making deceptive claims of green benefits) with environmental projects, including a Sumatran tiger sanctuary which was questioned by scientists and activists.

Meat import bribery case

KPK to question PKS politicianAntara

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is scheduled to question politician Luthfi Hasan Ishaq here on Wednesday in relation to bribery case regarding request to get meat import quota at the Ministry of Agriculture.

Pelindo II earmarks Rp7 trilion for port development

APP promises no deforestation in Indonesia

Richard Dapo, a school principal on an island near Santa Cruz, said he lives inland but has been fielding calls from families on the coast whose homes have been damaged by the waves.

“I try to tell the people living on the coastline, ‘Move inland, find a higher place. Make sure to keep away from the sea. Watch out for waves,’” he said.

He said he’s heard the waves have swamped some smaller islands, although he’s not aware of any deaths or serious injuries at this point. He said it’s difficult to contact people because cellphone coverage is patchy in the region.

In Honiara, the warnings had prompted residents to flee for higher ground.

“People are still standing on the hills outside of Honiara just look-ing out over the water, trying to observe if there is a wave coming in,” said Herming, the prime minister’s spokesman.

Atenia Tahu, who works for the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corp. in Honiara, said most people were remaining calm.

“People around the coast and in the capital are ringing in and trying to get information from us and the National Disaster Office and are slowly moving up to higher ground,” Tahu said. “But panic? No, no, no, people are not panicking.”

Dr. Rooney Jagilly, the medical superintendent at the National Referral Hospital in Honiara, said the hospital asked about half its 200 patients to leave and stay with family or friends as a precaution-ary measure because the hospital is located near the shoreline. Those patients who weren’t mobile enough to move stayed, but the hospital remained ready to evacuate them.

Jagilly said there had been no flooding and he hoped the hospital would return to normal Thursday. He said his staff was ready to mo-bilize to Santa Cruz because the small hospital there has no doctor after the previous one died recently.

An official at the disaster management office in Vanuatu said there were no reports of damage or injuries there.

More than 50 people were killed and thousands lost their homes in April 2007 when a magnitude 8.1 quake hit the western Solomon Islands, sending waves crashing into coastal villages.

The Solomons comprise more than 200 islands with a population of about 552,000 people. They lie on the “Ring of Fire” — an arc of earthquake and volcanic zones that stretches around the Pacific Rim and where about 90 percent of the world’s quakes occur.

Quake and tsunami...

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Village, Tabanan Re-g e n cy,

about 5 km north of Tabanan town. Ev-ery day hundreds of colorful butterflies fly around the park where some of them have been famous in the world such as the bird of paradise-winged butterfly (Omithoptera paradisea), Omithoptera priamus and various other types. The only one butterfly park in this archipelago is trying to breed and cultivate those spe-cies for the purposes of science as well

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Howard missed his third consecutive game with a torn labrum in his right shoulder and Gasol, his re-placement, appeared to injure his right foot with a little more than 4 minutes remaining. Paul George scored 29

points at Indianapolis to lead the Indiana Pacers over the Atlanta Hawks 114-103 for its 15th straight home win.

David West had 15 points and seven re-bounds and George Hill added 15 points and eight assists to help the Pacers to their fourth

straight victory overall and their longest home win streak in 13 years.

Jeff Teague had 24 points and eight assists to lead the Hawks, who have lost three of their last four. The Houston Rockets equaled an NBA record and set a club mark with 23

3-pointers in a 140-109 win over the Golden State Warriors.

Jeremy Lin scored 28 points, includ-ing a career-high five 3-pointers, and

Chandler Parsons and James Harden hit four 3s apiece as the Rockets reached a season-high point total. They also tied an NBA record with 14 3-pointers in the first half and had a season-high 35 assists on 46 field goals overall.

Jarrett Jack scored 20 points and David Lee had 18 for the Warriors. Phoenix guard Goran Dragic scored 15 of his 17 points in the fourth quarter to lead the Suns past the Memphis Grizzlies 96-90. After the score was tied at 88-88, Dragic scored six straight points to put the game away.

Marcin Gortat led the Suns with 20 points, while Jermaine O’Neal had 14 points. At Denver, Danilo Gal-linari and Ty Lawson each scored 22 points to help rally the Nuggets to their seventh straight victory, 112-104 over the Milwaukee Bucks.

The Nuggets withstood Samuel Dalembert’s career-high 35 points and trailed by 17 points in the first half before coming back to beat the Bucks for the fifth time in a row and get their longest winning streak overall in more than two years.

Lewis Hamilton’s first proper day of Formula 1 testing with Mercedes got off to a bad start on Wednesday when he crashed the team’s new W04. The Briton, who has joined the team from McLaren, had been third quickest in the morning when, after 15 laps, he ran off the track at the Dry Sack hairpin.

Television footage of the incident showed he had locked up in the braking area of the corner, before skipping across the gravel trap and nosing into the barriers. Hamilton was able to climb out of the car unaided, and returned to the pits.

Damage to the car appeared to be limited to the front wing and front suspension, and Mercedes is likely to

be able to get it repaired for later in the day. There was no initial answer from the team as to whether the accident had been caused by a mechanical problem or driver error.

The setback comes just 24 hours after Mercedes’ first day of running was also cut short when team-mate Nico Rosberg was stopped on track with an electrical problem.

Revisions to the team’s wiring loom were required overnight, which meant Rosberg had been unable to resume run-ning during the afternoon session.

Despite the reliability disappointment, Rosberg had still been encouraged by what he had experienced with the car.

Hamilton crashes early on Mercedes Formula 1 test debut

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VINA DEL MAR, Chile - Rafa Nadal made a successful comeback after a seven-month injury absence with victory in the first round of the Chilean Open doubles on Tuesday.

The former world number one and Ar-gentine partner Juan Monaco overpowered second-seeded Czechs Frantisek Cermak and Lukas Dlouhy 6-3 6-2 in 65 minutes at the Pacific coastal city of Vina del Mar.

Spanish left-hander Nadal had been out with a knee problem since losing to Czech Lukas Rosol in the second round at Wimble-don in June.

“It’s a good feeling to be back. We’ll see how the knee reacts,” Nadal told a news con-

ference. “The moment and the surfaces were the right ones and playing for the first time in this country was a great opportunity.

“Playing doubles is less aggressive, so we’ll see how things go tomorrow in singles,” he added after he and Monaco had taken advantage of four of their seven chances to break the Czechs’ service.

The 26-year-old’s planned return at the end of last year was delayed due to illness but he will compete on his favourite clay surface at three Latin American events this month.

On Wednesday, Nadal plays a second-round singles match against Argentine qualifier Federico Delbonis. After the Chile tournament he will compete at the Brazil Open in Sao Paulo next week and the Mexico Open in Acapulco from Feb. 25.

Nadal wins doubles match on Chilean comeback

FILE - In this June 26, 2012

file photo, Rafael Nadal of Spain returns a shot to Thomaz

Bellucci of Brazil during a first round

men’s singles match at the All

England Lawn Tennis Cham-

pionships at Wimbledon,

England.

Short-handed Lakers beat Nets 92-83Associated Press Writer

New YORK — The Los Angeles Lakers overcame the absences of Dwight Howard and Metta world Peace, and the loss of Pau Gasol to beat the Brooklyn Nets 92-83 on Tuesday. Kobe Bryant had 21 points and eight rebounds, while Antawn Jamison, starting for the suspended world Peace, made the go-ahead basket during a closing 14-3 run for the Lakers, who have won three straight and six of their last seven games.

AP Photo/Seth Wenig

Brooklyn Nets’ Brook Lopez dunks while Los

Angeles Lakers’ Earl Clark, right, and Kobe Bryant (24) watch during the second half of an NBA basketball

game at the Barclays Cen-ter Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013

in New York.

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United’s current players, includ-ing new striker Robin van Persie, recently watched a DVD about the crash, in which 23 people died as the squad, supporters and journal-ists returned from a European Cup match in Belgrade.

Eight players and three members of the United staff were among those who died after their plane crashed as it tried to take off follow-ing a refuelling stop in Munich.

“New players, especially the foreign players, are joining a club which they think is great and offers

Associated Press Writer

FRANKFURT , Ge rmany — Borussia Dortmund striker Robert Lewandowski says he will decide on his future once the season is over. German m e d i a r e p o r t s h a v e l i n k e d

Lewandowsk i w i th a move to Bundes l iga r iva l Bayern Munich.

Lewandowski tells Sport-Bild weekly that the subject has “to cool off” and that “we’ll talk after the final match of the season and we’ll see.”

The Poland striker says his de-cision will come after consulting with his agent and considering all offers.

Lewandowski has scored 13 goals this season and has another season on his contract with Dort-mund.

Associated Press Writer

BRASILIA, Brazil — The company responsible for administering a recent-ly-renovated Brazilian stadium that will host Confederations Cup matches in June has been fined $500,000 for the poor conditions witnessed at the reopening by Brazil’s president and its sports minister.

Officials from the state government of Minas Gerais fined the administration company — Minas Arena — following a match on Sunday at the Mineirao stadium in Belo Horizonte that underwent a $328 million renovation project lasting two and a half years.

Fans at the game between state rivals Cruzeiro and Atletico faced problems with ticketing that led to massive queues. The entrances to parking are narrow and not well marked — leading to traffic jams. Toilets lacked light. Food and drink vending areas were not open, leaving fans hungry and thirsty.

Minas Arena officials acknowledged there were a series of errors and said they’d work to correct them. But their company was still fined by the authorities. Tiago Lacerda, head of Secopa, the local organizing committee, said officials were working on a complete report.

“For everything that they went through — problems with the bars, water and food — the fans behaved really well,” he told reporters at a news conference on Monday. “But we had serious problems. The lack of water is unacceptable. Minas Arena must correct these errors.”

The 62,000-seat stadium will host three matches of the Confederations Cup and six of the 2014 World Cup.

Sports Minister Aldo Rebelo blasted the state of the Belo Horizonte stadium following Sunday’s match.

“The new stadiums were built to ensure safety, comfort and the well-being of fans,” Rebelo said. “Nothing justifies that a stadium like the new Mineirao, with the latest in engineering and sporting infrastructure, would have so many operating failures.”

Reuters

LONDON - Debrecen goal-keeper Vukasin Poleksic has denied attempting to fix his Hungarian side’s Champions League match with Liverpool in 2009, saying his performance should speak for itself.

European police said on Monday that about 680 suspicious matches including qualifying games for the World Cup and European Champi-onships, and the Champions League for top European club sides, have been identified in a fix inquiry.

Media reports said Debrecen’s 1-0 defeat at Liverpool was under scrutiny amid allegations of a failed plan to concede more than two

goals but the club have said the is-sue had already been looked at and Montenegrin Poleksic has hit out.

“Anyone who watched the match would know what people are saying is bull,” the 30-year-old, who made a few decent saves, told Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper on Wednes-day. “It was the biggest match of my career and Liverpool have always been my favourite club. I can’t be-lieve what people have said about me. But I don’t care because I know I am clean.”

Poleksic was given a two-year ban in 2010 for failing to report ap-proaches from alleged fixers ahead of another Champions League match with Italian side Fiorentina and Debrecen said on Tuesday that

the Liverpool game was also probed in that case.

Debrecen said the keeper, who returned to action this season, was punished for not informing authori-ties of an approach from fixers but was innocent of having manipulated any matches because he rejected the bribery requests.

The case came before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in 2011 when Poleksic’s team mate Norbert Meszaros, who played against both Liverpool and Fioren-tina, had his own 18-month ban for the same offence overturned.

“I was just delighted to be play-ing at Anfield. It was a great night for me and my club and we played well,” Poleksic added.

Netherlands coach Louis van Gaal has warned that his side cannot af-ford to focus solely on Mario Balotelli in Wednesday’s friendly against Italy as he feels Stephan El Shaarawy is an even bigger threat.

The 61-year-old is full of praise for the former Manchester City attacker, but believes that his current AC Milan teammate is just as dangerous in front of goal, if not more so.

“Balotelli is an excellent striker. They way in which his teammates are always trying to reach him is proof of this. He hardly ever loses the ball,” Van Gaal told reporters. “We have to remain very cautious, though. El Shaarawy is perhaps an even bigger threat than Balotelli.”

Van Gaal then went on to praise Netherlands youngster Adam Maher, who is expected to feature from the start against the Azzurri.

“Maher will have to bring creativity to the table. He is on par with Wesley Sneijder and Rafael van der Vaart in my opinion. It’s now up to him to prove that’s indeed the case.”

United’s pampered players humbled by Munich memories

Manchester United’s Ryan Giggs scores a penalty against Fulham during their English FA Cup fourth round soccer match at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, England, Satur-day Jan. 26, 2013.

Reuters LONDON - Manchester United players need to remember the legacy of those affected by the

Munich air disaster because the aftermath of the tragedy is part of what makes the club great, Ryan Giggs said on the 55th anniversary on Wednesday.

them everything that comes from United being successful over the last 10 to 15 years,” Giggs told the club website (www.manutd.com).

“We all watched a DVD about Munich recently. It was really im-portant for the squad to watch that and learn about what happened. Not only about the crash itself but also the success they had before it and how the team moved forward in the aftermath, from winning the next game to winning the European Cup 10 years later. Everyone was moved.”

The Premier League leaders also listened to a talk by Bobby Charlton, who survived the crash along with manager Matt Busby, who had to quickly rebuild a team amid the grief.

“I think it’s very important, to know how the Busby Babes played and how successful they were before the air disaster and to know how Sir Matt built another great team,” added the 39-year-old Giggs, who has been at United since 1987.

“There are so many things that

are relevant to us today and we need to carry on their legacy. For example, fans want to see young players coming through and doing well which they do on a regular basis at this club, and both as in-dividuals and as a team, we have to play in the right manner.”

Despite Giggs’s long associa-tion with the club and the many Munich memorial services he has attended, the DVD taught him new elements of the story which have inspired the midfielder as United, nine points clear, hone in on a 20th top-flight title.

“There were things I didn’t know about the crash. I didn’t know how soon United played again afterwards, just 13 days later, and that players like Bill Foulkes and Harry Gregg who survived the

crash were in the team. I thought that was unbelievable,” he said.

With a Champions League last-16 clash with Real Madrid in the next two months, United’s jet-setting squad were reminded that technology was very different in Busby’s day.

“Now if we’re playing in a big game like a Champions League semi-final, we’ll watch videos and know everything about the opposi-tion. Everything. Then I think Sir Matt would go on one scouting mission and that would be it,” Giggs said.

“Once Sir Matt went to watch Real Madrid and when he came back, his players asked him what they were like. He didn’t want to tell them because Real Madrid were that good.”

AP Photo/Jon Super

Van Gaal: El Shaarawy an even bigger threat than Balotelli

Renovated Brazil stadium in bad condition

AP Photo/Ministerio do Esporte, Rodrigo Lima, File

FILE - In this July 2012 file photo, released by Ministerio do Es-porte, shows an aerial view of the Governador Magalhães Pinto or Mineirao stadium, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. This stadium will host games during the World Cup soccer tournament in 2014.

Debrecen keeper says he is clean amid Liverpool fix probe

AP Photo/Frank Augstein

Dortmund’s Robert Lewandowski of Poland celebrates after scoring during the German first division Bundesliga soccer match between Bayer 04 Leverkusen and BvB Borussia Dortmund in Leverkusen, Germany, Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013.

Lewandowski says decision on future in summer

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United’s current players, includ-ing new striker Robin van Persie, recently watched a DVD about the crash, in which 23 people died as the squad, supporters and journal-ists returned from a European Cup match in Belgrade.

Eight players and three members of the United staff were among those who died after their plane crashed as it tried to take off follow-ing a refuelling stop in Munich.

“New players, especially the foreign players, are joining a club which they think is great and offers

Associated Press Writer

FRANKFURT , Ge rmany — Borussia Dortmund striker Robert Lewandowski says he will decide on his future once the season is over. German m e d i a r e p o r t s h a v e l i n k e d

Lewandowsk i w i th a move to Bundes l iga r iva l Bayern Munich.

Lewandowski tells Sport-Bild weekly that the subject has “to cool off” and that “we’ll talk after the final match of the season and we’ll see.”

The Poland striker says his de-cision will come after consulting with his agent and considering all offers.

Lewandowski has scored 13 goals this season and has another season on his contract with Dort-mund.

Associated Press Writer

BRASILIA, Brazil — The company responsible for administering a recent-ly-renovated Brazilian stadium that will host Confederations Cup matches in June has been fined $500,000 for the poor conditions witnessed at the reopening by Brazil’s president and its sports minister.

Officials from the state government of Minas Gerais fined the administration company — Minas Arena — following a match on Sunday at the Mineirao stadium in Belo Horizonte that underwent a $328 million renovation project lasting two and a half years.

Fans at the game between state rivals Cruzeiro and Atletico faced problems with ticketing that led to massive queues. The entrances to parking are narrow and not well marked — leading to traffic jams. Toilets lacked light. Food and drink vending areas were not open, leaving fans hungry and thirsty.

Minas Arena officials acknowledged there were a series of errors and said they’d work to correct them. But their company was still fined by the authorities. Tiago Lacerda, head of Secopa, the local organizing committee, said officials were working on a complete report.

“For everything that they went through — problems with the bars, water and food — the fans behaved really well,” he told reporters at a news conference on Monday. “But we had serious problems. The lack of water is unacceptable. Minas Arena must correct these errors.”

The 62,000-seat stadium will host three matches of the Confederations Cup and six of the 2014 World Cup.

Sports Minister Aldo Rebelo blasted the state of the Belo Horizonte stadium following Sunday’s match.

“The new stadiums were built to ensure safety, comfort and the well-being of fans,” Rebelo said. “Nothing justifies that a stadium like the new Mineirao, with the latest in engineering and sporting infrastructure, would have so many operating failures.”

Reuters

LONDON - Debrecen goal-keeper Vukasin Poleksic has denied attempting to fix his Hungarian side’s Champions League match with Liverpool in 2009, saying his performance should speak for itself.

European police said on Monday that about 680 suspicious matches including qualifying games for the World Cup and European Champi-onships, and the Champions League for top European club sides, have been identified in a fix inquiry.

Media reports said Debrecen’s 1-0 defeat at Liverpool was under scrutiny amid allegations of a failed plan to concede more than two

goals but the club have said the is-sue had already been looked at and Montenegrin Poleksic has hit out.

“Anyone who watched the match would know what people are saying is bull,” the 30-year-old, who made a few decent saves, told Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper on Wednes-day. “It was the biggest match of my career and Liverpool have always been my favourite club. I can’t be-lieve what people have said about me. But I don’t care because I know I am clean.”

Poleksic was given a two-year ban in 2010 for failing to report ap-proaches from alleged fixers ahead of another Champions League match with Italian side Fiorentina and Debrecen said on Tuesday that

the Liverpool game was also probed in that case.

Debrecen said the keeper, who returned to action this season, was punished for not informing authori-ties of an approach from fixers but was innocent of having manipulated any matches because he rejected the bribery requests.

The case came before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in 2011 when Poleksic’s team mate Norbert Meszaros, who played against both Liverpool and Fioren-tina, had his own 18-month ban for the same offence overturned.

“I was just delighted to be play-ing at Anfield. It was a great night for me and my club and we played well,” Poleksic added.

Netherlands coach Louis van Gaal has warned that his side cannot af-ford to focus solely on Mario Balotelli in Wednesday’s friendly against Italy as he feels Stephan El Shaarawy is an even bigger threat.

The 61-year-old is full of praise for the former Manchester City attacker, but believes that his current AC Milan teammate is just as dangerous in front of goal, if not more so.

“Balotelli is an excellent striker. They way in which his teammates are always trying to reach him is proof of this. He hardly ever loses the ball,” Van Gaal told reporters. “We have to remain very cautious, though. El Shaarawy is perhaps an even bigger threat than Balotelli.”

Van Gaal then went on to praise Netherlands youngster Adam Maher, who is expected to feature from the start against the Azzurri.

“Maher will have to bring creativity to the table. He is on par with Wesley Sneijder and Rafael van der Vaart in my opinion. It’s now up to him to prove that’s indeed the case.”

United’s pampered players humbled by Munich memories

Manchester United’s Ryan Giggs scores a penalty against Fulham during their English FA Cup fourth round soccer match at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, England, Satur-day Jan. 26, 2013.

Reuters LONDON - Manchester United players need to remember the legacy of those affected by the

Munich air disaster because the aftermath of the tragedy is part of what makes the club great, Ryan Giggs said on the 55th anniversary on Wednesday.

them everything that comes from United being successful over the last 10 to 15 years,” Giggs told the club website (www.manutd.com).

“We all watched a DVD about Munich recently. It was really im-portant for the squad to watch that and learn about what happened. Not only about the crash itself but also the success they had before it and how the team moved forward in the aftermath, from winning the next game to winning the European Cup 10 years later. Everyone was moved.”

The Premier League leaders also listened to a talk by Bobby Charlton, who survived the crash along with manager Matt Busby, who had to quickly rebuild a team amid the grief.

“I think it’s very important, to know how the Busby Babes played and how successful they were before the air disaster and to know how Sir Matt built another great team,” added the 39-year-old Giggs, who has been at United since 1987.

“There are so many things that

are relevant to us today and we need to carry on their legacy. For example, fans want to see young players coming through and doing well which they do on a regular basis at this club, and both as in-dividuals and as a team, we have to play in the right manner.”

Despite Giggs’s long associa-tion with the club and the many Munich memorial services he has attended, the DVD taught him new elements of the story which have inspired the midfielder as United, nine points clear, hone in on a 20th top-flight title.

“There were things I didn’t know about the crash. I didn’t know how soon United played again afterwards, just 13 days later, and that players like Bill Foulkes and Harry Gregg who survived the

crash were in the team. I thought that was unbelievable,” he said.

With a Champions League last-16 clash with Real Madrid in the next two months, United’s jet-setting squad were reminded that technology was very different in Busby’s day.

“Now if we’re playing in a big game like a Champions League semi-final, we’ll watch videos and know everything about the opposi-tion. Everything. Then I think Sir Matt would go on one scouting mission and that would be it,” Giggs said.

“Once Sir Matt went to watch Real Madrid and when he came back, his players asked him what they were like. He didn’t want to tell them because Real Madrid were that good.”

AP Photo/Jon Super

Van Gaal: El Shaarawy an even bigger threat than Balotelli

Renovated Brazil stadium in bad condition

AP Photo/Ministerio do Esporte, Rodrigo Lima, File

FILE - In this July 2012 file photo, released by Ministerio do Es-porte, shows an aerial view of the Governador Magalhães Pinto or Mineirao stadium, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. This stadium will host games during the World Cup soccer tournament in 2014.

Debrecen keeper says he is clean amid Liverpool fix probe

AP Photo/Frank Augstein

Dortmund’s Robert Lewandowski of Poland celebrates after scoring during the German first division Bundesliga soccer match between Bayer 04 Leverkusen and BvB Borussia Dortmund in Leverkusen, Germany, Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013.

Lewandowski says decision on future in summer

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Butterfly is one of the greatest offer-ings of the natural wealth of Indonesia spreading from Sabang to Merauke. Now, the wealth of assorted butterflies is gathered in a beautiful and tranquil park named Butterfly Park situated at Wanasari

Village, Tabanan Re-g e n cy,

about 5 km north of Tabanan town. Ev-ery day hundreds of colorful butterflies fly around the park where some of them have been famous in the world such as the bird of paradise-winged butterfly (Omithoptera paradisea), Omithoptera priamus and various other types. The only one butterfly park in this archipelago is trying to breed and cultivate those spe-cies for the purposes of science as well

as education in the future.

IBP/File Photo

Bali Butterfly Park

Howard missed his third consecutive game with a torn labrum in his right shoulder and Gasol, his re-placement, appeared to injure his right foot with a little more than 4 minutes remaining. Paul George scored 29

points at Indianapolis to lead the Indiana Pacers over the Atlanta Hawks 114-103 for its 15th straight home win.

David West had 15 points and seven re-bounds and George Hill added 15 points and eight assists to help the Pacers to their fourth

straight victory overall and their longest home win streak in 13 years.

Jeff Teague had 24 points and eight assists to lead the Hawks, who have lost three of their last four. The Houston Rockets equaled an NBA record and set a club mark with 23

3-pointers in a 140-109 win over the Golden State Warriors.

Jeremy Lin scored 28 points, includ-ing a career-high five 3-pointers, and

Chandler Parsons and James Harden hit four 3s apiece as the Rockets reached a season-high point total. They also tied an NBA record with 14 3-pointers in the first half and had a season-high 35 assists on 46 field goals overall.

Jarrett Jack scored 20 points and David Lee had 18 for the Warriors. Phoenix guard Goran Dragic scored 15 of his 17 points in the fourth quarter to lead the Suns past the Memphis Grizzlies 96-90. After the score was tied at 88-88, Dragic scored six straight points to put the game away.

Marcin Gortat led the Suns with 20 points, while Jermaine O’Neal had 14 points. At Denver, Danilo Gal-linari and Ty Lawson each scored 22 points to help rally the Nuggets to their seventh straight victory, 112-104 over the Milwaukee Bucks.

The Nuggets withstood Samuel Dalembert’s career-high 35 points and trailed by 17 points in the first half before coming back to beat the Bucks for the fifth time in a row and get their longest winning streak overall in more than two years.

Lewis Hamilton’s first proper day of Formula 1 testing with Mercedes got off to a bad start on Wednesday when he crashed the team’s new W04. The Briton, who has joined the team from McLaren, had been third quickest in the morning when, after 15 laps, he ran off the track at the Dry Sack hairpin.

Television footage of the incident showed he had locked up in the braking area of the corner, before skipping across the gravel trap and nosing into the barriers. Hamilton was able to climb out of the car unaided, and returned to the pits.

Damage to the car appeared to be limited to the front wing and front suspension, and Mercedes is likely to

be able to get it repaired for later in the day. There was no initial answer from the team as to whether the accident had been caused by a mechanical problem or driver error.

The setback comes just 24 hours after Mercedes’ first day of running was also cut short when team-mate Nico Rosberg was stopped on track with an electrical problem.

Revisions to the team’s wiring loom were required overnight, which meant Rosberg had been unable to resume run-ning during the afternoon session.

Despite the reliability disappointment, Rosberg had still been encouraged by what he had experienced with the car.

Hamilton crashes early on Mercedes Formula 1 test debut

Reuters

VINA DEL MAR, Chile - Rafa Nadal made a successful comeback after a seven-month injury absence with victory in the first round of the Chilean Open doubles on Tuesday.

The former world number one and Ar-gentine partner Juan Monaco overpowered second-seeded Czechs Frantisek Cermak and Lukas Dlouhy 6-3 6-2 in 65 minutes at the Pacific coastal city of Vina del Mar.

Spanish left-hander Nadal had been out with a knee problem since losing to Czech Lukas Rosol in the second round at Wimble-don in June.

“It’s a good feeling to be back. We’ll see how the knee reacts,” Nadal told a news con-

ference. “The moment and the surfaces were the right ones and playing for the first time in this country was a great opportunity.

“Playing doubles is less aggressive, so we’ll see how things go tomorrow in singles,” he added after he and Monaco had taken advantage of four of their seven chances to break the Czechs’ service.

The 26-year-old’s planned return at the end of last year was delayed due to illness but he will compete on his favourite clay surface at three Latin American events this month.

On Wednesday, Nadal plays a second-round singles match against Argentine qualifier Federico Delbonis. After the Chile tournament he will compete at the Brazil Open in Sao Paulo next week and the Mexico Open in Acapulco from Feb. 25.

Nadal wins doubles match on Chilean comeback

FILE - In this June 26, 2012

file photo, Rafael Nadal of Spain returns a shot to Thomaz

Bellucci of Brazil during a first round

men’s singles match at the All

England Lawn Tennis Cham-

pionships at Wimbledon,

England.

Short-handed Lakers beat Nets 92-83Associated Press Writer

New YORK — The Los Angeles Lakers overcame the absences of Dwight Howard and Metta world Peace, and the loss of Pau Gasol to beat the Brooklyn Nets 92-83 on Tuesday. Kobe Bryant had 21 points and eight rebounds, while Antawn Jamison, starting for the suspended world Peace, made the go-ahead basket during a closing 14-3 run for the Lakers, who have won three straight and six of their last seven games.

AP Photo/Seth Wenig

Brooklyn Nets’ Brook Lopez dunks while Los

Angeles Lakers’ Earl Clark, right, and Kobe Bryant (24) watch during the second half of an NBA basketball

game at the Barclays Cen-ter Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013

in New York.

AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File

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The vicious, hours-long attack at a beach home on the outskirts of Acapulco before dawn Mon-day was the latest chapter of violence that has tarnished the once-glamorous Pacific coast resort celebrated in Frank Sinatra songs and Elvis Presley movies.

“Fortunately we have strong evidence to lead us to those respon-sible for this reprehensible act,” Guerrero state Attorney General Martha Garzon Guzman told Mexi-co’s Radio Formula on Monday.

The beach home on an idyl-lic stretch of coastline had been rented by six Spanish men, six Spanish women and a Mexican woman.

The attackers gained access to the house because two of the Spaniards were in the yard and apparently were forced to open the door, Acapulco Mayor Luis Walton told a news conference late Monday.

The five attackers burst into the house and held the group at gun-point, he said. They tied up the six men with phone cords and bathing suit straps and then raped the six

Spanish women. The Mexican woman was not raped.

Garzon said the Mexican woman begged the men not to rape her and the assailants told her they would spare her because she is Mexican. The attack began on Monday about two hours after midnight and the victims were only able to report the crime five hours later, at nearly 7 a.m.

“This is a regrettable situation, and of course it is going to dam-age Acapulco,” Walton said.

The once-glittering resort that attracted movie stars and celeb-rities in the 1950s and 60s has already been battered by years of drug gang killings and extor-tions, but except for very few incidents, the violence has not touched tourists.

Walton said he believed, but wasn’t sure, that the assailants in Monday’s attack didn’t belong to a drug gang. Garzon said witness descriptions of the attackers were more difficult to obtain because they wore masks.

“From what the attorney gen-eral has told me, I don’t think this

was organized crime,” Walton said. “But that will have to be investigated, we don’t know.” Mexico’s Foreign Relat ions Department issued a statement saying it regretted the attack.

“Up to now, the investigations are being carried out by local authorities and they will be the ones to provide information,” the statement said. In Mexico, it’s up to local authorities to determine if organized crime is behind an attack, and, if so, turn the case over to federal authorities.

Security and drug analyst Jorge Chabat said that, after years of drug gang activity in Acapulco, the distinction may be merely semantic.

“At this point, the line be-tween common and organized crime is very tenuous, there are a lot of these gangs that take advantage of the unsafe situa-tion that currently exists, they know the government can’t keep up,” Chabat said. “ The Spanish Embassy in Mexico City said the victims were receiving consular assistance.

Associated Press Writer

SINGAPORE — Police are investigating two Chinese men’s allegations that officers assaulted them while they were in custody over participating in Singapore’s first strike in three decades, the city-state said Tuesday.

The men said in separate interviews with a local documentary filmmaker in January that they were threatened and beaten by police during questioning. Both were among five bus drivers charged for involvement in the Nov. 26-27 strike which saw 171 Chinese immigrant bus drivers of a public transport company protesting over being paid nearly a quarter less than their Malay-sian colleagues. The labor action disrupted about 5 percent of bus services in the city-state where such labor actions are almost unheard of.

The Ministry of Home Affairs said in a statement on Tuesday evening that it takes a serious view of the public allegations and that an independent office within the police force was investigating the men’s claims.

AP Photo/Bernandino Hernandez

Police patrol on the beach outside a home after masked armed men broke into the home in Acapulco, Mexico, Tuesday Feb. 5, 2013.

Mexico seeks culprits in rape of 6 Spaniards

Associated Press Writer

ACAPULCO, Mexico — Authorities have information they hope will lead them to the gang of armed, masked men who raped six Spanish tourists in the Mexican resort of Acapulco, the attorney general in the southern state of Guerrero said.

S’pore probing bus drivers’ allegations of assault

AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim

Indonesian worker march during a protest rally in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013. Thousands of Indonesian workers staged the rally demanding the government for imple-mentation of minimum wage.

Luthfi who is former Chair-man of Islamic-background Prosperous and Justice Party (PKS) will be questioned here on Wednesday as witness for suspect Juard Effendi.

Juard who is Director of PT Indoguna Utama was arrested last January after handing over a bribe worth Rp1 billion to Ahmad Fathanah (Luthfi’s right man).

The amount of cash money was said to be part of a total of Rp40 billion bribe money to be given to Luthfi in exchange for his effort to influence Ministry of Agriculture to give meat im-port quota to the company.

The anti-graft commission has named Luthfi Hasan Ishaaq and Juard Effendi as suspects in the bribery case. Juard is said

to have violated Regulation Number 5 Article 1, Regulation Number 20/2001 and Regula-tion Number 55 Article 1 about bribing public officials.

Meanwhile Luthfi is charged with Regulation Number 12, Number 5 Article 2, Regula-tion Number 20/2001 about public official who received bribe money.

Antara

JAKARTA - State-owned port operator Pelindo II said it was preparing Rp7 trillion to build Kalibaru (North Jakarta) and Sorong (Papua) ports.

“The investment funds of Rp7 trillion will be used to build the ports of Kalibaru and Sorong. The construction of Kalibaru port has been un-dergoing while Sorong has not yet because its permit is still under the issuance process,” President Director of Pelindo II RJ Lino told the press here on Tuesday.

He said that the investment funds increased drastically from the total funds in 2012 which were Rp2.1 trillion. The funds were obtained from the company’s internal sources and from strategic partners.

The Kalibaru port of North Jakarta will be used as a con-tainer terminal and fuel ter-minal. It is also expected to increase the capacity of load-ing and unloading activities which have so far been done at Tanjung Priok port.

In the meantime, Sorong port will be used to reinforce

the country’s pendulum sys-tem to reduce logistics sea transportation costs and to generate equitable economic activities in Indonesia.

It was reported last year that the Kalibaru port project’s first phase will include the instal-lation of container terminal and related equipment worth US$1.38 billion, while a fur-ther US$730 million will be made available for construct-ing a new petroleum product terminal in the port.

According to Lino, IPC II is enthusiastic about the project and believes that it will rise up to the challenge offered by the presidential instruction to make Indonesia’s dream come true - that is, to build a port that the country can be proud of.

IPC II’s challenge is to build the port without fund-ing support from the gov-ernment or the state budget. “It does not involve a state budget fund. The funds will come from the investors and be facil i tated by PT Pengembangan Indonesia, a subsidiary of the IPC II,” Lino added.

IPC II may also raise funds

for the port by forging part-nerships with and receiving investments from major ship-ping and port operators as well as loans from national and international lenders.

The New Priok (Kalibaru) Port will be built to allevi-ate the load on the currently over-burdened Tanjung Priok Port. Therefore, the New Priok Port’s construction will be accelerated to reduce the old port’s burden by about 1 million TEU containers.

Upon its completion in 2023, the New Priok Port will more than triple the annual capacity of Tanjung Priok Port, from 5 million TEU to 18 million TEU.

Lino remarked that the construction of the New Priok Port, which was previously called Kalibaru Port, will el-evate Indonesia’s reputation to the level of countries with international scale ports.

Earlier, Pelindo II which has changed name into Indo-nesia Port Corporation (IPC) posted a net profit of Rp1.79 trillion, which increased by 21 percent from the profit it gained in 2011.

Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - The world’s third-largest paper producer Asia Pulp and Paper said Tuesday it had stopped using logs from Indonesia’s natural forests, after fierce cam-paigning by green groups against the company.

The firm has in recent years lost packaging contracts with big brands such as foodmaker Kraft and Barbie’s Mattel after Greenpeace accused APP of clearing carbon-rich forest, home to endangered Sumatran tigers and orangutans.

“APP has committed to stop logging in all natural forest,” the firm’s sustainability head Aida Greenbury told AFP. “We will only expand operations on open land and scrubland.”

In a statement the company said that from “February 1st, all of APP’s suppliers have suspended natural forest clearance”, and that it was conducting assessments to identify high-conservation-value forest for protection.

The Indonesian firm has failed to carry out similar commitments before, includ-ing an agreement with environmental group WWF signed in 2003 to protect high-conservation-value forests over an initial 12-year period.

WWF cancelled the agreement in 2004, saying the company had failed to make any progress on its commitment.

“Unfortunately, APP has a long history of making commitments to WWF, custom-ers and other stakeholders that it has failed to live up to,” said the WWF’s conservation director in Indonesia, Nazir Foed.

“We hope this time the company does what it promised,” Foed said, adding that it would independently monitor APP’s activities.

Greenpeace’s forest campaign chief in Indonesia, Bustar Maitar, said that if APP fully implements its new policies “it will mark a dramatic change in direction, after years of deforestation in Indonesia”.

The APP has also been accused of greenwashing (making deceptive claims of green benefits) with environmental projects, including a Sumatran tiger sanctuary which was questioned by scientists and activists.

Meat import bribery case

KPK to question PKS politicianAntara

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is scheduled to question politician Luthfi Hasan Ishaq here on Wednesday in relation to bribery case regarding request to get meat import quota at the Ministry of Agriculture.

Pelindo II earmarks Rp7 trilion for port development

APP promises no deforestation in Indonesia

Richard Dapo, a school principal on an island near Santa Cruz, said he lives inland but has been fielding calls from families on the coast whose homes have been damaged by the waves.

“I try to tell the people living on the coastline, ‘Move inland, find a higher place. Make sure to keep away from the sea. Watch out for waves,’” he said.

He said he’s heard the waves have swamped some smaller islands, although he’s not aware of any deaths or serious injuries at this point. He said it’s difficult to contact people because cellphone coverage is patchy in the region.

In Honiara, the warnings had prompted residents to flee for higher ground.

“People are still standing on the hills outside of Honiara just look-ing out over the water, trying to observe if there is a wave coming in,” said Herming, the prime minister’s spokesman.

Atenia Tahu, who works for the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corp. in Honiara, said most people were remaining calm.

“People around the coast and in the capital are ringing in and trying to get information from us and the National Disaster Office and are slowly moving up to higher ground,” Tahu said. “But panic? No, no, no, people are not panicking.”

Dr. Rooney Jagilly, the medical superintendent at the National Referral Hospital in Honiara, said the hospital asked about half its 200 patients to leave and stay with family or friends as a precaution-ary measure because the hospital is located near the shoreline. Those patients who weren’t mobile enough to move stayed, but the hospital remained ready to evacuate them.

Jagilly said there had been no flooding and he hoped the hospital would return to normal Thursday. He said his staff was ready to mo-bilize to Santa Cruz because the small hospital there has no doctor after the previous one died recently.

An official at the disaster management office in Vanuatu said there were no reports of damage or injuries there.

More than 50 people were killed and thousands lost their homes in April 2007 when a magnitude 8.1 quake hit the western Solomon Islands, sending waves crashing into coastal villages.

The Solomons comprise more than 200 islands with a population of about 552,000 people. They lie on the “Ring of Fire” — an arc of earthquake and volcanic zones that stretches around the Pacific Rim and where about 90 percent of the world’s quakes occur.

Quake and tsunami...

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Agence France-Presse

TOKYO - Japanese automaker Suzuki said Wednesday it will resume produc-tion in Myanmar, the latest in a push by Asia’s second-biggest economy to tap the once-isolated state.

Small-vehicle producer Suzuki, which has seen huge success in India with its Maruti Suzuki unit, said it will invest about $7.0 million to restart its wholly-owned Suzuki (Myanmar) Motor in the commercial capital Yangon.

Production will start from May at the factory, which was operated as a joint venture with Myanmar’s government between 1998 and 2010, a Suzuki spokes-man said.

The plant shuttered after the contract expired, the spokesman added, without saying why the agreement was not extended at the time.

The factory will initially produce just 100 Carry mini-trucks monthly for the local market, with up to 90 local employees.

“With Myanmar’s democratisation efforts, investment activities (by foreign firms) are in a full swing,” he said.

“The auto market might be in a transition period. But we expect the market to grow, and we wanted to be there when it does.”

On Tuesday, a delegation of Japan’s biggest business lobby, known as Keidanren, told Myanmar President Thein Sein that it will provide money and expertise for the country’s development.

Tokyo, meanwhile, has said it would forgive 300 billion yen ($3.2 billion) of the 500 billion yen owed by Myanmar.

Last month, the government said it would extend 50 billion yen of new loans to the long-isolated Southeast Asian nation to help upgrade power systems, boost rural development and fund a planned industrial park.

Myanmar is one of the poorest countries in Asia after decades of economic mis-management and isolation under army rule. But it has undertaken big economic and social reforms, sparking renewed interest in the country from business abroad.

Obama said the fragile US economy could not afford the hit from huge cuts to defense and other government programs, known as the sequester, and the jobs of Americans should not be held hostage to partisan wran-gling in Washington.

The president said if Con-gress could not act on a big-ger deficit cutting package by March 1, lawmakers should pass a smaller plan of spending cuts and tax reforms to delay the economically damaging impact of the sequester.

“There is no reason that the jobs of thousands of Americans

who work in national security or education or clean energy, not to mention the growth of the entire economy, should be put in jeopardy,” Obama told reporters.

“Let me repeat, our econ-omy right now is headed in the right direction. It will stay that way as long as there aren’t any more self-inflicted wounds coming out of Washington.”

The Congressional Budget Office reported Tuesday that if the sequester is put through, the US budget deficit will shrink sharply this year but that also economic growth will

be crunched from 2012’s 1.9 percent to just 1.4 percent.

“If all of the fiscal tighten-ing still embodied in current law for 2013 was removed, growth in real GDP would be about 1.5 percentage points higher this year than CBO currently projects,” the study said.

Obama said his short-term spending would al low the White House and Congress more time to come up with a plan to cut the deficit, which he insists, despite Republican opposition, must include new revenue from higher taxes.

Agence France-Presse

BRUSSELS - The European Commission said Tuesday it needs to step up the fight against money laundering as criminals and terrorists constantly find new ways around existing regulations.

Accordingly, it plans to make it more difficult to get illicit funds through the financial system and to tighten up information disclosure on money transfers so as to make them more transparent and traceable.

“Flows of dirty money can damage the stability and reputation of the fi-nancial sector, while terrorism shakes the very foundations of our society,” EU Internal Markets Commissioner Michel Barnier said in a statement.

“Our aim is to propose clear rules that reinforce the vigilance by banks, lawyers, accountants and all other professional concerned,” Barnier said.

EU Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmstroem said “dirty money has no place in our economy, whether it comes from drug deals, the illegal guns trade or trafficking in human beings.

“Our banks should never function as laundromats for mafia money, or enable the funding of terrorism.”

Notably, the new measures will cover the gambling sector, rather than just casinos as previously, while the minimum cash payment threshold covered will be reduced to $7,500 from $15,000.

The Commission’s proposals require approval by the EU’s 27 member states and the European Parliament.

Separately, EU Justice Commissioner proposed new legal measures against the counterfeiting of the euro, including strengthening cross-border investigations and introducing minimum penalties for the most serious offences.

AP Photo/Charles Dharapak

President Barack Obama speaks in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013. The president will ask Congress to come up with tens of bil-lions of dollars in short-term spending cuts and tax revenue to put off the automatic across the board cuts that are scheduled to kick in March 1.

Obama unveils plans to avert budget cutsAgence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama Tuesday called for a balanced program of stop gap spending reductions and tax reforms to avert punishing multi-billion dollar automatic budget cuts due to kick in on March 1.

EU steps up measures against money laundering

Japan’s Suzuki to resume production in Myanmar

Bali PostNEGARA - Rabies cases in

Jembrana subdistrict spread to Me-laya subdistrict. During a month, there are dozens of victims bitten by dogs at Sumbersari, Melaya and Sarikuning, Tukadaya village, Jembrana. At Sarikuning, a dog known to be infected by rabies gobbled six puppies belonging to local resident. As troubling, the residents then killed the dog.

Hamlet Chief of Sarikuning, Ko-mang Wirata Putra, said the rabies cases first happened at the village. Residents felt anxious and fright-ened after knowing the dog having been infected by rabies.

His party then asked the officers from relevant agencies to eliminate the stray dogs in order it would no longer cause fear to residents.

The Livestock Division Head of the Jembrana Agriculture Agency,

Ni Wayan Puriawati, said the ra-bies cases at Tukadaya were the umpteenth time at the beginning of this year. From the checking, it was found two cases of rabies in Melaya. She said that from January, her party sent eight samples and only two were positive for rabies, namely at Tuka-daya and Sumbersari. Afterward, the officers eliminated the stray dogs at two locations with a radius of 1 to 2 kilometers. (kmb26)

To minimize the presence of slums, the DTRP Denpasar has designed an arrangement for the area. Even, its detailed engineering design had been prepared, espe-cially for the area at Jematang and Poh Gading hamlet, Ubung Kaja. However, the physical construction could not be done this year. “Possi-bly, it will be worked on next year,” said the Head of the DTRP I Kadek Kusuma Diputra in Denpasar.

The land area becoming the target of arrangement amounted to 88 ares at Jematang and one hectare at Kaja Ubung. The con-cept of arrangement at Jematang

included the entry and elevation of land which was quite vulner-able to flood when the water of Badung River overflowed. So far, the houses located at riverside often took advantage of the river to dispose rubbish. In the next ar-rangement, the house of residents would be redirected to overlook the river. Besides, it would also be made a pathway so that its condi-tion would be better.

At Ubung Kaja, the slums would be designed in two and three-storied building but remained to be adjusted to local culture. Cur-rently his party was still making

socialization because the arranged area was still occupied by people. “Though there is no friction, we will do socialization to the com-munity,” he said.

Previously, the Division Head of Housing of the DTRP Denpasar, AA Bagus Airawata, said his party had made data collection on slums in Denpasar. As per the last provi-sions, the designation of slum area referred to the number of house unit per area. “At least, ten houses in one location can be declared as slum. We do not record the number of house less than such amount,” he said. (kmb12)

Antara

JAKARTA - Indonesia will initiate infrastructure development and agriculture subsidies as part of trade fairness in World Trade Organization (WTO) forum in Bali in December this year.

The Indonesian trade ministry’s Director General of APEC and International Organizations Dany Kurnia said here on Tuesday evening that those initiatives were introduced during the APEC Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM) in Jakarta, on Feb 6-7, in order to gain the support from other APEC member countries.

“The reasons why we will initiate the infrastructure develop-ment and agriculture subsidies are to avoid arbitrariness and unfair-ness imposed by stronger countries on the developing countries in the multilateral connectivity of trade and investment, which is an agenda of WTO,” he said.

Therefore, Indonesia took the chance as the chairman of APEC 2013 to propose connectivity on trade and investment, infrastruc-ture development and agriculture subsidies issues as the stand points of APEC during the next WTO forum in December.

“APEC member nations include major members of WTO, hence we will have more deliverable stand point to enact the initiatives in the WTO declaration through the support from the Asia-Pacific countries,” he said.

Indonesia, as one of developing countries which boost free trade and investment connectivity, also uses its role as the host of the WTO forum to propose those initiatives that also accommodate the domestic interests, he explained.

“After the APEC Economic Leader meeting in October, we do hope the initiatives will be more concrete and ready to be proposed in the WTO forum. Thus, it will be an Asia-Pacific’s call of trade facilitation to the global community,” he said.

According to Kurnia, Indonesia is very concerned about the trade fairness for the interest of developing country as well as about the continuing progress of the Doha Round where those three initiatives to be proposed.

“It has been 11 years since the Doha Round was established, but the current trade and investment policies are mostly covered the regional agreement, instead of multilateral coverage. Those have given impacts on the different policies and regulations in each region and caused complexity in trying to reach the connectivity goal,” he said.

“If we can achieve at least two out of the three points of the WTO declaration, we can cut off the complexity of the ‘spaghetti ball’ in business,” added Kurnia.

IBP/Yudi Karnaedi

Denpasar slums cannot have been handled properly. A control made in one place will trigger another emer-gence elsewhere. As a result, the efforts to minimize the slums will never succeed. As evidence, it is now recorded 35 points of slum in Denpasar.

Denpasar slums have not been handled properlyBali Post

DENPASAR - Denpasar slums cannot have been handled properly. A control made in one place will trigger another emergence elsewhere. As a result, the efforts to minimize the slums will never succeed. As evidence, it is now recorded 35 points of slum in Denpasar. As the existing data, they belong to large scale area, while the house coming to less than ten units is not recorded in the data of the Denpasar Spatial Planning and Housing Agency (DTRP).

Two rabies cases occur in Melaya

IBP/Eka Adhiyasa

Indonesia will initiate infrastructure development and agricul-ture subsidies as part of trade fairness in World Trade Organi-zation (WTO) forum in Bali in December this year.

WTO Forum in Bali

Indonesia to initiate infrastructure and agricultural subsidies

BUSINESS

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Pyongyang frequently employs fiery rhetoric aimed at South Korea and the United States and in 2010 was blamed for sinking a South Korean naval vessel. It also shelled a South Korean island in the same year, killing civilians.

It did not spell out the actions it would take. North Korea is not ca-pable of staging a military strike on the United States, although South Korea is in range of its artillery and missiles and Japan of its missiles.

“The DPRK (Democratic Peo-ples Republic of Korea, or North

Korea) has drawn a final conclusion that it will have to take a measure stronger than a nuclear test to cope with the hostile forces’ nuclear-war moves that have become ever more undisguised,” the North’s KCNA state news agency said.

The United States and South Korea are staging military drills that North Korea says are a rehearsal for an invasion, something both Washington and Seoul deny.

New U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry discussed North Korea in “remarkably similar” telephone

conversations with his counterparts from Japan, South Korea and China, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.

“We are all concerned that, de-spite the strong measures taken in (UN Security Council Resolution) 2087, the provocative rhetoric con-tinues, which means we’ve all got to stay unified in watching this and making absolutely clear to Pyong-yang that if it takes further actions, so will we,” she told reporters.

North Korea successfully launched a long-range rocket in December in violation of U.N. resolutions that banned it from developing missile or nuclear tech-nology after nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009. UNSC 2087 was adopted in late January in response to the December launch.

Associated Press Writer

YANGON, Myanmar — The United Nations will be allowed into Myanmar’s strife-torn Kachin state to deliver humanitarian aid for the first time since a recent escalation of fighting between ethnic rebels

and government troops.An announcement of the deliv-

eries came Wednesday after the two sides agreed Monday to work toward ending a bloody conflict that has forced thousands of civilians to flee the area in northern Myanmar.

A U.N. spokesman, Aye Win,

said it was “significant” that aid could be delivered for the first time since fighting escalated in December.

The timing of the first aid deliv-ery was still being discussed. The U.N.’s last aid mission to Kachin state was in July.

The conflict in Kachin state has cast a shadow on Myanmar’s prog-ress toward democratic reforms af-ter a half-century of military rule.

Reuters

WASHINGTON - As many as 54 countries allegedly helped with CIA programs in which ter-rorism suspects were held in secret prisons overseas or turned over to foreign governments for interroga-tion, a human rights organization said in a report on Tuesday.

The report by the Open Society Justice Initiative said it focused mainly on human rights abuses associated with the CIA’s secret detention and “extraordinary rendition” operations after the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.

The report, titled “Globalizing Torture,” said its information was based on “credible public sourc-es” and “reputable human rights organizations.” The CIA declined comment on the report.

“Secret detention and extraor-dinary rendition operations, de-signed to be conducted outside the United States under cover of secrecy, could not have been implemented without the active

participation of foreign govern-ments. These governments too must be held accountable,” the report said.

Extraordinary rendition in-volved the transfer without a legal process of a detainee to the custody of a foreign government for the purposes of detention and interrogation, the report said.

It catalogs the treatment of 136 individuals and what help each of the 54 countries provided.

The governments accused of helping the CIA programs includ-ed some staunch U.S. allies such as Australia, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom and Ireland, and some not usually viewed as U.S.-friendly such as Iran. The report said Iran had transferred some individuals to Afghanistan, which transferred them to the U.S. government.

“The United States and most of its partner governments have failed to conduct effective inves-tigations into secret detention and extraordinary rendition,” the report said.

Myanmar to allow UN aid deliveries to Kachin state

AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan

Girls play near a bunker recently dug for people to take shelter from artillery shells at Je Yang IDP camp, where 8,000 people have been living after they fled from their villages since June 2011.

Some 54 countries helped CIA detention efforts: report

REUTERS/Larry DowningThe lobby of the CIA Headquarters Building in McLean, Virginia, August 14, 2008.

REUTERS/KCNANorth Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (C) presides over a consultative meeting with officials about state security and foreign affairs in this undated recent picture released by North Korea’s official KCNA news agency in Pyongyang on January 27, 2013.

North Korea threatens “stronger” measures than nuclear testReuters

SEOUL - North Korea stepped up its bellicose rhetoric on Tuesday, threatening to go beyond carrying out a promised third nuclear test in response to what it believes are “hostile” sanctions imposed after a December rocket launch.

Gianyar (Bali Post)-

A long Ciungwanara and Ngu-rah Rai Street (front of Gianyar Regency Government Office) last Tuesday (5/2) seemed to be quiet as the vehicles usually parked there were gone when a disciplinary by police took place. What they did was deflating the wheels of those parking this vehicles free zone. From what’s seen there have been barricades placed so no one would park there yet it seemed not appre-ciated, moreover moved the barri-cades to the pedestrians. Police then had to deflate the vehicles which were owned by visitors of District Court, hospital including a doc-tor’s car who works at Sanjiwani Gianyar Hospital.

Before this act police did use a speaker to remind vehicles’ users not to park there yet was stopped by a court visitor as a trial was taking place. Head of Gianyar Traffic Police, APC Putu Sugiar-tini, explained that this act was a part to ask the public obey existing traffic regulations which have been coordinated with Transportation, Information and Communication Agency Head, agencies that had their office along Ciungwanara and to the Regent itself through two letters. Those parking on the body of the road were not workers of the agencies around instead all are owned by public or visitors. This road has been a national road and so it should be in good condition. (kmb16)

Negara (Bali Post)—

Regular blood stock in the Blood Transfusion Unit, the Indonesia Red Cross of Negara Hospital, ran out earlier this month. It happened due the lack of blood donors lately. As consequence, the patients needing blood outside the emergency needs must seek outside Jembrana.

Unit Head of the Jembrana Blood Transfusion, Agung Avatara, said on Tuesday (Feb 4) the regular blood stock was indeed empty lately. There were two blood stocks that should be provided, namely the one for regular and emergency purposes.

At the moment, the unit only had blood for emergency purposes. There were five bags for each blood type. “The regular stock is indeed

rare due to lack of blood donors. But in the middle of this month, there are some agencies planning to orga-nize blood donation. Hopefully, the stock can be met,” he explained.

In addition, the blood users rarely found substitute blood. As a result, the circulation of blood availability did not run. Being empty, the patients needing regular blood should pursue it to other units of blood transfusion in Bali such as in Tabanan or Badung, but it took time. “If it is really lacking, our staff or the Blood Donor Associa-tion of Indonesia (PDDI) in Jembrana are forced to help,” he added. Ac-cording to him, the blood stock for emergency maximally amounted to five bags. The monthly average of blood required by patients, according to him, came to 150 bags.

He said it was stored in the re-frigerated blood storage having the capacity of 70 to 100 blood bags. However, he said it was rarely full as before expiring it was distributed to other regions in need. To get the blood, patients were required to provide a replacement cost of blood processing with cross-subsidies pursuant to the classification of treatment room in use.

“Normally, class III pays IDR 250,000, while class II and I pays more. As for patients using health insurance, they take class III, includ-ing the civil servant health insurance (Askes),” he said. This year, the maximal blood stock, particularly for the emergency, would be increased from the current amount of five bags per blood type. (kmb26)

Parked at road side, wheel deflated

Regular blood stock in Negara Hospital runs out

Tornado in Penebel

Victims confused to get help

As observation of Bali Post on site, Tuesday (Feb 5), military personnel and residents had been able to remove the stem of tree toppling over a house and family shrine. Having been removed, all the home furnishings buried were shattered. None could be saved. “All furniture and clothes are damaged, while some others were missing in the mud,” complained Wayan Sendi, one of the victims whose house was razed to the ground. This man admitted that only his gold was found intact. Other assets vanished as struck by tree branch. Even, the entire part of the house was razed to the ground.

To survive, Wayan Sendi with his wife was forced to flee to the home of relatives. He did not know where to go for help. With a job as farming worker, he could only submit to his fate to accept the disaster. “Nothing can be saved. The only solution is to re-build the house,” he complained. Two houses and a kitchen belonged to Wayan Sendi were destroyed as exposed to tree trunks. Being seri-ous, the officers were forced to bring in heavy equipment for the evacuation. Other than Wayan Sendi, similar condition was also experienced by Made Sudiarka. This priest of Puseh Temple also lost his property.

Headman of Biaung Gede Nyoman Oka Arsana said his party still focused on the evacuation of the hampering trunk, including the five houses affected and destroyed. After the evacuation, his party would think of the making of proposal for the government aid. “We’ve given a signal to make the proposal for help,” he said. He explained that until last Tuesday, four households were still in refuge because condition of their house could no longer be occupied. Other than evacuation, local customary villagers began preparing a purificatory rite in the temple area.

The tornado was raging in Penebel, Sunday afternoon (Feb 3). Five houses of resident were destroyed and two temples were dam-aged after toppled over by a fallen tree. There was no loss of lives in the disaster. However, the victims of totally 18 people whose houses were damaged were forced to flee. Other than houses, the fallen tree also destroyed a family shrine, kitchen and compound wall of Bale Agung Temple at local hamlet. (kmb30)

IBP/fileThe damage house in Penebel due to fallen tree during the tornado a few days ago

Tabanan (Bali Post)—

Three families becoming the victims of fallen tree due to tornado at Pemanis Kaja hamlet, Biaung village, Penebel, can-not breathe conveniently. Though the pile of wood hitting their house had been evacuated, they were still confused about their survival because all the furniture and belongings were destroyed. More sadly, they have to submit a proposal first to get assistance from the government.

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DENPASAR - Bali Police Chief Arif Wachyunadi con-firmed that his party had set up security strategies related to the Bali gubernatorial election in May 2013. However, the prepa-ration had not been final cecause his party was still waiting for the policy of the Bali Electoral Commission (KPUD) consider-ing the dynamic was still evolv-ing in relation to the permanent electoral register and polling stations (TPS). By all means, the dynamic was still controlled by the Commission.

“We are ready to secure the next gubernatorial election,” he said in the coffee morning with reporters at the lobby of Director-ate of Traffic Affairs, Bali Police,

Tuesday (Feb 5). As it had not been final, his party could not de-cide the amount of personnel to be deployed in the security. “Later, when the decision has been made by the Electoral Commission, then we will start the calculation related to the amount of personnel deployed,” he explained.

Further he explained if there had been a decision such as re-garding the amount of polling stations, his party would prepare the personnel for that. His party would do a mapping which polling station was considered vulnerable. His party would surely deploy more personnel at prone polling stations. “We’ll secure until the final day. Hopefully, everything will run well,” he said.

As previous regular activity, this two-star general on shoulder

mentioned if his party used to deploy one third of his person-nel. Well, the total number of personnel in Bali Police came to about 12,000. For that, his party expected everything would go smoothly, so that the security of gubernatorial election and public service could run maximally.

When touched about the prone areas, the former police chief of NTB explained that to determine whether a region considered vulnerable or safe, it could be seen from the geographical and demographic condition. His party always made synergy in the field. “Obviously, we are still waiting for the policy of the Electoral Commission. If the policy has been issued, the strategy applied will be adjusted,” he added. (kmb21)

A member of Commission IV of the Bali House in charge of tourism, Tjok Gede Asmara Putra Sukawati, considered it necessary to set the bylaw on tourist ac-commodation if it was basically inspired by a tariff war among the hotels. It was expected to set the standard of hotel rate and hotel class.

“If it was indeed triggered by tariff war between the five-star hotels and the lower category having an impact on the lower-category hotel, it is needed a bylaw governing the standardiza-tion of hotel room rate,” said Cok Asmara, in Denpasar, Tuesday (Feb 5).

According to him, many bou-tique (jasmine category) hotels offered higher room rates than that of five-star hotels. They set room rates like star hotels, but they still use permit of boutique hotel. On the contrary, there were five-star hotels offering room rate as that of boutique hotels.

“It triggers a tariff war harm-ing the Bali tourism because they are potential to become cheap tourism. If hotel sets prices below the standards, it will be detrimen-tal to the community and tourism in Bali,” said the politician from Ubud Palace, Gianyar.

As suggested by GIPI, Cok Asmara asked the executive to discuss it with stakeholders such as the PHRI, GIPI and ASITA to formulate the regulations ex-pected to enhance the image of tourism in Bali. “Regulation on tourist accommodation has to be designed to avoid negative im-pacts on Bali tourism,” he said.

He said, in the issuance of per-mit, the government was also asked to do it selectively, lest the standard was five-star hotel but asking for license of boutique hotels. As a result, it harmed the Bali tourism. “The government must issue the permit of hotel or tourist accom-modation based on the fact in the field, not by order,” he said.

When the regulations were drafted, this Democratic politi-cian told there would be many obstacles faced. One of them was the hotels getting the revenue like five-star but their permit belonged to boutique hotel would

probably object if they were set to increase their hotel standard-ization and asked to submit for permit of five-star hotel.

“It will be difficult. But for the sake of tourism advancement and orderliness in hotel room rates, a discussion is required to find out a solution and discuss it together whether the regulation designed for tourist accommodation can be realized,” he concluded.

The Dean of the Faculty of Tourism, Udayana University, Putu Anom, also argued that moratorium of tourist accommo-dation issued by Bali government should be implemented on the basis of law in the form of local regional bylaw, not based on an appeal.

“Calculation of these rooms should be based on the needs for rooms pursuant to prediction of tourist visits to Bali. It is intended to balance the concept of supply and demand for rooms/accom-modation in Bali,” he said.

According to him, if the hotel room was too excessive it would surely trigger a tariff war of the accommodation in Bali. This could happen especially in low season and potentially harm the lower classification hotel. When the higher category hotels reduced their room rates, it would suppress the lower category hotels.

“With the PHRI, the govern-ment needs to set a standard of hotel room rates. As the current problem, the authority to issue permit of the accommodation lay in the county or municipal gov-ernment. Bali government can no longer do much,” he explained.

He assessed though Bali Gov-ernment had issued the mora-torium in the accommodation, the county/municipality would continue to issue permit for the establishment of accommoda-tion. It was intended to pursue the higher regionally generated income (PAD) through hotel and restaurant tax.

“As the best solution, there should be a concept of one island management. It is embodied in a single unity with the licensing of tourism and related sectors at the provincial level,” he said. (kmb27/kmb29)

As for bylaw on Bali tourist accommodation

Executive should discuss with stakeholdersBali Post

DENPASAR - Insistence of the Tourism Industry Association of Indonesia (GIPI) Bali in order that the government sets a regional bylaw draft on the accommodation is also supported by the Bali House. The House calls for the executive to discuss it with stakeholders such as the PHRI, GIPI and ASITA to formulate the bylaw as an effort to improve the image of Bali tourism.

Bali Police ready to secure gubernatorial election

IBP/Budana

Bali Police Chief Arif Wachyunadi confirmed that his party had set up security strategies related to the Bali gubernatorial election in May 2013.

The bulbous, helium-filled “aerostats” - each more than three quarters the length of a football field at 243 feet - are to be stitched into existing defenses as part of an exer-cise of new technology ordered by the Defense Department.

The coming addition to the um-brella over Washington is known as Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System, or JLENS. Raytheon Co is the prime contractor.

“We’re trying to determine how the surveillance radar information from the JLENS platforms can be integrated with existing systems in the National Capital Region,” said Michael Kucha-rek, a spokesman for the North Ameri-can Aerospace Defense Command.

NORAD, a binational command, is responsible for defending air space over the United States and Canada, includ-ing the Washington area with its many

pieces of important infrastructure.The most significant air attack in the

area took place on September 11, 2001, when Al Qaeda militants hijacked American Airlines Flight 77, a Boeing 757, and crashed it into the Pentagon.

To expand the time available to detect and defend against any future attacks from commercial aircraft, major changes were made under Operation Noble Eagle, combat air patrols begun after the September 11 attacks.

Airspace restrictions were ex-tended. U.S. Army Sentinel radars for low-altitude radar coverage and short-range Stinger/Avenger missile batteries were deployed.

Washington is currently guarded by an air-defense system that includes Federal Aviation Administration radars and Department of Homeland Security helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft on alert at Reagan National Airport to intercept slow, low-flying aircraft.

Aphids may not be able to fly, but they can fall pretty well: Like defenestrated cats, the common insects usually land upright, to paraphrase a new study.

The study, published yesterday

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A Raytheon Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System (JLENS) aerostat is pictured at the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, in this February 24, 2012 photo obtained on February 1, 2013.

Blimps to bolster Washington’s air shield in testReuters

WASHINGTON - A pair of big, blimp-like craft, moored to the ground and flying as high as 10,000 feet, are to be added to a high-tech shield designed to protect the Washington D.C. area from air attack, at least for a while.

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Like Cats, Aphids Land on Feet After Falling(Feb. 4) in the journal Current Biol-ogy, found that a common insect called pea aphids land upright 95 percent of the time after falling off a leaf. Pea aphids, which live off the sap of plants, don’t possess any

specialized appendages to help them glide or fall, unlike certain insects. So how do they do it?

In the study, aphids were made to let go of a leaf and freefall when researchers placed aphid-eating ladybugs nearby. The researchers then filmed the falling aphids and analyzed the footage, creating a mathematical model to explain how these sap-swilling insects accom-plish this feat.

“What puzzled us was that the aphids did not seem to do much in order to right themselves,” Gal Rib-ak, study co-author and a researcher at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, said in a statement. “Their body posture remained fairly constant during the entire fall.”

The researchers found that it all has to do with the body shape of the aphid, as well as the position of its legs. When the aphids fall, they as-sume a uniform position, with legs outstretched. The air whistling past the falling insect gradually forces the body into the upright position, where it is most aerodynamically stable, ac-cording to the study. This trait, called “static longitudinal stability,” is an important design feature of aircrafts that allows them to fly as straight as possible with minimal input from a pilot, keeping the plane from being

knocked off course by wind and turbulence. The body shape of pea aphids also possesses this quality, the study found.

This trait was likely selected for by evolution because it allows aphids to escape near-certain death at the jaws of a predator like a ladybug. In the study, more than half of the aphids examined were able to latch on to an angled plant stem with their feet after falling, preventing

them from hitting the ground, where their chances of survival would plummet.

Researchers also dropped dead aphids to see if the positioning of the legs made a difference. It did: Only 52 percent of the dead bugs landed upright. Somehow the aphids know where to orient their legs to maximize their aerodynamic stabil-ity, letting gravity carry them to the ground feet-first.

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

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

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

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

Balinese Temple Ceremony

Calendar Event for January 27 through February 27, 2013

27 Jan Redite Umanis Ukir Sanggah Gede Dukuh Segening Tegal Tugu Gianyar

30 Jan Buda Cameng Ukir Pura Pejenengan Kawitan Arya Tauman Banjar Jelantik Kuri Batu Desa Tojan Gelgel KlungkungPura Pasar Agung Besakih (Alit) Be-sakihPura Pasek bendesa Pasar Badung Legian KutaPura Gede Gunugn Agung Dukuh Munggu BadungHyang Agung Pura Ibuwanasari TegalPura Puseh, Desa di Bebablang BangliPura Dalem Peruncak BadungPura Pasek Bendesa Hyang Selat Ker-obokan BadungPura Kereban Langit Desa Sading Mengwi BadungPemerajan Sareng Kangin Baleran Ubud

5 Feb Anggara Sasih Kulantir Pura Penataran Tangkas SukawatiPura Dalem Lagan Babalang BangliPura Puseh Lembeng Ketewel Suka-watiPura Pasek Gelgel Penulisan Kerambi-tan Tabanan

Pura Gaduh SandingPura Dalem Gandamayu KlungkungPura Sang Hyang Tegal Banjar Tarokaja-Tegalalang

6 Feb Buda Umanis Kulantir Pura Pasek Tangkas Pasekan Kaler TabananPura Gaduh - Benoh Ubung Denpasar

10 Feb Tilem Kawulu Pura Dalem Alas Harum - Tegal Kepuh kabe - kabe Kediri TabananPura Ulun Kulkul BesakihPura Dalem Yang Taluh Sidemen Karan-gasemPura Dalem kangin Dusun Dukuh Side-men Karangasem

11 Feb Soma Umanis Tulu Pura Puseh/Balai Agung Ubung Kupang Penebel TabananPura Kawitan Sakula Gotra Pasung Grigih Banjar Tegal Kepuh Kaba-kaba Kediri TabananPura Bhujangga Rsi Tumbak BayuhPura Paibon Tangkas Kori Agung Ceningan Kangin lembonganPura Batu Madeg BesakihPura Penataran Agung penatih Banjar Saba Penatih

13 Feb Buda Pon Tolu Pura Catur Buana Sanding Tampak Siring

14 Feb Warespati Wage Tolu Pura Peninjoan Besakih

20 Feb Buda Kliwon Gumbreg Pura Pasek Gelgel Kukuh Marga Ta-bananPura Pasek Gelgel Dukuh Selemadeg TabananPura Pasek Gelgel Mambang Selema-deg TabananPura Puseh, Pura Desa Desa Guwang SukawatiMerajan Pangeran Tangkas Kori Agung Jeroan SandingPura Dalem Setra Batu Nunggul Desa Swana Nusa PenidaPura Dadia Agung Pasek Gelgel Ketewel

25 Feb Purnama Sasih Kesanga Pura Nataran Sasih Pejeng GianyarPura Bukit Mentik - Gunung Lebah Batur Kintamani

27 Feb Buda Paing Wariga Merajan Pasek Gaduh Kayubihi Bangli

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aquatonic pool.jpgAn ancient heal-ing ritual from France dating back 5,000 years, thalassotherapy’s main objective is to increase blood circulation and restore

vital minerals lost as a result of stress, pollution and poor diet/lifestyle. Because the chemical composition of seawater is so similar to that of human blood, the skin is able to absorb trace minerals and ions such as magnesium, potassium and calcium sulphates when immersed in water heated to body temperature. The Aquatonic Pool at Ayana’s Thermes Marins Spa contains 700 million liters of water directly sup-plied from the underlying Indian Ocean and warmed to optimum temperatures to rebalance such mineral deficiencies. Thanks to its floating effects, you are able to effortlessly e xercise your way through 12 hydromassage stations containing over 60 individual therapeutic jet streams, micro-bubbles and geysers to rehabilitate injured muscles, to relieve stress and for relaxation. IBP/Courtesy of Ayana

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JIMBArAN -There are spa junkies and then there are Aqua-Spa Junkies, who once they experience thalassotherapy, quickly become addicted to the ancient healing benefits especially muscle toning, ten-sion relief, anti-ageing, improved sleep quality and detoxification. It is with this latter group in mind that Ayana resort and Spa Bali has launched a new Freeflow Bubbles Package, offering guests unlimited access to the world’s largest Aquatonic Seawater Therapy Pool.

Tabanan (Bali Post)-Due to broken brake, a fuso truck flew to the river of Yeh Empas, Banjar Pe-

nyalin, Samsam Kerambitan Village, Tabanan last Monday (4/2) evening which at the time the truck that brought goods hit a bridge fence in the Denpasar-Gilimanuk route. Luckily the truck driver, Santoso (50) from Banyuwangi, East Java was safe. Due to the incident that happened around 10.20 pm local time, the truck was damaged and its goods scattered also dragged by the river including the driver’s mobile phone and wallet. The DK 9427 WF was going towards Denpasar then when passing Penyalin turning point, the truck lost its control. When trying to go right it failed and collapsed the steel fences. Up to Tuesday (5/2) victim was still confused on how to contact his colleague. According to one witness, Komang WIyadi, the driver was soaked wet and slightly wounded when found. Widya admitted that the incident gave a huge sound causing some residents came to see. Due to it was dark, residents weren’t brave to go down the river to see what’s happening yet at the time driver was coming up. “Driver was then brought to the nearest health center and his condition is only slightly wounded,” Widya stated.

Up to Tuesday afternoon, the truck is still being left on location and its goods evacuated to another truck. The incident became an interesting thing to watch who passed the location. This is not the first time it happened on Yeh Empas River, uniquely the driver is safe. (kmb30)

They walk to the KPU of-fice which is located on Cok Agung Tresna Street, Renon accompanied by thousands of supporters and also Bali tradi-tional music. There were also all officers of the party started from the lowest level up to the highest one.

The arts were also coming from other area such as Barong

Sai, Rodat and Ponorogo art from East Java. The paper works for the registration was received by the Head of KPU Bali Ketut Lanang Sukawati Perbawa.

After the registration, the Head of PDI-P Bali , Anak Agung Ngurah Oka Ratmadi suggested that the candidate to do socialization to the people in Bali. “I hope that the candi-

date that is already officially registered to the KPU must ap-proach the society in the effort to gain victory,” he added.

He also ordered all the sup-porters of the party to support the candidate. “Bali is the base of PDI-P so our candidate must win on the election which will be held on May 15, 2013,” Ratmadi said. (kmb)

Singaraja (Bali Post)—Maternal mortality rate of Buleleng County in 2011 was ranked highest. At

that time, it was recorded to reach eleven per thousand births. Such high maternal mortality rate in Northern Bali happened because people were reluctant to take maternity service in hospital.

Deputy Regent of Buleleng Nyoman Sutjidra revealed the matter when making a visit to Gerokgak community health center last weekend. During his visit, he was accompanied by Deputy Head of Buleleng Health Agency Made Puja Arianta and a number of officials in the scope of Buleleng County.

Deputy Regent explained the maternal mortality rate in the region was quite high, and even the highest in Bali. For this condition, his party directly instructed the Health Agency to browsing the trigger of such high maternal mortality rate. As a result, in fact most patients still underestimated the importance of maternity service in hospital having proper equipment. Even, they preferred to give birth in a midwife clinic or maternal shaman. “From the search, it was found if patients preferred to choose midwife or shaman alone and were reluctant to take maternity service in hospital,” he said.

Other than bad behavior, added Deputy Regent, in maternity process many patients suffered from complications. Such condition was also very risky and led to maternal mortality. As a matter of fact, the emergence of such complication disease was preventable provided that during the pregnancy patients regularly controlled theirs. Therefore, the condition of fetus and mother was well controlled and if there were any signs of complication disease could be detected early. “We do not deny that complication disease such as bleeding or other diseases also lead to maternal mortality,” he explained.

Deputy Regent added that to reduce the maternal mortality, local government would pursue a variety of endeavors. One of them was regularly sending obstetri-cian to each community health center. Aside from obstetrician, specialists of other disease were also scheduled to be commissioned in the existing health centers. Thus, consultation on pregnancy or childbirth assistance would be handled by a specialist to suppress the maternal mortality. Besides, the equipment to support the childbirth would also be attempted for some health centers located quite far from the city.

“We will also provide the health center with more sophisticated USG equipment and other equipment by degrees. Thus, patients can be helped in the community health centers and should not be rushed to hospital in urban area,” said Deputy Regent justified by Made Puja Arianta. (kmb)

Brake broken, truck flew to river

Residents reluctant to go to hospitalMaternal mortality remains high

Bali Governor Election

Puspayoga-Sukrawan register to KPU

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Puspayoga and Sukrawan (middle), the candidate from Indonesia Democratic Party Of Struggle (PDI-P), holding hands after registering as a candidate for governor and vice governor of Bali for governor and vice governor election of Bali on May 15 in electoral commission of Bali.

Bali PostDenpasar – Thousand supporters of Indonesian Democratic Struggle Party (PDI-P)

escorted the candidate for Bali Governor and Vice Governor Anak Agung Ngurah Pus-payoga and Dewa Nyoman Sukrawan registering in to Bali Election Committee (KPU) on Wednesday, February 6, 2013.

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Sunday’s game was streamed for free by both CBSSports.com and NFL.com, as well as via Verizon on mobile. The 3 million unique viewers showed that while the televised broadcast is emphatically more desirable to viewers, increasing numbers are following the Super Bowl online.

The game between the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers was seen on TV by an average of 108.7

million people, down from the last two years but still ranking as the third most-watched show in U.S. TV history after the last two Super Bowls.

Networks have not sought to make online viewing as appealing as telecasts, but have presented streams with a few al-ternatives, like social media integration, camera-view options and on-demand commercials. This year’s webcast was the first to also include the halftime show

live to U.S. viewers.NBCSports.com last year streamed

the Super Bowl for the first time ever. There were a total of 10 million live streams Sunday for CBS, with an average engagement of 38 minutes. The figures include NFL.com viewers, who were fed CBSSports.com’s video player.

The game was perhaps more record-breaking in its second-screen usage. The social media research firm Bluefin Labs found that 30.6 million comments about the game were made on social media during the broadcast. The previous record, according to Bluefin Labs, was 28.3 million for the 2012 presidential election.

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — Disney is mining The Force for even more new films. Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger said Tuesday that screenwriters Larry Kasdan and Si-mon Kinberg are working on stand-alone “Star Wars” movies that aren’t part of the new trilogy that’s in the works.

“There has been speculation about

some standalone films that have been in development, and I can confirm to you today that in fact we are working on a few stand-alone films,” Iger told CNBC.

Iger said the movies would be based on “great ‘Star Wars’ characters that are not part of the overall saga.” The films would be released during the six-year period of the new trilogy, which starts in

2015 with “Star Wars: Episode VII.”Disney confirmed last month that

“Star Trek” director J.J. Abrams will direct the seventh installment of the “Star Wars” saga. Disney bought “Star Wars” maker Lucasfilm last year for more than $4 billion.

The last “Star Wars” trilogy, a prequel to the original films, was released from 1999 to 2005.

Disney working on stand-alone ‘Star Wars’ films

AP Photo/Lucasfilm Ltd., file

FILE - In this publicity photo released by Lu-casfilm Ltd., actor Jake Lloyd portrays Anakin Skywalker, a young Darth Vader, in “Star Wars: Episode I, The Phantom Menace.

A record 3 million stream Super Bowl onlineAssociated Press Writer

NEW YORK — The Super Bowl was streamed online by 3 million people, an increase from the 2.1 million who watched the big game online last year, according to U.S. network CBS.

AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, Chase Stevens

People wait in line to place bets before the start of Super Bowl XLVII in the sports book at Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas on Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013.

North Korea threatens “stronger” measures than nuclear test

Authorities canceled warnings for tsunamis on more distant coasts.

Solomons officials reported two 1.5-meter (4 foot, 11-inch) waves hit the western side of Santa Cruz Island, damaging around 50 homes and properties, said George Herming, a spokes-man for the prime minister. Many villagers had headed to higher ground as a precaution, Herming said.

Solomon Islands Police Commissioner John Lansley said local police patrols had reported that several people were presumed dead, though the reports were still being verified.

“Sadly, we believe some people have lost their lives,” he said. “At the moment we potentially know of four, but there may of course be more.”

Four villages on Santa Cruz were impacted

by the waves, with two facing severe damage, Lansley said. Other areas of the Solomons did not appear to have been seriously affected.

The tsunami formed after an 8.0-magnitude earthquake struck near Lata on Santa Cruz in Temotu province, the easternmost province of the Solomons, about a 3-hour flight from the capital, Honiara. The region has a population of around 30,000 people.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said a tsunami of about a meter (3 feet) was mea-sured in Lata wharf, in the Solomon Islands. Smaller waves were recorded in Vanuatu and New Caledonia.

The center cancelled earlier warnings for tsunami waves further away.

A powerful earthquake off the Solomon Islands generated

a tsunami of up to 1.5 meters (about 5 feet) that damaged dozens of homes and likely killed several people in the

South Pacific island chain on Wednesday.

Quake and tsunami hits solomon

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Associated Press

SYDNEY — A powerful earthquake off the Solomon Islands generated a tsunami of up to 1.5 meters (about 5 feet) that damaged dozens of homes and likely killed several people in the South Pacific island chain on Wednesday.

Tsunami around the world- December 26, 2004: Southeast Asia - A 9.3-magnitude undersea quake off the coast of Sumatra island triggers a tsunami that kills 226,000 people in countries around the Indian Ocean, including 168,000 in Indonesia.

- July 17, 2006: Indonesia - A 7.7-magnitude undersea quake strikes off Indonesia’s Java island, unleashing a tsunami and killing at least 654.

- April 2, 2007: Solomon Islands - An 8.0-magnitude quake in the Western Solomon Islands triggers a tsunami that kills 52 people and displaces thousands.

- September 29, 2009: Samoa - A tsunami sparked by an 8.0-magnitude earthquake flattens villages and resorts in Samoa and the neighbouring Pacific islands of American Samoa and northern Tonga, killing more than 190 people.

- February 27, 2010: Chile - An 8.8-magnitude earthquake strikes just three kilometres (two miles) off Chile, unleashing a tsunami and killing at least 521 people. Most of the dead are in the coastal area of Maule, 400 kilometres (250 miles) southwest of the capital Santiago.

- October 25, 2010: Indonesia - At least 350 people are killed and hundreds more missing after a tsunami unleashed by a powerful 7.7 magnitude quake strikes off the island of Sumatra.

- March 11, 2011: Japan - A 9.0-magnitude undersea quake triggers a powerful tsunami that smashes into northeastern Japan. Waves up to 40 metres (130 feet) are reported in parts. The tsunami left some 19,000 people dead or missing and crippled the Fukushima nuclear power plant in the world’s worst atomic disaster in 25 years.

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