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The activist told The AssociatedPress that six people died in Daraawhen security forces launched anattack near the al-Omari Mosque,where anti-government demon-

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LISBON - Portugal’s parlia-ment is expected to reject govern-ment austerity measures onWednesday, setting the stage forthe possible collapse of the minor-ity Socialist administration a daybefore a European summit.

Prime Minister Jose Socrateshas said he will resign if the planis defeated. He has said its rejec-tion would force the debt-ladencountry to follow Greece and Ire-land and seek an international bail-out, which he opposes.

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Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates, right, listens to PedroPassos Coelho, leader of the main opposition party the center-rightSocial Democratic Party, PSD, as they meet Monday March 21, 2011.Continued on page 6

Portugal government maycollapse before EU summit

All opposition parties have pro-posed resolutions calling for the re-jection of the measures, which re-duce pensions and state spending.The main opposition Social Demo-crats, who have previously backedausterity, have begun talking abouta snap election.

“If all these positions that nowseem irreversible are confirmed,then yes (the government will stepdown),” Francisco Assis, Socialistbench leader in parliament, toldreporters after a late-night partymeeting.

6 dead in new clashesin southern Syria city

Associated Press Writer

DARAA, Syria – New violence in a restive southern Syriancity killed as many as six people early Wednesday, making itthe deadliest single day since anti-government protests in-spired by uprisings across the Arab world reached this coun-try last week, an activist said.

strators have taken shelter. He saida paramedic was among the dead.The activist spoke on condition ofanonymity, fearing reprisals.

The weeklong standoff and vio-

lence in Daraa is remarkable in acountry like Syria, where securityis tightly controlled and state alle-giance is expected. So far, the pro-tests have been confined to Daraaand a few surrounding areas — aswell as small protests in the capital— but that could rapidly change,particularly if the violence contin-ues. Groups on social networkingsites have called for massive dem-onstrations across the country Fri-day, dubbed “Dignity Friday.”

Syria’s state-run TV reportedthat four people died when “anarmed gang” attacked an ambu-lance in Daraa. The dead includeda doctor, a paramedic, a driver anda policeman, the TV said.

It showed footage of guns,AK47s, hand grenades and otherammunition as well as stashes ofSyrian money which it said wasseized from inside al-Omarimosque.

AP Photo/Hussein Malla

A Syrian municipality worker sprays water at a burnt car that was set on fire by Syrian anti-government protesters, in thesouthern city of Daraa, Syria, Monday March 21, 2011.

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A figure of woman’s bodywithout identity was found onBansal Beach, Sanur, Monday(Mar 21). The body was thentaken to mortuary of SanglahHospital and immediately exam-ined. Department Head of Medi-cal Forensic of Sanglah Hospital,I.B. Putu Alit, when contacted on

To anticipate bird flu

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Denpasar (Bali Post)—Few emergences of bird flu cases in some regions make Sanglah Hospital as a referral hospital

for bird flu case in Bali re-alerted the reception system of bird flu patients. Preparation made wasin the form of readiness of human resources, equipment up to facilities.

“With regard to readiness to facebird flu cases in Bali, the bird flumanagement system of SanglahHospital has been re-activated sincethree weeks ago,” said Secretary ofBird Flu Management Team, KenWirasandhi, when met on Tuesday(Mar 22). Re-activation of the sys-tem was in the form of distributinga circular to reception of patientssuch as emergency room, outpatientpoliclinic and International Wings tothe doctor and nurse colleagues. “So,they are notified to beware if receiv-ing a patient with influenza-like ill-ness (ILI) symptoms,” said Ken.

Each patient with ILI symptomscoming to Sanglah Hospital should

be asked if she or he had a contactwith poultry or not. Additionally, allmedical officers handling the ILIcases should also put on optimalself-protection equipment.

In terms of treatment room, Kencontinued that Sanglah Hospitalalso made preparation and re-ar-ranged the treatment rooms so theywould be ready for bird flu. “Wewill recheck our equipment whetherit functions normally. So far, theequipment for bird flu patient carein Sanglah Hospital is still good andfunctioning well,” explained Ken.

Besides, the working procedureswere re-prepared such as the work-ing procedures in the laboratory to

first diagnose the cases of bird flu.Diagnostic tools, Reagan and en-zyme had been well prepared. “Co-ordination with the UdayanaBiomol had also been undertaken,while drugs such as Tamiflu hadbeen adequately available,” addedKen.

As a reminder, the ILI symptomsare similar to flu symptoms such asfever, cough, flu and headache. Ifpatients with these symptoms com-ing to Sanglah Hospital, especiallyfrom the regions that formerly hadbird flu cases on human such asTabanan and Negara, so the standbysystem for bird flu cases will be ap-plied. (san)

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The Nusa Indah room in Sanglah Hospital become the isolation chamber for the bird flu patients

Singaraja (Bali Post)—The water of Lake Tamblingan at Munduk Village, Banjar Subdistrict,

continues to overflow and increasingly more homes are submerged. Fromaround 43 families living on the lakeside, up to Tuesday (Mar 22) onlythree families remain to survive.

A number of residents whose homes are inundated by water submittedto their fate. So far, they only received basic food aid and there had beenno official information from government authority about the location formore permanent refuge. Forest areas that were previously used as a refugelocation by residents were also feared to be submerged since the lake wa-ter was getting closer to the areas.

Wayan Resmini, a resident who was surviving, said that she no longerhad a cost to build a new housing in other location. On that account, shewas forced to dismantle her house building on the lakeside to be re-used ina safer area. “Our family is going to build a temporary house over there ina safer area,” she added.

Meanwhile, the Head of Buleleng of Fisheries and Maritime Affairs,Nyoman Sutrisna, said his party was collecting data of the inundated homeson the shore of Lake Tamblingan. The data would be combined with dataon homes belonging to residents affected by tidal wave disaster along thenorthern coast of Buleleng. “The number of residential home affected bytidal waves in 2010 and early 2011 is more than 300 units. Now, we wouldlike to combine them with the data of submerged homes of fishermen onthe Lake Tamblingan,” he said.

After obtaining complete data, his party would propose relocation as-sistance to the Minister of Fisheries and Maritime Affairs. The proposalwould be made by the Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) ofBuleleng Regency. However, the house relocation assistance would onlybe given to residents who have owned a land. “For that purpose, we willfind a solution, for example with a credit scheme, so other residents canown a land as well,” he said. (kmb15)

Overflowing water at LakeTamblingan Residents give

up, only three families survive

Mrs. X found dead due to drowningTuesday (Mar 22) said the bodywas examined at around 15:00p.m. Local Time, Monday (Mar21).

From the results of examina-tion, it was confirmed the womanwas a citizen of Indonesia agedaround 30-40 years. Her physicalcharacteristics were such as hav-

ing shoulder-length curly blackhair, weighing of 48 kg and hav-ing a height of about 144 cm.Allegedly, she had died eight toten hours before the external post-mortem.

Meanwhile, when found, addedAlit, the victim was wearing abright yellow long-sleeved shirt

with ornament of perforated heartsand black trousers.

“On the body of victim is foundsome scars such as on the rightlower leg and scar tissue on knee,”said Alit.

Based on the result of externalpost-mortem, the victim died ofdrowning. This could be seen from

the white foam coming out of themouth, wrinkles on the hands andfeet as well as signs of suffocation.Alit continued if there were fami-lies who felt to lose their relativesince Monday (Mar 21) couldcome to mortuary of Sanglah Hos-pital to confirm the identity ofMrs. X. (san)

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A man is trying to clean his house soaked with water from theoverflowing water at Lake Tamblingan in Singaraja.

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Mangupura (Bali Post)—The arrival of hundreds of passengers from Osaka, Japan, to Bali

through the Ngurah Rai International Airport Tuesday (Mar 22) waschecked up by the Indonesian Nuclear Energy Surveillance Agency(Bapeten). The measure was taken following the existence of nuclearradiation after natural disaster hitting the country. Scanning was doneto ensure they were not exposed to nuclear radiation.

The presence of officers wearing a mask with Bapeten uniform wasquite surprising the 166 passengers. However, after being provided withan explanation, the brief examination could run flourishingly.

Examination taking place right outside the exit door of the aircraftwas made by four Bapeten officers by using radiation detector calledMCB. As soon as stepping down from the Garuda GA883 aircraft fromTokyo, the officers checked up all passengers one by one before theywere re-checked in the next examination room.

Results of the temporary examination indicated those passengers werenot exposed to radiation on account of the Fukushima nuclear plantafter the quake measuring 8.9 Richter scale. “The result is clear. All thepassengers coming from Osaka are free from nuclear radiation con-tamination,” said Alfa Gunawan, Technical Coordinator of Bapeten atlocation of examination.

Japanese citizens admitted to be surprised by the examination ofnuclear radiation held by Bapeten officers at the Ngurah Rai Airport,Bali, because in their home country they even did not undergo suchexamination. Toshio Mizuychi, for instance, living far from the disas-ter site claimed to be surprised and did not know if his body would bescanned by nuclear radiation detector. But after obtaining clarificationfrom the officers concerning with the aim of inspection, he could ac-knowledged it.

“I was shocked because I did not undergo checking up like this whilein Osaka Airport, Japan. However, it does not matter because it has agood aim. So, I do not get bothered,” he said. He lived at approximately800 kilometers from the center of Fukushima nuclear reactor so he didnot worry to be affected by such nuclear radiation. Similar opinion wasalso delivered by his companion, Marina Samakawa, stating she stillwanted to travel to Bali.

She also had confidence that she was not exposed to nuclear radia-tion in Fukushima as her home was far away from the disaster site. Therelief of Samakawa was shown by her relaxing attitude after the in-spection. The absence of special inspection to anticipate nuclear radia-tion at the airport in Japan was also justified by an Indonesian citizenwho worked in the sunrise country. “There is no inspection like this atOsaka Airport, so I was surprised when examined. However, it mayexist at Narita Airport,” said Alfa Wawan, the man from Semarang,Central Java, who worked in a fish processing company in Japan.

He claimed that his residence was not afflicted by tsunami disasteras it was located far enough. “I go home because my employment con-tract has terminated, but I have 9 colleagues who are still in Japan,” headded.

In the meantime, a special examination for Japanese citizens whoare going to spend their holiday in Bali will last for four days until nextFriday. (par)

As maintenance to PLTG Gilimanuk

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The power plant in Gilimanuk

Denpasar (Bali Post)—Electrical outages threaten Bali within the next eight days if consumers do not make efficiency.

This condition occurs following the maintenance to gas-fired power plant (PLTG) of Gilimanukundertaken by PLN Bali-Nusra Distribution. Such regular maintenance spending about IDR 3billion must be carried out to keep the electrical system in Bali.

General Manager of PT PLN ofBali-Nusra Distribution, DadanKoerniadipoera, stated the mainte-nance program should be done becauseit had exceeded the time limit deter-mined in last November. Due to beinghampered by holiday season, the pro-gram could just be implemented thismonth.

“According to procedures of powerplants, after 6,000 hours of operation itshould get regular maintenance. Thisimprovement is expected to convincethe electrical system is completely se-cure. Otherwise, it can be very danger-ous or fatal,” said Dadan in Denpasar,Tuesday (Mar 22).

It was said the maintenance waskindled by the damage to a number ofpower plants causing the loss of poweramounting to 188.8 MW, where 130

MW occurred to the Gilimanuk die-sel-fired power plant and 40 MW toPesanggaran gas-fired power plant.The remaining loss was caused by otherdiesel-fired power plant. Bali itself hadthe power capability up to 690 MW.Meanwhile, the average peak load dur-ing the day reached 440 MW, while atnight reached 540 MW. Thus, duringthe day there was no problem with thisloss of power. Even, there remained aresidual of 57.5 MW. As for the night,it lacked of power resources up to 37.5MW.

“To supply the deficiency, PLN willconduct alternate blackouts for captivegroup customers of PLN like hotels.This group can save power up to 28MW,” he said.

He called on all customers in Balito make efficiency in order to avoid the

outages. If efficiency had been madeboth by participation of turning off atleast two lamps at those hours and thehotels operating their generator sets, thedeficit of power persisted, then therewere no other choices except forblackout.“If the blackout truly happens,the arrangement had been calculated insuch away, that it will not lead to a totalblackout but alternate blackouts. It isestimated that 1,000 customers will getalternate blackout if the power deficitreally happens,” he said. Dadan ac-knowledged the improvement wouldaffect the cost of hotel operations be-cause they had not use auxiliary powerplant. On that account, the hotel man-agement asked PLN not to perform theblackout every day. “We decided to un-dertake the blackout once in threedays,” he added. (par)

Denpasar - Each year the amountof agricultural land in Bali contin-ues to decline with thousands ofhectares converted to other pur-poses.

Rapid growth in Bali’s tourismsector is a major cause of Bali’s lossof farming land. Hira Jhamtami ofthe Third World Network in NusaDua told Bisnis Bali, “Farming landbeing changed to non-agriculturalpursuits is increasing in Bali, mostlyto meet development demands forhousing developments and other in-dustries – such as tourism.”

Hira says Bali’s agriculturalproducts have a worldwide reputa-tion. Bali rice is famous across thenation; considered by many to be the

Hundreds of Japanesepassengers scanned

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The tourists from Japan entering Bali through Ngurah Rai Inter-national Airport is scanned to examine the radiation degree.

Bali Agriculture at the Crossroadsbest in Indonesia. Bali farming prod-ucts, such as oranges, mangosteensand other horticulture products aresimilarly prized.

While farming lands are underpressure from competing sectors ofthe economy in Bali, the future vi-ability of agricultural work on theisland is further threatened by a di-minished interest among theyounger generation to work in thissector.

Hira said that in the period from2005 until 2010 Bali lost 5,206 hect-ares of productive agricultural lands.

Hira added that farmers in Baliare also greatly discouraged by thegrowing water crisis in Indonesia.A report by the Ministry of the En-

vironment shows that from 1995,when Bali was experiencing a waterdeficit of 1.5 billion cubic meters ayear, the annual deficit increased to7.5 cubic meters by 2000. Expertsestimate that the deficit will increaseeven further to 27.6 cubic meters by2015.

“The agricultural sector in Bali isunder threat and sits at the cross-roads. Like the old saying: ‘boredwith life, but unwilling to die’ - thissituation needs serious attentionfrom the government who mustmake a master plan and introduce amoratorium on the conversion ofagricultural lands in order to guar-antee the future continuity of farm-ing in Bali,” explained Hira.

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The expense of patrolling the no-fly zone once it is established is likelyto be $30 million to $100 million aweek, he said. The U.S. military hasno official cost figures yet for theoperation, which has been going onless than a week. By comparison, themuch more extensive Afghan warcosts more than $9 billion a month.

Some U.S. lawmakers and crit-ics of President Barack Obama’s de-cision to join allies in the Libyabombing campaign have argued theUnited States cannot afford the op-eration while Congress wranglesover spending cuts and the country’s$1.48 trillion deficit.

The Pentagon already has plansto cut $78 billion in defense spend-ing over five years and is delayingweapons programs and putting off

Reuters

SANAA – Yemen’s presidentsaid on Tuesday his country woulddescend into civil war if he wereforced to quit and Washingtonvoiced concern about instabilityin the Arab state that has becomean al Qaeda stronghold.

Seven weeks of unrelenting anti-government protests and defectionsamong the ruling elite have piledpressure on Ali Abdullah Saleh, aU.S. ally against radical Islamistambitions in the Arabian peninsula,to step down immediately after 32years in power.

But an aide said he would leaveoffice only after organizing parlia-mentary polls and establishingdemocratic institutions, by January2012 — a declaration the oppositionpromptly rejected. “Ali AbdullahSaleh does not seek power,” Saleh’smedia secretary Ahmed al-Sufi toldReuters. “Ali Abdullah Saleh will notleave without knowing who he ishanding over to.”

The United States, grapplingwith the diplomatic fallout of up-risings and uncertainty across theArab world, voiced rare publicalarm about the situation in Yemen.“We are obviously concernedabout the instability in Yemen,”U.S. Defense Secretary RobertGates said. His chief concern wasto avoid “diversion of attention”

Agence France Presse

WASHINGTON – US VicePresident Joe Biden and Secre-tary of State Hillary Clintonvoiced admiration for the re-sponse of ordinary Japanese tothe major earthquake as theypledged continued US support.Biden and Clinton paid separatevisits to the Japanese embassy inWashington to sign a condolencebook for the thousands of victimsof the country’s most powerfulever earthquake. President AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta

Vice President Joe Biden, right, with Japan’s Ambassador to theUnited States Ichiro Fujisaki, makes his remarks after signing the

book of condolence at the Embassy of Japan in Washington,Tuesday, March 22, 2011.

Biden, Clinton salute Japan resilienceBarack Obama signed the booklast week.

After spending several minuteswriting his response, Biden said thatthe world has been impressed by the“resolve of the Japanese people, theorderly way in which they are deal-ing with” the crisis.

“I’ve traveled around the world

and I promise you the whole worldis looking at the courage, braveryand the resolve being demonstratedby ordinary people,” Biden told re-porters.

On her own visit, Clinton said itwas “our honor to stand with Japan,”pointing to Tokyo’s past assistanceto other nations in distress.

AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen

Yemeni armored personnel carriers (APC) guard the Yemeni Cen-tral Bank in Sanaa,Yemen, Monday, March 21, 2011. Three Yemeniarmy commanders, including a top general, defected Monday tothe opposition calling for an end to President Ali Abdullah Saleh’srule, as army tanks and armored vehicles deployed in support ofthousands protesting in the capital.

Yemen president warns ofcivil war, U.S. concerned

from opposing al Qaeda there.Opposition spokesman

Mohammed al-Sabry, rejectingSaleh’s offer to go by January 2012,said the coming hours would be de-cisive. In speeches to army officersand tribal leaders in Sanaa, Saleh saidYemen faced a danger of civil warand disintegration because of effortsto stage a “coup” against his rule.

“You have an agenda to tear downthe country, the country will be di-vided into three instead of two ...(parts). A southern part, northern partand a middle part. This is what is be-ing sought by defectors against ...unity,” he said, referring to northernShi’ite rebels and al Qaeda militants.

“Those who want to climb up topower through coups should knowthat this is out of the question. Thehomeland will not be stable, therewill be a civil war, a bloody war.They should carefully considerthis,” Saleh told army commanders.

Presidential guards loyal toSaleh surrounded an air force bat-talion in the coastal city of Hudaidaafter its commander said he sup-ported the protesters. A presiden-tial guard and a soldier died inclashes between the two forces inthe southern coastal city of Mukallalate on Monday, medical sourcessaid. In southern Abyan province,troops clashed with al Qaeda mili-tants, killing 12 and wounding five,state media said.

AP Photo/Jerome Delay

This image taken during an organized trip by the Libyan authorities shows a multiple rocket launcherdestroyed outside what was described as a maintenance warehouse hit by two missiles Monday eveningon a Naval base in Tripoli, Libya, Tuesday March 22, 2011.

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WASHINGTON – The no-fly zone over Libya could end up costing the Western coalition more than $1billion if the operation drags on more than a couple of months, defense analysts say. Zack Cooper, a senioranalyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, said the initial cost of eliminating Libyanleader Muammar Gaddafi’s air defenses was likely to be between $400 million and $800 million.

maintenance to reduce costs. The op-eration unfolding in Libya resemblesa scenario for a limited no-fly zoneanalyzed by Cooper and his col-league Todd Harrison. The scenarioassumed a limited no-fly zone cov-ering Libya north of the 29th paral-lel, not the entire country.

They made their projections bycomputing the cost per square mileof previous no-fly zones and apply-ing that to the situation in Libya. Theprice of munitions, jet fuel and main-tenance were the primary cost driv-ers. Their figures reflected the costover and above regular operations.

One thing Cooper and Harrison hadnot anticipated was significant coali-tion support, with allies bearing partof the expense. Cooper said it appearedthe United States had flown more than

half of the sorties and fired most ofthe Tomahawks. “In our analysis, weassumed that the U.S. would be pick-ing up the bulk of the cost,” he said.“So even though the U.S. has pickedup more than a majority of the cost, Iassume, so far, it probably hasn’tpicked up as much as we estimated.”

Cooper said the Tomahawk cruisemissiles fired so far by Britain andthe United States cost about $200million, putting the price for takingout Gaddafi’s air defenses on targetto hit their projection.

“We estimated $400 million to$800 million. Between the Toma-hawks and other munitions andflight hours and fuel, it’s probablygoing to be somewhere in that ...range for the initial cost of suppress-ing the air defenses,” he said.

Activities Thursday, March 24, 2011 5International

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

JAKARTA - Hong Kong-based international hotel man-agement company Swiss-Belhotel International announcedthe recent opening of a new Sales Office in Bali, Indonesia.

“Swiss-Belhotel International currently manages threehotels in Bali: Swiss-Belhotel Bay View in Nusa Dua, Pat-Mase Villas in Jimbaran and Bali Kuta Resort by Swiss-Belhotel in Kuta. This year, we will open Swiss-BelhotelSegara in Nusa Dua which will bring room inventory to closeto 700. More negotiations are presently going on for addi-tional hotels and projects in Bali,” stated Emmanuel Guillard,Senior Vice President for Operations and Development, In-donesia and Malaysia.

“With this number of rooms to fill per day, the opening ofBali Sales Office in Denpasar is crucial and timely,” he added.

Jeffrey Wibisono has recently been appointed RegionalDirector of Sales – Bali Region who will lead the office instrengthening the company’s marketing and sales position inBali.

Commenting on the opening of the new office, Chairmanand President Mr. Gavin M. Faull said, “Bali has been one ofthe busiest destinations in Asia. With the patronage of trav-elers from Asia-Pacific, Australia, Europe and America, werecognise the importance of having this office to support ouroperations.”

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“We are now seeking a fresh trialin this case.” Anderson, long retiredand thought to live in the New Yorkarea, was arrested in India after theaccident, but later was granted bailand fled the country without stand-ing trial. Repeated extradition re-quests have been turned down by USauthorities.

The Bhopal disaster took place inDecember 1984 when a pesticideplant run by Union Carbide in thecapital of Madhya Pradesh statespewed 40 tonnes of toxic gas intosurrounding residential areas. Thegas killed thousands instantly andtens of thousands more from its lin-gering effects over the followingyears, making it the worst industrialaccident in history.

The Indian government’s top le-gal official told AFP earlier Tues-day that he had recommended thatpolice file another extradition re-quest.

“I have given an opinion to thegovernment of India that Andersonshould be extradited and we believethat there is a strong case,” attorneygeneral Goolam Vahanvati said. “Heshould be brought to India and madeto stand trial,” he added. The policerequest will be considered by a spe-cial court on Wednesday, the CBIsaid.

The Press Trust of India reportedthat Indian authorities want to pros-ecute Anderson on a charge of cul-pable homicide not amounting tomurder. Anderson now is said to beabout 90 years old. Seven local man-agers were convicted of criminalnegligence in June last year andhanded two-year prison sentencesand small fines, while the formerchairman was named as an ab-sconder.

Dow Chemical acquired UnionCarbide in 1999 and says all liabili-ties related to the accident werecleared in a $470-million settlementreached out of court with India’sgovernment five years after the leak.

Associated Press Writer

OSLO – Professor John Milnor of Stony Brook University in NewYork has won the 6 million kroner ($1 million) Abel Prize for math-ematics.

The award committee cited Milnor’s “pioneering discoveries intopology, geometry and algebra” in the prize announcement Wednes-day.

It said his “profound ideas and fundamental discoveries havelargely shaped the mathematical landscape of the second half of the20th century.”

The annual Abel Prize was created by the Norwegian govern-ment in 2003 and is awarded to candidates who have contributed tothe mathematical sciences. The winner is selected by an interna-tional committee of five mathematicians. The prize will be handedout at May 24 ceremony in Oslo.

Associated Press Writer

BEIJING – Seven people alleg-edly involved in plotting terroristactivities have been sentenced todeath for robbery and murder inChina’s far western region ofXinjiang, a state-run news websitesaid Wednesday. China’s SupremePeople’s Court recently approved

US mathematicianawarded Abel prize

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NEW DELHI – Indian police said they had filed a new court request for the extradition of theformer boss of the US company blamed for the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy. “We have moved an appli-cation in court seeking the extradition of the former Union Carbide Corporation chairman WarrenAnderson today,” Central Bureau for Investigation spokesperson Dharini Mishra told AFP.

Amid anger over continued pol-lution at the site of the factory andthe perceived leniency of the sen-tences, the federal government haspushed for a review of the handlingof the disaster.

As well as recommending thepursuit of Anderson, it has filed apetition in the Supreme Court seek-ing $1.2 billion more money for thevictims and has urged the sentencesto be re-examined.

AP Photo/Channi Anand

An Indian boy washes in the water leaking from drinking waterpipes on the outskirts of Jammu, India, Tuesday, March 22, 2011.Tuesday marks World Water Day, established by the United Na-tions to focus attention on the importance of freshwater and itssustainable management.

China approves death sentencefor 7 in Xinjiang

the death penalty meted out to sevenpeople by a court in the Silk Roadcity of Kashgar in Xinjiang’s west,the Tianshan website said.

Calls to the People’s Intermedi-ate Court in Kashgar rang unan-swered. The Supreme People’sCourt did not immediately respondto a faxed list of questions about thecases.

It was unclear whether the sevenare Uighurs (pronounced WEE-gurs), historically Xinjiang’s major-ity ethnic group, many of whom re-sent heavy-handed Chinese rule.Unrest in Xinjiang has been simmer-ing for years, with ethnic Uighurssaying they have been marginalizedas more and more majority Han Chi-nese move into the area.

“The prime minister does notwant to resign, but he cannot gov-ern against his convictions,” Assissaid, blaming the Social Democratsfor “opening a political crisis at theworst moment” despite thegovernment’s willingness to nego-tiate a solution.

The Socialists have 97 ofparliament’s 230 seats and havenow no allies on whom they canrely. The plan needs at least 116votes to pass.

A last-minute intervention by

The conflicting information andthe discrepancy in the toll of the deadcould not be immediately reconciled.

The latest attack is likely to raisetension in Daraa as security forcesare now expected to intensify theircrackdown on anti-government ac-tivists.

The Syrian government hassought to contain the first seriousintrusion of the Arab world’s politi-cal unrest by firing the governor ofthe southern province of Daraa,where security forces killed sevenprotesters over the weekend. But thedismissal failed to quell popular an-ger and the protests reached theprovince’s village of Nawa, wherehundreds of people marched de-manding reforms on Tuesday, activ-ist said.

The TV said security forces wereable “to kill and wound” some of theattackers in Wednesday’s violenceand are chasing those who were ableto flee. The report didn’t providemore details.

A video posted on Facebook byactivists showed an empty street, pur-ported to be near al-Omari Mosqueas shooting could be heard in thedarkness. In the footage, a voice isheard shouting:

“My brother, does anyone kill hispeople? You are our brothers.” Theauthenticity of the videos could notbe independently verified. State TVdenied that security forces hadstormed the mosque.

Syria, a predominantly Sunni

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has been spared the wave of upris-ings in the Middle East until now.Part of the reason is that the protest-ers know there will be a swift crack-down.

It is not clear why Daraa, a prov-ince of some 300,000 people near theJordanian border, has become sucha flashpoint for protests. The capitalcity — also called Daraa — is anagricultural hub that has sufferedgreatly from years of drought. It alsois home to ultra-orthodox SunniMuslims.

In 2006, security agents arrested16 Syrians during a three-day sweepin Daraa province, accusing them ofmembership to the banned MuslimBrotherhood. Last week’s unreststarted with the arrest by securityforces of a group of students who hadsprayed anti-government graffiti onwalls in Daraa city, some 130 kilo-meters (80 miles) south of the capi-tal Damascus.

Security troops trying to break updemonstrations calling for the stu-dents’ release and for political free-doms killed seven people over sev-eral days.

So far, none of the slogans usedby protesters have called for theouster of President Bashar Assad,who took power in 2000 after thedeath of his father and predecessor,Hafez. Despite political repressionand rights abuses, Assad remainsrelatively popular among some inthe Arab world, in particular becausehe is seen as one of the few Arableaders willing to stand up to Israel.

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the crisis appears less likely afterhe said late on Tuesday his “roomfor maneuver to act preventively”was limited.

Socrates is due to meet thepresident for a weekly scheduledmeeting at 1900 GMT after parlia-ment starts a debate at 1500 GMTto be followed by a vote on theresolutions.

The government had hoped toobtain support for its plan beforeThursday’s EU summit, which isexpected to approve a beefed-upeuro zone rescue fund.

Thursday, March 24, 2011 7Indonesia TodayInternational

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The President referred Wikileaksin his address at the opening sessionof the Jakarta International DefenseDialogue here. WikiLeaks is an in-ternational non-profit organizationthat publishes submissions of pri-vate, secret, and classified mediafrom anonymous news sources, newsleaks, and whistle-blowers.

The head of state said Wikileakswas a non-state actor which hadplayed a bigger role along with themedia, non-governmental organiza-tions, civil society, and trans-national

Reuters

JAKARTA - A simmering row overaxed sports at this year’s SoutheastAsian Games has not harmedIndonesia’s chances of staging theregion’s biggest event, the country’ssports council has said.

Despite recent complaints over thescrapping of billiards, snooker andwomen’s soccer for November’s SEAGames in Indonesia, the national sportscouncil (KONI) insists they have agood chance of hosting the larger scalegathering in 2019.

“We have an opportunity to host the2019 Asian Games without having togo through a bidding process,” KONIchairwoman Rita Subowo was quoted

Antara

BANJARMASIN - A local policebomb squad disposed of a parcelbelieved to contain a bomb hereWednesday at 09.30 AM local time.

The parcel found beside a luxuri-ous house in the Kelayan BubusSalam neighborhood in BanjarmasinSelatan subdistrict at 07:30 AM con-tained a suspicious fluid and pow-dered materials, a police officer said.

Banjarmasin city police chiefSenior Commissioner Thayib Siksaid police investigators were han-dling the case and attempting toidentify and find those who had sentthe package to 50-year-oldSyaifullah‘s house.

Thayib Sik said the disposedbomb was a low explosive whichwas similar to fire crackers or thedevices fishermen used in blast fish-ing.

“The bomb was a low explosive

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JAKARTA - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Wednesdayfinally commented on Wikileaks‘ disclosures, saying they had causedserious trouble to many governments in the world.

enterprises.They all had the potential to

change the world order and force theworld (community) to change itsviews, he said.

“With their `anti-establishment`agenda, a small number of peoplewithin Wikileaks have put govern-ments in various parts of the worldin serious difficulties with politicaland security implications,” he said.

In the Indonesian political con-text, Wikileaks had become popu-lar following the publication of The

Age‘s news story titled“Yudhoyono‘Abused Power‘“ onMarch 11, 2011.

That Australian daily newspaperquoted the contents of secret US dip-lomatic cables leaked by Wikileaksas accusing President Yudhoyono ofbeing “in substantial corruption andabuse of power”.

This accusation itself was labeled“rubbish” and had strongly been re-jected by various elements in the In-donesian government and society.

The opening session that such topregional figures as East TimoresePrime Minister Xanana Gusmao andSingapore‘s Deputy Prime MinisterTeo Chee Hean also attended, Presi-dent Yudhoyono also touched on theworld‘s geopolitical situation.

He said the world‘s geopoliticalsituation remained “fluid” with un-predictable future.

The precise picture of the newworld order remained unclear andwithout having name, the head ofstate said in fluent English.

Apart from that, PresidentYudhoyono said the world commu-nity had known that, at present, thetransfers of power had happened withthe emergency of developing coun-tries with good economic growth,military resources and diplomacy.

He said new players would emergewith changing playing fields. Forexample, the Asia Pacific region wascurrently in a process of finding a newbalancing in an effort to reach a bet-ter regional stability and more sig-

nificant international roles. The headof state also reminded JIDD partici-pants of 34 countries in the Asia Pa-cific region of the world‘s more com-plicated sources of conflicts.

Those sources of conflicts wereno more just related to the ideologi-cal differences, which were the maincharacteristic of Cold War, or bor-der and territorial disputes he said.

“This time, various issues can di-rectly trigger conflicts rooted on re-ligious and identity differences,” hesaid.

The world, he said, was under-going the increasing intolerancecases in lots of developing countries,besides the losing trust on govern-ment that could trigger political andeconomic conflicts.

Antara

JAKARTA - Indonesia has decidedto temporarily move the operations ofits embassy in Tripoli to Tunis due tothe security situation in Libya.

“The process of moving it hasbeen done since yesterday but fourembassy staff will remain in Tripolito assure the safety of Indonesian na-tionals choosing to stay there,” For-eign Minister Marty Natalegawatold newsmen here on Tuesday.

“Now we are at the stage ofevacuating the office in Tripoli andembassy operations will later be car-ried out from Tunis,” he said.

Indonesian ambassador to LibyaSanusi had reported that 20 of out24 embassy staff in Tripoli had leftfor Tunis on Monday.

“Nine embassy staff along with11 Indonesian migrant workers hasPolice dispose of another parcel bomb

and similar to fire crackers or thedevices used in blast fishing,” hesaid. A series of bomb threats hadrocked parts of Indonesia over thepast two weeks.

A Jakarta metropolitan policebomb squad had even detonated asuspicious package that a local resi-dent named Iskandar had receivedlast Saturday (March 19).

Earlier in the day, the Jakartametropolitan police also disposed ofa package received by Jakarta-basedMuhammadiyah University RectorMasyitoh Chusnan.

On March 15, four packages con-taining books with bombs planted inthem were sent to Ulil AbsharAbdalla, activist of the Islam Lib-eral Network, Goris Mere, the chiefof the National Anti-NarcoticsAgency, Yapto Soeryosumarno, thechief of the Pancasila Youth organi-zation, and Ahmad Dhani, a musi-cian.

A man fromEast Java’sBomb Squadputtingdisruptor inthe PoliceOffice atTanjungPerak Harborduring thesimulation todifuse a bom.Thissimulatianwas held toanticipateand maintainthe aware-ness ofpoliceofficials onbomb mailterror.

Then, a plastic bag containing abomb was also found in Cibubur,Bogor district.

A Bank Central Asia (BCA)building at Serpong Road, BantenProvince, also received a bombthreat on March 18. On March 19, achurch at Titi Papan Road in Medan,North Sumatran province, also re-ceived a bomb threat.

In response to these bomb threats,House of Representatives SpeakerMarzuki Alie urged the police to im-mediately unveil the perpetrators ofthe recent parcel bomb scare so that itwould not turn into a political issue.

Indonesia has been fighting ter-rorist cells in the country since the2002 Bali bombings that claimed202 lives, including 88 Australianholiday makers.

Two years before the terroristsattacked the resort island of Bali,Indonesia was rocked by the Christ-mas Eve bombings in 2000.

RI temporarily movesTripoli embassy to Tunis

left Libya and now four embassystaffs are still there,” he said.

Marty said several countries havealready closed their embassies fol-lowing the increasing political ten-sion in the North African country.

“Now Indonesia is one of thecountries that is still operating alongwith the Philippines, Vietnam whileIndia embassy staff has just left Tri-poli,” he said.

On how long the Indonesian em-bassy in Tripoli will temporarily beclosed Marty said it would all dependupon the situation in that country.Marty expressed concern over devel-opments in Libya saying the problemin Libya must be solved through dia-logs like what has happened in Egypt.

“We need to help the process ofcreating conducive situation to makeit possible for a political dialog tobe held there,” he said.

Indonesia keen to host2019 Asian Games

as saying by the Jakarta Post, referringto the Olympic Council of Asia’s back-ing for an Indonesian bid. “If we can’tdo it then, our second opportunity willbe in 2023, but that will have to bethrough a bidding process,” she added.

“This all depends on the govern-ment. First, there’s the financial issuethat we have to discuss, then the prepa-rations and the time frame, whether itwill clash with the elections or others.”

Other candidates to have expressedinterest in a bid for the 2019 Gamesinclude Vietnam, India, Taiwan and theUnited Arab Emirates.

Indonesia previously hosted theAsian Games in 1962 and will host the26th SEA Games in the Sumatran cityof Palembang.

8 InternationalThursday, March 24, 2011

Bali TodayArrangement of traditional markets

Needs supportingby traders’ behaviorIBP

DENPASAR - Amidst the rising number of modern market development, the Denpasar Munici-pality will take several strategic measures to strengthen and maintain the traditional markets. Oneof them is by setting up a blue print as a reference in strengthening those traditional markets. Thisblueprint is expected to improve the capacity of traders in developing people’s economy. One of theagendas made is arranging the sanitation of traditional markets. How will it look like?

Commitment of Denpasar Mu-nicipality in managing the traditionalmarkets is considered very positive.Moreover, the current onslaught ofmodern markets seems unstoppableand they have penetrated everysingle strategic corner of Denpasar.However, the arrangement does notget support from the vendors them-selves. It is proven by the existenceof location that has been re-arrangedby Denpasar Municipality and PDPasar Denpasar staying to dischargestench in the vicinity of the market.

A member of Commission C ofDenpasar House, AA SusrutaNgurah Putra, when met in his of-fice on Tuesday (Mar 22) admittedthat the arrangement of traditionalmarkets was intended to improve theconvenience of visitors. It was oneof the points becoming the target inincreasing the number of visits totraditional markets.

To representative of the Demo-cratic Party, the arrangement of tra-ditional markets in terms of locationwas judged incomplete. The arrange-ment of location was only a singlepoint. Behavior of traders playeddecisive role in maintaining the sani-

tation of traditional markets. “I seethe behavior of traders has not sup-ported the revitalization of tradi-tional markets, so it remains to pro-duce an unpleasant smell,” saidSusruta.

Based on observation to somerevitalized traditional markets, suchas the courtyard of Kereneng Mar-ket, in terms of location had shownan improved quality because thefloor of traders was higher than thecourtyard of market located on JalanKamboja. However, the sinks be-longing to some traders seemed tohave not been arranged neatly.

Possibly, the unhygienic waterkindled the existing stench. Previ-ously, Denpasar Mayor IB RaiDharmawijaya Mantra said the blueprint of the friendly and fresh tradi-tional markets was intended to im-prove the quality and service. RaiMantra also added that an economicevolution had made people experi-ence a shift in the matter of service.“As we have seen today, our com-munity tends to pay more attentionto the quality of services providedand the atmosphere of the marketitself,” said Rai Mantra.

By revitalization leading tofriendly and fresh traditional market,Rai Mantra expected to increase thecommunity’s economy and elimi-nate the gaps among small traders.Aside from revitalizing traditionalmarkets, Denpasar Municipality alsoput emphasis on the making of roadmap to know the direction of friendlyand fresh traditional market ahead.They required an improvement interms of physical and non-physicalcondition. In terms of physical as-pect, traditional markets should beclean and served by friendly traders.As for non-physical aspect, accord-ing to Rai Mantra, traders should beprovided with sales managementcoach and service management fromthe government.

Meanwhile, the Director of PDPasar Denpasar, I Made Westra, saidthe revitalization of traditional mar-kets was one of the programs initi-ated by Denpasar Municipality toimprove the competitiveness of tra-ditional markets. “We are workingtogether with private sector so it willnot burden the Regional Budget andPD Pasar Denpasar,” said Westra.(ara)

Chief of Bali Police:false threat of bomb,

Bali still secureAntara

Denpasar – The Head of BaliPolice Department, Irjen PolHadiatmoko, stated that all suspi-cious items reported by the peoplein Bali to the police are not bomb.“There was no bomb until today.However, the report by the peoplemake Bali Bomb Squad act respon-sively and it is very good for theirtraining,” he added.

Hadiatmoko emphasized that theaction taken by the police is alreadycorrect and the people also mustreport any discovery of suspiciousmaterials to the police. If it is true abomb so the action taken by thepolice is already correct but if it isnot than the preventive measureshave been taken so everyonedoesn’t have to be worry.

He explained that the police depart-ment has conducted safety measuresin all entrances to Bali. Police officersare guarding all harbors and smallports in Bali or known as the rat ports.

“Currently, the security in Bali isvery tight. It is even tighter compareto other provinces in Indonesia,” thechief said.

Bali Police Department has pre-pare new policies in maintaining thesecurity in Bali, they are giving bet-ter services to the society, preservethe security level, placing CCTV inprone area, strengthening the intel-ligent on Bali entrance points andgiving training to the personnel.

There is great hope that by thenew policies, the security level inBali can be maintained and the is-land will always be a safe place tobe visited.

Denpasar - Bali handicrafts export resulted in $130,276 ofrevenue in January 2011. The number increase 59% compare tothe similar month last year. The Head of Publication and Docu-mentation Division in Bali Government said “the income gainedfrom the exports of 81,702 pieces in January 2011, decrease 37%compare to January last year.”

He explained that the decreased in number is because the lowdemand but the increase in revenue is because the increasingprice of each product. The design and product made by Balinesecraftsmen is highly demanded by the customers abroad.

Teneng said that the future of Balinese craftsmen export isvery bright because the revenue gained from the exports keepsincreasing. However, the need to develop the market abroad isneeded in order to maintain the revenue.

In the last five years, the revenue gained from the handicraftsexport is slightly decreased. The souvenirs made by the Balinesecraftsmen which is very unique is highly demanded by the cus-tomers.

Bali handicrafts exportdonate $130,276

IBP/Eka Adhiyasa

The photo shows situation arround traditional market. Amidst the rising number of modernmarket development, the Denpasar Municipality will take several strategic measures to strengthenand maintain the traditional markets.

IBP/Eka Adhiyasa

The Bali’s bom squad looking for bomb materials in a suspi-cious car that stopped by traffic police during the operation atDiponegoro street, Denpasar on Tuesday, March 22, 2011. Ac-cording to Head of Bali’s Police the things that confiscated dur-ing the operation were not bomb materials.

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Balinese Culture

Thursday, March 24, 2011 9International

Stuffed Pancake Roll(Dadar Gulung)

Ingredients

* Stuffing 2 cups fresh-grated coconut* 10 Tbs. grated Java dark brown sugar* 1 Tbs. granulated sugar* 1 3-inch cinnamon stick, broken in half* ¼ tsp. salt

DirectionsStuffing:

Mix the grated coconut, grated Java dark brownsugar and granulated sugar, cinnamon and ½ tspsalt together.

Fry the mixture in a dry pan over medium/lowheat, constantly stirred for approximately 5 minutes,or until the mixture is dry.

Remove the cinnamon stick, and set it aside.Ingredients

* Pancake 1 cup rice flour* ½ cup cornstarch* 1¾ cups coconut milk* ½ tsp. salt* 1 egg, beaten* 3 drops green food coloring (optional)* Vegetable oil

DirectionsPancake:

Mix the rice flour, cornstarch, coconut milk, ½ tsp.salt, green food coloring and egg into a smoothbatter.

Lightly oil an 8-inch frying pan, and pour 3tablespoon of the batter into the pan. Make sure thepan is equally covered with the batter so it becomesa thin layer pancake. Fry for one minute, turn thepancake over and fry for another minute. Removeand set aside.

Place 2 Tbs. of the coconut mixture on the nearedge of the pancake. Fold over once, then tuck in theleft and the right sides and fold over once more.Press gently to distribute the filling evenly. (http://asiarecipe.com)

Advancement of science of tech-nology does not answer all prob-lems encountered by human life. Inagriculture, for instance, modernfarmers can now have boosted thequantity of production, even inmultiple amounts. On the one hand,it’s a great success but on the otherhand it still leaves a problem on thedecline of environmental and hu-man health quality.

Green revolution occurred be-tween 1943 and 1970s through theimplementation of chemical fertilizerand good irrigation system has con-jured up the rice production. In shortterm, it became an efficacious medi-cine to resolve the famine in tropicalcountries. Few decades later, it hadan impact on the reduction of envi-ronmental quality, like pollution inwater, land and others. Apart fromthe impact on the environment, it wasalso had an impact on human healthlike the rise of some new cancers.

Realizing these facts, now Balihas an initiative to become a greenprovince and implement the inte-grated farming system (Simantri).Hopefully, implementation of thesystem could realize the Bali Or-ganic plan and consequently mini-mize the environmental destruc-tion. Green province campaign in-cludes some aspects, namely greenculture, green economy and Baligreen and clean. Green culture isintended to change the societal be-havior in managing their wastemanagement and environment.Green economy hints that all eco-nomic activities should be in theeco-friendly orientation. These twoaspects will empty out into the ini-

Spiritual Farming:From One Green to Some other Greens

tiative of Bali Organic.One of the aspects is applied in

the agricultural field. Socializationhas been intensified while establish-ing farmer groups. Through breed-ing local cows, for instance, farm-ers are expected to get maximal ben-efits. Other than increasing the num-ber of cows, they will be able to takeadvantage the cow dung and urinefor organic fertilizers. In the longrun, it will reduce the use of chemi-cal fertilizers and pesticides. Ofcourse, this endeavor will reduce theproduction cost that should be spentby farmers and at the same time in-crease the quality of rice as well asimprove the environmental quality.

As a matter of fact, simple prac-tice of this concept could have beenseen around 1970s. Farmers usingcows to cultivate their land could alsotake advantage of their cow dung. Itwas spread out onto the rice field andits efficacy could last for at least fortwo planting seasons. In terraced ricefield, it could uniquely be managedby establishing a cowshed in the up-per stream. Later on, the collected drycow dung was channeled to rice fieldthrough the water gutter.

However, since being urged bythe demand to multiple the rice pro-duction, farmers left the method. In-troduction of hand tractor andchemical fertilizers gradually re-placed the role of cows. The newmethod was expected to acceleratethe land cultivation process. As con-sequence, cows were only servingas ‘family saving’ for farmers.

Simple eco-friendly pest controlactually has been proposed in thepalm-leaf manuscript entitled “Shri

Tattwa or Darmaning Pemaculan.”It has been applied by subak com-munity in Bali from generation togeneration until today. However, itseems to put more emphasis on theritual aspect only, while herbal pes-ticide or other means of the oblationis only applied symbolically. For in-stance, bird raids are managed byoffering two pieces of ketupat sidayutogether with oblation and side dishof yellow dragonfly.

Meanwhile, Subash Palekar fromIndia claimed to have developed thevedic-based farming. He has initi-ated his ‘spiritual farming’ since1988. In essence he said that God ornature has provided human with ev-erything required to grow plants. Soimplementing the chemical fertiliz-ers and pesticide means to opposeGod and will result in bad impact tohuman. Cow dung and urine as wellas compost are three beneficial in-gredients being enough for farmingboth on irrigated and non-irrigatedland. By doing so, he claims it is a‘zero budget of natural farming’ asin his trilogy book entitled Philoso-phy of Spiritual Farming.

To sum up, all movements at leastrefer to the same keywords namelygreen, natural and eco-friendly con-cept. They denote milestone of newawareness on modern human to re-orientate their food production inquality. This awareness has triggeredthe orientation in the quality of lifeand environment. Hopefully, the as-piration of Bali as Green Provinceand other green concepts could berealized supported by entire commu-nity based on their awareness of abetter quality life! (BTN/punia)

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Marine Sports are the excitingand fun seawater activities withgreat challenge for everyone whojoins this sport. It offers variety ofmarine post activities from motor-ize until the manual one. It is oneof the great seawater adventures inBali giving the fantastic experiencefrom every activity like Jet Ski,Banana Boat, Fly Fish, Snorkeling,Parasailing, Diving, Fishing, GlassBottom Boat and Turtle Island Tour.The Marine Sport Packages are alsoavailable with attractive choice ofsport activities and competitiveprices.

Blue sea water without wave isthe best venue for water sport ac-tivities. Bali own the beautiful placewith the long white sandy beachlocated in Tanjung Benoa as a Ma-rine Sport Center. It is located rightin the Bali’s Peninsula, south partof the island and about 25 minutesdrive from Bali’s International Air-port. It is just a step from Nusa Dua,the elite resort area in Bali and fea-tured by an easy way to reach it.

Water Sport ActivitiesBelow are some water sport activi-ties that you can try while you holi-daying in Bali:

Parasailing activity will bringyou to the exciting experience byhook your self in airborne for a sec-ond and you will get free to enjoythe amazing view of the island fromthe over head. Beautiful scenery ofthe sea water is easily found by fly-ing like a bird with string more then100 meter up makes this activity re-ally unforgettable memory in ourlife. You can get Parasailing Adven-ture right now as your choice duringyour vacation in Bali Island.

Snorkeling is a fantastic ma-rine activity to over view the beauti-ful panorama of coral, colorful fishesand other unique marines life. Thisadventure will bring you the excit-ing experience with professionalsnorkeling guide who guide you theright snorkeling spot point. It willtake about one hour to explore andview beautiful underwater life whichis completed safety equipment.

Riding a motorized sea vehiclewill get different experience and thefresh sea breeze will swirl your hair.

Fun riding on the blue water withthe combination of jet Drive Powerup to 700 cc and personal water craftwill result pure excitement.

Gathering Banana Boat ride isthe most enjoyable experience. Itthrills for all and feels like kids rideover the ocean with blue seawaterand big long soft marshmallow. It isa fantastic group game on the sea-water which bring you to the excit-ing experience on your vacation inBali.

Water Ski is one of the excit-ing Marine Sport Activities by glid-ing on the seawater at TanjungBenoa Beach which is famous withBali Marine Sport Center. This ad-venture uses water ski board andpulled by the power boat to surroundthe beautiful white sandy beacharea.

Fly Fish is the newest marinesport activity by riding a flat rubberboat which is pulled by a speed boat.It flies to dash against the windsweeping that it real fly on the sea-water. It is a great adventure by fly-ing like fish jumping on the seawa-ter with high boat speed.

The tour will use the Glass Bot-tom Boat to explore the submarineof Benoa sea and stop for 15 min-utes to observe the colorful fishesof under water and just seat downon the boat you can see many kinds

of fishes from the bottom glass. Thejourney will be extended to Turtleisland where the local people takecare and grow the turtle up. Get thisplace by boat and see the beautifulof white sandy beach.

Thursday, March 24, 2011 11

BUSINESS

Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON – The UnitedStates has announced it was barringsome food imports from Japan dueto fears of radiation and nuclear con-tamination in the wake of an earth-quake and tsunami disaster.

The US Food and Drug Admin-istration said it had placed an im-port alert on all milk, milk products,fresh vegetables and fruits from cer-tain regions.

This means that no products ofthese types from the prefectures ofFukushima, Ibaraki, Tochigi andGunma can enter the United Stateswithout first being shown to be safe.

“In addition, FDA will continueto flag all entries from Japan in or-der to determine whether they origi-nated from the affected area. FDAwill test all food and feed shipmentsfrom the affected area,” an emailstatement said.

“FDA import investigators oper-ating at ports of entry have radia-tion detection devices (radiationpagers) available to them for theirpersonal safety,” the statementadded.

“These radiation pagers are ex-tremely sensitive and can help toidentify shipments of potential con-cern to target for laboratory analy-sis.”

The twin quake and tsunami di-saster, Japan’s worst crisis sinceWorld War II, has left nearly 23,000people dead or missing, with entirecommunities along the northeastcoast swept away.

Shell-shocked Japan faces an in-visible threat from radiation seep-ing from the Fukushima plant,which lies just 250 kilometers (155miles) from the greater Tokyo areaand its 30 million inhabitants.

Asked about the FDA ruling inan interview with Japan’s NHKnews network, Secretary of StateHillary Clinton said that “what ismost important is making sure that

Buffett sees global growth over next yearBuffett sees global growth over next yearBuffett sees global growth over next yearBuffett sees global growth over next yearBuffett sees global growth over next yearReuters

MUMBAI – Billionaire Warren Buffett, who is looking to invest in large countries such asChina, India and Brazil, said on Wednesday he expected global output to rise “significantly”over the next year.

On his first visit to India, the80-year-old U.S. investor said hewas unlikely to enter thecountry’s automobile market,which is one of the world’s fast-est growing.

“It’s unlikely I would go intothat (autos) myself. For one thing,

the ownerships are pretty well es-tablished in that field,” he said inan interaction with executives onIndia’s CNBC-TV18.

His Berkshire Hathaway Incholds a 10 percent stake in BYDCo Ltd, a Chinese car maker thatalso makes rechargeable batteries

and cell phone components.Buffett, who is yet to name a

successor to take over his $200-billion empire, skirted questionson his succession plan but praisedBerkshire veteran Ajit Jain forsmoothly running much of thecompany’s insurance business.

“We have a clear succession planat Berkshire Hathaway, we justhaven’t announced it yet,” he said.

Buffett was in Bangalore to visitthe local arm of TaeguTec, a unitof Israeli metal-cutting tool makerISCAR Metalworking, in whichBerkshire has a majority stake.

Ranked the world’s third-rich-est man by Forbes magazine, heis also in India to launchBerkshire’s insurance selling por-tal and is scheduled to meet poli-cyholders in New Delhi later this

week in an event advertised as“Wit, Wisdom, Warren.”

Earlier this month, Berkshiremarked its entry into the insurancesector in Asia’s third-largesteconomy as a corporate agent forIndia’s Bajaj Allianz General Insur-ance.

On Tuesday, Buffett had said hewas looking to invest in large coun-tries, but added that restrictions onforeign ownership in India’s insur-ance industry could act as a deter-rent in the sector.

Japan sees quakedamage near$310 billion

Reuters

TOKYO – The Japanese gov-ernment on Wednesday estimatedthe direct damage from a deadlyearthquake and tsunami that struckthe country’s northeast this monthat 16-25 trillion yen ($185-308 bil-lion), making it the world’s costli-est natural disaster.

It said the estimate covereddamage to roads, homes, factoriesand other infrastructure andeclipses the $100 billion loss tallyafter the 1995 Kobe quake, untilnow the highest.

The figure does not includelosses in economic activity fromplanned power outages or thebroader impact of a crisis at astricken nuclear power plant inFukushima, where work crews arestill struggling to prevent furtherradiation leaks.

“The impact from the plannedpower outages is likely to be sig-nificant,” Fumihira Nishizaki, di-rector of macroeconomic analysisat the Cabinet Office told report-ers.

The upper end of the estimaterange would amount to about 6 per-cent of Japan’s gross domesticproduct.

“This quake will cause the con-dition of Japan’s economy and out-put to be severe,” Bank of JapanGovernor Masaaki Shirakawa tolda parliamentary committee.

Speaking separately, centralbank board member Ryuzo Miyaorepeated the bank’s pledge to takeappropriate policy action if neededto support the world’s third-larg-est economy.

In its initial response to the di-saster, the central bank startedpumping trillions of yen into themoney market to prevent it fromseizing up and doubled its assetbuying scheme, which Shirakawa

served to improve corporate fund-ing conditions.

The injections brought depositsheld with it by lenders to a recordhigh above 40 trillion yen and wellabove a previous peak reached in2004 when the central bank pursueda policy of deliberately flooding thefinancial system with cash knownas quantitative easing.

Last Friday the BOJ and its G7central banks joined in a rare cur-rency intervention to keep a rally-ing yen from inflicting further dam-age on the export-reliant economy.

The Japanese currency has creptup from post-intervention lows, buthovered well below its peak of76.25 to the dollar at around 80.85after the group sold a total of $6.5billion worth of yen, much less thaninitially thought.

While economists expect Japan’sbiggest reconstruction push sincethe post-World War Two period togive the hard-hit economy a badlyneeded lift in the second half of theyear, they warn that power shortagesare the greatest risk to such a sce-nario.

The 9.0 magnitude quake thatstruck on March 11 unleashed adeadly tsunami that wiped outwhole communities, leaving nearly22,000 people dead or missing and350,000 homeless, and crippling thebiggest power utility in Japan andAsia.

Tokyo Electric Power Co, whichserves Tokyo and the surroundingarea that accounts for 40 percent ofJapan’s economic output, lost about20 percent of its operating thermaland nuclear power generation and isunlikely to get enough back onlineto meet peak summer demand.

The utility is unable to get muchsurplus power from operators in theundamaged western part of thecountry because they operate witha different power frequency.

US bars some Japan foodsover radiation fears

we help Japan deal with the after-effects of whatever occurred insidethe reactors and that we also makesure the Japanese people have all thefood that they need during this tran-sition period.”

The ruling, she added, speakingbefore the announcement was made,would be “as much focused on de-termining what is or isn’t safe forthe Japanese people, not just whatis safe for export.”

Japan has halted shipments ofsome foodstuffs in nearby prefec-tures after the discovery of higher-than-normal levels of radiation inmilk and certain vegetables, but itinsists there is no health hazard.

Raw milk in Ibaraki prefectureand broccoli in Fukushima were thelatest products to show levels of ra-dioactive materials beyond legallimits, Kyodo News said.

France earlier Tuesday urged theEuropean Commission to impose“systematic controls” on imports offresh produce from Japan into theEU, amid fears of nuclear contami-

nation.France itself has already intro-

duced such checks on food importsfrom Japan.

Last week the EU urged countriesto check Japanese food imports forradiation, with the bloc’s energychief criticising Tokyo’s handling ofa nuclear crisis he said was now “inthe hands of God”.

The European Commissionspokesman for health issues, FredericVincent, has said that the EU imported9,000 tonnes of fruits and vegetablesfrom Japan in 2010.

The US Environmental ProtectionAgency (EPA) has meanwhile identi-fied “trace amounts of radioactive io-dine, cesium, and tellurium” associ-ated with the nuclear crisis in air moni-tors set up on the US West Coast.

The agency emphasized in astatement, however, that the the ra-diation levels detected on the filtersfrom California and Washingtonmonitors “are hundreds of thou-sands to millions of times below lev-els of concern.”

AFP/File/Jewel Samad

The United States has announced it was barring some foodimports from Japan due to fears of radiation and nuclear con-tamination in the wake of a quake-tsunami disaster.

Entertainment InternationalThursday, March 24, 201112

Brown was on the ABC morningshow Tuesday to promote his newalbum, “F.A.M.E.,” released thesame day. During his interview withRoberts, she asked him about the2009 attack on his then-girlfriend —preceding her questions by notinghe had been “very good” about talk-ing about the attack. “It was veryserious what you went through andwhat happened,” she said. “Howhave you been able to ...”

A clearly agitated Brown tried todeflect the line of questioning, say-ing he was past that and wanted to

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK – Is this the curseof the Spider-Woman? T.V. Carpio,who stepped in to replace anotheractress injured in Broadway’s “Spi-der-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” hasnow herself been sidelined after anaccident on stage.

Producers of the $65 millionmusical said Tuesday that Carpiowas hurt March 16 during a battlescene with an actor. Details on herinjury were not immediately avail-able. Carpio plays an evil spiderwoman called Arachne, one of thehandful of large roles in the com-plicated, stunt-heavy production.She will be out of the show for thenext two weeks and will be re-placed by America Olivo.

Carpio was elevated from asmaller role when her predecessor,Natalie Mendoza, pulled out aftershe suffered a concussion in De-cember when she was hit in the headoffstage by rope. The 29-year-oldactress had understudied severalroles, including Arachne and MaryJane, since joining the show in 2007

Agence France Presse

SAN FRANCISCO – Pop divaLady Gaga has thrilled Googleemployees during a visit to theInternet giant’s headquarters inwhich she answered questionsfrom tech-savvy fans. She brokefrom her Monster Ball tour onTuesday for an interview withGoogle’s Marissa Mayer, whoasked the singer questions submit-ted using Twitter or through aGoogle Moderator service at herYouTube channel.

“The superstar wowed a crowdin a venue that was packed to therafters with adoring Googlers(Google employees),” the Moun-

Singer Lady Gaga attends theGRAMMY Awards in Los

Angeles last month. The popdiva thrilled Google employees

during a visit to the Internetgiant’s headquarters on Tuesday

in which she answered ques-tions from tech-savvy fans.

Google goes ‘Gaga’ over pop diva’s visittain View, California-based companysaid in a release.

“Googlers went Gaga, channelingtheir inner little monsters and donningeverything from her signature bow-tiehair buns to Mother Monster cos-tumes.”

Gaga, whose birth name is StefaniGermanotta, is known for daring fash-ion statements that include once dress-ing in an outfit made of meat. She re-fers to her fans as “little monsters”.Gaga, who will turn 25 next week, saidduring the Google interview that shewill make her directing debut in hernext video, which will be titled “Ju-das”. Gaga was the first artist to top abillion views at the Google-ownedvideo sharing website YouTube.

More than 54,000 videos of ques-tions from fans were uploaded toYouTube after she put out a mes-sage last week inviting them to tellGoogle what they wanted to know.A video of Mayer’s more than hour-long talk with Gaga was posted lateTuesday on the Google Talks chan-nel on YouTube.

AFP/Getty Images/File/Larry Busacca

In thispublicityimage re-leased byABC, singerChris Brownappears onthe morningprogram‘Good Morn-ing America,’Tuesday,March 22,2011 in NewYork. Brownwas on “GMA”to promote hisnew album,“F.A.M.E.,”released thesame day.

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Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK – Chris Brown trashed his dressing room at “GoodMorning America” and broke a window with a chair Tuesday afterco-host Robin Roberts asked him about his attack on Rihanna, ac-cording to a person familiar with the show. The person was not autho-rized to discuss the matter and spoke to The Associated Press on con-dition of anonymity. Security was called, but not police.

focus on his new CD. “This albumis what I want them to talk about andnot what happened two years ago,”he said. Roberts laughed andthanked Brown for letting her dis-cuss that matter with him, and afterthe interview, Brown performed.

But instead of performing anothersong for the online audience, as hewas scheduled to do, he went to hisdressing room and started smashingthings, according to the person. In astatement, ABC News said: “As al-ways, we ask questions that are rel-evant and newsworthy, and that’s

what we did in this interview withMr. Brown.” Reps for Brown did notimmediately return phone calls forcomment. Brown is on probation forhis assault on Rihanna.

Brown has been trying to rehabili-tate his image since the attack, whichoccurred on the eve of the Grammystwo years ago. After that, his oncebrilliant career was tarnished. Hisalbum “Graffiti,” released severalmonths after that, was a poor seller.However, he’s recently had successon the charts with the songs“Deuces,” a No. 1 R&B hit last year,and “Look At Me Now” is now No.12 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

He’s been more accepted into themainstream as well. Before his“GMA” appearance, he had appearedon NBC’s “Saturday Night Live.” Arep for ABC’s “Dancing with theStars” said Brown is still slated toappear on the show next week.

Another injury rocks‘Spider-Man’ Broadway musical

and was a natural choice whenMendoza left. Arachne had six songsand dominates the second act, ap-pearing as a goddess of all spiderpowers who wants Mary Jane’s boy-friend Peter Parker for herself.

The show, which features origi-nal songs by U2’s Bono and TheEdge, is the most expensive inBroadway history but it is also prov-ing to be among the most troubled.

Producers earlier this month an-nounced that Tony Award-winningdirector Julie Taymor would nolonger direct the show, and a newcreative team was brought in tochange and polish the musical,which has also been plagued witha series of injuries to cast membersand aerial stunt mishaps. Its open-ing has been delayed for a sixthtime, to June 14.

Carpio’s biggest moment untilthe Spider-Man musical was appear-ing as the cheerleader Prudence whosings a rendition of “I Want to HoldYour Hand” in “Across the Uni-verse,” a Taymor movie set to themusic of The Beatles. She also ap-pears in the current film “Limitless”with Bradley Cooper.

During an interview in February,Carpio insisted that she felt safe inthe show — almost too safe. Shesaid she was a trained trapeze art-ist who loves amusement park ridesand squealed with delight at thememory of repeatedly plungingfrom the top of the Las VegasStratosphere.

“Here I have four strings at-tached to me at any given time.Each one of those cables I think cancarry 9,000 pounds,” she said. “Sowhen people ask me am I scared,no.”

When it opens — if it does, thatis — “Spider-Man” will have set arecord for becoming the first mu-sical with more than 100 previewperformances. For comparison,among musicals currently onBroadway, “Wicked” had 25 pre-views, “American Idiot” had 26 and“The Lion King” had 33. All ben-efited from out-of-town tryoutsbefore coming to Broadway.

AP Photo/Seth Wenig

In this Feb. 8, 2011 photo, actressT.V. Carpio, who is playingArachne in the musical ‘Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark’, poses fora picture in New York.

International Thursday, March 24, 2011 13Science

Dozens of mammals, birds, lizardsand other vertebrates in the remote north-western Kimberley region are at riskfrom hunting by feral cats and from de-struction of their native habitat by wilddonkeys, goats and fires, a study of theconservation needs of the area shows.

“We’re in the midst of a massiveextinction event in Australia and thenorth has really been the last strong-hold for many species of birds andmammals and reptiles,” said TaraMartin, a co-author of the report bythe government-funded Common-wealth Scientific and Industrial Re-search Organization.

Nearly 30 percent of the endan-

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK – It was a warm spring Sat-urday when dozens of immigrant girls andwomen leapt to their deaths — some with theirclothes on fire, some holding hands — ashorrified onlookers watched the TriangleShirtwaist factory burn. The March 25, 1911,fire that killed 146 workers became a touch-stone for the organized labor movement,spurred laws that required fire drills and shedlight on the lives of young immigrant work-ers near the turn of the century.

The 100th anniversary comes as publicworkers in Wisconsin, Ohio and elsewhereprotest efforts to limit collective bargaining

THE first version of NASA’s new mannedOrion space capsule is ready to begin a se-ries of rigorous trials, in preparation for thevehicle’s first test flight in 2013.

NASA’s prime contractor for Orion, the aero-space firm Lockheed Martin, unveiled the pro-totype spacecraft and a spacious, state-of-the-art testing center yesterday (March 21) near Den-ver, Colo. Lockheed’s Space Operations Simu-lation Center (SOSC) will put Orion throughvarious paces, testing its navigation, ranging, de-scent and landing systems, among other features.

“Lockheed Martin built this remarkable fa-cility to develop and test spacecraft systems,further demonstrating our commitment to im-prove safety and advance capabilities for fu-ture U.S. human spaceflight,” John Karas, vicepresident and general manager for Lockheed’shuman spaceflight programs, said in a state-ment. [Video: NASA’s Orion Space Capsule]

Getting to know OrionOriginally designed to launch atop NASA’s

Ares I rocket, Orion vehicles were expected toserve as NASA’s successor to its space shuttlefleet, which is set to retire this year after three

Extinction threat forExtinction threat forExtinction threat forExtinction threat forExtinction threat for45 Australian species45 Australian species45 Australian species45 Australian species45 Australian speciesAssociated Press Writer

SYDNEY – Up to 45 rare species of wallaby, bandicoot and otherAustralian animals could become extinct within 20 years unless urgentaction is taken to control introduced predators and other threats, scien-tists warned Wednesday.

gered species identified in the studyare unique to the Kimberley region,while others, like the golden bandi-coot and golden-backed tree rat,have already disappeared elsewherein the country. “The Kimberley isreally their last chance on Earth,”Martin told The Associated Press.

The report says immediate fund-ing of $96 million is needed to starta range of conservation programs,and that annual funding to protectthe region’s native animals shouldbe doubled to $40 million. Thestudy, based on scientific data andinformation from about 30 expertswith experience in the region, was

commissioned by the WildernessSociety conservation group and re-leased Wednesday.

It says the most effective ways ofcombating the threat of extinction areto reduce the number of wild don-keys and goats that compete withnative species for scarce food andwater, and to do more to fight wild-fires that scorch the landscape.

It says attacks by feral cats shouldalso be reduced by educating thecommunity about the threat pets poseto small native animals and by build-ing fences.

Donkeys, goats and cats are amongdozens of species introduced by hu-mans to Australia as stock animals orpets, but are now considered invasivespecies in many areas where wildpopulations swell because they havefew natural predators. Martin said fe-ral cats alone kill some 500,000 na-tive animals in the region every day.

AP Photo/Northern Territory Government, Alaric Fisher, HO

In this undated photo provided by the Northern Territory Government, aSpotted Tree Goana is shown. Up to 45 rare and endangered animalspecies in an Outback region of northern Australia could become ex-tinct in the wild within 20 years unless urgent action is taken to controlintroduced predators, a study released Wednesday, March 23, 2011 said.

NASA Space Capsule BeginsTests at New Proving Ground

decades of spaceflight. The space agency plannedto use Orion vehicles to ferry astronauts to andfrom the International Space Station.

But the Orion spacecraft’s mission hassince changed. Last year, President BarackObama cancelled NASA’s moon-orientedConstellation program, which included theAres I, and ordered a new plan that favorsasteroid and Mars exploration.

Under the new plan, Orion vehicles wouldprimarily serve as escape ships for space sta-tion crews, and they could play a role in fu-ture deep space exploration. Lockheed hasseized upon the latter possibility, drawingup plans to send several linked-up Orion cap-sules to an asteroid — a potential mannedmission called “Plymouth Rock.”

The aerospace firm has also developedseveral other scenarios, which it envisionsleading eventually to a manned Mars mis-sion with Orion. In addition to PlymouthRock, the possibilities include a mission tothe Lagrangian Point over the far side of themoon and a journey to the moons of Marsthat would complement robotic missions onthe Martian surface, officials said.

100 years after Trianglefire, horror resonates

rights in response to state budget woes. Laborleaders and others say one need only look tothe Triangle fire to see why unions are cru-cial.

“This is a story that needs to be told andretold,” said Cecilia Rubino, the writer-direc-tor of “From the Fire,” an oratorio inspired bythe Triangle fire. “We don’t have that manymoments in our history where you see soclearly the gears of history shift.”

To mark the centennial, hundreds of theat-rical performances, museum exhibits, lectures,poetry readings, rallies and panel discussionsare taking place nationwide. Two documenta-ries have aired on TV; PBS’ “Triangle Fire”premiered Feb. 28 and HBO’s “Triangle: Re-membering the Fire” on Monday. Descendantsof victims and survivors of the fire will gatherFriday for a procession to the site inManhattan’s Greenwich Village. The buildingnow houses New York University classroomsand labs.

Suzanne Pred Bass, a Manhattan psycho-therapist and theater producer, is the great-niece of Katie Weiner, who survived the Tri-angle fire, and of Rose Weiner, who did not.Bass ticked off the reasons why people remainfascinated by the Triangle fire after 100 years.“It’s the youth of these women,” she said. “It’sthe tragedy, it’s the changes it spawned andit’s the immigrant experience.”

The fire started at end of the workday andraced from the eighth floor to the ninth and10th. As hundreds of workers â•” mainly Jew-ish and Italian immigrant women and girls,the youngest 14 â•” tried to escape, they founda crucial door apparently locked. “They werepanic-stricken,” said Eileen Nevitt, whosegrandmother Annie Sprinsock survived. “Itwas hellacious, and they ran for their lives thebest they could.”

Firefighters rushed to the scene and raisedtheir ladders, which reached only to the sixthfloor. The fire was under control in 18 min-utes â•” too late.

AP Photo/File

FILE - In this March 25, 1911 file photo,firefighters work to put out the fire at theTriangle Shirtwaist Company in New York’sGreenwich Village neighborhood.

Thursday, March 24, 201114 InternationalSport

Asked by journalists at the UEFACongress for the number one priority ofhis second term, Platini replied: “Thecalendar.” He added: “I can’t give youmore information but the calendar is thebasis of everything, for leagues, inter-national competitions, the ChampionsLeague.

“There are 365 days a year and youcan’t play every day. You have to findout how to share the calendar betweencountries and clubs. “The current cal-endar is valid until 2014 and we’re work-ing on a project with the (UEFA) gen-eral secretary (Gianni Infantino). “We’dlike to propose a new match calendar toFIFA in 2014.”Platini has previously lik-ened the Champions League, UEFA’sflagship club tournament, to a “mon-ster”, such is the extent to which it isprioritised by clubs, coaches and play-ers. “It’s not a matter of (the Champi-ons League) cannibalising the calendar,”he explained.

Agence France Presse

WATFORD, United Kingdom – John Terry has hit back at the criticswho slammed his reappointment as England captain by insisting he shouldnever have been stripped of the armband in the first place.

Terry has regained the leadership of Fabio Capello’s team just over ayear after the England coach deprived him of the honour following analleged affair with the partner of team-mate Wayne Bridge and reportsthat he was exploiting the captaincy for financial gain.

Capello’s decision has been criticised in some quarters because it isfelt Terry’s distasteful activities off the pitch showed such a lack of re-spect for the captaincy that he should not have been given a secondchance.

Much to Terry’s consternation he has become regarded as one of theposter boys for everything that is wrong with English football and hecould have gone some way to changing that perception with a contritetone when he met the English media at the team’s hotel ahead ofSaturday’s Euro 2012 qualifier against Wales.

Instead Terry insisted that, although he has made a concious effort toavoid negative headlines of late, he still felt he had been harshly treatedby Capello last year. “Change my ways? That’s a difficult word,” Terrysaid. “When I spoke to Fabio, and we can’t go into too much details, butwhen he knew the facts, he knew.

“As I said to the manager at the time, I accepted their decision. Itdoesn’t mean to say I agreed with it, and I never will. That’s me beingvery proud and having been honest with them. “Over the last year I’dlike to think I’ve personally kept my head down and done the right thing.“As we get older, we live and learn. We move on. As a man, as a player,we can see I’ve moved on, on and off the field.”

Those accusations of making money off the back of his privilegedposition were also given short shrift by the Chelsea defender.

“I’ve never cashed in. I’m not the best looking guy anyway, so peoplearen’t going to want me spread all over the place. But I’ve never tried tocash in on the England captaincy,” he said.

Unrepentant John Terryhits back at critics

AP Photo/Tom Hevezi

Chelsea’s John Terry reacts during their English PremierLeague soccer match against Manchester City at StamfordBridge Stadium, London, Sunday, March 20, 2011.

Agence France Presse

ROME – While Italy awaits withbaited breath for the presumed ‘titledecider’ between AC Milan and In-ter Milan at the San Siro on April 2,an unfashionable little outfit continueto close in on their quest for history.The Serie A title race seemed set toboil down to a straight fight betweenthe Milan giants until Milan pickedup only a solitary point from their lasttwo games, allowing Napoli backinto the picture.

The top three are separated by justthree points and that could be one ifInter beat Milan and Napoli winwhen the league resumes followingthis weekend’s international break.

Udinese dreaming of Serie A maiden titleAnd yet sitting quietly in fourthplace, six points off the lead, and inthe best form of anyone is a littleteam from close to the Slovenianborder that has every right to alsodream.

First of all, the statistics suggestUdinese have as much right as any-one to aspire to the title. They arejoint top scorers with Inter on 56goals and their goal difference of +26is bettered only by Milan (+29). Theyare the only side unbeaten since theturn of the year with 10 wins andthree draws from their 13 matches.

Only Inter have picked up morepoints but that from 15 games andthey have lost two of those, includ-ing a 3-1 defeat at Udinese.

Francesco Guidolin’s side havenot conceded a goal in seven matchesand their last three away from homehave yielded 14 goals — they beatPalermo 7-0, Cagliari 4-0 and Cesena3-0. And before that run they won 2-1 at Juventus, 4-2 at Genoa and drew4-4 at Milan. In fact it is only somelittle slips at home, drawing 1-1 withBologna and 0-0 with Brescia, thathas prevented them from being evencloser to the top.

What’s more, this is a team thatbegan the season with four straightdefeats and then a draw — sincethose first five matches, they havepicked up more points than anyoneelse. Those are the numbers but thehow is even more eye-catching.

Platini vows to re-jigPlatini vows to re-jigPlatini vows to re-jigPlatini vows to re-jigPlatini vows to re-jigEuropean calendarEuropean calendarEuropean calendarEuropean calendarEuropean calendarAgence France Presse

PARIS – Michel Platini pledged to re-organise the European football calendar after being re-elected unopposed for a second term as UEFA president at Paris’s Grand Palais on Tuesday. The55-year-old Frenchman, who originally took up the role in 2007, said he wanted to shake up thefootball calendar to return international competition to the forefront of the global game.

“I used ‘monster’ because it’s be-come massively important. I’ve heardplayers saying the final of the Champi-ons League was more important thanthe final of the World Cup. It surprisedme. I didn’t expect it. “We started think-ing, how could we promote interna-tional football more? In the nationalcalendars there are always conflicts ofscheduling but we wanted to see howto approach this to put internationalfootball back to where it was.

“When you have friendly matches,they can’t be played as they should bedue to Champions League matches.That’s why I used the word monster.But it’s a nice monster.” Platini hasbeen tipped by former Brazil great Peleas a future FIFA president, but he re-fused to be drawn when asked if hewould one day consider running forthe top job in world football. “Let’smeet again in three years,” he replied.“And then I’ll tell you.”

Current FIFA president Sepp Blatterwill bid to win a fourth consecutivemandate in June but he has been chal-lenged by Asian Football Confedera-tion president Mohamed bin Hammam.Platini would not reveal which of thetwo candidates he will support but saidBin Hammam’s challenge was positivefor the administration of the sport. “Idon’t know whether European footballwill support a particular candidate,” hesaid.“I have my own personal opinion,but I am the president of UEFA so Ihave to consult the member associa-tions before expressing an opinion. “Iwill listen to my colleagues from theexecutive committee and the other as-sociations and then maybe, maybe I willexpress a position.” He added: “Giventhat there are two candidates, there willbe pledges for change. I think it’s goodthat there are two candidates. “It’s goodfor democracy because the two candi-dates will propose new things.”

UEFA presidentMichel Platini ofFrance smiles toacknowledgeapplause afterbeing re-electedduring the 35thOrdinary UEFACongress at theGrand Palais inParis, France,Tuesday, March22, 2011. Platinihas been re-elected as UEFAPresident until2015 by acclaim ofEurope’s 53football nations.

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The defending NBA championshave compiled a 13-1 record sincethe All-Star Game break last month.Providing a flurry in the third andfinal overtime, Bryant knocked in ago-ahead three-pointer and added arunning two-point shot with 14 sec-onds remaining to send Los Ange-les (51-20) to the triumph.

“We eventually prevailed,” Lak-ers coach Phil Jackson told report-ers before adding a joke. “I washoping to get out of here (earlier)...it’s a little past my bed time.”

Channing Frye led Phoenix with acareer-high 32 points and made three

Agence France Presse

LONDON – Tennis legend Martina Navratilova be-lieves Roger Federer will struggle to regain his worldnumber one ranking after being supplanted by RafaelNadal and Novak Djokovic. Speaking at a press event topromote this year’s Liverpool International exhibitiontournament, Navratilova said while Federer still had theability to win a Grand Slam event, it was “difficult to see”him regaining top spot.

Federer, winner of 16 Grand Slam singles titles andholder of the world number one ranking for 237 weeks,has fallen to number three in the rankings.

“I don’t think he’ll ever play as well as he did three orfour years ago - that’s not to say he can’t still win a slam,

Agence France Presse

PARIS – Britain, France, Australia will be among the na-tions expected to give an early glimpse of their Olympic po-tential for London 2012 at the track cycling world champion-ships this week. Worldbeaters Britain, however, continue tokeep fans guessing as the countdown to the London Gamesgathers momentum.

Britain were crowned kings of the Olympic velodrome inBeijing but since their total dominance in 2008 their competi-tors have been working hard to redress the balance.

Australia arrive at the March 23-27 event in Apeldoorn,Holland with no less than nine defending champions in a squadof 17, having topped the medals table at last year’s worlds inCopenhagen. France, whose strength traditionally lies in themen’s sprint and keirin events, boast the formidable trio ofGregory Bauge, Kevin Sireau and Mickael Bourgain.

Veteran Brit Chris Hoy, who won a record three golds inBeijing, won only one title in Denmark, from the keirin, lastyear as Germany won the team sprint and Bauge defended hissprint title.

Despite celebrating his 35th birthday this week, Hoy main-tains his sights are set firmly on London but hinted it may bebest to guage his true potential a year on from now.

“I expect to go well next week, for sure, but I expect to gobetter at next year’s World Championships in Melbourne, whichis the most important meeting in terms of Olympic selection,and better still in London,” said Hoy. “In two years, peoplewon’t remember how I fared in Apeldoorn but they’ll know allabout London.”

Along with Hoy’s keirin gold in Denmark, VictoriaPendleton and Ed Clancy helped save British blushes last year,the pair dominating their respective events in the sprint andOmnium. Pendleton is bidding for a fifth world sprint title, butwill face a strong challenge from Australian Anna Meares.

Meares, Australia’s only track medal winner in Beijing witha sprint silver behind Pendleton, recently handed a straightheats defeat to the Englishwoman in the semi-finals of theManchester World Cup round. She then went on to win a thirdheat decider over China’s Shuang Guo in the gold medal round.

Meares will also team up with Kaarle McCulloch to bid fora hat-trick of golds in the team sprint having won the event inboth 2009 and 2010.

LA Lakers survive marathonLA Lakers survive marathonLA Lakers survive marathonLA Lakers survive marathonLA Lakers survive marathontest to eclipse Phoenix Sunstest to eclipse Phoenix Sunstest to eclipse Phoenix Sunstest to eclipse Phoenix Sunstest to eclipse Phoenix SunsReuters

LOS ANGELES – Kobe Bryant delivered a sensational performance to lead the Los AngelesLakers to a roller-coaster 139-137 triple-overtime victory over the Phoenix Suns on Tuesday.Bryant scored 42 points, pulled down 12 rebounds and made nine assists as the Lakers, whosquandered a 21-point lead during regulation time, showed their championship mettle with theirfifth successive win.

free throws with one second left in thefirst overtime to send the game into asecond extra session, where Lakers’forward Pau Gasol forced the thirdextra period with two free throws.

The Suns (35-34) trailed by 21 inthe third quarter but went on a furi-ous run to stun the Lakers, withGrant Hill making a three-pointerlate in the fourth to send the gameinto overtime after regulation ended112-112. Steve Nash recorded 19points and a season-high 20 assistswhile reserve Marcin Gortat finishedwith 24 points and 16 rebounds forthe visitors. Despite their valiant ef-

fort, Phoenix fell three games behindthe eighth and final playoff spot inthe Western Conference.

Lamar Odom had 29 points and 16rebounds and Gasol added 24 and 13rebounds for Los Angeles, who playedwithout suspended center AndrewBynum, serving the second of a two-game penalty for a flagrant foul com-mitted on Friday. The win enabled LosAngeles to open a one-and-a-halfgame cushion over the third-placeDallas Mavericks in the West.

“We’re playing with a sense ofurgency and now it’s just a matterof keeping it going,” Bryant said.

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Roger Federer

Brits playing coyas Aussies targetmore track gold

Federer will struggle to regain No.1 - Navratilovabut it’s difficult to see him climbing back to number one,”Navratilova said of Federer. “Nadal is dominating andDjokovic’s confidence is off the chart. Roger has lost threematches (this season) to Djokovic and lost to him at USOpen last year as well, it will get under his skin.”Navratilova also said British number one Andy Murrayneeded to toughen up if he wanted to win a grand slam.

“I would have thought he would have won a slam by now,though he still has plenty of time on his side,” Navratilovasaid. “He’s still in his prime but with every year it gets moredifficult, the expectations and the pressure get higher.

“He’s got the talent but he’s got to get tougher on himselfmentally - he’s too quick to pass the blame, looking at hisbox and yelling at them as if it’s somehow their fault hemissed that forehand.”

AP Photo/Jae C. Hong

Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant, center, is fouled byPhoenix Suns forward Grant Hill, left, as Channing Frye helpson defense during the first half of an NBA basketball game inLos Angeles, Tuesday, March 22, 2011.

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With the form guide more diffi-cult to predict than ever - thanks tothe complications caused by Pirellityre degradation, the return of KERSand the introduction of moveablerear wings, F1’s leading men havebeen reluctant to make any bold pre-dictions about their form just yet.

But Vettel says that Red Bull hasevery reason to feel confident as itheads into the Albert Park event af-ter what it has repeatedly to havebeen its best winter of preparations.

“There is uncertainty maybe toknow where you are compared tothe others certainly,” said Vettel,when asked by AUTOSPORT aboutthe difficulties new rules had createdin trying to predict form. “We’venever had that before - when youwould have played with just the typi-cal things like fuel loads.

“This time some people broughttheir [aerodynamic] packages earlieror later. Then, apart from fuel loadswhich with no refuelling means canvary from zero to 160kg or more,there are the tyres which, depending

Associated Press Writer

LAS VEGAS – Manny Pacquiao’sdefamation lawsuit against longtimeboxing rival Floyd Mayweather Jr. andothers rests on firm allegations and cancontinue, a Nevada federal judge saidin a court order Monday that denied amotion to dismiss the case.

U.S. District Judge Larry Hickssaid Pacquiao has sufficient evidenceto continue his lawsuit that allegesMayweather and others acted withmalice by accusing the Filipino boxerin a series of interviews of using per-formance-enhancing drugs.

“Moving defendants argue thatPacquiao has failed to sufficiently al-lege malice because moving defen-dants could not have known one wayor the other whether Pacquiao had ac-tually taken PEDs when they made thealleged defamatory statements,” theorder reads. “However, the court findsthat Pacquiao has sufficiently pledmalice in the amended complaint.”

Pacquiao claimed in the suit thathe has never tested positive for anyperformance-enhancing drugs, butthat Mayweather, Mayweather’s fa-ther and uncle, Oscar De La Hoya andGolden Boy Promotions’ RichardSchaefer embarked on a campaign tomake people think he used drugs.

“The truth did not stop

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World Champion F1 driver Sebastian Vettel of Germany, RebBull Racing, learns how to shear a sheep at Warrook Cattle Farmin Monomeith, south of Melbourne, Australia, Wednesday, March23, 2011. Vettel will line up to challenge for the podium in theMelbourne F1 GP, the first of the season.

Vettel says Red Bull has nothing to fearSebastian Vettel says he and Red Bull Racing have nothing to

fear from the huge uncertainty that new rules have thrown up,as he begins his title defence at this weekend’s season-openingAustralian Grand Prix.

on their state, new or used, and thenwith a couple of laps of use or quitea few, you can throw another coupleof seconds in that. “It means it canall mix up, and that is what we haveseen in the tests. And that is why ithas been so difficult to read howstrong the others are.

“But uncertainty for ourselves?We don’t need to be afraid of that,because I think we know what wehave done and we should be in goodshape. Now it is just the question tobe answered of how we comparerelative to the others.”

Sebastian VettelVettel was speak-ing as he made his first public ap-pearance in Australia as worldchampion at a promotional event atWarrock Cattle farm outsideMelbourne on Wednesday. The Ger-man tried his hand at shearing asheep, as well as commanding asheep dog, as he got a taste of Aus-tralian farm life. And although ap-pearing timid with the shears for fearof hurting the sheep, he said it wouldbe a different approach when he got

down to work at the track.“I will not be as shy as today, as I

know what I am going to do,” he saidabout his feelings going into the Aus-tralian GP. “We had a good winter andwe did lots of kilometres. We didn’treally have big problems with the car,we just had some small issues, butnothing major. The winter we had wasthe best we have had so far.

“But in terms of how we are rela-tive to others is a bit more difficult tosay because there are some new thingson everybody’s car, and some newregulations plus new tyres, so it is abit difficult to find out where exactlyyou are. But that is why we come hereto find out on Saturday at the latest.”

And although Vettel will carry thenumber one on his car in Melbournefor the first time in anger, he thinksdefending his crown will be just as hardas winning it in the first place. “I thinkwe all know that we start from zeroagain,” he said. “I know I have zeropoints as well, like everybody else.

“I might have the number one onmy car but that is about what wasgoing on last year, and it doesn’tmake me any faster this year. I stillhave to work hard and squeeze ev-ery last bit out of the car to makesure we run at the front.”

Pacquiao’s suit againstMayweather going forward

Mayweather and the others,” the suitcontends. “That is because they aremotivated by ill will, spite, malice,revenge and envy.”

Mark Tratos, a Las Vegas lawyerwho represents Mayweather Promo-tions LLC, said the lawsuit waswithout merit and he would continueto fight for its dismissal. He said thedefendants merely questioned

Pacquiao’s reluctance to submit todrug testing, but stopped short ofdeclaring Pacquiao a drug user.Statements of defamation must con-sist of facts, not opinions.

Tratos said Pacquiao would alsohave trouble proving the defendantsacted with malice, which is requiredbecause the famous boxer is a pub-lic figure.

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Filipino world boxing champion Manny Pacquiao catches abottle of water during a break in his training for his upcomingMay 7 fight against Shane Mosley Wednesday, March 23, 2011at the resort city of Baguio in northern Philippines.