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“Hurt Locker” ablast at CriticsChoice Awards

A road in Madenan village inTejakula collapsed as much as 30meters long. The road is connect-ing Buleleng regency andKintamani. The destruction madethe traffic paralyzed for couple ofhours.

The heavy rain which happenedstarted on Saturday, January 16th

through Sunday January 17th 2010created landslides in some parts ofthe village. There were no casual-ties reported during the disasters.

The people of Madenan villageexplained that the heavy rain wasstarted on 4 pm local time. Thevillagers were worried there waslandslide in the village because itwas built in the prone area.

At 2 am, some of the people

Denpasar (Bali Post)—

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

Most of the turtles stranded on Kuta Beach belonged to the hawks-bill (Eretmochelys imbricate), while the remaining were green turtleand turtle of other species. At last, a turtle was found stranded, lastFriday (Jan 15) at 1:00 pm Local Time. It belonged to hawksbill of41 centimeters in length and estimated to have reached 6 years old.

Officers of Pro Fauna Bali, Dionysius, said of the many turtlesstranded, two have been saved. Surviving turtle would be releasedinto their habitats after their condition improved. In addition, theturtles were also marked with a tag so the development and move-ment could be monitored continuously. Before released, such endan-gered sea turtle were placed for a while in turtle shelters of KutaBeach Task Force to further placed in shelters on the island turtle ofSerangan. (ded)

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The road connecting Tejakula and Bangli collapse and it made long traffic jam

Road collapse due to heavy rain

Tejakula-Kintamanitraffic paralyzeSingaraja (Bali Post) –

Buleleng regency keep suffer form heavy disaster in theearly 2010. After two storms and high waves that made tenthof houses damage, heavy rain which happened in the last fewdays made a road collapsed.

were hearing a loud sound and theysaw some of the road was collaps-ing. The damage was around 30meters in length and 4 meters wide.

In addition to the road, therewere also several pints that heavilydamaged such as in front of the vil-lage office where landslide made anelectric pole collapse.

The police officers were arrang-ing the traffic on the road in orderto avoid longer traffic jam. The of-ficers from Buleleng governmentalso rushed to the scene in order togive the proper assistance to the vic-tims. Gede Gunawan, an officer ofBuleleng government, said “we de-ploy the personnel right away inorder to assist the peoplethere.”(kmb15)

Bad Weather, ManyTurtles Stranded at Kuta

Kuta still save forswimming

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Denpasar (Bali Post)—

The existence of Tabanan resi-dent becoming the victims of ra-bies due to bitten by rats, deservesto be alert of all parties. To whatextent is the danger of rabies if ithas spread to the rats? The Headof Animal Biomolecular Labora-tory, Faculty of Animal Husbandry,Dr. I Gusti Ngurah Mahardikawhen contacted, last Friday (Jan15), told that before infecting ratsrabies was very dangerous.

The case of rabies from rat bitein Tabanan, according to him,needed re-examining. Ecologi-cally, to this extent rabies hasnever come from rats. “Untilnow, naturally or ecologically,rabies has never been infected bythe rats. It was once tested by thelaboratory, and through the ex-periment rats were exposed torabies,” he said.

During this time, the well-

They always monitor and en-courage routine patrol, whether it isat night, afternoon or morning.However, this strategy also seemsto result in nothing to know the per-petrators. Allegedly, looting perpe-trators always threatened the guardswith a knife.

Nevertheless, police officers, es-pecially Directorate of Detective,Bali Police controlled by Chief ofDetective Operational Unit 1, CecepNandi Cecep Trimaryadi, nevergave up. The results of the investi-gation seemed to get a clue due tothe existing CCTV recordings at theCircle-K in the area of JalanCokroaminoto, Denpasar.

Based on the tape, it was knownwhat happened two weeks ago.Armed with the tape, detective unitpursued the perpetrators. Havinginvestigated for a few days, thetrails of suspect were finallytracked. Apparently, the perpetratorwas named Kadek Wariana aliasKadek Bola, 21, from Jembrana.

The suspect Kadek Bola was ar-rested when he headed for his homeon Jalan Mataram GangLinggamurti No. 6 Kuta, Badung,last Thursday (Jan 14) at 6:00 pmLocal Time. Without resistance, thesuspect was arrested and immedi-ately taken to Headquarter of BaliPolice for further review.

Spokesperson of Bali Police,

RobberRobberRobberRobberRobberat Nineat Nineat Nineat Nineat NineCircle-KCircle-KCircle-KCircle-KCircle-KMartsMartsMartsMartsMartsCapturedCapturedCapturedCapturedCapturedRevealed by Recording of CCTVDenpasar (Bali Post)—

Since the past few months, robbery actions often targetedminimarkets like Circle-K. Recorded, nine outlets of Circle-Kspread in the Denpasar region once become the target of rob-bers. Rampant robberies to minimarkets opening 24 hours madepolice officers furious.

Gde Sugianyar, last Friday (Jan 15),explained that the suspect was be-ing detained at Headquarter of BaliPolice. Based on the results of theprovisional examination, the suspectconfessed to rob at nine outlets ofCircle-K since November 2009. Ev-ery taking action, the defendant didit at dawn because Circle-K is open24 hours and guarded by minimallytwo people at dawn (03.00-05.00 amLocal Time—ed). The suspect armedwith a bayonet to scare the guardsof minimarket. “The suspect pre-tended to be shopping. While look-ing at the situation, the suspect en-tered,” said former Chief ofBalikpapan Resort Police.

If the situation was quiet, with-out hesitancy the suspect directlythreatened guardians on duty. Thesuspect was draining money in thecash register’s drawer. In one-timeaction, the defendant admitted to geta result of IDR 1-3 million. “Themoney from the crime was given tohis brother and parents. The rest isused for having fun,” he explained.

The suspect was also known tohave a brother in prison cells becauseof fraud cases. In addition to the sus-pect, police also seized a bayonet,cash worth IDR 1.5 million, twomotorcycles of Jupiter and Variotype, clothing and a pair of femalesandals that was about to be givento his girlfriend. (kmb21)

Ecologically,Rats Hard tobe Infected by Rabies

known animals exposed to rabies aredogs, insectivorous bats, cows, buf-faloes, horses and cats. However, thetransmission chain to cow is inter-rupted because this kind of animaldoes not bite when attacking, butgores. On that account, the risk oftransmitting rabies to humans andother animals is very small. For now,dogs are animals spreading rabies.Viewed from the pattern of behav-ior, it is very little dog playing orcontacting with rats. “However, it isnot ignorable,” said Mahardika.

Meanwhile, when asked for con-firmation about the victims of ra-bies after being bitten by a ratTabanan, the Head of Bali HealthServices, Nyoman Sutedja arguedthat the death of Ni NyomanKoming, 46, a resident ofKatimemes, Sudimara, Tabananwas caused by rabies transmitted byrat. “Having been confirmed toTabanan, in fact the patient sufferedfrom diabetes. She was bitten by a

rat so her wound got infection dueto diabetes she has been suffer-ing. The patient died of the infec-tion, not because of rabies,”Sutedja said when contacted onlast Friday (Jan 15).

Like Mahardika, Sutedja alsosaid that rats were naturally diffi-cult to get rabies. “Rats usuallycause plague,” he said. For that,the policy of providing anti-rabiesvaccine (VAR) is limited topeople bitten by dogs, monkeys,bats and cats. Therefore, it is notrecommended to people bitten byrats,” said Sutedja. Meanwhile,Sutedja also added that regardingto VAR supply distributors wereready with their VAR stock. Re-gencies/City government that hashad their fund was unnecessary towait for ordering VAR. “Ex-pected, with the smoothness ofstock from distributors, VAR inregencies/city could also be avail-able,” he added. (san)

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‘Baris” dance is performed during a ceremony. The dance is a sacred dance so it is onlybeing performed during a certain occasion or ceremony.

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Denpasar (Bali Post)—Mandate of the Law No. 22/2009

on Traffic and Road Transportationsuggesting the existence of a bicyclelane on the highway began to bestudied by the ranks of DenpasarCity Government. Even, the Trans-portation Services along with relatedagencies in Denpasar City Govern-ment from this week began doingintensive discussion regarding to theplan. Unfortunately, a number ofconstraints to realize the bike pathstarted to appear in numbers.

The Head of Denpasar Transpor-tation Services (Dishub), I GedeAstika, contacted last Friday (Jan15) claimed to have made the dis-

Initial examination at SanglahHospital has been performed for pa-tients on behalf of IGA Mas Irawaty,40, whose address at Jalan ManggalaNo. 5 Tuban, North Kuta in the In-ternational Wing of Sanglah Hospi-tal, last Thursday (Jan 14). This pa-tient had just married and was preg-nant by the age of 14 weeks of preg-nancy denoting the first pregnancyexperience. “The problem, she waspregnant at the age above 35 yearsbelonging to a risk,” said the physi-cian AAN Jaya Kusuma in the midstof examinations.

Described Jaya Kusuma, factorsother than age, a few risk neededwatching by the mothers was the

Denpasar (Bali Post)—Chief of Bali Police, Sutisna, ad-

mitted the three Ferraris once se-cured by his party were using thefake police number. In fact, his partyalso knew those expensive cars werenot equipped with official docu-ments such as vehicle registrationand certificate of ownership. How-ever, police could only act deci-sively by charging with traffic vio-lation.

Chief Sutisna again emphasized,the cars have been returned to its re-spective owner, because if seized inHeadquarter of Bali Police, the riskwould be high. “The car was expen-sive. If we confiscated them andheld in Headquarter, would be ofhigh risk,” said two-star general inthe shoulder last Friday (Jan 15).

However, his party took steps to

Denpasar (Bali Post)—Development of a number of bus

stops (public transportation dugout)at some points in Denpasar invitedquestions to an number of circles.The reason, the pre-existing busstops were malfunction or waste-ful. Furthermore, the existence ofsuch bus stops is only taken advan-tage by street vendors. Similarly,the existence of public transporta-tion in the city of cultured city hasimpressed a suspended animation.

Member of Commission B ofDenpasar House, I WayanMariyana Wandhira, met inDenpasar, last Friday (Jan 15), ad-mitted to have seen the construc-tion of bus stops at three locations.One of them was in front of theDenpasar Tourism Office. “Has thedevelopment passed through ma-ture studies? I’m afraid the samefate would afflict as to the currentones, namely not working,” said therepresentatives from Sanur.

Wandhira said that the develop-ment of those bus stops shouldcomply with the necessity. More-over, during this time quite a bit ofDenpasar residents used publictransportation. Function of manybus stops seemed redundant todayso it gave impression of wastingbudget. “Why we should build busstop first, while the route of publictransport route has not existed yet.I am afraid there’ll be more changeslater,” he said.

Against this, the Head ofDenpasar Transportation Services,I Gede Astika, said the making ofthe new bus stop posed the programof Bali provincial government. Thedevelopment should support thetransportation services ofDenpasar, Badung, Gianyar andTabanan (Sarbagita) which would

By Examination of Amniotic Fluid

The Structure of FetalThe Structure of FetalThe Structure of FetalThe Structure of FetalThe Structure of FetalChromosome KnownChromosome KnownChromosome KnownChromosome KnownChromosome KnownDenpasar (Bali Post)—

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

record of having a baby with disor-der, whether there was a familyrecord of inheriting disorders. Ideally,the examination was performed be-tween the age of 14 weeks and 15weeks. USG test performed at the ageof 12-weeks indeed has not indicatedany sign, while amniocentesis testwas done by taking the amniotic fluidin the womb of mother of 8 cc. Thiswas done by a needle as small as hairwhere mothers would not feel anypain. However, its implementationshould be done carefully and moni-tored by USG. “Slip a bit, it may getthe fetus or placenta. The withdrawalis performed very carefully,” addedJaya Kusuma, who is also Director

of Medical and Nursing Services ofSanglah Hospital.

Furthermore, 8 cc of amnioticfluid that taken would be directly sentto the Eijkman Laboratory Jakarta.“There, the amniotic fluid will be cul-tured, so that it can obtain DNA.From the structure of DNA will beexamined the fetal chromosomesconcerned.”Where’s the disorder,will soon be known. We will receivethe results between one week and twoweeks,” added Jaya Kusuma. There-fore, sample taking at Sanglah Hos-pital should be done under 11:00 amLocal Time so as not to miss the planecarrying the package of the amnioticfluid directly to Jakarta. (san/r/bns)

Bali Police Chief: Ferraris Use Fake NumberPossibly Charged with Traffic Violation Only

safeguard their keys. This measuremeant to anticipate that the car bear-ing the horse logo could not jumpup and be used on the streets. “Wehave confiscated their key,” he ex-plained after the handover of posi-tion of Directorate of Intelligenceand Security from Djoko Mulyonoto Ketut Argawa, last Friday.

Were the three luxurious cars be-longing to contraband? ChiefSutisna did not dare say so. His partyjust acted decisively by issuing ticketof traffic violation. “To find out ifthe cars are contraband or bulging,it was completely the tasks of Cus-tom and Excise Office,” he said.

Spokesperson of Bali Police, GdeSugianyar, added that the police car-ried out their duties according to thelaw. In relation to the cases of theFerrari car, his party did act under

the laws of traffic. “Yes, one of themis by issuing a ticket of traffic vio-lation,” he explained.

Although they have had Form B,said the former chief of BalikpapanResort Police, the cars might not beused on the highway because theirdocuments have not been complete.“The Customs here (Bali) shouldmake coordination with the CentralCustoms and Excise. Whether FormB at hand of those owners is origi-nal or fake,” he concluded.

Furthermore, he explained theForm B was usually reserved for im-ported built-up cars. “And it was usedfor government facilities such as thecar of diplomats, international agen-cies and foreign investors. Its policywas the delays of entry fee. If the ve-hicle has been used, must be returnedto their state,” he added. (kmb21)

Assessed, the Making of Special Bike Pathcussion about provision of bicyclepath on some roads. However, it stillneeded to conduct a thorough studyof the plan referred. The reason,some relevant agencies need to do acommon understanding to theplanned creation of this bike path.Moreover, the matter of road washandled by cross-agency.

He said that the provision of bikepaths required further studies relatedto the input from the Public WorksServices worrying about the reduc-tion of road width. This would havean impact on the authorities to domaintenance. In other words, whenthe width of the road was reduced,it also automatically changed the sta-

tus of road because it had somethingto do with the classification of theroad having its own rules.

Provision of bicycle paths on thehighway was mandated in the newLaw on the traffic services. Article25 in paragraph 1 letter g mention,every road used for general trafficis obliged to be equipped with otherfacilities such as signs, markers,bike path, and others. Apart fromthat chapter, it also listed in Article45 regulating the facilities on thehighway. Such article mentionedcompulsory supporting facilities re-quired like sidewalks, bike path, aswell as other facilities such as busstop. (kmb12)

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

Bus Stop in Denpasar Uselesssoon operate. “This is not intendedfor bus stop of internal city publictransport of Denpasar. The makingof this bus stop is one of theSarbagita transportation infrastruc-ture provisions because it has beenbuilt earlier than the means ofSarbagita transportation,” he said.

Earlier, a member of Commis-sion III of Bali House, I.B. GedeUdiyana, said that the developmentof bus stop at various locationspassed through by Sarbagita trans-portation cost to reach IDR 1.7 bil-lion more. Udiyana admitted thatSarbagita programs being underconsideration for several years wasone of the policies to address thetraffic problems in South Bali.

The issues on time and route in-accuracies that were not maximal,as well as real traffic jam inspiredthe basic idea to realize adequatetransportation facilities. In otherwords, this endeavor was to developpublic awareness so they would beback to use public transport in alldaily activities, which finally couldsuppress the use of private vehicles.

Udiyana said, by posting thebudget made by the Bali ProvincialGovernment in the 2010 budgetyear, his party expected that re-gency/city governments also sup-ported this program. At least, saidthe former Head of Commission Bof this Denpasar House, local gov-ernments that would pass throughthe city have already thought aboutthe program and provided appropri-ate input for the continuation of theoperational mode of transportationacross regencies/city. For example,each existing territory, route, andthe right bus stop placement, hasbecome part of the inputs of the re-gencies / cities government to theteam in the province. (kmb12)

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The ruling is the fourth time hehas received a death sentence.

An estimated 5,000 people werekilled at Halabja, three-quarters ofthem women and children, in whatis now thought to have been thedeadliest gas attack ever carried outagainst civilians.

A close cousin of Saddam, Majidearned his macabre nickname for

AP

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – U.S.Secretary of State Hillary RodhamClinton met Saturday with HaitianPresident Rene Preval and promisedthat U.S. quake relief efforts would beclosely coordinated with local officials.

Clinton’s remarks appeared de-signed to counter any notion of a too-intrusive American involvement in theaftermath of the quake, while also as-suring Haitians the humanitarian mis-sion would continue as long as it’sneeded.

“We are here at the invitation of yourgovernment to help you,” she said at anews conference at the Port-au-Princeairport. “As President Obama has said,we will be here today, tomorrow andfor the time ahead. And speaking per-sonally, I know of the great resilienceand strength of the Haitian people. You

AP

SANTIAGO, Chile – Chile’spresidential election could comedown to a nerve-racking, vote-by-vote count Sunday after a late surgeby former President Eduardo Freimade his race against billionaireSebastian Pinera too close to predict.

Pinera led every poll until Freiand outgoing President MichelleBachelet repeatedly invoked thelegacy of Augusto Pinochet’s dicta-torship, raising fears of a retreat onhuman rights if Pinera and his right-wing supporters regain the presi-dency.

“I want to invite all Chileans tochange Chile’s destiny with penciland paper,” Frei, 67, said near theend, invoking the catchphrase of the1988 vote that returned democracyto Chile.

The theme put the Harvard-trained economist on the defensive,unsettling a well-organized cam-paign that had focused on economicgrowth, jobs and bringing change toa country led by the same group ofcenter-left politicians for 20 years.

BAGHDAD (AFP)

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

Iraq’s ‘Chemical Ali’Iraq’s ‘Chemical Ali’Iraq’s ‘Chemical Ali’Iraq’s ‘Chemical Ali’Iraq’s ‘Chemical Ali’sentenced to deathsentenced to deathsentenced to deathsentenced to deathsentenced to deathAFP

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

ordering poisonous gas attacks in abrutal scorched-earth campaign ofbombings and mass deportations thatleft an estimated 182,000 Kurds deadin the 1980s.

He had previously been sentencedto hang for genocide over theKurdish offensives when he receiveda second death sentence in Decem-ber 2008 for war crimes committed

during the ill-fated 1991 Shiite up-rising in southern Iraq.

And in March last year, theIraqi High Tribunal handed downa third death sentence over the the1999 murders of dozens of Shiitesin the Sadr City distr ict ofBaghdad and in the central shrinecity of Najaf.

However, he is probably bestknown for the Halabja attack whenin March 1988, Iraqi jets swoopedover the village and for five hourssprayed it with a deadly cocktail ofmustard gas and the nerve agentsTabun, Sarin and VX.

Clinton lands in Haiti, pledges cooperative effort

AP

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

have been severely tested. But I believethat Haiti can come back even stron-ger and better in the future.”

Clinton, the highest-ranking Obamaadministration official to visit since themagnitude-7.0 quake struck Tuesday,arrived in a Coast Guard C-130 trans-port that carried bottled water, pack-aged food, soap and other supplies. Shewas accompanied by Rajiv Shah, theU.S. Agency for International Devel-opment administrator who is acting asthe top U.S. relief coordinator.

Clinton also met with U.N. officialsand U.S. civilians and military person-nel working on the relief effort. Shesaid she and Preval discussed hisgovernment’s priorities: restoring com-munications, electricity and transpor-tation. “And we agreed that we will becoordinating closely together toachieve these goals,” she said, addingthat she and Preval would issue a com-

munique on Sunday outlining coop-eration between the two countries.

Preval said he was encouraged tosee former presidents Bill Clinton andGeorge W. Bush together with Presi-dent Barack Obama at the WhiteHouse earlier Saturday in a joint pleafor international assistance to Haiti.

He noted that U.S. aid has alreadyarrived, and he told reporters he met asurvivor who was pulled from therubble Saturday and receiving carefrom American medical teams. Hethanked Clinton for her visit and forObama’s continued support of Haiti.

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

During the news conference, offi-cials noted the clatter of military heli-copters landing and taking off nearby.

“That’s a good sound,” Clintonsaid. “That means that good things aregoing to the people of Haiti.”

AP

Sebastian Pinera, candidate of theopposition Coalition for Change, left

Chileans vote for presidentwith Pinochet in mind

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

With Frei and Pinera agreeingon most government policies —a reflection of the remarkableeconomic, social and politicalsuccess that has given Bacheletnearly 80 percent approval rat-ings as she ends her five-yearterm — human rights became thewild card.

Bachelet, herself a torture vic-tim, steadfastly supported judi-cial efforts to resolve crimesagainst humanity during the1973-1990 dictatorship, andmore than 700 former militaryand security officials have beenput on trial.

But efforts to resolve dictator-ship-era rights abuses remain apainful topic around LatinAmerica, and aggressive movesaren’t always popular. Voters inUruguay rejected an initiative tooverturn that country’s amnestylaws last year, even as theyelected a former rebel as presi-dent. Amnesties also remain inforce in Brazil, and while Argen-tina overturned its amnesty laws,rights trials there have becomehighly politicized.

The issue came to the fore-front of Chile’s presidentialcampaign last month when ajudge concluded that Frei’s fa-ther, a Pinochet critic, had beensecretly poisoned to death.Bachelet raised it again by in-augurating Chile’s Museum ofMemory less than a week beforethe vote.

And Frei pressed it hard inWednesday’s televised debate,forcing Pinera to acknowledgethat “part of my sector commit-ted errors” during the dictatorshipby denying human rights viola-tions even as thousands ofPinochet’s opponents were tor-tured or killed.

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Denpasar

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

RSUP Sanglah is the main provincial public hospital. Itsfacilities have improved since the emergency ward had beenbuilt in 1991. Difficult/critical cases would not become aproblem anymore since it has complete equipments. It islocated on Jl. KesehatanSelatan 1 Sanglah Denpasar with :Phone : 227 911 – 15Fax : 226 363

Kasih Ibu Hospital is a private hospital which caters forless serious cases such as diarrhea, intestinal disorders, ane-mia, asthma and minor accidents. Kasih Ibu is also equippedto care for pregnant women. This hospital is located on Jl.Teuku Umar 120 Denpasar.Phone : 223 036Fax : 268 690.

Rumah Sakit Wongaya (Public Hospital; Psychiatric Unit)Jl. Kartini, Denpasar.Phone : 222 142.

Rumah Sakit Dharma Husada , (Private)Jl. Sudirman No 50, DenpasarPhone : 227 560, 234 824

In relating with health, Bali also has insurance and medicalevacuation company, thatis:AEA International - SOS Assistance Bali.PT Abhaya Eka Astiti, Jl. By Pass Ngurah RaiNo. 24X, Kuta 80361.Phone : 755 768 Fax : 755 768One thing that should be noted by tourists here is that theBlood Bank in Bali normally carries no stock of Rhesus (Rh)Negative blood.

Badung

Bali Medical ClinicsThere are some medical clinics that are well known by for-eigners in Bali. Some of them are western owned and oper-ated :

Bali International Medical Center (BIMC)Bali International Medical Centre (BIMC) provides excel-lent Primary Health Care & Emeregency Medical Servicesfor 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 BaliOpened in 1999, offers International SOS members and visi-tors to Bali comprehensive primary health care and 24-houremergency medical service.Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai 505X, Kuta 80361, Bali - IndonesiaPhone : 720 100 Fax : 721 919E-mail : info@sos-bali.comttp ://www.sos-bali.com

Bali Nusa Dua Emergency ClinicJl Pratama No. 81 Phone : 771 324

Kuta ClinicJl. Raya Kuta Phone : 753 268

Dental ClinicDr Indra Guizot, Jl. Patimura 19, DenpasarPhone : 222 445, 234 375

DDS. Ritjie Rihartinah, Jl Pratama No. 81Nusa Dua Phone : 771 324

Retno W. Agung, Jln. Bypass Ngurah Rai No.4ABr. Tamansari – Sanur Phone : 288 501

Australian Consulate GeneralJalan Tantular 32 Renon DenpasarPhone: +62 361 241118Fax: +62 361 221195 (General) +62 361 241120 (Immigration)

Royal Danish & NorwegianMimpi Resort Jimbaran, BaliPhone +62.361.701 070

The Czech RepublicJalan Pengembak No. 17 Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.286 465

France Consulate AgencyJalan Merta Sari Gang II No. 8 Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.285 485

The Federal Republic of GermanyJalan Pantai Karang No 17 Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.288 535

The Republic of HungaryJalan By Pass No 219 Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.287 701

Italian ConsulateJalan By Pass Ngurah Rai Jimbaran, BaliPhone +62.361.701 005

Honorary Consulate of MexicoJalan Mohamad Yamin 1 A, Renon, Denpasar, BaliPhone +62.361.223 266

Honorary Consulate of The NetherlandsJalan Raya Kuta 127, BaliPhone +62.361.761 506

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Kim’s all-powerful National De-fense Commission had threatened Fri-day to initiate a sacred “retaliatorybattle” against the South in anger overits reported contingency plan to copewith potential unrest in the communistcountry. The commission also warnedit could break off all dialogue and ne-gotiations with the South.

On Sunday, the North’s officialKorean Central News Agency said Kimhad inspected a joint army, navy andair force drill that demonstrated thecountry’s “merciless striking power”against anyone trying to infringe on itsterritory.

Kim expressed his satisfaction withthe drill and assigned the military tasksto develop it into “the invincible revo-lutionary armed forces,” according tothe KCNA report.

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

Kim routinely visits military unitsand inspects their training to bolster his“songun,” or “military-first,” policythat rewards the 1.2 million-memberarmed forces — the backbone of hisauthoritarian rule of the country’s 24

AP

MANILA, Philippines – Fire racedthrough a slum near the main port inthe Philippine capital, killing a 5-year-old girl, gutting hundreds of shantiesand leaving 4,000 people homeless, anofficial said Sunday.

There were no other reports ofdeaths or major injuries in the Satur-day night blaze at the Baseco Com-pound, a crowded slum along the rimof Manila Bay, Senior Fire OfficerEmmanuel Gaspar said. An AssociatedPress photographer at the site sawpeople waiting to be treated for minorinjuries, including wounds from glassshards.

The cause of the 2-hour fire, whichwas fanned by strong winds and de-stroyed 500 shanties, is still under in-vestigation, Gaspar said. Fires inManila’s overcrowded slums are com-mon, with the tight living conditions

AP

WELLINGTON, New Zealand– Britain’s Prince William took thereins of the winning America’s Cupyacht and visited the site of the 2011Rugby World Cup in New Zealandon Sunday at the start of his first of-ficial overseas trip on behalf of hisgrandmother, Queen Elizabeth II.

The 27-year-old prince is alsoscheduled to officially open NewZealand’s Supreme Court buildingand perform a string of other dutiesduring his three-day visit.

The South Pacific country’s Su-preme Court was resurrected lastyear, ending a period of nearly 150years when its final appellate courtwas Britain’s Privy Council, basedin London. It was one of a few re-maining relics of its past as a Britishcolony.

Queen Elizabeth remains thecountry’s head of state, formallyknown as Queen of New Zealand.The prince is second in line to theBritish throne after his father, PrinceCharles.

An avid rugby player, PrinceWilliam’s first duty Sunday was tovisit to Eden Park in the northern cityof Auckland, the main ground for the2011 Rugby World Cup. He was ac-companied by officials, severalmembers of New Zealand’s AllBlacks rugby team and about 60journalists.

All Blacks captain Richie McCawsaid he was impressed by the prince.

“It can’t be easy being in the po-sition he’s in, but he handles him-self amazingly well,” McCaw toldreporters. “Underneath all that stuffhe has to deal with, he’s just a genu-ine bloke you can have a yarn with.”

Prince William then went sailingon New Zealand’s winningAmerica’s Cup yacht, NZL40, tak-ing the helm under the eye of skip-

N. Korea’s Kim calls forN. Korea’s Kim calls forN. Korea’s Kim calls forN. Korea’s Kim calls forN. Korea’s Kim calls forstronger army amid tensionstronger army amid tensionstronger army amid tensionstronger army amid tensionstronger army amid tensionAP

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

million people. He often calls for a stron-ger military during the visits.

The report of his latest inspection,however, came two days after his de-fense commission issued a rare state-ment strongly protesting the South’s al-leged contingency plan, which it saysis aimed at toppling Kim’s regime.

The commission said “a sacred na-tionwide retaliatory battle to blow upthe stronghold of the South Korean au-thorities,” including the presidential of-fice, would begin once the plan wascompleted and put into practice. It alsosaid the country would push for Seoul’sexpulsion in any negotiations on peaceon the Korean peninsula if the Southdidn’t apologize for the plan.

The warning came as a surprise sincethe North recently offered conciliatorygestures to the South, including a pro-posal Thursday to discuss resumingstalled joint tour programs.

Seoul expressed regret over theNorth’s threat, which it said was drivenby unconfirmed media reports.

South Korea has reportedly drawnup a military operations plan with theUnited States to cope with possible

emergencies in North Korea. SouthKorea’s Defense Ministry has consis-tently declined to comment about theexistence of such a plan.

North Korea occasionally issuesstatements that include threats to de-stroy South Korea. Authorities in Seoulmonitor them carefully but usually takethem in stride.

South Korea’s Defense Ministrysaid the North had held annual wintermilitary training but had no informa-tion on Kim’s latest military inspection.A ministry official said there had beenno suspicious activities by the North’smilitary in recent days.

Another South Korean governmentofficial downplayed the significance ofthe North’s latest joint drill, saying itappeared to be part of routine training.The official said it was the first timethe North’s media had reported Kim’sinspection of a joint drill of the threearmed services.

Both officials spoke on condition ofanonymity, citing department policy.

The two Koreas remain technicallyat war because the 1950-53 Korean Warended in a truce, not a peace treaty.

Girl killed, 4,000 homelessin Manila slum fire

allowing flames to quickly spreadthrough houses made of light materi-als.

Amid the ashes and a few woodenposts that were left of their shanty,Amorsolo Villamor’s family ate theirbreakfast of rice gruel Sunday morn-ing, unwilling to leave the tiny patch ofland where their home used to stand.

Villamor, his wife and three childrenshared their shanty with two other fami-lies.

He said his family decided to returnto their gutted home after running fromthe flames because they feared thatother families may stake a claim to theland if they moved to a nearby villagehall that was being turned into an evacu-ation center.

The slum colony had been hit byhuge fires in previous years, includinga 2002 fire that left some 15,000 resi-dents homeless, and a 2004 fire thatrazed shanties of 12,000 dwellers.

AP –

Britain’s Prince William at thehelm onboard NZL41 during asail around Auckland

Britain’s Prince Williamon official visit to NZ

per Dean Barker. Later he attendeda hangi, or traditional Maori feastcooked over hot stones in a pit in theground, at Government House inAuckland.

On Monday in the capital,Wellington, the prince is scheduledto open the Supreme Court building,lay a wreath at the National WarMemorial, attend a barbecue hostedby Prime Minister John Key and visita nature reserve. He is slated to visitthe Wellington Children’s Hospitalon Tuesday before flying to Austra-lia.

Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton, theprince’s private secretary, said theroyal is “enormously fond” of NewZealand, a nation he first visited withhis parents in 1983 and again fiveyears ago.

(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 TokyoSaturday, Jan. 16, 2010, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, wearing sunglasses, visits a pig farmunder Unit 534 of the Korean People’s Army at undisclosed location in North Korea.

Monday, January 18, 2010 7Indonesia TodayInternational

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JAKARTA - Industry Minister MSHidayat inspected the readiness ofJakarta’s Tanjung Priok port on Sat-urday with regard to the implementa-tion of the Asean-China Free TradeAgreement as of January 1, 2010.

“I wished to see theimpelementation of the program toovercome non-tariff barriers,” he saidat the customs office.

He said he wanted to make surethat anticipatory measures had beentaken with regard to obstacles in con-nection with the implementation ofthe ACFTA. He said if the anticipa-tory program had been implementedwell it would help strengthening the

The demonstrators from the Voice of Pal-estine support group carried banners read-ing “Stop Building Steel Wall on Gaza” andchanted “Die America, Die Egypt” in frontof the Egyptian embassy.

After years of ignoring the tunnel smug-gling — which is used to bypass Israeli sanc-tions — Egypt began building the wall af-ter falling out with Hamas, the Islamistmovement which rules Gaza.

“We demand Egypt to remove the wallon humanitarian grounds. Erecting the wallwill cause the Palestinians to suffer eco-nomically. Food supply will be affected,”the group’s coordinator, Hisyam Sulaiman,

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CILACAP - A typhoon sweptthrough Ujungmanik village inCilacap district, Central Java, onSaturday, leaving hundreds ofhouses damaged.

“I don’t think the disaster wouldhappen because the weather wasclear and there was no rain on Sat-urday evening,” Ujungmanik vil-lage head Supardan said on Sunday.

He said the typhoon occurred ina very short time at around 4.30p.m. on Saturday. “The strong windmoved easterly at high speed. Ithought it was not a whirlwind, but

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JAKARTA - The government hasdesignated three areas in the prov-inces of Banten, East Java and EastKalimantan to develop clusters ofpetrochemical industries.

Banten would be developed into acluster of olefin industries, East Java acluster of aromatic industries and EastKalimantan a cluster of gas-based in-dustries, Industry Minister MS Hidayatsaid in Cilegon, Banten, on Saturday.

“In the future the development ofpetrochemical industries will be di-rected towards creating clusters of in-

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

42, told AFP.The network, which Hamas has been ac-

cused of using to smuggle weapons into theterritory, has withstood Israeli air strikes andEgyptian attempts to flood the tunnels withwater and gas. Citing national security, Egyptis now building an underground iron wall ina bid to tighten its Sinai border with the res-tive Palestinian territory.

The United States has voiced its supportfor the wall’s construction, saying it will stoparms smuggling.

Indonesia, the world’s most populousMuslim nation, with 234 million people, is astrong supporter of the Palestinian cause.

AFP PHOTO / Bay ISMOYO

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

Hundreds of housesdamaged in Cilacap typhoon

a typhoon,” he said.At least seven houses collapsed

in the typhoon.The disaster also caused major

damage to 31 houses and minordamage to 157 others.

A local resident, identified asJadi, was injured when he tried toget out of his collapsed house, hesaid. There was no immediate reportof material damage caused by thedisaster.

Supardan said the typhoon alsohit neighboring Bringkeng village,causing one house to cave in andleaving 65 others heavily and lightlydamaged.

Minister inspects Tanjung Priokport’s readiness for ACFTA

industrial sector in the country.“The most important factor for the

industrial sector is mechanism in theport,” he said.

MS Hidayat was received by thedirector general of customs, ThomasSugijata and the president director ofPelindo II, Richard Jose Lino.

Indonesia signed the ACFTA forimplementation as of January 1, 2010after signing a similar agreement withJapan before.

With the agreements manufactur-ing and agricultural products fromIndonesia could enter the partners’markets without tariff barriers.

However with them the country’sdomestic market could also be floodedby products from China and Japan if

the domestic industries could notcompete. An economist from stateUniversity of Indonesia, NinasaptiTriaswati, said the ACFTA would notbenefit all industrial sectors in thecountry.

“For some manufacturing indus-tries such as garment and footwearindustries the implementation of thefree trade agreement would eventhreaten continuity,” she said.

She said the onslaught of productsfrom China could threaten local prod-ucts. Therefore, she urged the gov-ernment to protect the continuity oflocal industries by postponing theimplementation of the free marketagreement for several industriespending their readiness for it.

AFP PHOTO / CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN

A partial sollar eclipse shines through a silhouette of theBaiturrahman mosque in Banda Aceh on January 15, 2010. Thesolar eclipse is an annular eclipse of the sun as the moon ob-scures its view from earth.

Government designates threeareas for chemical industry clusters

dustries to improve their competitiveedge,” he said.

The development of industrialclusters was aimed at strengtheningthe country’s industrial structurewhich would integrate upstream anddownstream industries, he said.

To that end, the government wasencouraging national businesspeopleto take optimum advantage of localresources to meet their industries’demand for raw materials, he said.

“To support the effort the govern-ment has drawn up a number of poli-cies, including a regulation on enhanc-ing the use of domestic products,” he

said. Hopefully, the policies whichgave national industries an easy ac-cess to local resources would helpimprove their performance, he said.

The minister said the nationalchemical industry; including petro-chemical industry had the potentialsto develop well because there was stilla gap between supply and demand.

In 2007, the national chemical in-dustry had a total production capac-ity of 37.67 million tons and increasedto 38.24 million tons in 2008. Thecountry’s exports of chemicals alsoincreased to 5.63 million tons in 2008from 5.2 million tons in 2007, he said.

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He said that the yellow with redflag means the beach is still safe andeveryone can play on the beach.

The facilities such as toilets arestill open in order to serve the tour-ists who wanted to take a bath afterthey swim or surf. The tourists onlyforbid to swim or surf on the areabetween the red flags because usu-ally the area is very dangerous.

Suparka said “even tough thesituation is normal but we always pre-pare enough personnel to secure thebeach and watch the tourists. Thereare 68 officers stand by and patrol-ling on the beach and 50 others stay-ing in the office.”

Denpasar Geophysics and Me-teorology Department predicted thatthere will be high waves in the nextfew days but Kuta beach is till in nor-

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DENPASAR – Kuta beachcovered with garbage that camefrom the sea due to the strongwind which happens since De-cember 2009. I Gusti NgurahTresna, the head of Kuta beachofficers, said “the officers al-ready clean the garbage every daybut it still pilled up in many partsof the beach.”

The waves keep carryinggarbage to the beach and the of-ficers along with the sellers allaround the beach have been

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DENPASAR - I Wayan Maliana,the father of a Balinese woman whosurvived the devastating earthquake inHaiti last Tuesday expressed his grati-tude to God Almighty for saving hisdaughter, Ni Luh Made Juini (35).

“I thank Ida Sang HyangWidhi, God Almighty, for saving mydaughter during the disaster,”Maliana said when contacted in

Dusun Kembang Merta, Bedugul,Tabanan district, on Saturday.

He asked the government tofacilitate his daughter’s return, alongwith two of Juini’s colleagues whowere also working in Haiti, namelyNi Ketut Yasri Astiti and I Gusti PutuAyu Sukerti.

Maliana said he would offerprayers in a shrine as a token of grati-tude to God for his daughter’s sur-vival from the devastating earth-quake which caused some 200,000casualties in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

He said he and his family werevery worried about Juni’s conditionwhen they heard about the quake inTahiti, the more so because theywere unable to call Juini by tele-phone.

“Maybe because the commu-nication network in Haiti was de-stroyed, but my family always

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DENPASAR – Kuta beach is still safe for the tourists whowanted to bath, swim, or even surf because the wave is till nor-mal. I Made Suparka, the head of Badung Lifeguard(Balawista), said “the beach is never closed. During the highwaves last year which can be up to 4 meters high, we neverclose the beach. Currently the waves are only 1.5 meter high soeveryone can still enjoy the beach.”

mal condition. However, sand often carried by

the strong wind and it disturb the visi-tor but during rain, the condition isnot happening.

Kuta beach is still safe forthe tourists who wanted to

bath, swim, or even surfbecause the wave is till

normal. I Made Suparka, thehead of Badung Lifeguard

(Balawista), said “the beachis never closed. During thehigh waves last year whichcan be up to 4 meters high,

we never close the beach.Currently the waves are only

1.5 meter high so everyonecan still enjoy the beach.” http://keepingupwiththefox.files.wordpress.com

Kuta beach covered with garbageworking hard to get rid off thegarbage. “We have been cleaningup since morning through the af-ternoon but the garbage keepcmoning,” he added.

Ngurah Tresna explainedthat currently there are 33 offic-ers and more than 1,000 sellerswho participate in cleaning thebeach. “During Decemberthrough January 2010 period, weclean up the beach up to six timesa day. In normal season, we onlydo it twice, in the morning and af-ternoon,” he added.

The officers also use three

loaders and garbage trucks to cleanthe garbage. The garbage consistsof bottles, cigarettes, plastics, partsof tress, and others.

Ayu Wulandari, a tourist fromJakarta, said that she and herfriends are very disturbed with thegarbage. The smell is unbearableand it make activities on the beachare not comfortable.

“I know the condition be-cause of the force of nature but thegovernment should act faster so itwon’t give a bad image to Bali,”she added. However, Ayu said shewill visit the beach again someother times because Kuta is themost favourite tourism site in Bali.

While Rahayu, a seller inKuta beach, said that when the gar-bage pilled up, her income de-creased greatly. “Since the garbagefilled the beach, I only can gain50,000 rupiah while on the normalday I can get 150,000 rupiah a day.No one wanted to sunbathe nearthe garbage,” she added.

Tourist trying to pass thepiles of garbage at Kutabeach. Kuta beach coveredwith garbage that came fromthe sea due to the strong windwhich happens since Decem-ber 2009.Bali Post/Eka

Father of Haiti quakesurvivor from Bali grateful

watched television coverage of theearthquake in the hope there wassomething about my daughter,”Maliana said.

On Thursday (Jan 14) Juinisent an email to her family about hercondition and said she was safe.

“She said that she was evacu-ated by a United Nations rescueteam that had come to her hotel,”Maliana said.

The worries of Maliana andhis family were over after they wereable to communicate directly withJuini by phone on Friday (Jan 15)and Saturday morning (Jan 16).

“My daughter said she wouldreturn to Bali after her travel docu-ments were completed,” saidMaliana.

Juini is the second child of IWayan Maliana and Ni KetutRumini who had been working inHaiti since February 6, 2009.

The head of Bali’s Manpowerand Transmigration office, MadeArtadana, said of the three Balinesewomen who had gone to Haiti, Juiniwas the only one officially listed bythe office as a migrant worker.

Juini was sent to Haiti by acompany named Botanical Spa onFebruary 6, 2009. “Of the three, onlyJuini went to work abroad legally,”Artadana said.

Balinese Culture

Monday, January 18, 2010 9al

Ingredients:

DIPPING SAUCE

1/2 c Peanut butter1/2 c Water1 tb Brown sugar; packed1 tb Lemon juice1/2 ts Salt1/2 ts Red pepper sauce1 sm Garlic clove; crushed

SHRIMP1 1/2 lb Shrimp; peeled2 tb Vegetable oil2 tb Water1 tb Lemon juice1 ts Brown sugar; packed1/2 ts Salt1/2 ts Red pepper suace2 Garlic cloves; crushed

Directions:Prepare dipping sauce by mixing all ingredients until

smooth. Cover until serving time. Make a shallow cutlengthwise down back of shrimp; wash out vein. Mixremaining ingredients in medium glass bowl. Addshrimp; stir to coat with marinade. Cover and refrigerateat least 1 hour. Remove shrimp from marinade; reservemarinade. Thread shrimp on 6, 15" metal skewers,leaving space between each. Cover and grill shrimpabout 4" from medium coals, 10-20 minutes, turning andbrushing 2-3 times with marinade, until shrimp are pink.Serve with sauce, and if desired, lime wedges. (http://asiarecipe.com)

“Kertalangu Cultural Village” hasnow emerged in Denpasar City. Situ-ated at the village of Kesiman,Kertalangu, East Denpasar District has80 hectares of rice fields. The presenceof this resort brings a new expectationthat is not only rejuvenating the down-towners but also demonstrates theircommitment to maintain the verdantrice fields in the heart of Denpasar.

Early inspiration for developing theKertalangu Cultural Village was gen-erated by the concerns of some publicfigures related to the conversion ofland function from agricultural landuse to that of housing complex. “Wefeel extremely concerned that the ricefield lands here are getting narrowerand narrower due to the sale of themto developers for housing.”

“After long and adequate consid-eration and discussion together withthe local figures, we eventually cameto a decision to maintain these rice fieldareas and endeavor to improve the in-come of farmers through the tourismarea development of this KertalanguCultural Village,” explained the Vil-lage Head of the Kesiman Kertalanguto Bali Travel News.

Sustained by a local entrepreneur,Ingredients

4 crabs6 Shallots2 Stalks lemon

grass2 ts Tamarind1/2 c Boiling

water1 Handful

coriander leaves3 Cloves garlic1 tb Fresh galangal2 To 3 birdseye chillies, -seeded4 Candlenuts1 t Blachan1 t TumericSalt and pepper to taste3 tb Oil2 c Coconut milk

Directions:Cut the 4 crabs into quarters with a cleaver or large

knife. With a hammer, gently crack the claws and hardersections of shell.

Finely chop 6 shallots and 2 stalks lemon grass.Steep 2 teaspoons tamarind in half a cup of boilingwater. Chop a handful of fresh coriander leaves.

In a food processor, grind together 3 cloves garlic, 1tablespoon fresh galangal, 2-3 birdseye chillies, seeded,4 candlenuts (or substitute 8-10 cashews) and 1teaspoon blachan (hard dark brown shrimp paste), 1teaspoon turmeric and salt and pepper to taste. Heat 3tablespoons oil in a large wok or pan, and fry the pasteuntil fragrant. Add shallots, lemon grass, crab piecesand 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 aserving dish and scatter the fresh coriander on top.Serve with plain rice. (http://asiarecipe.com)

Kertalangu Cultural Village:The Conversion of LandFunction of Denpasar City

the area of green belt situated at the endof Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai, Tohpatiis developed into a tourism area hav-ing the basis of culture and agriculture.For the initial phase, the jogging trackand other supporting facilities such asrestaurant, open stage, spa and beautysalon, fishing pond and others are pre-pared to draw the interest of visitors. Ajogging track passing through anembankment of the field along 4 kmcan be accessed freely by visitors.“Hopefully, visitors taking advan-tage of this facility could provideadded value for farmers. While hav-ing recreation, visitors can purchasethe products offered by farmers suchas water spinach, soy, corn or fish-ing in the pond where the fish havebeen stocked by local farmers.”

“Similarly, we will offer the activi-ties of traditional farming such as plow-ing, harvesting and the like to visitors.Part of the profit will definitely be de-livered to farmers. Apart from thatmatter, organic farming will becomeour future plan,” said Dewa Rai (Man-ager of Uber Sari Bali Group), an en-trepreneur appointed to manage theKertalangu Cultural Village.

In its development as a new tourist

area (soft opening 22 June 2007), theKertalangu Cultural Village endeavorsto discover the art and cultural poten-tial of surrounding community. Thereare several art troupes (11 in total)which can be found virtually at everysingle hamlet within the territory ofKesiman Kertalangu Village. Some ofthem have even been presented to en-tertain visitors. “We have the troupeof kecak, barong, joged and otherdances,” added the Village Head whilepointing out the open stage with thebackground of rice fields, the scenewhere those performances are fre-quently given.

Additionally, the Kertalangu Cul-tural Village is also held up by the cen-ters of Balinese cottage industries suchas ceramics, decorative candles, glass,resin, wind chimes, earthenware ves-sels, woodcarving and natural stonecarving scattered throughout the village.“If the financial assistance from theMayor for the making of a ‘chariot’ pathin the midst of rice field can be real-ized, we will make an attractive tourpackage. In this package, visitors willbe able to enjoy chariot riding aroundthe village and passing through the ricefield area. (BTN/tar)

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JATILUWIH is a favorite tourist destina-tion in Bali famous with the beautiful rice ter-race unfolding from the foot of mountain un-til the coastal side. It is one of places to visitin Bali with the beautiful view as accordingto its name from Jati and luwih, where Jatimean really and Luwih meaning especial,good, and beautiful or the equivalent. The lo-cal paddies are planted in this place look typi-cally of the high relative size plant if it is com-pared with other pre-eminent paddy plantedby most farmers in Bali. Despitefully,Jatiluwih also famous with its organic agri-culture system due to the location is locatedin the in the plateau of Watukaru Mount whichis suitable for the agriculture development.

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Jatiluwih Rice TerraceVillage and go to Jatiluwih and also from thewest side from Watukaru Temple pass toJatiluwih. Jatiluwih is many visited by touristfrom local and foreign countries who want toenjoy the cold atmosphere and beautiful pan-orama of rice terrace. Jatiluwih as a nature tour-ist destination in Bali which has been recognizedsince Dutch colonial build the Security Head-quarter and until now the local residents con-ceives with the Dutch Tangs. Indonesian gov-ernment has assigned the Jatiluwih to be a Tour-ist Destination Village because of this potency.

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Monday, January 18, 2010 11

BUSINESS

Agence France-Presse

LUXEMBOURG - Europe will struggleto copy US President Barack Obama’s plan totax banks in order to recoup bailout funds, theeuro group’s head said on Friday.

Obama “is doubtless right to propose themeasures he has,” Luxembourg Prime Minis-ter Jean-Claude Juncker told reporters, a dayafter Washington outlined a scheme to raise 90billion dollars (63 billion euros) in 10 years.

“We have to see in Europe, not collectivelybut on a country-by-country basis, whether wecan act in the same fashion,” he added, threedays before he is expected to be re-elected tolead the 16 countries that share the euro.

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

The former French finance minister saidhe could not imagine lawmakers in developedcountries agreeing to any fresh bank rescues.

“I’m convinced that most parliaments, theCongress here in the United States, the NationalAssembly in France, Westminster in the UK,others, will be very reluctant, to say the least, togive money again to the financial sector,” theIMF chief said at a news conference in Wash-ington organized by the French AmericanChamber of Commerce.

“Especially when they see how the finan-cial sector behaves just in the aftermath of thecrisis,” he added, referring to the continuedpayment of lavish bonuses blamed for encour-

Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - US consumer pricesbarely rose in December amid a sluggish re-covery from recession, official data showedFriday, as falling wages pinched spendingthat drives most of the world’s largesteconomy.

The consumer price index raised lessthan expected in December, by 0.1 percentfrom November, the Labor Department re-ported in seasonally adjusted data.

Most analysts had forecast a strongerCPI rise of 0.2 percent.

The so-called “core” CPI, which ex-cludes food and energy prices and is used bythe Federal Reserve to forecast future infla-tion, rose 0.1 percent as expected.

Inflation “was broad-based, with the in-dexes for food, energy, and all items less foodand energy all posting modest increases,” theLabor Department said.

The year ended with the inflation rate at2.7 percent from a year ago, a sharp increaseover 0.1 percent inflation in 2008, the firstfull year of the worst downturn since theGreat Depression.

Inflation stood at 4.1 percent in Decem-ber 2007 as the economy officially enteredrecession.

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

“The US is still in the grip of intensedisinflationary forces, despite the basis ef-fect lifting the headline year-on-year rate. De-flation risk is real,” said Ian Shepherdson,chief US economist at High Frequency Eco-nomics.

“There is no indication that inflation iseven a remote danger, and the Fed’s aggres-sive credit expansion and low interest ratepolicy have not had the inflationary effectsthat some cri t ics feared,” said AndresCarbacho-Burgos at Moody’s Economy.com.

Brian Wesbury at First Trust Economicdisagreed, saying consumer prices rose 3.3percent annual rate in the final three monthsof the year.

“Investors and the Fed need to stop wor-rying so much about economic growth and

Tame inflation, falling wagessignal weak US recovery

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

The Labor Department said energy pricessurged 18.2 percent in 2009, the sharpest risesince 1979. Gasoline prices leapt 53.5 per-cent, an all-time record gain in the data se-ries that began in 1937.

The hefty increases came in comparisonwith 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 arebuilding greatly is in energy. While demandremains weak, the price of oil have been ris-ing fairly sharply,” said Joel Naroff of NaroffEconomic Advisors.

Amid double-digit unemployment andthe loss of more than seven million jobs sincethe recession began, US workers saw theirpaychecks shrink last year.

Real average weekly earnings were un-changed in December from November, theLabor Department reported separately.

But on a 12-month basis, weekly earn-ings fell 1.6 percent, the worst pullback since1990, after rising 3.1 percent in 2008.

The inflation and wages readings camea day after the Commerce Department re-ported retail sales fell unexpectedly, by 0.3percent, in December, capping the worst yearon record for the spending that drives two-thirds of the country’s economy.

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

The Fed, in its Beige Book report on theeconomy Wednesday, said that because of thehigh level of unemployment, wage pressureswere “subdued” and overall inflationary pres-sures modest.

The US economy expanded 2.2 percentin the third quarter of 2009, after four quar-ters of contraction. The government is set torelease its initial estimate of fourth-quartergross domestic product on January 29.

The Fed and most economists expectdata to show continued growth in the fourthquarter and into 2010 but worry that high un-employment — at 10 percent in December —will curb consumer confidence and spending.

Strauss-Kahn saysStrauss-Kahn saysStrauss-Kahn saysStrauss-Kahn saysStrauss-Kahn saysbanks unlikely to getbanks unlikely to getbanks unlikely to getbanks unlikely to getbanks unlikely to getany new bailoutsany new bailoutsany new bailoutsany new bailoutsany new bailoutsAgence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn said Friday bailout-weary governments are unlikely to rescue banks ifanother financial crisis develops.

aging excessive risk taking that caused the glo-bal financial crisis.

Strauss-Kahn stressed the need for newmeans to address the problems that had spunthe global economy into its worst downturn indecades.

“We have 12 months or 24 months to beable to set up something which would be... saferand which would be more likely to resist, avoidthe kind of problem we just had,” he said.

The IMF estimates that the Group of 20major developed and emerging economies spentmore than 1.9 trillion dollars to support theirfinancial systems between 2008 and August2009 amid the global crisis.

‘Difficult’ for Europe to copyObama bank tax plan: Juncker

tax matters are reserved for national decision-making” within the 27-member EuropeanUnion.

Ministers from the 16 euro countries willnevertheless hold informal talks on the issuesraised when they meet in Brussels on Mondayevening, principally concerned with ongoingGreek debt woes and their possible wider im-pact on the eurozone.

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

A similar initiative has since been an-nounced by France but calls from Europe forthe International Monetary Fund to pursue abroad-based, international tax on financial trans-actions have elicited little backing.

A woman walks pasta shop windowadvertising sales incentral Athens onJanuary 15, 2010.European financeministers will seeknext January 19, 2010to pressure Greece toimprove the reliabilityof its economicstatistics, afterscathing criticismfrom Brussels.struggling economy.

In this photomade Dec. 8,2009, a butcherputs out meat atCostco in Moun-tain View, Calif.US consumerprices barelyrose in Decem-ber amid asluggish recov-ery from reces-sion, official datashowed Friday,as falling wagespinched spend-ing that drivesmost of theworld’s largesteconomy.

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Entertainment InternationalMonday, January 18, 201012

“Avatar,” which scored ninenominations, was named best actionmovie, and picked up five otherawards in newly established tech-nical categories to lead the overallfield. Jeff Bridges was named bestactor for playing a drunken countrysinger in “Crazy Heart,” while theactress award was a tie betweenMeryl Streep for “Julie & Julia” andSandra Bullock for “The BlindSide.”

The supporting actor awardswent to a pair of on-screen villains:Austrian actor Christoph Waltz forhis turn as a malevolent Nazi in“Inglourious Basterds” and come-dienne Mo’Nique who played anabusive mother in “Precious.”

SUPERMODEL and new momGisele Bundchen has become the lat-est star to dig deep and give big to thevictims of Tuesday’s Haiti earthquake- she has donated $1.5 million to re-lief efforts. The Brazilian has handedover the cash to the Red Cross afterseeing news coverage of the devasta-tion the 7.0-magnitude quake caused.

In a statement, she says, “I amheartbroken by the catastrophicevents of the past six days in Haiti.It is important in times like these thatwe come together and find ways tohelp in any way we can.” Brad Pittand Angelina Jolie have donated $1million and Pitt and GeorgeClooney’s Not On Our Watch char-ity has donated another $1 million.

Meanwhile, Haitian-born WyclefJean is raising cash through his Yelefoundation and Madonna has do-nated $250,000 fforts. She states,“My prayers are with the people ofHaiti. I can’t imagine the terriblepain and suffering they are experi-encing. Sadly the depths of the trag-edy are just becoming known andthe need for our support grows moreurgent with every passing moment.I have given a donation of $250,000

HEIDI Montag’s The Hills co-star Audrina Patridge is support-ive of the wannabe pop star’s dra-matic cosmetic transformation butinsists ten procedures in one dayis “a little much.” Montag stunnedfans after undergoing a staggeringamount of surgery in just 24 hours,which included breast augmenta-tion, Botox, work on her butt andliposuction.

She admits she’s eyeing a ca-reer as a pop star to rival BritneySpears - but her former smallscreen pal Patridge has expressedconcern over the amount of workMontag went through.

Patridge tells People.com, “Ihaven’t seen how she looks, so it’shard for me to comment on it, butthese are her decisions, and as longas Heidi is happy, that’s all that

LIV Tyler has her “Armageddon” co-star Bruce Willis to thankfor her renewed love life - the Hollywood hardman set her upwith new boyfriend Charlie Hunnam, according to reports. Theactress, 32, has been largely single since splitting from her hus-band of five years, rocker Royston Langdon, in 2008, but shehas recently been spotted out in Los Angeles with British actorHunnam.

Star Magazine claims it was Willis who set up the love connec-tion. A source tells the magazine, “She was complaining to Brucethat she never meets nice guys. He introduced her to Charlie, andit just went from there.” And Tyler’s blossoming romance withthe 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 aguy since Royston.” Last month, Tyler’s representatives dismissedreports the actress was dating “Scrubs” star Zach Braff.

REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni

Actress Mo’Nique accepts her bestsupporting actress award for her role in

the film ‘Precious’ from actor TobeyMaguire at the 15th Critics’ Choice

Movie Awards at the Hollywood Palla-dium in Los Angeles, January 15, 2010.

“Hurt Locker” a blast at“Hurt Locker” a blast at“Hurt Locker” a blast at“Hurt Locker” a blast at“Hurt Locker” a blast atCritics Choice AwardsCritics Choice AwardsCritics Choice AwardsCritics Choice AwardsCritics Choice Awards

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

“Inglourious Basterds” won twoother awards: for director QuentinTarantino’s original screenplay andfor best ensemble. Along with the all-star musical “Nine,” it led the fieldwith 10 nominations. “Nine,” a ma-jor box-office bomb, went homeempty-handed. Other winners in-cluded Jason Reitman and SheldonTurner for their adapted screenplayfor “Up in the Air,” and Spanish film-maker Pedro Almodovar’s BrokenEmbraces” for foreign-language film.

The Critics’ Choice Awards, orga-nized by the 235 members of theBroadcast Film Critics Association inthe United States and Canada, haveestablished a reputation as the lead-ing barometer of Oscar success. In

the past 10 years, 80 percent of itsbest-picture winners went on to takeOscar gold. The success rate for di-rector, best actor and actress is 70percent. Backstage, the winners weredecidedly cagey about their Oscarchances ahead of the February 2nominations announcement.

Bridges, who has been nomi-nated for four Oscars but never won,simply hoped the awards attentionwould boost the commercial pros-pects of “Crazy Heart” — a coun-try version of last year’s Oscar hope-ful “The restler.” “It’s really won-derful to get the tip of the hat by theguys that do what you do,” he said.“So if that should happen it wouldbe wonderful.”

Bruce Willis PlayedCupid For Liv Tyler?

Audrina Patridge Thinks10 Plastic Surgeries InOne Day Is ‘A Little

matters. I think it’s a case of, ‘Toeach their own’, but ten proceduresin one day is a little much.”

An ingenue who entered thepublic spotlight in her early twen-ties, Audrina Patridge graduated tofame by virtue of multi-season star-dom on the MTV reality show TheHills, a spin-off of the samenetwork’s Laguna Beach: The RealOrange County.

Whereas the earlier programprovided a “reality”-style view ofthe lives of several average teenag-ers growing up in the ritzy area ofOrange County, CA (and its neigh-boring Laguna Beach), The Hillstook the same format but followedthe adventures of Laguna starLauren Conrad and her friends dur-ing their post-graduation years.Patridge did not appear on the origi-nal series, though she was an inte-gral part of the spin-off.

Seasons witnessed Patridgeworking at the offices of EpicRecords, socializing with herfriends, and dating co-star Justin“Bobby” Brescia for a period oftime. According to mainstream newssources, Patridge courted some con-troversy for a series of fetishistic,nude photographs of herself takenjust out of high school, which sur-faced on the Internet not long aftershe began to achieve fame. She in-dicated that she did the shoot to cullthe interest of Playboy magazine,which turned her down. NathanSouthern, All Movie Guide

Gisele Bundchen Donates $1.5Million To Haiti Relief Efforts

to assist Haiti’s earthquake victimsthrough Partners in Health, one ofHaiti’s leading healthcare providers.I urge all of my friends and fansaround the world to join me collec-tively to match my contribution orgive in any way you can.”

And actress Alyssa Milano hasdonated $50,000 to UNICEF for Haitirelief, asking, “Which corporation willmatch my donation?” In a TV inter-view, Wyclef revealed Haitians needat least $1 million a day in donations.

International Monday, January 18, 2010 13Life Style

“If we took the stem cells from onepig and multiplied it by a factor of amillion, we would need one millionfewer pigs to get the same amount ofmeat,” said Mark Post, a biologist atMaastricht University involved in theIn-vitro Meat Consortium, a networkof publicly funded Dutch research in-stitutions that is carrying out the ex-periments. Post describes the textureof the meat as sort of like scallop, firmbut a little squishy and moist. That’sbecause the lab meat has less proteincontent than conventional meat.

Several other groups in the U.S.,Scandinavia and Japan are also re-searching ways to make meat in thelaboratory, but the Dutch project is themost advanced, said Jason Matheny,who has studied alternatives to con-ventional meat at the Johns HopkinsBloomberg School of Public Health inBaltimore and is not involved in theDutch research. In the U.S., similarresearch was funded by NASA, whichhoped astronauts would be able togrow their own meat in space. But af-ter growing disappointingly thin sheetsof tissue, NASA gave up and decidedit would be better for its astronauts tosimply eat vegetarian.

To make pork in the lab, Post andcolleagues isolate stem cells from pigs’muscle cells. They then put those cellsinto a nutrient-based soup that helpsthe cells replicate to the desired num-ber. So far the scientists have only suc-ceeded in creating strips of meat about1 centimeter (a half inch) long; to makea small pork chop, Post estimates itwould take about 30 days of cell rep-

Associated Press Writer

SAN FRANCISCO – A Geor-gia mother and her two daughterslogged onto Facebook from mo-bile phones last weekend andwound up in a startling place:strangers’ accounts with full ac-cess to troves of private informa-tion. The glitch — the result of arouting problem at the family’swireless carrier, AT&T — re-vealed a little known security flawwith far reaching implications foreveryone on the Internet, not justFacebook users.

In each case, the Internet losttrack of who was who, putting thewomen into the wrong accounts.It doesn’t appear the users couldhave done anything to stop it. Theproblem adds a dimension to re-searchers’ warnings that there aremany ways online information —from mundane data to dark secrets— can go awry. Several securityexperts said they had not heard ofa case like this, in which thewrong person was shown a Webpage whose user name and pass-word had been entered by some-one else. It’s not clear whethersuch episodes are rare or simplynot reported. But experts said suchflaws could occur on e-mail ser-vices, for instance, and that some-thing similar could happen on aPC, not just a phone.

“The fact that it did happen isproof that it could potentially hap-pen again and with something alot more important thanFacebook,” said Nathan Hamiel,founder of the Hexagon SecurityGroup, a research organization.Candace Sawyer, 26, says sheimmediately suspected somethingwas wrong when she tried to visither Facebook page Saturdaymorning. After typingFacebook.com into her Nokiasmart phone, she was taken intothe site without being asked forher user name or password. Shewas in an account that didn’t looklike hers. She had fewer friend re-quests than she remembered.Then she found a picture of thepage’s owner.

“He’s white — I’m not,” shesaid with a laugh. Sawyer loggedoff and asked her sister, Mari, 31,her partner in a dessert cateringcompany, and their mother, Fran,57, to see whether they had thesame problem on their phones.Mari landed inside anotherwoman’s page. Fran’s phone —which had never been used to ac-cess Facebook before — took herinside yet another stranger’s page,one belonging to a young womanfrom Indiana. They sent an e-mailto one of their own accounts toprove it. They were dumbfounded.

“I thought it was the phone —`Maybe this phone is just weirdand does magical, horrible thingsand I have to get rid of it,’” saidCandace Sawyer. The women, wholive together in East Point, Ga.,outside Atlanta, had recently up-

AP Photo/Greg Wahl-Stephens

Stephen Simburg holds the mo-bile phone that he used when hefound himself logged into astranger’s Facebook accountrecently, as he stands outside acoffee shop in Vancouver, Wash.,Friday, Jan 15, 2010.

Network flaw causesscary Web error

graded to the same model of phoneand all used the same carrier,AT&T. Sawyer contacted The As-sociated Press after reporting theproblem to Facebook and AT&T.The problem wasn’t in the phones.It was a flaw in the infrastructureconnecting the phones to theInternet. That illuminates a graveproblem. Generally Web sites andcomputers are compromised fromwithin. A hacker can get a Webpage or computers to run program-ming code that they shouldn’t. Butin this case, it was a security gapbetween the phone and the Web sitethat exposed strangers’ Facebookpages to the Sawyers.Misconfigured equipment, poorlywritten network software or othertechnical errors could have causedAT&T to fumble the informationflowing from the Sawyers’ phonesto Facebook and back.

Fortunately, Hamiel said, thevulnerability would be of limiteduse to a hacker interested in pull-ing off widespread mayhem, be-cause this hole would let him ac-cess only one account at a time.To do more damage the criminalwould have to pull off the unlikelyfeat of gaining full control of thepiece of equipment that routesInternet traffic to individual users.AT&T spokesman Michael Coesaid its wireless customers havelanded in the wrong Facebookpages in “a limited number of in-stances” and that a network prob-lem behind those episodes is be-ing fixed. The Sawyers experi-enced a different glitch. Coe saidan investigation points to a “mis-directed cookie.” A cookie is a filesome Web sites place on comput-ers to store identifying informa-tion — including the user namethat Facebook members wouldenter to access their pages. Coesaid technicians couldn’t figureout how the cookie had beenrouted to the wrong phone, lead-ing it into the wrong Facebookaccount.

Scientists turn stemScientists turn stemScientists turn stemScientists turn stemScientists turn stemcells into porkcells into porkcells into porkcells into porkcells into porkAssociated Press Writer

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

In this handout photomade available on FridayJan. 15, 2010, a photomi-crograph of muscle tissueis seen. The muscle fibersare seen diagonally fromlower left to upper right.The blue dots are thenuclei of the cells, theyellow color is the resultof an overlay (green andred) of two of the mostimportant proteins inskeletal muscle, actin andmyosin. Dutch scientistshave been growing porkin a laboratory, call it porkin a petri dish, a techniqueto turn pig stem cells intostrips of meat thatscientists say could oneday offer an environment-friendly alternative toraising livestock.

lication in the lab.There are tantalizing health pos-

sibilities in the technology.Fish stem cells could be used to

produce healthy omega 3 fatty ac-ids, which could be mixed with thelab-produced pork instead of theusual artery-clogging fats found inlivestock meat. “You could possiblydesign a hamburger that preventsheart attacks instead of causingthem,” Matheny said. Post said thestrips they’ve made so far could beused as processed meat in sausagesor hamburgers. Their main problemis reproducing the protein content inregular meat: In livestock meat, pro-tein makes up about 99 percent ofthe product; the lab meat is onlyabout 80 percent protein. The rest ismostly water and nucleic acids.

None of the researchers have actu-ally eaten the lab-made meat yet, butPost said the lower protein contentmeans it probably wouldn’t taste any-thing like pork. The Dutch researchersstarted working with pork stem cellsbecause they had the most experiencewith pigs, but said the technologyshould be transferable to other meats,like chicken, beef and lamb. Some ex-perts warn lab-made meats might havepotential dangers for human health.

“With any new technology, therecould be subtle impacts that need tobe monitored,” said EmmaHockridge, policy manager at SoilAssociation, Britain’s leading or-ganic organization. As with geneti-cally modified foods, Hockridge saidit might take some time to prove the

new technology doesn’t harm hu-mans. She also said organic farm-ing relies on crop and livestock ro-tation, and that taking animals outof the equation could damage theecosystem. Some experts doubtedlab-produced meat could evermatch the taste of real meat.

“What meat tastes like dependsnot just on the genetics, but whatyou feed the animals at particulartimes,” said Peter Ellis, a biochem-istry expert at King’s College Lon-don. “Part of our enjoyment of eat-ing meat depends on the very com-plicated muscle and fatstructure...whether that can be rep-licated is still a question.” If itproves possible, experts say grow-ing meat in laboratories instead ofraising animals on farmland woulddo wonders for the environment.

Hanna Tuomisto, who studies theenvironmental impact of food pro-duction at Oxford University saidthat switching to lab-produced meatcould theoretically lower green-house gas emissions by up to 95percent. Both land and water usewould also drop by about 95 per-cent, she said. “In theory, if all themeat was replaced by culturedmeat, it would be huge for the en-vironment,” she said. “One animalcould produce many thousands ofkilograms of meat.” In addition, labmeat can be nurtured with relativelyfew nutrients like amino acids, fatsand natural sugars, whereas live-stock must be fed huge amounts oftraditional crops.

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Monday, January 18, 201014 InternationalSport

But now she is back, andwith a bang. “It feels reallygood to be back here. Obvi-ously, a lot of things havechanged around, the courts andeverything and inside. So thattook a few days to get used to‘knowing my way around’,” shesaid. “I was able to practise oncentre court a little bit. It’s justnice to see that again because Inever thought it would happenagain, to be playing tennis here.It?s exciting.”

The popular Belgian pro-duced the tennis story of theyear in 2009 when she came outof retirement to win the USOpen after being granted awildcard. Whether she can re-peat that feat here remains to be

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES – LeBron James scored 13 ofhis 32 points in the fourth quarter and the Cleve-land Cavaliers survived a 3-point attempt at thefinal buzzer by Baron Davis for a 102-101 victoryover the Los Angeles Clippers on Saturday night.Mo Williams added 18 points for the Eastern Con-ference-leading Cavaliers. Reserve guard DelonteWest, who didn’t participate in the morningshootaround because of stomach issues, played 29minutes and finished with 14 points.

Rasual Butler tied a career high with 33 pointsfor the banged-up Clippers and Eric Gordon addeda season-high 28. Center Chris Kaman missed hisfourth 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 theirlast 10 on the road. They beat the Clippers for theseventh straight time, are 40-9 against WesternConference teams since the start of last season, andhave won their last 11 against Pacific Division

Agence France - Presse

MELBOURNE – Defending cham-pion Rafael Nadal says this year’s Aus-tralian Open is a lottery, with any one ofa dozen players capable of winning. Theworld number two Spaniard, who beatRoger Federer here last year in a grip-ping five-set final, admitted he was notthe favourite this time after his injurylayoff, but didn’t want to say who hethought was.

“We will see what happens, I don’tknow,” he said. “A lot of players can winright now. I don’t want to say everybody,but like 12 players, 13 players have agood chance.” Federer is obviously oneof them, as is Nadal, Andy Murray andNovak Djokovic, with NikolayDavydenko the form player havingbeaten the Spaniard in the Qatar Openfinal this month.

Nadal’s failure to win that tourna-ment means he comes into the openingGrand Slam of the season without a titlein eight months, with the last one com-ing on the Barcelona clay in April. Nadalsaid he hadn’t had bad results, but wasjust struggling to get back to winningtournaments. “I didn’t have bad resultsthe last five months, but I didn’t haveperfect results,” he said.

“But I played, I was there (for) all thetournaments. Sure, it’s true, playing againstthe top players I didn’t have very good re-sults, but I wasn’t playing bad. I just needa little bit more.” With injuries hamperingthe 23-year-old for much of last year, hefaces a telling time at the Australian Open,which should provide a guide as to his cur-rent standing in men’s tennis. He insists theconfidence is there, it’s just a question ofonce again winning a final.

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

Kim Clijsters of Belgium hitsa return during a practice

session in the lead-up to theAustralian Open tennis

tournament in Melbourne.Clijsters is a big crowd

favourite at Melbourne Parkand she returns to the Aus-

tralian Open on Mondaydetermined to give her fans

something to cheer.

Clijsters ready to give fans what they wantClijsters ready to give fans what they wantClijsters ready to give fans what they wantClijsters ready to give fans what they wantClijsters ready to give fans what they wantAgence France - Presse

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

seen, with not just the Williamssisters standing in her way, butalso the returning Justine Henin.But the powerful Clijsters showedshe is a major threat by winningthe Brisbane International warm-up event, beating Henin in a clas-sic final, and no-one is ready todiscard her.

“I’ve really put in the workand the effort, so I think that willalways pay off in some sort ofway,” said the Belgian, who is re-turning to the tour full time thisyear. She said her focus would beon the major tournaments. “Myfocus is not really based on rank-ing as much as probably reallyaiming for the big tournaments. Ithink my schedule for the year isfar from being busy,” she said.

“Obviously, I hope to do wellat the tournaments, but I think I?llplay about 15 or 16 tournaments,maybe including Fed Cups and ev-erything.” She gets her tourna-ment underway on Mondayagainst Canadian qualifier ValerieTetreault.

(AFP/Paul Crock)

LeBron’s big fourth quarterleads Cavs over Clips

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

clubs. The Cavs began the second half of their sched-

ule with their 31st victory, tying the defendingchampion Lakers for the most in the league. At31-11, they are off to their third-best start after 42games in the franchise’s 40-year history — threegames worse than the club-record start they hadlast season. The Cavaliers, who came in holdingopponents to league-lows of 34.7 points in the paintper game and 43.4 percent field goal shooting, lim-ited the short-handed Clippers to 30 points in thepaint 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 withoutits leading scorer, who is averaging 20.4 pointsand 9.4 rebounds and was last week’s Western Con-ference player of the week. The Clippers wereoutrebounded 32-27, becoming the 16th straightCleveland opponent to lose the battle of the boards.The Clippers led by as many as 13 points withabout 3 minutes left in the third quarter. The Cava-liers kept chipping away in the fourth, but Butler’shot perimeter shooting kept them at bay until West’stip-in gave Cleveland a 100-99 lead with 2:51 re-maining.

Butler paced the Clippers to a 56-47 halftimelead with 19 points on 7-for-9 shooting. James wentto the bench with 2:38 left in the first quarter afterpicking up his second foul, and by the time he re-turned with 6:43 remaining in the half, Los Ange-les had its five-point lead reduced to three. About4 minutes into the second quarter, West had someimpromptu fun with a heckling fan who calls him-self “Clipper Darrell” and shows up at every homegame wearing a shiny and gaudy blue-and-redcostume. When West went to the free throw linefor the first time, Darrell went into his trademarkinsult: “U-G-L-Y, you ain’t got no alibi.

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

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Defending Australian Open Cham-pion Rafael Nadal of Spain eyes theball during a hot practice session inthe lead-up to the Australian Opentennis tournament in Melbourne.Nadal says this year’s AustralianOpen is a lottery, with any one of adozen players capable of winning.

Aussie Grand Slam wide open, says Rafanaments. “So I think I am in the right way.It needs a little bit more time ... but I amready to try to play my best tennis. I thinkI am playing well, I think I am playingmuch better than what I did in the lastfour months.”

He opens his tournament with a firstround match against Australian PeterLuczak, with Briton Andy Murray loom-ing as a possible quarter-final opponent.Nadal was not ready to look that farahead. “I never talk about quarter-finalsbefore getting there,” he said. “There arefour matches until the quarter-finals. Wewill see what’s happen before that.”

Monday, January 18, 2010 15International Sport

An own goal from Julien Escudeand a Pedro Rodriguez strike cappeda miserable second half for Sevillawho paid a heavy price for knockingBarcelona out of the Kings Cup inmidweek. Real had crashed to theirthird defeat of the season with a 1-0loss at Athletic Bilbao earlier on Sat-urday and Barca made them pay forthe slip-up notching their first homewin of 2010 to open up a five-pointcushion.

“There is the whole second halfof the season to go so we shouldn’tget too complacent,” said Messi, wholeads the goalscoring charts with 14goals. It was the third meeting be-tween Barca and Sevilla in 11 daysand after losing out in the cupBarcelona set the score straight asSevilla fell to a fourth consecutiveleague defeat and now languish downin sixth. Bilbao are now level onpoints with Sevilla after their battling

Milan -Jose Mourinho bitterly criticised the ref-

eree and Mario Balotelli after a four-goalthriller at the San Nicola. “Why wasLeonardo Bonucci not sent off?” Inter foughtback from 2-0 down to hold Bari to a 2-2draw this evening, once again needing a re-markable comeback to pick up points.

“Obviously I’m satisfied with thefightback from 2-0 down away from homeagainst a quality side. Obviously I’m not sat-isfied at going 2-0 down,” said Mourinhoon Sky Italia. “From the bench I had cleardoubts over the penalties. The first is the kindof penalty you can give or not, I still haveconcerns over the second.”

The Coach was more irritated with thereferee for not showing Bonucci the red cardfor his penalty foul on Goran Pandev. “Itseems like there is a rule for us and one forthe others. Against Milan Gennaro Gattusowas not given a red card for his foul onSamuel Eto’o, while today Bonucci abso-lutely should’ve been sent off for a last manfoul. It’s clear.”

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

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LONDON – Chelsea reasserted their credentialsas Premier League title favourites on Saturday witha 7-2 demolition of Sunderland that manager CarloAncelotti hailed as their best performance of the sea-son. Manchester United, who have played a gamemore than the leaders, remained one point off thepace after a 3-0 win over Burnley at Old Trafford.But it was another frustrating day for Liverpool, whoconceded a last-minute equaliser at Stoke and wastedan opportunity to close the gap on Manchester Cityand 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 asmanager last month, Spurs were able to edge themout of the Champions League qualifying placesthanks to a goalless draw at home to Hull. Chelseawere irresistible at Stamford Bridge, where NicolasAnelka and Frank Lampard both scored twice on anafternoon when they might easily have reached doubefigures.

Florent Malouda, Ashley Cole and MichaelBallack also found the net with Boudewijn Zendenand Darren Bent providing consolation efforts forSteve Bruce’s outclassed side. Ancelotti was de-lighted to see his side prove they could thrive in theabsence of Didier Drogba, Michael Essien, JohnMikel Obi and Salomon Kalou, all of whom are awayat the African Cup of Nations. “I’ve always said wehave a fantastic squad and today we have done agood job,” the Italian said.

There were no such fireworks at Old Trafford,where the Manchester United faithful had to waituntil the 56th minute before Dimitar Berbatov brokeBurnley’s resistance. Wayne Rooney’s 16th goal ofthe season and substitute Mame Biram Diouf’s firstfor the club made sure that Brian Laws’s first matchin charge of Burnley ended in defeat. Fergusonpraised Senegalese striker Diouf, who joined fromNorwegian club FC Molde. “He’s got great spring,he’s quick and he looks to run behind the defendersall the time and he’s very good in the air,” said theUnited boss.

A second-half goal from Sotirios Kyrgiakos hadlooked like it would be enough to ease the pressureon Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez following the

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Barcelona’s Argentinian forward Lionel Messi, Barcelona’sFrench forward Thierry Henry, Barcelona’s defender GerardPique and Barcelona’s Mexican defender Rafael Marquez cel-ebrate after scoring gainst Sevilla during their Spanish Leaguefootball match on January 16, 2010 at Camp Nou stadium inBarcelona.

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

1-0 win over Real at San Mames. Spanish international forward

Fernando Llorente headed the deci-sive goal after just two minutes andBilbao survived an onslaught - withKarim Benzema, Kaka and CristianoRonaldo all going close - to hold onfor an historic win. “We created thechances to get a better result and therewas almost only one team on thepitch,” said Real coach ManuelPellegrini.

“However, you have to havesome luck to convert these chances.When you lose you have obviouslynot done something right. “There isa long way to go in the league withmore than half of it remaining. Nowit is important we beat Malaga athome (in the next league match).”Zlatan Ibrahimovic returned fromsuspension for Barcelona and shouldhave scored in the sixth minute butarrived too early to convert Thierry

Henry’s cross. Henry almost scored himself on

12 minutes but Andres Palop rushedout to block the French striker’spoked effort. Palop also tipped overa Lionel Messi deflected shot beforehalf-time. Barca got the early break-through with Gerard Pique’s shot de-flected in off Escude. For the subse-quent quarter hour Barca put theirfoot down as Palop made three savesto deny Messi and Henry whileIbrahimovic had a header ruled outfor offside.

A second goal was coming andarrived 20 minutes from time withXavi threading an incredible pass tosubtitute Pedro who lobbed Palop andthe goal had the whole crowd on theirfeet applauding. Messi scored fiveminutes from time and added his sec-ond in stoppage time. The result wasbad news for Real whose away formis threatening to shatter their title bid.

Mou Protested Referee’s decision

Inter Milan’sArgentinianforward DiegoAlberto Milito(R) celebrateswith his team-mates afterscoring againstBari duringtheir ItalianSerie A footballmatch onJanuary 16,2010 at Bari’sstadium.

cal kind of game where putting the pressurea bit higher we could win it. We started thesecond much the same way, but two penal-ties in five minutes changed everything. Thematch seemed lost, but once again the ladsfought back with great spirit to earn a point.

“In the last half-hour if Bari were re-duced to 10 men and didn’t have a singlecentre-back to put on in Bonucci’s place,then we can say the referee had a big impacton the result. “We studied Bari and knewthey attacked with four players going for-ward. We kept our defence high on purpose,as if we had gone deeper then losing the ballwould’ve been disastrous. This is why Baridid not score on the counter-attack, they werekept under control except for an individualerror and a dubious spot-kick.”

“I say again that a mistake can be madeon a penalty, but why was Bonucci not sentoff? If the referee decides it is a penalty withPandev one-on-one with the goalkeeper,then how can that not be a red card?”Mourinho also had less than kind words forBalotelli, who was visibly annoyed when hewas substituted. “In defensive terms,Balotelli was useless. He needs to workharder at closing down the man or the spaceand tonight he did neither.”

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Chelsea’s French player Florent Maloudacontrols the ball during the English Pre-mier League football match betweenChelsea and Sunderland at StamfordBridge in London on January 16, 2010.

Magnificent seven boosts Chelsea title pushclub’s FA Cup exit to Championship side Readingearlier in the week. But the defensive frailty that hashampered Liverpool throughout the campaign wasexposed again in the 90th minute when Robert Huthscrambled in an equaliser after the visitors had failedto clear a corner.

Having been denied what appeared to be a clearpenalty in the first half, Liverpool suffered furtherfrustration when Dirk Kuyt headed against the postin the fifth minute of injury time. “It feels like a de-feat,” admitted Kuyt. “We aren’t playing the bestfootball at the moment, but I thought we fought re-ally hard for this result, and to concede in the lastminute and even miss a great chance in the lastminute is unbelievable.”

City had begun life under Mancini with fourstraight wins but they flunked their first serious testat Goodison Park. A Steven Pienaar free-kick and aLouis Saha penalty earned Everton a thoroughlydeserved victory and lifted David Moyes’s side intothe top half of the table for the first time this season.Wigan pulled away from the relegation zone with a2-0 win at fellow strugglers Wolves in a match bothteams ended with ten men.

Monday, January 18, 201016 Sport“Because we were in such a po-

sition of leading the championshipby quite a few points, we were toocautious,” Button admitted on themain stage at the AUTOSPORT In-ternational Show. “We didn’t wantanything to go wrong. We were toocautious for the situation, althoughyou can say too cautious and westill ended up winning the champi-onship. I think we should have beena little bit more aggressive with ourstrategy, and also myself, I shouldhave been more aggressive.”

“It was a position I had neverbeen in before. It was something Ireally learned through the season,and it is amazing that you learn somuch when you are fighting for achampionship - a championshipthat is so important to you. So it wasa very up and down season, andwhen we got to Brazil, and also acouple of races before Brazil, werealised we started to need to getaggressive again and we really hadto fight for this.”

He added: “It wasn’t just goingto come to us. The thing is there wassome negative publicity for acouple of races, but we never for-got that we had such a lead in thechampionship. We had a 14 pointlead, and that was the worst it evergot before I won the championship,which is massive. Jenson ButtonThe last three years have been wonby one or two points, so it was avery strange position to be in know-ing you had to be a little conserva-DUCATI boss Claudio Domenicali believes his team

should prioritise retaining Casey Stoner over chasing a dealwith Valentino Rossi. Rossi has been linked with a switch toDucati for 2011, especially after he intimated that Yamahacould not continue giving him and Jorge Lorenzo equal sta-tus and should nominate a clear number one.

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

“Nicky gave us a wonderful lesson on life and manage-ment. Our motto is ‘never give up’ and Nicky taught us onceagain that we must never give up, so to think about some-thing different with such a team is not appropriate. Howeverit is true that our agreements are going to expire mid-season.So between my will and what is going to happen, there maybe 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 pub-licly what they would like to do is a bit embarrassing. Forme if it’s a choice between one or the other, personally Ihave no doubt that we have the rider with the highest talent,so for me the priority is to hold on to Casey. But since theanswer cannot stop here, could Casey and Valentino go welltogether? You would have to ask them. It’s like asking a [foot-ball] manager would they like to have Maradona and Platiniin the same team, of course, why not, we would like to, butthen if the wedding is successful or not, we don’t know. Butthe team has two strong riders and we would like this tocontinue, that’s quite clear.”

Domenicali denied that Stoner’s mid-season illness in2009 had given Ducati cause to doubt him. “One would haveto be mad to have doubts about Casey’s skills,” he said. “Itwas an extremely complicated year for him. He did not un-

Button says he’s even stronger in 2010

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

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

tive and maybe when you are con-servative you go too far. It is alllearning curve, and you learn somuch when you are in that position,and it means I come back this yearso much stronger as an individual -not just as a driver.”

Button has reiterated his stancethat the decision to move toMcLaren was fuelled by the factthat he wanted a new challenge inhis career. And he says the changeof scene has left him hugely moti-vated for the forthcoming season.“It is an interesting one becausepeople always say that after youwin the world championship, areyou really that hungry to achievethat again?” he said. “I have beenworking for 21 years to achieve mygoal - but yes, I am massively hun-gry. When I won the world cham-pionship in Brazil I was looking forsomething else. I thought I haveachieved what I set out to do, butwhat do I do now? It is a verystrange situation to be in, becauseyou should enjoy the moment butit is very, very difficult to becauseyou are always thinking too farahead that you have to be carefulof. “I knew that moving to a newteam and moving to VodafoneMcLaren Mercedes would be a realchallenge for me, and racing along-side Lewis, but it is a challenge Iam so excited about. I am puttingso much effort into making thiswork. This is the most importantthing for me at the moment.”

Ducati: Retaining Stoner is priority

Ducati boss Claudio Domenicali believes histeam should prioritise retaining Casey Stonerover chasing a deal with Valentino Rossi

derstand how to solve his physical problem, andwe did not understand how we could help him.We had never found ourselves in a similar situa-tion - I’ve been working at Ducati since 1991 andmanaging races since ’94, so I do have a bit ofexperience. I’ve never found myself in a similarsituation. As usual when you’re dealing with some-thing for the first time it’s more difficult to imme-diately find the right approach to be able to solveit. What is important at the end of this is that to-day Casey is with us and is perhaps in the bestshape that we have ever seen him.”