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Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Bali’s soybean production up 45 percent PAGE 8

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Rescue workers and people remove rubble from a destroyed house in Okcular village in the eastern province of Elazig, Turkey, Monday, March 8, 2010, hours after a strong earthquake, with a preliminary magnitude of 6, hit eastern Turkey early Monday

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Earthquake hits eastern Turkey; at least 57 dead

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ANKARA, Turkey – A strong earthquake, with a preliminary magnitude of 6, hit eastern Turkey on Monday, killing 57 people and knocking down houses in at least six small villages, an official said.

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The government’s crisis center put the number at 51.The worst-hit area was the village of Okcular where some 17 people were reported killed and homes crumbled into piles of dirt.

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Gianyar plan to change its souvenir Gianyar (Bali Post)-

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The temblor struck six villages in Elazig province, toppling stone or mudbrick homes and minarets of mosques.

Bekir Yanilmaz, the mayor of the nearby town of Kovancilar, provided CNN-Turk television with the death toll.

Gianyar regency well known for its art and in artists spread throughout the area. However, Gianyar is still in dilemma to determine the form of souvenirs that will be the mascot of Gianyar.

The problem emerged in 2008 and currently, the souvenir given to the guest visited Gianyar is the statue of ‘Barong”, a traditional lion like statute. The head of Gianyar regency, Tjok Oka Artha Ardana Sukawati, planed to change the souvenirs from barong statue

into a mask of Kebo Iwa. The plan had been agreed by Gianyar House of Representative and the house already prepared billion of rupiah to support the plan.

However, the plan is still unclear until now.

On Monday, March 8th 2010, Cokorda Gde Agusnawa, the head of Asset Management and Maintenance Division in Gianyar, said that the plan to change the souvenir is the idea of the head of regency and he is also the one who can authorize to plan.

His division is only will prepare the new souvenir if it is ordered by the head of regency. Currently, the one that is being use is still the barong statute.

The plan to use the mask of Kebo Iwa is still being debated by many people, one of them is regarding the form of Kebo Iwa face.

This is needed to be determined because the face of Kebo Iwa is quite similar to Gajah Mada.

The further analysis need to be done in order to avoid confusion between the characters. Protests

also emerged from the artists of Gianyar, one of them was Made Cengker from Banjar Anggarkasih.

He thinks that further study is needed before determining to make the face of Kebo Iwa as the souvenir. He also thinks that Kebo Iwa has being sacrifice to unite Indonesia so Gianyar regency shouldn’t make it only belong to one regency.

The people should urged the government to establish Kebo Iwa as the Indonesian national hero and Gianyar should pick a creation of (kmb16) human as its symbol.(kmb16)

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Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Bali News Barack Obama’s Arrival to Bali

Udayana Military Command Prepares 9,000 Personnel Denpasar (Bali Post)

Plan for the coming of the US President, Barack Obama, to Indonesia, now becomes hot issues in the public. Moreover, in addition to a visit to Jakarta and some other areas, Barack Obama was also rumored to visit Bali. National Police and Armed Forces had been getting ready to do security. Chief of Udayana Military Command had prepared at least 9,000 soldiers.

This was revealed by Chief of Udayana Military Command Hotmangaraja Pandjaitan in the midst of the final session of kid singer festival at Puputan Badung Square, last Sunday (Mar 7).

Hotmangaraja said he did not know for sure about the arrival plan of the first black-skinned US President. “Until now, there has been no certainty, whether President Obama will come or not,” he said.

Nevertheless, his party had made any attempts to square off the security. Later, the security pattern will be applied to comparable by-

gone security action. In that sense, it complies with international security. “Of course, the security we will apply later is the same as that of security of international events,” he explained accompanied by Spokesperson of Udayana Military Command, Ida Bagus Gaga Ardana last Sunday.

Later, the security would be conducted jointly with the local police (Bali Police-ed). However, the entire community was expected to make security, too. “Bali as a tourist destination, of course, we will prepavil strict security. Similarly,

we will do the best for the sake of maintaining the reputation of our country,” he told the media crew last Sunday.

Explained, the arrival of President Obama was scheduled on March 20-22, 2010. However, there is no certainty yet. On the other hand, some sources said that some state officials and the American consulate had made coordination with the police. Similarly, a number of high-ranked Armed Forces was said to have come to Bali to review the situation and security. (kmb21)

Long Neglected, Gilimanuk Coconut Plantation Converted to Mango Negara (Bali Post)—

The fate of the former relocation land at Penginuman, Gilimanuk once neglected for few years is finally divided into some lots and then planted with mango seedlings. Previously, it was heard the land planted with coconut trees would be used for tourist resort. Apart from it had close location to the entrance gates of Gilimanuk, it also located at Gilimanuk. Having been waited for years by the Jembrana Regency, no single investor was interested to use the land. Even the palm trees that used to be planted, almost entirely dead and the site was turned into a landfill.

Lately, the land planted with coconut-palm was finally cut down by the community and divided into lots. Land near the coast will then be planted with mango trees cultivated by surrounding community. A total of 123 families divided such state-

owned land and respectively got 3.5 are for mango and banana plantations.

Although many parties agreed, no less people also then opposed to this government’s policy. One of them claimed to be disappointed with the wishy-washy attitude of government. There used to have a plan to develop this site into tourist attraction, but eventually the land was used as garden. They also hoped that the land could be returned to become residence of local people who used to live there previously. They were pessimistic, if not seriously maintained, the fate of those mango trees would be the same as the dead palm trees before.

Regent of Jembrana, I Gede Winasa in his meeting with the public admitted to be disappointed with the previous land management. Actually, his party had financed either from seed or maintenance, but it evaporated and as the results those coconut trees entirely dead. By re-

placing with mango plants, his party hoped those plants could live and bear fruit.

“I want when I come home (from or to Banyuwangi) and if not serve anymore, I have a memorabilia and see mango orchard here that I have planted,” he explained. Winasa confirmed that the land should be made remain green and not used for settlement of residents. “If I allow them to build, I will be said wishywashy, this land should not be built for homes,” he said.

On the other hand, Head of Gilimanuk Village, IGN Sumber Wijaya said the land reforestation of former relocation land denoted a policy issued by Regency Government and there were 123 families being interested in utilizing the land. “We use the share-crop pattern for the land cultivation, where 70 percent for cultivators and the rest for fishermen and Regency Government,” he said. (sur)

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The placement of election attributes which is not in the category of campaign is still allowed. This is stated during the meeting between Denpasar Election Committee with the government Department to discuss the election.

Being Deceptive, Officer of Bangli Animal Husbandry Services Reported to Police Bangli (Bali Post)—

Again, the image of government officials of Bangli was stained due to the act of person of civil servant. Recently one of the security guards at Bangli Hospital committed a theft with violence. The latest, it was the turn for person of civil servant in charge at UPTD of Bangli Animal Husbandry and Fisheries Services, Wayan Mul from Banjar Pule, Kawan Village, Bangli, should get in touch with the police.

Perpetrator was reported by Dewa Putu Mawa, a retired civil servant from Banjar Tri Wangsa, Tegal Tugu Gianyar Regency, because he committed a fraud under the pretext to have a strong relationship and could help channel to aspirant of civil servant. It could be done by compensation of IDR 30 million.

Victim believed in the boasting of perpetrator admitting to have a lot of relationship. Without thinking too long, he immediately handed over cash amounting to IDR 30 million. Unfortunately, the promise was not proven by perpetrator, so the victim went to the perpetrator and asked his money back. In fact, up to these days, his money has not been returned.

When the patience of victim ran out, this fraud case was reported to the Bangli Police recently.

Chief of Bangli Detective Unit of Bangli Resort Police with permission of Chief of Bangli Resort Police I Nengah Kariasa, last Sunday (Mar 7), admitted his party was handling the fraud case with impersonate to have capability of channeling to aspirant of civil servant. He promised a lure to look for a job for the daughter of victim, Dewa Ayu Ratih, 30. On October 25, 2006 located in the perpetrator’s house, the victim handed over cash amounting to IDR 30 million. It was said the money would be used to look for a job for victim’s daughter. Apparently, promise of perpetrator did not come true and was not proven.

Since it was not proven and waited too long, the victim eventually asked his money back. However, perpetrator argued with a variety of reasons. This uncertainty caused dizziness and the victim reported the case to police station.

Perpetrator can be ensnared by Article 378 of Criminal Code. “We still continue to deepen and develop the case involving a person in one civil servant of one of the services in Bangli,” he said. (kmb17)

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Pancasari Flooded

Denpasar – Singaraja Route Congested Singaraja (Bali Post)

Although the sewers at the edge of the Pancasari Village - Sukasada road have been repaired, the excess water left after the heavy rains on Sunday (7 / 3), apparently could not be dammed. The flow from hills in the village overflowed into the streets so that the connecting lines between Denpasar and Singaraja had experienced congestion.

Based on Bali Post monitoring, the water overflow happened in two points. Namely: the North entrance to the Bali Handara Cosaido golf course and south of Pancasari Market.

The knee-deep water overflow made a number of motorcycle engines died and unable to be further driven.

Motorists were forced to lead their bikes to the side of road. Some cars also had to be driven extra carefully for fear of water flowing into the engine vehicles. The condition created traffic jams.

Residents in Pancasari said, the flow of wa-

ter in the current rainy season is smaller than the flood that occurred several years ago. “A few years ago, a larger flow of water turned this road into a river. But after the sewer reparation, the floods have become smaller, yet still substantial to interfere the traffic flow of vehicles”, said a villager.

The water overflowed into the street from multiple hills.

The flood was alleged as the result of the garbage which fills the sewers, causing the water flow to be clogged and later overflowed the street. (kmb15)

Land Value Decreases by 10 Billion in A Year Semarapura (Bali Post) —

Klungkung Regency assets, especially land assets, has declined every year in terms of book value. In one year the depreciation could take up to10 billion rupiah. Head of Revenue, Finance, and Asset Management in Klungkung District, Gede Putu Winastra justifies it. According to him, the decline in the land assets’ book value is due to depreciation, including the corrected errors during recording. ‘’A lot of possibilities could lead to the occurrence of depreciation. We are still preparing a report for the Parliament,’’ Winastra said, on Sunday (8 / 3).

Data on assets were received from each Regional Work Unit (SKPD) associated with the assets. Assets owned by the district are divided into five categories of land, equipment and machinery, buildings, roads, irrigation network, and other fixed assets. ‘’Each category is handled by related SKPD, including the management and data collection. Meanwhile, Office of Revenue, Finance and Asset Management will only accept reports from them and then inform them to the Parliament as requested,’’ he said.

From the data he has, Winastra mentioned, declining value of land assets has occurred from 2007 to 2008. During the period, the net book value of land assets declined from 101.004 billion to 90.668 billion rupiah. ‘’The decline is only in terms of book value.

Regarding its size and location, we do not know,’’ he admitted.

What is clear, he said, beside depreciation, there are several increases of value from several other groups of assets. Assets such as equipment and engine increase from 47.054 billion in 2007 to 52.770 billion rupiah in 2008.

Building assets rise from 118.083 billion (in 2007) to 131.031 billion (in 2008). Roads and irrigation network rise from 204.219 billion (2007) to 208.514 billion rupiah (2008).

Other fixed assets rise from 4.225 billion

(2007) to 6.043 billion (2008). So, the total net book value of District’s assets rises from 474.628 billion in 2007 to 489.025 billion in 2008. ‘’For the 2009 data, it is still being processed,’’ he added.

Meanwhile, Head of Equipment Division of Klungkung Secretariat, Nyoman Terima had not explained much when asked about the regional assets, both the remaining assets and the ones that had changed hands.

The suspicion arises for there are many indications that the district assets had been transferred to personal certificates. For example is the retail block where, out of the 68 stores surrounding Jalan Diponegoro Klungkung, some have been certified personally. ‘’About how many stores are already certified individually, I do not know exactly. The data already exists in the Office of Revenue, Finance and Asset Management,’’ he said briefly. A similar pattern can be discovered throughout state lands in several points in Klungkung regency.

Previously, Parliament urged Klungkung District Government to move quickly to save the regional wealth / assets as many assets in this region have been controlled individually.

If this is allowed to be continued, it is possible the number of district assets that has changed into private properties will continue to grow. Thus expressed by Chairman of the Commission A of Parliament Klungkung Wayan Buda Parwata.

The Commission A of Klungkung Parliament has also called Head of Revenue, Finance and Asset Management, Gede Putu Winastra and Head of Equipment Division of Klungkung Secretariat, Nyoman Terima for a meeting on Wednesday (24 / 2) ago.

In that meeting the existence of assets continued to be questioned. At the time, there were not many explanations that can be submitted to Parliament members because the inventorying and data collection of assets is still being processed. (kmb20)

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Try Out Results as Benchmark in Facing 2010 UN Try out results of the UN (National Examination) for high / vocational school and junior high school in Bali have provoked anxiety out of the educational practitioners. The ‘battered’ results must be used as a spirit instigator to face the actual UN which will run from March 22nd, 2010 for high school / vocational school and March 29th, 2010 for the junior high school.

Education practitioners from Undiksha Singaraja, Prof. Dr. Nyoman Dantes, education practitioners from Undiknas University Prof. Dr. IB Raka Suardana, and Vice Chairman of the Independent Exam Superintendent (TPI) of Udayana University Prof. Dr. Ir. I Nyoman Wijaya, MS, worry about the outcome of try outs held

by Office of Education, Youth and Sports (Disdikpora) Province of Bali. Such results are not expected to occur in the implementation of this 2010 UN. As reported previously, not only try out results from the high / vocational school was ‘battered’, but also the results of junior high school students. Out of the 55,164 people junior high school students who participate in the try out held by Disdikpora Bali, only 18,662 people (33.83 percent) were considered to have passed. The remaining 66.17 percent have failed to achieve the minimum passing score. Also, only 8 schools had 100 percent passing grade, while 52 others had 100 percent failure rate. ‘’Bali had a very good achievement at the last year’s UN and the year before.

For the UN this year, the achievement should be repeated. Looking at the try out results this time, apparently the students were less prepared so that the result was not ideal,’’ said Prof. IB Raka Suardana on Sunday (7 / 3).

Raka Suardana also questioned whether the results was solely caused by the unprepared students or because the questions were very hard to answer. But

it is clear, Raka Suardana said, that these results should be used as a motivation for schools, teachers and students to better face the actual UN. ‘ ‘The students obviously have to study harder and not being neglectful. Prepare yourself well. Within this relatively small time, teachers, schools and related institutions should also boost the students more in order to achieve glorious national examination results this time.

UN achievements last year must be maintained. At least we should try not to be outdone by the other provinces in Eastern Indonesia,’’ he said. To get the maximum results in the UN, Raka Suardana hopes all parties must continue to promote the element of honesty and objectivity. ‘’We hope no conduct of fraud will be present. Do not let the academic world be stained by faulty fraud in the UN,’’ begged Raka Sauardana.

Prof. Dantes said the worrying results of the try out can be said because the children have not been well prepared. The try out is in fact an opportunity to measure the students ability to deal with the UN. Perhaps, the students think this as just a try out, so they worked less steady on the questions. ‘’Looking at the results like this, teachers and parents must have enough encouragement to motivate children to learn better. Seeing the grades of the try out, I am sure the teachers and parents are worried and anxious,’’ he said.

The key is truly within the children themselves. If you want the good results in UN, you should learn more seriously to face the UN which will be held soon.

The same thing was stated by Prof.

Wijaya. The results of the UN try out this time are expected to motivate students to be more prepared for the actual UN. Thus the results of the UN in Bali last year can still be maintained this year. If possible, last year’s achievement should be outdone. (08)

Governor Rejects the Assignation of Kaur To Become Civil Servants Gianyar (Bali Post) —

Village Division Heads (Kaur) that have been fighting to get more attention and for their nomination to become Civil Servant (PNS), just as the Village Secretary (Sekdes) who had appealed before, have been disappointed. Their hopes gained a pessimistic speech from the Province of Bali, represented by Bali Governor Made Mangku Pastika during the Simakrama (face-to-face meeting) event on Saturday in Gianyar. Governor of Bali with a firm statement rejected the proposal submitted by the Kaur Forum of Gianyar regency.

At that time, the Chairman of Gianyar Kaur Forum Dewa Nyoman Alit conveyed the aspirations of hundreds of village’s Kaur in the Gianyar district who wanted a small fortune and given attention from the government, just as the Village Secretary (Sekdes) which now is nominated as civil servant. The Village Kaur admitted that the tasks they have carried are solid enough. Thus, in addi-

tion to be given the remaining village budget, they also appeal to be granted the civil servant status.

Aspirations from Kaur of the existing villages in Gianyar get a far-from-hoped response. The proposal delivered by the Chairman of Kaur Forum Gianyar as if given a raw rejection. The Governor confessed his pessimistic view on the proposal. The proposal did not dare to be submitted to the President. Governor even suggested if to become Kaur felt heavy, they should just look for another job.

Regarding the matter of becoming civil servants, the number of the State employees is considered exceeded. In the Government of Bali alone, there are approximately seven thousand civil servants.

From the number, the ones who will be retired this year are about 56 civil servants and they will not be given extension.

“I’m not going to add new civil servants, except for Special School for the Disabled Teachers that are hard to find, “he explained. (kmb16)

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PM Maliki emerges as front-runner after Iraq vote BA GHDAD (AFP) – Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, the Shiite BAGHDAD leader who helped ease Iraq’s deadly sectarian conflict, emerged Monday as a front-runner after an election seen as a test of the nation’s young democracy.

The key estimates from the Baghdad region, which could swing the results of Sunday’s poll, were not yet available but local officials said Maliki’s political bloc was so far leading in nine of Iraq’s 18 provinces.

Millions voted, braving rocket, mortar and bomb attacks that killed 38 people to cast their ballots in the second parliamentary election since US-led forces ousted now-executed dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003.

US President Barack Obama, who has promised to withdraw all US troops from Iraq by the end of next year, paid tribute to “the courage and resilience of the Iraqi people who once again defied threats to advance their democracy.” Related article: Iraqis vote ‘without fear’ Maliki’s State of Law Alliance was ahead in Shiite regions while Iyad Allawi, an ex-premier who heads the Iraqiya list, was leading in Sunni areas, said unofficial estimates AFP obtained from officials across the country.

Official final results are not due until the end of March and, after that, it is likely to take months of horsetrading before a new government is formed as no political bloc is set to emerge dominant from the vote.

But early indications were looking good for Maliki.

He was appointed prime minister in 2005 as a compromise candidate and his administration, with considerable help from the US military, sharply reduced the Sunni-Shiite sectarian strife that killed tens of thousands.

Maliki played down his party’s Shiite religious roots in his campaign for this election and sought to portray himself as the leader who restored security to Iraq, a claim dented by a series of bombings in Baghdad in recent days.

One analyst, however, said that even if Maliki’s list was triumphant, his unpopularity among Iraq’s many political parties could prevent him from remaining prime minister.

“His relations with the Kurds, who play a key role in he parliament, are not good,” said Hamid Fadel, a political scientist at Baghdad university. Related article: Kurds vote timidly for change “The Iraq National Alliance accuses him of concentrating power in his own office and the Sunnis accuse him of launching a ‘de-Baathification’ process aimed at them,” he told AFP. Maliki’s main challenger, ac-

cording to the initial estimates, is Allawi, whose Iraqiya is a mostly Shiite slate that has campaigned on a nationalist and non-sectarian ticket.

The other leading list is the Iraq National Alliance, which is dominated by two Shiite religious parties, the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council and the movement loyal to radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who led two armed uprisings against US-led troops.

It also includes former deputy prime minister Ahmed Chalabi, the man whose faulty intelligence on weapons of mass destruction encouraged the United States to invade Iraq.

Sunday’s vote saw Sunnis return to the ballot box in large numbers, in stark contrast to their 2005 boycott in protest at the rise to power of the longoppressed Shiite majority.

Turnout across the country was estimated by election commission officials at more than 60 percent, which showed that most Iraqis were undeterred by an Al-Qaeda threat to kill people who dared to vote.

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AFP – An Iraqi election official carries out empty ballot boxes after counting the votes at a polling station

At least 500 dead in Nigeria religious attacks AFP – Map of Nigeria locating ethnic violence in Dogo Nahawa, just south of Jos. JOS, Nigeria (AFP) – Nigeria’s government on Monday sent troops to the flashpoint Jos region after attacks by machete-wielding gangs on Christian villages that officials say killed at least 500 people.

Under fire for failing to prevent an-

other outburst of sectarian violence only weeks after hundreds died in Muslim-Christian clashes, authorities said they had arrested scores of people in connection with the attacks.

Witnesses described how the victims of Sunday’s three-hour orgy of violence, most of them women and children, were caught in animal traps and fishing nets as they tried to flee

their attackers, who hacked them to death.

The official death toll was initially put at a little over 100 but Dan Manjang, an advisor to the Plateau state government, said the toll had now risen substantially.

“We have been able to make 95 arrests but at the same time over 500 people have been killed in this heinous act,” Dan Manjang said in a telephone interview. Governmentrun radio also reported that 500 people had been slaughtered in a night raid on three villages on the fringes of Jos, capital of Plateau state.

Witnesses and local rights activists put the figure at more than 200.

“By our latest count there are 202 bodies,” said Shamaki Gad Peter, head of the League for Human Rights in Jos. Shehu Sani, another leading rights activist, spoke of 250 people having been killed.

Much of the violence was centred around the village of Dogo Nahawa where gangs from the mainly Muslim Fulani ethnic group set fire to straw-thatched mud huts before embarking on the killing rampage in the early hours of Sunday.

Frank Tatgun, a resident of Dogo Nahawa, said he had seen two armoured vehicles and three military trucks arrive in the village and scores of troops were now on patrol.

With tightened security, there were no reports of clashes overnight, he said.

Locals said the attacks were the

result of a spiralling feud between the Fulani and the rival Berom clan which had started with cattle theft, which led to a deadly revenge attack.

Many of the victims were hacked to death as they tried to flee into woodland around their villages.

Witnesses said armed gangs had scared the victims out of their homes by firing into the air but most of the killings were as a result of machete attacks. Those killed were mainly women and children.

“Gunshots were fired just to scare people out of their houses only to be macheted as they fled into the bush,” Peter Gyang, who lost his wife and two children, told reporters in Dogo Nahawa. A curfew which was imposed after January’s violence was supposed to be still in place but Gyang said the authorities had done nothing to prevent the bloodshed.

“The operation started around 3:00 am (0200 GMT) and lasted till 6:00 am and there were gunshots, but we did not see a single policeman.

“We no longer have confidence in the security agencies,” added Gyang.

The explosion of violence between rival ethic and religious groups in January left 326 dead in Jos, according to police although religious and human rights activists put the overall toll at more than 550. The office of acting president Goodluck Jonathan said the security services in Plateau and neighbouring states had been placed on red alert to ensure the violence did not spread.

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

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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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Pope’s brother says he would testify in abuse case

In this April 20, 2005 file photo, Georg Ratzinger, brother of Pope Benedict XVI eration, of another generation than that saying. of my years, and respect to the generaAlso Sunday, a prominent German tion that leads the foundation and cho- Catholic activist group called on the rus now,” the pope’s brother told the pope to explain what he knew about paper. abuses. Christian Weisner, the spokesAsked why cases of alleged abuse man for We Are the Church, told the were “covered by silence” for so long, Associated Press on Sunday that Ratzinger replied: ‘“I insist, I wasn’t Benedict must address whether there around in that situation, I wasn’t at the was abuse during his time as bishop choir when the cases they’re talking of Munich and Freising between 1977 about happened.” and 1981.

“I hope my chorus isn’t damaged The Vatican said Saturday it backed by this situation, but it’s in my interest the diocese’s efforts to look into the that light is shed on it,” he added. “painful question in a decisive and Asked by La Repubblica about vic- open way.” tims’ claims of a “climate of terror at Benedict has made no public comthe choir,” Ratzinger was quoted as ment on the choir scandal in his homesaying: “In my years, thus after those land, where the church has been jolted deeds, there was a climate of discipline by abuse allegations from more than and rigor, that was obvious, too — we 170 former students who studied at were aiming for a high musical, artis- some of the country’s most prominent tic level.”

Catholic schools.

He said there was a “a climate of Ratzinger was asked by another Italhuman comprehension, almost like a ian newspaper, Corriere della Sera, family.” which interviewed him in his The pope’s brother also wondered Regensburg home, if he had spoken to what was behind the recent allegations. his brother about the abuse allegations.

“I want to note that I sense a certain “Not about this. It’s the press that animosity toward the church” behind wants to know about these things,” the scandal, Ratzinger was quoted as Ratzinger was quoted as replying.

NEW DELHI (AFP) – An attempt by India’s government to pass legislation reserving a third of all seats for women in parliament provoked uproar on Monday as opposition politicians forced repeated adjournments.

The government had been confident that the Women Reservation Bill, which has been stalled for 14 years, would gather the required votes to pass in the upper house on Monday after being presented on International Women’s Day. The upper house was adjourned twice on Monday as politicians opposing the bill shouted down speakers and refused to allow the introduction of the proposed legislation and a scheduled debate.

The ruling Congress party, its allies and the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have pledged their support in public, but several socialist parties oppose it.

They argue that the law, which would reserve a third of seats for women in the parliament and state assemblies, would lead to a monopoly by upper-caste women at the expense of lower caste and religious minority Muslims.

“We are not anti-women but we want reservations for women hailing from minority and backward classes first,” Mulayam Singh Yadav, a leader of the pro-Muslim Samajwadi (Socialist) party said outside parliament.

Attempts to pass the bill have been blocked by various political groups in the past who have demanded separate quotas for women from Muslim and low-caste communities.

Yadav said the bill was an attempt by the Congress and the BJP to appease the rich and the influential upper class.

The controversial proposal to reserve 33 percent of seats, first introduced in parliament in 1996, would dramatically increase women’s membership in both

houses of parliament where they now occupy about one in 10 seats.

Because the bill involves a constitutional change, it needs the approval of two-thirds of legislators in the upper house after which it will go before the lower house where it also requires a two-thirds majority.

Women currently occupy 59 seats out of 545 in the lower house.

There are just 21 women in the 248-seat upper house.

“Our government is committed towards women empowerment. We are moving towards one-third reservation for women in parliament and state legislatures,” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told a women’s leadership summit on Saturday.

Sonia Gandhi, president of the Congress party and regarded as India’s most powerful politician, has thrown her weight behind the bill, saying she attaches the “highest importance” to it.

It will be a “gift to the women of India if it is introduced and passed” on International Women’s Day, she told party lawmakers last week.

Political analysts said the government was testing the waters by introducing it in the upper house first instead of the lower house, where most proposed legislation is sent.

Some accused the government of playing politics by seeking to appease women by proposing the legislation but without having any realistic chance of it passing.

Politics in India has traditionally been a male bastion, but women now hold prominent positions, including President Pratibha Patil and Sonia Gandhi. India has had one female prime minister, Indira Gandhi.

Panchayats — local governing bodies in towns and villages — already reserve a portion of their seats for women and experts say the move has given women greater status in their communities.

Kandilli seismology center said.

Emergency workers were trying to rescue four people from debris, Gov. Muammer Erol said. CNNTurk television said the dead included four young sisters trapped in the rubble.

“Everything has been knocked down, there is not a stone in place,” said Yadin Apaydin, administrator for the village of Yukari Kanatli, where he said at least three villagers died.

Authorities blocked access to Okcular village, to facilitate the entry and exit of ambulances and rescue teams on the village’s narrow roads. Relatives rushed to the village for news of their loved ones.

“The village is totally flat-

showed people bringing in the injured to hospitals by cars and taxis.

Kandilli Observatory’s director, Mustafa Erdik, urged residents not to enter damaged homes, warning that they could topple from the aftershocks, which could last for days.

Television footage showed rescue workers and soldiers at Okcular lifting debris as villagers looked on. Rescuers could be seen digging into dirt and then removing an elderly man. The man had died and his body was quickly covered with a sheet.

Two women sat on mattresses wrapped in blankets. The temblor also knocked down barns, killing farm animals.

Turkey’s Red Crescent organization sent tents and blankets to the region.

Earthquakes are frequent in Turkey, much of which lies on top of the North Anatolian fault.

In 1999, two powerful earthquakes struck northwestern Turkey, killing about 18,000 people.

In 2007, an earthquake measuring 5.7 damaged buildings in Elazig, briefly trapping a woman under debris. In 2003, an earthquake measuring 6.4 magnitude collapsed a school dormitory in the neighboring province of Bingol province, killing 83 children. The collapse was blamed on poor construction.

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ROME – The brother of Pope Benedict XVI has told a newspaper he is willing to testify in the sex scandal rocking Germany’s Catholic Church, even though he says he knows nothing about the alleged abuse of boys in a choir he later led.

The Rev. Georg Ratzinger, in an interview published Sunday, also was quoted as saying by the Rome daily La Repubblica that there was “discipline and rigor” but no terror during his 30 years as head of the Regensburger Domspatzen choir in Germany.

The Regensburg Diocese said last week that a former singer came forward with allegations of sexual abuse in the early 1960s. The German newsweekly Der Spiegel has reported that therapists in the region are treating several alleged victims from the choir.

Ratzinger led the choir from 1964 till 1994.

The diocese has said it is hiring a lawyer to help it carry out a “systematic” clarification of abuse allegations.

A man who lived in the choir-linked boarding school until 1967 has contended that “a sophisticated system of sadistic punishments in connection with sexual lust” had been installed there. Der Spiegel quoted the man, Franz Wittenbrink, as saying it would be inexplicable that the pope’s brother didn’t know anything about it.

But Ratzinger says he knew nothing about any alleged abuse.

If German justice officials “ask me to give testimony, obviously I’d be very ready to do so, but I am not able to provide any information on any deed that could be punished, because I don’t have any, I never knew anything about it,” the former choir leader told La Repubblica.

“We’re talking about another gen-

India’s women quota bill triggers uproar

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Earthquake...

From page 1 Another 13 people were killed in the village of Yukari Demirci, Gov. Muammer Erol said.

The government’s crisis center said around 100 people were also injured in the quake, which occurred at 4:32 a.m. (0232 GMT, 9 p.m. EST Sunday) in Elazig province, about 550 kilometers (340 miles) east of Ankara, the capital.

The earthquake, which caught many people in their sleep, was centered near the village of Basyurt. It was followed by more than 30 aftershocks, the strongest measuring 5.5, the

tened,” Okcular’s administrator Hasan Demirdag told private NTV television.

Ali Riza Ferhat, an Okcular resident, said he was woken by the jolt.

“I tried to get out of the door but it wouldn’t open. I came out of the window and started helping my neighbors,” he told NTV television. “We removed six bodies.”

The quake was felt in the neighboring provinces of Tunceli, Bingol and Diyarbakir where residents fled to the streets in panic and spent the night outdoors.

Some of the injuries occurred during the panic, when people jumped from windows or balconies. Dogan news agency footage

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Terrorist activities no problem to Obama’s visit to Indonesia Antara

JAKARTA - The Coordinating Ministry for Political, Legal and Security Affairs stated that terrorist activities in Aceh Province did not affect the US President’s visit to Indonesia mid-March 2010.

“The international world, including the USA has admitted that Indonesia is consistently fighting terrorism with the qualified personnel,” said the Ministry’s Anti Terror desk chief, Ansyaad Mbai, here, Monday.

Ansyaad said that all terrorist movements, including the one in Aceh has been taken care off and would not affect important schedules like the US President’s visit to Indonesia.

Based on information from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a U.S. team has arrived in Jakarta to prepare everything related to President Obama’s visit. However, the President’s detailed plans and activities during his stay in Indonesia have yet to be obtained.

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has given directions to achieve tangible results not only for Indonesia-US relations, but also to serve international interests from President

Obama’s visit Indonesia and the U.S. have set up a comprehensive cooperation agreements in various fields such as economics and education, which are expected to be signed by Obama during his visit.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also stated thaat a comprehensive agreement is already been prepared and expected to get an action plan under the agreement.

Indonesian-US cooperation is intended to expand and strengthen both countries’ relations in addressing regional and global issues.

Indonesia and the U.S. want a more comprehensive relationship in the energy, environment, health, science, and investment sectors, and increase the volume of trade relations between the two countries.

President Obama is scheduled to visit Indonesia with his wife, Michelle, and their two daughters, Malia and Sasha.

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An armed policeman inspects an abandoned backpack allegedly used by suspected Islamist militants at a village in Aceh Besar on March 8, 2010. Indonesia said that raids against militants in Aceh province would not affect US President Barack Obama’s planned visit to the country this month as police rounded up more terror suspects. Police said 16 suspects had been charged under anti-terrorism laws since a major raid late February on an extremist training facility in a remote region of Aceh province. Three policemen and three terror suspects were killed during a series of operations.

Afghan immigrants’ accommodated Citizen finds M16 rifle, bullets in Aceh’s rice field at non-star hotels in Mataram Antara

MATARAM - Sixty seven Afghan immigrants arrested last Wednesday for trying to travel to Australia are being accommodated at a number of non-star hotels here pending the settlement of their case, police said.

“They are being accommodated at a number of non-star hotels after there has been coordination with IOM (the International Organization for Migration),” chief of the West Nusa Tenggara provincial police’s information service Adjunct Chief Commissioner Sudjoko Aman said on Sunday.

The 67 Afghan immigrants consisting of 21 children, 15 adult

women and 31 adult men were among others being accommodated at Hotel Srikandi and Hotel Miranda, he said.

All the expenses arising from their accommodation and meal would be borne by the IOM indefinitely, he said.

The organization would also facilitate the deportation of the Afghan immigrants to their home country or find a third country as their final destination, he said.

The Afghan immigrants were arrested last Wednesday in their hideouts around Temeak beach, Pamongkong village, Jerowaru subdistrict, East Lombok district, while waiting for a boat that would take

them to Australia.

East Lombok Police Chief Adjunct Senior Commissioner Erwin Zadma said last Wednesday the Afghans had been in East Lombok for four days before their arrest.

Indonesia has frequently been used by foreign asylum seekers as a transit on the way to Australia, their final destination.

Over the past three years, Australia has been continually bugged by the arrivals of asylum seeker boats in its waters. In response to this matter, the Australian government has consistently categorized people smuggling as a global and regional problem.

Antara

PIDIE – A citizen found M16 type assault rifles in a backpack in the rice field in Pante Creum village, Padang Tiji sub-district, Pidie district, Aceh province at around 12:30 am on Sunday .

Now the backpack and its contents M-16 rifle, five magazines and 231 AK47 guns, 231 M16 bullets were confiscated and secured at the Padang Tiji police station, Antara learned here on Sunday.

The backpack was found by a girl when she was going to cut grass in the rice field about 300 meters from residential area.

“My daughter went home scared and immediately tell me about

what she had found in the rice field,” said Abdul Latif, the girl’s father.

Latif then reported the finding to the police, who immediately started investigation. According to police sources, the backpack was allegedly owned by members of armed groups who escaped the raid on Wednesday (March 3) in Padang Tiji area.

The source said that the backpack was similar to that found from a bus passenger, who was killed in the police raid. In addition to firearms, a pair of sport shoes was also found. In the raids, three bus passengers tried to get away, but one of them was shot by the police while two others fled when they were about to be interrogated.

Police advised not to act alone in fighting terrorists Antara

JAKARTA - The National Police should not act alone in the eradication of terrorism in the country, House Commission-I member from the Golkar faction Fayakhun Andriadi said here on Monday.

“It is better for the police to ask for National Defense Forces (TNI) assistance because they have more experiences in military actions in whatever situation, including in Aceh,” Fayakhun said.

He made the remark to comment on the National Police (Polri)

statement about the death of five Special Detachment (Densus 88) members and Aceh Mobile Brigade in counter-terrorist operations in the Aceh jungle recently.

Fayakhun said the death of five Densus 88 and Mobile Brigade members proved that the police lacked experience in jungle warfare “In many countries, the military is the preferred force to fight terrorists, and therefore Polri needs to cooperate with TNI in the eradication of terrorism,” he said.

He said the death of five po-

licemen during raids on terrorist hideouts in Aceh was deplorable because they still lacked experience in jungle combat.

“Therefore, from the House Commission-I we urge the National Police to ask for assistance from the military as soon as possible because they have a lot of experience in conducting operations in jungles,” Fayakhun said. He also expressed hope that in the future there would be no excuse to explain the security personnel inability and failure in the eradication of terrorism.

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Detained terrorist suspects, Amir Abdillah (2nd L) and Syaifudin Zuhri (R), arrive at South Jakarta court on March 8, 2010 for their trial in connection with the late Jemaah Islamiyah terror leader Noordin Mohammad Top the mastermind behind the deadly bombings of Marriott and Ritz Carlton hotel in Jakarta last July. As well as the double hotel bombings last year the regional terror group Jemaah Islamiyah has been blamed for multiple deadly attacks across Indonesia.

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Bali Today Bali’s soybean production up 45 percent Antara

DENPASAR - Bali’s soybean production last year increased by 4,198 tons to 13,622 tons, up by 45.03 percent from the previous year’s 9,424 tons.

“The encouraging increase of soybean production in Bali was due to the increase in soybean harvest area by 3,033 hectares which rose by 47.80 percent,” Bali Central Bureau of Statistics spokesman I Gede Suarta said.

He said that although soybean production increased significantly, it dropped by 0.27 per 100 kilogram or 1.84 percent per hectare.

According to Gede Suarta, local farmers’ interest in growing the commodity with high economic value has contributed to the soybean production increase.

In addition, the local farmers

were able to eradicate plant pests in accordance with the local government’s instruction by planting rice twice and soybean once alternately each year.

“If the farmers only plant rice three times a year, they will find it difficult to eradicate plant pests,” Gede Suarta said, adding that the farmers were motivated to develop soybean because its price was better than those of other crops.

Soybean production in the January-April 2009 period increased by 285 tons or 21.84 percent, while from May to August in the same year by 121.34 percent or 4,515 tons.

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The photo shows soybean plantation. Bali’s soybean production last year increased by 4,198 tons to 13,622 tons, up by 45.03 percent from the previous year’s 9,424 tons.

Ngurah Rai Airport, a gateway to Paradise Island (2)

The airport under management of Angkasa Pura I

By Diah Dewi As the airport activity increased on the 1980s, the airport management was moved from Director General of Air Transportation to Angkasa Pura. This change becomes important step to Ngurah Rai Airport because since the privatization, the airport grows busier than before. In fact it’s been able to served passengers over its capacity.

Once managed by Perum Angkasa Pura, there was a movement towards the orientation of airport management which played heavily on service to then become a management that cared for profit.

The privatization process of Ngurah Rai International Airport became a prototype for other airports in Indonesia, such as Polonia-Medan, Talang Betutu in Palembang, Sepinggan-Balikpapan, and

Hassanuddin-Makassar. The airport privatization idea was based on three reasoning namely anticipating the increase of passengers, flight frequency and country’s non-tax income through economic and business activities at the airports.

In managing Ngurah Rai International Airport, Angkasa Pura (AP) I kept on progressing dynamically. Through the positive image of Bali, number of visitors, especially the foreign tourists increase rapidly.

This means AP I as the airport management also have to improve their facilities in order to ensure comfort of its end-users.

So, AP I begun the phase I of

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The photo shows Ngurah Rai International Airport from above. As the airport activity increased on the 1980s, the airport management was moved from Director General of Air Transportation to Angkasa Pura.

three planned phases on September 7, 1990. The phase I covered terminal extension which would be equipped with aviobridge, widening of runway to 3,000 meters to the east and overlay, taxiway relocation, widening the apron, renovation and extension of terminal building, expansion of vehicle parking area, extension of cargo building, operational building, and extension of flight navigation facilities and fueling facilities.

This project only took two years to complete. With the new runway, Ngurah Rai Airport can serve large and wide bodied carriers such as Boeing Type 747-400, Boeing Type 777-200 & 300, also Airbus Type 330 – 300 and Airbus Type 340. The development also meant that target service was increased to 2.4 million passengers per year.

The second phase of Ngurah Rai Airport development proceeded on February 1998. To proceeds this project, AP I have to bartered the 12 hectares mangrove forest that being used as a flight safety facility with another mangrove forest in different location amounted Rp1.2 billion.

After this project finished on July 2000, the expansion still has to be completed on the third phase.

According to General Manager AP I of Ngurah Rai International Airport Heru Legowo, as the gateway to Indonesian tourism, what Ngurah Rai have now is not enough. He gave an example on domestic terminal that only has a capacity to serve 1.5 million passengers, yet it is already serving around 4.5 million passengers per

year. That’s why congestion often happened. ‘’In the next expansion project, we will expand the domestic terminal from 15 thousand square meters to 70 thousand square meters,” he explained on the sidelines of the Ngurah Rai Airport history book launching.

The international terminal, according to Legowo, will also experience a huge transformation. With this expansion project that estimated will cost around Rp1.7 trillion, international terminal will place on the 120 thousand square meters building. ‘’With this development, we expect that Ngurah Rai Airport will have the capacity to serve 17 million passengers per year by 2020 and 25 million passengers by 2025,” stated Legowo.

The Director of Ngurah Rai Airport Expansion Project (PPBIB) Sri Unon Setyasih mentioned that the international terminal building will also adopt the Bali’s architecture design. But as the modern building, the Bali’s architecture design will be mix with modern architecture design. ‘’This project will has a hybrid design that combined the Balinese architecture with modern one,” she explained.

The phase III development project will fully be done by Indonesians. In fact, as the first entry point into Bali, the touch of Bali must surely be added to the Ngurah Rai International Airport. It is hoped that the terminal and the airport as a whole can represented a true Balinese character and possessed the innate Balinese ‘taksu’.

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Indonesia to host Asia-Pacific GEOSS on climate change Antara

DENPASAR - Spokesperson for the National Aviation and Space Institute (LAPAN) Ratih Dewanti said Indonesia will host the 4th symposium of the Asia-Pacific Group on Earth Observation System and Systems (GEOSS) on global climate change.

She said that this time the deliberations will be on global climate change involving various countries. The world is now working together in reducing the impact.

She said the meeting of 26 Asia and Pacific countries from March 10 to 12, 2010, at Sanur Paradise Plaza Hotel and Suits, Bali, is expected to strengthen cooperation network among its member countries.

The network will form national, regional and interna-

tional synergy in building observation network for public welfare.

There are four topics on which the symposium will focus.

“The topics are monitoring capacity and Asia-Pacific climatic variability, management of water and hydro-meteorological resources relating to natural disasters, forest carbon monitoring, and Asia-Pacific biodiversity observation networks,” he said.

The outcome of the Bali meeting will become a recommendation for the Group on Earth Observation System (GEO) of a Ministerial Summit in Beijing, China, in November this year.

The GEO Meeting is an international collaboration to dig the potential of earth observation to overcome environmental problems facing the world. GEO members are international organizations and governments relating to world observation activities.

The nine areas to be dis-

cussed by GEO are natural disasters, health, energy, climate, water, weather, ecosystem, agriculture, and biodiversity.

Dewanti said the climate is closely linked to the life of people and may have serious impacts on various sectors of human welfare.

For this part, many countries in the world are making many efforts of adaptation and mitigation of the impacts of climate change.

GEOSS is an infrastructure in making decisions to respond to environmental problems more effectively. GEOSS also functions as a means of countries in the Asia and Pacific region for exchange of information and understanding in handling climate change.

“State Minister for Research and Technology Suharna Surapranata is slated to open the event,” Dewanti said.

(Clear Tripe Soup) OVERVIEW: This is usually served with sambel tomat as a contrasting condiment. The sugar cane is used to help soften the tripe rather than to add any sweetness to the soup.

INGREDIENTS: 600 gr beef tripe, cleaned and washed well 3 liter water 1 liter beef stock 1 cup beef spice paste 5 cm sugar can stem, split lengthwise (optional) 2,5 cm ginger, peeled and sliced lengthwise 4 cloves garlic, peeled and sliced 1 tbsp distilled white vinegar 200 gr giant white radish, peeled and diced in 1 cm cubes 5 sprigs celery leaf chipped 1 tbsp fried shallots PREPARATION: Rinse tripe well under running water until very clean. Bring water to boil in a large pan, add tripe and simmer until soft approx 1 hour.

Strain water and cool tripe in ice water. Cut in pieces approx 2,5 cm x 1cm. Bring beef, beef spice paste, sugar cane, ginger, garlic and vinegar to boil.

Add tripe and radish. Simmer until vegetables are soft. Garnish with celery leaf and fried shallots.

Helpful hints: Any type of summer squash or Chinese winter melon can be used instead of giant white radish (Japanese daikon). This soup reheats well.sing cabbage, the cooking time will be much shorter.

Season to taste with salt and pepper and garnish with fried shallots. (www.baliguide.com/balifood)

Kuah Siap

(Chicken Stock) INGREDIENTS: 5 kg chicken bones, chopped in 2.5 cm (1 in) pieces 1½ cups chicken spice paste 1 stalk lemon grass, lightly bruised 3 fragrant lime leaves 2 salam leaves 1 tbsp crushed coriander seeds 1 tsp black peppercorns, coarsely crushed 2 large red chili whole 1 tsp salt PREPARATION: Rinse bones until water is clear, place in large saucepan with cold water to cover and bring to boil over high heat. Drain and discard water, wash bones again under running water. Return bones to the stockpot, cover with fresh water and return to the boil. Reduce heat and remove scum with a ladle. Add all ingredients and simmer stock gentle for 4 – 5 hours, removing scum as it accumulates. It is important not to cover the stockpot during cooking, as it will make the stock cloudy.

Strain stock, cool and store in small containers in the deep freezer.

To make beef, duck and pork stock, follow the same amounts but reduce simmering time for pork to 2 hours.

This recipe makes about 3 liters of stock. (www.baliguide.com/balifood)

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Denpasar City Denpasar City is a capital of Bali Province since 1960 up to now where previously it was a capital of Badung Empire which is controlling the south part region of Bali Island from the end of 18 century until conquered by Dutch in 1906. Denpasar is a place for Bali Governor’s office therewith all offices from private sector until important government office like telecommunications, post office, bank, airline and hospital.

The word of Denpasar is mean in north of market. It is a fast growing town especially since the tourism industry growth around 1960. Denpasar is populated by 561.814 people. Gajah Mada Street is main road in this town as the shopping centre and the edge of this street, exactly in the middle of crossroad had been built a statue which is called Catur Muka Statue. Caur Muka Statue is a statue owning four faces by observing four directions from north, south, east and west. This statue is made on 1972 and it’s building to commemorate the Badung War on 20 September 1906 which is well known as Puputan Badung.

The courtyard which is located in the south east of Catur Muka Statue is named Puputan Badung Field where the Badung King with its people had battled until him dead against the Dutch colonist. In north side of Puputan Badung is standing up the office which is called Jaya Sabha that is an official office for Bali’s Governor accepts the important guest for having din-

ner while enjoying the Balinese Culture Show.

In eastside of Puputan Badung, it had been built a Hindu temple on 1968 that is called Jagatnatha Temple. This Temple is a public temple to worship Ida Sang Hyang Widhi Wasa / God. Especially each full moon, The Hindu people in Denpasar come to this place in particular at the evening time. In south side of this temple, there is Bali Museum built on 1931 by architect of Curt Grundler. Its architecture is a combination between temple and empire palace. This Museum contains the artistic object collection or artifact from prehistoric era until modern-day. Another place is becoming tourist destination is Puri Pamecutan/Pamecutan Palace. There are lodgings for the tourist accommodations are available in this palace. This palace is rebuilt as according to its geniuses after broken by Dutch soldier on 1906 and in this palace is kept a set famous Gold Gamelan as empire heritage. (www.balistarisland.com)

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BUSINESS French quarterly growth is expectedly low Agence France-Presse

PARIS - The French economy grew by 0.4 percent in the first quarter of 2010, a slightly slower pace than previously forecast, the central bank said on Monday.

The Bank of France had forecast first-quarter growth of 0.5 percent in its previous forecast in early February.

The new figure is in line with a forecast by the INSEE statistics agency, which said in December it expected a “laborious and fragile” recovery with growth of 0.3 percent to 0.4 percent in the first two quarters of 2010.

The French economy grew by 0.6 percent in the last quarter of 2009, the best performance in the 16-nation eurozone.

The government expects growth of 1.4 percent for the whole year after

the economy contracted by 2.2 percent in 2009.

The Bank of France also published on Monday its monthly business survey, which showed that the confidence indicator fell to 102 points in February from 104 in January.

The bank said industrial activity increased in the majority of sectors in February but at “a more moderate pace” than the previous month.

Business confidence has been progressively growing since it hit rock bottom in December 2008, when it plunged to 67 points.

US jobs data lifts Asian markets Agence France-Presse

HONG KONG - Gains on Wall Street after better-than-expected US jobs data boosted Asian markets Monday, as a weaker yen and hopes for fresh stimulus steps by the Bank of Japan lifted Tokyo shares.

Investors across the region had their first chance to react to Friday’s US Labor Department report showing the unemployment rate holding steady at 9.7 percent in February despite adverse winter conditions.

In Tokyo the Nikkei-225 rose 1.76 percent in morning trade, also buoyed by a weaker yen and expectations the Bank of Japan will expand its emergency corporate funding programme when it meets next week.

Exporters gained as investors sold the safe-haven yen on the jobs report. Sony soared 3.90 percent and Canon added 2.57 percent.

Hong Kong powered 1.87 percent ahead and Shanghai added 0.40 percent as China’s leaders pledged at the ongoing National Party Congress to keep “moderately” loose policies to support growth, buoying sentiment, dealers said.

Apprehensive investors have eyed the key parliamentary session in China for policy clues, as the world’s third-largest economy looks to rein in lending and eventually manage a transition from huge

stimulus measures.

Sydney was 0.97 percent higher, driven by resource stocks after a 2.96 billion US dollar bid by Royal Dutch Shell and PetroChina to jointly takeover coal seam gas company Arrow Energy Ltd was announced.

Singapore was 1.35 percent higher.

The US jobs data and easing worries about Greece’s debt woes boosted risk appetite in the region, with the dollar mixed against other major currencies.

The euro rose to 1.3680 dollars in Tokyo midday trade, up from 1.3621 in New York late on Friday, and to 123.49 yen from 123.00.

The dollar was at 90.42 yen — off a high of 90.68 — compared with 90.28 in New York.

The euro was well supported after Greece’s parliament on Friday approved a new package of tough tax hikes and spending cuts to tackle the country’s debt crisis, which has dented the single European currency.

Comments from French President Nicolas Sarkozy that European governments were ready to help Greece pull itself out of its financial crisis if necessary also lifted the mood.

The French president said governments of the 16-nation eurozone were working on a “certain number of specific measures” to address Greece’s debt crisis but did not provide details.

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Shilpa Sharma, 38, an Indian woman fills petrol in a customer’s motorcyle at a petrol pump in Ahmadabad, India, Sunday, March 7, 2010. Car sales in India jumped 33 percent in February, industry data showed Monday, as customers purchased vehicles ahead of an expected increase in tax announced in the federal budget last month

India car sales rise 33 percent in February Agence France-Presse

MUMBAI - Car sales in India jumped 33 percent in February, industry data showed Monday, as customers purchased vehicles ahead of an expected increase in tax announced in the federal budget last month.

A total of 153,845 vehicles were sold in February, up from 115,505 a year earlier, data from the Society of Indian Automobile

Manufacturers showed.

Car sales have been on the rise in Asia’s third-largest automobile market due to inexpensive loans, the launch of new models and a recovery in demand.

Sales of trucks and buses jumped by 87 percent to 58,024, indicating a recovery in economic activity, industry data showed.

The government hiked vehicle excise duties in the budget as part of a rollback of stimulus measures

aimed at shielding India’s economy from the global financial crisis.

On Monday, Maruti shares rose 1.02 percent or 14.85 rupees to 1,472 while country’s largest vehicle maker Tata Motors rose 0.7 percent or 5.55 rupees to 800.85, on hopes of improved earnings in coming quarters.

The Indian auto market is forecast to triple over the next decade to six million cars a year from the current two million.

British economy faces ‘high’ risk of relapse: business group Agence France-Presse

LONDON - Britain, which emerged from recession in the final quarter of 2009, faces a “high” risk of relapse and below-average growth in the next two years, the British Chamber of Commerce warned on Sunday.

“The UK economic outlook will remain highly uncertain for a considerable time,” the BCC said in the group’s latest economic forecast.

“The recovery will be fragile, and the risks of a relapse are high,” it added.

The BCC predicted that the economy will grow 1.0 percent this year, followed by expansion of 2.1 percent in 2011. It shrank by 5.0 percent in 2009.

The 2010 forecast was unchanged from previous guidance but the 2011 figure was lower than its prior prediction of 2.3-percent expansion.

“The obstacles to a sustained medium-term recovery now appear greater,” the business group said.

The BCC added that the recovery would be “modest and below the

historical average in the next two years”.

Britain escaped from recession in the fourth quarter of last year with growth of 0.3 percent. The expansion during October-December 2009 followed a deep recession that lasted six quarters — the country’s longest on record.

“The recession may have technically ended, but there is no room for complacency,” BCC director General David Frost said in the report.

“For the recovery to be sustained, it is crucial that all the political parties recognise the vital role of wealth-creating businesses in driving economic growth and job creation.

“The government must use the forthcoming budget as a platform for laying the foundations for a businessled recovery,” Frost added, in reference to the budget which is widely expected later this month.

“If it fails to do so, the recovery will take longer to gain momentum and may even slip into reverse.”

And the BCC described the me-

dium-term outlook as “grim” — with growth set to be dampened by widelyanticipated cuts in public spending.

“The UK medium-term economic outlook is grim. A fragile recovery has started, but prospects are uncertain,” it said.

“We are facing a period of austerity. The need to slash government borrowing and curtail debt will inevitably dampen UK growth prospects for a considerable period.”

Management of the British economy is a central issue for the upcoming general election that is expected to be held on May 6.

The opposition Conservatives have seen their once-commanding lead over the ruling Labour Party slashed in recent weeks. Polls now put Conservatives’ lead at between two and five points.

Whichever party wins power, economists agree that major spending cuts and taxation hikes are needed to fix the public finances, which have been ravaged by recession and a series of hugely expensive banking-sector bailouts.

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Waltz goes from Hollywood unknown to Oscar winner Christoph Waltz was a veteran TV and stage actor in Europe who was virtually unknown in Hollywood. Then he met Quentin Tarantino. Waltz, 53, was honored as best supporting actor at Sunday’s Academy Awards for his portrayal of a World War II Nazi with a gleeful taste for evil in filmmaker Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds.”

“Oscar and Penelope. That’s an uber-bingo,” Waltz said as he accepted his trophy from presenter Penelope Cruz. He lauded Tarantino as a “fearless explorer” who directed the film masterfully, adding, “and that’s why I’m here.”

The Austrian actor’s portrayal of German Col. Hans Landa called on him to give a despicable man an element of unlikely charm and to spew out Tarantino’s rapid-fire dialogue in four languages. Waltz was considered a shoo-in for the

Oscar after sweeping this season’s other awards, including Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild trophies, and critics’ group honors.

Backstage, Waltz was asked about his experience with the American awards season. “It’s mind-boggling. It’s fantastic. It’s very intense ... and tomorrow I’ll probably be sorry it’s over,” he said.

“Inglourious Basterds” received other top Oscar nominations, including best picture, but Waltz was the only cast member to get a bid

and won the only Oscar. The film’s stars included Brad Pitt — whose Nazi-hunting character, in one graphic scene, carves a swastika into Landa’s forehead.

Waltz and his character provided ceremony co-host Steve Martin with material for an opening joke.

Noting that Waltz played a Nazi obsessed with finding Jews, Martin made a sweeping gesture to the auditorium filled with Hollywood insiders, then said, “The mother lode,” as Waltz grinned.

Jeff Bridges Earns Best-Actor Oscar For ‘Crazy Heart’ The Dude finally has an Oscar.

Jeff Bridges, the affable and wellliked star of “Crazy Heart,” won the best actor Academy Award Sunday night, an honor that has eluded him four times before. His first nomination came nearly 40 years ago in 1971. Once onstage, Bridges took a fun and lively victory lap, thanking his parents, collaborators, agent and his wife and three daughters.

“Thank you mom and dad for turning me on to such a groovy profession,” a clearly pleased Bridges said in accepting the award.

He spoke about how his father, the late actor Lloyd Bridges, used to sit him on a bed and teach him the basics of acting. His mother was the actress Dorothy Bridges. “This is honoring them as much as it is me,” Bridges said of his parents.

Bridges career has been a mix

of critical and popular favorites. One of his most popular roles was as The Dude in the cult classic “The Big Lebowski,” but turns in films such as 1984’s “Starman” and 1971’s “The Last Picture Show” have accounted for some of his previous Oscar nominations. He won for his portrayal of Bad Blake, a past-hisprime country star searching for redemption and another shot at stardom. The role almost never happened — Bridges initially turned down the part because he didn’t feel that “Crazy Heart” had the appropriate musical heft. When Grammywinning producer T Bone Burnett came on board, Bridges signed on to play Blake, whose passion for music is second only to his penchant for self-destructive behavior. The win was not exactly a surprise — Bridges, 60, has been considered the

favorite to win the best actor Oscar for months. Voters chose Bridges over George Clooney in “Up in the Air,” Morgan Freeman in “Invictus,” Colin Firth in “A Single Man” and Jeremy Renner in “The Hurt Locker.”

Actress Michelle Pfeiffer, who worked with Bridges on 1989’s “The Fabulous Baker Boys,” praised her former co-star. She recounted how they shared a makeup artist who erased her complexion flaws and seemed to transfer them to Bridges.

“It is that kind of attention to detail and lack of vanity that has made Jeff not just a great actor, but a brilliant one,” Pfeiffer said. The win also comes amid a career resurgence for Bridges. Upcoming projects include appearing in the upcoming “Tron Legacy” and working the Coen brothers in their take on “True Grit.”

AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill

Christoph Waltz accepts the Oscar for best performance by an actor in a supporting role.

Brooke Shields Writing Andre Agassi Marriage Memoirs Brooke Shields is planning to give the other side of her marriage to retired tennis ace Andre Agassi when she writes her own memoirs.

Agassi went public with private details of his two-year marriage to the actress in his tell all Open, but Shields insists he left a lot of details out.

And she hopes to address them in her memoirs - especially her exhusband’s account of a tantrum he threw on the set of sitcom Friends

when Shields licked show regular Matt Le Blanc’s hand in a scene.

Agassi, who was a visitor on set, revealed he stormed off, drove home and smashed his tennis awards, admitting, “I just lost it.” But Shields insists there’s more to be told about the bizarre meltdown. She tells Ladies Home Journal magazine, “Does he mention I spent the next three years replicating those trophies? He doesn’t say that, does he? Of course not. That’ll be in my book!”

Taylor Swift Not Done Writing Songs About Joe Jonas Country star Taylor Swift has warned ex-boyfriend Joe Jonas to expect more songs about their failed romance - because the heartbreak has provided her with “albums” full of material. The You Belong With Me hit-maker, 20, dated the Jonas Brothers singer for several months in 2008 - but she was left devastated when he dumped her in a 27-second phone call.

Swift poured out her emotions in her song Forever & Always and went on national TV in November that year to publicly chastised her ex - but she insists she’s not quite done targeting Jonas just yet. She tells Elle

magazine, “I like to categorize the various levels of heartbreak. I’ve only had that (had her heart broken) happen once. A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.” Swift was more recently romantically linked to her Valentine’s Day co-star Taylor Lautner, but the couple reportedly split in December. Meanwhile Swift’s lucky guitar has sparked an online bidding war after the singer put it up for auction. In just six days, bids for the instrument - embellished with Swift’s lucky number 13 - have reached $8,000. The guitar will be sold to the highest bidder on February 26.

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Videogame makers racing to develop iPad games

This undated image provided the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service show a wild sage grouse. The Interior Department announced Friday, March 5, 2010 that it won’t list sage grouse as endangered or threatened but will classify the bird among species that are candidates for federal protection. The finding is good news for the wind energy and oil and gas industries, which will still face scrutiny in grouse habitat but will have more leeway than if the bird were listed. The bird inhabits large portions of Wyoming, Nevada, Montana, Oregon and Idaho, and smaller areas of Colorado, Utah, California, Washington, South Dakota, North Dakota and western Canada.

Agence France - Presse

WASHINGTON – As an electronic reader, Apple’s iPad has been touted as a possible “Kindle killer” but what has videogame makers buzzing is the potential of the touchscreen tablet computer as a gaming platform. “It’s going to be a really powerful handheld game console,” said Asbjoern Soendergaard, founder and chief executive officer of Tactile Entertainment. “It’s going to be an awesome gaming experience.”

Soendergaard’s Denmark-based company is building a pet simulation game for the iPhone called “Pocket Creatures” and he said the iPad will allow the game developers to add “features that we only thought we could a year ago.” The iPad’s larger screen, rich graphics and processing power has videogame and application developers around the world racing to put the final touches on programs for the iPad in time for when it hits the stores next month.

Free and paid applications for the iPhone — more than 150,000 to date — helped make the smartphone a smash hit and developers are hoping for similar success with the iPad, which goes on sale in the United States on April 3 and in nine other countries at the end of the month. “We’re very excited about the iPad because it gives us more room to play,” said Brian Meehan, the head of worldwide product development at Sourcebits, a company focused on mobile applications and gaming with offices in Atlanta and Bangalore, India.

“It’s got a larger screen obviously and more CPU,” Meehan said of the iPad’s central processing unit, what Tactile’s Soendergaard described as the “power under the hood.” Besides games, one of Sourcebits most successful products is “Knocking Live Video,” which allows iPhone owners to share live video with each other and has attracted over 750,000 users in just three months. “We’ll ultimately build that out for the iPad,” Meehan said.

“For gaming, the iPad’s going to be kind of in a bit of a world of its own,” he added. “If you look at Sony’s PSP and all the other portable gaming devices they may be a little bit bigger than the iPod Touch or the iPhone but they’re all in that same size area. Now you have this device that’s also going to be able to connect to (the Internet),” he said. “That in itself is a big playing field for everybody in the gaming world.”

Soendergaard said the iPad is “different from the iPhone where you have your personal apps” and predicted it will be “a family device, a shared device. “On the multiplayer side it’s going to be really exciting,” he said.

“Maybe you can play board games on it.” Mike Rasmussen of Durham, North Carolina-based Republic of Fun, publisher of “Slug Wars” and other iPhone titles, agreed, saying the iPad opens up all kinds of new possibilities for game makers.

“It’s about the right size to place down on a table between four people,” said Rasmussen, whose title at Republic of Fun is “el presidente” in keeping with the name of his company. We’ve really started thinking about it as kind of the ultimate board game device which can create really interactive, fun, multi-player experiences for groups of people that just are not possible on a device like the iPhone.”

Game makers are not the only ones bullish about the iPad. So are financial analysts and application developers. “We were able to demo the (iPad) at the launch event and were impressed by the gaming and e-book experience in particular,” said Ben Reitzes, an analyst at Barclays Capital. “We found the gaming experience to be far superior to the smaller screen platforms and wouldn’t be surprised if gaming popularity turned out to be one of the gadget’s big surprises,” Reitzes said in a research note on Friday.

PointAbout, a Washington-based technology company which has built iPhone applications for the White House, the US Coast Guard and The Washington Post among others, is looking to adapt its popular AppMakr service to the iPad. AppMakr can make iPhone applications for as little as 199 dollars and has been used to build 3,800 iPhone programs in just the six weeks since it was launched, said PointAbout co-founder and chief operating officer Daniel Odio. “We will probably end up adding iPad into AppMakr so that people can build low-cost iPad apps,” Odio said. “I imagine it’s going to take us three to six months to do that but it is our goal.”

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Energy groups relieved sage grouse won’t be listed Associated Press Writer

CHEYENNE, Wyo. – An Interior Department announcement Friday that it won’t list sage grouse as an endangered or threatened species opens the way for continued development of the West’s wind energy and oil and gas industries. Those industries will still face scrutiny in sage grouse habitat but much less so than if the bird were listed.

The government concluded that listing the chicken-sized brown bird as threatened or endangered is warranted but precluded by higher priorities — other species considered in greater danger. But Interior will classify the bird among species that are candidates for federal protection, which are assigned a priority number between one and 12. The sage grouse has been given an eight, putting it two-thirds of the way down the scale as a priority for federal protection.

Sage grouse have experienced a 90 percent decline in their numbers and a 50 percent decline in their sagebrush habitat from a century ago, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said at a news conference. But the bird populations have been relatively stable over the last decade thanks to efforts by states such as Wyoming, Idaho and Montana to protect the species and its habitat, he said. “Frankly, it is the states in the Western part of the United States that have developed the right kind of strategies to confront this challenge,” Salazar said.

Sage grouse inhabit large portions of Wyoming, Nevada, Montana, Oregon and Idaho, and smaller areas of Colorado, Utah, California, Washington, South Dakota, North Dakota and western Canada.

Especially in Wyoming, large areas of sage grouse habitat also are prime spots for natural gas development that has boomed in recent years. In Nevada, the birds are challenged by an invasive species, cheatgrass, which is prone to frequent wildfires that burn up native sagebrush.

Wyoming, home to an estimated onehalf of North America’s sage grouse, has been mapping the bird’s habitat, studying

it and taking other steps to better understand how to protect the species and avoid an endangered listing — efforts that Gov. Dave Freudenthal said have paid off. “The candidate listing gives us a fighting chance, while an endangered or threatened listing would have taken the wind out of our sails,” he said in a release.

Some environmentalists were less pleased. The finding shows the government is willing to protect sage grouse but not willing to do what’s necessary, said Jon Marvel, executive director of the Hailey, Idaho-based Western Watersheds Project. “None of the actions proposed to date are mandatory, and that undermines the commitment for improving conditions for sage grouse,” Marvel said.

Friday’s announcement results from a lawsuit that Western Watersheds filed in 2006. A federal judge in Boise, Idaho, ruled the following year that political pressure tainted an earlier decision not to list the sage grouse. The finding effectively ends the group’s lawsuit, Marvel said. Other groups expressing disappointment included the Biodiversity Conservation Alliance and the American Bird Conservancy.

Laurie Milford, executive director of the Wyoming Outdoor Council, said the finding “makes a certain amount of sense,” while Frank Gill, president and CEO of the National Audubon Society, said Interior is “on the right path.” The Independent Petroleum Association of Mountain States worries the finding could inhibit oil and gas development on public lands in the West, said the

group’s director of government affairs, Kathleen Sgamma.

“But it appears that Interior plans to balance implementation so that restrictions on energy development do not apply with a broad brush across the entire region,” she said. The Interior Department recognizes the need to develop the nation’s energy resources, said Assistant Interior Secretary for Fish, Wildlife and Parks Tom Strickland. “We know that without good planning, energy activities can impact the sage grouse,” he said. “The emphasis here is on smart from the start. We plan in advance.”

For the wind energy industry, sage grouse are a concern because the birds don’t nest near tall structures such as wind turbines and power lines for fear they could be perches for eagles and other predators. The Interior announcement is a relief and offers more certainty for wind power, said Craig Cox, executive director of the Interwest Energy Alliance, a wind energy industry group. “I do hope that as we gain more experience with the impact of wind on sage grouse, that we can develop plans accordingly,” Cox added.

The oil and gas industry has been backing important sage grouse research and will continue to do that to help ensure that the species isn’t listed, said Cheryl Sorenson, vice president of the Petroleum Association of Wyoming. “For us, it’s not like, `Whew, we’ve won one.’ It’s like, `OK, we need to keep rolling on this,’” Sorenson said.

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Spain, Russia reach Davis Cup last eight Agence France - Presse

PARIS – Defending champions Spain proved there is life without Rafael Nadal when they swept aside Switzerland 4-1 to set-up a mouthwatering Davis Cup quarter-final clash with France on Sunday. Russia also went through thanks to a 3-2 win over India, their 17th successive home win, which gave them a last eight clash against Argentina, who defeated Sweden 3-2.

World number two Novak Djokovic led Serbia to a 4-1 victory over the United States, earning his country a last-eight place for the first time and a July trip to bitter rivals Croatia, the 2005 champions.

In Logrono, David Ferrer scored the winning point for Spain as he easily saw off an exhausted Stanislas Wawrinka 6-2, 6-4, 6-0 to give the hosts an unbeatable lead after they had led 2-1 overnight.

Nicolas Almagro then eased past Marco Chiudinelli 6-1, 6-3 in the dead rubber.

Despite his heroics, Ferrer admitted that his place in the team for July’s clash with France was not guaranteed with Nadal and Fernando Verdasco expected to return. “I hope to play and be picked, but we will see. I just want to focus on the next tournaments,” said Ferrer.

France maintained their 72-year domination of Germany when they wrapped up a 4-1 win in Toulon, leaving the French eager to face Spain on home ground.

“It’ll be like a final, it’s the kind of thing you dream about,” said France captain Guy Forget. “Facing the defending champions with Nadal, Verdasco, Ferrer, Lopez...we want to beat the best in the world. We have started to talk about it and I hope that the boys will be in peak form.”

France will have the advantage of playing the tie at home and will - not surprisingly - opt for a hard court rather than the clay courts favoured by the Spanish.

In Belgrade, Djokovic won a fiveset thriller to defeat America’s John Isner and hand Serbia a place in the quarter-finals for the first time. Serbia will travel to Croatia on July 9-11 after Djokovic claimed a 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 6-7 (6/8), 6-4 win over Isner in a four hour, 16 minute marathon. Croatia wrappedup a 5-0 win over Ecuador in their first round tie. “It’s the biggest win for men’s tennis in Serbia,” said Djokovic.

David Nalbandian was Argentina’s match-winner in Stockholm when he defeated Andreas Vinciguerra 7-5, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 after Robin Soderling had seen off Leonardo Mayer 7-5, 7-6 (7/5), 7-5 to pull Sweden level.

Former Wimbledon finalist Nalbandian, who has only just returned to action after undergoing hip surgery in May, had edged Argentina ahead on Saturday when he teamed with Horacio Zeballos to see off Robert Lindstedt and Soderling in the doubles.

Argentine captain Tito Vazquez praised Nalbandian who only arrived in Sweden on Thursday and was suffering a leg injury. “We didn?t know about David until ten minutes before the match whether he was able to play or willing to play,” said Vazquez.

Thunder upend Kings 108-102 Associated Press Writer

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Kevin Durant had 27 points and eight rebounds and the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Sacramento Kings 108-102 on Sunday night. The road victory was the seventh in nine games for the Thunder, who defeated the Kings in three of four meetings this season. Tyreke Evans had 24 points and seven assists for the Kings and Carl Landry had 20 points and eight rebounds. Francisco Garcia scored 14 points and Jason Thompson added 11.

The Kings have lost two straight and three of four in falling to 15-15 this season at home. Russell Westbrook scored 13 of his 21 points in the fourth quarter for the Thunder, who have won two straight and five of six. James Harden scored all 14 of his points in the first half, while Jeff Green added 12 points. Garcia made a

3-pointer to pull the Kings within 106-102 with 39 seconds left.

After Beno Udrih’s 3-pointer cut the lead to 98-96, Durant scored on a short baseline jumper and Nick Collison dunked off a fastbreak to put the Thunder ahead 102-96 with 2:17 remaining. The Thunder (38-24) are 14-3 since a loss at Cleveland on Jan. 23. Last season, Oklahoma City began the season 1-12 and finished with 23 wins. Vowing to rebound better after a poor effort in Tuesday’s loss at Oklahoma City, the Kings fared even worse. The Thunder outrebounded them 45-33.

With Durant coming out aggressive in the third quarter, the Thunder built their lead to 11 points. But with Landry scoring inside and Evans hitting from the perimeter, including a 3-pointer at the buzzer, the Kings closed the gap to 81-79 heading into the fourth. Durant scored 16 points and Harden came off the bench for 14 to help the Thunder lead 57-52 at the half. Landry scored 11 points for the Kings.

(AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)

Spain’s Davis Cup tennis player David Ferrer, returns a ball to Switzerland’s Stanilas Wawarinka during the third singles match in the first round of the Davis Cup, in Logrono, northern Spain, Sunday March 7, 2010.

Magic get revenge, top Lakers in finals rematch Associated Press Writer

ORLANDO, Fla. – Vince Carter had 25 points, Dwight Howard finished with 15 points and 16 rebounds and the Orlando Magic beat the Lakers 96-94 on Sunday to hand Los Angeles its first three-game losing streak of the Pau Gasol-Kobe Bryant Era. Carter made his first 13 free throws and kept the Magic in control, showing signs of why Orlando made the move for the eight-time All-Star after losing to the Lakers in last year’s finals.

But Carter’s lone miss gave the Lakers a chance at the end, with Bryant’s 20-foot jumper falling short. Bryant had 34 points and Gasol added 20 points for the Lakers, walking to the locker room distraught and dejected after their latest loss. And with quite a different feeling than that champagne-soaked championship celebration last June.

But this one had all the drama of that series.

Matt Barnes made a 3-pointer to push the Magic’s lead to six with 1:10 remaining. A missed free throw by Jameer Nelson gave the Lakers a chance to tie, and Bryant delivered with a 3-pointer — if only for a second — with 12.9 seconds remaining. Bryant jumped into his teammates pouring out from the bench in what would be a premature celebration. Officials reviewed the play and ruled that it was only a two-pointer. And just like that, the Lakers are in the first three-game skid since they acquired Gasol from Memphis in February 2008.

The rematch had the physical feel of a finals. Bryant and Barnes continuously traded elbows and were each hit with a technical foul in the third quarter after going chestto-chest in a verbal spat. Barnes had a put-back dunk a few plays later and dangled his legs on Bryant, who extended his right arm slightly into his opponent’s chest, leading to another confrontation.

Howard interjected and was called for a technical after muttering a few words at Bryant. The two All-Stars and Olympic teammates kept the verbal jabs going, showing no similar love when their NBA teams meet.

All the rough and tough play gave way to a foul fest.

The teams combined to shoot 29 free throws — with Orlando going 17 for 18 — in the opening quarter alone.

Howard and Andrew Bynum were sidelined in foul trouble for most of the first three quarters, but a strong effort from

Carter and the Magic bench put Orlando ahead by 12 points late in the third.

Then the Lakers provided a reminder of the finals. They came back just like they did in Games 4 and 5 last year in Orlando, scoring 10 straight points — including the first eight to start the fourth — to cut the Magic’s lead to 74-72.

Howard answered with a thunderous dunk over Gasol, who was called for a flagrant-one foul on the play about halfway through the fourth. Then like Game 4 — when Howard missed a pair of crucial free throws — he again missed badly on both, but still put Orlando ahead 81-74 in what would be a back-and-forth finish.

(AP Photo/John Raoux)

Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard (12) goes up for a shot against Los Angeles Lakers forward Pau Gasol (16), of Spain, during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Orlando, Fla., Sunday, March 7, 2010. Orlando won 96-94.

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Mourinho fumes as Inter fire blanks Agence France - Presse

ROME – Inter Milan maintained a four-point cushion in the Serie A title race on Sunday but only after a dour 0-0 draw against Genoa which left coach Jose Mourinho frustrated in the stands.

Despite fielding a three-pronged attacking force of Mario Balotelli, Goran Pandev and Diego Milito, Inter were unable to break down a stubborn Genoa side.

Mourinho, who was serving the second of a three-match touchline ban, was so unimpressed that he charged out of his seat to get as close as possible to the pitch to bark his orders. It wasn’t until the last 15 minutes that Inter looked dangerous with Maicon, substitute Samuel Eto’o and Wesley Sneijder coming close.

Inter moved onto 59 points, four clear of AC Milan, who also finished goalless against Roma on Saturday. Inter director Marco Branca blamed fatigue from midweek international duty for the stalemate. “The point earned should be read within the context of the many international players who were used in friendlies midweek,” said Branca.

“Many of them played from the start for their countries and therefore came back rather tired.”

Unheralded Palermo underlined their bid for a place in the Champions League next season as well as their burgeoning domestic title credentials with a 1-0 win over Livorno. The three points, garnered courtesy of Fabrizio

Miccoli’s goal nine minutes from the end, took the Sicilians into fourth place in Serie A, two points clear of Juventus, who Palermo had seen off in Turin last weekend.

Juve slid back a place into fifth having won 2-1 at Fiorentina on Saturday. Sampdoria are sixth, a point further back, after a 2-1 home win over Lazio. The visitors took a seventh-minute lead through Sergio Floccari but quickfire ripostes around the half hour mark from Stefano Guberti and Giampaolo Pazzini proved enough for Samp to take the three points. While Palermo rise, so Napoli are sliding back and their top four aspirations took a knock after a 2-1 loss at Bologna, for whom Marcelo Zalayeta and Brazilian Adailton were on target inside the opening 12 minutes.

Leandro Rinaudo scored Napoli’s consolation as they dropped to seventh, five points adrift of Palermo, after a run of just four points from a possible 18 in their last six outings. David Beckham appeared for just 18 minutes from the bench for Milan on Saturday, no doubt with one eye on Wednesday’s emotional Champions League trip to Manchester United.

Milan coach Leonardo insisted his men can overturn their 3-2 deficit at Old Trafford to reach the quarter-finals. “I have great faith in this team, many times I’ve asked a lot of them. We believe in ourselves, we have to win well at Old Trafford and we’ll go there trying to score goals.”

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Chelsea’s Florent Malouda, right, competes with Stoke City’s Andy Wilkinson during their English FA Cup quarter-final soccer match at Stamford Bridge, London, Sunday, March 7, 2010.

Chelsea ease into FA Cup semi-finals, Carew treble fires Villa Agence France - Presse

LONDON – FA Cup holders Chelsea strolled into the semi-finals with a 2-0 victory over Stoke on Sunday, while Aston Villa staged a stunning second half fightback to join them in the last four with a 4-2 win against Reading. At Stamford Bridge, deposed England captain John Terry was back in the spotlight as the Chelsea skipper set up Frank Lampard’s opener before scoring the second himself and then celebrating by pointing to the armband on his sleeve.

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Inter Milan Brazilian defender Lucio, right, tries to take the ball past Genoa midfielder Omar Milanetto during an Italian Serie A soccer match between Inter Milan and Genoa at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Sunday, March 7, 2010.

Stoke almost took the lead from one of Rory Delap’s troublesome long-throws when Dean Whitehead’s shot was cleared off the line by John Obi Mikel. But Lampard put Chelsea head in the 35th minute when his shot from Terry’s pass deflected past Thomas Sorensen. Terry gave Chelsea more breathing space in the 68th minute when his header from Lampard’s corner deflected in off Andy Wilkinson.

Terry said he was pleased to be able to show his gratitude to Chelsea fans for their support during a traumatic month and also help get the team back on track following defeats to Inter Milan and Manchester City.

“Chelsea have been very supportive but the main thing was coming back from a disappointing performance.

We wanted to show the fans how much it meant to us,” Terry said.

“We had a couple of days to work on their set plays but they can

play as well. On a dodgy pitch I thought we played well and bounced back from last week.” Aston Villa, beaten in the League Cup final by Manchester United last weekend, looked set for an embarrassing exit at the hands of Championship Reading after Shane Long scored twice in the first half at the Madejski Stadium.

But three goals in 10 minutes from Ashley Young and John Carew, who ended up with a hat-trick, ensured Villa will return to Wembley in the last four. Long - who had scored the winner in the third round victory over Liverpool - put Reading ahead in the 27th minute when he headed in Matthew Mills’ flickon. The Royals looked on course for a famous victory when Long struck again with a fine finish from Jimmy Kebe’s pass three minutes before half-time.

But Young restored Villa’s belief with a close-range strike two

minutes into the second half. Villa’s equaliser arrived just four minutes later when Norway striker Carew headed in Stewart Downing’s cross.

Carew put Villa ahead by cleverly flicking in Stephen Warnock’s cross with the outside of his boot in the 57th minute, then scored his third from the penalty spot in stoppage time.

Carew revealed a half-time blast from boss Martin O’Neill inspired Villa’s comeback. “We were struggling in the first half and the gaffer had some serious words at the break,” Carew said. “I won’t go into it but you could see it on the pitch what happened. Ashley’s goal was really important and it gave us a great boost and the team had a great feeling and I was sure we were going to get a second goal. We really want to get to the final again now we know what Wembley is about. It was not a great experience for us but we have a great chance to get back there.”

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Loeb clinches Rally Mexico victory Sebastien Loeb has moved into the World Rally Championship lead after winning Rally Mexico for the fourth time in his career.

Petter Solberg narrowly beat Sebastien Ogier to second in a final stage shootout - just a second separating the pair at the finish while Rally Sweden winner Mikko Hirvonen had to settle for fourth.

Kimi Raikkonen’s tough rally switch also continued with an incident-packed first day ending in a multiple roll.

Loeb dominated the second half of the event, making the best of his road position on the first day to complete leg one in third, before unleashing astounding speed on Saturday to turn a 27s overnight deficit into a lead of 55s. Loeb then cruised through today’s stages at a very leisurely pace to clinch the win. “Finally a victory and back in the lead of the championship,” he said. “It was important after Sweden to win here. It’s only the start of the championship but I’m really happy. We had a really good drive yesterday. Now it’s looking good.”

Prior to Loeb’s charge, Solberg had led the opening day ahead of Ogier. The non-works Citroen pair then battled for second in Loeb’s wake, going into the deciding superspecial with Ogier

ahead by a scant 0.6s. Ogier had been edging ever closer to Solberg since Saturday morning, but the former world champion was 1.7s quicker than his young rival on the superspecial and managed to reclaim second by a tiny 1.1s margin - to Solberg’s ecstatic, tearful, delight.

After their triumph in Sweden, Hirvonen and Ford had a miserable time in Mexico. The Finn was hampered by running first on the road on Friday, but generally lacked pace all weekend. Only late team orders allowed him to get past team-mate Jari-Matti Latvala and up to fourth.

Mikko Hirvonen, Ford, Rally Mexico 2010"It was a very difficult weekend for the whole team,” Hirvonen admitted. “We never really had the speed. Lots of small mistakes on my side as well. In the end I’m

glad we got the points we could and I just want to leave it behind and go on to the next rally.”

Latvala had no qualms about handing fourth to Hirvonen even though he had been the faster Ford driver all weekend. “We are the second driver this year and that’s part of our job,” said Latvala. “Mikko needs these points more now for his title against Loeb. We want to give him as good a chance in the fight as possible.”

Henning Solberg took sixth for Stobart Ford despite brake problems, ahead of Munchi’s Ford’s Federico Villagra, as attrition hit the rest of the WRC field.

Citroen number two Dani Sordo was running ahead of the Fords in fourth until a Saturday morning error left him with broken suspension.

The same stage saw both Matthew Wilson (Stobart) and debutant Ken Block (Monster Ford) crash out - although the latter had impressed with his pace on his first WRC outing, often matching Wilson. Raikkonen’s rally went awry early on when he bent a steering arm on the opening stage then stopped for half an hour with a fuel system fault on SS2. He crashed for good five stages later.

Chandhok: Hispania can score in 2010 Karun Chandhok is optimistic that the new Hispania team can score points this year despite its troubled build-up to the Formula 1 season. The squad was dramatically restructured in late February, with original founder Adrian Campos departing and Colin Kolles being drafted in to run the team by Jose Ramon Carabante, who had taken full control of the company.

HRT launched its Dallara-built F1 car in Murcia on Thursday, but has been unable to test before the season opener in Bahrain next weekend. Although Chandhok admitted that Hispania had to earn its rivals’ respect initially, he believes it can be a contender by round five of the championship in Spain - and that points finishes are not out of the question in 2010. “Our goal

early on in the season is to show the world that we are a credible company,” Chandhok told Indian newspaper the Deccan Herald. “The focus is to gain some mileage, reliability and experience in the first season.

We’ll probably be off the mark in the first four races but from Catalunya, Spain, we will prove a challenge. You never know, we could also bag some points late in the season.”

The 26-year-old Indian said he was relieved to get an F1 break after a luckless GP2 season last year. “I had a very disappointing 2009 season in GP2 but everyone had already made a note of my potential,” said Chandhok, who had been a GP2 race winner in 2007 and 2008 but was only 18th in the ’09 standings with Ocean. “After chasing a [Formula 1] seat for a long time, I finally found a

great team to drive with. Colin Kolles has shown a lot of faith in me and it helps to have the backing of someone who has known me for long in a sport like Formula 1.”

Chandhok added that he bore no ill feeling towards Force India and its boss Vijay Mallya, even though he had not been offered an F1 seat by his national team. “He called me and wished me well,” Chandhok said of Mallya. “Force India required something else at that point of time and they have now turned into a very good team. I hold nothing against Vijay. I wanted to drive in F1 and it didn’t matter to me which team I drove for. My priority is to stay in F1 and give it my best. I will consider driving for Force India if an offer does pop up and if they are still on a high, in terms of racing.”

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France’s Sebastien Loeb and navigator Daniel Elena, of Monaco, race their Citroen in the final leg of the Mexico Rally in Leon, Mexico, Saturday, March 6, 2010. Loeb and Elena finished the three-day rally ahead of Petter Solberg of Norway and Sebastien Ogier, also from France. All three were driving Citroens.