The device was thrown over the fence at one point when about 1,000 to 1,500 “Oc-cupy DC” protesters were demonstrating outside the White House, Secret Service spokesman George Ogilvie said.

He gave the “all clear” later in the evening. A majority of the protesters had left the area earlier and there had been

no arrests, he said.President Barack Obama and his wife,

Michelle, went out to dinner to celebrate her birthday and were not at the White House when the incident began but returned while the investigation was under way.

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Denpasar – The mediation trial for the law suit of Bali Government, Made Mangku Pastika on Bali Post is being continued in Denpasar Court. After the governor was called twice, yesterday the Bali Post’s turn at-tended the trial.

Bali Post was represented by the Chief Editor Nyoman Wirata accom-panied by the lawyers, I Nyoman Gde Sudiantara, S.H., Suryatin Lijaya, S.H.,

Nyoman Putra, S.H., and Agus Sujoko, S.H. the trial which was supposed to start at 10 am postponed until 12 noon.

The trial was very short and around 15 minutes later, the media-tion ended. Suryatin Lijaya said that the mediator will have the opportu-nity to explain the result of the trial to the governor. On the other hand, the Bali Post has also received the result of the meditation trial between the governor and the mediator.

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Bali Post lawyer, Suryatin Lijaya, explained to the press about the progress of mediation on Governor Bali vs Bali Post case, on Wednesday, January 18, 2012.

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Occupy DC protesters holds a signs January 17, 2012 during a demonstration in front of the Capitol in Washington, DC. The White House was locked down for more than an hour on Tuesday night as authorities investigated what appeared to be a smoke bomb tossed over the fence of the executive compound, a Secret Service spokesman said.

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WASHINGTON - The White House was locked down for more than an hour on Tuesday night

as authorities investigated what appeared to be a smoke bomb tossed over the fence of the executive

compound, a Secret Service spokesman said.

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Tabanan (Bali Post)—There remain some unlicensed

villas in Tabanan. A villa located on the edge of Lake Beratan, Candikun-ing I Hamlet, Candikuning Village, Baturiti, was unable to present its

of Tabanan, Tuesday (Jan 17). The

Aside from being unable to present the permits, the villa building was also suspicious because the courtyard directly bordered with the lip of the lake. Its architectural style was very luxurious like a five star hotel. In front of the entrance lay a lobby and

paving-blocked pathway leading to the villa building.

-amined some corners of the villa, but the condition was quiet. Nevertheless, the villa looked elegant as villas in general. Even, there were few gas cylinders as means of heating water.

a.m. Local Time, a number of workers looked distraught. Strangely, none of the workers knew the phone number

the phone number of the management office located in Kuta. When the number was contacted, in fact, the villa was really unlicensed. “It is said

-pol PP tomorrow (Wednesday—Ed),” said Nyoman Suaba, an investigator of civil servant (PPNS) of the Satpol PP Tabanan after the inspection.

report received, the luxurious villa had been renamed from Bedugul Garden and Lake Resort (BGLR) to Resort Puri Candikuning (RPC). However, until last Tuesday no name board was found at the villa location. Especially for the RPC, the permit had expired in May 2009. More strangely, the super luxurious building only had a permit of budget hotel. “We will report this information to the leadership, includ-ing tracing the documents,” he ex-

when contacted by Suaba, the villa

to get approval from the adjacent landowner to extend the permit.

Ngurah Sudi, admitted if the villa building was not operated commer-cially, but only used privately. So far,

it was only occupied by the owner and even very rare. According to him, the villa project had not totally accom-plished yet. Related to the permits, the man quibbled to know nothing. “We just do clean-up services along with 20 other workers. For the matter of permit, please contact the manage-ment,” he suggested.

Meanwhile, the Headman of Can-dikuning, Made Mudita deplored the licensing issues. He got information if the villa had been renamed. However, his party never knew about the process of renaming.

“Probably, the process took place before my appointment. However,

-

from the management,” he said. Ideally, Mudita said when extending the permit of villa or other business, village authority should be involved. Prior to submitting all licensing, the

-mendation and approval from village administration. Moreover, according to Mudita, the adjacent landowners of the villa belonged to his extended family. Mudita worried if his party would be disregarded in the process to obtain the permit. (udi)

Enriching the fan collection and design should be per-formed. Other than for facing competition, the strategy was also meant to attract the attention of consumers. “Our home business was pioneered in 1970s and now has come to the third generation,” he explained. In his mind, there was not only a business, but also the way to survive as a fan craftsman preserving the sandalwood fan of Sesetan typicality.

“Our previous characteristic was indeed the maker of sandalwood fan. However, considering the scarcity and the soaring high price of sandalwood, the sandalwood fan is then becoming a complement,” he explained. He currently more focused on the selling of fan made of Bali local wood.

Virtually every month, at least eleven thousand fans could be produced with a variety of motives. Even, 60 percent of which was exported to several countries, like France and Spain. One of the innovative fans initiated was a painted fan for wedding souvenir and hand fan for art shop used as wall decoration. Advantage of this fan was the buyer got a freedom to choose the painting style whether it would be used as hand fan of wall ornament.

Not just a painted fan, Wiracana had now developed an embroidery fan by means of various fabrics. Most fans were ordered by foreign fashion hobbyists. Other than design, the materials used by Wiracana fan had made him still exist in the middle of tight fan business competition. Apart from wood materials, he also used bone, silver and gold to enhance his products. No wonder, such innovation had made the Wiracana fan craft widely known. With the selling price ranging from IDR 10,000 to IDR 8.5 million, Wiracana could not only mine benefits and employ dozens of workers, but could also make his products competitive in the midst of onslaught by China’s fans spreading in the market after the free trade implementation. (bit)

Lack of raw materials,

productionof sandal-wood fans dropsDenpasar (Bali Post)—

Fan has become one of the favored souvenirs by residents, chiefly for wedding ceremony. Many craftsmen flocked to create a variety of fan creations in order to draw the attention of consumers. One of them is Wayan Wiraperdhana. The fan craftsman from Sesetan, South Denpasar, has diverse innova-tions in facing the quite tight competition, especially in terms of production and marketing of the fan for a souvenir and wall decoration. Quibble to be a private property

Villa on lake borderline unlicensed

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The officers are checking the villa which was built on the edge of Beratan Lake, Tabanan

3International Bali News Thursday, January 19, 2012

Singaraja (Bali Post)—Two young men from Buleleng Regency working in the Costa

information, the family of both employees held ngulapin or self-purification ritual.

One of the young men from Buleleng who worked in the ill-fated

cook. When hearing the ship got an accident, his family in Seriritimmediately looked for information. Fortunately, after the incident,

successfully rescued and been placed in refugee camps in one of the

on Tuesday (Jan 17).

to local belief, each family member who was safe from the incidentalmost claiming the life should be given ngulapin ritual. “My younger

by the incident. Therefore, our parents agreed to hold the ritual tospiritually restore his psychological condition,” she said.

workplace in five Italian cruise ships with the position as a cook.

ship running aground from the media, his parents Ketut Metaram andPutu Merta Sining were surprised. Even, his father, Ketut Metaram,fainted after receiving the information about the cruise ship where

on the cruise running aground were urged to calm and did not needto panic. She did so because the workers from Bali including two

-ported safe. Similarly, the recruitment agency placing both workersremained responsible for the crewmen from Bali, including thosefrom Buleleng. (kmb)

Based on information com-piled, at that time, Rusanto with

was eating in the Waja food stall

from withdrawing cash worth

the victim and colleague wouldlike to go to Ubud.

When arriving in Batubulan,he parked the car with licenseplate of DK 745 VF on the westside of the food stall facing north.Within less than ten minutes, af-ter eating they were back to the

returning to the car he saw if theleft windscreen had been shat-

the car and examined the plasticbag containing the cash worth

front seat. In fact, it had disap-peared. Then, he immediatelyreported the incident to SukawatiPolice.

Chief of Sukawati Police, IMade Witaya, justified if his par-ty had received the report on thetheft. From the report, police thendeepened the case and conductedan investigation. (kmb16)

Bangli (Bali Post)—-

ing from hawkers forcing tour-

commission when escortingguests happened recently. Suchincidents had harmed the imageof Kintamani tourism again.

The Regent of Bangli, MadeGianyar, recently said that hisparty was very serious to revivethe image of Kintamani tourismthat recently suffered a setback.

Bangli tourism had made the-

tedly, such various factors madeKintamani that had been previ-

ously famous in the world getincreasingly unremarkable.

-riousness of all the componentsof society. It could not just relyon the government without thesupport and good will of thecommunity. Moreover, at thistime his party was getting seri-ous and did the arrangements toKintamani.

From the smallest elementslike disciplining the souvenirhawkers, local tour guides up tophysical improvements to tour-ist attraction had been carried

and good will of the community

could change the negative imageof Kintamani tourism. By doing

as a world tourist destinationcould be regained.

to cooperate with the Indone-

-

Lillo, and the ranks once madea site inspection to Kintamanitourist attraction a few weeksago. The entourage had timeto visit the local tourist attrac-tions like Penelokan, Kedisanpier and Trunyan traditionalvillage. (kmb17)

Windscreen shattered, IDR 400 million vanishesGianyar (Bali Post)—

Another case of windscreen shatter occurred in Gianyar. This

Batubulan Village, Sukawati Subdistrict, with the victim Rus-nanto, 40. Since the windscreen was shattered, the sum of IDR400 million kept in the car vanished. The incident took placearound 11:30 a.m. Local Time. Eventually the victim reportedthe incident to Headquarters of Sukawati Police, Tuesday af-ternoon (Jan 17).

Crewmen of Costa Concordia from Buleleng safeFamily holds ngulapin ritual

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Kintamani tourism goes through setbacks

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“We don’t have a decision to go forward with these things. We don’t have a decision or a date for taking such a decision. This whole thing is very far away,” he said.

Asked to explain what he meant by “far away,” Barak said he did not want to make “forecasts.” Barak’s comments came as tensions rise over Iran’s nuclear programme, which Israel and Western govern-

ments suspect masks a drive for a weapons capability.

Iran denies any such ambition, saying the programme is for peace-ful power generation and medical purposes only, and has refused repeated UN Security Council ultimatums to suspend uranium enrichment. Israel, which has the Middle East’s sole if undeclared nuclear arsenal, has said an Iranian

nuclear weapons capability would pose an existential threat to the Jewish state.

It has not ruled out resorting to military action to prevent any possibility of the Islamic republic developing one. The United States, which has expressed serious con-cern over Iran’s nuclear programme, has pushed for much tougher sanc-tions, targeting its oil exports and financial institutions.

But Israeli officials have accused Washington of dragging its feet, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying the sanctions currently in force do not go far enough.

Agence France Presse

Ethiopia said on Wednesday that five tourists killed in an attack blamed on terrorists in the northeast were all European, and that two other foreigners in the group had been kidnapped. The government confirmed the attack, first reported by state television late on Tuesday, and blamed terrorists backed by its arch-foe neighbour Eritrea.

“Terrorist groups trained and armed by the Eritrean government crossed the border and attacked them and the assailants have gone back,” government spokesman Bereket Simon told AFP.

“They killed five, wounded two and kidnapped four, out of which two foreigners, one police and one driver,” Bereket Simon said. Eritrea vehemently denied involvement in the attack. Simon earlier said those killed were a German, a Belgian, an Italian, a Hungarian and an Austrian.

He did not give the nationalities of those wounded or abducted. State television said the wounded had been taken to hospital by

government forces in the region. The attack occurred Monday in the remote Afar region near Ethiopia’s border with Eritrea. The group was visiting the Erta Ale volcanic site.

A German foreign ministry offi-cial who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity said they were probing reports that German nationals could have been victims of the attack.

“Reports of an attack on tour-ist group with German citizens in Ethiopia are being followed up. The German foreign ministry and the German embassy are working with determination to clarify the matter and the fate of the German citizens,” the officials said on phone from Berlin.

The official said the tourists were travelling in the same group. The Afar region, an inhospitable scrubland and desert with shal-low salty lakes and chains of volcanoes, is reputed to be one of the hottest places on Earth. It also known for hominid fossil finds. Addis Ababa routinely accuses Eritrea of supporting rebels fight-ing the Ethiopian regime, charges that Eritrea denies.

Agence France Presse

Prince Philip, the 90-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth II, resumed official duties on Tuesday evening for the first time since undergoing heart surgery over Christmas. The Duke of Edinburgh, as he is officially known, looked relaxed as he arrived for a dinner at Cambridge University to mark 100 years to the day since explorer Captain Robert Scott reached the South Pole.

Adventurer Ranulph Fiennes and Prince Albert of Monaco were also among the 100 guests attending the event at Corpus Christi College to raise funds for the Scott Polar Re-search Institute.

Prince Philip was admitted to hospital on December 23 after complaining of chest pains, and was found to have a blocked coro-nary artery. He underwent surgery to have a stent fitted, before being released on December 27.

The health scare was the most

serious yet for the prince, the longest serving royal consort in British his-tory, and came as the queen prepares to celebrate her diamond jubilee year marking 60 years on the throne.

Prince Phillip (L) is greeted by Cambridge University Vice

Chancellor Prof Leszek Bo-rysiewicz as he arrives for the

Corpus Christi College in Cam-bridge for a dinner to celebrate

the 100th anniversary of Cap-tain Scotts Antartic expedition IBP/afp

AFP Photo/Jose Cendon

This file illustration photo shows camels carrying salt in the Ethio-pia’s Afar region. Ethiopia said on Wednesday that five tourists killed in an attack blamed on terrorists in the northeast were all European, and that two other foreigners in the group had been kidnapped.

AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana

Any decision by Israel on whether to attack Iran in a bid to halt its nuclear programme remains “very far away,” Defence Minister Ehud Barak (pictured) told army radio on Wednesday.

Agence France Presse

Any decision by Israel on whether to attack Iran in a bid to halt its nuclear programme remains “very far away,” Defence Minister Ehud Barak told army radio on Wednesday.

Activities Thursday, January 19, 2012 5International

Temple CeremonyCalendar Event for January 4 through 26, 2012

EVERY Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is con-sidered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sail-ings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

Balinese Temple Ceremony

4 Jan Buda Paing Wariga Merajan Pasek Gaduh Kayubihi Bangli.

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

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

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

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

Tabanan

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

Odalan Ida Ratu Puraus Merajan Salonding Besakih.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

IBP

JAKARTA – Recently Aston International opened its sixth trendy select service favehotel, the favehotel Adi Sucipto - Solo.

The new favehotel located in the very heart of Solo’s business district and close to the Interna-tional Airport and Railway Sta-tion, is also within easy reach of well known tourist destinations such as the Javanese Kraton Mangkunegaran and the most popular traditional market Pasar Klewer. The hotel offers 190 mod-ern, functional and stylish fave rooms, several meeting rooms for up to 200 persons as well as a charming coffee shop.

Aston International’s Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Mr. Norbert Vas, said “favehotel Adi Sucipto – Solo is a delight-ful, select service, fun, fresh and friendly hotel – offering Solo

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together with Yogyakarta is well known as the cultural heartland of Java - famous for its refined, highly polished aesthetic and so-phisticated Javanese art with the well known Kraton serving as an important center dedicated to the preservation of Javanese culture.

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Aston opened Favehotel Adi Sucipto

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International

scenes only deepen their feel-ing that the authoritarian systemthe ousted president oversawremains largely in place, almosta year since the 18-day uprisingthat toppled him. When Muba-rak’s trial began five monthsago, many hoped it would bringnot only punishment but a clearsense of victory for a movementthat aimed to wipe the slate cleanand start again.

Instead, it has boiled down to abare-knuckled showdown betweensupporters and foes of the “revolu-

have been gripping the country.Those divisions were clear

in court Tuesday as Mubarak’sdefense began its arguments.

went for maximum effect withflowery language depicting himas an unjustly maligned victimwho tried to improve Egypt dur-ing 29 years in power.

“This man before you, who is83, has been fatigued and bur-dened by ailments and mauled bythe malice of cunning people,”el-Deeb said.

“He is looking to your justiceto save him from the oppressionthat surrounds him from everydirection, after his reputationand history have been targetedby tongues and pens.” The court-room erupted when he said thatMubarak in fact supported therevolution. El-Deeb quoted froma letter he said Mubarak wrote tohis lifetime friend Ahmed Shafiq— who was prime minister at thetime of the uprising — saying thatprotesters were exercising theirright to stage peaceful protestsbut were infiltrated by criminalsand Islamists who destroyedpublic property and challengedthe regime’s “legitimacy.”

“Lies, lies!” and “Executionfor Mubarak!” screamed the law-yers representing the families ofprotesters killed by police duringthe revolution. They rushed atel-Deeb and nearly set upon him,but court police quickly movedto keep them back.

Mubarak, who has worn an

Reuters

GIGLI , Italy - Italian divers suspended their search of the cap-sized cruise liner Costa Concordia after the vessel shifted slightly on

Wednesday.

about 8.00 a.m (0700 GMT) after a shift of a few centimeters, posinga potential threat to diving teams operating in the submerged spacesof the ship. There was no word on when work might resume.

Associated Press

P RT-A -PRINCE, Haiti — A truck’s brakes failed and itcrashed a small bus then careened onto the sidewalk of one Port-au-Prince’s busiest streets, killing 29 people and injuring 67,a Haitian official said Tuesday. Nadia Lochard of Haiti’s CivilProtection Office said the accident happened on Route Delmas inthe capital when the driver lost control of his dump truck.

The press office of President Michel Martelly issued a state-ment saying the leader went to the site of the crash, which wasin front of the national television headquarters.

The sidewalk outside the news station is often crowded withstreet vendors who sell their goods and motorcycle cabbies await-ing customers. The incident happened before midnight Monday.

Mubarak trial encapsulatesdivisions in EgyptAssociated Press Writer

CAIR Hosni Mubarak, on trial for his life, is ferried to court by helicopter from a presi-dential hospital suite. His sons and co-defendants swagger in wearing designer track suits andno handcuffs. His security chief is treated with near reverence by police in the courtroom.

unwaveringly grim expressionever since the trial began on Aug.3, looked content as el-Deeb

the trial, he sat in a wheelchairin the courtroom cage where thedefendants are kept, rather thanlying on a hospital gurney as hehas in previous sessions.

Mubarak, his former security

chief Habib el-Adly and fourtop security officers are chargedwith complicity in the killing ofhundreds of protesters and couldface the death penalty if con-victed. Mubarak’s sons Alaa andGamal, along with their father,are charged with corruption inthe same trial, a crime that wouldcarry a prison sentence.

AP Photo/Mohammed al-Law

Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is wheeled into a court house in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012.

Italy ship search suspended after

Death toll in Haiti truck crash climbs to 29

“We hope that our statement and thought are given to the gov-ernor through the mediator,” he added. He also said that his sidealready opens the door for peaceful settlement. “We are open toreach the peaceful end on this case. However, the terms of thepeace need to be discussed. This is the one that we emphasis on,”Suryatin explained.

However, he cannot explain further because now the case isstill in the level of mediation. “I’m sorry I cannot give furtherdetail about the discussion and everything is still on the hand ofthe mediator,” Suryatin added. (108)

Members of the White House press pool were prevented fromleaving for about 45 minutes before they were escorted off thegrounds. Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House wasalso closed during the investigation.

Demonstrators from the Occupy movement marched to theWhite House after earlier converging at the U.S. Capitol andcongressional office buildings to protest against the influenceof money on lawmakers.

Several hundred demonstrators, some from as far as Nevadaand San Diego, staged rallies and attempts to meet lawmakersas they returned from a holiday break. One demonstrator was ar-rested for assaulting a police officer and three others for crossinga police line, a Capitol Police spokeswoman said.

The Occupy movement burst on the national scene in Sep-tember in New York with its focus on income inequality in theUnited States.

White House...

Peaceful... From page 1

In the temple`s compound, peo-ple from many different religious and ethnic backgrounds work hand in hand to prepare the house of worhip for Chinese New Year cel-ebrations on January 23.

Local civil defense personnel (Han-

sip) most of whom are Muslim can be seen preparing themselves to guard the temple which will be visited by many people on the eve of or on Imlek as Lunar New Year is locally called.

The temple`s walls is given a new paint cover by workers who

are mostly Muslims.“We try our best to prepare the

temple for the celebrations. That is why we need the cooperation of many sides, including people living around the temple,” said Yu Ie (37), the Jin De Yuan temple`s manager. “It does not matter what their religion or ethnic identity is,” Yu Ie added.

“I would really like to help here, because I have been living around here since I was little, and people from this temple have always been

kind to me,” said Suratin (50), one of the civil defense guards said.

Imlek was not listed as an official holiday on Indonesian calendars for many years but since early 2002, it has been a national holiday, indicat-ing a strengthening of the nation`s interfaith and inter-ethnic sense of tolerance end respect.

“Historically, the Jin De Yuan temple is the oldest house of worhip of its kind in Jakarta. It was first built in 1650 but destroyed by the colonial government in 1740 and

rebuilt in 1755 and then named Jin De Yuan which means virtue of gold.” Yu Ie explained.

In the runup and during Imlek, the alley way leading to the temple from its main gate is usually lined by beggars of various ethnicities and religions who expect tithes from temple goers.

“We do not feel disturbed by or try to drive the beggars away from the front of the temple as long as they behave in orderly manner,” said Yu Ie.

Thursday, January 19, 2012 7Indonesia Today International

REUTERS/Supri

A worker arranges incense sticks after drying at an incense factory preparing for the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year in Tangerang, Banten province January 14, 2012. According to the owners of the factory, sales generated from incense demand by the ethnic Chinese in Indonesia increases by 50% during the festive season. The Lunar New Year begins on January 23 and marks the start of the Year of the Dragon, according to the Chinese zodiac.

Associated Press

SURABAYA — Police say 19 illegal migrants, including survivors of a shipwreck, have escaped from an Indonesian detention house.

Thirty detainees fled Monday night through a tunnel they dug themselves, and 11 have been recaptured in a search across East Java province, said Maj. Hadi Suryo, the police chief in the pro-vincial town of Bangil.

Iwan Rustiawan, head of the detention house, said among those escaping were survivors of a shipwreck last month. The ship that sank Dec. 17 carried nearly 250 asylum seekers from Af-ghanistan, Iraq, Iran and Pakistan trying to reach Australia in search of a better life.

Only 49 survived.The recaptured detainees told police they were

trying to find their contacts to arrange another boat to reach Australia.

Antara

JAKARTA - The Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) has asked the government to push state-owned banks to lead in low-ering the interest rates on lending.

“We hope that the Vice President and the State Enterprises Minister will encourage state-owned banks to take the lead in lowering the lending rates to the same level as those in other ASEAN countries,” Kadin chairman Bambang Suryo Sulistyo said at a meeting with Vice President Boediono at the latter`s office here Tuesday.

With state-owned banks pio-

neering a lowering of lending rates it was hoped other banks would follow suit so that interest rates would become more competitive and investment could increase.

He said lending rates had difficulty coming down although inflation had remained under control and tend-ing to drop and banks had plenty of liquidity. Indonesia`s inflation rate in 2011 was recorded at 3.79 percent.

Meanwhile, Bank Indonesia`s policy was conservatively keeping its benchmark rate at six percent while regionally and globally inter-est rates had sharply dropped.

In addition, the banking industry`s

inefficiency had made credit in the field costly. The lending rate in the field now averaged 11 percent.

“The business community, small- and medium-scale enterprises in particular, is thereby unable to benefit from the currently favorable external conditions of the money market,” he said.

Bambang also said it was quite possible there was a money market (deposits and SBI (Bank Indonesia Certificates) auctions) cartel where big capital owners, state owned en-terprises and government ministries demanded special interest rates caus-ing lending rates to remain high.

Reuters

JAKARTA - Febby Kemala Dewi returned to work at a Jakarta ac-counting firm after three months of maternity leave but struggled, like many new mums, to balance her home and work lives -- especially keeping her infant daughter fed.

Unwilling to stop breastfeeding, unable to pump enough for a whole day in the morning before work and leery of giving her baby anything but the freshest milk, she finally turned to a unique Jakarta service -- a breast milk motorbike courier.

“I have to work, but at the same

time I can still feed my baby,” said Dewi, the wall by her desk plas-tered with pictures of her smiling daughter, eight-month-old Ashalina Putri.

Now, the 29-year-old IT consul-tant pumps breast milk at her office in central Jakarta and a courier comes to pick up the bottles around lunchtime.

Placing them in a padded cooler box whose strap he then slings over his shoulder, the courier rides 45 minutes to an hour on a motorbike through choked Jakarta streets to deliver the milk to Dewi’s mother, who cares for the baby.

19 illegal

from Indonesian detention

Lunar new year preparations at temple show interfaith toleranceAntara

JAKARTA - An example of the practice of Indonesian pluralism and tolerance can be seen in activity at the Jin De Yuan Buddhist Temple at Petak Sembilan, Glodok, in downtown Jakarta in preparation of the Lunar New Year celebrations.

Breast milk courier helps Indonesian mums cope

Kadin asks government to persuade state banks lower lending rates

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Balinese ethnic Chinese woman carries a statue of Chinese god to be cleaned at a temple in Kuta, Bali, Indonesia, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012. The occupancy rate of hotels in Bali reach 60 percent dur-ing Lunar New Year’s holiday.

Ahead of the Chinese New Year, hotel occupancy reaches 60 percentMangupura (Bali Post)—

Hotel occupancy rate in Badung Regency beforethe celebration of Chinese New ear 2 63 ust reached60 percent. n average, the tourists staying in hotelswere still dominated by tourists from Europe,America,Australia, and Asia.

Dasa Nama:

Balinese Culture

9International Thursday, January 19, 2012

Pisang Goreng(Banana Fritters)

Ingredients

4 Eggs 12 T Flour 4 Ripe bananas Oil for deep frying Cinnamon sugar

Directions:Slightly beat eggs and mix with flour and half cup

water.Mash bananas with fork and mix thoroughly with

flour and egg mixture. Deep-fry banana and flour mixture by the tablespoonful in hot oil until golden brown.

Drain on absorbent paper and dust with cinnamon sugar.

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markets attracts many local and

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Multilayered Butter Cake(Lapis Legit)

Ingredients:

570cc or 30 egg yolks 525-600 g butter, whipped or melted 100 g flour, sifted 300 g granulated sugar 3 Tbs. sweetened condensed milk 1 Tbs. special layer cake extract (optional) 15 g powdered milk ½ tps. powdered vanilla extract

Directions:Place the egg yolks, granulated sugar and vanilla into

mixing bowl. Beat to very high soft peak.Stir in the layer cake extract, flour and butter. The

batter should be very thick.Place wax paper at the bottom of a 8x8x8 inch

buttered baking pan. Spread butter on top of the wax paper as well.

Pour 3-4 Tbs. of batter into the wax covered pan and bake in a preheated 350°F oven (gas oven is better than electric oven) for 5 minutes.

Remove from oven and press the cake evenly and then spread butter (not to much, just for flavoring) on cake top. Pour another 3-4 Tbs. of batter and bake it again for five minutes. Keep doing this step until the batter is finished.

Serve when cool.

Looking trendy with stylish Bark Bag

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Buyer looking at bark bag in one of art markets in Bali Island. Craft bag made of bark sold in the art markets attracts many local and foreign consumers.

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Thursday, January 19, 201210 InternationalDestinations

IBP

Like the water flows, myriad of foreign tourists throng the island of Nusa Lem bongan. So, it is not mistaken if this bijou island becomes one of the most popular marine tourist attractions. Every day, they come to the tiny island located in the Klungkung Re-gency. Even, during peak season the number of tourists coming can reach 1,500 people.

Sweetness of honey belongs to Nusa Lembongan makes a number of cruise companies sell-ing holiday package over there. One of them is Bounty Cruise based at Benoa Harbor. In the morning at around 9:30 am Local Time, Bounty Cruise has started its voyage to Nusa Lembongan. Passengers are just like a king because they are served by the crews amicably. Like the facility on a luxury cruise, breakfast is available aboard.

The voyage from Benoa to

Nusa Lembongan Island takes approximately one hour by speed at 20-25 knots or 45 kilometers per hour. During the voyage, we get to enjoy some entertainment, ranging from watching films to sing along on the boat deck. Songs played by the bands are adjusted to the tourist market. On Monday, for example, is specifically serving tourists from China, so the song played is a Mandarin song.

Nusa Lembongan is a small island of calcareous land. The life of local people seems to give isolated impression considering there has no adequate transporta-tion service. A number of villas and hotels have been established on steep hills and the beach. Even, on the narrow roadside measuring 2.5 meters has already existed a number of art shops and Internet cafes.

To go to a number of objects on the island, we use tarpaulin-roofed pickups. After driving about five miles, we arrive at the center of

seaweed village. At this place, we will find farmers who are cleaning the seaweed and also process it.

An attractive place to visit here is the unique underground house located in the cave known as Gala-Gala house. To enter this house, we have to go down the stairs, because this house is located 10 meters under ground of limestone. The height of the cave varies from about 1 to 1.75 meters. Some-times, we have to duck and crouch to reach the existing rooms.

Gala-Gala house was made in 1961 until 1976 by a village resident named Made Byasa who worked as a puppeteer. Such a unique work of Byasa was inspired by the life story of the Pandavas during their living in the forest. For 17 years Byasa had worked day and night to realize such monumental work. Since the age of 75 years, his old body kept on digging and when he was 93 years old he stopped, then he died at the age of 96 years.

Enjoy the uniqueness of Nusa Lembongan

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BUSINESSInternational

Reuters

SAN FRANCISC - Yahoo Inc co-founder JerryYang has quitthe company he started in 1995, appeasing shareholders who hadblasted the Internet pioneer for pursuing an ineffective personalvision and impeding investment deals that could have transformedthe struggling company.

Yang’s abrupt departure comes two weeks afterYahoo appointedScott Thompson its new CEO, with a mandate to return the once-leading Internet portal to the heights it enjoyed in the 1990s.

Wall Street views the exit of “Chief Yahoo” Yang as smoothingthe way for a major infusion of cash from private equity, or a dealto sell off much of its 40 percent slice of China’sAlibaba, unlockingvalue for shareholders.

Shares of Yahoo gained 3 percent in after-hours trade.“Everyone is going to assume this means a deal is more likely

with the Asia counterparts,” Macquarie analyst Ben Schacter said.“The perception among shareholders was Jerry was more focusedon trying to rebuild Yahoo than necessarily on maximizing near-term shareholder value.

“It certainly seems things are coming to a head as far as realizingthe value of these assets.”

Yang, who is severing all formal ties with the company by re-signing all positions including his seat on the board of directors, has

an aborted sale to Microsoft in 2008.Yang’s exit comes roughly amonthbeforedissident shareholders

can nominate rival directors to Yahoo’s board.The remaining nine members of Yahoo’s board, which includes

Hewlett-Packard executive Vyomesh Joshi and private investorGary Wilson, are all up for reelection this year.

Yang’s departure could be part of a broader board shakeup, said

which owns Yahoo shares.“If they don’t move quickly on these things, they run the risk

of a proxy battle and they are doing everything they can to avoidthat.”

The company did not say whereYang was headed or why he hadsuddenly resigned. CEOThompson offered few clues in a memo toemployees obtained by Reuters following the announcement.

“I am grateful for the support and warm welcome Jerry providedme in my early days here. His insights and perspective were invalu-able, helping me to dig deeper, more quickly than I could have onmy own, into some of the key elements of the company and howit operates.

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6 percent as of April and May 2011.In a letter to Yahoo’s chairman of the board, Yang said he was

leaving to pursue “other interests outside of Yahoo” and was “en-thusiastic” about Thompson as the choice to helm the company.

Yang, 43, is also resigning from the boards of Yahoo Japan andAlibaba Group Holdings.

to some extent within the company’s internal ranks.Some analysts say the Yahoo board’s indecision stems in part

fromYang’s sway in the company. Disillusioned by the company’s

the same as the one that rejected Microsoft’s unsolicited takeoverbid when Yang was CEO.

“Jerry Yang was certainly an impediment toward anythinghappening,” said Morningstar analyst Rick Summer. “This is acompany that’s been mired by a bunch of competing interestsgoing in different directions. It was never clear what this board’sdirection has been.”

In a report sharply cuttingits world economic growth ex-pectations, the World Bank saidEurope was probably already inrecession. If the euro area debtcrisis deepened, global economicforecasts would be significantlylower.

“The sovereign debt crisisin the euro zone appears to becontained,” Justin Lin, the chiefeconomist for the World Bank,told reporters in Beij ing onWednesday.

“However, the risk of a globalfreezing-up of the markets andas well as a global crisis similarto what happened in September2008 are real.”

The World Bank predictedworld economic growth of 2.5percent in 2012 and 3.1 percent in2013, well below the 3.6 percentgrowth for each year projectedin June.

“We think it is now importantto think through not only slowergrowth but sharp deteriorations,as a prudent measure,” said HansTimmer, director of developmentprospects at the bank.

The World Bank said if theeuro area debt crisis escalates,global growth would be about 4percentage points lower.

It forecast high-income econo-mies would expand just 1.4percent in 2012 as the euro areashrinks 0.3 percent, sharp down-ward revisions from growth fore-casts last June of 2.7 percent and1.8 percent, respectively.

It cut its forecast for growth indeveloping economies to 5.4 per-cent for 2012 from its previousforecast of 6.2 percent, sayingexpansion in Brazil and India andto a lesser extent Russia, SouthAfrica and Turkey, had slowedalready.

It saw a slight pick up in growthin developing economies in 2013

to 6 percent. But the report saidthreats to growth are still rising,suggesting the outlook remainedhighly uncertain.

“The downturn in Europe andweaker growth in developingcountries raises the risk that thetwo developments reinforce oneanother, resulting in an evenweaker outcome,” it said.

It also cited failure so far toresolve high debts and deficits inJapan and the United States andslow growth in other high-incomecountries, and cautioned thosecould trigger sudden shocks.

On top of that, political ten-sions in the Middle East andNorth Africa could disrupt oilsupplies and add another blow toglobal prospects.

It said that while Europe wasmoving toward a long-term solu-tion to its debt problems, marketsremained skittish.

On balance, the World Banksaid global economic conditionswere “fragile and there remainsgreat uncertainty as to how mar-kets will evolve over the mediumterm.”

Against that backdrop, it saiddeveloping countries were evenmore vulnerable than they werein 2008 because they could findthemselves facing reduced capitalflows and softer trade.

In addition, many developingcountries have weaker financesand wouldn’t be able to respondto a new crisis as vigorously.

China’s growth -- forecast inthe report at 8.4 percent in 2012-- could help bolster importsand gives it “big fiscal space” torespond to changing conditions,Lin said.

“No country and no regionwill escape the consequences ofa serious downturn,” the WorldBank said, adding that now wasthe time for developing countries

to plan how to soften the impactof a potential deep crisis.

A serious crisis would mani-fest itself in not just reducedtrade flows, but also reversal ofcapital flows, making it hard forcountries, especially in EasternEurope and Latin America, whohave debt coming due.

The World Bank pointed outthat since last August risk aver-sion to Europe has shot up and“changed the game” for develop-ing countries that have seen theirborrowing costs escalate sharplyand the flow of capital to themdecrease.

High-income countries haveprime responsibility for prevent-ing a crisis, the World Bank said,but “developing countries have anobligation to support that processboth through the G20 (Group of20 rich and developing countries)and other international fora.”

Among other things, devel-oping countries “could help byavoiding entering into tradedisputes and by allowing marketprices to move freely.”

It also said developing-countrygovernments should start contin-gency planning to identify spend-ing priorities and to try to shoreup safety net programs. Thosecontingencies should take intoaccount possible drops in com-modity prices and a fall in capitalinflows, the World Bank said.

The World Bank forecast islower than ones from the In-

the Organisation for EconomicCo-operation and Development,who last officially updated theirnumbers in September and No-vember, respectively.

expects to cut its forecasts hadpredicted world growth of 4.0percent in 2012, while the OECDhad penciled in 3.4 percent.

World Bank slashes global GDP forecasts, outlook grimReuters

BEIJING ASHINGT N - The orld Bank warned developing countries on ednesdayto prepare for the real risk that an escalation in the euro area debt crisis could tip the worldinto a slump on a par with the global downturn in 200 0 .

Yahoo co-founder Yang resigns

Entertainment InternationalThursday, January 19, 201212

“Miss Bala” is Mexico’s entry in the foreign-language film category at the Academy Awards and, sadly, it couldn’t be more relevant in depicting the brutal violence plaguing Mexico’s northern border areas. At its center is the gorgeous, leggy Stephanie Sigman, a former model making her striking film debut. Naranjo doesn’t let us see her face at the film’s start; he shoots her from the back or the side, her dark, wavy hair obscuring her features. But

when she finally turns around and flashes a smile — totally natural, with no makeup — and speaks in her play-ful, husky voice, she’s radiant.

Sigman stars as Laura Guerrero, a young woman still living at home with her father and brother outside Tijuana who hopes to be crowned the next Miss Baja California. (The title is a play on words: “bala” means bullet in Spanish.) Her tacky, clingy dress and chipped fingernails tell us

everything we need to know about the disparity between the life she lives and the one to which she aspires.

Laura goes to a club with her best friend, a fellow contestant who insists they could meet some guys with con-nections there who might help them win. Instead, she finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time, as gang members shoot the place up while targeting some DEA agents who are partying there. Laura escapes briefly but she’s seen too much, and ends up becoming their captive pawn.

The group’s leader is the wily Lino (a subtly menacing Noe Fernandez), who’s been terrorizing northern Mex-ico with his minions while working the angles across the United States border, as well.

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Jessica Alba has another new baby. She’s launched an e-commerce company at Honest.com (named after her 3-year-old daughter Honor) to sell eco-friendly and toxic-free baby products and household items for a monthly subscription. Alba, who welcomed her second daughter Haven in 2011, said Tuesday the idea was born after she learned that toxic chemicals are in widely used, everyday products.

“I would buy what I thought was like an eco-brand and pay out the

wazoo for it and then find out that it’s made with the same ingredients as any other brand, but the packaging is a little more biodegradable and you’re like ‘But I care about the product touching my kid. Is that OK?’”

She decided the best solution was to make available the kinds of prod-ucts she would buy. To launch the business, she partnered with author and environmentalist Christopher Gavigan, ShoeDazzle founder Brian Lee and PriceGrabber.com execu-tive Sean Kane.

The 30-year-old actress said the venture is “hands down” more nerve-

racking than the opening of a new movie but also more gratifying.

“I came up with the idea. I had to pitch it to my partners and they came on board and together we created the company from scratch,” she said. “From the packaging to the bottles to the product that’s inside, the way that the interfacing is with the website, all of that is really from me ... it’s taken three years to get here.”

To make a purchase, consumers sign up on Honest.com and choose from subscription packages for prod-ucts including diapers, shampoo and laundry detergent. The products are

then delivered monthly to the buyer’s door. Alba plans to expand the line based on customer feedback.

“It’s important that a brand that’s meant for families actually listens to families, and it’s not just some big corporate entity making these huge decisions,” she said.

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Paula Deen, the Southern belle of butter and heavy cream, makes no apologies for waiting three years to disclose she has diabetes while continuing to dish up deep-fried cheesecake and other high-calorie, high-fat recipes on TV. She said she isn’t changing the comfort cooking that made her a star, though it isn’t clear how much of it she’ll con-tinue to eat while she promotes health-conscious recipes along with a diabetes drug she’s endors-ing for a Danish company.

“I’ve always said, ‘Practice moderation, y’all.’ I’ll probably say that a little louder now,” Deen said Tuesday after reveal-ing her diagnosis on NBC’s “Today” show. “You can have diabetes and have a piece of cake. You cannot have diabetes and eat a whole cake.”

Health activists and one fel-low chef called her a hypocrite for promoting an unhealthy diet along with a drug to treat its likely effects. Deen added

her support of the Novo Nor-disk company to a collection of lucrative endorsements that include Smithfield ham and Philadelphia Cream Cheese.

Deen, who will turn 65 on Thursday, said she kept her diagnosis private as she and her family figured out what to do, presumably about her health and a career built solidly on Southern cooking. Among her recipes: deep-fried cheesecake covered in chocolate and pow-dered sugar, and a quiche that calls for a pound of bacon.

“I really sat on this informa-tion for a few years because I said, ‘Oh, my gosh, what am I going to do about this? Is my life fixing to change? Am I no longer going to like my life?” she asked. “I had to have time to adjust and soak it all in and get up all the information that I could.”

While Deen, who lives in Savannah, Ga., has cut out the sweet tea she routinely drank straight through to bedtime and taken up treadmill walking, she plans few changes on the air.

Alba keeps it ‘Honest’ with eco-friendly products

Actress Jessica Alba poses for a portrait Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012, in New York to promote

Honest.com, a new e-commerce eco friendly and non-toxic baby

product company. AP Photo/Carlo Allegri

Chef Paula Deen hid diabetes, pushed high-fat food

AP Photo/Food Network, File

FILE- This undated file photo courtesy of Food Network shows celebrity chef Paula Deen. Deen recently announced that she has Type 2 diabetes. While Deen has cut out glass after glass of sweet tea and taken up treadmill walking off camera, she plans few changes on the air.

Review: ‘Bala’ gives tense look at border violenceAssociated Press Writer

Gerardo Naranjo may have made the least-glamorous movie ever about a pageant queen with “Miss Bala.” And that’s what makes it so beautiful. With long, fluid takes that create a mesmerizing tension, the Mexican di-rector and writer initially draws us into a world of youthful optimism, one which ends up being wildly unpredictable and increasingly desperate.

AP Photo/Fox International Productions, Eniac Mart’nez Ulloa

In this image released by Fox International Productions, Stephanie Sigman is shown in a scene from, “Miss Bala.”

Science Thursday, January 19, 2012 13International

This is only the fifth time sci-entists have confirmed chemically Martian meteorites that people wit-nessed as they fell. The fireball was spotted in the sky six months ago, but the rocks were not discovered on the ground in North Africa until the end of December.

This is an important and unique opportunity for scientists trying to learn about Mars’ potential for life. So far, no NASA or Russian space-craft has returned bits of Mars, so the only Martian samples scientists

can examine are those that come here in meteorite showers.

Scientists and collectors of me-teorites are ecstatic, and already the rocks are fetching big money because they are among the rarest things on Earth, rarer even than gold.

A special committee of meteor-ite experts, including some NASA scientists, confirmed the test results Tuesday. They certified that 15 pounds (7 kilograms) of meteorite recently collected came from Mars. The biggest rock weighs more than

2 pounds (1 kilogram).Astronomers think millions of

years ago something big smashed into Mars and sent rocks hurtling through the solar system. After a long journey through space, one of those rocks plunged through Earth’s atmosphere, splitting into smaller pieces.

Most other Martian meteorite samples sat around on Earth for millions of years, or at the very least for decades, before they were discovered, which makes them tainted with Earth materials and life. These new rocks, while still probably contaminated because they have been on Earth for months, are purer. The last time a Martian meteorite fell and was found fresh was in 1962.

Associated Press Writer

GENEVA — It’s high noon for the humble leap second. After ten years of talks, governments are headed for a showdown vote this week on an issue that pits techno-logical precision against nature’s whims. The United States, France and others are pushing for coun-tries at a U.N. telecom meeting to abolish the leap second, which for 40 years has kept computers in sync with the Earth day.

Leap seconds are necessary to prevent atomic clocks from speeding ahead of solar time. They are added at irregular intervals, effectively stretching atomic time by a heartbeat to make up for the irregular wobble in the Earth’s rotation.

Critics warn that scrapping the leap second would break the last link between the passing of time and the course of the sun across the sky. But backers say machines shouldn’t any longer be tethered to the imprecise cycle of sunrise and sunset.

“This would be an important decision because the problem of introducing the leap second would disappear and we would have a more steady time than we have today,” Vincent Meens, an official at the International Telecommu-nication Union who has chaired technical talks on the issue, said Tuesday.

Operators of cell phone net-works, financial markets and air traffic control systems could then rely on the near-absolute precision offered by atomic clocks without having to worry about stopping their systems for the length of a heartbeat every year or two.

“Most of the people who oper-ate time services favor discon-tinuing leap seconds,” said Judah Levine, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technol-ogy in Boulder, Colorado.

“The main problem is that the leap second is usually imple-mented by stopping the clock for one second. However, the world doesn’t stop,” he said.

Agence France Presse

An exceptionally long-running in-vestigation has backed use of the Pill to ease menstruation pain, according to a study published Wednesday. The findings come from health research spanning 30 years, gathering more than 1,400 Swedish women born in 1962, 1972 and 1982.

They filled out a lengthy ques-tionnaire when they were enrolled in the probe at the age of 19, and did the same again five years later at the age of 24. Those who took oral contraceptives reported significant drops in two acknowledged mea-surements of pain.

Age was also a factor. As a

woman aged, the severity of period pain decreased somewhat, but this effect was independent from the Pill, and smaller. The investigation, led by gynaecologist Ingela Lindh at Gothenburg University’s Institute of Clinical Sciences, is published online by the European journal Hu-man Reproduction.

The Pill is sometimes prescribed by doctors to reduce period pain, and many women attest to its ef-fectiveness, but the scientific verdict has so far been mixed. Two big re-views of the evidence, carried out in 2007 and 2009, said there had been a lack of randomised controlled tri-als to provide a clear answer.

Randomised control trials are the

gold standard of clinical research. They entail enrolling volunteers who are randomly assigned either to a group that uses the genuine treat-ment or to a comparison group which uses dummy pills as a comparison. The new paper could help provide a definitive answer, its authors hope.

The probe is unusually long and uses each volunteer as a personal benchmark to measure the impact of the Pill and ageing on period symptoms.

Menstrual pain, known as dys-menorrhoea, has been estimated to account for 600 million lost work-ing hours and two billion dollars in lost productivity annually in the United States alone.

AFP Photo/Tim Matsui

An exceptionally long-running investigation has backed use of the Pill to ease menstruation pain, according to a study published Wednesday.

AP Photo/Frank Jordans

This picture taken Monday Jan. 16, 2012, shows the headquarters of the International Telecommunication Union in Geneva. ITU’s member states are meeting in Switzerland this week to consider abolishing the leap second. The U.N.

Countries consider time

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON — Scientists are confirming a recent and rare invasion from Mars: meteorite chunks from the red planet that fell in Morocco last July.

AP Photo/Darryl Pitt, Macovich Collection

This handout photo provid-ed by Darryl Pitt of the Ma-

covich Collection shows an external view of a Martian

meteorite recovered in De-cember 2011 near Foumzgit, Morocco following a meteor-

ite shower believed to have occurred in July 2011.

Thursday, January 19, 201214 InternationalSport

The MK Dons had tested theirtop-flight hosts throughout thegame, enjoying most of the chances,but they paid the price of some badmisses when Gabbidon poweredhome from a Shaun Wright-Phillipscorner in the 73rd minute.

In another third round replay,Bolton Wanderers put aside theirPremier League woes to beatLeague Two (fourth tier) Maccles-

Bolton, second from bottom in

minute lead through captain Kevin

minute. They will meet SwanseaCity in the next round.

In an all-Championship (seconddivision) replay, Jermaine Beckfordscored a hat-trick as Leicester City

to book a fourth-round encounter

with League Two (fourth division)Swindon Town.

There was another hat-trickand an even more comprehensivescoreline for Millwall with theChampionship hosts hammeringfourth tier Dagenham & Redbridge

Kane. Millwall will host Champi-onship leaders Southampton in thefourth round.

Reuters

MADRID - Under-fire RealMadrid forward Cristiano Ron-aldo may not be enjoying hisbest period of form but he is still“working like an animal” for theteam, coach Jose Mourinho said

showdown with Barcelona. Ron-aldo has been whistled by home

stadium since a poor performance

against arch-rivals Barca.The former Manchester United

player reacted by refusing to cel-ebrate his goal in a 5-1 win over

appearance since then in Wednes-

news conference on Tuesday, acantankerous Mourinho said Ron-

his best of the campaign despitethe fact that he had not added to

did exactly what the team needed,”

score or be man of the match everytime. I told him nobody can touchhim after the way he worked in thesecond half. “When the team winseveryone is responsible and whenthey lose everyone is responsiblefor that too. Simple.”

ATTACKING GAME

Mourinho has managed onlyone victory over Barca in eight

attempts since taking the Real job

when Ronaldo nodded an extra-

time the teams played each otherover two legs in the Spanish Cup,

former Inter Milan and Chelseamanager was assistant coach atBarca and the Catalan club wentthrough 4-3 on aggregate.

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counterpart and former colleaguePep Guardiola said he had no

-tacking game. “I have alwaysthought going to the Bernabeuand playing cautiously makesthe games last an eternity andin the end Madrid never fail toscore,” said the former Barca and

Wednesday.“The only way to win this

tie is to keep the ball and play asolid positional game to stop theircounter-attacks,” he added. “Ifwe play with the fact that thereis a return leg in mind we couldget burned.” Mourinho refusedto give any details about histactics for the game, saying thatwhatever he decided would nodoubt be criticised in the Span-ish media.

played since injuring himself in

a decision will be made on his

Reuters

MADRID - Espanyol struckthree goals in four minutes to

win at home to third-tier Mirandes

leg on Tuesday. Competing in the

disposed of Villarreal and RacingSantander, Mirandes shocked thecrowd at a chilly Cornella stadium

Pablo Infante.Espanyol, who have won the

trophy four times but not since

Vladimir Weiss stole in to make

two minutes later and Joan Verdupunished a defensive lapse to poke

the Mirandes players cursing andshaking their heads in disbelief andthe home fans in raptures.

The Segunda B leaders, basedin the town of Miranda de Ebroin northern Spain, have an annual

coach Carlos Pouso refused tocriticise the referee despite having

what appeared to be a clear penaltyturned down in the second half.

“Complaining about the refereeis a very poor argument,” he told a

The winners of the tie will play

GMT).

rivals Barcelona, the team they

visit city neighbours Valencia onThursday (2030).

Gabbidon comes to QPR’s rescue in FA Cup

REUTERS/Eddie Keogh

Queens Park Rangers’ Danny Gabbidon (C) celebrates his goal against Milton Keynes Dons with Jamie Mackie (L) during their English FA Cup soccer match at Loftus Road in London January 17, 2012.

Reuters

MANCHESTER, England - Danny Gabbidon headed in the winner as Queens Park Rangersweathered a spirited performance from third tier MK Dons to win 1-0 on Tuesday and set upan FA Cup fourth round meeting with fellow Premier League side Chelsea.

Last-gasp Espanyol in dramatic Cup win

Ronaldo ‘working like an animal’ - Mourinho

Thursday, January 19, 2012 15International Sport

Nadal’s knee, heavily taped after ithad caused him “unbelievable pain” onSunday, held up well under a test fromGermany’s Tommy Haas, Nadal com-ing through 6-4 6-3 6-4. Roger Federeradvanced without having to lace up hissneakers.

The Swiss had been scheduled toplay Beck on Hisense Arena, ending arun of 52 matches at Melbourne Parkon main show court Rod Laver Arena,before he found out his German op-ponent had withdrawn. The 16-timesgrand slam champion, who is seeded

they advance that far, did not even havethe chance to warm up.

“I was just coming for my warm-uphit, so I was completely focusing onthe match, saying, ‘Okay, I’ll probablyhave two, three hours to go’,” Federertold reporters. “Now I’ll just take iteasy ... and come out tomorrow and hitintensely, and then I’ll be ready for thenext match.”

two sets and did not seem troubled byhis knee, said his match had been easierthan it may have looked as Haas movedhimaroundthecourt. “Apositivematch,butnot that ... demanding,”wasNadal’s

verdict. “We didn’t play four hours and

that tough.”

top 10 seed to exit Melbourne Parkearlier than expected, though his 7-66-3 7-6 defeat left a bitter taste in theAmerican’s mouth. He suggested af-terwards much of Falla’s treatment forcramping during a tense third set hadbeen a tactical ploy.

“Whenyou thinksomeone is cramp-ing or ailing physically, you sort ofchange your game a tiny bit,” Fish said.

the third set, for sure. “Didn’t seem likehe was having too much trouble duringthe point. So it was a good tactic onhis part.”

NO SWEAT

Women’s top seed Caroline Wozni-

a second set wobble to knock outGeorgia’s Anna Tatishvili 6-1 7-6.The Dane joined champion KimClijsters and Li Na in the third round,

earlier on Rod Laver Arena.

Temperatures were much morecomfortable on Wednesday after two

built up a sweat on as she thrashedFrance’s Stephanie Foretz Gacon 6-06-1. Clijsters, who has recorded fourprevious 6-0 6-0 ‘double bagels’ at

as she rattled off the opening sevengames in under 30 minutes before her

“I felt like in my first match Ididn’t really have that rhythm that Iwould have liked to have,” Clijsterstold reporters. “So that’s usuallysomething that I try to look for inthe beginning of the match. “I washitting the ball well, felt that I couldkeep her under pressure. I didn’t re-ally let her play her game. From thebeginning till the end, I did what Ihad to do well.”

French Open champion Li, was

Olivia Rogowska little time to settleinto the match, and ran out a comfort-able 6-2 6-2 winner in 62 minutes.Tenth seed Francesca Schiavonesuffered a shock defeat, however,dumped out by fellow Italian RominaOprandi 6-4 6-3.

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hree-pointers rained downfrom all directions as the Mi-ami Heat burnt the San Anto-nio Spurs 120-98 on Tuesdaydespite the absence of All-Starguard Dwyane Wade. Miami’sperimeter assault came in thesecond half where they made12 of their 16 attempts frombeyond the arc to erase a 14-

their three-game losing streakwith a dizzying display oflong-distance shooting.

LeBron James led the waywith 33 points and 10 assists,Chris Bosh scored 30 andMike Miller (hernia injury)made his season debut offthe bench with 18 points ona perfect six-from-six fromthree-point range. It was a dra-matic second-half turnaroundthat saw Miami rebound from

quarter. They did so with Wadelooking on from them benchon his 30th birthday. Wademissed his fourth game of theseason due to a foot injury.

“I couldn’t disappoint myboy on his birthday,” Jamestold reporters as Miami im-proved to 4-0 without Wadein the lineup. “I think in thesecond half I took sleep (medi-cine), I came out and wastired. I was able to come backand put together a good thirdquarter.”

The Heat (9-4) took overby outscoring San Antonio39-12 in the third, where atone point they used a 24-2 runto claim a commanding 85-70advantage.

Tony Parker recorded 18points and Daniel Green had20 off the bench for the Spurs(9-5) who looked in controlearly on but had their three-game winning streak brushedaside. San Antonio remainedwinless on the road this seasonat 0-5.

“In the second half , Ithought they got physical andI felt we folded,” Spurs coachGregg Popovich lamented.“LeBron James was great.That certainly helped themkick our butts.”

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Spain’s Rafael Nadal makes a backhand return to Ger-many’s Tommy Haas during their second round match at the Australian Open tennis championship, in Melbourne, Australia, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012.

Rafa’s knee passes test on day of painReuters

MELB RNE - The Australian pen resembled a medical convention on ednesday as RafaNadal s sore right knee, leg cramps and stiff backs came under the microscope.Ale andro Falla s legcramps and Andreas Beck s bad back created discussion, and a sniff of controversy, in Melbourneas most of the main title contenders safely reached the third round.

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Miami Heat’s Norris Cole (30) looks to pass the ball as San Antonio Spurs’ Tim Duncan (21) and Richard Jefferson (24) defend during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012, in Miami.

Heat shoots down Spurs with long-range missiles

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World champion and five-time Monte winner Sebastien Loeb (Citroen) had been quickest as expected on this morn-ing’s Le Moulinon to Antraigues opener, albeit by just one second ahead of the flying Dani Sordo’s Mini.

SS1 had seen dry asphalt, but the following Burzet to St Martial stage

featured patches of snow and ice. Loeb and Ford driver Latvala both opted for a mix of studded and slick tyres, placing one studded tyre at the front and one at the rear, diagonally apart.

While Loeb ran soft tyres, Latvala was on super softs, and despite having never tested the slick/studded combina-tion in this configuration before, he put in an incredible stage time - 52s quicker than Loeb.

That moved Latvala from fourth place, 28s off the lead, to first - with a 30.5s advantage over Loeb.

Petter Solberg is third in the second works Ford, having impressively got through SS2 with no studded tyres at all and still been second-quickest, 28s be-hind Latvala but 24s faster than Loeb.

After his superb SS1 performance, Sordo clipped a wall and damaged his Mini’s suspension on SS2. The Spaniard was still able to nurse his car through the stage and remains fourth overall.

Mikko Hirvonen was third after SS1 but struggled in SS2’s tricky conditions as he continues to acclimatise to the Citroen DS3, leaving him fifth.

DAMON Hill believes that Formula 1 will miss Rubens Bar-richello if the Brazilian does not return to the grid after missing out on the Williams seat. Bar-richello turns 40 this year and al-though he has always maintained his desire to continue to race in F1, with only one seat left open at HRT it is unlikely that he will be on the grid in 2012.

Former rival Hill, who raced against Barrichello for seven sea-sons in F1, believes that he was a big part of the grand prix scene. “There are a limited number of characters in F1 and Rubens has been thoroughly a positive char-acter,” Hill told AUTOSPORT. “People like and respect Rubens

and his abilities.“He has had an incredibly long

career and that is worth a lot - he’s the most experienced F1 driver ever so people will miss him as a person and a driver.” Hill reckons that if Barrichello’s F1 career is over, it will be difficult for him to adjust to no longer being a grand prix driver.

Barrichello has raced in F1 full-time since 1993 and Hill pointed out that there are few other categories that can offer the same feeling as racing at the top level. “It’s a really difficult thing for drivers to give up, or to be forced to give up, something they really love and that is their way of life,” said Hill, who retired at

the end of 1999.“You know as a driver that

some day it’s going to happen and that you will have to stop. The shame is that there is no-where to go next for a driver. “You could go to DTM, but nothing is the same as F1 and there’s no gradual climbdown from it.

“When you’ve been doing it as long as Rubens has, when March comes around, it’s going to be a shock to the system.” Bar-richello has yet to make clear his plans for 2012, although he did wish Bruno Senna, who landed the Williams seat, good luck and say that “the future is wide open” on Twitter.

Hill : Barrichello will be missed

Jari-Matti Latvala has taken a shock Monte Carlo Rally lead after a bold tyre choice for the second stage of the event.

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Jari-Matti Latvala is racing through a crowd of spectators