Wednesday, February 18, 2015 16 Pages Number 42 7 th Year e-mail: [email protected]online: http://www.internationalbalipost.com. http://epaper.internationalbalipost.com. Price: Rp 3.000,- I N T E R N A T I O N A L DPS 23 - 32 WEATHER FORECAST Page 6 Page 8 Not Published We, the International Bali Post woulf like to apologize in advance because we will not be published on Thursday, February 19, 2015 Gong Xi Fa Cai News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Lis- ten to Global Radio FM at http://globalfmbali. listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radio- globalfmbali.com and http://ustream. tv/channel/global-fm-bali. Many Southern US states get their 1st major blast of winter Man United rallies for 3-1 win at Preston in FA Cup Based on observation on Tuesday, ten police- men and several others in plainclothes were seen on guard around the prison. During regular days, only two policemen are seen patrolling the prison, but on Tuesday, the number was significantly high ahead of the transfer of Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan out of Bali. There were no signs as to when the two Australian death row convicts would be trans- ferred to Nusakambangan Island in Central Java, although Bali`s High Prosecutor`s Office has stated that they would be transferred this week. Bali Police spokesman Senior Commissioner Hery Wiyanto noted that the security around the prison was increased, but he did not reveal details about when the two convicts would be transferred. “When they will be transferred is not our authority. We are only in charge of securing the transfer process,” he added. (ant) Security tightened around Denpasar`s Kerobokan Prison AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati An indentified relative of Australian drug smuggler Myuran Sukumaran walks out of a prison after visiting Sukumaran, in Bali, Indonesia, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015. DENPASAR - Bali Police, on Tuesday, beefed up security arrangements around Kerobokan prison in Denpasar in the run up to the relocation of the two Australian death row convicts Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan.
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NEW YORK - Pharrell Williams has a “Happy” deal for a series of children’s picture books.
The Grammy Award-winning performer has an agreement with Putnam Books for Young Readers for four picture books, start-ing with one inspired by his hit song.
Putnam announced Tues-day the book, “Happy,” will be published Sept. 22 and will feature photographs of children from around the world “celebrating what it means to be happy.” It plans a first printing of 250,000 copies.
Pharrell has won 10 Grammys, including two for “Happy.”
“Happy” was featured on the soundtrack of “De-spicable Me 2” and was an Oscar nominee last year for best song. (ap)
The pop star shared the news on her Instagram account Monday. She posted a photo of a ring on her finger and wrote: “He gave me his heart on Valentine’s Day, and I said YES!”
Lady Gaga and Kinney met on the set of her “You & I” video in 2011. Kinney stars in the NBC series “Chicago Fire”
and had a role in the film “Zero Dark Thirty.”
Lady Gaga’s hits include “Poker Face,” ‘’Bad Romance” and “Applause.” She recently won her sixth Grammy Award, for her “Cheek to Cheek” album with Tony Bennett. She’s scheduled to perform at Sunday’s Academy Awards. (ap)
Lady Gaga engaged to ‘Chicago Fire’ actor Taylor Kinney
NEW YORK - Lady Gaga is no
longer caught in a bad romance: She’s
engaged to actor Tay-lor Kinney.
Greg Allen/Invision/AP, File
In this Dec. 7, 2014 file photo, Taylor Kinney and Lady Gaga attend the 37th Annual Kennedy Center Honors in Washington.
LOS ANGELES - Lady Gaga. Jennifer Hudson. Common and John Legend. Adam Levine. Rita Ora. Tegan & Sara. Tim McGraw.
This isn’t the lineup for an upcoming pop concert, but rather for Sunday’s Academy Awards.
“We want to entertain,” said Neil Meron, produc-ing his third consecutive Oscar ceremony with Craig Zadan. “And there’s no better entertainment than to do it with music.” Host Neil Patrick Harris will perform an original song by the Oscar-winning writers behind “Let It Go,” the producers said. Called “Moving Pictures,” the musical number will set a “subliminal theme” for the evening, Meron said.
“It really is celebratory about movies and yet it’s kind of cheeky in a way,” he said. “But yet it has a beautiful musical motif which... we integrate throughout the show as kind of a call-back theme.”
Added Zadan: “We didn’t want to do a musical num-ber that could have been on the Tonys, or anywhere else for that matter.” “It’s a multimedia musical number,” he said, “something that we’ve not done before.”
Music is part of the production pair’s professional DNA, though. The two produced the “The Sound of Music” and “Peter Pan” live TV specials, as well as the movie musicals “Hairspray” and “Chicago,” which won the best picture Oscar in 2003.
The producers said they started booking musical acts even before they learned the year’s nominees. But they were delighted with the nominated original songs.
“We were smiled upon in that respect,” Meron said. A spate of stars will bring those songs to life on the Oscar stage.
Common and Legend are set to perform their song, “Glory,” from “Selma.” Levine will sing “Lost Stars” from “Begin Again.” Ora will take on Diane Warren’s song from “Beyond the Lights,” ‘’Grateful.” Tegan & Sara will join with The Lonely Island for “The Lego Movie” song, “Everything is Awesome.” McGraw will perform Glen Campbell’s song “I’m Not Gonna Miss You,” from the documentary about his struggle with Alzheimer’s, “Glen Campbell... I’ll Be Me.”
The producers wouldn’t say what Hudson, Gaga and other entertainers, including Jack Black and Anna Ken-drick, will sing. Suspense about their performances will have to stand in for the lack of suspense for most of the acting categories. Patricia Arquette of “Boyhood” and J.K. Simmons of “Whiplash” have locked up supporting-actor awards all season, and Julianne Moore is shoo-in for the best-actress Oscar for “Still Alice.”
The lead actor competition has some excitement, with Michael Keaton of “Birdman” and Eddie Redmayne of “The Theory of Everything” splitting many of the early honors.
“Birdman” and “The Grand Budapest Hotel” lead all nominees with nine bids apiece, including best picture, director, cinematography and original screenplay. Also up for best picture are “American Sniper,” ‘’Boyhood,” ‘’The Imitation Game,” ‘’The Theory of Everything,” ‘’Selma” and “Whiplash.”
Among the highlights of last year’s top-rated ceremony was host Ellen DeGeneres’ surprise pizza delivery and superstar-selfie moment. Meron and Zadan wouldn’t say what antics are planned this year \ if they’re planned at all. (ap)
Pharrell Williams has deal for ‘Happy’ picture book, 3 more
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Pharrell Williams accepts the award for best pop solo performance for gHappyh at the 57th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2015, in Los Angeles.
Producers promise Oscar night filled with magic and song
Many Southern US states get their 1st major blast of winter
Man United rallies for 3-1 win at Preston in FA Cup
Based on observation on Tuesday, ten police-men and several others in plainclothes were seen on guard around the prison.
During regular days, only two policemen are seen patrolling the prison, but on Tuesday, the number was significantly high ahead of the
transfer of Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan out of Bali.
There were no signs as to when the two Australian death row convicts would be trans-ferred to Nusakambangan Island in Central Java, although Bali`s High Prosecutor`s Office
has stated that they would be transferred this week.
Bali Police spokesman Senior Commissioner Hery Wiyanto noted that the security around the prison was increased, but he did not reveal details about when the two convicts would be transferred.
“When they will be transferred is not our authority. We are only in charge of securing the transfer process,” he added. (ant)
Security tightened around Denpasar`s Kerobokan Prison
AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati
An indentified relative of Australian drug smuggler Myuran Sukumaran walks out of a prison after visiting Sukumaran, in Bali, Indonesia, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015.
DENPASAR - Bali Police, on Tuesday, beefed up security arrangements around Kerobokan prison in Denpasar in the run up to the relocation of the two Australian death row convicts Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan.
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EvEry Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.
The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.
The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.
In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrel-las soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, deco-rated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.
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TANJUNG BENOA - Bali was the final destination for Dwiki Dharmawan who conducted a world class concert with Jimmy Haslip (Bass), Chad Wackerman (Drums) and Indonesiafs top guitarist Toh-pati last Saturday, February 14th 2015 at Taman Bhagawan Bali. This performance followed the first concert in Suhana Hall Jakarta on February 10th and concert in Bandung February 11th.
This tour promoted Dwiki Dhar-mawanfs latest Album EP CD recorded in America titled gPAS-SION, LOVE, & LIFEh. The tour also is a showcase for the “Road to Jazz Market by The Sea 2015”, set for 14-16 August 2015 at Taman Bhagawan Bali.
His latest album gPassion, Love, Lifeh supported by legendary musi-cians Jimmy Haslip (Bass), Chad Wackerman (Drums), and two of Indonesiafs best guitarists Dewa Budjana and Tohpati, comple-mented by legendary violinist member of Mahavishnu Orchestra Jerry Goodman will mark the 30 years of Dwikifs works. gPassion, Love, Lifeh will be recorded live by Jeff Lorber at JHL Studio, Pacific Palisades California and produced under the label gGitarku Recordsh owned by, among them, Dewa Bud-jana, in cooperation with MoonJune Records based in New York which will handle international promo-tion, marketing and distribution. For shows in Jakarta and Bandung, guitarists Dewa Budjana will also perform, but in Bali, the tour fea-tured guitarist Tohpati collaborating with Jembranafs Jegog lead by I Nyoman Windha.
Dwiki created 6 (six) new pieces in his latest album i.e. Return of the Lamafa, The Dark of the Light, Bromo, Whale Dance, So Far So Close, Jembrana’s Fantasy and rear-ranged 2 of his previous pieces i.e. NYC 2050 (from Nuansa album, 2002), and Arafura (from World Peace Orchestra album, 2009). In this version of Arafura, Jerry Goodnan will be performing as the awaken violin player member of Mahavisnu Orchestra together with John Mc Laughlin and Jan Hammer.
When questioned why Dwiki chose Chad Wackerman and Jimmy Haslip as partners in collaborating for this album, Dwiki commented gChad Wackerman is a phenom-enal Drummer Jazz Rock, I have followed his musical career from debuting as drummer Frank Zappa until his collaboration with London Symphony Orchestra. Chad is very powerful but on the other hand he is very talented in composing, Chad is
not just a drummer but a drummer-composerh.
gI have several times worked with and performed with Jimmy Haslip starting when he supported my previous album gWorld Peace Orchestrah. I have followed Jimmy Haslipfs career since his collabora-tion with Robben Ford, until Yellow Jacketsh.
“While Dewa Budjana and Toh-pati are two guitarists and my best friends which I hold in high esteem, I am proud be associated with their success and am proud of them being involved in my album this time.
Dwiki Dharmawan started his career in 1985 by establishing Krakatau band which became very famous in Indonesia. After that he developed his career in arrangement and producing a number of famous Indonesian artists, established World Peace Orchestra and actively promoting Indonesia in interna-tional forums where he performed
in a number of important music shows among them North Sea Jazz Festival, Montreux Jazz Festival, Lincoln Center, Chicago Cultural Center, Toronto Jazz, Vancouver Jazz Festival and other perfor-mances in various countries.
The musician married to singer Ita Purnamasari and has one child is also known as a musician that proudly brings Indonesian tradi-tional music power and performs in global shows with arrangement crossover with Jazz.
“For me, it is an honor to be backing one of Indonesiafs best tal-ents in MoonJune Records, Dwiki Dharmawan. Our cooperation will continue with the next recording session mid this year in London to-gether with jazz musicians based in London, and another recording ses-sion in New York end of 2015, thus in the future Dwiki and us are ready to launch 2 (two) other albums,h claims Leonardo Pavkovics. (r)
Dwiki Dharmawan’s Jazzy Valentine at Taman Bhagawan Bali
It was expressed by Managing Director of PD Pasar Badung, I Made Sutarma, Monday (Feb 16). According to him, his party man-aged nine units of market plus one business unit spreading from Petang to Nusa Dua. “Of the nine units, we know from the financial statement if two units have suffered losses, namely the Kertasari and Petang Market, while two other markets could only cover their op-erating costs, namely the Sembung and Kapal Market,” he said.
The income of the PD Pasar Badung, recognized Made Sutarma, relied on five traditional markets, namely the Cattle Market and Public Market at Beringkit, Kuta Market I and II as well as Nusa Dua Market. “Now, we are only relying on five markets remaining surplus to finance the regional enterprise. We have to deposit 55 percent of the net profit after tax for a year to regionally generated revenue (PAD). Meanwhile, the remaining 45 percent is managed as produc-
tion service and social fund as well as others,” he explained.
The constraints faced in devel-oping the traditional markets in Badung, said Made Sutarma, hap-pened due to less representative location and the invasion of modern markets that flourished to every nook and cranny of villages so that they made traditional markets go bankrupt.
“Meanwhile, our strategy will make innovation in terms of market segmentation, especially for the
Latu Market. Later on, based on our studies we will change the market segmentation from general market, for example, to special market that is still affordable,” he said.
As mentioned, the Kertasari Market was planned to be trans-formed into specific market, such as fruit market, where all the fruits on offer were required by Badung people and could be found in the market. “Or it may be used as a flea market, so that the Badung community is no longer necessary to go to Denpasar when looking for junks. However, it must definitely be studied first which option is ap-propriate and can soon produce,” he said.
He added the Petang Market would remain to be functioned as a general market providing daily needs for Badung people. However, the market would continue to be promoted so that it could become a mainstay. “If at Kapal there has a special market, it just needs to re-arrange. Meanwhile, the Sembung Market will be functioned to sell daily needs of local community as the Petang Market,” he concluded.
To note, the revenue target of the PD Pasar Badung in 2014 reached IDR 12,736,475,216 with realiza-tion of IDR 12,236,237,148.98. Meanwhile, the target revenue in 2015 was set at IDR 14, 047,906,354.64. (kmb37)
TABANAN — Some schools in Tabanan County are considered to have been overcapacity of students. If such condition is allowed to continue, it is feared to disrupt the learning process for students. By and large, the overcapacity schools occur at favorite junior or high schools. Surely the condition makes private schools suffer and go out of business due to lack of students.
A member of Tabanan Education Council, Wayan Kawi, said that ide-ally a classroom accommodated 20 to 38 students. However, in reality public schools apparently forced themselves to accommodate students as many as possible. As a result, the schools labeled as favorite ones were overca-pacity. “There are still public schools whose classroom capacity exceeds an ideal number. Even, they reach 48 students,” he said, Monday (16/2).
He said with the capacity exceed-ing the quota, some junior, high and vocational schools even opened af-ternoon classes. Such condition was considered ineffective when teaching and learning activities at schools were in progress. “Just imagine, the teacher cannot probably memorize the names of all students,” he explained.
Another weakness caused by the overcapacity was that the learning process in classroom became not ideal in terms of delivery of materials. Further, the education council, accord-
ing to Wayan Kawi, a former teacher, recommended to the Tabanan Educa-tion Agency to limit the number of students. “Each classroom maximally holds 38 students,” he explained.
From the observation all this time, many public schools held more students than the actual capacity. The overloaded schools included the SMPN 1, SMPN 2 and SMPN 3 junior high school. “In addition to junior high school, the overloaded students also happened to high school level,” he said.
For high school, the overcapacity happened to the SMAN 1, SMAN 2 and SMAN 1 Kediri, Tabanan. Ac-cording to him, the school authority should be able to limit because the overcapacity at junior and high school level had become a problem. “In terms of building, it is indeed not a problem,” he said.
Booming student admission at a number of favorite schools had caused them to impose double shifts (morning and afternoon class) so that private schools turned sluggish. The SMP Harapan junior high school, for instance, had got the impact. The school located at Jalan Mataram 12, Malkangin hamlet, Delod Peken, Tabanan was formerly very popular. Later on, its condition was suffering. Even, in the 2014-2015 academic year this junior high school did not get any student.
Principal of the SMP Harapan Tabanan junior high school, I Wayan Rateng Suadnyana, previously men-tioned the lack of students enrolling at private junior high school was caused by the public junior high schools received a lot of students. Even, a few public schools in Tabanan like the SMPN 1 and SMPN 2 enforced two shifts namely the morning and afternoon class. Besides, more and more public schools were established at remote areas so that no one wanted to go to private schools. “The public schools have received hundreds of students, so that no one went to private schools,” said Rateng.
He said that he could not do much with such condition. Moreover, his party still had a responsibility to 14 students of grade 8 and 29 students of grade 9. “We are still responsible for students of grade 8 and 9 until they entirely graduate,” he said.
He told there were six teachers of civil servant in charge of the school he chaired. Besides, there were five teachers of the foundations and six administration staff. His party hoped the Education Agency would not soon withdraw the civil servant-teachers in charge. He wanted the process of learning for all students could be ac-complished first. Actually there were nine civil servant-teachers, while three teachers had been moved because they did not get teaching hours. Incidentally
there had been other teachers. So, the three teachers were finally moved in order to get teaching hours. “It’s a pity that they cannot get teaching hours as it has something to do with their certification,” he said.
Related to school survival, Rateng entirely submitted to the Harapan Bangsa Foundation, the institution managing the school. “We leave it entirely on the policy of the foundation for the continuation of this school,” he said.
When confirmed in separate place, the Head of Tabanan Agency, Putu Santika, did not dismiss if a number of schools indeed had stu-dents exceeding ideal capacity. He also confirmed that fewer students in classroom would make the learn-ing process more effective. “But the school-based management system
(MBS) will be wholly returned to the school itself,” he said.
He argued it was different from the previous period where there was standardization of school such as the label as Pioneering International Standard School (RSBI) and National Standard School (SSN). “Now, it has been deleted, so that we return it to respective school,” he explained.
His party only suggested holding 40 students in a classroom as ideal number and it would be better. “But we are unable to reject students,” he explained.
He also gave the reason why many schools were overcapacity. According to him, it happened because it was impossible to build a new school building. “Yes, indeed there should be a development of school building,” he added. (kmb28)
Badung assesses four traditional markets to be unprofitable
MANGUpUrA — Being unable to increase revenue, the Badung government through the regional Enterprise, (pD) pasar Badung, is going to review the segmentation of the four tradi-tional markets in the region. The four markets included the Kertasari Market, petang Market, Sembung Market, and Kapal Market.
Students are studying in one of the high school in Tabanan area.
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The Wall Street Journal is report-ing that Apple has hired hundreds of people to work on a secret project — code name “Titan” — to develop an electric vehicle. The newspaper cites people familiar with the proj-ect who spoke under condition of anonymity.
Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr declined to comment.
The article says that the vehicle will resemble a minivan and that it would be branded as an Apple product.
Apple’s industrial design team is staffed with several people with automaking experience, the article
says. That group includes Marc Newson, a designer who once cre-ated a concept car for Ford.
Apple has confirmed that News-on is on its staff.
If Apple does sell an electric car, it will face some competitors.
General Motors announced on Thursday that it will build an electric car, the Chevrolet Bolt, with a 200-mile (320-kilometer) range at a factory near Detroit. The car will cost $37,500, not including a $7,500 federal tax credit, GM said. The car will be built starting in 2017.
Silicon Valley automaker Tesla
Motors plans to start selling a 200-mile (320-kilometer)-per-charge car about the same time. The price of Tesla’s Model 3, including the tax credit, is likely to be well below $30,000 after the tax credit.
Nissan is already selling an elec-tric car, the Leaf, though not many — 158,000 around the world.
The Journal notes that Apple is always experimenting with new products, many eventually abandoned. But it says the senior people involved in the electric car project suggest that it is serious venture. (ap)
NEW YORK — Those days of calling your bank to let them know that, yes, you really are in Thailand, and yes, you really did use your credit card to buy $200 in sarongs, may be coming to an end.
The payment processing com-pany Visa will roll out a new feature this spring that will allow its card-holders to inform their banks where they are automatically, using the location function found in nearly every smartphone.
Having your bank and Visa know where you are at all times may sound a little like “Big Brother.” But privacy experts are actually applauding the feature, saying that, if used correctly, it could protect cardholders and cut down on credit card fraud.
Credit and debit card fraud costs consumers and banks billions of dollars each year, and that figure has been growing as data breaches have become more common. The banking industry had $1.57 billion in debit card fraud in 2013 and $4 billion in credit card fraud in 2012, the latest years for which data are available, according to the Federal Reserve.
Facing these high costs, banks and the payment processors have been stepping up their efforts to cut down on fraud, and Visa’s an-nouncement is just one small piece of this drive. JPMorgan Chase’s CEO Jamie Dimon has said re-peatedly that his bank spends $250 million overall on cybersecurity every year, and plans to double that spending.
Here’s how it works: starting in April, banks will update their smartphone apps to include Visa’s new location-tracking software. If the consumer opts in, the Visa software will, over a period of time, establish a customer’s home terri-tory of roughly a 50-mile radius. If the person uses his or her Visa card at stores in that area, those transac-tions will be considered low risk for fraud.
When that person travels outside their home area, the phone will notify Visa that they’ve entered a new city or country, using either the phone’s cellular data plan or the next time the phone connects to a Wi-Fi network. When that person uses their Visa card for a transaction in that location, Visa will already know he or she is there and will be less likely to flag the card for a fraud alert.
“We will be able to compare the merchant’s location to the most recent cellphone location to show it’s a less risky transaction,” Visa executive Mark Nelsen said.
The feature is optional and can be deactivated at any time. Visa
also says none of the location tracking will be used for marketing purposes.
One type of fraud Visa’s feature will directly address is counterfeit credit cards. Criminals can take stolen credit card information and code it onto a new card using equip-ment that can be readily purchased online. Counterfeit cards look like any other credit card, but have someone else’s information on the magnetic stripe.
Nelsen said Visa hopes the new security feature will prevent “a good portion” of fraud perpetrated with counterfeit cards, because those cards are often used in a loca-tion other than where the actual card owner lives.
Visa’s new anti-fraud measure, which the company announced on Thursday, won’t address every potential fraud situation. If a card user has both their phone and credit cards stolen, for example, Visa wouldn’t necessarily know that the card was at risk of fraudulent use until the cardholder contacted the company. The current version of Visa’s anti-fraud software doesn’t address the possibility of stolen credit card data being used to make online purchases, but a future ver-sion will, Nelsen said.
Visa is just one of dozens of financial companies trying to fig-ure out the best way to use new technologies to combat fraud. Mas-terCard said Friday it is rolling out a pilot program later this year that will integrate biometric data, such as face, voice or fingerprints, into its payment system to help authen-ticate transactions.
Many travelers have had the experience of having their credit cards declined when using them for the first time in a foreign city or country because the bank assumed the charge was fraudulent. The only solution in those situations was for the cardholders to call the banks or credit card issuer every time they travel to let them know where they will be.
The process is cumbersome and time-consuming for cardholders and also for banks, which incur large expenses to staff call centers to deal with these types of calls from customers. Some banks use systems like text message alerts, but that usually requires customers to reply or call a number before the transaction will go through.
“The goal is to let more of those good transactions go through so we can focus on the real fraud,” Nelsen said. Privacy experts were generally warm to the idea, as long as banks are clear on how a cus-tomer’s smartphone location will be used. (ap)
NEW YORK — Mattel and Google are trying to bring the 75-year-old View-Master into the 21st century — with some help from smartphones and virtual reality technology.
The original View-Masters gave people a chance to click through colorful photos by inserting reels into the viewing devices.
Targeted at families, the updated View-Master has users insert a smartphone into a headset. A smart-phone app will enable the gadget to immerse kids in a slew of virtual
worlds, from far-off cities to outer space. The new View-Masters will be priced at about $30.
Mattel Inc. and Google Inc. unveiled the virtual reality viewer Friday at Mattel’s New York City office. The device launches in the fall, but the companies had no fin-ished product to show off.
But Mattel demonstrated the technology using Google Cardboard, a cardboard attachment that turns smartphones into virtual reality view-ers. Reels won’t be necessary for the new View-Master, but they will
enhance the experience. In a demo, there were reels for San Francisco, outer space and dinosaurs. Pointing your headset at one and clicking a button on the side of the headset took you into each of the worlds. A set of four reels will cost $15.
The original View-Master launched at the New York World’s Fair in 1939. Mattel says it has sold more than 100 million of them.
The new version will launch on Android devices first, but the com-panies plan to make it available on all platforms down the line. (ap)
To combat fraud, Visa wants to track your smartphone
Apple has hundreds working on electric
car projectNEW YORK — You’ve heard of the iPhone and iPad. How about the iCar?
Google, Mattel try to bring View-Master into 21st century
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Andrew Nicholls demonstrates the latest version of a View-Master, a collaboration between Mattel and Google, at the Mattel showroom at the North American International Toy Fair, Sat-urday, Feb. 14, 2015, in New York.
As information gathered in the field last Monday, only boat and sampan own-ers agreed to down the crossing tariff. Originally the sampan owners refused to down the tariff. After they were urged by the transportation officials, sampan own-ers finally agreed to reduce their tariff. However, the decrease agreed was only as much as IDR 5,000. “The decline in sea transportation tariff of IDR 5,000 was taken as win-win solution. Within this situation, only the fuel price is downed,” said the Head of Klungkung Transporta-tion, Communications and Informatics Agency, Nengah Sukasta, last Monday.
Additionally, Nengah Sukasta admit-ted that based on the results of the meet-ing there was no decrease in the land transportation tariff. It did not only refer to the decision of Organda Bali, but also considered that the decrease only hap-pened to the fuel price. Meanwhile, the other components such as vehicle parts did not decline. Moreover, according to Sukasta, the condition of land passengers was very quiet rather than sea passengers.
“Yes, we also consider the condition in the field. The passengers of sea transport are busier than land transport,” he said.
Obviously, according to Sukasta, the meeting on the tariff adjustment of land transport and sea transport had not been final. The results of the transport tariff adjustment would be further discussed by legal division before defined by the regent of Klungkung. “Well, before ap-proved by the regent through a decree, we will submit first the results of the meeting to legal division to be studied,” he said.
Meanwhile, just to be known, the sea crossing tariff by using inter-county boat from Sanur and Padang Bai to Nusa Dua is averagely charged at IDR 60,000 to IDR 85,000 per person. But after the decrease in fuel price, the crossing tariff by using boat was agreed to decrease as much as IDR 5,000. Meanwhile, the land transportation is still charged as the original tariff, namely on average of IDR 3,000 to IDR 15,000. And it also depends on the distance traveled. (119)
GiaNYaR — As caught smug-gling drugs into Gianyar Prison, two accommodation employees were ar-rested by Gianyar Police Narcotic Unit, Monday (Feb 16). Marijuana weighing 3.3 grams was inserted into the package of Jinggo rice that would be given to a prisoner of pre-charge detention with initial Koplar. Now, Gusti Ngurah Joni Saputra, 23, and Komang Sucipta are still undergoing investigation at Gianyar Police station.
Based on observation of Bali Post in front of the Gianyar Prison on Monday around 3:00 p.m., Ngurah Joni in red shirts just low-ered his head when escorted by two personnel of Gianyar Police going out of the prison’s door. Other than bringing the man from Bona village, Blahbatuh, police of-ficers also brought the evidence of plastic bag containing Jinggo rice and two packs of cracker. “This is Jinggo rice containing drugs to be smuggled into the prison,” explained a police officer while car-
rying Ngurah Joni and the evidence to Gianyar Police station.
When describing the evidence, it was known the Jinggo rice wrapped in banana leaf was inserted with marijuana in plastic bags weighing 3.3 grams. When being interro-gated, Ngurah Joni did not know if the package contained illicit goods. “I was just asked to accompany him (Komang Sucipta—Ed), but I did not know if it contained drugs. Swear, I did not know,” he said.
Ngurah Joni told that around 12:00 a.m. while working, Ko-mang Sucipta was phoned by his friend named Koplar, denoting a prisoner of pre-charge detention at the Gianyar Prison. The two men were told to take rice at the home of Dewa B living around Gianyar. “At that home, the rice was taken by Komang, then we went to prison by riding a motorcycle (Supra 125 with license plate DK 2176 XQ—Ed),” he said while adding that he was surprised when the consignment was inspected around 2:00 p.m.,
and the warden found drugs inserted into the wrap of the Jinggo rice.
Meanwhile, Komang Sucipta looked pale and claimed to have known Koplar before he was ar-rested by the Gianyar Police Nar-cotic Unit in January 2015. He said Koplar often rented a room at his workplace. But he admitted not to intentionally smuggle marijuana into the Gianyar Prison for Koplar. “I have known him for long time because he often rented a room at my workplace. Just know he called me again and told to bring him rice taken from the house of Dewa (Dewa B—Ed),” he said.
Meanwhile, the police officer receiving the report directly made a development led by Chief of Gi-anyar Police Narcotic Unit, Kadek Ardika. It was said that Komang Sucipta was immediately escorted to the house of Dewa B to make a search around 3:15 p.m., but found nothing. “Quickly we have searched the house suspected of being the ini-tial source of the drugs, but nothing
was found,” said Kadek Ardika.Allegedly after hearing the failed
smuggling, there was communica-tion between Koplar and Dewa B, so that the searching could not find any goods. He also questioned why a prisoner of pre-charge detention could bring a mobile phone at the Gi-anyar Prisoner. “We have an evidence of incoming call from the number, according to recognition of Sucipta, used by Koplar, but how could he bring a mobile phone?,” he asked while adding that local wardens also made an inspection where Koplar was detained, but nothing was found.
When asked about the relation-ship of Komang Sucipta to Koplar, Ardika said that based on initial in-formation it was known that before arrested Koplar often rented a room at the workplace of Komang Sucip-ta. “What he (Koplar—Ed) rented a room for is still being investigated, whether it was used for consuming (drugs) or for other purpose. And the long involvement of Komang will also be elaborated, chiefly why
he was willing to only deliver a pack of Jinggo rice and three crack-ers. Later on, we will also probe Koplar,” he said. (kmb35)
Two inn employees arrested for smuggling drugs into prisonIBP/File
The people are waiting for the transport to go to Nusa Penida Island
After fuel price decreases
Sea transport tariff only lowered by IDR 5,000
SEmaRaPuRa - The Klungkung Transportation, Communications and Informatics Agency finally addressed the issue on sea and overland transportation tariff after fuel price was decreased. as evidence, on monday (Feb 16) the Head of Transportation agency, Nengah Sukasta, along with his ranks gathered boat owners and boat entrepreneurs, including the drivers of land transport to discuss about transport tariff adjustment. The meeting held at the office of the Transportation Agency was also attended by Chairman of the Klungkung Land Transportation Organization (Organda), i Nyoman arka arsana. unfortunately, the meeting on transport tariff adjustment after the fuel price was decreased could not entirely agree to down the tariff.
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Fierce fighting on Tuesday ap-peared to be focused on Debalt-seve, a government-held town surrounded by rebel forces that both sides claim to be on their side of the cease-fire line. The issue was not re-solved under a cease-fire agreement negotiated last week by the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France.
Separatist leaders said in re-marks carried by the rebel mouth-piece Donetsk News Agency on Tuesday afternoon that their forces have pushed the Ukrainian army out of Debaltseve, gaining control over most of the town.
Associated Press reporters saw
artillery rounds fired Tuesday from Ukrainian government positions at rebel positions around Debaltseve. Sustained shelling was heard in the area all morning, some coming from Grad rocket launchers.
Ukrainian military spokesman Andriy Lysenko told reporters Tuesday that the separatists con-tinued to attack government posi-tions overnight around Debaltseve and that the pullout hinged on the cease-fire being fully observed. He said at least five troops were killed and nine injured in the past 24 hours in the war zone.
The cease-fire deal, which was brokered by European leaders last
week and went into effect early Sunday, specifies the pullout begins on the second day after the parties stop fighting. This condition has not been met, Lysenko said. “As soon as the fire ceases ... we will be ready to begin the withdrawal,” he said.
The war in eastern Ukraine has already killed more than 5,600 people and displaced more than a million, according to U.N. figures issued Monday. It has also left the country’s industrial heartland in ruins.
Fighting has stopped or subsided in some parts of war-torn eastern Ukraine, however. Rebel military spokesman Eduard Basurin said Tuesday they separatists had not seen any violations of the cease-fire in the area around the rebel stronghold of Donetsk since 8 p.m. Monday.(ap)
BEIJING — Tens of thousands of refugees from Myanmar’s ethnic region of Kokang have fled into the neighboring Chinese province of Yunnan over the past week amid fighting between militant rebels and government troops. Citing government officials, the state-owned news site Yunnan.cn reported Monday that there have been 30,000 border crossings by Myanmar nationals, and that Chinese authorities had of-fered them food and medical care.
Lin Sen, a volunteer helping refugees in Yunnan, said by phone Tuesday that he estimated 30,000 to 50,000 refugees had escaped the conflict region of Kokang over the past week.
Kokang is dominated by ethnic Han Chinese, and the region has been embroiled in fights since conflicts between the militant rebels led by Phone Kya Shin and government troops intensified on Feb. 9.
The rebel group’s general secretary, Htun Myat Lin, told The As-sociated Press by phone on Tuesday that the group is seeking autonomy for Kokang and its ethnic Han Chinese people.
“We want to have a high degree of autonomy where we can manage our own affairs, but we do not wish to split the country of Myanmar,” Htun said. Htun complained that the ethnic Han Chinese have been second-class citizens in Myanmar. “Our ethnicity must have dignity,” he said.
Myanmar only recently emerged from a half-century of military rule. Since assuming power in 2011, the government of President Thein Sein has been trying to strike peace agreements with rebels in resource-rich border regions.(ap)
MILAN — Police have searched the homes of several women who attended ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s famed “bunga bunga” parties as part of an in-vestigation into alleged witness tamper-ing during the billionaire’s sex-for-hire
trial.An appeals court last July acquitted Ber-
lusconi of paying a 17-year-old girl, Karima el-Mahroug, better known as Ruby, for sex on the grounds that he was apparently unaware of her age when she attended the
sex-fuelled parties.Over the course of that trial, a new in-
vestigation began concerning allegations of witness tampering with some of the other “bunga bunga” participants. Berlusconi, his lawyers, el-Mahroug and several women
are under investigation but haven’t been charged.
On Tuesday, police searched the homes of several of the women and the home of el-Mahroug’s lawyer, according Milan pros-ecutor Edmondo Bruti Liberati.(ap)
AP Photo/Petr David JosekUkrainian artillery is at a position outside of the village of Luhanske, some 20 kilometers (14 miles) north of Debaltseve, Ukraine, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015.
Police search homes of Berlusconi’s ‘bunga bunga’ guests
AP Photo/Gemunu AmarasingheIn this Jan. 12, 2015 photo, Ta’ang women in traditional attire laugh as rebel officers and villagers play games at a ceremony in Mar Wong Village, northern Shan state, Myanmar, marking the anniversary of their insurrection more than a half-century ago.
Tens of thousands of Myanmar ethnic refugees flee to China
Rebels claim to capture key Ukraine rail hub of Debaltseve
LUHANSKE, Ukraine — Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine claimed Tuesday to have taken the key transportation hub of De-baltseve as both parties faced a deadline to start pulling back heavy weapons from the front line.
Singaraja - After officially bearing the status as the Bule-leng Environment Agency (BLH), it begins to boost services to community in Buleleng. One of the new breakthroughs carried out by this agency is opening Complaint and Envi-ronmental Disputes Mediation Service (P3SLH).
This public service facilitates the community that will complain about any indications leading to environmental violation in North Bali. The P3SLH is very important because many foreign investors have begun to get inter-est in opening businesses in Buleleng. In this situation, there is possibility of resulting in environmental issues or disputes.
The Head of the Buleleng Environment Agency, Nyoman Surya Temaja, said at his office on Monday (Feb 16) the P3SLH was deliberately opened to facilitate residents to complain about any environmental problems. Moreover, the investment in North Bali began to increase, and it directly raised environmental issues. In order to prevent environ-mental damages caused by the investment, the P3SLH was established and ready to receive complaints of residents in the field of environment. “The community is welcomed to submit information about environment to the newly opened agency. We want the environment can be well maintained and prevent environmental damage as soon as the indica-tion arises after the investment climate is getting better in the area,” he said.
According to Surya Temaja, the resident complaint re-lated to environmental problem could be submitted directly to the P3SLH at the office of the Buleleng Environment Agency on Jalan Ngurah Rai, Singaraja. In addition, the complaint could also be filed by a call or texting or facsimile and e-mail. All public complaints would be followed up, so that the indications leading to environmental damage could be prevented. (kmb38)
To follow up the plan, the executive team provided socialization for local residents at Belatung village hall, Monday (Feb 16). Local residents welcomed the plan, but they asked that such arrangement should not sacrifice fishermen and salt farmers around the coast.
The plan was seriously addressed by dozens of fishermen and salt farmers together with the headman of Pesinggahan, Nyoman Suastika. Surrounding land areas of Belatung Beach owned by about 36 people were currently covered in shrubs. Such condition made the beach at-mosphere not well-organized. In ad-dition, it was also filled by too many semi-permanent buildings owned by traditional salt farmers. One of the fishermen, I Ketut Artawan, expressed his agreement with the plan. However, his party asked for a guarantee that the existence of fishermen and salt farmers would not be evicted from the coast. “We agree with the coastal arrangement. However, we also want our lives as fishermen and salt farmers
will not be disturbed,” he hoped.In addition, the residents also
requested to be empowered, so that those having lived around the area for decades could improve their welfare with the contribution of tourism. Ham-let chief of Belatung, I Ketut Suardita, also expressed similar agreement. However, he requested the coastal ar-rangement should be integrated with road access around the Goa Lawah Temple that was getting busier and often interfered with the activities of residents. Later, when the arrange-ment could be realized, the area could be really transformed into a tourist area, not only false promises of local government.
The assistant I Wayan Tika in the socialization delivered that the ar-rangement plan would be carried out in the area of Belatung Beach located between Wates Beach and Goa Lawah Beach. As a result, it could support the object and tourist attraction of Goa Lawah Temple. As planned, other than Belatung Beach, the Tegal Besar Beach in Banjarangkan subdistrict
would also be equally arranged as the beach was continuously eroded by abrasion. Deputy Regent of Klung-kung, Made Kasta, on the occasion said the arrangement plan was an at-tempt to attract road users around the area to enjoy the scenery and beach atmosphere as well as to improve the beach having the potential to be developed.
Meanwhile, the Regent of Klung-kung, Nyoman Suwirta, all this time saw striking differences between Wates Beach and Belatung Beach from Pesinggahan Beach. Belatung Beach at Goa Lawah was considered to have more potential in terms of tourism than Wates Beach. His party also promised not to displace the ac-tivity of fishermen and salt farmers. Even, their activity would become a tourist attraction. “Daily life of fishermen and salt farmers can be the reason for travelers to visit it later,” he said. After obtaining approval from residents, the team established by the executive for the arrangement would soon come down to the field in order to conduct technical stud-ies along with the plan of making traditional harbor in the west of Goa Lawah Beach. (kmb31)
Tabanan - A Russian citizen named Anna Lopatina, 42, reported a loss of gold earrings to Tabanan Police, Sunday (Feb 15). The earrings of made in Greece estimated to worth around IDR 11 million were suspected to have been stolen by a therapist of spa outlet located in Tabanan.
Based on information, Anna who was living at Canggu Kuta came to the spa outlet in Tabanan for a massage, Saturday (Feb 14). He claimed to be massaged by a spa therapist named Komang. When being massaged, Anna fell asleep and after undergoing the treatment she immediately went to Hardys to go shopping. On arriving at Hardys, Anna just realized if her white gold earrings were missing. Then, she returned to the spa outlet and asked about the earrings to the therapist who served her. However, from the recognition of Anna, the spa therapist named Komang looked nervous when asked, although admitting not to take the earrings.
Chief of the Tabanan Police Criminal Investigation, Wayan Arta Ariawan, with permission from the Chief of Tabanan Police, Komang Suartana, confirmed the report on the white gold earrings loss. His party admitted to have been doing a search from the beginning whether the complainant really lost the earrings at the spa outlet. “The problem is that the complainant has dropped in at other place so that it cannot be ensured to lose at the spa. For this case, the investigators are still conducting searches,” said Arta Ariawan. (kmb24)
Residents ask to not sacrifice fishermen and salt farmers
IBP/FileThye parking area of Goa Lawah which need more arrangement.
Semarapura - Local government plans to make the arrangement to the coastal region from Belatung to Goa Lawah, Pesinggahan village, Dawan subdistrict, Klungkung.
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JAKARTA - Indonesia’s exports in January 2015 fell 9.03 percent to US$13.30 billion from US$14.62 bil-lion in December 2014, according to the Central Statistics Agency (BPS).
The January 2015 exports also tum-bled 8.09 percent compared to the same month last year, BPS Chief Suryamin said on Monday.
He said non-oil/non-gas exports in January 2015 reached US$11.22 billion, down 8.51 percent from US$12.22 bil-lion the month before.
Compared to the same month last year, the non-oil/non-gas exports in January 2015 dropped 6.24 percent, he said.
Oil and gas exports also fell 11.75
percent to US$2.07 billion in January 2015 from US$2.35 billion a month earlier, with the export of animal and vegetable fats and oils tumbling 9.55 percent to US$162.6 million. However, jewelry exports jumped 61.77 percent to US$293.4 million.
Based on sectors, non-oil/non-gas exports from the processing industry declined 4.69 percent and mining in-dustry dropped 16.34 percent in January 2015 from the same month last year. The United States remained the biggest market for Indonesia’s non-oil/non-gas exports in January 2015 with a value of US$1.25 billion, followed by Japan US$1.15 billion and China US$1.08 billion. (ant)
JAKARTA - The government and House of Representatives (DPR) have finalized the draft of regional elections with an agreement that concurrent regional elections would be held in December 2015, a lawmaker stated on Tuesday.
“The agreement was made on Monday. The draft bill itself will be approved in the House’s plenary session today,” Deputy Chairman of the House’s Commission II overseeing governance and regional autonomy Lukman Edy said.
The lawmakers and representatives of the government also agreed that the con-current regional elections would be held in seven rounds.
The first round would take place in December 2015 to elect the regional heads who would have ended their term in of-fice by the end of this year and the first semester of 2016, he remarked.
The second round of concurrent regional elections would be held in February 2017 to elect those who would end their term in office in the second semester of 2016 and the end of 2017, Edy noted.
In 2027, the Indonesian people would witness the concurrent regional elec-tions held across the country, he stated, adding that the acting governors and acting district heads would fill the vacant positions left by outgoing regional heads until definitive figures are elected by the people. (ant)
The government and House of Rep-resentatives (DPR) have finalized the
draft of regional elections with an agreement that concurrent regional
elections would be held in December 2015, a lawmaker stated on Tuesday.
JAKARTA - The National Movement of Anti-Narcotics (Ganas Annar), an Indonesian NGO, considers UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to be biased regarding Indonesia’s plan to execute two Australian drug offenders belonging to the “Bali Nine” drug syndicate.
“We deeply regret Ban Ki-moon’s state-ment urging the Indonesian government to cancel the execution of the two Australians involved in drug trafficking,” Chairman of the Ganas Annar Central Committee, stated here, Monday.
He claimed that the UN secretary general has not been neutral since he maintained a silent stance when Indonesians citizens were executed overseas. On the contrary, when Indonesia planned to execute drug offenders, he called for cancellations, he pointed out. The UN top man
should know that thousands of young men had died of drug addictions, he emphasized.
“Therefore, we urge President Joko Widodo not to back down. We must not allow foreigners to dictate our country,” he affirmed.
Drug offenders deserve death penalty as they have indirectly killed other people, he noted. Earlier, Reuters reported that United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appealed to Indonesia not to execute the prisoners on death row for drug crimes, including the citizens of Australia, Brazil, France, Ghana, Indonesia, Nigeria, and the Philippines.
UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Ban had spoken to Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi on Thursday “to express his concern at the recent application of capital punishment in Indonesia.” (ant)
Concurrent Regional Elections To Kick Off In December 2015
Exports down 9.03 percent in January
Indonesian NGO Claims UN SG Biased On “Bali Nine” Execution
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TOKYO - Green-car sceptics take note: Japan now has more electric vehicle charging spots than gas stations.
The country’s number-two automaker Nissan says there are now 40,000 charging units -- including those inside private homes -- across the nation, compared with 34,000 petrol stations.
While gas stations have multiple pumps and can service many more cars, the figures underscore efforts to boost green-vehicle in-frastructure in Japan, long a leader in a sector that remains tiny globally.
Nissan is betting on growing demand for electric cars, while rival Toyota said it has been swamped by orders for its first mass market hydrogen fuel-cell car, the Mirai sedan.
Fuel-cell cars are seen as the Holy Grail of green cars as they are powered by a chemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen, which emits nothing more harmful than water from its exhaust.
But a limited driving range and lack of refuel-ling stations have hampered development of the green-car sector, which environmentalists say could play a vital role in cutting greenhouse gas emissions and slowing global warming. (afp)
After a meeting of the 19 finance ministers of the eurozone over how to make Greece’s debts sustainable broke down in seeming-acrimony after barely more than three hours, Greece was told it has to ask for an extension to its bailout program before further negotiations on the country’s future financing and eco-nomic course can take place.
“We simply need more time and the best way for that at this point is extend the current program which would allow a number of months for us to work on future arrangements,” said Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the head of the so-called eurogroup.
Without some sort of financing arrangements in place after the current bailout ends after Feb. 28, Greece would face real difficulties
meeting its obligations, such as debt repayments, over the coming months. Bankruptcy and a potential exit from the euro would loom for Greece once again.
That’s why investors grew in-creasingly concerned Monday that a deal may not emerge in time to avoid a so-called “Grexit” from the euro — the main stock market in Greece fell 3.8 percent while the euro slipped.
Investors are worried that the two sides are poles apart especially as a cornerstone of the election campaign of Greece’s new left-wing government was to scrap the bailout program. In return for 240 billion euros ($275 billion) of rescue money from 2010 onwards, successive Greek governments have
had to implement a wide array of austerity measures such as deep cuts to spending and pensions.
The new Syriza government, in power for barely three weeks, blames those measures for the country’s economic ills — the Greek economy is around a quar-ter smaller than in 2008, despite a recent modest return to growth while unemployment and poverty have swelled.
“It would be an act of subterfuge to promise to our partners to complete successfully a program we challenged the logic of,” Greece’s finance minis-ter, Yanis Varoufakis, said.
And despite the talk of deadlines, Varoufakis insisted a deal between the two sides was achievable and that visible progress could still be made within the next 48 hours despite Monday’s swift breakdown in discussions.
“We are ready and willing to do whatever it takes to reach an agreement over the next two days,”
he said. “Europe will do the usual trick: It will pull a good agreement or an honorable agreement out of what seems to be an impasse .... I have no doubt that, within the next 48 hours Europe is going to come together and find phrasing that is necessary so we can submit it and move on to do the real work that is necessary.”
For all his talk about deadlines, Dijsselbloem also said there was scope for compromise provided the Greek government commits to the broad outlines of the current program, such as maintaining tight budgetary discipline.
He added that he thought it was “still feasible” that Athens would ask for an extension.
“The request for an extension only commits to one thing: that you keep to the broad lines of the program,” he said.
However, his suggestion that there was “some flexibility” built in the bailout program met with a fair
degree of ambivalence from Varou-fakis, who said it was a “nebulous” turn of phrase.
Varoufakis said he had been “perfectly happy to sign there and then” a plan proposed by Pierre Moscovici, the European Com-mission’s monetary and economic affairs official. Details of the plan were sketchy but did apparently involve Athens putting on hold its anti-austerity measures in return for loans and the start of a 6-month negotiation to a future financial ar-rangement.
“We were offering to refrain from implementing our program for six months and all we were getting back was a nebulous promise of some flexibility that wasn’t speci-fied,” Varoufakis said.
Malta’s finance minister, Edward Scicluna, worried about the impli-cations of a failure by Athens to re-quest an extension: “Then we won’t meet. There won’t be anything. It will be a disaster.” (ap)
Eurozone issues Greece an ultimatumBRUSSELS — European creditors issued Greece with an ultima-
tum Monday, saying the country must accept a key condition in bailout talks by the end of the week or face having to meet its debt commit-ments on its own — a prospect that many in the financial markets think would leave Greece little option but to leave the euro.
More electric car charging points in Japan than gas stations
AP Photo/David GoldmanIn this Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015 photo, Jason Marraccini, of Atlanta, recharges his Nissan electric vehicle at an auto dealership in Roswell, Ga. Japan now has more electric vehicle charging spots than gas stations.
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Shanghai has canceled its lantern festival at Yu Garden that draws up
to 3 million people over the seven-day holiday, which this year starts
on Wednesday, the eve of the Lunar New Year.
In Beijing, crowd-drawing karaoke has been yanked from a traditional temple fair, and authorities have asked stores to notify police of any sales.
The safety measures are a response
to the stampede at Shanghai’s glitzy riverfront in which 36 people were crushed to death.Some observers have complained that the measures dampen the festivity of the holiday. (ap)
FRANKFORT, Kentucky - The U.S. South got its turn to suffer from snow, freezing rain and sleet in a storm that brought back memories of one from the same time a year ago.
After weeks of snow in the Northeast, winter weather had moved through Arkan-sas and Kentucky and was headed east. While even small amounts of frozen pre-cipitation can bring the region to a halt, the worst was yet to come: temperatures in the single digits Fahrenheit (below minus 13) in areas where electricity was threatened by coatings of ice on power lines.
This February storm arrived on Mon-day, the Presidents Day holiday, when many schools and businesses were already closed. But the day isn’t a state holiday in North Carolina so schools let out early Monday and by the afternoon officials were canceling classes Tuesday. College campuses, from Appalachian State Uni-versity in the western part of the state and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, canceled afternoon classes Monday.
In central Kentucky, home to much of the state’s signature thoroughbred industry, horses kept warm by galloping through the deep snow, pausing occasionally to shake it off from their thick winter coats. Ned Toffey, general manager of Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, said the horses enjoy running in the snow because it gives them a nice cushion as opposed to the harder, packed earth.
Roads were brined and parking lots salted as officials tried to avoid a disastrous repeat of last year’s February storm, when rush-hour traffic and a thin coating of ice combined to leave people either stuck in their cars or their cars abandoned in roads as they walked home in Atlanta and Ra-leigh, North Carolina.
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory on Monday shut down all non-mandatory state government operations in Wake County in the early afternoon before any precipitation had fallen. He also declared a state of emergency and issued executive orders designed to streamline any storm
cleanup. He encouraged supervisors else-where in the state to use their discretion in sending employees home.
On Monday night, he said the forecast had worsened with more snow and ice ex-pected in the central part of the state. The National Weather Service said the storm could be crippling.
In the Northeast, which has been slammed by seemingly endless snow, the snow had halted, but the weather was bit-terly cold. New York City came close to breaking a 127-year-old record when the temperature in Central Park hit 3 degrees F (minus-16 degrees C), just 2 degrees above the record set in 1888, said Jeffrey Tongue, a National Weather Service me-teorologist.
Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh said the latest snow storm left one person dead, apparently due to a heart attack while shoveling snow. A partial roof collapse at an eight-building apartment complex in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, left 500 to 700 people looking for shelter. In New Jersey, a 66-year-old woman who had been drinking at a benefit was found dead in the snow, just two doors from her home. Fire-fighters working on a blaze in Philadelphia left behind a building coated in icicles. No one was hurt.
West Virginia was getting hit hard by the snowstorm when a train carrying crude oil derailed about 30 miles (50 kilometers) from Charleston. At least one tanker went into the Kanawha River and a nearby house caught fire. It wasn’t clear if the winter storm had contributed to the crash.
After the storm marched across North Carolina, where almost all of the 100 counties were under some sort of weather alert, it was expected to move through the Mid-Atlantic and yes, back into the Northeast.
In the Washington, D.C., region, of-ficials asked motorists to stay off the roads, and hundreds of plows were out ahead of the storm, which was expected to dump up to 10 inches (25 centimeters) in Virginia. (ap)
TOKYO - Japan said Tuesday it will provide $15.5 million in development aid to support anti-terrorism efforts in the Middle East and Africa.
The move comes after the recent beheadings of two Japanese hos-
tages by militants from the Islamic State group.
Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said the contribution, about half of which Japan had already pledged, is intended to bolster counter-terrorism capacity in the regions
affected by the group and other militants.
Earlier this year, just before the hostage crisis, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced $200 mil-lion in non-military support for nations fighting against the Islamic
State militants that control large parts of Iraq and Syria.
Vice-Foreign Minister Yasuhide Nakayama will announce the aid, to be paid through international orga-nizations, at a conference Thursday in Washington, the ministry said.
Japan, which had not directly threatened by the militants until the recent killings of the two hostages, is still in shock and is reviewing its anti-terrorism measures, eyeing the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. (ap)
Shanghai dampens Lunar New Year events after deadly stampede
BEIJING - Officials have put the brakes on some popular Chinese New Year events in big cities in the wake of Shanghai’s deadly Dec. 31 stampede.
Japan to give $15.5 million for anti-terror efforts
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University of Kentucky students Courtney Wiseman, left, and Abby Lerner walk home after studying on campus even as classes were canceled for the day in Lexington, Ky., Monday, Feb. 16, 2015.
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There are three teams between the Hawks and fifth-place Cleve-land in the East, putting James in the rare position of chaser. He can’t wait to try.
“I’m excited. I’m excited what our team can accomplish,” he said. “We entered the break playing some really, really good basketball; winning 14 of our last 16. I’m going to take these next couple of days off and get back in the gym on Wednesday a little bit, go hard on Thursday and get ready to play Washington on Friday.”
The NBA has a longer midseason break than usual this season, with play not resuming until Friday. That gives Westbrook extra time to rest after pouring in 41 points Sunday in the West’s 163-158 victory at Madison Square Garden.
His Oklahoma City Thunder have overcome injuries to he and Kevin Durant to win three straight, but they are still just outside the West’s top eight. No such worries for the Warriors, who rolled into the break with a 42-9 record and an MVP candidate in Curry. “It’s fun right now. We have a great team that has aspirations this year. I think it’s something that we’re poised to go after,” Curry said.
“You want to just embrace the higher expectations that we put on ourselves and that are surrounding our team. We talk about what we’re trying to do this year. We want to back it up.”
It won’t be easy, with challenges throughout a rugged West where defending champion San Antonio will try to mount a charge from seventh place. The East was widely expected to come down to Chicago and Cleveland, and maybe it still will. Besides the Cavaliers’ strong run to the first-half finish, with James looking healthy and Kevin Love appearing more comfortable, the Bulls won their last four to surge into third place.
Neither is likely to catch the Hawks, who rode an undefeated January to a 43-11 record. Their balanced team play put four play-ers in the All-Star Game, and in two months they can try to prove it would work in the postseason.
“I’m not going to look too far ahead,” Millsap said. “We’re going to try to take care of the regular season first, but we feel like there’s still room for improvement. We still feel like we haven’t played our best basketball. It’s shocking to say, but
we feel like we can still get better and still have a lot to work on.”
Here are some things to watch when play resumes this week:
TALKING TRADES: The trade deadline is Thursday afternoon, and teams such as Cleveland and Mem-phis have already shown this season how the right moves can pay off.
MORE MELO: With the Knicks last in the league and the All-Star Game in his home arena over, Car-melo Anthony will have to decide how much more to play — if he does at all — after battling a sore left knee much of the season.
WATCHING WADE: Dwyane Wade is expected to return from a hamstring injury that knocked him out of the All-Star Game on Friday at New York. The Heat need him, barely holding on to eighth place in the East. “We’re ready to attack the second half,” Heat All-Star Chris Bosh said. “We’re looking forward to having him back.”
EAST’S ELITE: Friday’s sched-ule could feature some East playoff previews. Toronto and Atlanta, the top two in the conference, square off, and the Cavs visit Washington — just as they would if the postsea-son opened that night.
SEEKING STOUDEMIRE: Cut Monday by the Knicks after request-ing a buyout, Amare Stoudemire could be attractive to a playoff con-tender once he clears waivers.(ap)
Ducati has launched its 2015 MotoGP bike, the first completely new design since the team was restructured following Audi’s ac-quisition of its parent company. The GP15 will make its public track de-but at the second Sepang winter test next week. Ducati used an interim ‘GP14.3’ bike for the opening test earlier this month.
The 2015 bike has a new chas-sis, as Ducati aims to end a victory drought that now stretches back to the 2010 Australian Grand Prix. An-drea Dovizioso stays on for a third year, with Andrea Iannone moving up from Ducati’s satellite team Pramac to join him. Dovizioso said he had been surprised by the extent of the changes to the bike.
“I didn’t expect it to be so narrow and compact,” he said. “It’s incred-ible. It looks different, but what is really different - I feel - is the heart, what’s inside.
“We are transforming the bike we had last year so we can have both an
evolution and revolution.” Ducati’s sporting chief Gigi Dall’Igna is optimistic that Ducati now has the rider and bike combination required to challenge Honda and Yamaha on a regular basis again - and to finally win again.
“We have to fight against bike manufacturers with a long MotoGP tradition and against four riders among the best ever, but I really believe in our Andreas,” he said.
“Our aim this year is very ambi-tious, because we want to win at least one race. We know that it is an extremely tough objective, but we are used to accepting the most difficult of challenges.” He added that the GP15 would be a more user-friendly bike than its predecessor.
“With the GP14.3 we have made some major progress with the software, which will be easy to switch over to the GP15, but also steps forward in the suspension, chassis and engine departments,” said Dall’Igna. “The GP15 will
start with the same settings as the GP14.3, but it will have many more possibilities for adjustment.” Last season was Ducati’s best in recent
years, as it took three podium finishes and closed the gap to the frontrunners.
Its progress was helped by a
controversial switch to Open class regulations, which allowed it greater development freedom in exchange for running a spec ECU.(net)
AP Photo/Jason Szenes, PoolEast Team’s LeBron James, of the Cleveland Cavaliers, dunks the ball during the second half of the NBA All-Star basketball game, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2015, in New York.
Warriors, Hawks on top, LeBron set to chase when NBA resumes
NEW YORK — LeBron James isn’t used to looking up at so many teams at the All-Star break. The Golden State Warriors and Atlanta Hawks occupy his former perch atop the standings, and Stephen Curry and Paul Millsap think that’s where their teams belong. The Western Conference is loaded as usual so good that All-Star Game MVP Russell Westbrook wouldn’t even be in the playoffs if they started now.
BuLELENG - Pulaki Temple or Pura Pulaki is a Hindu shrine located in the hill bank and in front of the beautiful beach in north part of Bali. It is one of the biggest Hindu temples in Bali situated in the coastal side west part of Singaraja town or 1 hour drive to the west from the town. This temple is set on the flat land with stone hill bank as a back drop meanwhile the blue ocean is just in front of the temple.
Pulaki Temple is a famous temple among the Hindu people in Bali located in Singaraja re-gency, north part of Bali. There are the group of monkeys dwell the hill forest around the temple and it usually standing around the temple in the day time. The beautiful beach with black sand and calm seawater is one of the fascinations to visitor to come to this temple. We can find the beautiful hill bank and beaches along the coastal road.
It is located in Pulaki Village, Seririt Sub District, Singaraja Regency, north part of Bali. It is just 3 hours drive from Bali’s International Airport or 1 hour drive from Singaraja town. It is strategically set in the main road from Singaraja to Gilimanuk with the group of monkeys as the identity for the traveler who wants to visit this temple.
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EIBAR, Spain — Elche earned a 1-0 win at Eibar to edge farther away from the Spanish league’s relegation zone on Monday. Elche striker Jonathas glanced Eduardo Al-bacar’s lobbed free kick just enough with his head to send it bouncing past goalkeep-er Xabier Irureta in the 50th minute. It was the Brazilian’s team-leading ninth goal of the season.
Elche did little else in at-tack and needed goalkeeper Przemyslaw Tyton to make several good saves to secure
the victory, including a second stop of an Ander Capa strike in the final minutes.
The Basque hosts finished with 10 men after Federico Piovaccari was shown a direct red card for swinging his arm into Albacar’s face while they both jumped to dispute a high ball with 12 minutes to play. “We have worked hard all week for this, it’s a big step for us,” Jonathas said.
Elche stayed in 17th place, one spot above the danger zone, but did open a four-point gap above the three teams currently
in the drop. A fourth consecu-tive defeat left Eibar in 10th place. The promoted club that was the sensation of the first half of the season seems to have hit a wall.
“This is a very bad result for us,” said Eibar’s Eneko Boveda. “It was essential for us to get back to what we had been doing before these past few weeks. Now everything is proving more difficult for us. We have gone backward.” Real Madrid leads Barcelona by one point at the top of the standings after 23 rounds.(ap)
BERLIN - Struggl ing Mainz 05 parted ways with coach Kasper Hjulmand on Tuesday after the Dane man-aged just four wins in 21 league games this season, the club said.
One point above the rel-egation spot, Mainz, in 14th place on 22 after losing 4-2 to Borussia Dortmund on Friday, appointed youth coach Martin Schmidt as his successor.
“This relegation struggle now
changes the criteria which have led to a change in coach,” Mainz manager Christian Heidel said in a statement. Swiss Schmidt had steered their youth team to promotion into the third divi-sion last season.
The 42-year-old Hjulmand, who took over in the sum-mer as successor to Thomas Tuchel, is the sixth Bundes-liga coach to lose his job this season.
He had got off to a bad start,
with Mainz elimi-nated in the Europa League and the Ger-man Cup early on and managed just one win in their last 13 league games.(rtr)
Preston looked set to spring another major surprise in this year’s competition when Scott Laird put the hosts ahead in the 48th minute with a deflected shot. But Ander Herrera equalized in the 65th for United and Marouane Fellaini fol-lowed up his own rebound to make it 2-1 seven minutes later. Wayne Rooney put the result beyond doubt with a penalty in the 88th after he was adjudged to have been tripped in the area by goalkeeper Thorsten Stuckmann. It was Rooney’s first goal in 2015, but replays showed he went down without any contact from Stuckmann.
United’s win sets up a quarterfinal meeting with defending champion Ar-senal next month, and Louis van Gaal’s team will have to improve dramatically to stay on course for a first title under the Dutchman. With Chelsea and Man-chester City both having lost to lower-
tier opposition already, the winner at Old Trafford will be a big favorite to lift the cup in May at Wembley.
“The (Preston) goal was a little bit unlucky,” Van Gaal said. “But then we showed an unbelievable team spirit. We changed the shape and that was the solution I think. We scored fantas-tic goals, (but) a little bit lucky also I think.”
United struggled to create chances in the first half and then fell behind when Laird’s shot from the edge of the area took a deflection off Antonio Valencia and squeezed under diving goalkeeper David De Gea. Van Gaal responded by taking off ineffective striker Ra-damel Falcao for Ashley Young with 30 minutes to go and United improved immediately.
The equalizer came when Young’s pass found Herrera, whose shot went
inside the far post. Preston argued that Rooney was standing in an offside po-sition but he was not adjudged to have interfered with play.
Fellaini gave the visitors the lead when he met a cross from Valencia at the back post with a thumping header that was saved by Stuckmann, but the Belgian stabbed the ball in with his second effort.
Preston never looked likely to come back and force a replay, and Rooney added the third after he raced into the area and fell over the outstretched leg of the onrushing Stuckmann. He thumped his penalty high into the net to end a nine-game goal drought — and Preston’s hopes of another upset. “I think
the players can be very proud of what they’ve done today,” Preston man-ager Simon Grayson s a i d .(ap)
BARCELONA - Barcelona have agreed to sell the rights to screen their La Liga matches next season to a unit of Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica, ending a long-standing collaboration with broadcaster Mediapro. The deal was rubber-stamped at a Barca board meeting on Monday and Telefonica will also take over the running of Barca’s in-house television channel, the club said on their website (www.fcbarcelona.es).
Barca did not say how much Telefonica had agreed to pay but local media reported it was around
140 million euros ($159 million), roughly in line with what Medi-apro, who own the TV rights for a majority of La Liga clubs, paid for this season.
Barca’s latest deal is only for one season as Spanish clubs are set to adopt a system of collective bargain-ing for TV rights similar to that used in other top European leagues from the 2016-17 campaign. The Spanish government has pledged to introduce a law mandating collective bargain-ing but has been dragging its feet, prompting some clubs to threaten they will strike in protest.
Pressure has increased after the English Premier League agreed this month a new collective TV rights deal with Sky and BT Sport for 2016-19 worth nearly $8 billion.
Many clubs in La Liga, including the likes of Espanyol, Valencia and Sevilla, are hopeful a collective deal would enable them to demand more from broadcasters which would then be shared out more equitably to cre-ate a more level playing field.
Real Madrid, the world’s wealthi-est club by income, and Barca, the fourth richest, together take about half the annual La Liga TV money
of around 650 million euros, one reason they usually finish far ahead of their domestic rivals.
According to Esteve Calzada, CEO of Barcelona-based consult-ing firm Prime Time Sport, the ratio in England between the team that makes the most TV money and the one that makes the least is about 1.5 to 1 while in La Liga it is 10 to 1.
Real and Barca have yet to pub-licly commit to a system of collec-tive bargaining and analysts have suggested they would only do so if they were guaranteed the same level of income as they have now.(rtr)
Barcelona agree TV rights deal with Telefonica unit
Man United rallies for 3-1 win at Preston in FA CupMan United rallies for 3-1 win at Preston in FA Cup
PRESTON, England — Manchester United had to come from behind to avoid an FA Cup upset at Preston, rallying with three second-half goals to beat the third-tier club 3-1 and reach the quarterfinals.
Manchester United’s Abder
Herrera celebrates after scoring during
the English FA Cup Fifth Round soccer
match between Preston and Manchester United
at Deepdale Stadium in Preston, England, Mon-day Feb. 16, 2015.Mainz sack coach Hjulmand,
youth coach Schmidt takes over
Porto’s Carlos Casemiro (R)
fights for the ball with Guimaraes’ Bernard Mensah during their Por-tuguese premier
league soccer match at Dragao stadium in Porto
February 13, 2015.
IBP/net
Eduardo Albacar
Elche wins 1-0 at Eibar to move farther from
drop in Spain
ZURICH - Basel’s Champi-ons League tie against Porto on Wednesday pits two clubs who have mastered the art of nurturing the talent of little-known footballers and selling them on to Europe’s top teams. Unable to compete with the financial power of the biggest
clubs, both have instead been happy to accept a role as
stepping-stones for players hoping to make their way
to one of the leading five leagues.
Both have been highly successful
at what they do and have
m a n -aged
to remain competitive despite allow-ing a succession of top footballers to walk through the exit door. Twice European champions Porto have raked in more than half a billion euros ($570.20 million) from selling players, many of them bought for a pittance from South American clubs, in the last 10 years.
The likes of Radamel Falcao, Hulk, James Rodriguez, Raul Meire-les, Pepe and Anderson all passed
through the Dragao Stadium and Porto’s much-acclaimed youth acad-emy before heading elsewhere.
However, they have managed to keep replenishing their talent pool and now boast the likes of Colom-bia forward Jackson Martinez in at-tack and Algeria midfielder Yacine Brahimi in midfield. Porto have won the Primeira Liga seven times in the last 10 season and reached the Champions League knockout
stages five times.Basel’s model is slightly differ-
ent as they place more emphasis on generating revenue from ticket and hospitality sales and regard income from transfers as a wel-come extra.
Even so they have an impressive record and, in the last few years, have turned the likes of Xherdan Shaqiri, Granit Xhaka and Yann Sommer into Bundesliga material
and helped Egypt forward Mo-hamed Salah earn a move to the Premier League.
LEFT TOO EARLY
The club’s only disappoint-ment is that some of those, such as Shaqiri and Salah, left too early and failed to win a regular place at their new clubs. Like Porto, the contin-ued departures have not prevented them from lifting titles.
They have won the Swiss league for the last five seasons and reached the Champions League last 16 on three occasions, an outstanding achievement for a club from a small country. Having qualified at the expense of Manchester United in 2011-12, Basel ousted Liverpool in the group stage this time around.
The Swiss side, in their first sea-son under Portuguese coach Paulo Sousa, are attempting to reach the quarter-finals for the first time since 1973-74 when they lost 6-5 on ag-gregate to Celtic. Captain Marco Streller believes Basel’s inside knowledge could make a difference on Wednesday.
“Half our training staff are Portuguese; they know Porto very well and we fully trust them,” he said. “Sousa’s role will be crucial. We trust him. If anyone knows Portuguese football well then it has to be him.
“It can be a real asset that Paulo and his staff know Porto like the back of their hand. We are playing attractive football that bears the signature of our coach and we’re all very happy about it.”
Stepping-stone clubs Basel and Porto clash
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EIBAR, Spain — Elche earned a 1-0 win at Eibar to edge farther away from the Spanish league’s relegation zone on Monday. Elche striker Jonathas glanced Eduardo Al-bacar’s lobbed free kick just enough with his head to send it bouncing past goalkeep-er Xabier Irureta in the 50th minute. It was the Brazilian’s team-leading ninth goal of the season.
Elche did little else in at-tack and needed goalkeeper Przemyslaw Tyton to make several good saves to secure
the victory, including a second stop of an Ander Capa strike in the final minutes.
The Basque hosts finished with 10 men after Federico Piovaccari was shown a direct red card for swinging his arm into Albacar’s face while they both jumped to dispute a high ball with 12 minutes to play. “We have worked hard all week for this, it’s a big step for us,” Jonathas said.
Elche stayed in 17th place, one spot above the danger zone, but did open a four-point gap above the three teams currently
in the drop. A fourth consecu-tive defeat left Eibar in 10th place. The promoted club that was the sensation of the first half of the season seems to have hit a wall.
“This is a very bad result for us,” said Eibar’s Eneko Boveda. “It was essential for us to get back to what we had been doing before these past few weeks. Now everything is proving more difficult for us. We have gone backward.” Real Madrid leads Barcelona by one point at the top of the standings after 23 rounds.(ap)
BERLIN - Struggl ing Mainz 05 parted ways with coach Kasper Hjulmand on Tuesday after the Dane man-aged just four wins in 21 league games this season, the club said.
One point above the rel-egation spot, Mainz, in 14th place on 22 after losing 4-2 to Borussia Dortmund on Friday, appointed youth coach Martin Schmidt as his successor.
“This relegation struggle now
changes the criteria which have led to a change in coach,” Mainz manager Christian Heidel said in a statement. Swiss Schmidt had steered their youth team to promotion into the third divi-sion last season.
The 42-year-old Hjulmand, who took over in the sum-mer as successor to Thomas Tuchel, is the sixth Bundes-liga coach to lose his job this season.
He had got off to a bad start,
with Mainz elimi-nated in the Europa League and the Ger-man Cup early on and managed just one win in their last 13 league games.(rtr)
Preston looked set to spring another major surprise in this year’s competition when Scott Laird put the hosts ahead in the 48th minute with a deflected shot. But Ander Herrera equalized in the 65th for United and Marouane Fellaini fol-lowed up his own rebound to make it 2-1 seven minutes later. Wayne Rooney put the result beyond doubt with a penalty in the 88th after he was adjudged to have been tripped in the area by goalkeeper Thorsten Stuckmann. It was Rooney’s first goal in 2015, but replays showed he went down without any contact from Stuckmann.
United’s win sets up a quarterfinal meeting with defending champion Ar-senal next month, and Louis van Gaal’s team will have to improve dramatically to stay on course for a first title under the Dutchman. With Chelsea and Man-chester City both having lost to lower-
tier opposition already, the winner at Old Trafford will be a big favorite to lift the cup in May at Wembley.
“The (Preston) goal was a little bit unlucky,” Van Gaal said. “But then we showed an unbelievable team spirit. We changed the shape and that was the solution I think. We scored fantas-tic goals, (but) a little bit lucky also I think.”
United struggled to create chances in the first half and then fell behind when Laird’s shot from the edge of the area took a deflection off Antonio Valencia and squeezed under diving goalkeeper David De Gea. Van Gaal responded by taking off ineffective striker Ra-damel Falcao for Ashley Young with 30 minutes to go and United improved immediately.
The equalizer came when Young’s pass found Herrera, whose shot went
inside the far post. Preston argued that Rooney was standing in an offside po-sition but he was not adjudged to have interfered with play.
Fellaini gave the visitors the lead when he met a cross from Valencia at the back post with a thumping header that was saved by Stuckmann, but the Belgian stabbed the ball in with his second effort.
Preston never looked likely to come back and force a replay, and Rooney added the third after he raced into the area and fell over the outstretched leg of the onrushing Stuckmann. He thumped his penalty high into the net to end a nine-game goal drought — and Preston’s hopes of another upset. “I think
the players can be very proud of what they’ve done today,” Preston man-ager Simon Grayson s a i d .(ap)
BARCELONA - Barcelona have agreed to sell the rights to screen their La Liga matches next season to a unit of Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica, ending a long-standing collaboration with broadcaster Mediapro. The deal was rubber-stamped at a Barca board meeting on Monday and Telefonica will also take over the running of Barca’s in-house television channel, the club said on their website (www.fcbarcelona.es).
Barca did not say how much Telefonica had agreed to pay but local media reported it was around
140 million euros ($159 million), roughly in line with what Medi-apro, who own the TV rights for a majority of La Liga clubs, paid for this season.
Barca’s latest deal is only for one season as Spanish clubs are set to adopt a system of collective bargain-ing for TV rights similar to that used in other top European leagues from the 2016-17 campaign. The Spanish government has pledged to introduce a law mandating collective bargain-ing but has been dragging its feet, prompting some clubs to threaten they will strike in protest.
Pressure has increased after the English Premier League agreed this month a new collective TV rights deal with Sky and BT Sport for 2016-19 worth nearly $8 billion.
Many clubs in La Liga, including the likes of Espanyol, Valencia and Sevilla, are hopeful a collective deal would enable them to demand more from broadcasters which would then be shared out more equitably to cre-ate a more level playing field.
Real Madrid, the world’s wealthi-est club by income, and Barca, the fourth richest, together take about half the annual La Liga TV money
of around 650 million euros, one reason they usually finish far ahead of their domestic rivals.
According to Esteve Calzada, CEO of Barcelona-based consult-ing firm Prime Time Sport, the ratio in England between the team that makes the most TV money and the one that makes the least is about 1.5 to 1 while in La Liga it is 10 to 1.
Real and Barca have yet to pub-licly commit to a system of collec-tive bargaining and analysts have suggested they would only do so if they were guaranteed the same level of income as they have now.(rtr)
Barcelona agree TV rights deal with Telefonica unit
Man United rallies for 3-1 win at Preston in FA CupMan United rallies for 3-1 win at Preston in FA Cup
PRESTON, England — Manchester United had to come from behind to avoid an FA Cup upset at Preston, rallying with three second-half goals to beat the third-tier club 3-1 and reach the quarterfinals.
Manchester United’s Abder
Herrera celebrates after scoring during
the English FA Cup Fifth Round soccer
match between Preston and Manchester United
at Deepdale Stadium in Preston, England, Mon-day Feb. 16, 2015.Mainz sack coach Hjulmand,
youth coach Schmidt takes over
Porto’s Carlos Casemiro (R)
fights for the ball with Guimaraes’ Bernard Mensah during their Por-tuguese premier
league soccer match at Dragao stadium in Porto
February 13, 2015.
IBP/net
Eduardo Albacar
Elche wins 1-0 at Eibar to move farther from
drop in Spain
ZURICH - Basel’s Champi-ons League tie against Porto on Wednesday pits two clubs who have mastered the art of nurturing the talent of little-known footballers and selling them on to Europe’s top teams. Unable to compete with the financial power of the biggest
clubs, both have instead been happy to accept a role as
stepping-stones for players hoping to make their way
to one of the leading five leagues.
Both have been highly successful
at what they do and have
m a n -aged
to remain competitive despite allow-ing a succession of top footballers to walk through the exit door. Twice European champions Porto have raked in more than half a billion euros ($570.20 million) from selling players, many of them bought for a pittance from South American clubs, in the last 10 years.
The likes of Radamel Falcao, Hulk, James Rodriguez, Raul Meire-les, Pepe and Anderson all passed
through the Dragao Stadium and Porto’s much-acclaimed youth acad-emy before heading elsewhere.
However, they have managed to keep replenishing their talent pool and now boast the likes of Colom-bia forward Jackson Martinez in at-tack and Algeria midfielder Yacine Brahimi in midfield. Porto have won the Primeira Liga seven times in the last 10 season and reached the Champions League knockout
stages five times.Basel’s model is slightly differ-
ent as they place more emphasis on generating revenue from ticket and hospitality sales and regard income from transfers as a wel-come extra.
Even so they have an impressive record and, in the last few years, have turned the likes of Xherdan Shaqiri, Granit Xhaka and Yann Sommer into Bundesliga material
and helped Egypt forward Mo-hamed Salah earn a move to the Premier League.
LEFT TOO EARLY
The club’s only disappoint-ment is that some of those, such as Shaqiri and Salah, left too early and failed to win a regular place at their new clubs. Like Porto, the contin-ued departures have not prevented them from lifting titles.
They have won the Swiss league for the last five seasons and reached the Champions League last 16 on three occasions, an outstanding achievement for a club from a small country. Having qualified at the expense of Manchester United in 2011-12, Basel ousted Liverpool in the group stage this time around.
The Swiss side, in their first sea-son under Portuguese coach Paulo Sousa, are attempting to reach the quarter-finals for the first time since 1973-74 when they lost 6-5 on ag-gregate to Celtic. Captain Marco Streller believes Basel’s inside knowledge could make a difference on Wednesday.
“Half our training staff are Portuguese; they know Porto very well and we fully trust them,” he said. “Sousa’s role will be crucial. We trust him. If anyone knows Portuguese football well then it has to be him.
“It can be a real asset that Paulo and his staff know Porto like the back of their hand. We are playing attractive football that bears the signature of our coach and we’re all very happy about it.”
Stepping-stone clubs Basel and Porto clash
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There are three teams between the Hawks and fifth-place Cleve-land in the East, putting James in the rare position of chaser. He can’t wait to try.
“I’m excited. I’m excited what our team can accomplish,” he said. “We entered the break playing some really, really good basketball; winning 14 of our last 16. I’m going to take these next couple of days off and get back in the gym on Wednesday a little bit, go hard on Thursday and get ready to play Washington on Friday.”
The NBA has a longer midseason break than usual this season, with play not resuming until Friday. That gives Westbrook extra time to rest after pouring in 41 points Sunday in the West’s 163-158 victory at Madison Square Garden.
His Oklahoma City Thunder have overcome injuries to he and Kevin Durant to win three straight, but they are still just outside the West’s top eight. No such worries for the Warriors, who rolled into the break with a 42-9 record and an MVP candidate in Curry. “It’s fun right now. We have a great team that has aspirations this year. I think it’s something that we’re poised to go after,” Curry said.
“You want to just embrace the higher expectations that we put on ourselves and that are surrounding our team. We talk about what we’re trying to do this year. We want to back it up.”
It won’t be easy, with challenges throughout a rugged West where defending champion San Antonio will try to mount a charge from seventh place. The East was widely expected to come down to Chicago and Cleveland, and maybe it still will. Besides the Cavaliers’ strong run to the first-half finish, with James looking healthy and Kevin Love appearing more comfortable, the Bulls won their last four to surge into third place.
Neither is likely to catch the Hawks, who rode an undefeated January to a 43-11 record. Their balanced team play put four play-ers in the All-Star Game, and in two months they can try to prove it would work in the postseason.
“I’m not going to look too far ahead,” Millsap said. “We’re going to try to take care of the regular season first, but we feel like there’s still room for improvement. We still feel like we haven’t played our best basketball. It’s shocking to say, but
we feel like we can still get better and still have a lot to work on.”
Here are some things to watch when play resumes this week:
TALKING TRADES: The trade deadline is Thursday afternoon, and teams such as Cleveland and Mem-phis have already shown this season how the right moves can pay off.
MORE MELO: With the Knicks last in the league and the All-Star Game in his home arena over, Car-melo Anthony will have to decide how much more to play — if he does at all — after battling a sore left knee much of the season.
WATCHING WADE: Dwyane Wade is expected to return from a hamstring injury that knocked him out of the All-Star Game on Friday at New York. The Heat need him, barely holding on to eighth place in the East. “We’re ready to attack the second half,” Heat All-Star Chris Bosh said. “We’re looking forward to having him back.”
EAST’S ELITE: Friday’s sched-ule could feature some East playoff previews. Toronto and Atlanta, the top two in the conference, square off, and the Cavs visit Washington — just as they would if the postsea-son opened that night.
SEEKING STOUDEMIRE: Cut Monday by the Knicks after request-ing a buyout, Amare Stoudemire could be attractive to a playoff con-tender once he clears waivers.(ap)
Ducati has launched its 2015 MotoGP bike, the first completely new design since the team was restructured following Audi’s ac-quisition of its parent company. The GP15 will make its public track de-but at the second Sepang winter test next week. Ducati used an interim ‘GP14.3’ bike for the opening test earlier this month.
The 2015 bike has a new chas-sis, as Ducati aims to end a victory drought that now stretches back to the 2010 Australian Grand Prix. An-drea Dovizioso stays on for a third year, with Andrea Iannone moving up from Ducati’s satellite team Pramac to join him. Dovizioso said he had been surprised by the extent of the changes to the bike.
“I didn’t expect it to be so narrow and compact,” he said. “It’s incred-ible. It looks different, but what is really different - I feel - is the heart, what’s inside.
“We are transforming the bike we had last year so we can have both an
evolution and revolution.” Ducati’s sporting chief Gigi Dall’Igna is optimistic that Ducati now has the rider and bike combination required to challenge Honda and Yamaha on a regular basis again - and to finally win again.
“We have to fight against bike manufacturers with a long MotoGP tradition and against four riders among the best ever, but I really believe in our Andreas,” he said.
“Our aim this year is very ambi-tious, because we want to win at least one race. We know that it is an extremely tough objective, but we are used to accepting the most difficult of challenges.” He added that the GP15 would be a more user-friendly bike than its predecessor.
“With the GP14.3 we have made some major progress with the software, which will be easy to switch over to the GP15, but also steps forward in the suspension, chassis and engine departments,” said Dall’Igna. “The GP15 will
start with the same settings as the GP14.3, but it will have many more possibilities for adjustment.” Last season was Ducati’s best in recent
years, as it took three podium finishes and closed the gap to the frontrunners.
Its progress was helped by a
controversial switch to Open class regulations, which allowed it greater development freedom in exchange for running a spec ECU.(net)
AP Photo/Jason Szenes, PoolEast Team’s LeBron James, of the Cleveland Cavaliers, dunks the ball during the second half of the NBA All-Star basketball game, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2015, in New York.
Warriors, Hawks on top, LeBron set to chase when NBA resumes
NEW YORK — LeBron James isn’t used to looking up at so many teams at the All-Star break. The Golden State Warriors and Atlanta Hawks occupy his former perch atop the standings, and Stephen Curry and Paul Millsap think that’s where their teams belong. The Western Conference is loaded as usual so good that All-Star Game MVP Russell Westbrook wouldn’t even be in the playoffs if they started now.
BuLELENG - Pulaki Temple or Pura Pulaki is a Hindu shrine located in the hill bank and in front of the beautiful beach in north part of Bali. It is one of the biggest Hindu temples in Bali situated in the coastal side west part of Singaraja town or 1 hour drive to the west from the town. This temple is set on the flat land with stone hill bank as a back drop meanwhile the blue ocean is just in front of the temple.
Pulaki Temple is a famous temple among the Hindu people in Bali located in Singaraja re-gency, north part of Bali. There are the group of monkeys dwell the hill forest around the temple and it usually standing around the temple in the day time. The beautiful beach with black sand and calm seawater is one of the fascinations to visitor to come to this temple. We can find the beautiful hill bank and beaches along the coastal road.
It is located in Pulaki Village, Seririt Sub District, Singaraja Regency, north part of Bali. It is just 3 hours drive from Bali’s International Airport or 1 hour drive from Singaraja town. It is strategically set in the main road from Singaraja to Gilimanuk with the group of monkeys as the identity for the traveler who wants to visit this temple.
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Shanghai has canceled its lantern festival at Yu Garden that draws up
to 3 million people over the seven-day holiday, which this year starts
on Wednesday, the eve of the Lunar New Year.
In Beijing, crowd-drawing karaoke has been yanked from a traditional temple fair, and authorities have asked stores to notify police of any sales.
The safety measures are a response
to the stampede at Shanghai’s glitzy riverfront in which 36 people were crushed to death.Some observers have complained that the measures dampen the festivity of the holiday. (ap)
FRANKFORT, Kentucky - The U.S. South got its turn to suffer from snow, freezing rain and sleet in a storm that brought back memories of one from the same time a year ago.
After weeks of snow in the Northeast, winter weather had moved through Arkan-sas and Kentucky and was headed east. While even small amounts of frozen pre-cipitation can bring the region to a halt, the worst was yet to come: temperatures in the single digits Fahrenheit (below minus 13) in areas where electricity was threatened by coatings of ice on power lines.
This February storm arrived on Mon-day, the Presidents Day holiday, when many schools and businesses were already closed. But the day isn’t a state holiday in North Carolina so schools let out early Monday and by the afternoon officials were canceling classes Tuesday. College campuses, from Appalachian State Uni-versity in the western part of the state and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, canceled afternoon classes Monday.
In central Kentucky, home to much of the state’s signature thoroughbred industry, horses kept warm by galloping through the deep snow, pausing occasionally to shake it off from their thick winter coats. Ned Toffey, general manager of Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, said the horses enjoy running in the snow because it gives them a nice cushion as opposed to the harder, packed earth.
Roads were brined and parking lots salted as officials tried to avoid a disastrous repeat of last year’s February storm, when rush-hour traffic and a thin coating of ice combined to leave people either stuck in their cars or their cars abandoned in roads as they walked home in Atlanta and Ra-leigh, North Carolina.
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory on Monday shut down all non-mandatory state government operations in Wake County in the early afternoon before any precipitation had fallen. He also declared a state of emergency and issued executive orders designed to streamline any storm
cleanup. He encouraged supervisors else-where in the state to use their discretion in sending employees home.
On Monday night, he said the forecast had worsened with more snow and ice ex-pected in the central part of the state. The National Weather Service said the storm could be crippling.
In the Northeast, which has been slammed by seemingly endless snow, the snow had halted, but the weather was bit-terly cold. New York City came close to breaking a 127-year-old record when the temperature in Central Park hit 3 degrees F (minus-16 degrees C), just 2 degrees above the record set in 1888, said Jeffrey Tongue, a National Weather Service me-teorologist.
Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh said the latest snow storm left one person dead, apparently due to a heart attack while shoveling snow. A partial roof collapse at an eight-building apartment complex in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, left 500 to 700 people looking for shelter. In New Jersey, a 66-year-old woman who had been drinking at a benefit was found dead in the snow, just two doors from her home. Fire-fighters working on a blaze in Philadelphia left behind a building coated in icicles. No one was hurt.
West Virginia was getting hit hard by the snowstorm when a train carrying crude oil derailed about 30 miles (50 kilometers) from Charleston. At least one tanker went into the Kanawha River and a nearby house caught fire. It wasn’t clear if the winter storm had contributed to the crash.
After the storm marched across North Carolina, where almost all of the 100 counties were under some sort of weather alert, it was expected to move through the Mid-Atlantic and yes, back into the Northeast.
In the Washington, D.C., region, of-ficials asked motorists to stay off the roads, and hundreds of plows were out ahead of the storm, which was expected to dump up to 10 inches (25 centimeters) in Virginia. (ap)
TOKYO - Japan said Tuesday it will provide $15.5 million in development aid to support anti-terrorism efforts in the Middle East and Africa.
The move comes after the recent beheadings of two Japanese hos-
tages by militants from the Islamic State group.
Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said the contribution, about half of which Japan had already pledged, is intended to bolster counter-terrorism capacity in the regions
affected by the group and other militants.
Earlier this year, just before the hostage crisis, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced $200 mil-lion in non-military support for nations fighting against the Islamic
State militants that control large parts of Iraq and Syria.
Vice-Foreign Minister Yasuhide Nakayama will announce the aid, to be paid through international orga-nizations, at a conference Thursday in Washington, the ministry said.
Japan, which had not directly threatened by the militants until the recent killings of the two hostages, is still in shock and is reviewing its anti-terrorism measures, eyeing the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. (ap)
Shanghai dampens Lunar New Year events after deadly stampede
BEIJING - Officials have put the brakes on some popular Chinese New Year events in big cities in the wake of Shanghai’s deadly Dec. 31 stampede.
Japan to give $15.5 million for anti-terror efforts
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University of Kentucky students Courtney Wiseman, left, and Abby Lerner walk home after studying on campus even as classes were canceled for the day in Lexington, Ky., Monday, Feb. 16, 2015.
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JAKARTA - Indonesia’s exports in January 2015 fell 9.03 percent to US$13.30 billion from US$14.62 bil-lion in December 2014, according to the Central Statistics Agency (BPS).
The January 2015 exports also tum-bled 8.09 percent compared to the same month last year, BPS Chief Suryamin said on Monday.
He said non-oil/non-gas exports in January 2015 reached US$11.22 billion, down 8.51 percent from US$12.22 bil-lion the month before.
Compared to the same month last year, the non-oil/non-gas exports in January 2015 dropped 6.24 percent, he said.
Oil and gas exports also fell 11.75
percent to US$2.07 billion in January 2015 from US$2.35 billion a month earlier, with the export of animal and vegetable fats and oils tumbling 9.55 percent to US$162.6 million. However, jewelry exports jumped 61.77 percent to US$293.4 million.
Based on sectors, non-oil/non-gas exports from the processing industry declined 4.69 percent and mining in-dustry dropped 16.34 percent in January 2015 from the same month last year. The United States remained the biggest market for Indonesia’s non-oil/non-gas exports in January 2015 with a value of US$1.25 billion, followed by Japan US$1.15 billion and China US$1.08 billion. (ant)
JAKARTA - The government and House of Representatives (DPR) have finalized the draft of regional elections with an agreement that concurrent regional elections would be held in December 2015, a lawmaker stated on Tuesday.
“The agreement was made on Monday. The draft bill itself will be approved in the House’s plenary session today,” Deputy Chairman of the House’s Commission II overseeing governance and regional autonomy Lukman Edy said.
The lawmakers and representatives of the government also agreed that the con-current regional elections would be held in seven rounds.
The first round would take place in December 2015 to elect the regional heads who would have ended their term in of-fice by the end of this year and the first semester of 2016, he remarked.
The second round of concurrent regional elections would be held in February 2017 to elect those who would end their term in office in the second semester of 2016 and the end of 2017, Edy noted.
In 2027, the Indonesian people would witness the concurrent regional elec-tions held across the country, he stated, adding that the acting governors and acting district heads would fill the vacant positions left by outgoing regional heads until definitive figures are elected by the people. (ant)
The government and House of Rep-resentatives (DPR) have finalized the
draft of regional elections with an agreement that concurrent regional
elections would be held in December 2015, a lawmaker stated on Tuesday.
JAKARTA - The National Movement of Anti-Narcotics (Ganas Annar), an Indonesian NGO, considers UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to be biased regarding Indonesia’s plan to execute two Australian drug offenders belonging to the “Bali Nine” drug syndicate.
“We deeply regret Ban Ki-moon’s state-ment urging the Indonesian government to cancel the execution of the two Australians involved in drug trafficking,” Chairman of the Ganas Annar Central Committee, stated here, Monday.
He claimed that the UN secretary general has not been neutral since he maintained a silent stance when Indonesians citizens were executed overseas. On the contrary, when Indonesia planned to execute drug offenders, he called for cancellations, he pointed out. The UN top man
should know that thousands of young men had died of drug addictions, he emphasized.
“Therefore, we urge President Joko Widodo not to back down. We must not allow foreigners to dictate our country,” he affirmed.
Drug offenders deserve death penalty as they have indirectly killed other people, he noted. Earlier, Reuters reported that United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appealed to Indonesia not to execute the prisoners on death row for drug crimes, including the citizens of Australia, Brazil, France, Ghana, Indonesia, Nigeria, and the Philippines.
UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Ban had spoken to Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi on Thursday “to express his concern at the recent application of capital punishment in Indonesia.” (ant)
Concurrent Regional Elections To Kick Off In December 2015
Exports down 9.03 percent in January
Indonesian NGO Claims UN SG Biased On “Bali Nine” Execution
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TOKYO - Green-car sceptics take note: Japan now has more electric vehicle charging spots than gas stations.
The country’s number-two automaker Nissan says there are now 40,000 charging units -- including those inside private homes -- across the nation, compared with 34,000 petrol stations.
While gas stations have multiple pumps and can service many more cars, the figures underscore efforts to boost green-vehicle in-frastructure in Japan, long a leader in a sector that remains tiny globally.
Nissan is betting on growing demand for electric cars, while rival Toyota said it has been swamped by orders for its first mass market hydrogen fuel-cell car, the Mirai sedan.
Fuel-cell cars are seen as the Holy Grail of green cars as they are powered by a chemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen, which emits nothing more harmful than water from its exhaust.
But a limited driving range and lack of refuel-ling stations have hampered development of the green-car sector, which environmentalists say could play a vital role in cutting greenhouse gas emissions and slowing global warming. (afp)
After a meeting of the 19 finance ministers of the eurozone over how to make Greece’s debts sustainable broke down in seeming-acrimony after barely more than three hours, Greece was told it has to ask for an extension to its bailout program before further negotiations on the country’s future financing and eco-nomic course can take place.
“We simply need more time and the best way for that at this point is extend the current program which would allow a number of months for us to work on future arrangements,” said Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the head of the so-called eurogroup.
Without some sort of financing arrangements in place after the current bailout ends after Feb. 28, Greece would face real difficulties
meeting its obligations, such as debt repayments, over the coming months. Bankruptcy and a potential exit from the euro would loom for Greece once again.
That’s why investors grew in-creasingly concerned Monday that a deal may not emerge in time to avoid a so-called “Grexit” from the euro — the main stock market in Greece fell 3.8 percent while the euro slipped.
Investors are worried that the two sides are poles apart especially as a cornerstone of the election campaign of Greece’s new left-wing government was to scrap the bailout program. In return for 240 billion euros ($275 billion) of rescue money from 2010 onwards, successive Greek governments have
had to implement a wide array of austerity measures such as deep cuts to spending and pensions.
The new Syriza government, in power for barely three weeks, blames those measures for the country’s economic ills — the Greek economy is around a quar-ter smaller than in 2008, despite a recent modest return to growth while unemployment and poverty have swelled.
“It would be an act of subterfuge to promise to our partners to complete successfully a program we challenged the logic of,” Greece’s finance minis-ter, Yanis Varoufakis, said.
And despite the talk of deadlines, Varoufakis insisted a deal between the two sides was achievable and that visible progress could still be made within the next 48 hours despite Monday’s swift breakdown in discussions.
“We are ready and willing to do whatever it takes to reach an agreement over the next two days,”
he said. “Europe will do the usual trick: It will pull a good agreement or an honorable agreement out of what seems to be an impasse .... I have no doubt that, within the next 48 hours Europe is going to come together and find phrasing that is necessary so we can submit it and move on to do the real work that is necessary.”
For all his talk about deadlines, Dijsselbloem also said there was scope for compromise provided the Greek government commits to the broad outlines of the current program, such as maintaining tight budgetary discipline.
He added that he thought it was “still feasible” that Athens would ask for an extension.
“The request for an extension only commits to one thing: that you keep to the broad lines of the program,” he said.
However, his suggestion that there was “some flexibility” built in the bailout program met with a fair
degree of ambivalence from Varou-fakis, who said it was a “nebulous” turn of phrase.
Varoufakis said he had been “perfectly happy to sign there and then” a plan proposed by Pierre Moscovici, the European Com-mission’s monetary and economic affairs official. Details of the plan were sketchy but did apparently involve Athens putting on hold its anti-austerity measures in return for loans and the start of a 6-month negotiation to a future financial ar-rangement.
“We were offering to refrain from implementing our program for six months and all we were getting back was a nebulous promise of some flexibility that wasn’t speci-fied,” Varoufakis said.
Malta’s finance minister, Edward Scicluna, worried about the impli-cations of a failure by Athens to re-quest an extension: “Then we won’t meet. There won’t be anything. It will be a disaster.” (ap)
Eurozone issues Greece an ultimatumBRUSSELS — European creditors issued Greece with an ultima-
tum Monday, saying the country must accept a key condition in bailout talks by the end of the week or face having to meet its debt commit-ments on its own — a prospect that many in the financial markets think would leave Greece little option but to leave the euro.
More electric car charging points in Japan than gas stations
AP Photo/David GoldmanIn this Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015 photo, Jason Marraccini, of Atlanta, recharges his Nissan electric vehicle at an auto dealership in Roswell, Ga. Japan now has more electric vehicle charging spots than gas stations.
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Fierce fighting on Tuesday ap-peared to be focused on Debalt-seve, a government-held town surrounded by rebel forces that both sides claim to be on their side of the cease-fire line. The issue was not re-solved under a cease-fire agreement negotiated last week by the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France.
Separatist leaders said in re-marks carried by the rebel mouth-piece Donetsk News Agency on Tuesday afternoon that their forces have pushed the Ukrainian army out of Debaltseve, gaining control over most of the town.
Associated Press reporters saw
artillery rounds fired Tuesday from Ukrainian government positions at rebel positions around Debaltseve. Sustained shelling was heard in the area all morning, some coming from Grad rocket launchers.
Ukrainian military spokesman Andriy Lysenko told reporters Tuesday that the separatists con-tinued to attack government posi-tions overnight around Debaltseve and that the pullout hinged on the cease-fire being fully observed. He said at least five troops were killed and nine injured in the past 24 hours in the war zone.
The cease-fire deal, which was brokered by European leaders last
week and went into effect early Sunday, specifies the pullout begins on the second day after the parties stop fighting. This condition has not been met, Lysenko said. “As soon as the fire ceases ... we will be ready to begin the withdrawal,” he said.
The war in eastern Ukraine has already killed more than 5,600 people and displaced more than a million, according to U.N. figures issued Monday. It has also left the country’s industrial heartland in ruins.
Fighting has stopped or subsided in some parts of war-torn eastern Ukraine, however. Rebel military spokesman Eduard Basurin said Tuesday they separatists had not seen any violations of the cease-fire in the area around the rebel stronghold of Donetsk since 8 p.m. Monday.(ap)
BEIJING — Tens of thousands of refugees from Myanmar’s ethnic region of Kokang have fled into the neighboring Chinese province of Yunnan over the past week amid fighting between militant rebels and government troops. Citing government officials, the state-owned news site Yunnan.cn reported Monday that there have been 30,000 border crossings by Myanmar nationals, and that Chinese authorities had of-fered them food and medical care.
Lin Sen, a volunteer helping refugees in Yunnan, said by phone Tuesday that he estimated 30,000 to 50,000 refugees had escaped the conflict region of Kokang over the past week.
Kokang is dominated by ethnic Han Chinese, and the region has been embroiled in fights since conflicts between the militant rebels led by Phone Kya Shin and government troops intensified on Feb. 9.
The rebel group’s general secretary, Htun Myat Lin, told The As-sociated Press by phone on Tuesday that the group is seeking autonomy for Kokang and its ethnic Han Chinese people.
“We want to have a high degree of autonomy where we can manage our own affairs, but we do not wish to split the country of Myanmar,” Htun said. Htun complained that the ethnic Han Chinese have been second-class citizens in Myanmar. “Our ethnicity must have dignity,” he said.
Myanmar only recently emerged from a half-century of military rule. Since assuming power in 2011, the government of President Thein Sein has been trying to strike peace agreements with rebels in resource-rich border regions.(ap)
MILAN — Police have searched the homes of several women who attended ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s famed “bunga bunga” parties as part of an in-vestigation into alleged witness tamper-ing during the billionaire’s sex-for-hire
trial.An appeals court last July acquitted Ber-
lusconi of paying a 17-year-old girl, Karima el-Mahroug, better known as Ruby, for sex on the grounds that he was apparently unaware of her age when she attended the
sex-fuelled parties.Over the course of that trial, a new in-
vestigation began concerning allegations of witness tampering with some of the other “bunga bunga” participants. Berlusconi, his lawyers, el-Mahroug and several women
are under investigation but haven’t been charged.
On Tuesday, police searched the homes of several of the women and the home of el-Mahroug’s lawyer, according Milan pros-ecutor Edmondo Bruti Liberati.(ap)
AP Photo/Petr David JosekUkrainian artillery is at a position outside of the village of Luhanske, some 20 kilometers (14 miles) north of Debaltseve, Ukraine, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015.
Police search homes of Berlusconi’s ‘bunga bunga’ guests
AP Photo/Gemunu AmarasingheIn this Jan. 12, 2015 photo, Ta’ang women in traditional attire laugh as rebel officers and villagers play games at a ceremony in Mar Wong Village, northern Shan state, Myanmar, marking the anniversary of their insurrection more than a half-century ago.
Tens of thousands of Myanmar ethnic refugees flee to China
Rebels claim to capture key Ukraine rail hub of Debaltseve
LUHANSKE, Ukraine — Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine claimed Tuesday to have taken the key transportation hub of De-baltseve as both parties faced a deadline to start pulling back heavy weapons from the front line.
Singaraja - After officially bearing the status as the Bule-leng Environment Agency (BLH), it begins to boost services to community in Buleleng. One of the new breakthroughs carried out by this agency is opening Complaint and Envi-ronmental Disputes Mediation Service (P3SLH).
This public service facilitates the community that will complain about any indications leading to environmental violation in North Bali. The P3SLH is very important because many foreign investors have begun to get inter-est in opening businesses in Buleleng. In this situation, there is possibility of resulting in environmental issues or disputes.
The Head of the Buleleng Environment Agency, Nyoman Surya Temaja, said at his office on Monday (Feb 16) the P3SLH was deliberately opened to facilitate residents to complain about any environmental problems. Moreover, the investment in North Bali began to increase, and it directly raised environmental issues. In order to prevent environ-mental damages caused by the investment, the P3SLH was established and ready to receive complaints of residents in the field of environment. “The community is welcomed to submit information about environment to the newly opened agency. We want the environment can be well maintained and prevent environmental damage as soon as the indica-tion arises after the investment climate is getting better in the area,” he said.
According to Surya Temaja, the resident complaint re-lated to environmental problem could be submitted directly to the P3SLH at the office of the Buleleng Environment Agency on Jalan Ngurah Rai, Singaraja. In addition, the complaint could also be filed by a call or texting or facsimile and e-mail. All public complaints would be followed up, so that the indications leading to environmental damage could be prevented. (kmb38)
To follow up the plan, the executive team provided socialization for local residents at Belatung village hall, Monday (Feb 16). Local residents welcomed the plan, but they asked that such arrangement should not sacrifice fishermen and salt farmers around the coast.
The plan was seriously addressed by dozens of fishermen and salt farmers together with the headman of Pesinggahan, Nyoman Suastika. Surrounding land areas of Belatung Beach owned by about 36 people were currently covered in shrubs. Such condition made the beach at-mosphere not well-organized. In ad-dition, it was also filled by too many semi-permanent buildings owned by traditional salt farmers. One of the fishermen, I Ketut Artawan, expressed his agreement with the plan. However, his party asked for a guarantee that the existence of fishermen and salt farmers would not be evicted from the coast. “We agree with the coastal arrangement. However, we also want our lives as fishermen and salt farmers
will not be disturbed,” he hoped.In addition, the residents also
requested to be empowered, so that those having lived around the area for decades could improve their welfare with the contribution of tourism. Ham-let chief of Belatung, I Ketut Suardita, also expressed similar agreement. However, he requested the coastal ar-rangement should be integrated with road access around the Goa Lawah Temple that was getting busier and often interfered with the activities of residents. Later, when the arrange-ment could be realized, the area could be really transformed into a tourist area, not only false promises of local government.
The assistant I Wayan Tika in the socialization delivered that the ar-rangement plan would be carried out in the area of Belatung Beach located between Wates Beach and Goa Lawah Beach. As a result, it could support the object and tourist attraction of Goa Lawah Temple. As planned, other than Belatung Beach, the Tegal Besar Beach in Banjarangkan subdistrict
would also be equally arranged as the beach was continuously eroded by abrasion. Deputy Regent of Klung-kung, Made Kasta, on the occasion said the arrangement plan was an at-tempt to attract road users around the area to enjoy the scenery and beach atmosphere as well as to improve the beach having the potential to be developed.
Meanwhile, the Regent of Klung-kung, Nyoman Suwirta, all this time saw striking differences between Wates Beach and Belatung Beach from Pesinggahan Beach. Belatung Beach at Goa Lawah was considered to have more potential in terms of tourism than Wates Beach. His party also promised not to displace the ac-tivity of fishermen and salt farmers. Even, their activity would become a tourist attraction. “Daily life of fishermen and salt farmers can be the reason for travelers to visit it later,” he said. After obtaining approval from residents, the team established by the executive for the arrangement would soon come down to the field in order to conduct technical stud-ies along with the plan of making traditional harbor in the west of Goa Lawah Beach. (kmb31)
Tabanan - A Russian citizen named Anna Lopatina, 42, reported a loss of gold earrings to Tabanan Police, Sunday (Feb 15). The earrings of made in Greece estimated to worth around IDR 11 million were suspected to have been stolen by a therapist of spa outlet located in Tabanan.
Based on information, Anna who was living at Canggu Kuta came to the spa outlet in Tabanan for a massage, Saturday (Feb 14). He claimed to be massaged by a spa therapist named Komang. When being massaged, Anna fell asleep and after undergoing the treatment she immediately went to Hardys to go shopping. On arriving at Hardys, Anna just realized if her white gold earrings were missing. Then, she returned to the spa outlet and asked about the earrings to the therapist who served her. However, from the recognition of Anna, the spa therapist named Komang looked nervous when asked, although admitting not to take the earrings.
Chief of the Tabanan Police Criminal Investigation, Wayan Arta Ariawan, with permission from the Chief of Tabanan Police, Komang Suartana, confirmed the report on the white gold earrings loss. His party admitted to have been doing a search from the beginning whether the complainant really lost the earrings at the spa outlet. “The problem is that the complainant has dropped in at other place so that it cannot be ensured to lose at the spa. For this case, the investigators are still conducting searches,” said Arta Ariawan. (kmb24)
Residents ask to not sacrifice fishermen and salt farmers
IBP/FileThye parking area of Goa Lawah which need more arrangement.
Semarapura - Local government plans to make the arrangement to the coastal region from Belatung to Goa Lawah, Pesinggahan village, Dawan subdistrict, Klungkung.
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The Wall Street Journal is report-ing that Apple has hired hundreds of people to work on a secret project — code name “Titan” — to develop an electric vehicle. The newspaper cites people familiar with the proj-ect who spoke under condition of anonymity.
Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr declined to comment.
The article says that the vehicle will resemble a minivan and that it would be branded as an Apple product.
Apple’s industrial design team is staffed with several people with automaking experience, the article
says. That group includes Marc Newson, a designer who once cre-ated a concept car for Ford.
Apple has confirmed that News-on is on its staff.
If Apple does sell an electric car, it will face some competitors.
General Motors announced on Thursday that it will build an electric car, the Chevrolet Bolt, with a 200-mile (320-kilometer) range at a factory near Detroit. The car will cost $37,500, not including a $7,500 federal tax credit, GM said. The car will be built starting in 2017.
Silicon Valley automaker Tesla
Motors plans to start selling a 200-mile (320-kilometer)-per-charge car about the same time. The price of Tesla’s Model 3, including the tax credit, is likely to be well below $30,000 after the tax credit.
Nissan is already selling an elec-tric car, the Leaf, though not many — 158,000 around the world.
The Journal notes that Apple is always experimenting with new products, many eventually abandoned. But it says the senior people involved in the electric car project suggest that it is serious venture. (ap)
NEW YORK — Those days of calling your bank to let them know that, yes, you really are in Thailand, and yes, you really did use your credit card to buy $200 in sarongs, may be coming to an end.
The payment processing com-pany Visa will roll out a new feature this spring that will allow its card-holders to inform their banks where they are automatically, using the location function found in nearly every smartphone.
Having your bank and Visa know where you are at all times may sound a little like “Big Brother.” But privacy experts are actually applauding the feature, saying that, if used correctly, it could protect cardholders and cut down on credit card fraud.
Credit and debit card fraud costs consumers and banks billions of dollars each year, and that figure has been growing as data breaches have become more common. The banking industry had $1.57 billion in debit card fraud in 2013 and $4 billion in credit card fraud in 2012, the latest years for which data are available, according to the Federal Reserve.
Facing these high costs, banks and the payment processors have been stepping up their efforts to cut down on fraud, and Visa’s an-nouncement is just one small piece of this drive. JPMorgan Chase’s CEO Jamie Dimon has said re-peatedly that his bank spends $250 million overall on cybersecurity every year, and plans to double that spending.
Here’s how it works: starting in April, banks will update their smartphone apps to include Visa’s new location-tracking software. If the consumer opts in, the Visa software will, over a period of time, establish a customer’s home terri-tory of roughly a 50-mile radius. If the person uses his or her Visa card at stores in that area, those transac-tions will be considered low risk for fraud.
When that person travels outside their home area, the phone will notify Visa that they’ve entered a new city or country, using either the phone’s cellular data plan or the next time the phone connects to a Wi-Fi network. When that person uses their Visa card for a transaction in that location, Visa will already know he or she is there and will be less likely to flag the card for a fraud alert.
“We will be able to compare the merchant’s location to the most recent cellphone location to show it’s a less risky transaction,” Visa executive Mark Nelsen said.
The feature is optional and can be deactivated at any time. Visa
also says none of the location tracking will be used for marketing purposes.
One type of fraud Visa’s feature will directly address is counterfeit credit cards. Criminals can take stolen credit card information and code it onto a new card using equip-ment that can be readily purchased online. Counterfeit cards look like any other credit card, but have someone else’s information on the magnetic stripe.
Nelsen said Visa hopes the new security feature will prevent “a good portion” of fraud perpetrated with counterfeit cards, because those cards are often used in a loca-tion other than where the actual card owner lives.
Visa’s new anti-fraud measure, which the company announced on Thursday, won’t address every potential fraud situation. If a card user has both their phone and credit cards stolen, for example, Visa wouldn’t necessarily know that the card was at risk of fraudulent use until the cardholder contacted the company. The current version of Visa’s anti-fraud software doesn’t address the possibility of stolen credit card data being used to make online purchases, but a future ver-sion will, Nelsen said.
Visa is just one of dozens of financial companies trying to fig-ure out the best way to use new technologies to combat fraud. Mas-terCard said Friday it is rolling out a pilot program later this year that will integrate biometric data, such as face, voice or fingerprints, into its payment system to help authen-ticate transactions.
Many travelers have had the experience of having their credit cards declined when using them for the first time in a foreign city or country because the bank assumed the charge was fraudulent. The only solution in those situations was for the cardholders to call the banks or credit card issuer every time they travel to let them know where they will be.
The process is cumbersome and time-consuming for cardholders and also for banks, which incur large expenses to staff call centers to deal with these types of calls from customers. Some banks use systems like text message alerts, but that usually requires customers to reply or call a number before the transaction will go through.
“The goal is to let more of those good transactions go through so we can focus on the real fraud,” Nelsen said. Privacy experts were generally warm to the idea, as long as banks are clear on how a cus-tomer’s smartphone location will be used. (ap)
NEW YORK — Mattel and Google are trying to bring the 75-year-old View-Master into the 21st century — with some help from smartphones and virtual reality technology.
The original View-Masters gave people a chance to click through colorful photos by inserting reels into the viewing devices.
Targeted at families, the updated View-Master has users insert a smartphone into a headset. A smart-phone app will enable the gadget to immerse kids in a slew of virtual
worlds, from far-off cities to outer space. The new View-Masters will be priced at about $30.
Mattel Inc. and Google Inc. unveiled the virtual reality viewer Friday at Mattel’s New York City office. The device launches in the fall, but the companies had no fin-ished product to show off.
But Mattel demonstrated the technology using Google Cardboard, a cardboard attachment that turns smartphones into virtual reality view-ers. Reels won’t be necessary for the new View-Master, but they will
enhance the experience. In a demo, there were reels for San Francisco, outer space and dinosaurs. Pointing your headset at one and clicking a button on the side of the headset took you into each of the worlds. A set of four reels will cost $15.
The original View-Master launched at the New York World’s Fair in 1939. Mattel says it has sold more than 100 million of them.
The new version will launch on Android devices first, but the com-panies plan to make it available on all platforms down the line. (ap)
To combat fraud, Visa wants to track your smartphone
Apple has hundreds working on electric
car projectNEW YORK — You’ve heard of the iPhone and iPad. How about the iCar?
Google, Mattel try to bring View-Master into 21st century
AP Photo/Mark Lennihan
Andrew Nicholls demonstrates the latest version of a View-Master, a collaboration between Mattel and Google, at the Mattel showroom at the North American International Toy Fair, Sat-urday, Feb. 14, 2015, in New York.
As information gathered in the field last Monday, only boat and sampan own-ers agreed to down the crossing tariff. Originally the sampan owners refused to down the tariff. After they were urged by the transportation officials, sampan own-ers finally agreed to reduce their tariff. However, the decrease agreed was only as much as IDR 5,000. “The decline in sea transportation tariff of IDR 5,000 was taken as win-win solution. Within this situation, only the fuel price is downed,” said the Head of Klungkung Transporta-tion, Communications and Informatics Agency, Nengah Sukasta, last Monday.
Additionally, Nengah Sukasta admit-ted that based on the results of the meet-ing there was no decrease in the land transportation tariff. It did not only refer to the decision of Organda Bali, but also considered that the decrease only hap-pened to the fuel price. Meanwhile, the other components such as vehicle parts did not decline. Moreover, according to Sukasta, the condition of land passengers was very quiet rather than sea passengers.
“Yes, we also consider the condition in the field. The passengers of sea transport are busier than land transport,” he said.
Obviously, according to Sukasta, the meeting on the tariff adjustment of land transport and sea transport had not been final. The results of the transport tariff adjustment would be further discussed by legal division before defined by the regent of Klungkung. “Well, before ap-proved by the regent through a decree, we will submit first the results of the meeting to legal division to be studied,” he said.
Meanwhile, just to be known, the sea crossing tariff by using inter-county boat from Sanur and Padang Bai to Nusa Dua is averagely charged at IDR 60,000 to IDR 85,000 per person. But after the decrease in fuel price, the crossing tariff by using boat was agreed to decrease as much as IDR 5,000. Meanwhile, the land transportation is still charged as the original tariff, namely on average of IDR 3,000 to IDR 15,000. And it also depends on the distance traveled. (119)
GiaNYaR — As caught smug-gling drugs into Gianyar Prison, two accommodation employees were ar-rested by Gianyar Police Narcotic Unit, Monday (Feb 16). Marijuana weighing 3.3 grams was inserted into the package of Jinggo rice that would be given to a prisoner of pre-charge detention with initial Koplar. Now, Gusti Ngurah Joni Saputra, 23, and Komang Sucipta are still undergoing investigation at Gianyar Police station.
Based on observation of Bali Post in front of the Gianyar Prison on Monday around 3:00 p.m., Ngurah Joni in red shirts just low-ered his head when escorted by two personnel of Gianyar Police going out of the prison’s door. Other than bringing the man from Bona village, Blahbatuh, police of-ficers also brought the evidence of plastic bag containing Jinggo rice and two packs of cracker. “This is Jinggo rice containing drugs to be smuggled into the prison,” explained a police officer while car-
rying Ngurah Joni and the evidence to Gianyar Police station.
When describing the evidence, it was known the Jinggo rice wrapped in banana leaf was inserted with marijuana in plastic bags weighing 3.3 grams. When being interro-gated, Ngurah Joni did not know if the package contained illicit goods. “I was just asked to accompany him (Komang Sucipta—Ed), but I did not know if it contained drugs. Swear, I did not know,” he said.
Ngurah Joni told that around 12:00 a.m. while working, Ko-mang Sucipta was phoned by his friend named Koplar, denoting a prisoner of pre-charge detention at the Gianyar Prison. The two men were told to take rice at the home of Dewa B living around Gianyar. “At that home, the rice was taken by Komang, then we went to prison by riding a motorcycle (Supra 125 with license plate DK 2176 XQ—Ed),” he said while adding that he was surprised when the consignment was inspected around 2:00 p.m.,
and the warden found drugs inserted into the wrap of the Jinggo rice.
Meanwhile, Komang Sucipta looked pale and claimed to have known Koplar before he was ar-rested by the Gianyar Police Nar-cotic Unit in January 2015. He said Koplar often rented a room at his workplace. But he admitted not to intentionally smuggle marijuana into the Gianyar Prison for Koplar. “I have known him for long time because he often rented a room at my workplace. Just know he called me again and told to bring him rice taken from the house of Dewa (Dewa B—Ed),” he said.
Meanwhile, the police officer receiving the report directly made a development led by Chief of Gi-anyar Police Narcotic Unit, Kadek Ardika. It was said that Komang Sucipta was immediately escorted to the house of Dewa B to make a search around 3:15 p.m., but found nothing. “Quickly we have searched the house suspected of being the ini-tial source of the drugs, but nothing
was found,” said Kadek Ardika.Allegedly after hearing the failed
smuggling, there was communica-tion between Koplar and Dewa B, so that the searching could not find any goods. He also questioned why a prisoner of pre-charge detention could bring a mobile phone at the Gi-anyar Prisoner. “We have an evidence of incoming call from the number, according to recognition of Sucipta, used by Koplar, but how could he bring a mobile phone?,” he asked while adding that local wardens also made an inspection where Koplar was detained, but nothing was found.
When asked about the relation-ship of Komang Sucipta to Koplar, Ardika said that based on initial in-formation it was known that before arrested Koplar often rented a room at the workplace of Komang Sucip-ta. “What he (Koplar—Ed) rented a room for is still being investigated, whether it was used for consuming (drugs) or for other purpose. And the long involvement of Komang will also be elaborated, chiefly why
he was willing to only deliver a pack of Jinggo rice and three crack-ers. Later on, we will also probe Koplar,” he said. (kmb35)
Two inn employees arrested for smuggling drugs into prisonIBP/File
The people are waiting for the transport to go to Nusa Penida Island
After fuel price decreases
Sea transport tariff only lowered by IDR 5,000
SEmaRaPuRa - The Klungkung Transportation, Communications and Informatics Agency finally addressed the issue on sea and overland transportation tariff after fuel price was decreased. as evidence, on monday (Feb 16) the Head of Transportation agency, Nengah Sukasta, along with his ranks gathered boat owners and boat entrepreneurs, including the drivers of land transport to discuss about transport tariff adjustment. The meeting held at the office of the Transportation Agency was also attended by Chairman of the Klungkung Land Transportation Organization (Organda), i Nyoman arka arsana. unfortunately, the meeting on transport tariff adjustment after the fuel price was decreased could not entirely agree to down the tariff.
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EvEry Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.
The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.
The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.
In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrel-las soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, deco-rated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.
Balinese Temple Ceremony
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TANJUNG BENOA - Bali was the final destination for Dwiki Dharmawan who conducted a world class concert with Jimmy Haslip (Bass), Chad Wackerman (Drums) and Indonesiafs top guitarist Toh-pati last Saturday, February 14th 2015 at Taman Bhagawan Bali. This performance followed the first concert in Suhana Hall Jakarta on February 10th and concert in Bandung February 11th.
This tour promoted Dwiki Dhar-mawanfs latest Album EP CD recorded in America titled gPAS-SION, LOVE, & LIFEh. The tour also is a showcase for the “Road to Jazz Market by The Sea 2015”, set for 14-16 August 2015 at Taman Bhagawan Bali.
His latest album gPassion, Love, Lifeh supported by legendary musi-cians Jimmy Haslip (Bass), Chad Wackerman (Drums), and two of Indonesiafs best guitarists Dewa Budjana and Tohpati, comple-mented by legendary violinist member of Mahavishnu Orchestra Jerry Goodman will mark the 30 years of Dwikifs works. gPassion, Love, Lifeh will be recorded live by Jeff Lorber at JHL Studio, Pacific Palisades California and produced under the label gGitarku Recordsh owned by, among them, Dewa Bud-jana, in cooperation with MoonJune Records based in New York which will handle international promo-tion, marketing and distribution. For shows in Jakarta and Bandung, guitarists Dewa Budjana will also perform, but in Bali, the tour fea-tured guitarist Tohpati collaborating with Jembranafs Jegog lead by I Nyoman Windha.
Dwiki created 6 (six) new pieces in his latest album i.e. Return of the Lamafa, The Dark of the Light, Bromo, Whale Dance, So Far So Close, Jembrana’s Fantasy and rear-ranged 2 of his previous pieces i.e. NYC 2050 (from Nuansa album, 2002), and Arafura (from World Peace Orchestra album, 2009). In this version of Arafura, Jerry Goodnan will be performing as the awaken violin player member of Mahavisnu Orchestra together with John Mc Laughlin and Jan Hammer.
When questioned why Dwiki chose Chad Wackerman and Jimmy Haslip as partners in collaborating for this album, Dwiki commented gChad Wackerman is a phenom-enal Drummer Jazz Rock, I have followed his musical career from debuting as drummer Frank Zappa until his collaboration with London Symphony Orchestra. Chad is very powerful but on the other hand he is very talented in composing, Chad is
not just a drummer but a drummer-composerh.
gI have several times worked with and performed with Jimmy Haslip starting when he supported my previous album gWorld Peace Orchestrah. I have followed Jimmy Haslipfs career since his collabora-tion with Robben Ford, until Yellow Jacketsh.
“While Dewa Budjana and Toh-pati are two guitarists and my best friends which I hold in high esteem, I am proud be associated with their success and am proud of them being involved in my album this time.
Dwiki Dharmawan started his career in 1985 by establishing Krakatau band which became very famous in Indonesia. After that he developed his career in arrangement and producing a number of famous Indonesian artists, established World Peace Orchestra and actively promoting Indonesia in interna-tional forums where he performed
in a number of important music shows among them North Sea Jazz Festival, Montreux Jazz Festival, Lincoln Center, Chicago Cultural Center, Toronto Jazz, Vancouver Jazz Festival and other perfor-mances in various countries.
The musician married to singer Ita Purnamasari and has one child is also known as a musician that proudly brings Indonesian tradi-tional music power and performs in global shows with arrangement crossover with Jazz.
“For me, it is an honor to be backing one of Indonesiafs best tal-ents in MoonJune Records, Dwiki Dharmawan. Our cooperation will continue with the next recording session mid this year in London to-gether with jazz musicians based in London, and another recording ses-sion in New York end of 2015, thus in the future Dwiki and us are ready to launch 2 (two) other albums,h claims Leonardo Pavkovics. (r)
Dwiki Dharmawan’s Jazzy Valentine at Taman Bhagawan Bali
It was expressed by Managing Director of PD Pasar Badung, I Made Sutarma, Monday (Feb 16). According to him, his party man-aged nine units of market plus one business unit spreading from Petang to Nusa Dua. “Of the nine units, we know from the financial statement if two units have suffered losses, namely the Kertasari and Petang Market, while two other markets could only cover their op-erating costs, namely the Sembung and Kapal Market,” he said.
The income of the PD Pasar Badung, recognized Made Sutarma, relied on five traditional markets, namely the Cattle Market and Public Market at Beringkit, Kuta Market I and II as well as Nusa Dua Market. “Now, we are only relying on five markets remaining surplus to finance the regional enterprise. We have to deposit 55 percent of the net profit after tax for a year to regionally generated revenue (PAD). Meanwhile, the remaining 45 percent is managed as produc-
tion service and social fund as well as others,” he explained.
The constraints faced in devel-oping the traditional markets in Badung, said Made Sutarma, hap-pened due to less representative location and the invasion of modern markets that flourished to every nook and cranny of villages so that they made traditional markets go bankrupt.
“Meanwhile, our strategy will make innovation in terms of market segmentation, especially for the
Latu Market. Later on, based on our studies we will change the market segmentation from general market, for example, to special market that is still affordable,” he said.
As mentioned, the Kertasari Market was planned to be trans-formed into specific market, such as fruit market, where all the fruits on offer were required by Badung people and could be found in the market. “Or it may be used as a flea market, so that the Badung community is no longer necessary to go to Denpasar when looking for junks. However, it must definitely be studied first which option is ap-propriate and can soon produce,” he said.
He added the Petang Market would remain to be functioned as a general market providing daily needs for Badung people. However, the market would continue to be promoted so that it could become a mainstay. “If at Kapal there has a special market, it just needs to re-arrange. Meanwhile, the Sembung Market will be functioned to sell daily needs of local community as the Petang Market,” he concluded.
To note, the revenue target of the PD Pasar Badung in 2014 reached IDR 12,736,475,216 with realiza-tion of IDR 12,236,237,148.98. Meanwhile, the target revenue in 2015 was set at IDR 14, 047,906,354.64. (kmb37)
TABANAN — Some schools in Tabanan County are considered to have been overcapacity of students. If such condition is allowed to continue, it is feared to disrupt the learning process for students. By and large, the overcapacity schools occur at favorite junior or high schools. Surely the condition makes private schools suffer and go out of business due to lack of students.
A member of Tabanan Education Council, Wayan Kawi, said that ide-ally a classroom accommodated 20 to 38 students. However, in reality public schools apparently forced themselves to accommodate students as many as possible. As a result, the schools labeled as favorite ones were overca-pacity. “There are still public schools whose classroom capacity exceeds an ideal number. Even, they reach 48 students,” he said, Monday (16/2).
He said with the capacity exceed-ing the quota, some junior, high and vocational schools even opened af-ternoon classes. Such condition was considered ineffective when teaching and learning activities at schools were in progress. “Just imagine, the teacher cannot probably memorize the names of all students,” he explained.
Another weakness caused by the overcapacity was that the learning process in classroom became not ideal in terms of delivery of materials. Further, the education council, accord-
ing to Wayan Kawi, a former teacher, recommended to the Tabanan Educa-tion Agency to limit the number of students. “Each classroom maximally holds 38 students,” he explained.
From the observation all this time, many public schools held more students than the actual capacity. The overloaded schools included the SMPN 1, SMPN 2 and SMPN 3 junior high school. “In addition to junior high school, the overloaded students also happened to high school level,” he said.
For high school, the overcapacity happened to the SMAN 1, SMAN 2 and SMAN 1 Kediri, Tabanan. Ac-cording to him, the school authority should be able to limit because the overcapacity at junior and high school level had become a problem. “In terms of building, it is indeed not a problem,” he said.
Booming student admission at a number of favorite schools had caused them to impose double shifts (morning and afternoon class) so that private schools turned sluggish. The SMP Harapan junior high school, for instance, had got the impact. The school located at Jalan Mataram 12, Malkangin hamlet, Delod Peken, Tabanan was formerly very popular. Later on, its condition was suffering. Even, in the 2014-2015 academic year this junior high school did not get any student.
Principal of the SMP Harapan Tabanan junior high school, I Wayan Rateng Suadnyana, previously men-tioned the lack of students enrolling at private junior high school was caused by the public junior high schools received a lot of students. Even, a few public schools in Tabanan like the SMPN 1 and SMPN 2 enforced two shifts namely the morning and afternoon class. Besides, more and more public schools were established at remote areas so that no one wanted to go to private schools. “The public schools have received hundreds of students, so that no one went to private schools,” said Rateng.
He said that he could not do much with such condition. Moreover, his party still had a responsibility to 14 students of grade 8 and 29 students of grade 9. “We are still responsible for students of grade 8 and 9 until they entirely graduate,” he said.
He told there were six teachers of civil servant in charge of the school he chaired. Besides, there were five teachers of the foundations and six administration staff. His party hoped the Education Agency would not soon withdraw the civil servant-teachers in charge. He wanted the process of learning for all students could be ac-complished first. Actually there were nine civil servant-teachers, while three teachers had been moved because they did not get teaching hours. Incidentally
there had been other teachers. So, the three teachers were finally moved in order to get teaching hours. “It’s a pity that they cannot get teaching hours as it has something to do with their certification,” he said.
Related to school survival, Rateng entirely submitted to the Harapan Bangsa Foundation, the institution managing the school. “We leave it entirely on the policy of the foundation for the continuation of this school,” he said.
When confirmed in separate place, the Head of Tabanan Agency, Putu Santika, did not dismiss if a number of schools indeed had stu-dents exceeding ideal capacity. He also confirmed that fewer students in classroom would make the learn-ing process more effective. “But the school-based management system
(MBS) will be wholly returned to the school itself,” he said.
He argued it was different from the previous period where there was standardization of school such as the label as Pioneering International Standard School (RSBI) and National Standard School (SSN). “Now, it has been deleted, so that we return it to respective school,” he explained.
His party only suggested holding 40 students in a classroom as ideal number and it would be better. “But we are unable to reject students,” he explained.
He also gave the reason why many schools were overcapacity. According to him, it happened because it was impossible to build a new school building. “Yes, indeed there should be a development of school building,” he added. (kmb28)
Badung assesses four traditional markets to be unprofitable
MANGUpUrA — Being unable to increase revenue, the Badung government through the regional Enterprise, (pD) pasar Badung, is going to review the segmentation of the four tradi-tional markets in the region. The four markets included the Kertasari Market, petang Market, Sembung Market, and Kapal Market.
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NEW YORK - Pharrell Williams has a “Happy” deal for a series of children’s picture books.
The Grammy Award-winning performer has an agreement with Putnam Books for Young Readers for four picture books, start-ing with one inspired by his hit song.
Putnam announced Tues-day the book, “Happy,” will be published Sept. 22 and will feature photographs of children from around the world “celebrating what it means to be happy.” It plans a first printing of 250,000 copies.
Pharrell has won 10 Grammys, including two for “Happy.”
“Happy” was featured on the soundtrack of “De-spicable Me 2” and was an Oscar nominee last year for best song. (ap)
The pop star shared the news on her Instagram account Monday. She posted a photo of a ring on her finger and wrote: “He gave me his heart on Valentine’s Day, and I said YES!”
Lady Gaga and Kinney met on the set of her “You & I” video in 2011. Kinney stars in the NBC series “Chicago Fire”
and had a role in the film “Zero Dark Thirty.”
Lady Gaga’s hits include “Poker Face,” ‘’Bad Romance” and “Applause.” She recently won her sixth Grammy Award, for her “Cheek to Cheek” album with Tony Bennett. She’s scheduled to perform at Sunday’s Academy Awards. (ap)
Lady Gaga engaged to ‘Chicago Fire’ actor Taylor Kinney
NEW YORK - Lady Gaga is no
longer caught in a bad romance: She’s
engaged to actor Tay-lor Kinney.
Greg Allen/Invision/AP, File
In this Dec. 7, 2014 file photo, Taylor Kinney and Lady Gaga attend the 37th Annual Kennedy Center Honors in Washington.
LOS ANGELES - Lady Gaga. Jennifer Hudson. Common and John Legend. Adam Levine. Rita Ora. Tegan & Sara. Tim McGraw.
This isn’t the lineup for an upcoming pop concert, but rather for Sunday’s Academy Awards.
“We want to entertain,” said Neil Meron, produc-ing his third consecutive Oscar ceremony with Craig Zadan. “And there’s no better entertainment than to do it with music.” Host Neil Patrick Harris will perform an original song by the Oscar-winning writers behind “Let It Go,” the producers said. Called “Moving Pictures,” the musical number will set a “subliminal theme” for the evening, Meron said.
“It really is celebratory about movies and yet it’s kind of cheeky in a way,” he said. “But yet it has a beautiful musical motif which... we integrate throughout the show as kind of a call-back theme.”
Added Zadan: “We didn’t want to do a musical num-ber that could have been on the Tonys, or anywhere else for that matter.” “It’s a multimedia musical number,” he said, “something that we’ve not done before.”
Music is part of the production pair’s professional DNA, though. The two produced the “The Sound of Music” and “Peter Pan” live TV specials, as well as the movie musicals “Hairspray” and “Chicago,” which won the best picture Oscar in 2003.
The producers said they started booking musical acts even before they learned the year’s nominees. But they were delighted with the nominated original songs.
“We were smiled upon in that respect,” Meron said. A spate of stars will bring those songs to life on the Oscar stage.
Common and Legend are set to perform their song, “Glory,” from “Selma.” Levine will sing “Lost Stars” from “Begin Again.” Ora will take on Diane Warren’s song from “Beyond the Lights,” ‘’Grateful.” Tegan & Sara will join with The Lonely Island for “The Lego Movie” song, “Everything is Awesome.” McGraw will perform Glen Campbell’s song “I’m Not Gonna Miss You,” from the documentary about his struggle with Alzheimer’s, “Glen Campbell... I’ll Be Me.”
The producers wouldn’t say what Hudson, Gaga and other entertainers, including Jack Black and Anna Ken-drick, will sing. Suspense about their performances will have to stand in for the lack of suspense for most of the acting categories. Patricia Arquette of “Boyhood” and J.K. Simmons of “Whiplash” have locked up supporting-actor awards all season, and Julianne Moore is shoo-in for the best-actress Oscar for “Still Alice.”
The lead actor competition has some excitement, with Michael Keaton of “Birdman” and Eddie Redmayne of “The Theory of Everything” splitting many of the early honors.
“Birdman” and “The Grand Budapest Hotel” lead all nominees with nine bids apiece, including best picture, director, cinematography and original screenplay. Also up for best picture are “American Sniper,” ‘’Boyhood,” ‘’The Imitation Game,” ‘’The Theory of Everything,” ‘’Selma” and “Whiplash.”
Among the highlights of last year’s top-rated ceremony was host Ellen DeGeneres’ surprise pizza delivery and superstar-selfie moment. Meron and Zadan wouldn’t say what antics are planned this year \ if they’re planned at all. (ap)
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Based on observation on Tuesday, ten police-men and several others in plainclothes were seen on guard around the prison.
During regular days, only two policemen are seen patrolling the prison, but on Tuesday, the number was significantly high ahead of the
transfer of Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan out of Bali.
There were no signs as to when the two Australian death row convicts would be trans-ferred to Nusakambangan Island in Central Java, although Bali`s High Prosecutor`s Office
has stated that they would be transferred this week.
Bali Police spokesman Senior Commissioner Hery Wiyanto noted that the security around the prison was increased, but he did not reveal details about when the two convicts would be transferred.
“When they will be transferred is not our authority. We are only in charge of securing the transfer process,” he added. (ant)
Security tightened around Denpasar`s Kerobokan Prison
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An indentified relative of Australian drug smuggler Myuran Sukumaran walks out of a prison after visiting Sukumaran, in Bali, Indonesia, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015.
DENPASAR - Bali Police, on Tuesday, beefed up security arrangements around Kerobokan prison in Denpasar in the run up to the relocation of the two Australian death row convicts Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan.
