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Brain Researchers Open Door to Editing Memory Suppose scientists could erase certain memories by tinkering with a single substance in the brain. Could make you forget a chronic fear, a traumatic loss, even a bad habit. Brain Power The Speed-Dial Molecule For all that scientists have studied it, the brain remains the most complex and mysterious human organ and, now, the focus of billions of dollars' worth of research to penetrate its secrets. This is the first article in a series that will look in depth at some of the insights these projects are producing. Researchers in Brooklyn have recently accomplished comparable feats, with a single dose of an experimental drug delivered to areas of the brain critical for holding specific types of memory, like emotional associations, spatial knowledge or motor skills. The drug blocks the activity of a substance that the brain apparently needs to retain much of its learned information. And if enhanced, the substance could help ward off dementias and other memory problems. So far, the research has been done only on animals. But scientists say this memory system is likely to work almost identically in people. The discovery of such an apparently critical memory molecule, and its many potential uses, are part of the buzz surrounding a field that, in just the past few years, has made the seemingly impossible suddenly probable: neuroscience, the study of the brain. “If this molecule is as important as it appears to be, you can see the possible implications,” said Dr. Todd C. Sacktor, a 52-year-old neuroscientist who leads the team at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center, in Brooklyn, which demonstrated its effect on memory. “For trauma. For addiction, which is a learned behavior. Ultimately for improving memory and learning.” Artists and writers have led the exploration of identity, consciousness and memory for centuries. Yet even as scientists sent men to the moon and spacecraft to Saturn and submarines to the ocean floor, the instrument responsible for such feats, the human mind, remained almost entirely dark, a vast and mostly uncharted universe as mysterious as the New World was to explorers of the past. Now neuroscience, a field that barely existed a generation ago, is racing ahead, attracting billions of dollars in new financing and throngs of

researchers. The National Institutes of Health last year spent $5.2 billion, nearly 20 percent of its total budget, on brainrelated projects, according to the Society for Neuroscience. Endowments like the Wellcome Trust and the Kavli Foundation have poured in hundreds of millions of dollars more, establishing institutes at universities around the world, including Columbia and Yale. The influx of money, talent and technology means that scientists are at last finding real answers about the brain and raising questions, both scientific and ethical, more quickly than anyone can answer them. Millions of people might be tempted to erase a severely painful memory, for instance but what if, in the process, they lost other, personally important memories that were somehow related? Would a treatment that “cleared” the learned habits of addiction only tempt people to experiment more widely? And perhaps even more important, when scientists find a drug to strengthen memory, will everyone feel compelled to use it? The stakes, and the wide-open opportunities possible in brain science, will only accelerate the pace of discovery. “In this field we are merely at the foothills of an enormous mountain range,” said Dr. Eric R. Kandel, a neuroscientist at Columbia, “and unlike in other areas of science, it is still possible for an individual or small group to make important contributions, without any great expenditure or some enormous lab.” Dr. Sacktor is one of hundreds of researchers trying to answer a question that has dumbfounded thinkers since the beginning of modern inquiry: How on earth can a clump of tissue possibly capture and store everything poems, emotional reactions, locations of favorite bars, distant childhood scenes? The idea that experience leaves some trace in the brain goes back at least to Plato's Theaetetus metaphor of a stamp on wax, and in 1904 the German scholar Richard Semon gave that ghostly trace a name: the engram. What could that engram actually be? The answer, previous research suggests, is that brain cells activated by an experience keep one another on biological speed-dial, like a group of people joined in common witness of some striking event. Call on one and word quickly goes out to the larger network of cells, each apparently adding

some detail, sight, sound, smell. The brain appears to retain a memory by growing thicker, or more efficient, communication lines between these cells. The billion-dollar question is how? In the decades since this process was described in the 1960s and 1970s, scientists have found scores of molecules that play some role in the process. But for years the field struggled to pinpoint the purpose each one serves. The problem was not that such substances were so hard to find on the contrary. Brain Power The Speed-Dial Molecule For all that scientists have studied it, the brain remains the most complex and mysterious human organ and, now, the focus of billions of dollars' worth of research to penetrate its secrets. This is the first article in a series that will look in depth at some of the insights these projects are producing. In a 1999 paper in the journal Nature Neuroscience, two of the most prominent researchers in brain science, Dr. Jeff W. Lichtman and Joshua R. Sanes of Harvard, listed 117 molecules that were somehow involved when one cell creates a lasting speed-dial connection with a neighbor, a process known as “long-term potentiation.” They did not see that these findings were necessarily clarifying the picture of how memories are formed. But an oddball substance right there on their own list, it turned out, had unusual properties. A Helpful Nudge “You know, my dad was the one who told me to look at this molecule he was a scientist too, my dad, he's dead now but he had these instincts so anyway that's how it all started,” Dr. Sacktor was saying. He was driving from his home in Yonkers to his laboratory in the East Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, with three quiches and bag of bagels bouncing in the back seat. Lunch for the lab. The father's advice led the son, eventually, to a substance called PKMzeta. In a series of studies, Dr. Sacktor's lab found that this molecule was present and activated in cells precisely when they were put on speed-dial by a neighboring neuron.

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Despite Minister Wacik's Assurances that All is Well, Culture & Tourism Official Predicts 20% Unemployment in Indonesia's Tourism Industry. BeritaBali.com reports that 20%

of Indonesia's tourism sector workers may face unemployment in the course of the current economic crisis. Based on data from the Department of Culture and Tourism there are around 4.14 million Indonesians employed in tourism-related jobs. The dire projections of widescale lay-offs was delivered by the Director of Data and Networking at the Department of Culture and Tourism, Harry Waluyo, after opening the 5th Conference of the United Nation's World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) in Nusa Dua, Bali on April 30, 2009. Waluyo said that tourism workers employed in hotels, restaurants and travel agencies were most at threat of losing their jobs in the current downturn in world travel.

Waluyo said: "The connection is that visitors my decline if the American economy does not recover and longhaul tourists will decrease their amount of travel and pick tourism destination that are closer." Waluyo's predictions are at odds with statement by the Minister of Culture and Tourism, Jero Wacik, who has said he is optimistic that there will be no jobs lost in Indonesia's tourism sector over the coming year. According to Wacik, any downturn in foreign tourist will be covered by increases in domestic tourists. Www.balidiscovery.com

BIWA Tennis Tournament April 24-30, 2009 Tournament Proceeds Fund Education, Poverty Alleviation and Women's Projects. Bali International Women's Association (BIWA) is organizing its annual fund raising tennis tournament. Run in cooperation with the Bali Tennis Academy (BTA) proceeds will fund scholarships for underprivileged children, as well as women and children's health & education project in Bali. Last year's tournament attracted 150 participants from across Bali and abroad with 200 players expected to participate this year. The 2009 BIWA Charity Tennis Tournament will be held from Friday, April 24th to Thursday, April 30th, 2009 at the Bali Tennis Academy - Nikko Bali Resort & Spa with 3 indoor courts. To mark the opening of the tournament, a cocktail party will be held on Friday, April 24, 2009 at 5 p.m. at the Bali Tennis Academy at the Nikko Bali Resort & Spa. Closing the event there will be an Award Ceremony Dinner held at the hotel on Thursday, April 30, 2009 starting at 7.30 p.m.. Prizes and trophies will be presented to winners and runners up. Exciting door prizes will also be on offer. Divisions of Play

Play will be conducted during the tournament in the following categories: Open: Men/Ladies Singles/Doubles/Mixed Super Amateur Men's Singles Amateur Senior: Men/Ladies, Singles/Doubles/Mixed/ 50 years + Junior:: Boys/Girls, Singles/Doubles below 14 years The deadline for entries is April 20,, 2009, and the draw will be held on April 22nd. Registration forms are available at BIWA, Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai No. 46, Sanur Bali, or Bali Tennis Academy at Nikko Bali Resort & Spa. Online registration is also available. “This tournament is one of BIWA's Annual Charity to continue supporting the needy people in Bali”, said Joyce Nelwan, BIWA's Past President 2007 2008 in her capacity as the Tournament Coordinator. “It is a great sport where people can enjoy, compete and help the unfortunate women and children in Bali at the same time. It is going to be an exciting tournament for everyone”, she added.

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Extension of Aviation Blacklisting Will Lengthen Ban to Two Year Mark. Bisnis Indonesia says its highly likely that the European Union (EU) will extend its current blacklisting of Indonesian aviation for an additional three months. The Director General of Civil Aviation, Herry Bakti S. Gumay told the press that the prolongation of the ban on the operation of Indonesian registered aircraft into European air space has been signaled by the Indonesian representative who will be observing meetings of the EU discussing aviation safety. According to Bakti, the EU is also refusing requests for a fasttracking of safety authorization put forth by four Indonesian air carriers Garuda Indonesia, Mandala Airlines, Airfast and Premiair. Bakti remains hopeful that the EU will favorably consider the many advances made in Indonesian aviation and consider lifting the

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blacklisting in June 2009. Bakti, speaking at a press conference regarding the arrival of Boeing 777-300ER and Boeing 777-200 intended to serve new routes to Amsterdam, praised the many advances made by the national air carrier. Bakti said: "Garuda has every thing they can. A new armada of aircraft is arriving and they also have a strong financial performance despite a difficult economic condition at the moment. All this is extraordinary." Www.balidiscovery.co m

Government to Closely Scrutinize Foreign Workers

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Government Worried that Economic Crisis will Bring Flood of Foreigners Looking for Work. The Department of Manpower and Transmigration (Depnakertrans) will tighten permission for foreign workers in anticipation of a coming wave of foreigners traveling to Indonesia, seeking work during the current economic crisis. The Minister of Manpower and Transmigration, Erman Suparno, told Bisnis Indonesia that closer scrutiny of foreign workers is a necessity to preserve local job opportunities, particularly in management positions. Erman told the press that Indonesia has always kept a watchful eye over foreign workers via coordination

between the Department of Trade, the Investment Coordinating Board and the Department of Industry. He also reminded that all foreign workers in Indonesia must obtain a working permit from his department before commencing any employment. The Minister said that foreigner can only hold "nonstrategic" positions while they train Indonesians to eventually assume those posts. Meanwhile, strategic positions must always be held by Indonesians. Data from the Department of Manpower through the end of 2008 show 85,453 registered foreign workers in Indonesia, an increase of 11.4% over the

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GRAIN Opens Office at Nusa Dua Effort to Secure Leads for Conference and Convention Business Via World-Wide Network of Offices. A memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed in Bali on Friday, April 3, 2009, between the Bali International Convention Centre (BICC) and the Global Research and Intelligence Network (GRAIN) in an effort to enhance Indonesia's bidding efforts to secure a larger share of conference and convention business. GRAIN is launching four International Centers for Industry Development (ICID) offices in Bali, Malaysia, the Middle East and the U.S.A.. According to the Executive Director of GRAIN, Scott Campbell: "ICID revolutionizes the way destinations go to bid, as ICID can under right (sic) the conference and act as a local host, reducing headaches for Bureaus and Convention Centers in gaining local host support, and allowing

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the academics and associations to focus on the technical and educational programs, without having to worry about the financial risks." "A lack of local host support can be fatal when

bidding, and, so with the local association running in the partnership with ICID (and) the Convention Centre and Bureau, they can access the financial backing of corporate sponsors and gain support for their bid from across the world. International associations have responded positively, with a recent sales mission into Australia seeing ICID now working with international associations to launch new

branches, increase membership, and obtain financial sponsorship for their industry development objectives," Campbell explained. Initial funding for ICID is provided by companies in Australia, Indonesia and the United Kingdom operating in tourism, mining, medical research, biotechnology and aeronautics. All reportedly see conference as a way of growing their industries and business. The Bali ICID office will be a lead generator for conferences and conventions in Bali via their 14 country network. ICID operates with fund provided by corporate sponsors and on a pay-forlead basis. Www.balidiscovery.co m

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How 1 Autistic Young Man Runs a Business Joe Steffy is off to Overland Park, Kan., this week to do a PowerPoint presentation on his business, Poppin' Joe's Kettle Korn. He's a 23-year-old small-business man with a goal of $100,000 in sales by 2012. Joe also has autism and Down syndrome and is nonverbal. When he gives his talk, he will push buttons on an augmentative speech device to deliver the words. His audience will be parents who fervently hope their own special-needs children will be able to work, too.

Steffy worked closely with Dave Hammis, an advocate for selfemployment for people with disabilities in Middletown, Ohio, who trains business owners, government employees, and parents on how to make use of state and federal programs. The Steffys wrote up a business plan and helped Joe secure $25,000 in grants from programs like Social Security Administration's Plan to Achieve Self-Support program (PASS).

The path to Joe Steffy's success was not an easy one; Ray

Steffys are seeking a business partner who can work with Joe to manage the

business. Joe is no longer on Social Security disability payments; instead, he pays state sales tax and state and federal income tax. He rents his own house and is helped by caregivers who are paid by a state program.

"It's been hard work, from the standpoint of physical work," says Ray Steffy, who is 67. "But a parent with a child like Joe has a choice. You can either kick in and do this kind of thing, or you can sit and fret emotionally with the amount of energy, worrying about what's In 2005, Poppin' Joe's Kettle Korn was born. Sales have grown from going to happen to them." Joe's parents, Ray and Janet, $16,000 in 2005 to $50,000 in 2008, The payoff for that effort, as far didn't agree with the school district both from selling at festivals and from as the Steffys are concerned, has been assessment in their home town of delivering popcorn to local outlets. Joe priceless. They see their son make a Louisburg, Kan., that said Joe would has five part-time employees, and his local popcorn delivery, accept payment, never be able to work or live parents help out with driving and other fold it, and put it in his pocket. When he independently. "I'm one who can tasks. "Pop and everyone that works walks out, his dad says, Joe looks 3 easily get ticked off," says Ray. "That with him knows whatever Joe wants to inches taller than when he walked in. ticked me off. We saw more in Joe do you let him do, because he's the than that. We set out to prove to the boss," Ray says. "If he wants to pop, school that he had capabilities." They he'll shove Dad out of the way and came across kettle corn while on a pop." trip to Alaska and realized that all that If the business stays on track, it popping, scooping, and serving suited should be grossing more than Joe's love of work. $100,000 in three years, and the

Sarkozy schools Obama in the little French kiss Strasbourg, was among a noisy crowd of well-wishers who greeted Obama and his wife Michelle when they arrived in the eastern French city for a summit of NATO leaders. As they approached the crowd to shake hands, Dervogne called out and asked for a kiss, but Obama had to be STRASBOURG, France encouraged by the French President before submitting. (Reuters) A French student "I said in slightly who gave a kiss to Barack hesitating English... 'A kiss for Obama when he greeted an me?'" Dervogne told i-tele enraptured crowd Friday said television. "He showed me his the initially reluctant U.S. bodyguards, who were surveying president had to be everything. I think there was a encouraged to accept the security gap we were supposed gesture by his host Nicolas to keep to," she said. Sarkozy. "And there was Sarkozy Cecilia Dervogne, a who re-insisted and said: 'What, student at the University of

you're not going to give her a kiss?' so he offered his cheek timidly and I gave him a kiss." Obama is wildly popular in France, in contrast to his predecessor George W. Bush, but he appeared slightly at sea with the complicated customs regarding the "bise," the kiss on the cheeks often given as a greeting even between relative strangers. Just before his encounter with Dervogne, Obama did not offer the "bise" to Sarkozy's wife Carla, preferring to shake hands formally. The French president exchanged the traditional kiss on each cheek with Michelle Obama.

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The Menu Starter Pan seared foie gras, apricot pumpkin salsa, liquorice reduction and black pepper caramel complemented with Leyda Gewürztraminer 2008 Intermediate Giant scallops with vierge sauce served with Leyda Riesling Neblina 2008 Main course Rack and braised leg of lamb, white bean cassoulet, sweet mustard and crisp potato served with Von Siebenthal Montelig 2005 Cheese Crème brule of goat cheese with beetroot garlic grissini served with Von Siebenthal Carabantes Syrah Reserve 2007 Dessert Valhorna chocolate violetine with mango trilogy complemented with Von Siebenthal Carmenère Reserve 2007 After dinner, guests will be invited to the Nusa Bagus Island for coffee, liquors and cigars under the stars. About Bastian Mantey, Chef de Cuisine Bastian Mantey, Chef de Cuisine of The Laguna Resort & Spa, Nusa Dua, Bali brings with him a wealth of knowledge gained from working in some of Europe's finest Michelin star rated restaurants. Bastian shares his innovation and creative talents to the resort, ensuring that every meal is a culinary experience, styled to perfection. About Juan Jose Diaz, Wine Enthusiast

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Nurjaya Replaced as Head of Bali Tourism Subiksu Named to Be Island's Top Tourism Job. The Chief of Bali Tourist Authority (BTA), I Gede Nurjaya, has been replaced by Bali's governor within the framework of a "routine" replacement of the heads of provincial government department heads that, in its latest round, saw 6 officials replaced. Nurjaya, now retiring from the

provincial civil service, worked as the Chief of protocol for Bali's governor prior to his appointment as the island's top tourism post. Replacing Nurjaya is Drs. Ida Bagus Kade Subhiksu who comes to his new posting after serving at the cultural heritage section of the cultural affairs division of the provincial Bali government.

Quoted in the Jakarta Post, governor Pastika said. "the new officials are appointed to create a new atmosphere and policies." Adding, "the Chief of the Bali Tourism Agency must be able to perform a role as a good facilitator for all stakeholders in Bali's tourism industry." www.balidiscovery.com

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Australian gang leader charged in biker brawl SYDNEY A motorcycle gang leader surrendered to police Monday and became the sixth biker charged in connection with a brawl that left a rival bleeding to death before shocked travelers at Australia's busiest airport. The March 22 slaying at Sydney's domestic airport thrust long-simmering violence among biker gangs in Australia into the public spotlight, raised fears of widespread reprisal attacks and prompted a crackdown by authorities. No one has been charged with causing the death of Anthony Zervas, the brother of a well-known Hell's Angels member, who was bludgeoned to death during a rolling melee between Hell's Angels and Comanchero gang members through the terminal. Comanchero leader Mahmoud "Mick" Hawi was charged Monday with fighting in public in a way that caused bystanders to fear for their safety a crime called affray at the airport. Five other Comanchero members have previously been

charged with the same offense, and each faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison if

convicted. John Korn, Hawi's lawyer, said his client gave himself up Monday. Hawi appeared briefly in court and ordered to jail pending a bail hearing Tuesday. A week after the brawl, an unknown gunman opened fire on the victim's brother, Peter Zervas, hitting him several times and badly wounding him as he sat in a car outside his apartment building.

Last week, the New South Wales state government rushed through tough new laws that allow officials to ban gangs and imprison those who defy such a ban for up to five years. Police have also launched a new anti-gang unit to tackle biker violence. Sydney's The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported Monday without naming sources that state Premier Nathan Rees and Police Minister Tony Kelly have been placed under 24-hour guard by armed police because of fears bikers could launch attacks in revenge for the crackdown. Rees and Kelly refused to comment. Biker gangs have existed in Australia since the late 1960s, and turf battles have ebbed and flowed.

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month later, they quickly remember how to avoid the shock and do so. But when injected directly into their brain with a drug called ZIP that interferes with PKMzeta, they are back to square one, almost immediately. “When we first saw this happen, I had grad students throwing their hands up in the air, yelling,” Dr. Fenton said. “Well, we needed a lot more than that” one study. They now have it. Dr. Fenton's lab repeated the experiment, in various ways; so has a consortium of memory researchers, each using a different method. Researchers led by Yadin Dudai at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel found that one dose of ZIP even made rats forget a strong disgust they had developed for a taste that had made them sick three months earlier. A Conscience Blocker? “This possibility of memory editing has enormous possibilities and raises huge ethical issues,” said Dr. Steven E. Hyman, a neurobiologist at Harvard. “On the one hand, you can imagine a scenario in which a person enters a setting which elicits traumatic memories, but now has a drug that weakens those memories as they come up. Or, in the case of addiction, a drug that weakens the associations that stir craving.” Researchers have already tried to blunt painful memories and addictive urges using existing drugs; blocking PKMzeta could potentially be far more effective. Yet any such drug, Dr. Hyman and others argue, could be misused to erase or block memories of bad behavior, even of crimes. If traumatic memories are like malicious stalkers, then troubling memories and a healthy dread of them form the foundation of a moral conscience. For those studying the biology of memory, the properties of PKMzeta promise

something grander still: the prospect of retooling the engram factory itself. By 2050 more than 100 million people worldwide will have Alzheimer's disease or other dementias, scientists estimate, and far more will struggle with age-related memory decline. “This is really the biggest target, and we have some ideas of how you might try to do it, for instance to get cells to make more PKMzeta,” Dr. Sacktor said. “But these are only ideas at this stage.” A substance that improved memory would immediately raise larger social concerns, as well. “We know that people already use smart drugs and performance enhancers of all kinds, so a substance that actually improved memory could lead to an arms race,” Dr. Hyman said. Many questions in the science remain. For instance, can PKMzeta really link a network of neurons for a lifetime? If so, how? Most molecules live for no more than weeks at a time. And how does it work with the many other substances that appear to be important in creating a memory? “There is not going to be one, single memory molecule, the system is just not that simple,” said Thomas J. Carew, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Irvine, and president of the Society for Neuroscience. “There are going to be many molecules involved, in different kinds of memories, all along the process of learning, storage and retrieval.” Yet as scientists begin to climb out of the dark foothills and into the dim light, they are now poised to alter the understanding of human nature in ways artists and writers have not.

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In fact, the PKMzeta molecules appeared to herd themselves, like Army Rangers occupying a small peninsula, into precisely the fingerlike connections among brain cells that were strengthened. And they stayed there, indefinitely, like biological sentries. In short: PKMzeta, a wallflower in the great swimming party of chemicals that erupts when one cell stimulates another, looked as if it might be the one that kept the speeddial function turned on. “After that,” Dr. Sacktor said, “we began to focus solely on PKMzeta to see how critical it really was to behavior.” Running a lab is something like fielding a weekend soccer team. Players come and go, from Europe, India, Asia, Grand Rapids. You move players around, depending on their skills. And you bring lunch, because doctoral students logging 12-hour days in a yellowing shotgun lab in East Flatbush need to eat. “People think that state schools like ours are low-key, laid back, and they're right, we are,” said Robert K. S. Wong, chairman of the physiology and pharmacology department at SUNY Downstate, who brought Dr. Sacktor with him from Columbia. “You have less pressure to apply for grants, and you can take more time, I think, to work out your ideas.” To find out what, if anything, PKMzeta meant for living, breathing animals, Dr. Sacktor walked a flight downstairs to the lab of André A. Fenton, also of SUNY Downstate, who studies spatial memory in mice and rats. Dr. Fenton had already devised a clever way to teach animals strong memories for where things are located. He teaches them to move around a small chamber to avoid a mild electric shock to their feet. Once the animals learn, they do not forget. Placed back in the chamber a day later, even a

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The Balinese are counting on Australian tourists to take advantage of hotel and airline deals to help them survive the global economic crisis. Tourist industry leaders said demand from regional markets such as Australia, Japan and China would largely offset a fall in long-haul tourist numbers. “We predict an overall decrease in foreign visitors with a major fall from Europe and America, but because of Australia and regional markets and new airline services, we remain quite optimistic,” said Gede Nirjaya, director of the government agency, Bali Tourism Authority. “We know that many Australians are putting off travel to Europe and America because of their weaker currency, and coming to Bali instead.” The latest available data from January bucked worldwide trends and set a new record with 164,643 foreign visitors to Bali, up 17.7 per cent from a year ago. For the first time on record, Australia displaced Japan as Bali's number one market, with almost 28,000 visitors, up 38 per cent. More than 300,000 Australians visited Bali last year, making it the secondbiggest market. Following the better-than-expected data, Nirjaya has upgraded his forecast for 2009 to 1.9 million foreign tourists, from 1.8 million originally forecast. This would represent a decrease of 4 per cent from an all-time high of 1.98 million in 2008. Hoteliers were confident Bali's tourism-dependent economy would weather the global financial storm. Many saw the softer bookings as an opportunity to begin major renovation projects. “Every time Bali has had a crisis, our resort has come through stronger

because we spend more on advertising and promotion, and we keep investing,” said Rudy Suliawan, owner of Ayana Resort and Spa, which opened on April 1 after changing its name from the Ritz-Carlton Bali, Resort and Spa. Under new management from USbased West Paces Hotel Group - founded by former Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company executives - the 77ha cliff-top property in Jimbaran has launched a multi-million dollar renovation program. It includes a new bar virtually suspended over the ocean at the cliff's base and a complete makeover of three dining venues using Japan's Design Studio Spin, famous for designing Nobu Tokyo and Nobu Hong Kong. Ayana is also renovating 260 rooms and suites. The renovations signal a bright new beginning for Ayana. Suliawan last year sued the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company in the US after they opened a second resort in Bali under the name Bulgari, breaching an exclusivity clause in their management contract. Suliawan won $US10 million ($14 million) in damages plus the right to terminate the contract. Rebranding his resort as Ayana, he appointed a new management company in West Paces Hotel Group, which was founded by former Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company president Horst Schulze, and a new general manager - Frenchman Charles de Foucault who brings 17 years of Ritz-Carlton experience. This, along with his continued commitment to investing in the facilities and service standards, would ensure the property remained one of Bali's most sought-after destination resorts, Suliawan said. “This is a very tough and very risky industry, and you have to keep investing even

in difficult times to keep ahead of the competition,” he said. Meanwhile, several new hotels in the works have been shelved, including a Raffles resort planned for Pecatu, which is now unlikely to start construction before year's end. Others are going ahead, albeit at a slower pace. W Retreat and Spa in Seminyak has delayed its scheduled completion date by six months to June 2010. “The owners have slowed the project down during this crisis," general manager Craig Seaward said. “Our plan is to be operational when the market comes back again.” The property includes 158 rooms and 78 villas, which are expected to sell for between $US950,000 and $US2.5 million each. Seaward said developments that already had finance and the backing of a major chain - in W's case, Starwood Hotels - would survive the crisis. One that remained on schedule was the Pullman Bali Legian Nirwana, which would be the seventh Accor Group hotel in Bali when it opens in September. The management of the 351-room hotel is looking to Australia for bookings. “I strongly believe this year Australia will be Bali's number one market for the first time,” said Michel Vivier, Accor's operations director for East Malaysia and East Indonesia. “Europeans and Americans will definitely decrease because of the recession, people will find it more difficult to spend two or three weeks on holiday. But we are very confident. We are targeting for Bali to do at least as well as last year.”

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KUTA, Indonesia (AFP) Australian surfing pioneer Kim "Fly" Bradley died last week at his home on Bali, the Indonesian island he surfed almost alone in the early 1970s. He was 54. His daughter, Dewi Bradley, said he died on March 26, a spiritual holiday for Balinese Hindus known as the "Day of Silence." Family members found him two days later, in his favourite room in the house he built overlooking Kuta beach, she said. The surfing legend and father-oftwo from Sydney had battled skin cancer for years but the official cause of death had not been determined. "My father had long suffered from skin disease, but the cause of death will

be issued in two weeks by the hospital," Dewi told AFP, adding that her father, a convert to Hinduism, would be cremated at the end of April. Fair-skinned and fair-haired, Bradley grew up surfing Sydney's northern beaches in the 1960s before the days of effective sunscreen. In his later years his condition was so bad he was unable to venture out in the sun, let alone on to the waves, so he busied himself with surfboard design and shaping. Known as "the Fly" because of his small stature, Bradley claimed to have made the first surfboard built in Indonesia and later started a successful clothing business with his Balinese wife, Made. His friend, Dian Hadiani, said he would often talk about his early days on Bali when he surfed the famous breaks of Dreamland, Nusa Dua and Balangan alone, having flown to the island on a whim in 1974 aged just 19. "The last time I met him was a week before he died. He hugged me tightly and quite long. He then gave me a pile of his diaries and photos and asked me to keep them," she said. "I didn't find anything wrong with his

health -- he smoked cigarettes as usual." In a 2007 interview with "Surfer's Path" magazine, Bradley recalled the excitement of exploring Bali's huge offshore breaks with a small group of other surfers. "We had to work it out for ourselves... there's like 26 breaks or something on the Bukit Peninsula now, but when I came we knew of two," he was quoted as saying. "Paddling out at 12 foot (four metres) Nusa Dua by yourself... even at eight foot it's pretty scary. "You're looking out there and it's 1012 foot but it's too good to resist so I'd say a quiet word to myself and my master: 'Well if it's today, it's a good day to die.' "If I die standing up in a 12-foot barrel, if the master says it's my time to go... then what a way to go.”

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Setanta O'hAilpin set to rise from disgrace as Carlton lack defence The career of Carlton's Irish recruit Setanta O'hAilpin appears set to be resurrected on Easter Saturday against Essendon at the MCG, just two months after he was found guilty of intentionally kicking and striking a teammate. The AFL suspended O'hAilpin for four matches, including the Blues participation in the NAB Cup, following an extraordinary exchange with Cameron Cloke in an intra-club practice match at Princes Park in February. O'hAilpin was suspended indefinitely by Carlton and ordered to undergo an anger management course with the club's sports psychologist while he trained away from his teammates with VFL affiliate club Northern Bullants. In the spiteful off-the-ball incident, O'hAilpin punched Cloke to the head, which dropped the former Collingwood player. Cloke was then kicked in the buttock as he lay face-down on the ground. O'hAilpin was ordered from the field immediately and then sent home by captain Chris Judd. While the Blues administration and coach Brett Ratten were clearly annoyed at O'hAilpin's brain snap, they did not contemplate sacking him with a season remaining on his contract. Blues chief executive Greg Swann said: "Setanta's actions were totally

unacceptable, on or off the field, and we are bitterly disappointed in the incident with Cameron Cloke." However, due to a lack of available key defenders over the next few weeks, O'hAilpin appears to be back in favour at Carlton following some impressive form in VFL practice matches. Carlton general manager of football operations, Steven Icke, said: "He could be back in town." Icke said O'hAilpin's form had been good in practice matches in the lower grade, playing as a ruckman, forward and in defensive roles. The strong possibility of O'hAilpin's return this month for his first senior game since round 14 last year has been brought forward by injuries to regular full-back Michael Jamison and back-up defender Mark Austin. Advice from a specialist will keep Jamison sidelined for two to three weeks, after he damaged his right shoulder in the first half against Brisbane last weekend. After having surgery last August on the same shoulder, he "popped" it again in round one, but Icke said it was not a dislocation. "Following scans, the specialist said the problem was not significant enough to have surgery, so that's a good thing," Icke said. "He'll let it settle, rehabilitate and then work on stabilising and strengthening the

shoulder." Icke said the Blues would not consider recalling Austin for his sixth senior game this weekend because he has missed several recent practice matches due to a groin strain. Prolific ball-winner and reliable finisher Nick Stevens has completed his twomatch suspension and will be an automatic selection against the Bombers. Also available this week will be Shaun Grigg, who has thrown off a preseason hamstring problem. Like Stevens, Grigg had a hit-out in the VFL last weekend. But that trial game proved to be the undoing of Andrew Walker, who received the third shoulder dislocation of his 81-game career, which is likely to keep him out for the rest of the season. Walker, who will have reconstructive surgery, returned last season to play in Carlton's final seven home-and-away games after undergoing surgery in March. O'hAilpin missed the latter part of last season with a calf injury that required radical treatment overseas. The last time the unbeaten Blues won their first three games in a season was in 1995 when they lost just twice for the year and went on to win the premiership.

Hawthorn's low ruck stocks put Jarryd Roughead in line for positional shift Position vacant: One-week contract for anyone close to 200cm not scared of strong body contact. Apply: Alastair Clarkson, Hawthorn coach. The AFL premiers' ruck crisis is set to continue on Sunday against a North Melbourne team rapidly turning into "Land of the Giants". Robert Campbell is only an outside chance to return from injury, while Simon Taylor has one week of an untimely suspension to serve. That leaves the club's No.3 ruckman, Brent Renouf, again to go into battle with a parttimer. Mitch Thorp, and even Jarryd Roughead, could be forced to play a bash-and-crash role in centre bounces. Risking Roughead at centre bounces against Sydney Swans on Saturday night raised eyebrows, but Hawthorn football manager Mark Evans defended the move. "Once you get into a game, things can change," Evans said. "In the third quarter things just weren't working for us all. "We were close on the scoreboard, but getting hurt in the centre of the ground, so we had to change it up a little bit."

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Evans said Roughead in the ruck was "not Plan A". The Kangaroos played four ruck options in the wet against Western Bulldogs on Sunday, adding to Hawthorn's worries.

Evans said. "Over the last three weeks, he hasn't been able to get himself to game intensity. "When we picked him last week, he had completed a reasonable running session at 60 percent intensity.

"We thought we might be able to get him to play Given the winless Hawks' height plight, the Roos that second ruck role, but he couldn't tick that final are expected to retain all four - Hamish McIntosh, box to play." Todd Goldstein, Drew Petrie and David Hale - for Etihad Stadium. Thorp is not a newcomer to the ruck, even though he is only 194cm. Hawthorn were smashed in the ruck against the Swans, losing the hitouts 73-29 - one of the "I saw him in the ruck playing for Tassie in the biggest discrepancies recorded. The Swans VFL before he got drafted, but he's not the height kicked 14 goals directly from stoppages. for the ruckman," Evans said. "He's a keen sort of a player. He'll have a go at most things." Evans described the ruck situation as a "shortterm hassle". Taking Campbell out of the equation, the club has three other ruckmen - Max Bailey, Tim Walsh and The club has listed Campbell as a "test" this Luke Lowden - on the list, but none of those is week, but it is poised to seek further medical available. opinion on a nagging build-up of scar tissue around the hamstring/buttock. Bailey has had long-term knee issues and Walsh has a foot problem, while Lowden is more likely to Though Campbell has not been ruled out, the stay at school level this year. Hawks are looking for urgent answers and it seems he needs a minor miracle to get up this week. "He's trained really well to a level, which has made us optimistic every week that it is minor,"

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Obesity may raise risk of restless legs syndrome NEW YORK (Reuters Health) People who are obese may have an increased risk of developing the neurological disorder restless legs syndrome (RLS), researchers reported Monday. In a study of more than 88,000 U.S. adults, researchers at Harvard Medical School found that obese men and women were 42 percent more likely to have RLS than normal-weight study participants. Abdominal obesity, in particular, was linked to RLS risk. Study participants with the largest waistlines had a 60 percent greater risk than those with the trimmest midsections, according to findings published in the journal Neurology. RLS causes unpleasant

sensations in the legs when a person is at rest, triggering an uncontrollable urge to move the legs to get relief. The cause is unknown, but researchers suspect that an imbalance in the movement-regulating brain chemical dopamine plays a role. Drugs that increase dopamine activity are sometimes used to treat RLS. Past research has shown that obese adults tend to have lower dopamine activity in the brain than their thinner counterparts, but the relationship between obesity and RLS has been unclear. "Our study suggests that obesity could be a risk factor for RLS," lead researcher Dr. Xiang Gao told Reuters Health.

However, the findings do not prove that obesity leads to RLS, and further studies that follow people over time are needed to confirm obesity as a risk factor, Gao added. In theory, dopamine could help explain the connection between obesity and RLS. But Gao said there are likely to be multiple mechanisms through which excess weight contributes to the neurological disorder. One possibility, he noted, is the higher risk of heart disease among overweight adults. Studies have found links between cardiovascular disease and RLS, and it's thought that dysfunction in the blood vessels may play a role in RLS.

Topical Spray Helped Men With Premature Ejaculation A new spray enabled men with premature ejaculation to delay their orgasm six times longer than before, according to a study that included 300 European men. The men, with clinically diagnosed premature ejaculation, were randomly selected to receive a placebo spray with no active ingredients (100 men) or the PSD502 spray, which contains 7.5 milligrams of lidocaine and 2.5 mg of prilocaine (200 men). During the three-month study, the men used either the placebo or the PSD502 spray five minutes before intercourse. The men and their partners then used a stopwatch to record the time from vaginal penetration to ejaculation. The men were instructed to abstain from sexual activity or masturbation for 24 hours before each recorded episode of intercourse. The men who used the PSD502 spray (treatment group) delayed their orgasm from an average of 0.6 minutes to 3.8 minutes, compared to just over 1 minute for those who used the placebo spray. That means the

PSD502 spray helped men last 6.3 times longer than normal, compared to 1.7 times longer than normal for those who used the placebo, the study authors said. The study found that after three months of treatment: 90 percent of the men in the treatment group were able to delay ejaculation for more than 1 minute following vaginal penetration, compared with 54 percent of those in the placebo group. 74 percent of men in the treatment group were able to last 2 minutes before ejaculation, compared with 22 percent of those in the placebo group. 62 percent of men in the treatment group said their orgasms were "good" or "very good" after three months, compared with 20 percent before the start of the study. For men in the placebo group, the figures were 19 percent at the end of the study and 21 percent before the start of the study. More patients and partners in the treatment group reported improvements in perceived control, personal distress, satisfaction with

sexual intercourse, and interpersonal problems. The most common problems noted in the study were loss of erection and a burning sensation in the vagina. The study findings were published in the April issue of the journal BJU International. "Premature ejaculation can be a very distressing condition for men and can cause distress, frustration and make them avoid sexual intimacy," lead researcher Professor W. Wallace Dinsmore, of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, U.K., said in a news release. "Our study shows that when the PSD502 spray was applied to the man's penis five minutes before intercourse it improved both sexual performance and sexual satisfaction, which are key factors in treating premature ejaculation."

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Brumby, Demetriou at odds over violence summit AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou says the State Government called its emergency summit on crowd violence without consulting him. Speaking on Radio 3AW this morning, Mr Demetriou said he had only found about the summit, convened last night, after a message from the station today. "I haven't spoken to the Government, I'm not quite sure what the motives are." "There is absolutely not a major problem (with violence) ... We spend two million dollars on security a year through venues and on police. We do that as a preventative measure. The police and security hardly ever get called, and we have over 176 games and finals." "We certainly have incidents of violence and when we do they're the exceptions, and that's why there's such abhorrence when they happen." Premier John Brumby called the summit last night in response to the attack on the father of Melbourne player Nathan Jones at the weekend. Mr Demetriou pointed out that spectators, the police and the AFL reacted quickly to the

incident, and charges had already been laid. Mr Brumby, also speaking on 3AW in a separate interview, said his office had been in contact with the AFL until late last night. "There were discussions with the AFL so I am sorry if that hasn't been passed on to Andrew." Mr Brumby said that his 'round table' discussion would bring together police, sporting codes, administrators and security to ensure venues were as family friendly and safe as possible. "I don't want to overreact on this, because generally, one of the safest places you can go on the weekend is with your family to the footy. But you should be able to leave the ground with absolute and complete safety." Pressed on why a summit was being called to address sport, rather than community violence, Mr Brumby said there had been a number of worrying incidents in a number of sports in recent times. He cited violence at the Australian Open tennis between Serbian and Croatian supporters, and a brawl at the AFL Hall of Fame tribute match last May in which one man was injured and two arrested. "I don't say that this is a

widespread problem that is out of control, but ... any violence across our community is unacceptable, whether it is domestic violence or violence at sport, and it is not just an Aussie Rules matter." Mr Brumby suggested that using technology such as CCTV, increasing police presences, and banning troublemakers, such as has been trialled in troubled nightclub districts, were some of the measures he would like to see considered by the summit. Jesse Mallinder, 24, of Ferntree Gully, appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates Court yesterday charged with affray, and two other men, aged 19 and 21 have also been charged over the incident outside the MCG on Saturday afternoon. The Collingwood football club announced that it would revoke the memberships of any of its supporters involved in such incidents. Mr Demetriou indicated the AFL was looking at further measures to address the security of patrons outside its venues.

Letter: Time to update views about gays, lesbians I am angered and saddened by the defeat of Senate Bill 2278, the “gay rights bill.” Once again our state has chosen to dismiss the fact that a portion of our population deals with discrimination because of their sexual orientation. Is being gay a choice? Certainly not. Scientific studies have shown that sexual orientation is innate. Do we choose to ignore science? Then we may as well

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regress to beliefs of the past, such as scientific racism, which propagates the notion that some races are inferior to others, or the scientific view that women are not capable of rational thought and should not hold positions of leadership. But our country has unequivocally legislated against these outdated viewpoints. We tackled women's suffrage, and passed the 19th Amendment; we tackled slavery, and passed the 13th Amendment; we tackled

civil rights and passed the 24th Amendment (outlawing the use of poll taxes) and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (outlawing racial segregation and gender discrimination). When is the struggle for gay rights going to be over? When we enact legislation protecting our gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender friends from those who would wish to dismiss them as deviants and unworthy of protection by law.

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Australia in South Africa Tour Ricky Ponting opens up over top order batting failures at Centurion Captain Ricky Ponting has blamed himself for Australia's batting troubles, saying it's about time he scored another one-day international hundred. Australia were blown away by pace duo Wayne Parnell (4-25) and Dale Steyn (4-27) at Centurion as South Africa bowled the tourists out for 131 and scored 3-132 in 26.2 overs in reply. South Africa's win squares the fivematch series going into Thursday's third game in Cape Town, where No.3 batsman Ponting says it's time for himself and openers Michael Clarke and Brad Haddin to lead the side to a big score. The only time Australia had set a lower target in a non-reduced ODI match was in January 1979, scoring 101 at the MCG against England (in a 40-overs-per side contest). Callum Ferguson (50) and No.8 Mitch Johnson (30) were the only batsmen to score more than 10 for Australia and Ponting slammed the “poor shots'' played by his batsmen. Ponting was caught behind for eight off Parnell, pushing forward and making the score 2-11. However in Australia's defence, man-ofthe-match Parnell and pace spearhead Steyn were in dazzling form, swinging the ball around alarmingly.

Haddin was Australia's leading runscorer in February in the ODI series against New Zealand with 283 runs at 70.75 and followed up with 53 and 1 in this current series. Clarke hit 188 at 47.00 against the Kiwis and 1 and 5 in the past week. Ponting backed his openers to bounce back and publicly challenged himself to lift.

“I'm in exactly the same boat. It's a while since I've made a hundred in one-day cricket (14 months) so I've got to really knuckle down and get stuck in as well and make a big score. “Batting in the top order in one-day cricket is all about making big scores and taking the responsibility upon yourself to do that. “Michael Clarke's had success there, Brad Haddin has been very good and I've been in the No.3 position for a long time.

“There were some poor shots from the top-order players in particular and we exposed our middle order to the new ball,'' Ponting said.

“We need to get a lot more consistency out of us for the remainder of this series.

“If you look back to the one-day series in Australia against South Africa and New Zealand, generally we were a couple of wickets down early on.

“Sure there'll be some other guys who'll be considered probably for (the ODI series against) Pakistan coming up and things like that.

“So we're just not getting enough consistency out of that top order right now and that's an area that we need to improve on if we want to win this series.''

“Shaun Marsh and probably Andrew Symonds is going to come back in and those sorts of guys.

“But we've got the squad we've got here now. It's about us playing better than we In those 10 ODI games in Australia after did (on Sunday).'' the Sydney Test, Australia's openers put on less than 30 eight times. Shaun Marsh and David Warner shared a 114-run opening stand against South Africa and Haddin and Clarke put on 135 against the Black Caps. “`We don't need wholesale changes. We need to get those guys to play a little bit better,'' Ponting says.

Sri Lanka honours cricket attack bus driver

COLOMBO (AFP) Sri Lanka Monday rewarded a Pakistani coach driver with 21,800 dollars for his role in protecting the island's cricket team during last month's gun and grenade attack in Lahore.

Meher Mohammad Khalil was hailed as a hero for driving the team to safety after their coach was attacked by suspected Muslim militants in the Pakistani city on March 3. "I did it for Pakistan. I did it for Sri Lanka, who were our guests," Khalil said at a ceremony in Colombo, during which he was given 21,800 dollars donated by Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), the sports ministry and private companies. "Khalil, you are our hero. We will always remember you with gratitude," said Mahela

Jayawardene, the Sri Lankan skipper on the Pakistan tour. Seven Sri Lankan players and their British assistant coach Paul Farbrace were injured in the attack. Eight Pakistanis, including six security force personnel, were killed. "Let's hope we are not put in that situation again," Jayawardene said.

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