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POLITICAL sphere is insepa-rable from the propaganda leading to power. Unfortunately, the politi-cal propaganda tend to be forgotten when the power has been at hand. On the other hand, enjoyment of political power achieved through democratic process also causes many people to make it a legacy. Intention to build a dynasty of power continues to be attempted. It

is indicated by a number of politi-cians imposing the inheritance of political power—though violating political ethics—in the democratic process. Unluckily, political parties are also subject to individual power ambitions by conducting pragmatic approach. Regeneration of political party is simply a discourse, consid-ering the selection process of leader candidate was born from the power

negotiation and business interests.Portrait of politics promoting the

enjoyment of power is getting stron-ger and seems to virtually become a tradition. Many examples can be re-ferred to represent these phenomena. Even, inheritance of power coupled with the emergence of terms like crown prince as in monarchical sys-tem is considered reasonable for sup-porters of political power. In reality,

such a process will make democracy is limited to a means, not a process to produce an ideal leader.

Responding to the facts of such strengthening inheritance of political power in Bali, a political analyst who is also an activist of KMHDI Bali, Ray Misno, re-minded to evaluate the patterns in the selection of future leaders.

Garbage becomes the common problem face by Kuta Beach in every year end celebration. In ad-dition to the garbage from the visi-tors, it is also coming from the sea.

Yesterday, the tourists who wanted to enjoy their new year time must shared the beach with garbage.

The officers were still trying hard to clean up the garbage. The

Head of Cleanliness and Gardening Department, Putu Eka Merthawan, said that the department is often fac-ing problem in handling the garbage during the New Year celebration.

“This year, more tourists come to Kuta Beach so the garbage vol-ume is increasing. We already car-ried 120 trucks of garbage to the final disposal place,” he added.

Eka said that the main problem faced in handling the garbage was the heavy traffic around Kuta. The

department actually had deployed the officers earlier but because of the traffic, they must take a long time to reach the garbage spots.

“Around 160 officers were de-ployed for Kuta area. The started to work at 5 am where usually they start to work at 7 am. Even so, the garbage is still very difficult to handle and we were overwhelmed with the number of garbage. The trucks were having difficulties in moving around due to the traffic jam,” he said. (kmb25)

Transaction of power results in pragmatic ruler

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Garbage pile up near tourists that learnt to surf in Kuta beach. The year-end celebration left Kuta beach deal with garbage.

-whelmed due

Mangupura (Bali Post) –

Kuta is still become the favorite spot to celebrate New Year for tourists. Hundreds of people enjoyed their time in Kuta Beach during the New Year celebration. That makes the beach filled with trash on Sunday, January 1, 2012. The garbage is predicted five times more than last year.

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Wayan Sumara, 40, one of the farmers said that on entering the planting season all the hand tractors were in use. As consequence, he had

-vator. “Since the planting season last concurrently, all the tractors are busy. We forcibly use manual plows,” he said, Friday (Dec 30). Scarcity of

time. Previously, local farmers could hire a plow with ease. Sadly, many plow devices were idle because there were no drivers.

According to Sumara, when using hand plows he should sweat. Within

one day, he could only plow two small plots of farmland whereas his land area was 1,700 square meters. To accomplish the job, he should involve his wife. Manual plow was made of iron. It looked like the cow-drawn plow. The difference, this work should involve two people, one held the plow handles, while another drew the long stalk while walking slowly.

As a matter of fact, Sumara said, the hand plows gave much better result than the mechanical plow. The plowing result was deeper but it re-quired quite long time because it ap-

plied human power. Due to scarcity of plow device, the schedule of plant-ing season might delay until over a week. On that account, Sumara was forced to use hand plows and the cost was also relatively inexpensive.

Rental price of mechanical plow was in the range of IDR 10,000 per 100 meter square. Advantage of this device was that it could work quick-ly. According to Sumara, farmers could actually buy the device easily.

the operator. “I have been looking around for tractor operator. But, I did not get,” he complained. (udi)

Amlapura (Bali Post)—The status transfer of the eastern ring road from the

Sukasada Ujung Park to Tulamben tourist resort can di-rectly be taken over by central government with the status as state road. The road is very strategic as an access to development of tourist resort.

It was reported by the Karangasem Regent I Wayan Geredeg before the Coordinating Minister of People’s Welfare, Agung Laksono, and the entourage in Karan-gasem, Friday (Dec 30).

Previously, Deputy Regent of Karangasem, Made Sukerana, told reporters in Karangasem that central government had actually asked the eastern ring road so the status would become a state road. By doing so, the widening, repair, maintenance and bridge construction could be realized more quickly. The success of such ring road access was very important to develop the tourist resort from Ujung up to Tulamben.

Central government, continued Sukerana, asked Karangasem Regency to write a letter to Provincial Government namely Governor of Bali in order the road could be handed over to central government. Although the regency government had submitted a letter, it had not

Before the entourage of the Minister, Regent Geredeg said if there were constraints of long time, status of the road could be directly taken over by central government. It was important because so far the winding coastal area in the east ring road was very much in demand by investors. So far, many villas had been established. Unfortunately, the development was poorly arranged pursuant to the ex-isting beauty and provisions. “The land draws the interest of investors, many hotels and villas have been built but

Buleleng

He said the importance to continue the Tohpati-Kusam-ba bypass road access. According to him, there had been a signal if it would be resumed to Buleleng. By doing so, it would connect to the eastern ring road if the latter had been taken over by central government and changed into a state road. “This road access is important. Previously, Denpasar-Amlapura was covered within about 3 hours, now after the construction of Jalan Prof. Mantra, it can be covered within an hour,” he said.

As reported previously, in the eastern ring road, said the legislator of Karangasem House from Seraya Timur, Made Geriya, there were at least 11 rivers that had not been connected with bridges. In the rainy season, the road passing the rivers was very dangerous. In the last rainy season, some children were killed as swept away

11 rivers that had not had a bridge.The east ring road along some 43 km remained narrow,

winding and very dangerous. Other than being narrow and winding, it had many sharp downward or upward road sections as well as damaged road at some points. Likewise, avalanches at a number of locations had not been repaired yet. (013)

Tractor turns scarcer, farmers re-use hand plowTabanan (Bali Post)—

The current rice planting season made a number of farmers confused as experienced by the farmers at Yeh Malet Hamlet, Blumbang Village, Kerambitan Subdistrict. Due to scarcity of hand tractor, local farmers were forced to use hand plow to cultivate their farmland. This method should be carried out because there were no spare plows.

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The farmer is using the hand plow to ciltivate his land

Province gives no response

Central government may take over east ring road

3International Bali News Monday, January 2, 2012

“They are alerted at 18 pointsalong the beach in Badung Regencyduring this New Year celebration.Since Kuta has become a favoritetourist destination of the world,certainly thousands of domestic andforeign tourists will celebrate theNew Year here,” said Secretary ofBadung Lifeguard, Ketut Ipel, onFriday (Dec 30).

He said the passing vehicles con-veying tourist groups to Kuta Beachalmost caused congestion. Such

from the Christmas celebration lastweek. Domestic tourists with privatecar from outside Bali such as Jakarta,Yogyakarta, Surabaya and Bandungwere also getting involved in makingthe congestion in Kuta.

to Kuta Beach and Jalan Raya Kutawas rather crowded due to the surgeof foreign tourist visits such as fromAustralia and Europe as well as do-

mestic tourists,” he said.According to him, hundreds of

personnel were alerted from 7:00a.m. until 7:00 p.m. Local Time withtwo working shifts namely from07:00 a.m. until 12:00 a.m., while thesecond shift was at 12:00 a.m. to 7:00p.m. “We do not alert personnel atnight because tourists rarely visit thebeach at that time. Nevertheless, ourpersonnel remain to patrol,” he said.

-resentinghazardouswaters andban toswim and surf as well as red-yellow

hadbeen installed in several locations.It was intended to avoid undesirableincidents due to unfavorable weather.

“Until yesterday, we still addressthe junky rubbish to Kuta Beach soit will not disturb the comfort of visi-tors to Kuta Beach. To that end, weare working with relevant agencies,such as the Badung Sanitation andLandscapingAgencyandKutaBeach

Task Force,” he said.High rate of tourist visit to Bali

before the year-end of 2011 was alsoperceived by hotel management.Secretary of the Indonesia Hotelsand Restaurants Association (PHRI)of Bali Chapter, Ferry Markus, saidthat in the high season as today anumber of hotels usually imposedan additional charge. However, theadditional charge imposed was de-pending on each hotel management.“No hotel offers high discountedrate. Instead they mostly impose anadditional charge, especially in highseason, after which the rate would beback to normal,” he explained.

Though there were some hotelsoffering lower rates than usualdays, said Ferry, they were onlyimplemented by hotels or even res-taurants that were recently openedor still in the promotional period.However, the discounted rate wasnot until far below. (par)

Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Year-end event organized byDenpasar Municipality entitledDenpasar Festival (Denfest) wasnot worked on maximally. Parkingspace, for instance, was not ad-equately prepared. This conditionresulted in the poorly organizedparking arrangement on JalanUdayana and surrounding areas.Car parking services was in dis-order. Few parking arrangementsof cars and motorcycles were setup to three rows, so it made thecrowded road narrower.

One of the Denpasar residents,Didik Parwata, met on the side-lines of his visit to the arena ofDenpasar Festival, Friday (Dec30), claimed to be confused withthe parking location. When hearrived together with colleagues,he chose the parking space nearthe intersection of Catur Muka.Since the area had been fully oc-cupied by a lot of motorcycles, hewas suddenly approached by an

and forbidden to park there.Ironically the parking ban

was not followed by providingsolution with alternative parkinglocations. “Supposedly, there are

-ing since the beginning. Similarly,the forbidden area for parking

so it is not temporary. When the

then overwhelmed. This patternmakes the parking arrangementchaotic,” said Didik.

Meanwhile, the Head of Den-pasar Transportation Agency, IGede Astika, said there had beenactually parking areas for visitorsto Denpasar Festival. They con-sisted of Jalan Sugianyar, JalanKaliasem and Jalan Surapati.Meanwhile, visitors from the westwere provided with parking spaceon Jalan Sulawesi.

However, based on observa-tion at location, all visitors toDenpasar Festival wanted topark on Jalan Udayana. Unluck-

Agency in charge at the locationwere unable to set the parking ofvehicles so that many residentsparked on the road section and

through the roundabout of CaturMuka crowded.

Astika admitted that on JalanUdayana was allowed to parkfor vehicles of visitors and VIPinvitees when there was a hap-pening. “Our officers in the fieldhave known when the parking canbe allowed and disallowed forgeneral public,” said Astika lastFriday. (kmb12)

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The situation during the New Year celebration in Ground Zero in Kuta

147 personnel deployed to secure tourists on the beachMangupura (Bali Post)—

Badung Lifeguard (Balawista) deploying 147 personnel to secure the tourists enjoying holidayson Kuta Beach and surrounding areas.

Disorderly parking of Denfest reaps complaints

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The traffic jam happened throughout the city during the New Year celebration

News International4 Monday, January 2, 2012

The pledge in North Korea’s annual New Year’s message comes as the country enters a new era, with Kim Jong Un installed as su-preme commander of the 1.2 million-strong military and ruling party leader following his father’s Dec. 17 death.

The message didn’t include the North’s routine harsh criticism of the United States and avoided the country’s nuclear ambitions, a suggestion that Pyongyang is willing to continue talks with Washington to win food aid. This year is a crucial one for North Korea as it tries to build a “great, prosperous and powerful nation” befitting the April 2012 centenary of the birth of national founder Kim Il Sung, the new leader’s grandfather.

“Glorify this year 2012 as a year of proud victory, a year when an era of prosperity is unfolding,” said the New Year’s message, carried by the official Korean Central News

Agency. “The whole party, the entire army and all the people should possess a firm conviction that they will become human bulwarks and human shields in defending Kim Jong Un unto death.”

North Korea said it would boost its mili-tary, and boasted that it is “at the epochal point of opening the gates of a thriving coun-try,” with parts of Pyongyang “turned into socialist fairylands.”

Still, the message acknowledged the country’s food crisis, saying “the food problem is a burning issue.” North Korea had been in talks with the United States on food aid, but they stopped because of Kim Jong Il’s death.

The United Nations has said a quarter of North Korea’s 24 million people need outside food aid and that malnutrition is surging, especially among children.

The North’s message said organic farm-ing methods should be used and that farming machinery and materials should be provided, but did not go into specifics for improving food supplies.

The message, a joint editorial appearing in the Rodong Sinmun, Joson Inmingun and Chongnyon Jonwi newspapers, said North Korea must build on foundations laid last year and turn itself “into an economic giant.” It also stressed the need to boost its power and coal industries and promote studies of information technology and bio-engineering.

“This year’s message shows North Korea will focus on its economy and ideological solidarity to establish stability” for Kim Jong Un’s leadership, said Yoo Ho-yeol, a profes-sor at Korea University in South Korea.

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Revelers erupted in cheers amid a confetti-filled celebration in New York’s Times Square to welcome in the new year, part of star-studded fes-tivities and glittering fireworks displays around the world to usher in 2012. From New Zealand to New York, the world eagerly welcomed a new year Sunday and hoped for a better future, saying goodbye to a year of hurricanes, tsu-namis and economic turmoil that many would rather forget.

In New York, hundreds of thousands gathered at the crossroads of the world to witness a crystal ball with more than 30,000 lights that descended at midnight. Lady Gaga and Mayor Mi-chael Bloomberg led the crowd in the final-minute countdown of the famed crystal-paneled ball drop.

Matheus Campos, a law student from

Brazil, threw both arms in the air as the new year began in Times Square. “It’s awesome,” he said. Revelers in Australia, Asia, Europe and the South Pacific island nation of Samoa, which jumped across the international dateline to be first to celebrate, welcomed 2012 with booming pyrotechnic displays. Fireworks soared and sparked over Moscow’s Red Square, crowds on Paris’ Champs-Elysées boulevard popped Champagne corks at midnight.

But many approached the new year with more relief than joy, as people battered by weather disasters, jobless-ness and economic uncertainty hoped the stroke of midnight would change their fortunes.

“It was a pretty tough year, but God was looking after us and I know 2012 has got to be better,” said Kyralee Scott, 16, of Jackson, N.J., whose father spent most of the year out of work.Reuters

ABUJA - President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency on Saturday in parts of Nigeria plagued by a violent Islamist insurgency, and ordered shut the borders with Cameroon, Chad and Niger in the northeast.

Coming nearly a week after radical sect Boko Haram set off a series of bombs across Nigeria on Christmas Day, including one at a church that killed at least 37 people and wounded 57, Jonathan told state television the measures would aim to restore security in troubled parts of Nigeria’s north.

“The temporary closure of our borders in the affected areas is only an interim measure designed to address the current security chal-lenges and will be resumed as soon as normalcy is restored,” he said.

He added that his chief of defence staff had been instructed to take other “appropriate”

measures, including setting up a special counter-terrorism force.

The blasts have raised fears that Boko Haram, a movement styled on the Taliban and whose name means “Western education is forbidden,” is trying to ignite sectarian strife in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation and top oil producer.

Jonathan has been criticised by the opposition and Christian groups for what they said was a slow response to the bombings.

“The crisis has assumed a terrorist dimen-sion,” Jonathan said. “I therefore urge the politi-cal leadership (in northern local governments) to give maximum cooperation to ensure that the situation is brought under control.”

He listed the northern local governments af-fected by the decree, including a part of Niger state near the capital Abuja, the northern half of the conflict-prone city of Jos, and parts of Yobe and Borno in the remote, semi-arid northeast.

NKorea vows to defend Kim Jong Un ‘unto death’Associated Press Writer

PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea vowed Sunday to stage an all-out drive for prosperity as it unites behind new leader Kim Jong Un, ushering in 2012 with promises to resolve food shortages, bolster its military and defend Kim Jong Il’s young son “unto death.”

AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service

In this undated photo released by the Korean Central News Agency and

distributed in Tokyo by the Korea News Service on Friday, Dec. 30, 2011, a

commemorative postage stamp featur-ing late North Korean leader Kim Jong

Il and his son Kim Jong Un is shown.

NYC, world ring in 2012, bid adieu to a tough year

Revelers cheer be-

hind police barricades

in Times Square in anticipa-

tion of mid-night on

New Year’s Eve, Satur-

day, Dec. 31, 2011, in

New York.

AP Photo/John Minchillo

REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

A woman weeps over her loved ones who died in the Christmas day bomb explosion at St. Theresa’s Catholic church in Madalla, just outside the capital Abuja December 31, 2011.

Nigeria’s Jonathan declares state of emergency

Activities Monday, January 2, 2012 5International

Temple CeremonyCalendar Event for January 4 through 26, 2012

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, sail-ings, 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

IBP

JAKARTA – Aston International re-cently announced the opening of the Aston Imperium Purwokerto Hotel & Convention Center.

The Aston Imperium Purwokerto Hotel & Convention Center is a contemporary and stylish 4 star Business & Convention Hotel located in the very heart of Purwokerto in close proximity to all major government of-fices and Purwokerto’s Golf Course which makes it an ideal vantage point for business travelers and a prime venue for the hosting of regional conference.

This newest Aston is the only interna-tional 4- star standard hotel in Purwokerto. The hotel features 146 rooms and suites and a wide range of facilities including an all day dining restaurant & coffee shop, a full service spa, a well equipped fitness center, a business center and a stunning outdoor swimming pool. In line with the Astons

aim to become the preferred host hotel for regional conferences and exhibitions the hotel also offers a state of the art conven-tion center with several mid seized meetings rooms and a convention hall for up to 1200 delegates.

Purwokerto is a city on the island of Java in Indonesia. It is the capital of the Banyumas Regency in Central Java and has a population of approximately 250 000. Pur-wokerto is also the gateway for mountaineers wanting to climb Mount Slamet, the highest volcano in Central Java.

Norbert Vas, Aston International’s VP Sales & Marketing said, “The Aston Impe-rium Purwokerto Hotel & Convention Center was conceptualized to become a principal hub for the regions social and commercial activities and is an important milestone for our expansion in Java which also includes the recently opened Grand Aston Yogyakarta and ongoing projects in Cirebon, Magelang, Solo, Surabaya, Malang and Jember”.IBP/Courtesy of Aston International

Aston Imperium Purwokerto Opens

4 Jan Buda Paing Wariga Merajan Pasek Gaduh Kayubihi Bangli.

7 Jan Tumpek Uduh/Pengatag Pura Puseh/Pura Desa Batuan Sukawati Pura Pasek Bendesa Kekeran Mengwi Pura Manik Mas Besakih.

8 Jan Purnama Kepitu Ngusaba Ngaed Pr. Benua - Besakih Pura Dalem Desa Camenggaon - Sukawati Pura Suranadhi Lombok Pura Narmada Lombok Pura Segara Ampenan Lombok Mr Agung Dewa Agung Klungkung Sidemen -

Karangasem Pura . Merajan Pasek Gelgel Ababi Mr. Pasek gelgel Tista Pura di Gunung - Tianyar Kubu - Karangasem. Pura Pingit Klenting sari Gerokgak - Singaraja Pura di Gunung - Tianyar Tianyar Merajan Pasek Gelgel Ababi Mr. Pasek gelgel Tista Pura di Gunung - Tianyar Kubu - Karangasem Pura Pingit Klenting sari Gerokgak - Singaraja Pura Payogan Agung Kutai Kartanegara.

11 Jan Buda Wage Warigadean. Pura Kepisah Sumerta Denpasar Pura Pasek Gelgel Pura Pasek Gelgel Pura Puncaksari Penarukan Peninjoan Bangli Pura Bangun Sakti Besakih Pura Antegsari Kaba-Kaba Kediri Tabanan Pura Pesimpangan Batur Pande Kaba-Kaba Kediri

Tabanan

13 Jan Sukra Umanis Warigadean Odalan Ida Ratu di Penataran Agung Besakih

Odalan Ida Ratu Puraus Merajan Salonding Besakih.

15 Jan Redite Pon Julungwangi Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Banjar Singaraja.

17 Jan Anggar Kasih Julungwangi Pura Tirtaharum Tegalwangi Bangli Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Wanasari Tabanan Pura Pasek Tangguntiti Jakatebel Tabanan Pura Pasek Bendesa Sangsit Buleleng Pura Dalem Waturenggong Taro Tegalalang Pura Ibu (Pura Kaja) Wanasari Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Tulikup Pura manik Bingin Sidemen.

18 Jan Buda Umanis Julungwangi Pura Penetaran Gana Bebalang Bangli Pura Dalem Gede Banjar Pande Bangli Pura Puncaksari Sangeh Abiansemal Pura Dadia Agung Pasek Sanak Sapta Resi Sidan

Gianyar Merajan Pasek Tohjiwa Jakatebel Merajan Pasek Prateka Batusesa Odalan di Mr. Jeroan Dauh Cemenggon Pr. Puseh Penegil Darma Kubutambahan Singaraja.

23 Jan Tilem Kepitu Aci Petahuan Pura Ulun Kulkul Besakih Ngusaba Buluh Pura Benua Kawasan Besakih.

26 Jan Wraspati Wage Sungsang Pura Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Desa Tangkas

Klungkung Pr. Siang Kangin Tampuagan Tembuku Bangli Odalan Ida Ratu Mas Penataran Agung Besakih Merajan Pasek Gelgel Petemon Merajan Pasek Gelgel MelinggihGelgel Melinggih Odalan Ida Bhatara Bang Tulus Dewa Besakih

Monday, January 2, 2012 6 News

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International

Saturday marked the end of the2008 security pact agreed by then-President George W. Bush and wasthe last day for U.S. troops to with-draw from Iraq, nearly nine yearsafter the invasion that toppled SunnidictatorSaddamHusseinandallowedthe Shi’ite majority to take power.

Except for a small military con-tingent attached to the U.S. embassyin Baghdad, the last of the Americantroopsdepartednearly twoweeksago.“I declare this day, the 31st of De-cember, on which the withdrawal offoreign forces from Iraq is complete,as a national day,” said Maliki in atelevised ceremony, surrounded by

“It is Iraq’s day. It is a feast for allIraqis. It is the dawn of a new dayin Mesopotamia ... Your country isfree.” Maliki said he would work

to maintain freedom and “respectpolitical, intellectual and religiousdiversity.”

Earlier, thousands of Iraqis re-ceiveda textmessageon their phonesbearing the name “AL-MALIKI”in bold letters. “All of us for Iraq ...Glory is for the people,” the messagesaid. “I congratulate you and ourproud Iraqi people on this great dayin history ... My love and respect toyou and your families. Your brotherNuri al-Maliki.”

Hundreds of people attendedthe ceremony in a Baghdad sportsarena usually used for basketballand volleyball, but there was nosign of Iyad Allawi, the head of thecross-sectarian Iraqiya political bloc,

ofparliamentorotherSunni lawmak-ers and rivals.

The venue was surrounded byhundredsof soldiersandpolice.Armyhelicoptershoveredoverhead, snipersoccupiedpositionsonnearbybuildings

attendees. Maliki’s move againstHashemi, accused of running deathsquads, and his request to parliamentto remove Deputy Prime MinisterSaleh al-Mutlaq, another prominentSunni, stirred fears of another waveof sectarian violence in Iraq.

Sunni-supported Iraqiya an-nounced a boycott of parliamentand Maliki warned he could form amajority government. Maliki did notmention the current political crisis orHashemi by name, but said: “Aftertoday, there will be no place for thosewho put one foot in the political pro-cess and the other with the terroristorganizations.”

Associated Press Writer

TOKYO — A 7.0-magnitudeearthquake struck under the seasouth of Japan on Sunday, shakingbuildings in the capital but causingno apparent damage or tsunami.

The quake struck near the unin-habited island of Torishima in the

-ters (370 miles) south of Tokyo,

and its epicenter was about 370kilometers (230 miles) below thesea, the MeterologicalAgency said.It did not generate a tsunami.

Buildings in the Tokyo areashook, but no damage or injurieswere reported. Express trains innorthern and central Japan weresuspended temporarily for safetychecks but later resumed.

No abnormalities were reported

at power plants, including thecrippled nuclear power plant innortheast Japan hit by the Marchearthquake and tsunami, publicbroadcaster NHK reported.

A massive earthquake and tsu-nami March 11 left nearly 20,000people dead or missing. Japan,

of Fire,” is one of the world’s mostseismically active countries.

Agence France Presse

her liver offered to the gods to improve crop growth, police in thecentral state of Chhattisgarh said on Sunday.

The body of Lalita Tati was found in October one week after herfamily reported her missing.

believing that the act would give a better harvest,” Narayan Das, thepolice chief of Bijapur district, told AFP by telephone.

The two men was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of killingthe girl and offering her liver to the gods in a grisly tribal ceremony.Police said the men had confessed to the crime.

The girl was murdered in a jungle district of Chhattisgarh that is astronghold of rebel Maoists who have tapped into disaffection amonglocal tribal groups.

and superstitious India, and usually occur in poor areas where somepeople revere practitioners of black magic.

2010, while in the same year the decapitated body of a factory workerwas found in a temple in the eastern state of West Bengal.

The victims are often ritually killed by witchdoctors to appeasegods, spirits or deities.

REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Malik delivers a speech during a ceremony at Al-Shaab stadium complex in Baghdad, December 31, 2011.

Iraq celebrates U.S. withdrawalReuters

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7.0 sea quake shakes Tokyo, but causes no damage

to gods: Indian police

Political party as a mandateholder in recommending the

-generation rather than pragmaticapproach. Pragmatic approachwas clearly legible from the wayshow political parties selected andrecommended their future lead-ers. Political parties frequently

having no political career inparticular political party. Doz-ens of ladybug generation andmigration of political supportalso proved that political partiesfailed to establish a fundamentalregeneration. As consequence,these ways would foster thepower transaction making thedemocracy a market.

Meanwhile, a political ob-server, Made Suantina, said thepower was indeed a target forpolitical power. However, thepower had to be achieved by anintact political consciousness,not just rhetoric. Delivery systemof leaders by offering the forcedleader candidates to the public,he said, posed a form of denialto democratic stage. Conversely,the public touted as determinantof political outcomes should es-tablish awareness and sensitivityto oppose the dirty tricks in themanagement of democracy.

Suantina said there was a ten-dency where a leader born froma political process filled withtransaction would engender apragmatic ruler. In other words,when ruling he would make

loss in preparing a program. Inaddition, the economic approachwould also strengthen in the

management of the program.Such a condition in turn wouldgive birth to corruption, collusionand nepotism.

Meanwhile, a socio-politicalobserver, Ngurah Karyadi, re-minded of the hazardous threatcaused by regeneration born fromtransaction and connection basedon pragmatic approach. A leaderengendered through this processwould tend to manage the power

loss and cronyism approach. Inother words, when such kindof leader ruled, the governmentpolicy would always be directedto perpetuate the power. Similarly,any political policy made wouldbe directed to maintain the nextpower. Therefore, its policy wasnot purely for the public welfare.

ing the power from the pragmatictransaction will bring along itspolitical carriage and colleaguesto arrange the public programs.Professionalism approach tends tobe ignored,” he criticized.

Hesaid themanagementpatternsofpoliticalpower inBalishouldalsobecriticizedbymanycircles.Politi-ciansandpoliticalparties shouldnotbe allowed to make democracy a

A.A. Ngurah Gede Widiada, apolitician who is also DeputyChairman of Denpasar House,said that human actually requireda positive power whose imple-mentation did not involve anyphysical and mental coercion. Ifthe power practiced in terms ofnegative perspective, it wouldcontain the elements of physicaland mental coercion. (dir)

Transaction...

Monday, January 2, 2012 7Indonesia Today International

Antara

MALANG - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is scheduled to inaugurate Abdurachman Saleh airport in Malang district, East Java, in mid January 2012.

Before being inaugurated, the airport, particularly its passenger terminal would have trial operation on Friday (Dec 30), Head of the East Java Provincial Transportation Office Wahid Wahyudi said.

After the airport had been inau-gurated it would hopefully reduce passenger density at Juanda inter-national airport in Surabaya, East Java, he said.

“Now Juanda airport is very crowded due to tight frequency of planes landing at the airport, namely every 1 minute and 20 seconds, with the number of passengers reaching 12 million per year,” he said.

Therefore, he added that during the trial operation which would begin on Friday morning no significant prob-lem would happen so that the airport could be inaugurated on schedule.

“So far, some of the airport`s facili-ties, such as road access and departure terminal have been built, while the construction of arrival terminal and runway to cover a length of 2,250 meters from 1,985 meters previously is still underway,” he said.

East Kalimantan Police Chief Insp Gen Bambang Widaryatmo in a statement to the press here Satur-day identified the three suspects by their initials as YS, ST, dan MSF.

He refused to spell out their names but said the police would soon take them into custody while they were now already under tight surveillance.

YS was an official at the Kutai Kartanegara public works office, ST in charge of the bridge`s technical maintenance and MSF an official of PT Bukaka Teknik Utama who was the manager of the bridge`s maintenance project.

The three would be charged under articles 359 and 360 of the Criminal Code on negligence on the part of someone or a group of people that caused the death of or

injury to another person or group of persons.

“We are also investigating the possibility of corruption having been committed in the case. This investigation is being conducted by a special East Kalimantan police team,” Bambang said.

In their investigation, the police had met many difficulties as al-most all the parties involved in the bridge`s construction and mainte-nance tried to absolve themselves of responsibility or to blame each other.

PT Bukaka, for instance, had insisted that when the bridge col-lapsed on Saturday Nov 26 it had not yet started the maintenance project and was only engaged in preparatory work. Police, however, found witnesses, including some

victims of the bridge collapse, as well as photos showing mainte-nance work was begun on Novem-ber 24, Bambang said.

In their further investigation into the case, the police would work with at least five expert wit-nesses to gain an understanding of the entire process of the bridge`s construction, from the planning to its implementation stages, its bud-geting, the construction materials used, maintenance , work assign-ment system and technical aspects of maintenance work.

The 720-meter-long Kartanegara bridge was built in 1995 and com-missioned in 2001, Known also as Mahakam Bridge II, it connects Tenggarong city with Tenggarong Seberang in Kutai Kartanegara district.

The bridge collapsed within only 30 seconds while maintenance work was being done. Rescue teams later found 24 dead bodies in the river, while 39 people sustained injuries and 12 others have remained miss-ing.

Agence France-Presse

BANDA ACEH - Unidentified gunmen on a motorbike shot dead three telecom workers and wounded seven others in Indonesia’s restive Aceh province, police said Sunday.

They killed the workers from Indonesia’s state-owned telecoms company PT Telkom on New Year’s Eve as they were resting in their rented house in Blang Cot Tunong village in Bireuen district, local po-lice chief Yuri Karsono told AFP.

“Three people were killed and seven had gunshot wounds. Two gunmen came on a motorcycle, one

got down and starting shooting at workers with a rifle,” he said.

“Their motive remains unclear. We are still investigating,” he added. Despite the end in 2005 of a separatist war that claimed around 15,000 lives, Aceh still experi-ences sporadic low-level violence, including armed robberies and politically motivated grenade and gun attacks.

Last month, unidentified gunmen shot dead three oil palm plantation workers and wounded five others in north Aceh. Police suspected “economic motivation” behind the shooting.

Associated Press

JAKARTA — Dozens of camera traps installed in an Indonesian na-tional park earlier this year captured images of 35 critically endangered Javan rhinos, including five calves, officials said Thursday.

It’s still possible that more of the animals live in the Ujung Kulon Na-tional Park — the animal’s original habitat — said Bambang Novianto, director of biodiversity conserva-tion at the forestry ministry.

And the presence of young ones was welcomed as a rare piece of good news for the dying species.

The Javan rhino — once the most widespread of Asian rhinoceroses — was nearly wiped out when the Krakatau volcano erupted in 1883, spawning a 120-foot (40-meter) tsu-nami that not only killed tens of thou-sands of people, but inundated the park on Java island’s western tip.

The greatest threat they face today is from poachers, habitat de-struction and fierce competition for

food with other animal species.Experts say there may be only 40

to 60 Javan rhinos left in the wild.The video cameras yielded

160 clips of rhinos in total, said Novianto.

“Scientists studying the images were able to identify at least 35 different rhinos — 22 males and 13 females,” he said.

The presence of at least five calves, despite harsh conditions they are facing, “raised hope for the con-servation of the Javan rhinos,” added Yanto Santosa, a lecturer of biodiver-sity conservation and adviser to the project. It’s not clear, however, if the government will reach its target of increasing the population of Javan rhinos to 70 to 80 by 2015.

Last year, three Javan rhinos were found dead within the 297,881-acre (120,551-hectare) park, and one of them was suspected to be the victim of poachers. The last known Javan rhino in Vietnam was found dead in April, apparently after poachers killed it for its horn.

AFP PHOTO / Bay ISMOYO

Fireworks explode in downtown Jakarta’s sky during the New Year 2012 celebrations on December 31, 2011 where thousands of people gather to witness the coming of new year 2012.

Police name three suspects over kartanegara bridge collapse Antara

BALIKPAPAN - East Kalimantan police have named three people suspects over the collapse of the Kartanegara bridge last November 20 which caused the death of 24 local residents, injuries to 39 and the disappearance of 14 others.

Camera traps capture 35 rhino in Indonesian park

Gunmen kill three telecom workers in Aceh

President to inaugurate airport in Malang on mid January

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Bali Today

It was reported that the brawlsinvolving the youth from a Ban-jarangkan and Banjar Guwang,Village/District Sukawati.

“We get information there arethree people were injured in thebrawls between youth,” Chief ofPolice Sukawati, Commissioner IMade Witaya said.

He claimed not to know withcertainty the trigger of brawls.But injuries forced the victim wasrushed to Sanglah Hospital, Den-pasar, to get intensive care.

In the meantime, until todaythe situation remains tense in the

is horizontal.

Agence France-Presse

NYUH KUNING - When PutuItayani came to give birth to her babydaughter lastmonth itcouldhavebeen

She had to pay an Indonesianvillage midwife one million rupiah(about$110)whenhersonwasbornin2009 -- the equivalent of two months’wages for her print worker husband.

Her situation is typical in Indo-nesia, where access to healthcare isbeyond many among the 240 millionpopulation, nearly half of whom liveon less than $2 a day, and maternalmortality stands at 228 deaths per100,000 live births.

But instead of having to turn to an

Itayani was able to go to the YayasanBumi Sehat -- Healthy Earth Founda-tion -- clinic inNyuhKuning,near thetourist hub of Ubud on Bali.

“For a poor person like me, thisclinic is reallyablessing,”saidItayani,29. “They provide a great service andyou only pay what you can afford, ornothing at all.”

She said she paid 100,000 rupiahvoluntarily.

“They don’t complain even if youonly play a small amount. I’m very

New Year Eve in Gianyar stained brawlsAntara

GIANYAR - Celebrationof New Year Eve 2012 in Gi-anyar, Bali, stained brawlsbetween youth causes threepeople injured.

Balinese people celebrated New Year with fireworks.

Celebration of New Year Eve 2012 in Gianyar, Bali, stained

brawls between youth causes three people injured.

AFP PHOTO / SONNY TUMBELAKA

This picture taken on December 18, 2011 shows US midwife Robin Lim (C) explaining midwifery to students at the Bumi Sehat Foundation, or Healthy Earth Foundation in Ubud.

Poor Indonesian mothers turn to American midwife The clinic is the brainchild of

Robin Lim, a 55-year-old Filipina-Americanwhohasmadeithermissionto provide free health and midwiferycare to expectant mothers from Indo-nesia’s legions of poor.

“We open 24/7, and we never turnaway people. This is the place wherea prostitute and a beggar can have

the same treatment as a rich person,”she said.

In many Indonesian villages, mostpregnant women cannot afford theminimum one million rupiah child-birth fee levied by government hospi-tals, and a scheme for free births has

and complicated process that deterspoor, uneducated people.

Theresult ishomebirthswith lim-ited help, and the high death rate.

“People think that it’s normal tolose a mother or a child. They don’tthink about the suffering,” said Lim,who was born inArizona but movedto Indonesia in 1992.

Her own sister died of complica-tions during pregnancy in the UnitedStates, she says.

“Thedoctordidn’tcare forher.Henever took the timeandnever toldherthat shehadahighbloodpressureandshe died in pregnancy,” she said.

The loss left her “heartbroken”and “shattered”, and determined herpath in life.

“Every mother counts, everymother is important and every childis precious,” she said. “I have tobe a midwife so I can live for loveeveryday.”

As well as the clinic in Bali, thefoundationhasone in theprovinceofAceh, at the northern tip of the islandof Sumatra.

Both opened in 2005, provid-ing free medicine, prenatal care,birthing services and even yogalessons to prepare expectantmothers for a comfortable andsafe natural birth, and have sincehelped hundreds of women.

They are funded by donations fromfriends and family, and also providepaediatric care, as well as acupunctureand Japanese Reiki relaxation classesfor the elderly.

For her efforts, Lim was this monthnamed US cable channel CNN’s “heroof the year”, giving her a $50,000awardandherorganisationa$250,000grant.

All she wanted was “a place wherepoor people can come to have theirbaby”, Lim said. “We need to make amore equal society, so that all motherscan live.”

First-time mother Suti, 24, saidLim constantly encouraged her dur-ing a long six hour labour before shedelivered her baby girl.

“I was fearful because it was my

andrepeatedlysaid‘thebabyishealthy’whichgavemethestrength topushon,”the fruit vendor toldAFP.

“To me, she is the mother of allheroes.”

Lim says her work is far from doneand is now planning to build a biggerclinic powered by solar energy.

“I don’t know when I will feel that Ihave done enough,” she said. “Maybewhennoone losesamother andnooneloses a baby from poverty.”

Balinese Culture

9International Monday, January 2, 2012

OVERVIEW:The rich flavor of duck is greatly enhanced by a host

of pungent roots, herbs and seasonings in this dish, which is invariably a great favorite with visitors to Bali. The Balinese have great admiration for the duck and consider it to be a particularly strong animal as it is, like the turtle, the only one able to survive on land as water.

INGREDIENTS:1 whole duck, weigh about 2 kg (4 ½ lb)18 shallots, peeled, cut in half, and sliced6 cloves garlic, peeled, cut in half, & sliced3 stalks lemon grass, finely sliced5 fragrant lime leaves, finely sliced6 candlenuts, chopped5 cm (2 in), ginger, peeled and chopped8 cm (3in) fresh turmeric, peeled, chopped8 cm (3in) kencur root, peeled, chopped1 tsp black peppercorns, crushed5 bird’s-eye chilies, slices1 tsp coriander seeds, crushed2 tsp dried shrimp paste, roasted and coarsely

crushed1½ tbsp salt3 tbsp oilBanana leaves, greaseproof paper or aluminum foil

for wrapping

PREPARATION:Wipe the duck dry and set aside. Combine all

ingredients except banana leafs in a bowl and mix well. Rub the duck outside with this mixture and fill the center of the duck with the remainder.

Close open duck with satay skewer. Wrap in several layers of banana leaves, greaseproof paper or foil and steam for 50 minutes. Transfer duck to a moderate oven and bake at 180o C (350o F) for 30 minutes.

Remove banana leaves, cut duck meat up in small pieces and serve with stuffing. When cooked, the meat should be so tender that it falls off the bones.

Beauty can stop everyone’s eyes

can lullaby a baby. Similarly, beau-ty also can toss the imagination,soothe the mind and draw peopleto get near. Bali has many sourcesof that beauty offering the charm ofnature, culture or adventure.

By maintaining traditions in-spired by Hinduism, Balinese peo-ple go on running in harmony withthe time. In other words, they do notfeel inferior because of inheritingthose traditions. Beauty in the formof various dance movements hasbeen introduced since early ages.On seeing a dance staged, a toddler

-gers move and move as if imitatingthe movement of the dance.

Virtually all customary villagesin Bali have gamelan troupe. Thistroupe plays important role in ex-pressing their entertainment arts andaccompanying every ritual activity.This existence gives opportunity tovillagers fromchild toadult toexpresstheir artistic talent especially indance,drama and gamelan arts. Young girlsunder twelve or elementary schoolage have a chance to participate inperforming Rejang Dance. By wear-ing white and yellow costumes and

beautifully accompanied by gamelanmusic. Rejang Dance is one of thesacreddancesperformed in relation totheorganizationof templeanniversary

or odalan. Other than putting a basiclove to their tradition, they also showdevotional service or ngatur ayahthrough the arts.

When they grow older, right onentering secondary school, they joincustomaryvillageyouthcluborSekaaTaruna. Here, with their male friendsand their brothers and sisters start tolearnaboutorganization.Many thingscan be learned through this organiza-

-ary village, they can learn about themakingofsomesimpleoblationunderguidanceof senioroblationmakerandvarious traditional arts. In Bali, thisyouth club actually play importantrole in preparing young generationto maintain their valuable culturalheritages or to prepare themselves forinheriting customary responsibility.

With their male counterpart, herethe young girls also learn to playdrama or more complex traditionalarts. Popular genres of performanceshowedarepureentertainmentandtheone incombinationwithsacreddance.ThelatterusuallyfeaturesCalonarang.This magical drama involves a com-bination of male and female players.In essence, this Calonarang drama

truth and untruth symbolizing bysanctified effigies or tapakan likeRangda and Barong. By and large, itis also associated with ritual events atlocal temple.

In the followingstage,whenwom-

an gets married she will enter the neworganization, namely customary vil-lage.Havinglearnedmuchaboutritualworks, it is now the time to practicethem in wider social life.They shouldattend some socio-religious activitieswhen the events engage the membersof customary village. At this stage,householdmothercan remain toshowher devotional service through thearts other than social works. Throughthe arts, they may join the dramaor individual psalmodic singing orpasantian.

How is about their private life? Itis normal as others. They also haveopportunity to build career in theirprofession. Inmodern lifewithhetero-geneous professions as today, womanalso works as men do. Traditions donot impede them to reach outstand-ing achievement in self-employee or

some social works will be held at theevening.

Traditionisnotsomethingobsolete.Even, it retains abundant inspirationsto create something new and creativethat is advantageous for modernlife. However, traditions shouldalso be reviewed and adjust to thecurrent condition without leavingbehind its core. Tradition does nothinder women to get their careerachievement. Even, it stays togive them a channel to expresstheir spiritual sense through devo-tional services. (BTN/punia)

BEBEK BETUTU(Roast Duck In Banana Leaf)

Balinese women:

In devotional services through the arts

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Here are several golf courses that you should try during your holiday in Bali. Get ready to join the game and served by the professional staff and caddy will complete your lovely holiday in the Paradise Island of Bali. Golf in Bali is a fantastic and exciting golf playing experience in paradise Bali Island.

Nusa Dua Bali Golf and Country Club

Nusa Dua Bali Golf and Country Club, voted ‘One of Asia’s 5 Best Golf Courses’(Fortune Magazine - USA) will offer visitors to Bali a truly unique golfing experience due to the fantastic setting of the course. Golfers will experience three distinct playing environments throughout

the 18-hole course. The setting of holes 1 through 9 features creeks, canyons, and native vegetation filled with tropical birds. The golf course architect team of Robin Nelson and Rodney Wright incorporated small hand-built stone walls to terrace the sides of fairways and tees in order to emulate the rice fields terraces of the Bali countryside. The setting for holes 10 through 16 present the golfer with lush gently sculptured fairways through a mature coconut grove. The coconut palms, some as tall as 100 feet, provide vertical defi-nition to the golf course. The 17th hole plays out to the beautiful blue Indian Ocean and usually into a cool ocean breeze. The 18th hole plays from the beach back to the clubhouse along side a 16-acre lake.

Nirwana Bali Golf Country ClubNirwana Bali Golf Country Club

is a visual masterpiece of dramatic ocean views and lush Balinese land-scapes. Greg Norman has designed it golf course, Nirwana Bali Golf Course offers a spectacular challenge

and a unique world-class experience for golfers of all skill levels. The golf course that is designed by legendary golfer Greg Norman with hole 18 th is one of the most photographed and challenging golf courses in the world. With three holes running along the cliffs of the Indian Ocean and terraced rice paddies providing unique hazards and this course has been tested the accuracy and consistency of a PGA Professional and still be enjoyable for the average golfer. It is set on the southwest coast of Bali with 45 minutes drive from Bali’s Interna-tional Airport. Nirwana Bali Golf Club is the centerpiece of the fully integrated Nirwana Bali Resort. You can come and experience the ultimate golf course in Bali or you can join the Nirwana Bali Golf Package.

New Kuta GolfNew Kuta Golf is a new golf

course set on the 85 hectares land right on the limestone cliff with stunning view of the Indian Ocean. It is a great golf course with 18 holes located 20 minutes drive from Bali’s

International Airport to the southern part of Bali and blessed the mag-nificent of sunset. New Kuta Golf is designed with four of tees for each of the 18 holes there’s enough variety to ensure a satisfying for all skill levels. The golf course will invite you to experience this championship layout firsthand to discover much more than just a golf course.

Bali Handara Kosaido Country Club

Bali Handara Kosaido Country Club is one of the golf courses lo-cated in the mountain and sightsee-ing area with beautiful panorama of Tamblingan Lake. It is situated in the plateau area of Bedugul Bali,

the cool temperature surrounds the golf course, and the green rain forest covers your view from the course hence making your golf experiences are more enjoyable and full fun. The world-class of golf tournament have been executed in this place and serve with the professional staff and caddy who guide you on your lovely golf game. Bali Handara Kosaido is located about 1000 meter above sea level and 3 hours drive from Bali’s International Airport. Some of the places of interest around the golf course like Beratan Lake, Ulun Danu Temple can be visited on your way to the golf course and in our package we have provided one hour, Bedugul Tour to visit this tourist places.

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BUSINESSInternational

Reuters

HONOLULU- PresidentBarack Obama signed into lawon Saturday a defense funding

-nancial institutions dealing withIran’s central bank, while al-lowing for exemptions to avoidupsetting energy markets.

The sanctions target both pri-vate and government-controlledbanks - including central banks -and would take hold after a two-to six-month warning period,depending on the transactions,a senior Obama administration

Under the law, the presidentcan move to exempt institutions

-ly reduced its dealings with Iranand in situations where a waiveris in the U.S. national securityinterest or otherwise necessaryfor energy market stability. Hewould need to notify Congressand waivers would be tempo-rary, but could be extended.

Sanctioned institutions would

markets.“Our intent is to implement

this law in a timed and phasedapproach so that we avoid reper-cussions to the oil market andensure that this damages Iranand not the rest of the world,”the senior U.S. official toldReuters.

Iran’s central bank is themain conduit for Tehran’s oilrevenues.

Obama signed the bill dur-ing his vacation in Hawaii, justhours after Tehran said it haddelayed planned long-rangemissile tests in the Gulf andsignaled it was ready for freshtalks on its disputed nuclearprogram.

Senior U.S. officials saidWashington was consulting withits foreign partners to ensure thenew sanctions can work withoutharming global energy markets.They stressed the U.S. strategyof both isolating and remainingopen to engagement with Iranwas unchanged.

Zhou Xiaochuan said in an in-terview with Chinese magazineCaixin that China did not fare badlyon an International Monetary Fundmeasure of currencies’convertibilityunder the capital account.

But he stopped short of calling fora fully convertible currency.

“If the highest standard of mea-surement is to have wholly un-restricted convertibility, then somany developed countries have notachieved 100 percent full convert-ibility,” Zhou told the magazine.

Investors increasingly expect thatChina will give them more freedomto trade the tightly controlled yuan.

While the currency is alreadyconvertible under China’s currentaccount, the broadest measure oftrade in goods and services, the capi-

capital, is still closely managed byBeijing as it worries about capital

Countries with convertible cur-rencies under their capital accountlet their currencies trade with few re-strictions for investment purposes.

Zhou noted China must regulatelevels of foreign debt incurredby private and public sectors toreduce currency risks, monitorcross-border deals to guard againstillegal activities such as moneylaundering, and combat speculative

“Excluding the above three fac-tors and judging from the 40 sub-

that actually China is not that farfrom capital account convertibility,”Zhou said.

Still, he said Beijing would keepimproving the exchange rate regime

in a bigger trading band in future.“The yuan’s trading band will be

widened,” he said.China currently lets the yuan

trade in a 0.5 percent range, andmoves to increase that band wouldshow Beijing is gradually relaxingits control over the currency.

“Compared with internationalmarkets, you may know that the 0.5percent (daily trading band) is quite a

Investors had speculated earlier

would widen the yuan’s trading bandto accelerate its rise and combatprice pressures.

Instead, Beijing raised interestrates three times, moves that haveproduced some tentative success:Inflation eased to 4.2 percent inNovember, down from a 6.5 percenthigh in July.

Zhou acknowledged that pricepressures are easing and that the job

as before. But he warned againstcomplacency.

as in 2011,” he said. “But we should

and must appropriately manage

He said that it is difficult forChina to achieve the government’s

be around 5 percent this year.“China has been always having

relatively big scope to adjust itsmonetary policy,” Zhou said whenasked whether a drop in China’sforeign exchange purchases in re-cent months has given the centralbank more room to adjust monetarypolicy.

President Hu Jintao in his tele-vised New Year’s address on Sat-urday, said the government wouldcontinue to maintain relatively fasteconomic growth and manage in-

ahead.But he also warned that “uncer-

tainty about the global economicrecovery is on the rise.”

The yuan closed at a record highagainst the dollar on Friday, passingthrough resistance at 6.30 and end-ing 2011 with an appreciation of 4.7percent, with traders citing signs ofcentral bank intervention to push theyuan up at the end of the year.

The yuan’s gains for the year arein line with the 4 to 5 percent tradersin the onshore market had expectedat the start of the year.

Traders still see the yuan appre-ciating in 2012 as China faces U.S.pressure to do more to rebalancebilateral and world trade, while itcontinues to record trade surpluses.

U.S. imposes sanctions on banks dealing with Iran

China moving to more convertible yuanReuters

BEIJING - China’s central bank governorargued in commentspublished on Saturday that Beijing does not control the yuan’s

AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito

Musicians perform for money in downtown Rome, Friday, Dec. 30, 2011. Italy is at the focal point of the eurozone’s struggle to deal with a crisis over heavy levels of govern-ment debt in a number of the 17 countries that use the single currency. Fears of default on those debts mean that bond investors demand ever higher interest. If a country can no longer borrow affordably to pay off bonds that are maturing, it winds up needing a bailout or defaulting.

Obama did not single out Iransanctions in his statement releasedby the White House, but did ex-press concern about a number ofprovisions in the defense bill thatrelate to the treatment and transferof detainees.

“The fact that I support this billas a whole does not mean I agreewith everything in it,” Obama said,suggesting limits on the ability tomove terrorism suspects from theU.S. military prison at Guantana-mo Cuba to the United States fortrial or to a foreign country wereill-conceived.

“The executive branch must

in conducting negotiations withforeign countries regarding the cir-cumstances of detainee transfers,”he said, also calling federal courts“legitimate, effective and power-ful” means by which to prosecutesome militants.

Reuters reported this weekthat the Obama administration isconsidering transferring to Af-ghan custody a Taliban officialsuspected of major human rights

abuses as part of a long-shotbid to improve the prospects fora peace deal in Afghanistan, amove that has set off alarm bellson Capitol Hill.

Obama also raised concernsin the statement about a re-quirement that he must notifyCongress before sharing any

missile information with Rus-sia.

In his statement, he saidhe intended to keep Congressinformed of U.S.-Russia co-operation on ballistic missiledefense, he would interpret therule in a way that does not limithis ability to conduct foreignaffairs “and avoids the unduedisclosure of sensitive diplo-matic communications.”

“Should any application of

my constitutional authorities,I will treat the provisions asnon-binding,” he said, referringto a number of sections of thedefense bill, which is more than500 pages long.

Entertainment InternationalMonday, January 2, 201212

The Paramount film led the Christ-mas weekend after its limited debut in IMAX gave it a big marketing boost, and this week’s midweek numbers indicate audience interest is holding, with a total North American gross of about $130 million expected by Monday night.

Warner Bros.’ “Sherlock Hol-mes: A Game of Shadows,” starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, will enter its third weekend after

crossing the $100 million mark on Wednesday, and clues point to another $25 million for the long holiday weekend.

Fox’s “Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked” should have a chipper third weekend in the low $20 million range as families enjoy the last of the holidays together before it’s back to school. By Monday night, the little rodents should have munched a total of about $90 million.

Sony’s thriller “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” the second film adaptation of the hugely popular mystery novel by Stieg Larsson, hacked $20 million from audiences over the extended Christmas holiday and enters New Year’s weekend with a potential gross in the mid- to high-teens.

Disney’s “War Horse” opened Christmas Day with $7.5 million and will now stretch its legs over a full holiday weekend with a likely gross in the $15 million range. The Steven Spielberg film is based on the 1982 children’s novel and the 2007 stage adaptation, and has received two Golden Globe nominations, including for best picture.

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — Oprah Winfrey earned the rare op-portunity to convert her media charisma into a monogramed TV channel. Now she’s the one tasked with rescuing OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network, after a disappointing first year. It’s a high-stakes, potentially ego-shattering challenge that could make the strongest woman or man flinch. But win or lose, Win-frey says she relishes the fight to turn OWN’s fortunes around.

“Yes, some mistakes were made. Who hasn’t made mis-takes? The real beauty is you can say, ‘I learned from that,’” Winfrey said. “I don’t worry about failure. I worry about, ‘Did I do all I could do?’”

The cable channel, which marks its first year Jan. 1, is trying for a fresh start after ex-ecutive turnover and missteps that proved O W N l a c k e d a so l id founda-tion on which to bu i l d , this de-spite a

Discovery Communications investment of a reported $250 million and counting.

Viewers snubbed the lineup that skimped on programming and, surprisingly, what should have been OWN’s unique weapon of choice: Winfrey herself, whose limited on-air presence will be boosted Sun-day with a new weekly series, “Oprah’s Next Chapter.”

OWN has failed to improve on, or in some instances even match, the modest ratings and small audience earned by the low-profile Discovery Health channel it replaced.

“I would absolutely say it is and was not where I want it to be for year one,” Winfrey said. “My focus up until (last) May was doing what I do best, which is ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show,’ and giving that my full attention” until its conclusion.

But Winfrey, who said man-agement team errors in plan-ning and execution could serve as a cautionary tale (“I was never interested in writing a book. ... THIS could be a book”), rejects the idea that a single year’s

performance will de-termine OWN’s

ultimate fate. Or hers.

Reuters

LOS ANGELES - U2 is No. 1 when it comes to touring. The band had the highest-grossing tour both in North America and worldwide in 2011. Bono, the Edge and company grossed $156 million in North America on the strength of 1.7 million tickets sold, according to Pollstar, which covers the concert industry. They grossed $231.9 million worldwide off 2.39 million tickets.

Rounding out the top five highest-grossing touring acts in North Ameri-

ca were Taylor Swift ($97.7 million), Kenny Chesney ($84.6 million), Lady Gaga ($63.7 million) and Bon Jovi ($57.1 million).

As for the worldwide top five, U2 were followed by the reunited Take That ($224 million), Bon Jovi ($148.8 million), Swift ($104.2 million) and Roger Waters ($103.6 million). Tick-ets on U2’s 360 Degrees tour sold for an average of $97.15 worldwide and $91.67 in North America.

The year’s top 25 biggest tours grossed a combined $2.1 billion

worldwide, which is roughly the same as in 2010. In North America, there was a 4 percent dip among the top 25, which grossed $1.19 billion.

Still, the entire concert industry had a 15 percent increase in ticket sales compared with 2010, despite 20 percent fewer reported shows, ac-cording to Billboard.

U2’s success in 2011 was bolstered by the rescheduling of postponed concert dates from 2010 due to a back injury frontman Bono suffered that year.

REUTERS/Henry Romero

Bono (L) and Adam Clayton of Irish band U2 perform during their first concert at Azteca stadium in Mexico City May 11, 2011.

U2 has the edge: Band had 2011’s highest-grossing tour

AP Photo/Paramount Pictures, David James, FILE

FILE- In this file image released by Paramount Pictures, Tom Cruise plays Ethan Hunt, left, Paula Patton plays Jane, Simon Pegg plays Benji, and Jeremy Renner plays Brandt, right, in a scene from “Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol.”

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — The final box office weekend of 2011 should be led by Tom Cruise in “Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol,” with a not impossible domestic gross near $35 million for the four-day New Year’s weekend.

to OWN despite

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Associated Press Writer

PASADENA, California — As planet Earth rang in the new year, a different kind of countdown was hap-pening at the moon. After a 3½-month journey, a NASA spacecraft flew over the moon’s south pole, fired its engine and dropped into orbit Saturday in the first of two back-to-back arrivals over the New Year’s weekend.

Mission control at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory erupted in cheers and applause after receiv-ing confirmation that the probe was healthy and circling the moon. An engineer was seen on closed-circuit television blowing a noisemaker to herald the New Year’s Eve arrival.

“Everything went just as we hoped. The burn was spot-on,” chief scientist Maria Zuber of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said in a post-mission interview with The Associated Press. The team toasted sparkling

cider, but the celebration was brief. Despite the successful maneuver, the work was not over. Its twin still had to enter lunar orbit on New Year’s Day.

The Grail probes — short for Grav-ity Recovery and Interior Laboratory — have been cruising independently toward their destination since launch-ing in September aboard the same rocket on a mission to measure lunar gravity.

Hours before revelers in Times Square celebrated the New Year, Grail-A approached the moon and fired its engine for about 40 minutes to get captured into orbit. Deep space antennas in the California desert and Madrid tracked every move and fed real-time updates to ground control-lers

About 270 family members and friends of the mission team descended on the NASA campus to watch the drama unfold on a live feed. “This is great, a big relief,” deputy project

scientist Sami Asmar told the jubilant crowd.

Grail is the 110th mission to target the moon since the dawn of the Space Age including the six Apollo moon landings that put 12 astronauts on the surface. Despite the attention the moon has received, scientists don’t know everything about Earth’s near-est neighbor.

Why the moon is ever so slightly lopsided with the far side more moun-tainous than the side that always faces Earth remains a mystery. A theory put forth earlier this year suggested that Earth once had two moons that collided early in the solar system’s history, producing the hummocky region.

Grail is expected to help research-ers better understand why the moon is asymmetrical and how it formed by mapping the uneven lunar gravity field that will indicate what’s below the surface.

Agence France Presse

A bus driver in southern China who contracted the bird flu virus died Saturday, health authorities said, in the nation’s first reported human case of the deadly disease in 18 months. The man, surnamed Chen, died in Shenzhen -- a boom-town that borders Hong Kong where thousands of chickens have already been culled after three birds

tested positive for the H5N1 avian influenza virus in mid-December.

He developed a fever on Decem-ber 21 and was taken to hospital four days later, and diagnosed with severe pneumonia, said the health department in Shenzhen, a city of more than 10 million people. The 39-year-old then tested positive for the H5N1 virus, the department said, adding he had apparently had no direct contact with poultry in the

month before he was taken ill, nor had he left the city.

The H5N1 virus is fatal in hu-mans in about 60 percent of cases. However, it does not pass eas-ily among humans, and the World Health Organization says it has never identified a “sustained hu-man-to-human spread” of the virus since it re-emerged in 2003.

The health department in Guang-dong province, where Shenzhen is located, announced Saturday that the bus driver died after his lung, heart and liver functions deterio-rated. “So far, 120 people who have had close contact with him have not presented abnormal symptoms,” it said in a statement.

An official at the Shenzhen agriculture and fisheries bureau, surnamed Jiang, told AFP the bus driver had had no contact with birds. “So far, we have not received any reports of any birds being in-fected,” he said.

“It is unclear where the patient got the flu from. We will not make any plans to kill domestic birds un-less we know that was the source, or if there is any sign of birds being infected.” Chinese and Hong Kong authorities have been working close-ly together since December 21 after live poultry supplies were suspended to the glitzy financial hub following the discovery of infected birds.

A spokesman for the Hong Kong health department said in a state-ment authorities would heighten their vigilance “and continue to maintain stringent port health measures in connection with this development”.

Agence France Presse

A Swedish woman who lost her wedding ring 16 years ago was flabbergasted when she found it again, around a carrot growing in her garden, media reported Saturday. Lena Paahlsson had taken off the white gold ring before a Christmas baking session with her daughters in 1995, but it had disappeared from the kitchen counter where she placed it.

After looking everywhere, and even pulling up floorboards in the search, Paahlsson and her family, who live on a farm in northern Sweden, had given up on seeing the ring again, she told

the Dagens Nyheter daily.That was until October this

year, when she was picking the last carrots in her garden and suddenly found one with her ring glimmering around it.

The family thinks the ring must have fallen into the sink back in 1995 and been mixed with potato peels that were composted or fed to the sheep, since all the soil in the garden comes from composted vegetables and sheep dung. The ring no longer fits Paahlsson, but she told Dagens Nyheter she plans to have it enlarged. “I had given up hope. Now that I have found the ring again ... I want to be able to use it,” she said.

NASA probe circling the moon on New Year’s Eve

AP Photo/NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

This undated artist rendering provided by NASA on Dec. 21,2011 shows the twin Grail spacecraft mapping the lunar gravity field. The two probes are scheduled to enter orbit around the moon over New Year’s weekend.

AFP Photo/Mychele Daniau

A Swedish woman who lost her wedding ring 16 years ago was flabbergasted when she found it again, around a carrot growing in her garden, media have reported.

wedding ring after 16 years, on a carrot

IBP/afp

A pigeon flies over Hong Kong. A bus driver in southern China who contracted the bird flu virus has died, health authorities say, in the na-tion’s first reported human case of the deadly disease in 18 months

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City were the day’s big winnersas the chasing pack dropped points,Chelsea losing 3-1 at home to As-ton Villa and Tottenham Hotspurconceding a late goal to draw 1-1at Swansea City. Arsenal jumpedabove Chelsea into fourth placeafter Robin van Persie netted his35th league goal of the calendaryear in a 1-0 win at home to QueensPark Rangers.

United have 45 points from 19games and trail City on goal dif-ference before Roberto Mancini’sside travel to Sunderland. Spurs arethird with 39 points, having playedone game fewer than United, whileArsenal have 36 and Chelsea 34.

Obviously it’s a disappointment... we never expected that,” Unitedmanager Alex Ferguson told ESPNtelevision. “We lost two terriblegoals, you can’t do that in gameslike this.”

There had been a party atmo-sphere in the day’s early matchat Old Trafford as the crowd sang“Happy Birthday” to the 70-year-old Ferguson but the mood souredin the 16th minute when Berbatovgrabbed Rovers defender ChrisSamba’s shirt and pulled himdown.

Referee Mike Dean pointed tothe spot and Yakubu sent keeperDavid de Gea the wrong way. As if

-tended Blackburn’s lead six minutesafter the break when he shruggedoff challenges by Phil Jones andmakeshift centre back Michael Car-rick to shoot past De Gea.

Blackburn fans were still cel-ebrating the goal when Berbatovheaded in Rafael’s mis-hit shot toraise hopes of a United comeback.

BELOW-STRENGTH SIDE

The Bulgarian striker, who hit

found the net again just after thehour when he turned in an Antonio

below-strength side due to inju-

midfielder Anderson, continuedto press forward before a blunderby De Gea destroyed his team’srevival.

The Spanish keeper came outto meet a Morten Gamst Pedersencorner but Hanley beat him toit and the 20-year-old defenderheaded in to lift Blackburn off thebottom of the table to 19th. Withnews of United’s defeat knownbefore the other games kickedoff, Spurs and Chelsea had everyincentive to capitalise on the slip-up by Ferguson’s team.

Spurs went ahead at Swanseathrough Rafael van der Vaart’s44th-minute effort before visitingkeeper Brad Friedel failed to holdAngel Rangel’s cross and ScottSinclair equalised in the 84th.

Chelsea also went in front atStamford Bridge, striker DidierDrogba notching his 150th goalfor the club with a 23rd-minute

minutes later through Stephen Ire-land. Substitute Fernando Torres

hit the bar for the Londoners beforeVilla struck twice in three minutesthrough Stilian Petrov and Darren

on Chelsea.“We ended up paying a high

price for a couple of mistakes,”said Chelsea manager Andre Vil-las-Boas. The defeat allowedArsenal to jump into the top fouras the league’s leading scorer VanPersie netted his 17th goal of theseason with a low shot on the houragainst QPR.

The Dutchman thereby brokeFrenchman Thierry Henry’s Arse-nal record of 34 goals in a calendaryear. “It is absolutely outstanding,Robin has had an exceptional sea-son,” said managerArsene Wenger.New York Red Bulls striker Henrywas watching from the standswhile he waits for paperwork tobe completed before he can starta two-month loan deal with hisformer club.

“I don’t know insurance-wise ifthe deal is done or not but we haveto wait as well for internationalclearance so he will certainly notbe available at Fulham (on Monday)but maybe has a chance to be avail-able against Leeds in the FACup onJan. 9,” Wenger said.

Elsewhere, Stoke City drew 2-2at home to WiganAthletic, NorwichCity scored in stoppage time todraw 1-1 with Fulham and bottomclub Bolton Wanderers were held1-1 at home to WolverhamptonWanderers.

Reuters

LONDON - Didier Drogba cemented his name in Chelsea folklorewith his 150th goal for the club on Saturday but it was not enough toprevent a 3-1 home defeat by Aston Villa in the Premier League. The33-year-old striker’s 23rd-minute spot kick helped the Ivory Coast in-ternational join Stamford Bridge greats Peter Osgood and Roy Bentleyon 150 goals.

Drogba scored from the penalty spot where the late Osgood’sashes are buried and after converting his kick he pointed to the spot,waved at the crowd and blew a kiss. Only Frank Lampard (178), KerryDixon (193) and Bobby Tambling (202) have scored more goals forthe Londoners.

“It was an emotional goal for Didier and might be his last home ap-pearance before next month’s African Nations Cup,” manager AndreVillas-Boas told reporters. “We will try our hardest for him to be avail-able for the Portsmouth game (in the FA Cup on Jan. 8).”

Before the match with Villa, the superstitious Drogba said his 150thgoal could be a late “Christmas present for the fans” but defeat leftChelsea supporters fuming, with jeers echoing around Stamford Bridge

City.Drogba’s future at Stamford Bridge is also uncertain after Villas-

Boas said talks over a contract extension had not been resolved.Villas-Boas added the player was free to talk to other clubs in January

because his contract was due to run out at the end of the season.Drogba, who joined Chelsea from Olympique Marseille for a fee of 24

million pounds ($37.54 million) in 2004, has won three Premier Leaguetitles at the club. He has twice been voted Africa’s player of the year.

Blackburn shock United, Spurs and Chelsea slip upReuters

MANCHESTER - Manchester United wasted the chance to start the New Year at the top ofthe Premier League when they suffered a shock 3-2 home defeat by struggling Blackburn Rov-ers on Saturday. With leaders Manchester City not playing until Sunday, United went 2-0 downafter two goals by Yakubu Aiyegbeni. Dimitar Berbatov scored twice to bring the championslevel before Grant Hanley’s 80th-minute winner stunned Old Trafford.

Blackburn Rov-ers’ Ayegbeni Yakubu, center right, is con-gratulated by teammates after scoring against Manchester United during their English Premier League soccer match at Old Trafford Stadium, Man-chester, England, Saturday Dec. 31, 2011.

AP Photo/Jon Super

Drogba’s 150th goal in vain for Chelsea

AP Photo/Bogdan Maran

Chelsea’s Didier Drogba is celebrating after scoring from the penalty spot against Aston Villa, during their English Premier League soccer match at the Stamford Bridge sta-dium in London, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011.

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He had been suspended for thefirst four games of the shortenedNBA season because of a flagrantfoul against Dallas in the WesternConference playoffs last season.Bynum had been originally sus-pended for five games but that wasreduced because of the shortenedschedule.

The big man also had 13 re-bounds and two blocked shots asnew coach Mike Brown’s coach-ing style suited his play. “They’relooking for me a lot and I’m a focalpoint early in the offense,” Bynumtold reporters. But he paid a pricein the early going, he said.

“I was winded like crazy today,”the out-of-shape Bynum said. “Firstgame ... I couldn’t breathe in the

winded, his domination inside was

too much for the Nuggets to handle.“His power around the basket, wehaven’t seen it yet,” Denver coachGeorge Karl told reporters. “We’llhave to make some adjustments onhim, there’s no question.”

Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasoleach added 17 points for the Lak-ers, who had started the season0-2 but have now won three suc-cessive games. Al Harrington ledthe Nuggets with 21 points. TheNuggets had an 85-80 lead afterHarrington’s three-pointer withfive minutes to play.

But the Lakers pulled even at89-89 on Bryant’s two free throwsafter Derek Fisher’s hustle to savethe ball after missing a three-pointer. Then Bynum blocked NeneHilario’s layup attempt and got thego-ahead basket.

Meanwhile, Denver was draw-ing blanks. “We get three layupsand a couple free throws in thelast three minutes of the game andwe miss all of them,” Karl said.“We gave them too much hope,from Bynum and that loose ballfrom Fisher, and we never got thatdefensive confidence because wedidn’t rebound the ball.”

Agence France Presse

World number four Andy Mur-ray appointed Czech legend IvanLendl as his full-time coach onSaturday.

Murray has been working with-out a permanent coach since March,when he parted company with AlexCorretja, but he will join forces withLendl immediately in the build-upto January’s Australian Open.

Lendl’s appointment suggestsMurray is determined to do every-thing possible to end his long waitfor a first Grand Slam title.

The 24-year-old has lost threeGrand Slam finals and, although hereached the semi-finals of all fourGrand Slams last season, he is stillsearching for his first title at oneof the majors.

Lendl, 51, knows what it takesto succeed at the highest level, hav-ing won eight Grand Slam crownsduring his illustrious career, andMurray believes the 51-year-old’swealth of experience will be a sig-nificant asset.

“Ivan’s impact on the game isunquestionable and he brings ex-perience and knowledge that fewothers have, particularly in major

Denver Nuggets guard Ty Lawson, center, shoots as

Los Angeles Lakers center Andrew Bynum, left, and

forward Pau Gasol, of Spain, defend during the second

half of their NBA basketball game, Saturday, Dec. 31,

2011, in Los Angeles. The Lakers won 92-89.

Bynum powers Lakers past NuggetsReuters

as the Los Angeles Lakers came from behind to beat the Denver Nuggets 92-89 on Saturday. By-

fourth-quarter lead.

AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill

Murray hires Lendl as full-time coach

AP Photo/dapd, Thomas Lohnes

FILE - In this May 20, 2011 file photo Czech-born tennis legend Ivan Lendl poses in Frankfurt, Germany to promote the tennis tournament “Cup of Legends”.

Reuters

MADRID - Winger Jose Antonio Reyes has told AtleticoMadrid’s new coach Diego Simeone he wants to return to hisboyhood club Sevilla.

The 27-year-old formerArsenal player, a Seville native, toldAs sports daily on Sunday he had decided to leave even thoughSimeone was counting on him and added that his father’s healthhad been a factor in his decision to seek a move.

“Sevilla are giving me the chance to return home,” Reyessaid. “It’s an option I have on the table which might nevercome along again and I want to make the most of it.

“They operated on my father a few weeks ago and thebest thing for everyone is to go back. “I always wanted toreturn to Sevilla, it’s an exciting goal for me to return to theteam that gave me the chance to become a professional.”

Local media have reported that Sevilla will pay Atletico3.5 million euros ($4.5 million) to take Reyes back. He leftthe Andalusian club for Arsenal in 2004 for a fee of some 17million pounds ($26.4 million), a club record for the EnglishPremier League side at the time.

However, he struggled to adapt to life away from home andwas loaned to Real Madrid two years later before signing forAtletico in 2007.

He has clashed with several coaches, most recently Atleti-co’s Gregorio Manzano, who was sacked last month andreplaced by former Argentina captain Simeone. Reyesmade 21 appearances for Spain, scoring four goals, andlast played for the world and European champions inAugust 2006.

Atletico’s Reyes asks for move back to Sevilla

tournaments,” Murray said.“It was important to me that any

new person joining my team wasable to add fresh insight. I lookforward to working with him goingforward.”

Murray will start his 2012 sea-son with a first-round match againstKazakhstan’s Mikhail Kukushkinat the Brisbane International onTuesday.

In a statement released throughMurray’s management company,Lendl said: “I am really excitedto have the opportunity to workwith Andy.

“He is a unique talent and I lookforward to trying to help him reachhis goals.”

After a disappointing series ofdefeats following his AustralianOpen final loss to Novak Djokovicthis year, Murray finished the cam-paign in fine form, lifting titles inBangkok, Tokyo and Shanghai dur-ing a 17-match winning run.

But the Grand Slam prize con-tinues to elude him and he hopesLendl’s presence will play divi-dends in 2012, especially withthe Olympics also taking place inLondon in the summer.

Simon Fuller, Murray’s managerand business partner, said: “Andy’sachievements in 2011 have dem-onstrated the quality of his game.“Having a champion like Lendljoin his team will help him achievehis ultimate ambitions.”

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The American broke his left scapula and fractured two ribs. Ducati said there are no plans for surgery at the moment, but Hayden will have the scapula reas-sessed next week to check its progress.

The next few weeks will determine whether he will take part in the first winter test of 2012, which will begin on January 31 at Sepang.

“Obviously, injuries are never good,” Hayden said, “but it’s part of motorcycle racing. Just like at Valencia, it was kind of a freak accident. I was starting to train again, like I normally do during the winter, at a private track near my house.

Reuters

LONDON - Williams co-founder Patrick Head stepped down from the Formula One team’s board on Saturday after 34 years with the former champi-ons. Williams said in a statement that Head, 65, would remain a board director of Williams Hybrid Power, a subsidiary that develops flywheel technology for broader commercial use in buses and trains.

“Patrick and I have been in partner-ship for 34 years. During that time, he has been the leader of the technical team that has won the majority of our race wins and championships,” said team principal Frank Williams. “This is a re-markable legacy and one which will be treasured and definitely not forgotten.

“Patrick is a very straightforward, hard working and truly gifted engineer who comfortably operates at a world class level. I will miss him very much,

as I am sure his colleagues will, and he will always be welcome at Grove.” Head founded the team in 1977 with Frank Williams and, as technical director and head of engineering, helped them win 113 grands prix, nine constructors’ championships and seven drivers’ titles between 1980 and 1997.

The team, who last won a race in 2004, is listed as Williams Grand Prix Holdings after an initial public share offer in Frankfurt in March. Head sold more than half of his shares in Williams earlier in the year, netting more than $50 million.

He told Reuters at last month’s season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix that he was ending his active involvement in the F1 team. Last season was Williams’ worst in the sport, with just five points from 19 races and ninth place in the constructors’ standings.

“I certainly didn’t have an ambition to stop my involvement in Formula One with a season like this last one we’ve had behind us,” he said at Interlagos.

“But when I have a look at what specifically I can do to assist (technical director) Mike Coughlan and (Chief Op-erations Officer) Mark Gillan and (Head of Aerodynamics) Jason Somerville, I came to the conclusion that it isn’t really enough to justify me carrying on doing the same thing.”

Head steps down from Williams board

Nicky Hayden injured in training accident

Nicky Hayden’s participation in the first MotoGP test of 2012 is in doubt after the American was injured while training in Kentucky. Hayden was riding a bike for the first time since he broke his scaphoid at the Valencia Grand Prix in November when he crashed with another rider and landed on his shoulder.

“I came up behind another rider, and he went to move out of the way. I wasn’t going that fast, but he clipped my front wheel and I went down and landed pretty hard on my left shoulder, and that was it.

“It’s disappointing, but there’s nothing to do about it but heal quickly. Anyway, this doesn’t change my expectations for 2012 which, fortunately, is just around the corner.”