Head of Denpasar Government Tourism Office, Putu Budiasa, said that so far Denpasar still lacked of some 1,000 rooms. It was based on the high number of tourists staying in the city es-pecially during the peak seasons. The hotel room availability at this time came to some 7,500 rooms,

consisting of 3,500 rooms of star hotel and 4,000 rooms of budget hotel. They were still considered inadequate.

“We often see that in certain seasons the hotels are over-book-ing,” said Budiasa when contacted on Monday (Jan 9).

Bali Government had imposed

a moratorium to balance the de-velopment in Bali, but Budiasa impressed to ignore the rules by reason of lacking of hotel rooms. “Indeed, the moratorium has been enforced. But, in fact we in Den-pasar still need more hotel rooms to accommodate tourists,” he said.

Budiasa mentioned that not all areas in Denpasar could be built a hotel to meet the shortage of rooms. For example, continued Budiasa, it was no longer allowed to build hotels in Sanur area be-coming one of the tourist resorts in Denpasar. “Although we still open the opportunity to meet the hotel

room demand in Denpasar, it does not necessarily mean we liberate all areas to be built with a hotel. At the moment, the open area for ho-tel construction is location around the Jalan Gatot Subroto and Jalan Mahendradatta,” he explained.

The measure was also imple-mented to balance the tourist area in Denpasar. In consequence, the tourism area in Denpasar was not focused on particular areas. “We in Denpasar respect the morato-rium because it is intended for an even distribution of the develop-ment,” he said.

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PESHAWAR — A bomb targeting a militia opposed to the Pakistani Taliban exploded in a market close to the Afghan border Tuesday, kill-ing 25 people in the deadliest blast in the country in several months, officials said.

The explosion, likely detonated by remote control, hit vehicles being used by the militia in the Khyber re-gion, said local security officer Khan Dad Khan. It also wounded 24 people, said local government official Iqbal

Khan. Shopkeeper Sharif Gul said the blast ignited a huge fire.

“People were burning,” he said at a hospital in Peshawar, the main town in the northwest. “There was nothing to put out the fire.”

The army has supported the formation of anti-Taliban militias in northwest Pakistan, but the insur-gents have ruthlessly attacked the groups over the last two years. Many of the country’s bloodiest bombings have been against militia members or their families.

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Pakistani school girls and pedestrian move away from the site of a bomb blast in Peshawar on January 3, 2012. Another bomb blasted on Tuesday, January 10, 2012.

Bomb kills 25 in northwest Pakistan

Denpasar plans to add hotel rooms

The view of Sanur beach that surround by hotels in Denpasar City, Bali Island. Denpasar plan to add more hotel rooms to accomodate the increasing numbers of tourists that visit this capital city of Bali.

Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Moratorium or suspension of the construction of tourist accommodation in three regions such as Badung, Gianyar and Denpasar City means nothing. Even, Denpasar remains to widely open the opportunities for investors to build hotels in the culture-based city.

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Tabanan (Bali Post) –Bad weather started to affect essential need prices one of them vegetables as many

farmers are experiencing harvest failure. The increase seemed to will keep on going with the rain drops not ending such as potatoes from IDR 6,500 becomes IDR 7,200 per kg, broccoli from IDR 10,000 becomes IDR 15,000, Kubus increased to IDR 2,100 from IDR 1,800, spring onion up to IDR 4,500 from IDR 4,000 per kg, green vegetables became IDR 2,500 per kg from IDR 2,000 while celery up to IDR 9,000 from IDR 7,000 per kg and

went up,” Ni Ketut Warti, a vegetable supplier at Baturiti Kaja, Baturiti, last Monday (9/1) explained.

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Coordinator of the cadet disasterstandby (Tagana Bali), I Gusti PutraDhyana, when met in the refuge saidthat earlier when it rained heavily, the

the Denpasar Public Works Agencyand Regional Disaster Management

soil or waste that clogged the culvertdue to roadbreakdownonJalanGatotSubroto (Gatsu) Barat.

“It had been dredged at daytime,but since it rained again at night, theland was eroded again. Moreover,there was sand underneath so the wa-ter was consequently getting higherand higher,” he said.

According tohim, conditionof the

quite dangerous because the culvertwas deep enough and it had been

decided not to do the dredging during-

cers did not dare to directly performthe dredging because the conditiondid not permit,” he explained.

into the residential area at Pagutan.

higher so it then soaked the home

re-evacuated a family comprising4 persons. “The water was getting

evacuate another family. Initially,they indeed insisted on staying in therefuge,” he said.

He said that nearly all the residentsbecoming the victims of floodingcould not save the items like mat-tresses, electronic goods or othermeans. It happenedbecause itwas the

into their home yard. “By and large,the water only reached the smallcreek in the back, and maximally upto the front area. Yesterday, it sud-denly grew bigger. Since it was the

getting panic. Moreover, we shouldsave many children like toddlers,”he said.

Meanwhile, the Division Headof Rehabilitation Services of BPBDDenpasar, IMadePrapta, said that forthe time being the total loss reached

IDR 333 million. In details, theyconsisted of four houses worth IDR183 million and losses on the channelof culvert approximately worth IDR150million. “For the incident atBumiAyu Sanur, there is no evacuationbecause thewaterwas still knee-high.However, there were no losses, butthe assistance in the form of foodstuffand medical devices remained to begiven,” said Prapta.

-culties of the handling, according tothe Secretary of Denpasar Munici-pality, AAN Rai Iswara, happenedbecause there were so many utilitywires embedded between the chan-nels of culvert. In consequence, the

the dredging. “In years to come,we do expect the owners of cablechannel either telephone company,Telkom as well as the existing pro-viders must also take responsibil-ity,” said Rai Iswara while callingon the provider companies in orderthe cable installation could be donetechnically better to avoid the waterchannels or culverts. (par)

Mangupura (Bali Post)—With the implementation of toll

road development on the waters ofNusa Dua-Benoa, it is predicted if

Benoa will increase. The commu-nity urges the government again toimmediately realize theconstructionof ring road in the region.

Kuta who is also a legislator in theCommission B of Badung House, INyoman Karyana, said on Monday

Pratama was always crowded each

congestion in the road section couldnot be avoided despite the road wasrelatively short. “Stagnation canreach up to three hours though theJalan Pratama is short,” he said.

He explained the Jalan Pratamawas the main access for many tour-ism facilities in the Tanjung Benoaarea.Unfortunately, the roadsectionwas very narrow so it could not bepassed through by a lot of vehicles,especially tourist buses. The prob-lemhadbeenfrequentlycomplainedby residents and tourists.

Similar opinion was also ex-pressed by Chief of Bualu Cus-tomary Village, I Made Retha.According to him, so far thereality had showed if the roadsection was always crowded and

example, on the turn of the year

activities or economic activitiesare hampered. Moreover, it willbe getting more serious when thetoll road has been realized. Wedo hope the proposal of ring roadconstruction in the future can berealized,” he added.

Karyana said that people wor-ried if the impact of toll roadabove the waters was not antici-pated from now. The Nusa Dua– Benoa toll road was ascertained

Dua, especially on Jalan Pratama.On that account, Karyana urgedagain the Badung Regency toimmediately make detailed engi-

road in the Nusa Dua area as ananticipative measure. He expected

2012 Budget Amendment so theroad concerned could be accom-plished simultaneously with theNusa Dua – Benoa toll road.

The needs of adding the roadsection in the region, he said, wasurgent. If the Jalan Pratama waswidened and remained in two-waylane, it was impossible becausethe development was very dense.“Hence, we propose the JalanPratama could be made one-wayonly.The existing road is then con-tinued with the ring road above orat the edge of mangrove area andthen connected to Siligita intersec-tion,” said Karyana. (kmb25)

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Tabanan (Bali Post) –The heavy rain at Tabanan last

Monday (9/1) almost caused casu-alties as two people, Ni NyomanAsri (35) from Banjar Dalem Kerti,Kukuh Village, Marga and MadeSudiarsa (45) fromBanjarBatusesa,CandikuningVillage,Baturiti,wentcritical after hit by tree with seriouswounds on the head and feet. Nowtheyare treatedatSanglahHospital,Denpasar and Tabanan Hospital.

Asri around 3 pm local time whileheavy rain passing by. The priest’swife was about to see a baby withother two people and chose to walkdue to the rain.Yet while passing byRayaStreet atBanjarDukuhMung-gal, Kukuh Village, a huge Genitritree suddenly fell and hit Asri’sbody with its branch. Her left handand feet were wounded also brokenmoreover she fainted. She was thenbrought to Tabanan Hospital thensent to Sanglah Hospital. Not only

victim, the tree also collapsed threeelectricity poles where one of themon the endof the roadhit aDaihatzuGrand Max car DK 972 F. Luckilythe driver Komang Sija Adnyanawas safe. “The incident went sofast,” Sija stated.

30 minutes later, another hugetree fell and hit Made Sudiarsa atBaturitiRayaStreet,BanjarTaman-tanda, Batunya Village. During theincident around 3.30 pm local time,

at Beratan Lake. As the heavy rainkeep on pouring, victim who wason his motorcycle could not avoidthe tree falling at him. His head gotserious wounds and now treated atTabanan Hospital.The incident did

by police. Head ofTabanan Police,GAPC Dekananto Purwono, cameto location at Kukuh Village,Marga. Purwono asked the peopleto be always aware in this rainyseason.

Hit by falling tree

Two residents critical one car damaged

Tanjung BenoaRegency Govt urged to build ring road

News International4 Wednesday, January 11, 2012

The National League for De-mocracy (NLD) led by Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi boycot-ted what it saw as flawed elections in 2010 that signaled the end of half a century of military rule in the former Burma but it will contest by-elections in April.

Suu Kyi’s stature alone should en-sure it gains a presence in parliament but the party can only live off its role in the fight for democracy for so long. It badly needs to develop policies and then win over voters who come of age in the new parliamentary era.

Win Tin has a mind as sharp as when he was a journalist challeng-ing the brutal army dictatorship, which earned him 19 years in jail, but the longtime aide to Suu Kyi is 82 years old and many other NLD leaders aren’t much younger.

“Our party is too old,” Win Tin told Reuters, perched on the edge of his chair and leaning on a walking cane for support. “No one has suf-fered oppression like us, but after serving so long in prison, we’ve been rather disconnected.”

“We have youth leaders who are

over 50 -- one is even a grandfather. But now that there’s an opening, our party needs new life, new faces, new blood if we want to survive and make a difference. It’s time for us to make way for a new force.”

Suu Kyi has taken the leap of faith needed to commit her party to a po-litical system still controlled by the army and its proxies in parliament, a move welcomed by Western coun-tries cautiously renewing ties with the nominally civilian government.

In a landmark visit to Myanmar last week, British Foreign Secretary William Hague told the former junta leaders in charge of the government to ensure the polls were free and fair, making that one of the condi-tions for lifting sanctions imposed for human rights abuses under the military regime.

Reuters

CAIRO - Islamists aim to deepen their control over Egypt’s lower house of parliament on Tuesday in a final phase of voting overshadowed by a threat from a liberal party to boycott elections for the upper chamber.

Banned under Hosni Mubarak, the Muslim Brotherhood has emerged as a major winner from the uprising that toppled him, ex-ploiting a well-organized support base in the first free legislative vote in decades. Islamists of various stripes are expected to win 60 per-cent of the 498-seat lower house, with the Brotherhood taking some 41 percent, by its own count.

Run-offs scheduled to take place on Tuesday and Wednesday and a rerun in a district where the vote was cancelled in the first round due to irregularities, are set to fill the 11 percent of seats as yet undecided, according to Brother-hood figures. The outcome of the runoffs and rerun are unlikely, however, to alter the dominance of the Islamists who now look set to wield major influence over the shape of a new constitution to be

drafted by 100-strong body that the new assembly will pick.

The Brotherhood has promised that Egyptians of all persua-sions will have their say. The strong Islamist performance has alarmed some liberal Egyptians and Western governments that backed Mubarak, but it is far from clear whether rival Islamists will form any alliance in the new assembly.

“With the exception of the par-ties that are part of our coalition, we stand at an equal distance from all parties,” Essam al-Erian, deputy head of the Muslim Broth-erhood’s Freedom and Justice Party, told Reuters.

“So far, we have begun limited consultations to gather the opin-ions of the blocs, parliamentary bodies and different parties but I will not announce these alliances until before parliament sits.”

Egypt’s staggered three-stage parliamentary election began on November 28 and drew an unprecedented turnout. Under a complex system, a third of the seats are reserved for individuals, and some of these will be decided in the runoffs.

Agence France Presse

Beijing said Monday that a new US defence strategy focused on countering China’s rising power was based on “groundless” charges, and insisted it posed no threat to any nation.

President Barack Obama un-veiled the strategy Thursday, calling for a leaner US military focused on countering China’s rising power and signalling a shift away from large ground wars against insurgents.

But China, whose People’s Lib-eration Army has benefited from a huge and expanding budget boosted

by the nation’s rapid economic growth, said the fears were base-less, urging the United States to “play a more constructive role”.

“The charges against China in this document are groundless and untrustworthy,” foreign ministry spokesman Liu Weimin said in response to a question from state media about whether China poses a threat to US security.

Liu was referring to the strategy document released last week, which said the growth of China’s military power “must be accompanied by greater clarity of its strategic in-tentions in order to avoid causing

friction in the region”.“To maintain the peace, stability

and prosperity of the Asia-Pacific region serves the common interest of all countries within the region,” he added. “We hope the US side will play a more constructive role to this end.”

Boycott threat overshadows last stage of Egypt vote

REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El-Ghany

Army soldiers transport a ballot box to a counting centre after voting closed at a polling station during the last day of parliamen-tary elections at Shubra in El-Kalubia, on the outskirts of Cairo, January 4, 2012.

China criticises new US defence policy

US President Barack Obama speaks about the Defense Stra-tegic Review, outlining Defense

budget priorities and cuts, during a press briefing at the

Pentagon in Washington, DC, on January 5. IBP/afp

Myanmar’s pro-democracy

leader Aung San Suu Kyi

waves her party flag as

she watches a charity music

show, orga-nized by Na-

tional League for Democracy (NLD) party, at Myanmar Con-vention Center

in Yangon December 30,

2011.

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Analysis: Suu Kyi’s party seeks makeover to grab Myanmar’s youthReuters

YANGON - With his walking stick, long white hair and thick spec-tacles from a bygone age, Win Tin embodies the challenge facing the party that has led the campaign for democracy in Myanmar but now needs new blood to secure its future.

Activities Wednesday, January 11, 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

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

IBP

KUTA - To celebrate Australia Day on the 26th January, Gracies says “G’day mate” as it stage an Aussie extravaganza at Gracie Kelly’s Irish Pub. From 7.00 P.M onwards you can be sure that Thurs-day, 26 January will be a big night out at Gracie’s as it celebrate Australia day.

They will be offering Special priced Australian Beers and Wines, serving up good old Aussie Tucker and digging into Aussie meat pies, Bangers and Mash and other Aussie favourites on the Gracie’s menu. Let’s not forget our Australian day Quiz and great Live Music by our resident band, Gracie’s famous Rais Paddies band who will take to the stage to give you some foot stomping music.

Win some great prizes and donate some money to the Dynasty Charity effort in our special Two Up Competition.

Australia Day at Bali Dynasty Resort

Wednesday, January 11, 2012 6 News International

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Cameron himself ordered theLeveson inquiry amid a spirallingscandal over the illegal hacking ofmobile phone voicemails by theNews of the World, Murdoch’sBritish Sunday tabloid, which wasshut down in July.

Responding to a report inTuesday’s Times newspaper,which claimed he was “99.9percent certain” to be summoned,Cameron’s Downing Street of-fice said “of course he wouldattend”, but no request had beenreceived yet.

Also likely to be invited areCameron’s predecessor, GordonBrown, and current Labour Partyleader d Miliband, the Timesreported.

“I can’t see how you can lookat the relationship between thepress and politicians without talk-ing to top politicians, includingthe prime minister, the previousprime minister and the leader ofthe opposition,” a source close tothe inquiry told the paper.

The prime minister is likely tobe quizzed over his 26 meetingswith Murdoch executives andabout his hiring of ex-News of theWorld editor Andy Coulson, whoresigned from the paper in 2007over the scandal.

Current and former editorsof Murdoch’s tabloid The Sundefended the newspaper at the in-quiry on Monday, saying it couldbe a “powerful force for good”.

Staff at Britain’s best-sellingnewspaper told the inquiry inLondon that they had seen noevidence that the The Sun wasguilty of the hacking that led tothe closure of its weekly sisterpaper the News of the World.

Kelvin MacKenzie -- who asSun editor from 1981 to 1994presided over colourful head-lines such as “Gotcha”, aboutthe sinking of the Argentinewarship General Belgrano dur-ing the Falklands War -- said thepaper had since become morecautious.

“Towards the end of my timeas editor I was less bullish thanI was, perhaps, during the 80s,”MacKenzie said.

Agence France

A New ealand woman who allegedly fooled her family for ninemonths into believing she was pregnant walked into a hospital saying shehad gone into labour and abducted a baby, police said on Tuesday.

When 24-year-old Neha Narayan, of Fijian-Indian descent, told herpartner she was about to give birth last Wednesday he dropped her offat Auckland’s Middlemore hospital where she was able to roam thematernity ward.

She was found holding one baby which she said she comforting andlater she was handed an Indian baby by a hospital staff member whobelieved she was the mother, police spokeswoman Ana-Mari Gates-Bowey said.

“On her way out of the hospital, when she had a small two-day-oldIndian child with her that she’d taken from the birthing unit, a nursestopped her in her tracks, and asked her to come back inside,” she toldRadio Newstalk B.

The parents also saw her carrying their child and alerted other staffwho called the police as Narayan made her way to where her partner waswaiting in the car.

Narayan has been charged with abduction and will appear in courtlater in the month.

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An outspoken former editor of Rupert Murdoch’s daily tabloid The Sun told Britain’s phone-hacking inquiry Monday that the newspaper had become far more cautious in recent years.

Cameron will attend hacking inquiry if asked: Downing StAgence France Presse

British Prime Minister Da id Cameron on esday said that he wo ld appear before theco ntry s phone-hacking in iry, if asked, following reports he was d e to be s mmoned toe plain his links to R pert M rdoch.

‘Fake pregnancy’ woman in N.Zealand baby snatch: police

ven, he reminded the short-age of hotel room did not meanif his party would issue thepermits to investors easily.“We still consider the existingrules. Recently, we openedthe area for hotel building onJalan Gatot Subroto and JalanMahendradatta and it does notmean that all investors wishingto build there will be permitted.We remain to consider the im-pact in the future,” he said.

Previously, Secretary of theIndonesia Hotels and Restau-rants Association (PHRI) ofBali Chapter, Ferry Markushoped that government couldperform an in-depth studyregarding the moratorium toknow for sure about the carry-ing capacity of the accommoda-tion in Bali. “The existing studyis only based on the occupancyrates and it does not sufficiently

indicate if Bali has had exces-sive hotel rooms. It must befollowed by in-depth study thathas not been available today,”he said.

Ferry asked the governmentto give the authority to PHRIfor issuing the license of ac-commodation. As a hotel as-sociation, PHRI was expectedto provide recommendationsfor hotel license. “Based on ourrecommendation, the develop-ment of accommodation canbe well arranged, and there isa synergy between governmentand PHRI to arrange the tour-ism industry,” he said.

This moratorium policy isintended for the equitable de-velopment of tourism in Bali.With the moratorium, the in-vestors are expected to turnto Buleleng or KarangasemRegency. (par)

Islamist militants with linksto al- aida have carried outhundreds of bombings in Paki-stan since 2007, killing manyhundreds of soldiers, police,

-ians.

The Pakistani army has car-ried out offensives against themilitants in their strongholdsin tribally administered regionslike Khyber, but the insurgentshave proven to be a resilient

reports of peace talks between

some insurgent factions and thegovernment in recent months.

While the frequency of large-scale attacks outside of thenorthwest has decreased overthe last 18 months, the violencehas triggered fears in the Westthat nuclear-armed Pakistan maybe buckling under extremism.

The last major bombing wasin September close to the SwatValley, when a suicide bomberhit a funeral of a tribal elderopposed to the Taliban, killing31 people.

Bomb...

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JAKARTA - Indonesia`s planta-tion commodity exports are predicted to increase by up to US$8.4 billion to US$35.72 billion last year from US$27.35 billion the year before.

“The increase was fueled by higher commodity prices in the international market,” Director Gen-eral of Plantation at the Agriculture Ministry Gamal Nasir said here on Monday.

He said at least five commodities were listed as the biggest foreign exchange earners. They were palm oil, cocoa, rubber, coconut and copra, and coffee.

Palm oil was predicted to contrib-ute US$19.05 billion to the country`s foreign exchange earnings from planta-

tion commodities, followed by rubber US$12.4 billion, cocoa US$1.284 billion, coconut and copra US$1.198 billion, coffee US$1.09 billion.

By volume, the country`s plantation commodity exports were predicted to fall to 24.5 million tons in 2011 from 25.6 million tons in 2010, he said.

Until the third quarter of 2011, plantation commodity exports reached 18.4 million tons, he said.

He expressed hope that the global market for plantation commodities in 2011 would remain unchanged this year.

The increase in the value of planta-tion commodity exports was also the result of restructuring program aimed at increasing production, productivity and quality of plantation commodities, he said.

Indonesia now had 92 outlying islets of which 31 were inhabited, the ministry`s director general of

maritime affairs, coastal areas and islets, Sudirman Saad said here on Monday.

The islets had large natural resources which served as develop-ment asset. However, they lacked human resources to develop the natural resources, he said.

“In general, the outlying islets lag behind other parts of the country in terms of infrastructures,” he said at a function marking the signing of a

cooperation agreement between the ministry and Hasanuddin University on development of Sebatik island off the eastern coast of Kalimantan island.

To that end, he said the ministry would team up with institutes of higher learning to speed up the development of the outlying islets, particularly the inhabited islets bor-

dering other countries in a compre-hensive and integrated manner.

The 12 islets are Sebatik, Nu-sakambangan, Miangas, Marore, Marampit, Lingayan, Maratua, Wetar, Alor, Enggano, Simuk and Dubi Kecil. He said the government would gradually develop 92 islets across the country until 2014.

Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Jakarta and Canberra on Monday agreed to boost their fight against people-smug-gling, amid concerns that Indonesia’s planned visa policies may result in a surge of asylum-seekers to Australia.

Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd met his Indonesian counterpart Marty Natalegawa in Jakarta to discuss joint efforts to combat the grow-ing number of illegal migrants using Indonesia as a springboard to Australia by boat, often in perilous journeys that end in tragedy.

“What we have agreed is to now embrace a programme of joint cooperation on the question of document fraud and document identity,” Rudd told reporters without elaborating.

Asylum seekers are suspected of entering Indo-nesia or other transit countries with forged travel or identity documents, before trying to head illegally for Australia. Last month, an overloaded vessel,

carrying about 250 mostly Iranian and Afghan asylum seekers, sank off Indonesia’s eastern Java, killing all but 47 people on board.

Indonesia’s proposal to relax visa restrictions for some foreign citizens, including major migrant source countries such as Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, leading to fears in Australia that more asylum-seekers will try to enter.

Rudd said Natalegawa had “confirmed” that new arrangements would be “subject to normal review within the Indonesian system” and handled by relevant officials and agencies.

Natalegawa said while new regulations require visitors to apply for visas in their home countries instead of Indonesia, their applications will still be processed in Jakarta “in most instances” and subject to proper procedures.

“It is not on arrival or visa-free facilitation,” Natalegawa told reporters. Besides people smug-gling, Rudd also discussed cooperation in trade, the economy and natural disasters management.

Associated Press

TIMIKA — Two Indonesian workers were shot to death in an attack near Freeport-McMoRan’s gold and copper mine. Freeport Indonesia spokesman Ramdani Sirait said the victims were employees of a contractor who were by car near the mining town of Tembagapura.

Sirait says initial reports indicate that gunmen fired on the vehicle. Police were not immediately available for comment on Monday’s attack.

The mine in restive Papua province is run by a subsidiary of the Phoenix, Arizona-based Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. It has been hit with arson, roadside attacks and blockades since operations began in the 1970s.

Attack on car near Freeport mine in Papua kills 2

Indonesia, Australia boost RI s plantation commodity exports up $8.4 billion

Government to develop 12 border islets in 2012Antara

JAKARTA - The government has set itself the target of developing 12 inhabited islets bordering other countries this year, a Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry official said.

Indonesian policemen put out fire after an attack that killed two of Freeport’s contractors in Timika on January 9, 2011. Two contractors working for US company Freeport-McMoRan were found dead on January 9 near a giant gold-and-copper mine that has been hit by a strike and violence for months, the company said. AFP PHOTO

8 International Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Bali Today

Birdsongs incessantly greetthe tranquil countryside nature.Sometimes, the birds perchon the green branches and

Underneath appear some duck

through near them.

Hamlet, Kukuh Village, Marga

Denpasar is indeed still natural

south and north. Similarly, thehamlet preserves some large

public drinking, bathing and

Tatag, a unique tourism village worth exploring

Birdsongs incessantly greet the tranquil countryside nature. Sometimes, the birds perch on the green branches and then fly freely while exulting. Underneath appear some duck play-ing in the rice field.

and ceremonial purposes. Mean

dancing and playing Balinese

pigs and cattle are the routine ac

Ketut Budiarta.

nature, this village still has metenor a Balinese traditional houseunit belonging to the ancient

typical entrance gates lookingclassical. More strategically, it isvery close to Alas Kedaton tour

remain to cook in traditionalmanner,” he said.

gone into and out a tree cave, the

traveling about 1,200 meters, participants had arrived at the AlasKedaton tourist object.

tourists having a promenade

tourists also rode bicycle taking

ers, there are also entrepreneurs

village.

Village into a tourist destination,

tours,” he hoped. (B N 5)

Malaysia. Suarsa said that the

ing January through November2011.

million tourists

Tourists from Taiwan increasingAntara

Denpasar he n mber ofto rists from aiwan came toBali in an ary thro gh No-ember 2 was 2 , 4 peo-

ple. It was increasing 4.5compare to the same periodin 2 which was ,4to rists.

IBP/Net

Tourists doing water activities and sunbathing in Pecatu beach. The number of Taiwanesse to Bali are increasing.

Balinese Culture

9International Wednesday, January 11, 2012

SEMUR LIDAHOVERVIEW:

Although native to Indonesia, the nutmeg is not often

used in cooking. One exception is the braised meat dish

known as Semur, which is generally made with beef.

This Balinese version uses ox tongue and partners the

inimitable fragrance of nutmeg with sweet soy sauce.

INGREDIENTS:

2,5 lt (10 cups) water

600 gr (1 ¼ lb) ox tongue, washed well

1 cup beef stock

4 tbsp sweet soy sauce (kecap manis)

2 tbsp thin soy sauce

¾ tsp ground black pepper

¼ tsp freshly grated nutmeg

4 ea salam leaves

3 fragrant lime leaves

3 tbsp fried shallots

3 medium size potatoes, peeled and cut

in 2 cm (3/4 in dice)

Fried shallots to garnish

PREPARATION:

1. Bring water to boil in a heavy stockpot, add beef

spice paste and salam leaves, whole ox tongue and

bring back to boil.

2. Reduce heat and simmer for approximately 3 hours

or until tongue is cooked and very tender.

3. Plunge ox tongue into ice water and cool for 5

minutes. Peel skin off with a sharp knife.

4. Slice ox tongue in thin even slices and place in

saucepan.

5. Fill up with beef stock and add all remaining

ingredients. Bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer for 10

minutes.

6. Add potatoes and continue to simmer until potatoes

are cooked.

7. Garnish with fried shallots.

situation and condition, as provedby their archeological and historical

archipelago namely in Sumatera,

belonged to prehistoric and historic

and immovable monuments, and

second one is the living monu

local people as seen in Bali.

been removed to the government

its original places, standing alone

ronment and human activities.

our cultural identity as the basic

cultural appreciation and respon

Supporting cultural tourism andcultural diplomacy to build up a

understanding.

like to lose their national culturalroots and so it is a national taskto protect the archaeological heri

tioned above, but actually also

could damage the monuments,

that any archaeological protection trough preservation and

a national cultural property bear

keeping the beauty and the attrac

the Dutch have issued MonumentsOrdinance (Monumenten Ordon

then recently our government have

culture, because it is very natural

have been built through a very long

their national spirit as the very im

(B N Doc)

Community - Based Conservation in Bali

Wednesday, January 11, 201210 InternationalDestinations

IBP

Suluban Beach is one of the places of interest belonging to Badung regency. It is known for its beautiful beach along with amazing wave; best for surfing. The natural beauty of the southern tip of Bali’s highland with its hollowing waves and peaceful surroundings has at-tracted more and more visitors to enjoy its serenity and peacefulness. The water is also clear.

Located a few kilometers north of the ancient temple of Uluwatu, the beach is facing the vast Indian Ocean. From the parking area one must descend down stairs and pass through long narrow gap of cliff before reaching the large waves make it one of the best places for surfing in all of Bali, as surfing lovers throughout the world have already discovered.

This beach is located not so far to the north of Uluwatu, adjacent to the surf beach Bingin and Labu-

han Sait.Suluban derived from the Ba-

linese language “Mesulub” which means “to run or pass under some-thing.”

Suluban Beach named, because visitors who want to go there must go through a rock cave on the beach before finally reaching abroad, white sand with the waves roaring fun for surfers.

Coastal sea water is very clear and the waves are high enough, so that is the best known beach among surfers. In the afternoon, we could see a beautiful sunset views.

Some tourism facilities such as restaurants, bars, surf equipment rental and repair shop is available. This beach is not too crowded like Kuta or Dreamland.

It is so very romantic to spend time with your partner or a walk with the family.

On the rocks there is a gazebo that allows us to take photos with perfect and is the best place to look around.

Suluban beach

IBP/Net

Wednesday, January 11, 2012 11

BUSINESSInternational

Associated Press

IN APOR Oil prices rose to near 102a barrel Tuesday in Asia amid growing investoroptimism the U.S. economy is improving, whichwould boost crude demand.

Benchmark crude for February delivery rose66 cents to 101.97 a barrel at late afternoon Sin-gapore time in electronic trading on the NewYorkMercantile xchange.Thecontract fell 25cents tosettle at 101.31 in New York on Monday.

In London, Brent crude was up 75 centsat 113.20 a barrel on the IC Futures ex-change.

Oil prices have hovered above 100 so farthis month as signs of a strengthening U.S.

Traders will be closely watching fourth-quarter corporate earnings reports, which beganMonday, along with the latest data on retailsales, jobless claims and consumer sentimentlater this week. The Dow Jones industrial aver-

age rose 0.3 percent Monday.“Oil feels like a market that wants to head

lower but is being precluded by a steady toneto equities, particularly within the U.S., wherefavorable economic guidance continues to beseen out of most releases,” energy analyst Rit-terbusch and Associates said in a report.

Tension between Iran and Western powersover Iran’s nuclear program has also helped keepcrude above 100.The U.S. has recently enactednew sanctions targeting Iran’s central bank andits ability to sell petroleum abroad, and uropeis planning to restrict oil imports from Iran.

Iran has threatened to close the key Strait ofHormuz at the mouth of the Persian Gulf if thecountry’s oil exports are undermined by U.S.or uropean sanctions.

In other Nymex trading, heating oil gained0.6 cent at 3.08 per gallon and gasoline futuresadded 0.7 cent at 2.77 per gallon. Natural gasfutures were down 0.9 cent to 3.00 per 1,000cubic feet.

Annual export growth of 13.4 percent inDecember was in line with expectations, albeitthe slowest since November 2009 except fora February distortion caused by Lunar NewYear holidays.

But it was a big downside surprise forimport growth that caught investor attention,sinking to a 26-month low of just 11.8 percentyear-on-year versus the 17 percent forecast byeconomists in the benchmark Reuters poll.

“We thought imports would surprise quitea bit on the downside and generally the im-plication is negative. Domestic demand isslowing down very quickly,” hang hiwei,chief China economist at Nomura in HongKong, told Reuters.

hang said the scale of drops in annualimport growth for domestic consumption, at13.5 percent in December versus November’s27.4 percent, and imports for processing tradeat 6.2 percent versus about 11 percent in No-vember, were crucial.

“That means going forward for the nextcouple of months exports will decline witha very high certainty,” he said. “This trade

quarter is going to be very tough.”The December trade data is a key link in

a series of activity indicators to be publishedby China over the next two weeks, includingfourth-quarter gross domestic product thatis likely to show the world’s second-largesteconomy suffering its worst quarter in 2-years.

Financial markets took the data in theirstride, with hopes that it will prompt a relax-ation of monetary policy offsetting fears overslowing growth.

Gains in Chinese stocks accelerated mod-estly after the data, with Shanghai’s mainindex up around 1.6 percent by 0515 GMT,broadly in line with other Asian marketsoutside Japan, while the yuan strengthenedto 6.3122 per dollar.

Reuters

O YO -Asian shares made solid gainsand the euro rose on Tuesday, but concernsover euro zone sovereign funding ahead ofkey auctions outweighed some optimismon the economic outlook elsewhere andkept investors cautious about taking riskierpositions.

shares outside Japan rose 1.6 percent as thematerials sector outperformed after AlcoaInc, the largest U.S. aluminium producer,gave a positive outlook for world demand.

Alcoa partly helped liftAustralian sharesand also Japan’s Nikkei, which closed up0.4 percent.

uropean markets were expected to openhigher.

Financial spreadbetters expectedBritain’sFTS 100 to open as much as 0.9 percenthigher, Germany’s DAX to open with a gainof up to 1.2 percent, and France’s CAC-40to start up as much as 0.9 percent.

China’s exports and imports grew attheir slowest pace in more than two years inDecember as foreign and domestic demandebbed,puttingexport growth for themonthat13.4 percent compared with a year earlier.

With uropean woes overshadowingrecent positive economic data from theUnited States, market players sought signsof how the euro zone debt crisis might affectAsian growth.

“ xternal demand is expected to shrinkdue to the festering debt crisis in urope,China’s largest export destination, addinguncertainties to the export outlook in 2012,”said Nie Wen, analyst at Hwabao Trust inShanghai.

Still, China shares jumped on Tuesdayon hopes for an easier monetary policy,pushing Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Indexup 1.0 percent and Shanghai shares morethan 2.3 percent higher, in part also dueto an improved technical outlook.

Despite anticipated policy stimulus,downside risks for China remain includingside-effects from the slowdown in the prop-erty market, said Andrew Pease, Sydney-based chief investment strategist at Russell

Pease said the current environment callsfor a neutral stance in allocations and beingopportunistic in hunting for bargains, suchas a 10-15 percent drop in equities markets,or corporate credit.

He said investors should avoid marketsthat performed strongly in the past coupleof years, such as U.S. Treasuries, and theyshould be cautious about commodities untilChina’s growth prospects are clear.

London copper rose 1 percent to 7,574a tonne, after the trade data showed copperimports by China, which accounts for 40

-sumption, rose 12.6 percent in December

More policy support seen as China import Reuters

B I IN - China s e ports and imports grew at their slowest pace in more thantwo years in December as foreign and domestic demand ebbed, data showed on

esday, bolstering e pectations of more policy action from Bei ing to s pport theworld s n mber two economy.

Oil rises to near $102 on improving US economy

AP Photo/Koji Sasahara

Currency traders work under an electronic monitor screen showing the U.S. dollar currency rate against the Japanese yen, top, and Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index at a foreign exchange dealing room in Tokyo Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012, after a three-day holiday weekend. Asian stocks plodded higher Tuesday, tracking slight gains on Wall Street and assisted by an absence of bad financial news.

Shares, euro rise even though Europe worries

from November.The euro rose 0.2 percent to 1.2790 on

short covering, recovering from 16-monthlows of 1.2666 hit on Monday, but wasvulnerable given no fundamental reasonsfor its rebound.

“ URUSD continues to trade below1.2800, and prospects for UR remain

bleak,” analysts at BNP Paribas said.Italian and Spanish debt auctions this

week are the focus of the market as the twobig euro zone economies are seen as mostat risk from the crisis.

A plunge in euro zone government

ability eroded capital at uropean bankswhich own large amounts of such bonds.Problems faced by UniCredit, Italy’s larg-est bank by assets, only underscored the

fears about the debt crisis unsettling the

Asian credit markets were on the defen-sive side on Tuesday, with spreads on theiTraxxAsiaex-Japan investmentgrade indexsticking to late Monday levels.

Entertainment InternationalWednesday, January 11, 201212

The Little Willies’ second album, “For The Good Times” — a Kris Kristofferson composition made into a country standard by Ray Price — once again puts a loose-yet-sophisticated spin on several old-school classics.

Truly a group project, the Little Willies focus on individual musicianship and ensemble inter-action. Guitarist Jim Campilongo especially, is single-note-style treasure; bassist Lee Alexander,

guitarist-singer Richard Julian, and drummer Dan Rieser also return and make important contribu-tions. Julian occasionally takes lead vocals, sound-ing especially effective on the great, rarely covered Willie Nelson ballad, “Permanently Lonely.”

“For The Good Times” lacks the freewheeling fun of the Little Willies’ 2006 self-titled debut. Still, the imaginative updates on songs by Johnny Cash, Lefty Frizzell, Loretta Lynn and Parton reach beyond careful reverence or tongue-in-cheek country posturing, translating classic tunes in a way that shows off Jones’ sly phrasing and the musical talents of her band mates.

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — “Hugo” filmmaker Martin Scorsese and “Midnight in Paris” creator Woody Allen were among nomi-nees Monday for top filmmaking honors from the Directors Guild of America. Also nominated for the 64th annual Directors Guild honors were David Fincher for the thriller “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”; Michel Ha-zanavicius for the silent film “The Artist”; and Alexander Payne for the family drama “The Descendants.”

The only first-time con-tender among the nominees, French filmmaker Haza-navicius could emerge as a front-runner for “The Artist,” his black-and-white throwback to early Hol-lywood that has been a fa-vorite at earlier Hollywood honors.

Scorsese now has nine Directors Guild nomina-tions and is a past feature-film winner for 2006’s “The Departed,” as well as a TV drama winner a year ago for an episode of “Boardwalk Empire.” The family film “Hugo” was a departure for Scorsese, known for dark crime tales, and the movie also was his first shot in 3-D.

Allen has been nomi-nated five times and won for 1977’s “Annie Hall.” He

had not been nominated since his 1989 “Crimes and Misdemean-ors” but has been on a critical and commercial resurgence for the romantic fantasy “Midnight in Paris,” his biggest hit in de-cades.

This was the third nomination for Fincher, who also was in the running a year ago for “The Social Network.” Payne was nominated one time previously,

for 2004’s “Sideways.”Missing out on a nomination

was three-time Directors Guild winner Steven Spielberg for “War Horse.” Also left out was Terrence Malick for “The Tree of Life,” an epic family drama that won top honors at the Cannes Film Festival but was a love-it-or-hate-it title among critics and fans.

The Directors Guild field is one of Hollywood’s most accurate forecasts for who will be in the running at the Academy Awards, whose nominations come out Jan. 24. Most guild contenders go on to grab nomina-tions for the Oscars. Only six times in the previous 63 years has the guild’s winner failed to receive the directing prize at the Oscars.

Last year, Tom Hooper won at both the Direc-tors Guild and the Oscars for “The King’s Speech.” Fincher had been the fa-vorite to win at the Direc-tors Guild for “The Social Network,” but key prizes from Hollywood trade guilds built late momentum for “The King’s Speech,” which dominated the Os-cars with four awards, in-cluding best picture. The guild will announce its winners at a Jan. 28 din-ner, with Kelsey Grammer as host.

Reuters

LOS ANGELES - Liam Hems-worth’s star has yet to rise, but the 21-year-old actor is continuing to beef up his ever-expanding roster of upcoming lead roles.

His latest is as the main character in the action-heist movie “Empire State,” TheWrap has confirmed. The brother of “Thor” star Chris Hemsworth is also starring in “The Hunger Games,” “The Expendables 2” and “AWOL,” all due this year, and “Timeless,” a Phillip Noyce drama due in 2013.

Also in talks for “Empire State” is Dwayne Johnson. If Hemsworth and Johnson pair up for that movie, it could be their second co-billing. Hemsworth is

also confirmed to star in Chuck Russell’s “Arabian Knights,” as Ali Baba. Johnson has been rumored to play Sinbad.

As it’s name suggests, “Empire State,” produced by Mandeville Films’ David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman, is set in New York. But New Orleans is being targeted as a possible shoot-ing location for the “gritty,” 1980s-set movie, according to an individual close to the project.

Dates for preproduction and shoot-ing are still being squared away for “Empire State,” which is directed by Dito Montiel (“A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints,” “Fighting”) and written by Adam Mazer (“You Don’t Know Jack,” “Breach”). The film is due in theaters June 10, 2013.

Review: Norah Jones-led Little Willies returnsAgence France Presse

Norah Jones has never hid her affection for country music. Her Grammy-winning 2002 debut album “Come Away With Me” — which has sold 23 million units worldwide — featured a com-pelling cover of Hank Williams’ “Cold Cold Heart.” She’s also been nominated for Grammys for duets with Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson — the latter of whom inspired the name for the long-running country band Jones has been performing in for more than 10 years.

In this CD cover image released by Milking Bull/EMI, the latest release by The Little Wil-lies, “For the Good Times,” is shown.

Scorsese, Allen earn Directors Guild honors

AP Photo/Joel Ryan, file

FILE - In this Nov. 28, 2011 file photo, direc-tor Martin Scorsese arrives for the Royal Film Performance of “Hugo,” in London. Scorsese was nominated Monday, Jan. 9, 2012 for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for “Hugo.”

Liam Hemsworth heads to “Empire State”

Science Wednesday, January 11, 2012 13International

“There’s nowhere to go with the snow because it’s piled up so high,” said Wendy Rainney, who owns the Orca Adventure Lodge. A storage building for the lodge — which offers fishing trips, hiking, kayak-ing and glacier tours — partially collapsed under the weight of the snow, she said.

“This is more quantity than can be handled.” At least three buildings have collapsed or partially col-lapsed and six homes are deemed severely stressed by heavy wet snow, officials said. The drifts are

12 to 14 feet high, but most roofs in town have been shoveled, said Chris Dunlap, a Cordova resident who was manning an empty Red Cross shelter early Monday.

“It’s a lot of snow. I’ve lived here 33 years and this is the most snow I’ve ever seen,” she said by phone. “The thing I’m impressed most with is we haven’t had any injuries. Maybe a few back strains from all of the shoveling. But we have a very, very efficient, professional emergency staff here.”

The city has set up a shelter at a

local recreation center but said people leaving homes in avalanche-risky areas have been staying with other residents. Cordova spokesman Allen Marquette said the town also was ready to set up a pet shelter if necessary.

The town issued a disaster proc-lamation last week after three weeks of relentless snow overwhelmed lo-cal crews working around the clock and filled snow dump sites. “We had no alternative but to declare an emergency,” Cordova Mayor Jim Kallander said. “It became a life-safety issue.”

Reuters

NEW YORK - New DNA reader could bring genetics to medical clinics After years of predictions that the “$1,000 genome” - a read-out of a person’s complete genetic information for about the cost of a dental crown - was just around the corner, a U.S. company is announc-ing Tuesday that it has achieved that milestone and taken the technology several steps ahead.

The new genome-sequencing machine from Ion Torrent, a divi-sion of Life Technologies Corp., in Guilford, Connecticut, is 1,000 times more powerful than existing technology, says CEO and chair-man Jonathan Rothberg.

Taking up about as much space as an office printer, it can sequence an entire genome in a single day rather than six to eight weeks re-quired only a few years ago. The new sequencer, says cardiologist Eric Topol, chief academic officer of private California hospital and

doctor network Scripps Health, “represents an exceptional advance and can change medicine.”

Ion Torrent will sell the tabletop machine, called the Ion Proton Se-quencer, for $99,000 to $149,000, making it affordable for large medi-cal practices or clinics; existing sequencers cost up to $750,000. The computer chip and biochemicals to sequence a genome will cost $1,000, compared to, for example, $3,000 to test for mutations just in the BRCA genes that raise the risk of breast and ovarian cancer and $5,000 for a complete genome sequencing by Ion Torrent competitor Illumina Inc. For a graphic on the shrinking cost of genome sequencing.

For now, Rothberg expects research labs to be his main cus-tomers, using Proton to obtain the complete genome sequence of people with cancer or autism, for instance, and thereby elucidate a disease’s underlying genetic causes as well as possible ways to treat it.

Agence France Presse

Jumping lizards adjust the posi-tion of their tails in mid-air to ensure a smooth landing, and certain agile dinosaurs probably did likewise. So say a team of biomechanics who put some red-headed agama lizards (Agama agama) through their paces in a laboratory.

The scientists filmed the Afri-can reptiles as they jumped from a horizontal platform to a vertical wall.

Slow-motion footage showed that if a lizard had to hoist the front part of its body in order to land correctly, it bent its long, slender tail upwards.

By curling its tail, the lizard provided a clockwise movement that gave an anticlockwise tilt to the front of its trunk. This enabled the critter to land safely, paws-first, onto the wall. Few lizards may have known this, but they were uphold-ing the principle of conservation of angular momentum by exploiting the moment of inertia.

Tightrope walkers, too, use this principle. They correct their balance by using a long pole. It is tilted to make the body lean in the opposite direction to the tilt. The team, led by Robert Full of the University of California at Berkeley, built a liz-ard-sized robot car, complete with a

tail controlled by gyroscopes, to see whether the lizard’s agility could be replicated by technology.

When the car jumped off the ramp, it started to fall nose-first, but this angle was smartly corrected by a movement of the tail, and the toy vehicle -- named “Tailbot” -- landed on its wheels. Previous research has suggested there are several species of animals that use their tail to harness the moment of inertia, including lemurs, cats and kangaroo rats.

The paper speculates that small, two-footed carnivorous dinosaurs, including the velociraptor made noto-rious by the movie Jurassic Park, may also have done the same trick. Larger dinos, though, are unlikely to have jumped far, if calculations of their bone-to-muscle ratio are right.

A handout photo released by Nature shows a side view of a lizard, A. agama, leaping to a vertical surface. Jumping lizards adjust the position of their tails in mid-air to ensure a smooth landing, and certain agile dino-saurs probably did likewise.

Leaping lizards tip tails for soft landing

AFP Photo

Insight: New DNA reader to bring promise

REUTERS/Michelle McLoughlin

Ion Torrent CEO and chairman Jonathan Rothberg holds a semi-conductor sequencing chip that will be used in the new Proton semi-conductor based genome sequencing machine in Guilford, Connecticut, January 5, 2012.

Alaska town tries to dig out from huge snow dumpAssociated Press Writer

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Dozens of National Guard troops have arrived in Cordova to help the Alaska fishing town dig out from massive snows that have collapsed roofs, trapped some people in homes and triggered avalanches. The city is used to snow, but not like this season’s blanketing. The Guard reported more than 18 feet of snow has fallen in the past weeks, although the National Weather Service did not immediately have a measurement.

In this Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012 photo provided by the Alaska Di-vision of Home-land Security and Emergency Management, vehicles move down snow-covered streets in the fishing town of Cordova, Alaska.

AP Photo/Alaska Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, Kim Weibl

Wednesday, January 11, 2012 14 InternationalSport

Real Madrid’s Portuguese for-ward Cristiano Ronaldo was sec-ond in the vote for the 2011 FIFABallon D’Or and Messi’s Barce-lona team mate Xavi third.

Messi, who inspired his Span-ish team to win the ChampionsLeague, La Liga and Club WorldCup, was also first last year whenthe award was created by join-ing together the separate annualprizes handed out by FIFA andFrance Football magazine.

“To win it three times runningis a very big honor,” Messi, whoalso won both old awards in 2009,told the audience after being pre-sented with the trophy by formerBrazil striker Ronaldo a three-times World Player of the Year.

“I want to share it with thepeople who helped me, my teammates and coach. This is very

special, I want to divide it withme team mate Xavi.”

No player has previously wonthe FIFA award three times ina row, although Michel Platiniclaimed the France Football prizethree years in succession in the1980s.

Barcelona’s Pep Guardiolawon the coach’s award aheadof Manchester United’s AlexFerguson and Jose Mourinho ofReal Madrid.

Ferguson took the FIFA presi-dential award for outstandingservice to the sport.

The ceremony, co-presented byformer Netherlands striker RuudGullit, also saw Japan’s HomareSawa voted women’s player of the

-sive wins for Brazil’s Martha.

Brazil and Santos forward

Neymar won the award for thegoal of the year, a stunning ef-fort in a Brazilian championshipmatch against Flamengo.

Messi swept home with 47.88per cent to votes in the surveyamong national team coaches,captains and selected media.

Ronaldo took 21.6 percent andXavi 9.23 per cent.

“I would like to share thisaward with Mourinho and Fer-guson and all the coaches aroundthe world who love this game,”Guardiola said.

“I also thank the thousandsof people through more the100 years who have worked infootball in Barcelona and havedeveloped one of the best clubs inthe world.” Blatter heaped praiseon Ferguson before handing himhis prize.

Messi wins World Player of Year award again

Reuters

LONDON-Witha familiar strokeof the rightbootguiding theball intothenet, a celebratoryhugwithArseneWengerandpandemoniumamongstecstaticArsenal fans, itwasas if recordgoalscorerThierryHenryhadneverleft North London on Monday night.

Substituted into the Premier League club’s third round FA Cup matchagainstLeedsUnitedon68minuteswith thescoreat0-0, theon-loanstrikertook just 10 minutes to break the deadlock with the winning goal for hisbelovedArsenal. “I’mnotcomingbackhere tobeaheroorproveanything,I’m coming here to help,” Henry said in the match programme. He did.

Hero status Henry does not need, he already has that in spades, as thecheer thatgreetedhisnamewhenitwasannouncedmomentsbeforekickoff

wason thebench,Arsenal fanswerevoting forHenryasman-of-the-matchand, rather sheepishly, the 34-year-old accepted the award.

“I think it’s a joke,” he said, looking bemused as he clutched the bottleof champagne. In trademarkstyle, theFrenchstriker calmlyslotted theballinto the net from 10 yards out after being found in space on the left side ofthe penalty area byAlex Song.

Henry, who plays for Major League Soccer club New York Red Bulls,made370appearances forArsenal from1999to2007andscored226goals.The Red Bulls agreed to loan him to Arsenal until the end of Februarybefore the new MLS season starts in March with Henry saying Wengerhad asked him to help out during the absence of Gervinho and MarouaneChamakh at theAfrican Nations Cup.

The move had its critics but Henry has already silenced them, not onlywith his goal but also with his clear passion for the London club.

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“When I left the club I cried,” Henry said in the programme. “I haven’tcried a lot inmycareer, butwhen Ido it seems that something is happening

me to say no toArsenal.”On this form, withArsenal struggling for goals and over-reliant on red-

hot captain Robin van Persie, he will be a big help.Arsenal dominated theearly stages against their Championship (second division) opponents withWelsh youngsterAaron Ramsey the beating heartbeat of the side.

But it was not long after Andrei Arshavin had blasted a good chance

emerged from the bench to warm up, again winning rapturous applause.

was Henry of old, leaving his marker for dead with electrifying pace froma standing start. The last time Henry played against Leeds he scored fourgoals in a Premier League encounter in 2004 but this time around it wasjust the one strike. Leeds forward Mikael Forssell even had a chance toequalise in the last minute and spoil the party but he was foiled byArsenalgoalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny.

Moments later and the match was over. Henry stood near the penaltyarea gazing up into the night sky as the Arsenal fans went crazy aroundhim. No one knew quite what to say, and judging by Henry’s post-matchinterview, neither did he.

Hero Henry seals Arsenal return with winner

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Arsenal’s former player and new loan signing Thierry Henry celebrates scoring on his first game back during the Eng-lish FA Cup 3rd round soccer match between Arsenal and Leeds United at the Emirates Stadium in London, Monday, Jan. 9, 2012.

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Women’s soccer player of the year 2011 Homare Sawa from Japan, Japan’s coach Norio Sa-saki, Brazil’s Dani Alves and the player of the year 2011 Lionel Messi from Argentina, from left, stand together at the FIFA Ballon d’Or awarding ceremony in Zurich, Switzerland, Monday, Jan. 9, 2012.

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ZURICH -Argentina and Barcelona forward Lionel Messi, still only 24, won the World Playerof the Year award for the third time in a row Monday.

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Charlotte Bobcats forward Boris Diaw (32) fouls New York Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony (7) as he drives to the hoop in the fourth quarter of their NBA basketball game at Madison Square Garden in New York, January 9, 2012.

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Carmelo Anthony swooped in to score eight of his 22 points in the last three min tes and deli erthe New York nicks a - home ictory o er the Charlotte Bobcats on Monday. he nickshad lost a do ble-digit lead in the second half and the game was tied 2- 2 when Anthony made hisdecisi e inter ention to lead New York to their third consec ti e win.

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The seven-time MotoGP champion failed to win a race in his first season with the Italian squad last year. Rossi said his preference was to continue in MotoGP beyond this season, and that ideally he hoped to take Ducati back to the top before leaving the sport.

“The scenario is that during the sea-son everything will become interesting, because all riders have their contracts expiring, so cards can be shuffled,” he said.

“Honestly I don’t know [about the future]. I would like to be able to make Ducati go fast and be able to win some-thing, and then perhaps even stop - to race for a few more years and achieve some good results this is perhaps my goal but there are many other possibili-

ties, but not now.“I would like to at least do another

contract so would like to sign at least another two-year contract.” Rossi added that he did not want his 2013 delibera-tions to become a distraction from trying to improve Ducati’s form in 2012.

“I think we are going to be speaking about the contract during the season, because we have to organise ourselves for 2013,” he said. “I do not want to do it too soon because when you risk losing concentration on the championship as it is underway, but we will try and plan my future.”

Although Rossi has long been linked to future in car racing or rallying, he said there were no firm plans for this at pres-ent, only ambitions for whenever he did

decide to finish with MotoGP.“I am a great fan of cars, and I had

two occasions to try the Mercedes DTM in 2006,” said Rossi. “It is a fantastic car, one of the nost fun cars I have ever driven, so I would love to do races in DTM - but these are projects to talk about when I finish motorbikes.

“For cars, I have no programmes apart from Monza Rally, but I tried GT3 in Mugello and I hope on some other occa-sions. I would also like to go to the old Nurburgring with an old Mercedes.”

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LONDON - Kimi Raikkonen will prepare for his Formula One comeback with some laps in a two-year-old Renault race car in Spain this month before official testing starts in Febru-ary, the Finn’s Lotus team said Monday.

“We can now confirm that Kimi Raikkonen will be completing some mileage in the team’s R30 car at Valencia on 23rd/24th January,” Lotus, formerly Renault, said on their Twitter feed.

Raikkonen, the 2007 world cham-pion with Ferrari, has not driven an

F1 car since he left the sport for the world rally championship after the 2009 season-ender in Abu Dhabi.

The first pre-season test of the year will start at the Jerez circuit, in southern Spain, on February 7 when Lotus will have their new car on track.

Under cost-saving regulations that limit testing, Raikkonen will not be able to drive the latest equipment until Jerez

and nor will he be able to use the Pirelli tires that were introduced last year. The 32-year-old had

a seat fitting at the team factory in England last week.

Rossi won’t rush 2013 decsion

Valentino Rossi says he is not yet thinking too hard about his future beyond 2012, but would like to achieve success with Ducati before mov-ing teams or retiring.

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Ducati Moto GP rider Valentino Rossi poses with the Ducati 1199

Panigale as he arrives to take part in the “Wrooom, F1 and Mo-toGP Press Ski Meeting”, Ducati and Ferrari’s annual media gath-

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Raikkonen back on track this month

Kimi Raikkonen of Finland waits near his car before the NASCAR Nationwide Series Top Gear 300 race in Con-cord, North Carolina May 28, 2011.

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