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KABUL — Avalanches caused by heavy snowfall have killed at least 14 people in a mountainous region in northeastern Afghani-stan, officials said Tuesday.

Rescue crews were trying to reach the remote areas of Badakhshan province where a number of houses were reported to have been destroyed

on Monday, said Shams ul-Rahman deputy provincial governor.

Between 6-9 feet (2-3 meters) of snow have fallen in the area, making roads to the provincial capital of Faizabad impassable.

“We have reports of at least 14 dead and several others injured,” ul-Rahman said, adding that sev-eral other people were missing.

Avalanches present a constant

danger in many parts of Afghani-stan during the winter.

In February 2010, an avalanche killed at least 171 people near the 12,700-foot (3,800-meter) high Salang Pass, a major route through the Hindu Kush mountains that connects the Afghan capital of Ka-bul to the north of the country.

Meanwhile, Afghan President Hamid Karzai urged the Taliban

to allow teams conducting a polio vaccination campaign access to ar-eas under the insurgents’ control.

Afghanistan is one of just three nations where polio remains endem-ic. The two others are Nigeria and neighboring Pakistan. “Whoever prevents the polio vaccination is the enemy of our children’s future,” Karzai said in a statement.

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Chairman of the Bali land transportation organization (Or-ganda), Ketut Eddy Dharma Putra, judged the issuance of fuel to gas conversion policy by government was too early. Moreover, govern-

ment had not done careful studies and feasibility test.

“The fuel to gas conversion plan should carefully and clearly designed. By doing so, it will not make people confused. Moreover, the fuel conver-

sion has serious impact, both in terms of security and economic aspect,” Darma Putra told Bali Post.

He said that government needed to examine the plan carefully. Likewise, the public safety and risks aspect

should be thoroughly considered. So, the conversion policy should not even make people uneasy.

“We are pessimistic if the public can follow the program because the gas fuel station has not been ready yet. In addition, the community must equip their vehicles with converter to support the use of gas. Obviously, this will cost much,” he said.

Avalanches kill 14 in Afghanistan

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The photo shows people queueing in the gas station. Bali is judged to have not been ready to perform the conversion of fuel to gas effective the upcoming April 1. The program started from Java and Bali has not been preceded with compre-hensive studies and feasibility test.

Bali not ready for conversion of fuel to gas Bali Post

DENPASAR - Bali is judged to have not been ready to perform the conversion of fuel to gas effective the upcoming April 1. The program started from Java and Bali has not been preceded with comprehensive studies and feasibility test.

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Tabanan (Bali Post) –The bad weather that keep on

continuing seemed to affect tour-ism facilities such as at Beratan Lake, Baturiti, hardly any tourists come causing a decrease on the tourist boats income up to 50 per-cent as stated by Marzuki (50) one of the managers of the boats last Sunday (15/1). “Most were afraid the rain will pour while they’re on the boat,” Marzuki explained.

In normal condition, the rent would reach 5-7 units per day yet for this season at most 2 units were rented. Even though rain hasn’t poured, only one unit was used so far last Sunday. To prevent the boats dragged to the mid lake, the boats were parked securely on the

sides. The tariff seemed to be stay-ing despite the fewer visitations where rowing boat IDR 50,000 while using a guide become IDR 65,000 per hour, then rent boat idr 10,000 per four people while a boat with a roof top is IDR 185,000 with maximum eight passengers. Not only those, duck boats are also hardly used where it cost IDR 35,000 per 30 minutes hire plus fishing equipments hiring are also affected where usually in a weekend 40 people would hire it, now maximum 20 people which its tariff IDR 5,000-15,000 per equipment. The tourism managers are hoping the bad weather will end soon so normal situation can occur. (udi)

Head of Hospitalise Section, dr. Ken Wirasnsadhi, MARS stated BOR of the hospital especially third

infectious illness has to be hospi-talised plus with patients owning either Bali Mandara Health Insur-ance (JKBM) and Public Health Insurance (Jamkesnas), it cause

public easier to get facilities at San-glah Hospital. “These insurances also support third class rooms yet it’s always over capacity. Usually those who did not get it are being placed to a higher one yet at this time Sanglah Hospital have every

-curred,” Ken explained.

Sanglah Hospital has 700 beds where third class got around 40 percent of it. To avoid queues, one way to be taken is to shorten long stays of patients treated at Sanglah where the usual 11 days could be quickened to 9 days. This will give smoother exchang-ing rooms. (kmb24)

Negara (Bali Post) –It was noted that there are

around 71 people that died due

Gilimanuk route which means approximately 5-6 people died a month as informed by Jembrana

is less than in year 2010 although more accidents occurred last year, stated by Head of the Police, APC Dewa Gede Putra, last Monday (16/1) with the total 252 cases with black spots 78-88 kilome-ter spots where 37 of it took 14

lives. “The total increased from 177 in 2010 to 256 in 2011. Yet for casualties it decreased from 79 becoming 71 people,” Putra explained.

Besides that, the accidents mostly happened at village roads also coming from Padang Bai and Denpasar. It seemed that it is caused due to Jembrana route became the tiring point for mo-torcycle drivers as usually those from Gilimanuk usually already got some rest when actually there

Yehembang and Sumbersari can be used to rest especially motor-cycle drivers. Besides tiredness, the road factor being damaged seemed to have caused a number of vehicles slipped or fell then driven by other vehicles. Now a number of suggestions have been placed on sensitive points also suggestion through SMS to pub-lic has also been sent. “Besides patrol, some operations will be

including safety riding,” Putra concluded. (kmb26)

SOME people at present complain about services provided by community health center because no doctors are of service. However, this does not apply to services in the community health center in Denpasar. When Bali Post made a visit to several health centers in Denpasar, many people looked to come for treatment.

One of them was Meiti, 39, a resident from Jalan Wijaya Kusuma Denpasar who visited the community health center of North Denpasar I to check up her teeth. “I have come here for seven times. By and large, I take a treatment for ailments

suffering a relapse as today,” she said.As a community member, she ad-

mitted if the service in the health center was excellent. To her knowledge, the paramedics and doctors were always of service pursuant to their duty hours. “Be-

too. When having ailments, I prefer the community health center to Sanglah Hos-pital. All the doctors and nurses here are friendly, while nurses in Sanglah Hospital

Regarding the treatment cost, contin-ued Mei, she just needed to present her Bali identity card when asking for treat-ment. Therefore, she did not have to pay for medical care and medicine. “Simply by presenting ID card, I do not have to pay,” she said. The Head of Public Health Center for North Denpasar III, AA Taru-mawijaya, explained the health center in Denpasar was urged to provide excellent service and evaluated every six months through the Society Satisfaction Index (IKM). It was undertaken by spreading

questionnaires to patients visiting the health center.

So far, added Tarumawijaya, there

center of North Denpasar consisted of 4 general practitioners, 2 dentists (plus a temporary one), 8 nurses, 8 midwives,

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Community Health Center.

health centers in Denpasar started at 07:30 a.m. until 12:00 a.m. Local Time. Regarding the service rate, continued Tarumawijaya, it had been increased since last November as an improvement from government. “Previously, medical treatment of each patient in the health center was charged at IDR 3,000. Now, it had been raised to IDR 11,000,” he said. With the rate increase, he admitted, the

to be more appreciated and had a passion to serve the community. Nevertheless, people who had the Bali identity cards did not feel it because it was covered by the Bali Mandara Health Insurance or JKBM.

Daily average of visit to the health center of North Denpasar III reached 150 people with patients dominated by the upper respiratory infection (ISPA) sufferers. In years to come, he expected the services in the health centers could be better. “We always make coordina-tion with the health agency regarding the facilities required. Today, we need blood test equipment for dengue fever disease,” said Tarumawijaya. (san)

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The patients must wait on the hall because the room in Sanglah Hospital are fully occupied

Room fully occupied, patients queuedDenpasar (Bali Post) –

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In one year, 71 people died at Denpasar-Gilimanuk route

Health Center Services in Denpasar

Evaluated every six months

Rainy Season, boats unemployed

3International Bali News Wednesday, January 18 , 2012

Based on information gatheredon Monday (Jan 16), construction ofthe wantilan hall of Bali Art Centerworked on since 2011 should nowbe re-tendered because the con-tractor winning the bid could notcomplete the work pursuant to thetime limit, so the contract was thenterminated. Development of thewantilan hall budgeted over someIDR 2.5 billion should have beencompleted on December 19, 2011.To continue the project, it would bescheduled a re-tender this Febru-ary 2012. As planned, the wantilancould have been completed beforethe Bali Arts Festival (BAF) 2012,so that it could be used to supportthe performing arts in the event.

When contacted separately byphone, the Head of Bali Cultural

the wantilan development projectwould be re-tendered because theproject contractor was unable to

achieve the volume of work as percontract. It could only accomplishabout 27 percent of the total volume.As consequence, the contract agree-ment was terminated. Eventuallythe contractor was only paid in ac-cordance with the achievements ofthe volume of work, approximatelyIDR 600 million of the contractvalue worth some IDR 2.5 billion.The remaining budget was takenback to local treasury.

Suastika further said that govern-ment would continue the rest of theproject work by re-tendering. “Theremaining work will be auctionedagain. We are now preparing thetender documents,” said Suastika.He hoped the wantilan project couldbe completed before implementa-tion of the Bali Arts Festival 2012.Additionally, he hoped to get seri-ous contractor who truly had theability to accomplish the projectwork punctually.

Semarapura (Bali Post)—Palm sugar makers at Besan Village,

Dawan, Klungkung, turned sluggishafter the rainy season since the past few

jaggery because they did not dare toclimb slippery coconut trees. Besides,

for processing the palm wine into sugaras well as they needed sunlight for com-paction process.

Moreover, so far the local customaryvillage does not allow residents to cutdown trees around the hill area haphaz-ardly.The logging is feared topotentiallycause landslides that can be harmful

can save the spending rather than usingkerosene or gas stoves. Hence, they are

Most residents of Besan Village arepalm sugar makers. It can be said, thesugar production is one of the mostimportant livelihoods for local resi-dents. Ironically, most of those gettinginvolved in the profession live below

the poverty line or are categorized intopoor households.

One of the palm sugar makers, DesakSuci, mentioned that under normal con-dition she could produce four kilogramsof palm sugar every day. The price was

IDR14,000per kilogram.However, thatprice could rise to IDR 15,000 duringa holiday season. “The sugar makinghighly depends on weather. If it rains,my husband automatically does not dareto climb coconut trees for tapping palmwine used as jaggery,” she said.

by another sugar maker, Sugiarti. Shesaid the weather would also determinethe quality of sugar. “If there is no sun-light, the sugar produced is not good,”said Sugiarti.

When not making sugar due to rain,Desak Suci and Sugiarti admitted tobe forced to seek other jobs like asporter of coconut or sand in the houseof residents who were establishing anew building. Even for such a sidejob, Desak Suci claimed to make agroup of eight.

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The concrete poles are seen on the Wantilan Hall of Art Center Denpasar.

Miss the target, Wantilan Hall of Art Center re-tenderedDenpasar (Bali Post)—

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Desak Suci, one of the palm sugar maker is showing her product

Palm sugar makers sluggish in rainy season Hard to get jaggery and firewood

News International4 Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Prime Minister Julia Gillard made the comment on Tuesday, as a row flared in Britain after a minister sug-gested taxpayers could pay for a new royal yacht to mark the occasion.

The extravagant idea was shot down by British leader David Cam-eron, although London said it would consider plans for a privately-funded ship.

Gillard said Buckingham Pal-ace had indicated that the queen’s

preference was for donations to be made to the Queen Elizabeth Dia-mond Jubilee Trust, a charity that will make investments across the 54-nation Commonwealth.

“We are considering making a do-nation to her trust,” Gillard said when asked what Australia planned.

“I actually stood with Prime Minister Cameron when he indi-cated that the advice from the palace was that the queen’s preference was

for a Diamond Jubilee Trust.“Prime Minister Cameron cer-

tainly indicated that the UK govern-ment would be making a contribu-tion to her trust,” she added.

British Education Minister Mi-chael Gove this week suggested the queen’s “highly significant contribution” to the Commonwealth should be recognised with a yacht to replace Britannia, which was decomissioned in 1997.

The queen is warmly regarded in Australia, a former British colony, though from time to time debate flares about whether ties to the mon-archy should be cut and the nation become a republic.

Reuters

BEIRUT - Twelve people were killed on Monday in Syria, where a peace plan monitored by Arab observers has failed to douse a 10-month-old struggle between President Bashar al-Assad and his foes. Arab foreign ministers meet on Sunday to discuss the future of the mission sent last month to check if Syria was abiding by the accord it ac-cepted on November 2. The mission ends on Thursday but the monitors may extend their stay to January 22.

The Arab plan required Syria to halt the bloodshed, withdraw the military from cities, free detainees and hold a dialogue. Hundreds of people have been reported killed in Syria even since the monitors deployed on Decem-ber 26 as pro-Assad forces try to crush peaceful protests and armed resistance to his rule.

Random gunfire by pro-Assad militiamen killed five people, including a woman, and wounded nine in the restive city of Homs, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. A sniper later shot dead a 16-year-old girl

there, it added. It said five soldiers were killed when they tried to change sides during a clash with rebels in the northwestern province of Idlib, adding that 15 soldiers had succeeded in defecting.

The state news agency SANA said an “armed terrorist group” had shot dead Brigadier-General Mohammed Abdul-Hamid al-Awad and wounded his driver in the countryside near Damascus. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reiterated a call for Assad to “stop killing, and listen to his people.”

During a visit to Abu Dhabi, he said: “I hope the U.N. Security Council handles Syria in a coher-ent manner and with a sense of gravity,” but did not recommend any specific action. “The casualties have reached such an unacceptable stage we cannot let the situation continue this way,” Ban said.

The harsh response to the upris-ing by Assad’s security forces has killed more than 5,000 people, by a U.N. count. The Syrian authorities say 2,000 members of the security forces have also been killed. The deaths of 32 civilians and soldiers were reported on Sunday.

Reuters

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama led Americans on Monday in honoring slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., while the Occupy Wall Street move-ment staged a new march protesting economic injustice. Obama, the first African-American president, joined his wife, Michelle, and daughter Ma-lia in helping build a library reading nook at a school in Washington.

Speaking beneath a sign with the words, “United we serve,” Obama said service and diversity strength-

ened America. “At a time when the country has been going through some difficult economic times, for us to be able to come together as a communi-ty, people from all different walks of life, and make sure that we’re giving back, that’s ultimately what makes us the strongest, most extraordinary country on earth,” he said.

On the first King holiday since the Occupy movement reignited debate in the United States over inequality, hundreds of protesters marched in wintry temperatures in Manhat-tan, stopping at a Bank of America branch to shout, “The banks got

bailed out, we got sold out.”Protest leaders said in a state-

ment the march was held “because Dr. King dedicated the last months of his life to planning a campaign for the right of all to a decent-paying job.” At least two protesters were put in a police van.

King, a Baptist pastor who advo-cated for nonviolence, racial broth-erhood and equal rights and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, was assassinated in 1968 as he stood on his motel balcony in Memphis, Ten-nessee, where he had gone to support striking sanitation workers.

Obama, Occupy marchers mark Martin Luther King holiday

REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

U.S. President Barack Obama (C) greets people as he arrives to par-ticipate during a day of service to honor Martin Luther King, Jr, at the Browne Education Campus school in Washington, January 16, 2012.

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This file photo shows Australia’s Prime Minister Julia Gillard (R) speaking to Queen Elizabeth II during the official reception at Parliament House in Canberra, last October.

Australia plans donation for queen’s jubileeAgence France Presse

Australia said it planned to make a donation to the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust rather than buying the monarch a gift to mark her 60 years on the throne.

Twelve more killed in Syria despite Arab monitors

REUTERS/Handout

Demonstrators take part in a protest against Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad after Friday prayer in Talbiseh near Homs Janu-ary 13, 2012.

Activities Wednesday, January 18, 2012 5International

Temple CeremonyCalendar Event for January 4 through 26, 2012

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

4 Jan Buda Paing Wariga Merajan Pasek Gaduh Kayubihi Bangli.

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

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

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

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

Tabanan

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

Odalan Ida Ratu Puraus Merajan Salonding Besakih.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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UBUD – The award winning Maya Ubud Resort & Spa opened its new Fitness Center and Yoga Pavilion. Located on the western side of the resort adjoining the tennis court and overlooking the pitch & putt golf green.

The fully air-conditioned Fitness Center features the lat-est state-of-the-art exercise equipment offering our resort guests the opportunity to enjoy their regular workout whilst on vacation. On the upper level, a generous 187 square meter space provides an excellent venue for daily yoga in a tranquil atmosphere, with stunning views over the resort gardens and the adjacent rice terraces.

The Fitness Center is open from 6.00 am to 9.00 pm daily and offers the services of a Personal Trainer. As part of our wellness program on the floor above, a one hour complimen-tary “Yoga for Beginners” session is conducted each morning for all to join. Following this, the pavilion is available for private yoga lessons, group sessions or yoga retreat activities. These new facilities complement the resort’s other holistic wellness programs. “Since the inception of Maya Ubud, we have constantly striven to upgrade and improve our product to meet the every growing requirements of our guests”, com-mented Paul Blake, General Manager.

Other recreational facilities and activities available in Maya Ubud Resort & Spa include two infinity-edge swimming pools, a hard surface, floodlit tennis court, pitch & putt golf green, Pilates lessons, Balinese cooking classes, nature walks, village trekking excursions and mountain biking.

Ma a Ubu Resort Spa

Equip with new facilities

Courtesy of Maya Ubud

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 6 News International

From page 1

The ship’s owner accusedthe jailed captain of causing thewreck that left at least six deadand 29 missing, saying he madean “unapproved, unauthorizedmaneuver” to divert the vesselfrom its programmed course.

Earlier, authorities had said16 people were missing. But

Marco Brusco, said late Mondaythat 25 passengers and four crewmembers were unaccounted forthree days after the Costa Con-cordia struck a reef and capsizedoff the coast of the tiny island ofGiglio.

He didn’t explain the jump,but indicated 10 of the missingare Germans. Two Americans arealso among the missing.

Brusco said there was still “aglimmer of hope” there couldbe survivors on parts of the vastcruise liner that have yet to besearched. The last survivor, acrewman who had broken his leg,was rescued on Sunday.

Waters that had remained calm

turned choppy Monday, shiftingthe wreckage and raising fearsthat any further movement couldcause some of the 500,000 gal-lons of fuel on board to leak intothe waters off Giglio, which arepopular with scuba divers andform part of the protected Tuscanarchipelago. Rescue operationswere suspended for several hoursbecause of the rough seas.

Italy’s environmental ministerraised the alarm about a potentialenvironmental catastrophe. “Atthe moment there haven’t beenany fuel leaks, but we have tointervene quickly,” the minister,Corrado Clini, told RAI stateradio.

Even before the accident therehad been mounting calls from en-vironmentalists to restrict passageof large ships in the area.

The ship’s operator, CostaCrociere SpA, has enlisted oneof the world’s leading salvagers,Smit of Rotterdam, Netherlands,to handle the removal of the 1,000-

foot (290-meter) cruise liner andextract the fuel safely. Smit has along track record of dealing withwrecks and leaks, including re-

securing drilling platforms in theaftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Meanwhile, the Italian cruiseoperator said Capt. FrancescoSchettino intentionally strayedfrom the ship’s authorized courseinto waters too close to the peril-ous reef, causing it to crash lateFriday and capsize.

The navigational version of a

a favor to the chief waiter who isfrom Giglio and whose parentslive on the island, local mediareported. A judge on Tuesday is todecide whether Schettino shouldremain jailed.

“We are struck by the un-scrupulousness of the recklessmaneuver that the commander ofthe Costa Concordia made nearthe island of Giglio,” prosecutorFrancesco Verusio told reporters.“It was inexcusable.”

Reuters

SEATTLE - A 66-year-old snowshoer missing for two nights in harshconditions on Mount Rainier inWashington was found alive on Monday by

Yong Chun Kim was leading a hiking club from Tacoma on a snowshoeoutingnear the5,400-foot-highParadise regionof themountainonSaturdayafternoonwhenheslippedand fell downasteep incline, park spokeswomanLee Taylor said.

Kim radioed his group to continue the hike, saying he would traversethe area where he fell, but rangers began the search about an hour after hefailed to show up, Taylor said.

Kim, who has 10 years of experience as a snowshoer, was found aliveby a team of three searchers midafternoon in a steep river valley called theStevens Creek drainage.

He had no obvious injuries but was extremely cold, Taylor said, addingthat he could have hypothermia.

“We have not yet gotten a detailed statement about how he stayed alive.Searchers right now are focused on keeping him warm and safe until he canbe evacuated from the remote area where they found him,” she said.

Kim was well-equipped for a day hike but not for overnight blizzardconditions, with icy winds whipping up to 50 miles per hour, temperaturesat 10 degrees Fahrenheit and up to 30 inches of fresh snow falling in partsof the park on Saturday night.

Theweather easedsomewhatonSunday,withcalmerwinds, “butwedidget several inches of snow the second night,” Taylor said.

AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia

An oil removal ship near the cruise ship Costa Concordia, leaning on its side, Monday, Jan. 16, 2012, after running aground near the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, last Friday night.

Missing raised to 29 in Italian cruise disasterAssociated Press Writer

ROME — Italy’s cruise liner tragedy turned into an environmental crisis Monday, as roughseas battering the stricken mega-ship raised fears that fuel might leak into pristine waters offTuscany that are part of a protected sanctuary for dolphins, porpoises and whales.

Missing snowshoer found alive on Mount Rainier

An owner of petrol station inTabanan, IB Raka Wiryanata, alsocomplained about the program.To make the conversion program

provide the infrastructure before it

According to him, several stepsshould be undertaken by govern-ment before starting the program.One of them was multiplying thegas station (SPBG) throughoutBali. “At least, it will take a longtime to complete the infrastructure.The infrastructure is not ready butit has been touted,” he said.

For information, governmenthas prepared the budget worth IDR965 billion for fuel to gas conver-sion program related to the controlof fuel volume coming into effecton April 1. The funds are consid-

of fuel to gas conversion program.

In the near future, the PresidentialRegulation on the control againstthe fuel volume will be immedi-ately issued by government.

People are expected to considerBBG as alternative fuel to replacePremium fuel that had been re-stricted due to the control policyagainst the volume of subsidizedfuel. To that end, the socializationon the fuel to gas conversion willbe implemented earlier precedingthe implementation of the subsi-dized fuel volume control policyon April 1.

Government, particularly Min-ister of Finance, ensuring theconverters distributed freely bygovernment remained to priori-tize the quality and safety. Suchconverter would be produced bydomestic industry, but it stilledrequired the help of imports for theearly stage. (par)

Bali...

Last year, the governmentregistered 80 new cases of po-lio, most of them in the restive

was three times higher than thetotal for 2010.

The polio virus, which usuallyinfects children in unsanitaryconditions, attacks the centralnervous system, sometimes caus-ing paralysis, muscular atrophy,deformation and, in some cases,death.

“Karzai called on the armedopposition to the government toallow the medical teams to vac-cinate the children and rescue

them from polio,” the govern-ment statement said.

Karzai said that althoughmillions of Afghan children hadbeen inoculated in successivevaccination campaigns, manyremained outside the reach of

security situation in areas in thesouth and along the border withPakistan.

Karzai’s appeal came justdays after another country in theregion, India, celebrated a fullyear since its last reported case ofpolio, a major victory in a globaleradication effort.

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Antara

JAKARTA - An Acehnese po-litical observer, Teuku Kemal Fasya, has advised President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to take action immediately to settle the problem of regional elections scheduled in Aceh next month.

“The President could mediate in the conflict between two parties who are all former members of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), namely current Governor Irwandi Yusuf and the Aceh Party, which has so far been the source of clashes,” Teuku Kemal Fasya from the De-partment of Social and Political Science of the local Malikussaleh University said here on Monday.

Kemal said the problem could no longer be settled at local levels as the turbulence has already entered into the central executive and judi-cial institutions.

“The demand of the home affairs minister to the Constitutional Court to re-open registration of candidates to give an opportunity to a number of political parties that have not yet reg-istered themselves to register shows that the internal conflict between former GAM members have already affected national politics,” he said.

Kemal said the conflict emerged after the Constitutional Court met the demand for a judicial review on Article 256 of the Law on Aceh Ad-ministration to allow independent candidates to run in the elections.

“The meeting of the demand allows current governor Irwandi Yusuf who is not nominated by Aceh Party as a candidate to run through individual nomination for his re-election as governor. On the other hand, the Aceh Party is wor-ried Irwandi would make use of his bureaucratic machine to win the elections,” he said.

That is why the Aceh Party has not yet registered itself to partici-pate in the elections. Their fear has received legitimacy following a statement from the Aceh Indepen-dent Election Commission (KIP) which said that “the elections in Aceh could only be done if ̀ Qanun` (by-law) as their legal basis has been made.”

“In 2011, the Commission re-ceived 6,000 complaints from the

people but only 4,000 cases could be processed further. Among the num-

ber, the police were the institution people had complained about most,” Komnas-HAM Chief Ifdal Kasim said here on Monday at a meeting with members of the House of Repre-sentatives from Commission III.

Ifdhal said the Commission had received a total of 1,262 complaints

from the people against the police during the 2011 period. He said the number was an indication that super-vision by the police`s internal affairs did not run well.

“If not handled properly, the num-ber of violations by the police will keep growing,” he said.

The chief added complaints related to land dispute placed second as the most cases reported to Komnasham while corporate dispute took third place.

“The scale and quality of human rights violations in Indonesia in 2011 had increased in 2011 compared to 2010,” he added.

Associated Press

JAKARTA — Indonesia has gone to imaginative extremes to try to stop commuters from riding the roofs of trains — hosing them down with red paint, appealing for help from religious leaders, and threatening them with dogs.

Now they have an intimidating and possibly even deadly new tactic: Suspending rows of grapefruit-sized concrete balls above railway lines a few inches (centimeters) above the tops of carriages at points where trains enter or pull out of stations, or where they go through crossings.

Authorities hope the balls — which could deliver serious blows to the head — will be enough to deter defiant roof riders.

“We’ve tried just about every-thing, even putting rolls of barbed wire on the roof, but nothing seems to work,” said Mateta Rizahulhaq, a spokesman for the state-owned railway company PT Kereta Api. “Maybe this will do it.”

Trains that crisscross Indonesia on

poorly maintained tracks left behind by Dutch colonizers six decades ago usually are packed with passengers, especially during the rush hour.

Hundreds seeking to escape the overcrowded carriages clamor to the top. Some ride high to avoid paying for a ticket. Others do so because — despite the dangers, with dozens killed or injured every year — “rail surfing” is fun.

The first balls were being in-stalled Tuesday hundreds of yards (meters) from the entrance of a train station just outside the capital, Ja-karta, and others were to be placed near railway crossings.

If successful, the project will be expanded, said Rizahulhaq.

Asked about worries that the balls could hurt or even kill those who defy the roof-riding ban, he insisted that wasn’t really his problem.

“They don’t have to sit on top,” he said. “And we’ve already told them, if the train is full, go to the of-fice. We will be happy to reimburse their tickets.”

AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara

A worker arranges large joss sticks in preparation for Chinese New Year celebrations in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. People of the Chinese descent in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim country, are gearing up to celebrate the Lunar New Year next week.

Indonesia cracks down on train ‘surfers’

AP Photo/Dita Alangkara

Commuters take a crowded bus as they head home after work during rush hour in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Jan. 13, 2012. Indonesia has gone to imaginative extremes to try to stop commuters from riding the roofs of trains — hosing them down with red paint, appealing for help from religious leaders, and threatening them with dogs.

Police violate human rights the most in 2011 Antara

JAKARTA - The police as an institution have violated human rights the most during the 2011 period, according to the National Commis-sion on Human Rights (Komnas-HAM) said here on Monday.

President advised to handle Aceh elections problem

8 International Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Bali Today

“Previously, cruise ships of thesame size as the Legend could notberth at any Indonesia port. Theycould only throw anchor some dis-tancefromthecoastand transportpas-sengers to the shore by small boats,”he said here Monday.

Sapta Nirwandar also said the264.3-meter-long Legend of the Seaswas the biggest cruise ship to berthat an Indonesian port, in this caseBenoa, Bali.

Meanwhile, the harbor and dredg-ing director of Bali’s Transportation

harbor was ready to receive big shipsfrom overseas.

in theharborwatershadbeenremovedin2011 toensure thenavigationsafetyof big ships, even of ships bigger than

added, the local government had alsodredged the coastal waters up to adepth of 11 meters.

“In 2012, the dredging willreach 12 meters to enable bigcruise ships to berth easily and

President DirectorofPTIndonesia

had previously said Benoa would

receive the Legend of the Seas.The cruise ship had 2,300 pas-

sengers and a 1,000-strong crew onboard when it arrived in Benoa.

“The Legend’s visit will attract

time for abigcruise ship toberth at an

According to eneral Manager of

Benoa Branch, Iwan Sabatini, theywere scheduled to be in Bali for three

“In 2011, this cruise ship also

it comes again by carrying 2,300foreign tourists,” he said.

-ists berthing would visit a numberof tourist attractions in Bali. Dur-

handled by a travel agency that hadpreviously established cooperationfor the land handling.

deepening and pond widening, said

Iwan Sabatini, the vessels of morethan 200 meters long could nowberth in the biggest seaport in Bali.“We did a deepening of the pond to12meters andwideningof thegrooveto 150 meters in the ship groove. On

been prepared to receive the visits oflarger cruise ships,” he said.

transporting thousandsof tourists.Forthat purpose, Pelindo would continueto improve the services by human re-sourcesandsupporting facilities in theseaport. In years to come, more andmore cruise ships were estimated tocome to Indonesia. They would be oflarger ships over 200 meters in length

more than 300 meters.These conditions, according to

him, would require the developmentof pier infrastructure with more ad-equate depth of the groove and pondup to 12 meters LWS. “Up to the end

units,” he said. (par)

AntaraDENPASAR - Bali overnor Made Mangku Pastika stated that 53

hope that Indonesian crew members who survived from ill-fated Ital-ian cruise ship Costa Concordia be repatriated soon.

“We have to be grateful because all Indonesian crew members,including those from Bali, were safe in the sea accident in Italy and

here on Tuesday.Pastika said that based on the latest data which was made available

to him, there were 53 crew members from Bali on board the ill-fatedcruise ship.

Meanwhile, Foreign Affairs Ministry Information and Media Di-

crew members of Costa Concordia survived in the sea accident.uoting an information from Indonesian Embassy in Rome, Italy,

among 40 people who remained missing.

Antara Foto/Nyoman Budhiana

Deputy Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy Sapta Nirwandar said a cruise ship named MV Legend of the Seas was the biggest yacht to berth in Benoa Harbor, Bali.

First big cruise ship berths at Benoa PortAntara

DENPASAR - Deputy MinisterofTourism and Creative Economy Sapta Nirwandarsaid a cruiseship named MV Legend of the Seas was the biggest yacht to berth in Benoa Harbor, Bali.

53 crew members of Costa Concordia from Bali

Antara

13 compare to the same period in the previous year which was102.19 million.

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November 2011 period.

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period in 2010 which was 469.93 million.

Bali textile export increase 13%

Balinese Culture

9International Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Babi Kecap(Pork Cooked in Soya Sauce)

Ingredients

1/2 kg (1 1/4 lb) fillet of pork -or leg of pork 1 tb Clear soya sauce 2 tb Plain flour 1/2 ts Powdered ginger 20 g (4 oz) button mushrooms 4 Cloves garlic 1 sl of root ginger, about 2 cm -(1”) across and 1/2 cm -(1/4”) thick 3 tb Dark soya sauce Pepper or a pinch of chilli -powder 2 tb water 2 tb Medium dry sherry or rice -wine (optional) 2 ts Lemon juice 6 tb Oil or pork fat

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

sauce.

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

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

Heat the oil or fat in a wok or thick frying pan and fry the 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 the pan or stick to the bottom of it, but leave it there-it will thicken the sauce later. Now take most of the oil out of the pan, leaving only about two tablespoons which you then heat again. In this, fry the tiny slices of garlic and ginger and the mushrooms, stirring continuously, for i minute. Add the soya sauce, the water and the meat. mix well, season with pepper or chilli powder, and stir continuously for 1 or 2 minutes. just before serving, add the sherry or rice wine and the lemon juice. Serve hot.

This dish keeps extremely well in the freezer, and it is worth making a large quantity from, say, half a leg-of pork, which is much cheaper than buying pork fillet. If you are going to freeze your Babi Kecap, however, do not add the sherry or lemon juice at the time of cooking. To serve from the freezer, thaw the meat out completely and heat quickly on a high flame for 2 to 3 minutes, stirring or shaking the pan well all the time. Add the sherry or rice wine and lemon juice just before serving.

AFP PHOTO / SONNY TUMBELAKA

Two women clean a holy statue after cleaning it at Buddhist temple in Denpasar on the Hindu majority island of Bali on January 17, 2012, ahead of the Chinese Lunar new year. Indonesia will celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year on January 23, 2012.

Wednesday, January 18, 201210 InternationalDestinations

KERTHAGOSA Justice located at Klungkung was the oldest king-dom on the island and its “Raja” the most exalted. Kerthagosa (The Court Hall) and Taman Gili (The Floating Pavilion) were formerly parts of Semarapura Palace of Klungkung Kingdom, built in the 18th century. A main gate or the royal palace well known as “Pemedal Agung” is hith-erto standing intactly at the Western part of the Court Hall and the Floating Pavilion. For its ceiling painted in the traditional wayang style portraying punishment in hell and the rewards in heaven and other aspects of morali-ties. The floating pavilion, garden and lotus ponds in this walled- in com-plex, located on the main intersection of town are a reminder of the former glory of this kingdom.

Taman Gili, Royal Courts of Justice Pavilions, with their sur-rounding lotus ponds, are a graceful reminder of the former glory of this kingdom. These pavilions, built in the

18th century, are located at the main road intersection side of the town of Klungkung (40 km. from Denpasar). They are especially known for their ceiling murals, painted in the tradi-tional “Wayang” style, depicting the punishments in hell for miscreants, and higher up, the rewards in heaven for those that lead a good and honest life. The courts were presided over by three pedandas (high priest), and con-tinued to fulfill their function through Dutch colonial times. The Kerta was the island’s highest court of justice. The old buildings were renovated and restored in 1960. Behind the Kerthagosa stands a tall gateway. This gateway is all that remains of what was once the first and most elaborate palace in Bali, which was destroyed by the Dutch artillery when they bombarded the town of Klungkung and Gelgel into submission in 1908. As had happened in other kingdoms in Bali, the Dewa Agung led a great “Puputan”, or ceremonial fight to

death, and so ended 600 years of rule in Bali by the lineal descendents of the emperors of Majapahit. After this conquest, the Dutch had gained control of all of Bali.

The town of Klungkung centers around the Puri Smarapura or ‘Palace of the God of Love” former home of Bali’s most illustrious line of kings. Unfortunately, all that remains now are the great gate and garden, and two pavilions with magnificently painted ceilings. These are the Kerta Gosa Hall of Justice overlooking the town’s main intersection, and the larger Bale Kambang or Floating Pavilion just behind it.

The rest of this splendid complex was razed to the ground in 1908, during the royal mass suicide or pu-putan (‘ending”) against the Dutch invaders. This event removed the last obstacle to Dutch domination of the island. A monument com-memorating the puputan now stands across the road.

The Kerta Gosa was a place for the administration of traditional jus-tice in precolonial times by a council consisting of the great king and his priests. The Paintings on the ceiling tell of the punishments awaiting evil-doers in hell, and of the delights of the gods in heaven. Different levels and stations in heaven and hell are described through the story of the hero Bima, who journeys to the underworld to save the souls of his parents. These scenes were used to

alternately threaten and cajole any-one who appeared before the court.

Like the Sistine Chapel, the Ker-thagosa presents a whole complex of ideas on the workings of fate and the role of the divine in human affairs. The ceilings themselves have been repainted three times in recent mem-ory. The last complete refurbishment occurred in 1960 under the famous artist Pan Seken, although in 1984, weather damage caused a number of panels to be repaired.

Kerthagosa

Klungkung Ancient Kingdom

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012 11

BUSINESSInternational

Reuters

BRUSSELS-U.S. ratingagencyStandard&Poor’scut itscredit ratingof the euro zone’s EFSF rescue fundon Monday, and Greece was underpressure to break a deadlock in debtswap talks if it is to avoid an unrulydefault.

FrenchFinanceMinisterFrancoisBaroin said there was no need toshoreup theEuropeanFinancialSta-bilityFacilityafterS&Pdowngradeditbyonenotch toAA+fromtriple-A,echoing the view of Germany, theonly major euro zone member toretain a top-notch credit rating.

S&P said in a statement the deci-sion was all but inevitable followingidentical cuts threedaysearlier to thecreditworthiness of France andAus-tria, two of the EFSF’s guarantors.

“Weconsider that credit enhance-ments that would offset what weview as the now-reduced creditwor-thiness of theEFSF’sguarantors andsecurities backing the EFSF’s issuesarecurrentlynot inplace,” theagencysaid in a statement.

“We have therefore lowered toAA+ the issuer credit rating of theEFSF, as well as the issue ratings onits long-term debt securities.”

Financial markets, which hadfallen after the mass downgradesof euro zone members on Friday,showed little reaction to the latestblow -- which had been expected-- and Japan, a major buyer of EFSFbonds, said they remained an “at-tractive” investment.

Agrowingnumberof experts, in-

warned that a Greek default was onthe cards, after Greece’s talks withcreditors broke down on Friday.

Greece was under growing pres-sure to secure a last-ditch agreementwith its private creditors to acceptvoluntary losses on their holdingsof Greek bonds.

Athens risks going bankruptwhen 14.5 billion euros of bondredemptions fall due in late March.Without a private sector bond swapinvolving a voluntary writedown, a130billioneuro second internationalbailout for Greece could fall apart.

The talks with creditor banksbroke down because of differentviewsonwhat interest rate is accept-able, the head of the group leadingprivate sector talks said.

CharlesDallara,managingdirec-tor of the Institute of InternationalFinancial, said thebankswere “verysurprised” at the stance taken bysome officials representing both

governments and multilateral insti-tutions, without naming them.

The EFSF was set up by the17 governments that share theEuropean single currency in May2010 and has so far been used toprovide emergency loans to Irelandand Portugal. It is also expected tocontribute to a second bailout ofGreece.

The fundhas aneffective lendingcapacity of 440 billion euros, whichdependsonguarantees,mainly fromthe euro zone’s AAA countries,only four of which now remain:Germany,Luxembourg,Finlandandthe Netherlands.

In a statement, the EFSF saidthe downgrade would not affect itslending capacity, and emphasizedthat its short-term rating remainedat S&P’s top level.

“The downgrade to ‘AA+’ byonly one credit agency will not re-duceEFSF’s lendingcapacityof440billion euros,” said the fund’s chiefexecutive, Klaus Regling.

“EFSF has sufficient meansto fulfill its commitments undercurrent and potential future ad-justment programs until the ESMbecomes operational in July 2012,”he added.

The ESM -- the European Sta-bility Mechanism -- is a permanentrescue fund that is expected to havean effective capacity of 500 billioneuros, based on paid-in capital of 80billion euros and callable capital of620 billion euros.

French Finance Minister Fran-cois Baroin said there was no needto shore up the EFSF despite theS&P rating downgrade.

“The EFSF has kept intact itsability to lend, with enough meansand guarantees to fulfill the fullrange of its present and future com-mitments,” he said in a statement.“There is therefore no need to acton the EFSF at the moment.”

German Chancellor AngelaMerkel’s spokesman, Steffen Seib-ert told reporters: “The governmenthas no reason to believe that thevolume of guarantees that the EFSF

“We should not forget that it has

forward the ESM and to have it inplace in mid-2012, one year earlierthan planned.”

There was also support from Ja-pan,withFinanceMinisterJunAzumisayingTokyo’strustinEFSFbonds,inwhich it has so far invested 21 billioneuros, had not been shaken.

Best known for making mas-sive investments in new technol-ogies ahead of rivals, Samsung isnow banking on logic chips andOLED displays to repeat its roar-

-puter memory chips and LCD

global economic and IT spend-ing outlook forces its peers to beconservative in spending.

Samsung Group, South Ko-rea’s biggest business group, didnot provide a breakdown of the47.8 trillion won investment. Butanalysts have widely expectedit to raise investment in mobilechips and next-generation OLED(organic light emitting diode)

“Samsung’s got strong cash

technologies,” Lee Sun-tae, ananalyst at NH Investment & Se-curities. “No other IT companycan beat it in terms of invest-ment and that’s how Samsungfinds new revenue sourcesahead of rivals and widens itsgap.”

The group also said on Tues-day it would add a record 26,000employees this year, up fromlast year’s 25,000, at a timewhen tens of thousands ofjobs in the financial industryare being cut globally due tocontinuing turmoil in markets.Samsung now employs around350,000 in total.

The investments will be ineverything from building fac-tories to research and develop-ment activities to doing mergersand acquisitions and hiring.

Of the total investment, capi-tal spending will amount to 31trillion won, up 11 percent froma year ago, Samsung said in astatement.

Some 25 trillion won, or 80percent of the capital spend-ing, will be from SamsungElectronics, the world’s biggest

technology firm by revenue, andits display unit, mainly to boostcapacity of system chips andOLEDs, said analysts.

Investment in system chipssuch as mobile processors andsensors used in smartphones,tablets, and cameras is likely toexceed spending on its bread-and-butter memory chips forthe first time, reaching 7.5trillion won, or some 1 trillionwon higher than investment inmemory chips, they predicted.

Investment in OLED is likelyto rise to 7 trillion won fromlast year’s some 5 trillion won,and the rest will be spent onLCDs, rechargeable batteriesand LEDs, they said.

Samsung Electronics makesmobile processors to powerApple’s iPhone and iPad aswell as its own Galaxy line ofmobile products. Its displayunit, Samsung Mobile Display,is also a near monopolistic sup-plier of OLED displays, whichare mainly used in high-endmobile gadgets and are set tobecome dominant in TV screensto replace LCD.

OLED display revenues areexpected to exceed $20 bil-lion by 2018 to account for16 percent of the total displayindustry, up from the current 4percent, according to researchfirm DisplaySearch.

The record investment plancomes after Samsung Electron-ics said on Monday its U.S. unitwas planning to sell around $1billion in bonds, its first majoroverseas debt sale in more thana decade, to fund its chip plantoperation.

Samsung didn’t detail wheth-er the funds will be used to ex-pand capacity at Austin, Texas,its sole and biggest overseaschip plant, which makes chipsfor Apple products.

Samsung normally finances

its investment with internal cashand had around 22 trillion wonin cash as of end-September.It is set to report a record 5.2trillion won in fourth-quarteroperating profit next week,according to its preliminaryresults.

The record spending, whichis up 12 percent from last year’s42.8 trillion won, comes as itskey home rival LG Group cutits 2012 investment by some $3billion amid an uncertain globalbusiness outlook. LG Electron-ics Inc and LG Display are partof the LG Group.

LG Display, which vies withSamsung for the title of the topflat-screen maker globally andis also aggressively expandinginto OLED, plans around 4 tril-lion won investment this year,little changed from last year andjust around half of the budgetSamsung is likely to spend onflat screens this year.

Major Japanese firms -- SonyCorp, Toshiba Corp, Hitachi Ltdand Sharp Corp -- are planningto invest a combined 1.3 trillionyen ($16.6 billion) in the cur-rent fiscal year to end-March,smaller than Samsung Group’scapital spending of 27.9 trillionwon for 2011.

Samsung Group comprisesaround 80 companies. Its busi-ness portfolios expand fromfinancial, construction and ship-building to medical services andconsumer electronics and totalrevenues account for some 20percent of South Korea’s 1,200trillion won GDP.

Shares in Samsung Electron-ics, Asia’s biggest technologyfirm by market value, ended up0.6 percent on Tuesday, lagginga 1.8 percent rise in the broadermarket. Samsung, which nowhas a market value of about$144 billion, gained 11.5 per-cent last year.

Samsung Group plans record $41 billion investment in 2012Reuters

SEOUL - Samsung Group, which includes Samsung Electronics Co, said on Tuesday it israising its 2012 investment to a record $41.4 billion, underscoring the widening gulf betweenthe dominant South Korean conglomerate and its faltering competitors.

S&P downgrades euro zone rescue fund

Entertainment InternationalWednesday, January 18, 201212

The other best-film nominees an-nounced Tuesday were “The Descen-dants,” ‘’Drive” and “The Help.” In a diverse field not dominated by any single film, there are also multiple nominations for “Hugo,” ‘’My Week With Marilyn,” ‘’The Iron Lady” and “The Help.” The nominations are another feather in the cap of “The Artist,” a black and white French film about a silent film actor’s fall with the rise of talkies.

And they are a boost for “Tinker Tailor,” an atmospheric adaptation of John le Carre’s espionage classic

that has received rave reviews but has so far been snubbed during the U.S. awards season. The best actor contest pits Oldman and Dujardin against Brad Pitt for “Moneyball,” George Clooney for “The Descendants” and Michael Fassbender for “Shame.”

The best actress category includes two performers playing real-life icons — Michelle Williams as Marilyn Mon-roe in “My Week With Marilyn” and Meryl Streep as former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady.” The other nominees are Berenice Bejo for “The Artist,” Tilda Swinton for “We

Need to Talk About Kevin” and Viola Davis for “The Help.”

The prizes will be awarded at a ceremony at London’s Royal Opera House on Feb. 12. They are consid-ered an important indicator of pros-pects at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles two weeks later. In recent years, the awards, known as BAFTAs, have helped small British films gain momentum for Hollywood success.

In 2010, Danny Boyle’s “Slumdog Millionaire” won seven BAFTAs, including best film; it went on to take eight Oscars. Last year “The King’s Speech” won seven BAFTAs and four Oscars, including best picture.

“My Week With Marilyn,” the story of the movie legend’s time shooting an ill-starred comedy in England, received six BAFTA nomi-nations, including a supporting-actor nod for Kenneth Branagh, who plays Laurence Olivier.

Associated Press Writer

CANBERRA, Australia — A newly discovered horse fly in Australia was so “bootylicious” with its golden-haired bum, there was only one name worthy of its beauty: Beyonce.

Previously published results from Bryan Lessard, a 24-year-old researcher at Australia’s Com-monwealth Scientific and Indus-trial Research Organization, were recently announced on the species that had been sitting in a fly col-lection since it was captured in 1981 — the same year pop diva Beyonce was born.

He says he wanted to pay respect to the insect’s beauty by naming it Scaptia (Plinthina) beyonceae. Lessard said Beyonce

would be “in the nature history books forever” and that the fly now bearing her name is “pretty bootylicious” with its golden backside. “Bootylicious” was the title of a song by Beyonce’s pre-vious group, Destiny’s Child.

It’s unknown if the rare spe-cies is a bloodsucker like many female horse flies. Lessard says he was unable to find any live specimens when he went look-ing in 2010 in northeast Queen-sland’s Atherton Tablelands, where it was captured three decades ago. However, at least one member of the public has alerted him that he was recently bitten by what’s locally called the “gold bum fly.”

The description of the fly was earlier published in the Australian

Journal of Entomology, but the re-sults were announced last week.

Lessard says he hasn’t heard from Beyonce, who recently gave birth to her first child, but he is a fan and hopes she will take his scientific gesture as a compli-ment. He also said the name was picked to help draw attention to the importance of his field and the need for more researchers to catalog and study insects.

Horse flies are “vital pol-linators of native plants, not just in Australia, but all over the world,” Lessard said. “It’s extremely important to name all the undescribed species so we can measure our human impact on the environment and hopefully protect it for future generations to enjoy.”

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — Lindsay Lohan is returning to court to give a judge her second update on how she’s faring under strict new probation requirements. The hearing on Tuesday is ex-pected to be much like Lohan’s last progress update: short and without surprises.

The starlet has been doing cleanup work at the county morgue and attending psycho-therapy sessions in an effort

to avoid problems with her probation for separate drunken driving and theft cases.

Lohan’s spokesman Steve Honig says the actress has made her community service her “primary focus” and is eager for Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner to receive the details.

The 25-year-old struggled with her probation until Saut-ner imposed a series of tough new rules, including monthly meetings with the court, in November.

‘Artist,’ ‘Tinker Tailor’

Associated Press Writer

LONDON — It’s spry versus spy as frothy silent movie “The Artist” and moody thriller “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” lead the race for the British Academy Film Awards, Britain’s equivalent of the Oscars. “The Artist” received 12 nominations and “Tinker Tailor” 11, with each film up for best picture and director, and best actor nominations for leading men Jean Dujardin and Gary Oldman.

AP Photo/Michael Nelson, Pool

FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011 file photo, Lindsay Lohan appears in court during progress report session at the Los Angeles Superior Court in Los Angeles.

Lohan returns to court for

Science Wednesday, January 18, 2012 13International

Associated Press Writer

LONDON — British scientists have found scores of fossils the great evolution-ary theorist Charles Darwin and his peers collected but that had been lost for more than 150 years. Dr. Howard Falcon-Lang, a paleontologist at Royal Holloway, Uni-versity of London, said Tuesday that he stumbled upon the glass slides containing the fossils in an old wooden cabinet that had been shoved in a “gloomy corner” of the massive, drafty British Geological Survey.

Using a flashlight to peer into the draw-ers and hold up a slide, Falcon-Lang saw one of the first specimens he had picked up was labeled ‘C. Darwin Esq.” “It took me a while just to convince myself that it was Darwin’s signature on the slide,” the paleontologist said, adding he soon realized it was a “quite important and overlooked” specimen.

He described the feeling of seeing that famous signature as “a heart in your mouth situation,” saying he wondering “Goodness, what have I discovered!”

Falcon-Lang’s find was a collection of 314 slides of specimens collected by Dar-win and other members of his inner circle, including John Hooker — a botanist and dear friend of Darwin — and the Rev. John Henslow, Darwin’s mentor at Cambridge, whose daughter later married Hooker.

The first slide pulled out of the dusty corner at the British Geological Survey turned out to be one of the specimens

collected by Darwin during his famous expedition on the HMS Beagle, which changed the young Cambridge graduate’s career and laid the foundation for his subsequent work on evolution.

Falcon-Lang said the unearthed fossils — lost for 165 years — show there is more to learn from a period of history scientists thought they knew well. “To find a trea-sure trove of lost Darwin specimens from the Beagle voyage is just extraordinary,” Falcon-Lang added. “We can see there’s more to learn. There are a lot of very, very significant fossils in there that we didn’t know existed.”

He said one of the most “bizarre” slides came from Hooker’s collection — a speci-men of prototaxites, a 400 million-year-old tree-sized fungi.

Hooker had assembled the collection of slides while briefly working for the British Geological Survey in 1846, according to Royal Holloway, University of London.

AFTER the devastating crash of the Carnival Costa Concordia cruise liner on Italy’s coast, rela-tives and friends of the survivors have been seeking information about their loved ones through social media channels like Facebook and Twitter accord-ing to a recent report from Reuters. A 22-year old British dancer by the name of Rose Metcalf used Facebook to post a cry for help while the ship was sinking. Included as a Facebook caption on a photo of herself within a dark portion of the ship, she posted “My name is Rose, it’s Friday the 13th and I’m one of the last survivors still on board the sinking cruise ship off the coast of Italy. Pray for us to be rescued.” Hours later, Rose was airlifted to safety off a slanted deck by a rescue helicopter.

According to a new report from The Telegraph, the sister of the head waiter on the Costa Concordia posted on Facebook about the incoming ship just minutes before the ship smashed into the rocky

shore. She stated ”In a short period of time, the Con-cordia ship will pass very close. A big greeting to my brother who finally gets to have a holiday on landing in Savona.” Captain Francesco Schettino had alerted the head waiter to the bridge to watch the ship pass by the nearby shore. Despite warnings from crew members, the captain continued on the same course and ultimately capsized the luxury cruise liner. Po-lice have taken Captain Schettino into custody and he is currently facing multiple manslaughter charges for the deaths of at least six passengers.

Survivors and family members have turned to Facebook groups to post information about miss-ing friends as well as vent their anger toward the captain’s actions. They are also using Twitter to post real-time updates with pictures of the salvage operation as well as any information on the recov-ery effort. Twenty-two passengers and four crew members are still missing.

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The number of US pedestrians who have been killed or badly injured while wearing headphones has tripled in six years, according to a study published Tuesday. The annual tally rose from 16 in 2004 to 47 in 2011, bringing the total of cases to 116 over this period, say the authors.

More than half of the incidents involved pedestrians who were run down by trains. Two-thirds of the victims were males and under the

age of 30.The research, published in the

British journal Injury Prevention, was headed by Richard Lichenstein of the University of Maryland Hospital for Children in Baltimore. The paper warns of “inattentional blindness” when wearing headphones, meaning a distraction that lowers the resources the brain devotes to external stimuli.

The trawl of US accident statistics covered iPods, MP3 players and other musical devices. It did not include mobile phones.

‘lost’ Darwin fossils

AP Photo/Royal Holloway, University of London, Kevin D’Souza Ho

This image made available by the Royal Holloway, University of Lon-don on Tuesday Jan. 17, 2012 shows a polished section of fossil wood from the cabinet of Reverend John Henslow, Charles Darwin’s mentor at Cambridge, comprising a 150 million years old tree.

Dancer saved from capsized cruise liner after Facebook plea

The cruise ship Costa Concor-dia leans on its side Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012, after running aground on the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, on Friday evening.

AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia

AFP Photo/Emmanuel Dunand

The number of US pedestrians who have been killed or badly injured while wearing headphones has tripled in six years, according to a study published Tuesday.

Toll from pedestrians wearing headphones triples

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The 25-year-old Bosnian’s sub-lime 22nd minute header provedenough to sink the bottom clubafter Wigan goalkeeper Ali AlHabsi had threatened to frustratethe leaders.

Al Habsi produced a string ofexcellent saves both before andafter Dzeko had netted his 14thgoal for City this season.

David Silva, Sergio Aguero andDzeko were all denied by the Omaninternational but City returned towinning ways to pull clear of near-est rivals Manchester United aheadof Sunday’s big home game withthird-placed Tottenham.

“I could have scored one ortwo more goals in the end, butI’m happy with the three pointsbecause it was a tough game andWigan played very well,” Dzekotold Sky Sports.

“I’m happy to score and helpmy team win. In football some-times you score and sometimes

not, but I’m happy today.”Having suffered back-to-back

defeats in cup competition, anaway game against basementteam Wigan provided City with aperfect opportunity to snap out oftheir winter blues.

The FA Cup elimination atthe hands of Manchester United

leg home defeat to Liverpool,together with captain VincentKompany’s four-match suspen-sion, had resulted in a poor start to2012 for Mancini’s expensively-assembled side.

But they found relief at Wigan,whose recordagainst the so-calledbigfour is nothing short of diabolical.

Since winning promotion to thetop-flight in 2005, Wigan havelost all 14 league and cup gamesagainst Manchester United whilethey have now gone eight hours15 minutes without scor ingagainst City.

Mancini was relieved to havestopped the rot.

“It was about the victory not theperformance tonight,” he said.

“It was really important to wintonight. We knew that was dif-

have played very well and Ro-berto Martinez is a fantasticmanager.”

Martinez for his part was an--

mance but buoyed by the spiritshown in the second period.

the game is probably what pleasesme most,” said Martinez, whoseside only escaped relegation onthe last day of last season.

“We probably had our worstfirst half this season, we werecagey, but in the second half wetook control a bit more and I hadthe feeling in the last 20 minutesthat there could be a chance com-ing our way.”

AP Photo/Jon Super

Manchester City’s Edin Dzeko, centre, is congratulated by teammates including Stefan Savic, left, after scoring against Wigan Athletic during their English Premier League soccer match at The DW Stadium, Wigan, England, Monday Jan. 16, 2011.

Dzeko ends goal drought to give Man City winAgence France Presse

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squad to Bolivia on Monday for a Libertadores Cup match in one ofthe world’s highest stadiums despite having threatened not to play

The former Barcelona andAC Milan forward was among 16 playerswho left for next week’s match away to Real Potosi, who, at 4,070

division stadium.Reports in local media say Ronaldinho is owed 3.75 million Brazil-

part of the former FIFA World Player-of-the-Year’s salary.The club said they were counting on Ronaldinho, who joined

preliminary round tie. “We are not working with the possibility ofhim not playing,” club president Patricia Amorim said at Flamengoheadquarters.

with a view to a happy ending,” she told a news conference shortlyafter the team’s departure.

Ronaldinho’s brother and agent Roberto Assis told media he had

would be paid on Wednesday.

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Unpredictable Napoli continued their erratic season byscraping a 1-1 home draw with lowly Bologna on Monday, needinga controversial penalty to snatch a point.

Napoli, who lack the strength in depth to perform consistentlyat their best, fell behind after 14 minutes when Nico Pulzetti foundRobert Acquafresca, giving him a clear run on goal and he slottedpast Morgan De Sanctis.

Still missing injured forward Ezequiel Lavezzi, Napoli left new

alongside Marek Hamsik and Uruguay forward Cavani in attack.They created plenty of openings but needed a highly controversial

incident to grab the equaliser.Napoli were originally awarded a free kick just outside the area for

handball but the referee then changed his mind after consulting withthe linesman and gave a penalty.

Cavani step up to convert for his 16th goal of the season in allcompetitions in the 71st minute amid angry Bologna protests.

Napoli, whose results have varied between a 3-1 win overAC Milan

with 28 points from 18 games. Bologna are 16th with 19 points.

Unpredictable Napoli scrape draw with Bologna

Ronaldinho joins Flamengo on Bolivia trip despite wage debt

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“I’ve seen that before,” Odomtold reporters of the winning shotfrom his former team mate. “Wedoubled off Kobe and he hit theshot. He’s done that over andover.”

Odom, who spent the previousseven seasons in Los Angeles,where he helped the team to twoNBA titles before he was traded inthe off-season, received a rousingovation and a video tribute when hetook the court at the Staples Centerin the first quarter.

Odom finished with 10 pointsand the good vibes were fleetingas the crowd watched the Lakers(10-5) stumble through a season-low point total before overcomingthe opponent that swept them outof last season’s playoffs. KobeBryant’s run of four consecutive40-point games came to a jarringend as he managed just 14 on 7-for-

22 shooting, but Andrew Bynumprovided a rare bright spot with 17points and 15 rebounds.

Dirk Nowitzki produced a team-high 21 for Dallas (8-6), whoerased a seven-point deficit in thefinal four minutes to tie the gamebut ultimately had their five-gamewin streak snapped. Dallas, whohave retooled with several newfaces this season, had been ridingtheir defense on their recent runand could have extended it but forsome poor shooting.

The Mavs shot just 35 percentfor the night, while the Lakers werebarely more clinical at 38 percent.The visitors opened up an advan-tage by outscoring Los Angeles16-7 in the third and grabbing asix-point lead early in the fourth.

The Lakers responded with astretch of their own that put themahead 66-59 with just four minutes

left. It was short-lived and JasonTerry’s running shot tied the scorewith nine seconds left. But on LosAngeles’ final possession, Dallasrushed to double-team Bryant andFisher made them pay with a longthree.

“I don’t think that’s ever theplan (for me to shoot the lastshot),” said Fisher, who finishedwith 13 points. “I just try to stayready to help my team win. This iswhat I do.”

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Long-time rivals Roger Federerand Rafael Nadal sought to playdown a rare public spat betweenthem as both enjoyed crushinground-one wins at the AustralianOpen on Monday.

Federer said he was “completelycool” despite Nadal accusing him ofnot pushing hard enough for betterplayers’ rights, while the Spaniardregretted his comments made tomedia earlier.

“Things are fine between us,you know. I have no hard feelingstowards him,” Federer said.

“He’s mentioned many timeshow he gets a bit tired and frustratedthrough the whole process, and Ishared that with him. It’s normal,”he added.

“But for me, obviously nothingchanges in terms of our relationship.I’m completely cool and relaxedabout it. He seemed the same way-- or at least I hope so.”

The short-lived row threatenedto overshadow day one action at

women’s champion Kim Clijsterswent through in straight sets along-side last year’s runner-up, Li Na ofChina.

And as temperatures soared to 34

degrees Celsius (93 degrees Fahr-enheit), Australian teen BernardTomic came from two sets down tobeat Spain’s Fernando Verdasco inthe pick of the men’s action.

Nadal admitted he probablyshould not have taken Federer totask so publicly. He had complainedthat the ATP Player Council presi-dent was not speaking out on issuessuch as more prize money and aneasier schedule.

“These things can stay, muststay in the locker room,” Nadal toldjournalists.

“I always had a fantastic relation-ship with Roger. I still have a fantas-tic relationship with Roger. That’swhat it should be, in my opinion.Don’t create crazy histories aboutwhat I said yesterday, please.

“We can have different viewsabout how the tour needs to work.That’s all.”

Nadal also revealed he sufferedsudden and crippling knee pain onSunday which threatened to end histournament, before recovering afterintensive medical attention.

The 2009 champion, who hashad injury problems on his pasttwo visits to Melbourne Park,put the emergency behind him tobeat American Alex Kuznetsov6-4, 6-1, 6-1.

Federer had an easy 7-5, 6-2, 6-2workout against Russia’sAlexanderKudryavtsev, a player so obscurethat he had to scour the Internet inan effort to learn about his game.

“I heard a few things about himon the Internet and I knew what toexpect although I didn’t know hisfavourite shots or weaknesses,”he said.

Nineteen-year-oldTomic had theperformance of the day when hecame from two sets behind to win4-6, 6-7 (3/7), 6-4, 6-2, 7-5 againstVerdasco, who draped himself in icepacks and battled nausea in the hotafternoon sun.

“If it was someone else, I thinkthey would have thrown in thetowel,” Tomic said. “I don’t knowhow I found the energy today.”

Former US Open champion JuanMartin del Potro saw off AdrianMannarino in four sets, and China’sFrench Open champion Li alsosuffered in the heat during her 6-3,6-1 win over Kazakhstan’s KseniaPervak.

Defending champion Kim Cli-jsters raced into the second roundand third seed Victoria Azarenkamaintained her winning start to2012 with a comprehensive 6-1,6-0 demolition of Britain’s HeatherWatson.

Los Angeles Lakers’ Derek Fisher hits the game winning

three-pointer over Dallas Mav-ericks’ Dirk Nowitzki with less

than five seconds left in an NBA basketball game in Los Angeles on Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. The Lakers won 73-70.

Fisher hooks Mavs with late threeReuters

LOS ANGELES - Derek Fisher’s game-winning three-pointer put a pretty ribbon on a workman-like 73-70 victory for the Los Angeles Lakers over the defending NBA champion Dallas MavericksMonday. Fisher nailed an arching three to snap a 70-70 tie with three seconds left on the clock on anight Lamar Odom returned to the place of his past glory.

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Nadal, Federer play down Open feud

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Switzerland’s Roger Federer waves to the crowd following his win over Russia’s Alexander Kudryavtsev in their first round match at the Australian Open tennis championship, in Mel-bourne, Australia, Monday, Jan. 16, 2012.

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The Italian veteran inked a one-year ex-tension to his contract with tony Fernandes’ team, but the announcement that accompa-nied the deal failed to refer specifically to a race seat, prompting speculation that Trulli may be relegated to another role.

That rumour gathered pace as more and more drivers found themselves on the market this ‘silly season’, with Petrov just one several linked to Trulli’s ride. While the likes of Jerome d’Ambrosio and Bruno Senna now appear to be chas-ing jobs elsewhere, Petrov remained a candidate for the seat alongside Heikki Kovalainen - particularly if he was to

bring Russian backing.The latest reports, however, now sug-

gest that the former Lotus Renault driver is in talks about filling the reserve role at Caterham previously held by Karun Chandhok.

According to Finland’s Turun Sa-nomat newspaper, Petrov’s manager, Oksana Kosachenko, was at the team’s Hingham base to discuss terms last week, amid suggestions that Petrov would become the third driver with an eye to replacing Trulli next season.

d’Ambrosio, meanwhile, remains in contention to fill a similar role at Lotus

Renault and hopes to announce his plans win the next week or so, while Senna appears poised to finally confirm that he will replace fellow Brazilian Rubens Barrichello at Williams for 2012.

Although there have been a couple of false starts to the same story, a number of reputable sources believe that Petrov’s former Lotus Renault team-mate has finally seen off the threat of both Bar-richello and Force India outcast Adrian Sutil, and could be confirmed alongside Pastor Maldonado as early as today [Tuesday 17 January].

According to Italy’s Autosprint maga-zine, Senna has increased the amount of sponsorship that he can bring to the Grove-based team, including the addition of oil company OGX.

ROBERT Kubica has returned to his home in Monaco to continue rehabilita-tion, following the latest operation re-quired after a fall that injured his leg last week. Kubica reopened a fracture in his right tibia, originally broken in his horrific rally crash last year, when he fell near an apartment he was staying at in Viareggio in Italy.

Medical tests on the leg at Mantova Hospital showed that the calcification of the bone had not happened properly last year - as a result of the Polish driver being forced

to remain in bed for a long period after his crash.

Following an operation last week to reduce the fracture and pin the bone, doctors cleared Kubica to return home - but he must wait another two or three weeks before resuming his physical training.

Despite the injury setback, it is believed that the leg fracture will not have an impact on Kubica’s final recovery time - because that is still limited by the nerve regrowth of his right arm and hand which will still take several months.

Robert Kubica leaves hospital after leg surgery

Trulli safe, despite Petrov talks?JARNO Trulli’s place on the 2012 F1 grid looks safer than of late amid

suggestions that potential replacement Vitaly Petrov is now chasing the third seat at Caterham F1.

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Jarno Trulli is driving his car in the rain