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New Entertainment and Dining Complex Opening in Kuta PULLMAN BALI

Le' Nirwana to Offer International Dining and Entertainment Venues Together with Local Dining Options on Kuta Beach. Bakrie Hotels & Resorts are preparing the Le' Nirwana - a 3,500 square meter entertainment and dining complex on Kuta Beach in Bali. As reported in bisnis.com, the project will be located in front of the If you have any interestnew Pullman Bali Legian ing articles, just send to us: Nirwana Condotel. Andre R. Makalam, Kuta Weekly Chief Marketing Officer of Ph : 081 734 6145 PT Bakrieland E-mail : Development Hotels & [email protected] Resort says the Le' Nirwana concept will be Bali's first "one stop solution" combining an entertainment venue, restaurants and cafes. Makalam told the press: "we plan to begin

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New variation of Vegemite 'smoother’ THE makers of what is arguably Australia's most identifiable food may be American, but they are well aware of the danger of tampering with a national icon. Which is why the people at Kraft Foods took the advice of more than 300,000 Australians before they meddled with Vegemite. The result of those consultations, and nine months of tinkering with ingredients, is the first variation in 85 years on an astonishingly successful theme. Kraft launched a new version of Vegemite today and it did so with a certain amount of respectful trepidation, insisting that the product as “the new Vegemite experience”. ”With such a well-loved, iconic brand we wouldn't create something using the Vegemite name unless we were absolutely sure Australians would love it,” said Kraft's head of corporate affairs Simon Talbot. To determine the level of that affection, Kraft undertook its “How Do You Like Your Vegemite” census and the Vegemite forum.

”They told us they wanted a Vegemite that doesn't require combining with butter and one that's easier to spread,” Mr Talbot said. The new spread resembles Vegemite and smells like Vegemite, but it has a smoother, more spreadable consistency. While the exact recipe is a closely-held secret, the new Vegemite experience is, basically, regular vegemite combined with cream cheese. The result, according to the company, is a vegemite for all occasions. ”This is a vegemite experience that can be enjoyed at all times of the day,” said Kraft director of sales Darren O'Brien. The new Vegemite won't be on the supermarket shelves until July 5 with the launch being forced on Kraft after the existence of the product became public. One thing Kraft hasn't come up with is a name for the “experience”. As a result, they are turning to the method used in 1923 to name the

“New Vegetable Food” invented by chemist Cyril Callister for the Fred Walker Cheese Company, which later became Kraft Foods. In order to find a name for the new product, Mr Walker took ads in newspapers announcing a competition with 50 pound prize for the best suggestion. As a result, Vegemite came into being and more than a billion jars and 85 years later the same method will be used. The new Vegemite will bear a label carrying the words “Name Me” with the winner to receive, among other things, a ticket to the AFL grand final. While Kraft is confident its new product will be widely accepted, it hasn't turned its back on the original vegemite. ”Seventy per cent of all Australian homes have vegemite in the pantry,” Mr Talbot said. ”They will still be able to get their favourite spread.”

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Twin lambs born - one white, one black ONE'S black, one's white and they have amazed their owners.

Mrs Cowan said a local vet who helped deliver the twins had told her their being born with different colouring was a very Salt and Pepper are twins, born to a rare event. ewe, which is white and a ram, which But the Cowans may not have a is a sussex breed, sporting a black face, legs and bottom. Jan Cowan, who has just begun building a flock on the family property in the Manning Valley on the NSW mid-north coast to make sheep cheese, said yesterday that the twins born a week-and-a-half ago were inseparable, The Daily Telegraph reports.

"If one goes one way the other will follow. They take a teat each, sideby-side of each other when feeding."

"But sometimes the dark gene sneaks in and takes over, and if you have a dark-woolled ram and a white-woolled ewe, there's a 50 per cent chance you'll get one of each. "And in sussex sheep it's not uncommon to get lambs which are all dark when born. "But when they are about six months old they will lose that darkness and look like other sussexes with the dark face, legs and backside and white body."

"We have them in a pen next to the house because of the foxes," Mrs Cowan said. "They play together, they sleep together with one resting its head on the other.

"Put simply, the genes which ensure white wool are dominant over the genes which produce the darker wool," he said.

black sheep in the family for long. Bob Murray, NSW branch president of the Black and Coloured Sheep Breeders Association of Australia, said nature could still intervene despite years of selective breeding to produce sheep with white wool.

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Despite Minimum International Promotional Funds, Indonesian Arrivals Grow for Q1 2009. An official of the Department of Culture and Tourism has told the press that Indonesia is not capable of "vertical promotion" using international broadcast media due to a lack of needed funding. Nia Nurcaya, Director for Conferences, Incentives and Promotion of the Marketing Division of the Department of Culture and Tourism, said, "in terms of the vertical promotion of tourism, Indonesia is left far behind by other neighboring nations, such as Malaysia." Nia compared Indonesia's total annual budget for promotion of only US$20 million, a total that is one-fifth Malaysia's promotion budget estimated at US$100 million a year. This shortage of promotional funds makes it impossible for Indonesia to undertake major broadcast schedules, such as those done by Singapore and Malaysia. Nia continued saying that in order for Indonesia to undertake an effective vertical promotion, an average of 15 advertisements a day must be placed with outlets like CNN. "But the cost of one day reaches Rp. 750 million (US$73,500) and with promotional funds of only US$20 million, you can imagine that Indonesian tourism can only be show a few times on CNN," explained Nia. The limited funds available for promoting Indonesia cannot purchase advertising programs with major broadcast outlets. Indonesia can only buy advertising campaigns in selected single national markets and support overseas representative offices for the promotion of tourism. Nia admits that the results of the limited Indonesian approach cannot be equated with the results of competing countries able to undertake extensive campaigns on international broadcast media. Instead, Indonesia is forced to content itself with trying to preserve and slowly grow existing markets. Nonetheless, limited promotion on a number of fronts still yields significant results for Indonesian tourism. Total foreign tourism arrivals to Indonesia during the first quarter of 2009 increased 1.53% when compared to Q1 2008. According to Nia, Indonesia must be thankful that in the midst of a worldwide economic crisis while competing destinations are suffering declining arrival numbers, arrivals continue to demonstrate modest growth. Www.balidiscovery.com

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The pees and queues of modern man MAYBE it's because I'm a nervous type, but I pee more often than most people. I pretty much always need to go. Over my lifetime, I've probably spent were someone keeping track of these things several months longer at urinals than my mates have, which sounds suggestive but isn't. As a kid on family road trips, I was the one grumbling, "I have to go", forcing Dad to stop the car, oh I don't know, about every 15 kilometres. My bladder close to rupturing for not having been emptied for minutes and minutes, it was all I could do to wait for the car to stop or at least slow and I was out, sprinting and straining towards some classic Aussie brick shithouse. Once inside, what joy. What comforting familiarity. The bogstandard, long piss trough, with its cloudy reflective steel so stinky and dry; the stray cigarette butts caught in the plastic mesh guard; the pink deodoriser cakes that looked like coconut ice. These urinals were tough enough to take anything. I know. For the moment the fly on my short pants was down (and sometimes a millisecond before) I'd go off like a water cannon at a riot. Urinals have changed a lot since then, particularly in the city. And for this we can thank, or blame, the inexorable rise of the interior designer. Today the closer you get to Melbourne's hip heart, the more different from the norm toilets become. The urinals at your ubercool inner-city bar have about as much in common with the old public piss trough as the Pussycat Dolls do with Rose Tattoo. There are urinals that show short films and television. Urinals backdropped by one-way windows that allow users to look out at the revellers. Urinals backboarded by life-size images of spunky women looking shocked and holding up tape measures and magnifying glasses. Urinals situated in a science-lab cum sickbay space

called the "department of male hygiene". To visit the toilets at many fashionable bars and clubs is to feel as if you've stepped inside the pages of one of those high-gloss design magazines that no one can afford to buy. Well, no one, that is, except the sort of natty interior designers who are busy creating ever-more voguish toilets for a global citizenry to ooh and ah over, and then urinate on. There's nothing wrong, of course, with making toilets a thing of interest and beauty. And let's not forget that the humble urinal has been considered "art" since 1917, when Marcel Duchamp put a porcelain one in a New York gallery and said it's art because I say it's art. More recently, urinals designed as red-lipped open mouths, beer glasses, saxophones and holy statues have captured attention. But the problem with many of the urinals in happening establishments is simply that, in their immaculate design, style has been put before practicality. Fashion has trumped functionality. The first function of a urinal and this really can't be emphasised enough is that it should be recognisable as a urinal. But often the chic urinal, with its dainty one-person bowl, with its fine lines and gradients, with its smooth, shallow curves, can look like something else. And that something else is a hand basin. The upshot is that I'm sure I'm not the only man to have begun fumbling at my belt before what I believed to be a chic urinal, only to realise in the nick of time that I'm about to pee into a hand basin. And I doubt I'm the only man to stand before a chic urinal and, thinking it a hand basin, waved my hands before it like a crazy person in an attempt to activate the auto sensor and get the tap flowing. OK, I might be the

only man to have done that. Beyond a urinal needing to look more like a urinal than something else, the other major function of a urinal is that it allow multiple men to do number ones (medical term) quickly and efficiently. But chic urinals are always oneperson bowls, and are often well spaced apart because designers love nothing more than empty space. I could digress here to say something about this shift to personal urinals being indicative of a breakdown in community, the loss of shared public spaces and the increasing isolation and alienation of modern man. But perhaps that would be taking the piss. What cannot be denied, though, is that the dainty personal urinal slows things up for the masses. So now at some fashionable bars, queues form outside the men's toilets. Queues outside loos? Jeez, what are we? Women? Seeing blokes lined up outside the toilets and tortured by full bladders, women are justified in their schadenfreude. And as for the men in the queue, I suspect quite a few of them would be longing as I often do for the old piss trough, which wasn't pretty but served its purpose. Which reminds me, I have to go now.

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Ubud Area Wood Carvers Idled by Lack of Wood Supplies. Thousands of wood carvers in the Gianyar region of Bali are complaining to provincial trade and industry officials that the wood which forms the raw material of their trade is becoming increasingly difficult to secure. On Monday, June 8, 2009, a group of traditional wood carvers from the Tegalalang region, north of Ubud, told NusaBali that the current shortage of wood is more severe that shortages experienced in the past. A lack of wood supply and the extremely high cost of the wood that remains available, has idled many Ubud area wood carvers. One carver, who works with albesia wood, Wayan Sudiarta, said that the cost of wood has risen three hundred percent over the past five years, Not only is wood expensive, but also very hard to come by. Explained Sudiarta: "It's like this, woodworkers like me are suddenly almost 'dead.' We can't do anything." Sudiarta told the press that

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proof of the collapse of the wood carving industry is large number of former woodcarvers who have now been forced to change their professions, becoming construction workers and farmers. Those who have remained as wood carvers now earn around Rp. 20,000 (US$2) for a day's work. The head of the Gianyar Industry and Trade Office, Wayan Suamba, told NusaBali that there is little his office can do to held the wood carvers, with the supply of wood products a matter for the Department of Forestry to deal with. He urged carvers to use their creativity to confront the current crisis, exploring the use of new types of wood when traditional wood sources suddenly dry up. When asked by the press if the government would undertake steps to find new sources of wood beyond Bali, Suamba agreed that a collective effort between the various associations and the department of forestry was needed.

"Such an effort we will try to undertake, though I can't confirm when," explained Suamba. Www.balidiscovery.com

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110-Room Kuta Hotel Ruled an Illegal Structure in Area Reserved for Single Family Residences. NusaBali and Bali Post both report that the 110-room Best Western Hotel Sapta Patala on Jalan Kubu Anyar in Kuta now faces a possibly insurmountable obstacle to its eventual opening. The hotel, more than 90% completed and in its final finishing stage of construction prior to official operation, was expanded without first obtaining the required licenses and permits. [See: New Best Western Hotels in Bali Under Official Scrutiny] Quoting the Badung Regency Tourism Office (Disparda), NusaBali and Bali Post report that the new hotel was built in absolute violation of zoning laws, creating a hotel in an area reserved exclusively for

residential premises. The Head of the Badung Disparda, I Made Subway, said: "We cannot issue a license. It's clear that the hotel is violating the law. If they need a permit for rental houses, that's not our authority. They could try to ask at the development section." Meanwhile, the head of the development section, Dewa Apramana, said his office can only grant residential permits to small structures, such as individual houses and small store fronts (rukos). The hotel has, in fact, been in operation in various forms since 1970 when it first opened with just 7 rooms. It later expanded to 57 rooms before its latest expansion to become a 110 room property. Unless a special exemption is granted or a

decision is made to somehow not enforce the zoning laws, the Best Western Sapta Patala Hotel in Kuta will forever stand empty and more than 90% completed. Press reports confirm that construction at the hotel project site has ceased in compliance with orders from local authorities to halt the construction of the project. Www.balidiscovery.com

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The price of the land Mukayan bought on the edge of the Kutai National Park on Borneo four years ago has increased sevenfold, he said. He said he caught his pet birds in the park. KUTAI NATIONAL PARK, Indonesia Countless houses and shops built by squatters flank the 40-mile, two-lane road slicing through this national park that, once rich with orangutans and lowland rain forest, now symbolizes Indonesia's struggle to protect its rare wildlife. As construction has intensified along the road here on the island of Borneo, it has also brought a sometimes surprising diversity of businesses to the park, including a brothel, the Dika karaoke bar and the Mitra Hotel, which was marking its recent opening with discounts of 40 percent. A new bus terminal and gas station, nearly complete, will perhaps be greeting customers soon. At one spot by the road, Mursidin, a farmer in his 50s, was one of many people building a home from the park's trees. Using a sander and a saw hooked to a red generator, he was polishing and laying sheets of wood on the house's frame as his wife, Nuramanah, looked on. “We're worried because the forest rangers warned us several times that we weren't permitted to build here,” Ms. Nuramanah, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, said as her anxiety seemed punctuated by her husband's hammering. If the new houses lining the road were any indication, however, the couple had little to worry about. Forest rangers have been powerless in checking development inside the park as the local authorities have urged people to settle and open businesses here. Control over the country's 50 national parks, including Kutai, has grown murky in the past decade as authority has shifted from the central government to the provinces as part of a decentralization of power. Local governments, emphasizing economic development over conservation, have seen parks bursting with natural resources as a way to fill their coffers. At the same time, Kutai National Park, like others, has been losing trees to illegal loggers, at a rate of one to two truckloads a day, according to forestry officials. Mining companies have also been pushing to explore inside the coalrich park here, which is already surrounded by coal, fertilizer, gas and timber companies. More than 27,000 people lived inside the park in 2007, according to a government survey

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conducted that year. “It's difficult to control the construction of new houses, which is increasing, because the local governments simply ignore national laws,” Tandya Tjahjana, who took over the Forestry Ministry's office here a few months ago, said as trucks rumbled by his headquarters here. As many as half of the park's 490,000 acres have been damaged because of development and illegal logging, Mr. Tandya said, adding that he had only 27 rangers to patrol the entire park. Half of all the mammal species in Borneo are said to inhabit Kutai National Park, including the Sambar deer, wild ox, proboscis monkey and orangutan. Aside from a population of orangutans at a research center inside the park, the number of great apes estimated at 600 has sharply decreased in recent years because of two fires and human encroachment, researchers and forestry officials said. Widespread illegal logging and deforestation have reduced Indonesia's overall orangutan population to about 60,000, an estimated 80 percent reduction in the past decade, said Anne Russon, an orangutan expert from York University in Toronto who has done extensive research on the apes in Indonesia for the past 14 years, including in this park. Much of the timber is used to make furniture for domestic and overseas markets, while the cleared land is often turned into palm oil plantations. The shrinking of the forest habitats, which threatens some of the world's rarest wildlife, regularly pits animals against human beings. In recent months, Sumatran tigers, which face extinction, have killed illegal loggers pushing into the animals' territory on the island of Sumatra and have been killed in turn by villagers. Also in Sumatra, wild elephants have been fatally poisoned near a palm oil plantation, reportedly by villagers running the site. The Kutai National Park here was established in the 1980s but, located in what is Borneo's most developed area, it faced threats from the start. Pertamina, the state oil company, was permitted to operate here and still pumps oil inside a fenced-in enclave. And years before the road was built in the mid-1990s, people had begun squatting here. “Before, there was only one or two villages here,” said Saparuddin, executive director of Bikal, a local environmental organization. “Now there are seven. You see new houses and businesses being built every day. Maybe someday they'll build a mall here.”

the areas now traversed by the road. Nowadays, squatters have burned and cleared the areas on either side of the road. The sounds of chainsaws could be heard from inside the forest on a recent drive. In some patches, a single surviving large tree could be seen towering over a cleared area. The park's human population has risen in recent years as local governments, emboldened by decentralization, challenged the central government by encouraging people and businesses to settle inside the park. “The problem of incursions into national parks is very common in Indonesia,” said Ms. Russon, the orangutan expert. “Some are illegal. Others, like the case of Kutai National Park, are sanctioned by local governments.” Forestry officials are now trying to stop the new bus terminal and gas station from operating. But it is not clear whether they will succeed, especially since the buildings are almost finished. The government east of here, called East Kutai, has been pressing to have an enclave amounting to more than 10 percent of the park excised from Kutai and officially turned into a subdistrict. Zairin Zain, a spokesman for the provincial government of East Kalimantan, which supports the enclave plan, said the local authorities believed that they should be allowed to develop it because it had been stripped of wildlife and had been damaged beyond repair. The bid for the enclave has drawn newcomers to the park, some apparently hoping to sell the land they have grabbed to mining companies in the future. Others have come seeking cheap land and business opportunities. In a typical, opaque exchange, Mukayan, 43, acquired a piece of land near the park's northern border from the previous owner about four years ago. He had chosen the location because of rumors that a bus terminal would be built across the road, he said, adding that he had hoped to open a small shop selling snacks to travelers. Though opposition from the Forest Ministry has halted construction on the terminal for now, Mr. Mukayan said the price of his land had increased sevenfold. What is more, the number of neighboring houses just a handful four years ago was growing so fast he had lost count. In the meantime, Mr. Mukayan kept busy attending to small birds he had caught from the forest and kept in cages hanging from his garage ceiling. A bird he had named General won first prize in a local bird contest. “I hope, for my business, that the bus terminal will open soon,” Mr. Mukayan said, looking across the road at what must have seemed to him a building tantalizingly close to completion. “I know this is a national park.

Mr. Saparuddin, 35, who grew up inside the park and still has relatives living here, said giant lowland rain-forest trees used to cover

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Brad Pitt Bali Bound? Will Brad Pitt Pop By Bali to Visit the Set of 'Eat, Pray, Love'? Local society gossip mongers in Bali are busy speculating as to whether Hollywood celerity will find time from his busy schedule to visit Bali before the close of 2009. The Hollywood heartthrob, in addition to his busy career as an actor and social activist for affordable housing, is also an owner of Plan B Entertainment which is backing the Columbia Film "Eat, Pray, Love" now in production. Based on the bestselling novel by Elizabeth Gilbert, the film is being shot in Italy, India and Bali. Cast to

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Cronulla Sharks defeat Canberra Raiders 24-22 at Canberra Stadium Cronulla's flagging NRL season is back on track after they notched up a third-straight win, 24-22 over Canberra at Canberra Stadium. The Sharks scored five tries to the Raiders four.

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Continued from page 7 But we just want to use the land alongside the road. We'll leave the inside untouched.” Winds of Change? Twenty years ago, I wrote a book about the Middle East, and recently I was thinking of updating it with a new introduction. It was going to be very simple just one page, indeed just one line: “Nothing has changed.” it took me two days covering the elections in Beirut to realize that I was dead wrong. No, something is going on in the Middle East today that is very new. Pull up a chair; this is going to be interesting. What we saw in the Lebanese elections, where the pro-Western March 14 movement won a surprise victory over the pro-Iranian Hezbollah coalition, what we saw in the ferment for change exposed by the election campaign in Iran, and what we saw in the provincial elections in Iraq, where the big pro-Iranian party got trounced, is the product of four historical forces that have come together to crack open this ossified region. First is the diffusion of technology. The Internet, blogs, YouTube and text messaging via cellphones, particularly among the young 70 percent of Iranians are under 30 is giving Middle Easterners cheap tools to communicate horizontally, to mobilize politically and to criticize their leaders acerbically, outside of state control. It is also enabling them to monitor vote-rigging by posting observers with cellphone cameras. I knew something had changed when I sat down for coffee on Hamra Street in Beirut last week with my 80-year-old friend and mentor, Kemal Salibi, one of Lebanon's greatest historians, and he told me about his Facebook group! The evening of Lebanon's election, I went to the Beirut home of Saad Hariri, the leader of the March 14 coalition, to interview him. In a big living room, he had a gigantic wall-size television broadcasting the results. And alongside the main TV were 16 smaller flat-screen TVs with electronic maps of Lebanon. Hariri's own election experts were working on laptops and breaking down every vote from every religious community, village by village, and projecting them on the screens. Second, for real politics to happen you need space. There are a million things to hate about President Bush's costly and wrenching wars. But the fact is, in ousting Saddam in Iraq in 2003 and mobilizing the U.N. to push Syria out of Lebanon in 2005, he opened space for real democratic politics that had not existed in Iraq or Lebanon for decades. “Bush had a simple idea, that the Arabs could be democratic, and at that particular moment simple ideas were what was needed, even if he was disingenuous,” said Michael Young, the opinion editor of The Beirut Daily

Star. “It was bolstered by the presence of a U.S. Army in the center of the Middle East. It created a sense that change was possible, that things did not always have to be as they were.” When I reported from Beirut in the 1970s and 1980s, I covered coups and wars. I never once stayed up late waiting for an election result. Elections in the Arab world were a joke literally. They used to tell this story about Syria's president, Hafez al-Assad. After a Syrian election, an aide came in and told Assad: “Mr. President, you won 99.8 percent of the votes. It means that only two-tenths of one percent of Syrians didn't vote for you. What more could ask for?” Assad answered: “Their names!” Lebanese, by contrast, just waited up all night for their election results no one knew what they'd be. Third, the Bush team opened a hole in the wall of Arab autocracy but did a poor job following through. In the vacuum, the parties most organized to seize power were the Islamists Hezbollah in Lebanon; pro-Al Qaeda forces among Iraqi Sunnis, and the pro-Iranian Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq and Mahdi Army among Iraqi Shiites; the Taliban in Pakistan and Afghanistan; Hamas in Gaza. Fortunately, each one of these Islamist groups overplayed their hand by imposing religious lifestyles or by dragging their societies into confrontations the people didn't want. This alienated and frightened more secular, mainstream Arabs and Muslims and has triggered an “awakening” backlash among moderates from Lebanon to Pakistan to Iran. The Times's Robert Mackey reported that in Tehran “chants of 'Death to America' ” at rallies for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last week were answered by chants of “Death to the Taliban in Kabul and Tehran” at a rally for his opponent, Mir Hussein Moussavi. Finally, along came President Barack Hussein Obama. Arab and Muslim regimes found it very useful to run against George Bush. The Bush team demonized them, and they demonized the Bush team. Autocratic regimes, like Iran's, drew energy and legitimacy from that confrontation, and it made it very easy for them to discredit anyone associated with America. Mr. Obama's soft power has defused a lot of that. As result, “proAmerican” is not such an insult anymore. I don't know how all this shakes out; the forces against change in this region are very powerful see Iran and ruthless. But for the first time in a long time, the forces for decency, democracy and pluralism have a little wind at their backs. Good for them.

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Lonnie Matthews, a retired building maintenance engineer in Burlington, N.C., has something in common with King Henry VIII, Sir Isaac Newton and Benjamin Franklin. He has gout. Often called the “disease of kings” because of its association with the rich foods and copious alcohol once available only to aristocrats, gout is staging a middle-class comeback as American society grows older and heavier. The rising tide of gout an extremely painful arthritis of the big toe and other joints is leading the pharmaceutical industry to rediscover what it had considered a disease of the past. Companies are now racing to improve upon decades-old generic drugs that do not work well for everyone. Already this year the Food and Drug Administration has approved the first new gout drug in more than 40 years, a product called Uloric from Takeda Pharmaceutical. Another new drug, Krystexxa, made by Savient Pharmaceuticals of East Brunswick, N.J., will be reviewed for possible approval by an F.D.A. advisory committee on Tuesday. And several other companies are testing drugs in clinical trials. “It's kind of like the forgotten disease,” said Barry D. Quart, chief executive of one of those companies, Ardea Biosciences of San Diego. Ardea discovered accidentally that an AIDS drug it was developing might work against gout. Now the company has shifted its focus to gout, envisioning annual sales of $1 billion if its drug is successful. That would mean a huge increase in spending on gout medicines, which had sales of only $53.4 million last year, according to IMS Health, a health care information company. Uloric, the drug from Takeda, sells a daily pill for at least $4.50 compared with 10 to 50 cents for the most commonly used generic, allopurinol. It is estimated that two million to six million Americans have gout. Although the disease becomes more common as people age, some men develop gout in their 40s and 50s, or even younger. It is three to four times as common in men as in women, in part because estrogen is thought to protect premenopausal women from

the illness. Various studies suggest that the number of cases in this country has as much as doubled in the last three decades. “We have accumulated a lot of people with severe disease,” said Dr. Robert A. Terkeltaub, section chief of rheumatology at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in San Diego and a consultant to some of the companies developing gout drugs. And the typical case these days, is “not going to be someone who looks like Henry VIII,” he said. “Now it's going to be some 80-year-old lady with congestive heart failure.” One of the severe cases is Mr. Matthews, who had controlled his disease for many years with the generic allopurinol. But when he developed renal problems in 2006, he stopped taking allopurinol because it can be harmful to those with bad kidneys. After that, Mr. Matthews was bedridden or in a wheelchair and in such excruciating pain in many of his joints that he said he contemplated suicide. “It was like having a toothache so bad you can't stand it, all over your body,” he said. Mr. Matthews, 76, says he found relief as a participant in a clinical trial of Savient's Krystexxa, the drug now up for review by the F.D.A. Gout is caused by the buildup of a chemical called uric acid in the blood. Uric acid is formed by the breakdown of purines, which are components of DNA, RNA and some other important molecules in the body. Some types of meat and fish, as well as beer, are particularly rich in purines and can raise the risk of gout. There is also evidence that sugary soft drinks raise the risk. When uric acid levels get too high, the chemical can form needlelike crystals that accumulate in joints. In the early stages of the disease, gout attacks, which can last several days and are excruciating, occur only rarely. But over time, the frequency increases and people can develop disfiguring and disabling lumps of the chalky white crystals, called tophi. Michael Clayton of Atlanta, who has severe gout, said he had to quit a job as general manager

of a restaurant after customers complained about the tophi on his hands, which sometimes oozed liquid resembling Wite-Out. Many doctors and patients treat only gout attacks. They use either pain relievers like naproxen, steroids or colchicine a crocus plant derivative that has been used for centuries. Many of the new drugs lower uric acid levels in the blood, meaning they can prevent gout attacks and keep the disease under control. A problem in getting doctors to prescribe chronic treatment for gout is that many patients are reluctant to admit they have the disease because of its association with gluttony. “It's part of society's view of gout that this is something self-inflicted,” said Dr. N. Lawrence Edwards, professor of medicine at the University of Florida. So the industry is trying to spread the word that genetics and other factors, not just diet, contribute to gout. Takeda and Savient bankroll the Gout and Uric Acid Education Society, which is led by Dr. Edwards and was formed in 2005 to raise awareness of the disease. Another reason that gout is shedding its image as a disease of the past is preliminary evidence though still far from proof that high uric acid levels might also contribute to modern-day ills like hypertension, obesity, heart disease, kidney impairment and diabetes. In one small study published last year, treatment with allopurinol reduced high blood pressure in adolescents. Right now, it is estimated that 15 million to 20 million Americans have elevated uric acid levels, known as hyperuricemia. But they do not have gout symptoms and are therefore not treated. If further studies prove that high uric acid levels contribute to other diseases, though, then “hyperuricemia” could be defined as a disease in its own right and millions of people might one day take drugs to lower uric acid levels, much as they now do to lower cholesterol. Paul Hamelin, president of Savient, said, “There's a huge amount of ground that nobody's ever plowed yet.”

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Tiger Airlines starts taking complaints seriously Earlier this year, Tiger was voted the worst domestic airline in Australia for customer service by Choice. The discount airline is now taking passengers' concerns seriously, writes Clive Dorman. Tiger Airways has embarked on a campaign to repair its damaged reputation after alienating many of its customers with high "ancillary" charges and poor customer service in its first 18 months of operating in Australia. Tiger has announced it will hire a team of customerservice staff based in Melbourne to respond to complaints by passengers. It also appears to be rolling back its regime of aggressive surcharging for credit-card purchases. Earlier this year, Tiger was voted the worst domestic airline in Australia for customer service by Choice, the Australian Consumers Association's consumer information service. Many of the complaints claimed Tiger was uncontactable in the event of a flight change or cancellation. However, the airline's attitude has changed radically in the past month since it appointed Irishman Steve Burns, formerly the Tiger Aviation group chief operating officer, to the role of chief of commercial in Australia, with specific responsibility for

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customer service, marketing and network development. In the latest innovation, customers will have the option of avoiding credit-card charges of $5 per sector if they pay for tickets online using a debit card, exploiting a loophole in the way banks impose merchant fees on airlines. Jetstar and Virgin charge $3 per sector for credit or debit card purchases, while Qantas charges $7.70 per transaction. Burns, 34, is a wunderkind of the low-cost airline industry, with masters degrees in aeronautical engineering and air transport management. He claims Tiger's success in Australia exceeds expectations but is unusually frank, for an airline executive, about the problems it has encountered. Of the new strategy, he says, "We're focused first and foremost on not giving customers a reason to

have cause for a complaint. "If they do [complain] we're going to make sure our Australian team, based in Melbourne, can work quickly to sort them out. We're getting better at making sure that our response plans to such incidents can happen more quickly."

In particular, he is referring to the airline's response to an aircraft technical problem that occurred recently when one of its Airbus A320s was on the ground at Gold Coast airport. A departing Tiger flight had to be cancelled but unlike previous occasions, when passengers were left with little or no contact with the airline, stranded passengers were given refunds, flight credits, accommodation allowances and seats on competing carriers at no extra charge. "We have to make sure customers understand very quickly what their options are," Burns says of that incident, underlining the about-face that is under way. "We never intended to treat our customers badly and, quite frankly, any company that does that knowingly is destined to fail.”

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Continental Mother An Exhibition by Keiji Ujiie at Hanna Artspace in Ubud July 1130, 2009. Keiji Ujiie, an international artist based in Bali since 2007, arrived in the Ubud community of Nyuh Kuning with the desire of initiating a new era of personal creativity. Born in Japan in 1951, the sculptor/landscape architect has an established body of work stretching over 25 year. With works that are typically large scale and monumental, Ujiie's artistry dominates sweeping landscapes, city courtyards and public parks in Japan, Mexico, Belgium, Lebanon and, more recently, Sanur, Bali. Continental Mother "Continental Mother" is Keiji's debut solo exhibition in Bali. Starting on July 11 and running through July 31, 2009, Hanna Artspace in Ubud, Bali will present 22 sculptures produced over the past two years. In keeping with the name of the exhibition, "Continental Mother" on display will be is the artist's interpretation of the Balinese landscape rendered in indigenous materials of Javanese Limestone, Marble and Granite. At home, in his open terrace studio situated overlooking rice fields and the Pura Dalem Temple, Keiji draws inspiration from the natural Balinese setting that surrounds his home. Constant trade winds blow through the adjoining fields. Clouds drift gracefully across his vista. Seasons are punctuated by cycles of growth and harvest; green alternating with open fields of standing water. Native birds feed surreptitiously on the rice crop while ducks tend the rice fields in search of insects. Here, the senses are continuously stimulated. Here, also, the essence of rural Bali and its cycles of life, impart a magical healing quality. "I love to absorb

this enduring peace," says Keiji, "it is an essential part of my creative process." In silent contemplation he consumes this nurturing energy, translating it over time into artistic expression. "Continental Mother" first evolved only as a loosely formed mental concept. Keiji's artistic method employs no models,

bulbous breasts that emerge like mountains touching a larger cosmos. Protruding nipples point skyward, like eyeballs searching the heavens. The off-white limestone's grain is hand-finished and smooth; unpolished, almost glowing, like tender skin, radiating a virgin-like quality. Geometry is the universal language of mathematics reflecting the axiom that in nature all geometric constructions conduct and transmit energy. The bulk of these voluptuous shapes resonate strength and power. His creations manifest into the figurative form. "Rarely, if ever, do I explore the human form! This is a direct influence of working in Bali. Here, there is a different spiritual energy. I never get this image in Japan," confessed Keiji. Included also in the Bali exhibition are 17 trophy pieces, 400mm x 200mm in size, ranging from abstract to figurative forms. Keiji likes to travels the world visiting location that mirror his spirituality. His recent work reflects the essence of Bali with works akin to meditation. It is Keiji's intent that a spiritual energy radiates from within his creations.

studies or sketches, preferring a "direct carving" technique. He ventures into hard substances, working to expose the spirit of the stone hidden within. Working from Continental Mother the inside-out, he exposes the An Exhibition of Sculptures new life revealed by his finished by Keiji Ujiie compositions. Each individual Hanna Artspace stone has its own unique feeling Jalan. Raya Pengosekan retained within its grains and Ubud structure. Intuitively, Keiji For more information responds to the feelings he telephone ++62-(0)361-978216 receives; through physical intent, form achieves coherence. Www.balidiscovery.com Five individual "Continental Mother" pieces, each 600mm x 400mm in size, form the centerpieces of the current exhibition. His use of Javanese limestone reveals spatial geometries. Arched legs spread powerfully, mimicking some sort of earthly 'rainbow'. Beautifully proportioned torsos support full,

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Opera Meets Gamelan in Ubud, Bali 'Tragic love story' of Bali and the West in Premiere of 'A House in Bali' June 26 & 27, 2009. Contributed by Rucina Ballinger and originally published in The Jakarta Post The Ubud Palace, where the cultural exchange between Balinese and Western artists first began in the 1930s, has turned host for a new opera that deals with that very subject - the world premiere of Evan Ziporyn's crosscultural opera - A House in Bali. This new work, which combines Western music with the gamelan, opera singers and arja (Balinese traditional opera) artists features some of the finest singers and musicians from Bali and around the world. The composition brings together Balinese and Western cultures in a way perhaps never imagined by the characters it portrays: composer Colin McPhee, artist Walter Spies and kebyar dancer I Sampih. Two free performances will take place at 8 p.m. on June 26 and 27, 2009, in the very location where Walter Spies first stayed in Bali, the Puri Saraswati in central Ubud. There, surrounded by lotuses on the enchanting Cokorda Ngurah Suyadnya (Cok Wah) stage, the story told in McPhee's famous memoir A House in Bali will be presented. The international cast includes three renowned opera singers: tenor Marc Molomot as McPhee, Kazakh native Timur Bekbosunov as Walter Spies and Anne Harley as famed anthropologist Margaret Mead. Their Balinese counterparts Nyoman Kaler, the dancer Camplung and the parents of I Sampih - will be played by distinguished Balinese artists I Nyoman Catra, Desak Made Suarti Laksmi and Kadek Dewi Aryani. Sampih will be portrayed by Catra's son, Nyoman Triyana Usadhi. The singers will be accompanied by two of the most

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innovative ensembles in the avantgarde world: New York's famous Bang on a Can All-Stars, directed by the composer, and Ubud's own Gamelan Salukat directed by Dewa Ketut Ali. Why an opera about Colin McPhee? "Everyone involved in this project follows in the footsteps of McPhee, Spies and the Balinese artists who interacted with them," Ziporyn explained. "There are now hundreds of American gamelans, and none would have been possible without McPhee's trailblazing work. Every painting you see on the streets of Ubud grows out of Spies' work with the young painters of the 1930s," he argues. "Yet the Bali they loved was the old Bali, the Bali that would change so radically in subsequent years. Part of the motor for that change was the connection to the West, so in a sense they themselves contributed to the end of that era. Making this opera is a way to reflect on that encounter, a tragic love story between two cultures. Opera always has to have a tragic love story." The resumes of the Balinese artists involved in the production underscore this fact. I Nyoman Catra and Desak Made Suarti Laksmi are experts in traditional Balinese performance, but have also performed in plays and concerts worldwide. Dewi Kadek Aryani danced in Robert Wilson's I Galigo. Dewa Ketut Alit is the cofounder of Gamelan Cudamani and has composed many works for gamelan in the United States and Canada, some of which have been performed in New York's Carnegie Hall. In some way, all the performers are the "sons and daughters" of McPhee, Spies and Sampih. For composer Ziporyn, the opera is the culmination of a 28year involvement with Balinese gamelan, which began for him with

a research trip to Bali in 1981. He studied legong drumming with I Made Lebah, who himself had been a good friend of McPhee. Returning to America, Ziporyn joined Gamelan Sekar Jaya, traveling with them on their famous first Balinese tour in 1985. As a professor of music at MIT, he founded Gamelan Galak Tika, composing numerous cross-cultural works, including the memorial work for gamelan and orchestra, "Ngaben for Sari Club." He also collaborated with dalang Wayan Wija on a full-length wayang kulit (shadow puppet) play with a Western accompaniment Shadow Bang, which has been performed in New York, Boston and Amsterdam. In 2005, he brought Galak Tika to Bali, performing at the Bali Arts Festival. At the same time, he has traveled the world with Bang on a Can collaborating in the process with artists such as Paul Simon, Brian Eno, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Sonic Youth, Ornette Coleman and Philip Glass. A Hourse in Bali A House in Bali will bring the sounds of West and East together electric guitars with reong and kendang; violins and cellos with suling and genggong;opera with arja and kidung. Will the mix be sweet or chaotic? Most likely it will be like the encounter between West and East itself: a combination of both. Tickets are free, but reservations are encouraged. For information please visit [House In Bali Website]. Www.balidiscovery.com

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Leak Halts Shuttle Launching KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. The launching of the space shuttle Endeavour on Saturday was called off because of a hydrogen leak similar to one that delayed another shuttle's departure three months ago. During fueling with liquid hydrogen, sensors detected a leak at the valve next to the external tank, creating a potential for fire. The planned 7:17 a.m. liftoff was called off at 12:26 a.m. and will be delayed at least four days. A similar leak occurred during the countdown for the shuttle Discovery in March. Mission managers originally said that if the Endeavour could not go by

Monday, the launching would be moved to July because a lunar orbiter was scheduled to lift off Wednesday. Michael P. Moses of the mission management team said there would be talks with the managers of the orbiter mission to see if both launchings could still happen in the coming week.

Qatar ready to buy 25 per cent stake in Porsche QATAR is ready to acquire at least a 25 per cent stake in German luxury sportscar maker Porsche, heavily in debt after increasing its shares in Volkswagen, according to German media. "The emirate of Qatar and its adviser Credit Suisse on June 8 finished the preliminary examination of Porsche's books,'' the German news weekly Der Spiegel says in an article to appear in Monday's edition. Ferdinand Piech, a coowner of Porsche and former Volkswagen boss, does not have enough backing to turn down Qatar, the weekly says. A special meeting of Porsche's board of directors could decide in early July on a capital increase to present to shareholders at an annual general meeting in September.

At the latest by November, up to five billion euros ($A8.61 billion) could be added to Porsche's accounts by a capital increase,'' Spiegel said. According to the Sunday edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, how Qatar can invest in Porsche will be discussed this weekend. Qatar has asked for voting shares, a first at Porsche which is wholly controlled by members of the Porsche-Piech families, German media reported. Porsche is being crushed by nine billion euros ($A15.51 billion) of debt incurred when it tried to take over Volkswagen, the biggest European carmaker, in which Porsche now holds a stake of 51 per cent. Porsche abandoned its

bid to take full control of VW last month and the two car makers said they would discuss terms of a merger, but disagreements quickly surfaced between the Porsche and Piech families. The state of Qatar investing in Porsche could allow the car maker to revive its original plan of taking over the much bigger VW. It would also mark the second major investment by Middle Eastern interests in Germany's auto sector. In late March, the Abu Dhabi state investment fund Aabar Investments bought a nine per cent stake in Daimler, which owns Mercedes-Benz. Porsche could not be reached on Saturday for comment on the media reports.

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Brisbane Lions captain Jonathan Brown leads side to win over Hawthorn A magnificent second half from Brisbane Lions captain Jonathan Brown helped his undermanned side notch a comeback upset AFL win over Hawthorn at Launceston's Aurora Stadium on Sunday. Brown scored five majors, the first of which did not come until close to half-time to lead his side to the 13.15 (93) to 7.9 (51) victory. The Lions were hurt by poor kicking in the first half and trailed the Hawks 6.5 (41) to 3.9 (27) at the long break. They were still 11 points down 16 minutes into the third term, when ruckman Mitch Clark left the ground to be treated for a leg muscle injury. It seemed a major blow, with fellow ruckmen Matthew Leuenberger and Jamie Charman already out of the side injured. But athletic utility Jared Brennan stepped into the ruck and helped spark the comeback with some fine work in the centre of the ground. With the Lions on top in the midfield, helped by a strong game

from veteran Simon Black, star forward Brown put his side in the lead with two superb pieces of play to score goals. The first was a brilliant solo effort, when he contested a ball-up about 20m out, scooped the ball out of the air, spun onto his left foot and snapped truly to cut the margin to five points. Less than three minutes later, Brown used his body to shove aside opponent Luke Hodge and mark 25m out. It came after Hawks' teammates Tom Murphy and Xavier Ellis spoiled each other in an attempt to mark at half-back, allowing the Lions to swoop. Brown's resultant goal put his side in front for the first time since timeon in the first quarter. Two minutes later, he was involved again, winning a ruck tap into space in the Lions' attack, Michael Rischitelli running onto it and dishing a quick handball to Justin Sherman, who finished with a clever rolling snap. Coming home with a stiff breeze, Brisbane piled on six unanswered goals in the last term, including two more to Brown, to give

them the last nine goals of the match. Earlier Brisbane, who lost Troy Selwood to a dislocated shoulder midway through the first quarter, struggled to capitalise when they went into attack. Key forwards Brown and Bradshaw were kept in check, with Hodge working well to support key defenders Robert Campbell and Campbell Brown, the Lions' forwards not helped by some poor delivery. While Hawthorn also started in scrappy fashion, they built a lead with three quick goals to Mark Williams either side of the quarter-time break. The two at the end of the first term came courtesy of pin-point passes from Michael Osborne and Stuart Dew respectively, while Sam Mitchell provided the set-up for Williams' third early in the second term. Key forward Lance Franklin added another after marking on the lead to put Hawthorn 16 points up nine minutes into the third term. At that stage the Hawks looked more efficient and more likely to win, before Brisbane's midfield edge and Brown's second half heroics turned the tide.

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Western Bulldogs down Port Adelaide in their AFL clash in Darwin Western Bulldogs dismantled Port Adelaide by 93 points at Darwin's TIO Stadium on Saturday night to consolidate third spot on the AFL ladder. The Bulldogs overwhelmed the Power in the second half to win 21.11 (137) to 7.2 (44) in hot and humid conditions. They have now won five of their past six matches and only lost to Geelong by two points, to show they are the main challengers to the unbeaten Cats and St Kilda. The Bulldogs incredibly had 131 more possessions than Port Adelaide, who simply did not work hard enough. Bulldogs defender Ryan Hargrave and midfielders Adam Cooney and Daniel Cross were best, while ruckman Will Minson had a career-high 23 possessions and was among three players who kicked three goals. It was easily the Bulldogs' biggest winning margin this season. Coach Rodney Eade had described this as a classic eight-point game ahead of the mid-year break, pointing out a loss would have put them back in the mid-ladder logjam. The win meant they went two games clear of Port, who before this match were among six teams sharing fourth place. While the Bulldogs dominated,

the dismal night continued Port's alarming inconsistency so far this season. While they have six wins, Port's average losing margin this season is well over 40 points. The Bulldogs set up the easy win with some superb work from their defence. Apart from Hargrave's great game, Liam Picken shut out Danyle Pearce and Jarrod Harbrow and Dale Morris were also solid. Eade said the match set a new benchmark for the Dogs. "We thought we had been building since the Adelaide game and it's probably our best performance so far," he said. "The strength of the team is the even spread ... we had an even contribution and that's probably what we're about is selflessness, and players playing their role, which I think has been a real positive." Despite the crushing loss, Power coach Mark Williams denied his players lacked spirit. "Our ball use was terrible and they really did expose use, he said. "I thought their skills were outstanding and we made really fundamental errors which cost us. "There wasn't much spirit tonight but our players do have spirit, it just didn't shine out tonight."

The Bulldogs led from the start and kicked 13 goals to three in the second half. Mitch Hahn and Matthew Boyd kicked booming goals on the run from outside 50m in the third quarter. But the best goal of the night came from Port Adelaide's David Rodan, at 21 minutes into the second term. A perfect tap from ruckman Dean Brogan in the middle of the ground set up Rodan, who broke clear and brilliantly sidestepped an opponent before goalling on the run. That reduced the margin to only 22 points and came in a rare period during the match where Port were restricting the Bulldogs. Minson goalled just before half-time to take the margin again out to 28 points. The Bulldogs welcomed back forwards Robert Murphy and Scott Welsh and they came through the game with no apparent trouble. Murphy surprisingly played in defence on his return from a hamstring injury. In a forgettable game for the Power, Rodan worked hard, Kane Cornes had 34 disposals and defender Toby Thurstans was also prominent.

Ben Cousins comfortable in his new home at Richmond On a night in which the latest West Coast No. 9 made his much-hyped AFL debut, the man who made the number famous gave a stunning reminder of what he still has left in the petrol tank. Ben Cousins, who won a Brownlow and a premiership medal in the number during his days with West Coast, was one of the architects of Richmond's third win of 2009, the first under new coach Jade Rawlings. While Nic Naitanui, sporting Cousins's old jumper, played his first game for the Eagles, and another teenager in Tyrone Vickery debuted for the Tigers, it was the oldest man on the field who seemed to have everyone talking. Cousins had a season-high 28 touches for the Tigers in his first match against his former team, including 10 in the first term and another eight in the critical last half hour.

He may not have won best afield honours - that could have been raffled among the likes of Richard Tambling and Mitch Morton - but he was, at stages, the most influential player on the field. His former teammate and coach John Worsfold opted to use a tight tag on him, with Scott Selwood trying to curb his effectiveness, but it was to little avail. The 30-year-old provided the example for his young Tiger teammates with some of his trademark gut-running and with some work off the ball that may have gone unnoticed by some, but not by Rawlings. Daniel Jackson, who restricted Cousins's old mate Daniel Kerr, said the former Eagle's impact on and off the field had been profound so far this year, not only last night. "Ben has been phenomenal on the field, but it is what he has

brought to us off it that has made the biggest difference," Jackson said. "He doesn't speak for the sake of speaking, but when he says something, everybody tunes in. "He had a chat to our midfield group on Friday morning and he just spoke about the things that are important to him in footy. "That is, helping your teammate out whenever you can. "He just epitomises team first, which is one of the things he has brought to us. "You would think that it would be us blocking for him because he is the champion player, but he is the first to be in there, trying to block for us. "He said if we can get that right, then we are going places." Jackson said there was little doubt in his mind that the Cousins could play on again next year, given his form from his six games with the Tigers so far.

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