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Wednesday’s tragedy was a bloody reminder of the deteriorating security in the Arab world’s most populous country as in-stability continues nearly a year after former President Hosni Mubarak was swept out of power in a popular uprising.

The melee — which followed an Egyptian league match between Al-Masry, the home team in the Mediterranean city, and Al-Ahly, based in Cairo and one of Egypt’s most popular teams — was the worst case of soccer violence in Egypt and the

deadliest worldwide since 1996. One player said it was “like a war.”

In Cairo, fans angered that another match be-tween Al-Ismaili and Za-malek was halted because of the Port Said violence set fire to the bleachers at the main stadium in the Egyptian capital, authori-ties said. No injuries were reported, and employees said firefighters extin-guished the blaze before it caused much damage.

The clashes and ensuing stampede did not appear to be directly linked to the political turmoil in Egypt, but the violence raised

fresh concerns about the ability of the state police to manage crowds. Most of the hundreds of black-uniformed police with helmets and shields stood in lines and did nothing as soccer fans chased each other, some wielding sharp objects and others hurling sticks and rocks.

Security officials said the ministry has issued directives for its personnel not to “engage” with civil-ians after recent clashes between police and protest-ers in November left more than 40 people dead.

The violence also un-derscored the role of soc-

cer fans in Egypt’s recent protest movement. Or-ganized fans, in groups known as ultras, have played an important role in the revolution and ral-lies against military rule. Their anti-police songs, peppered with curses, have quickly become viral and an expression of the ha-tred many Egyptians feel toward security forces that were accused of much of the abuse that was wide-spread under Mubarak’s regime.

There have been other recent violent incidents at soccer games. In April, the ineffectiveness of the police force also was on display when thousands of fans ran onto the field before the end of an Af-rican Champions League game between local club Zamalek and Tunisia’s

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CAIRO — At least 74 people have been killed and hundreds injured after soccer fans rushed the field in the seaside city of Port Said follow-ing an upset victory by the home team over Egypt’s top club, setting off clashes and a stampede as riot police largely failed to intervene.

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Egyptian football fans rush to the pit during riots that erupted after a football match between Al-Masry and Al-Ahly teams in Port Said, 220 kms northeast of Cairo, on February 1, 2012. At least 74 people were killed and hundreds injured in the violence that erupted as soon as the referee blew the final whistle in the match.

Every Buda Kliwon Wuku Dungulan (Wednes-day Kliwon Dungulan) the Hindu people celebrated Galungan which this time falled on Wednesday (1/2). In this era, how should a Hindu interpret the Galun-gan that rountinely comes every six months?

Galungan philosophy is a time of dharma (good) winning against adharma (evil) or the fight in de-feating bad behaviours (sadripu) mostly from the thoughts. The professor of Indonesia Hindu University (Unhi) Denpasar, Prof. Dr. IB Gunadha, stated that to defeat these bad behav-iours that comes from the thoughts has always been hard which so imaged as ‘wild horse’. In order to control it, a ‘wild horse’ needs a good rope which means thoughts should be controlled and this needs calmness also patience. To get calmness, approaching Ida Sang Hyang Widi Wasa often is needed. “Thinking needs to be cleansed by knowledge and positive particles. With intelligence we’re able to separate the good and the bad which leads to positive thinking,” Gunadha stated.

Besides thoughts, sayings also has to be controlled so what comes out from the nouth will calm others’ heart following with actions have to oriented within the good. Through Galungan, we wshould always be able to increase our ability in controlling thoughts, say-ings and action. Besides our internal enemy, in the glo-balisation era we also face external enemy such as so-cial problems like poverty or unintelligence. “Any religion faces that which so together we need to face it with no religion differentiating so

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Division Head of Operations of Buleleng Police, Ida Putu Wedanajati, said on Monday (Jan 30) that stricter security was conducted so that the celebration of Galungan in Buleleng would not be tainted by the things with the nuance of violent acts and criminality. To that end, in connection with the celebration of Galungan and Kuningan, the ranks of Buleleng Police also did policing against the circula-tion of liquor that could trigger a variety of crimes and violence.

According to him, the forces of police personnel were alerted in the Headquarters of Buleleng Police including in each subdis-trict police station. In addition to overseeing the circulation of liquor, it was also accompanied with patrols and surveillance in

each region. “This activity is carried out integrally including establishing a synergy with a number of community leaders,” he said.

Meanwhile, to anticipate the crowded homecoming flows from the Southern Bali to Bule-leng before and after Galungan,

Buleleng Police would conduct a monitoring at a number of points passed through by homecom-ers leading to Buleleng. Aside from monitoring, the increase

performed to give maximum

would not turn chaotic.The homecoming points

strictly overseen consisted of the main road section of Den-pasar-Singaraja, precisely in the

peak area of Wanagiri village, Sukasada subdistrict, Singaraja-Kintamani (Bangli), and the downtown road section of Singa-raja, namely Jalan Diponegoro.

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out was the main road section of Singaraja-Denpasar precisely at Gitgit village to Wanagiri

occurred at such road section before and after the Galungan feast day. Moreover, the area was frequently covered by thick fog that could disturb the visibility of motorists. “All road users should always turn on the lights when passing through the road section having many curves and steep grade,” he said. (kmb15)

Mangupura (Bali Post)—The Regional Disaster Man-

agement Agency (BPBD) of Badung Regency noted there are at least 30 vulnerable points to disaster in Badung. In order to avoid casualties, special signs have been installed at those disaster-prone points.

Division Head of Emergen-cy and Logistics of BPBD Ba-dung, I Putu Thomas Yuniarta, said on Monday (Jan 30) that procurement of the disaster signs had been allocated in the

2011 Budget Amendment. In details, seven signs would be installed in the potential areas to flooding, six at landslides area, and the remaining signs around the coast of Badung Regency as an early warning of tsunami.

Although those signs had been installed, many people seemed to disregard them. On that account, he hoped the com-munity including tourists to comply with the guidelines so that unwanted things could be

avoided as early as possible.Similarly, he explained the

most potential areas for land-slide were in the region of Northern Badung such as Petang subdistrict and some points in Abiansemal sub-district. In the meantime, the area of Kuta, Northern Kuta and Mengwi sub district were dominantly hit by flooding and drought. Then, Kuta, Northern Kuta and Southern Kuta sub-district were said to be prone to tsunami. (kmb25)

Denpasar (Bali Post) –Sexual assault on kids usually

through kidnapping them after school although this time it found a new way by approaching Foundations or NGO that take cares of disadvantaged kids or orphans which victimised three in-nocent kids as stated by Head of Note and Reports on Women and Kids As-sault Team (TP2TKP&A), dr. I B Putu Alit, SpF.DFM, when met last Monday (30/1). It was explained on Thursday (29/12) around 6.25 pm local time San-glah Hospital forensic team received a Visum et Repertum (external vise) requirement from the Police on three pupils initialled NM (16), NA (14) and WM (14) who lives at Social Founda-tion in Denpasar. “According to police report the victims experienced assault and sexual intercourse from the crime committer,” Alit explained.

From the external check result, there have been marks left that victims did experience sexual assault. It started that the crime committers approached the foundation where the victims lives.

In here they say to hold an event in the Foundation which the three chosen will dance in the event and will be taken out for practicing. “Crime committer came to foundation several times and at last picked the three victims to dance and asked for practice. According to victims they practice in Foundation

studio. Although further known later, the music studio which is said to be owned by the committer never existed, it’s a hotel instead,” Alit continued.

On that Thursday before they came to the hospital, the three victims were trapped and was given a message if they feel hurt the illness will be cured by the committer. They were then told to go inside the hotel and assaulted one by one. Victim stated in the room besides the committer, there’s a woman that admitted will heal them. This case is now under investigation. “This is a new modus operandi for sexual offend-ers. It is hoped that Foundation or any social institute to increase their aware-ness,” Alit suggested. (kmb24)

Denpasar (Bali Post)—In 2012, the number of buildings of

elementary school and junior high school in Denpasar are scheduled for renovation or added with new classrooms. Division Head of Basic Education, Denpasar Education Agency, Made Raka, said on Monday (Jan 30) that Denpasar Municipality through the Education Agency would rehabilitate a number of school buildings. Total budget allocated for the rehabilitation would be around IDR 15.6 billion.

“Due to restrictedness of budget, only a few of the proposed buildings can be renovated in 2012. Priority for the rehabilitation in 2012 will be given to the building whose condition needs immediate handling,” he said.

Raka said, it was now in the planning preparation. If everything had been ac-complished, it would be followed by the tender process. Expectedly, a number of schools scheduled for the renovation could be realized this year.

He said the Denpasar Municipal-ity through the Education Agency was scheduled the building rehabilitation in 2012 including the building of SDN 17 Dangin Puri primary school. Two

Denpasar House were forced to be left empty because its condition was quite alarming. Students of grade IV A and IV B which initially used the classrooms were moved to another room. Their classes were merged into a single class-room supervised by two teachers. Raka added the building of SDN 17 Dangin Puri got a priority because its condition was very apprehensive.

“Students of class IV A and B are forced to study in a single classroom because two rooms are in infeasible condition. Framework of the roof is almost broken – its easel has been loose and decayed as eaten by termites. As consequence, the roof is leak,” said Headmaster of SDN 17 Dangin Puri, Ida Bagus Wibawa, recently. (08)

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Police oversee liquor, homecoming line strictly watchedSingaraja (Bali Post)—

The ranks of Buleleng Police alerted personnel in a number of points more strictly before and on the celebration of Galungan feast day in Buleleng. It was carried out to provide security and comfort to Buleleng community when implementing the worship, including anticipating against criminal act.

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Yet now, surprisingly rapid reforms and cease-fires under way in Myanmar are opening the prospects for the return of one of the world’s largest refugee populations — some 1 million Burmese huddled in frontier camps and hideouts across five countries.

“There’s a time for war, and a time for peace. Sixty-three years is long enough for killing,” Pastor Simon Htoo told more than 300 young Burmese refugees gathered for morning prayers in a weath-ered, jungle church in Mae La, a camp near the Myanmar-Thai border. “Hope to see you all soon in our beautiful land.”

The looming task for the in-ternational community will be massive. One of the least known diaspora of recent times includes an array of ethnic groups and religions — Buddhist, Christian and Muslim — driven from their homeland by oppression of politi-cal dissidents and brutal military campaigns against Myanmar’s minorities.

The fighting and human rights

abuses still persist in some areas, and even if stopped, many refu-gees say the hatreds, suspicions and double-crosses of past de-cades must be overcome before they feel safe enough to return. One of the ethnic groups, the Karen, has been waging a guer-rilla war for greater autonomy for 63 years from iron-fisted military regimes. The Kachin took up arms again last year.

“Signing a cease-fire is very easy — you can do it in a few minutes — but implementation is a different matter. That depends not on the smiles on their faces, but their sincerity, what is really in their hearts. Maybe it’s another trick,” Htoo, a Karen Baptist pas-tor, said after his sermon in this camp sheltering more than 50,000 refugees.

When they do return, the refu-gees will emerge from Bangla-desh, India, Thailand, Malaysia and China, a refugee mass that with the Iraqis and Afghans ranks among the largest in the world.

Their living conditions vary vastly. In the fetid settlements of

Bangladesh, as many as 400,000 illegal Rohingya, a Muslim eth-nic minority, hover on the edge of existence. Others live in a well-established string of U.N.-recognized camps along the Thai border, home to three generations who have spent their entire lives there.

Most would be returning to border regions of razed villages, minefields, traumatized people and almost nonexistent support systems in a country that is al-ready among the world’s poorest. Many fear that with the world quick to applaud Myanmar’s reforms, pressure will mount to force them back before condi-tions are right.

“People in the refugee camps must be given a choice: to go home, stay in Thailand or be resettled abroad. We don’t trust Burmese politics because things are still very unclear,” says Dr. Cynthia Maung, a refugee doc-tor they call “Mother Teresa of Burma” whose Thai border clinic has treated thousands. “Nobody is going back now.”

Reforms in Myanmar may spark refugee return

Associated Press Writer

MAE LA REFUGEE CAMP, Thailand — The children who live in this camp for Burmese refugees have known no other life. Neither have many of their parents — or their grandparents.

AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong

In this photo taken Thursday, jan. 19, 2012, young Karen refugees attend a morning church service inside Mae La refugee camp in Tha Song Yang district, Tak province northern Thailand.

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A Taiwanese official predicted Wednesday that China would maintain a conciliatory stance with Taipei, saying that likely next leader Xi Jinping has experience dealing with the self-ruling island.

John Chiang, the vice chairman of Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou’s Kuomintang party, said that Chinese President Hu Jintao has been the chief force behind a policy of “emphasizing carrots over sticks” with the self-ruling island.

“I think these kinds of policies will continue to be there for wooing the support of the Taiwanese public,” Chiang said.

“And they will say it’s best to have the coming several years spent entrenching the economic accomplishments across the strait,” Chiang said at the Heritage Foundation think tank on a visit to Washington.

Taiwanese voters last month re-elected Ma, who sealed a land-mark free trade agreement with mainland China as part of his efforts to ease tension with Beijing, which considers the island a territory awaiting reunification.

Chiang, a former foreign minister, reiterated that Ma’s admin-istration was not seeking to enter talks on sensitive topics such as a peace treaty, saying there is “no hurry to move towards the political area.”

Chiang said that Vice President Xi Jinping, who is widely expected to take over next year at China’s helm, had plenty of experience dealing with Taiwanese when he served as a leader in investor-friendly coastal Fujian province.

“Given his bunch of experiences in dealing with Taiwanese investors, businessmen and also on cross-strait relations, I see no reason he will have a different policy toward Taiwan,” Chiang said.

His remarks echo those of Ma, who said ahead of the elec-tion that he did not see “any significant difference” on Taiwan between Xi and Hu.

Domestic critics of Ma charge that growing Chinese invest-ment threatens to chip away at democratic Taiwan’s de facto independence.

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Calendar Event for February 1 through 15, 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

1 Feb Buda Keliwon Dunggulan. Pura Wakika Kupang, NTTPura Agung Girinatha Sumbawa Besar NTBPura Dukuh Sakti Dukuh Kediri-TabananPura Atambuananta Kutamba NTTPura Webananta Kupang, NTTPura Giripati Mulawarman Pontianak.Pura Mustika Dharma Cijantung I Jakarta Timur

2 Feb Wraspati Umanis Dunggulan Pura Watukaru TabananPura Lempuyang Luhur KarangasemPura Kentel Gumi KlungkungPasek Gaduh Umadesa Kediri TabananPura Pasek Kubayan Wangaya Gede Penebel TabananMerajan Pasek Tohjiwa TiyinganMerajan Pasek Gaduh Umadesa

3 Feb Sukra Paing DunggulanPura Ulun Suwi JimbaranPura Luhur Cemenggon, Sukawati.Pura Pasek Ubung Denpasar

4 Feb Saniscara Pon DunggulanPura Segara JembranaPura Dalem Gede Losan Klungkung

5 Feb Redite Wage Kuningan Pura Dalem Tegal Tamu Sekarmukti-Balubulan.Pura Kubayan Umagunung Sempidi-Badung

6 Feb Soma Keliwon Kuningan Pura Dasar Gelgel-KlungkungPura Pasek Tohjiwa Sawah/Selemadeg-TabananPura Pemerajan Agung Benawah Kangin GianyarPura Panti Pasek Gelgel Pelapuhan-Busungbiu BulelengPura Kahyangan Tulus Desa Apuan.

7 Feb Purnama Kawulu Pura dalem Batur - BangliPura Pasek/Ida Ratu Pasek BesakihNgusaba Ngeed Banua Kawan - Besakih

Pura Dalem Suci Sidemen - Karangasem

11 Feb Saniscara Keliwon Kuningan. Pura Taman Pule Mas-UbudPura Ularan Takmung-Klungkung.Pura Bukitjati Gulingan-Kawan BangliPura Dalem Tegehe TegehePura Dalem Tahak TahakPura Dalem Batuaji. BatuajiPura Dalem Tegaljaya BatubulanPura Jenengan Maspahit Cemenggaon-SukawatiPura Dalem Guwang-SukawatiPura Sadha KapalPura Sakenan SeranganPura Pekendungan Keiri-TabananPura Pasek Gaduh Grokgak Gede TabananPura Dalem Sanding TampaksiringPura Dalem Purnajati Tanjung Puri Tanjung Periuk JakartaPura Dalem Tenggaling Guliang-BangliMr. Dukuh Tetek Peguyangan-DenpasarPura Agung Blambangan BanyuwangiPura Dalem Agung Sri Nararya Kresna Kepakisan Gelgel -KlungkungPura Panti Paksebali Klungkung (Perang Jempana)Pura Penataran Agung Margowening Desa Balonggarut, Sidoarjo, Jawa Timur

12 Feb Redite Umanis LangkirPr. Sakenan Serangan Denpasar SelatanPr. Batuaji Ubung Ubung-Tengah Denpasar BaratPura Dalem Pahuman Bhujangga Penatih DenpasaMr. Pasek Gianyar KerobokanPr. Alas Harum Batur Kintamani,Pr. Alas Angker KintamaniKawitan Dalem Empuaji Aan-Klungkung.

15 Feb Buda Wage Langkir Pura Tanah Lot Kediri TabananPura Bucabe Mas UbudPura Puseh Desa Ganggang-Canggi BatuanPura Pasek Pertukangan Kediri-TabananPura Pasek Bendesa Gulingan Mengwi

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AntaraYOGYAKARTA - Visiting

Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf said he was impressed by the social awareness of boy scouts in Bantul district who had built a training center for the local community.

“I am impressed by the scouts in Bantul who have built Pendapa Sanggar Pramuka (scout studio gazebo) as a training center for making batik, wayang (leather puppets) and karawitan (tra-ditional music),” said the king who is also chairman of the World Scout Foundation here Wednesday.

When inaugurating the gazebo in Nogosari, Wukirsari village, Imogiri sub district he was proud of the scouts in Bantul who had done a great and good work.

“I will tell this to the whole world. Continue what you have done and good luck,” the King said.

He said development of the training center called the Mes-senger of Peace (MOP) was also done by scouts in various other countries including Saudi Arabia.

“MOP aims to help people become better so that it can be emulated by other countries. Indonesia has been implement-ing the program and followed by other countries,” King Carl XVI Gustaf said.

He added the World Scout Foundation would also launch a new website containing a map of countries that carry out the MOP around the world.

“The website is also going to use the Indonesian language that will facilitate the scouts in Indonesia to access it. Within the next two months the Indonesian scouts can open the MoP website

The defendants were arrested after a suicide bombing last April in a mosque within a police head-quarters in the West Java town of Cirebon, which wounded 28 people, mostly policemen.

The judges ruled that the 10 de-fendants — two arrested in Cirebon and eight captured in Central and West Java — violated Indonesia’s anti-terror law by either possess-ing or acquiring illegal arms and

explosives material.Dzulkifli Lubis and Musolah

Saifullah were sentenced to eight-year terms, and the other defen-dants received between five and seven and half years at the trial held in Tangerang city, just west Jakarta.

Saifullah and Andri Siswanto of Cirebon were accused of helping the suicide bomber Muhammad Syarif by saving, hiding or possess-

ing the rest of his explosive mate-rials, including seven homemade bombs Syarif assembled.

Saifullah and the others were accused of supplying arms, am-munition and grenades for the Cirebon group.

The April 15 bombing was the first attack in a house of worship in Indonesia, where a string of ter-rorist attacks have occurred since 2002.

10 Islamic militants sent to prison in Indonesia

Associated Press

TANGERANG — A court sentenced 10 Islamic militants Wednesday to up to eight years in prison for acquiring materials to be used in terrorist activities in Indonesia.

Reuters

JAKARTA - Indonesia’s stock exchange has suspended trad-ing on local firm PT Tiga Pilar Sekuritas pending approval of its plan to transfer its brokerage seat to Morgan Stanley , a senior

Morgan Stanley seeks

brokerage seat

AntaraJAKARTA - A team of

Italian football club Inter Milan is going to visit Jakarta next May 2012 to hold an exhibition match with Indonesia Selection and Indonesia U-23 teams, a source said.

“Indonesia has a great potentials in football, this is the reason we choose to come to Indonesia,” the club`s Chief Executive Of-ficer, Ernesto Paolillo, said here on Monday.

A part from conduct-ing an exhibition match with local football play-ers, Paolillo said, his side would also hold discus-sions to establish a football school in Jakarta and other provinces in Indonesia.

Meanwhile , the chair-man of the Indonesian Soccer Association (PSSI), Djohar Arifin, warmly welcomeds Inter Milan`s plan to visit Indonesia.

“We will prepare our players to face Inter Milan next May,” he said.

Inter Milan is set to play an exhibition match against Indonesia Selec-tion team next May 24 and against U-23 team in May 26.

The Italian football club will bring along its star players such as Diego For-lan, Julio Cesar, Esteban Cambiaso, Diego Militio, Walter Samuel, Christian Chivu, Dejan Stankovic and Ricardo Alvarez.

Other players set to visit Indonesia are Yuto Nagatomo, Marco Fara-oni, Coutinho and Luc Castignos.

official at the exchange said on Wednesday.

“We have suspended the trad-ing activities of Tiga Pilar today as we will process their transfer to a third party, which is Morgan Stanley,” said Uriep Budi Prase-tyo, director of compliance and supervision at the exchange, told Reuters.

Morgan Stanley is finalizing a deal to buy a brokerage seat in Indonesia from PT Tiga Pilar Sekuritas to enable it to tap growing financial markets in Southeast Asia’s biggest econ-omy, Reuters reported earlier on Wednesday.

InterMilan team to visit RI

in May Swedish King impressed by Bantul scouts’ work

in the Indonesian language,” the King said.

Meanwhile the Bantul regent Sri Suryawidati said Pendapa Sanggar Pramuka (scout studio gazebo) was planned to be the center of activities that support the local wisdom business such as leather puppet crafts, carving and batik painting.

“It is expected to support the economic development and local community empowerment so they can be better in the future,” she explained.

According to her in Indonesia there are about 21 million mem-bers of the scout which 35,000 members are in Bantul. It shows that Bantul district is the most active in scouting activities.

“The district administration is committed to develop the Bantul scouts from primary school level (elementary) to secondary school (high school),” Sri said.

On that occasion the King of Sweden was accompanied among others the minister of youth and sports Andi Mallarangeng, the

Swedish Ambassador to Indone-sia Ewa Ulrika Polano, the Vice Governor of Yogyakarta Paku Alam IX, the Chief Commander of Military Area Command of Diponegoro Maj.Gen.Mulhim Asyrof and the Chairman of the Scout National Kwartir Azrul Anwar.

Their arrival was greeted by Projo Tamansari and Panembro-mo Kinanti Sobokastowo songs accompanied by the strains of gamelan and the traditional dance Gambyong to welcome as well.

AFP PHOTO / CLARA PRIMA

Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf (R) accompanied by Indonesian Youth and Sports Minister Andi Mallarangeng (2nd R) visits the ancient Prabanan Hindu temple in Yogyakarta on February 1, 2012. King Gustaf, the hon-orary chairman of the World Scout Foundation is in Indonesia for a four day visit to inspect the country’s scouting program.

8 InternationalFriday, February 3, 2012

Bali Today

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Bali Post

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IBP/Eka Adhiyasa

Rapid development of tourism industry in Bali is considered potential to help the local farming community to rise from the downturn. Without question, it can only be realized if the perpetra-tors of tourism industry indeed have a unanimous commitment to help farmers.

Help Bali farmers

Tourism industry asked to develop ‘foster father’ patternBali Post

D NPASAR - Rapid development of tourism industry in Bali is considered potential tohelp the local farming community to rise from the downturn. Without uestion it can only bereali ed if the perpetrators of tourism industry indeed have a unanimous commitment to helpfarmers. One of them is by prioriti ing the utili ation of local agricultural products of Balifor the ingredients of food and beverages served to tourists visiting Bali. If so far the tourismindustry perpetrators are reluctant to use the local agricultural products under the prete t ofinferiority to meet the uality standards needed by consumers hotel so they are re uested toprovide training including developing the foster father pattern’ to farmer community of Bali.Thus the agricultural products yielded are capable of meeting the re uired uality standards.Two observers of the agriculture of Udayana University I Putu Sudiarta PhD. and Dr. I NAlit Susanta Wirya revealed the matter to Bali Post Monday ( an 0).

Five-Year-Old dies

Modern stores unregistered

Balinese Culture

9International Friday, February 3, 2012

UDANG PANTUNG KUNING(Lobster in Yellow Sauce)

OVERVIEW:A real gourmet treat from Bali, this could also be

made with huge prawns. In Bali, coconut chunks are roasted directly on charcoal, then the charred skin scrapped off and the flesh grated for making the coconut milk.

INGREDIENTS:4 sml lobsters, weighing about 500 gr each or 1 kg

large prawns5 cups water2 lemongrass, bruised2 fragrant lime leaves4 cups coconut milkfew drops white vinegarfried shallots to garnish

SPICE PASTE:5 red chilies, seeded and chopped3 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped7 shallots, peeled and chopped5 cm fresh turmeric, peeled and chopped5 cm ginger, peeled and chopped4 candlenuts1 ½ tsp coriander½ tsp dried shrimp paste toasted1 sml tomato, peeled and seeded2 tbsp oil1 ½ tbsp tamarind pulp1 salam leaf1 lemon grass, bruised

PREPARATION:Prepare spice paste by grinding or blending all

ingredients except oil, tamarind, salam leaf and lemongrass. Heat oil, add spice paste and all other ingredients. Cook over moderate heat for about 5 minutes, then cool.

Wash lobsters and leave whole. Bring water to the boil, add lobsters and simmer for 15 minutes. Remove lobsters, plunge in iced water for 1 minutes, then drain and remove meat. Return shells to the pot of water, keeping lobster meat aside.

Add spice paste, lemongrass, lime leaves and vinegar to the water with the shells and simmer until 4 cups of stock remain. Add coconut milk and simmer for 10 minutes. Strain stock and return to pan. Add lobster and simmer for 1 minute. Serve garnished with fried shallots and accompanied by white rice.

Helpful hints:if using prawns instead of lobster, peel the raw

prawns and put prawns shells 4 cups of water. Simmer for 5 minutes, then combine this stock with coconut milk, prawns and all other ingredients, simmering until cooked.

IBPSEMINYAK - -

stores in Bali, strategically positioned

street directly across from the iconicBintang Shopping Center.

-cess to all the latest and greatest surf,beach, and fashion products from

location, just across the street from

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wish list.-

new stores open just a stones throwaway from where he grew up, say-

Quiksilver and DC Shoes stores open on Seminyak’s busiest street

IBP/Courtesy of Quicksilver

Quiksilver Indonesia in partnership with CV Widya Pranawa are to announce the opening of the new Quiksilver and DC Shoes stores in Bali, strategically positioned side-by-side on Seminyak’s busiest street directly across from the iconic Bintang Shopping Center.

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best surf brand in the world in such

a great location assures us of great

part of it,” she said.

anything I better than seeing another

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Friday, February 3, 201210 InternationalDestinations

The art crafting are sold in this art market consisted of various crafting, from traditional until contemporary crafting which its price is relatively cheap. You can do the transaction directly to the merchant which generally can be bargained. All the crafting sold in this place you can bring home as

Ubud Traditional Art Market

IBP

Ubud Traditional Art Market where the existence is not far different from other markets avail-able in the tourism area. This market as a society economics center of Ubud and it is apposite to the existence of Ubud Empire that is called Puri Saren. The market is unfolding from west to easterly divided become two group with different purpose. There are two markets available at the same area those are one block at the Westside is for a traditional artistic market and another block located in the east as an everyday traditional fundamental market requirement. This market is opened every day about at 08:00 until 18:00, even some from them still open until nighttime. While the traditional market for the fundamental requirement is opened everyday at 06:00 - even before that there is morning market started at 04:00 morning.

souvenir like slipper, wood idol, bag, clothes, matting, painting and a lot of more.

It is very simple way and easily to find Ubud Market since it is very famous among the Balinese and it is strategically located in the center of Ubud Village. This market is located just in the front

IBP/File

of Ubud Palace with crowded of visitor who purchases the items every day.

Ubud traditional market, one of the tourism attarction in Ubud

area.

Friday, February 3, 2012 11

BUSINESSInternational

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Facebook is friending Wall Street: The Internetsocial network is going public in a stock offering that could valueit at up to $100 billion, eight years after its computer-hacking CEOMark Zuckerberg started the service at Harvard.

The much-anticipated status update means anyone with some cashwill be able to own part of a Silicon Valley icon that quickly trans-formed from dorm-room startup to cultural touchstone.

If its initial public offering of stock makes enough friends amonginvestors, Facebook will probably make its stock market debut inthree or four months as one of the world’s most valuable companies.Facebook, which is based in Menlo Park, Calif., hopes to list its stockunder the ticker symbol, “FB,” on the New York Stock Exchange orNasdaq Stock Market.

Commission, Facebook Inc. indicated it hopes to raise $5 billion byselling a small percentage of its shares to the public in its IPO. Thatwould be the most for an Internet IPO, easily surpassing the $1.9

change as Facebook’s bankers gauge the investor demand.

clout as it tries to make its service even more pervasive and expandits global audience of 845 million users. It also could help Facebookfend off an intensifying challenge from Google, which is looking tosolidify its status as the Internet’s most powerful company with a rivalsocial network called Plus.

The intrigue surrounding Facebook’s IPO has increased in recentmonths and not just because the company has become a commonconduit for everyone from doting grandmas to sassy teenagers toshare information about their lives.

Zuckerberg, 27, has emerged as the latest in a lineage of SiliconValley prodigies who are alternately hailed for pushing the world innew directions and reviled for overstepping their bounds. In Zucker-berg’s case, a lawsuit alleging that he stole the idea for Facebook fromsome Harvard classmates became the grist for a book and a moviethat won three Academy Awards last year.

Following the model of Google co-founders Larry Page and SergeyBrin, Zuckerberg set up two classes of stock that will ensure he retains

generation’s Bill Gates — a geek who parlayed his love of computersinto fame and fortune. Forbes magazine estimated Zuckerberg’s wealthat $17.5 billion in its most recent survey of the richest people in theU.S. A more precise measurement of Zuckerberg’s fortune will beavailable once the IPO is priced and provides a concrete benchmark fordetermining the value of his nearly 534 million Facebook shares.

The IPO will also mint hundreds of Facebook employee as mil-lionaires because they have accumulated stock at lower prices thanwhat the shares are liked to be valued at on the open market. Facebookemployed 3,200 people at the end of 2011.

Depending on how long regulators take to review Facebook’sIPO documents, the company could be making its stock marketdebut around the time that Zuckerberg celebrates his 28th birthdayin May.

When most companies go public, they let Wall Street investmentbanks handle everything. That means the stock being sold is reservedfor big institutional investors, shutting out the average investor.Despite speculation that Facebook would try something different, itappears the IPO will be a traditional one.

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amount of Facebook’s revenue, its major shareholders, its growthopportunities and its concerns about its biggest competitive threats.

The documents show, as expected, that Facebook is thriving. Thecompany earned $668 million on revenue of $3.7 billion last year,

The list, published on the watch-dog’s website late on Wednesday,included more than 500 compa-nies, such as state-owned giantChina Postal Express & LogisticsCo, TPG-backed China GrandAuto and more than a dozen citycommercial banks.

However, it was still unclearwhen many of these deals wouldhit the market.

After submitting an IPO ap-plication, companies typicallyneed to wait for about six monthsbefore obtaining the regulatorynod for a listing, but the processcould be as long as two years, de-pending on the quality of applica-tion as well as market conditions,analysts say.

Until now, it was unclear whencompanies had submitted theirapplications.

Under the current system, the

China Securities Regulatory Com-mission (CSRC) will post a copyof the draft prospectus on its web-site along with a date for when theIPO plan would be reviewed.

Once a company has receivedregulatory approval, it must launchthe IPO within six months.

For a list of key Chinese IPOsin the pipeline see .

The publishing of the list,which will be updated weekly,is seen as part of efforts by theCSRC, under its newly-appointedChairman Guo Shuqing, to im-prove the country’s IPO mecha-nism and transparency.

The list showed that 295 com-panies have applied to list onthe Shanghai Stock Exchange orShenzhen’s small and mediumenterprise board (SME board),

-ing floatations on Shenzhen’s

Nasdaq-style ChiNext board.More than 250 Chinese compa-

nies raised $41.5 billion via initialpublic offerings on the Shanghaiand Shenzhen exchanges in 2011,down 41 percent compared with2010, data from Thomson Reutersshowed.

Many analysts expect the totalsize of the fundraising to remainroughly the same in 2012, and tobe dominated by smaller deals.

The CSRC’s IPO list alsoincluded 14 city commercialbanks, such as Bank of Shanghaiand Bank of Hangzhou, as wellas second-tier brokerage GuosenSecurities.

Several Hong Kong-listedcompanies, such as China Na-tional Building Materials Co<3323.HK> and R&F Propertiesare also seeking mainland listings,it showed.

Asscociated Press

DALLAS — The parent ofAmerican Airlines wants to elimi-nate about 13,000 jobs — 15percent of its workforce — asthe nation’s third-biggest airlineremakes itself under bankruptcyprotection.

The company proposes to endits traditional pension plans, amove strongly opposed by the air-line’s unions and the U.S. pension-insurance agency, and to stop pay-

AMR Corp. said Wednesdaythat it must cut labor costs by 20percent. It will soon begin negotia-tions with its three major unions,

-tendants’ union quickly rejectedthe company’s ideas as unaccept-ably harsh.

CEO Thomas W. Horton saidWednesday that the company

cutting spending by more than $2billion per year and raising revenueby $1 billion per year.

AMR lost $884 million in thefirst nine months of 2011, and$904 million for December alone.It has lost more than $11 billionsince 2001.

AMR’s 88,000 employees havebraced for bad news for weeks.AMR, American and short-haul

bankruptcy protection in Novem-ber. Horton said in December thatthe company would emerge frombankruptcy with fewer workers.

Laura Glading, president of theAssociation of Professional FlightAttendants, said the proposal wasmore drastic than she expected.She claimed that the annual re-duction in employee costs, whichAMR put at $1.25 billion, wouldbe closer to $2.8 billion.

“This is an absolute outrage,”Glading said.

Transport Workers AssociationPresident James Little declared,

union represents American’s me-chanics and bag handlers, whowould be hit hardest — 40 percentwould be laid off.

The job cuts would include4,600 maintenance workers, 4,200baggage handlers, 2,300 flightattendants, 1,400 managementand support employees and 400pilots.

IfAmerican and its three unionscan’t agree on changes, the com-pany could ask a bankruptcy judgein New York to throw out existinglabor contracts and impose thecompany’s conditions on workers.Federal law requires the company

to negotiate agreements with itsworkers.

China publishes full list of IPO applicants for 1st timeReuters

American Airlines aims to cut 13,000 jobs

Facebook to go public, raise $5B

Tom Cruise to present at the Oscars

Entertainment InternationalFriday, February 3, 201212

“There’s not been anything done properly with him yet, you know, that has satisfied me in terms of capturing everything,” she told The Associated Press. “It will happen, though.”

Presley, who rarely gives inter-views, was at Graceland this week to attend the opening of a new exhibit. “Elvis Through His Daugh-ter’s Eyes” is a personal look at Lisa Marie and includes her baby shoes, her first record player and a small white fur coat — touchstones from her days living at Graceland, her father’s longtime Memphis home until his death Aug. 16, 1977.

This year marks the 35th an-

niversary of Elvis’ death, which is observed each August with a weeklong gathering of fans in Memphis. Officials anticipate as many as 75,000 people, the number that showed up in 2007 for the 30th anniversary.

Presley lived at Graceland un-til she was 5, which is when her mother Priscilla divorced Elvis and moved with Lisa Marie to California. She continued to visit Graceland, and she smiles when talking about the time spent with her dad, such as when they would ride a golf cart through the neigh-borhood together. She recalled waiting for her father to make his

daily entrance down the stairs.“He was always fully, fully

geared up. You’d never see him in his pajamas coming down the steps, ever,” she said. “You’d never see him in anything but ‘ready to be seen’ attire.” Elvis, a renowned car and motorcycle aficionado, also was known to leave the grounds and hang out with locals in the neighborhood.

“Sometimes he would go and there would be a convoy and ev-erybody would follow,” she said. “He’d be going down Elvis Presley Boulevard and you would see these devices riding down the road, of all sorts.”

Lisa Marie Presley wants to make

Associated Press Writer

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Over the years, Lisa Marie Presley has become dissatisfied with movies chronicling her father’s life, so she just might make a film about the rock ‘n’ roll icon. The daughter of Elvis Presley said she has been in talks about a movie, though she didn’t offer a timetable.

AP Photo/Lance MurpheyIn this Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012 photo, Lisa Marie Presley stands next to her childhood crib displayed with other mementos in the new exhibit “Elvis Through His Daughter’s Eyes” which opens Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012 at Graceland in Memphis, Tenn. She was born on Feb. 1, 1968.

Reuters

LOS ANGELES - Tom Cruise will serve as a presenter at the 84th Academy Awards, producers Brian Grazer and Don Mischer said Wednesday.

Cruise, a three-time Oscar nominee for his roles in “Born on the Fourth of July,” “Jerry Maguire” and “Magnolia,” will join previously announced presenters Jennifer Lopez, Tom Hanks as well as Rose Byrne, Ellie Kemper, Melissa McCarthy, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig from the film “Bridesmaids.”

The 84th Academy Awards, which Billy Crystal will host, will be televised live from the Kodak Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center on Sunday, February 26.

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — The focus in the days ahead is on Madonna the musician. She’s set to perform the halftime show at the Super Bowl on Sunday and her new single, “Give Me All Your Luvin’,” with the white-hot Nicki Minaj, hits radio airwaves this week.

But the 53-year-old superstar is surely hoping that some of that spotlight will shine on her new movie, “W.E.,” about the cel-ebrated romance between divorced American socialite Wallis Simpson and Britain’s King Edward VIII, who abdicated the throne for love in the 1930s.

“To me their lives were so diverse, complex and interesting, and there were so many different points of view to approach the story from,” said Madonna during a recent interview about the film, which opens Friday.Madonna doesn’t star in “W.E.” — she’s the film’s director. It tells the story of Simpson (Andrea Riseborough)

through the vantage point of a modern-day woman (played by Abbie Cornish) obsessed with the fabled romance between Simpson and Edward.

The union is often portrayed as the ultimate example of true love: Simpson was married when the pair began their relationship and was forever scandalized in royal circles. When Edward became king, he planned to marry her, but opposition to the union was so great, he chose to give up his kingdom. The two later wed and became known as the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. For some, it was a modern-day fairy tale, but it’s a notion Madonna debunks in “W.E.”

“I think a lot of women have that fantasy of about what’s go-ing to happen to them when they meet Mr. Right, Mr. Perfect, Mr. Complete Me, and then you real-ize that that doesn’t actually exist,” said the twice-divorced icon as she spoke about the film in a suite at the Waldorf Astoria.

Madonna set to

duke and duchess

Science Friday, February 3, 2012 13International

A bullet that directs itself like a tiny guided missile and can hit a target more than a mile away has the potential to change the battlefield for soldiers without costing too much, engineers said Wednesday. Sandia technical staff member Red Jones said the .50-caliber bullets are being designed to work with military machine guns, so soldiers could hit their mark faster and with precision.

“Everybody thought it was too difficult to make things small enough. We knew we could deal with that. The other thing was it was going to be too com-plicated and expensive,” he said. “We came up with an innovative way around that to make it stupid and cheap and still pretty good.”

Developing more precise weaponry has been a mission for government and industry scientists for decades. Most recently, the research arm of the U.S. Department of Defense has awarded tens of millions of dollars in contracts to companies to develop guided ammunition for snipers and special scopes that account for crosswinds and other environmental variables.

The idea behind Sandia Labs’ bullet is rooted more in the M2, a belt-fed machine gun that became standard issue in the U.S. Army nearly 80 years ago. Pairing the M2 with the guided bullet would allow soldiers to hit their mark faster and with precision.

At 4 inches long and a half-inch in diameter, the bullet is designed to twist and turn, making up to 30 corrections per second.

Jones and his fellow researchers had initial success testing the design in computer simulations and in field tests of prototypes, built from commercially available parts. With most of the hard science done, Jones said the next step is for Sandia to partner with a private company to complete testing of the prototype and bring a guided bullet to the marketplace. More than $1 million in research and development grants have taken the project this far.

Sandia Labs engineers create ‘self-guided’ bullet

Associated Press Writer

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Figuring out how to pack a processor and other sophisticated equipment into a machine gun bullet has been a challenge, but engineers at Sandia National Laboratories say the miniature guidance system they’ve developed is a breakthrough.

AP Photo/Sandia National Laboratories

In this undated photo provided by Sandia National Laboratories, a time exposure, a light-emitting diode, or LED, attached to a self-guided bullet at Sandia National Laboratories shows a bright path during a nighttime field test.

Associated Press Writer

DENVER — The nation’s leanest state is taking aim at junk food in school cafeterias as it considers the nation’s toughest school trans-fat ban. A Colorado House committee was scheduled to hear a bill Thursday to forbid any trans-fat in school food — not just the food served through regular cafeteria lunches.

That would mean vending machines, after-school bake sales and popular “a la carte” items on lunch lines such as ice creams or pizza would have to be produced without artery-clogging trans fats. Several states already limit trans-fat in school cafeterias, but none has a trans-fat ban that extends before and after school. Delaware and California, for example, both ban school food with trans-fat, but not at all after-school activities.

Colorado has the nation’s lowest obesity rate, but young people are becom-ing fatter along with their counterparts in other states. In 2007, Colorado’s childhood obesity rate was the nation’s third-best. By 2010 it ranked 23rd according to the Colorado Health Foundation, a change researchers attribute to sedentary behavior and a growing childhood poverty rate.

Lawmakers who sponsored the trans-fat ban — a Republican and a Demo-crat — said Colorado needs to step up healthy eating among children to hang onto its prized leanest-state title.

“Colorado is one of the healthiest states but has the one of the highest rates of childhood obesity. So if we’re going to do something about that, this is a step in the right direction,” said one of the bill’s sponsors, House Education Chairman Tom Massey, R-Poncha Springs.

The American Heart Association is working to assure skeptical Colorado lawmakers that the trans-fat ban wouldn’t forbid childhood faves such as pizza and French fries. The bill also wouldn’t affect naturally occurring trans-fat, such as that in beef and dairy.

“You can still have the exact same food. You’d have to find different ways of preparing them,” association lobbyist Susanna Morris said.

Colo. lawmakers consider trans-fat ban in schools

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In this Jan. 18, 2012 photo, Alexes Garcia makes cinnamon rolls for student’s lunch in the kitchen at Kepner Middle School in Denver.

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Newcastle United’s Gabriel Obertan, center, celebrates after scoring a goal against Black-burn during their English Premier League soccer match at Ewood Park, Blackburn, England, Wednesday Feb. 1, 2012.

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LONDON - Newcastle United closed in on the top four with a 2-0 victory at Blackburn Rov-ers on Wednesday and Arsenal slipped to seventh after a goalless draw at Bolton Wanderersstretched their winless run in the Premier League to four matches. Scott Dann’s own goal and

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Inter Milan Argentine forward Diego Milito scores on a penalty kick during a Serie A soccer match between Inter Milan and Palermo, at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Wednesday, Feb1, 2012.

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Mayweather will step up from the welterweightranks and fight for Cotto’s World Boxing Associationsuper welterweight crown in Las Vegas before he be-gins a 90-day jail sentence on June 1 after a domesticviolence conviction.

Boxing fans have long sought a matchup betweenMayweather and Filipino icon Pacquiao. Mayweathereven made a Twitter challenge for the Asian star to“Step Up, Punk”, but they could not work out a dealso Mayweather went to Cotto.

“Miguel Cotto is a world class fighter who cannever be taken for granted and continues to prove heis one of the best in boxing,” Mayweather said.

“It will be a challenge for me to compete with himat this weight, but this is the type of test I thrive on andgives me the motivation to train even harder. I have

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LONDON - Britain will have to do without theirone world class player in their Davis Cup tie againstSlovakia later this month after Andy Murray’s deci-sion to skip the clash in Glasgow. The world numberfour, beaten by Novak Djokovic in a brutal five-setepic in the Australian Open semi-finals last week,has decided to rest some niggling injuries on medi-cal advice.

“I’m gutted to miss out on the Davis Cup havingreally enjoyed playing last year, but as it’s only thestart of an important season, which includes theOlympics in London, it’s probably a sensible deci-sion,” Murray said in an LTA statement.

“My focus in 2012 is on performing well in thegrand slams and the London 2012 Olympics. I lookforward to playing in the next Davis Cup tie laterin the year.”

Britain will rely on singles players James Ward,ranked 155, and Dan Evans, ranked 296, for the Euro/Africa Group 1 first round against the Slovaks withColin Fleming and Ross Hutchins playing doubles.

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Milwaukee continued to rel-ish the role of giant-killerswhen a storming second-halfperformance led the Bucksto a 105-97 victory over theMiami Heat on Wednesday.Milwaukee survived a 40-pointbarrage from LeBron James

third straight in a streak that alsoincludes a triumph over the LosAngeles Lakers.

The Bucks (10-11) also de-feated the Heat on Jan. 22 inwhat had been Miami’s onlyloss in nine games going intoWednesday’s contest. This time,Milwaukee ate into Miami’s ad-vantage with a 13-2 run to startthe third quarter before kickinginto a higher gear at the start ofthe next by outscoring the visi-tors 22-3 en route to a 98-82 leadin the blink of an eye.

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where we can take advantage ofour guys’ strengths of ability toattack and ability to break downthe defense,” Heat coach ErikSpoelstra told reporters.

“At the same time, we haveto do it collectively, and the ballhas to move.” Brandon Jenningssparked Milwaukee with 31points, including seven three-pointers, while Drew Goodenadded 17 and nine rebounds.

James poured in 24 first-quarter points to stake Miami

interval before the Bucks hauledthemselves back into the contestto end the Heat’s five-game

it felt like LeBron was going togo for 60. We just played gooddefense as a team and stayedaggressive,” Jennings said.

UnbeatenUS boxing star Floyd Mayweather announcedWednesday he will fight Puerto Rico’s Miguel Cotto, pictured in 2011, on May 5, ending hopes for a showdown with Manny Pacquiao before No-vember

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Miguel Cotto on May 5, ending hopes for a showdown with Manny Pacquiao before November.

no doubt in my mind that my title belt collection willincrease once again and Cotto’s reign as championwill come to an end on May 5.”

Mayweather, who has won titles in seven weightclasses, won his only other fight at super welterweightin 2007 with a split decision over Oscar de la Hoyafor the World Boxing Council title.

Cotto defended his crown last December by stop-ping Antonio Margarito in the 10th round.

“I am here to fight the biggest names in boxing,”Cotto said. “I’ve never ducked anyone or any chal-lenge in front of me. I have accepted everything togive the fans what they like -- great and excitingfights.

“Stay tuned because I will convincingly beat FloydMayweather.”

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Miami Heat’s LeBron James (6) shoots against Milwau-kee Bucks’ Carlos Delfino, right, as Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra, rear center, looks on during the first half of an NBA basketball game on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012, in Milwaukee.

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The reigning world cham-pion had been forced to skip day one when he hurt his back while warming up before going out for the first time. Although with a total mileage of 29 laps, he completed rather less running than his rivals today, Stoner still showed his and Honda’s pace with a 2m00.895s lap.

That deposed morning pac-esetter Ben Spies (Yamaha) by 0.157 seconds - although the American was briefly credited with a time 2.7s faster than

anyone else due to a glitch near the end of the day. Tuesday’s fastest rider Jorge Lorenzo completed the top three on the second works Yamaha to-day, ahead of Stoner’s Honda team-mate Dani Pedrosa and Cal Crutchlow - who again showed very strong pace on the Tech 3 Yamaha.

Quickest Ducati was the Pramac example of Hector Barbera in sixth, with works rider Valentino Rossi slightly off his Tuesday pace in sev-enth position, 0.9s down on

Stoner. Alvaro Bautista (Gres-ini Honda), Andrea Dovizioso (Tech 3 Yamaha) and Nicky Hayden (Ducati) completed the top 10).

There was some encour-agement for the CRT runners as Forward’s Colin Edwards used a higher-spec Suter-BMW to get the gap to the front down to 4.7s, although the Avintia-branded, BQR-run, FTR-Kawasakis con-tinued to struggle for speed and reliability at the tail of the field.

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Casey Stoner shrugged off his Tuesday back problem to set the fastest time of the second day of MotoGP winter testing at Sepang.

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1. Casey Stoner Honda 2m00.895s 29 2. Ben Spies Yamaha 2m01.052s + 0.157s 37 3. Jorge Lorenzo Yamaha 2m01.068s + 0.173s 40 4. Dani Pedrosa Honda 2m01.508s + 0.613s 35 5. Cal Crutchlow Tech 3 Yamaha 2m01.565s + 0.670s 42 6. Hector Barbera Pramac Ducati 2m01.788s + 0.893s 50 7. Valentino Rossi Ducati 2m01.886s + 0.991s 44 8. Alvaro Bautista Gresini Honda 2m01.933s + 1.038s 46 9. Andrea Dovizioso Tech 3 Yamaha 2m02.160s + 1.265s 4210. Nicky Hayden Ducati 2m02.354s + 1.459s 41

McLaren says its new MP4-27 is a ‘complete rework’ of last year’s car - despite its outward appearance pointing to it being an evolution of its 2011 contender. After the covers came off the new car at McLaren’s Woking factory on Wednesday, the main focus points of the MP4-27 were a nose step that was less extreme than some had expected, and the positioning of the exhausts.

Tim Goss, McLaren’s director of engineering, said that although out-wardly the car was an evolution of the MP4-26, it was in fact totally differ-ent under the skin.“We have set our-selves tough and ambitious targets, and we aim to deliver those by the first race and have a championship-winning car,” explained Goss. “This car is a complete rework from nose to tail, and there is very little that is carried over. A bit of the fuel system is the same, but almost everything else on the car has changed.

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