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Conan O’Briensays no thanks toNBC move

Philippinemassacrewitness implicatessuspects

Tress cut downanticipating rainyseason

The extent of destruction fromTuesday afternoon’s 7.0-magni-tude tremor was far from clear —and estimating the number of ca-sualties was impossible, save forthe dead lying among thousandsof collapsed buildings in Haiti’scapital. The ornate National Pal-ace crumbled into itself, the head-quarters of the U.N. peacekeepingmission collapsed, and swaths ofrickety shacks lay in shambles.Clouds of dust thrown up by fall-ing buildings choked Port-au-Prince for hours.

The United States and othernations began organizing reliefefforts, alerting search teams andgathering supplies that will bebadly needed in Haiti, the West-ern Hemisphere’s poorest country.

Associated Press journalistsfound the damage staggering evenfor a country long accustomed totragedy and disaster.

Aftershocks rattled the city aswomen covered in dust clawed outof debris, wailing. Stunned peoplewandered the streets holdinghands. Thousands gathered inpublic squares long after nightfall,singing hymns.

It was clear tens of thousands

Haiti’s capital shatteredby powerful earthquakeAP

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Dazed and injured Haitians sat on darkened streets pleadingfor help Wednesday and untold numbers were trapped in tons of rubble brought down by thestrongest earthquake to hit this poor Caribbean nation in more than 200 years.

lost their homes and many perishedin collapsed buildings flimsy anddangerous even under normal con-ditions.

“The hospitals cannot handle allthese victims,” Dr. Louis-GerardGilles, a former senator, said as hehelped survivors. “Haiti needs topray. We all need to pray together.”

An Associated Pressvideographer saw a wrecked hos-pital where people screamed forhelp in Petionville, a hillside Port-au-Prince district that is home tomany diplomats and wealthy Hai-tians as well as the poor.

At a destroyed four-story apart-ment building, a girl of about 16stood atop a car, trying to peer in-side while several men pulled at afoot sticking from rubble. The girlsaid her family was inside.

U.N. peacekeepers, most ofwhom are from Brazil, looked forsurvivors in the ruins of what hadbeen their five-story headquarters.U.N. peacekeeping chief Alain LeRoy said late Tuesday that “as wespeak no one has been rescued.”

Le Roy said many U.N. person-nel were missing, including missionchief Hedi Annabi, who was in thebuilding when the quake struck.

Some 9,000 peacekeepers havebeen in Haiti since a 2004 rebellionousted the president.

Much of the National Palacepancaked on itself, but Haiti’s am-bassador to Mexico, RobertManuel, said President Rene Prevaland his wife survived the earth-quake. He had no details.

The 7.0-magnitude quake struckat 4:53 p.m., centered 10 miles (15kilometers) west of Port-au-Prince ata depth of just 5 miles (8 kilometers),the U.S. Geological Survey said.USGS geophysicist Kristin Maranocalled it the strongest earthquakesince 1770 in what is now Haiti.

The temblor appeared to haveoccurred along a strike-slip fault,where one side of a vertical faultslips horizontally past the other,said Tom Jordan, a quake expert atthe University of Southern Califor-nia. The quake’s power and prox-imity to Port-au-Prince likelycaused widespread casualties andstructural damage, he said.

“It’s going to be a real killer,” hesaid.

Most of Haiti’s 9 million peopleare desperately poor, and after yearsof political instability the countryhas no real construction standards.

In November 2008, following thecollapse of a school in Petionville,the mayor of Port-au-Prince esti-mated about 60 percent of buildingswere shoddily built and unsafe innormal circumstances.

Tuesday’s quake was felt in theDominican Republic, which sharesthe island of Hispaniola with Haiti,but no major damage was reportedthere. In eastern Cuba, housesshook but no significant damagewas reported. With electricityknocked out in many places andphone service erratic, it was nearlyimpossible for Haitian or foreignofficials to get full details of thedevastation. In Washington, StateDepartment spokesman P.J.Crowley said that U.S. Embassypersonnel were “literally in thedark” after power failed.

“They reported structures down.They reported a lot of walls down.They did see a number of bodies inthe street and on the sidewalk thathad been hit by debris. So clearly,there’s going to be serious loss oflife in this,” he said.

The Diocese of Norwich, Con-necticut, said at least two Americansworking at its Haitian aid missionwere believed trapped in rubble.

“Everybody is just totally, totallyfreaked out and shaken,” said HenryBahn, a U.S. Department of Agricul-ture official visiting Port-au-Prince.“The sky is just gray with dust.”

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The combo pictures show the condition of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, when a big earthquake hit them. People carry an injuredperson after an earthquake. On the right, damaged building is seen after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Jan.12, 2010. The largest earthquake ever recorded in the area rocked Haiti on Tuesday. The earthquake had a preliminary magni-tude of 7.0 and was centered about 10 miles (15 kilometers) west of Port-au-Prince.

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InternationalThursday, January 14, 20102

Bali News

Negara (Bali Post)—

Asset Special Committee of JembranaHouse established by the House of the formerperiod was finally buried and it was handedover to an independent third party. This wastaken after having the report and the conclu-sion and the special committee found diffi-culties to probe the assets owned by the gov-ernment suspected to have vanished due totransferred to private ownership.

The Head of Jembrana House, MadeKembang Hartawan, who was contacted lastTuesday (Jan 12), did not dismiss about thematter of special committee. Now, with thechanged members of the House, the taskswere submitted to the Appraisal Team. As-set matter of this region became a homeworkto the legislative or executive to inventorythe assets owned by Jembrana Regency bothof moving assets (cars and vehicles) or im-movable assets. Moreover, in the near futurethe local leadership would change.

Made Kembang Hartawan told that theHouse remained to continue the tasks of As-set Special Committee, but entrusted it to atruly independent Appraisal Team. The Housewould only function to control. In the budgetthis year, the House has allocated IDR 700million for data collection of assets owned andwould be done by Appraisal Team.

“We received a report from the Asset Spe-cial Committee that essentially concerningwith the difficulty to inventory the asset. Onthat account, the House decided to allocate abudget for a professional Appraisal Team. Weare not giving up, but it is hard to do. Theexecutives who have handled for decadesfound a trouble as well and it is not clearuntil now,” said Kembang who is also the

“We get the information, there is a packagecontaining about three skulls smuggled abroad,but successfully foiled. Continued Dudut, it wasthe third time for Sanglah Hospital to receivesmuggled skulls. The first skull was hidden inthe helmet and wrapped boxes.

Gianyar (Bali Post)—Pedudusan Agung rite was held at the

temple of Penataran Satriya I Dewa AgungKandel, in Banjar Puseh, Pejeng, Sukawati,Gianyar, last Tuesday (Jan 12). In 1980—exactly 30 years ago—in fact the same ritehas already been held at the temple supportedby 23 supporting devotees or clans from allover Bali, but its level belonging toPedudusan Alit or smaller category.

Ida I Dewa Gede Mangku, Jro MangkuPengelingsir (senior priest), said thePedudusan Agung rite belonged to primarycategory of offerings by using three waterbuffaloes, calf, turtles, goats, et cetera. Thisceremony has been prepared since last Oc-tober 9, 2009. The Pedudusan Agung cer-emony in the whole would be officiated by27 priests. Nine of the priest or Ida Perandaled the summit of the Pedudusan Agung cer-emony on last Tuesday (Jan 12). The sum-mit took place after devotees did solemn wor-ship service led by nine priests consisting ofIda Peranda Gde Jumpung Putra Keniten(Geria Jumpung Kamasan), Ida PerandaGede KetutKeniten (Geria Dhawan Kelod),IdaPeranda Jelantik Manik Giri Puspa (GeriaSantian, Peliatan) , Ida Peranda WayahanBun (Geria Sanur, Pejeng), Ida PerandaJelantik Giri (Geria Gunung Sari), IdaPeranda Gede Buruan (Geria SandingPejeng), Ida Peranda Istri Oka (Geria Sand-

Sanglah HospitalSanglah HospitalSanglah HospitalSanglah HospitalSanglah HospitalReceives Skull PackageReceives Skull PackageReceives Skull PackageReceives Skull PackageReceives Skull Package

THE MORGUE of Sanglah Hospital received a package consignment contain-ing skulls, last Tuesday (Jan 12) around 2:00 pm Local Time. Coordinator of Fo-rensic Medical Installation of Sanglah Hospital, Dudut Rustyadi, suggested thepackage containing the skull was about to be sent abroad through the airport.

Special Committee ofHidden Asset, Replacedby Independent Team IBP/eka

Garbage and dead fish filled Kuta beach because the high tides and strongwind occur on the beach. The picture show a person move a dead turtleon Kuta beach

Meanwhile, the second has been made in theform of face decorated with ornaments andbeads. “The two skulls were equally about to besent to France, while this third case containsabout three skulls and it is going to be examinedon Wednesday,” said Dudut. (san)

Head of Indonesian Democratic Party ofStruggle (PDI-P) of Jembrana Branch.

When asked when the team began to takeaction, Kembang submited to the executiveauthority to run it. The House would not joinin the team and would control only.

Changing HandsAs has been known, the Asset Special

Committee was established by the previousJembrana House chaired by I Putu Dwitathen. This committee was made at the initia-tive of the House on responding to the re-ports from the community questioning aboutthe existence and ownership of local assetsthat alleged to have changed hands. Some ofthose assets were the land and building in thecity streets of Negara like at the former SMAN 1 Negara and currently it has been func-tioned as campus of STITNA, land of PHDIused for the office of the Head of Jembranasubdistrict and so on.

This committee was formed to recommendto the head of the region in order to arrangethe asset management in the region. Thesemeasures need to be done in order a a num-ber of assets owned by regency governmentwould be clear, orderly, and not change handsto a third party. The Special Committee wasnot only targeting the land and buildings butalso the property of regency government suchas facilities and infrastructure likeJimbarwana TV and medical equipment pur-chased with the budget of 2008 worth IDR5.3 billion. Allegedly, the equipment was alsoused for a private hospital in Negara. Simi-larly, unclearness also occurred to hundredsof assets owned by Regency as Balinese cowin the village of Baluk and cow developmentcenter at Melaya. (sur)

Pedudusan Agung Rite at Penataran AgungTemple Satrya I Dewa Kandel Pejeng

ing Pejeng), IdaPerandaIstri Agung Keniten(Geria Jumpung Gelgel), Ida Dalem SuryaDharma Soghata (Puri Kaleran Klungkung).

A procession of sacred dance as supple-ment of Pedudusan Agung presented con-sisted of mask, puppets, rejang and warriordance. Subsequent ceremonies comprised thengingkup, nyenuk, ngebek, Rsi Bojana, andmesineb or the closing on January 23.

Every day, the descendants of royal pal-aces in the territory of Gianyar, Puri BatanAncak Tabanan and Puri Klungkung alsomade their time to pay homage and so didmyriad devotees from all over Bali. Commu-nity figures like the Bangli Regent NengahArnawa, Gianyar Regent Cok Ace, and theCEO of Bali Post Media Group SatriaNaradha also came to worship.

Ida I Dewa Gede Mangku told brieflyabout the origin of which I Dewa Kandel glo-rified at the emple. He said that I DewaKandel was the eldest son of Dalem KetutNgulesir with I Gusti Ayu Suanita. Since hemastered household affairs, kingdom admin-istration including spiritualfield, he was thenawarded title as Arya Bujaga Kandel Astra.He became leader of the royal household inGelgel in early 1400s. So, I Dewa Kandel stra-tegic played important role and gave muchcontribution to the King DalemWaturenggong who was no other than hisyounger sibling.

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The corpse of Sri who previously workedat the Puncak Bagus restaurant, Bedugul wasfirst discovered around 10:00 am Local Time.Two people initially saw a corpse floating inface downward position about 200 metersfrom the edge of the lake. WitnessesBudiansari and Rahmat, employees of AlSidiq restaurant nearby, were walking at thelakeside. The thing supposed to be corpse waslater then informed to other residents. Resi-dents believing the figures as corpse directlyreported toBaturiti Sector Police. Afterwards,the police came to location. Apparently, it wastrue that the floating figure was a humancorpse. Many people then visited the location.

When obtaining information about the dis-covery of the corpse, relatives of victim cameto location. The victim’s father, I NyomanLaden , 64, relative Wayan Mertana, 25, andNyoman Bagiada, 37, were on the scene be-fore the body was pulled to lakeside. After ar-riving at the edge, they believed the body wasSri Utami.

When found, Sri was wearing a light or-ange shirt, black jacket with words sayingSkull Warrior, and pink pants. There were a

Singaraja (Bali Post)—

Although managing the plantation assetsin large enough quantities, the RegionalCompanies (PD) Swatantra Buleleng Re-gency, in fact has apprehensive property. Itis discernible from the condition of shabbyoffice and not representative and the profitpaid to the pockets of Regionally GeneratedRevenue (PAD) was only IDR 30 million ayear.

Commission C of Buleleng House high-lighted that condition when visiting the of-fice of PD Swantantra located on Jalan AYani Singaraja, last Tuesday (Jan 12). “It isvery surprising, the condition is not appro-priate with the total assets managed by PDSwatantra,” said the Head of CommissionC ofBuleleng House, Dewa Mahayadnya,as set foot at the office.

Impression of shabby office building wasvisible from the condition of the old im-pressed building and looked to have not re-furbished for long time. Even, a number oftiles also seemed to leak, while courtyard wasfilled with weeds without adequate arrange-ment. The more apprehensive condition wasthe office had no signboard so that peoplenever knew it as the office of PD Swatantra.

Whereas, PD Swantantra was known tohave substantial assets in the form of land ofcoffee and clove plantations scattering atseveral villages in Buleleng. From the re-sults of the current visit, Commission C knewthe total assets of PD Swatantra was 89,322hectares of coffee plantations, clove, andother production. With such a great asset, in

Denpasar (Bali Post)—Condition of Nusa Tenggara region in

general is a region of highly vulnerable tonatural disasters treats. Because this areabelongs to a cluster of volcanic regions andbroken plates seabed subjecting to naturaldisasters. Seeing the problem, it is necessaryto anticipate the possibility of a disaster thatwill occur.

Thus, the Military Command 163/Wirasatya as a strategic line of the compart-ment of Regional Military Command IX /Udayana trained their skills and abilities toface natural disasters. By involving about 50soldiers, its party held a rehearsal exercisesof Commander Post I 163/Wirasatya, lastTuesday (Jan 12). Such competency exer-cise would last for three days.

Chief of Regional Command XI/Udayana, Hotmangaradja Pandjaitan, saidthe goal was to train the elements of leader-ship in improving the ability of relation pro-cedures of staff and commander, to plan andprepare and organize in dealing with prob-lems arising in the Zone of Military Com-mander 163/Wiarasatya.

In addition, said HotmangaradjaPandjaitan, it meant to implement the tac-tics and techniques in military operation,perform the fight and implement prevailingwork procedures. “This skill training also as-sists the Regional Government in the con-text of natural disaster management, espe-

Gianyar (Bali Post)—Acquisition of village allocation fund

(ADD) for each village in Gianyar Regencydeclined in the year 2010. This made a num-ber of development programs of the villageadministration planned in the Village BudgetPlan (APBDes) chaotic. Those who havemade the planning of activities set forth inAPBDes became confused due to the de-creased ADD compared to what they receivedin the previous year.

The information obtained, last Tuesday (Jan12), the decline in the allocation of villagefunds in Gianyar Regency reached 30 percent.Villages that previously received ADD worthIDR 80 million, in 2010 they only received asmuch as IDR 50 million. This made some vil-lage heads puzzled to find out funds for theirrural development programs that has been so-cialized to their community. The amount offunds obtained in ADD of this year after de-ducted by expenditure of operational and vil-lage officials was certainly very small for de-velopment activities in the village.

The Head of Pering Village, WayanSudiartana, knew the decrease of the ADD ac-quisition from his secretary. Direct notifica-tion about the declinewas not received yet.“It is said, his rural administration will orga-nize a meeting with Rural Administration Ser-

Disappeared for Two Days

Corpse of a Girl FoundCorpse of a Girl FoundCorpse of a Girl FoundCorpse of a Girl FoundCorpse of a Girl FoundFloating at Lake BeratanFloating at Lake BeratanFloating at Lake BeratanFloating at Lake BeratanFloating at Lake BeratanTabanan (Bali Post)—

The discovery of the corpse floating in Lake Beratan, Bedugul identified as NiLuh Sri Utami, 21, last Tuesday (Jan 12) made residents of Baturiti shocked. SriUtami was a girl from Banjar Asah Panji, Wanagiri Village, Sukasada, Bulelengmissing since three days ago. It was unknown the cause of floating corpseof Sri,whether as victim of violence, accident or suicide.

Acquisition of VillageFund Allocation 2010Reduces 30 Percent

number of wounds on the right ear and lowerright lip. The left eyelid and also epidermispeeled out. Victim’s body was very concerned.From the pocket of clothing was found a handphone Nokia and money worth IDR 15 thou-sand. The corpse of Sri was taken to SanglahHospital for an autopsy.

When the evacuation took place, thevictim’s family said that Sri’s boyfriend,Kadek Sukertia, 28, from Banjar Yeh Ketipat,Wanagiri Village, a housekeeping at BIMCKuta has disappeared last Sunday (Jan 10).Families also did a search. Three days ago,Monday (Jan 11) was found Honda Supra mo-torcycle parked at roadside, near LakeBeratan. The search was continued. However,no local residents knew about the existenceof victim. On obtaining information about adiscovery of corpse, relatives of victims cameto the location immediately.

Meanwhile, the police could not identify thecause of death of the victim. Spokesperson ofTabanan Resort Police, Endung Hardanto, lastTuesday (Jan 12) said that his party was per-forming investigation and waiting for the re-sult of autopsy. (kmb14)

vices in relatively short time to discuss aboutthe reduction of such ADD,” he revealed.

Responding to such decline reaching 30percent, Sudiartana said it had direct impacton the village administration, particularly inimproving services to the community village.As such, by the existence of the ADD, PeringVillage has conduct procurement transport carfor rubbish processing paid each year fromADD funds. Other than sourced from ADD,the payment reaching USD 20 million was alsotaken from other village revenue. Therefore,such decrease would automaticallydecreasedthe development program at the village level,he explained.

Meanwhile, the Head of Rural Administra-tion Services of Gianyar Regency,WayanWardana, confirmed that he did not dismissthe existence of declining ADD for every vil-lage in Gianyar Regency this year. This de-cline occurred due to a decrease in gainsearned through General Allocation Fund(DAU) of Gianyar Regency in 2010. The de-cline of DAU received also resulted in thedecline of ADD earnings. To discuss this mat-ter, his party would organize a meeting withall Heads of Village across Gianyar Regency.On that account, he appealed the planning inAPBDes should be adjusted to the acquisitionof ADD. (kmb16)

PD Swatantra Apprehensive

Office Looks Vile, DepositsRevenue Only IDR 30 M

fact, the PD Swatantra only deposited rev-enue to Buleleng Regency worth IDR 30 mil-lion with a target of IDR 35 million.

Other findings also becoming a questionof Commission C was the amount of person-nel handling the assets of that extent namelyonly 5 people, namely a Managing Director,Director, Agricultural Division, Finance andAdministration. Even, the position of Man-aging Director occupied by Nengah Gelgelalso became a question because the filling ofManaging Director was not known for sureby the House. “Probably, if we do not makethis working visit, we will not know that PDhas appointed new management. Actually, asa controlling institution, we should know thechange of management here,” said a mem-ber of Commission C, Made Rawa. In re-sponse to the matter, Nengah Gelgel said thathis appointment as managing director wasknown in a sudden. At that time, there wasno notice and suddenly he received the de-cree as Managing Director of PD Suwatantra.Even though it happened suddenly, he stillreceived the task. “Suddenly I received thedecree to take care of this PD because I cannot refuse the job. As a mandate, I take it,” hesaid.

Related to the conditions of the office look-ing to be shabby, Gelgel confessed that he didnot dare do it because according to informa-tion the location would be taken advantage asinternational swimming pool by BulelengRegency. About the small amount of PAD de-posits, Gelgel said that the Board of Directorsof PD Swatantra have prepared a strategy as astep to increase the income. (kmb15)

Skill Training of NaturalDisaster Prevention

cially earthquake followed by tsunami,” hesaid in his address read by Chief of Staff ofRegional Military Commander IX /Udayana,Agung Revulton.

Pursuant to the Law No. 34/2004 regard-ing to National Armed Forces (TNI), the abil-ity to help regional government in dealingwith mini-style disaster was one of the maintasks of the Armed Forces in military opera-tions other than war (OMSP). On that ac-count, the rehearsal was held by RegionalMilitary Command 163/Wirasatya entitled“Regional Military Command 163/Wirasatyaconducts military operations other than warto provide natural disaster relief assistance tothe Regional Government in the Bali Prov-ince, to support the main tasks of RegionalMilitary Command IX/Udayana.”

Hotmangaradja explained that his partytook this theme because it was relevant, con-sidering the geographical area of Bali wasvulnerable to natural disasters, particularlyearthquakes accompanied by tsunami. “Wecan not predict the natural disasters accurately.So is the development of technology andmodern science can not predict it,” he ex-plained.

Meanwhile, the Chief of Military 163/Wirastya,Yoedhi Swastanto, explained thesame thing. The capability exercise for natu-ral disaster response management was ex-pected to be useful. “We are conducting thistraining for three days,” he said. (kmb21)

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AP

SEOUL, South Korea – NorthKorea’s military warned Wednes-day that South Korea would faceunspecified retaliation if it doesn’tstop activists from launching pro-paganda leaflets across their di-vided border.

The two Koreas agreed in 2004to end decades of propaganda war-fare across the Demilitarized Zonedividing the neighbors. However,the South Korean government saysit cannot prevent activists fromsending the leaflets, citing freedomof speech, though it has urged themto stop so that they don’t damageties between the two Koreas.

The North’s military said it“will never tolerate even the slight-est acts” of undermining “ourleadership’s absolute authority.”

Prime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu also weighed in publiclyWednesday for the first time since theflap erupted earlier this week, gentlychiding the Israeli diplomat for hisconduct. Deputy Foreign MinisterDanny Ayalon did not go so far as toexplicitly apologize for inviting Is-raeli TV crews on Monday to filmhow he forced Ambassador AhmetOguz Celikkol to sit on a sofa lowerthan his and denied him a handshake.

AP

TIJUANA, Mexico – The captureof a brutal druglord accused of order-ing massacres, beheadings and thedissolving of bodies in caustic sodamarks the second time in less than amonth Mexico has taken down oneof its most powerful traffickers.

Teodoro Garcia Simental,known as “El Teo,” was seized byfederal troops Tuesday when theystormed a seaside vacation homenear the southern tip of the BajaCalifornia peninsula.

The arrest of the Tijuana-basedtrafficker is considered anothervictory for the enhanced surveil-lance techniques being cultivatedwith the assistance of Washington.U.S. anti-drug officials had beenhelping Mexican authorities trackGarcia for more than five months.

The arrest also raised hopesamong the families of hundreds ofpeople missing and believed killedby Garcia’s gang, their bodies dis-solved in vats of caustic soda sono trace was ever found.

AP

FILE- In this file photo taken on Jan. 12, 2010, South Korean activistsrelease a huge balloon.

NKorea warns SKorea over propaganda leafletsThe comments came in separate state-ments issued in Korean and Englishthat were carried by the official Ko-rean Central News Agency.

The North demanded South Koreaimmediately punish activists engagedin sending leaflets and disband theirorganizations, saying hundreds ofthousands of propaganda leaflets wereflown to the North on Jan. 1.

“The separatists at home andabroad will never be able to flee froma stern punishment by the nation forchallenging history,” the English-lan-guage statement said.

The North has issued similarthreats in the past, including one latelast year.

Chun Hae-sung, a spokesman atSouth Korea’s Unification Ministry,said Wednesday that the South has nolaw that could ban activists fromlaunching leaflets. He didn’t elabo-

rate.The North’s threat came two

days after it again proposed peacetalks to formally conclude the Ko-rean War, which ended with an ar-mistice in 1955, not a peace treaty,thus leaving the peninsula techni-cally in a state of war.

The country, which says it wascompelled to develop atomic bombsbecause of U.S. threats, said its re-turn to stalled nuclear disarmamenttalks depend on better ties withWashington and the lifting of inter-national sanctions on it.

On Jan. 1, about 70 South Ko-rean activists tied tens of thousandsof leaflets condemning North Ko-rean leader Kim Jong Il to balloonsand launched them across the bor-der. Some protesters also burnedlarge North Korean flags withKim’s picture printed on them.

AP

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the lawmakers of his ruling party at the parliament.

Israel tries to defuseIsrael tries to defuseIsrael tries to defuseIsrael tries to defuseIsrael tries to defusediplomatic flap with Turkeydiplomatic flap with Turkeydiplomatic flap with Turkeydiplomatic flap with Turkeydiplomatic flap with TurkeyAP

JERUSALEM – It fell short of an apology. But Israel’s deputy for-eign minister has signaled he regrets humiliating Turkey’s ambassa-dor, in an effort to defuse a diplomatic flap that has further strainedties between the once-close allies.

And he stood behind his decisionto summon Celikkol to protest aTurkish TV show that depicts Israeliintelligence agents as brutal.

But “it’s not my custom to offendambassadors,” Ayalon said in a state-ment to the Israeli media late Tuesday.“And in the future I will explain mypositions in accepted diplomatic ways.”

The Turkish Embassy had no imme-diate comment. But Turkey’s NTV andHaber Turk television stations cited

unnamed Turkish foreign ministry of-ficials as saying Ankara was not satis-fied with Ayalon’s statements and ex-pected a serious apology. The officialsalso suggested that Celikkol could berecalled if Israel didn’t comply.

The put-down enraged Turkeyand deepened the rift that hasemerged over the past year betweenthe Jewish state and its closest friendin the Muslim world. Headlines inTurkish newspapers reflected thedeep outrage over the incident.

“Insolence,” blared the daily Vatan,and Cumhuriyet proclaimed, “Tieswith Israel are breaking down.” “Vileconspiracy,” railed the Sabah, whilethe pro-Islamic Yeni Safak newspaperfumed: “Despicable and immoral.”

AP

Teodoro Garcia Simental, knownas ‘El Teo,’ center, is guarded byfederal police

Mexico-US cooperationcited in 2nd druglord arrest

“I have received calls fromGuadalajara, Mazatlan andMexicali, from the families ofpeople who disappeared in Tijuanaand hope that this man will con-fess to where he left the bodies oftheir sons, wives and fathers,” saidCristina Palacios, president of avictims rights groups representingthe families of the disappeared.

Palacios said that of the morethan 300 cases of missing peopledocumented by the group between2007 and 2009, 60 percent to 70percent are linked to Garcia’s gang,which used the services of SantiagoMeza Lopez, known as “TheStewmaker,” who authorities sayconfessed to dissolving 300 bodies.

Authorities say Garcia, in hismid-30s, ordered his rivals dis-posed of in especially grisly ways.Those who weren’t dissolved weresometimes beheaded and their bod-ies hung from bridges. He tookhefty ransom payments from kid-napping Tijuana business leaders.

He is also believed to be behindmany of the dozens of assassina-tions of Tijuana police officers overthe last two years.

Ramon Eduardo Pequeno, headof the federal police’s anti-drug unit,said Garcia had recently stepped upefforts to kill Baja California’s at-torney general, Rommel Moreno,and Tijuana’s public safety chief,Julian Leyzaola.

“Tijuana has been livingthrough some very bad times, butvictories like this are what keep usmoving forward,” said TijuanaMayor Jorge Ramos.

President Felipe Calderonlaunched an all-out war upon takingoffice in December 2006, sendingthousands of troops out to combatthe drug gangs. But until recently thegovernment had little success in tak-ing down the top kingpins, and Mexi-cans have been growing increasinglyfrustrated with a war that has leftmore than 15,000 casualties.

General Info Thursday, January 14, 2010 5International

Denpasar

There are 4 major hospitals usually used by foreigners -Denpasar General Hospital(RSUP Sanglah), Kasih Ibu Hospital, Rumah Sakit Wongayaand Rumah Sakit Dharma Husada.

RSUP Sanglah is the main provincial public hospital. Itsfacilities have improved since the emergency ward had beenbuilt in 1991. Difficult/critical cases would not become aproblem anymore since it has complete equipments. It islocated on Jl. KesehatanSelatan 1 Sanglah Denpasar with :Phone : 227 911 – 15Fax : 226 363

Kasih Ibu Hospital is a private hospital which caters forless serious cases such as diarrhea, intestinal disorders, ane-mia, asthma and minor accidents. Kasih Ibu is also equippedto care for pregnant women. This hospital is located on Jl.Teuku Umar 120 Denpasar.Phone : 223 036Fax : 268 690.

Rumah Sakit Wongaya (Public Hospital; Psychiatric Unit)Jl. Kartini, Denpasar.Phone : 222 142.

Rumah Sakit Dharma Husada , (Private)Jl. Sudirman No 50, DenpasarPhone : 227 560, 234 824

In relating with health, Bali also has insurance and medicalevacuation company, thatis:AEA International - SOS Assistance Bali.PT Abhaya Eka Astiti, Jl. By Pass Ngurah RaiNo. 24X, Kuta 80361.Phone : 755 768 Fax : 755 768One thing that should be noted by tourists here is that theBlood Bank in Bali normally carries no stock of Rhesus (Rh)Negative blood.

Badung

Bali Medical ClinicsThere are some medical clinics that are well known by for-eigners in Bali. Some of them are western owned and oper-ated :

Bali International Medical Center (BIMC)Bali International Medical Centre (BIMC) provides excel-lent Primary Health Care & Emeregency Medical Servicesfor tourists, traveler, and expatriate living in Bali.Emeregency Room, Ambulance, Clinic Services, Insurance& Medical Evacuations also available. Open 24 hours Phone: 761 2631. Located Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai No.100X, Kuta,Bali 80361 - Indonesia. http://www.bimcbali.com

International SOS Clinic BaliOpened in 1999, offers International SOS members and visi-tors to Bali comprehensive primary health care and 24-houremergency medical service.Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai 505X, Kuta 80361, Bali - IndonesiaPhone : 720 100 Fax : 721 919E-mail : info@sos-bali.comttp ://www.sos-bali.com

Bali Nusa Dua Emergency ClinicJl Pratama No. 81 Phone : 771 324

Kuta ClinicJl. Raya Kuta Phone : 753 268

Dental ClinicDr Indra Guizot, Jl. Patimura 19, DenpasarPhone : 222 445, 234 375

DDS. Ritjie Rihartinah, Jl Pratama No. 81Nusa Dua Phone : 771 324

Retno W. Agung, Jln. Bypass Ngurah Rai No.4ABr. Tamansari – Sanur Phone : 288 501

Australian Consulate GeneralJalan Tantular 32 Renon DenpasarPhone: +62 361 241118Fax: +62 361 221195 (General) +62 361 241120 (Immigration)

Royal Danish & NorwegianMimpi Resort Jimbaran, BaliPhone +62.361.701 070

The Czech RepublicJalan Pengembak No. 17 Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.286 465

France Consulate AgencyJalan Merta Sari Gang II No. 8 Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.285 485

The Federal Republic of GermanyJalan Pantai Karang No 17 Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.288 535

The Republic of HungaryJalan By Pass No 219 Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.287 701

Italian ConsulateJalan By Pass Ngurah Rai Jimbaran, BaliPhone +62.361.701 005

Honorary Consulate of MexicoJalan Mohamad Yamin 1 A, Renon, Denpasar, BaliPhone +62.361.223 266

Honorary Consulate of The NetherlandsJalan Raya Kuta 127, BaliPhone +62.361.761 506

Honorary Consulate of SpainKomplek Istana Kuta Galleria Blok Vallet 2 No 11. JalanPatih Jelantik Kuta, BaliPhone +62.361.769 286

USA Consulate AgencyJalan Hayam Wuruk No. 188 Denpasar, BaliPhone +62.361.222 426

Consulate General of JapanJalan Raya Puputan No. 170 Renon, Denpasar, BaliPhone +62.361.227 628

Honorary Consulate of BritishJalan Tirta Nadi No. 20 Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.270 601

Swiss and Austria ConsulateJalan Patih Jelantik, Komplek Pertokoan IstanaGalleriaPhone +62.361.751 735

Honorary Consulate of BrazilJalan Legian No. 186, BaliPhone +62.361.757 775

Honorary Consulate of ThailandJalan Raya Puputan Renon 81, Denpasar, BaliPhone +62.361.263 310

Embassy of IndiaJalan Raya Puputan Renon 42-44, Denpasar, BaliPhone +62.361.241 978

Honorary Consulate of Sweden anf FinlandSegara Village Hotel, Jalan Segara Ayu, Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.282 223

Honorary Consulate of MalaysiaAlam Kulkul Boutique Resort, Jalan Pantai Kuta, BaliPhone +62.361.752 520

Bangli

Bangli General HospitalJl. Kesumayuda 27, BangliPhone : +62 366 91521

Gianyar

Clinic MasJl. Raya Mas, UbudPhone : +62 361 974573

Toyo ClinicJl. Pengosekan, UbudPhone : +62 361 978078

Permata Bunda ClinicJl. Patih Jelantik 50 X, GianyarPhone : +62 361 942082

Ubud ClinicJl Raya Ubud No.36 Campuhan, UbudPhone : +62 361 974911

Gianyar General HospitalJl. Ciung Wanara 2, GianyarPhone : +62 361 943049

Karangasem

Karangasem General HospitalJl. Ngurah Rai, KarangasemPhone : +62 363 21001

Klungkung

Klungkung General HospitalJl. Flamboyan 40-4, KlungkungPhone : +62 366 21371

Negara

Negara General HospitalJl. Gelar, NegaraPhone : +62 365 41006

Tabanan

Laboratorium ClinicJl. Gunung semeru No. 8, TabananPhone : +62 361 819260

Mengwi ClinicJl. I Gusti Ngurah Rai 46, TabananPhone : +62 361 880550

Darma Kerti HospitalJl. Teratai 16, TabananPhone : +62 361 812359

Tabanan General HospitalJl. Pahlawan 14, TabananPhone : +62 361 811027

Praja Taxi : (0361) 289090Bali Taxi : (0361) 701111Ngurah Rai Taxi : (0361) 724724Pan Wirthi Taxi : (0361) 723366Komotra Taxi : (0361) 758855

Singaraja

Prodia ClinicJl. RA Kartini 12, Singaraja Bali0362 - 24-516

Singaraja HospitalJl. Ngurah Rai 30, Singaraja Bali0362 - 22-573

Pet ClinicsKayumas: (0361) 226934Sayang Binatang: (0361) 483121Satwa Kertha Husada: (0361) 263018Pantai Sindhu: (0361) 287518Sidakarya: (0361) 724492Pedungan: (0361) 720026

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Thursday, January 14, 20106 News

The testimony came on the secondday of the murder trial of AndalAmpatuan Jr., the top suspect in theNov. 23 killings of journalists, relativesand supporters of a rival who was chal-lenging Ampatuan for the governorshipof Maguindanao province in May elec-tions.

Ampatuan, the only one indicted sofar in the deaths, pleaded innocent tomurder charges at his arraignmentwhen the trial opened last week. Hisfather, clan patriarch Andal AmpatuanSr., and several other close relativeshave been implicated but not formallycharged in the killings. They also faceseparate charges of rebellion. RasulSangki, vice mayor of Ampatuan town-ship, told the court he witnessed thekillings after Ampatuan summonedhim to a road checkpoint where policeofficers stopped the caravan in whichthe victims were traveling.

“I went with him because I wasscared,” Sangki said. “If I did not fol-low him, he might get mad at our fam-ily. He is feared in our province.”

He said the victims were ordered atgunpoint to lay face-down and thenwere divested of money, cell phonesand TV cameras.

They were then herded back intotheir cars and led to a hilltop clearing

AP

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – An es-timated 142,800 gallons of dieselfuel spilled from a storage tank onan island in Alaska’s remote Aleu-tian chain.

The Coast Guard says 1,000 gal-lons from the Monday spill on AdakIsland entered a creek and flowedinto a small boat harbor.

The Alaska Department of Envi-ronmental Conservation says thefuel flowed from an underground

AP

HONOLULU – A former Armycaptain has been sentenced to fouryears and two months in federal prisonfor stealing $400,000 from the U.S.government while stationed atKandahar Air Base in Afghanistan.

U.S. District Judge Helen Gillmoron Tuesday also ordered DavidGilliam to pay about $450,000 in res-titution to the government.

The 39-year-old Gilliam had pre-

AP

ADELAIDE, Australia – Two8-year-old boys in a young life-guards training program rescued aman who was struggling in theocean off Australia’s east coast.

Jake Satherley told AustralianBroadcasting Corp. radio that heand friend Spencer Jeams saw amiddle-aged man having troubleSunday off Northcliffe beach, inQueensland state.

“We saw him put his hand up andsaying, ‘help, help,’ so we wentover to him and pulled him on our

AP –

Hancuffed Andal Ampatuan Jr. is led by members of the National Bureau of Investigationduring his trial

Philippine massacrePhilippine massacrePhilippine massacrePhilippine massacrePhilippine massacrewitness implicates suspectswitness implicates suspectswitness implicates suspectswitness implicates suspectswitness implicates suspectsAP

MANILA, Philippines – The first witness to testify against a powerful clan member accused ofleading a pre-election massacre of 57 people in the southern Philippines said Wednesday he sawthe defendant and his family firing guns as victims knelt and begged for their lives.

several miles (kilometers) away, Sangkisaid.

Sangki testified that he heardAmpatuan speak to someone on a ra-dio, saying “Father, they are here.” Thevoice on the other end replied, “Youknow what to do,” Sangki told the court.

As gunshots rang out, the victimspleaded for their lives and womenscreamed. One of the journalists pleadedwith Ampatuan to spare his life, Sangkisaid. Armed with an M-16 rifle fittedwith a grenade launcher, Ampatuan shothim as well as the sister and wife of hiselection rival, Esmael Mangudadatu.Sangki testified that two of Ampatuan’suncles and a nephew, who also is abrother-in-law of Sangki, were amongthose who shot the victims.

“They continued firing on those whohad been gunned down ... in the headand other parts of the body to make surethey will not survive,” he said.

Following the slaughter, Sangki saidthat Ampatuan told him to return to thecheckpoint “and tell the people they sawand heard nothing.”

Defense lawyer Sigfrid Fortun ques-tioned Sangki why it took him 18 daysafter the killings to prepare an affidavitof his allegations. The vice mayor re-plied that he was too scared to speakout sooner.

“I lost trust in the law,” he said. “Thepolice and the military — they(Ampatuans) control them.”

Sangki is among eight prosecutionwitnesses testifying against a requestfor bail filed by Ampatuan. All the evi-dence presented in the bail hearings willform part of the records of the main trial.

Among those killed were at least 30journalists and their staff in what is con-sidered the world’s deadliest single at-tack on media workers. The carnage hassparked international outrage, prompt-ing President Gloria Macapagal Arroyoto briefly impose martial law inMaguindanao to crack down on thepowerful clan — once a key politicalally — and its private army.

Arroyo’s political backing of theclan, which helped her win crucial votesduring the 2004 elections, had allowedthe Ampatuans to maintain a long-standing iron grip on Maguindanao, apredominantly Muslim province about560 miles (900 kilometers) south ofManila, the International Crisis Group,a prominent think tank, said last month.

Arroyo’s aides have acknowledgedher close alliance with the Ampatuansbut said that did not authorize them tocommit crimes. The Ampatuans wereexpelled from Arroyo’s ruling partyafter the killings.

142,800 gallons of fuelspilled on Alaska island

storage tank as a ship moored at apier pumped fuel to the tank.

The flow reached a drainage sys-tem that collects water from aroundthe underground tanks and sends itinto the creek. The amount over-whelmed the system’s oil and waterseparator.

The fuel tank is owned by AdakPetroleum. Workers discovered thespill, halted pumping and set upboom to contain the fuel.

Adak Island is 1,300 miles south-west of Anchorage.

Former Army captainsentenced for stealing $400K

viously pleaded guilty to theft, moneylaundering and filing a false tax return.

Gilliam was accused of stealing themoney between April 2004 and April2005. At the time he worked as a dis-bursing officer for the Army’s AlphaDetachment, 125th Finance Battalion,Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.

Prosecutors say he allegedlysmuggled the funds from Afghanistanto Hawaii, where he spent some of themoney before relocating to SouthCarolina.

8-yr-old boys save drowningman at Aussie beach

board,” Satherley said Monday.The boys are part of the under-

14 lifeguard training program atNorthcliffe Life Saving Club.

Club president David Shieldssaid he’d never seen a rescue likeit.

“They really did perform wellabove their years,” he told ABC.“We’re just so proud of them andthe way they acted instinctively.”

Nearly 50,000 Australian chil-dren ages 5 to 13 are enrolled injunior life saving programs, ac-cording to Surf Life Saving Aus-tralia.

President Barack Obama of-fered prayers for the people ofHaiti and said the U.S. stoodready to help. Secretary of StateHillary Rodham Clinton said theU.S. was offering full assistance— civilian and military — and anational organization of regis-tered nurses called for nurse vol-unteers to provide care in Haiti.

Venezuela’s government saidit would send a military planewith canned foods, medicine anddrinking water and provide 50rescue workers.

Mexico, which suffered anearthquake in 1985 that killedsome 10,000 people, planned tosend doctors, search and rescue

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dogs and infrastructure damageexperts.

Edwidge Danticat, a Haitian-American author whose booksabout Haiti have won the NationalBook Award and the PushcartPrize, was unable to contact rela-tives in Haiti. She sat with fam-ily and friends at her home inMiami, looking for news on theInternet and watching TV newsreports.

“You want to go there, but youjust have to wait,” she said. “Lifeis already so fragile in Haiti, andto have this on such a massivescale, it’s unimaginable how thecountry will be able to recoverfrom this.”

Thursday, January 14, 2010 7Indonesia TodayInternational

Described as the single mostcomprehensive economic agree-ment among its Dialogue Partners,the AANZFTA entered into force on1 January 2010, the ASEAN Secre-tariat said.

The Agreement on the Establish-ment of the AANZFTA was initially

AFP PHOTO / RAMDANI / MEDIA INDONESIA NEWSPAPER

This photo taken on January 10, 2010 and released on January 12, 2010 by Media Indonesia Newspapershows former businesswoman Artalyta Suryani, convicted last year for bribing prosecutors, sitting in herprison cell at a jail for women and children in Jakarta.

Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - The Indonesiangovernment — which has promisedto stamp out corruption — wasembarrassed by revelations Tues-day that rich and powerful prison-ers are living in luxury behind bars.

Details of the perks for influen-tial inmates were front-page newsafter a team established by Presi-dent Susilo Bambang Yudhoyonoto probe judicial corruption con-ducted a snap inspection of awomen’s jail in Jakarta.

Businesswoman ArtalytaSuryani, convicted last year forbribing prosecutors, was reportedlyinterrupted in the middle of a laserbeauty treatment in her 64-square-metre (690-square-foot) apartment-style “cell”.

Her perks included a doublebed, air conditioning, flat-screentelevision, a refrigerator, privatekitchen and bathroom, and a play-pen for children, according to TheJakarta Globe newspaper.

“We deeply regret that severalprisoners might have received spe-cial treatment,” presidentialspokesman Julian Aldrin Pasha toldAFP.

“President Yudhoyono believesthat all inmates should receiveequal treatment. There shouldn’t beany privileges or special dispensa-tions for prisoners.”

Yudhoyono has promised tocrush what he has called the “courtmafia” that runs the country’s ju-dicial system, although critics sayhis fact-finding team lacks author-ity and point to Yudhoyono’s fail-ure to take more decisive action.

The ex-general won re-electionin July but his second five-yearterm has been hit by a steady flowof scandals that have cast doubt onhis oft-repeated promises to tacklepervasive corruption.

“All the problems related to thejudicial mafia can’t be solved over-night,” Pasha said.

Justice and Human Rights Min-ister Patrialis Akbar suspended thehead of the Pondok Bambu (Bam-

Antara

JAKARTA - Head of the Na-tional Police Criminal DetectiveUnit Commissioner General ItoSumardi said Commissioner Gen-eral Susno Duadji has the right toreport the threats to kill him to theNational Police Headquarters.

“There is a procedure, and wewill submit any such report to thepolice,” Ito said in Jakarta Tuesdaynight.

Ito said that if the former policecriminal detective unit chief reportedthe threat by way of short messages(SMS) that he will be killed, the re-port will be followed up by the near-est police station, whose men willcheck and find the source and the per-son who has sent the short messagesto kill the three-star police generalafter receiving a copy of from thePolice Headquarters.

Ito said the police will helpSusno if the former West Java po-lice chief reported the threat andasked for assistance in tracing theterrorist.

“But as no such report has beenreceived, the police would not takeany action,” the former SouthSumatra police chief said.

Ito also disclosed that PoliceSpokesman Inspector General Ed-ward Aritonang had already con-tacted Susno on the murder threat,and ordered the local police stationto find out about the terror threat.

On Sunday (Jan 10) night, Susnoreceived a threat by way of a shortmessage (SMS) cell phone after hetalked to the media with regard tohis testimonies in the hearing of theAntasari Azhar case.

The murder threat went as fol-lows: “Susno!! If you speak to themedia again, you’re finished, andwe know how to kill you quickly.”

Agreement on Australia-NewAgreement on Australia-NewAgreement on Australia-NewAgreement on Australia-NewAgreement on Australia-NewZealand FTA enters into forceZealand FTA enters into forceZealand FTA enters into forceZealand FTA enters into forceZealand FTA enters into forceAntara

JAKARTA - Hot on the heels of the ASEAN-China Free TradeArea (FTA), now comes the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand FTA(AANZFTA), it was reported here Wednesday.

signed in Thailand in February 2009.Eight of the 12 Parties - Austra-

lia, Brunei, Malaysia, Myanmar,New Zealand, the Philippines,Singapore and Viet Nam - are nowimplementing the Agreement andthe commitments they have madetherein.

“This is indeed a significant de-velopment particularly in our effortsto slowly integrate the markets inthis region,” said Dr Surin Pitsuwan,Secretary-General of ASEAN.

“What makes this particular de-velopment more meaningful is thefact that the AANZFTA is beingimplemented amidst such economi-cally challenging times,” Dr Surinadded.

The AANZFTA Agreement hopesto create a trans-Pacific free tradezone comprising a market of 600

million people with a combinedGDP of US$ 2.7 trillion.

It is expected to substantially re-duce barriers to trade in goods andservices, thereby, opening up a widerange of opportunities for trade andinvestment in the region not only forthe Parties but non-Parties as well.

Dr Surin encouraged the rest ofthe Parties to the Agreement to en-deavor to be on board to enable themto reap the benefits from the Agree-ment as early as possible.

Under the AANZFTA, tariff re-

ductions started gradually on 1 Janu-ary 2010 with free trade to be fullyrealized by 2015. The newerASEAN Member States - Cambo-dia, Laos, Myanmar and Viet Nam -have longer time frames.

The Agreement with Australia-New Zealand is unique in that thegoods, services and investment com-ponents were negotiated in a singleundertaking as compared to FTAswith other ASEAN Dialogue Part-ners where they are negotiated se-quentially.

Susno canreport hismurder threatto police

Indonesian government red-faced over prison perksboo Hut) women’s prison in Jakartathat was inspected by the fact-find-ing team and promised to reshuffleother prison chiefs.

This would prevent them creat-ing their own “kingdoms” by sell-ing favours and privileges, he added.He made no promise to prosecuteany prison chiefs who had profitedfrom such illegal behaviour.

It is well known in Indonesia thatwealthy and powerful inmates areable to buy special treatment andeven shorter sentences, while thepoor and vulnerable are crammedinto overcrowded cells and sub-jected to extortion and abuse.

An anonymous former inmatetold Metro TV that new prisoners

faced torture in the form of dailybeatings unless they paid money.Other prisoners worked with theguards to extort money from new-comers, he said.

“When I was new, I was askedfor money but I didn’t have any. Theconsequences were painful, I wasbeaten up every day,” he said.

“The most expensive fee forprivileges like a/c was two millionrupiah (218 dollars) a month, buteverything is negotiable.”

The son of late dictator Suhartoreportedly enjoyed luxuries includ-ing four fish tanks and personalstaff, although he was convicted ofkilling a Supreme Court judge.

One of six children, Hutomo

“Tommy” Mandala Putra Suhartoserved just a third of a 15-year jailterm for the murder. He was releasedin October 2006 and made an un-successful bid to run for presidentlast year.

Yudhoyono pledged to crackdown on the court mafia late last yearafter police and prosecutors werecaught allegedly conspiring to frametwo senior anti-graft investigators onbehalf of a corrupt businessman.

One of the prosecutors has re-signed without further punishment,while the chief detective at the cen-tre of the scandal remains on theforce and no action has been takenagainst the so-called broker whoacted for the businessman.

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The department also preparedfive teams of garbage disposal whereeach team consists of four officers.“The teams are ready 24 hours so ifthere is a tree blocking the road, thepeople can directly report to the de-partment and we will act right away.”

Currently, the department has40 trucks to handle garbage prob-lems in Denpasar but 5 of them arebroken so there are only 35 unitsavailable. “Last year we bought othercars last year which have special pur-poses such as a garbage container,one unit of harm-roll, and a streetswiper,” Wisada said.

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The ritual of Tumpek Uduh orTumpek Bubuh performed by the Ba-linese bring human beings from allover the world to preserve the envi-ronment well so that humans do notlose their food, clothing and housingresources that constitute their primaryneeds. If you coincidentally spend aholiday in Bali you will see Balinesepeople present offerings on the trees,ritual procession in the midst of vastestate and various socio-religious ac-tivities from the early morning to latenight. The function and meaning of thisTumpek Bubuh is an awareness mile-stone to sustain the environmentalpreservation for the sake of survivalof all living creatures.

For Balinese people sustainingthe environmental preservation com-prises divine duty in implementingthe Hindu teaching. Hence, humanand living environment are insepa-rable and always in interdependency.

The small population of TrunyanIsland claims to be descendants of theoriginal Balinese, or Bali Aga. Theyfollow a form of Hinduism that pre-dates the influence of the powerfulMajapahit Empire that ruled neighbor-ing Java for 200 years from the late 13thcentury.

Although Bali has developedrapidly as a tourist destination, theisolated village of Trunyan maintainsan unusual tradition: Their dead arenot cremated or buried, but insteadare respectfully laid out under a sa-cred banyan tree.

Until an asphalt road reached thevillage in 2006, it was accessible onlyby boat. Traditions forgotten or modi-

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DENPASAR – Denpasar Sanitation and Garden Depart-ment, cut trees on the side of the roads in order to anticipatethe rainy season and the strong wind. I Ketut Wisada, the headof Denpasar Sanitation and Garden Department, said “we arevery worried that the trees could fall down during heavy rainor strong wind so we must cut the leaf and branches.”

kilometers of road in an hour and itis already being use to clean NgurahRai Street and other free parkingstreets.

Wisada hoped that all of thepeople take part in keeping the envi-ronment clean by not throwing thegarbage everywhere. “We keep so-cializing the clean lifestyle to thepeople and we also had coordinatedto the head of the village for the is-sue,” he added.

In the future, to keep the hygieneof the environment, the governmentwill cooperate with the local Balinesepolice or “pecalang”. This is neededto preserve the environment.

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Official from Sanitation and Garden Department cutting a fall down tree. Denpasar Sanitationand Garden Department, cut trees on the side of the roads in order to anticipate the rainy seasonand the strong wind.

Ancient Hindu Customs Surviveon Indonesia’s Bali Island

fied in other parts of Bali are still hon-ored here. “All our traditions and ritualpractices are inherited from our ances-tors,” said I Ketut Jaksa, a deputy tothe village chief.

An ancient fig tree in the centerof Trunyan’s cemetery is considered thesacred incarnation of a Hindu goddesswho descended from the sky and mar-ried a Javanese prince.

The new road has brought theinevitable tourists. While their businessis welcome, the community remainscommitted to preserving the ancientrites and rituals. “Any violation, nomatter how small it is, will cause a fa-tal impact for all of us here in the vil-lage,” Jaksa said. (BTN/Doc)

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Although Bali has developed rapidly as a tourist destination,the isolated village of Trunyan maintains an unusual tradition:Their dead are not cremated or buried, but instead are respect-fully laid out under a sacred banyan tree.

A Tradition to Sustain the Living Environment In the concept of Tat Tvam Asi

(That art thou) human is an elementof this living environment, to makethe Balinese aware sustaining the har-monious relation to its environment.In the kekawin (long poem) ofNitisastra, the interdependency rela-tionship of human and living environ-ment just likes a tiger in the woods.The tiger sincerely guards the woodsagain wicked people, and on the con-trary, the dense woods are glad to pro-tect the habitat of tiger and provide itwith the abundant food.

In endeavor to preserve the en-vironment, apart from doing real ac-tion in the field they also perform theritual procession called TumpekBubuh or Tumpek Pengarah, TumpekPengatag, Tumpek Wariga. This riteis performed in the morning, when thesun rises on the eastern horizon theBalinese rush to bring the offering totheir estates behind their home or the

places that is full of trees. In the midstof vast estate area, the offerings put onasagan (bamboo altar). Such wasHindu devotes in Bali carrying out therites of Tumpek Uduh or TumpekBubuh that fall on Saturday KliwonWariga, once in six months (210 days).

Ingredients of offerings presentedon that day predominated by the formto porridge. But if devotees has vastestate along with productive plats, likecoconut, coffee, clove, and so on, theoffering is usually completed withroasted sucking pig.

Tumpek Bubuh is constitutes thepreliminary celebration for the prepa-ration of welcoming for the Galunganholiday a festival for the universe (com-memorative day for the earth). In theBalinese calendar system, the range ofTumpek Bubuh with Galungan counts35 days or a month in the system. Theirfor Tumpek Bubuh apart from convey-ing thanksgiving to the Almighty Godas the supreme authority of sarwatumbuh (useful plats for human life)also signifies the expectation that Godin His manifestation as the LordSangkara at all time extends boon forfertility, so all plants grow and bear fruitflourishingly as the prayer recited onpresenting the offerings.

If you travel to Bali you would bet-ter go to the village corner to see theperformance of Tumpek Bubuh rites.The sacredness vibration of this rite willhelp you to attain an awareness to be-have wisely in preserving the environ-ment. When you succeed in sustainingyours well, actually you have made asaving for your retirement age that isimmensely beneficial for your futuregenerations. (BTN/doc)

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The ritual of Tumpek Uduh or Tumpek Bubuh performed by theBalinese bring human beings from all over the world to preservethe environment well so that humans do not lose their food, cloth-ing and housing resources that constitute their primary needs.

Balinese Culture

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Though Indonesia isan Islamic country,there is some porkavailable. It is hard tofind and mostrestaurants don’t serveit because anyrestaurant that cookspork would have tohave completelyseparate facilities andequipment to prepare it or the restaurant would not beconsidered halal (clean).

Yield: 4 servings

Ingredients1/2 kg (1 1/4 lb) fillet of pork -or leg of pork1 tb Clear soya sauce2 tb Plain flour1/2 ts Powdered ginger20 g (4 oz) button mushrooms4 Cloves garlic1 sl of root ginger, about 2 cm -(1") across and 1/2 cm

-(1/4") thick3 tb Dark soya saucePepper or a pinch of chilli -powder2 tb water2 tb Medium dry sherry or rice -wine (optional)2 ts Lemon juice6 tb Oil or pork fat

DirectionsThis, as its name suggests, is pork cooked in soya

sauce. It is a particular favourite with my own husbandand children, who always know when it is about toappear on the table because the ginger and garlic fryingin the sauce smell so deliciously savoury.

Cut the pork into small cubes. Put the flour into a bowland add the clear soya sauce and ginger powder, mixingthem well together. Coat the pork with the mixture andthen let it stand for at least 30 minutes.

Clean and slice the mushrooms. Peel the garlic andginger and slice them very thin; you can use these thinslices as they are, or cut them again into very tiny sticks.

Heat the oil or fat in a wok or thick frying pan and frythe meat, half of it at a time, turning it from time to time,for 5 minutes.

Repeat the process for the remaining half of the meat.The flour that coated the meat will tend to stay in thepan or stick to the bottom of it, but leave it there-it willthicken the sauce later. Now take most of the oil out ofthe pan, leaving only about two tablespoons which youthen heat again. In this, fry the tiny slices of garlic andginger and the mushrooms, stirring continuously, for iminute. Add the soya sauce, the water and the meat.mix well, season with pepper or chilli powder, and stircontinuously for 1 or 2 minutes. just before serving, addthe sherry or rice wine and the lemon juice. Serve hot.

This dish keeps extremely well in the freezer, and it isworth making a large quantity from, say, half a leg-ofpork, which is much cheaper than buying pork fillet. Ifyou are going to freeze your Babi Kecap, however, donot add the sherry or lemon juice at the time of cooking.To serve from the freezer, thaw the meat out completelyand heat quickly on a high flame for 2 to 3 minutes,stirring or shaking the pan well all the time. Add thesherry or rice wine and lemon juice just before serving.(http://asiarecipe.com)

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DENPASAR – The numberof tourists from South Korea vis-ited Bali during January throughNovember 2009 period was115,026 people. The number de-creased compare to the same periodtwo years ago.

Ida Komang Wisnu, the headof Bali Statistics Department, said“the decrease of the tourists from

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DENPASAT – Bali to becomethe host of The 11th Special Ses-sion of the Government Council/Global Environment Forum ofUnited Nations of EnvironmentProgramme (UNEP) that will beheld at Nusa Dua on February 22to February 26, 2010. According toHead of Bali’s Public Relations andProtocol I Putu Suardhika onWednesday, this forum will partici-pated by 5,000 delegates from 150countries.

‘’This meeting will be held atBali International Convention Cen-ter (BICC) at Westin Resort, NusaDua,” he explained.

Babi Kecap(Pork Cooked in Soya Sauce)Bali to host Global

Environment Forum He said the Secretary of En-

vironmental Minister Ir AriefYuwono already meet the Bali’sGovernor Made Mangku Pastika todiscuss this meeting. During themeeting, said Suardhika, Arief ex-plained that the meeting will be heldon two sessions. The first sessionwill be held on 22 to 24 February,while the second session will be heldon 25 to 26 February. ‘’The secondsession will be attended by Environ-mental ministers from allparticipant’s countries. According tothe plan, Indonesian President,Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, willofficially open this session.

This forum will be the con-tinuation of meetings at Rotterdam,

Brussels, and Stockholm. All the par-ticipants agree to choose Bali as thehost of this eleventh session becauseBali has been chosen as the nationalsample in the environmental preser-vation project.

Suardhika also said that Bali’sGovernor expressed his honor be-cause Bali has been chosen as the hostof the important meeting. This is, ac-cording to Bali’s Governor, a presti-gious forum because environmentalissues are very important matters. Hehoped that Bali will give positive con-tribution to the earth saving acts.‘’Some of Balinese wisdoms, like TriHita Karana, Tumpek Uduh, andTumpek Kandang are very relevantto save the environmental,”. (iah)

South Korean visited Bali decreaseSouth Korea was 7%. The total num-ber of tourists in the same period in2008 was 124,098 people.”

All of them were using air trans-portation. The tourists from SouthKorea often visited tourism objectsthroughout Bali and also enjoyingBalinese art performances. Currently,there are 647 guides that specializingin handle the tourists from South Ko-rea from he total 5,027 guides in Bali.

The tourists from South Ko-

rea contribute 5% from the totalnumber of tourists coming to Balilast year which was 2.1 millionpeople. Wisnu said that the coopera-tion between Bali with Cheju Prov-ince in South Korea made the tour-ists often attracted to visit Bali

The cooperation is in farming,tourism, and art and culture. The artgroups from each province have visiteach other during art festival in Balior South Korea.

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BUSINESS

Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - The US Fed-eral Reserve finalized new rulesaimed at protecting credit card hold-ers Tuesday that also make it diffi-cult for anyone under the age of 21to obtain a credit card.

As part of a series of new rulesaimed at protecting consumers, themeasure forbids banks from issuinga credit card to anyone under 21: un-less the consumer has the ability tomake the required payments or ob-tains the signature of a parent or othercosigner with the ability to do so.”

The new rules, effective Febru-ary 22, also prevent lenders from un-expected increases in interest rates oncard balances, and limit fees and cer-tain types of interest calculations.

The new measures implement alaw passed last year by Congress.

Fed governor Elizabeth Dukesaid the effort “marks an importantmilestone in the Federal Reserve’sefforts to ensure that consumers whorely on credit cards are treated fairly.”

The American Bankers Associa-tion praised the new regulations.

“These rules — the most com-prehensive ever seen — herald a new

Beijing’s policy of keeping theyuan weak has helped China becomethe first key economy to recoverstrongly from the world financial cri-sis but at the expense of its key tradingpartners still nursing the wounds of re-cession, some analysts contend.

Such a policy that makes Chineseexports more competitive and allowsBeijing to further amass foreign ex-change reserves, now more than twotrillion dollars, could result in protec-tionism and even spark a trade war, theywarn.

“I think China is more vulnerableto criticism on its exchange-rate policynow than it has been in the recent past,”said Nicholas Lardy, a China expert inthe Washington-based Peterson Insti-tute for International Economics.

He said concerns over China’scurrency policy “are real” and that “onecan now make a stronger case that itsrecovery has been based, at least in part,on imposing cost on others through al-lowing its exchange rate to depreciate.”

Beijing was “allowing its currencyto depreciate very dramatically on atrade-weighted basis that is lookingagainst all the currencies of its majortrading partners,” Lardy said.

Agence France-Presse

FRANKFURT - The EuropeanCentral Bank will keep its key interestrate at a record low of 1.0 percent onThursday, analysts say, as ECB presi-dent Jean-Claude Trichet is pressed forcomment on the Greek debt crisis.

“Rate hikes will not be an issueuntil the second half of the year,” INGsenior economist Carsten Brzeski com-mented.

Meanwhile, “the market’s focusat the January press conference willlikely be on what ECB president Trichetsays about Greece,” Deutsche Bankanalysts wrote.

The International MonetaryFund said Monday it will send a mis-sion to Athens for talks on helpingGreece overcome its financial crisisas concern grows that fiscal troublethere and elsewhere threaten theeurozone’s credibility.

The Greek public deficit rose to12.7 percent of output last year, farabove the 3.0 percent ceiling permit-ted to countries that share the singlecurrency.

Greek debt was estimated at 113percent of gross domestic product(GDP) and will likely climb this yearto more than double the EuropeanUnion limit of 60 percent.

The EU’s new president Herman

AP Photo

In this photo taken on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010, a bank clerk counts U.S. dollars and RMB yuannotes for a customer at a bank in Hefei, in central China’s Anhui province. China, which hasemerged as the world’s biggest exporter, is coming under fresh criticism in the US and Europefor using an “undervalued” currency to shore up its economic and trade competitiveness.

China under freshChina under freshChina under freshChina under freshChina under freshcriticism over currencycriticism over currencycriticism over currencycriticism over currencycriticism over currencyAgence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - China, which has emerged as the world’s biggest exporter, is coming un-der fresh criticism in the US and Europe for using an “undervalued” currency to shore up itseconomic and trade competitiveness.

After having allowed the yuan toappreciate gradually against the dollarsince mid-2005, China re-establisheda hard peg against the greenback in2008, ensuring that the yuan followedthe dollar as the American currency fellagainst the euro and the yen. Chinaovertook Germany as the world’s topexporter, trade figures from the Ger-man national statistics office showedlast week. It also surged past the UnitedStates as the world’s biggest car mar-ket, industry data showed Monday.

“(The US) Congress has been un-characteristically quiet, but patience iswearing thin in Washington and every-where,” The New York Times said in ascathing editorial Tuesday.

If China sticks to its “cheap-renminbi guns,” it was bound to drawa protectionist response, the newspa-per warned, noting that PresidentBarack Obama’s administration al-ready has caved in to political demandsand slapped exceptional tariffs on Chi-nese tires and antidumping duties onChinese steel pipes.

The Times raised the prospect ofa “trade war” with China, saying itwould be “disastrous and bound to es-calate around the world.

“Restraint is needed. But we fearno one is going to feel restrained ifChina doesn’t change its strategy.”

Europe also is increasingly con-cerned about the yuan devaluation.

The European Union’s incomingtrade commissioner lashed out Tues-day at what he said was China’s “de-liberate” policy of keeping its currencyundervalued.

Warning that China’s foreign-ex-change stance posed a “major problem”for global economic recovery,Belgium’s Karel De Gucht highlightedgrowing EU unease on the issue.

“It is clear to me that this is a de-liberate policy and we should addressthis on all possible occasions, bilater-ally and also multilaterally.”

No immediate changes to China’scurrency policy are expected.

Chinese Prime Minister WenJiabao has vowed not to yield to inter-national pressure to allow the Chineseyuan to appreciate.

“The pressure on the yuan to ap-preciate is bigger and bigger... we havebeen getting this and that kind of pres-sure to appreciate, but we refuse toyield,” Wen said in an interview withXinhua news agency on December 27.

ECB rates on hold as bankwrestles with Greek debt crisis

Van Rompuy told reporters Tuesday inAthens the country is now taking stepsto meet the “substantial” challenge posedby its huge debt and public deficit.

But Deutsche Bank analyst MarkWall expected journalists to ask TrichetThursday “whether and under what con-ditions Greece could be put under pres-sure to voluntarily choose to exit” the16-nation eurozone.

A working paper published by theECB in December concluded there waslittle chance of a member leaving or be-ing forced out, but the fact the bank pro-duced such a document at all raised eye-brows in financial markets.

The bloc’s first recession has ex-acerbated fiscal disparities among itsmembers, presenting the ECB withwidely contrasting situations.

Germany should wrestle its fi-nances back into shape fairly soon but“peripheral” members like Greece, Ire-land, Portugal and Spain must “step upbudget consolidation far more than thecore countries,” Commerzbank chiefeconomist Joerg Kraemer warned.

Not all eurozone economic newsis gloomy meanwhile.

The ECB will probably thus fix itsmain rate at 1.0 percent for most if notall of 2010 to support growth and slowlyunwind exceptional measures like unlim-ited supplies of cash as banks get backon their feet.

Fed finalizes credit cardrules, limits teen cards

era for America’s credit card custom-ers,” said Kenneth Clayton, senior vicepresident at the ABA.

“Many practices that frustratedcustomers have been eliminated, andcredit card users will now benefit fromgreater control and clearer terms fortheir accounts.”

The ABA said the new law “endsconfusing billing practices, institutingnew rules that are easier to under-stand.”

Due dates will be the same everymonth, and interest charged on a so-called “double-cycle billing” will becompletely eliminated.

The measure bans fees for pay-ment processing — such as surchargesfor paying by telephone, and requiresthat promotional interest rates on newcards stay valid for six months.

It forbids rate increases on exist-ing balances unless consumers are atleast 60 days late paying their bill orthe initial rate was a promotional ratethat has expired, and requires 45 days’notice to raise rates.

The credit card industry arguedthe bill could result in a tightening ofcredit at a time when a credit crunch isalready depressing spending amid aneconomic crisis.

Entertainment InternationalThursday, January 14, 201012

O’Brien said in a statement Tues-day that shifting “Tonight” will “se-riously damage what I consider to bethe greatest franchise in the historyof broadcasting,” and he expresseddisappointment that NBC had givenhim less than a year to establish him-self as host at 11:35 p.m. EST.

O’Brien is in line to make ap-proximately $30 million from NBCif he is replaced on “The TonightShow” or if the show is canceled,said a source close to the situationwho spoke on the condition of ano-nymity because the person was notauthorized to speak about it pub-licly. However, the source said thesum would not apply just for mov-ing O’Brien to a later time slot.

O’Brien said he doesn’t have anoffer in hand from another network.Fox, which lacks a network late-

Agence France Presse

LOS ANGELES – Tobey Maguirehas hung up his spandex suit and willnot return as Spider-Man when thefourth film based on the web-slingingsuperhero hits cinemas in 2012, stu-dio officials confirmed.

In a surprise move, Sony PicturesEntertainment said on MondayMaguire and director Sam Raimiwould not be involved in “Spider-Man4,” the latest instalment of the franchisewhich has grossed nearly 2.5 billiondollars worldwide since 2002.

The announcement comes afterweeks of rumors swirling around Holly-wood citing creative differences betweenRaimi and studio chiefs over the scriptbeing prepared for “Spider-Man 4.”

FILE - In this June1, 2009 file photoprovided by NBC,

Conan O’Brienmakes his debut

as the host ofNBC’s ‘The

Tonight Show’ inUniversal City,

Calif.

AP Photo/NBC, Paul Drinkwater

Conan O’Brien says noConan O’Brien says noConan O’Brien says noConan O’Brien says noConan O’Brien says nothanks to NBC movethanks to NBC movethanks to NBC movethanks to NBC movethanks to NBC moveAssociated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES – Conan O’Brien has refused to play along with NBC’splan to move “The Tonight Show” and return Jay Leno to late-night,abruptly derailing the network’s effort to resolve its scheduling mess.

night show, has expressed its appre-ciation for him but said this weekthat no negotiations have been held.

In his statement, wryly addressedto “People of Earth,” the comicknocked his network’s prime-timeratings woes, which stem in part fromthe poor performance of Leno’s newprime-time show. “The Jay LenoShow” debuted in the fall after Lenosurrendered his 17-year stake in the“Tonight” last spring to O’Brien.

“It was my mistaken belief that, likemy predecessor, I would have the ben-efit of some time and, just as impor-tant, some degree of ratings supportfrom the prime-time schedule. Build-ing a lasting audience at 11:30 is im-possible without both,” O’Brien said.

“But sadly, we were never giventhat chance. After only seven months,with my ‘Tonight Show’ in its in-

fancy, NBC has decided to react totheir terrible difficulties in prime-time by making a change in theirlong-established late night schedule.

Growing up watching “Tonight”host Johnny Carson and getting thechance to “one day sit in that chairhas meant everything to me,” andwas an opportunity he worked longand hard to obtain, O’Brien said.

“Tonight” has long been the domi-nant late-night program on television,with O’Brien following in a line ofhosts that included Steve Allen, JackPaar, Johnny Carson and Leno. Formany of those years, an appearanceon “Tonight,” particularly for comics,could make or break a career.

NBC wants to move Leno out ofprime-time and to the 11:35 p.m.slot with a half-hour show, bump-ing “Tonight” to 12:05 a.m. — thelatest it’s ever regularly aired. Thenetwork was under pressure to makea change from its affiliate stations,who found Leno’s show an inad-equate ratings lead-in for their lu-crative local newscasts.

Tobey Maguire won’t return for ‘Spider-Man 4’Columbia Pictures and Marvel

Studios said they would proceedwith a script written by JamesVanderbilt in which hero PeterParker returns to high school.

“Spider-Man 4” — with a differ-ent script and Raimi directing —had initially been set for release in2011 but had not gone into produc-tion.

“A decade ago we set out on thisjourney with Sam Raimi and TobeyMaguire and together we madethree ‘Spider-Man’ films that set anew bar for the genre,” said AmyPascal, co-chairman of Sony Pic-tures Entertainment.

“When we began, no-one everimagined that we would make his-tory at the box office, and now we

have a rare opportunity to make his-tory once again with this franchise,”she said.

“Peter Parker as an ordinaryyoung adult grappling with extraor-dinary powers has always been thefoundation that has made this char-acter so timeless and compelling forgenerations of fans,” Pascal said.

“We’re very excited about the cre-ative possibilities that come fromreturning to Peter’s roots...” Raimisaid in a statement that the “Spider-Man” movies “was the experienceof a lifetime for me.”

“While we were looking forwardto doing a fourth one together, thestudio and Marvel have a uniqueopportunity to take the franchise ina new direction, and I know they will

do a terrific job,” he said.Columbia Pictures President Matt

Tolmach, who has served as thestudio’s chief production executivesince the beginning of the franchise,described the parting with Maguire,34, and Raimi as “bittersweet.”

“We have had a once-in-a-life-time collaboration and friendshipwith Sam and Tobey and they havegiven us their best for the better partof the last decade,” he said.

“This is a bittersweet moment forus because while it is hard to imag-ine Spider-Man in anyone else’shands, I know that this was a daythat was inevitable,” Tolmach said.

“Now everything begins anew,and that’s got us all tremendouslyexcited about what comes next.”

AFP/DDP/File/Michael KappelerUS actor Tobey Maguire posesduring a photocall for the movie“Spider-Man 3 “ in Berlin in 2007.

Associated Press Writer

SEATTLE – Federalprosecutors closed a two-year rape investigation ofmagician DavidCopperfield on Tuesdaywithout filing charges, andpolice in nearby Bellevuesay his accuser made afalse sexual assault claimagainst another man lastmonth.

The end of the federalinvestigation came in abrief court filing by Assis-tant U.S. Attorney SusanRoe. The U.S. attorney’soffice in Seattle declined todiscuss its reasons, but ina written statement,spokeswoman EmilyLanglie said that generally,investigations may beclosed without charges ifprosecutors determinethere is no federal jurisdic-tion, no federal laws werebroken, or that it would be

impossible to prove the charges beyond a reasonable doubt.“Neither the investigation, nor its termination, should be perceived as

a comment on guilt or innocence,” the statement said.The woman who made the complaint, a 23-year-old fashion model,

waitress and former Miss Washington contestant, said in a related civillawsuit against Copperfield that she met him when he pulled her out ofthe crowd and onto the stage during a performance in Kennewick, insoutheastern Washington. She was later invited to visit his private islandin the Bahamas in July 2007.

The woman claimed that once she arrived, Copperfield, whose realname is David Kotkin, sexually assaulted her, in one instance holdingher head under water to coerce her.

“She is disappointed, but it wasn’t completely unexpected given thejurisdictional issue of prosecuting him here for something that happenedon his private island,” said Rebecca Roe, a lawyer for the woman.

The illusionist’s lawyers, Angelo Calfo and Patty Eakes, previouslysaid he denied the allegations and called the lawsuit “extortion for money,plain and simple,” but they had no immediate comment on the prosecu-tors’ decision.

Bellevue Police records obtained by The Associated Press on Tues-day indicate that Copperfield’s accuser made false sexual assault allega-tions against another man last month. Police referred the matter to pros-ecutors for potential charges of prostitution and making a false or mis-leading statement to a public servant.

Rape investigationof DavidCopperfield closed

AP Photo/Lilli Strauss, fileFILE - In this Sept. 27, 2006 file photo,U.S. illusionist David Copperfield arrivesfor a press conference in Vienna to pro-mote his show ‘An Intimate Evening OfGrand Illusion’.

International Thursday, January 14, 2010 13Life Style

Despite the risks, manufacturers infactories ringing this city on China’seast coast say their top priority isprofit. So offering cut-rate goods of-ten means using lower quality materi-als, including cadmium, which isknown to cause cancer.

“Business is business, and it’s allup to our client,” said He Huihua, man-ager of the Suiyuan Jewelry Shop atInternational Trade City in Yiwu, asprawling wholesale mecca where sell-ers pitch their wares in hopes of land-ing a lucrative export contract.

He spoke from a small cubicle withrows of dangling metal earrings andkey chains hanging on the wall. Else-where, brooches, necklaces, charmsand other baubles shone under themarket’s lights.

“We just make what our clients or-der. If they pay more, we use the bet-

RUNNING shoes, decked out with the latest cushioning, motioncontrol and arch support technologies, may not be as beneficial to yourfeet and joints as you might think.

A new study finds that running shoes, at least the kind currently onthe market, may actually put more of a strain on your joints than if youwere to run barefoot or even to walk in high-heeled shoes, and theincreased pressure could lead to knee, hip and ankle damage. The sci-entists don’t recommend ditching your high-tech sneaks, however, asgoing barefoot on man-made surfaces could also prove harmful,

While exercise is no doubt beneficial for overall health, running andwalking put stresses on your joints that may predispose you to gettingosteoarthritis in those areas, said Dr. D. Casey Kerrigan, who conductedthe study while at the University of Virginia, where she was a professorof physical medicine and rehabilitation. Osteoarthritis is the break-down of cartilage in your joints, which can lead to bone rubbing onbone, causing pain, Kerrigan explained. Walkers and runners shouldtry to minimize forces on their joints to prevent this damage, she said.

In pervious work, Kerrigan and colleagues had shown that women’shigh-heeled shoes cause an increase in pressure on the knee joint, spe-cifically in areas where osteoarthritis typically develops, compared withwalking barefoot. Since cushioning in running shoes can also create aslightly elevated heel, Kerrigan decided to investigate whether or notthese shoes also increase these potentially damaging forces.

Running on a “bathroom scale”The study enrolled 37 women and 31 men who ran recreationally, at

least 15 miles (24 km) per week. The subjects were then studied in a“gait laboratory,” running either barefoot or with a typical running shoe.The subjects had markers on their knees, hips and ankle joints, and asthey ran, cameras picked up these markers, allowing the researchers tosee how the joints moved.

The subjects ran on a treadmill that contained a forceplate, a deviceKerrigan describes as a “glorified bathroom scale.” With each step, theforceplate provided measurements of the magnitude of their bodyweightforces on the joints, and the direction of those forces.

Kid’s charms andjewelry are sold at ashop at whole salemarket Tuesday Jan.12, 2010 in Yiwu,China. Interviews withmore than a dozenmanufacturers andsellers in Yiwu confirmthat the toxic metalcadmium is a commoningredient in theearrings, bracelets,charms and otherbaubles being churnedout by local factoriesand piled high in city’swholesale markets.

AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko

China jewelry makers sayChina jewelry makers sayChina jewelry makers sayChina jewelry makers sayChina jewelry makers saytoxic metal cuts coststoxic metal cuts coststoxic metal cuts coststoxic metal cuts coststoxic metal cuts costs

Associated Press Writer

SAN FRANCISCO – GoogleInc. will stop censoring its searchresults in China and may pull outof the country completely after dis-covering that computer hackers hadtricked human-rights activists intoexposing their e-mail accounts tooutsiders.

The change of heart announcedTuesday heralds a major shift forthe Internet’s search leader, whichhas repeatedly said it will obey

Associated Press Writer

YIWU, China – For China’s low-cost jewelry makers, it was an opentrade secret: The metal cadmium is shiny, strong and malleable at lowtemperatures, regardless of its health hazards. And it’s cheap.

ter raw material, and vice-versa.From a few cents to a few dollars,we can make the same style of jew-elry product with a different rawmaterial.”

Asked what he thought about thehealth risks associated with cad-mium and other toxic metals, Hesaid: “I can’t be overly concernedabout that.”

Long-standing concerns about thesafety of Chinese exports flaredanew this week after an investigationby The Associated Press found that12 of 103 pieces of mainly Chinese-made children’s jewelry bought inthe Unites States contained at least10 percent cadmium, some in the 80-90 percent range. Two had less than10 percent and the rest had none.

The findings prompted retail gi-ant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to remove

the products cited by AP from itsstores in the United States. On Tues-day, the jewelry and accessorieschain Claire’s, with nearly 3,000 lo-cations in North America and Eu-rope, announced that it, too, wouldstop selling any item cited in the APinvestigation.

Charms on a “Best Friends”bracelet sold at Claire’s contained89 and 91 percent cadmium, ac-cording to testing organized by AP,and shed alarming amounts in a pro-cedure that examined how muchcadmium children might be ex-posed to.

The U.S. Consumer ProductSafety Commission announced itwas opening an investigation intothe AP’s findings, and China’s gov-ernment also took notice of thetrouble brewing in its largest exportmarket.

“We just heard about this, and wewill investigate,” said Wang Xin, di-rector of supervision in the GeneralAdministration of Quality Supervi-sion, Inspection and Quarantine.

Study: Running ShoesCould Cause Joint Strain

AP Photo/Ariel SchalitMarathon runners participate in the 33rd Tiberias Marathon inTiberias, on the sea of Galilee in northern Israel, Thursday, Jan. 7,2010. More then 1500 runners participated in 42.195km (about 26miles) asphalt course that took place in Tiberias, located in theJordan Valley, about 200 meters below sea level.

Google to end China censorship after e-mail breachChinese laws requiring some politi-cally and socially sensitive issues tobe blocked from search results avail-able in other countries. The acquies-cence had outraged free-speech ad-vocates and even some shareholders,who argued Google’s cooperationwith China violated the company’s“don’t be evil” motto.

The criticism had started to swayGoogle co-founder Sergey Brin, whoopenly expressed his misgivingsabout the company’s presence inChina.

But the tipping point didn’tcome until Google recently un-covered hacking attacks launchedfrom within China. The apparentgoals: breaking into the comput-ers of at least 20 major U.S. com-panies and gathering personal in-formation about dozens of humanrights activists trying to shine alight on China’s alleged abuses.

Google spokesman MattFurman declined to say whetherthe company suspects the Chinesegovernment may have had a handin the attacks.

Secretary of State HillaryRodham Clinton said the Googleallegations “raise very seriousconcerns and questions” and theU.S. is seeking an explanationfrom the Chinese government.AP Photo/Ng Han Guan

Visitors stand at the reception of the Google China headquarters inBeijing, China, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. Google Inc. will stop censor-ing its search results in China and may pull out of the country com-pletely after discovering that computer hackers had tricked humanrights activists into opening their e-mail accounts to outsiders.

Thursday, January 14, 201014 InternationalSport

Tony Parker scored 22 as theSpurs got their biggest victory thisseason. The Lakers are just thefourth winning team San Antoniohas beaten, but none the caliber ofthe defending NBA champions.

Kobe Bryant had another offgame, scoring 16 points. He againwore a thick splint over his bro-ken right index finger, and did notplay in the fourth quarter becauseof back spasms. Lakers coach PhilJackson said Bryant was probablefor Wednesday’s game in Dallas.

The Spurs and Lakers domi-nated the last decade, winningseven titles between them. TheLakers whittled a 22-point deficitto six late in the first meeting ofthis decade, but it was a rout bythe end.

Bryant, who scored just 12 on4-of-21 shooting in a win overMilwaukee on Sunday, had an-other slow night. He took a sea-son-low 10 shots from the field,hitting seven of them.

Bryant has said that keeping his

MADRID – Tour de France cham-pion Alberto Contador says the unusu-ally cold weather in Europe is hamper-ing his preseason training plans.

The Astana rider said Tuesday histraining so far has been “difficult to sortout.”

“The winter we’ve been having inEurope this year — and especially inmy area — I can’t remember one as badas this one,” Contador said of his home-town Pinto, which is south of Madridand been hit by freezing temperaturesand snow.

But the Spanish rider still feels he’sin good shape going into Astana’s 10-day preseason training camp Thursdayat Calpe, Spain.

The 2007 and 2009 Tour de Francechampion will start his season at theTour of Algarve in Portugal in mid-Feb-ruary, but doesn’t believe he’ll win thatrace because of the lack of training.

“This year, I don’t think I’ll arrivethere at the same level as last year,”Contador said. “But it will be a goodwarm-up for the rest of the races.”

Contador expects to compete inParis-Nice in March and perhaps theTour of Catalonia and Tour of theBasque Country. He has not ruled outthe Giro d’Italia or Spanish Vuelta, butsaid his priority is the Tour de France.

Contador said Astana has built a goodteam around him since the departure ofLance Armstrong and Levi Leipheimer.

“We’ve managed to put together apretty competitive team that is quitecomplete, one that is at the level thatthe Tour requires,” he said.

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SYDNEY – Serena Williams stormed intothe semi-finals of the Sydney International onWednesday, cranking up the heat on her oppo-nents ahead of next week’s Australian Open.

The American world number one tossed asideRussian Vera Dushevina 6-2, 6-2, making it justseven games she has dropped on her way to thelast four of the Sydney tournament.

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Center Andrew Bynum #17 ofthe Los Angeles Lakers takes

a shot against Tim Duncan#21 of the San Antonio Spurson January 12, 2010 at AT&T

Center in San Antonio, Texas.

Associated Press Writer

SAN ANTONIO – Tim Duncan had 25 points and 13 rebounds, and the San Antonio Spursshowed they can still hang with their Western Conference rivals in a 105-85 victory over the LosAngeles Lakers on Tuesday night.

finger covered gives it more strengthand protection, but he admits it af-fects his touch.

Andrew Bynum scored 23 pointsand Ron Artest had 13 for the Lak-ers. Los Angeles has lost three offour — its worst slump yet by thestandards of the NBA’s best team.

Few teams, meanwhile, have beenhotter over the last month than SanAntonio. The Spurs are 14-4 sinceDec. 9, trailing only Cleveland (15-4) for the best record over thatstretch. None of those wins were assatisfying — or as much a relief —as this one.

The Spurs (23-13) have built theirwinning record on the backs of weakcompetition, going 19-2 againstteams with losing records. Butthey’ve wilted consistently againstwinning teams, including a loss Fri-day against Dallas.

But the Spurs had been lookingforward to this litmus test. Theyspent lavishly last summer for theunsaid purpose of keeping up withthe Lakers, and here was a chance to

show if they got their money’s worth.Instead, their older investments

led this win. Duncan was 12 of 19from the field while Parker shot 10of 18. Parker scored nine points inthe fourth quarter.

Richard Jefferson, added thissummer to add more offensivepunch, scored 12. George Hill had13.

This wasn’t the same Lakers teamthe Spurs are likely see again later.Besides Bryant’s hurt hand, PauGasol has missed the last five gameswith a strained left hamstring. Lak-ers coach Phil Jackson said Gasol hashis sights on returning Friday againstthe Clippers.

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Serena likes it hot at Australian Open

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Serena Williams of the US goes downon one knee after playiing a return dur-ing her match against Vera Dushevinaof Russia at the Sydney Internationaltennis tournament. Williams won instraight sets 6-2, 6-2.

Williams, strong favourite to lift her fifthAustralian Open crown and her 12th GrandSlam, takes on world number 27 Aravane Rezaiof France in Thursday’s semi-finals.

Rezai won her third match of the tournamentagainst Italian Flavia Pennetta, 6-3, 6-0 onWednesday.

In the bottom half of the draw, Belarus sixthseed Victoria Azarenka is through to the semi-finals after beating Slovak Dominika Cibulkova6-2, 7-5, while defending champion ElenaDementieva was due to face world number twoDinara Safina later Wednesday.

“I definitely enjoy playing in the heat,” Wil-liams said of steamy Melbourne, home to theOpen. “I usually enjoy playing in the heat. I livein Florida, so it’s all about hot weather there.

“So I think maybe that’s one of the reasonswhy I do so well down here. “The past coupleof times I won it’s been extremely hot, so I ex-pect the same temperatures again.”

Asked during her post-match press confer-ence how close she was to her best form, Will-iams said: “I always try to get there usuallyaround the semi-finals and finals of the GrandSlams.

“I’m just doing the best that I can now to getthere. Hopefully I have a long way to go, whichI think is always good.” Williams said she wasexpecting her toughest match of the weekagainst Rezai.

“I haven’t played her, but I know her game,”she said. “I played her in doubles and (sister)Venus has played her before.

“She’s a good player and she’s really young.She has a lot of drive. I think she can be reallygood. It’ll definitely be my toughest match yet.”

Azarenka had to again work hard to stayalive in the tournament, taking two hours 20minutes to extinguish the challenge of the 24th-ranked Cibulkova. So far Azarenka has beentaken to three sets in all her three matches atthe tournament.

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Egypt coach, Hassan Shehata,said some inspired second-half sub-stitutions helped his team to a de-served victory. “The substitutionspaid dividends,” said the formerZamalek striker.

The veteran manager added: “Thevictory over Nigeria is just the be-ginning, we still have a long way togo and so we still need our fans’genuine support and prayers.”

Striker Mohamed Zidan said:“We didn’t give up. I think we de-served the victory.” Nigeria coach,Shuaibu Amodu, said his team paidthe price for some schoolboy errors.

“We played well and controlledthe game especially in the first halfbut somehow we made some sillymistakes and we were punished,”said a miserable Amodu.

Skipper Joseph Yobo said hadthey sustained their first half perfor-mance, they would have recordedmaximum points. “We started welland got a goal but they came at usand equalised, they also scored earlyin the second half to unsettle us.

“Had we come out in the secondhalf as we did in the first half, wewould have won this very difficultgame,” said the Everton defender.

The six-time champions broughtto an end a 33-year-old winless runthey have endured against the westAfricans and, most importantly, gavethem a head start to progress to theknockout stage of the tournament.

Against the run of play, Nigeria

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LONDON – South Africa’s AaronMokoena scored right at the end ofextra-time as crisis club Portsmouthcame from behind to beat CoventryCity 2-1 in an FA Cup third round re-play on Tuesday.

Victory gave Portsmouth, bottomof the Premier League and beset byfinancial problems, a fourth round tieat home to top-flight rivals Sunderland.

Both of Pompey’s goals were heart-breaking for second-tier Coventry,coming in the last minute of normaltime and in time added on at the end ofthe second half of extra-time.

The win gave Portsmouth fans arare moment of celebration in an oth-erwise chaotic season, on and off thefield, and Mokoena said it had comeat a vital time for the south coast club.

“It was very important to win thisgame so we can build on it,” Mokoenatold ITV4. “We needed it so badly. It’sa big win for us.”

He added: “It’s always difficult tocome to these places and credit to Cov-entry, they made it difficult for us. Atthe end of the day we managed to wrapit up.”

Portsmouth, the 2008 FA Cup win-ners, were behind for most of the matchafter Coventry striker Leon Best firedthe home side into a 22nd minute lead.

And it seemed cash-strapped Ports-mouth, whose officials met earlierTuesday with Premier League chiefsin a bid to lift the club’s transfer em-bargo, were about to exit the FA Cupuntil Coventry’s Stephen Wrightheaded into his own net shortly beforethe end of normal time at the RicohArena.

The tie was heading for a penaltyshoot-out until defender Mokoenaheaded in the winner with virtually thelast act of the game.

Earlier, Barry Ferguson’s first goalfor Birmingham City saw them beat

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Mohamed Zidan (L) of Egypt vies for the ball with Yobo Michae of Nigeria during their group C stagematch at the African Cup of Nations CAN2010 at Ombaka stadium in Benguela on January 12, 2010.

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BENGUELA, Angola – Defending champions Egypt defeated Nigeria 3-1 in their opening Af-rica Cup of Nations Group C match at the Ombaka Stadium here on Tuesday.

took the lead after 12 minutesthrough the exciting Chinedu Obasi,who powered home a left-footedrocket of a shot from outside the boxbeyond a diving goalkeeper EssamEl-Hadary.

Emad Motaeb drew Egypt levelin the 34th minute when he got tothe end of a quick counter attack ini-tiated by Wael Gomaa and skipperAhmed Hassan to round goalkeeperVincent Enyeama and slot the ballinto an empty net.

Skipper Hassan gave the cham-pions the lead in the 54th minutewhen he thundered home a blinderpast Enyeama from outside the 18-yard box.

Substitute Mohamed Nagi com-pleted the demolition job on Nige-ria in the 87th minute when he drovehome a pile driver for the third goalto the delight of the noisy, 32,000-strong crowd.

Before that Zidan should haveextended Egypt’s lead on the hourmark when all alone with Enyeamainside the box, but he blasted wide.

Hoffenheim striker Obasi, a lateinclusion in the Super Eagles squadto Angola, was at the heart of sev-eral Nigerian attacks against anEyptian team missing key stars likeMohamed Aboutrika, MohamedBarakat and Amr Zaki through in-jury.

Zidan would have put the defend-ing champions in front after sevenminutes but his final shot sailed over

the bar with goalkeeper Enyeamabeaten.

And immediately after Obasi’sstunning opening goal, SaidMoawad would have drawn Egyptlevel but he sliced his final effort offtarget.

On 23 minutes, BorussiaDortmund striker Zidan again threat-ened the Nigerian goal but his lowshot screamed into touch to the re-lief of Enyeama.

Yakubu Aiyegbeni had a penaltyappeal refused by the referee fromMauritius, Rajindraparsad Seechurn,in the 20th minute after Egyptiandefender Mahmoud Fathalla handledthe ball inside the box.

And moments later, Kalu Uchefired wide from inside the area.

In the 33rd minute, leftback TayeTaiwo launched an ambitious attackdown the left wing before pullingback for Kalu Uche, who failed tohit the target.

It was a miss Nigeria would rueas, moments later, Egypt counteredfor Al Ahly striker Motaeb to scorethe equaliser as the Pharaohs fin-ished the first half the stronger of thetwo teams.

In the second half, Egypt contin-ued to create chances with Zidantroubling the Nigerian back fouragain and again, while at the otherend, goalkeeper El Hadary kept outwhatever Nigeria could produce asthe champions showed they cannotbe taken lightly in Angola.

Mokoena givesPompey FA Cup relief

South Africa’s

Aaron Mokoena,

pictured in 2009,

scored in the

final minute of

extra-time as

crisis club

Portsmouth

came from

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Coventry City 2-

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third round

replay on

Tuesday.

Nottingham Forest 1-0 in a third roundreplay at St Andrews to set-up a fourthround tie away to Premier League ri-vals Everton.

Scotland midfielder Ferguson struckfrom 15 yards shortly after the hourmark as Birmingham saw off in-formChampionship high-flyers Forest andextended their unbeaten run in all com-petitions to 14 matches.

Elsewhere, second division Derbybeat third tier Millwall 5-3 on penaltiesafter the match at Pride Park finishedextra-time at 1-1.

The deadlock was eventually bro-ken when Steve Morison gave Millwalla 108th minute lead before Derbyequalised soon afterwards throughSteve Davies’s lob.

Derby goalkeeper Stephen Bywatersaved from Danny Schofield in theshoot-out before Dean Moxey sealedthe hosts’ place in the fourth round.

Sheffield United almost blew a 3-0 lead away to Championship rivalsQPR but held on for a 3-2 win atLoftus Road.

Lee Williamson opened the scoringin the 19th minute and then two goalsin three second-half minutes fromJamie Ward and Richard Cresswell leftthe Blades 3-0 up with 20 minutes left.

But Akos Buzsaky’s penalty gaveRangers hope before Damion Stewart’sgoal two minutes from time set up afrantic finish.

In Tuesday’s only third round matchBristol City’s late equaliser secured a1-1 draw against Championship rivalsCardiff after substitute Gavin Williamsscored in the second minute of stop-page-time at a blizzard-hit Ashton Gateto cancel out Michael Chopra’s 76thminute opener for the visitors.

Wednesday’s third round replays seePremier League Liverpool, looking tosalvage a so-far disappointing season,at home to second-tier Reading whileChampionship leaders Newcastle facedivisional strugglers Plymouth.

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The Spaniard completed the 238-km specialfrom La Serena to Santiago in just over three hoursto claim his first stage victory of the 2010 Dakar.

Sainz finished 28 seconds ahead of FrenchmanStephane Peterhansel, with American Mark Millerin third position.

It was Sainz’s 16th stage victory of his Dakarcareer. Sainz’s closest rival and Volkswagen team-mate Nasser Al-Attiyah had to settle for fourthplace in the stage, losing one minute and fortyseconds to the former world rally champion, whonow leads the Qatari by over ten minutes with fourtimed specials remaining in the event.

“Today we didn’t have any problems,” saidSainz. “Some 80kms from the start we caught upwith Nasser and we followed him because hewasn’t listening to the sentinel and it was impos-sible to pass him.

“It was a very slow and twisty track, a roadmore than anything. I knew he wasn’t going to letme pass but since km 80 I was on his trail of dust.”

Al-Attiyah, the first man on the road today, saidit has been an stressful stage for him.

“It was very, very dangerous, not easy, becausethere were a lot of corners, a lot of slippery stuff,”he said. “For me it was not a good feeling and I’mreally happy to have finished without any prob-lems.

“I’m quite happy. For me today it was verystressful because we opened the road and it wasnot easy. But it’s okay, I’m quite happy for to-day.”

On a very tight special, BMW’s GuerlainChicherit was fifth fastest, just over two and a halfminutes behind Sainz.

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Spain’s Carlos Sainz steers his Volkswagen during the 10th stage of the Dakar 2010, betweenLa Serena and Santiago, Chile, on January 12, 2010. Spain’s Carlos Sainz won the stage andleads the race, France’s Stephane Peterhansel took the second place and US Mark Miller fin-ished third.

Stage 10 standings:Pos Driver Car Gap 1. Carlos Sainz Volkswagen 3h01m05s 2. Stephane Peterhansel BMW 28s 3. Mark Miller Volkswagen 1m02s 4. Nasser Al-Attiyah Volkswagen 1m04s 5. Guerlain Chicherit BMW 2m04s 6. Orlando Terranova Mitsubishi 3m42s 7. Miguel Barbosa Mitsubishi 7m43s 8. Guilherme Spinelli Mitsubishi 9m26s 9. Robby Gordon Hummer 9m36s10. Carlos Sousa Mitsubishi 9m38s

Overall standings after stage 10:

Pos Driver Car Gap 1. Carlos Sainz Volkswagen 36h34m45s 2. Nasser Al-Attiyah Volkswagen 10m06s 3. Mark Miller Volkswagen 28m19s 4. Stephane Peterhansel BMW 2h14m20s 5. Guerlain Chicherit BMW 2h30m59s 6. Carlos Sousa Mitsubishi 3h54m05s 7. Giniel de Villiers Volkswagen 4h46m13s 8. Guilherme Spinelli Mitsubishi 5h25m08s 9. Orlando Terranova Mitsubishi 5h40m31s10. Robby Gordon Hummer 5h43m56s

CASEY Stoner says he wouldlike to race in Australia’s V8Supercars once he retires fromMotoGP, but the former championsays his main focus will remainbikes for now.

Unlike rival Valentino Rossi,the 2007 world champion has notparticipated in any serious raceswith cars, but Stoner admits hisplan is to start trying once he isclose to the end of his career as arider.

“After I retire from bikes it’smy plan basically,” Stoner saidwhen asked about a switch to four

Sainz takes firststage win of 2010

Dakar - Dakar rally leader Carlos Sainz hasmoved another step closer to overall victory afterwinning Tuesday’s 10th stage of the South Ameri-can event.

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This handout picture released on January 11, 2010 by theWrooom 2010 photo service shows Ducati driver AustralianCasey Stoner waving as he arrives for the “Wrooom, F1 andMotoGP Press Ski Meeting” Ducati and Ferrari annual mediagathering in Madonna di Campiglio.

Stoner plans to racecars after bikes

wheels during Ducati’s media eventin the Dolomites.

“I enjoy driving dirt cars around.Before I retire I may be testing a fewcars and get ready, but once I retirefrom bikes I think cars will be a littlebit more of a relaxing sport for me.

“I’m not talking about going toFormula 1, but something like V8touring cars in Australia. I thinksomething like that would be a lotof fun.

“It’s something I’m planning on.But for now and for the near futureI’m enjoying my bikes and that’s allI want to do for now.”