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Bali promoteframing as tourismsite in ”SIMANTRI”

HOTEL Sanur Beach Bali received the 2009 Tax Award for theBest Tax Payer for Star-rated Hotels in Denpasar Regency. Hotel SanurBeach Bali was honored by the Mayor of Denpasar Regency for be-ing the largest tax contributor in the category of best tax payer ofhotel and restaurant. This program recognizes Hotel Sanur BeachBali contribution to the community and government. With these con-tributions and others from major hotels, it is the tourism industriesfervent hope that the infrastructure in Bali is improved continuouslyin order to attract more tourists to come and to return to Bali.

Located right on the sandy beach of Sanur and surrounded by 7hectares of tropical garden, Hotel Sanur Beach Bali features 426 roomsand suites, 2 large pools and a choice of restaurants and bars

The locals said that they arevery disappointed with the projectbecause it is using a productiveland and also violate the regula-tion about the river. After furtherinvestigation, the project is alsodon’t have the permit from theauthorize department in Badungregency.

In addition to café, there is apossibility that private villas alsowill be built in the area. The sourceof the information explained that

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On the area where it had been already arranged, a parking lot will be built. The picture show that several trucks park in the area.

Landarrangementin front ofLatu MarketSuspected to become café

Hotel Sanur Beach Baliwon Best Tax Payer 2009

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The arranging process in front of Latu market inAbiansemal, suspected to be use as night life entertainmentor café. According the information in the area, at first thearea will be use as parking lot. The project itself already vio-lates the law where it is too close to the river.

the investor was coming from theowner of the mineral water com-pany in Bali.

In order to make the project canrun smoothly, there is a member ofBadung house of representativewho supports the project.

While the head of Abiansemaldistrict, IB Oka Dirga, admitted thatthe project doesn’t have the properpermit. “I don’t know what theproject is for but we will investi-gate it right away,” he added. (ded)

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Bali NewsDenpasar (Bali Post)-

Muddle in the implementa-tion of National Exam (UN) ofSenior High School / Voca-tional High School due to in-competent performance of thePercetakan Negara printinghouse made the Head of BaliEducational, Youth and SportsServices (Disdikpora), I WayanSuasta, reacted strongly in or-der such chaos would not hap-pen again in the upcomingimplementation of nationalexam for secondary school(SMP/MTS) and SMPLB(school for the disable).

The number one man in theranks of Disdikpora Bali imme-diately made a written com-plaint to Director of PerumPercetakan Negara by letter No.423.7/1843/Disdikpora datedMarch 22, 2010. Such com-plaint letter was also forwardedto the Governor of Bali, Headof the National Standards ofEducational Agency (BSNP)and Head of Research and De-velopment Agency at Ministryof National Education. On re-sponding to the complaint,BSNP as the institution beingresponsible for the administra-tion of national exam issued aCircular No: 2079/BSNP/III/2010.

Contacted on last Tuesday(Mar 23), the Head ofDisdikpora Bali , I WayanSuasta,confirmed that BSNPhad issued a circular to antici-pate the chaos occurring in theimplementation of the nationalexam of academic year 2009/2010. In essence, the circularletter signed by the Head ofBSNP Prof. Dr. DjemariMardapi provided solutions tothe school and organizer of thenational exam in the region totake certain actions in antici-pating a number of problemsthat might arise in the field.“Particularly, if the number ofnational exam answer sheets ofstudents is not sufficient ormixed up,” he said.

To anticipate the problem,said Suasta, BSNP asked theschool to prepare blank papersmarked by school stamp to beused by students to answer thenational exam. Students werealso asked to fill out their name,number and name of the pack-age code of the subjects where

Spokesperson of Bali Police GdeSugianyar, last Tuesday (Mar 23)revealed the conspiracy case ofJava-Bali motortheft. Before themass media crews, he explained itsmobile detective unit actually hadcaptured the mastermind, last Fri-day (Mar 19). The suspect Ryan wasarrested at his boarding house onJalan Segina III, Denpasar.

The success of capturing the sus-pect made the investigator performan intensive probe. It was revealedfour other perpetrators comprisingKetut Mangku, Misbah aliasUndren, Mustakim alias Joni, andKetut Arta alias Ketut Baru werearrested as well. ?The four suspectswere captured on Monday (Mar22),? explained Sugianyar.

This ex-Chief of Balikpapan Re-sort Police said the disclosure be-gan when police received a reportfrom one of the people named NiWayan Ringin, 35, a resident ofKelandesa, Kuta. Victim claimed tohave lost her motorcycle whenparked at his home. “Police carried

Denpasar (Bali Post)-The spirit of AA Ngurah Gede

Ardiana Yudhisthira, one of thethird-grade students majoring insocial sciences of SMAN 4Denpasar was worth making intoa paragon. Even though he sufferedfrom dengue fever and caught ty-phoid, Ngurah Ardiana did not giveup. He ventured to come to hisschool and faced the tests of na-tional exam though he was still in-fused.

Last Tuesday (Mar 23), NgurahArdiana was still supported by hisfamily to the classroom on secondfloor with infusion remaining tohang. He was also watched over bythe family for changing the infu-sion in the class. After accomplish-ing the English language test, he

Bali-Java MotortheftBali-Java MotortheftBali-Java MotortheftBali-Java MotortheftBali-Java MotortheftSyndicate CapturedSyndicate CapturedSyndicate CapturedSyndicate CapturedSyndicate CapturedMastermind Shot at LegDenpasar (Bali Post)-

Syndicate of Java-Bali motortheft could be captured by mobile detective unit (Buser) of BaliPolice. Five suspects, including the mastermind and perpetrators were sent to detention cell.Even, the mastermind namely the suspect Suriyanto alias Anto alias Ryan was shot at leg bypolice since he attempted to run away when asked to show another scene.

out investigation to crime scene andprobed the witnesses at the time,” heexplained.

Results of the investigation indi-cated the mode in use by perpetra-tor was similar to the case ensuedon Jalan Pulau Bungin and JalanSegina, Denpasar. Their mode oftentargeted some boardinghouseswhere perpetrator usually took ad-vantage of the key left on the bike,by means of T-letter key and made aswitch.

Even, based on the description thevictim, characteristics of the perpe-trator were also similar to the sus-pect Ryan. Police did investigationin the field arming with the infor-mation on the characteristics of per-petrator. After some time, the offic-ers saw the suspect Ryan aroundJalan Teuku Umar, Denpasar. Thesuspect was driving a Vixion motor-bike with police plate 6671 IA.

Officers had followed the suspectuntil his boarding house. Surpris-ingly, at the boarding house of thesuspect Ryan was also found a mo-

torcycle Honda Supra with policeplate DK 3934 EX. Such conditionconvinced the police that Ryan wastruly a perpetrator of motortheft. ?Tomake the suspect easier in bringingalong the motorbike, perpetratorusually mounted a counterfeit policeplate,? he said.

The suspicion of police was re-sumed by conducting raids. The sus-pect Ryan was arrested without re-sistance. Room of the suspect wassearched and police found counter-feit keys, motorbike registration andidentity card. The suspect along withthe evidence was then secured atBali Police. ‘’So far, the suspectclaimed to have acted at 9 scenes,?he revealed.

Furthermore, while performingthe action, each defendant had itsown role. One had a role as a jockey,wrecker of motorbike and as a seller.Most stolen motorcycles were solddirectly to Banyuwangi. “The caseis still being developed. For the timebeing, only five suspects could bearrested,” he added. (kmb21)

Given Infusion, Platelet ofNgurah Ardiana Drops

returned to Surya Husada Hospitalfor continuing the treatment.

Headmaster of SMAN 4Denpasar, Wayan Rika, suggestedNgurah Ardiana not to push him-self because he still had opportu-nity to take a follow-up exam. How-ever, since he got permission fromhis physician, it was entirely up tothe family of Ardiana.

Behind it, Wayan Rika gavepositive appreciation to the achieve-ment motivation of his student.They had prepared themselves thor-oughly, but bad luck beyond humancapabilities was unavoidable. “Letus pray for Ardiana in order hecould graduate with a good perfor-mance,” he said.

According to his family, Ardianahad suffered from dengue fever

since last Saturday. As there was noindication of typhoid, the physicianrecommended him to take inpatienttreatment while monitoring hishealth condition. Moreover, theplatelet of Ardiana once declined to41. When interviewed, Ardianahimself insisted on following thenational exam at the school until theend. The reason, his preparation hasbeen well done and his physicalcondition began to recover. Mean-while, the time in hospital was usedto have a rest. “I have confidenceto pass even though I answered thetest while being infused,” he said.

In SMAN 4 Denpasar, it was re-corded 279 students attended thenational exam. On the English testlast Tuesday most students consid-ered it pretty easy. (025)

Disdikpora Bali ComplainsBSNP Issues a Circular

the answer sheet of studentswere then put into an envelopeby the supervisor. Furthermore,the answer sheet would bemoved to the National Exami-nation answer sheets by the of-ficer from state higher education(PTN) at scanning location andwitnessed by UN officials statedin a piece of official report.

“Therefore, BNSP had al-ready offered solutions to over-come the problems that ensuedduring the implementation ofnational exam of senior highschool/vocational high schoolincluding similar problems thatmay happen in the upcomingexamination of secondaryschool. At the same time, itposes a response to our com-plaint to Perum PercetakanNegara printing house,” he said.

Suasta added his party had tosend a complaint letter to PerumPercetakan Negara because itsperformance had made his partyvery confused and hindered thesmooth implementation of thenational examination for seniorhigh school/vocational highschool. Moreover, such state-owned printing press was alsoacting as a printer for the testsheets of national exam of sec-ondary school in Bali Provinceso the same chaos might happenagain if not given a warning.

According to Suasta, therewere three important clauseswarned in the complaint letter.Firstly, it was about the mistakerelated to different contentsfrom the label written on thecover. Secondly, it lacked forcomputer answer sheet in theexam test package and the un-availability of reserve answersheet in the reserve exam testpackage so some students didnot get the answer sheet evenly.Thirdly, his party also ques-tioned about the late distribu-tion of the exam materials to theregion and sub region orschools as the UN organizer.“We expect, the unsatisfactoryperformance of the PerumPercetakan Negara in theimplementation of nationalexam for SMA / SMK wouldnot happen again in the imple-mentation of the upcoming na-t ional exam for secondaryschool held on next Monday(Mar 29),” he said hopefully.(kmb13/08)

3Thursday, March 25, 2010International Bali News

Denpasar (Bali Post)-The large number of patients us-

ing the services of Bali MandaraHealth Insurance (JKBM) whichwas in effect since 2010 this year,in fact resulted in significant impacton the use of third-class treatmentrooms. On that account, no less gov-ernment-owned hospitals are begin-ning to be overwhelmed by JKBMusers. Without exception, the hos-pital belongs to Denpasar City gov-ernment is always flooded by JKBMpatients. On that account, the mu-nicipal government prepares thecommunity health centers to serveinpatient treatment and operates for24 hours.

To meet this desire, DenpasarHealth Services have proposed touse of the budget ahead of thechange. This budget use was in-tended for the procurement of equip-ment and infrastructure related to theimprovement of services in commu-nity health centers. One of the clin-ics that have been designed to servethe patient is the community healthcenter IV in South Denpasar.

The proposal on the use of bud-get ahead of the change worth IDR750 million already got green light

The officers managed to baffle thesmuggling begun by the examinationof Zena intercity bus with police plateN 7367 UA of Denpasar-Surabayaroute at post 2 Tuesday morning. Whenone of the baggages was opened, theofficers were suspicious on seeing aperforated cardboard and having beenchecked in fact it contained 11 mynabirds and 17 white-rumped Shamabirds but one of them was dead.

When the officers performed acheck, Imam Safii could not presentthe documents of the birds carried with

Semarapura (Bali Post)-Seaweed business located at Jumpai

territory, Klungkung, PT Indonusa AlaEmas Prima, was reprimanded by theOffice of Environmental Agency(KLH) for its action of disposing wasteinto the sea. Not only that, the busi-ness owner also neglected his obliga-tion to report the data on the standardquality limits of waste that should bemade every few months.

“Yes, we have made inspection tolocation. Previously, we also once rep-rimanded the owner so his party wouldno more dispose the waste directly intothe sea by making a catchment pond,”said the Head of Klungkung Environ-mental Agency, Dewa Gde OkaKusumajaya, last Tuesday (Mar 23).

According Dewa Kusumajaya, hisparty did not only inspect the locationat that time. But, his party has under-taken it repeatedly. Related to the vio-lation made, the EnvironmentalAgency had often reminded in orderthe business owner made corrections.“We will conduct a regular monitor-ing and check the standard quality ofwaste disposed into the sea by the com-pany,? he said.

If the result of laboratory test indi-cated the waste disposed to the sea wasbeyond the threshold of quality stan-dard, KLH would automatically re-quest the business owner to close thesewerage channels by attempting tomake catchment pond at the area ofcompany. “However, if under thethreshold of quality standards, ac-cording to the rules it is still al-

Amlapura (Bali Post)-Misfortune hit a foreign tourist

named Patsy Lim Siang Lang, 48,last Tuesday (Mar 23) at the SangHyang Amu area, near Candidasa,Karangasem. When enjoying a bikeriding tour, he was nudged and runover by truck so that both legs werebroken.

Based on information of wit-nesses at the scene and police inves-tigations, such traffic accident wasalleged to have been caused by neg-ligence of the truck driver, MadeSudiantara, 36. The driver fromBanjar Babung, Gunaksa,Klungkung was allegedly negligent.The victim was enjoying bicyclefrom Candidasa to Amlapura direc-tion. Meanwhile, the truck driven by

Denpasar (Bali Post)-The banner installation of

Denpasar mayoral election beforeand after the campaign still refersto the existing provision, namelyMayoral Regulation No. 17/2007 onthe Placement of City Advertise-ment. In other words, some pointsare not allowed to install socializa-tion banner and other campaignproperties such as over the roadmedian park, sidewalks, civic cen-ter area, Renon, Puputan BadungSquare, and other prohibited areasas stipulated in the Mayoral Regu-lation. If referring to these rules,there were at least 34 banner social-izations belonging to Mayor-DeputyMayor candidates the violated inDenpasar.

This matter was confirmed by theHead of Denpasar Sanitation andLandscaping Services (DKP), IKetut Wisada, when met in his of-

Dozens of SmuggledDozens of SmuggledDozens of SmuggledDozens of SmuggledDozens of SmuggledBirds SecuredBirds SecuredBirds SecuredBirds SecuredBirds SecuredNegara (DenPost)-

The ranks of Gilimanuk harbor police (KP3), Tuesday (Mar 23) morning managed to securetens of birds worth millions of rupiahs smuggled in the bus. Such chirp birds were smuggled byIman Safii from Surabaya.

the destination to Denpasar. Then,Imam and his 28 birds were brought tothe office of KPT Wilker of Gilimanuk.

Head of Gilimanuk Harbor Police(KP3), I Putu Suarta accompanied byChief of Criminal Detective IGPUmaedi with permission of Chief ofJembrana Resort Police said after ex-amined those birds were then submit-ted to the Integrated AgriculturalQuarantine (KPT) of Gilimanuk.Other than having no permit, the birdsbelonged to prohibited animals fromentry into Bali.

Meanwhile, the Coordinator ofKPT Wilker of Gilimanuk, I KetutSonen with permission of the Headof KPT Bali, I Ketut Diarmita, whenasked for his confirmation justifiedif the cooperation of KPT Wilker ofGilimanuk with KP3 Gilimanukcould baffle the smuggling of birds.For further process toward the find-ing of birds without document, hisparty would make coordination withKPT Bali to ascertain whether thebirds would be eliminated or re-jected. (021)

A Cycling Tourist Run overby Truck near Candidasa

the perpetrator was previously run-ning behind the victim and whenovertaking the bicycling tourist didnot pay attention to the safe distance.The victim was nudged by left-frontbody of the truck, so the bike andvictim were bounced. Eventually,the bicycle was dragged by the truck.Meanwhile, the victim was thrownto the left and Legs of the victimwere once run over by the truck tire.As consequence, both legs were bro-ken and suffered from some blisters.

Victim was once rushed to Emer-gency Room of the KarangasemHospital for immediate treatment.But, there medical officers gave upand referred the victim to the Inter-national SOS Hospital in Denpasar.

Acting Spokesperson of

Karangasem Resort Police SyamsulHayat with permission of Chief ofKarangasem Resort Police con-firmed the case. Perpetrator hadbeen examined, while the truck wasconfiscated as evidence.

In the meantime, a number of ho-tel operators around Candidasa oftencomplained about the deeds of mo-torists or truckers who were oftenspeeding on the highway ofCandidasa tourist resort. Motorcy-clists were often a speeding reck-lessly on the route. Although the pathwas dangerous, the related institutionset less traffic signs and road usersrarely obeyed them. Such conditioncaused the Candidasa prone to acci-dent and triggered many protestsamong the foreign tourists.

As for Installation of Electoral Attributes

DKP Reports 34 Violationsfice, last Tuesday (Mar 23). From theresults of monitoring by his staff inthe field, it was found at least 34banners owned by the candidatesthat were not in accordance with theprovision. Such violations happenedon Jalan Imam Bonjol, Jalan Melati,Jalan Hasanuddin, Jalan TeukuUmar, and several other roads inDenpasar.

To discipline the violating ban-ners, said Wisada, it had become theauthority of his team consisting ofseveral other relevant agencies,namely Supervisory Committee,Electoral Commission, Public OrderOfficers, Denpasar Metro Police,and DKP itself. “If only for a gen-eral advertisement or commercialbanners, we have the authority totake action if they violate. However,for the electoral banners, it must bebased on the team?s consensus,”explained Wisada.

Wisada said the findings of vio-lation noted by DKP were reportedto Supervisory Committee last Sun-day. Related to the actions taken, itwas still waiting for the response ofthe team led by Supervisory Com-mittee itself considering these ban-ners related to political celebrationin Denpasar. “Concerning with thematter of preparedness of officersand vehicles, we are ready wheneverrequired,” he said.

Meanwhile, a number of bannersbelonging to Dharma-Negara can-didate declared to violate on JalanHasanuddin had been repaired bythe volunteer team. Previously, thebanner surpassed the road border butlast Tuesday it had been moved tothe side. Only one banner belong-ing to Subawa-Udiyana candidateset over the road median park at theend of Jalan Hasanuddin was stillinstalled on the location. (kmb12)

Anticipating JKBM PatientilThe House Approves Budgetbefore the Revised One

from the ranks of the local parlia-ment. “We have agreed to approvethe proposal submitted by theDenpasar Health Services for thesake of larger society,” said the Headof Commission D at DenpasarHouse, Wayan Sugiarta accompa-nied by Wayan Suarka at his office,last Tuesday (Mar 23).

Sugiarta said to operate the com-munity health center for 24-hours re-quired at least 60 medical officers.Since opened for 24 hours, the medi-cal officer should apply shift hours.“There is no problem related to lo-cation, we just need additional medi-cal officers,” he said.

The proposal on the use of bud-get before the change, said Sugiarta,could also be done for the procure-ment of vaccines for humans ex-posed to dog bites. Particularly, thethreat of rabies recently was gettinggreater and the number of peoplebitten by dogs also increased. There-fore, to anticipate the vaccine pro-curement, Denpasar Health Servicesalso proposed a funding ahead. “Ithink if very urgent, the Servicescould also propose the use of fundsahead of the change,” Sugiata saidlast Tuesday. (kmb12)

Disposing Waste into the SeaKLH Admonishes Seaweed Venture

lowed,” he added.Admittedly, any small chemical

compounds disposed into the seawould clearly affect any damage in thesurrounding environment. On that ac-count, although having restricted bud-get, KLH would make an effort to dothe monitoring. Because, he had con-fidence there was possibility that fewother companies around the beachalso did the same thing (disposingwaste into the sea). “The observedones amounted to few companies. Inaddition to the Klungkung land, thereare also some in the region ofJungutbatu, Lembongan and NusaPenida. Probably, there were morecompanies that could not been ob-served,” he said while adding the civilpublic order officers (Satpol PP) hadvery important role to discipline thesituation. The current controlling ofthe Satpol PP resulted in more andmore business applied to completetheir business license.

Previously, the Satpol PP disci-plined PT Indonusa Alga Emas Primathat was found disposing waste intothe sea using a pipeline either for thewaste of boiling seaweed or kitchenwaste. Indeed, according to the Labo-ratory Head of PT Indonusa AlgaEmas Prima, Agung Anggreni, thewaste from the process of boiling theseaweed had passed through the pro-cessing measure. So, the waste dis-posed is safe to environment. ?Indeed,the kitchen waste is directly disposed.We?ve instructed the officer to closeit,? said Anggreni.

International4 Thursday, March 25, 2010 News

Prime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu’s awkwardly timed visitto Washington this week closedwith a meeting with PresidentBarack Obama that seemed in-tended to pull the curtain on the dis-pute without resolving it.Netanyahu never had to apologize,nor publicly roll back a Jewishhousing plan for east Jerusalem thatembarrassed and infuriated his U.S.backers.

Netanyahu’s visit to the WhiteHouse on Tuesday evening went onfor hours longer than planned, apossible sign of a thaw. But in abreak with custom and an apparentsign of the prickly relations betweenthe two governments, reporterswere not invited to see the twoshake hands and begin their discus-sions.

Paying a visit to Washington thathad been planned before the hous-ing crisis flared, Netanyahu met topObama administration officialswhile at the same time publicly andfirmly rebuffing theadministration’s criticism of Israel’slong-standing policy of buildinghomes for Jews in east Jerusalem.

The visit could have been a cel-ebration of the inauguration ofpeace talks recently engineered bya U.S. envoy after months of try-ing. New talks were a campaignpledge for Obama, whose willing-

AFP

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Presi-dent Barack Obama signed intolaw historic, sweeping reformsTuesday that lay out health carecoverage for almost every Ameri-can and realize the dreams of gen-erations of past US leaders.

“Today, after almost a centuryof trying, today after over a yearof debate, today, after all the voteshave been tallied, health insurancereform becomes law in the UnitedStates of America,” Obama said.

“The bill I’m signing will set inmotion reforms that generations ofAmericans have fought for andmarched for and hungered to see,”he told a jubilant, packed audienceat a White House signing cer-emony.

Delighted lawmakers and guestscheered and whistled as Obamamade good on his campaign vowto overhaul America’s embattledhealth care system, enacting a hugeshift in US policy and the biggestsocial legislation in over four de-cades. The House of Representa-tives narrowly approved the Sen-ate-passed legislation by 219-212late Sunday, using the Democraticmajority to muscle the measurethrough a united Republican oppo-sition.

With a package of fixes still tobe voted on, the 940-billion-dollaroverhaul will extend coverage tosome 32 million Americans whocurrently have none, ensuring 95percent of under-65 US citizenswill have health insurance.

The historic signing came a cen-tury after president TheodoreRoosevelt first called for a nationalapproach to US health care, andafter past leaders such as BillClinton tried and failed to reformthe creaky, costly system.

For the first time ever, almostall Americans will be required tobuy insurance or face fines. Amongother key reforms, the new lawbans insurance companies fromdenying coverage to people withpre-existing conditions, from drop-ping clients who get sick or fromsetting lifetime caps.

Americans back health care bill,

AP

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense.

Analysis: Israel weathersAnalysis: Israel weathersAnalysis: Israel weathersAnalysis: Israel weathersAnalysis: Israel weathersround with White Houseround with White Houseround with White Houseround with White Houseround with White HouseAP

WASHINGTON – In the war of wills between the Obama adminis-tration and Israel over settlement construction, Israel has weathered— if not won — another round.

ness to criticize Israel unnerved boththe close ally and its staunch support-ers in Washington.

Those new talks are still promisedbut delayed indefinitely by the latestcrisis, and Netanyahu’s two days inWashington served to showcase dif-ferences with Washington.

Netanyahu was greeted uponlanding Monday by critical remarksfrom Secretary of State HillaryRodham Clinton. Speaking to mem-bers of a pro-Israel lobby, she statedbluntly that Israel’s construction ineast Jerusalem jeopardized peacetalks and undermined the U.S. roleas a mediator.

Hours later, Netanyahu told thesame forum, the American IsraelPublic Affairs Committee, that Israelwould continue building homes inthe city at the center of the Jewishfaith. “Jerusalem is our capital. It’snot a settlement,” the Israeli leadersaid, to a prolonged standing ovation.

On Tuesday, he reiterated that ideain stronger terms in meetings onCapitol Hill, where he was receivedwarmly, and made sure to pass thosecomments on to reporters afterward.

The Palestinian demand for a haltto construction in Jerusalem as a pre-condition for talks, he said, was “un-reasonable and illogical.”Netanyahu’s comment was directedat the Palestinians, but the U.S. ad-ministration has been making a

nearly identical request.While rhetorical sparring contin-

ued, statements from the U.S. andIsrael indicated that both want tomove on. They want to see Israeli-Palestinian peace talks launchedsoon and not delayed indefinitely bythe fight.

A similar spat last year ended ina similar fashion: The Obama ad-ministration pressured Israel to haltall settlement construction in theWest Bank to get peace talks started,but Netanyahu agreed to a limitedslowdown, not to a full freeze. Facedwith Israel’s refusal, the administra-tion gave way.

Something similar may be afootnow — a half-measure offered byIsrael that Washington accepts be-cause it fears the consequences of afull confrontation with Israel and itspowerful supporters in the UnitedStates.

Netanyahu’s effusive receptionon Capitol Hill was evidence of thepower of Israel’s arguments aboutthe choices it makes for self-defenseand the sway of its politically ac-tive supporters in the United States.The threat that Iran might soon pos-sess a nuclear weapon has madeIsrael’s case stronger and limited thepressure tactics available to a peace-minded American president.

The recent fight was triggered byIsrael’s announcement two weeksago that it will build 1,600 newapartments in east Jerusalem, thelargely Arab city section it capturedfrom Jordan in 1967. Israel annexedthe area in a move the internationalcommunity has never recognized.

AFP

US President Barack Obama signs the health insurance reform billin the East Room of the White House

After century-long fightUS enacts health reforms

by slim margin: poll“You’ve made history,” Vice

President Joe Biden told a beam-ing Obama. “Mr President, you’vedone what generations of not justordinary, but great men and womenhave attempted to do.

“You have turned, Mr President,the right of every American to haveaccess to decent health care intoreality for the first time in Ameri-can history.”

In the ceremonial East Room,where president Lyndon Johnsonsigned the civil rights bill into lawin 1964, there was a party atmo-sphere as euphoric Democratsgathered to witness the act, shar-ing hugs and slapping palms.

Among them were Vicki andCaroline Kennedy, the widow andniece of the late Ted Kennedy, whostruggled for almost five decadesto enact health care reform, thecause of his life.

Obama used some 20 differentpens to sign the 2,000-plus pagebill, intending to give most of themto guests as souvenirs of the mo-mentous occasion.

The Senate is expected thisweek to take up the changesneeded to their initial legislationand approve them separately un-der rules that prevent Republicansfrom using a parliamentary tactic,the filibuster, to indefinitely delayand kill the measure.

Abortion takes center stage inUS health care debate

But Obama still has a hard selldefending the reforms ahead of thekey congressional mid-term No-vember elections, with Republi-cans deeply angered by the legis-lation, which they say is too costly.

“We’ve heard a lot today abouthow historic this bill is, and it’strue,” said Republican NationalCommittee (RNC) chairmanMichael Steele in a statement. “Itis an historic betrayal of the clearwill of the American people. It isan historic loss of liberty.”

House Republican MinorityLeader John Boehner added: “Thisis a somber day for the Americanpeople. Americans have never feltmore disconnected from their gov-ernment than they do today.”

General Info Thursday, March 25, 2010 5International

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

Honorary Consulate of SpainKomplek Istana Kuta Galleria Blok Vallet 2 No 11. JalanPatih Jelantik Kuta, BaliPhone +62.361.769 286

USA Consulate AgencyJalan Hayam Wuruk No. 188 Denpasar, BaliPhone +62.361.222 426

Consulate General of JapanJalan Raya Puputan No. 170 Renon, Denpasar, BaliPhone +62.361.227 628

Honorary Consulate of BritishJalan Tirta Nadi No. 20 Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.270 601

Swiss and Austria ConsulateJalan Patih Jelantik, Komplek Pertokoan IstanaGalleriaPhone +62.361.751 735

Honorary Consulate of BrazilJalan Legian No. 186, BaliPhone +62.361.757 775

Honorary Consulate of ThailandJalan Raya Puputan Renon 81, Denpasar, BaliPhone +62.361.263 310

Embassy of IndiaJalan Raya Puputan Renon 42-44, Denpasar, BaliPhone +62.361.241 978

Honorary Consulate of Sweden anf FinlandSegara Village Hotel, Jalan Segara Ayu, Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.282 223

Honorary Consulate of MalaysiaAlam Kulkul Boutique Resort, Jalan Pantai Kuta, BaliPhone +62.361.752 520

Bangli

Bangli General HospitalJl. Kesumayuda 27, BangliPhone : +62 366 91521

Gianyar

Clinic MasJl. Raya Mas, UbudPhone : +62 361 974573

Toyo ClinicJl. Pengosekan, UbudPhone : +62 361 978078

Permata Bunda ClinicJl. Patih Jelantik 50 X, GianyarPhone : +62 361 942082

Ubud ClinicJl Raya Ubud No.36 Campuhan, UbudPhone : +62 361 974911

Gianyar General HospitalJl. Ciung Wanara 2, GianyarPhone : +62 361 943049

Karangasem

Karangasem General HospitalJl. Ngurah Rai, KarangasemPhone : +62 363 21001

Klungkung

Klungkung General HospitalJl. Flamboyan 40-4, KlungkungPhone : +62 366 21371

Negara

Negara General HospitalJl. Gelar, NegaraPhone : +62 365 41006

Tabanan

Laboratorium ClinicJl. Gunung semeru No. 8, TabananPhone : +62 361 819260

Mengwi ClinicJl. I Gusti Ngurah Rai 46, TabananPhone : +62 361 880550

Darma Kerti HospitalJl. Teratai 16, TabananPhone : +62 361 812359

Tabanan General HospitalJl. Pahlawan 14, TabananPhone : +62 361 811027

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

Singaraja

Prodia ClinicJl. RA Kartini 12, Singaraja Bali0362 - 24-516

Singaraja HospitalJl. Ngurah Rai 30, Singaraja Bali0362 - 22-573

Pet ClinicsKayumas: (0361) 226934Sayang Binatang: (0361) 483121Satwa Kertha Husada: (0361) 263018Pantai Sindhu: (0361) 287518Sidakarya: (0361) 724492Pedungan: (0361) 720026

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Thursday, March 25, 20106 News

EU Naval Force spokesmanCmdr. John Harbour said Wednes-day the killing of the pirate is be-lieved to be the first by a private se-curity team. Merchant ships travel-ing through pirate-infested waters in

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Armed Somali pirates carry out preparations to a skiff in Hobyo, northeastern Somalia

AP

NAIROBI, Kenya – The European Union Naval Force says private security guards aboard amerchant ship off the coast of East Africa fired on and killed a Somali pirate after a group ofpirates attacked their vessel.

the Gulf of Aden and Indian Oceanhave increasingly begun puttingarmed security onboard to thwart pi-rate attacks.

An EU Naval Force frigate wasdispatched to the scene Tuesday and

launched a helicopter that located thepirates. Seven pirates were found,including one who had died fromsmall caliber gunshot wounds. Thesix remaining pirates were taken intocustody.

Fresh Israeliairstrike onGaza Strip

AFP

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) –Pakistan’s military on Wednesdaylaunched an assault on Taliban hideoutsin the northwest tribal belt, killing 11militants in firefights and bombingraids, officials said.

The operation came hours after a USdrone aircraft fired two missiles into acompound in North Waziristan tribaldistrict near the Afghan border, killingat least six suspected militants in thelatest strike by the spy planes.

Pakistani troops began operationsjust after midnight Wednesday toflush out militants from the outskirtsof Kalaya, the main town in theOrakzai tribal district, a senior secu-rity official in the northwest cityPeshawar said.

Helicopter gunships also shelled themilitants in the same area of Orakzai,part of the lawless tribal belt along theAfghan border which is infested withTaliban and Al-Qaeda extremists.

“At least 11 militants were killed inthis clean-up operation,” the senior se-curity official told AFP, refusing to benamed as he was not authorised to speakto the media.

Major Fazal-ur-Rehman, spokes-man for the paramilitary Frontier Corps,

AFP/File –

Pakistani naval soldiers demonstrate their skills on a beach inKarachi on March 23.

AFP

GAZA CITY (AFP) – Israeli warplanes launchedan air raid overnight near the Jabaliya refugee camp inthe northern Gaza Strip but there were no injuries, Pal-estinian security officials said Wednesday.

The air raid targeted an area militants have used tofire rockets into southern Israel in recent days, officialssaid.

An Israeli army spokesman said that planes had car-ried out a raid against a hangar that contained weap-ons, in response to rocket fire into Israel.

Approximately 35 rockets have been fired at Israel fromthe Gaza Strip since the beginning of the year, and over330 rockets have been fired into the Jewish state since theend of a 22-day Israeli offensive in January 2009.

One such attack earlier this month killed a Thailabourer.

Pakistan military kills11 Taliban: officials

confirmed that security forces werebattling insurgents in Orakzai and therewere “militants losses”, but did not givethe numbers.

An intelligence official said theshelling destroyed five mud brick com-pounds used by Taliban militants, whilean administrative official based inKalaya confirmed the death toll.

Under US pressure, Pakistan has inthe past year significantly increasedoperations against militants in its north-west including the tribal belt.

The rugged tribal terrain became astronghold for hundreds of extremistswho fled neighbouring Afghanistan af-ter the US-led invasion in late 2001.

Washington says the militants usePakistan’s semi-autonomous tribal beltto plot and stage attacks against NATOtroops stationed in Afghanistan.

The United States has also steppedup missile strikes in the tribal belt. Theraid late Tuesday was the latest in nearly100 US drone strikes that have killedmore than 830 people in Pakistan sinceAugust 2008.

Pakistan’s foreign minister and armychief were in Washington on Wednes-day for talks with US Secretary of StateHillary Clinton, where they were ex-pected to push to secure armed dronesfor their own military.

AFP/File –

File picture shows medics treating an injured man at a hospital in Gaza City March 22.

Thursday, March 25, 2010 7Indonesia TodayInternational

AFP PHOTO / AMAN RAHMAN

Dead sharks caught by fishermen, are seen at the port ofBanyuwangi, East Java on March 24, 2010. Many local fishermenhunt for sharks for local consumtion and sell the fins for regionalmarket, mostly to Singapore and China for the famous Chinese finsoups. This large scale commercial exploitation of sharks recentlyled to drastic decline in shark populations globally.

The ADB Board of Directors saidin a press statement the Manila-based bank Tuesday approved a loanof US$50 million for the Java-BaliElectricity Distribution PerformanceImprovement Project.

The AFD meanwhile agrees toprovide a cofinancing loan of thesame amount to be administered bythe ADB.

The project is expected to be ableto rehabilitate the overburdened dis-tribution network of the two islandsand support the introduction of en-ergy efficient compact fluorescent

Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - The Indonesian mili-tary is considering sending thou-sands of extra troops to restive Papuaprovince where it stands accused ofwidespread human rights abuses, aspokesman said Tuesday.

Rear Marshal Sagom Tamboensaid up to four battalions from a“Rapid Reaction Strike Force” di-vision based in Jakarta could be sentto the restive province to “maintainthe territory’s unity within easternIndonesia”.

“There are many things we tookinto consideration... including tack-ling the separatist movement andterrorism,” he told AFP.

“In case of an emergency, it takesat least eight hours to send troopsfrom Jakarta to Papua. If we have(more) troops there, automaticallywe can save time and can reactswiftly,” he said.

He did not say how many troopswere currently stationed in Papuabut an independent analyst said therewere about 10 battalions.

Poorly armed Papuan separatistshave waged a low-level insurgencyagainst Indonesian rule for decades

Antara

MATARAM - Mataram’s immigra-tion office has since January this yeardeported three foreigners, -two Malay-sians and one Australian - for violat-ing Indonesian immigration rules.

“The three foreigners deportedfrom Mataram were Salsabila bintiYunan and Siti Khatijah binti Yasinof Malaysia and Sean David Cliffordof Australia,” local Immigration Of-fice spokesman M Adnan said hereon Wednesday.

Antara

JAKARTA - A former ArmyKopassus (Special Force) com-mander has dismissed allegations byan American journalist that the forcewas involved in political murders inthe runup to the general elections inAceh in 2009.

“There had been no Kopassuspresence, either open or covert, inAceh since 2004 so how could anymember of the force have been in-volved in any activity, including2009 general election activity,there,” said Major GeneralSoenarko, a former Kopassus com-mander who in 2009 headed theAceh regional military command.

In a statement to ANTARA Newson Tuesday, Soenarko admitted thatpolitical life in Aceh prior to andduring the 2009 legislative electionin Aceh was marked by great dyna-mism. He as Aceh military commandchief actively helped the provincialpolice to ensure security and orderduring the local polls “but not a

Indonesia sees need formore troops in Papua

but are not seen as posing any seri-ous threat to Jakarta’s control of theresource-rich region.

Tamboen said the planned de-ployment — which has not yet beenapproved by the government — hadnothing to do with recent shootingstargeting police and employees ofUS mining giant FreeportMcMoRan.

An Australian mine technician, aFreeport security guard and a police-man were killed near Freeport’smassive gold and copper mine lastJuly, the first of a spate of such at-tacks which have left several otherpeople injured.

Many indigenous Papuans accuseIndonesian security forces of humanrights abuses and complain that theprovince’s natural riches are beingstolen by outsiders.

A report last year by New York-based Human Rights Watch backedup the Papuans’ claims and urgedWestern governments such as Aus-tralia to cut military aid for the In-donesian Special Forces.

Indonesia denies allegations ofsystematic rights abuses but bars for-eign journalists from independentlyreporting in the province.

Three foreigners deported from MataramHe said deportation of foreigners

had happened often in WestNusatenggara (NTB). Six foreign-ers were deported in 2008 and ninein 2009 for violating various immi-gration procedures.

Asked about illegal immigrantswho frequently entered West NusaTeggara, Adnan said it was none ofthe immigration office business butthe government’s to deal with it.

He said the foreigners from vari-ous countries came to Mataram nei-ther as tourists nor job seekers but

as asylum seekers because they feltunsafe in their own conflict-torncountries.

Every year hundreds of illegalimmigrants from Iraq, Afghanistanand other countries came to LombokIsland and Sumbawa island in WestNusa Tenggara.

“Some of the illegal immigrantsfrom Iraq in Mataram even staged ahunger strike by stitching their theirmouth for failing to get assistancefrom the International Organizationfor Migration (IOM).

Former Kopassus chief deniesAmerican journalist‘s allegations

single Kopassus member was there,much less was any element of theforce involved in practical politicsthere.”

American journalist AllanNairn‘s claim that Kopassus had hada hand in a few politically-motivatedmurders during the 2009 legislativeelection period in Aceh was “a to-tally unfounded accusation,” he said.

“It`s slander, nonsense. The jour-nalist concerned also knows it isbecause he did ask me for a clarifi-cation. I don`t know why he stillspread the accusation through hisblog,” Soenarko said.

Soenarko who is now head of theArmy‘s Infantry Center saidKopassus as an integral part of thereformed National Defense Forces(TNI) had become committed topreserving its strict neutrality inpractical politics. “If Kopassus hadreally taken part in practical politicsin Aceh, we would have beenhanged,” he said.

Soenarko said Nairn‘s allegationscould be part of “the agenda of a

certain party” although he did notknow who the party was.

Allan Nairn, the American jour-nalist, in his blog last March 21, re-leased an article titled “BreakingNews: Indonesian Army, Kopassus,Implicated in New Assassinations.Forces Chosen by Obama for Re-newed US Aid Ran? 09 ActivistMurders.”

In his article, Nairn quoted a num-ber of sources, including local admin-istration officials, police, the wives ofthe alleged murder victims, Kopassusofficers, to conclude that Kopassuswas implicated in the murder of at leasteight Aceh Party members.

He said the murders were com-mitted on instructions fromKopassus higher-ups in Jakarta.

Earlier in the past, Nairn also be-came known for his reports on al-leged human rights violations com-mitted by Indonesian military in EastTimor (now Timor Leste) whicheventually led the United States toimpose an embargo on the TNI in1993.

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JAKARTA - Indonesia has secured US$100 million in loans from the Asian Development Bank (ADB)and Agence Francaise de Developpement (AFD) to help overhaul its power distribution network in aneffort to save energy and cut greenhouse gas emissions.

lamps and light emitting diodes, thestatement said.

In addition, the project will alsosupport state power utility PLN‘splan to invest US$1.2 billion in theefficient distribution sector between2010 and 2014.

The project will reduce carbondioxide emissions from the powersector by 330,000 tonnes per yearand allow the substantial energy sav-ings of 200 megawatts of equivalentdistribution system capacity, SohailHasnie, Principal Energy Specialistin ADB‘s Southeast Asia Depart-

ment, said.As a result, it will enable PLN to

connect about 1.2 million additionalcustomers to the Java-Bali network,Hasnie said.

The ADB loan will be payable in25 years including a grace period offive years with interest determinedaccording to its LIBOR-based lend-ing facility.

Meanwhile, the AFD loan will bepayable in 15 years including a graceperiod of five years with interest setaccording to the Euro Interbank Of-fered Rate.

8 InternationaThursday, March 25, 2010

Bali Today

I Ketut Teneng, the head ofdocumentation and publicationdivision, said “from 50 locationsin Bali , Belantih vil lage inKintamani, Bangli become themost prepare place.”

The development of integratedfarming in Belantih emphasizesmore on the coffee product whereit is already exported abroad. Theframers produce coffee with or-ange flavor using environmentalfriendly process.

“The special developmentdone by farmers in Belantih vil-lage attracts the attention ofmany businessmen abroad to buythe product,” Teneng added. Headded that some businessmeneven come to Bali and visit thevillage to observe the integratedfarming process.

In 2009, five businessmen vis-ited the village and the number

IBP DENPASAR - The organizers of

the 4th Annual MRA Bali InternationalTriathlon have announced that this year’sevent will offer athletes an opportunityto participate in a sprint distance race.To be held on June 20, 2010, this year’srace will provide athletes the chance torace either an Olympic distance race,(1,500 meter swim, 40 kilometer bike and10 kilometer run), or a shorter Sprint dis-tance race (500 meter swim, 20 kilome-ter bike and 5 kilometer run). Sprint dis-tance athletes will begin in a separatewave, commencing within 30 minutes af-ter the start of the main Olympic distancerace. The shorter sprint distance will beopen to both individual and 3-memberteam participation.

Both categories will feature tro-phies handcrafted by Bali’s renownedJenggala Ceramics for each age groupcategory winners, as well as a variety ofother fabulous prizes. As in past years, allathletes will receive special t-shirts,finisher’s medals, and invitations to attendboth a VIP pre-race party a “high carbo-hydrate” pasta party catered by race spon-sor Four Seasons Resort at Jimbaran Bay.

The Four Seasons Resort and

IBP DENPASAR - There are approximately

1.5 million Indonesian teenagers drop out ofschool or cannot continue their education eachyear – data from the Ministry of National Edu-cation Year 2007/2008. This means that everysingle minute there are four teenagers who dropout of school. Teenagers (age 13-18 years) arethe next generation and future leaders.

To save the future of Indonesian youth tobe able to continue their education; AstonDenpasar Hotel & Convention Center is com-mitted to support the fundraising program ofPutera Sampoerna Foundation (PSF) called“Save a Teen” program. As a commitmentfrom Aston Denpasar Hotel & ConventionCenter to support the youth education is bysigning the MOU with Putera SampoernaFoundation for the “Save a Teen” programthat held at Aston Denpasar Hotel and Con-vention Center on Friday, March 19, 2010.

The signing ceremony attended byIrmansjah Madewa, General Manager ofAston Denpasar Hotel & Convention Centerand Vira Soekadirman, Director of Sales PSF.

Irmansjah Madewa, General Managerof Aston Denpasar Denpasar Hotel & Con-vention Center, comments “This is the evi-

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Denpasar – Bali Government wanted to make the integrated pattern of farming which is cur-rently being developed in 50 locations in Bali as a agro tourism based on integrated farmingsystem (Simantri).

increasing slightly this year. Theywere coming from Australia, US,Netherlands, and China.

Teneng said that in developingSimantri, the government also co-operating with the travel agent as-sociation (ASITA). There is greathope that ASITA can also help topromote the alternative tourist at-traction in Bali.

The farmers in Belantih alreadyreceived the certificate that theproduction process is environ-mentally friendly.

Forty of the head of travelagents throughout the world willvisit the village during the harvesttime which will fall in June. Thepreparation had been done by thegovernment and hopefully, thehead of travel agents will promoteand sell the tourism package thatconnected to the village in theirown country.

In Simantri, the tourists alsocan take part in the farm such aswatering the plant or even har-vesting them.

In 2010, Bali’s governmentprepared 8 billion rupiah to de-velop 40 other units if integratingfarming system. The fund is fourtimes higher than the budget in theprevious year.

Tourists walk along in thecoffee plantation. Bali’s

government wants to makethe integrated agricultural

system that now beingconduct in several areas in

Bali to become agro tour-ism sites.

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Aston Denpasarsupporting ‘Save a teen’

The fourth annual MRABIT to be held on June

InterContinental Bali Resort - both locatedon Jimbaran Bay have combined forces assupporting sponsors of Bali’s only annualinternational triathlon event.

“Our title sponsor, the MRA Group,suggested that we include a Sprint distancethis year to increase participation by thoseathletes who may be attempting a triathlonfor the first time, or who are more com-fortable racing a shorter distance” saidRobb Strom, one of the race organizers.“We loved the idea and recently workedout the details,” continued Strom.

The MRA Bali InternationalTriathlon was recently named one of the100 best races around the world in theMarch 2010 issue of Triathlete magazineand one of the 10 best vacation triathlonsin the world.

Athletes participating in this year’srace, as in past races, will come from allover the world to take advantage of thisunique destination race. While in Bali,they can partake of a wide range of ac-tivities, including scuba diving, elephantriding, White Water River rafting,parasailing, and jet skiing. Bali is famousfor its spa properties, and athletes will betreated to free post-race massages by lo-cal Balinese therapists. (iah)

dence of commitment from Aston Denpasarto Indonesia’s education progress. We invitehotel guests to help Indonesian youth reachtheir goals by donating just one dollar, or ap-proximately 10,000 rupiahs when theycheck-in. This program will begin fromMarch 19 and will continue for the next sixmonths. All the donations collected will bechanneled to Putera Sampoerna Foundationto help Indonesian youth to continue theireducation”.

Vira Soekadirman, Director of SalesPutera Sampoerna Foundation expresses hergratitude for Aston Denpasar Hotel & Conven-tion Center commitment saying, “We thankAston Denpasar for trusting us, as the first ho-tel in Bali which supports the Save a Teen cam-paign. According to the Education Ministry2008’s data, in the province of Bali there are20,913 students aged 6-18 years drop out ofschool. Therefore, with a high commitmentfrom the Government of Bali Province, we planto build international-standard junior highschools with a special boarding house for aca-demically gifted student but come from finan-cially- disadvantaged family. Let’s do this to-gether for the education of our nation’s nextgenerations”. (iah)

Balinese Culture

Thursday, March 25, 2010 9al

OVERVIEW:A real gourmet treat from Bali, this could also be

made with huge prawns. In Bali, coconut chunks areroasted directly on charcoal, then the charred skinscrapped off and the flesh grated for making the coconutmilk.

INGREDIENTS:4 sml lobsters, weighing about 500 gr each or 1 kg

large prawns5 cups water2 lemongrass, bruised2 fragrant lime leaves4 cups coconut milkfew drops white vinegarfried shallots to garnish

SPICE PASTE:5 red chilies, seeded and chopped3 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped7 shallots, peeled and chopped5 cm fresh turmeric, peeled and chopped5 cm ginger, peeled and chopped4 candlenuts1 ½ tsp coriander½ tsp dried shrimp paste toasted1 sml tomato, peeled and seeded2 tbsp oil1 ½ tbsp tamarind pulp1 salam leaf1 lemon grass, bruised

PREPARATION:Prepare spice paste by grinding or blending all

ingredients except oil, tamarind, salam leaf andlemongrass. Heat oil, add spice paste and all otheringredients. Cook over moderate heat for about 5minutes, then cool.

Wash lobsters and leave whole. Bring water to theboil, add lobsters and simmer for 15 minutes. Removelobsters, plunge in iced water for 1 minutes, then drainand remove meat. Return shells to the pot of water,keeping lobster meat aside.

Add spice paste, lemongrass, lime leaves and vinegarto the water with the shells and simmer until 4 cups ofstock remain. Add coconut milk and simmer for 10minutes. Strain stock and return to pan. Add lobster andsimmer for 1 minute. Serve garnished with fried shallotsand accompanied by white rice.

Helpful hints:if using prawns instead of lobster, peel the raw

prawns and put prawns shells 4 cups of water. Simmerfor 5 minutes, then combine this stock with coconut milk,prawns and all other ingredients, simmering untilcooked. (www.baliguide.com/balifood)

IBP

Denpasar – The ASEAN-CinaFree Trade Area (ACFTA) hadpassed. The treat given by AFYTAmust make the local businessmencooperate better. I Gde SumarjayaLinggih, the head Bali Chambers ofCommerce, said that the business-men could not work by themselvesin trying to compete in the free trade,especially because China and othercountries offer cheaper price.

Local businessmen mustcooperate during free trade era

“The local businessmen mustwork together to face the flood ofimport products,” he added.Sumarjaya explained that as an asso-ciation, the chambers of commercealso will act to face the free trade.

Association is the perfect tools toincrease the cooperation betweenbusinessmen in Bali. The business-men provide various kinds of prod-ucts which can be sold cheaply.

He also said that the attention andassistance by the government is es-

sential for the businessmen. In othercountries, incentive from the govern-ment is very important so it can makethe price of local products competi-tive.

Sumarjaya said that the countriesthroughout the world are not fightingphysically but economically, in thesense that the country that has strongeconomy could rule the world. Thiscondition can be seen in China andIndia where they have great economicvalue. (iah)

A vendor sale giantrubber baloons made

in China at Sidoarjo. Inorder to survive in this

free trade era, localentrepreneurs should

stick together. Besidesthat the government

also have to supportslocal entrepreneurs,

said SumarjayaLinggih, the newly

elected Bali Chapter’shead of Indonesia’s

Chamber of Commerce(KADIN).

FOTO ANTARA/Bhakti Pundhowo

Udang Pantung Kuning(Lobster in Yellow Sauce)

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WASHINGTON - Bank ofAmerica on Wednesday announceplans to start forgiving mortgage loanprincipal for troubled homeownerswho owe more than 120 percent oftheir home’s value or are battling ever-

“We could develop, with thebanking sector, a code of conductin the tax sector,” Jeffrey Owens,who heads the OECD’s tax divi-sion, told reporters on the sidelinesof a private banking conference inSingapore.

The code of conduct will in-volve all banks “with a lot of em-phasis on investment banks,” hesaid.

He said the idea was still be-ing discussed and could be put upfor discussion at a meeting in Sep-tember.

UBS settled a U.S. tax probelast year after it emerged that it hadhelped rich Americans hide moneyin secret Swiss accounts, but bank-ing secrecy in top wealth manage-ment center Switzerland and else-

OECD mulls codeOECD mulls codeOECD mulls codeOECD mulls codeOECD mulls codeof conduct forof conduct forof conduct forof conduct forof conduct forbanks on taxbanks on taxbanks on taxbanks on taxbanks on taxReuters

SINGAPORE - The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development is consider-ing coming up with a code of conduct for banks on how they help clients with taxes, a seniorofficial said on Wednesday.

where is still under pressure. The OECD has been pushing

financial centers around the worldto be more transparent in a bid tocombat tax evasion, and has putsome on a gray list of countries thathave not fully implemented inter-nationally agreed tax standards.

Owens also said the OECDhas begun a peer review process oflaws regarding information ex-change of 18 jurisdictions, includ-ing Bermuda, the Cayman Islandsand Jersey, and that the initial re-ports could be out before of theyear.

World leaders agreed at aG20 summit in London last year tocrack down on tax evasion andbanking secrecy, and the groupasked the OECD to publish and

update lists of tax havens. Singapore, which met OECD

tax standards last year, has beenpromoting itself as a base for bankssuch as UBS, Credit Suisse andCitigroup to manage money for richlocal and foreign clients.

People walk on February 10,2009 outside the New YorkStock Exchange. Bank ofAmerica on Wednesdayannounce plans to startforgiving mortgage loanprincipal for troubledhomeowners who owe morethan 120 percent of theirhome’s value or are battlingever-expanding “negativeamortization” loans.

Office workers walk past theBank of China tower in HongKong on March 23, 2010. The

Organisation for EconomicCooperation and Develop-

ment is considering comingup with a code of conduct for

banks on how they helpclients with taxes, a senior

official said on Wednesday.AFP PHOTO / MIKE CLARKE

BofA to start reducing mortgage principalexpanding “negative amortization”loans.

According to a summary of theprogram obtained by Reuters, Bankof America pledged to offer an “earnedprincipal forgiveness” of up to 30 per-cent in two stages. The lender will firstoffer an interest-free forbearance of

principal that the homeowner can turninto forgiven principal annually overfive years, provided they stay currenton their payments.

The forgiveness can allow ahomeowner to bring the loan valueback down to 100 percent of thehome’s value over five years, accord-ing to the plan, confirmed by sourcesclose to the matter.

The plan, to begin in May, isamong the first by a U.S. mortgagelender that takes a systematic approachto reducing mortgage principal totackle the thorny issue of preventingforeclosures when home values dropwell below the amount owed.

A Bank of America spokesmandeclined comment.

Announcement of the programin Washington comes as U.S. lawmak-ers and housing advocates are becom-ing increasingly vocal about the needfor principal writedowns in order tosave homes on a large scale. Amidstubbornly high unemployment,homeowners are seen as more likelyto simply abandon an unaffordablemortgage when they have no equityor are deep “underwater” on the loan.

The U.S. Treasury’s mortgagemodification program has largely re-lied on reducing interest rates, and hasbeen criticized for failing to address asteep and painful reduction in homevalues.

The announcement also willcome two days after two Washingtonstate residents sued Bank of Americafor allegedly reneging on a promise itmade to modify troubled mortgageswhen it took $25 billion in taxpayerbailout money.

The lawsuit alleged that thelender has “seriously strung out, de-layed and otherwised hindered” modi-fications because it had financial in-centives to do so.

Negative amortization Under the plan, Bank of America

also will slash the principal balanceon the worst of the high-risk mort-gages written during the height of thehousing boom, the so-called “pay-ment option” adjustable rate mort-gages that had a negative amortiza-tion feature that allowed the princi-pal balance to grow.

On such loans that are delinquentand in danger of imminent default, thelender will announce that it will cut prin-cipal to as low as a 95 percent of theproperty’s value.

Bank of America lender also willexpand its modification program to con-sider payment reductions on prime hy-brid adjustable rate mortgages that havefloating interest rates after two years andwill extend its National HomeownerRetention Plan by six months until theend of 2012.

The bank expects to be operation-ally ready to start the earned principalreduction plan in May. It plans to iden-tify mortgages that may be eligible forthese programs and proactively contacthomeowners to request documents toverify eligibility.AFP PHOTO/Stan Honda / FILES

Entertainment InternationalThursday, March 25, 201012

The Brazilian beauty first sparked rumors shewas to be a mom last May when she and herfootball hero husband Tom Brady were spottedleaving an obstetrician’s office just three monthsafter they wed in Santa Monica, California.Brady denied the claims at the time but the re-ports refused to go away - and the supermodelonly fuelled the rumors by staying silent, de-spite being pictured out and about sporting abulging stomach.

She also featured in a number of new adver-tising campaigns for top fashion labels, includ-ing coat company London Fog, but her babybump was replaced in the shots with images ofher usual slender frame. London Fog boss Dari

POLICE are investigating claims singer Cheryl Cole was the targetof a rape threat, according to a U.K. report. British TV presenter DermotO’Leary, who stars alongside the Girls Aloud beauty on Simon Cowell’stalent show “The X Factor,” alerted cops to a voice message on hisphone aimed at Cole. In the message the caller allegedly made vilethreats about the 26 year old, reports Britain’s The Sun.

A source tells the publication, “The message was of a sexual, threat-ening and sickening nature. Dermot was horrified when he heard it. Hethought at first it was a sick wind-up (practical joke), but soon realizedthere was something sinister going on. Somehow this caller has triedto get hold of her number and somehow accidentally got Dermot’s. Ifthey were prepared to go to that effort, who knows what they would beprepared to do?”

Cole is reportedly aware of the message, but the singer’s spokesper-son reveals she has not listened to it. A police representative said, “Weare investigating claims of an offensive message being left on a mobiletelephone. It follows a complaint from a member of the public.”

OPRAH Winfrey has settled adefamation lawsuit filed by a head-mistress she had accused of perform-ing poorly at her South African girlsschool, where some students claimedthey were abused, lawyers said Tues-day. The lawsuit by former headmis-tress Nomvuyo Mzamane claimedWinfrey defamed her in remarksmade in the wake of the 2007 sex-abuse scandal at the school.Mzamane said she had trouble find-ing a job after Winfrey stated she had“lost confidence” in her and was“cleaning house from top to bottom.”

A trial had been set to start nextweek in federal court in Philadelphia.Winfrey and several schoolgirls hadbeen expected to testify. A joint state-ment released late Tuesday by law-yers for both sides said Winfrey andMzamane met to resolve their differ-ences. “The two parties met womanto woman without their lawyers andare happy that they could resolve thisdispute peacefully to their mutual sat-isfaction,” the statement said.

Winfrey was visiting her school lastweek when U.S. District JudgeEduardo Robreno refused to dismissthe lawsuit, concluding Mzamane hadpresented enough evidence to go totrial. Court papers suggest Mzamaneis again working at a school in Africa,but a Winfrey spokeswoman declinedto say if the meeting took place dur-ing Winfrey’s trip. The parties do notplan to discuss terms of the settlement,according to the spokeswoman, whoworks with Winfrey’s productioncompany, Harpo Productions, whichalso was a defendant in the suit.

A dorm matron at the OprahWinfrey Leadership Academy forGirls has been charged in South Af-rica with abusing six students.

AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File

In this June 25, 2008 file photo, U.S. television presenter Oprah Winfreyarrives for the dinner birthday party of former president of South Af-rica Nelson Mandela in central London’s Hyde Park. Winfrey hassettled a defamation lawsuit filed by the ex-headmistress of her girlsschool in South Africa, lawyers said Tuesday March 23, 2010. The law-suit by former headmistress Nomvuyo Mzamane claimed Winfreydefamed her in remarks made in the wake of a 2007 sex-abuse scan-dal at the school.

Oprah Winfrey settles headmistress’ US lawsuitWinfrey has called the allegationscrushing given her own stated his-tory of childhood sexual abuse. Thedorm matron, Tiny VirginiaMakopo, has pleaded not guilty to14 charges. Mzamane claimed thatshe was never told of the sexualabuse. However, Winfrey’s lawyerssaid in their pretrial memo thismonth that Mzamane failed to dis-cipline Makopo despite her historyof run-ins with students and fellowstaff. One of Mzamane’s lawyers,Timothy McGowan, declined tocomment Tuesday beyond what wasin the joint statement.

Mzamane, born in Lesotho, for-merly worked at the privateGermantown Friends School inPhiladelphia and was living in thecity when she sued two years ago.She earned $150,000 a year asWinfrey’s headmistress.

Winfrey had planned to defendthe case on free speech and othergrounds, arguing she merely voicedher opinions. Mzamane’s lawyers,who noted Winfrey’s huge mediareach, contended listeners wouldthink the remarks were based onfacts she had gleaned from theschool’s internal investigation.

Police Called Over CherylCole Rape Threat

Gisele Bundchen:Gisele Bundchen:Gisele Bundchen:Gisele Bundchen:Gisele Bundchen:’My Pregnancy Was A’My Pregnancy Was A’My Pregnancy Was A’My Pregnancy Was A’My Pregnancy Was A

Sacred Moment For Me’Sacred Moment For Me’Sacred Moment For Me’Sacred Moment For Me’Sacred Moment For Me’Gisele Bundchen insisted on having her pregnant belly airbrushed out of fashion

photo-shoots while she was expecting because she refused to share the “sacred” ex-perience with the world.

Marder said, “Although Gisele was photographedwhile pregnant, most of the shots have been re-touched to respect her privacy during this won-derful and personal time in her life. Nobody issexier or more beautiful than Gisele Bundchen innothing but a London Fog trench coat, even withher visible baby bump.”

Now, three months after giving birth to babyBenjamin, Bundchen reveals it was her deci-sion to ban fashion bosses from picturing herpregnant. She tells Vogue magazine, “I felt likemy pregnancy was a sacred moment for me. Istayed in Boston and I didn’t work apart fromthe contracts I have, and then I only let themuse my face.”

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And on Thursday, chemists at ascientific conference in San Fran-cisco will tackle the issue of chemi-cals and dwindling bees in responseto the new study. Scientists are con-cerned because of the vital role beesplay in our food supply. About one-third of the human diet is from plantsthat require pollination from honey-bees, which means everything fromapples to zucchini.

Bees have been declining over de-cades from various causes. But in2006 a new concern, “colony col-lapse disorder,” was blamed forlarge, inexplicable die-offs. The dis-order, which causes adult bees toabandon their hives and fly off to die,is likely a combination of manycauses, including parasites, viruses,bacteria, poor nutrition and pesti-cides, experts say. “It’s just gottenso much worse in the past fouryears,” said Jeff Pettis, researchleader of the Department ofAgriculture’s Bee Research Labora-tory in Beltsville, Md. “We’re justnot keeping bees alive that long.”

This year bees seem to be in big-ger trouble than normal after a badwinter, according to an informal sur-vey of commercial bee brokers citedin an internal USDA document. One-third of those surveyed had troublefinding enough hives to pollinateCalifornia’s blossoming nut trees,which grow the bulk of the world’salmonds. A more formal survey willbe done in April.

“There were a lot of beekeepersscrambling to fill their orders and thatimplies that mortality was high,” saidPenn State University bee researcherDennis vanEngelsdorp, who worked

Associated Press Writer

Has even the Last Supper beensupersized? The food in famouspaintings of the meal has grown bybiblical proportions over the lastmillennium, researchers report ina medical journal Tuesday. Usinga computer, they compared the sizeof the food to the size of the headsin 52 paintings of Jesus Christ andhis disciples at their final meal be-fore his death.

If art imitates life, we’re introuble, the researchers conclude.The size of the main dish grew 69percent; the size of the plate, 66percent, and the bread, 23 percent,between the years 1000 and 2000.

Supersizing is considered amodern phenomenon, but “whatwe see recently may be just a morenoticeable part of a very longtrend,” said Brian Wansink, a foodbehavior scientist at Cornell Uni-versity. The study was his idea. Forbiblical context, he sought helpfrom his brother, Craig Wansink,professor of religious studies atVirginia Wesleyan College in Nor-folk, Va., and an ordained Presby-terian minister.

The Bible says the Last Suppertook place on a Passover eveningbut gives little detail on specific

In this photo taken Monday,March 22, 2010, Workers,from left, Johan Du Preez,Susan Dupreez and RouxleCrafford clear honey fromdead bee hives at a beefarm east of Merced, Calif.The mysterious 4-year-oldcrisis of disappearinghoneybees is deepening. Aquick federal surveyindicates a heavy bee die-off this winter, while a newstudy shows honeybees’pollen and hives laden withpesticides. Two federalagencies along withregulators in California andCanada are scrambling tofigure out what is behindthis relatively recent threat,ordering new research onpesticides already in use.

Bees in more trouble thanBees in more trouble thanBees in more trouble thanBees in more trouble thanBees in more trouble thanever after bad winterever after bad winterever after bad winterever after bad winterever after bad winterAssociated Press Writer

MERCED, Calif. – The mysterious 4-year-old crisis of disappearing honeybees is deepening. A quickfederal survey indicates a heavy bee die-off this winter, while a new study shows honeybees’ pollen andhives laden with pesticides. Two federal agencies along with regulators in California and Canada are scram-bling to figure out what is behind this relatively recent threat, ordering new research on pesticides used infields and orchards. Federal courts are even weighing in this month, ruling that the U.S. EnvironmentalProtection Agency overlooked a requirement when allowing a pesticide on the market.

on the USDA snapshot survey. Bee-keeper Zac Browning shipped hishives from Idaho to California to pol-linate the blossoming almond groves.He got a shock when he checked onthem, finding hundreds of the hivesempty, abandoned by the worker bees.The losses were extreme, three timeshigher than the previous year.

“It wasn’t one load or two loads,but every load we were pulling outthat was dead. It got extremely de-pressing to see a third of my livestockgone,” Browning said, standing nextto stacks of dead bee colonies in aclearing near Merced, at the centerof California’s fertile San JoaquinValley. Among all the stresses to beehealth, it’s the pesticides that are at-tracting scrutiny now. A study pub-lished Friday in the scientific journalPLOS (Public Library of Science)One found about three out of fivepollen and wax samples from 23states had at least one systemic pesti-cide — a chemical designed to spreadthroughout all parts of a plant.

EPA officials said they are awareof problems involving pesticides andbees and the agency is “very seriouslyconcerned.” The pesticides are not arisk to honey sold to consumers, fed-eral officials say. And the pollen thatpeople eat is probably safe because itis usually from remote areas wherepesticides are not used, Pettis said.But the PLOS study found 121 dif-ferent types of pesticides within 887wax, pollen, bee and hive samples.“The pollen is not in good shape,” saidChris Mullin of Penn State Univer-sity, lead author.

None of the chemicals themselveswere at high enough levels to kill bees,

he said, but it was the combination andvariety of them that is worrisome.University of Illinois entomologistMay Berenbaum called the results“kind of alarming.” Despite EPA as-surances, environmental groups don’tthink the EPA is doing enough on pes-ticides. Bayer Crop Science startedpetitioning the agency to approve anew pesticide for sale in 2006. Afterreviewing the company’s studies of itseffects on bees, the EPA gave Bayerconditional approval to sell the prod-uct two years later, but said it had tocarry a label warning that it was “po-tentially toxic to honey bee larvaethrough residues in pollen and nectar.”

The Natural Resources DefenseCouncil sued, saying the agencyfailed to give the public timely no-tice for the new pesticide application.In December, a federal judge in NewYork agreed, banning the pesticide’ssale and earlier this month, two morejudges upheld the ruling. “This courtdecision is obviously very painful forus right now, and for growers whodon’t have access to that product,”said Jack Boyne, an entomologist andspokesman for Bayer Crop Science.“This product quite frankly is notharmful to honeybees.”

Boyne said the pesticide was soldfor only about a year and most saleswere in California, Arizona andFlorida. The product is intended to dis-rupt the mating patterns of insects thatthreaten citrus, lettuce and grapes, hesaid. Berenbaum’s research showspesticides are not the only problem.She said multiple viruses also are at-tacking the bees, making it tough topropose a single solution. “Things arestill heading downhill,” she said.

AP Photo/Cornell University, Jason Koski

In this March 16, 2010 photo provided by Cornell University, Prof.Brian Wansink, holds a plate illustrating how food portion size hasgrown over the centuries, in front of a projection of Leonardo daVinci’s The Last Supper at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y.. The foodin famous paintings of the Last Supper has grown by biblical pro-portions over the last millennium, researchers report in a medicaljournal Tuesday, March 23, 2010.

Study: LastSupper paintingssupersize the food

foods besides bread and wine.“There’s nothing else mentioned.They don’t say there’s a fruit cupor carrot cake,” though other foodssuch as fish, eel, lamb and evenpork have appeared in paintingsthrough the years, Brian Wansinksaid. For the study, he used paint-ings featured in the book “LastSupper,” published in 2000 byPhaidon Press. They include per-haps the most famous portrayal ofthe meal, by Leonardo da Vinci.Computer technology allowedthem to scan, rotate and calculateimages regardless of their orienta-tion in the paintings.

Details are in the April issue ofthe International Journal of Obe-sity. The study is “not very mean-ingful science,” said Martin Binks,a behavioral health psychologistand a consultant at Duke Univer-sity Medical Center. “We have reallife examples of the increase inportion size — all you have to dois look at what’s being sold at fast-food restaurants.” A more contem-porary test would be to analyzeportion sizes in Super Bowl com-mercials, he suggested. “Thatwould be a much more meaning-ful snapshot of how this society’srelationship to food has changed,”Binks said.

AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez

Thursday, March 25, 201014 InternationalSport

Anthony scored 36 points andChauncey Billups had 25 for theNuggets, who lost their secondstraight as they try to hold ontothe No. 2 seed in the Western Con-ference playoffs. Their magicnumber for clinching a postseasonspot remained at three. The Nug-gets had won the last four meet-ings — Anthony scored a career-high 50 in the last matchup —their longest winning streak everagainst the Knicks. They seemedon their way to easily extendingthat run before the game changedafter halftime.

Denver played its eighth gameunder Adrian Dantley since coachGeorge Karl was diagnosed withthroat cancer. Anthony andGallinari became involved in asometimes testy back and forth

(AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

New York Knicks center David Lee (42) blocks Denver Nuggets’Carmelo Anthony in the first quarter of their NBA basketballgame at Madison Square Garden in New York, Tuesday, March23, 2010.

Knicks rally behindKnicks rally behindKnicks rally behindKnicks rally behindKnicks rally behindGallinari, beatGallinari, beatGallinari, beatGallinari, beatGallinari, beatDenver 109-104Denver 109-104Denver 109-104Denver 109-104Denver 109-104Agence France - Presse

NEW YORK – Danilo Gallinari scored 17 of his 28 points during a spirited duel with CarmeloAnthony in the third quarter, and the New York Knicks beat the Denver Nuggets 109-104 onTuesday night. Al Harrington added 23 points for the Knicks, who climbed out of an early 12-pointhole and took control late in the third period. David Lee finished with 12 points and 16 rebounds.

midway through the third quarter,and the Knicks got the better of it.After Anthony’s basket gave theNuggets a two-point lead with 3:37to go, Gallinari hit consecutive 3-pointers to ignite an 11-0 spurt to endthe period. Harrington’s 3 with 3.9seconds left sent New York to thefourth with an 83-74 advantage.

Anthony scored 12 in the quar-ter, appearing he would get the bet-ter of Gallinari earlier in the period,when the Nuggets were going totheir All-Star on every trip and heseemed amused and annoyed by theItalian’s attempts to check him. Hejawed at Gallinari after some of hisbaskets, but Gallinari gave as goodas he got. The lead was still nine with5:25 to play after Gallinari wasfouled on a reverse and made the freethrow, but six straight Denver points

by Anthony made it 101-98 with 3:16left. The Nuggets would twice get itto one on 3-pointers by J.R. Smith,but missed a chance to grab the leadwhen Anthony’s drive bounced outwith about 43 seconds to play.

Toney Douglas’ jumper with 27seconds remaining extended NewYork’s lead to 107-104. Anthony hadanother drive spin out, Gallinarimade two free throws, and the Nug-gets misfired on some 3-point at-tempts. Denver let one get away atthe start of a difficult five-game tripthat includes stops at Boston, Or-lando and Dallas. The Nuggetsjumped to a 12-0 lead as the Knicksmissed their first seven shots. TheKnicks switched to a zone and foughtback to trim it to 27-26 after one,despite shooting just 36 percent inthe period.

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MIAMI – David Nalbandian crawled offthe canvas from an abdominal injury thismonth and flew to Stockholm to help Argen-tina defeat Sweden 3-2 in the first round ofthe Davis Cup. But the one-time Wimbledonfinalist said Tuesday at the start of the ATPMiami Masters that the proposal for a NationsCup event that could replace a multi-weekDavis Cup commitment would be worth seri-ously considering.

“You have to try something,” Nalbandian

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MIAMI – JelenaJankovic is on the prowlfor further prey after tak-ing the WTA title at IndianWells, with the Serbianstar vowing Tuesday totake a bite out of the Mi-ami Masters. “I’m stillhungry, I still want to dowell,” said the bubblyJankovic, who defeatedDane Caroline Wozniackiin the final. I’m kind oflike an animal.”

Jankovic finishednumber one on the WTATour in 2008 then lost allform by over-training andbulking up to her detri-ment, but she has worked her way back tofighting-fit form. “I will win a Grand Slam.I believe in myself,” Jankovic said. “I’mthinking that I can do it. If I can win IndianWells, I think I can win a Slam also. It’s justa matter of time and doing the right things.”

The 25-year-old enjoys a bye into thesecond round at Miami, with the seventhseed saying that her confidence is back totop level. “When I come to the court I wantto fight to the last point. I like competing, Ilike the challenges,” Jankovic said. “I al-ways try my best to win — sometimes I do,sometimes not — but it’s part of the game.”

(AFP/Getty Images/File/Matthew Stockman)

David Nalbandian, pictured on March12, crawled off the canvas from an ab-dominal injury this month and flew toStockholm to help Argentina defeatSweden 3-2 in the first round of theDavis Cup.

Nalbandian says NationsCup experiment worth a try

said. “I like a lot what you feel on the courtduring Davis Cup — it’s much difference thanthe ATP or Grand Slams. “But Davis Cup istough on our schedule, Those should be weeksoff for us, time to prepare for the clay seasonor the hardcourt season or just to rest. “Some-times in Davis Cup you have to go to Asia,Europe or Australia. That part is tough. TheNations Cup idea could be good. But you haveto try, like the (ill-fated ATP) round-robin ex-periment. It’s tough to say without trying.”

The two-time Davis Cup finalist said thathis comeback from hip surgery last May inBarcelona will hopefully begin in Miami, withhundreds of his countrymen in attendance.“This is maybe the start of another career forme,” Nalbandian said. “When you are awayfrom the game, you miss the competition. Youneed to feel the nerves you feel before matches.“But the tough part is always the same — thetravel and all the time away from home. Thosebad things are still here. As for his Miami hopes,they are understandably limited for the 28-year-old wildcard.

“I’m looking at getting matches,”Nalbandian said. “I need time on court. I couldsay I want to win the tournament, but I don’thave a lot of court time. I don’t need recoverytime now. What I need to do is to play. I be-lieve I’ll feel good in a month after morematches and more confidence.” Nalbandian,now ranked 161st, was drawn into the quarterof the draw headed by Rafael Nadal with afirst-round match against 43rd-ranked PoleLukasz Kubot.

Hungry Jankovic ready totake a big bite at Miami

Jankovic’s success at In-dian Wells came morethan half a year after herlast trophy in Cincinnati.

“I beat a lot of goodplayers in Indian Wells. Mygame is together,” Jankovicsaid. “I believe more in myshots and I go out knowingthat I’m playing good ten-nis and believing muchmore in myself. It doesn’ttake much prompting for theusually smiling player to re-member her low periods of2009. There were timeswhen I wasn’t feeling mygame, and was not confi-dent, but I am now and Ilook forward to playinghere,” Jankovic said.

“I’m feeling very strong. There are somany great players out there. I just wantto try my best. We’ll see how things willwork out.” The women’s field is headedby Svetlana Kuznetsova, the 2006 cham-pion, with world number one Serena Wil-liams out with her continuing left kneeinjury. Wozniacki, newly promoted to sec-ond in the rankings at age 19, is seededsecond with three-time champion VenusWilliams third. Williams is unruffled bythe fact that her younger sibling Serena,last year ’s losing finalist to VictoriaAzarenka, is missing.

(AFP/Getty Images/Chris Mcgrath)

Jelena Jankovic

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Victory over David Moyes’sside will move Roberto Mancini’steam, who have a game in hand onTottenham Hotspur, a point aboveSpurs and into fourth place - the fi-nal Champions League spot on of-fer to English clubs. City’s run-inincludes away matches againstBurnley and Arsenal before theytravel to West Ham on the final dayof the season. But after Everton,they entertain Wigan, Birmingham,Manchester United and close-rivalsAston Villa and Tottenham atEastlands.

Paraguay forward Santa Cruz,who scored in City’s 2-1 win atFulham on Sunday, thinks that homeform could prove decisive, startingwith the match against Everton. “It’smassively important,” said Santa

(AFP/File/Paul Ellis)

Manchester City’s Roque Santa Cruz (right) celebrates a goalwith Carlos Tevez during an English Premier League matchagainst Sunderland in 2009. Santa Cruz believes ManchesterCity’s run of home matches can help them into the ChampionsLeague as they prepare to host Everton.

Santa Cruz says home gamesSanta Cruz says home gamesSanta Cruz says home gamesSanta Cruz says home gamesSanta Cruz says home gamescould be champion for Citycould be champion for Citycould be champion for Citycould be champion for Citycould be champion for CityAgence France - Presse

MANCHESTER, England – Roque Santa Cruz believes Manchester City’s run of home matchescan help them into the Champions League as they prepare to host Everton on Wednesday. Cityare the only Premier League side yet to be beaten at home this season and they have won nine oftheir 13 league matches at Eastlands.

Cruz. “It’s the game that will put usahead of Tottenham.

“To feel that we are close to thatfourth spot is massively importantand we need to make sure that wewin that game. Everybody’s happybecause we’re still in contention forfourth spot and Fulham was a mas-sive win for us. The games comingup will be decisive for us. We’replaying at home and we need to getthe points.”

City will be without formerEverton defender Joleon Lescott,who suffered a hamstring injury inthe warm-up at Fulham, and Manciniis also without left back WayneBridge and Michael Johnsonthrough injury.

Bridge’s absence means JavierGarrido is likely to continue at full-

back and the Spaniard feels that strikerCarlos Tevez has been every bit as in-fluential as Manchester United’sWayne Rooney this season. Tevezmade a controversial pre-season moveto Eastlands from Old Trafford.

And while Rooney has scored 33goals this season, Argentina strikerTevez has managed 22 despite en-during spells on the sidelines.“Wayne Rooney has been great forUnited this season and Carlos Tevezis maybe our Rooney,” Garrido said.“When Carlos plays, the team re-spond. They feel he is one playerwho will always give his best. Weare in a good position, and the rightframe of mind. Of course, we haveto do well in the last few games mostof which are at home. We have to bestrong but it’s in our own hands.”

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LONDON – Chelsea manager CarloAncelotti has set his side a target of 86 points towin the English Premier League title this sea-son. The Blues are currently third, on 65 points,but a victory away to bottom of the table Ports-mouth on Wednesday would leave them just a

Turin - As part of their plan to lure CesarePrandelli to Turin in the summer, Juventus alsohope to sign Fiorentina duo Alberto Gilardinoand Juan Vargas.

The Bianconeri are planning on completelyoverhauling the current structure of the club thissummer after one of the worst seasons on record.Juventus were expected to not just challengebut win major honours after significant invest-ment in the transfer market at the end of lastseason.

However, the project was effectively rippedup in January when the club sacked Ciro Ferraraafter a dismal run in Serie A and eliminationfrom both the Champions League and CoppaItalia. Alberto Zaccheroni was brought in as acaretaker boss, but things haven’t improved dra-matically with Juventus still in sixth place inSerie A. Tuttosport understands that Juventus

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Chelsea’s Italian Manager CarloAncelotti, seen here on March 15, hasset his side a target of 86 points to winthe English Premier League title thisseason.

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point behind leaders and reigning championsManchester United with seven league games ofthe season to play.

Chelsea, however, will first be looking tobounce back quickly from the disappointment ofdropping two points in a 1-1 draw away toBlackburn Rovers last weekend when they takethe field at Fratton Park on Wednesday. “I likestatistics and I think that, in the past, with 86 pointsevery team has won the title,” Ancelotti said onTuesday. “I think that we need to get 86 points towin. We have less opportunity to win after lastweek because we lost two points at Blackburn,but we can have a chance again to win this titleand we will do everything we can to do so. It’svery important for us,” the Italian added.

“Now I want to believe we can win the cham-pionship and I want to stay focused on my joband give my players knowledge to win their nextgames. I always said that I want to give respect tomy players and I want to have respect. I think thisis the right behaviour and I think that, this season,everything is right with the players. I am happywith my players’ attitude. We are disappointedabout the last matches. We are out of the Champi-ons League and lost our position at the top of thetable, but everyone has kept putting in the rightbehaviour. The players, the club, we want to staytogether at this difficult moment. This is the bestthing to do at this particular moment.”

Chelsea’s last 16 exit from the ChampionsLeague at the hands of Inter Milan led to specula-tion Ancelotti would have to win a trophy thisseason or face being sacked by RomanAbramovich, the Blues Russian billionaire owner.But Ancelotti insisted: “My future is definitely atChelsea next season “I can confirm that. I havetwo more years of contract and I have no prob-lem confirming this.”

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Juve plan Gila and Vargas raidwill not offer him the job on a permanent basisin the summer and that the favourite for the postis Prandelli.

There were claims earlier this month thatthe Fiorentina Coach had already accepted anoffer to move to Turin, although they were laterdenied. However, the speculation refuses togo away and the Turin media believe Juventusare shaping their rebuilding process aroundPrandelli. That means keeping Felipe Melo,the Brazilian midfielder who has flopped thisseason, but was effectively signed off the backof a very good year under Prandelli atFiorentina.

It also implies that Juventus will sign play-ers Prandelli trusts like Gilardino and Vargas,although the club’s directors are also said to becertain of making an approach for Sampdoriastriker Giampaolo Pazzini this summer.

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Although the eventual outing of the truth meant Hamilton was strippedof the top three finish, and at the centre of a controversy that nearly causedhim to quit the sport, the 2008 world champion reckons that some gooddid come out of the events. “I’ve always had great experiences here and Idon’t look at last year’s experience as a bad one,” said Hamilton, speakingduring a promotional event for Vodafone in Sydney on Wednesday. “I lookat it as a stepping stone in my life and something I learned a whole lotfrom. Every time I’ve come here, my first year in Melbourne I got a firstpodium position in my first grand prix. In 2008 I came here and I won.Last year, don’t forget I had a great race. I came from dead last on the gridup into fourth place. So it was still a good experience.”

“2009 was a tough year altogether. I learned a lot throughout aboutteam building and lifting up the team. The team does so much, but at theend of the day I’m the one who has to jump in and get the results for theteam.” Hamilton insists that he does not want to waste time re-analysingthe events of last year, with his focus instead being on securing McLaren’sfirst win of the season. “Being a racer you’re always looking forward,” hesaid. “When you’re in a race car travelling at 200mph you have to look far,far forward. And I approach my life day by day. We are in the fast lane. Itgoes by fast and you have to be ready for what is coming up. Not what hashappened in the past.”

Hamilton is bullish that McLaren can improve on its third placed finishfrom the season opener in Bahrain, with the Albert Park set to play to theMP4-25’s strengths better than Bahrain did. “Sometimes your car suits itbetter than others - this circuit should work to the strengths of our car,” headded. “We feel stronger coming in to this race and hopefully we can getmore points - for myself and Jenson. We do have a chance of winning thisweekend. And hopefully we’ll be able to get that edge. Confidence is some-thing you build on. I don’t want to come here and say ‘yeah we’re going towin’. I feel confident I have a great strong team behind me and Jensongoes well here in Australia. So I’m confident we can go better.”

FERNANDO Alonso believesFerrari’s success in the BahrainGrand Prix means nothing for thisweekend’s event in Australia, as hepredicts a tight four-way teamtussle for the victory. The Spaniardkicked off his Ferrari career in per-fect style with a triumph in the sea-son opener, but he reckons that ri-vals Red Bull, McLaren andMercedes will all be vying it out atthe front of the grid in Melbourne.

Writing on his official blog,Alonso said: “The one-two winat Sakhir gave us confidence andwas a great result for the hardwork during the winter on thetrack and at the works, but wecan’t take anything for granted.“We have to stay with our feet onthe ground, keeping calm andstaying concentrated: inMelbourne we’re starting fromsquare one. Nothing has changedfor me: there are four teams andeight drivers who can fight forvictory and we have to give it ourall to stay ahead of everybodyelse.”

Alonso has also added cau-tion to the outspoken remarksabout the state of F1 following thefar from enthralling race inBahrain. He has joined other lead-ing figures in stating that the sportneeds to think carefully beforereacting. “I think that many of ushave given some hot-headed com-ments immediately after the racein Bahrain,” he said. “It’s true thatthe race at Sakhir wasn’t espe-cially spectacular - although for

Lewis Hamilton returns to the Australian Grand Prix this weekend a year on from the lyingscandal that engulfed him and McLaren adamant that the experience helped make him a betterman, rather than being one that should be totally forgotten

Hamilton: Lie scandal made me strongerLewis Hamilton returns to the Australian Grand Prix this

weekend a year on from the lying scandal that engulfed himand McLaren adamant that the experience helped make him abetter man, rather than being one that should be totally forgot-ten. The McLaren driver was awarded a podium finish atMelbourne last year after claiming to stewards that Jarno Trullihad overtaken him during a safety car period - even though hehad followed team orders to let the Toyota driver through.

Alonso predicts four-team fightus Ferraris it was great and exciting– but it’s too early to talk aboutchanging the rules. We have to waitand see different races and check thesituation, without being emotional.Something that confuses the fans ischanging the rules all the time.”

Alonso’s comments about hold-ing back before seeing if there is aneed for change have been backed

by his team boss StefanoDomenicali. The Italian told theofficial Ferrari website: “It ismuch too early to jump to conclu-sions and we should not react inan emotional way. We must waitand see how the races evolvethroughout the season and thenthe subject can be studied calmly,based on sufficient evidence.”

Fernando Alonso believes Ferrari’s success in the BahrainGrand Prix means nothing for this weekend’s event in Austra-lia, as he predicts a tight four-way team tussle for the victory