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Abrasion in Tirtakusuma beach getting worst Jembrana (Bali Post)

Abrasion on Tirtakusuma beach, Melaya is very worrying. The condition is getting worst every day. I Putu Artha, the vice governor of Jembrana is very concern about the condition of the beach.

Concorde crash trial to open in France

He inspected the beach on Tues- Melaya districts, I Made Suthama, day, February 2nd 2010 along with and the head of Candikusuma vilthe head of Public Work Depart- lage, Wayan Bagiayasa. ment, I Ketut Swijana, the head of Continued on page 6

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PONTOISE, France – Ten years after a fiery Paris crash that ended the dream of supersonic travel, a French court will on Tuesday try to determine who was to blame for the Concorde disaster that killed 113 people.

US airline Continental has been accused of causing the crash, but the court will examine conflicting explanations of why the jet smashed into a hotel in a ball of fire just after taking off from Charles de Gaulle airport.

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FILE - Air France Concorde flight 4590 takes off with fire trailing from its engine on the left wing from Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, in this July 25, 2000 file photo. The plane crashed shortly after take-off, killing all the 109 people aboard and four others on the ground.

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Bali News Sanglah Hospital Treats 51 Rabies Patients, 29 Die Regency Govt Expected to Prepare VAR Denpasar (Bali Post)— As of rabies spread in Bali since last November 2008, the total number of patients being treated for symptoms of rabies at Sanglah Hospital reached 51 people, where 29 of them died.

Out of the total patient treated , it is recorded that 13 from Karangasem , Badung (11), Tabanan (11), Gianyar (6), Klungkung (1), Bangli (2), Denpasar (6), and Buleleng (1). For patients who died, according to Secretary of Rabies Management Team of Sanglah Hospital, Ken Wirasandhi, from about 29 people tested, 21 were declared positive to rabies through laboratory tests.

For patients who died and stated positive to rabies all had a record of being bitten by dog and did not get the vaccination.

Based on data from the field according to Ken, the patients who died could be divided into two groups why they did not get the VAR. “The first group is people who do not really know about the dangers of bitten by a dog. They do not know what rabies is, so they neglected it without care and did not get the VAR,” said Ken. This group, according to Ken, remained to need more socialization constantly about rabies.

While the second group was people who knew about the dangers of rabies, but did not know where to get the VAR. “Moreover, they lived at isolated area like Karangasem region. When the VAR stock is empty at local hospital or center of rabies in the area did not have their VAR, they mostly did not know where else to get a VAR or even knew could not go because the far place to go,” said Ken. For this group, the availability of rabies VAR at the center of each regency should have the stock, so that people did not need to go away to Sanglah Hospital just to ask for the VAR. Head of Bali Health Services, Nyoman Sutedja, also told about the availability of VAR, where the regency was expected to provide it. Meanwhile, the Bali Health Service itself had a fund of IDR 2.5 billion to buy VAR and could be realized in next April. “According to procedure, the funds can be withdrawn through the auction first. So the possibility of IDR 2.5 billion fund to buy VAR would be realized in April 2010. So before that time, it was feared a shortage of VAR would ensue.

So, to anticipate the regency government was expected to supply it as well,” Sutedja added. For current VAR buffer stock, Bali Health Service remained to have some 87 vials.

From observations of Bali Post ,VAR stock at Sanglah Hospital on last Monday ran out as well. Even, there were some patients coming from Karangasem stated that VAR at Karangasem Hospital has run out. Similarly, the Wangaya Hospital was shortage of VAR stock. A patient from Karangasem, Ketut Pura, 60 could hardly get his second VAR. Though procedurally he had to get a VAR at policlinic, but considering the distance traveled, Pura was finally allowed to get it at Emergency Room of Sanglah Hospital.

According to one of the relatives, Pura was bitten by dog at his right hand on last Saturday (Jan 23) and had got his first VAR at Karangasem Hospitals. “We’d like to get the second VAR, however we were a little late. Karangasem Hospital ran out of stock, so that we were referred to come here,” said one of the Pura’s families. Besides, Pura had a symptom of numb at the scars so that his family was worried if he did not obtain the VAR immediately. (kmb24)

Embezzling the Company’s Money, Operation Manager Reported to Police Denpasar (Bali Post)—

To help finance his son who was ill and covered the debt having accumulated in the bank, I Gusti Made Yuliadi Wirajaya, 42, was determined to do crime. He was proven to embezzle the company’s money worth IDR 76 million. Now, Wirajaya Yuliadi has to dwell in police cell of South Kuta Sector Police for accounting to his action.

Chief of South Kuta Sector Police, Nanang Prihasmoko, last Monday (Feb 1) said the suspect was still being checked by investigator of local police station. The suspect confessed all his actions. The reason was because the child of suspect was sick and also covered debts in the bank. “We remain to investigate him further,” said Nanang Prihasmoko last Monday.

According to Chief Nanang, the suspect has served as operations manager in the company PT Heavenly Residence. He has worked for two years at the company located on

Jalan Gunung Payung, Sawangan, South Kuta. “Well, the way he did his works initially went well. However, once stepped in December 2009, the suspect began to be desperate,” he explained.

Malicious intent of the suspect appeared. He embezzled two laptops worth IDR 10 million. Not only that, the suspect also embezzled the money paid by the guests and service equipment worth IDR 64 million. “So the total loss suffered by the company amounts to IDR 76 million. This case was reported by

one of the local employees, Putri Wahyuni, 36,” he said.

Explained, this case was revealed when the company did cross-check related to its accounting report. Well, it was not found any equilibrium or balance. The company then explored it further. Strangely, the suspect who lived at Lukluk Housing Complex, Mengwi, Badung, suddenly resigned from the company.

As a result, the company alleged the suspect as the perpetrator. Thus, this case was then reported immediately to South Kuta Sector Police.

Chief of Detective Unit I Gde Ardana led the investigations to the field. At the end, the suspect could be arrested at his new workplace in Kuta. “We have captured the suspect.

Now, he is still waiting for subsequent legal process,” he said. (kmb21)

Future Leaders to Move Participation in Agriculture Denpasar (Bali Post)— Future leaders must be able to move the participation of all components— government, businessmen, academician and community—to build and protect the agriculture of Bali. “All components must poise the perceptions to build and protect agriculture and farmers of Bali,” said professor of Udayana University Prof. Dr. Dewa Ngurah Suprapta, last Monday (Feb 1).

Similar opinion was delivered by Chairman of Indonesia association of farmers (HKTI) Bali who is also a lecturer at Udayana University, Prof. Dr. Nyoman Suparta that leaders must take care of agriculture, enjoy agriculture and fully understand about the data and the agricultural potential and know the vision where farmers should be brought to make them prosperous. In terms of policy, they should have strong management commitment to not easily shaken.

Prof. Dewa Suprapta added the commitment of leaders to protect and develop the agricultural sector was so important for Bali because agriculture denoted the fortress of Balinese culture. If farming activities turned faded due to the transfer of land function and young generation were less interested

in agricultural activities, it could be imagined the fate of Balinese culture in the future.

In order to advance the agriculture of Bali and welfare of farmer increases, future leaders must have a scheme to stimulate breakthrough of investment in agribusiness. Indeed, investing in agriculture is risky. It may face harvest failure, due to the influence of weather and so on. Therefore, future leaders must give incentives to those who are willing to invest in agriculture. For example, it can be done by providing tax incentives, ease of securing a permit, funding assistance with a mild interest and so on. Another contribution is the faithful to use of the product of local farmers, and loyal assistance or guidance to farmers.

Prof. Nyoman Suparta said, farmers with limited land, small capital and so on would be difficult to develop on its own. On that account, it required reinforcement from the government.

If farmers wanted to develop commodity being compatible with the area and were able to create products with good results, farmers should be given capital with a very low interest, mentoring technology and so on. Thus the product of farmers will have really good

quality. But no matter how good the commodity is, government needs to make a good marketing system. By doing so, farmers are expected to increasingly advanced and feel convenience to do their farming activities.

Prof. Dewa Suprapta added, by encouraging investment in the agricultural sector, there were some roles that can be carried out. First, with job availability in agriculture, poverty at the level of rural farmers could be eradicated. Second, nature of Bali would be increasingly green and indirectly conserved through farming activities. On that account, the Dewa Suprapta who is also President of the International Society for Southeast Asian Agricultural Sciences (ISSAAS) asserted that developing the agricultural sector of Bali entailed seriousness and high ideals. “Participation of all parties is needed in the building the sector. The leader as policy holder should encourage investment in agriculture,” he said.

Additionally, he said other than producing food and bioenergy, agriculture played important role to maintain the nature of Bali in order to remain green.

Through the agricultural activity, the nature would automatically conserved.

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Rain Poured, Amlapura Submerged Amlapura (Bali Post) — Heavy rains since about 2 p.m. in the afternoon until night, on Monday (1 / 2) yesterday causes some parts of Amlapura city to submerge. The highway was full of water just like a river, while the sewers were over-flown.

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The people are working together to open the road from the landslide that covered it. The poor weather condition made disasters such as flood and landslide occurs throughout Bali.

Future Leaders to Move Participation in Agriculture Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Future leaders must be able to move the participation of all components— government, businessmen, academician and community—to build and protect the agriculture of Bali. “All components must poise the perceptions to build and protect agriculture and farmers of Bali,” said professor of Udayana University Prof. Dr. Dewa Ngurah Suprapta, last Monday (Feb 1).

Similar opinion was delivered by Chairman of Indonesia association of farmers (HKTI) Bali who is also a lecturer at Udayana University, Prof.

Dr. Nyoman Suparta that leaders must take care of agriculture, enjoy agriculture and fully understand about the data and the agricultural potential and know the vision where farmers should be brought to make them prosperous.

In terms of policy, they should have strong management commitment to not easily shaken.

Prof. Dewa Suprapta added the commitment of leaders to protect and develop the agricultural sector was so

important for Bali because agriculture denoted the fortress of Balinese culture. If farming activities turned faded due to the transfer of land function and young generation were less interested in agricultural activities, it could be imagined the fate of Balinese culture in the future. In order to advance the agriculture of Bali and welfare of farmer increases, future leaders must have a scheme to stimulate breakthrough of investment in agribusiness. Indeed, investing in agriculture is risky. It may face harvest failure, due to the influence of weather and so on. Therefore, future leaders must give incentives to those who are willing to invest in agriculture. For example, it can be done by providing tax incentives, ease of securing a permit, funding assistance with a mild interest and so on. Another contribution is the faithful to use of the product of local farmers, and loyal assistance or guidance to farmers.

Prof. Nyoman Suparta said, farmers with limited land, small

capital and so on would be difficult to develop on its own. On that account, it required reinforcement from the government. If farmers wanted to develop commodity being compatible with the area and were able to create products with good results, farmers should be given capital with a very low interest, mentoring technology and so on.

Thus the product of farmers will have really good quality. But no matter how good the commodity is, government needs to make a good marketing system. By doing so, farmers are expected to increasingly advanced and feel convenience to do their farming activities.

Prof. Dewa Suprapta added, by encouraging investment in the agricultural sector, there were some roles that can be carried out. First, with job availability in agriculture, poverty at the level of rural farmers could be eradicated. Second, nature of Bali would be increasingly green and indirectly conserved through farming activities. (08)

Fatal Motorcycle Crash, Killed One Semarapura (Bali Post) —

Traffic accidents continue to occur in Klungkung. This time, two motorcycles had crashed at Jalan Umum Banjar Sangging, Akah, Klungkung.

As a result, a motorist, Nengah Kerna (51) originated from Banjar Bungaya, Akah, Klungkung was killed in the unfortunate event because of severe head injuries suffered.

The accident occurred on Sunday (31 / 1) yesterday, between motorcycle (Plate no. DK 2364 GZ) ridden by Nyoman Suartawan (19) a student from Banjar Marga Sari, Pupuan, Tabanan on motorcycle with plate no. DK 6157 MH ridden

by the victim. The incident began at around 9:15 p.m. when the victims were coming from opposite direction. At that time, Nengah Kerna was riding the bike with his 8 years old grandson, Kadek Ariawan. On the scene, the victim was about to overtake a vehicle. Unfortunately, he took the bow too much to the right, thus he collided with motorcycle ridden by Nyoman Suartawan that was coming from the opposite direction. As a result of the collision, both riders were thrown off their bikes and injured.

The worst was experienced by the victim who suffered injuries on his cheek and right part of his fore-

head, blisters and swelling on the right hand and unconsciousness. The victim was rushed to Klungkung hospital for intensive treatment. Because the wounds suffered were severe enough, the victim was referred to Sanglah Hospital. However, his life was already hopeless.

The victim took his last breath on the way to Sanglah Hospital. Head of Association Development of Klungkung Police, Kompol. Dewa Gde Sugawa, on Monday (1 / 2) yesterday confirmed the road accident resulting in one casualty. According to him, it was pure accident occurred due to negligence of the victims. (kmb20)

A number of riders found their motorcycles to be dead and stuck in the middle of the road caused by water concealing some parts or wet ignition plugs. Heavy rains which resulted in flooding on the streets also cause previous water Piping Project to gap like a river because the corals used to close the excavated parts were swept away.

This increases the possibility of a traffic accident occurring because of the coral and sand material spilling onto the road.

Residents in new housing of Kertha Langu Sampurna, Subagan and the surrounding areas are also

having difficulties going over the road because the streets has changed into rivers. Roads were damaged by the flood. In addition, a number of citizens were also distressed because their houses leaked, due to heavy rains that caused tiles that are not able to contain the pouring rain.

Until yesterday evening, no information have been obtained regarding whether the heavy rains that poured on almost every region of Karangasem were causing landslide in the districts that are prone to landslides, such as Selat, Sidemen, and Rendang. (013)

Found Dead, Elderly Woman Allegedly Murdered With a Hammer Tabanan (Bali Post) —

An old woman named Ni Made Tami (75), resident of Banjar Sanda, Sanda Village, Pupuan was found dead on Monday (1 / 2) yesterday.

Allegedly, the victim died after bashed by a hammer used to break stones.

The police have not succeeded in revealing who the sadistic killer is.

Information gathered in the field point out that Tami was found dead last Monday at around 10 a.m. when her niece, Ni Luh Gede Riandani (23), at approximately 9 a.m. came to Tami’s shop to buy detergent. Unusually, the small shop was still closed. Witness tried calling from the outside but there was no answer. Riandani tried to find the victim from behind the shop and had peeked from the back of the shop where the door slightly opened. After repeatedly calling and still no answers were heard, Riandani went back to her home.

At around 10 a.m., Riandani went back to the shop because of the needed detergent. The shop was still closed even though it was almost noon. Curious, Riandani called Dadong Tami, but still no response from the victim. Shortly after, Made Sanggra(60), a local resident, came to buy a plastic rope. Out of curiosity, they tried to enter the shop/house through the back door.

He saw Tami lying down on her bed, not moving at all even when

recalled. Blood were seen above her right eye. Since Tami was already dead, the witnesses screamed and gathered the neighbors, then continued to report the incident to the police.

Forensic Laboratory Team (Labfor) along with Bali Tabanan District Police Identification Unit directly visited the crime scene and requested information from witnesses. Allegedly, Tami was killed.

Officers found a hammer used to break rocks about 30 feet away from the victim’s home. In addition, the victim’s money, which was usually wrapped in a piece of cloth, also disappeared. Three boxes of cigarettes were also taken by perpetrators. Yet strangely, the gold ring and necklace worn by the victim remains intact. According to information from the local people, Tami stayed at home alone. Her husband had lived and died in Denpasar and only went home if there is a family or customary event.

Tabanan police Head of Public Relation, Kompol Endung Hardanto on Monday said that the police are still chasing the perpetrators. They have not found a lead on who actually have the heart to kill the elderly woman. This case adds to the unsolved murder investigation. The murderer of Ni Luh Sri Utami, whose body was floating in Lake Beratan, Bedugul a few weeks ago until now has not been revealed. (KMB 14)

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President’s sex life makes headlines in S. Africa AP

JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s governing party says a report that the country’s polygamist president fathered a child out of wedlock makes “a mountain out of nothing.”

The report, however, has sparked some criticism in a country where one-tenth of the population is living with the virus that causes AIDS. Johannesburg’s Sunday Times newspaper, citing unnamed friends of the woman’s family, reported that President Jacob Zuma had a daughter in October by a woman who is not one of his three wives nor a fourth woman to whom he is engaged.

Zuma has not commented on the Times story. In an e-mail Tuesday from Ethiopia, where he had accompanied Zuma to an African Union summit, presidential spokesman Vincent Magwenya neither confirmed nor denied the report, saying: “Those who have laid judgment on the president in a matter that is entirely a private, personal issue, can they subject themselves to a public audit of their private lives?”

Politicians elsewhere would find it difficult to survive headlines about a “love child.” But Zuma’s African National Congress party swept parliamentary elections in April, ensuring him the presidency, even though he had confessed before the vote to a previous affair and has in the past married women only after having children with them.

ANC spokesman Jackson Mthembu said in a statement: “We are of the view that the media and some political commentators are making a mountain out of nothing.”

Zuma is popular in South Africa for his personal warmth and populist policies, and some here applaud him for embracing what they see as traditional African values in his personal life. Polygamy, though, is not widely practiced and is seen by some as old-fashioned — and expensive.

The Times did not name its sources, described as friends of the family of the woman reportedly involved. It quoted the woman as

telling its reporter: “I don’t know what you are talking about.” Opposition parties and political commentators, though, treated the story as confirmed.

“The South African public must make its voice heard and tell President Zuma to start behaving like a president and not a gigolo,” said Mosiuoa Lekota, a former prominent ANC member. In 2008, Lekota formed COPE, a party embraced by other ex-members of the ANC who had questioned whether Zuma was fit to lead the country.

Magwenya, Zuma’s spokesman, said, “Can any of us claim with absolute certainty that we know what could have led to the circumstances that are being reported about the president’s relationship?

“The details of such circumstances belong to the realm of his private life, that all of us have and do enjoy.”

But Helen Zille, a provincial premier and leader of the main opposition Democratic Alliance party, said the matter does have public importance.

“President Jacob Zuma’s behavior directly contradicts the government’s campaign against multiple sexual partners, and the inherent AIDS risk in having unprotected sex,” she said in a statement. South Africa, a nation of about 50 million, has an estimated 5.7 million people infected with the AIDS-causing HIV virus, more than any other country.

Zuma’s Zulu traditions allow men to have multiple wives. But experts say having multiple, concurrent partners heightens the risk of AIDS. In an interview, Mthembu, the ANC spokesman, said he did not know whether Zuma would speak on the newspaper report and ensuing criticism.

“If he thinks that it is a matter that he needs to inform all of us about, he will do so,” Mthembu said.

Mthembu said the ANC saw no links between ANC policies to fight AIDS and Zuma’s personal life. Zuma has been applauded for turning around AIDS policies after President Thabo Mbeki’s stance was blamed for hundreds of thousands of premature deaths.

AP

South African President Jacob Zuma gestures after the session ‘A Conversation on the Future of Africa’

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Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, right, comforts his wife Wan Azizah after she was mobbed by media photographers at a courthouse in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010. Anwar arrived in court Tuesday to face a sodomy trial that could transform Malaysia’s political landscape.

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Malaysia’s Anwar says PM behind sodomy trial AP

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on Tuesday accused Malaysia’s prime minister and his wife of involvement in bringing the sodomy case against him, and said he would seek to put them on the witness stand to prove it.

Anwar’s long-awaited trial on charges of sodomizing a former male aide was postponed by about five hours pending a decision by another court whether the defense has the right to study in advance the evidence that the prosecution plans to unveil.

The former deputy prime minister has long maintained that the allegation is a conspiracy by his enemies to end his political career.

Anwar — dressed in gray shirt and jacket — was almost knocked down by television crews jostling to get near him as he arrived at the Kuala Lumpur High Court for the start of trial.

He came out of court about 30 minutes later to announce the trial had been adjourned until late afternoon.

Anwar was charged in August 2008 with sodomizing a 25-yearold male former aide, Saiful Bukhari Azlan. He told reporters he has evidence that Saiful visited Prime Minister Najib Razak and his wife Rosmah a few days before making the allegation.

“They were personally involved in this conspiracy and frame-up. We have evidence that Saiful Bukhari was in the house with Rosmah and met Najib a few days before he

lodged the police report,” Anwar said. He said he plans to subpoena the prime minister and his wife as witnesses.

Najib has acknowledged Saiful came to see him but says it was in connection with a university scholarship. Najib was deputy prime minister at that time.

This is not the first time Anwar has been accused of sodomy.

He spent six years in prison after being convicted of corruption and an earlier sodomy charge, following his ouster from the Cabinet in 1998 amid a power struggle with then leader Mahathir Mohamad. He maintained his innocence all along and was freed in 2004 when Malaysia’s top court overturned the sodomy conviction.

Sodomy is a crime in this Muslim-majority country, carrying a prison sentence of up to 20 years.

Anwar, 62, says the latest charge is designed to undermine his threeparty opposition alliance, which made massive inroads during March 2008 general elections. Government officials deny plotting against Anwar.

A guilty conviction would bar Anwar from politics for five years from the date of his release, and deal a massive blow to the opposition alliance, which has appeared to be on the verge of breaking the ruling

party’s stranglehold on power for the first time since independence in 1957.

But the alliance, whose members have widely differing political ideologies, is already showing cracks because of long-standing differences coming to the surface.

Anwar’s conviction could widen those cracks and also distract people from the country’s religious tensions and economic problems.

The trial was supposed to start last summer but was delayed by a series of applications by defense lawyers. On Friday, the Federal Court, Malaysia’s top judicial body, rejected their latest bid to force the prosecution to provide medical reports, camera recordings and other evidence ahead of the trial.

The defense asked the Federal Court to review its decision, which led to Tuesday’s five-hour adjournment.

Anwar’s lawyer, Sankara Nair, has also made another application to postpone the trial pending the outcome of a separate appeal before a different court.

Anwar was in a political wilderness after his first sodomy conviction. He revived his career with the March 2008 elections, when his alliance won more than one-third of the seats in Parliament amid public disenchantment with the National Front governing coalition.

However, new Prime Minister Najib Razak has regained some of the ground lost by his predecessor, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

International IMIGRATION Australian Consulate General Jalan Tantular 32 Renon Denpasar Phone: +62 361 241118 Fax: +62 361 221195 (General) +62 361 241120 (Immigration)

General Info

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

HOSPITAL Bangli Bangli General Hospital Jl. Kesumayuda 27, Bangli Phone : +62 366 91521 Gianyar

Royal Danish & Norwegian Mimpi Resort Jimbaran, Bali Phone +62.361.701 070 The Czech Republic Jalan Pengembak No. 17 Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.286 465 France Consulate Agency Jalan Merta Sari Gang II No. 8 Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.285 485 The Federal Republic of Germany Jalan Pantai Karang No 17 Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.288 535 The Republic of Hungary Jalan By Pass No 219 Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.287 701 Italian Consulate Jalan By Pass Ngurah Rai Jimbaran, Bali Phone +62.361.701 005 Honorary Consulate of Mexico Jalan Mohamad Yamin 1 A, Renon, Denpasar, Bali Phone +62.361.223 266 Honorary Consulate of The Netherlands Jalan Raya Kuta 127, Bali Phone +62.361.761 506 Honorary Consulate of Spain Komplek Istana Kuta Galleria Blok Vallet 2 No 11. Jalan Patih Jelantik Kuta, Bali Phone +62.361.769 286 USA Consulate Agency Jalan Hayam Wuruk No. 188 Denpasar, Bali Phone +62.361.222 426 Consulate General of Japan Jalan Raya Puputan No. 170 Renon, Denpasar, Bali Phone +62.361.227 628 Honorary Consulate of British Jalan Tirta Nadi No. 20 Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.270 601 Swiss and Austria Consulate Jalan Patih Jelantik, Komplek Pertokoan Istana Galleria Phone +62.361.751 735 Honorary Consulate of Brazil Jalan Legian No. 186, Bali Phone +62.361.757 775 Honorary Consulate of Thailand Jalan Raya Puputan Renon 81, Denpasar, Bali Phone +62.361.263 310 Embassy of India Jalan Raya Puputan Renon 42-44, Denpasar, Bali Phone +62.361.241 978 Honorary Consulate of Sweden anf Finland Segara Village Hotel, Jalan Segara Ayu, Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.282 223 Honorary Consulate of Malaysia Alam Kulkul Boutique Resort, Jalan Pantai Kuta, Bali Phone +62.361.752 520

RSUP Sanglah is the main provincial public hospital. Its facilities have improved since the emergency ward had been built in 1991. Difficult/critical cases would not become a problem anymore since it has complete equipments. It is located on Jl. Kesehatan Selatan 1 Sanglah Denpasar with : Phone : 227 911 – 15 Fax : 226 363 Kasih Ibu Hospital is a private hospital which caters for less serious cases such as diarrhea, intestinal disorders, anemia, asthma and minor accidents. Kasih Ibu is also equipped to care for pregnant women. This hospital is located on Jl. Teuku Umar 120 Denpasar.

Phone : 223 036 Fax : 268 690.

Rumah Sakit Wongaya (Public Hospital; Psychiatric Unit) Jl. Kartini, Denpasar.

Phone : 222 142.

Rumah Sakit Dharma Husada , (Private) Jl. Sudirman No 50, Denpasar Phone : 227 560, 234 824 In relating with health, Bali also has insurance and medical evacuation company, that is: AEA International - SOS Assistance Bali.

PT Abhaya Eka Astiti, Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai No. 24X, Kuta 80361.

Phone : 755 768 Fax : 755 768 One thing that should be noted by tourists here is that the Blood Bank in Bali normally carries no stock of Rhesus (Rh) Negative blood.

Badung Bali Medical Clinics There are some medical clinics that are well known by foreigners in Bali. Some of them are western owned and operated : Bali International Medical Center (BIMC) Bali International Medical Centre (BIMC) provides excellent Primary Health Care & Emeregency Medical Services for tourists, traveler, and expatriate living in Bali.

Emeregency Room, Ambulance, Clinic Services, Insurance & Medical Evacuations also available. Open 24 hours Phone : 761 2631. Located Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai No.100X, Kuta, Bali 80361 - Indonesia. http://www.bimcbali.com International SOS Clinic Bali Opened in 1999, offers International SOS members and visitors to Bali comprehensive primary health care and 24-hour emergency medical service.

Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai 505X, Kuta 80361, Bali - Indonesia Phone : 720 100 Fax : 721 919 E-mail : info@sos-bali.com ttp ://www.sos-bali.com Bali Nusa Dua Emergency Clinic Jl Pratama No. 81 Phone : 771 324 Kuta Clinic Jl. Raya Kuta Phone : 753 268 Dental Clinic Dr Indra Guizot, Jl. Patimura 19, Denpasar Phone : 222 445, 234 375 DDS. Ritjie Rihartinah, Jl Pratama No. 81 Nusa Dua Phone : 771 324 Retno W. Agung, Jln. Bypass Ngurah Rai No.4A Br. Tamansari – Sanur Phone : 288 501

Clinic Mas Jl. Raya Mas, Ubud Phone : +62 361 974573 Toyo Clinic Jl. Pengosekan, Ubud Phone : +62 361 978078 Permata Bunda Clinic Jl. Patih Jelantik 50 X, Gianyar Phone : +62 361 942082 Ubud Clinic Jl Raya Ubud No.36 Campuhan, Ubud Phone : +62 361 974911 Gianyar General Hospital Jl. Ciung Wanara 2, Gianyar Phone : +62 361 943049 Karangasem Karangasem General Hospital Jl. Ngurah Rai, Karangasem Phone : +62 363 21001 Klungkung Klungkung General Hospital Jl. Flamboyan 40-4, Klungkung Phone : +62 366 21371 Negara Negara General Hospital Jl. Gelar, Negara Phone : +62 365 41006 Tabanan Laboratorium Clinic Jl. Gunung semeru No. 8, Tabanan Phone : +62 361 819260 Mengwi Clinic Jl. I Gusti Ngurah Rai 46, Tabanan Phone : +62 361 880550 Darma Kerti Hospital Jl. Teratai 16, Tabanan Phone : +62 361 812359 Tabanan General Hospital Jl. Pahlawan 14, Tabanan Phone : +62 361 811027 Singaraja Prodia Clinic Jl. RA Kartini 12, Singaraja Bali 0362 - 24-516 Singaraja Hospital Jl. Ngurah Rai 30, Singaraja Bali 0362 - 22-573 Pet Clinics Kayumas: (0361) 226934 Sayang Binatang: (0361) 483121 Satwa Kertha Husada: (0361) 263018 Pantai Sindhu: (0361) 287518 Sidakarya: (0361) 724492 Pedungan: (0361) 720026

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

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Somali pirates abandon hijacked Indian dhow NAIROBI, Kenya – The European Union’s anti-piracy force says Somali pirates have abandoned an Indian-flagged dhow they had held for more than two weeks.

The EU naval force says the pirates left the Faize Osamani late Monday. They immediately boarded another ship held by fellow pirates, the British-flagged Asian Glory.

Somali pirates have been known to give up on ships they believe have no ransom value, such as vessels owned or hired by Somali trad-

ers.

The force says a coalition force ship provided medical and technical assistance to the 14-member crew of Faize Osamani before the dhow sailed to the Somali capital, Mogadishu, with its cargo of rice.

Somali pirates are currently holding several vessels and their crew hostage.

Two teens charged over Australian bushfire SYDNEY (AFP) – Australian police on Tuesday charged two teenagers with arson over a fire that killed one man on “Black Saturday” — the day last year that 173 people lost their lives in wildfires.

The pair, aged 14 and 15, were charged with arson causing death for allegedly lighting a bushfire in a dry creek bed at Maiden Gully, near the country town of Bendigo in Victoria state as temperatures soared last February 7.

“As a result of the Maiden Gully fire, a 47-year-old man was killed and 354 hectares of land, 61 houses and 125 sheds and outbuildings were destroyed,” police said in statement.

Police estimate the fire caused 23.5 million dollars (about 21 million US) in damage to property.

Reports said the pair, who cannot be named but who media reports said were both boys, appeared in separate Victorian children’s courts on Tuesday and were granted bail.

The court heard that 47-year-old Kevin Kane died in the Maiden Gully fire after he became trapped inside his home.

The fire was just one of several that raged across Australia’s southeastern state of Victoria on February 7 killing 173 people and razing more than 2,000 homes in the country’s worst peace-time disaster.

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AFP/File – Photo taken in January 2010 shows armed Somali pirates carrying out preparations to a skiff in Hobyo

Ethiopian journalist jailed for criticising leader ADDIS ABABA (AFP) – An Ethiopian journalist has been jailed for a year for criticising the prime minister, the Committee for the Protection of Journalists (CPJ) said Tuesday.

“An Ethiopian judge sentenced a journalist to prison on Friday in connection with a January 2008 column that criticized Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s statements about religious affairs in Ethiopia, according to local journalists,” the New York-based press rights

Abrasion From page 1 Putu Artha urged the people who live throughout the beach area to increase their awareness because the poor weather condition will continue in the next few days.

The strong wind had created big

Concorde From page 1

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AFP/File – Australian police have charged two teenagers with arson over a fire that killed one man on “Black saturday”.

Continental and two of its employees will be in the dock in Pontoise, near Paris, accused of the manslaughter of 109 people on board the New York-bound plane — most of them German tourists — and four hotel workers on the ground.

A former French civil aviation official and two former Concorde engineers will be tried on the same charge, with proceedings expected to last four months.

The court will try to determine whether the crash on July 25, 2000 was caused by a strip of metal that fell on the runway from a Continental plane shortly before the Air France Concorde took off.

It will also ask whether the

watchdog said.

It identified the journalist as Ezedin Mohamed, editor of Al-Quds, which it described as a “Muslim-orientated newspaper”.

The Al-Quds column is said to have challenged Meles’s characterisation of his country as “Orthodox Christian Ethiopia,” CPJ said.

The editor has begun serving his sentence at Kality Prison outside the capital Addis Ababa, the watchdog said.

“The jailing of Ezedin Mohamed is another example of Ethiopia’s intoler-

ance of independent and critical voices,” said CPJ Africa Program Coordinator Tom Rhodes. “It is high time for Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to demonstrate his commitment to democratic values by ending the practice of imprisoning journalists.”

Mohamed is the fifth journalist to be imprisoned in Ethiopia, which is the second worst jailer of journalists in Africa, CPJ said, adding that only neighbouring Eritrea jails more.

waves which destroyed houses and police posts on the beach. “It is very serious disaster and very dangerous for the people in the area,” Putu Artha said.

In the last few days, the people in the area are very worried due to the poor weather condition. Supriyanto, an inhabitant on the beach area, said that the wind is very strong and the wave is also

very big. The waves could only need 5 minutes to destroy the houses.

Putu Artha said that the government will act promptly to handle the problem. The government also already sent a letter to the Indonesian government in order to assist (021) Bali in handling the problem.(021)

French official and the engineers failed to prevent the accident by correcting known faults on the iconic jet favoured by the rich and famous for their transAtlantic trips.

Air France and British Airways grounded their Concordes for 15 months after the crash and, after a brief resumption, finally put an end to supersonic commercial service in 2003.

The Concorde made its maiden commercial flight in 1976. Only 20 were made, six for development and the remaining 14 for flying mainly trans-Atlantic routes at speeds of up to 1,350 miles (2,170 kilometres) an hour.

Most of the families of the people who died in the 2000 crash agreed not to take legal action in exchange for undisclosed levels of compensation from Air France, EADS aerospace firm, Continental and Goodyear tyre maker.

So the trial will be more about Con-

tinental and Air France — which is not accused of wrongdoing and is a civil plaintiff in the case — seeking to defend their reputations and about the legacy of the Concorde.

A French accident inquiry concluded in December 2004 that the disaster was partly caused by a strip of metal that fell on the runway from a Continental DC-10 plane that took off just before the supersonic jet.

The Concorde, most of whose German passengers were due to board a Caribbean cruise ship in New York, ran over the super-hard titanium strip, it said.

The strip then shredded one of its tyres, causing a blow-out and sending debris flying into an engine and a fuel tank and setting it on fire, the inquiry said.

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Obama, Family to visit RI in March Antara

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A painting featuring US President Barrack Obama (C) is displayed among Indonesian leaders as a street painter waits for customers in Jakarta on February 2, 2010.

JAKARTA - President Obama and his family will make a state visit to Indonesia in the second half of March 2010, according to a White House statement.

The trip would be an important part of Obama’s continued effort to broaden and strengthen the partnerships necessary to advance the two countries’ security and prosperity, the statement said.

Indonesia is the world’s fourth most populous country, the third largest democracy; is home to the largest Muslim population in the world; and an important partner to the US in the G20.

During his visit Obama would formally launch the US-Indonesia Comprehensive Partnership, an initiative through which the United States will broaden and strengthen relations with Indonesia to tackle

important regional and global issues.

US Ambassador to Indonesia Cameron R. Hume welcomed the news and said the trip would symbolize the growing importance that ties to Indonesia hold for the US. “President Obama’s visit will help our two countries build a 21st Century Partnership for a 21st Century World,” the ambassador said.

“The visit will give the President a good opportunity to see firsthand all the progress Indonesia has made, and to advance the growing US-Indonesia comprehensive partnership based on common interests,” the Hume said. “We look forward to working closely with President Yudhoyono and the government and people of Indonesia to welcome President Obama and his family.”

The US President and First Lady would continue on to Australia following the visit to Indonesia.

Government to allocate RP270 trillions for poverty eradication Antara

JAKARTA - The government plans to allocate Rp270 trillion in funds for its poverty eradication program 2010-2014, according to a minister.

“For the implementation of the programs aimed at eradicating poverty in regions particularly, a budget of Rp270 trillion will be allocated,” National Development Planning Minister/Head of the National Development Planning Board (Bappenas) Armida S. Alisyahbana said in her written re-

sponse to the working meeting with the Commission XI of the House of Representatives (DPR) here on Monday.

The government would also adopt a poverty eradication policy and program consisting of three clusters, namely to provide protection and assistance for poor fami-

lies and communities, to boost poor people’s empowerment, to improve their welfare, and to empower micro- and small-scale businesses.

“The government will improve the quality of the three clusters by implementing family-based social protection programs, improving the quality of the National Public Empowerment Program (PNPM) ‘Mandiri’ in an integrated way, and by improving the implementation of the People’s Credit Scheme (KUR),”

ASEAN to ensure availability of drugs, influenza vaccine Antara

JAKARTA - ASEAN citizens stand to benefit from several initiatives to be undertaken by their governments to ensure the availability of and access to antiviral drugs and pandemic influenza vaccine, including through working with the private sector.

The region’s ministries of health, and the food and drug agencies said recently they would jointly formulate regional policies to facilitate domestic production, importation and registration of the antiviral drugs and pandemic influenza vaccines, according to information on the official website of the Jakarta-based ASEAN Secretariat here on Tuesday.

“Representatives of ASEAN member states also said that they would explore the feasibility of joint

procurement to reduce the costs and secure the availability of supply,” said Dhannan Sunoto, director of the Cross-Sectoral Cooperation Directorate of the ASEAN Secretariat.

During the ASEAN Meeting on Promoting Access to Antiviral Drugs and Pandemic Influenza Vaccines held in Singapore late last week, the sharing of antiviral drugs, vaccines and other resources was also discussed by the representatives of the Member States.

Meanwhile, at the national level Member States have been encouraged to enhance partnerships with the pharmaceutical industry to promote transfer of technology and to seek the cooperation of local industries to produce the drugs and vaccines needed.

With this in mind, consultations between Governments and several

international and regional pharmaceutical companies were also convened. ’We are looking for win-win schemes that would allow the ASEAN people to have better and quicker access to the antiviral drugs and vaccines for pandemic influenza,’ said Mr Sunoto, who expressed optimism that practical public-private partnership schemes could be explored to make the drugs and vaccines easily available in the region. Such schemes may be also open to drugs and vaccines against other infectious diseases in general.

Sunoto added that further discussions will be held to explore mechanisms for joint production of the drugs and vaccines under voluntary licensing and any other arrangements to supply the drugs and vaccines locally and to other ASEAN countries.

Minister Armida Alisyahbana said.

The government hopes to cut the poverty rate by 8 to 10 percent by 2014, she said. Currently, the government’s priority is to lower the poverty rate which stands at 12 to 14 percent now.

Meanwhile, Head of the Fiscal Policy Board Anggito Abimanyu said high and quality economic growth was a prerequisite to reduce the poverty and unemployment rates.

“The economic growth in 2010 is

expected to reach 5.5 percent and a quality growth needs investment to boost production sectors,” he said.

The Gross Domestic Product in 2010 is expected to consist of public consumption at 60.5 percent, government consumption 9.2 percent, investment 27.5 percent, and clean exports 2.4 percent. “Increased investment contribution is expected to cut the unemployment and poverty rates because of a rise in the people’s income,” Anggito Abimanyu said.

Asita proposes e-visa system for foreign tourists Antara

JAKARTA - The Association of Indonesian Tours and Travel Agents (Asita), Jakarta chapter, has proposed the application of an electronic visa or e-visa system to facilitate foreign tourists visiting Indonesia.

“We are in the cyber era at present, and therefore it is time for us to start applying an e-visa system,” chairman of Asita’s Jakarta chapter Joungki Adiyasa said here on Monday.

According to him, an e-visa system as was already being used in Cambodia would facilitate foreign tourists in obtaining immigration documents and be very effective.

Therefore, he was of the opinion that it was time for Indonesia to create a sophisticated and transparent immigration bureaucracy.

Adiyasa also expressed pessimism

that the implementation of the Visa-onArrival (VoA) service starting on February 1, 2010 would be able to increase foreign tourist visits to Indonesia.

“VoA is really to facilitate foreign tourists but it does not guarantee an increase in their number,” Adiyasa said. He said the Visa-on-Arrival policy was not something new in Indonesia, because some 20 years ago Indonesia flag carrier Garuda Indonesia already cooperated with various parties to implement it.

“VoA management is not something new because an in-flight immigration service has been in existence for the past 20 years,” Adiyasa said.

Besides, he said, the effort to jack up the number of foreign tourists visiting Indonesia was not merely through the implementation of VoA, because the tourism sector had its own complexity that should be supported by other sectors.

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Bali Today Sand storm disturb activities in Kuta beach Antara

DENPASAR – The activities in Kuta beach was disturbed by sand storm. The storm made the sand covered the road in the beach area. I Gusti Ngurah Tresna, the head of Kuta authorized officer, said “the wind is very strong. The big rocks in front of Kartika Plaza hotel are destroyed by the strong wind.”

The big rocks actually placed there to block the big waves from hammering the hotel compound but the wind break it into pieces. The condition made the hotel staffs and the officers of Kuta must clean the debris. “The hotel management has come to us and asks assistance to clean the debris.

We also requested the help from the government to handle the problem,” Ngurah Tresna said.

Eight rocks as much as one ton each were placed in the beach area in front of Kartika Plaza hotel. It was needed to prevent the abrasion on the area. Six out of eight rocks were destroyed by the strong wind and

big waves. Ngurah Tresna said “we already contacted the authorized department in order to replace the destroyed rocks. The damage needs to be repaired soon because the abrasion could get worse especially during the poor weather condition.”

Rai Yusa, the head of General Work Department said that the problem will be handled by the abrasion handling team.

“The team will try to reassemble the rocks for temporary support because it is very dangerous to work in the poor weather condition,” he added. Currently, the team will monitor the condition in the beach area in order to determine the next step.

Big waves destroy houses in Bali

Jero Wacik opens immigration-on-board service

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DENPASAR – Big waves which happen in Bali’s coastal area destroyed houses around the beach. On Tuesday, February 2nd 2009, three houses were destroyed on Tejakula beach in Buleleng and two others were destroyed on Candikusuma beach in Jembrana. The fish market and Bali Marine Police post which is located on Candikusuma beach was also destroyed by the waves.

Gde Sugianyar, the spokesman of Bali Police Department, said “some of the walls of the police post were destroyed. The building itself is nearly collapse.” Some walls on the beach which is built to prevent abrasion were also damaged.

The condition is seen in the beach throughout Klungkung and Karangasem regency. The big waves which are more than 3 meters high occur since Monday, February 1st 2010. The big waves are making the people who stayed near the beach very worried. On Tuesday, February 2nd 2010, the condition was getting better so some of them were returning to their houses.

Made Runa, an inhabitant of Lebih beach, said that they are also very worry about the weather condition. “The waves were more than 2 meter high and that made them worry,” he added.

Runa also said that the bid waves also made the fishermen can not go to the sea.

“Most of the fishermen don’t dare to go to the sea. They better waiting for the weather condition to improve before they go to the sea,” he added.

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Tourists enjoying their time at Kuta Beach, Bali Island. The activities in Kuta beach was disturbed by sand storm. The storm made the sand covered the road in the beach area.

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DENPASAR - Tourism minister Jero Wacik officially started the operation of the “Immigration on Board” service at Ngurah Rai airport in Bali on Monday.

“The operation of the service is expected to be able to cut lines at the Visa on Arrival

counter so that foreign tourists would feel more comfortable. I hope in the future I can expand the service for Korea, China and Australia destinations,” he said.

He said the service was the latest breakthrough in improving service to foreign tourists and it would ease their arrival in the country because they should

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Tourism minister Jero Wacik (2l) officially started the operation of the “Immigration on Board” service at Ngurah Rai airport in Bali on Monday.

not have to stand in line at the airport.

“Tourists have so far complained about the Visa-On-Arrival service which could take hours.

If their immigration process could be completed on board they certainly could directly leave for hotels upon arrival,” he said.

The Immigration on Board service is now still limited to Garuda flights from Narita, Japan. It is hoped it could be expanded to other countries as well.

“The facility will make tourists eager to come to Indonesia,” he said.

The commerce director of Garuda Indonesia, Agus Priyanto, said the national airline company would continue to support the government’s program for increasing tourist arrivals.

“This is Garuda’s step to help ease foreign tourists’ arrival in Indonesia,” he said.

Regarding the minister’s plan to expand the service to cover tourists from other countries he said “we have been ready to implement the Immigration on Board program for tourists from other countries soon the immigration and banks are ready.” The head of Bali tourism service, Ida Bagus Kade Subhiksu, hoped the effort would increase the number of tourists from a number of Bali’s main tourism markets such as Australia, China and Korea. Australian tourists to Bali in 2009 reached 20 percent of the total number of foreign tourists, followed by Japanese tourists (14 percent), Chinese (9 percent) and Korea (six percent).

Malaysian tourists ranked four in number after the Chinese but they have a free-visa facility for a short visit.

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Emergency landings during Balinese New Year allowed Antara

DENPASAR - Emergency flights are still permitted at that time when Ngurah Rai international airport in Bali is not operational for 24 hours on the occasion of the Balinese New Year on Tuesday, March 16, 2010.

“Overflying, technical landings and emergency landings including medical evacuation are still permitted,” Head of the Bali Transportation, Information and Communications Agency I Made Santha said here Monday.

He said in a technical landing, the crew and passengers need to stay in Ngurah Rai airport’s work area for as long as the Hindus are engaged in their celebration.

International flights with their destinations and first departure from Ngurah Rai had been

abolished for 24 hours as of Tuesday (March 16) at 4 am to 4 am the following day.

Made Santha said also domestic flights with destination and first departure from Ngurah Rai had been abolished.

However, trans-flights are still permitted, but without passengers with Denpasar at final destination or departure form there.

Such transit flights are permitted only to carry passengers in transfer.

Ngurah Rai airport, seaports and all means of transportation would not be operating during those hours in observance of the Balinese New Year.

Letter for ministers Bali Governor Made Mangku Pastika sent a letter to four cabinet ministers with regard to the closure of Ngurah Rai air-

port and four seaports during the Balinese New Year which falls on Tuesday, March 16, 2010.

“The letter dated December 29, 2009, had been sent to the Minister of Transportation, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Minister of Home Affairs, and the Minister of Communications and Information,” I Made Santha said.

Copies of the letter had also been sent to all the government private institutions on Bali Island to support the success of the 24-hour implementation of the “Tapa Brata Penyepian” starting from 6 am on March 16, 2010 to 4 pm the following day.

Made Santha said the governor’s circular no 003.2/22488/ DPIK has been disseminated by Ngurah Rai airport since early in the morning to all foreign as well as domestic airline companies.

Traditional Balinese Music Gamelan music is the most popular and important kind in Indonesia. Gamelan orchestras accompany all dances and dramas.

Gamel means ‘to hammer’, and most of the instruments of a gamelan orchestra are struck with wooden mallets, padded sticks or hammers.The conductor of a gamelan orchestra is a drummer who is part of the orchestra.

Instruments of a gamelan orchestra A complete orchestra could have about 40 or more different instruments.

There would be instruments that are struck to produce sound, such as kettledrums, xylophones, and gongs of various sizes.

There would be a wind instrument, a bamboo flute called a suling, and string instruments such as a zither or lute. There would be instruments whose sounds are produced by vibration, such as drums, bells, cymbals and gongs.

There are also two sets of instruments that are tonal: the slendro tuned to five tones and the pelog, tuned to seven tones.

The slendro is used to suggest festivity or cheerfulness, and is believed to have developed in Java in the eighth century. The pelog is used to express sadness, and is also very ancient in its origins. These two cannot be played together, but are used according to the mood of the piece being played.

Gamelan music Gamelan music is complicated. It is an ancient form of music and has been handed down for many generations, never written down, but learned by being played. Gamelan is an essential part of Indonesian life. It is slightly different from island to island. (http://asiarecipe.com)

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Tampak Siring Temple

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TIRTA Empul Temple or Tampak Siring Temple is a holy spring water temple located in Tampak Siring Village, Gianyar regency and it is about 39 km eastwards from Denpasar town. It is set in the dale and encircled by the hill. In the west side of this temple, there is an Indonesian President palace which has been found by the first president. The name of Tirta Empul is loaded in a inscription which is kept at Sakenan Temple, Manukaya village, Sub district of Tampak Siring, about 3 km from Tirta Empul Temple. In this inscription, the Tirta Empul is named by the Tirta Ri Air Hampul and then the name has changed into Tirta Hampul and finally become the Tirta Empul. Tirta Ri air hampul is meaning the water emerge or the holy pool (Petirthan) which is the water emerge from the land.

The wellspring emerges from the land is believed that it is the infinite creation. According to the history, that, that this water source is arranged and sanctified by king Indrajayasinghawarmadewa in the year 882 Saka (960 M). He has given the name with Tirta ri air hampul. The data is loaded in the inscription that is located at Sakenan Temple. Besides of the above epigraphy data, in Tirta Empul Temple is also found the archaeology omission like Colossus Yoni, Arca Lion, Tepasana and Tirta Empul Pool. According to papyrus of Usana Bali narrated that Tirta Empul is created by Bhatara Indra (Sun Deity) when

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Because of its miracle, he becomes the arrogance and expressing himself as a god. The Mayadenawa King owns the assistant (Patih) which is called Kalawong. They prohibit the people to do the Yadnya (praying to the god) so that is often happened the natural disaster, disease epidemic, agriculture fail and finally miserable life society. Finally Betara Indra (one of Hindu God) gives battle against the kings that happened in Tampak Siring and then the Mayadenawa is gone to the wall and disappear. King Mayadenawa has also created poisonous pools which can the team of Bathara Indra die and faint after drinking this water. Then Bathara Indra stick the weapon of Umbul-umbul and finally the water is emerging so that called by Tirta Empul and then it is passed to the dead and faint soldier that made them back to live. Therefore at the moment this pool water is sanctified by the Hindu society in Bali and they believe that this water source can heal various of diseases, hence every day this place is a lot of visited by Hindu people to do the ritual and sanctify them self . This place has been opened for public and as a famous tourist destination in Bali. (www.balistarisland.com)

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China faces risks from bank lending surge: OECD Agence France-Presse

BEIJING - Surging bank lending could threaten the stability of financial institutions in fast-growing China, the OECD said Tuesday in a report that urged more market reforms to help reduce such risks.

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development said in its first China survey for five years that while Beijing’s policies had helped shield the country from the world slowdown, excess government controls were a problem.

It recommended China loosen its grip on the value of the yuan and further accelerate other marketbased economic reforms, including allowing greater foreign access to its financial markets.

The report identified the recent surge in new lending as a key problem facing the nation’s economy and financial system.

“While Chinese banks have so far weathered the global slowdown well, the acceleration in new lending since early 2009 raises the risk of a renewed surge in non-performing loans (NPLs) in the years ahead,” the report said.

The lending binge has emerged as a key concern for

China’s economic policymakers, with Liu Mingkang, chairman of the China Banking Regulatory Commission, saying last month the government would rein in credit.

His comments come after the central bank moved to hike the minimum amount of money that banks must keep in reserve and took other steps analysts said were meant to curb lending amid fears of bad loans, asset bubbles and overheating.

Chinese state media also has reported major banks were verbally ordered by authorities to cut new lending, although Liu denied such a move.

Some analysts have said they expect Beijing to go even further by raising interest rates, but most have said such a move is unlikely before mid-2010, as it could fuel inflation.

The OECD said recent “sharp increases in land prices” stemmed partly from excess liquidity and it warned financial institutions could

be stuck with bad loans if property prices fell.

Property prices in Chinese cities have soared, rising in December at the fastest pace in 17 months, according to official figures.

The surge accelerated after Beijing responded last year to the world economic woes with tax breaks, easy bank loans, lower down payment requirements and by calling on banks to pump up lending to keep the economy growing.

As a result, new loans nearly doubled in 2009 from the previous year to 9.59 trillion yuan (1.4 trillion dollars), according to government data.

The Paris-based OECD called bad loans “perhaps the most significant near-term risk” to Chinese financial institutions.

It advised lifting ceilings on foreign investment in banks to “put pressure on these institutions to upgrade their governance, management and technical capabilities, and would facilitate their international expansion.”

It also advised China’s leaders to move more quickly toward freeing up the yuan.

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A woman walks past a god of fortune figurine displayed for the coming Lunar New Year celebrations in Beijing on February 1, 2010. Rampant bank lending could threaten the stability of Chinese financial institutions, the OECD said in its annual report that urged more market reforms to help reduce such risks.

Big banks’ risky trading should be curbed: Volcker

Australia leaves rates on hold at 3.75 percent Agence France-Presse

SYDNEY - Australia’s central bank Tuesday left interest rates on hold at 3.75 percent, surprising analysts by ending a sequence of three consecutive rises, but hinted at further hikes to come.

Australia led the developed world in lifting interest rates following the global financial crisis, increasing its official cash rate 25 basis points to 3.25 percent in October and again in November and December.

“Since information about the early impact of those changes is still limited, the board judged it appropriate to hold a steady setting of monetary policy for the time being,” Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Glenn Stevens said.

Economists had expected another rate rise and Stevens, who said conditions were stronger than expected in Australia, said another in-

crease to the official cash rate was likely in the future.

“If economic conditions evolve broadly as expected, the board considers it likely that monetary policy

will, over time, need to be adjusted further in order to ensure that inflation remains consistent with the target over the medium term,” he said in a statement.

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A man and woman walk past the Reserve Bank of Australia in Sydney on February 2, 2010.

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WASHINGTON - White House adviser Paul Volcker will urge Congress to curb the risks taken by large banks to help prevent them from being treated as “too big to fail,” according to testimony obtained by Reuters on Monday.

Detailing a recent proposal known as “the Volcker rule,” the former Federal Reserve Chairman will tell lawmakers that commercial banks’ proprietary and speculative activities should not be protected by the government.

He will also urge international consensus on “appropriate” actions to restrict commercial banks’ activities.

Volcker — an adviser to President Barack Obama whose star has risen in recent weeks —

will appear before the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday to defend the administration’s latest proposal to rein in the banks.

In January, Obama proposed limiting commercial banks’ ability to engage in proprietary trading, to end their ties to hedge funds and private equity funds and to restrict the future growth of large banks beyond a new market share cap.

In his testimony, Volcker will say there are strong conflicts of interest inherent in participation by commercial banks in proprietary or private investment activity.

“I am not so naive as to think that all potential conflicts can or should be expunged from banking or other businesses,” Volcker said in his prepared remarks.

“But neither am I so naive as to think that, even with the best efforts of boards and management, so-called Chinese walls can remain impermeable against the pressures to seek maximum profit and personal remuneration,” he said.

Taken on board as an adviser early on by Obama, Volcker initially seemed to have not much of an impact in the administration.

But that has changed since the Democrats lost a special Senate election in Massachusetts and Obama moved to a more populist stance, proposing new bank restrictions.

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Johnny Depp: ‘Polanski Is Not A Predator’ JOHNNY Depp has come to the defense of Roman Polanski as he faces extradition to the U.S. on child sex charges - insisting the embattled director is “not a predator.”

The Oscar-winning filmmaker pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977, but fled the States before his sentence could be passed. He was arrested in Zurich last year and placed under house arrest in Switzerland.

Last month, a Los Angeles judge ruled he must return to the U.S. to face sentencing.

However Depp, who collaborated with the 76 year old on 1999 thriller The Ninth Gate, insists U.S. prosecutors should take Polanski’s current home life into consideration and let the 32year-old charges go.

Defending his former boss’ character, Depp explains: “Roman is not a predator. He’s 75 or 76 years old. He has got two beautiful kids; he has got a wife that he has been with for a long, long time. He is not out on the street.”

Orlando Bloom to star in “Good Doctor” ORLANDO Bloom will play the lead in “The Good Doctor,” an indie drama for which Michael Pena, Troy Garity, Courtney Ford, Taraji P. Henson, Rob Morrow and J.K. Simmons are in negotiations to co-star. Bloom also is one of the producers of the Lance Daly-directed picture. The script by John Enbom (“Veronica Mars”), described as a Hitchcockian thriller, centers on a frustrated doctor trying to impress his superiors and colleagues. When an 18-year-old patient, admitted for a kidney infection, provides him with the esteem he so craves, the doctor tampers with her treatment to keep her at the hospital with him.

Pena will play an orderly who discovers the doctor’s budding relationship and blackmails him for

prescription painkillers. Garity is cast as a successful, self-assured doctor, a counterpoint to Bloom.

Ford plays a woman who has eyes for Bloom’s character.

Bloom continues to raise his indie film profile. He stars in Mark Ruffalo’s “Sympathy for Delicious,” which premiered at Sundance, and has wrapped production on “Main Street.” On the London stage, he recently starred in the West End production of “In Celebration.”

Pena recently wrapped “The Green Hornet,” while Garity has IFC’s ensemble film “Mercy” in the can. Ford had a recurring role on Showtime’s “Dexter,” and Henson appears in “Date Night” with Steve Carell and Tina Fey as well as “The Karate Kid.”

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Actor Orlando Bloom attends a meeting with city officials in Sarajevo August 12, 2008.

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In this Jan. 27, 2010 file photo, Elton John, left, and David Furnish attend the premiere of ‘Nowhere Boy’ during the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

Elton John joins ‘Next Fall’ B’way producing team ELTON John says he and his partner, David Furnish, have joined the producing team of “Next Fall,” the Broadway-bound play by Geoffrey Nauffts. “After fulfilling experiences bringing new musicals to the stage, it was seeing this inspiring and timely new work that attracted us to take on our first play,” Elton and Furnish said Monday.

“Next Fall” concerns the contentious relationship between two gay men and questions of faith and religion. It opens March 11 after a successful run last year off-

Broadway.

Among the recent high-profile producers of Broadway shows are rap superstar Jay-Z, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith. All three

are involved in “Fela!” Elton wrote the music for two of Broadway’s current hit musicals, “Billy Elliot” and “The Lion King.”

Axl Rose Pulls a Kurt Cobain AXL Rose, Guns N’ Roses, “No, he didn’t kill himself”; but rocker Axl Rose conjured up memories of Nirvana’s iconic 1992 performance at Britain’s Reading Festival last week in Toronto, Canada when he was helped onto the stage in a wheelchair.

Late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain was wheeled onto the Reading stage by music journalist Everett True, pretending to be fresh out of the hospital. On Thursday night, Rose pulled the same trick onstage at the Air Canada Center.

The “Paradise City” singer and his band didn’t hit the stage until 11:30pm - two hours later than scheduled. Rose explained, “Sorry abut the time delay.

I got carried away jumping off s—t last night.”

He then leapt from the wheelchair and launched into the title track from Guns N’ Roses’ latest album, “Chinese Democracy”. Rose dedicated the group’s “Catcher In The Rye” to author J.D. Salinger, who died the day before the show.

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This 2009 NASA handout image shows a color mosaic of the moon, assembled from 18 images taken by Galileo’s imaging system through a green filter. President Barack Obama Monday ditched US plans to return to the moon and hitched NASA’s future to private industry in a budget calling for the space agency to stay close to Earth and do research.

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NASA: Good night moon, hello new rocket technology Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is redirecting America’s space program, killing NASA’s $100 billion plans to return astronauts to the moon and using much of that money for new rocket technology research.

The moon mission, which had already cost $9.1 billion, was based on old technology and revisiting old places astronauts had already been, officials said. The previous NASA chief, in selling the old moon plan, had even called it “Apollo on steroids.” The rockets were based on space shuttle boosters.

“Simply put, we’re putting the science back into the rocket science at NASA,” White House science adviser John Holdren said at a budget briefing Monday. The $4 billion that NASA spends yearly on human space exploration will now be used for what NASA and White House officials called dramatic changes in rocketry, including in-orbit fueling.

They said eventually those new technologies would be used to send astronauts to a nearby asteroid, a brief foray back to the moon, or the Martian moons.

The White House plan was short on details, such as where astronauts would fly next, on what type of rocketship, or when. However, officials were quick to point out the failures of the Bush administration’s moon program, called Constellation. It included the construction of two types of rockets, Ares I and Ares V, and an Orion crew capsule. All were canceled.

Shutting down the program will cost about $2.5 billion, NASA said.

Former President George W. Bush proposed the moon mission after the Feb. 1, 2003, space shuttle Columbia disaster that claimed seven lives — exactly seven years ago Monday.

And congressional boosters of the plan aren’t willing to give up on it just yet.

Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., and chairman of the Senate space subcommittee, said he will hold a hearing later this month to see if Congress could rescue some parts of the Ares rocket programs. “This is a pretty substantial change,” said MIT astronautics professor Ed Crawley, who was on a special panel that looked at the future of spaceflight for the White House. “It is more change than I thought they’d take on.” Crawley said the Bush moon plan was well thought out, but based on existing technologies and underfunded.

“We didn’t lose the moon today; we very subtly lost the moon a long time ago when the amount of money disappeared a few years ago,” Crawley said. Besides redirecting money to new technologies, NASA is getting an extra $6 billion over five years to encourage companies to build private spaceships that NASA could rent. Many of those companies are run by Internet pioneers, including Blue Origin, headed by Amazon founder Jeff

Bezos. Another firm, SpaceX, run

by PayPal founder Elon Musk, is already building private rockets.

In a teleconference Monday, Musk said that within three years of getting a contract with NASA, he could deliver astronauts to the International Space Station for about $20 million a head — cheaper than the $50 million Russia is charging the United States. NASA now has seven companies getting money to work on planning for some types of commercial spaceships. Former NASA associate administrator Scott Pace, now a professor of space policy at George Washington University, said relying so much on commercial companies is taking a big chance because they might not deliver on time or on budget.

“The risks are higher, the goals are more vague,” Pace said of the new space policy. “It’s more money but probably not enough.” NASA will also spend an additional $2.5 billion over five years for more research on how global warming is affecting Earth, including replacing a carbon dioxide monitoring satellite that crashed last year. NASA will also extend the life by several years of the International Space Station, which had been slated for retirement in 2016. NASA’s yearly budget is $19 billion.

NASA said if the private companies work well on their unproven spaceships, astronauts could fly in them to the space station as soon as 2016. After the next five space shuttle flights, NASA will have to hitch rides to the space station on Russian rockets.

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Grape growing, fish protection clash in California Associated Press Writer

HEALDSBURG, Calif. – Grape growers in Northern California’s cool, fertile Sonoma County wine region are stomping mad at a new plan to limit the amount of water vineyards can pump from local rivers and streams to protect crops from frost — a proposed regulation meant to safeguard coho salmon, a species on the brink of local extinction.

Vineyard acreage in Sonoma County, adjacent to the Napa Valley, has increased 30 to 40 percent during the past decade and the county estimates the businesses generate about $2 billion annually.

But the growth has run up against federal protections for coho salmon, an endangered species that once filled streams and rivers along California’s central and northern coasts. When hibernating vines are coming to life in the spring, temperatures can still drop below freezing overnight and destroy young grapes. During those frigid nights, growers spray river water onto the vines, encasing them in a protective frozen shell. Farmers say one bad night when temperatures quickly drop 5 to 10 degrees below freezing could wipe out huge percentages of their crop.

“Down here in the bottom, if we don’t have the water, it’s not going to get it done,” said vineyard manager Paul Foppiano, standing in a low-lying field of pinot noir vines near the Russian River. Sprinklers hovered over the gnarled vines in a part of his family’s 140 acres, which have been producing wine in Sonoma County since 1896. “The problem with frost is one year you might have to run 15 to 20 nights like we did a couple of years ago,” he said. “Last year we only ran three or four nights so you’re not using a whole lot (of water).”

Foppiano is not against the state managing river water use to help protect fish, but believes accurate accounting of use by other county growers is needed before any regulatory decisions are made. “If the state is willing to work with us, we’re willing to work with anybody,” he said. “But there’s got to be some answer to it other than to completely cut us off. It’s going to be a problem.” At issue is the continued existence of the hook-mouthed coho salmon and the threatened steelhead trout that spawn in coastal streams and rivers — a habitat that stretches from Alaska to central California.

While coho still thrive in Alaska, their once plentiful stocks in California and Oregon are under threat, federal fisheries managers say.

Under the state’s proposed regulation, any pumping would be illegal unless approved by the State Water Board’s management program. The new rule could be in effect by 2011.

State water regulators say using river water for frost protection is currently legal, but they are seeking a middle ground that will protect fish and grapes while ensuring some oversight. “The goal is not to shut (pumping) down, but to make sure it’s done

in a responsible manner with an eye to making sure the resources are protected,” said Vicky Whitney, deputy director for the State Water Board.

In 2008 and 2009, both drought years, vineyard pumping resulted in the deaths of hundreds of coho and steelhead as creek levels dropped, stranding the fish. The kills spurred outrage from environmentalists and concern from federal fisheries managers. State water officials and federal regulators said it is likely many more fish were killed in undocumented incidents, underscoring the need for quick action. Growers have challenged that notion. “I question the validity of their assertions of there being several incidents,” said Lex McCorvey, executive director of the Sonoma County Farm Bureau, an advocate for the county’s wine industry. “(Regulators) have a responsibility to step forward with that information; that way the problems can get fixed. In 2008, there were two incidents, both have been fixed so they won’t happen again.”

Federal studies show pumping during cold snaps, especially in recent dry years when river levels are low, dramatically affects the river and its tributaries. A study presented by NMFS found pumping for frost protection in 2004 and 2005 resulted in a 97 percent reduction in surface flow of one of the Russian River’s key tributaries, Maacama Creek, and the water diversion’s effects were seen throughout the watershed. In April, after documented fish kills, federal fishery biologists at NMFS urged the State Water Board to take control of vineyard pumping. The water board gave the growers six months to come up with their own management plan, but after seeing it, decided to draft their own regulations.

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Vineyard manager Paul Foppiano checks an overhead sprinkler at Foppiano Vineyards in Healdsburg, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010. Sonoma County winemakers are stomping mad at new regulations that would greatly limit the pumping of water from the Russian River, a plan meant to protect struggling fish populations. Foppiano Vineyards is the county’s oldest family owned winery founded in 1896.

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Hopkins and Jones book longdelayed rematch Reuters -

NEW YORK – Seventeen years after losing their first fight, Bernard Hopkins is to finally get his chance for revenge on fellow American Roy Jones Jr in April.

Seventeen years after losing their first fight, Bernard Hopkins is to finally get his chance for revenge on fellow American Roy Jones Jr in April

The non-title fight, at an as yet unspecified weight, will take place in Las Vegas on April 3, promoters said Monday.

Hopkins (50-5-1, 32 knockouts) and Jones (54-6, 40 knockouts) have not met since a May 22, 1993 IBF middleweight title bout in Washington, where Jones claimed a unanimous decision. “A rematch with Roy has been in the back of my mind for a long time and it’s finally going to happen,” long-time middleweight champion Hopkins, 45, who successfully moved up to light-heavyweight in his 40s, said in a statement.

A rematch had long be spoken of but after Jones suffered a first round knockout defeat by Australian Danny Green in December there were fears it would not take place. Jones, 41, who has held world titles in four divisions from middleweight to heavyweight, was confident of repeat-

ing his victory over Hopkins. “Now I can finally terminate the Executioner (Hopkins’ nickname) once and for all,” said Jones, who has lost five of his last 10 bouts.

Previously the 45-year-old Hopkins (50-5-1, 32 KOs) is a former middleweight and light heavyweight champion.

He defeated Enrique Ornelas by unanimous decision in a light heavyweight bout in Philadelphia in December.

The 41-year-old Jones (54-6, 40 KOs) is coming off a loss to Australian Danny Green in the first round, also in December. On May 22, 1993, in Washington, D.C., Hopkins lost a unanimous decision to Jones for the vacant IBF middleweight crown. The rematch is scheduled for April 3 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center and will be broadcast on pay-per-view.

FA say Terry’s England captaincy Knee surgery likely for Hornets guard Paul in Capello’s hands Agence France - Presse

LONDON – England manager Fabio Capello alone will make a decision on John Terry’s future as England captain, the Football Association (FA) said on Monday.

The 29-year-old Chelsea defender’s position has been called into question following reports the married father of twins had an affair with the ex-girlfriend of former team-mate Wayne Bridge. There are now concerns the issue could have a damaging ef-

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England manager Fabio Capello alone will make a decision on the future of John Terry, seen here in January 2010, as England captain, the Football Association (FA) said on Monday.

fect on England’s bid to win the World Cup in South Africa later this year but the FA were adamant they would leave the matter to Capello.

“Fabio Capello alone will make the decision about John Terry’s position,” said an FA spokesman. “Fabio is fully up to speed with developments regarding John Terry. “He spoke with our chairman Lord (David) Triesman and chief executive Ian Watmore today (Monday), who both backed him to make the best decision for England on footballing grounds. “Fabio is dealing with the matter in his own way using his extensive experience as a football manager.”

Capello is due to return to England later this week from Switzerland, where he has been undergoing knee surgery, and will travel to Warsaw for the Euro 2012 qualifying competition draw this weekend.

Bridge, presently injured, was shown support from several of his current team-mates at Manchester City on Sunday.

They wore T-shirts bearing the words “Team Bridge”, revealed after their 2-0 Premier League win over Portsmouth. Terry is at the centre of a media storm after reports he cheated on his wife Toni with Bridge’s former girlfriend, French lingerie model Vanessa Perroncel.

City players’ support for Bridge, England’s second choice left-back, is unlikely to sway Capello either way but the Italian will be mindful of the effect any scandal could have on dressing room unity.

Bridge released a statement on Saturday when he refused to comment on the reports saying his primary concern was the welfare of the son he had with Perroncel. But Bridge - who tried to convince Terry to quit Chelsea for City before the start of this season - is said to be so upset by the scandal he has considered quitting the England team.

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NEW YORK - All-Star guard Chris Paul of the New Orleans Hornets is set to have an operation on his left knee, the team said on Monday. “It’s likely there’s going to be a surgical procedure,” coach Jeff Bower told the team’s website (www.nba.com/hornets).

“We’re in the process of gathering information as far as the next steps in dealing with Chris’s knee.

He has been evaluated and MRI (scans) have been conducted (on Sunday) by our doctors.” Paul first

hurt his knee last week in a game at Golden State. He hit the knee again racing out of bounds to save the ball on Friday against the Chicago Bulls.

Bower said a decision on the 24year-old was likely to be made in the next day or two. He was not able to put a timetable on a return to action in the event of surgery but local media reported Paul would miss at least a month. Paul is averaging 20.4 points and 11.2 assists this season for the Hornets, who are 26-21 and hold the eighth and last Western Conference berth for the postseason.

New Orleans Hornets guard Chris Paul (3) reacts after being called for a foul as Chicago Bulls forward Taj Gibson (22) looks on in the first half of an NBA basketball game in New Orleans, Friday, Jan. 29, 2010.

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Inter swoop for Mariga, Mancini to Milan on Loan MILAN –

Inter Milan signed Keyna midfielder McDonald Mariga from Parma on Monday after a move to Manchester City collapsed. The 22-year-old had been set to join the Premier League club but British work permit problems halted the transfer and the Italian champions quickly seized their chance on deadline day.

“Inter have bought McDonald Mariga in a co-ownership deal. Mariga has signed a contract until June 30, 2014 and will wear number 17,” an Inter statement said. As part of the deal, Inter have sold half their rights to forward Jonathan Biabiany to Parma, where the Frenchman was already on loan, and sent Chilean Luis Jimenez there too until the end of the season.

Jose Mourinho’s Inter, who earlier loaned struggling winger Mancini to AC Milan, had been looking for a new midfielder after selling Patrick Vieira to Manchester City. The Serie A leaders last week pulled out of a deal to take Valencia’s Manuel Fernandes on loan and had also been chasing Palermo midfielder Simplicio and Lazio’s Cristian Ledesma.

Furthermore Inter Milan permitted experienced Brazilian striker Mancini to move on loan

to bitter city rivals AC Milan on Monday with an option to buy him outright. The 29-year-old has failed to break into the Inter first team since arriving from AS Roma in the summer of 2008 and has appeared only seven times for the Italian champions this season all as a substitute at the end of the matches.

Mancini, who was also strongly courted by French giants Marseille, came to Inter on the back of several impressive seasons at Roma where they had twice finished runners-up behind Inter in the title race and reached the last eight of the Champions League on two occasions.

Mancini will join several compatriots at AC - who are second in the league table eight points behind Inter - such as goalkeeper Dida, central defender Thiago Silva, strikers Ronaldinho and Alexandre Pato, as well as coach Leonardo.

Inter Milan signed Keyna midfielder McDonald Mariga (right) from Parma on Monday after a move to Manchester City collapsed

Goalkeeper Cech sees key week ahead for Chelsea Agence France - Presse HULL, England – Goalkeeper Petr Cech is convinced Chelsea have the perfect opportunity to establish a lead at the top of the Premier League this week that could prove highly significant come the end of the season. Carlo Ancelotti’s side, which won 2-1 at Burnley on Saturday, will use the game in hand they possess over Manchester United and Arsenal at Hull City on Tuesday night.

Then, on Sunday, they host Arsene Wenger’s Gunners in one of the highest profile fixtures of the calendar. Cech, the Czech Republic international, was hoping his side would then be perfectly positioned in the league once Champions League hostilities, which see Chelsea pitted against Inter Milan, begin again.

“Now we have games coming up fast,” he said. “We have to take advantage of it and we’ve got a game in hand at Hull. If we win that one we will open up a gap at the top. We have to keep winning our games, and if the others start dropping points it’s the best scenario for us.”

John Terry provided the winning goal at Burnley despite revelations that the married father-

of-two had an affair with the girlfriend of former Stamford Bridge team-mate Wayne Bridge, now at Manchester City. Those led to calls for him to be stripped of the England captaincy but Ancelotti made it clear he would continue to wear the armband for his club. “He is the captain and he will be the captain,” said the Italian, who confirmed that Terry would remain an automatic pick for the Hull game. “The players have never lost trust in him.” Hull’s worries are of a different nature as a 2-2 draw at home to Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday left them still in the relegation zone.

Failure to beat fellow strugglers like Mick McCarthy’s team could prove costly but Tigers manager Phil Brown was confident his players could rise to the occasion against potential title winners. “I thought last season and the stats have pointed towards it last season and again this season, that physically, physiologically and technically, everything, we have put our best foot forward against the top six, top seven teams,” he said.

“I asked us to put our best foot forwards against the teams around us because that is the bread and butter. I have no doubts we will put our best foot forward on Tuesday.”

Chelsea’s Burnley win was achieved without Didier Drogba even

though the striker had returned from African Cup of Nations duty with the Ivory Coast.

Brown admitted he was mulling over his tactics ahead of a match where the powerful frontman could well return to the starting line-up. “There seems to be an innate sense that 4-4-2 belongs to England or 4-4-2 is an English system,” he said. “Tactically, a lot of English managers are more aware than just 4-4-2. We played it against Wolves because we thought it was an opportunity against some of our nearest rivals in the Premier League and at home. Where Chelsea are concerned, that might be a different ball game. They play 4-3-3 and they have been, it might be different now Drogba’s back and you have to be aware.”

Chelsea’s Czech goalkeeper Petr Cech in an earlier match. Cech is convinced Chelsea have the perfect opportunity to establish a lead at the top of the Premier League this week that could prove highly significant come the end of the season.

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Massa ends first test of 2010 on top Valencia -

Felipe Massa marked his official return to F1 action with the quickest time on the opening day of pre-season Formula 1 testing at Valencia in Spain. The Brazilian left it until the closing minutes of the day, following a brief red flag period, to set his best effort of 1m12.574s - giving a clear signal that he has lost none of his speed following last year’s Hungarian Grand Prix qualifying accident.

Massa had been quickest in the morning and, although losing the top spot early in the afternoon to BMW Sauber’s Pedro de la Rosa, he moved back to the top near the end. De la Rosa’s effort was perhaps one of the biggest surprises.

Just 24 hours after his BMW Sauber team made a low-key unveiling of its unsponsored C29, de la Rosa showed that a lack of works support had not hurt the team at all.

“For me it was a very positive day,” said the Spaniard. “The car was reliable right from the beginning, which meant we could follow our programme perfectly without wasting any time. Also the car reacted to our changes very well.

For me it was a day to get used to not only the new car but also to the team with all the people. And, of course, driving-wise there’s more to come from me as this was only my first day after a long break.”

However, it was third fastest

Schumacher’s form on his return to F1 action that kept tongues wagging - as he quickly got up to speed in an impressive display. The seven-time champion took over from team-mate Rosberg shortly before 3.30pm steadily moving up the order as he got more comfortable with the car and new tyres. He ended the day with a best lap of one minute 12.947s that came during the late flourish of quick times. It was less than four tenths slower than Massa and over half a second up on his team-mate.

Although testing times ultimately count for little, Schumacher will have taken some pleasure from outpacing Rosberg on his first day back in action. Michael Schumacher, Mercedes GP, Valencia testingRosberg had kicked off Mercedes GP’s testing programme in the morning, completing a total of 39 laps to set his best time of 1m13.543s - when track conditions were probably not as

favourable as the afternoon. And despite varying fuel loads making it difficult to judge the relative competitiveness of the teams, Rosberg was happy with his first impressions of the car.

“It felt good, yes,” he said. “But it is impossible today. There are so many new circumstances that I cannot feel, is it a winner or is it not a winner? It generally felt very good but it is impossible to be sure how the performance is now.” Behind Rosberg, Gary Paffett went through detailed system checks with the new McLaren MP4-25 to set the fifth best time, ahead of Rubens Barrichello - who caused the only red flag of the day shortly before 4.30pm when he stopped on track.

Sebastien Buemi ended the day at seventh overall with his Scuderia Toro Rosso team struggling to fix a gearbox problem that brought an early end to his running. He completed 10 laps in the morning and returned to action in the final minutes to just outpace Robert Kubica’s Renault. “My first day of testing the R30 went well,” said Kubica. “We had a lot of things to check on the car to make sure they were reliable and all that went smoothly with no big problems to report.

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Michael Schumacher says he is feeling like he is making his Formula 1 debut again after returning to testing action in current GP machinery at the Valencia circuit on Monday. The seven-time world champion took to the Spanish circuit in the afternoon to complete his first laps at the wheel of the new Mercedes W01.

Schumacher immediately showed he has lost none of his speed, finishing the day as third quickest, over half a second ahead of team-mate Nico Rosberg. The German admitted he was feeling like a kid with a new toy.

“In a way it is like 1991, honestly,” Schumacher told reporters after the test. “When I came into F1 I was shocked on the first lap and extremely excited on the second lap and further laps. And it is exactly the same today. I feel like a young boy that has a toy in his hands and enjoys himself.”

Schumacher, who has moved to Mercedes after 13 years working for Ferrari, said it was weird to see the red cars on track without him in them. “Naturally I suddenly see my old car on the track and not siting in it, it is a strange sensation,” he added. “But it was good to see my brother [Massa] on the track, in the

car and I enjoyed to see my friends down at Ferrari this week.”

The Mercedes driver, who managed 40 laps himself, was very pleased with the work done during the day. “I think we have done a very good job. The guys did a superb job out there, being out there making a few control checks and making the car reliable. We did more than 80 laps, and for the first day that is a superb job.” And Schumacher said he felt no physical problems whatsoever despite fears about his neck. “I am fine. I have worked out very well and prepared myself extremely precise and that is the result.”

Felipe Massa marked his official return to F1 action with the quickest time on the opening day of pre-season Formula 1 testing at Valencia in Spain