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Bali is My LifemovieShowing Bali’s richtraditional culture

Australian admiralcalls time ondrunken sailors

Engineers are trying to stabilize asix-reactor nuclear plant inFukushima, 250 km (150 miles) northof the capital, nearly two weeks after

ELIZABETH Taylor, screengoddess, was born in 1951’s “APlace in the Sun,” when she cooedinto Montgomery Clift’s ear,“You’ll be my pickup.”

Taylor had been a child andteenage star, but “A Place in theSun” was the first head-on look ather mature, raven-haired, violet-eyed beauty. It would be capturedagain, if fleetingly, in the sultry“BUtterfield 8,” the sweltering“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and thefitting “Cleopatra,” surely her his-torical counterpart.

Her searing screen presenceastonished a moviegoing public. Itwas a ravishing, glamorous glow

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Elizabeth TaylorContinued on page 6

Quintessential star Elizabeth Taylor dies at 79that no amount of blockbuster fail-ures or tabloid escapades could dim— and in her 79 years, there wereplenty of both. As news of herdeath Wednesday spread, it wasclear how many were still en-tranced. Fellow stars, fans andheads of state were nearly as help-less as Clift’s George Eastman.

Her former husband, former Sen.John W. Warner recalled her “clas-sic face and majestic eyes.” JoanCollins remembered Taylor as “thelast of the true Hollywood icons.”Elton John said she embodied “thevery essence of glamorous moviestardom.” Taylor died early Wednes-day of congestive heart failure, said

her publicist Sally Morrison. She wassurrounded by her four children atLos Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai MedicalCenter, where she had been hospi-talized for about six weeks.

Film critic Vincent Camby oncewrote that Taylor “represents thecomplete movie phenomenon —what movies are as an art and anindustry and what they have meantto us who have grown up watchingthem in the dark.”

She may have been the quintessen-tial movie star, but Taylor’s life wasfar messier than her on-screen icon.As flawless as she was in celluloid,she was utterly human off-screen.

Radiation scare sparks runon bottled water in Tokyo

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TOKYO – Stores in Tokyo were running out of bottledwater on Thursday after radiation from a damaged nuclearcomplex briefly made tap water unsafe for babies, while morenations curbed imports of Japanese food.

an earthquake and tsunami batteredthe plant and devastated northeasternJapan, leaving nearly 26,000 peopledead or missing.

Tokyo’s 13 million residentswere told not to give tap water tobabies under 1 year old after con-tamination hit twice the safety levelthis week. But it dropped back toallowable amounts on Thursday.Despite government appeals againstpanic, many supermarkets andstores sold out of bottled water.

“Customers ask us for water. Butthere’s nothing we can do,” said

Masayoshi Kasahara, a store clerkat a supermarket in a residentialarea of eastern Tokyo. “We are ask-ing for more deliveries but we don’tknow when the next shipment willcome.” Radiation above safety lev-els has also been found in milk andvegetables from Fukushima, wherethe stricken nuclear plant is locatedon the Pacific coast.

A womanpushes awheelbarrowas shecleans herhouse inMotoyoshitown, MiyagiPrefecture,Japan, March23, 2011.

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Bangli (Bali Post)—Transmission of deadly dis-

ease in Bangli Regency is in-creasingly apprehensive. Asidefrom being faced with rabiescases claiming four lives, thespread of deadly sexually trans-mitted diseases like HIV andAIDS in Bangli is no less fero-ciously compared to rabies.Even, they have increased sig-nificantly through the years.

Just imagine, from the datacollected in the Bangli HealthServices and AIDS PreventionCommission of Bangli Regencyon Wednesday (Mar 23), thenumber of people living withHIV/AIDS was only 4 people.But, at the end of 2010 the num-ber of positive cases to HIV/AIDS has increased signifi-cantly reaching 48 positivecases (data of Health Services).

More ironically, the numberboosted based on voluntary

Eri Asano admitted to be very keento visit the Dutch heritage touristobject (Kerthagosa) showing off thesplendor of Kamasan puppet paint-ing style that told stories about thecourt system in the past. However,when having a look at some cornersaround 11:00 a.m. Local Time, shewas not aware if her red wallet hadvanished. She rushed to do a searcharound the location. Unfortunately,she failed. The tourist from YanaKisarazu Zhi, Tokyo, immediatelywent to the office of Klungkung Po-

Semarapura (Bali Post)—The volume of seawater along the

coastal territory of Klungkung startingfrom Tegalbesar, Banjarangkan (west)to Goa Lawah, Dawan (east) increases.Even, the high tides reached five metersto the beach. The condition caused morethan one hundred people looking forpebble mesh to lose their job. Likewise,fishermen turned anxious because thehigh tides had reached the parking lotof traditional boats. Even, some fishingboats were virtually crashed due to hightides.

One of the high tides was seen onthe Segara Beach, Kusamba, Wednes-day (Mar 23). The area habitually over-whelmed by seekers of pebble mesh wasdeserted then. Similarly, the area ofpebble mesh mine looked to have nar-rowed. A number of fishermen found atlocation mentioned that high tides hadoccurred since last Saturday (Mar 19)coinciding with the full moon in the tenthmonth of Balinese calendar. “By andlarge, the high tides occurred at 10:00a.m. until 16:00 p.m. Local Time everyday since the full moon,” said a fisher-man from Pancingan Hamlet, Kusamba,Dawan, Nengah Kasih.

According to Kasih, high tides indeedoccurred in the tenth month of Balinese

Wallet goes to the bad, Japanese touristWallet goes to the bad, Japanese touristWallet goes to the bad, Japanese touristWallet goes to the bad, Japanese touristWallet goes to the bad, Japanese touristloses JPY 35,000loses JPY 35,000loses JPY 35,000loses JPY 35,000loses JPY 35,000Semarapura (Bali Post)—

Misfortune was experienced by a Japanese tourist named EriAsano, 25, Wednesday (Mar 23). When paying a visit toKerthagosa tourist attraction, Klungkung, she lost her walletcausing a loss of cash worth JPY 35,000. Accompanied by herboy friend who is also a Japanese citizen, Eri Asano reportedthe case to Klungkung Police Headquarters.

lice in the hope her case could behandled further.

In her report the tourist whoduring her holiday in Bali stayedon Jalan Jembawan Ubud,Gianyar, admitted to lose moneyamounting to JPY 35,000 in thewallet. “We have just received thereport of her property loss. Fur-thermore, we will submit the re-port to Community Service Unit,”said the Chief of Central PoliceServices (SPK) of Klungkung Po-lice, Made London. (kmb20)

High tides, seekers of pebblemesh lose job Traditional boatsalmost washed away

calendar. The sea water rose some 5-7 meters to the beach. “Therefore, thebeach usually overwhelmed bypebble mesh seekers is now desertedbecause the site of pebble mesh minewas inundated and so was the park-ing lot of fishing boats,” he said.

Such conditions, added Kasih,made fishermen carry out extra tightsupervision against their boats to pre-vent them from being crashed ordrifted due to high tides. “Last year,many traditional boats were damagedas they were clashing each other dueto the high tides. We do not want if ithappens again,” he said.

So far, they recognized the tidesdid not inhibit their activity to go downto sea. High tides did not have an im-pact on the waves. “The waves staystable or normal. However, the resultof our catch is only some few becausetoday is not the fishing season,” hesaid.

Typically, the Segara Beach wasoverwhelmed by more than onehundred seekers of pebble meshconsisting of women, men, chil-dren and adults. On average, byamassing pebble mesh they couldearn IDR 10,000 to IDR 20,000every day. (kmb20)

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The beautiful scenery of Kintamani. the spread of deadly sexually transmitted diseases likeHIV and AIDS in Bangli is no less ferociously compared to rabies.

People with HIV/AIDS in Banglisignificantly increase Out of 78 positivecases mostly from Kintamani

counseling and testing (VCT) inBangli Hospital. Out of the 44cases suspected to be HIV, in fact30 people were declared to bepositive to HIV/AIDS. On that ac-count, the number of people liv-ing with HIV/AIDS in Bangli hadbeen recorded to reach 78 casesand seven patients died. Of thefour subdistricts in Bangli, the onewith highest HIV /ADS cases wasoccupied by subdistr ict ofKintamani, and then followed bySusut subdistrict.

The Head of Bangli Health Ser-vices, I Gusti Ngurah Rai, saidthat based on provincial data onHIV/AIDS by the end of Decem-ber as many as 44 cases werefound in Bangli. The number wasdetected after sick people werereferred to VCT in Sanglah Hos-pital and finally found that num-ber. However, after the BangliHospital was equipped with VCTfor HIV/ AIDS, in fact out of 44

HIV/AIDS suspects as many as30 were tested positive. Accord-ing to him, those cases hademerged recently. It was esti-mated, there were some casesseemingly left undetected.

It was said the average ofthose tested positive to HIV/AIDS were of productive ages.Among the four subdistricts inBangli, the most cases of HIVAIDS occurred in Kintamani.Possibly, it was caused by theactivities of local community.For instance, as a driver or busi-nessman they often travelled tooutside the region while gettingin touched with prosti tutesthere.

In years to come, local com-munity was appealed to declarea fight against the deadly diseaseby keeping away from unhealthybehaviors. They included drugabuse and free sex (multiplesexual partners). (kmb17)

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DENPASAR - Indonesia’sMinistry of Culture and Tourismwill not be revising its ambitious7.7 million target for foreignvisitors in 2011 despite predic-tions from many quarters thatJapanese arrivals to Indonesiawill be negatively impacted forat least six months following thecataclysmic earthquake and tsu-nami that devastated northernJapan.

Indonesia’s Minister of Cul-ture and Tourism, Jero Wacik,told the press just five days af-ter the Japanese natural disasterthat he remains optimistic for-eign tourist arrivals will remainstrong, increasing 10% to 7.7million in 2011. Said Wacik,“there is no revision because thetourists will come from otherplaces and will continue togrow.” The Minister also reaf-firmed his belief that Japanesearrivals will rebound after apause of 6 months.

Wacik said that Japanese pro-duce an average of 400,000 visi-

“Actually we have had manytourism villages, but they are stilllacking in the provision of accom-modation and other supporting fa-cilities,” said Ardika in Denpasar,Wednesday (Mar 23).

According to him, the villagetourism was a tourism dedicated toimprove the household incomes ofBalinese community by persistentlyimplementing local cultural valuesin maintaining the environment andsocial life based on mutual agree-ment of the society. Establishmentof fair rural community life and resi-dents having the capability of ad-dressing the tourism developmentwould provide increased prosperityand preservation of culture and en-vironment.

“This type of tourism is con-ducted at villages, not in town, asa territory controlled, managedand used by a group of people withclear rules,” he said. Ardika alsoexplained that tourism village bycommunity-based tourism (PIR)scheme was defined as a rural areaoffering the unique and interest-ing ambience that reflected the au-thenticity of countryside, socialand economic life, social culture,customs, daily life, architecture,

Singaraja (Bali Post)—Though Buleleng remains to

be declared as a region beingfree from bird flu infections, thepeople of the Northern Bali stillworry. Their fear is reasonablebecause a good few of outsidepoultry enters into Bulelengwithout strict supervision. Alleg-edly, the consignment of thepoultry from outside Bali enteredinto Buleleng through several tra-ditional ports in the northern coast.

Head of Buleleng Agriculturaland Animal Husbandry Services,Putu Mertha Jiwa, confirmed onWednesday (Mar 23) the allega-tion on entry of a number of poul-try from outside Bali through tra-ditional ports. His party claimedto have difficulties in doing sur-veillance due to limited numberof officials and there were manytraditional ports in Buleleng.“Indeed, the consignment ofpoultry from outside Bali was al-leged through traditional ports.Sometimes there are ships car-rying bananas but they also bringalong chicken to Buleleng. Tosum up, it is difficult to controlthem,” he said.

According to Mertha Jiwa, toprevent the consignment of poul-

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Penglipuran, one of the tourism village developed in Bali.

Development of tourismDevelopment of tourismDevelopment of tourismDevelopment of tourismDevelopment of tourismvillage hampered byvillage hampered byvillage hampered byvillage hampered byvillage hampered byaccommodationaccommodationaccommodationaccommodationaccommodationDenpasar (Bali Post)—

Bali has tremendous rural potentials to be developed. However, the development of currenttourism village is not supported by the provision of adequate accommodation. Trustee Chairmanof the Association of Bali Ecological Tourism Village (DWE), I Gede Ardika, said the develop-ment of tourism village should be increased especially in the provision of accommodation, so thattourists spending holiday in Bali got interested to stay in the village.

spatial structure of a typical villageand economic activities. Addition-ally, village tourism also had po-tential for the development of vari-ous tourism components such asattractions, accommodation, food,beverages and other travel needs.

“Ecological tourism village putsmore emphases on the unity of vil-lage territory owned by the com-munity and had particular rules inthe management and spatial utili-zation in it. It is inseparable fromthe elements specified in tourismvillage,” he said.

Nevertheless, the ecologicaltourism village and community-based tourism had the same goalnamely to achieve sustainable tour-ism. Embodiment of this schemewas pursued in three ways such asby proposing a discourse and strat-egy towards social movements;strengthening civil society organi-zations and societal movementsoriented to reinforcement of basecommunity capacity and strategyof resources decentralization; andby bringing a gender perspectiveflows from the periphery to main-stream.

“Internationally, the world tour-ism code of conduct has been de-

cided in the thirteenth general as-sembly of the World Tourism Or-ganization setting forth the prin-ciples in the development of tour-ism. The ethical code is a referencefor tourism stakeholders,” he said.

The codes of ethic, as recog-nized by Ardika, aimed to mini-mize the negative impact of tour-ism on the environment and cul-tural heritage, to maximize the im-provement in sustainable develop-ment with poverty eradication andto create harmony among people.

Meanwhile, the Head of BaliGovernment Tourism Office, IBKade Subhiksu, said that Bali haddozens of tourism village that wereready to receive tourists. However,he did not deny if there was also ameans of tourism village that hadnot yet fulfilled all requirementsspecified.

Pengelipuran Village in BangliRegency, said Subhiksu, was oneof the existing tourism villagesthat had been long enough to re-ceive the visit of domestic and for-eign tourists. “We will continueworking to improve the infrastruc-ture and other supporting facili-ties, so the visit to tourism villagewill increase,” he said. (par)

IndonesianArrival Targetsstill 7 milliontourists

tors each year for Indonesia. Hepredicted the recent disasterwould only depress Japanese ar-rivals by 10%.

Bali by the Numbers - theregular analysis of arrival num-bers published byBalidiscovery.com, shows thatJapanese arrivals to Bali de-clined 22.85% in 2010 totaling246,465. January 2011 arrivalfigures from Japan, covering aperiod before the March 11thdisaster, show tourism arrivalsfrom Japan were in still in a con-tinual decline. January arrivalswere down 13.14% month-on-month at 16,748.

The Minister also dismissedthe possibility that several letterbombs recently found in Jakartawill affect tourism arrivals.Wacik said terrorist bombs werenot exclusive to Indonesia. Hesaid that Bali suffered an instantdrop in arrivals after the Balibombings, but he was confidentthat tourist have now becomelargely immune to such news.

Rampant poultry fromoutside Bali in BulelengAlleged to enter through traditional ports

try through traditional ports hisparty expected the participation ofcommunities living on the coastalarea or fishermen living around theports to oversee the landing ships.If found any ship unloading poul-try or other animals, people wereasked to report the matter to theofficer of Animal Husbandry Ser-vices or to the nearest police sta-tion. “Since the number of super-vising officers is very restricted,we ask the participation of com-munity living on the coastal areato participate in supervising theentry of poultry from outside Balito Buleleng,” he explained.

Mertha Jiwa added, so far hisparty indeed had commitment tocarry out preventive measuresagainst the transmission of birdflu virus in Buleleng. Amongothers, his party continued to dospraying by disinfectant target-ing poultry cages owned by thecommunity. In addition, if therewas a positive indication on thetransmission of bird flu virus,the Animal Husbandry Serviceswould perform extermination.“We keep on watching andalerting disinfectant to preventthe transmission of H5N1 vi-ruses,” he said. (kmb)

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However, according to a YouGovsurvey for Prospect Magazine re-leased on Thursday, that sentimenthas now been reversed. The poll of2,409 people found the public wouldprefer Charles to be the next kingby a 45 to 37 margin, a reversal of asimilar survey in 2005 which backedWilliam by 41-37.

Prospect suggested one possiblereason for the reversal was that thepublic felt William and Middletonshould be allowed to enjoy as nor-mal-as-possible a life after their

Reuters

TRIPOLI – Western warplaneshit Libya for a fifth night onThursday, but so far have failedto stop Muammar Gaddafi’s tanksshelling rebel-held towns or dis-lodge his armor from a strategicjunction in the east. Gaddafi’stanks rolled back into Misrataunder the cover of darkness andbegan shelling the area near themain hospital, residents and rebelssaid, resuming their attack aftertheir guns were silenced in day-light hours by Western airstrikes.

Government snipers in the city,Libya’s third largest, were unde-terred by the bombing raidsthough and had carried on firingindiscriminately throughout, resi-dents said. A rebel spokesman saidthe snipers had killed 16 people.

“Government tanks are closingin on Misrata hospital and shellingthe area,” said a doctor in Misratawho was briefly reached by phonebefore the line was cut off. It wasimpossible to independently verifythe reports. A loud explosion washeard in the Libyan capital Tripoliearly on Thursday and smoke couldbe seen rising from an area where amilitary base is situated.

Associated Press Writer

BELGRADE, Serbia – Smalland cuddly or looking like wolves,curled in filthy makeshift cages orroaming the streets in packs: Straydogs are everywhere in Serbia, acountry where even peoplestruggle with hunger and havelittle sympathy for animals. Thenumbers are staggering, fueled byyears of war, poverty and the lackof any government strategy toneuter or control strays.

In the capital Belgrade, strayshave doubled in recent years toabout 15,000, according to gov-ernment estimates — a huge bur-den for a city of only 2 million. Incontrast, Moscow has five timesmore people and about 26,000

AP Photo/Paul Crock, Pool

Britain’s Prince William, fourth left, arrives at Brad and Leonie Wren’s property in Benjeroop, Victoria,Australia, Monday, March 21, 2011. Prince William is visiting a flood-hit farming region in southern Austra-lia as he wraps up a visit to disaster zones in Australia and New Zealand.

Britons want Charles notBritons want Charles notBritons want Charles notBritons want Charles notBritons want Charles notWilliam as next king: pollWilliam as next king: pollWilliam as next king: pollWilliam as next king: pollWilliam as next king: pollReuters

LONDON – More Britons want Prince Charles to become Britain’s next monarch than his son Williamdespite the huge interest in his upcoming wedding and previous suggestions he was the popular choice, apoll on Thursday said. Shortly after William’s engagement to girlfriend Kate Middleton was announcedlast November, two polls showed a majority of Britons thought he should succeed Queen Elizabeth and notheir-to-the-throne Charles.

April 29 wedding.British constitutional expert

Norman St John-Stevas said therewas no possibility that the thronecould bypass Charles in any case. “Itwould be a major breach of our con-stitution,” he told Reuters TV.

“It would weaken the monarchy,it would make Prince William’s taskinfinitely more difficult, it would bean act of gross injustice to PrinceCharles who has done so much forthe monarchy.”

The poll also found that support for

scrapping the monarchy had ebbedaway. Shortly after the death ofCharles’s wife Diana in 1997, whenthere was widespread anger at the royalfamily, a quarter of Britons wanted toget rid of them. The survey found thatfigure was down to 13 percent. Therewas also strong support for an overhaulto a 300-year-old law which gives pri-macy to male heirs to the British throne.

The poll showed that by a 75-17percent margin, the public thoughtthe eldest child of the monarch,whatever their sex, should succeed.

AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic

In this Tuesday, March 15, 2011 photo, abandoned dogs in the shelter nearthe city of Backa Topola, about 100 kilometers north of Belgrade, Serbia.

Flooded with stray dogs, Serbia struggles to copestray dogs. “There are more and moredogs out there every day,” says JelenaJankovic, whose Center for MixedDogs group has run a small shelter inBelgrade since 1996.

While there are no exact figures forthe rest of Serbia, officials estimatethere could be around 50,000 dogs outthere, many facing hunger, cold, dis-eases, harassment and sometimes un-imaginable cruelties. Officials whohad been preoccupied with postwarand global economic issues have beenforced to announce urgent measuresto try to deal with the problem ofstrays.

“We must attack this from allsides,” said Predrag Petrovic, whoheads the newly formed special com-mission addressing the issue inBelgrade. “We have a difficult task

ahead of us.” “We are all responsiblefor such an immense number ofabandoned animals,” says BudimirPlavsic, senior official at Serbia’sagriculture ministry.

The scope of the problem washighlighted by a tragedy earlier thismonth, when a woman who single-handedly ran a makeshift dog shel-ter in northern Serbia died in a fire.She left behind about 500 dogs and60 cats who are now in the hands oflocal authorities.

At the shelter, 60 miles (100 ki-lometers) north of Belgrade, hun-dreds of dogs are fenced off amiddebris and mud, chewing at rawmeat leftovers provided by food fac-tories. Local officials and animalrights activists said it could takemonths before the dogs are resettled.

AP Photo/Jerome Delay

In this image taken during an organized trip by the Libyan authori-ties, A Libyan soldier in civilian clothes takes a picture amidst thewreckage of what was described as a maintenance warehouse hitby two missiles Monday evening on a Naval base in Tripoli, Libya,Tuesday March 22, 2011.

Western air strikes fail todislodge Gaddafi armor

Libyan officials took journaliststo a Tripoli hospital early on Thurs-day to see what they said were thecharred bodies of 18 military per-sonnel and civilians killed by West-ern warplanes or missiles overnight.The U.S. military said it had suc-cessfully established a no-fly zoneover Libya’s coastal areas and hadmoved on to attack Gaddafi’s tanks.The allies flew 175 sorties in 24hours, with the U.S. flying 113 ofthose, a U.S. commander said.

Britain said on Thursday it hadlaunched guided Tomahawk mis-siles from a Trafalgar class subma-rine at air defense targets as partof the coalition plan to enforce theresolution. French Defense Min-ister Gerard Longuet said Francehad destroyed some 10 Libyan ar-mored vehicles over three days.

The U.N. Security Councilresolution he said, “stipulates thatthe coalition has all means avail-able to protect the civilians. What’sthreatening the population today isthe tanks and artillery,” he said inan interview with Le Figaro. TheLibyan government denies itsarmy is conducting any offensiveoperations and says troops are onlydefending themselves when theycome under attack.

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Temple CeremonyCalendar Event for March 21 through April 23, 2011

EVERY Temple and Shrine has a special date for itannual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days accord-ing to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestralshrine which each family possesses. Because of this prac-tically every few days a ceremony of festival of somekind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are alsotimes when the entire island celebrated the same Holi-day, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswatiday, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, TumpekWayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is con-sidered its birth day and celebration always takes place onthe same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. Whennew moon is used then the celebration always happens onnew moon or full moon. The day of course can differ thereligious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full daywith some temple celebrating for three days while the cel-ebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is neverless 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 dressedwith pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings,decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted withgold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hungin the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placedred, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods areworshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these um-brellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributesof Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”,long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments ofyoung 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 col-ored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the gracewith which the carry their load on their heads.

Balinese TempleCeremony

21 MarBetara Turun Kabeh Ceremony Besakih - KarangasemBukit Jati Temple BangliBatur Temple Kalanganyar - BangliMasceti Pejengaji Temple Tegallalang - GianyarDalem Temple Tangsud,Sukawati - GianyarPenambangan Badung Temple DenpasarLempuyang Madia Temple KarangasemBatur Temple BangliDesa Temple Singakerta,Ubud - GianyarPasek Gelgel Temple Marga - TabananGaduh Temple Ketapian, Sumerta - DenpasarPasek Bendesa Temple Tuakilang - TabananPasek Agung Temple Tatag Kelod,Peguyangan -DenpasarAgung Pasek Bendesa Temple Tonja - DenpasarPasek Gegel Angsri Temple Baturiti - TabananPasek Gelgel Baleagung Temple Braban - TabananDukuh Sakti Belatung Temple Timpag,Kerambitan-TabananPuseh Dukuh Sakti Belatung Rendang - KarangasemPitamaha Temple Palangkaraya - Kalimantan TengahCandra Praba Temple Komplek Polri,Jelambar-Jakarta BaratAgung Jagatnatha Temple DenpasarPemerajan Agung Temple Puri Petak - GianyarDadya Agung Bendesa Tangkas Abiansemal - BadungPuseh Temple Sidemen - KarangasemAgung Giri Natha Temple Semarang - Center of Java

2 AprilPuseh Temple , Village Temple Sukawati GianyarPasek Gelgel-Bebetin Temple Sawan BulelengMaspahit Temple Sesetan DenpasarPasek Bendesa Manik Mas Tegallalang GianyarPanti Pasek Gaduh Temple Sesetan - DenpasarPedarman Arya Kanuruhan Temple BesakihKarangasem

5 AprilKahyangan Tiga Temple Batur Kintamani - BangliBatur Temple Camenggaon, Sukawati Gianyar

Luhur Bhujangga Temple Canggu,Kuta BadungKawitan Kayu Selem Temple Batur, Kintamani Bangli

12 AprilPuseh Temple , Desa Temple GianyarLuhur Dalem Segening Temple Kediri TabananSanghyang Tegal Temple Taro,Tegallalang Gianyar

16 AprilDalem Tarukan Temple Cemenggon, Sukawati-GianyarPenataran Dalem Ketut Temple Pejeng Kaja GianyarPuseh Manakaji Temple Peninjoan - BangliKawitan Gusti Celuk Temple Mengwi Badung

20 AprilSegara Temple Lombok IslandDwijawarsa Temple Malang East JavaPuncak Tinggah Temple Baturiti TabananKawitan Batur Pande Tonja Temple Tonja - DenpasarPenyungsungan Pasek Tohjiwa Wanagiri,SelemadegTabananPenataran Agung Temple Sidemen KarangasemSamuan Tiga Temple Bedulu GianyarKawitan Jati Luwih Bhujangga Jatiluwih Tabanan

21 AprilDalem Taman Temple Peguyangan Denpasar

23 AprilPuri Agung Dalem Tarukan Pejeng,TampaksiringGianyarRambut Siwi Temple JembranaBatu Bolong Temple Canggu,Kuta BadungPasek Temple Klaci,TabananAgung Pasek Temple Dauh Waru - JembranaRatu Pasek Temple Sangsit BulelengPasek Tangkas Temple Gede TabananPedharman Batur Sari Ngiis Temple Jegu,PenebelTabananDesa Temple Banyuning BulelengSrijong Temple TabananPuncak Mundi Temple Klumpu,Nusa Penida-Klungkung

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JAKARTA - Gran Melia Jakarta is proud tointroduce and welcome, Mr. Christian Gerart asits new Resident Manager. Mr. Gerart bringswith him 20 years experience in the hospitalityin several Leading Hotels of the World, and 5Stars and 5 Diamonds awarded establishments.

His background in Food and Beverage in-cludes experience in managing Michelin-Starrated restaurants, The Peninsula Hotel NewYork, The Cotton House Mustique, The HyattRegency La Manga, Spain, The Oberoi,Mauritius and The Nusa Dua Beach Hotel, SpaBali Indonesia.

Originally from Germany, he speaks English,French and Spanish fluently. He has outstand-ing skills in guest relations and interpersonaldynamics to ensure guest satisfaction. His ex-cellent background will have him presentinggreat service and exceed guests’ expectations.

The NewResident

Manager GranMelia Jakarta

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The report examined allega-tions of a “predatory culture” anddrunken misconduct on the ship,with sailors accused of maintain-ing a list known as The Ledgerwhich put dollar values on sexualconquests with female colleagues.The claims covered a period be-tween March and May 2009 whenthe ship designed to supply navalcombat units with fuel, ammuni-tion, food and stores while at sea,was deployed to the Philippines,China, Hong Kong and Singapore.

“The misuse and abuse of al-cohol is a common elementthroughout the report ,” saidCrane. “The navy is not immunefrom the alcohol problems whichconfront this nation, especiallywhen it comes to binge drinking,but we must hold ourselves tohigher standard. “Every one of usneeds to step up here and addressthe debilitating effects of alcoholand drug abuse.”

Crane threatened to ban alcohol

Agence France Presse

PESHAWAR, Pakistan – A sui-cide car bomb targeting a policestation on Thursday killed fivepeople and wounded 25 others ina restive northwestern Pakistanitown, police said. A police officerand four civilians died in the at-tack in Doaba town in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, while partof the police station was demol-ished and at least 10 houses dam-aged, senior local police officialAbdul Rashid said.

“The bomber, riding an explo-sive-packed car, blew himself upnear a police station, killing fivepeople and wounding 25 others,”Rashid told AFP. The bomber hadbeen aiming to strike the buildingdirectly but failed to do so be-

AFP/File/Greg Wood

Australian navy chief Vice-Admiral Russ Crane on Thursday de-manded an end to the service’s booze culture, warning of man-datory breath-tests and curfews on shore leave.

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SYDNEY – Australian navychief Vice-Admiral Russ Craneon Thursday demanded an endto the service’s booze culture,warning of mandatory breath-tests and curfews on shoreleave. The tough message, in avideo address shown across thenavy, followed a 400-page re-port released this year on sor-did behaviour involvingHMAS Success in 2009.

consumption during port visitswhile overseas, and to increaseshore patrols and introduce curfewsin Australia. While random breathtesting already takes place, he saidhe could make it mandatory.

“I will be looking to improveour testing procedures in all RoyalAustralian Navy ships and estab-lishments,” he said. “If we need totest 100 percent of our people, thenthis will be done.”

With the report into the Successraising issues about discipline andthe treatment of women, the vice-admiral vowed that attitudes mustchange. “This report showed alco-hol-fuelled actively led to inappro-

priate behaviour, especially tar-geted at women,” he said.

“This is unacceptable and willnot be tolerated. I cannot accept asituation where women in theworkplace or on ships feel threat-ened by their male counterparts.“This type of behaviour must andwill be eradicated.” Defence Min-ister Stephen Smith said Crane’sefforts to change attitudes had hisfull support.

“I strongly support the chief ofnavy in his efforts to change cul-ture,” he said, adding that whilemoderate drinking was currentlyallowed, service personnel mustrealise they represent Australia.

Suicide car bomb kills five,wounds 25 in Pakistan

cause of barricades that had beenerected outside, he said.

“No one has so far claimed re-sponsibility for the incident,”Rashid said. Another senior localpolice official , MuhammadMasood Khan Afridi, confirmedthe attack and casualties in thetown some 30 kilometres (18miles) from Hangu district.

Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linkedmilitants attack daily across north-west Pakistan and the tribal belt onthe Afghan border, which Wash-ington has branded the most dan-gerous place on Earth.

They are engaged in a campaignof violence against security forcesin the country, which is a key allyin the US-led “war on terror”. TheTaliban claim many attacks in re-venge for US drone strikes in the

rugged tribal areas. More than4,100 have died in suicide andbomb attacks across Pakistansince government forces launchedan attack against militants in amosque in Islamabad in 2007.

The United States wantsPakistan’s army to do more tocombat extremists on the border,including by launching a groundoffensive in the district of NorthWaziristan, where it says keyTaliban leaders reside. The armyhas stalled on a ground operation,saying i ts t roops are over-stretched.

The Hangu area borders thedeeply conservative tribal regionof Kurram, a lawless region on theAfghan border where entrenchedmilitants oppose jobs and educa-tion for women.

Associated Press Writer

BEIJING – Chinese health au-thorities are renewing a push to bansmoking in indoor public places,adding more venues like hotels andrestaurants as of May 1, though stillexcluding many workplaces.

The guidelines given on theHealth Ministry’s website are thelatest effort to curb tobacco use inthe country with the world’s larg-est number of smokers and whereexperts say huge revenues fromthe state-owned tobacco mo-nopoly hinders anti-smoking mea-sures.

Smoking, which is linked to thedeaths of at least 1 million peoplein China every year, is one of thegreatest health threats the countryfaces, government statistics show.Nearly 30 percent of adults inChina smoke, about 300 millionpeople — a number roughly equalto the entire U.S. population. Thenew guidelines released this week

China renews push to bansmoking starting May 1

are part of the Health Ministry’sregulations on health managementin public places — a set of rulesthat also covers areas includingventilation, use of disinfectants, airquality and pest control.

Dr. Yang Gonghuan, deputy di-rector of the official Chinese Cen-ter for Disease Control and Pre-vention and a prominent anti-smoking advocate, said the newrules were a significant step for-ward but more needed to be done.

“A higher level of legislation isneeded to make this ban more ef-fective,” such as dedicated anti-smoking laws at the national orcity levels, Yang said.

Dr. Sarah England, head of theWorld Health Organization’s To-bacco Free Initiative in China,says the new rules cover a broaderarray of venues than previousguidelines issued in 1991, but thatthe definition of “public places”excludes government offices andother workplaces.

Singapore and Australia joinedthe United States and Hong Kong inrestricting food and milk importsfrom the zone, while Canada becamethe latest of many nations to tightenscreening after the world’s worstnuclear crisis since Chernobyl. Ashipping industry official, mean-while, said some merchant vesselsmay be avoiding Tokyo port due toconcerns that crew members may beexposed to radiation.

Radiation particles have beenfound as far away as Iceland, al-though Japan insists levels are notdangerous to adults. The contamina-tion scare after the catastrophe ofMarch 11 is adding to Japan’s mosttesting time since World War Two.The estimated $300 billion damagefrom the 9.0 magnitude earthquakeand ensuing tsunami makes it theworld’s costliest natural disaster,dwarfing Japan’s 1995 Kobe quakeand Hurricane Katrina, which sweptthrough New Orleans in 2005.

In Japan’s devastated north, morethan a quarter of a million people arein shelters. Some elderly refugees,among an aging population, havedied from cold and lack of medi-

Her stormy personal life — shewas married eight times, includingtwice to Richard Burton — madeher an early template for moderncelebrity. Most, though, didn’t findher diva-like, but self-deprecating,generous and funny.

“I, along with the critics, havenever taken myself very seriously,”she said, accepting a lifetimeachievement award from theAmerican Film Institute in 1993.

Perhaps because of her looks,

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cines. Exhausted and traumatizedrescuers are still sifting through themud and wreckage where towns andvillages once stood. The officialdeath toll from the disaster has risento 9,523, but is bound to rise as16,094 people are still missing.

Amid the suffering, though, therewas a sense that Japan was turningthe corner in its humanitarian crisis.Aid flowed to refugees, and phone,electricity, postal and bank servicesbegan returning to the north, some-times by makeshift means.

“Things are getting much better,”said 57-year-old Tsutomu Hirayama,staying with his family at an evacua-tion center in Ofunato. “For the firsttwo or three days, we had only onerice ball and water for each meal. Ithought, how long is this going to goon? Now we get lots of food, it’s al-most like luxury.” In other cheeringnews, a baby dolphin was rescued ina rice field after the tsunami dumpedit there. Locals wrapped it in wet tow-els before taking it back to the sea.Aftershocks are still coming, though,sending shudders through manyJapanese. Several shook Tokyo onThursday.

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AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana

Indonesian children play near a heavily polluted river in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, March 22, 2011.March 22 is adopted by the United Nations as World Water Day to raise awareness of freshwater andadvocate for the sustainable management of freshwater resources around the world.

Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA – Britain on Wednes-day denied reports that it was in talkswith Indonesia about selling thecountry Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft.

The Times newspaper earlier thismonth reported that Jakarta had in-formally approached Britain over thepotential acquisition of up to 24 war-planes, worth around 5 billion pounds($8.1 billion dollars) in total.

The previous Labour governmentbanned defence exports to Indone-sia in 1999 amid claims it had usedBritish-made Hawk aircraft to bombcivilians in East Timor.

“There is no discussion at themoment with Indonesia about the

“We predict the number will de-crease in the next two to threemonths, but things will get normalafter that,” Chief of Human Re-sources Bureau at the Ministry ofCulture and Tourism I Gde Pitanasaid here on Thursday.

He said tourists from areas suchas Sendai and Sapporo were thosewho visit Indonesia the most duringthe past years. “Considering the factthat Sendai was one of the impacted

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JAKARTA - Japanese ForeignAffairs Minister TakeakiMatsumoto said on Wednesday Ja-pan wanted to cooperate with In-donesia in sharing their experi-ence in natural disaster mitigationwith other countries in the Asianregion.

“Japan wants to cooperate withIndonesia to share their experi-ence in disaster mitigation withother countries in the Asian re-gion,” Foreign Minister MartyNatalegawa said after a talk withhis Japanese counterpart over in-ternational telephone on Wednes-day, according to a press release

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JAKARTA - Coordinating Min-ister for Political, Legal and Secu-rity Affairs Djoko Suyanto said therewas no such thing as a coup attempt,masterminded by several generals.

“I indeed have heard of the in-formation since ten days ago butthere is no such thing,” he said hereWednesday on the sidelines of theJakarta International Defense Dia-log (JIDD).

Djoko said Indonesia has beenwithin the corridors of democracycorridor. “It is not that we have al-ready developed democracy in ourcountry,” he said.

He said the stages of democracyhad been determined and regulatedin laws. According to agreementsfurther stages would be done alongwith the House of Representativesthrough political platforms, hesaid.

Chief security minister deniesexistence of coup attempt

“Let us just follow the stages. Ourdemocracy is leading to maturity.So, if we still find shortcomings hereand there that is a mere part of theprocess,” he said.

“This means,” Djoko said “therehave been laws and political pro-cesses as stages of democracy thathave agreed upon in the frameworkof reform. We all know it, so let usjust follow it,” he said.

Al Jazeera television station re-ported on Tuesday that a number ofretired three-star generals had beenbehind campaign againstAhmadiyah and the violence againstmembers of the small Islamic sectrecently.

The generals had secretly sup-ported a hard-line organization be-cause of their common goal of top-pling the present government ofPresident Susilo BambangYudhoyono who they considered tooweak and too reformist.

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JAKARTA - The number of Japanese tourists visiting Indonesia ispredicted to decrease over the next two-three months due to the recentpowerful earthquake and tsunami that hit the country, an official said.

areas after the powerful earthquakeand tsunami, we believe that thenumber of tourist from this area willdecrease,” he said.

However I Gde Pitana predictedthe decrease of tourists numberwould be not more than 10 percent.In fact, he said, there was also a pre-diction that some Japanese, wantingto avoid nuclear crisis in their coun-try, would flock Bali, South Koreaor Malaysia as long stay tourists.

He also expressed the belief thatJapan would soon recover from thedevastating natural disaster that hitthe country last March 11. “The Japa-nese are people who have strong de-termination to survive,” he said add-ing that Japan`s government had alsoacted very fast in handling the postdisaster situation in the country.

He predicted that if Japan couldhandle the nuclear incident inFukushima well, the country wouldonly need two to three months torecover.

Japanese tourists are one of thebiggest number of people who visitIndonesia during the past years with400,000 people coming every year

in average.Earlier, the death count in Japan‘s

devastating earthquake and tsunamiwas reported to reach 9,487 people,NHK reported citing the country‘spolice. According to Japanese po-lice, another 15,617 still remain un-accounted for.

Some 360,000 people have beenevacuated from the disaster zone andaccommodated in temporary refugecenters across the country.

The deadly quake and tsunamirocked Japan on March 11. A seriesof aftershocks followed. The disas-ter triggered a number of explosionsat the Fukushima Nuclear PowerPlant, spreading fears of massive ra-

dioactive contamination.Officials in Tokyo have warned

parents not to give young childrentap water due to increased levels ofradiation. Radioactive iodine-131levels have reached 210 becquerelsper liter in certain areas of Tokyo,over double the safe level for infants.

Officials say, however, that thewater poses no immediate healthrisk to adults.

Microscopic radioactive particlesfrom Japan‘s crippled Fukushimathat may spread across the worldwithin the next few weeks are“harmless,” a Russian environmen-tal monitoring official said earlier onWednesday.

Japan - RISharing disaster mitigation experience

received by ANTARA.Matsumoto said Indonesia and

Japan both had experience indealing with the impacts of meganatural disasters and therefore thetwo countries could forge coop-eration to share their experiencewith other countries in the Asianregion.

During the telephone conversa-tion, Minister Matsumoto alsotold Marty the disaster responsebeing carried out by the Japanesegovernment related to the recentearthquake and tsunami that hitthe country on March 11, 2011.

Matsumoto expressed gratitudefor the attention and humanitar-ian aid and the dispatch of rescue

team by the Indonesian govern-ment.

“The Foreign Affairs Ministrywill extend maximum cooperationfor guaranteeing the safety of theIndonesian community living inJapan,” he said.

According to data collected bythe Indonesian Manpower andTransmigration Ministry, thereare currently 31,517 Indonesiansliving in Japan, of which 16,653were working in the formal sec-tor such as industries and 1,013as nurses (care-givers).

In addition, 8,006 Indonesiansware on apprenticeship programswith various institutions such asthe IMM, JEWC Shikamachi.

No Eurofighter sale talkswith Indonesia: Britain

Typhoon,” minister for internationalsecurity strategy Gerald Howarthtold AFP at the Jakarta InternationalDefence Dialogue summit.

But he he did not rule out thepossibility of forging future defencedeals with Indonesia.

“I should be exploring any spe-cific interest that the Indonesiansmay have,” he said at the three daymeeting, which opened Wednesday.

Human rights group Amnesty In-ternational accuses Indonesia ofrights violations including police tor-ture and restrictions on the media.

Eurofighters were grounded inseveral countries last year due toproblems with ejector seats after acrash killed a Saudi pilot.

8 InternationaFriday, March 25, 2011

Bali Today

This collaborative movie, co-pro-duced by BHA, brings the voices ofBali natives together with long-timeresidents and the hospitality industryto present the authentic side of thepopular island destination.

“We at Bali Hotels Association areproud that our successful marketingcampaign was the inspiration behindthis amazing movie,” said Jean-Charles Le Coz, BHA chairman. “Weare also honored to be launching it to-day—having seen the movie, we areabsolutely thrilled at the positive mes-sages it imparts.”

Bali is My Life is a documentaryfilm project rooted in respect and carefor the island’s cultures and ecosys-tems. Most importantly, the movie fea-tures many of the authentic, optimis-tic people and projects based on theisland, working together to maintainand enhance Bali’s world-famous har-mony and beauty in a sustainable way.

Supported by many of Bali’s mostrespected brands and produced by anaward-winning international team, the

IBPDENPASAR - Local brand,

League, ready to go international thisyear. The brand that specializes onshoes and other sports accessories isopening its shop at Ion, one of the topmalls in Singapore.

According to COO Berca RetailGroup Hartono Wijaya, the decisionto opens League’s first shop outsideIndonesia is to compete with other in-ternational brands that already sold invarious countries. He also said thatafter Singapore, League will go to UKand US. ‘’We will open the shop onMay 2011,’’ he stated during the tradeshow fall/winter 2011 that being heldin Aston Hotel, Denpasar, Thursday,March 24.

Hartono explained that besides pro-ducing for local market, League alsobeing exported to Korea, Arab, andMalaysia. He wants League to beknown as shoes and sport accessories

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DENPASAR - Head of the BaliTourism Agency Ida Bagus KadeSubhiksu said the number of Japa-nese coming to Bali in the wake ofthe devastating quake and subse-quent deadly tsunami in Japan haslowered considerably.

“The drop was apparent from thecancellation of more than 1,000 ho-tel room reservations,” he said hereWednesday.

After attending a seminar andworkshop on the development oftourist villages and areas, he saidmany other hotels besides those inNusa Dua, Kuta and Sanur, mayalso cancelled their hotel room res-ervations of Japanese tourists.

He said that despite the highestdrop in the number of tourists afterAustralians, he will continue pro-moting tourism both by way of theInternet and overseas promotion.

“We will continue promotinglike attending the world’s biggesttourist exhibition, the InternationalBali is My Life movie

Showing Bali’s richtraditional cultureIBP

DENPASAR - The movie Bali is My Life, launched by the Bali Hotels Association (BHA) as partof its ongoing “Bali is My Life” destination marketing campaign. The premiere was held at theBali International Convention Center at The Westin Resort Nusa Dua, Bali.

film is luminous with images of Bali’srich traditional culture and breathtak-ing natural beauty. In addition, Bali isMy Life was shot in high definition,while the soundtrack consists of origi-nal recordings, composed and per-formed by many of Bali’s finest con-temporary musicians.

Award-winning director KimKindersley, producer of feature docu-mentary Whale Dreamers, helms themovie. Whale Dreamers was the recipi-ent of eight international awards includ-ing Best Film at the Monaco Interna-tional Film Festival.

“I’ve been coming to Bali for a fewyears now and every time I leave, it ir-resistibly draws me back,” saysKindersley, quoted in the movie. “Forme, Bali is a place of self-healing andself-discovery; every time I come backhere and the longer I spend here, thedeeper that journey of self-discoveryand healing becomes.”

Meanwhile, producer, second unitdirector and Indonesian native PaulusHerry Arianto heads up Art Vision Bali

(AVB), another key player in the movie’sproduction. AVB’s expertise lies in ex-ecuting videos and documentaries for theisland’s tourism industry—and it has animpressive client list.

As regards the hospitality industry’sattitude to the movie, hotelier JohnO’Sullivan sums it up when he says that,“Bali allows you to access parts of yourbeing that other places just don’t havethe passport stamps for ... witnessingofferings for the first time starts a pro-cess within. The incense, the offerings,the beautiful body movement, it’s allabout celebrating and honoring that lovefor the spirits.”

The message is clear— that Bali is aliving treasure that deserves to be caredfor—and it’s a message that BHA hopeswill spread far and wide. “We are coop-erating with the international airlines thatfly to and from Bali to screen the movie,”said BHA’s Jean-Charles Le Coz. “We’realso looking towards travel channels inpaid/cable TV to air the movie and sohelp promote this truly positive pictureof Bali.” (kmb18)

IBP/Courtesy of BHA

Number of Japanese touriststo Bali down after Tsunami

Tourism Bourse (ITB) in Berlin, andthe tourism exhibition and bourseJATA World Travel Fair,” he said.

He said the effort is a means ofthe promotion of Indonesian tourismin Bali particularly, because thenumber of German and Japanesetourists to the island paradise (Bali)had been increasing.

On a different occasion, chairmanof Bali’s Association of TouristTravel (Asita) Al Purwa said he hadyet to receive more reports fromtravel offices on the cancellations.

He said that Asita in Bali has 345hotels; including 50 serving Japan-Bali travel.

In this context, Al Purwa sug-gested the tourist travel bureauswhich had been relying on the Japa-nese market, to diversify their mar-ket.

The number of Japanese touriststo Bali is second to the number ofAustralian tourists. In 2010,305,857 Japanese tourists accountedfor the total number of 2.5 millionforeign tourists.

Local brand ready togo international

factory that meet the international stan-dard.

The preparation for going global wasdone since 2009 or two years ago. Dur-ing that time, he explained, market ofshoes and sport accessories for middleup class with price range betweenIDR300 to IDR600 thousands werestill very little. But after League pro-duced various products that met thatrange prices, lots of products with thesame segment enter the market. Af-ter that, League tries to increase itstarget by selling sport shoes and ac-cessories for premium class. ‘’The re-sult is very good. League being ex-cepted because the market seen some-thing different and valuable in itsproducts,’’ he said.

“We owned various products thatusing high technology and our designeroffice at Portland, US, also doing de-velopment of the products continu-ously,’’ added Hartono. (kmb18)

COO BercaRetail GroupHartonoWijayashowing theLeagueshoes forFall/WinterCollection2011.

IBP/Courtesy of League

Balinese Culture

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Ikan Bali(Bali Fish)

Ingredients

* 1 Fish, about 650-900g dressed Weight.Preferably sea bass or Mackerel

* 1 t Salt * Oil, for deep frying * 2 T Margarine or oil * 2 sm Onions, sliced * 1 t Sambal Oelek * 1/2 t Laos * 1/2 t Lemon grass * 3 T Tamarind juice * Pinch of ground ginger * 1 t Brown sugar * 1 T Sweet soy sauce

DirectionsCut fish into serving portions and rub salt all over.

Feep-fry and drain on absorbent paper.

Heat oil and saute sliced onions until lightly brown.Add sambal oelek, laos, lemon grass, tamarind juice,ginger, brown sugar and soy sauce. Heat thoroughly.

Place fried fish in deep serving dish and pour sauceover it. Serve with rice.

Indonesian Coconut BeefIngredients

* 1 1/2 lbBoneless sirloinsteak, -trimmed

* 3 tb Cornoil

* 1 lgSpanish onion,sliced

* 1 Garlicclove, crushed

* 1 ts Groundginger

* 1 ts Ground cumin * 1 ts Ground coriander * 1 ts Chili seasoning * 2/3 c Shredded coconut * 2 ts Light-brown sugar * 1 tb Lemon juice * 1 1/4 c Beef stock * Thin slivers red bell pepper * Chopped green chilies * Small onion slices

DirectionsCut steak in 1/2" thick strips.Heat oil in a saucepan. Add Spanish onion slices and

garlic and fry gently until soft. Add beef and fry, stirring,until brown.

Add spices to beef and cook 2 minutes. Add coconut,brown sugar, lemon juice and beef stock; stir well.Simmer gently, uncovered, 30-35 minutes, stirringoccasionally, or until mixture is thickened and dry. Stirmixture more frequently towards end of cooking time toprevent sticking. Garnish with slivers of bell pepper,green chilies and small slices onion. (http://asiarecipe.com)

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Denpasar – Bali Tourists Po-lice officers have the ability tospeak in three languages, En-glish, Japan, and Mandarin. Theability will help the officers inhandling the problem face by thetourists.

Bali Police Department Chief,Irjen Pol Hadiatmoko, during theopening of Tourism Office inKuta, said “in the future, the po-lice officers will be learningDutch.” He said Wednesday, thatin their duty, the tourist policeshould watch and escort the for-eigners suffer from crime to KutaPrecinct.

“The tourist police will bevery helpful especially if thereare tourists who can not speak In-donesia reported directly to theprecinct and the police on thespot can not speak English. Somiss information can be avoidedif both can speak the same lan-guage,” he added.

Bali Police Department is hav-ing a tourism directory buildingwhich will help the tourists ingaining information whetherfrom the security measure andtourism guide.

Hadiatmoko said that the build-ing is built in Kuta area so it will beeasier to be reached by the tourists.Kuta is a crowded tourism area inBali so many foreigners will cometo the place.

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Tourists at Uluwatu beach, Bali Island.

Bali Tourists Police ableto speak three languages

very close from Kuta so there is greathope that the building can accommo-date the need for the tourists whoneeded assistance,” he added.

Hadiatmoko explained that thenumber of tourists visited Bali in2010 reach 8,000 people a day andit is expected will be more thisyear. The higher number of visi-tors will make crimes also will in-crease.

Based on the data of Bali Po-lice Department, the highest caseis pickpocket by criminal when

they are on the beach or traditionalmarket.

“Here when the tourist policemust act. They must secure thetourists since they arrive in Baliuntil they get back to their coun-try. We will give better andquicker service. We even placepolice officers in vital places,” thechief said.

The new building is equippedwith information machine filledwith information about hotel, res-taurants, and other tourism places.

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Taman Ayun Temple is a RoyalTemple of Mengwi Empire and it islocated in Mengwi Village, Mengwisub district, Badung regency andabout 18 Km north side of Denpasartown. It is strategically located be-side of major roadway betweenDenpasar to Singaraja. It is set onthe land which is surrounded by thebig fish pond and look like a drift onthe water. It owns the beautifultemple building with multistoriedroof and Balinese Architecture. Thewide beautiful landscape garden infront courtyard to welcome all visi-tors who come and visit this temple.It is a beautiful place to visit on yourvacation in Bali.

Pursuant to Papyrus Chronicle ofthe Mengwi (Lontar BabadMengwi), the temple which is nowreferred by Taman Ayun Templethat it had been newly sanctified inthe year 1634 M and it is namedwith Taman Ahyun Temple. Theword of Ahyun is coming from fromthe root word Hyun meaning atemple is founded in the park (poolwith the beautiful garden) which

Taman Ayun Templecan fulfill the desire. The wordAhyun is then changed into Ayunword. Taman Ayun Temple is one ofHindu Temples in Bali become tour-ist destination which has been vis-ited by many tourists from local andforeign. This temple is usually vis-ited by tourist once having a set tourto Tanah Lot Temple due to thistemple is the same route of the TanahLot Temple Tour.

The function of Taman AyunTemple is a place to pray the god intheir manifestation. It is accordingto the content of Babad Mengwi andthe existence of temple buildingstructure, especially the temple thatis located in third area (Jeroan). Ac-cording to Astadewata, the specialGod is worshiped in Taman AyunTemple is the God in manifestationas a Wisnu God which his palacelocated in top of Mangu mount. Inpapyrus of Usana Bali mentioningthat one of Dewa Catur Lokapalascarry through its worship is MeruPucak Pangelengan that is a templebuilding with 9 multistoried roofs.Pitara God is a holy soul deity ofancestor who is also referred as theother names of Hyang Pitara or

Dewa Hyang. Pitara God is obligedto be worshiped by clan heir (PratiSentana) in the form of temple cer-emony which the same meaning asby the ceremony to the god. Theworshiping existence to Pitara God

in Taman Ayun Temple can besearched and proved by pursuant tothe existence of temple buildingwhich lay in by consecution in eastwhich is called Paibon that is repre-senting Special Temple. Taman

Ayun Temple in capacities or its sta-tus as special altar for the King fam-ily of Mengwi Palace or as a MerajanAgung from Mengwi King Familiesspecially for the founder of MengwiEmpire that is I Gusti Agung Putu.

Friday, March 25, 2011 11

BUSINESSSpain’s Inditex,the world’slargest fashionretailer andowner of theZara brand, hasannouncedbumper 2010profits andrevealed plans tobroaden its rapidAsian expansionacross Chinaand India.

“We told team members that pro-duction interruption is likely, but wedon’t know how much, where or forhow long,” said Toyota US spokes-man Mike Goss.

“For now we continue to buildvehicles in North America,” headded.

Toyota has already stopped as-sembly in Japan because of a short-age of necessary parts, with supplychains hit by a huge earthquake andtsunami, and subsequent power out-ages.

The automaker has reported ashortage of parts such as electron-ics devices and rubber and resinproducts.

It announced Tuesday that theresumption of car production in Ja-pan would be delayed until afterMarch 26.

Toyota US indicated the full im-pact of the disaster was yet to be felt.

“Currently, the greatest majorityof parts for our North America-built

Reuters

SAN DIEGO – New financialregulatory reforms should help re-duce the edge that large bankshave over smaller ones because oftheir implicit support from gov-ernment, Federal Reserve Chair-man Ben Bernanke said onWednesday.

Bernanke argued the Dodd-Frank reform legislation will ad-dress the issue of firms perceivedas too big to fail by restrictingtheir activities, raising their capi-tal requirements and enhancingregulators’ ability to wind themdown.

“A financial system dominatedby too-big-to-fail firms cannot bea healthy f inancial system,”Bernanke told a group of commu-nity bankers in a speech that didnot touch on the broader eco-

Agence France-Presse

MADRID – Spain’s Inditex, theworld’s largest fashion retailer andowner of the Zara brand, announcedWednesday bumper 2010 profits andrevealed plans to broaden its rapidAsian expansion across China andIndia.

Asia was the fastest growing rev-enue source in the year ending Janu-ary 31, 2011, a period in which over-all net profit leapt 33 percent to 1.73billion euros ($2.46 billion), Inditexsaid in a statement.

Sales surged 13 percent to 12.53billion euros.

The result beat most market ana-lysts’ expectations and sent Inditexshares surging 4.11 percent to 56.22euros by mid-morning on an other-wise flat Madrid stock market.

Spain and the rest of the Europe

ToyotaToyotaToyotaToyotaToyota‘likely’ to‘likely’ to‘likely’ to‘likely’ to‘likely’ toslow USslow USslow USslow USslow USproductionproductionproductionproductionproductionAgence France-Presse

NEW YORK – Toyota on Wednesday said it was likely to slowproduction at some US plants due to a shortage of parts fromquake-hit Japan.

vehicles come from approximately500 suppliers in North America,” astatement said.

“Also, we continue to receiveparts from Japan that were alreadyin the pipeline, limiting the imme-diate impact.”

Edmunds.com analyst MichelleKrebs said the US productionbottleneck is unlikely to be limitedto Toyota and could spell higherprices for customers.

“These shutdowns likely are justthe beginning,” she said, addingcompanies are still figuring out whosupplies each and every part.

“The shortage of any one couldshut down an assembly line.”

“Toyota isn’t the only one vul-nerable; virtually all majorautomakers have some risks,” shesaid.

While demand for new cars hasheld steady, “We can be sure newcar prices will go up as inventorythins out,” Krebs said.

AP Photo/Nasser Nasser

A trader works during Egypt’s stock exchange reopeningsession after a nearly two-month closure, in Cairo, EgyptWednesday, March 23, 2011. Egypt’s benchmark stock mar-ket index has closed almost 9 percent weaker after a nearlytwo-month closure because of the mass protests thattoppled former President Hosni Mubarak.

AFP/File/Marc Alex

Zara owner eyes Asia expansion after profit jumpaccounted for nearly three-quartersof Inditex’s worldwide sales.

But the share from the Americasgrew to 12 percent of global salesfrom 10 percent the year before.

And Asia’s share expanded to 15percent from 12 percent.

“Our priority remains to focusour growth in Europe and Asia,” saidInditex chief executive Pablo Isa,who took over the post in July fromthe group’s founder, AmancioOrtega, one of Spain’s richest men.

“We see India as a relevant sourceof growth for Inditex in the mediumterm,” he added in a telephone con-ference.

“Asia should continue gainingaround three percentage points peryear in terms of its contribution tosales”

In 2011, Inditex said it plannedto open 460-500 new stores, enter-

ing new markets in Australia andSouth Africa as well as launchingonline Zara stores in both Japan andthe United States.

The group, whose other brands alsoinclude youth label Bershka and theupmarket Massimo Dutti, said itopened its first Zara store in India lastyear to an “extraordinary welcomefrom customers” and it plans morelaunches this year in Delhi, Mumbai,Bangalore and other cities.

In China, it opened 75 stores in 30cities and planned to expand to cover42 cities this year.

Analysts at Banco Santander is-sued a report noting the group’s goodfourth quarter.

Barclays Capital researchers saidInditex had also made a “good start” to2011 with sales in local currency termsup 10 percent from February 1 to March14 compared to a year earlier.

Bernanke says new rulesbenefit smaller banks

nomic outlook.“One benefit of the reforms

should be the creation of a morelevel playing field for financialinstitutions of all sizes,” he said.

A number of other top Fed offi-cials, including Richard Fisher,president of the Dallas Fed bankand Thomas Hoenig, president ofthe Kansas City Fed, have arguedthe legislation does not go farenough. They have called for verylarge banks to be broken up.

Bernanke said part of the rea-son the new laws governing the fi-nancial sector would support com-munity banks was that regulatorsare cognizant of their concerns andchallenges.

With that in mind, the Fed isaware that many community banksneed time to recover from the fi-nancial crisis.

“We recognize the importance

of striking the right balance betweenpromoting safety and soundnessthroughout the banking system andkeeping the compliance costs forsmaller banking firms as small aspossible,” he said.

He said the crisis suggested fancycomputer models are no substitutefor on-the-ground intelligence onlending, joking the IBM computerthat had recently won the U.S. gameshow “Jeopardy!” was not wellequipped to make credit decisions.

“This advantage for communitybanks is fundamental to their effec-tiveness and cannot be matched bymodels or algorithms,” Bernankesaid.

“Watson may play a mean gameof Jeopardy, but I would not trust itto judge the creditworthiness of afledgling local business or to buildlongstanding personal relationshipswith customers and borrowers.”

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Theoretically Britain is the placeto look, being the country whichgave the world The Beatles, TheRolling Stones, Led Zeppelin,David Bowie and Sex Pistols — butsalvation may be far off. One bandgarnering much recent attention areLondon quartet The Vaccines,whose tuneful album “What DidYou Expect From The Vaccines?”is also released this week.

Although a competent debut thatis set to chart in the top two, Guard-ian reviewer Alexis Petridis doubtedits generation-defining potential,saying it had been “hyped more thantheir catchy retro indie deserves”.The hype has largely come from anindustry and music press desperate

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES – LindsayLohan rejected a judge’s offer toend a felony grand theft case earlyon Wednesday, signaling the ac-tress intends to fight a case filedover a necklace she has been ac-cused of stealing from a upscalejewelry store.

Los Angeles Superior Court

Associated Press Writer

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia –Lady Gaga has urged young Ma-laysians to protest the censorshipof lyrics in her hit song that encour-age acceptance of gays.

The Associated Press reportedlast week that radio stations inMuslim-majority Malaysia wereplaying edited versions of “Born

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES – The first stepstoward the long awaited trial ofMichael Jackson’s doctor on involun-tary manslaughter charges are takingplace as 320 prospective jurors con-verge on a Los Angeles courtroom forthe first phase of the screening process.

Houston based cardiologistConrad Murray is accused of grossnegligence in giving Jackson a le-thal dose of the drug propofol andother sedatives.

In-person questioning of juryprospects and opening statements

First phase of jury selection for Jackson doctorwon’t happen until May but thejudge agreed to start the processThursday with written question-naires in order to meet the statutoryrequirement of giving Murray aspeedy trial. Once the forms are dis-tributed and filled out, the trial willbe deemed to have begun. While thejudge has decided to allow camerasin court for testimony they will notbe allowed during jury selection.

Pastor’s first job is to screen theprospects on whether they can affordto spend two months on the trial.Many who can serve will be publicemployees or employees of corpora-

tions who are paid for jury duty. Typi-cal juries for long trials also includeretirees who don’t have job pressures.

Those who pass the time qualifi-cation will be given a questionnairewith about 125 questions. The in-quiry is likely to cover their knowl-edge of the case, their tastes in mu-sic, their relationships with theirown doctors, their knowledge of pre-scription drugs and whether theyhave predetermined views about theguilt or innocence of Murray. Mem-bers of Jackson’s family and a cadreof loyal Jackson fans are expectedto attend most of the trial.

AFP/Getty Images/File/Cory Schwartz

Justin Young of the Vaccines performs at the Glasslands Gallery in New York in January. The Londonquartet’s tuneful album “What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?” is released this week.

Britain still searchingBritain still searchingBritain still searchingBritain still searchingBritain still searchingfor guitar heroesfor guitar heroesfor guitar heroesfor guitar heroesfor guitar heroesAgence France Presse

LONDON – As former “saviours of rock’n’roll” The Strokes releasetheir fourth album this week, nowhere is the search for rock’s new stan-dard bearers more intense than in Britain. But who is up to the task? The2001 release of the US band’s debut “Is This It” and the emergence ofcompatriots The White Stripes sparked a renaissance in guitar music, butwith both bands slipping from view it is up to younger bands to fill the void.

to see a British rock resurgence, withrespected Radio One DJ Zane Lowelauding the them as “the band thatwill kick-start a new era”. FormerOasis singer Liam Gallagher dis-agreed, describing The Vaccines as“boring”.

Gallagher himself charted atnumber three with his first albumfrom new band Beady Eye, formedfrom the ashes of Oasis. Yet despitelargely positive reviews, it seems hischance to shape the future of rockhas been and gone. Following the90s heyday of Oasis, the two Brit-ish bands who have fleetingly threat-ened to restore guitar music’s pri-macy are chaotic quartet The Liber-tines and the Arctic Monkeys.

The Arctic Monkeys shot intoview with their debut single “I BetYou Look Good on the Dancefloor”in 2005, and fast acquired a loyalfanbase attracted to the band’s no-nonsense approach to the industry.But having traded on their cynicismof celebrity culture, it was no surprisethe Monkeys resisted the glare of full-on commercial success and insteadchose to experiment with their sound.

The Libertines had ambition, tal-ent and wit but were ultimatelydragged down by singer and creativelinchpin Pete Doherty’s drug addic-tions. The singer, who now fronts theband Babyshambles, revealed hisdesire to emulate great British bandsof the past in his “Books of Albion”.

“I want to create a band thatpeople will be sorry to miss, andobliged to adore,” Doherty wrote.“The Smiths had a special power. Asdid the (Stone) Roses, The Jam and,according to taste, many others.”That “special power” is one that hasin the past elevated bands from meremusicians to cultural icons.

Lohan rejects judge’splea offer in theft case

Judge Keith Schwartz never pub-licly detailed the terms of his offerto Lohan, but said if she pleadedno contest or guilty in the case, hewould sentence her to jail. Prosecu-tors are also seeking jail time forthe “Mean Girls” star, who was onprobation for a 2007 drunken driv-ing case when a store in Venice toldpolice that Lohan had taken a neck-lace without permission in January.

Lohan’s attorney Shawn Holleynotified the prosecutor handling thecase that Lohan would not be tak-ing Schwartz’s plea offer, districtattorney’s spokeswoman JaneRobison said. Wednesday was thedeadline for Lohan to notifySchwartz of her intentions and shewill now be required to appear incourt on April 22 for a preliminaryhearing.

The hearing will be conductedby a new judge — the fourth oneLohan has faced in the past year —who will determine whether thereis enough evidence for Lohan tostand trial on the felony grand theftcharge.

If the judge rules Lohan shouldstand trial, the actress could imme-diately be sentenced for a proba-tion violation and sent to jail forthe fourth time. The actress, 24, haspleaded not guilty to the charge anddenied wrongdoing.

AP Photo/Mario Anzuoni, Pool

FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2011 filephoto, actress Lindsay Lohanappears in court during her ar-raignment on a felony grand theftcharge at the LAX Airport Court-house in Los Angeles.

Lady Gaga flays Malaysiagay lyric censorship

This Way” that use garble to re-place the lyrics: “No matter gay,straight or bi, lesbian,transgendered life, I’m on the righttrack, baby.”

Lady Gaga criticized the censor-ship during a visit Tuesday toGoogle company headquarters inMountain View, California. “WhatI would say is for all the youngpeople in Malaysia that want thosewords to be played on the radio, it

is your job and it is your duty asyoung people to have yourvoices heard,” the pop star saidin an interview that was postedon YouTube.

“You must do everythingthat you can if you want tobe liberated by your society.You must call, you must notstop, you must protestpeaceably,” she added.

Broadcasters have saidthey are being cautiouswith Lady Gaga’s songbecause Malaysia’s gov-ernment forbids offen-sive content. They riskfines of up to 50,000ringgit ($16,000) andother penalties forbreaking the rules.

Malaysian gay rightsadvocates complain that

the censorship is part ofdiscrimination they

face in everyday life.

International Friday, March 25, 2011 13Science

Paleontologists see the recentlydiscovered LeonerasaurusTaquetransis as the connection be-tween the smaller prosauropods —also known as near-sauropods —like Sellosaurus and Plateosaurusfrom the Triassic period (248-205million years ago) to their muchlarger descendants, the sauropods.

Leonerasaurus lived some 10million years before the sauropodsand measured a mere three meters(yards) long, said Diego Pol with

Agence France Presse

WASHINGTON – Clean sourcesof energy such as wind and solar willbe no more expensive than oil and gasprojects by the end of the decade, USEnergy Secretary Steven Chu saidWednesday. President BarackObama’s administration has been en-

Associated Press Writer

MEXICO CITY – The Mexi-can government argued Wednes-day that a Mayan-style statueauctioned for a record $4 million(2.9 million euros) this week isa fake. Auctioneers insisted it isgenuine and charged Mexicowants to quash legal sales of pre-Hispanic artifacts.

The stakes in the dispute arehigh — and not just because ofthe cash laid down by the as-yetunidentified buyer. A debate hasbeen renewed about whetherthere is a place, if any, for salesof ancient artifacts.

The Paris-based Binoche EtGiquello auction house that soldthe stucco figure of a shield-tot-ing stucco warrior said the attackon its authenticity is an attemptby Mexican officials to shakeconfidence in the auction marketfor pre-Hispanic artifacts.

“They want to ruin the mar-ket for pre-Hispanic art, that ismy opinion,” said auctioneerAlexandre Giquello. Damagingthe legal market could push suchpieces onto the unregulated blackmarket, he said. Auction housesare subject to public scrutiny,provenance and ownership chal-lenges, while “on the black mar-ket, you have no control at all,”Giquello said.

He said the statue — 5 feet(1.56 meters) tall and colored inblue, green and orange — hasbeen publicly written about since1976. The piece has been exam-ined by experts, exhibited anddiscussed in professional forums

AFP/File/Johannes Eisele

Wind, solar becoming cost competitive: Chucouraging companies to invest ingreen growth, calling it a new sourceof jobs and fearing that other nations— led by China — are stealing themarch.

“Before maybe the end of this de-cade, I see wind and solar beingcost-competitive without subsidywith new fossil fuel,” Chu told anevent at the Pew Charitable Trusts.

“So the country and the compa-nies who develop those renewableenergy and resources that becomecost competitive without subsidy allof a sudden have a world market.And, boy, we can’t lose that worldmarket,” he said.

The US Congress has rejected at-

tempts to mandate curbs on carbonemissions blamed for climatechange, with many members of theRepublican Party arguing that reduc-ing dependence on fossil fuels wouldbe too expensive.

But the Obama administration hasbeen hoping to seek bipartisan co-operation on what it hopes are lesscontroversial efforts such as encour-aging renewable energy.

Both the administration and Re-publicans have defended the pursuitof nuclear power — which causesvirtually no carbon emissions — de-spite radiation concerns in Japanfrom a plant hit by the March 11earthquake and tsunami.

Sheep graze close to electricitygenerating wind turbines. Cleansources of energy such as windand solar will be no more expensivethan oil and gas projects by the endof the decade, US Energy SecretarySteven Chu said Wednesday.

AFP/HO

Handout picture released by the Museo Paleontologico Trelew showing a real-size replica of the fossil of aTaquetrensis Leonerasaurus dinosaur being exhibited at the museum, in Neuquen, Argentina.

New ‘missing link’ dinosaurNew ‘missing link’ dinosaurNew ‘missing link’ dinosaurNew ‘missing link’ dinosaurNew ‘missing link’ dinosaurdiscovered in Argentinadiscovered in Argentinadiscovered in Argentinadiscovered in Argentinadiscovered in ArgentinaAgence France Presse

BUENOS AIRES – Fossils of a recently discovered dinosaur speciesin Argentina is a “missing link” in the evolution of the long-neckedgiants that roamed the earth millions of years ago, paleontologists said.Long-neck, long-tail plant-eaters like Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus andBrontomerus — the largest land creatures ever to walk on earth — aredinosaurs known as sauropods. They lived some 170 million years ago.

the Egidio Feruglio Museum of Pa-leontology. “The importance of thisfind is that it is a new species. Itgives us information on the originof the sauropods,” Pol told AFP.

Leonerasaurus is “a very primi-tive species... that helps us under-stand the evolutionary tree of thegiants that appeared later,” Pol said.Pol said he made the find along witha geologist and a student in thesouthern Patagonian mountains ofTaquetran at a site with fossil re-

mains from the Jurassic period (206-144 million years ago).

The team however did not find acomplete Leonerasaurus. “Parts of theskull and the tail are missing. But thebackbone, the hips, front and backlegs are there,” Pol said.

Argentina earned fame as a primesite for dinosaur fossil hunters start-ing in the 1980s with several discov-eries, including the ArgentinosaurusHuinculensis, a giant herbivore mea-suring more than 40 meters (131 feet)long that lived 98 million years ago.

Later, in 1993, scientists found re-mains of the Giganotosaurus Carolinii,a T-Rex type creature that is the larg-est known carnivorous dinosaur everfound. Pol is the co-author of an ar-ticle announcing the Leonerasaurusdiscovery that appeared January in thejournal Plos One.

Mexico says $4 millionMaya statue is a fake

and publications, he said. Titled“seated divinity,” the figure wasdated by the auction house to be-tween A.D. 550 and 950.

Mexico’s ministry in charge ofarchaeology disputed that. “It is arecently manufactured piece thatdoes not belong to any of Mexico’spre-Hispanic cultures,” the NationalInstitute of Anthropology and His-tory said in a statement.

The institute’s experts describedthe fierce-looking warrior as a sortof “freestyle” mishmash of elementsthat never existed in one single cul-ture, like lace-up sandals of a kindthe Mayas didn’t use. The expertsalso said the knees-bent position ofthe statue didn’t match Maya styles,though Giquello said the figure hadbeen seated on a throne that was nowmissing.

The Mexican agency acknowl-edged it judged the statue’s authen-ticity based solely on photos, a prac-tice that experts say is questionable.

In this photo provided byParis-based Binoche EtGiquello auction house

gallery on Wednesday March23, 2011 is seen a Mayan-style statue. The Mexican

government on Wednesdaysaid a Mayan-style statue that

brought a record $4 million(2.9 million euros) at auction

this week is a fake. AP Photo/Binoche Et Giquello

Friday, March 25, 201114 InternationalSport

First under coach LuisAragones and now Vicente DelBosque, Spain have adopted thequick passing movement whichhas brought so much success toBarcelona and with so many ofthe Catalan club’s players beinghome grown they have steppedup effortlessly into the nationalteam. Spain have an exemplaryrecord so far in qualifying withthree wins out of three and tengoals scored.

They now play the Czech Re-public, second in the group withthree points less, in Granada onFriday, and then travel toLithuania next week. Villa saysback-to-back wins should seethem book their finals berth.

“We have two very importantgames but if we can win themthen we will have gone a longway towards qualifying,” saidVilla. The sooner that wequalify and achieve our aim thebetter as it means that we don’thave to worry unnecessarily.Still they are going to be two

Agence France Presse

LONDON – Welsh hopes ofscoring an upset over England inthis weekend’s Euro 2012 qualifierhave suffered a major blow afterthe withdrawal of Gareth Bale witha hamstring injury, it was con-firmed Thursday. The Tottenhamwinger has suffered a recurrenceof an injury which had been both-ering the player before he joinedup with the Wales squad ahead ofSaturday’s encounter at the Millen-nium Stadium, a statement said.

“Due to a hamstring problem,Gareth Bale has had to withdrawfrom the Wales squad to face En-gland on Saturday,” the FootballAssociation of Wales said.

“He felt tight last week duringtraining with his club. After play-ing 90 minutes on Saturday he feltsome muscle tightness. Initially,

Agence France Presse

OSAKA – Japan and BorussiaDortmund midfielder Shinji Kagawareturned to Germany on Wednesdayas he continues to recover from a footinjury, hoping to be back on the pitchnext month to help his club’s title bid.“I’ve healed to a point where I’m run-ning again,” Kagawa, who underwentsurgery two months ago, told Kyodonews agency before leaving fromOsaka’s Kansai international airport.

“Ideally, I want to come back inmid to late April. I want to head backand rejoin the team as soon as I can. Iwant to help out the team in any wayI can so we can win the champion-ship,” the 22-year-old said.

Table-topping Dortmund are lead-ing Bayer Leverkusen by seven pointsin the Bundesliga race, chasing theirfirst title in a decade. Kagawa broke a

IBP/ist

David Villa is celebrating a gol he scored.

David Villa eyesDavid Villa eyesDavid Villa eyesDavid Villa eyesDavid Villa eyeswins to seewins to seewins to seewins to seewins to seeSpanish throughSpanish throughSpanish throughSpanish throughSpanish throughAgence France Presse

MADRID – Spain striker David Villa is confident that victories in their upcoming gamesagainst the Czech Republic and Lithuania will practically guarantee the reigning champions aplace in Euro 2012. Having won the previous competition as well as the World Cup last summerin South Africa, Spain are the team to beat in international football with talent in abundance.

very difficult games where weneed to get victories.”

Del Bosque will be without theinjured Carles Puyol, CescFabregas and Pedro Rodriguez, soit is likely that Alvaro Arbeloa willstep into the defence at right back,with Sergio Ramos moving intothe middle, while Fernando Torreswill come back into the attack.

Javi Martinez, Juan Mata andAndoni Iraola have also beenbrought into the squad. Czech Re-public coach Michal Bilek has in-cluded a number of young playersfrom the Under-21 side in his squadbut will have plenty of experiencefrom Milan Baros, Tomas Rosickyand keeper Petr Cech.

“We need to be wary of the CzechRepublic because they have been astrong side in Europe for many yearsand they have quality players whoare capable of winning games,” saidDel Bosque. “We are all very grate-ful for the praise that we have re-ceived since winning the World Cupwhich has been incredible in Spain.It is also makes it an obligation for

us to keep winning and picking uptrophies.

“All the players in the squad needto enjoy the opportunity and makethe most of their chance. If we don’thave the right mentality then we aregoing to struggle.” Del Bosque ad-mitted that he was concerned thatwith this game coming towards theend of the season, players may betired and easily distracted by the pos-sibility of winning club competi-tions.

“It is a problem but no one is guar-anteed a place in this side even ifthey won the World Cup and thereare a lot of players who are knock-ing on the door like Jose AntonioReyes, but at the moment there is noreason to change the list that wehave,” he said. Opposite numberBilek is hoping to catch Spain off-guard.

“Spain are the favourites but noteam is perfect and they make errors.Our main aim will be to stop (Andres)Iniesta and Xavi (Hernandez) inmidfield making their passes, that willbe the key,” he said.

Dortmund’s Kagawa tocontinue recovery in club

metatarsal in his right foot duringJapan’s semi-final victory over SouthKorea at the Asian Cup in January.He underwent surgery in Tokyo onJanuary 30 and has been recoveringin Japan.

He moved to Dortmund from J-League side Cerezo Osaka in July andscored eight goals in 17 Bundesligagames to help Dortmund’s charge tothe top of the table before the winterbreak.

With four Europa League goalsto his credit as well, Kagawa hadreportedly come onto the radar ofSpanish clubs Villarreal andAtletico Madrid as well as Juventusand Tottenham before his injury.

He missed last year’s World Cupas then Japan coach Takeshi Okadamade him only a non-playing sup-port member of his squad in SouthAfrica.

Injured Bale out ofEngland clash

AP Photo/Tom Hevezi

Tottenham Hotspur’s Gareth Bale, right, is tackled by WestHam United’s Mark Noble during their English Premier Leaguesoccer match at the White Hart Lane stadium, London, Satur-day, March 19, 2011.

this was expected to be musclesoreness after playing his firstgame. “On joining-up with theWelsh squad he was kept off hisfeet in training for two days to re-cover. As he still felt tight in thewarm-up on Tuesday, Gareth waspulled-out of the session.

“He did not train at all onWednesday and was sent for a scan.The scan revealed that Garethpicked-up his injury last week.”Bale had only recently returned toaction for Spurs after a six-weeklay-off with a back injury beforebeing hit with a hamstring problem.Bale’s absence deprives Wales ofone of their main attacking outlets.

The flying winger has been inoutstanding form for Tottenham thisseason, most notably in the Cham-pions League where he single-handedly destroyed Inter Milan ina victory at White Hart Lane.

Friday, March 25, 2011 15International Sport

The Heat trailed by 11 late in thethird quarter before Mike Millermade a 3-pointer in the final seconds.Miami then scored the first 15 pointsof the fourth to take an 88-81 lead.Detroit had the ball down by four inthe final minute, but Greg Monroemissed a layup, forcing the Pistonsto foul. Richard Hamilton led Detroitwith 27 points.

Hamilton made back-to-back 3-pointers from the same spot in theleft corner late in the third to givethe Pistons a 78-70 lead. Mike Bibbyappeared to answer with a 3-pointerof his own with the shot clock run-ning out, but the Miami guard’s shotended up being disallowed betweenquarters.

Detroit led 81-73 after three, butwent scoreless until Tracy McGradymade a shot from the top of the keywith 6:25 left in the game.

Detroit committed two defensive3-second violations in the first 1:13of the fourth, and when James Jonesmade a 3-pointer and James added aleft-handed layup, the Heat had an 82-

Agence France Presse

TOKYO – Former world number one Kim Clijstershas withdrawn from the Pan Pacific Open to be heldin Tokyo in September over the ongoing nuclear emer-gency at an atomic plant. Clijsters said she hoped toplay in Japan “when it’s possible”, after earlier tweet-ing concerns over radiation from the Fukushima plantwhich was damaged in the massive March 11 earth-quake and tsunami.

“I always have felt that I have a close connectionto Japan. I have really good memories of playingdoubles with Ai Sugiyama in Japan,” the 27-year-oldworld number two said in a message to organisers. “Iwish everybody a lot of courage, a lot of strength andI look forward to coming back to Tokyo when it’spossible.”

Three days after the disaster that struck northeastJapan, the Belgian expressed some of her concernson popular micro-blogging service Twitter. “So sadto see all the suffering that Japanese are going through.First earthquake, tsunami now the radiation prob-lems!” Clijsters wrote on March 14.

“Winds from Japan hitting US West coast contain-ing radioactive material...?? On the news this morn-ing! I don’t think I want to be here,” she wrote laterthat day.

World number one Caroline Wozniacki and crowdfavourite Maria Sharapova also sent notes of supportthrough the organisers of the Pan Pacific Open, whichbegins on September 25. “I’ve watched all the disas-ters that hit Japan. I’m so sad for the families andeveryone,” said Wozniacki, the event’s reigning cham-pion.

“I just see whole cities ruined, the families being

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Miami Heat small forward LeBron James (6) celebrates with teammate Dwyane Wade (3) as for-ward Chris Bosh (1) looks on in the background in the third quarter of an NBA basketball gameagainst the Atlanta Hawks Friday March 18, 2011 in Atlanta.

Associated Press Writer

LONDON – Japan is still consid-ering a bid to host the 2020 Olym-pics despite the triple blow causedby the earthquake, tsunami andnuclear radiation crisis, a senior na-tional Olympic committee officialsaid Wednesday. The JapaneseOlympic Committee said it was“very surprised” at the recent com-ments made by Italian IOC memberMario Pescante, who said he was toldby Japan’s ambassador in Rome thatJapan had decided not to pursue a bidbecause of the disasters.

“The JOC is considering the 2020bid. We (have) not changed ourpolicy,” Yasuhiro Nakamori, theJOC’s international relations direc-tor, said in an e-mail to The Associ-ated Press. Nakamori said the JOCwill hold a strategy meeting nextTuesday and make a final decisionon whether to bid in July.

“We (still) have a lot of things todo to make a decision, even thoughwe have experience, some knowl-edge and planning through the 2016bid activities,” he said.

Tokyo, which staged the 1964Olympics, bid unsuccessfully for the2016 Games, which were awarded to

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AUBURN HILLS, Mich. – Dwyane Wade scored 24 points andChris Bosh added 23 to help the Miami Heat rally for a 100-94win over the Detroit Pistons on Wednesday night. LeBron Jameshad 19 points, eight rebounds and seven assists for Miami, whichhas won six of seven following a five-game losing streak.

81 advantage — their first lead since8-7. Rodney Stuckey fired up thecrowd a bit with a one-handed dunkon a drive through the lane for Detroit,but James did him one better shortlyafter that, throwing down an emphaticright-handed dunk off a pass fromWade to make it 94-85.

In his previous game at Detroit,James made news by taking a hecklerto task early in Miami’s win over thePistons. The focus was on the courtthis time, and although James wasn’tat his best, the Heat had enough of-fensive balance to pull through oncethey started shutting down Detroitearly in the final quarter.

Bibby made his first start for Mi-ami in his 11th game with the team,scoring five points. The Heat arewithout guard Mario Chalmers(sprained right knee) and centerZydrunas Ilgauskas (right foot infec-tion). Miller finished with 13 pointsfor Miami. Monroe had 14 points and12 rebounds for the Pistons, whileTayshaun Prince added 13 points andChris Wilcox scored 10.

Japan still considering2020 Olympic bid

Rio de Janeiro. None of the venuesfrom the 1964 Olympics were dam-aged in the quake. The head of theJOC, Tsunekazu Takeda, met withIOC President Jacques Rogge inLausanne, Switzerland, last week todiscuss the relief efforts in Japan.

Pescante, a vice president of theInternational Olympic Committeewho is leading Rome’s bid for the2020 Games, told Italian state ra-dio RAI on Monday that he had dis-cussed the situation with the Japa-nese ambassador to Italy atSunday’s Rome marathon. “TheJapanese ambassador told me thattheir country can’t put forth theTokyo bid,” Pescante said. “There’sa spirit of solidarity with them. Ifwe had been beaten by Tokyo, wewould still have had reason to cel-ebrate.”

Hiroshima and Nagasaki — thetwo Japanese cities hit by atomicbombs in World War II — have alsoexpressed interest in a joint Olym-pic bid. Japan has been forced to giveup the World Figure Skating Cham-pionships, which were scheduled tobe held in Tokyo this week.

National Olympic committeeshave until Sept. 1 to submit thenames of 2020 bid cities to the IOC.

Clijsters withdraws from Japan tennis event

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Former world number one Kim Clijsters, seenhere in February 2011, has withdrawn from thePan Pacific Open to be held in Tokyo in Sep-tember over the ongoing nuclear emergency atan atomic plant.

separated and so many people killed. I’ve had so manygreat memories in Japan, I’ve always played well outthere,” added the 20-year-old Dane, who also won the2008 Japan Open. Sharapova, a former world numberone who claimed her first WTA singles and doublestitles at the 2003 Japan Open, said she had “incrediblememories” of playing in Japan.

“I’m so sorry to see and hear about all the incred-ible disasters that are happening in the country of Ja-pan right now,” said the 23-year-old Russian, who wonthe Pan Pacific Open in 2005 and 2009.

The 9.0-magnitude quake and monster tsunami haveleft more than 26,000 dead or missing along Japan’snortheastern Pacific coast.

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Button is upbeat that the devel-opments will deliver a step forwardin form from its disappointing per-formance in testing. “With the newexhaust system, if everything goesto plan, and with a few other tweakson the car, we hopefully have madeup quite a bit of ground,” he said atAlbert Park on Thursday.

“Whether it is enough to reallychallenge the top teams we will haveto wait and see, but I like the approachthough. I like the aggressive approachof bringing a new exhaust systemhere, and really fighting for it.

“If you just settle into a positionand think, ‘we will pick up a fewpoints here and that will be enough’, Ithink that is the wrong attitude. And itis not good for the guys who have beenworking hard all winter. The aggres-sive approach is a good approach.”

Hamilton also praised the effortsthat McLaren has put in to the car totry and improve its situation for thefirst race of the season. “We are al-ways faced with difficulties and weare faced with a challenge - but weare looking at it positively,” he said.

“What I like to see is that my guyshave not given up and said ‘okay, thisis all we have and we must deal withit.’ They have made every attempt toimprove the car. “We come here andhopefully we won’t be too far behind.I’ve won a race in every season I’veraced, so we’ve had the ability to pullthrough whatever circumstances havebeen and win races. “Maybe we won’tbe on the first row this weekend but itdoesn’t mean in one, two or three races

FELIPE Massa says he is aiming to have a “com-pletely different championship” than last year aheadof the start of the season this weekend. “For sure, thegoal is to have a completely different championshipthan 2010 in every direction,” said Massa on Thursdayin Australia.

“Being at the top and fighting for the top in everyqualifying session and race which was not the case lastyear and I am really confident we can do that.”

Massa endured a disappointing 2010, failing to winany races and being overshadowed by Ferrari team-mate Fernando Alonso in the standings. But the Bra-

McLaren duo hopeful on chancesMcLaren duo Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton are optimistic that their revamped

McLaren will be much better in Australia than it was in pre-season testing. With the Woking-based outfit having reverted to a simpler exhaust system for this weekend following troubleswith its more radical design in testing, the team is hoping that it can deliver a strong result.

we can’t be competing for more wins.”Jenson Button thinks Formula 1

fans are going to be ‘shocked’ by theamount of overtaking in the AustralianGrand Prix as drivers struggle to lookafter their tyres in the closing stages ofthe race. Amid growing excitementabout the impact that Pirelli’s new tyresare going to have on the racing, Buttonthinks that the stage is set for the finallaps in particular to produce real thrills.

“I think you will see so muchovertaking in the last stint here thatit will shock everyone,” explainedButton. “It is going to go to the lastcorner in this race, which is great. Idon’t know if all of the races will belike that, but this one will becausewe don’t understand the tyres yet.”

Button believes that the key to vic-tory will be in looking after the tyres inthe final stage of the race - when driv-ers will have to ensure that their tyresstay in good shape until the chequeredflag. “For me the last stint is importantto look after the tyres - the first two orthree not so much because the impor-tant thing, as everyone knows, is to stopone lap before everyone else.

“If you do that you will overtakethem because you will put new tyreson and go three seconds per lapquicker. It will be an interesting one.The main thing is who is going to bebrave enough to stop the earliest, be-cause you might think you have madea lot of ground up after the first stop,but you could lose it all again on thelast stop or last stint. “It is a balancingact and it is going to take a few racesto work out what the best strategy is.”

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The two McLaren drivers, Jenson Button with the blue helmet and Lewis Hamilton

Massa aims for fresh start in 2011zilian admits he is more optimistic for this year thanksto the Pirelli tyres suiting his style more.

“I am much more confident because the tyres worksa little bit better in the direction to be a higher tempera-ture and a better grip on the front, which is something Isuffered with in qualifying,” he said. “This is some-thing that makes me a lot more confident and I hope asI said, that the q and race will be very different thisrace. “You could stop three or four times in the racedepending on the track. Last year we were stoppingonce! It is up to us to learn and have a very good strat-egy because the races will be different to last year.”Massa said he was also positive about Ferrari’s formfollowing a very strong winter of testing.

“I don’t remember the winter from last year, but whatI can say is that this winter it was positive. Looking thatat all the changes in the rules and we were the team thatdid the most kilometres on the track compared to theother teams. On many days we saw cars running like 60laps, cars having many problems and we were doing aminimum of 100 laps everyday so I think that’s positive.

“Talking about the performance it is very difficult tosay because we never on low fuel at the same time andsoft tyres at the same time. We didn’t do that so this issomething we don’t know but I can say we were one ofthe strongest over the winter.

“So if you put everything together I think we have agood car. But now we are going to be sure how goodthe car is and how sure Red Bull, Mercedes, McLarenall the other teams and how we compare to them. Forsure I expect Red Bull to be strong, but how much, evenRed Bull doesn’t know.”