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Buleleng regency keep suffer form heavy disaster in the early 2010. After two storms and high waves that made tenth of houses damage, heavy rain which happened in the last few days made a road collapsed.

A road in Madenan village in Tejakula collapsed as much as 30 meters long. The road is connecting Buleleng regency and Kintamani. The destruction made the traffic paralyzed for couple of hours.

The heavy rain which happened started on Saturday, January 16th through Sunday January 17th 2010 created landslides in some parts of the village. There were no casualties reported during the disasters.

The people of Madenan village explained that the heavy rain was started on 4 pm local time. The villagers were worried there was landslide in the village because it was built in the prone area.

At 2 am, some of the people

were hearing a loud sound and they saw some of the road was collapsing. The damage was around 30 meters in length and 4 meters wide.

In addition to the road, there were also several pints that heavily damaged such as in front of the village office where landslide made an electric pole collapse.

The police officers were arranging the traffic on the road in order to avoid longer traffic jam. The officers from Buleleng government also rushed to the scene in order to give the proper assistance to the victims. Gede Gunawan, an officer of Buleleng government, said “we deploy the personnel right away in order to assist the people there.”(kmb15)

Bad Weather, Many Turtles Stranded at Kuta Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Since the bad weather at the end of last December 2009, it has been recorded nine rare turtles found stranded on Kuta Beach. Seven of them have died. On average, these stranded turtles died due to stress and knocked by wood waste dragged to the beach.

Most of the turtles stranded on Kuta Beach belonged to the hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricate), while the remaining were green turtle and turtle of other species. At last, a turtle was found stranded, last Friday (Jan 15) at 1:00 pm Local Time. It belonged to hawksbill of 41 centimeters in length and estimated to have reached 6 years old.

Officers of Pro Fauna Bali, Dionysius, said of the many turtles stranded, two have been saved. Surviving turtle would be released into their habitats after their condition improved. In addition, the turtles were also marked with a tag so the development and movement could be monitored continuously. Before released, such endangered sea turtle were placed for a while in turtle shelters of Kuta Beach Task Force to further placed in shelters on the island turtle of Serangan. (ded)

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Bali News Robber at Nine Circle-K Marts Captured Revealed by Recording of CCTV Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Since the past few months, robbery actions often targeted minimarkets like Circle-K. Recorded, nine outlets of Circle-K spread in the Denpasar region once become the target of robbers. Rampant robberies to minimarkets opening 24 hours made police officers furious.

They always monitor and encourage routine patrol, whether it is at night, afternoon or morning.

However, this strategy also seems to result in nothing to know the perpetrators. Allegedly, looting perpetrators always threatened the guards with a knife.

Nevertheless, police officers, especially Directorate of Detective, Bali Police controlled by Chief of Detective Operational Unit 1, Cecep Nandi Cecep Trimaryadi, never gave up. The results of the investigation seemed to get a clue due to the existing CCTV recordings at the Circle-K in the area of Jalan Cokroaminoto, Denpasar.

Based on the tape, it was known what happened two weeks ago.

Armed with the tape, detective unit pursued the perpetrators. Having investigated for a few days, the trails of suspect were finally tracked. Apparently, the perpetrator was named Kadek Wariana alias Kadek Bola, 21, from Jembrana.

The suspect Kadek Bola was arrested when he headed for his home on Jalan Mataram Gang Linggamurti No. 6 Kuta, Badung, last Thursday (Jan 14) at 6:00 pm Local Time. Without resistance, the suspect was arrested and immediately taken to Headquarter of Bali Police for further review.

Spokesperson of Bali Police,

Gde Sugianyar, last Friday (Jan 15), explained that the suspect was being detained at Headquarter of Bali Police. Based on the results of the provisional examination, the suspect confessed to rob at nine outlets of Circle-K since November 2009. Every taking action, the defendant did it at dawn because Circle-K is open 24 hours and guarded by minimally two people at dawn (03.00-05.00 am Local Time—ed). The suspect armed with a bayonet to scare the guards of minimarket. “The suspect pretended to be shopping. While looking at the situation, the suspect entered,” said former Chief of Balikpapan Resort Police.

If the situation was quiet, without hesitancy the suspect directly threatened guardians on duty. The suspect was draining money in the cash register’s drawer. In one-time action, the defendant admitted to get a result of IDR 1-3 million. “The money from the crime was given to his brother and parents. The rest is used for having fun,” he explained.

The suspect was also known to have a brother in prison cells because of fraud cases. In addition to the suspect, police also seized a bayonet, cash worth IDR 1.5 million, two motorcycles of Jupiter and Vario type, clothing and a pair of female sandals that was about to be given to his girlfriend. (kmb21)

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Ecologically,Rats Hard to be Infected by Rabies Denpasar (Bali Post)—

The existence of Tabanan resident becoming the victims of rabies due to bitten by rats, deserves to be alert of all parties. To what extent is the danger of rabies if it has spread to the rats? The Head of Animal Biomolecular Laboratory, Faculty of Animal Husbandry, Dr. I Gusti Ngurah Mahardika when contacted, last Friday (Jan 15), told that before infecting rats rabies was very dangerous.

The case of rabies from rat bite in Tabanan, according to him, needed re-examining. Ecologically, to this extent rabies has never come from rats. “Until now, naturally or ecologically, rabies has never been infected by the rats. It was once tested by the laboratory, and through the experiment rats were exposed to rabies,” he said.

During this time, the well-

known animals exposed to rabies are dogs, insectivorous bats, cows, buffaloes, horses and cats. However, the transmission chain to cow is interrupted because this kind of animal does not bite when attacking, but gores. On that account, the risk of transmitting rabies to humans and other animals is very small. For now, dogs are animals spreading rabies.

Viewed from the pattern of behavior, it is very little dog playing or contacting with rats. “However, it is not ignorable,” said Mahardika.

Meanwhile, when asked for confirmation about the victims of rabies after being bitten by a rat Tabanan, the Head of Bali Health Services, Nyoman Sutedja argued that the death of Ni Nyoman Koming, 46, a resident of Katimemes, Sudimara, Tabanan was caused by rabies transmitted by rat. “Having been confirmed to Tabanan, in fact the patient suffered from diabetes. She was bitten by a

rat so her wound got infection due to diabetes she has been suffering. The patient died of the infection, not because of rabies,” Sutedja said when contacted on last Friday (Jan 15).

Like Mahardika, Sutedja also said that rats were naturally difficult to get rabies. “Rats usually cause plague,” he said. For that, the policy of providing anti-rabies vaccine (VAR) is limited to people bitten by dogs, monkeys, bats and cats. Therefore, it is not recommended to people bitten by rats,” said Sutedja. Meanwhile, Sutedja also added that regarding to VAR supply distributors were ready with their VAR stock. Regencies/City government that has had their fund was unnecessary to wait for ordering VAR. “Expected, with the smoothness of stock from distributors, VAR in regencies/city could also be available,” he added. (san)

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By Examination of Amniotic Fluid

The Structure of Fetal Chromosome Known Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Mothers who give birth to babies with risky problems (abnormalities) can be a little quieter with the amniocentesis tests through the Integrated Prenatal Diagnosis program at Sanglah Hospital. Although the hospital is still working with Eijkman laboratory Jakarta, various abnormalities that may occur to infants can be known early by the amniotic fluid examination.

Initial examination at Sanglah Hospital has been performed for patients on behalf of IGA Mas Irawaty, 40, whose address at Jalan Manggala No. 5 Tuban, North Kuta in the International Wing of Sanglah Hospital, last Thursday (Jan 14). This patient had just married and was pregnant by the age of 14 weeks of pregnancy denoting the first pregnancy experience. “The problem, she was pregnant at the age above 35 years belonging to a risk,” said the physician AAN Jaya Kusuma in the midst of examinations.

Described Jaya Kusuma, factors other than age, a few risk needed watching by the mothers was the

record of having a baby with disorder, whether there was a family record of inheriting disorders. Ideally, the examination was performed between the age of 14 weeks and 15 weeks. USG test performed at the age of 12-weeks indeed has not indicated any sign, while amniocentesis test was done by taking the amniotic fluid in the womb of mother of 8 cc. This was done by a needle as small as hair where mothers would not feel any pain. However, its implementation should be done carefully and monitored by USG. “Slip a bit, it may get the fetus or placenta. The withdrawal is performed very carefully,” added Jaya Kusuma, who is also Director

of Medical and Nursing Services of Sanglah Hospital.

Furthermore, 8 cc of amniotic fluid that taken would be directly sent to the Eijkman Laboratory Jakarta.

“There, the amniotic fluid will be cultured, so that it can obtain DNA. From the structure of DNA will be examined the fetal chromosomes concerned.”Where’s the disorder, will soon be known. We will receive the results between one week and two weeks,” added Jaya Kusuma. Therefore, sample taking at Sanglah Hospital should be done under 11:00 am Local Time so as not to miss the plane carrying the package of the amniotic fluid directly to Jakarta. (san/r/bns)

Bali Police Chief: Ferraris Use Fake Number Chief of Bali Police, Sutisna, admitted the three Ferraris once secured by his party were using the fake police number. In fact, his party also knew those expensive cars were not equipped with official documents such as vehicle registration and certificate of ownership. However, police could only act decisively by charging with traffic violation.

Chief Sutisna again emphasized, the cars have been returned to its respective owner, because if seized in Headquarter of Bali Police, the risk would be high. “The car was expensive. If we confiscated them and held in Headquarter, would be of high risk,” said two-star general in the shoulder last Friday (Jan 15).

However, his party took steps to

safeguard their keys. This measure meant to anticipate that the car bearing the horse logo could not jump up and be used on the streets. “We have confiscated their key,” he explained after the handover of position of Directorate of Intelligence and Security from Djoko Mulyono to Ketut Argawa, last Friday.

Were the three luxurious cars belonging to contraband? Chief Sutisna did not dare say so. His party just acted decisively by issuing ticket of traffic violation. “To find out if the cars are contraband or bulging, it was completely the tasks of Custom and Excise Office,” he said.

Spokesperson of Bali Police, Gde Sugianyar, added that the police carried out their duties according to the law. In relation to the cases of the Ferrari car, his party did act under

the laws of traffic. “Yes, one of them is by issuing a ticket of traffic violation,” he explained.

Although they have had Form B, said the former chief of Balikpapan Resort Police, the cars might not be used on the highway because their documents have not been complete.

“The Customs here (Bali) should make coordination with the Central Customs and Excise. Whether Form B at hand of those owners is original or fake,” he concluded.

Furthermore, he explained the Form B was usually reserved for imported built-up cars. “And it was used for government facilities such as the car of diplomats, international agencies and foreign investors. Its policy was the delays of entry fee. If the vehicle has been used, must be returned to their state,” he added. (kmb21)

Assessed, the Making of Special Bike Path Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Mandate of the Law No. 22/2009 on Traffic and Road Transportation suggesting the existence of a bicycle lane on the highway began to be studied by the ranks of Denpasar City Government. Even, the Transportation Services along with related agencies in Denpasar City Government from this week began doing intensive discussion regarding to the plan. Unfortunately, a number of constraints to realize the bike path started to appear in numbers.

The Head of Denpasar Transportation Services (Dishub), I Gede Astika, contacted last Friday (Jan 15) claimed to have made the dis-

cussion about provision of bicycle path on some roads. However, it still needed to conduct a thorough study of the plan referred. The reason, some relevant agencies need to do a common understanding to the planned creation of this bike path.

Moreover, the matter of road was handled by cross-agency.

He said that the provision of bike paths required further studies related to the input from the Public Works Services worrying about the reduction of road width. This would have an impact on the authorities to do maintenance. In other words, when the width of the road was reduced, it also automatically changed the sta-

Bus Stop in Denpasar Useless Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Possibly Charged with Traffic Violation Only Denpasar (Bali Post)—

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A tourist is listening instructions from a surfing instruction among the garbage on Kuta beach. The garbage is filled the beach and disturb the tourist’s activities.

tus of road because it had something to do with the classification of the road having its own rules.

Provision of bicycle paths on the highway was mandated in the new Law on the traffic services. Article 25 in paragraph 1 letter g mention, every road used for general traffic is obliged to be equipped with other facilities such as signs, markers, bike path, and others. Apart from that chapter, it also listed in Article 45 regulating the facilities on the highway. Such article mentioned compulsory supporting facilities required like sidewalks, bike path, as well as other facilities such as bus stop. (kmb12)

Development of a number of bus stops (public transportation dugout) at some points in Denpasar invited questions to an number of circles.

The reason, the pre-existing bus stops were malfunction or wasteful. Furthermore, the existence of such bus stops is only taken advantage by street vendors. Similarly, the existence of public transportation in the city of cultured city has impressed a suspended animation.

Member of Commission B of Denpasar House, I Wayan Mariyana Wandhira, met in Denpasar, last Friday (Jan 15), admitted to have seen the construction of bus stops at three locations.

One of them was in front of the Denpasar Tourism Office. “Has the development passed through mature studies? I’m afraid the same fate would afflict as to the current ones, namely not working,” said the representatives from Sanur.

Wandhira said that the development of those bus stops should comply with the necessity. Moreover, during this time quite a bit of Denpasar residents used public transportation. Function of many bus stops seemed redundant today so it gave impression of wasting budget. “Why we should build bus stop first, while the route of public transport route has not existed yet.

I am afraid there’ll be more changes later,” he said.

Against this, the Head of Denpasar Transportation Services, I Gede Astika, said the making of the new bus stop posed the program of Bali provincial government. The development should support the transportation services of Denpasar, Badung, Gianyar and Tabanan (Sarbagita) which would

soon operate. “This is not intended for bus stop of internal city public transport of Denpasar. The making of this bus stop is one of the Sarbagita transportation infrastructure provisions because it has been built earlier than the means of Sarbagita transportation,” he said.

Earlier, a member of Commission III of Bali House, I.B. Gede Udiyana, said that the development of bus stop at various locations passed through by Sarbagita transportation cost to reach IDR 1.7 billion more. Udiyana admitted that Sarbagita programs being under consideration for several years was one of the policies to address the traffic problems in South Bali.

The issues on time and route inaccuracies that were not maximal, as well as real traffic jam inspired the basic idea to realize adequate transportation facilities. In other words, this endeavor was to develop public awareness so they would be back to use public transport in all daily activities, which finally could suppress the use of private vehicles.

Udiyana said, by posting the budget made by the Bali Provincial Government in the 2010 budget year, his party expected that regency/city governments also supported this program. At least, said the former Head of Commission B of this Denpasar House, local governments that would pass through the city have already thought about the program and provided appropriate input for the continuation of the operational mode of transportation across regencies/city. For example, each existing territory, route, and the right bus stop placement, has become part of the inputs of the regencies / cities government to the team in the province. (kmb12)

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Chileans vote for president with Pinochet in mind

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Sebastian Pinera, candidate of the opposition Coalition for Change, left AP

SANTIAGO, Chile – Chile’s presidential election could come down to a nerve-racking, vote-byvote count Sunday after a late surge by former President Eduardo Frei made his race against billionaire Sebastian Pinera too close to predict.

Pinera led every poll until Frei and outgoing President Michelle Bachelet repeatedly invoked the legacy of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, raising fears of a retreat on human rights if Pinera and his rightwing supporters regain the presidency.

“I want to invite all Chileans to change Chile’s destiny with pencil and paper,” Frei, 67, said near the end, invoking the catchphrase of the 1988 vote that returned democracy to Chile.

The theme put the Harvardtrained economist on the defensive, unsettling a well-organized campaign that had focused on economic growth, jobs and bringing change to a country led by the same group of center-left politicians for 20 years.

He urged voters not to lose their hope as the government wages a “campaign of terror.”

With Frei and Pinera agreeing on most government policies — a reflection of the remarkable economic, social and political success that has given Bachelet nearly 80 percent approval ratings as she ends her five-year term — human rights became the wild card.

Bachelet, herself a torture victim, steadfastly supported judicial efforts to resolve crimes against humanity during the 1973-1990 dictatorship, and more than 700 former military and security officials have been put on trial.

But efforts to resolve dictatorship-era rights abuses remain a painful topic around Latin America, and aggressive moves aren’t always popular. Voters in Uruguay rejected an initiative to overturn that country’s amnesty laws last year, even as they elected a former rebel as president. Amnesties also remain in force in Brazil, and while Argentina overturned its amnesty laws, rights trials there have become highly politicized.

The issue came to the forefront of Chile’s presidential campaign last month when a judge concluded that Frei’s father, a Pinochet critic, had been secretly poisoned to death.

Bachelet raised it again by inaugurating Chile’s Museum of Memory less than a week before the vote.

And Frei pressed it hard in Wednesday’s televised debate, forcing Pinera to acknowledge that “part of my sector committed errors” during the dictatorship by denying human rights violations even as thousands of Pinochet’s opponents were tortured or killed.

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Ali Hassan al-Majid, better known as Saddam Hussein’s enforcer “Chemical Ali” was on Sunday sentenced to death for ordering the gassing of Kurds in the Iraqi village of Halabja, state television said.

Iraq’s ‘Chemical Ali’ sentenced to death AFP

The Al-Iraqiya channel said Majid would be killed by hanging having been found guilty of the notorious attack in 1988 in the northeast of the country as the Iran-Iraq war drew to a close.

The ruling is the fourth time he has received a death sentence.

An estimated 5,000 people were killed at Halabja, three-quarters of them women and children, in what is now thought to have been the deadliest gas attack ever carried out against civilians.

A close cousin of Saddam, Majid earned his macabre nickname for

ordering poisonous gas attacks in a brutal scorched-earth campaign of bombings and mass deportations that left an estimated 182,000 Kurds dead in the 1980s.

He had previously been sentenced to hang for genocide over the Kurdish offensives when he received a second death sentence in December 2008 for war crimes committed

during the ill-fated 1991 Shiite uprising in southern Iraq.

And in March last year, the Iraqi High Tribunal handed down a third death sentence over the the 1999 murders of dozens of Shiites in the Sadr City district of Baghdad and in the central shrine city of Najaf.

However, he is probably best known for the Halabja attack when in March 1988, Iraqi jets swooped over the village and for five hours sprayed it with a deadly cocktail of mustard gas and the nerve agents Tabun, Sarin and VX.

Clinton lands in Haiti, pledges cooperative effort AP

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met Saturday with Haitian President Rene Preval and promised that U.S. quake relief efforts would be closely coordinated with local officials.

Clinton’s remarks appeared designed to counter any notion of a toointrusive American involvement in the aftermath of the quake, while also assuring Haitians the humanitarian mission would continue as long as it’s needed.

“We are here at the invitation of your government to help you,” she said at a news conference at the Port-au-Prince airport. “As President Obama has said, we will be here today, tomorrow and for the time ahead. And speaking personally, I know of the great resilience and strength of the Haitian people. You

have been severely tested. But I believe that Haiti can come back even stronger and better in the future.”

Clinton, the highest-ranking Obama administration official to visit since the magnitude-7.0 quake struck Tuesday, arrived in a Coast Guard C-130 transport that carried bottled water, packaged food, soap and other supplies. She was accompanied by Rajiv Shah, the U.S. Agency for International Development administrator who is acting as the top U.S. relief coordinator.

Clinton also met with U.N. officials and U.S. civilians and military personnel working on the relief effort. She said she and Preval discussed his government’s priorities: restoring communications, electricity and transportation. “And we agreed that we will be coordinating closely together to achieve these goals,” she said, adding that she and Preval would issue a com-

munique on Sunday outlining cooperation between the two countries.

Preval said he was encouraged to see former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush together with President Barack Obama at the White House earlier Saturday in a joint plea for international assistance to Haiti.

He noted that U.S. aid has already arrived, and he told reporters he met a survivor who was pulled from the rubble Saturday and receiving care from American medical teams. He thanked Clinton for her visit and for Obama’s continued support of Haiti.

“Mrs. Clinton’s visit really warms our heart today,” he said.

During the news conference, officials noted the clatter of military helicopters landing and taking off nearby.

“That’s a good sound,” Clinton said. “That means that good things are going to the people of Haiti.”

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U.S. Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, third left, talks with U.S. Ambassador to Haiti Kenneth Merten, second

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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

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Girl killed, 4,000 homeless in Manila slum fire AP

MANILA, Philippines – Fire raced through a slum near the main port in the Philippine capital, killing a 5-yearold girl, gutting hundreds of shanties and leaving 4,000 people homeless, an official said Sunday.

There were no other reports of deaths or major injuries in the Saturday night blaze at the Baseco Compound, a crowded slum along the rim of Manila Bay, Senior Fire Officer Emmanuel Gaspar said. An Associated Press photographer at the site saw people waiting to be treated for minor injuries, including wounds from glass shards.

The cause of the 2-hour fire, which was fanned by strong winds and destroyed 500 shanties, is still under investigation, Gaspar said. Fires in Manila’s overcrowded slums are common, with the tight living conditions

(AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)

In this undated photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, wearing sunglasses, visits a pig farm under Unit 534 of the Korean People’s Army at undisclosed location in North Korea.

N. Korea’s Kim calls for stronger army amid tension AP

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korean leader Kim Jong Il said his country must bolster its armed forces, state media reported Sunday, two days after his regime warned it would launch a war against South Korea if necessary.

Kim’s all-powerful National Defense Commission had threatened Friday to initiate a sacred “retaliatory battle” against the South in anger over its reported contingency plan to cope with potential unrest in the communist country. The commission also warned it could break off all dialogue and negotiations with the South.

On Sunday, the North’s official Korean Central News Agency said Kim had inspected a joint army, navy and air force drill that demonstrated the country’s “merciless striking power” against anyone trying to infringe on its territory.

Kim expressed his satisfaction with the drill and assigned the military tasks to develop it into “the invincible revolutionary armed forces,” according to the KCNA report.

The report did not say when or where the joint drill took place.

Kim routinely visits military units and inspects their training to bolster his “songun,” or “military-first,” policy that rewards the 1.2 million-member armed forces — the backbone of his authoritarian rule of the country’s 24

million people. He often calls for a stronger military during the visits.

The report of his latest inspection, however, came two days after his defense commission issued a rare statement strongly protesting the South’s alleged contingency plan, which it says is aimed at toppling Kim’s regime.

The commission said “a sacred nationwide retaliatory battle to blow up the stronghold of the South Korean authorities,” including the presidential office, would begin once the plan was completed and put into practice. It also said the country would push for Seoul’s expulsion in any negotiations on peace on the Korean peninsula if the South didn’t apologize for the plan.

The warning came as a surprise since the North recently offered conciliatory gestures to the South, including a proposal Thursday to discuss resuming stalled joint tour programs.

Seoul expressed regret over the North’s threat, which it said was driven by unconfirmed media reports.

South Korea has reportedly drawn up a military operations plan with the United States to cope with possible

emergencies in North Korea. South Korea’s Defense Ministry has consistently declined to comment about the existence of such a plan.

North Korea occasionally issues statements that include threats to destroy South Korea. Authorities in Seoul monitor them carefully but usually take them in stride.

South Korea’s Defense Ministry said the North had held annual winter military training but had no information on Kim’s latest military inspection.

A ministry official said there had been no suspicious activities by the North’s military in recent days.

Another South Korean government official downplayed the significance of the North’s latest joint drill, saying it appeared to be part of routine training.

The official said it was the first time the North’s media had reported Kim’s inspection of a joint drill of the three armed services.

Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity, citing department policy.

The two Koreas remain technically at war because the 1950-53 Korean War ended in a truce, not a peace treaty.

allowing flames to quickly spread through houses made of light materials.

Amid the ashes and a few wooden posts that were left of their shanty, Amorsolo Villamor’s family ate their breakfast of rice gruel Sunday morning, unwilling to leave the tiny patch of land where their home used to stand.

Villamor, his wife and three children shared their shanty with two other families.

He said his family decided to return to their gutted home after running from the flames because they feared that other families may stake a claim to the land if they moved to a nearby village hall that was being turned into an evacuation center.

The slum colony had been hit by huge fires in previous years, including a 2002 fire that left some 15,000 residents homeless, and a 2004 fire that razed shanties of 12,000 dwellers.

Britain’s Prince William on official visit to NZ AP

WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Britain’s Prince William took the reins of the winning America’s Cup yacht and visited the site of the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand on Sunday at the start of his first official overseas trip on behalf of his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II. The 27-year-old prince is also scheduled to officially open New Zealand’s Supreme Court building and perform a string of other duties during his three-day visit.

The South Pacific country’s Supreme Court was resurrected last year, ending a period of nearly 150 years when its final appellate court was Britain’s Privy Council, based in London. It was one of a few remaining relics of its past as a British colony.

Queen Elizabeth remains the country’s head of state, formally known as Queen of New Zealand.

The prince is second in line to the British throne after his father, Prince Charles.

An avid rugby player, Prince William’s first duty Sunday was to visit to Eden Park in the northern city of Auckland, the main ground for the 2011 Rugby World Cup. He was accompanied by officials, several members of New Zealand’s All Blacks rugby team and about 60 journalists.

All Blacks captain Richie McCaw said he was impressed by the prince.

“It can’t be easy being in the position he’s in, but he handles himself amazingly well,” McCaw told reporters. “Underneath all that stuff he has to deal with, he’s just a genuine bloke you can have a yarn with.”

Prince William then went sailing on New Zealand’s winning America’s Cup yacht, NZL40, taking the helm under the eye of skip-

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Britain’s Prince William at the helm onboard NZL41 during a sail around Auckland per Dean Barker. Later he attended a hangi, or traditional Maori feast cooked over hot stones in a pit in the ground, at Government House in Auckland.

On Monday in the capital, Wellington, the prince is scheduled to open the Supreme Court building, lay a wreath at the National War Memorial, attend a barbecue hosted

by Prime Minister John Key and visit a nature reserve. He is slated to visit the Wellington Children’s Hospital on Tuesday before flying to Australia.

Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton, the prince’s private secretary, said the royal is “enormously fond” of New Zealand, a nation he first visited with his parents in 1983 and again five years ago.

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Indonesian Muslims protest against Egypt’s Gaza wall Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - More than 200 Indonesian Muslims protested in Jakarta Sunday against an underground wall being built to block a network of tunnels crossing Egypt’s border with the Gaza Strip.

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Indonesian Muslims take part in an anti US-Israel-Egypt protest in front of the Egyptian embassy in Jakarta on January 17, 2009. More than 200 Muslims protested against an underground wall being built to block a network of tunnels crossing Egypt’s border with the Gaza Strip. The demonstrators from the Voice of Palestine support group carried banners reading “Stop Building Steel Wall on Gaza” and chanted “Die America, Die Egypt”.

The demonstrators from the Voice of Palestine support group carried banners reading “Stop Building Steel Wall on Gaza” and chanted “Die America, Die Egypt” in front of the Egyptian embassy.

After years of ignoring the tunnel smuggling — which is used to bypass Israeli sanctions — Egypt began building the wall after falling out with Hamas, the Islamist movement which rules Gaza.

“We demand Egypt to remove the wall on humanitarian grounds. Erecting the wall will cause the Palestinians to suffer economically. Food supply will be affected,” the group’s coordinator, Hisyam Sulaiman,

Minister inspects Tanjung Priok port’s readiness for ACFTA Antara

JAKARTA - Industry Minister MS Hidayat inspected the readiness of Jakarta’s Tanjung Priok port on Saturday with regard to the implementation of the Asean-China Free Trade Agreement as of January 1, 2010.

“I wished to see the impelementation of the program to overcome non-tariff barriers,” he said at the customs office.

He said he wanted to make sure that anticipatory measures had been taken with regard to obstacles in connection with the implementation of the ACFTA. He said if the anticipatory program had been implemented well it would help strengthening the

industrial sector in the country.

“The most important factor for the industrial sector is mechanism in the port,” he said.

MS Hidayat was received by the director general of customs, Thomas Sugijata and the president director of Pelindo II, Richard Jose Lino.

Indonesia signed the ACFTA for implementation as of January 1, 2010 after signing a similar agreement with Japan before.

With the agreements manufacturing and agricultural products from Indonesia could enter the partners’ markets without tariff barriers.

However with them the country’s domestic market could also be flooded by products from China and Japan if

the domestic industries could not compete. An economist from state University of Indonesia, Ninasapti Triaswati, said the ACFTA would not benefit all industrial sectors in the country.

“For some manufacturing industries such as garment and footwear industries the implementation of the free trade agreement would even threaten continuity,” she said.

She said the onslaught of products from China could threaten local products. Therefore, she urged the government to protect the continuity of local industries by postponing the implementation of the free market agreement for several industries pending their readiness for it.

42, told AFP. The network, which Hamas has been accused of using to smuggle weapons into the territory, has withstood Israeli air strikes and Egyptian attempts to flood the tunnels with water and gas. Citing national security, Egypt is now building an underground iron wall in a bid to tighten its Sinai border with the restive Palestinian territory.

The United States has voiced its support for the wall’s construction, saying it will stop arms smuggling.

Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, with 234 million people, is a strong supporter of the Palestinian cause.

Hundreds of houses damaged in Cilacap typhoon Antara

CILACAP - A typhoon swept through Ujungmanik village in Cilacap district, Central Java, on Saturday, leaving hundreds of houses damaged.

“I don’t think the disaster would happen because the weather was clear and there was no rain on Saturday evening,” Ujungmanik village head Supardan said on Sunday.

He said the typhoon occurred in a very short time at around 4.30 p.m. on Saturday. “The strong wind moved easterly at high speed. I thought it was not a whirlwind, but

a typhoon,” he said.

At least seven houses collapsed in the typhoon.

The disaster also caused major damage to 31 houses and minor damage to 157 others.

A local resident, identified as Jadi, was injured when he tried to get out of his collapsed house, he said. There was no immediate report of material damage caused by the disaster.

Supardan said the typhoon also hit neighboring Bringkeng village, causing one house to cave in and leaving 65 others heavily and lightly damaged.

Government designates three areas for chemical industry clusters Antara

JAKARTA - The government has designated three areas in the provinces of Banten, East Java and East Kalimantan to develop clusters of petrochemical industries.

Banten would be developed into a cluster of olefin industries, East Java a cluster of aromatic industries and East Kalimantan a cluster of gas-based industries, Industry Minister MS Hidayat said in Cilegon, Banten, on Saturday.

“In the future the development of petrochemical industries will be directed towards creating clusters of in-

dustries to improve their competitive edge,” he said.

The development of industrial clusters was aimed at strengthening the country’s industrial structure which would integrate upstream and downstream industries, he said.

To that end, the government was encouraging national businesspeople to take optimum advantage of local resources to meet their industries’ demand for raw materials, he said.

“To support the effort the government has drawn up a number of policies, including a regulation on enhancing the use of domestic products,” he

said. Hopefully, the policies which gave national industries an easy access to local resources would help improve their performance, he said.

The minister said the national chemical industry; including petrochemical industry had the potentials to develop well because there was still a gap between supply and demand.

In 2007, the national chemical industry had a total production capacity of 37.67 million tons and increased to 38.24 million tons in 2008. The country’s exports of chemicals also increased to 5.63 million tons in 2008 from 5.2 million tons in 2007, he said.

AFP PHOTO / CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN

A partial sollar eclipse shines through a silhouette of the Baiturrahman mosque in Banda Aceh on January 15, 2010. The solar eclipse is an annular eclipse of the sun as the moon obscures its view from earth.

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Bali Today Kuta still save for swimming Antara

DENPASAR – Kuta beach is still safe for the tourists who wanted to bath, swim, or even surf because the wave is till normal. I Made Suparka, the head of Badung Lifeguard (Balawista), said “the beach is never closed. During the high waves last year which can be up to 4 meters high, we never close the beach. Currently the waves are only 1.5 meter high so everyone can still enjoy the beach.”

He said that the yellow with red flag means the beach is still safe and everyone can play on the beach.

The facilities such as toilets are still open in order to serve the tourists who wanted to take a bath after they swim or surf. The tourists only forbid to swim or surf on the area between the red flags because usually the area is very dangerous.

Suparka said “even tough the situation is normal but we always prepare enough personnel to secure the beach and watch the tourists. There are 68 officers stand by and patrolling on the beach and 50 others staying in the office.”

Denpasar Geophysics and Meteorology Department predicted that there will be high waves in the next few days but Kuta beach is till in nor-

mal condition.

However, sand often carried by the strong wind and it disturb the visitor but during rain, the condition is not happening.

Kuta beach is still safe for the tourists who wanted to bath, swim, or even surf because the wave is till normal. I Made Suparka, the head of Badung Lifeguard (Balawista), said “the beach is never closed. During the high waves last year which can be up to 4 meters high, we never close the beach.

Currently the waves are only 1.5 meter high so everyone can still enjoy the beach.”

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Kuta beach covered with garbage Father of Haiti quake Antara

DENPASAR – Kuta beach covered with garbage that came from the sea due to the strong wind which happens since December 2009. I Gusti Ngurah Tresna, the head of Kuta beach officers, said “the officers already clean the garbage every day but it still pilled up in many parts of the beach.”

The waves keep carrying garbage to the beach and the officers along with the sellers all around the beach have been

working hard to get rid off the garbage. “We have been cleaning up since morning through the afternoon but the garbage keep cmoning,” he added.

Ngurah Tresna explained that currently there are 33 officers and more than 1,000 sellers who participate in cleaning the beach. “During December through January 2010 period, we clean up the beach up to six times a day. In normal season, we only do it twice, in the morning and afternoon,” he added.

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loaders and garbage trucks to clean the garbage. The garbage consists of bottles, cigarettes, plastics, parts of tress, and others.

Ayu Wulandari, a tourist from Jakarta, said that she and her friends are very disturbed with the garbage. The smell is unbearable and it make activities on the beach are not comfortable.

“I know the condition because of the force of nature but the government should act faster so it won’t give a bad image to Bali,” she added. However, Ayu said she will visit the beach again some other times because Kuta is the most favourite tourism site in Bali.

While Rahayu, a seller in Kuta beach, said that when the garbage pilled up, her income decreased greatly. “Since the garbage filled the beach, I only can gain 50,000 rupiah while on the normal day I can get 150,000 rupiah a day.

No one wanted to sunbathe near the garbage,” she added.

Tourist trying to pass the piles of garbage at Kuta beach. Kuta beach covered with garbage that came from the sea due to the strong wind which happens since December 2009.

survivor from Bali grateful Antara

DENPASAR - I Wayan Maliana, the father of a Balinese woman who survived the devastating earthquake in Haiti last Tuesday expressed his gratitude to God Almighty for saving his daughter, Ni Luh Made Juini (35).

“I thank Ida Sang Hyang Widhi, God Almighty, for saving my daughter during the disaster,” Maliana said when contacted in Dusun Kembang Merta, Bedugul, Tabanan district, on Saturday.

He asked the government to facilitate his daughter’s return, along with two of Juini’s colleagues who were also working in Haiti, namely Ni Ketut Yasri Astiti and I Gusti Putu Ayu Sukerti.

Maliana said he would offer prayers in a shrine as a token of gratitude to God for his daughter’s survival from the devastating earthquake which caused some 200,000 casualties in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

He said he and his family were very worried about Juni’s condition when they heard about the quake in Tahiti, the more so because they were unable to call Juini by telephone.

“Maybe because the communication network in Haiti was destroyed, but my family always

watched television coverage of the earthquake in the hope there was something about my daughter,” Maliana said.

On Thursday (Jan 14) Juini sent an email to her family about her condition and said she was safe.

“She said that she was evacuated by a United Nations rescue team that had come to her hotel,” Maliana said.

The worries of Maliana and his family were over after they were able to communicate directly with Juini by phone on Friday (Jan 15) and Saturday morning (Jan 16).

“My daughter said she would return to Bali after her travel documents were completed,” said Maliana.

Juini is the second child of I Wayan Maliana and Ni Ketut Rumini who had been working in Haiti since February 6, 2009.

The head of Bali’s Manpower and Transmigration office, Made Artadana, said of the three Balinese women who had gone to Haiti, Juini was the only one officially listed by the office as a migrant worker.

Juini was sent to Haiti by a company named Botanical Spa on February 6, 2009. “Of the three, only Juini went to work abroad legally,” Artadana said.

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The Conversion of Land Function of Denpasar City

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“Kertalangu Cultural Village” has now emerged in Denpasar City. Situated at the village of Kesiman, Kertalangu, East Denpasar District has 80 hectares of rice fields. The presence of this resort brings a new expectation that is not only rejuvenating the downtowners but also demonstrates their commitment to maintain the verdant rice fields in the heart of Denpasar.

Early inspiration for developing the Kertalangu Cultural Village was generated by the concerns of some public figures related to the conversion of land function from agricultural land use to that of housing complex. “We feel extremely concerned that the rice field lands here are getting narrower and narrower due to the sale of them to developers for housing.”

“After long and adequate consideration and discussion together with the local figures, we eventually came to a decision to maintain these rice field areas and endeavor to improve the income of farmers through the tourism area development of this Kertalangu Cultural Village,” explained the Village Head of the Kesiman Kertalangu to Bali Travel News.

Sustained by a local entrepreneur,

the area of green belt situated at the end of Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai, Tohpati is developed into a tourism area having the basis of culture and agriculture.

For the initial phase, the jogging track and other supporting facilities such as restaurant, open stage, spa and beauty salon, fishing pond and others are prepared to draw the interest of visitors. A jogging track passing through an embankment of the field along 4 km can be accessed freely by visitors.

“Hopefully, visitors taking advantage of this facility could provide added value for farmers. While having recreation, visitors can purchase the products offered by farmers such as water spinach, soy, corn or fishing in the pond where the fish have been stocked by local farmers.”

“Similarly, we will offer the activities of traditional farming such as plowing, harvesting and the like to visitors.

Part of the profit will definitely be delivered to farmers. Apart from that matter, organic farming will become our future plan,” said Dewa Rai (Manager of Uber Sari Bali Group), an entrepreneur appointed to manage the Kertalangu Cultural Village.

In its development as a new tourist

area (soft opening 22 June 2007), the Kertalangu Cultural Village endeavors to discover the art and cultural potential of surrounding community. There are several art troupes (11 in total) which can be found virtually at every single hamlet within the territory of Kesiman Kertalangu Village. Some of them have even been presented to entertain visitors. “We have the troupe of kecak, barong, joged and other dances,” added the Village Head while pointing out the open stage with the background of rice fields, the scene where those performances are frequently given.

Additionally, the Kertalangu Cultural Village is also held up by the centers of Balinese cottage industries such as ceramics, decorative candles, glass, resin, wind chimes, earthenware vessels, woodcarving and natural stone carving scattered throughout the village.

“If the financial assistance from the Mayor for the making of a ‘chariot’ path in the midst of rice field can be realized, we will make an attractive tour package. In this package, visitors will be able to enjoy chariot riding around the village and passing through the rice field area. (BTN/tar)

1/2 c Peanut butter 1/2 c Water 1 tb Brown sugar; packed 1 tb Lemon juice 1/2 ts Salt 1/2 ts Red pepper sauce 1 sm Garlic clove; crushed SHRIMP 1 1/2 lb Shrimp; peeled 2 tb Vegetable oil 2 tb Water 1 tb Lemon juice 1 ts Brown sugar; packed 1/2 ts Salt 1/2 ts Red pepper suace 2 Garlic cloves; crushed

Directions: Prepare dipping sauce by mixing all ingredients until smooth. Cover until serving time. Make a shallow cut lengthwise down back of shrimp; wash out vein. Mix remaining ingredients in medium glass bowl. Add shrimp; stir to coat with marinade. Cover and refrigerate at least 1 hour. Remove shrimp from marinade; reserve marinade. Thread shrimp on 6, 15" metal skewers, leaving space between each. Cover and grill shrimp about 4" from medium coals, 10-20 minutes, turning and brushing 2-3 times with marinade, until shrimp are pink.

Serve with sauce, and if desired, lime wedges. (http:// asiarecipe.com)

Curried Crab Ingredients 4 crabs 6 Shallots 2 Stalks lemon grass 2 ts Tamarind 1/2 c Boiling water 1 Handful coriander leaves 3 Cloves garlic 1 tb Fresh galangal 2 To 3 birdseye chillies, -seeded 4 Candlenuts 1 t Blachan 1 t Tumeric Salt and pepper to taste 3 tb Oil 2 c Coconut milk

Directions: Cut the 4 crabs into quarters with a cleaver or large knife. With a hammer, gently crack the claws and harder sections of shell.

Finely chop 6 shallots and 2 stalks lemon grass.

Steep 2 teaspoons tamarind in half a cup of boiling water. Chop a handful of fresh coriander leaves.

In a food processor, grind together 3 cloves garlic, 1 tablespoon fresh galangal, 2-3 birdseye chillies, seeded, 4 candlenuts (or substitute 8-10 cashews) and 1 teaspoon blachan (hard dark brown shrimp paste), 1 teaspoon turmeric and salt and pepper to taste. Heat 3 tablespoons oil in a large wok or pan, and fry the paste until fragrant. Add shallots, lemon grass, crab pieces and 2 cups coconut milk. Simmer for quarter of an hour.

Strain the tamarind water and add half to the sauce.

Taste and add more if you wish. Ladle curvy into a serving dish and scatter the fresh coriander on top.

Serve with plain rice. (http://asiarecipe.com)

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Jatiluwih Rice Terrace

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JATILUWIH is a favorite tourist destination in Bali famous with the beautiful rice terrace unfolding from the foot of mountain until the coastal side. It is one of places to visit in Bali with the beautiful view as according to its name from Jati and luwih, where Jati mean really and Luwih meaning especial, good, and beautiful or the equivalent. The local paddies are planted in this place look typically of the high relative size plant if it is compared with other pre-eminent paddy planted by most farmers in Bali. Despitefully, Jatiluwih also famous with its organic agriculture system due to the location is located in the in the plateau of Watukaru Mount which is suitable for the agriculture development.

Jatiluwih is surrounded by cool atmosphere because it is located in the height of 700 meters above sea level. Besides its nature potency, Jatiluwih is also saving the cultural potency, especially history of the Petali Temple existence that is related to the power of Ida Dalem Waturenggong King in Keraton Gelgel (1460 1552). The distance from Denpasar to Jatiluwih is about 48 km and it is situated in upstate of Tabanan town (28 Km). The road to this place has been progressively improved so that motor vehicle can enter from east side through Pacung

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Village and go to Jatiluwih and also from the west side from Watukaru Temple pass to Jatiluwih. Jatiluwih is many visited by tourist from local and foreign countries who want to enjoy the cold atmosphere and beautiful panorama of rice terrace. Jatiluwih as a nature tourist destination in Bali which has been recognized since Dutch colonial build the Security Headquarter and until now the local residents conceives with the Dutch Tangs. Indonesian government has assigned the Jatiluwih to be a Tourist Destination Village because of this potency.

Jatiluwih also keep the unique religious ceremony attraction which is famous know as Patirtaan in Petali Temple on Wednesday Kliwon Ugu (Based on Balinese Calendar). The local residents believe that Petali Temple is a worship center of The Hyang Widhi Wasa (the God) as agriculture power. Beside of Petali Temple, there is also Pucak Rsi Temple is located in this area.

As a tourist object, Jatiluwih provides the public facilities like parking area, toilet, resting bale and Wantilan for tourist who is enjoying the beautiful panorama. Some restaurants have been built to serve the food and beverage. Watukaru Tour is an exciting tour to visit Watukaru Temple and other tourist destinations like Jatiluwih. (www.balistarisland.com)

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BUSINESS Strauss-Kahn says banks unlikely to get any new bailouts

In this photo made Dec. 8, 2009, a butcher puts out meat at Costco in Mountain View, Calif.

US consumer prices barely rose in December amid a sluggish recovery from recession, official data showed Friday, as falling wages pinched spending that drives most of the world’s largest economy.

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WASHINGTON - International Monetary Fund chief Dominique StraussKahn said Friday bailout-weary governments are unlikely to rescue banks if another financial crisis develops.

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The former French finance minister said he could not imagine lawmakers in developed countries agreeing to any fresh bank rescues.

“I’m convinced that most parliaments, the Congress here in the United States, the National Assembly in France, Westminster in the UK, others, will be very reluctant, to say the least, to give money again to the financial sector,” the IMF chief said at a news conference in Washington organized by the French American Chamber of Commerce.

“Especially when they see how the financial sector behaves just in the aftermath of the crisis,” he added, referring to the continued payment of lavish bonuses blamed for encour-

aging excessive risk taking that caused the global financial crisis.

Strauss-Kahn stressed the need for new means to address the problems that had spun the global economy into its worst downturn in decades.

“We have 12 months or 24 months to be able to set up something which would be... safer and which would be more likely to resist, avoid the kind of problem we just had,” he said.

The IMF estimates that the Group of 20 major developed and emerging economies spent more than 1.9 trillion dollars to support their financial systems between 2008 and August 2009 amid the global crisis.

‘Difficult’ for Europe to copy Obama bank tax plan: Juncker Agence France-Presse

LUXEMBOURG - Europe will struggle to copy US President Barack Obama’s plan to tax banks in order to recoup bailout funds, the euro group’s head said on Friday.

Obama “is doubtless right to propose the measures he has,” Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker told reporters, a day after Washington outlined a scheme to raise 90 billion dollars (63 billion euros) in 10 years.

“We have to see in Europe, not collectively but on a country-by-country basis, whether we can act in the same fashion,” he added, three days before he is expected to be re-elected to lead the 16 countries that share the euro.

Juncker insisted he had no preconceived idea on the issue but conceded that it would be “difficult to adopt a common approach because

tax matters are reserved for national decisionmaking” within the 27-member European Union.

Ministers from the 16 euro countries will nevertheless hold informal talks on the issues raised when they meet in Brussels on Monday evening, principally concerned with ongoing Greek debt woes and their possible wider impact on the eurozone.

Obama’s plan followed a December announcement in Britain of a 50-percent tax rate on bank employee bonuses above 25,000 pounds (28,000 euros, 40,800 dollars) to recoup cash spent rescuing the financial sector.

A similar initiative has since been announced by France but calls from Europe for the International Monetary Fund to pursue a broad-based, international tax on financial transactions have elicited little backing.

A woman walks past a shop window advertising sales in central Athens on January 15, 2010.

European finance ministers will seek next January 19, 2010 to pressure Greece to improve the reliability of its economic statistics, after scathing criticism from Brussels. struggling economy.

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Tame inflation, falling wages signal weak US recovery Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - US consumer prices barely rose in December amid a sluggish recovery from recession, official data showed Friday, as falling wages pinched spending that drives most of the world’s largest economy.

The consumer price index raised less than expected in December, by 0.1 percent from November, the Labor Department reported in seasonally adjusted data.

Most analysts had forecast a stronger CPI rise of 0.2 percent.

The so-called “core” CPI, which excludes food and energy prices and is used by the Federal Reserve to forecast future inflation, rose 0.1 percent as expected.

Inflation “was broad-based, with the indexes for food, energy, and all items less food and energy all posting modest increases,” the Labor Department said.

The year ended with the inflation rate at 2.7 percent from a year ago, a sharp increase over 0.1 percent inflation in 2008, the first full year of the worst downturn since the Great Depression.

Inflation stood at 4.1 percent in December 2007 as the economy officially entered recession.

Core 2009 inflation was 1.8 percent, within the Fed’s comfort zone on monetary policy.

“The US is still in the grip of intense disinflationary forces, despite the basis effect lifting the headline year-on-year rate. Deflation risk is real,” said Ian Shepherdson, chief US economist at High Frequency Economics.

“There is no indication that inflation is even a remote danger, and the Fed’s aggressive credit expansion and low interest rate policy have not had the inflationary effects that some critics feared,” said Andres Carbacho-Burgos at Moody’s Economy.com.

Brian Wesbury at First Trust Economic disagreed, saying consumer prices rose 3.3 percent annual rate in the final three months of the year.

“Investors and the Fed need to stop worrying so much about economic growth and

start to show more concern about inflation,” he said.

The Labor Department said energy prices surged 18.2 percent in 2009, the sharpest rise since 1979. Gasoline prices leapt 53.5 percent, an all-time record gain in the data series that began in 1937.

The hefty increases came in comparison with rock-bottom levels in December 2008.

Food prices fell 0.5 percent over the year, the steepest decline since 1961.

“The only place where pressures are building greatly is in energy. While demand remains weak, the price of oil have been rising fairly sharply,” said Joel Naroff of Naroff Economic Advisors.

Amid double-digit unemployment and the loss of more than seven million jobs since the recession began, US workers saw their paychecks shrink last year.

Real average weekly earnings were unchanged in December from November, the Labor Department reported separately.

But on a 12-month basis, weekly earnings fell 1.6 percent, the worst pullback since 1990, after rising 3.1 percent in 2008.

The inflation and wages readings came a day after the Commerce Department reported retail sales fell unexpectedly, by 0.3 percent, in December, capping the worst year on record for the spending that drives twothirds of the country’s economy.

For all of 2009, retail sales plunged 6.2 percent from a year ago, the steepest annual plunge since the data series began in 1992.

The Fed, in its Beige Book report on the economy Wednesday, said that because of the high level of unemployment, wage pressures were “subdued” and overall inflationary pressures modest.

The US economy expanded 2.2 percent in the third quarter of 2009, after four quarters of contraction. The government is set to release its initial estimate of fourth-quarter gross domestic product on January 29.

The Fed and most economists expect data to show continued growth in the fourth quarter and into 2010 but worry that high unemployment — at 10 percent in December — will curb consumer confidence and spending.

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Audrina Patridge Thinks 10 Plastic Surgeries In One Day Is ‘A Little

HEIDI Montag’s The Hills costar Audrina Patridge is supportive of the wannabe pop star’s dramatic cosmetic transformation but insists ten procedures in one day is “a little much.” Montag stunned fans after undergoing a staggering amount of surgery in just 24 hours, which included breast augmentation, Botox, work on her butt and liposuction.

She admits she’s eyeing a career as a pop star to rival Britney Spears - but her former small screen pal Patridge has expressed concern over the amount of work Montag went through.

Patridge tells People.com, “I haven’t seen how she looks, so it’s hard for me to comment on it, but these are her decisions, and as long as Heidi is happy, that’s all that

matters. I think it’s a case of, ‘To each their own’, but ten procedures in one day is a little much.”

An ingenue who entered the public spotlight in her early twenties, Audrina Patridge graduated to fame by virtue of multi-season stardom on the MTV reality show The Hills, a spin-off of the same network’s Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County.

Whereas the earlier program provided a “reality”-style view of the lives of several average teenagers growing up in the ritzy area of Orange County, CA (and its neighboring Laguna Beach), The Hills took the same format but followed the adventures of Laguna star Lauren Conrad and her friends during their post-graduation years.

Patridge did not appear on the original series, though she was an integral part of the spin-off.

Seasons witnessed Patridge working at the offices of Epic Records, socializing with her friends, and dating co-star Justin “Bobby” Brescia for a period of time. According to mainstream news sources, Patridge courted some controversy for a series of fetishistic, nude photographs of herself taken just out of high school, which surfaced on the Internet not long after she began to achieve fame. She indicated that she did the shoot to cull the interest of Playboy magazine, which turned her down. Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide

Gisele Bundchen Donates $1.5 Million To Haiti Relief Efforts SUPERMODEL and new mom Gisele Bundchen has become the latest star to dig deep and give big to the victims of Tuesday’s Haiti earthquake - she has donated $1.5 million to relief efforts. The Brazilian has handed over the cash to the Red Cross after seeing news coverage of the devastation the 7.0-magnitude quake caused.

In a statement, she says, “I am heartbroken by the catastrophic events of the past six days in Haiti.

It is important in times like these that we come together and find ways to help in any way we can.” Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have donated $1 million and Pitt and George Clooney’s Not On Our Watch charity has donated another $1 million.

Meanwhile, Haitian-born Wyclef Jean is raising cash through his Yele foundation and Madonna has donated $250,000 fforts. She states, “My prayers are with the people of Haiti. I can’t imagine the terrible pain and suffering they are experiencing. Sadly the depths of the tragedy are just becoming known and the need for our support grows more urgent with every passing moment.

I have given a donation of $250,000

to assist Haiti’s earthquake victims through Partners in Health, one of Haiti’s leading healthcare providers.

I urge all of my friends and fans around the world to join me collectively to match my contribution or give in any way you can.”

And actress Alyssa Milano has donated $50,000 to UNICEF for Haiti relief, asking, “Which corporation will match my donation?” In a TV interview, Wyclef revealed Haitians need at least $1 million a day in donations.

Actress Mo’Nique accepts her best supporting actress award for her role in the film ‘Precious’ from actor Tobey Maguire at the 15th Critics’ Choice Movie Awards at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, January 15, 2010.

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“Hurt Locker” a blast at Critics Choice Awards “The Hurt Locker,” a low-budget movie about an American bomb-disposal unit in Iraq, was named best picture on Friday at the Critics’ Choice Awards, an event that has an uncanny knack of foreshadowing Oscar success. The movie’s director, Kathryn Bigelow, also was honored, beating a high-profile field that included her ex-husband, “Avatar” filmmaker James Cameron — a duel she described as “sorta surreal.”

“Avatar,” which scored nine nominations, was named best action movie, and picked up five other awards in newly established technical categories to lead the overall field. Jeff Bridges was named best actor for playing a drunken country singer in “Crazy Heart,” while the actress award was a tie between Meryl Streep for “Julie & Julia” and Sandra Bullock for “The Blind Side.”

The supporting actor awards went to a pair of on-screen villains: Austrian actor Christoph Waltz for his turn as a malevolent Nazi in “Inglourious Basterds” and comedienne Mo’Nique who played an abusive mother in “Precious.”

“Inglourious Basterds” won two other awards: for director Quentin Tarantino’s original screenplay and for best ensemble. Along with the allstar musical “Nine,” it led the field with 10 nominations. “Nine,” a major box-office bomb, went home empty-handed. Other winners included Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner for their adapted screenplay for “Up in the Air,” and Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar’s Broken Embraces” for foreign-language film.

The Critics’ Choice Awards, organized by the 235 members of the Broadcast Film Critics Association in the United States and Canada, have established a reputation as the leading barometer of Oscar success. In

Bruce Willis Played Cupid For Liv Tyler?

LIV Tyler has her “Armageddon” co-star Bruce Willis to thank for her renewed love life - the Hollywood hardman set her up with new boyfriend Charlie Hunnam, according to reports. The actress, 32, has been largely single since splitting from her husband of five years, rocker Royston Langdon, in 2008, but she has recently been spotted out in Los Angeles with British actor Hunnam.

Star Magazine claims it was Willis who set up the love connection. A source tells the magazine, “She was complaining to Bruce that she never meets nice guys. He introduced her to Charlie, and it just went from there.” And Tyler’s blossoming romance with the 29 year old, who played the lead in 2002 Dickens adaptation “Nicholas Nickleby”, appears to be going well.

The insider adds, “I haven’t seen her this worked up about a guy since Royston.” Last month, Tyler’s representatives dismissed reports the actress was dating “Scrubs” star Zach Braff.

the past 10 years, 80 percent of its best-picture winners went on to take Oscar gold. The success rate for director, best actor and actress is 70 percent. Backstage, the winners were decidedly cagey about their Oscar chances ahead of the February 2 nominations announcement.

Bridges, who has been nominated for four Oscars but never won, simply hoped the awards attention would boost the commercial prospects of “Crazy Heart” — a country version of last year’s Oscar hopeful “The restler.” “It’s really wonderful to get the tip of the hat by the guys that do what you do,” he said.

“So if that should happen it would be wonderful.”

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In this handout photo made available on Friday Jan. 15, 2010, a photomicrograph of muscle tissue is seen. The muscle fibers are seen diagonally from lower left to upper right.

The blue dots are the nuclei of the cells, the yellow color is the result of an overlay (green and red) of two of the most important proteins in skeletal muscle, actin and myosin. Dutch scientists have been growing pork in a laboratory, call it pork in a petri dish, a technique to turn pig stem cells into strips of meat that scientists say could one day offer an environmentfriendly alternative to raising livestock.

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Scientists turn stem cells into pork Associated Press Writer

London – Call it pork in a petri dish — a technique to turn pig stem cells into strips of meat that scientists say could one day offer a green alternative to raising livestock, help alleviate world hunger, and save some pigs their bacon. Dutch scientists have been growing pork in the laboratory since 2006, and while they admit they haven’t gotten the texture quite right or even tasted the engineered meat, they say the technology promises to have widespread implications for our food supply.

“If we took the stem cells from one pig and multiplied it by a factor of a million, we would need one million fewer pigs to get the same amount of meat,” said Mark Post, a biologist at Maastricht University involved in the In-vitro Meat Consortium, a network of publicly funded Dutch research institutions that is carrying out the experiments. Post describes the texture of the meat as sort of like scallop, firm but a little squishy and moist. That’s because the lab meat has less protein content than conventional meat.

Several other groups in the U.S., Scandinavia and Japan are also researching ways to make meat in the laboratory, but the Dutch project is the most advanced, said Jason Matheny, who has studied alternatives to conventional meat at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore and is not involved in the Dutch research. In the U.S., similar research was funded by NASA, which hoped astronauts would be able to grow their own meat in space. But after growing disappointingly thin sheets of tissue, NASA gave up and decided it would be better for its astronauts to simply eat vegetarian.

To make pork in the lab, Post and colleagues isolate stem cells from pigs’ muscle cells. They then put those cells into a nutrient-based soup that helps the cells replicate to the desired number. So far the scientists have only succeeded in creating strips of meat about 1 centimeter (a half inch) long; to make a small pork chop, Post estimates it would take about 30 days of cell rep-

lication in the lab.

There are tantalizing health possibilities in the technology.

Fish stem cells could be used to produce healthy omega 3 fatty acids, which could be mixed with the lab-produced pork instead of the usual artery-clogging fats found in livestock meat. “You could possibly design a hamburger that prevents heart attacks instead of causing them,” Matheny said. Post said the strips they’ve made so far could be used as processed meat in sausages or hamburgers. Their main problem is reproducing the protein content in regular meat: In livestock meat, protein makes up about 99 percent of the product; the lab meat is only about 80 percent protein. The rest is mostly water and nucleic acids.

None of the researchers have actually eaten the lab-made meat yet, but Post said the lower protein content means it probably wouldn’t taste anything like pork. The Dutch researchers started working with pork stem cells because they had the most experience with pigs, but said the technology should be transferable to other meats, like chicken, beef and lamb. Some experts warn lab-made meats might have potential dangers for human health.

“With any new technology, there could be subtle impacts that need to be monitored,” said Emma Hockridge, policy manager at Soil Association, Britain’s leading organic organization. As with genetically modified foods, Hockridge said it might take some time to prove the

new technology doesn’t harm humans. She also said organic farming relies on crop and livestock rotation, and that taking animals out of the equation could damage the ecosystem. Some experts doubted lab-produced meat could ever match the taste of real meat.

“What meat tastes like depends not just on the genetics, but what you feed the animals at particular times,” said Peter Ellis, a biochemistry expert at King’s College London. “Part of our enjoyment of eating meat depends on the very complicated muscle and fat structure...whether that can be replicated is still a question.” If it proves possible, experts say growing meat in laboratories instead of raising animals on farmland would do wonders for the environment.

Hanna Tuomisto, who studies the environmental impact of food production at Oxford University said that switching to lab-produced meat could theoretically lower greenhouse gas emissions by up to 95 percent. Both land and water use would also drop by about 95 percent, she said. “In theory, if all the meat was replaced by cultured meat, it would be huge for the environment,” she said. “One animal could produce many thousands of kilograms of meat.” In addition, lab meat can be nurtured with relatively few nutrients like amino acids, fats and natural sugars, whereas livestock must be fed huge amounts of traditional crops.

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Network flaw causes scary Web error Associated Press Writer

SAN FRANCISCO – A Georgia mother and her two daughters logged onto Facebook from mobile phones last weekend and wound up in a startling place: strangers’ accounts with full access to troves of private information. The glitch — the result of a routing problem at the family’s wireless carrier, AT&T — revealed a little known security flaw with far reaching implications for everyone on the Internet, not just Facebook users.

In each case, the Internet lost track of who was who, putting the women into the wrong accounts.

It doesn’t appear the users could have done anything to stop it. The problem adds a dimension to researchers’ warnings that there are many ways online information — from mundane data to dark secrets — can go awry. Several security experts said they had not heard of a case like this, in which the wrong person was shown a Web page whose user name and password had been entered by someone else. It’s not clear whether such episodes are rare or simply not reported. But experts said such flaws could occur on e-mail services, for instance, and that something similar could happen on a PC, not just a phone.

“The fact that it did happen is proof that it could potentially happen again and with something a lot more important than Facebook,” said Nathan Hamiel, founder of the Hexagon Security Group, a research organization.

Candace Sawyer, 26, says she immediately suspected something was wrong when she tried to visit her Facebook page Saturday morning.

After typing Facebook.com into her Nokia smart phone, she was taken into the site without being asked for her user name or password. She was in an account that didn’t look like hers. She had fewer friend requests than she remembered.

Then she found a picture of the page’s owner.

“He’s white — I’m not,” she said with a laugh. Sawyer logged off and asked her sister, Mari, 31, her partner in a dessert catering company, and their mother, Fran, 57, to see whether they had the same problem on their phones.

Mari landed inside another woman’s page. Fran’s phone — which had never been used to access Facebook before — took her inside yet another stranger’s page, one belonging to a young woman from Indiana. They sent an e-mail to one of their own accounts to prove it. They were dumbfounded.

“I thought it was the phone — `Maybe this phone is just weird and does magical, horrible things and I have to get rid of it,’” said Candace Sawyer. The women, who live together in East Point, Ga., outside Atlanta, had recently up-

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Stephen Simburg holds the mobile phone that he used when he found himself logged into a stranger’s Facebook account recently, as he stands outside a coffee shop in Vancouver, Wash., Friday, Jan 15, 2010.

graded to the same model of phone and all used the same carrier, AT&T. Sawyer contacted The Associated Press after reporting the problem to Facebook and AT&T. The problem wasn’t in the phones.

It was a flaw in the infrastructure connecting the phones to the Internet. That illuminates a grave problem. Generally Web sites and computers are compromised from within. A hacker can get a Web page or computers to run programming code that they shouldn’t. But in this case, it was a security gap between the phone and the Web site that exposed strangers’ Facebook pages to the Sawyers.

Misconfigured equipment, poorly written network software or other technical errors could have caused AT&T to fumble the information flowing from the Sawyers’ phones to Facebook and back.

Fortunately, Hamiel said, the vulnerability would be of limited use to a hacker interested in pulling off widespread mayhem, because this hole would let him access only one account at a time.

To do more damage the criminal would have to pull off the unlikely feat of gaining full control of the piece of equipment that routes Internet traffic to individual users.

AT&T spokesman Michael Coe said its wireless customers have landed in the wrong Facebook pages in “a limited number of instances” and that a network problem behind those episodes is being fixed. The Sawyers experienced a different glitch. Coe said an investigation points to a “misdirected cookie.” A cookie is a file some Web sites place on computers to store identifying information — including the user name that Facebook members would enter to access their pages. Coe said technicians couldn’t figure out how the cookie had been routed to the wrong phone, leading it into the wrong Facebook account.

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Clijsters ready to give fans what they want Agence France - Presse

MELBOURNE – Kim Clijsters is a big crowd favourite at Melbourne Park and she returns to the Australian Open on Monday determined to give her fans something to cheer. Clijsters, affectionately known as ‘Aussie Kim’ after her past relationship with Lleyton Hewitt, hasn’t played here since 2007 when she walked away from the sport when world number four to marry and have a baby.

But now she is back, and with a bang. “It feels really good to be back here. Obviously, a lot of things have changed around, the courts and everything and inside. So that took a few days to get used to ‘knowing my way around’,” she said. “I was able to practise on centre court a little bit. It’s just nice to see that again because I never thought it would happen again, to be playing tennis here.

It?s exciting.”

The popular Belgian produced the tennis story of the year in 2009 when she came out of retirement to win the US Open after being granted a wildcard. Whether she can repeat that feat here remains to be

seen, with not just the Williams sisters standing in her way, but also the returning Justine Henin.

But the powerful Clijsters showed she is a major threat by winning the Brisbane International warmup event, beating Henin in a classic final, and no-one is ready to discard her.

“I’ve really put in the work and the effort, so I think that will always pay off in some sort of way,” said the Belgian, who is returning to the tour full time this year. She said her focus would be on the major tournaments. “My focus is not really based on ranking as much as probably really aiming for the big tournaments. I think my schedule for the year is far from being busy,” she said.

“Obviously, I hope to do well at the tournaments, but I think I?ll play about 15 or 16 tournaments, maybe including Fed Cups and everything.” She gets her tournament underway on Monday against Canadian qualifier Valerie Tetreault.

Kim Clijsters of Belgium hits a return during a practice session in the lead-up to the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne.

Clijsters is a big crowd favourite at Melbourne Park and she returns to the Australian Open on Monday determined to give her fans something to cheer.

LeBron’s big fourth quarter leads Cavs over Clips Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES – LeBron James scored 13 of his 32 points in the fourth quarter and the Cleveland Cavaliers survived a 3-point attempt at the final buzzer by Baron Davis for a 102-101 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers on Saturday night.

Mo Williams added 18 points for the Eastern Conference-leading Cavaliers. Reserve guard Delonte West, who didn’t participate in the morning shootaround because of stomach issues, played 29 minutes and finished with 14 points.

Rasual Butler tied a career high with 33 points for the banged-up Clippers and Eric Gordon added a season-high 28. Center Chris Kaman missed his fourth straight game because of a sore lower back, and Al Thornton sat out due to a sprained left ankle.

The Cavaliers have won 15 of 19 and eight of their last 10 on the road. They beat the Clippers for the seventh straight time, are 40-9 against Western Conference teams since the start of last season, and have won their last 11 against Pacific Division

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Los Angeles Clippers’ Baron Davis steals the ball away from Cleveland Cavaliers’ LeBron James during the first half in an NBA basketball game on Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010, in Los Angeles.

clubs.

The Cavs began the second half of their schedule with their 31st victory, tying the defending champion Lakers for the most in the league. At 31-11, they are off to their third-best start after 42 games in the franchise’s 40-year history — three games worse than the club-record start they had last season. The Cavaliers, who came in holding opponents to league-lows of 34.7 points in the paint per game and 43.4 percent field goal shooting, limited the short-handed Clippers to 30 points in the paint with the 7-foot Kaman out of the picture.

But Los Angeles shot 59.7 percent from the field.

Los Angeles has lost all four games without its leading scorer, who is averaging 20.4 points and 9.4 rebounds and was last week’s Western Conference player of the week. The Clippers were outrebounded 32-27, becoming the 16th straight Cleveland opponent to lose the battle of the boards.

The Clippers led by as many as 13 points with about 3 minutes left in the third quarter. The Cavaliers kept chipping away in the fourth, but Butler’s hot perimeter shooting kept them at bay until West’s tip-in gave Cleveland a 100-99 lead with 2:51 remaining.

Butler paced the Clippers to a 56-47 halftime lead with 19 points on 7-for-9 shooting. James went to the bench with 2:38 left in the first quarter after picking up his second foul, and by the time he returned with 6:43 remaining in the half, Los Angeles had its five-point lead reduced to three. About 4 minutes into the second quarter, West had some impromptu fun with a heckling fan who calls himself “Clipper Darrell” and shows up at every home game wearing a shiny and gaudy blue-and-red costume. When West went to the free throw line for the first time, Darrell went into his trademark insult: “U-G-L-Y, you ain’t got no alibi.

West broke into a big smile and clapped his hands rhythmically — with the ball still in his hands — and the Cavaliers’ bench broke up laughing as he made the first and missed the second. This strange interlude played out again 34 seconds later — only this time, West made both, and his teammates leaped out of their seats and celebrated as though they had just won on a buzzer-beater.

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Aussie Grand Slam wide open, says Rafa Agence France - Presse

MELBOURNE – Defending champion Rafael Nadal says this year’s Australian Open is a lottery, with any one of a dozen players capable of winning. The world number two Spaniard, who beat Roger Federer here last year in a gripping five-set final, admitted he was not the favourite this time after his injury layoff, but didn’t want to say who he thought was.

“We will see what happens, I don’t know,” he said. “A lot of players can win right now. I don’t want to say everybody, but like 12 players, 13 players have a good chance.” Federer is obviously one of them, as is Nadal, Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic, with Nikolay Davydenko the form player having beaten the Spaniard in the Qatar Open final this month.

Nadal’s failure to win that tournament means he comes into the opening Grand Slam of the season without a title in eight months, with the last one coming on the Barcelona clay in April. Nadal said he hadn’t had bad results, but was just struggling to get back to winning tournaments. “I didn’t have bad results the last five months, but I didn’t have perfect results,” he said.

“But I played, I was there (for) all the tournaments. Sure, it’s true, playing against the top players I didn’t have very good results, but I wasn’t playing bad. I just need a little bit more.” With injuries hampering the 23-year-old for much of last year, he faces a telling time at the Australian Open, which should provide a guide as to his current standing in men’s tennis. He insists the confidence is there, it’s just a question of once again winning a final.

“The confidence? The only way to have confidence is winning matches, winning important matches. I did that in Abu Dhabi and I did that in Doha,” he said, referring to his two warm-up tour-

naments. “So I think I am in the right way.

It needs a little bit more time ... but I am ready to try to play my best tennis. I think I am playing well, I think I am playing much better than what I did in the last four months.”

He opens his tournament with a first round match against Australian Peter Luczak, with Briton Andy Murray looming as a possible quarter-final opponent.

Nadal was not ready to look that far ahead. “I never talk about quarter-finals before getting there,” he said. “There are four matches until the quarter-finals. We will see what’s happen before that.”

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Defending Australian Open Champion Rafael Nadal of Spain eyes the ball during a hot practice session in the lead-up to the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne.

Nadal says this year’s Australian Open is a lottery, with any one of a dozen players capable of winning.

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Messi joins Barcelona 100 club as champions go five clear Agence France - Presse

MADRID – Lionel Messi scored his 100th Barcelona goal on Saturday as the Spanish champions thumped Sevilla 4-0 at Camp Nou to go five points clear of Real Madrid. Messi, 22, scored twice in the final five minutes to make it five goals in his last two matches and take his career total to 101, becoming the youngest player in the club’s illustrious history to reach the landmark.

An own goal from Julien Escude and a Pedro Rodriguez strike capped a miserable second half for Sevilla who paid a heavy price for knocking Barcelona out of the Kings Cup in midweek. Real had crashed to their third defeat of the season with a 1-0 loss at Athletic Bilbao earlier on Saturday and Barca made them pay for the slip-up notching their first home win of 2010 to open up a five-point cushion.

“There is the whole second half of the season to go so we shouldn’t get too complacent,” said Messi, who leads the goalscoring charts with 14 goals. It was the third meeting between Barca and Sevilla in 11 days and after losing out in the cup Barcelona set the score straight as Sevilla fell to a fourth consecutive league defeat and now languish down in sixth. Bilbao are now level on points with Sevilla after their battling

1-0 win over Real at San Mames.

Spanish international forward Fernando Llorente headed the decisive goal after just two minutes and Bilbao survived an onslaught - with Karim Benzema, Kaka and Cristiano Ronaldo all going close - to hold on for an historic win. “We created the chances to get a better result and there was almost only one team on the pitch,” said Real coach Manuel Pellegrini.

“However, you have to have some luck to convert these chances.

When you lose you have obviously not done something right. “There is a long way to go in the league with more than half of it remaining. Now it is important we beat Malaga at home (in the next league match).”

Zlatan Ibrahimovic returned from suspension for Barcelona and should have scored in the sixth minute but arrived too early to convert Thierry

Henry’s cross.

Henry almost scored himself on 12 minutes but Andres Palop rushed out to block the French striker’s poked effort. Palop also tipped over a Lionel Messi deflected shot before half-time. Barca got the early breakthrough with Gerard Pique’s shot deflected in off Escude. For the subsequent quarter hour Barca put their foot down as Palop made three saves to deny Messi and Henry while Ibrahimovic had a header ruled out for offside.

A second goal was coming and arrived 20 minutes from time with Xavi threading an incredible pass to subtitute Pedro who lobbed Palop and the goal had the whole crowd on their feet applauding. Messi scored five minutes from time and added his second in stoppage time. The result was bad news for Real whose away form is threatening to shatter their title bid.

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Barcelona’s Argentinian forward Lionel Messi, Barcelona’s French forward Thierry Henry, Barcelona’s defender Gerard Pique and Barcelona’s Mexican defender Rafael Marquez celebrate after scoring gainst Sevilla during their Spanish League football match on January 16, 2010 at Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona.

Mou Protested Referee’s decision Magnificent seven boosts Chelsea title push Milan -

Jose Mourinho bitterly criticised the referee and Mario Balotelli after a four-goal thriller at the San Nicola. “Why was Leonardo Bonucci not sent off?” Inter fought back from 2-0 down to hold Bari to a 2-2 draw this evening, once again needing a remarkable comeback to pick up points.

“Obviously I’m satisfied with the fightback from 2-0 down away from home against a quality side. Obviously I’m not satisfied at going 2-0 down,” said Mourinho on Sky Italia. “From the bench I had clear doubts over the penalties. The first is the kind of penalty you can give or not, I still have concerns over the second.”

The Coach was more irritated with the referee for not showing Bonucci the red card for his penalty foul on Goran Pandev. “It seems like there is a rule for us and one for the others. Against Milan Gennaro Gattuso was not given a red card for his foul on Samuel Eto’o, while today Bonucci absolutely should’ve been sent off for a last man foul. It’s clear.”

Bari converted two spot-kicks in quick succession to go 2-0 up at the San Nicola, but once again the Nerazzurri found their way back into it. “The first half was the typi-

cal kind of game where putting the pressure a bit higher we could win it. We started the second much the same way, but two penalties in five minutes changed everything. The match seemed lost, but once again the lads fought back with great spirit to earn a point.

“In the last half-hour if Bari were reduced to 10 men and didn’t have a single centre-back to put on in Bonucci’s place, then we can say the referee had a big impact on the result. “We studied Bari and knew they attacked with four players going forward. We kept our defence high on purpose, as if we had gone deeper then losing the ball would’ve been disastrous. This is why Bari did not score on the counter-attack, they were kept under control except for an individual error and a dubious spot-kick.”

“I say again that a mistake can be made on a penalty, but why was Bonucci not sent off? If the referee decides it is a penalty with Pandev one-on-one with the goalkeeper, then how can that not be a red card?”

Mourinho also had less than kind words for Balotelli, who was visibly annoyed when he was substituted. “In defensive terms, Balotelli was useless. He needs to work harder at closing down the man or the space and tonight he did neither.”

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Inter Milan’s Argentinian forward Diego Alberto Milito (R) celebrates with his teammates after scoring against Bari during their Italian Serie A football match on January 16, 2010 at Bari’s stadium.

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LONDON – Chelsea reasserted their credentials as Premier League title favourites on Saturday with a 7-2 demolition of Sunderland that manager Carlo Ancelotti hailed as their best performance of the season. Manchester United, who have played a game more than the leaders, remained one point off the pace after a 3-0 win over Burnley at Old Trafford.

But it was another frustrating day for Liverpool, who conceded a last-minute equaliser at Stoke and wasted an opportunity to close the gap on Manchester City and Tottenham in the battle for top-four places.

With City going down to a 2-0 defeat at Everton, their first loss since Roberto Mancini took over as manager last month, Spurs were able to edge them out of the Champions League qualifying places thanks to a goalless draw at home to Hull. Chelsea were irresistible at Stamford Bridge, where Nicolas Anelka and Frank Lampard both scored twice on an afternoon when they might easily have reached doube figures.

Florent Malouda, Ashley Cole and Michael Ballack also found the net with Boudewijn Zenden and Darren Bent providing consolation efforts for Steve Bruce’s outclassed side. Ancelotti was delighted to see his side prove they could thrive in the absence of Didier Drogba, Michael Essien, John Mikel Obi and Salomon Kalou, all of whom are away at the African Cup of Nations. “I’ve always said we have a fantastic squad and today we have done a good job,” the Italian said.

There were no such fireworks at Old Trafford, where the Manchester United faithful had to wait until the 56th minute before Dimitar Berbatov broke Burnley’s resistance. Wayne Rooney’s 16th goal of the season and substitute Mame Biram Diouf’s first for the club made sure that Brian Laws’s first match in charge of Burnley ended in defeat. Ferguson praised Senegalese striker Diouf, who joined from Norwegian club FC Molde. “He’s got great spring, he’s quick and he looks to run behind the defenders all the time and he’s very good in the air,” said the United boss.

A second-half goal from Sotirios Kyrgiakos had looked like it would be enough to ease the pressure on Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez following the

club’s FA Cup exit to Championship side Reading earlier in the week. But the defensive frailty that has hampered Liverpool throughout the campaign was exposed again in the 90th minute when Robert Huth scrambled in an equaliser after the visitors had failed to clear a corner.

Having been denied what appeared to be a clear penalty in the first half, Liverpool suffered further frustration when Dirk Kuyt headed against the post in the fifth minute of injury time. “It feels like a defeat,” admitted Kuyt. “We aren’t playing the best football at the moment, but I thought we fought really hard for this result, and to concede in the last minute and even miss a great chance in the last minute is unbelievable.”

City had begun life under Mancini with four straight wins but they flunked their first serious test at Goodison Park. A Steven Pienaar free-kick and a Louis Saha penalty earned Everton a thoroughly deserved victory and lifted David Moyes’s side into the top half of the table for the first time this season.

Wigan pulled away from the relegation zone with a 2-0 win at fellow strugglers Wolves in a match both teams ended with ten men.

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Chelsea’s French player Florent Malouda controls the ball during the English Premier League football match between Chelsea and Sunderland at Stamford Bridge in London on January 16, 2010.

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Button says he’s even stronger in 2010 JENSON Button thinks the struggles he endured en route to his maiden world championship crown last year will be a key factor in helping him be an even strong driver for his title defence in 2010. The new McLaren driver came through a difficult second half to last season to capture the crown in Brazil and, after admitting that he and his then Brawn GP team were too conservative in the way they went about trying to win, he says the lessons have been taken on board as he goes up against Lewis Hamilton this year.

Jenson Button thinks the struggles he endured en route to his maiden world championship crown last year will be a key factor in helping him be an even strong driver for his title defence in 2010

Ducati: Retaining Stoner is priority DUCATI boss Claudio Domenicali believes his team should prioritise retaining Casey Stoner over chasing a deal with Valentino Rossi. Rossi has been linked with a switch to Ducati for 2011, especially after he intimated that Yamaha could not continue giving him and Jorge Lorenzo equal status and should nominate a clear number one.

But at the launch of Ducati’s 2010 contender, Domenicali insisted that the team was not considering changing its current line-up of Stoner and Nicky Hayden - especially as he reckons Stoner is the championship’s greatest talent. “I think that Casey is talent-wise the strongest rider in the world,” said Domenicali.

“Nicky gave us a wonderful lesson on life and management. Our motto is ‘never give up’ and Nicky taught us once again that we must never give up, so to think about something different with such a team is not appropriate. However it is true that our agreements are going to expire mid-season.

So between my will and what is going to happen, there may be some differences.”

“If it’s possible to hold on to Casey or to take Valentino, then the answer is simple: we can try. To ask a manager publicly what they would like to do is a bit embarrassing. For me if it’s a choice between one or the other, personally I have no doubt that we have the rider with the highest talent, so for me the priority is to hold on to Casey. But since the answer cannot stop here, could Casey and Valentino go well together? You would have to ask them. It’s like asking a [football] manager would they like to have Maradona and Platini in the same team, of course, why not, we would like to, but then if the wedding is successful or not, we don’t know. But the team has two strong riders and we would like this to continue, that’s quite clear.”

Domenicali denied that Stoner’s mid-season illness in 2009 had given Ducati cause to doubt him. “One would have to be mad to have doubts about Casey’s skills,” he said. “It was an extremely complicated year for him. He did not un-

derstand how to solve his physical problem, and we did not understand how we could help him.

We had never found ourselves in a similar situation - I’ve been working at Ducati since 1991 and managing races since ’94, so I do have a bit of experience. I’ve never found myself in a similar situation. As usual when you’re dealing with something for the first time it’s more difficult to immediately find the right approach to be able to solve it. What is important at the end of this is that today Casey is with us and is perhaps in the best shape that we have ever seen him.”

Ducati boss Claudio Domenicali believes his team should prioritise retaining Casey Stoner over chasing a deal with Valentino Rossi

“Because we were in such a position of leading the championship by quite a few points, we were too cautious,” Button admitted on the main stage at the AUTOSPORT International Show. “We didn’t want anything to go wrong. We were too cautious for the situation, although you can say too cautious and we still ended up winning the championship. I think we should have been a little bit more aggressive with our strategy, and also myself, I should have been more aggressive.”

“It was a position I had never been in before. It was something I really learned through the season, and it is amazing that you learn so much when you are fighting for a championship - a championship that is so important to you. So it was a very up and down season, and when we got to Brazil, and also a couple of races before Brazil, we realised we started to need to get aggressive again and we really had to fight for this.”

He added: “It wasn’t just going to come to us. The thing is there was some negative publicity for a couple of races, but we never forgot that we had such a lead in the championship. We had a 14 point lead, and that was the worst it ever got before I won the championship, which is massive. Jenson Button The last three years have been won by one or two points, so it was a very strange position to be in knowing you had to be a little conserva-

tive and maybe when you are conservative you go too far. It is all learning curve, and you learn so much when you are in that position, and it means I come back this year so much stronger as an individual not just as a driver.”

Button has reiterated his stance that the decision to move to McLaren was fuelled by the fact that he wanted a new challenge in his career. And he says the change of scene has left him hugely motivated for the forthcoming season.

“It is an interesting one because people always say that after you win the world championship, are you really that hungry to achieve that again?” he said. “I have been working for 21 years to achieve my goal - but yes, I am massively hungry. When I won the world championship in Brazil I was looking for something else. I thought I have achieved what I set out to do, but what do I do now? It is a very strange situation to be in, because you should enjoy the moment but it is very, very difficult to because you are always thinking too far ahead that you have to be careful of. “I knew that moving to a new team and moving to Vodafone McLaren Mercedes would be a real challenge for me, and racing alongside Lewis, but it is a challenge I am so excited about. I am putting so much effort into making this work. This is the most important thing for me at the moment.”