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Heavy rain and strong wind causing 15 trees topple

Bali Post

DENPASAR - In November 2011, bird flu caused by H5N1 virus re-claimed fatalities of two broth-ers from Bangli where they tested positive for the virus. Head of the Bali Livestock Agency, I Putu Su-mantra, when met on Monday (Jan 9) revealed despite escalated in No-vember 2011, the presence of H5N1

virus began to be controlled. It could be seen that during December 2011 there were no more positive cases on account of the exposure to H5N1 virus. “Apparently, the existence of the virus has been under control because the absence of positive cases during the December 2011,” said Sumantra.

However, it did not necessarily mean if the absence of positive

cases of H5N1 in poultry and humans would bring down the alertness. Sumantra worried if the H5N1 virus re-emerged on entering the season of religious ceremonies in Bali requiring a lot of chicken for mecaru ritual. “High demand for local chicken will make traders supply it with a variety of ways, even by bringing in the chicken from outside. This

must be watched out for. Hope-fully, the community can purchase it more selectively and implement the procedures of self-protection against H5N1 virus when process-ing chicken,” he said.

So, when slaughtering chicken, continued Sumantra, people should not forget to wash their hands before and after processing the meat.

Local residents on motorcycles leave their houses following an earth-quake in Banda Aceh, Aceh prov-ince, Indonesia, early Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012. A powerful earth-quake hit waters off western Indonesia early Wednesday, prompting officials to briefly issue a tsunami warning. Panicked residents ran from their homes, some flee-ing to high ground by car or motor-cycle, but there were no reports of injuries or serious damage.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude-7.3 quake struck 260 miles (420 kilometers) off the coast of Aceh province just after midnight. It was centered 18 miles (30 kilometers) beneath the ocean floor.

People in the provincial capi-

tal, Banda Aceh — still deeply traumatized by the 2004 monster quake and tsunami — poured into the streets as sirens blared from lo-cal mosques. Some headed to the hills, choking roads with traffic.

“I’m afraid,” said Fera, a resi-dent, who skidded off on her

motorbike with her two children and her mother.

In the town of Simeulue, pa-tients were evacuated from a hospital.

Officials contacted by The As-sociated Press in several coastal cities, however, had not received

any reports about injuries or sig-nificant damage.

Nearly two hours after the quake, the local geological agency lifted its tsunami warning.

Indonesia is prone to seismic upheaval due to its location on the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” an arc of volcanos and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.

A giant quake off the country on Dec. 26, 2004, triggered a tsunami in the Indian Ocean that killed 230,000 people, half of them in Aceh.

Season of religious ceremonies in Bali

Associated Press

BANDA ACEH — A powerful earthquake hit off the coast of western Indonesia early Wednesday, prompting officials to briefly issue a tsunami warning. Panicked residents ran from their homes, some fleeing to high ground by car or motorcycle, but there were no re-ports of injuries or serious damage.

AP Photo/Heri Juanda

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Meanwhile a t ruck carrying corals driven by Gusti Ngurah Mayadnya from Talibeng, Sidemen, Karangasem, fell to a drainage and stuck when he was trying to park his truck to buy a coffee nearby

around 5 am local t ime. When parked, the soil under the truck collapsed. Without a partner in his truck, Mayadnya then called three workers to bring down the corals from the truck. (kmb20)

Tabanan (Bali Post) –The silent of Yeh Gangga Beach, Tabanan all of a sudden got a shock last

Tuesday (10/1) where a woman corpse without identity was found stranded on the beach around 4 am local time. Its condition was tragic with its face broken and body rotten, found looking up and only wearing white panties. It was expected the corpse was juse dead three days ago knowing its body is still complete, including its yellowish hair although its skin was peeling because of the salt water as stated by Yeh Gangga Water Police worker, Briptu Made Sukerta.

suspected to be an illegal immigrant that sunk at Trenggalek a month ago. It

ocean. The corpse was then brought to Tabanan Hospital then as it is a foreigner the corpse was then sent to Sanglah Hospital for autopsy. (udi)

Singaraja (Bali Post)—Buleleng House seemed to have

been frustrated with the mutation of teacher and principal resulting in a demonstration and strike to study by the students of SMPN 5 Busungbiu junior high school at Pucaksari Vil-lage, Busungbiu, since Friday (Jan 6). To that end, the Buleleng House summoned the Head of Education Agency and Head of Regional Civil Service Agency (BKD) to clarify the matter.

Chairman of the Commission D in Buleleng House, Made Suputra, said on Tuesday (Jan 10) the Head of Education Agency and Head of Re-gional Civil Service Agency were two agencies considered to know about the mutation of teacher and principal triggering the student’s protest and disruption against the teaching and learning process in school. To that

provide clarification why it could cause a strike. “We want to know

the mutation arbitrarily giving rise to discontent among the students, or the students misconstrued the mutation,”

he said.Made Suputra said the meeting

with the Head of Education Agency and the Head of Regional Civil Ser-vice Agency did not merely talk about the problems occurring in SMPN 5 Busungbiu. His party also questioned about the mutation of teachers and principals carried out successively since a few months ago. His party wanted to know why the agencies in Buleleng Regency carried out the mutation, whether it was actually for the advancement of education or due to political problems. “We will ques-

education conducted by the executive so far,” he said.

In fact, the students’ strike in SMPN 5 Busungbiu remained to continue last Tuesday. They did not attend school. Meanwhile, the students’ parent made a meeting by inviting headman from three villages, namely Sepang Village, Pucaksari Village and Bongancina Vil-lage. The meeting was also attended by the Head of Buleleng Education Agency, Gede Suyasa. In the meeting, the parents asked relevant agency to promptly take appropriate measure

exam could study in full concentra-tion.

Meanwhile, the Head of Buleleng Education Agency, Gede Suyasa,

school on Tuesday morning because there was a meeting involving their parents. He claimed to have sent the studies to Civil Service Agency on the chronology of the events regarding the mutation having an impact on the demonstration and strike.

Gede Suyasa also said that his party already met the students last Monday. During the meeting, he could provide insight to the students by conduct-ing face to face dialogue. From the dialogue, in principle, the students would accept the new principal. “As the student’s promise, they are going to study as usual,” said Suyasa.

According to Suyasa, his party had also given the same insight to parents and headmen last Tuesday. They ac-cepted the mutation as the authority of local government. “All parents and headmen have promised if they would bring their children to school to study as usual,” he said.

Strike by students of SMPN 5 Busungbiu continues

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The people are trying to cut the tree which fell on Kali Unda area, Klungkung Regency

Semarapura (Bali Post) –

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The body which was found at Yeh Gangga Beach is taken to the hospital

3International Bali News Thursday, January 12, 2012

The lobster pots were installed

had no time to take them out be-cause the waves and heavy rains

being damaged, the lobster pots were ascertained to drift on the waves. “So far, no single lobster pot was drawn to mainland be-cause the wave condition is fright-ening,” said Nyoman Moyo, one

initial estimation, the total lobster pot trapped in the sea reached more than 400 units. They were

operating on Yeh Gangga Beach.

units. However, they were not entirely installed in the sea.

-ermen had submitted to their fate related to the matter of lobster pot. Price of each unit was quite expensive, namely reaching IDR 60,000. They believed that

hundreds of the equipment would be damaged when persistently hit by the waves. In the mean-time, height of the waves was estimated to reach over 3 meters. Those traps were drowned at sea to catch lobster. “Now, it is the season of harvesting lobster. Due to this condition, we are force to be disappointed,” he complained.

Being unable to go to sea, the

the beach while watching the wave conditions. For daily life, they just relied on the rest of their

choose to kill their time by herd-ing cattle. “We are just relying on the sea. Unless we go to sea, we will earn no money,” said

bad weather would come to an end soon. Thus, they could take out their lobster pot, including obtaining the crop yields. Under

could catch lobsters up to 10 ki-lograms per day where price of lobster could reach IDR 300,000 per kilogram.

Apart from overseeing the condition of the sea, some fish-ermen were busy repairing their remaining traps. It was intended to anticipate if the other lobster pot was damaged and drifted. “We repair the existing traps. Hopefully, they could be used properly,” said Sudarma, anoth-er fisherman. Other than being damaged, the lobster catches were not as good as on normal days because huge waves could also harm the quality of lobster captured by the trap. Typically, such lobster traps were in-stalled for maximally two days. However, due to bad weather, it had been more than for three days and the traps could not be taken out. (udi)

Dauh Puri, DenPost—It is now the turn of Malaysian

citizen, Low Tze Seng aka William, to dispute with the execution of Kozy Villa that will be carried out by the Denpasar District Court (PN). William followed Jacob Antolis, the lawyer of Rita Kishore Kumar Pridhnani, the owner of PT Ratu Kharisma, jointly beseeching for a delay to the execution against the villa in Seminyak. William as

on Tuesday (Jan 10).Unmitigatedly, the petition was

delivered by two lawyers of William at once, namely I Gede Agus Kusuma Nu-graha, who handled the lawsuit against the Bank Swadesi with registration No:

7, 2011; and the duet I Gusti Ngurah Muliarta, and I Made Suka Ardana, su-ing the Bank Swadesi with registration

May 2, 2011. Application for postpone-

the other lawyer of PT Ratu Kharisma, namely Budi Adnyana. Budi Adnyana handled two lawsuits against Bank Swadesi whose case was on appeal in the High Court of Denpasar. “None of these cases have permanent decision, so we ask the Head of the Denpasar District

against Kozy Villa,” said Budi Adnyana who was agreed by both colleagues in Denpasar.

Budi Adnyana explained that based on the facts revealed in the trial, there was time difference related to determi-nation of the status of non-performing loans to PT Ratu Kharisma. Based on the Debtor Information System (SID) document issued by Bank Indonesia, the credit of PT Ratu Kharisma was declared to be in congestion dated Feb-

had applied for an auction on December 7, 2009. Budi said the matter was also recognized by Fery Koswara, operation-

Swadesi when giving testimony on trial. “Unfortunately, in the judge’s decision, this fact was ignored,” complained Budi Adnyana. On that account, he appealed

was true, whether the fact based on the SID of Bank Indonesia or based on the testimony of Bank Swadesi only.

Meanwhile, Ngurah Muliarta added that allegation of another violation com-mitted by Bank Swadesi was the matter of collateral asset auction of PT Ratu Kharisma, namely the land and Kozy Villa. Muliarta said that pursuant to the Regulation of Minister of Finance of the

-tion Guidelines in the article 27 letter c was stated if the object of auction got a lawsuit from third party which was not debtor (husband or wife of debtors), and then the auction could not be continued. Thus, continued Ngurah Muliarta, the last auction on February 11, 2011 should be void for the sake of law.

“In fact, previously on February 7, 2011 there was a lawsuit by William—the tenant of villa—registered in the Denpasar District Court. Even, in the auction we explained that we have sued the object of auction in the Denpasar District Court, but it was still contin-ued,” explained Gede Agus Kusuma Nugraha registering the lawsuit and was now on trial in the Denpasar Dis-trict Court.

The three lawyers agreed to say if

into a purchaser with a good will. “When having known the object of auction has been sued, why did the winner insist on purchasing it? What happened behind it?” asked Muliarta. Moreover, based on the article 1576 of Civil Code the sale of goods leased to third parties did not necessarily terminate the right of tenant. It was mentioned that William leased the

Caused by bad weather

Tabanan (Bali Post)—

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The fish traps broken due to the bad weather

Denpasar (Bali Post) –In Denpasar City, it seemed it

hasn’t been secured from criminal-ity as cases of car windows broken from outside keep on happening even though a number of those crime com-mitters have been captured. The past three days, four cases happened and none of the crime committers have been captured so far.

evening on a Mazda car being parked at Gatot Subroto, Denpasar roadside in front of Cak Di restaurant. IDR 3 million cash and an iPhone were tak-en. After several hours, another case happened to an Avanza car nearby a restaurant at Sudirman Street where a

it happened to victim Agustina Salim at Pulau Komodo Street where her Avanza window was being broken. From the report, it was stated a lap-top and an iPad were taken totalling IDR 10 million losses. Last Sunday

Pulau Bali Street, Denpasar, around 11 pm to victim I Gusti Ngurah Wisnu Wardana’s Avanza. Wardana who lives at Pulau Komodo Street was gobsmacked with the situation and his external hard disc, memory card, IDR 500,000 cash and three glasses were gone totalling IDR 2 million losses.

“The case was reported to West Denpasar Police and is being investi-gated,” an anonymous police source stated.

News International4 Thursday, January 12, 2012

Romney took a crucial step toward the Republican nomination on Tuesday with his win in New Hampshire, the second contest in the state-by-state battle for the Republican nomination. He won 39 percent of the vote and was well ahead of his nearest rival.

The former private equity execu-tive also won the Iowa caucuses last week. He may now find it easier to convince skeptics within his own party that he is the strongest Repub-lican to take on Obama in Novem-ber’s election, despite qualms about

the moderate policies he pursued as Massachusetts governor.

Victory in South Carolina’s Jan-uary 21 primary could derail rivals’ hopes to consolidate a splintered conservative vote and set Romney on a steady march to nomination. With economic concerns topping the agenda, Romney has argued that his experience as head of in-vestment firm Bain Capital, where he made a personal fortune, would make him the best candidate to put the shaky U.S. economy on a stronger footing.

Romney gave perhaps the most dynamic speech of his campaign in Tuesday as he celebrated his victory in New Hampshire, outlining a stark contrast with Obama. Aides said it would set the tone for the rest of the campaign.

“We know that the future of this country is better than 8 or 9 percent unemployment. It is better than $15 trillion in debt. It is better than the misguided policies and broken promises of the last three years - and the failed leadership of one man,” he said.

In recent days, rivals like former House of Representatives speaker Newt Gingrich have painted Romney as a heartless corporate raider who cut jobs in the companies he bought -- an unusual debate in the business-friendly Republican Party.

Associated Press Writer

BEIRUT — By turns defiant and threatening, President Bashar Assad vowed Tuesday to use an “iron hand” to crush what he called the terrorists and saboteurs behind Syria’s 10-month-old uprising in which thousands of people have been killed.

In his first speech since June, Assad showed a steely confidence in the face of the uprising, one of the bloodiest of the Arab Spring. But opponents called it a rambling address by a leader who is danger-ously out of touch.

Assad repeated his past claims that a foreign conspiracy and ter-rorists are driving the revolt, not peaceful protesters seeking to reform the country.

“We will not be lenient with

those who work with outsiders against the country,” Assad said in a nearly two-hour speech at Damascus University in a con-ference hall packed with cheer-ing supporters. He also issued a veiled threat against those who have yet to choose sides.

“Those who stand in the mid-dle are traitors,” Assad said, flanked by Syrian flags. “There is no alternative.”

The conflict in Syria is entering a new and heightened phase, with army defectors and some members of the opposition increasingly turning their weapons on govern-ment targets. The regime, in turn, has intensified an already deadly military assault, and a U.N. official said Tuesday that about 400 people have been killed in the last three weeks alone, on top of an earlier U.N. estimate of more than 5,000 dead since March.

Since Dec. 23, three mysteri-ous blasts have struck the capital, killing scores of people in the kind of violence more commonly seen in neighboring Iraq. It’s unclear who is behind the bomb-ings, which the regime said were suicide attacks.

The regime has blamed “ter-rorists” for the explosions, say-ing they proved that Syria was fighting armed gangs. But the opposition accuses forces loyal to the regime of carrying out the attacks as a way to tarnish the uprising.

Assad also denounced the Arab League, which sent a team of ob-servers into Syria in late December to assess whether the regime is abiding by an Arab-brokered peace plan that the regime agreed to on Dec. 19. On Monday, a group of Arab League observers was report-edly attacked in northern Syria, suffering minor injuries.

Reuters

TEHRAN - An Iranian nuclear scientist was killed by a bomb placed on his car on Wednesday in an attack Tehran’s deputy governor blamed on Israel, raising the dip-lomatic temperature in a stand-off with the West over Iran’s nuclear program. The bombing, which a city official said was similar to attacks a year ago on nuclear sci-entists in Iran, came as the United States sought to persuade a skepti-cal China to help efforts to toughen sanctions against Iran.

“The bomb was a magnetic one and the same as the ones previously used for the assassination of the scientists, and is the work of the

Zionists (Israelis),” Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency quoted Tehran’s Deputy Governor Safarali Baratloo as saying.

Fars said the victim was a “nu-clear scientist” who “supervised a department at Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility.” New U.S. sanctions against Iran have started to bite. The rial currency lost 20 percent of its value against the dollar in the past week and Iran has threatened to shut the Strait of Hormuz, through which 40 percent of trade oil passes.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, visiting Beijing, appealed for Chinese cooperation on nuclear non-proliferation, while Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Iran’s

move to enrich uranium near the city of Qom was “especially troubling.”

“This step once again demon-strates the Iranian regime’s blatant disregard for its responsibilities and that the country’s growing isolation is self-inflicted,” Clinton said in a statement that followed Iran’s announcement it had started enrichment in the Fordow mountain bunker complex.

Iran’s decision to carry out en-richment work deep underground at Fordow could make it much harder for U.S. or Israeli forces to carry out veiled threats to use force against Iranian nuclear facilities. The move to Fordow could narrow a time window for diplomacy to avert any attack.

Bomb kills Iran nuclear scientist; U.S. presses sanctions

REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl

A view of a petrochemical complex in Assaluyeh seaport on Iran’s Persian Gulf coast May 28, 2006. Picture taken May 28, 2006.

Syrian president vows to crush ‘conspiracy’

AP Photo/SANA

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad deliver a speech at Damascus University, Syria, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012.

Republican presidentialcandidate and former Mas-sachusetts Governor Mitt Romney speaks to supporters at his New Hampshireprimary night rally in Man-chester, New Hampshire, January 10, 2012.

REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Romney takes winning streak to South CarolinaReuters

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire - One day after a solid victory in New Hampshire, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney faces a critical test in South Carolina as he seeks to convince conser-vative voters that he is their best bet to defeat Democratic President Barack Obama.

Activities Thursday, January 12, 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

JIMBARAN - Hotel Ayana Re-sort & Spa, Bali, was the chosen location on 7th November 2011 where the Eco-Hotel & Resort Management System (EHRMS) by TUV RHEINLAND was intro-duced to existing and future Hotel Customers.

The new EHRMS standard fea-tures enhanced elements and criteria to ensure greener, safer and more efficient operations.

At the same time, the new mar-keting applications have been up-graded to contemporary design and will allow interactive communica-tion between all stakeholders in the feature by an internet based plat-form called the ‘Green Hub’.

These upgradings were the result of customer demands obtained dur-ing a rebranding campaign which was conducted and evaluated by the

multinational branding agency DM ID Holland based in Jakarta.

The Chief Regional Officer of TUV RHEINLAND Asia Pacific, Mr Michael Jungnitsch from Yo-kohama, Japan, promised in his opening speech his continued sup-port for the ongoing development of EHRMS in order to contribute to sustainable hotel operations for Bali’s environmental protection.

He pointed out that with the intro-duction of the new EHRMS standard TUV RHEINLAND, one of the leading German Certification Bodies and on top of the technological de-velopments, strives to be a long-term partner for the hotel industry.

Mr Jungnitsch who spent more than 10 years in Asia during his career in TUV RHEINLAND, was impressed by the achievements the Eco-Hotel certified Hotels had reached so far when he assisted to the presentations.

Ayana Resort introduced EHRMS to costumers

Thursday, January 12, 2012 6 News International

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Relatives carry the coffins of a family killed by a mudslide to the cemetery in Jamapara, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, Tuesday Jan. 10, 2012.

Rains kills at least 28 in southeastern BrazilAssociated Press Writer

JAMAPARA, Brazil — A mudslide caused by two days of downpours has killed at least 13 people in a small town in southeastern Brazil, and another 11 are listed as missing, the head of the Rio de Janeiro state civil defense department said Tuesday.

Letter discovered in Louis XV desk at Versailles

Iran ‘jamming Al-Jazeerabroadcasts’

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Thursday, January 12, 2012 7Indonesia Today International

AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim

An Indonesia official and a resident slaughter a duck from a neighborhood during a sweeping in anticipation of the resurgence of bird flu in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012. Officials conducted the sweeping after a man suspected of being infected with bird flu died over the weekend.

“Start ing today the brand `Southeast Asia Feel The Warmth` is officially introduced in Indone-sia,” Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy Mari Elka Pangestu said here on Wednes-

day.According to Mari, the prepa-

ration to make ASEAN a single destination was getting better and therefore free visa among ASEAN countries should be implemented

as soon as possible.“Therefore ASEAN heads of

states/government have agreed that the visa-free problem will be dealt with this year to make it free indeed,” Mari said.

In connection with immigra-tion issue, the minister said the governments of ASEAN member states were ripening “ASEAN Schengen Visa” as the “common visa procedure” that had been used in 27 European countries.

“For the issue of ASEAN Schengen Visa, related ministers should give their inputs in the next summit in April or May this year because the ministry of tour-ism and creative economy will monitor it,” Mari said.

The ongoing ASEAN Tourism Forum in Manado that would last from January 8 - 15 was made up of the 35th ASEAN National Tourism Organization Meeting, Ministerial Meeting, and Travel

Exchange participated in by 1400 participants from all ASEAN member states.

Of the 1400 participants, 400 are buyers, 900 are sellers, and 100 are reporters from interna-tional media.

Themed “Tourism for a Global Community of Nations”, the 31st ASEAN Tourism Forum is also involving partner countries such as China, India, Russia, Japan, and South Korea.

Antara

JAKARTA - Chief Economic Minister Hatta Rajasa said the government would increase the people`s access to Small-holding Business Credit (KUR) scheme in 2012.

“The government`s target is to increase the people`s access to the KUR scheme in 2012 by adding 13 regional government banks (BPD), for example,” the coordinat-ing minister for economic affairs said here

on Tuesday.Hatta made the remarks in a press

conference after attending a coordination meeting with Industry Minister MS Hi-dayat, Cooperative and Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Minister Syarief Hasan and other relevant state officials.

The minister said that so far a BPD had been able to provide an average credit allocation of over Rp20 million to small businesses in the retail sector.

The chief economic minister said that

the government had set itself a target of providing a KUR credit worth Rp30 tril-lion in 2012 through a number of executing banks such as Bank BRI, Bank BNI, Bank Mandiri, Bank BTN, Bank Bukopin, Bank Syariah Mandiri and BPD.

“Of the total KUR allocation in 2012, about 50 percent will be channeled to the people by bank BRI, Therefore, we ask Bank BRI to continue to increase the credit extension coverage up to villages in rural areas,” Hatta Rajasa said.

Antara

JAKARTA - The government will obtain Rp40 trillion in additional funds a year from the implementation of the subsidized fuel consumption limitation program as of April this year, Energy and Minderal Resources Minister Widjajono Par-towidagdo said.

“Until 2014 or in three years` time, the saved amount of subsidy will reach Rp120 trillion,” he said here on Wednesday.

He said the economization would bring a lot of benefit for the improvement of the people`s welfare.

“Indonesia needs funds to boost its national capacity. Therefore, subsidies must be stopped and the saved funds used to improve the national capacity,” he said.

Widjajono said the 2011 budget law had man-dated the scrapping of fuel subsidy by raising the commodity`s price. However, the government as well as the House of Representatives (DPR) would not take the option until it expired on December 31, 2011. The option then was switched to limiting fuel consumption and extending the subsidy only to eligible recipients.

“So, as of this year, private cars especially are not allowed to use subsidized gasoline but will be encouraged to use liquefied gas or non-subsidized gasoline,” he said.

He said he had asked the deputy minister of transportation to improve the system of public transportation to improve its comfort and security “to suppress the use of fuel by private cars as many car owners would switch to public transport.”

Widjajono said that he had just installed a con-verter in his car at a cost of Rp2 million done by PT Dirgantara Indonesia.

The government plans to implement the program to limit the use of subsidized fuels as of April 1, 2012 as mandated by Law Number 22 of 2011 on the 2012 budget.

Indonesia introduces ASEAN as single destinationAntara

MANADO - Indonesia in the ongoing ASEAN Tourism Forum 2012 (ATF 2012) in Manado, North Sulawesi, has introduced ASEAN as a “single destination” with the banding of “Southeast Asia Feel The Warmth.”

Government to obtain Rp40 trillion from subsidized fuel consumption cut

RI’s government to increase people’s access to smallholding credits

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Bali Today

The Head of Denpasar Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (DKP), Ketut Wisada, when contacted by Bali Post on Tuesday (Jan 10), said that from a variety of shade trees planted on the roadside, such as mahogany, rain tree, and narra tree, the latter was prone to break. Evidently, since the heavy rain accompanied with strong

Monday, the most toppling trees were angsana, hibiscus and banyan tree, but there were also other small trees. “At least, there are some 15 toppling trees due to heavy rain accompanied

on Tuesday. Even, previously 8 trees toppled, too. After getting information

came to location to cut down to its roots,” he explained.

He continued that shade trees like hibiscus and narra tree had no longer been planted, considering the root was weaker and tended to damage the surface of soil. “This tree is prolifer-ated by stem, so the root is not strong enough to withstand. Since the past three years, we only focus on the cultivation of regenerative shade tree or directly cultivated from the seeds of local products such as mahogany, rain tree and so forth. Ketut Wisada added

occurred at Renon, on Jalan Merdeka, Jalan Trijata, Jalan Kamboja, Jalan Sudirman, Jalan Pulau Kawe, Sesetan and Jalan Tulip.

“Most of the toppling trees at this moment are not too big. The bigger ones are only banyan tree and hibiscus as on Jalan Sudirman. Even, to handle such a big tree, it took our staff 3 hours,” he ex-plained. As anticipative measure to reduce the threats against the safety of road users on entering the rainy season, the ranks of Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (DKP) had routinely cut and pruned the shade trees. Pruning was a measure to streamline the trees by reducing branches to reduce the burden of the tree, so it remained strong. Meanwhile, cutting was intended to shorten the tree, not to cut down the entire trunk. (bit)

Advancement of science of technology does not answer all problems encountered by human life. In agriculture, for instance, modern farm-ers can now have boosted the quantity of production, even in multiple amounts. On the one hand, it’s a great success but on the other hand it still leaves a problem on the decline of environmental and human health quality.

Green revolution occurred between 1943 and 1970s through the imple-mentation of chemical fertilizer and good irrigation system has conjured

to resolve the famine in tropical countries. Few decades later, it had an impact on the reduction of environmental quality, like pollution in water, land and others. Apart from the impact on the environment, it was also had an impact on human health like the rise of some new cancers.

Realizing these facts, now Bali has an initiative to become a green province and implement the integrated farming system (Simantri). Hopefully, implementation of the system could realize the Bali Organic plan and consequently minimize the environmental destruction. Green province campaign includes some aspects, namely green culture, green economy and Bali green and clean. Green culture is intended to change the societal behavior in managing their waste management and environ-ment. Green economy hints that all economic activities should be in the eco-friendly orientation. These two aspects will empty out into the initiative of Bali Organic.

Other than increasing the number of cows, they will be able to take ad-vantage the cow dung and urine for organic fertilizers. In the long run, it will reduce the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Of course, this endeavor will reduce the production cost that should be spent by farmers and at the same time increase the quality of rice as well as improve the environmental quality.

As a matter of fact, simple practice of this concept could have been seen around 1970s. Farmers using cows to cultivate their land could also

upper stream. Later on, the collected dry cow dung was channeled to rice

However, since being urged by the demand to multiple the rice produc-tion, farmers left the method. Introduction of hand tractor and chemical fertilizers gradually replaced the role of cows. The new method was expected to accelerate the land cultivation process. As consequence, cows were only serving as ‘family saving’ for farmers.

Simple eco-friendly pest control actually has been proposed in the palm-leaf manuscript entitled “Shri Tattwa or Darmaning Pemaculan.” It has been applied by subak community in Bali from generation to generation until today. However, it seems to put more emphasis on the ritual aspect only, while herbal pesticide or other means of the oblation is only applied symbolically. For instance, bird raids are managed by offering two pieces of

Meanwhile, Subash Palekar from India claimed to have developed the vedic-based farming. He has initiated his ‘spiritual farming’ since 1988. In essence he said that God or nature has provided human with everything required to grow plants. So implementing the chemical fertilizers and pesticide means to oppose God and will result in bad impact to human.

being enough for farming both on irrigated and non-irrigated land. By doing so, he claims it is a ‘zero budget of natural farming’ as in his trilogy book entitled Philosophy of Spiritual Farming.

To sum up, all movements at least refer to the same keywords namely green, natural and eco-friendly concept. They denote milestone of new awareness on modern human to re-orientate their food production in quality. This awareness has triggered the orientation in the quality of life and environment. Hopefully, the aspiration of Bali as Green Province and other green concepts could be realized supported by entire community based on their awareness of a better quality life! (BTN/punia)

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A man trying to cut the topple tree that causing traffic jam in one of the street at Denpasar, Bali Island during the heavy and strong rain that happened on Monday, January 9, 2012.

Heavy rain and strong wind causing 15 trees toppleBali Post

DENPASAR - Road users must be very careful when being around the hibiscus and angsana tree used as roadside shade. Moreover, it is during the blows of strong winds and heavy rains virtually taking place every day in Denpasar recently.

Spiritual Farming:From One Green to Some other Greens

Balinese Culture9International Thursday, January 12, 2012

Tambusan Be Pasih(Diced Fish Roasted in Banana Leaf)

OVERVIEW:The spicy fish dish is excellent for barbeques.

INGREDIENTS:600 gr (1¼ 1lb) boned mackerel fillets, skin removed

and cut in 2.5 cm (1in) cubes½ cup basic marinade1 heaped tbsp tamarind pulp, soaked in¼ cup warm water and juice extracted1 tsp black peppercorns, crushed1 ½ tsp salt3 lemon leaves, cut in hair like shreds3 tbsp oil2 salam leaves2 square of banana leaf 30x30cm(10x10 in)

PREPARATION:In deep bowl combine mackerel cubes, spice paste,

tamarind juice, crushed black pepper, salt, lime leaf and oil, and mix very well in order to coat fish evenly. Cover and marinate in cool place for 2 hours. Place one salam leaf in center of each piece of banana leaf. Top with half of seafood mix and fold the same way as for Tum Bebek. Place parcels directly onto moderately hot charcoal and roast very slowly for one hour. Alternatively, bake on rack in a moderate oven or under a grill for about 30 minutes. Serve with Sambal Matah, Sambel Tomat, wedges of lime and steamed rice. (www.baliguide.com/balifood)

Bali Post

DENPASAR - Bali will be dropped in by 38 cruise ships conveying thousands of tourists in 2012. General Manager of Pelabuhan Indonesia (Pelindo) III Benoa, Iwan Sabatini, stated that so far the Benoa Harbor was the most favored by foreign tourists reaching 53 percent of the cruise trips in Indonesia.

“We will continue to improve the services of human resources and supporting facilities at the harbor. In the future, more cruise ships of larger size will be coming to Indonesia. Their length is more than 200 meters and length overall (LOA) of more than 300 meters,” said Sabatini, recently.

According to him, such conditions required the development of pier infrastructure with the more adequate depth of groove and LWS of the pool up to 12 meters. Until this year-end, Benoa Harbor, Bali, had recorded the sojourn of 35 cruise ships. The figure exceeded the target of visit amounting to 28 units.

“In 2011, our target only amounts to 28 units, but the cruise ship coming up to the last week of December reached 35 units. The last cruise ship recorded to come at Benoa Harbor is Azamara Cruises,” he said.

Sabatini further explained the cruise ship was going to arrive this week and brought up to 800 tourists. They were scheduled to visit a number of tourist destinations on the Island of the Gods. To Benoa Harbor, the visit of cruise ship was a proud achievement. “The growing number of cruise ships dropping in Bali indicates the Island of the Gods is increasingly in demand by foreign tourists,” he said.

He described that Pelindo III Benoa as seaport business entity (BUP) was given a mandate by the Ministry of Transportation as well as the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy to serve cruise

Base Gede(Basic Spice Paste)

INGREDIENTS:300 gr large red chili halved, seeded and chopped100 gr garlic, peeled and chopped75 gr ginger, peeled and chopped500 gr shallot, peeled and chopped75 gr laos, peeled and chopped100 gr kencur root, peeled and chopped175 gr fresh turmeric, peeled and chopped2½ tbsp dried shrimp paste, roasted2½ tbsp coriander seed crushed75 gr candlenut1¼ tbsp black pepper corn crushed2½ pinch nutmeg, freshly grated8 cloves150 ml coconut oil250 water¾ tbsp salt

PREPARATION:Combine all ingredients except water in food

processor and grind coarsely. Place in heavy sauce pan, add all remaining ingredients and cook over medium heat for approximately 60 minutes or until all water is evaporated and marinade changes to golden color.

Cool before using. (www.baliguide.com/balifood)

38 Cruise Ships to visit Bali in 2012

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Bali will be dropped in by 38 cruise ships con-veying thousands of tourists in 2012. General Manager of Pelabuhan Indonesia (Pelindo) III Benoa, Iwan Sabatini, stated that so far the Benoa Harbor was the most favored by foreign tourists reaching 53 percent of the cruise trips in Indonesia.

ships at Tanah Ampo Harbor, Karangasem Regency. “At Tanah Ampo, we have helped handle three cruise ships berthing in 2011,” he said.

According to him, in January 2012 the Benoa Harbor would be dropped in by the Legend of Sea Cruises with the LOA of 264 meters. Few months ago, the cruise ship berthed in the waters of Benoa Harbor. But in 2012 the cruise ship was expected to berth on the quay because the incoming groove and harbor pond had been deepened and widened up to 9.5 meters, and had an average width of 150 meters.

“Last week, the Athena Cruises with LOA of 160 meters conveying 518 foreign passengers also visited Bali. The ship stayed overnight at the harbor and subsequently resumed the journey to Freemantle, Australia,” he said.

Thursday, January 12, 201210 InternationalDestinations

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Penelokan is situated on the southern part of Batur Tengah Village of Kintamani District, around 20 kms from the town of Bangli or some 63 km from Den-pasar, the capital of Bali Province.

Many guests, domestic or foreign choose this place so they can enjoy the cold but refreshing air of the mountainous land. Of course, while they taste the stunning views of the solid black lavas of Mount Batur’s eruption in 1917 that devastated the surround-ing village.

Batur has scenic views and is part of Kintamani that is in the northern side of Bangli Regency. Penelokan (Look Out Point) is the best ppalce to see the drooping jaws sceneries offered by Mount and Lake Batur. It is about 1,500 meters above sea level. Its temperature is at the average 22 degress Celcius at noo and 16 degress Celcius during the night.

And we invite those adventurous to climb the mountain until reaching the peak. The crater seems to be a beautiful painting carved to the mountain.

In addition to seeing the mountain, Batur also offers the charming Lake Batur with its clean water and the unique graveyard and Barong Brutuk of Trunyan Vil-lage, that cannot be found anywhere else in Bali.

Penelokan

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In this Jan. 10, 2012 photo, Warren Meyers, left, works with fellow traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. World stock markets stalled Wednesday, Jan. 11, as wor-ries that Europe’s debt crisis was taking hold in its larger economies outweighed signs that the U.S. economy was strengthening.

Wall Street at 5-month high

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-cluding Bank of America Corp and Citigroup Inc, on whether they overcharged customers on force-place insurance, a source familiar with the matter said.

Toyota wants North America to become big export base

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More Batman with “The Dark Knight Rises.” More Peter Parkerwith “The Amaz-ing Spider-Man.” More short guys on a quest with “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.” More vamps and werewolves with “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2.” More cool sunglasses with “Men in Black 3.” More Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and Incredible Hulk with “The Avengers.” More prehistoric pals with “Ice Age: Continental Drift.” More traveling zoo animals with “Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted.” There’s even more Curly, Larry and Moe with “The Three Stooges.”

Add in three action flicks based on clas-sic fairy tales and four 3-D reissues of major blockbusters, and 2012 might make good on Hollywood’s aim to lure back audiences after movie attendance last year dipped to its lowest since 1995. Here’s a look at the year’s coming attractions:

SUPERHERO PARADE:Nicolas Cage provides a winter warm-up

with “Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance” (Feb. 17), returning as the bounty hunter from hell on a mission to rescue a child from the devil.

The heavy-hitters arrive this summer. First up is “The Avengers” (May 4), team-ing Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, Chris

Hemsworth as Thor, Chris Evans as Captain America, Mark Ruffalo as the Incredible Hulk, Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow and Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye.

Directed by Joss Whedon, “The Aveng-ers” has S.H.I.E.L.D. leader Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) assembling a superhe-ro dream team to battle Thor’s bad brother (Tom Hiddleston). After two “Iron Man” flicks with his billionaire inventor Tony Stark at center stage, Downey said it was an adjustment joining an ensemble.

“In his world, there are just people who satellite around him. So this was sort of a man-datory humility, and it’s definitely getting me in the right mindset for parenting,” said Downey, who’s expecting a baby with wife Susan.

Next comes “The Amazing Spider-Man” (July 3), with Andrew Garfield taking over as Peter Parker in director Marc Webb’s new take on how a mutant spider bite turns the gangly teen into the web-slinging hero.

“Every single human being can relate to feeling like this ordinary person that wishes they could do so much more, and what would happen if all of a sudden, you’re a skinny kid that could?” said Emma Stone, who plays Peter’s romantic interest, Gwen Stacy. “If you’ve ever been a teenager, you’ve felt like that.

Associated Press Writer

PASADENA, California — Eva Longoria knows marriage can be tough, but she was star-tled to hear what a “Desperate Housewives” co-star had to say on the subject. Longoria, who split in 2010 from athlete-husband Tony Parker, was promoting her ABC television show Tuesday with other cast members at a Television Critics Association meeting.

Felicity Huffman, discussing her character’s marital woes on “Desperate Housewives,” claimed that 60 percent of first marriages and 80 percent of second unions end in divorce. Huffman didn’t cite a source for the percentages.

Longoria, with exaggerated panic, responded, “It gets higher?” Then she looked on the bright side, suggesting the third time would be the charm. “Desperate Housewives” will end its eight-year run this season on ABC.

Associated Press Writer

JERUSALEM — Acclaimed tenor Placido Domingo has been named a winner of Israel’s prestigious Wolf Prize, along with seven other Ameri-can, British and Israeli recipients.

The Wolf Foundation said Tues-day that Domingo is the first vocal artist to ever win its prize. From 1962 to 1965, at the beginning of his career, he sang with the Israeli opera company.

Each year the Wolf Foundation awards $100,000 prizes in five fields. About three dozen winners have gone on to receive Nobel Prizes.

Domingo shared the award with English conductor Sir Simon Rattle. Israeli physicist Jacob D. Bekenstein won the physics prize. The others went to U.S.-based scientists, includ-ing chemists A. Paul Alivisatos and Charles M. Lieber, mathematicians Michael Aschbacher and Luis Caf-farelli, and in medicine, Ronald M. Evans.

Placido Domingo wins Israel’s Wolf Prize

AP Photo/Warner Bros. Pictures, Ron Phillips

In this film image released by Warner Bros. Pictures, Christian Bale portrays Batman in a scene from “The Dark Knight Rises,” set for release on July 20, 2012.

Longoria looks on bright side of divorce stats

AP Photo/Chris Pizzello

Eva Longoria, a cast member in the ABC series “Desperate Housewives,” takes part in a panel discussion on the show at the Disney ABC Television Critics Association Press Tour, Tues-day, Jan. 10, 2012, in Pasadena, Calif.

‘Dark Knight,’ ‘Spidey,’ ‘Hobbit’ lead 2012 filmsAssociated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — Hollywood is respecting the environment and recycling — again. The prospect of a few dozen sequels, prequels, remakes and assorted other reworkings of familiar tales might sound tiresome until you look over the guest list studios have lined up.

Agence France Presse

An appetite-curbing hormone found in the gut may help overweight and obese people shed weight, lower blood pressure and reduce cholesterol levels, according to a study released Wednesday. Known as glucagon-like peptide-1, or GLP-1, the hormone is naturally secreted from the intestine when we eat.

Recently, doctors have begun to use GLP-1 to treat patients with type 2 diabetes due to the mol-ecule’s ability to regulate sugar levels in the blood. But they also

noticed that the hormone appeared to make patients less hungry, rais-ing the question of whether it could work as a treatment for obesity.

A team of researchers led by Tina Vilsboll of the University of Copenhagen designed a study to find out. Reviewing medical lit-erature, they analysed the results of 25 clinical trials involving over 6,000 patients who had been given GLP-1. Patients with and without diabetes who received a minimum dosage for at least 20 weeks showed greater weight loss than control groups, they reported in the British

Medical Journal (BMJ).There was also improvement

in blood pressure, cholesterol and glycaemic control, the process by which the body adjusts the impact of carbohydrates on blood sugar levels. The findings provide “convincing evidence” that GLP-1 “results in clinically relevant beneficial effects on body weight” for obese patients, the researchers concluded.

“Additional beneficial effects on blood pressure and total cho-lesterol might also be achieved.” The treatment had side-effects in some patients, including vomiting, nausea and diarrhoea. But this did not seems to effect the number of people dropping out of the trials, suggesting that, overall, GLP-1 was well tolerated, they said.

Vilsboll and colleagues recom-mended that the hormone be “con-sidered” for obese patients suffering from diabetes, and called for further trials to test its efficacy for obese people who are not diabetic.

In a commentary, also in the BMJ, Raj Padwal from the Univer-sity of Alberta argued that -- de-spite its weight-reducing powers -- GLP-1 should not alter current medical practice. “Modification of diet and lifestyle remain the cor-nerstone of the treatment of type 2 diabetes,” he said. The hormone’s longterm safety is still unknown, he added.

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He wants to scrap the current curriculum from September, the start of the new school year, and instead let schools decide what to teach, drawing on resources developed by experts. “Instead of children bored out of their minds being taught how to use Word and Excel by bored teachers, we could have 11-year-olds able to write simple 2D computer animations,” Gove will say.

“By 16, they could have an understand-ing of formal logic previously covered only in university courses and be writing their own apps for smartphones.” Gove believes that pupils are not properly prepared for the world of work by the current technology

curriculum.He also wants to revive the legacy of

Alan Turing, the British mathematician seen as the father of computer science who notably worked on cracking the German Enigma code during World War Two. One of Gove’s advisors is computer games and fantasy entrepreneur Ian Livingstone, who told BBC radio that the lessons currently being taught in schools were “completely irrelevant.”

“It’s a travesty given our heritage as the most creative nation in the world,” Living-stone said. “Children are being forced to learn how to use applications rather than to make them. They are becoming slaves to the user interface and are totally bored by it.”

Google chairman Eric Schmidt last year said Britain was “throwing away your great computer heritage” by failing to teach programming in schools.

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — A NASA spacecraft is aiming for an August landing on Mars. The one-ton rover nicknamed Curiosity is poised to fire its thrusters Wednesday to put itself on course.

The maneuver is expected to last nearly three hours and will be tracked by deep space antennas.

Engineers have several more chances over the next several months to fine-tune Curiosity’s flight path before touchdown inside a crater near the Martian equator.

The goal of the $2.5 billion mission is to see whether Mars, now cold and barren, might have been hospitable for microbial life.

Hormone helps obese shed weight: study

AFP Photo/Paul Ellis

An appetite-curbing hormone found in the gut may help overweight and obese people shed weight, lower blood pressure and reduce cholesterol levels, according to a study released Wednesday.

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This artist concept provided by NASA on Tuesday Jan.10,2012 shows the Curiosity rover cruising toward Mars.

Mars-bound NASA rover aiming for an August landing

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UK minister says children ‘bored’ by IT classes

Education Secretary Michael Gove will unveil major changes to the way tech-nology is taught in schools Wednesday, saying children are “bored out of their minds” by current classes.

Agence France Presse

British Education Secretary Michael Gove will unveil major changes to the way technology is taught in schools Wednesday, saying children are “bored out of their minds” by current classes. Gove wants to shift the focus from learning how to use programs like Microsoft Word to a more creative approach, encouraging pupils to write their own software.

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The Argentine keeper had made some impressive saves, but when he fell to his knees to col-lect, the ball squirmed between his legs and rolled over the line. Jose Mourinho’s men are likely to meet arch-rivals Barcelona in the last eight, with the European and Spanish champions visiting Osasuna on Thursday holding a 4-0 first-leg advantage.

Real will be joined in the quarter-finals by surprise quali-fiers Real Mallorca and third tier Mirandes. Mallorca scored four times in seven minutes dur-ing an astonishing comeback to knock out Real Sociedad 6-3 on aggregate earlier in the evening.

The Basques led 2-0 from the first leg in San Sebastian last week and took the lead in Mal-lorca after 16 minutes, while

disgruntled home fans whistled their own side.

FOUR-GOAL BLITZ

Mallorca’s four-goal blitz start-ed out of nowhere when Uruguay-an Gonzalo Castro scored from a free-kick in the 34th. Israel’s Tomer Hemed cracked in a second two minutes later, Nunes headed in from a corner and seven breath-taking minutes after scoring his

He caught out visiting keeper Enaut Zubikarai as he rolled the ball in front of him, nipping up from behind to steal it and roll the ball into the empty net. The flood of goals continued after halftime with Alfaro and Hemed bagging his second before the hour mark, with a dazed Sociedad unable to

react.Mallorca, the 2003 Cup win-

ners, will meet either Athletic Bilbao or third tier Albacete. Mirandes claimed the scalp of a second La Liga side when they drew 1-1 at Racing Santander to progress 3-1 on aggregate.

Forward Pablo Infante, who scored one and set up the second

the hero again for the lower league minnows.

Racing took the lead through

red card for their defender Bernar-do took the wind out of their sails and Infante won and then netted a late penalty to put the Segunda B side through. Mirandes, who knocked out Villarreal in the last round, will meet either Espanyol or second division Cordoba.

Reuters

PARIS - A Mathieu Valbuena double helped holders Olympique Marseille defeat Caen 3-0 away on Tuesday to secure their place in the

Valbuena scored each side of the interval as Marseille, who won the last two editions of the competition, strolled past Caen with another goal by Loic Remy.

Valbuena, who has scored in his last four games, put the visitors ahead after seven minutes with a curled free kick and it quickly looked like there would barely be a contest at the Michel d’Ornano

Ayew brothers up front, after the Ghana forwards left to join the Black Stars ahead of the Jan. 21-Feb. 12 African Nations Cup, but Valbuena and Remy more than compensated for their absence.

Remy made it two from close range in the 19th

with a brilliant long-range cross from Benoit Cheyrou to set up the France striker.

Valbuena was at the receiving end of another

the ball pass between his legs to volley home and put the result beyond doubt seven minutes into the second half.

On Wednesday, Olympique Lyon will take on French champions Lille while Nice play Dijon and Le Mans, the only non Ligue 1 side left in the competition, host Lorient.

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later on Wednesday. The 26-year-old forward has a hamstring injury which threatens his participation in the tournament this month.

A decision on the possibility of a full recovery, by the time Ghana

deadline for the submission of squads to the Confederation of African Football’s headquarters in Cairo. “Asamoah will only be taken to the com-petition if he recovers on time,” the Ghana Football Association president Kwesi Nyantakyi told the Ghana News Agency on Wednesday.

The former Sunderland striker, now on loan in the United Arab Emir-ates, has been working with a Serbian medical team put together by coach Goran Stevanovic since arriving at Ghana’s pre-tournament training camp in Rustenburg, South Africa earlier this week.

“I’m really important to the team and I will do anything possible to

website www.ghanafa.org last week. Ghana have high hopes of winning

the Nations Cup with Botswana, Guinea and Mali.Tunisia are also waiting until just before the deadline to submit their

squad because of injuries to Issam Jemaa and Mejdi Traoui.AJ Auxerre striker Jemaa returned to light training in Dubai,

where Tunisia are based this week, on Tuesday but Traoui is still

Morocco and Niger.

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Real Madrid’s Karim Benzema (L) scores a goal past Malaga’s goalkeeper Willy Caballero during their Spanish King’s Cup soccer match at La Rosaleda stadium in Malaga January 10, 2012.

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AS Nancy’s Joel Sami (L) challenges Olympique Marseille’s Mathieu Valbuena during their French Ligue 1 soccer match at the Marcel Picot stadium in Nancy December 20, 2011.

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Nick Young scored 15 points and Rashard Lewis added the same amount in a rare outing off the bench for the Wizards (1-8), who led by 19 after three

line. Lewis was a part of a line-up change that also saw former starter Andray Blatche play a

Wizards break losing spell with Raptors rompReuters

Washington Wizards for-ward Trevor Booker (35) dunks over Toronto Rap-tors center Andrea Barg-nani (7), of Italy, and James Johnson (2) during the second half of an NBA bas-ketball game, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012, in Washington. The Wizards won 93-78.

reserve role.“If it takes me coming off the

bench, as long as we are playing like this, I don’t have a problem with doing that role,” Blatche

nine points and eight rebounds. “It’s all about winning and mak-

made a step and did a lot of great things on defense and shot the ball really well.”

Washington’s dreadful start had included several blowout losses and they were booed by their home crowd during a 21-point defeat to Minnesota on Sunday. The team’s woeful run increased speculation of coach Flip Saunders losing his job with every passing defeat but the

balance and shot 48 percent from

Despite trailing 20-17 after the first quarter, Washington kicked on in the second and left the Raptors behind. Play-ing on consecutive nights after beating Minnesota on Monday,

coming off back-to-back games and had too many turnovers, which you really can’t come back from,” Toronto coach Dwane Casey said. “We knew they were a hungry team and were going to

Andrea Bargnani had a team-high 22 points to continue his strong start for the Raptors (4-6). He entered the night averaging 23.7 points per game this season.

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The ‘mystery man’ accused by Amir Khan of interfering with judges’ scorecards in his world title defeat by Lamont Peterson helps the Inter-national Boxing Federation (IBF)

organization said Tuesday.The IBF, however, said Mustafa

Ameen, seen in video footage at ring-side of last month’s controversial

-cal boxing commission to arrange a credential to the bout for him.

Khan, who lost his WBA super-lightweight and IBF light-welter-weight titles to the American in Washington D.C., had posted Twitter messages highlighting footage from the clash and questioning the pres-ence of the man at ringside.

“At this point in time the IBF has decided to break its silence and pro-

of Mr. Mustafa Ameen’s presence at the IBF/WBA championship bout between Amir Khan and Lamont Pe-terson,” the boxing organization said

Amir Khan departs the ring

after losing to Lamont Peterson

WBA in their super lightweight

and IBF Junior welterweight

title fight in Washington, De-

cember 11, 2011.

in a statement.“Initially, the organization chose

not to publicly address this matter to preserve the integrity of the (Jan 18)

by Golden Boy promotions on the rul-ing of the aforementioned bout.

“The sole purpose in doing so was with the intentions that all parties, and most importantly, the panelists could go into this hearing with clear minds and no preconceptions or prejudices.”

Ameen would be present at the January 18 hearing to explain his ac-tions and what transpired during the bout between him and WBA supervi-sor Michael Welsh, the IBF said.

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Al-Attiyah had remained optimistic that he could pull off a second straight win even when nearly three quarters of an hour behind Peterhansel at the rally’s halfway point, but further issues with his Hummer - today in the form of alternator and engine problems - saw the World Rally Championship regular forced to

finally withdraw from the event.Even as one Hummer retired, the team’s

chances of victory were boosted as Gordon claimed his first stage win of the 2012 Da-kar, beating X-raid Mini driver Peterhansel by 1m38s to reduce the Frenchman’s lead to just under six minutes.

“We pushed, like qualifying hard, not

really knowing where you’re going,” said Gordon. “We had a couple of big scary moments.

“For us, we’ve got to make time. We’re in a different position to him. He has to conserve his time and I’ve got to make it. We’ve got four days left, four real days of racing left and the Hum-mer’s strong.”

The battle for third is also still ongo-ing, with Krzysztof Holowczyc’s advan-tage over X-raid team-mate Nani Roma reduced to 2m37s after an error by the Pole today.

FERRARI will launch its 2012 Formula 1 challenger on February 3 at Maranello, team principal Stefano Do-menicali has confirmed. Speaking at the annual Wrooom event, Domenicali said that Ferrari also planned to hold an initial shakedown of its 2012 car either on its launch or on the following day, February 4.

Following a disappointing season in 2011, Do-menicali admitted that Ferrari faced a new set of expectations for the new season but said his approach remained calm and relaxed. “To take the new season with anxiety does not help, so it is useless to feel stress,” he asserted.

“We do know the season is going to be important and delicate from many points of view, but this is part of the sport and this type of situation is part of the context in which Ferrari has been operating in.

“Clearly there are expectations we have to manage in the best possible way. The emotional side is impor-tant, especially in a team like ours, so my approach and the approach I have always had is of being calm, relaxed and determined - without feeling de-motivated if things should not go better at the start, and not being too positive if things go well at the beginning.”

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Hummer driver Robby Gordon and co-driver Johnny Campbell, both of the U.S., compete in the 9th stage of the 2012 Argentina-Chile-Peru Dakar Rally between Antofagasta and Iquique, Chile, Tuesday Jan. 10, 2012.

Robby Gordon moved to within 5m58s of Dakar Rally leader Stephane Peterhansel by winning Tuesday’s Antofagasta to Iquique stage, but the American’s Hummer team-mate - and 2011 event winner - Nasser Al-Attiyah’s bid for a repeat victory has ended in retirement.