Monday, February 24, 2014 16 Pages Number 49 6 th Year e-mail: [email protected]online: http://www.internationalbalipost.com. http://epaper.internationalbalipost.com. Price: Rp 3.000,- Page 6 I N T E R N A T I O N A L DPS 23 - 32 WEATHER FORECAST Page 8 Page 13 Continued on page 6 According to an economic and education observer, Viraguna Ba- goes Oka, it could become a threat of its own if foreign educational institutions worked on the local market and in the education process did not provide for the portion of the Balinese local wisdom-based content. “In terms of competence and content, probably the entry of foreign education institution into Bali does not matter. But on the other hand, local wisdom values will not be accommodated. Every- thing has orientation in business and free market, so the value of local wisdom will be disrupted,” said Viraguna. On the other hand, the free entry of foreign educational institutions into Bali would kindle a gap be- tween the national educational institution and local wisdom-based education with the profit-based foreign educational institution. “It’s hazardous. If there is no rule pro- tecting the values of local wisdom, the education in Bali can be misdi- rected. Students will be encouraged to think in terms of business orien- tation and total efficiency or total liberal so there will be no values of nationalism and local wisdom characterizing our typicality. With- out early anticipation with adequate local rules, the local wisdom will be eroded,” he said. According to Viraguna, in order to face the competition of free mar- ket, Bali should be able to prepare first the local rule. He exemplified how Malaysia was able to protect local knowledge, local economy and local products before it actually received the free market. “Malaysia is first preparing local rules in the field of education and economy. After strengthening local rules, it then accepted the free market. We in Bali should be able to make such a local rule,” he said. IBP/Yudi Karnaedi Free market competition like the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) 2015 has been in sight. Other than foreign products as well as foreign workers freely coming into Bali, the foreign educational institutions are also worried to invade Bali and seize the education market on the Island of the Gods. AEC 2015 Foreign education institutions worried to “invade” Bali Bali Post DENPASAR - Free market competition like the ASEAN Eco- nomic Community (AEC) 2015 has been in sight. Other than foreign products as well as foreign workers freely coming into Indonesia, including Bali, the foreign educational institutions are also worried to invade Bali and seize the education market on the Island of the Gods. Ukraine: president’s whereabouts unknown Mexico captures Sinaloa cartel boss ‘Chapo’ Guzman Barca’s 3-1 loss at Sociedad leaves Madrid on top
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“It’s been a historical year in film for all of us in this room, and I’m so proud to be a part of that history,” Nyong’o said. “It’s such an honor to be recognized for a film that has meant so much to so many people, a film that has inspired discourse long overdue.”
Kevin Hart won as entertainer of the year and actor in a comedy series for “Real Husbands of Hollywood,” his BET reality TV lampoon that was also selected as outstanding comedy series.
Kerry Washington picked up her
fifth Image Award: outstanding ac-tress in a drama series for her role as crisis management consultant Olivia Pope on ABC’s “Scandal,” which was also honored as outstanding drama series.
Other winners at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium ceremony hosted by actor Anthony Anderson included “Steve Har-vey” as talk show and David Oyelowo as supporting actor in a motion picture for “Lee Daniels’ The Butler.” “Thank you America for embracing me,” the British
actor said. “I’m one of those guys with the funny accent.”
Forest Whitaker won the actor in a motion picture prize for “The Butler.” Whitaker, who founded the Whitaker Peace and Development Initiative, was also honored with the NAACAP Chair-man’s Award, which recognizes distin-guished public service. Whitaker serves as the chairman of the International Institute for Peace and is a member of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities.
“All I’ve tried to do with my life and work is to deeper my connection with humanity, so I’ve lived by the words of an old Nat King Cole song my daddy used to play on his stereo, which is, ‘The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return,’” said Whitaker.
Associated Press Writer
SYDNEY — Australian TV star and former model Char-lotte Dawson, who became an anti-bullying activist after she was targeted online, has been found dead at age 47. Famed for TV shows such as “Austra-lia’s Next Top Model,” the New Zealand-born star had a history of depression. She was found dead in her Sydney apartment on Saturday morning. Police said there were no suspicious circumstances, which is how they usually describe suicide.
Sydney’s The Sunday Tele-graph newspaper reported that she was found hanged. In 2012, she was admitted to a Sydney hospital after a suicide attempt following an ongoing tirade of abuse on Twitter. She had taken prescription tablets with wine and tweeted: “you win” in a suicide note to her cyber tormentors.
She later made fighting bul-lying her personal mission,
waging an anti-bullying media campaign on television and radio and in newspapers and magazines as well as her be-loved Twitter. Her efforts and high public profile on the issue were recognized by the Na-tional Rugby League, a major Australian football association, which last year made her an anti-bullying ambassador.
The NRL’s One-Community campaign is an extension of its zero-tolerance policy toward racial abuse in football. Dawson revealed in her 2012 autobiog-raphy “Air Kiss & Tell” that she was frequently visited by the “depression bogeyman.”
She had long graced the pages of women’s gossip maga-zines and scenes in reality TV shows. Her modeling career had taken her to Italy, Britain and Germany during the 1980s. New Zealand Prime Minister John Key tweeted he was “shocked and saddened” by the news of her death.
Australian TV star Charlotte Dawson found dead
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In this April 26, 2008 photo, Charlotte Dawson arrives on the red carpet for the MTV Australia awards in Sydney. Austra-lian TV star and former model Dawson was found dead at age 47 in her Sydney apartment on Saturday morning, Feb. 22, 2014, following a history of depression.
‘12 Years a Slave’ wins big at NAACP Image Awards
Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP
Kevin Hart accepts the award for entertainer of the year at the 45th NAACP Image Awards at the Pasa-dena Civic Auditorium on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014, in Pasadena, Calif.
Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES — “12 Years a Slave” swept the film categories at the NAACP Image Awards with four wins. The historical epic’s prizes at Saturday’s 45th annual ceremony honoring diversity in the arts included outstanding motion picture, directing for Steve McQueen, writing for John Ridley and supporting actress for Lupita Nyong’o.
According to an economic and education observer, Viraguna Ba-goes Oka, it could become a threat of its own if foreign educational institutions worked on the local
market and in the education process did not provide for the portion of the Balinese local wisdom-based content. “In terms of competence and content, probably the entry of
foreign education institution into Bali does not matter. But on the other hand, local wisdom values will not be accommodated. Every-thing has orientation in business and free market, so the value of local wisdom will be disrupted,” said Viraguna.
On the other hand, the free entry of foreign educational institutions into Bali would kindle a gap be-tween the national educational institution and local wisdom-based education with the profit-based
foreign educational institution. “It’s hazardous. If there is no rule pro-tecting the values of local wisdom, the education in Bali can be misdi-rected. Students will be encouraged to think in terms of business orien-tation and total efficiency or total liberal so there will be no values of nationalism and local wisdom characterizing our typicality. With-out early anticipation with adequate local rules, the local wisdom will be eroded,” he said.
According to Viraguna, in order
to face the competition of free mar-ket, Bali should be able to prepare first the local rule. He exemplified how Malaysia was able to protect local knowledge, local economy and local products before it actually received the free market. “Malaysia is first preparing local rules in the field of education and economy. After strengthening local rules, it then accepted the free market. We in Bali should be able to make such a local rule,” he said.
IBP/Yudi Karnaedi
Free market competition like the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) 2015 has been in sight. Other than foreign products as well as foreign workers freely coming into Bali, the foreign educational institutions are also worried to invade Bali and seize the education market on the Island of the Gods.
AEC 2015
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DENPASAR - Free market competition like the ASEAN Eco-nomic Community (AEC) 2015 has been in sight. Other than foreign products as well as foreign workers freely coming into Indonesia, including Bali, the foreign educational institutions are also worried to invade Bali and seize the education market on the Island of the Gods.
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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 con-sidered 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 umbrellas 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, decorated 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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Calendar Event for January 1 through February 26, 2014
1 Jan Buda Kliwon Matal, Kajeng Kliwon And Tilem Sasih Kenam Pura Desa Sukawati SukawatiPura Pasek Gelgel Gelgel BebetinPura Maspahit SesetanPura Padharman Arya Kanuruhan Besakih
11 Jan Tumpek Kandang Pura Desa GianyarPura Luhur Dalem Sagening Kediri TabananPura Sang Hyang Tegal Tegalalang
15 Jan Purnama Sasih Kapitu Pura Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Kaja GianyarPura Puseh Manakaji Peninjauan BangliPura Taman Limut Pengosekan Mas UbudPura Benua BesakihPura Gunung Rena Sidemen KarangasemPura Pasek Gelgel Abadi KarangasemPura Pucak Gunung Mangun Kubu Karangasem
16 Jan Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan 17 Jan Hari Bhatara Sri 21 Jan Anggara Kasih Prangbakat Pura Bukit Buluh Gunaksa KlungkungPura Tirtha Sidamala Bebalang BangliPura Gunung Pangsong LombokPura Dalem Benawah GianyarPura Dalem Bitra GianyarPura Pura Hyang Haluh/Jenggala Besakih
Pura Tengkulak Tulikup GianyarPura Taman Sari UbudPura Penataran Badung
5 Feb Buda Kliwon Ugu Pura Dalem Tarukan Peninjauan Tem-buku BangliPura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah Bule-lengPura Kayangan Tiga Seririt BulelengPura Agung Gunung Raung Taro Tegalalang
6 Feb Pura Dalem Puri Besakih
14 Feb Purnama Sasih Kawulu Pura Dalem Batur BangliPura Ida Ratu Pasek BesakihPura Dalem Suci Sidemen KarangasemPura Buana Kawan Besakih
19 Feb Buda Cemeng Kelawu Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang KarangasemPura Melanting Camenggaon SukawatiPura Penataran ped Nusa PenidaPura Gaduhan Jagat Singakerta UbudPura Masceti Sanding Tampak SiringPura Penataran Batu Lepang Kamasan KelungkungPura Paibon Pasek Gelgel Kedonganan KutaPura Guwa BesakihPura Basukian BesakihPura Jati UbudPura Melanting UbudPura Dalem Peed Nusa PenidaPura Sad Kayangan Nusa PenidaPura Penataran Agung Gunung Karangasem
21 Feb Hari Bhatara Sri 25 Feb Anggara Kasih Dukut Pura Dalem Batuyang BatubulanPura Pasek Gelgel Mengening Kediri TabananPura Pasek Undagi Krambitan TabananPura Pucak Taman bedulu GianyarPura Puser Jagat Nusa PenidaPura Dalem Purwa Kawan BangliPura Desa Ketewel Gianyar
26 Feb Pura Agung Pasek gelgel Sibang Kaja Abian SemalPura Dalem Samprangan Gianyar
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Bali PostDENPASAR - Investigation on
the murder of the U.S. citizen, Paul Robb Latourell, 54, has not indicated a significant progress. Although the investigators have got the identity, they still do not manage to catch the culprit. Even, police have lost tracks of the culprit who is so far being pursued outside of Bali.
“We cannot have arrested the culprit. Our personnel are still giving chase,” said the Spokesperson of Den-pasar Police, IB Sarjana, recently.
Sarjana explained that police investigators had done an examina-tion against six witnesses. However, his party still continued to do the investigation and pursuit against the suspect. “Related to witnesses, a total of six witnesses have been examined. It is a matter of time to arrest the culprit. Our personnel have been trying hard to catch the
culprit,” he told reporters Saturday.Where was the culprit pursued
to? Sarjana did not dare to explain in detail where police chase it. He only said the chase was undertaken to a number of regions. “Clearly, the joint team of Bali Police, Denpasar Police and East Denpasar Police pursue the culprit to a number of regions. We will not tell the exact location as we worry if the culprit even run away first,” he said.
As mentioned in the previous news, the Chief of Denpasar Police Crimi-nal Investigator, Benny Murjayanto, claimed to have got the culprit’s iden-tity. His party was pursuing the culprit and expected to immediately arrest it. Meanwhile, Paul Robb Latourell was found to have been covered in blood in the room of his house at Jalan Banteng 2 E Denpasar. After further investiga-tion, it was known if the victim got 65 stabbing wounds. (kmb21)
It was mentioned by a com-munity leader of Nusa Penida, I Made Jana, recently on Nusa Penida. The equitable develop-ment in Nusa Penida subdistrict itself was still far from the ex-pectation of society. “Without wishing to offend the west and east, the fact of development on the island is imbalanced,” said the fast boat businessman. Apart from the development of public infrastructure and facilities, of the 16 villages in Nusa Penida, the ‘injustice’ was also apparent in terms of education sector. For instance, the SMAN 1 Nusa Peni-da high school and SMKN Nusa Penida vocational school were all located in the western region. Not only that, other public services such as police and military office and subdistrict head office were also in the west. “As planned, the Bali government is going to establish a primary hospital in the west region of Nusa Gede, namely at Nyuh hamlet, Ped vil-lage,” he said.
Geographically, if it had orien-tation in lowland, with the central point at Sampalan of Nusa Gede, the length of coastline eastward to Semaya was also quite exten-sive. In other words, the land availability in the east was still enough for the infrastructure development. However, in real-ity the entire infrastructure was focused on the western part of Nusa Penida. Even, this owner of Celebrity fast boat accused the people’s representatives in the eastern part of Nusa Penida of being unable to fight for the interests of local community.
“Is the eastern part of Nusa Penida considered not to exist? Instead, this equalization is sup-posed to be fought,” he said while adding that other villages in the east to the north such as the Pe-
Bali PostTABANAN - The automated
teller machine (ATM) owned by the Bank Nasional Indonesia (BNI) at Luwus village, Baturiti, was bur-glarized by thief, Friday morning (Feb 21). The burglarized ATM is precisely located in the parking lot of Teman Joger. The machine located in front of the famous souvenir shop in Bali was known to have been burglarized around seven o’clock in the morning by a janitor.
Chief of Tabanan Police Crimi-nal Investigator, Wayan Arta Ari-awan, amidst the crime scene investigation revealed that his party was trying to follow up the case by continuing to investigate and collect testimony from several witnesses at the scene.
“We’re still investigating the BNI ATM fraud trial to uncover the culprit of the theft. The loss is only the damage to the ATM machine, while the money in the safe had not been taken away,” said Chief of Tabanan Police Criminal Investiga-
tor, Wayan Arta Ariawan.He said that based on the footage
of CCTV around the scene or inside the ATM itself was seen a person showing off a suspicious gesture. The man alleged to be the culprit came into the ATM by using white helmet and raincoat at 1:02 a.m. and came out of the ATM booth around 1:07 a.m.
“However, not long after when the man arrived in front of the ATM, the man suspected to be the culprit was back again into the ATM to perform his action. Possibly, when trying to perform the action again, the culprit cancelled it because of fear of getting caught considering at the same time a truck came to park at the parking area in front of the ATM long enough through 5:00 a.m. Perhaps, the driver was unwinding in the truck,” he said.
Allegedly the culprit of burglary trial was still fairly amateur. It was evident from the tools used by the culprit to destroy the cash dispenser and his action when trying to destroy the hinges of the safe. (kmb)
Police investigate ATM burglary case trial at Luwus
Murder of U.S. citizenPolice lose traces, culprit under pursuit
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The development in Nusa Penida Island
Imbalance, Nusa Penida infrastructure development Bali Post
SEMARAPURA - Development inequality does not only occur between mainland Klungkung and the islands of Nusa Penida. However, the islands of Nusa Penida, particularly Nusa Gede, also experiences similar condition. In recent years, the Nusa Gede only develops in the western part ranging from Toya Pakeh, Ped village, Kutampi, Batu Nunggul, Suana and other villages in the west side.
jukutan, Batumadeg, Batukandik, Klumpu, Bunga Mekar, Sakti and others should also be developed.
He hoped the regent and his government regarded as the best figure of Nusa Penida should un-derstand more about Nusa Penida Islands (Nusa Gede, Ceningan and Lembongan) and the reality of the field. Thus, the government was capable of realizing the equitable development in the three islands. Moreover, if Nusa Gede was com-pared to Nusa Lembongan and Nusa Ceningan it was very much imbalanced and needed to be ad-dressed more seriously. Jana said the Gede Nusa society, especially in the eastern part, began to realize that they had the same rights and obligations as the community of Nusa Penida. “If the reality as it is today, all people can only knead the chest. Have they been choos-ing a wrong leader for years?” he questioned.
Regent of Klungkung Nyoman
Suwirta recently confirmed his commitment to bringing Nusa Penida out of the impression as suburban residents. He emphasized the role of local people were en-couraged to build their own region because the expectation could not be met by local residents. Precise-ly, many local people even chose to wander whereas local people were obliged to build their own region. Even, they were expected to create job opportunities.
Such expectations were hoped to grow from school, particularly at vocational school. It was revealed by the regent during his visit to the SMKN 1 Nusa Penida recently. He expected the vocational school to produce the students with skills to build their own region. To achieve that, it was surely required quali-fied teachers having the capabil-ity of direct their students. Then, the teaching staff was also re-quired to undertake innovations at school. (kmb31)
3Monday, February 24, 201414 InternationalInternational Bali NewsLifestyle Monday, February 24, 2014
According General Manager of Bali Travel News, Gde Palgunadi, as a medium of tourism, BTN play a role to encouraging all parties to do well for Bali. Therefore, this award is not only given to individuals, but also governments, corporations that have role and participate in building tourism and Balinese society. “This year, we gave 14 awards, not only to individuals but also to governments and corporations in the context of their role and participation to build tourism and Balinese society,” he said.
The annual event, which was at-tended by Regent of Buleleng, Agus Suradnyana and Karangasem Re-gent, Wayan Geredeg, also attended by CEO of Bali Post Media Group (KMB) Satria Naradha.
Among receivers of THK Nu-graha, Pasifika Museum awarded as art museum that collected more than 600 works of art from 25 countries. Meanwhile, Furama Villas and Spa
has been chosen for its commitment to support development of rural tourism at Badung Regency. THK Nugraha also given to Moeliono who has concern on fight against plastic waste. Public Relation of Inna Grand Bali Beach, Ida Ayu Dewi Aprianti, received THK Nugraha for her active role in establish harmonious relation-ship between hotel, media, and tradi-tional leaders, I Gusti Ngurah Pujawan as one of pioneers in building and establishing relationships and good cooperation between Denpasar and Japan, primarily in the field of educa-tion, and Putu Arsaningsih, S.E. over her activeness to teach and share the teachings of love.
BTN also gave awards to the Karan-gasem Regency that received by Wayan Geredeg for keeping Virgin Beach as a hidden treasure in eastern part of Bali and Buleleng Regency that managed to keep Pemuteran Village as one of beautiful destinations. (kmb18)
AntaraDENPASAR - The destruction
of “subak, the traditional irriga-tion system in Bali, will affect all aspects of life on this paradise island, according to Prof. I Wayan Windia of Udayana University.
“The destruction of subak due to the diversion of land for other purposes outside agricultural has been discussed for a long time, but it has never been addressed completely,” Windia said on Saturday.
He noted that if the subak in Bali was destroyed, the culture of Bali that has been passed on from generation to generation would also disappear.
“The destruction of subak will also destroy all economic sectors in Bali because they are inter-related,” he said, explaining that economic sectors, particularly tourism, on the island were based on local culture and tradition.
But he pointed out that, in reality, the tourism sector has destroyed the agricultural area and the subak on Bali.
Antara
DENPASAR - Indonesian Consulate in Houston, U.S. has provided a lawyer for an Indonesian ship crew, Bali’s Chief of Agency for Placement and Protection of Migrant Workers (BP3TKI) I Wayan Pageh stated on Friday.
Earlier it was reported that an Indonesian man, work-ing as a crew member in a Netherlands-flag cruise ship, heading to the U.S., got arrested by the FBI for allegedly assaulting a woman passenger. The arrest was done on February 16.
According to media report in the U.S., the Indonesian, originally from Bali felt insulted by the woman passen-ger’s words when he served breakfast in her room. He then planned to enter the woman’s room using a spare key to assault her.
“Indonesian Consulate General in Houston has ar-ranged a lawyer for him,” Pageh confirmed, adding that the Indonesian ship crew was a legal worker and had completed documents for working abroad.The Indone-sian ship crew has now been detained at the Broward County jail in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
IBP/Yudi Karnaedi
Bali Travel News (BTN) held Tri Hita Karana (THK) Nugraha 2014 at K. Nadha Press Building on Friday. This 3rd time award was given to stakeholders of tourism that have great contribution in keeping Bali through THK concept.
BTN awarded THK Nugraha 2014 to 14 stakeholdersIBP
DENPASAR - Bali Travel News (BTN) held Tri Hita Karana (THK) Nugraha 2014 at K. Nadha Press Building on Friday. This 3rd time award was given to stakeholders of tourism that have great contribution in keeping Bali through THK concept.
Crew ship from Bali arrested Consulate in Houston
provided lawyer
Destruction of Subak to change life
IBP/Dewa Kusuma
The destruction of “subak, the traditional irrigation system in Bali, will affect all aspects of life on this paradise island, according to Prof. I Wayan Windia of Udayana University.
The girl’s mother, Heidi Carney, got the idea after hearing about what hap-pened in San Francisco. “For me, this isn’t anything controversial,” Carney said. “It’s medication. It’s no different than standing in front of a Walgreens or a CVS.” Lexi and her parents came on Friday with between 100 and 150 boxes to sell. Her family said they sold more than 50.
“It’s better than she would’ve gotten outside a grocery store,” said Justin Menees, Lexi’s father. Susan de Queljoe, a spokeswoman for the Girl Scouts-Arizona Cactus-Pine Council, said selling in front of marijuana dispensaries isn’t something the organization would encourage, but that it’s up to the parents.
“The girls’ safety is our primary concern. So we give guidelines out to all the parents and hope that they will follow them,” de Queljoe said. Lauren Gooding, an oncology nurse who is the president of TruMed, runs the state-licensed facility with her father and brother. Gooding said Carney called her Friday morning with the idea, and she was immediately on board. In fact, she had already received several messages on Facebook about the San Francisco sale with people sug-gesting she do the same thing, Gooding said.
Gooding also sent a text message to more than 2,000 customers about the cookie sale and threw in a tie-in deal: Patients who buy at least half of an ounce of pot will have their pick of a free box of Thin Mints, Samoas or any of the other cookie choices. “People will wait to buy when there are incentives,” Gooding said.
She hopes the presence of the Girl Scouts will help eliminate the stigma tied to medical marijuana dispensaries, Gooding said. Furthermore, with a security guard always on site to ensure nobody illegally consumes their pot purchase, there is no danger of Lexi or any child being exposed to marijuana, she said. “We are not promoting medical marijuana to her,” Gooding said.
Associated Press Writer
MIAMI BEACH, Florida — For years, fans have been telling Ruth Reichl that they love her novels. Problem was, she hadn’t written any. Reichl, author of two best-selling memoirs and the former editor-in-chief of the now shuttered Gourmet magazine, finally won’t have to correct her readers in May, when her first novel, “Delicious!” is published.
“I can’t imagine a life without fiction, it’s sort of the thing that keeps me together,” she said in an interview Saturday at the South Beach Wine and Food Festival. “And I always said, if I didn’t have a day job I would write a novel, and then suddenly I didn’t have a day job.”
That abrupt switch came in 2009, when Conde Nast closed the nearly 70-year-old Gourmet, blaming the weak economy. Perhaps unsurpris-ingly, the novel’s plot also features the end of a venerable food maga-zine, but it is not autobiographical.
Instead, it follows a protagonist Reichl calls “the anti-Ruth,” a young
woman named Billie hired at the magazine just before it closed and who stumbles upon a collection of mysterious letters hidden in its li-brary. The letters, written by a plucky 12-year-old name Lulu to legendary chef James Beard during World War II, came to Reichl in a vision when she returned to Gourmet weeks after it closed to clean out her office and took a last look at the library.
“I just had this sudden inspiration of what if I had opened this (door) and it had been this fabulous, magi-cal library, and what if I had found these letters?” she said. “That’s why it’s set there but it’s really not about the magazine.”
The true tale of Gourmet will be in one of Reichl’s future memoirs, she said, but first she is finishing up a combination memoir/cookbook based on her Twitter feed. And she is starting a new novel, putting into practice what she learned while writing her first. “People would say, ‘Oh, your memoirs read like nov-els, you’ll have no trouble writing fiction,’ but I had to learn to write fiction,” she said.
AP Photo/Terry Tang
Heidi Carney speaks with her husband, Justin Menees, while their daughter, Lexi, 8, sells Girl Scout Cookies outside a marijuana dispensary in Phoenix on Friday, Feb. 21, 2014.
Girl Scout’s effort to sell cookies goes to ‘pot’Associated Press Writer
PHOENIX — Customers of some medical marijuana dispen-saries are discovering this week that they don’t have to go far if they have a case of the munchies. A few days after a teenager sold dozens of cookie boxes outside a San Francisco pot dispensary, 8-year-old Lexi Menees is returning to TruMed Dispensary in Phoenix on Saturday for the same purpose.
Ruth Reichl draws on Gourmet as novel inspiration
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Ruth Reichl, the former editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine, responds to a question during an interview, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014, in Miami Beach, Fla. After the shuttering of Gourmet magazine, Reichl needed to find her footing and has written her first novel “Delicious!” will be published in May 2014.
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The Kiev protest camp at the center of the anti-Yanukovych movement filled with more and more dedicated demonstrators Sunday morning setting up new tents after a day that saw a stunning reversal of fortune in a political standoff that has left scores dead and worried the United States, Eu-rope and Russia.
Ukraine is deeply divided be-tween eastern regions that are largely pro-Russian and western areas that widely detest Yanuk-ovych and long for closer ties with the European Union. Yanukovych’s shelving of an agreement with the EU in November set off the wave of protests, but they quickly expanded their grievances to corruption, hu-man rights abuses and calls for Yanukovych’s resignation.
“We need to catch and punish those with blood on their hands,” Artyom Zhilyansky, a 45-year-old engineer on Independence Square on Sunday, referring to those killed
in clashes with police last week. He and other protesters called for law enforcement chiefs to be held accountable and Yanukovych put on trial.
The newly emboldened parlia-ment, in a special session Sunday, tried to work out a coalition gov-ernment. But the legitimacy of the parliament’s flurry of decisions in recent days — including a vote Saturday to remove Yanukovych from the presidency — was under question. The votes are based on a decision Friday to return to a 10-year-old constitution that grants parliament greater powers. Yanuk-ovych, however, has not signed that decision into law, and said Saturday that the parliament is now acting illegally.
The political crisis in the nation of 46 million has changed with blinding speed repeatedly in the past week. First there were signs that tensions were easing, followed by horrifying violence and then a
deal signed under Western pressure that aimed to resolve the conflict but left the unity of the country in question.
Protester self-defense units who have taken control of the capital peacefully changed shifts Sunday. Helmeted and wearing makeshift shields, they have replaced police guarding the president’s adminis-tration and parliament, and have sought to stop radical forces from inflicting damage or unleashing violence. Thousands of curious and contemptuous Ukrainians roamed the suddenly open grounds of the lavish compound outside Kiev where Yanukovych was believed to live.
Parliament, which he controlled last week but is now turned against him, voted to remove him and set elections for May 25. But Yanuk-ovych said in a televised address that he now regards the parliament as illegitimate and he won’t respect its decisions.
Associated Press Writer
BANGKOK — Gunmen in a pickup truck attacked an anti-gov-ernment protest in eastern Thai-land, killing a child and wounding dozens of other people, as vio-lence in the country’s 3-month-old political crisis spread outside the capital, officials said Sunday. The attack took place Saturday night in Trat province, where about 500 protesters demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra were hold-ing a rally near food stalls where people were dining. Trat is about 300 kilometers (180 miles) east of the capital, Bangkok.
The attack was the latest in a string of protest-related violent incidents roiling Thailand over the past three months, in which at least 16 people have been killed and hundreds hurt. The protesters want Yingluck to quit to make way for an appointed interim government to implement anti-corruption reforms, but she has refused.
Thai media reported that as many as three people were killed in the violence in Trat and that
several others were in critical condition, but National Security Council chief Lt. Gen. Paradorn Pattanathuabutr said there was just one fatality — an 8-year-old girl. A nurse at Trat Hospital, Nantiya Thientawatchai, said the girl who died was 5 years old. The reason for the discrepancy was not clear.
Police Lt. Thanabhum Newanit said unidentified assailants in a pickup shot into the crowd and two explosive devices went off. It was not clear whether the protest group, which uses armed guards, fought back. He and other officials said that about three dozen people were hurt.
Both supporters and opponents of the protesters, as well as police, have been victims of the political violence, which before Saturday was mostly confined to Bangkok. On Friday night, six people were hurt when unknown attackers threw a grenade into a protest crowd in the capital. A spokes-man for the protesters, Akanat Promphan, described the attack in Trat as “a massacre of innocents” that was “planned and organized terror.”
AP Photo/Efrem LukatskyPeople raise their fists during a rally in Independence Square, the epicenter of the country’s current unrest, in Kiev, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014.
KIEV, Ukraine — The whereabouts of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych were unclear on Sun-day, after he left the capital and his archfoe Yulia Tymoshenko was freed from prison and returned to Kiev to address a massive, adoring crowd. A plane with Yanukovych onboard was denied permission to take off Saturday evening from Donetsk, a city in eastern Ukraine that is the president’s base of support the State Border Guard Service said. The president’s spokesman said Sunday morning that even he does not know where Yanukovych is.
Girl killed, dozens hurt in attack on Thai protest
AP Photo/Sakchai LalitRiot police officers hold protective shields on a pickup truck after clashes in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014. Clashes between police and anti-government demonstrators in Bangkok left three people dead and 57 others injured Tuesday as riot police attempted to clear out protest camps around the Thai capital.
Bali Post
TABANAN - The effort of Kediri customary villagers de-manding in order the Vishnu Murti statue could be re-built at the catus pata or four-way inter-section of Kediri and the Bung Karno statue could be built in ap-propriate place was continuously inflamed. On Saturday afternoon (Feb 22) precisely at six o’clock, dozens of components of Kediri customary villagers included the
temple priests throughout Kediri customary village, hamlet chief and customary village authorities took worship action en masse started at the local Puseh Temple and continued to say prayers at the four-way intersection of Kediri.
According to the action co-ordinator, Nyoman Muliadi, the worship activity was intended to pray for the leaders who so far had wrongly thought, said and behaved could be apologized by the spirit of gods abiding at the location.
“We just pray in order the spirit of Lord Vishnu Murti statue dis-mantled will not result in psychic impact on the village. In addition, we also pray and invoke so as the government plan can be canceled and the Vishnu Murti statue can be re-built at that location,” he explained.
Further, he said the Kediri com-munity highly supported the inten-tion of local government to make the Bung Karno statue. However, the placement should be made at
appropriate place or elsewhere.“People of Kediri actually do
not disagree. Even, they strongly agree if Bung Karno is made a statue. However, they do not agree to the placement at the four-way intersection because it does not correspond to his caliber as a na-tional hero,” he explained.
Moreover, he said, all this time the local community of Kediri organized pecaruan nangluk merana or exorcism ritual every sixth month in Balinese calendar
(around December) at the inter-section. “As local belief, the sixth month of Balinese calendar in Bali is considered a dry month so it is exorcised with nangluk merana ritual to prevent the drought. And this cultural tradition poses a heri-tage,” he explained.
In the worship activity, the member of Kediri community de-livered pejati oblation and spiritu-ally informed if there had been any mistakes to have been committed. (kmb28)
Based on observation at location, the stench of the integrated landfill was from the area of Lovina such as Kalibukbuk, Temukus, Dencarik and Kaliasem village. Local residents also often saw people from outside the village who intentionally disposed house-hold waste, animal carcasses like rat, rabbit and pig haphazardly to the landfill.
A resident around the location, Jafar Salih, told the stench was so harassing to people indirectly. Activities of people often turned uncomfortable because since three months of operation the landfill produced stench. Even, it tended to get puffy to people living and passing around the location. “Garbage is indeed smelly, but it should be prevented by arranging the landfill. Necessarily, it can be made a representative landfill so the garbage will not be scattered to cause odor. Sometimes we feel inconvenient when eating as the stench was smelt first,” he said in blushing face.
Another resident, Komang Artini, also recognized the stench of garbage disrupted her daily activities. On the other hand, many tourists also complained about the stench. “As the heart of Lovina, the Kalibukbuk and Kaliasem village should be addressed from the garbage smell. Do not be ignored without any treatment,” she complained.
The Transport Section Head of the Buleleng Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (DKP), Made Suciasa, said on Thursday (Feb 20) that his party had come to Kaliasem landfill. At the location, he was immediately criticized and protested by residents around the location. The agency was asked to be responsible for the smell disrupting the local residences.
Suciasa said the garbage and the stench would be promptly addressed. He would clean up and organize the garbage at the Kaliasem village. The non-domestic garbage would be removed to Bengkala landfill, while the domestic one would still be arranged and managed at Kaliasem landfill. “We will coordinate this waste management immediately. This building is actually not a landfill but should be functioned for waste management only. We’ll manage the types of waste generating stench, both the domestic one and others,” he said. (dgk)
Ask Vishnu Murti statue to be rebuilt
Kediri community worship at intersection
Due to stench
Kaliasem villagers protest integrated landfillBali Post
SINGARAJA - The stench emitted by the piles of garbage at the integrated landfills (TPST) of Kaliasem village, Banjar subdistrict, caused the residents disappointed and to protest. Most people claimed to feel uncomfortable and expected the landfill to be improved and the rules to dispose garbage at the site should be tightened.
IBP/FileThe officers are collecting garbage in the integrated landfills (TPST) of Kaliasem village, Banjar subdistrict, Buleleng
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Bali Post
AMLAPURA - Torrential rains flushing Karangasem for some two hours on Saturday (Feb 22) caused flood in each river without bridge in the eastern ring of tourist lane from Amed to Seraya, Karan-gasem. Major floods like in the Tuba River and See River caused the path to disconnect for about three hours.
The road in the river without a bridge caused traffic users not to dare cross the river with such huge flood. The road in the river without a bridge during great flood was very hazardous where vehicles could be washed away to the sea or stuck out of the road when being hit by flood and boulders rolled out by flood.
Similar incident occurred in the Perit River last year where three students were killed as washed away by floods in the river without a bridge.
A legislator from Unutan village Karangasem, Iluh Pur-naminingsih, said the east ring road whose rivers had not been established with bridge posed the road section owned by Bali government. Thus, it did not
belong to the authority of the Regent of Karangasem to build bridge in the path. Purnami expected the Gover-nor of Bali Mangku Pastika to give attention to the problem because it was the only tourist path from Amed
to Lean and Seraya. She said local people had always been shouting in order the rivers without bridge could be made a bridge project, but so far the promise of the government had never been realized. (013)
Antara
DENPASAR - The value of Bali Province’s exports of traditional houses was down 29.73 percent from US$1.4 million in the January - October 2013 to US$1.92 million in the same period this year.
Bali’s traditional house exports dropped in value but in volume they actually increased, according to data from Trade Department of Bali Province.
Based on that figure, shipment volumes of the commodity in-creased significantly from 442 units in the last ten months of 2012 to 933 units in the corresponding this year.
International consumers liked Bali’s traditional houses very much because its built with wood that reflected artistic values of Bali. Demand from a number of countries continued to come.
Agence France-Presse
DENPASAR - A New Zealand woman has been arrested on the Indonesian resort island of Bali in possession of hash and ecstasy after police raided her villa, an official said.
Leeza Tracey Ormsby, 37, was detained last week at the property in the tourist area of Kuta after police received a tipoff about a party involving drugs in the neighbourhood.
Police found a cigarette containing a small amount of hash in her bag, 27 grammes (almost one ounce) of hash, and ec-stasy pills weighing 132 grammes in a cupboard.
Agus Tri Waluyo, head of the anti-narcotics branch of the Bali police, said police were still deciding whether to charge her with sale of illegal drugs or possession for personal use.
If she is charged with sale of drugs, she could face the death penalty under Indonesia’s tough anti-narcotics laws.
A charge of drug use would not carry a maximum penalty of death but she is still likely to receive a jail term.
Her lawyer Ari Soenardi said Ormsby was “a bit stressed” following her arrest.
Foreigners regularly get caught with illegal drugs in Indo-nesia, particularly on the hard-partying holiday island of Bali, and some are on death row.
British grandmother Lindsay Sandiford was sentenced to death last year after being found with $2.4 million worth of cocaine in her luggage as she arrived in Bali.
The case of drug trafficker Schapelle Corby, who spent more than nine years behind bars for smuggling marijuana into Bali, received huge attention in her native Australia.
The 36-year-old was released on bail on February 10.
Arrested for drugs New Zealand woman could face death penalty
Floods in Tuba River Lean tourist line disconnects for 3 hours
IBP/BudanaTorrential rains flushing Karangasem for some two hours on Saturday (Feb 22) caused flood in each river without bridge in the eastern ring of tourist lane from Amed to Seraya, Karangasem.
The value of Bali Province’s ex-ports of traditional houses was down 29.73 percent from US$1.4 million in the January - October 2013 to US$1.92 million in the same period this year.
Traditional house export down
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Agence France-Presse
SYDNEY - The OECD on Friday warned declining global productivity will usher in a new and extended era of low growth unless there are major structural reforms.
Its new “Going for Growth” report identifies infrastructure shortages and slowing trade ac-tivity as key problems -- issues that will be in focus at the G20 meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors in Sydney this weekend.
“The widespread deceleration in productivity since the (global
financial) crisis could presage the beginning of a new low-growth era,” the Organisation for Eco-nomic Cooperation and Develop-ment said.
“The global economy’s mo-mentum remains sluggish, height-ening concerns that there has been a structural downshift in growth rates compared with pre-crisis levels.
“These concerns, already preva-lent among advanced OECD coun-tries for some time, now encompass emerging-market economies and are fuelled also by high unemploy-ment and falling labour force par-
ticipation in many countries.”OECD chief Angel Gurria said
the report came at a time of transi-tion for the global economy, when “we see the recovery strengthening in advanced economies, albeit at different speeds, while growth in emerging economies is slowing”.
“Normally it’s the other way around,” Gurria told reporters in Sydney, noting that key drivers of productivity growth such as credit, investment and trade, had been “very very sluggish, in some cases unusually weak since the crisis”.
Growth was muted, unemploy-ment and economic inequality was
rising and the OECD chief said there had been a “big drop in the confidence, in the trust in all the in-stitutions we’ve built up over 50 to 100 years”. With traditional stimu-latory instruments such as fiscal and monetary policy nearing or at their limit, Gurria said “ambitious” structural reform agendas needed to be pursued “with determination by all G20 countries.”
“Stronger demand is indeed fundamental but by no means sufficient to avoid the low-growth trap,” he said.
Gurria said the OECD report could be seen as a glass half-full
or half-empty assessment.On the positive side, he said the
speed of reform remained “on av-erage well above the pace observed before the crisis.”
Detracting from this, however, momentum had slowed “visibly” in the past two years and reforms were “fragmented, piecemeal, in-cremental and unlikely to fully ad-dress the underlying challenges.”
The report calls for investment in skills to boost labour force par-ticipation, and a fresh approach to encourage private investment in infrastructure to help boost growth.
OECD warns of new era of low growth
G20 works to nail down growth targetsAustralian Treasurer Joe Hockey reported much
good will among officials from the world’s top econo-mies to reach consensus on a raft of issues ahead of the G20 leaders’ summit in Brisbane in November.
Hockey has been pushing ministers to agree to faster global growth targets with private sector investment as a central plank, and a draft of the com-munique, cited by Bloomberg, said they would agree on “concrete measures” to achieve this.
The draft stated collective gross domestic product could be raised by “at least two percent” above cur-rent projections over the next five years, although this could not be confirmed.
Hockey said he did not want to comment on spe-cifics before the talks end later Sunday.
“There is a lot of good will but I don’t want to preempt the discussions,” he said. Not every-one is on the same page however with Germany voicing opposition to setting an overall growth target, while Indian central bank governor Raghuram Rajan also expressed reservations.
“I think it’s important for all of us to be more ambitious about growth and do what is necessary,” Rajan told the Australian Financial Review, but questioned to “what extent collective exaltation will move us more”.
The newspaper said he emphasised
that the drive for growth-boosting policies was a “domestic political battle and we all have to fight our own battles and push forward”.Hockey stressed the need for structural reforms to drive growth.
Ahead of the meeting the IMF said more coordi-nated work was needed to keep output expanding and boost demand, as the world economy still struggles to leave behind the financial crisis that began in 2008.
Officials in Sydney have been focusing on how to free up labour markets, encourage infrastructure investment as well the structural reforms needed to spur domestic demand.
Hockey said there was general agreement within the G20 that large pools of private-sector money around the world needed to be tapped to fund much-needed infrastructure projects.
The officials are also considering the next steps needed to reform the IMF while drawing up a road-map on financial regulatory reforms.
Agence France-Presse
SYDNEY - G20 finance ministers and central bank governors worked Sunday to nail down agreements on boosting growth and creating jobs after “excellent” talks on the winding back of US monetary stimulus.
Australia’s Treasurer Joe Hockey delivers a closing statement to the media during a press conference at the G-20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting in Sydney, Australia, Sunday,
Feb. 23, 2014.
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JAKARTA — Indonesia is now the world’s largest sanctuary for manta rays, after officials were persuaded by evidence that the gentle giants known for delighting tourists are worth more alive than dead.
The government on Friday an-nounced that manta rays within the archipelago’s 5.8 million square kilo-meters (2.2 million square miles) of ocean will be protected from fishing and export. It will take time and coop-eration at multiple levels to enforce the ban on poaching in the biggest global shark and ray fishery.
Conservationists point to simple economics as an incentive. Accord-ing to a study published last year in the online journal PLoS One, a manta ray is worth up to $1 million over the course of its long lifetime, thanks to tourists willing to pay generously for a chance to swim with the curious creatures that glide gracefully through the water by flapping their wide wings, almost as if flying.
They are worth only $40 to $500 dead. Government officials were “so surprised that the tourism value is very high. That’s a very powerful argu-ment,” said Tiene Gunawan, marine program director at Conservation International Indonesia. “Indonesia is such a big, big, big country. When looking at the size of the water, it’s huge. And I think we should start small
and make some kind of pilot for this enforcement.” The regulation was passed Jan. 27. Conservation groups are working to teach fishermen about the value of keeping the mantas alive, while business people, the military, water police and local officials are being engaged to assist.
“There are more than 200 special policemen who have been prepared to guard conservation areas and to enforce the law on protection of this species,” Sudirman Saad, director general for marine, coastal and small islands, said at a news conference an-nouncing the protections Friday. He said the government will encourage fishermen affected by the ban to take advantage of manta ray tourism.
In some areas, including a well-known spot near the resort island of Bali, locals are already seeing profits from taking snorkelers out on their fishing boats, or working at larger dive resorts where mantas are a top attraction. In Indonesia alone, manta tourism brings in an estimated $15 million each year, according to the PLoS One report.
“Indonesia now has the second-largest manta ray tourism industry in the world,” Agus Dermawan, director of the country’s Marine Conservation Directorate, said in a statement. “Giv-en the huge area of reefs and islands in our country, if managed properly, Indonesia could become the top manta tourism destination on the planet.”
Two types of rays exist in Indonesia, the manta and the mobula. Both are killed for their plankton-filtering gills, which are used for medicinal concoc-tions, mainly in China. Mantas are also frequently caught accidentally by fishermen, but they are not part of a major targeted industry in Indonesia as in other countries, such as Sri Lanka, Gunawan said.
Increased demand has led to a sharp drop in manta numbers in recent years, raising international concern. Multibillionaire Virgin Group boss Richard Branson has sounded alarms though the “Manta Ray of Hope” conservation project. And last year the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora imposed new trade regula-tions for the species.
Mantas are smart and capable of migrating more than 1,000 kilometers (621 miles), and each has a unique pattern of spots on its belly. Unlike stingrays, they have no barbs and are harmless to humans.
Even though they are beloved by divers and snorkelers, due to their size, friendliness and graceful beauty in the water, much remains unknown about their population numbers worldwide.
Early last year, Indonesia’s Institute of Science estimated that the country has 17,000 mantra rays, though it said that approximation did not account for regional migrations and may be overly optimistic.
The flooding came after many evacuees had just returned home to clean their houses of rubbish and mud left by earlier flooding.
Rain triggered floods and landslides have hit various areas in the country from last month until early this month, leaving scores of people dead.
The National Disaster Control Agency (BNPB) said the new flooding came after most people believed the worst had been over.
BNPB spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said heavy rains until night on Saturday had caused new flooding
in various areas in the country. In Banten, thousands of houses
are inundated by flood water after heavy rains, forcing people to flee their houses, Sutopo said here on Sunday.
The hardest hit in Banten are Kara-waci, and Nambo Jaya/Perum Pondok Arum, where the flood water is as deep as 150-175 cm, he said.
In the sub-district of Cileduk in-cluding Cileduk Indah 1 and 2 the water was as deep as 70-100 cm, and in the sub-district of Cibodas, Panung-gan Barat, it was 100-150 cm deep.
The city of Tangerang Selatan was
also hit by flooding. Sutopo said the disaster agency is
busy evacuating people to safe areas, preparing food, medicines, clean wa-ter, mattresses and blankets.
The military and police help in the evacuation process.
Sutopo said Jakarta and Bekasi do not fare better, adding a dyke in Bekasi collapsed sending flood water rolling to Pondok Gede Permai housing complex and nearby areas.
Flooding was also reported in the upstream area of Bengawan Solo, the biggest and longest river in Java.
AntaraJAKARTA - When Mount Kelud erupted on February 13, it spewed
millions of cubic meters of volcanic materials mainly gravels and ash later blown by the wind up to Borobudur temple, the world’s largest Buddhist temple located in Central Java, which is around 280 km from the volcano.
The ancient temple was fully covered by the volcanic ash, forcing the local authorities to close the temple from the public to enable the preservation measures and cleanup to be carried out, a day after the explosive eruption of Mount Kelud located in Kediri-Blitar districts, East Java province.
“I was on my way to Borobudur, the ash was quite thick, visibility range dips around seven meters,” the President of PT Borobudur, Prambanan, and Ratu Boko temple tourism park, Laily Prihatiningtyas, said on Feb. 14 when announcing the temporary closure.
Borobudur’s 72 stupas with Buddha statues inside and the monu-mental open-stupa with big Buddha statue at the temple’s top were wrapped in German-made parachute slipcovers to protect them from heavy volcanic ash. The temple’s floors were also fully covered by plastic sheets.
The preservation measures were necessary although Mount Kelud’s volcanic ash has safe pH (acidity) range, Marsis Sutopo, the head of the Borobudur Conservation office, told the press recently.
The conservation office analyzed the pH level of ash covering Borobudur and it measured between pH 5 and pH 6 which was con-sidered safe, he said.
“pH 7 is neutral, and the pH range of Kelud’s ash is categorized as safe because the acidity is quite low. It is unlikely that the ash would damage the temple’s andesite stone,” he said at a press conference held at the Borobudur Temple tourism park in Magelang, on Feb. 14 .
Kelud’s ash pH level was in fact higher than pH 4 of Mount Merapi’s ash which erupted in 2010 and spitted ash up to Borobudur temple. Ash with pH 3 (having high acidity) could cause corrosion of the temple’s stone, he said.
Besides, the thickness of Kelud’s ash in Borobudur was only 3-5 mm, while Merapi’s ash was up to 3 cm tick, he added.
The conservation office also analyzed XRF (X-ray flourescence) of the Kelud ash and found out that the ash covering the whole structure of Borobudur contained silica (70.6 percent) , aluminum (9 percent), iron (5.7 percent), calcium (0.7 percent), and sulphur (0.1 percent).
“Silica could cause respiratory problem to people, while sulphur could damage stone, but the sulphur level is very low, probably because Mount Kelud is very far from Borobudur Temple,” he ex-plained.
Although the volcanic ash was quite safe, the Borobudur conserva-tion office decided to carry out clean up and recovery efforts for 7 to 10 days to protect Borobudur and Mendut as well as Pawon temples at the supervision of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Science, and Cultural Organization), Sutopo said.
About 3,000 to 4,000 visitors failed to climb Borobudur Temple when ash rain fell in the area on Feb. 13. “Of course there is a potential financial loss,” the unit chief of the Borobudur Tourism Park, Bambang Irianto, stated several days ago.
Before the eruption, some 10 thousand to 16 thousand people usu-ally visit Borobudur temple on Saturday and Sunday.
In addition the conservation office’s staff members and military personnel, around 200-300 volunteers consisting of Buddhist devotees, hotel employees, tourist guides, local small traders, students and tour-ists, have helped clean the temple from the volcanic ash every day.
Around 700 Buddhists, including several monks coming from several cities in Central Java, also cleaned the temple on Friday.
“We have been working here to clean the Borobudur temple from Kelud’s ash since the past five days. We are from, among other things, Boyolali, Temanggung, Banjarnegara, Wonogiri, Wonosobo, and Am-barawa, Semarang district,” Buddhist monk Uttamacitto from Sangha Agung Indonesia, Ampel temple located in Boyolali district, stated.
The final cleaning up of the temple’s drainage will be done by the personnel of the conservation office.
Tourists, local people join hands in Borobudur cleanupFlooding send thousands
people back to refugee campsAntara
JAKARTA - New waves of flooding has forced thousands of Indonesians to leave homes to suffer in refugee camps again.
Indonesia hopes to cash in on manta ray tourism
Guzman was arrested by the Mexican marines at 6:40 a.m. in a high-rise condominium front-ing the Pacific in Mazatlan. He was caught with an unidentified woman, said one U.S. official, who added that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Marshals Service were “heav-ily involved” in the capture.
A federal law enforcement official said intelligence from a Homeland Security Department investigation also helped lead U.S. and Mexican authorities to his whereabouts. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to journalists. No shots were fired. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder called the capture a “victory for the citizens of both Mexico and the United States.”
Mexican authorities, based on a series of arrests in recent months, got wind that Guzman was moving around Culiacan, capital of his home state for which the cartel is named. Mexican Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam described an operation that took place between Feb. 13 and 17 focused on seven homes connected by tunnels and to the city’s sewer system.
He said they had Guzman in their sights several times dur-ing that period but were unable to mount an operation earlier because of possible risks to the general public. The house doors were reinforced with steel, which delayed entry by law enforcement, presumably allowing Guzman to flee several attempts at his capture before Saturday.
Murillo Karam didn’t say how authorities traced him to Mazatlan. A U.S. law enforcement official said members of Guzman’s se-curity team helped Mexican and U.S. authorities find him after they were arrested earlier this month. The official was not authorized to discuss details of the case by
Associated Press Writer
BERLIN — Germany’s foreign minister says he hopes Washington has understood that surveillance of political partners “can have a political price” and is confident it will end monitoring of allied countries’ leaderships. Frank-Walter Steinmeier was quoted as saying in an interview with the weekly Der Spiegel published Sunday that the task of overcoming differ-ences over U.S. surveillance activities “should not be underestimated.”
But he added his voice to growing skepticism over a hoped-for “no-spy” accord with the U.S., saying: “I doubt that a ‘no-spy’ agreement will get us much further.”
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government sought such an accord following revelations about surveillance by the National Security Agency, including allegations Merkel’s cellphone was monitored. This month, President Barack Obama said there’s no country with which Washington has a no-spy agreement.
Associated Press Writer
BEIJING — Six children have drowned while skating on a river in a rural area of northern China, a local government said Sunday.
The children aged 5 to 11 were skating together Saturday afternoon near a village in Pingyao county in Shanxi province, the county govern-ment said on its official microblog.
After residents alerted police that children had fallen in, rescuers were sent to the scene. About an hour later, they pulled out four bodies. It took divers another 1 ½ hour to find the bodies of the remaining two children.
The county government statement said an investigation was ongoing. Calls to the authority and police rang unanswered Sunday.
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Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is escorted to a helicopter in handcuffs by Mexican navy marines at a navy hanger in Mexico City, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014.
Mexico captures Sinaloa cartel boss ‘Chapo’ GuzmanAssociated Press Writer
MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities captured the world’s most powerful drug lord in a resort city Saturday after a massive search through the home state of the legendary capo whose global organization is the leading supplier of cocaine to the United States. Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, 56, looked pudgy, bowed and much like his wanted photos when he arrived in Mexico City from Mazatlan in Sinaloa state. He was marched by masked marines across the airport tarmac to a helicopter waiting to whisk him to jail.
name and spoke on condition of anonymity.
During the four-day operation, authorities arrested 13 people, 97
rifles, 36 handguns, two grenade launchers, a rocket launcher, 43 ve-hicles, of which 19 were armored, 16 homes and four ranches.
German foreign minister hopeful on US surveillance
6 children drown while skating on river in China
The entry of foreign educational institutions without accommodating the local wisdom of Bali in the educational process could become a threat to the existence of Balinese local wisdom. “Some foreign educational institutions in Bali understand where they provide space for local wisdom. Otherwise, who will oversee it? Thus, they should be protected by rules and if foreign educational institutions operate in Bali they must incorporate local knowl-edge,” he said.
Viraguna asserted that globalization and free market competition in the AEC 2015 in sight without being supported with local rules to fortify Bali would lead the competition to local liberalism. “With the position as the lead-ing tourism region in the world, Bali will become a battlefield of global mar-kets, while we are just going to be the object. Without being organized with local rules, all the opportunities and economic investment can be dominated by foreign parties because they were more efficient, more sophisticated and stronger in terms of information technology. Later, we would only become a nation of users unless it was undertaken strategically and effectively. So, there should be an initiative to provide a foundation for younger generation in the matter of human resource development,” he said.
To face the free market competition, our human resources should be prepared and strengthened early on. Emphasis should be given to the char-acter building, work ethic and responsibility that had to be cultivated from an early age.
Viraguna also highlighted the current educational process that all this time putting emphasis on final results on paper without paying attention to the process on the formation of character and personality of students. “Our education is more oriented in ranking and scores without giving emphasis on the process and understanding as well as the formation of students’ character. It is very hazardous. Thus, when the students graduate they are not ready to understand the real world in the field and they do not have emotional and spiritual intelligence.
So, the alteration of paradigm should be continuously pursued as well as made as an effort to improve the human resources of Bali in facing the free market competition of the AEC 2015,” he concluded. (kmb29)
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AMLAPURA - Tulamben is a coastal vil-lage located in Kubu Subdistrict, Karangasem Regency. This village has become one of the famous diving sites in Bali, especially around the location of the USAT Liberty shipwreck, an army freighter belonging to the United States that was drowned after being shot with torpedo by a Japanese submarine in 1942. The
USAT Liberty was discovered in the 1970s by residents of Tulamben Village, Kubu Sub-district, Karangasem Regency. Later on, the location was used as a tourist destination for many divers who started coming to see the USAT Liberty shipwreck. On that account, Tulamben then developed into a commercial destination, including diving tours for those who wanted to have a closer look at the wreck of the USAT Liberty.
USAT Liberty
Native home to colorful fishes
In other games around the league, Kevin Love had 37 points, 12 re-bounds and 10 assists for his first career triple-double to help Min-nesota cruise past Utah 121-104, Golden State held off Brooklyn 93-86 for its third straight victory since the All-Star break, and Atlanta ended an eight-game losing streak by beating New York 107-98.
Charlotte is 4-0 since the All-Star break, marking its longest winning streak since March 2011. The Bobcats used an 18-3 run in the fourth quarter to break open a tight game and then held on down the stretch with Walker making four free throws in the final 25 seconds to end Memphis’ four-game win streak.
The Bobcats won despite the
Grizzlies holding Al Jefferson to just six points on 2-of-13 shooting. Jefferson came in having scored 29 points or more in eight of his last 11 games and at least 20 points in 17 of the last 19. Minnesota was play-ing without starters Nikola Pekovic (ankle) and Kevin Martin (finger), but Love filled the void, keeping one step ahead of the Jazz through the game.
Love was 6 of 10 from beyond the arc and committed just one turnover. He is averaging more than 33 points and 15 rebounds over his last nine games. Ricky Rubio had 15 points, and Corey Brewer and Chase Budinger scored 13 apiece as the Wolves won their third straight game.
Golden State’s Jermaine O’Neal
had season highs of 23 points and 13 rebounds and Stephen Curry added 17 points, including a 3-pointer in the final minute, to seal the win for the Warriors.
With Andrew Bogut sidelined with a shoulder injury and David Lee out with the flu, O’Neal and Draymond Green more than filled the void in the absence of Golden State’s frontcourt regulars. O’Neal shot 10 for 13 from the floor, and Green scored a career-best 18 points to go with 10 rebounds. Deron Williams had 20 points and six assists, and Joe Johnson scored 15 points for a Nets team that made just 2 of 21 attempts from beyond the arc.
Atlanta’s Mike Scott scored a career-high 30 points and Jeff Teague added 28 as the Hawks won for the first time since Feb. 1. Carmelo Anthony finished with 35 points for the Knicks, who blew a double-digit, third-quarter lead for the second straight night.
Associated Press Writer
KRASNAYA POLYANA, Rus-sia — From Mikaela Shiffrin to Bode Miller, from Mario Matt to Henrik Kristoffersen, Alpine skiing at the Sochi Olympics was one for the ages. The 18-year-old Shiffrin already was pegged as the sport’s face of the future, and she established herself as a star of the present by becoming the young-est slalom champion in Olympic history.
“It’s going to be something that I chalk up as one of my favorite ex-periences for the rest of my life,” the precocious Shiffrin said. “But my life’s not over yet.” Yes, she seems to be just getting started. Her U.S.
teammate Miller, meanwhile, took home a bronze in the super-G, his sixth Olympic medal. At 36, he is the oldest Alpine medalist ever.
Matt, who turns 35 in April, won the schedule-closing men’s slalom on Saturday night for Austria to become the sport’s oldest gold med-alist. Krisoffersen, 19, was third in that race, making the Norwegian the youngest man to win an Olympic Alpine medal.
“Guys like Bode and guys like Mario definitely are validation that you can continue on into the later years,” said Ted Ligety, the American who won the giant sla-lom. “I plan on continuing on,” said Ligety, who would be 33 at the 2018 Olympics.
Shiffrin, Miller make Sochi skiing 1 for the ages
AP Photo/Gero BreloerMen’s slalom bronze medal winner, Norway’s Henrik Kristoffersen, is held aloft by his teammates at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia.
Walker scores 31, Bobcats hold off Grizzlies 92-89Associated Press Writer
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — Kemba Walker scored 31 points as the Charlotte Bobcats won for the fourth time in five nights, defeat-ing the Memphis Grizzlies 92-89 in the NBA on Saturday.
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The Charlotte Bobcats’ Kemba Walker (15) shoots as Memphis
Grizzlies’ Zach Randolph (50) and Marc Gasol, right, defend during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Charlotte, N.C., Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014.
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Barcelona’s defeat confirmed the change in course in the league title race over the past two months, leaving Madrid in command and waiting to see if Atletico can keep up when it visits Osasuna on Sunday. Af-ter starting the season with 13 wins and a draw, Barcelona has dropped points in four of its last seven games.
Barcelona coach Gerard Mar-tino shuffled his lineup from Tuesday’s Champions League victory at City and tried to re-inforce his defense by playing with two holding midfielders in Sergio Busquets and Alex Song. The move backfired when Song scored an own goal in the 32nd minute in the first of several defensive lapses that doomed the defending champions.
L i o n e l M e s s i equalized in the 36th, o n l y f o r G r i e z m a n n to restore the hosts’ advantage after an error by defender Marc Bar-tra in the 54th before setting up David Zurutuza in the 59th. The
Reuters
ROME - AS Roma’s Radja Nainggolan scored his first goal for the club as they edged lowly Bologna 1-0 away in a closely-fought Serie A match on Satur-day to move within six points of leaders Juventus. Belgium midfielder Nainggolan tapped in Miralem Pjanic’s pin-point cross eight minutes before the break to secure the victory that puts Roma on 57 points from 24 games.
Juve play their 25th league game of the campaign at home to Torino in the Turin derby on Sun-day (1730 GMT). “We’ve put a bit of pressure on them, but Juve are a great team,” said defender Mehdi Benatia. “We need to do our jobs and win each match. If we do in the second half of the season what we did in the first we’ll be close.”
Rudi Garcia’s Roma are seven points ahead of third-placed Na-poli after a solid display against a committed but uninspired Bo-logna, who could have equalised in added time if Lazaros Christ-odoulopoulos had not flashed a close-range header wide. Rafael Benitez’s Napoli take on Genoa on Monday (2000 GMT) after fourth-placed Fiorentina, who have 44 points and are also bat-tling for a Champions League qualifying spot, travel to in-form Parma who are sixth (1800 GMT) with 36 points.
Roma have only let in 11 goals in the league so far this season, with 16 clean sheets in their 24 matches, and looked solid despite having to play with Taddei and Alessio Romagnoli in the ab-sence of three injured fullbacks. “We had a lot of players missing but we’re a good group. Every time the manager calls on some-one they respond well,” added Benatia.
Associated Press Writer
LONDON — Wayne Rooney scored for the first time in two months with a strike of the quality that justifies his lucrative new Manchester United contract as the floundering English Premier League champions won 2-0 at Crystal Palace on Saturday. The striker volleyed in United’s second, shortly after Robin Van Persie’s second-half penalty, a day after ending the uncertainty over his United future by signing a new deal that could earn him more than $140 million until 2019.
Such a contract would seem to be beyond the reach of Palace, whose fans appeared to throw coins at Rooney, who flicked them back in their direction. “It’s been more or less agreed for a month now and it was just the fine details that needed sorting,” said Rooney, who pushed unsuccessfully to leave United last year. “I wanted to get it done as quickly as possible and thankfully it’s behind me and I can concentrate on my football.”
United needs Rooney, with just 12 goals this season having missed much of January through injury, to be more prolific for it to have any chance of qualifying for the Champions League next season. Although United ended a three-game winless run and climbed to sixth, David Moyes’ side was eight points from Liverpool in the fourth Champions League place having played an extra game.
And this was a victory against a Palace side that might have sprung from the bottom in recent months with a recovery but was still only two points above the relegation zone.
“We moved the ball well, maybe could have created more chances but overall we were in control of the game and once we got one goal we knew we’d get another and see the game out,” Rooney said.
Looking at the team sheet, this is not a United side that should have taken until midway through the second half to score, or be in such a lowly position. The forward line in south London saw Rooney working in tandem with Van Persie and January signing Juan Mata.
Reuters PSV Eindhoven’s Brian Ruiz
scored his second goal in as many games as they beat NEC Nijmegen 2-0 to keep alive their hopes of qualifying for the Champions League next season. Costa Rica forward Ruiz, who
joined PSV from Fulham last month after an unsuccessful spell in London, opened the scoring before the hour-mark, with Memphis Depay adding a late second.
PSV are in fifth place with 41 points from 25 games. On Sun-day, leaders Ajax Amsterdam,
who have 51 points, host AZ Alkmaar while second-placed Twente Enschede (47) welcome Feyenoord, who are in third spot (44), and fourth-placed Vitesse Arnhem (43) play at home to lowly RKC Walwiijk.
In other matches on Saturday, struggling SC Cambuur recorded
a second straight win with a 1-0 triumph over bottom side Roda JC Kerkrade, who have now lost their last five league matches. Paco van Moorsel scored in the third minute of added time after Roda were reduced to nine men following late red cards for Kees Luijckx and Guy Ramos.
PEC Zwolle and Heracles drew 1-1 as they battle for Eu-ropa League qualifying playoff spots, while the Heerenveen-NAC Breda game was sus-pended for 15 minutes due to a floodlight failure at the Abe Lenstra Stadion before it fin-ished in a 0-0 draw.
Reuters
LONDON - Chelsea will find it strange to be up against their Cham-pions League-winning hero Didier Drogba in Wednesday’s clash with Galatasaray, said manager Jose Mourinho. While the London club’s players and backroom staff will maintain their friendship with the Ivorian before and after the match, they will be fierce rivals during the 90 minutes of the last-16 first leg tie in Istanbul.
“It’s a strange feeling but we know him well and if you know him well you know that for him there
are no friends during the game,” Mourinho told reporters after a late John Terry goal secured a 1-0 win for the Premier League leaders over Everton on Saturday. “For us just before the game we will be big friends and have big respect for a real legend of the club. During the game we will have a job to do.
“He has his nature and that na-ture is to want to win.” Drogba is Chelsea’s record European scorer with 34 goals in 69 games. He bagged nine goals in nine domes-tic and European finals and his sizeable contribution to the club’s recent history is apparent from the
number of posters of him still dot-ted around Stamford Bridge.
Drogba moved to Chelsea in 2004, Mourinho’s first season, and stayed after the Portuguese left in 2007, his goals against Bayer Leverkusen, Valencia, Napoli and in the semi-final against Barcelona helping them into the 2012 Cham-pions League final.
In the final against Bayern Mu-nich at the German team’s own Allianz Arena, Drogba headed a late equaliser in a 1-1 draw and then struck the winning penalty in the shootout. He left the club a few days later, saying he had achieved
everything he wanted with Chel-sea, before spending a few months playing in China and then moving on to Turkey.
PAST MEETINGS
Mourinho, who rejoined Chelsea in the close season, said he had al-ready experienced the strange feel-ing of playing against Drogba. The Portuguese was at Inter Milan four years ago when he took on Drogba and Chelsea, and also held the reins at Real Madrid last year when the Spanish giants met Galatasaray.
Both times Mourinho was on the
winning side. “Last season my team was a team ready to win the Cham-pions League and we had trouble against them,” said the Chelsea manager. “We won in Madrid but we lost in Istanbul and we were in trouble.
“They have a good team, a very experienced team, people who have had a long run at a high level...they have Champions League winners,” Mourinho said. He cited Dutchman Wesley Sneijder, Drogba’s Ivory Coast team mate Emmanuel Eb-oue and Brazilian Felipe Melo as “people who have played with the best clubs in the world”.
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AS Roma’s Radja Nainggolan scores a goal during the Italian Serie A soccer match between Bologna and Roma at Renato Dall’ Ara stadium in Bologna, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014.
Nainggolan’s first Roma goal sinks Bologna
Ruiz strikes again for PSV in win over Nijmegen
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Bologna have been harder to beat since Davide Ballardini took over as coach in early January but they remain 16th on 21 points, two points above the relegation zone, having won only twice since the end of October. Roma had already hit the post through in-form striker Mattia Destro but created little else when 25-year-old Nainggolan broke the deadlock.
Gervinho sucked in Bologna’s defence with a characteristic burst from midfield before laying off to Pjanic, who spotted the Belgian racing unmarked into the area and clipped a perfect inswinging cross for an easy finish.
The home side were more ag-gressive in the second half, but
Roma were dangerous on the break and it was only poor final passes that stopped the away side from adding to their lead. Taddei thumped their clearest chance straight at Bologna keeper Gian-luca Curci with 15 minutes left, and it almost proved costly.
After a dreadful pass from substitute Michel Bastos ended a counter-attack in which Roma had two men racing towards goa l comple te ly unmarked , Christodoulopoulos flew at Da-vide Moscardelli’s cross only to glance what looked to be a certain equaliser wide to the relief of the several thousand away fans.
“It’s a huge win. In the second half we had lots of counter-attacks and chances to score the second goal. We suffered a lot, in particular at the end of the game,” said Garcia.
AP Photo/Sang Tan
Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney flips back a coin throw at him by Crystal Palace’s supporters in a corner kick dur-ing their English Premier League soccer match at Selhurst Park, London, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014.
Rooney scores as Man United beats Palace 2-0
No friendship with Drogba for 90 minutes, says Mourinho
Barca’s 3-1 loss at Sociedad leaves Madrid on top
Associated Press Writer
BARCELONA, Spain — Four days after affirming its European credentials by top-pling Manchester City, Barcelona slumped to a stinging 3-1 loss at Real Sociedad to relinquish the provisional Spanish league lead to Real Madrid on Saturday. Gareth Bale scored a blistering long-range strike to help Madrid brush aside Elche 3-0 at home, and Barcelona was unable to match that with a win. Instead, it was overrun by Sociedad’s dynamic attack led by forwards Antoine Griezmann and Carlos Vela.
loss left Barcelona three points behind Madrid, the first time it has trailed its fierce rival this season. Atletico is also three points behind Madrid before it plays on Sunday.
The last time Barcelona lost by more than one goal was a 3-0 defeat to Bayern Munich in May 2013. Martino took the blame for the humbling defeat. “Real (Sociedad) deserved to win,” he said. “I didn’t make the correct reading of the game. The decision
not to change was also a mistake.”
Madrid won its third straight game
without Cristiano Ronaldo, who was finishing a three-game
suspension.Madrid midfielder Asier Il-
larramendi opened the scoring at the Santiago Bernabeu in the 34th. Bale then squashed Elche’s timid second-half surge with a
blast from about 25 meters in the 72nd b e f o r e s u b s t i -tute Isco A l a r c o n sealed the victory in the 81st.
B a l e was hav-i n g a d iscree t o u t i n g
until
his superb strike that hit the underside of the bar and bounced in, securing the three points that made Madrid the overnight pacesetters. “I said ‘My goodness, what a goal’ when I saw the ball pass by,” Madrid fullback Dani Carvajal said.
Madrid will visit Schalke 04 on Wednesday in the Champions League final 16 enjoying an un-beaten streak of 26 games in all competitions. Madrid then plays at crosstown rival Atletico next weekend in a highly anticipated
league meeting.Also, Celta Vigo fought back
for a 1-1 draw at home against 10-man Getafe to leave the visi-tors winless in the last 10 rounds, while Malaga drew 0-0 at Alme-ria.
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Barcelona’s defeat confirmed the change in course in the league title race over the past two months, leaving Madrid in command and waiting to see if Atletico can keep up when it visits Osasuna on Sunday. Af-ter starting the season with 13 wins and a draw, Barcelona has dropped points in four of its last seven games.
Barcelona coach Gerard Mar-tino shuffled his lineup from Tuesday’s Champions League victory at City and tried to re-inforce his defense by playing with two holding midfielders in Sergio Busquets and Alex Song. The move backfired when Song scored an own goal in the 32nd minute in the first of several defensive lapses that doomed the defending champions.
L i o n e l M e s s i equalized in the 36th, o n l y f o r G r i e z m a n n to restore the hosts’ advantage after an error by defender Marc Bar-tra in the 54th before setting up David Zurutuza in the 59th. The
Reuters
ROME - AS Roma’s Radja Nainggolan scored his first goal for the club as they edged lowly Bologna 1-0 away in a closely-fought Serie A match on Satur-day to move within six points of leaders Juventus. Belgium midfielder Nainggolan tapped in Miralem Pjanic’s pin-point cross eight minutes before the break to secure the victory that puts Roma on 57 points from 24 games.
Juve play their 25th league game of the campaign at home to Torino in the Turin derby on Sun-day (1730 GMT). “We’ve put a bit of pressure on them, but Juve are a great team,” said defender Mehdi Benatia. “We need to do our jobs and win each match. If we do in the second half of the season what we did in the first we’ll be close.”
Rudi Garcia’s Roma are seven points ahead of third-placed Na-poli after a solid display against a committed but uninspired Bo-logna, who could have equalised in added time if Lazaros Christ-odoulopoulos had not flashed a close-range header wide. Rafael Benitez’s Napoli take on Genoa on Monday (2000 GMT) after fourth-placed Fiorentina, who have 44 points and are also bat-tling for a Champions League qualifying spot, travel to in-form Parma who are sixth (1800 GMT) with 36 points.
Roma have only let in 11 goals in the league so far this season, with 16 clean sheets in their 24 matches, and looked solid despite having to play with Taddei and Alessio Romagnoli in the ab-sence of three injured fullbacks. “We had a lot of players missing but we’re a good group. Every time the manager calls on some-one they respond well,” added Benatia.
Associated Press Writer
LONDON — Wayne Rooney scored for the first time in two months with a strike of the quality that justifies his lucrative new Manchester United contract as the floundering English Premier League champions won 2-0 at Crystal Palace on Saturday. The striker volleyed in United’s second, shortly after Robin Van Persie’s second-half penalty, a day after ending the uncertainty over his United future by signing a new deal that could earn him more than $140 million until 2019.
Such a contract would seem to be beyond the reach of Palace, whose fans appeared to throw coins at Rooney, who flicked them back in their direction. “It’s been more or less agreed for a month now and it was just the fine details that needed sorting,” said Rooney, who pushed unsuccessfully to leave United last year. “I wanted to get it done as quickly as possible and thankfully it’s behind me and I can concentrate on my football.”
United needs Rooney, with just 12 goals this season having missed much of January through injury, to be more prolific for it to have any chance of qualifying for the Champions League next season. Although United ended a three-game winless run and climbed to sixth, David Moyes’ side was eight points from Liverpool in the fourth Champions League place having played an extra game.
And this was a victory against a Palace side that might have sprung from the bottom in recent months with a recovery but was still only two points above the relegation zone.
“We moved the ball well, maybe could have created more chances but overall we were in control of the game and once we got one goal we knew we’d get another and see the game out,” Rooney said.
Looking at the team sheet, this is not a United side that should have taken until midway through the second half to score, or be in such a lowly position. The forward line in south London saw Rooney working in tandem with Van Persie and January signing Juan Mata.
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scored his second goal in as many games as they beat NEC Nijmegen 2-0 to keep alive their hopes of qualifying for the Champions League next season. Costa Rica forward Ruiz, who
joined PSV from Fulham last month after an unsuccessful spell in London, opened the scoring before the hour-mark, with Memphis Depay adding a late second.
PSV are in fifth place with 41 points from 25 games. On Sun-day, leaders Ajax Amsterdam,
who have 51 points, host AZ Alkmaar while second-placed Twente Enschede (47) welcome Feyenoord, who are in third spot (44), and fourth-placed Vitesse Arnhem (43) play at home to lowly RKC Walwiijk.
In other matches on Saturday, struggling SC Cambuur recorded
a second straight win with a 1-0 triumph over bottom side Roda JC Kerkrade, who have now lost their last five league matches. Paco van Moorsel scored in the third minute of added time after Roda were reduced to nine men following late red cards for Kees Luijckx and Guy Ramos.
PEC Zwolle and Heracles drew 1-1 as they battle for Eu-ropa League qualifying playoff spots, while the Heerenveen-NAC Breda game was sus-pended for 15 minutes due to a floodlight failure at the Abe Lenstra Stadion before it fin-ished in a 0-0 draw.
Reuters
LONDON - Chelsea will find it strange to be up against their Cham-pions League-winning hero Didier Drogba in Wednesday’s clash with Galatasaray, said manager Jose Mourinho. While the London club’s players and backroom staff will maintain their friendship with the Ivorian before and after the match, they will be fierce rivals during the 90 minutes of the last-16 first leg tie in Istanbul.
“It’s a strange feeling but we know him well and if you know him well you know that for him there
are no friends during the game,” Mourinho told reporters after a late John Terry goal secured a 1-0 win for the Premier League leaders over Everton on Saturday. “For us just before the game we will be big friends and have big respect for a real legend of the club. During the game we will have a job to do.
“He has his nature and that na-ture is to want to win.” Drogba is Chelsea’s record European scorer with 34 goals in 69 games. He bagged nine goals in nine domes-tic and European finals and his sizeable contribution to the club’s recent history is apparent from the
number of posters of him still dot-ted around Stamford Bridge.
Drogba moved to Chelsea in 2004, Mourinho’s first season, and stayed after the Portuguese left in 2007, his goals against Bayer Leverkusen, Valencia, Napoli and in the semi-final against Barcelona helping them into the 2012 Cham-pions League final.
In the final against Bayern Mu-nich at the German team’s own Allianz Arena, Drogba headed a late equaliser in a 1-1 draw and then struck the winning penalty in the shootout. He left the club a few days later, saying he had achieved
everything he wanted with Chel-sea, before spending a few months playing in China and then moving on to Turkey.
PAST MEETINGS
Mourinho, who rejoined Chelsea in the close season, said he had al-ready experienced the strange feel-ing of playing against Drogba. The Portuguese was at Inter Milan four years ago when he took on Drogba and Chelsea, and also held the reins at Real Madrid last year when the Spanish giants met Galatasaray.
Both times Mourinho was on the
winning side. “Last season my team was a team ready to win the Cham-pions League and we had trouble against them,” said the Chelsea manager. “We won in Madrid but we lost in Istanbul and we were in trouble.
“They have a good team, a very experienced team, people who have had a long run at a high level...they have Champions League winners,” Mourinho said. He cited Dutchman Wesley Sneijder, Drogba’s Ivory Coast team mate Emmanuel Eb-oue and Brazilian Felipe Melo as “people who have played with the best clubs in the world”.
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AS Roma’s Radja Nainggolan scores a goal during the Italian Serie A soccer match between Bologna and Roma at Renato Dall’ Ara stadium in Bologna, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014.
Nainggolan’s first Roma goal sinks Bologna
Ruiz strikes again for PSV in win over Nijmegen
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Bologna have been harder to beat since Davide Ballardini took over as coach in early January but they remain 16th on 21 points, two points above the relegation zone, having won only twice since the end of October. Roma had already hit the post through in-form striker Mattia Destro but created little else when 25-year-old Nainggolan broke the deadlock.
Gervinho sucked in Bologna’s defence with a characteristic burst from midfield before laying off to Pjanic, who spotted the Belgian racing unmarked into the area and clipped a perfect inswinging cross for an easy finish.
The home side were more ag-gressive in the second half, but
Roma were dangerous on the break and it was only poor final passes that stopped the away side from adding to their lead. Taddei thumped their clearest chance straight at Bologna keeper Gian-luca Curci with 15 minutes left, and it almost proved costly.
After a dreadful pass from substitute Michel Bastos ended a counter-attack in which Roma had two men racing towards goa l comple te ly unmarked , Christodoulopoulos flew at Da-vide Moscardelli’s cross only to glance what looked to be a certain equaliser wide to the relief of the several thousand away fans.
“It’s a huge win. In the second half we had lots of counter-attacks and chances to score the second goal. We suffered a lot, in particular at the end of the game,” said Garcia.
AP Photo/Sang Tan
Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney flips back a coin throw at him by Crystal Palace’s supporters in a corner kick dur-ing their English Premier League soccer match at Selhurst Park, London, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014.
Rooney scores as Man United beats Palace 2-0
No friendship with Drogba for 90 minutes, says Mourinho
Barca’s 3-1 loss at Sociedad leaves Madrid on top
Associated Press Writer
BARCELONA, Spain — Four days after affirming its European credentials by top-pling Manchester City, Barcelona slumped to a stinging 3-1 loss at Real Sociedad to relinquish the provisional Spanish league lead to Real Madrid on Saturday. Gareth Bale scored a blistering long-range strike to help Madrid brush aside Elche 3-0 at home, and Barcelona was unable to match that with a win. Instead, it was overrun by Sociedad’s dynamic attack led by forwards Antoine Griezmann and Carlos Vela.
loss left Barcelona three points behind Madrid, the first time it has trailed its fierce rival this season. Atletico is also three points behind Madrid before it plays on Sunday.
The last time Barcelona lost by more than one goal was a 3-0 defeat to Bayern Munich in May 2013. Martino took the blame for the humbling defeat. “Real (Sociedad) deserved to win,” he said. “I didn’t make the correct reading of the game. The decision
not to change was also a mistake.”
Madrid won its third straight game
without Cristiano Ronaldo, who was finishing a three-game
suspension.Madrid midfielder Asier Il-
larramendi opened the scoring at the Santiago Bernabeu in the 34th. Bale then squashed Elche’s timid second-half surge with a
blast from about 25 meters in the 72nd b e f o r e s u b s t i -tute Isco A l a r c o n sealed the victory in the 81st.
B a l e was hav-i n g a d iscree t o u t i n g
until
his superb strike that hit the underside of the bar and bounced in, securing the three points that made Madrid the overnight pacesetters. “I said ‘My goodness, what a goal’ when I saw the ball pass by,” Madrid fullback Dani Carvajal said.
Madrid will visit Schalke 04 on Wednesday in the Champions League final 16 enjoying an un-beaten streak of 26 games in all competitions. Madrid then plays at crosstown rival Atletico next weekend in a highly anticipated
league meeting.Also, Celta Vigo fought back
for a 1-1 draw at home against 10-man Getafe to leave the visi-tors winless in the last 10 rounds, while Malaga drew 0-0 at Alme-ria.
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AMLAPURA - Tulamben is a coastal vil-lage located in Kubu Subdistrict, Karangasem Regency. This village has become one of the famous diving sites in Bali, especially around the location of the USAT Liberty shipwreck, an army freighter belonging to the United States that was drowned after being shot with torpedo by a Japanese submarine in 1942. The
USAT Liberty was discovered in the 1970s by residents of Tulamben Village, Kubu Sub-district, Karangasem Regency. Later on, the location was used as a tourist destination for many divers who started coming to see the USAT Liberty shipwreck. On that account, Tulamben then developed into a commercial destination, including diving tours for those who wanted to have a closer look at the wreck of the USAT Liberty.
USAT Liberty
Native home to colorful fishes
In other games around the league, Kevin Love had 37 points, 12 re-bounds and 10 assists for his first career triple-double to help Min-nesota cruise past Utah 121-104, Golden State held off Brooklyn 93-86 for its third straight victory since the All-Star break, and Atlanta ended an eight-game losing streak by beating New York 107-98.
Charlotte is 4-0 since the All-Star break, marking its longest winning streak since March 2011. The Bobcats used an 18-3 run in the fourth quarter to break open a tight game and then held on down the stretch with Walker making four free throws in the final 25 seconds to end Memphis’ four-game win streak.
The Bobcats won despite the
Grizzlies holding Al Jefferson to just six points on 2-of-13 shooting. Jefferson came in having scored 29 points or more in eight of his last 11 games and at least 20 points in 17 of the last 19. Minnesota was play-ing without starters Nikola Pekovic (ankle) and Kevin Martin (finger), but Love filled the void, keeping one step ahead of the Jazz through the game.
Love was 6 of 10 from beyond the arc and committed just one turnover. He is averaging more than 33 points and 15 rebounds over his last nine games. Ricky Rubio had 15 points, and Corey Brewer and Chase Budinger scored 13 apiece as the Wolves won their third straight game.
Golden State’s Jermaine O’Neal
had season highs of 23 points and 13 rebounds and Stephen Curry added 17 points, including a 3-pointer in the final minute, to seal the win for the Warriors.
With Andrew Bogut sidelined with a shoulder injury and David Lee out with the flu, O’Neal and Draymond Green more than filled the void in the absence of Golden State’s frontcourt regulars. O’Neal shot 10 for 13 from the floor, and Green scored a career-best 18 points to go with 10 rebounds. Deron Williams had 20 points and six assists, and Joe Johnson scored 15 points for a Nets team that made just 2 of 21 attempts from beyond the arc.
Atlanta’s Mike Scott scored a career-high 30 points and Jeff Teague added 28 as the Hawks won for the first time since Feb. 1. Carmelo Anthony finished with 35 points for the Knicks, who blew a double-digit, third-quarter lead for the second straight night.
Associated Press Writer
KRASNAYA POLYANA, Rus-sia — From Mikaela Shiffrin to Bode Miller, from Mario Matt to Henrik Kristoffersen, Alpine skiing at the Sochi Olympics was one for the ages. The 18-year-old Shiffrin already was pegged as the sport’s face of the future, and she established herself as a star of the present by becoming the young-est slalom champion in Olympic history.
“It’s going to be something that I chalk up as one of my favorite ex-periences for the rest of my life,” the precocious Shiffrin said. “But my life’s not over yet.” Yes, she seems to be just getting started. Her U.S.
teammate Miller, meanwhile, took home a bronze in the super-G, his sixth Olympic medal. At 36, he is the oldest Alpine medalist ever.
Matt, who turns 35 in April, won the schedule-closing men’s slalom on Saturday night for Austria to become the sport’s oldest gold med-alist. Krisoffersen, 19, was third in that race, making the Norwegian the youngest man to win an Olympic Alpine medal.
“Guys like Bode and guys like Mario definitely are validation that you can continue on into the later years,” said Ted Ligety, the American who won the giant sla-lom. “I plan on continuing on,” said Ligety, who would be 33 at the 2018 Olympics.
Shiffrin, Miller make Sochi skiing 1 for the ages
AP Photo/Gero BreloerMen’s slalom bronze medal winner, Norway’s Henrik Kristoffersen, is held aloft by his teammates at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia.
Walker scores 31, Bobcats hold off Grizzlies 92-89Associated Press Writer
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — Kemba Walker scored 31 points as the Charlotte Bobcats won for the fourth time in five nights, defeat-ing the Memphis Grizzlies 92-89 in the NBA on Saturday.
AP Photo/Bob Leverone
The Charlotte Bobcats’ Kemba Walker (15) shoots as Memphis
Grizzlies’ Zach Randolph (50) and Marc Gasol, right, defend during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Charlotte, N.C., Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014.
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JAKARTA — Indonesia is now the world’s largest sanctuary for manta rays, after officials were persuaded by evidence that the gentle giants known for delighting tourists are worth more alive than dead.
The government on Friday an-nounced that manta rays within the archipelago’s 5.8 million square kilo-meters (2.2 million square miles) of ocean will be protected from fishing and export. It will take time and coop-eration at multiple levels to enforce the ban on poaching in the biggest global shark and ray fishery.
Conservationists point to simple economics as an incentive. Accord-ing to a study published last year in the online journal PLoS One, a manta ray is worth up to $1 million over the course of its long lifetime, thanks to tourists willing to pay generously for a chance to swim with the curious creatures that glide gracefully through the water by flapping their wide wings, almost as if flying.
They are worth only $40 to $500 dead. Government officials were “so surprised that the tourism value is very high. That’s a very powerful argu-ment,” said Tiene Gunawan, marine program director at Conservation International Indonesia. “Indonesia is such a big, big, big country. When looking at the size of the water, it’s huge. And I think we should start small
and make some kind of pilot for this enforcement.” The regulation was passed Jan. 27. Conservation groups are working to teach fishermen about the value of keeping the mantas alive, while business people, the military, water police and local officials are being engaged to assist.
“There are more than 200 special policemen who have been prepared to guard conservation areas and to enforce the law on protection of this species,” Sudirman Saad, director general for marine, coastal and small islands, said at a news conference an-nouncing the protections Friday. He said the government will encourage fishermen affected by the ban to take advantage of manta ray tourism.
In some areas, including a well-known spot near the resort island of Bali, locals are already seeing profits from taking snorkelers out on their fishing boats, or working at larger dive resorts where mantas are a top attraction. In Indonesia alone, manta tourism brings in an estimated $15 million each year, according to the PLoS One report.
“Indonesia now has the second-largest manta ray tourism industry in the world,” Agus Dermawan, director of the country’s Marine Conservation Directorate, said in a statement. “Giv-en the huge area of reefs and islands in our country, if managed properly, Indonesia could become the top manta tourism destination on the planet.”
Two types of rays exist in Indonesia, the manta and the mobula. Both are killed for their plankton-filtering gills, which are used for medicinal concoc-tions, mainly in China. Mantas are also frequently caught accidentally by fishermen, but they are not part of a major targeted industry in Indonesia as in other countries, such as Sri Lanka, Gunawan said.
Increased demand has led to a sharp drop in manta numbers in recent years, raising international concern. Multibillionaire Virgin Group boss Richard Branson has sounded alarms though the “Manta Ray of Hope” conservation project. And last year the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora imposed new trade regula-tions for the species.
Mantas are smart and capable of migrating more than 1,000 kilometers (621 miles), and each has a unique pattern of spots on its belly. Unlike stingrays, they have no barbs and are harmless to humans.
Even though they are beloved by divers and snorkelers, due to their size, friendliness and graceful beauty in the water, much remains unknown about their population numbers worldwide.
Early last year, Indonesia’s Institute of Science estimated that the country has 17,000 mantra rays, though it said that approximation did not account for regional migrations and may be overly optimistic.
The flooding came after many evacuees had just returned home to clean their houses of rubbish and mud left by earlier flooding.
Rain triggered floods and landslides have hit various areas in the country from last month until early this month, leaving scores of people dead.
The National Disaster Control Agency (BNPB) said the new flooding came after most people believed the worst had been over.
BNPB spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said heavy rains until night on Saturday had caused new flooding
in various areas in the country. In Banten, thousands of houses
are inundated by flood water after heavy rains, forcing people to flee their houses, Sutopo said here on Sunday.
The hardest hit in Banten are Kara-waci, and Nambo Jaya/Perum Pondok Arum, where the flood water is as deep as 150-175 cm, he said.
In the sub-district of Cileduk in-cluding Cileduk Indah 1 and 2 the water was as deep as 70-100 cm, and in the sub-district of Cibodas, Panung-gan Barat, it was 100-150 cm deep.
The city of Tangerang Selatan was
also hit by flooding. Sutopo said the disaster agency is
busy evacuating people to safe areas, preparing food, medicines, clean wa-ter, mattresses and blankets.
The military and police help in the evacuation process.
Sutopo said Jakarta and Bekasi do not fare better, adding a dyke in Bekasi collapsed sending flood water rolling to Pondok Gede Permai housing complex and nearby areas.
Flooding was also reported in the upstream area of Bengawan Solo, the biggest and longest river in Java.
AntaraJAKARTA - When Mount Kelud erupted on February 13, it spewed
millions of cubic meters of volcanic materials mainly gravels and ash later blown by the wind up to Borobudur temple, the world’s largest Buddhist temple located in Central Java, which is around 280 km from the volcano.
The ancient temple was fully covered by the volcanic ash, forcing the local authorities to close the temple from the public to enable the preservation measures and cleanup to be carried out, a day after the explosive eruption of Mount Kelud located in Kediri-Blitar districts, East Java province.
“I was on my way to Borobudur, the ash was quite thick, visibility range dips around seven meters,” the President of PT Borobudur, Prambanan, and Ratu Boko temple tourism park, Laily Prihatiningtyas, said on Feb. 14 when announcing the temporary closure.
Borobudur’s 72 stupas with Buddha statues inside and the monu-mental open-stupa with big Buddha statue at the temple’s top were wrapped in German-made parachute slipcovers to protect them from heavy volcanic ash. The temple’s floors were also fully covered by plastic sheets.
The preservation measures were necessary although Mount Kelud’s volcanic ash has safe pH (acidity) range, Marsis Sutopo, the head of the Borobudur Conservation office, told the press recently.
The conservation office analyzed the pH level of ash covering Borobudur and it measured between pH 5 and pH 6 which was con-sidered safe, he said.
“pH 7 is neutral, and the pH range of Kelud’s ash is categorized as safe because the acidity is quite low. It is unlikely that the ash would damage the temple’s andesite stone,” he said at a press conference held at the Borobudur Temple tourism park in Magelang, on Feb. 14 .
Kelud’s ash pH level was in fact higher than pH 4 of Mount Merapi’s ash which erupted in 2010 and spitted ash up to Borobudur temple. Ash with pH 3 (having high acidity) could cause corrosion of the temple’s stone, he said.
Besides, the thickness of Kelud’s ash in Borobudur was only 3-5 mm, while Merapi’s ash was up to 3 cm tick, he added.
The conservation office also analyzed XRF (X-ray flourescence) of the Kelud ash and found out that the ash covering the whole structure of Borobudur contained silica (70.6 percent) , aluminum (9 percent), iron (5.7 percent), calcium (0.7 percent), and sulphur (0.1 percent).
“Silica could cause respiratory problem to people, while sulphur could damage stone, but the sulphur level is very low, probably because Mount Kelud is very far from Borobudur Temple,” he ex-plained.
Although the volcanic ash was quite safe, the Borobudur conserva-tion office decided to carry out clean up and recovery efforts for 7 to 10 days to protect Borobudur and Mendut as well as Pawon temples at the supervision of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Science, and Cultural Organization), Sutopo said.
About 3,000 to 4,000 visitors failed to climb Borobudur Temple when ash rain fell in the area on Feb. 13. “Of course there is a potential financial loss,” the unit chief of the Borobudur Tourism Park, Bambang Irianto, stated several days ago.
Before the eruption, some 10 thousand to 16 thousand people usu-ally visit Borobudur temple on Saturday and Sunday.
In addition the conservation office’s staff members and military personnel, around 200-300 volunteers consisting of Buddhist devotees, hotel employees, tourist guides, local small traders, students and tour-ists, have helped clean the temple from the volcanic ash every day.
Around 700 Buddhists, including several monks coming from several cities in Central Java, also cleaned the temple on Friday.
“We have been working here to clean the Borobudur temple from Kelud’s ash since the past five days. We are from, among other things, Boyolali, Temanggung, Banjarnegara, Wonogiri, Wonosobo, and Am-barawa, Semarang district,” Buddhist monk Uttamacitto from Sangha Agung Indonesia, Ampel temple located in Boyolali district, stated.
The final cleaning up of the temple’s drainage will be done by the personnel of the conservation office.
Tourists, local people join hands in Borobudur cleanupFlooding send thousands
people back to refugee campsAntara
JAKARTA - New waves of flooding has forced thousands of Indonesians to leave homes to suffer in refugee camps again.
Indonesia hopes to cash in on manta ray tourism
Guzman was arrested by the Mexican marines at 6:40 a.m. in a high-rise condominium front-ing the Pacific in Mazatlan. He was caught with an unidentified woman, said one U.S. official, who added that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Marshals Service were “heav-ily involved” in the capture.
A federal law enforcement official said intelligence from a Homeland Security Department investigation also helped lead U.S. and Mexican authorities to his whereabouts. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to journalists. No shots were fired. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder called the capture a “victory for the citizens of both Mexico and the United States.”
Mexican authorities, based on a series of arrests in recent months, got wind that Guzman was moving around Culiacan, capital of his home state for which the cartel is named. Mexican Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam described an operation that took place between Feb. 13 and 17 focused on seven homes connected by tunnels and to the city’s sewer system.
He said they had Guzman in their sights several times dur-ing that period but were unable to mount an operation earlier because of possible risks to the general public. The house doors were reinforced with steel, which delayed entry by law enforcement, presumably allowing Guzman to flee several attempts at his capture before Saturday.
Murillo Karam didn’t say how authorities traced him to Mazatlan. A U.S. law enforcement official said members of Guzman’s se-curity team helped Mexican and U.S. authorities find him after they were arrested earlier this month. The official was not authorized to discuss details of the case by
Associated Press Writer
BERLIN — Germany’s foreign minister says he hopes Washington has understood that surveillance of political partners “can have a political price” and is confident it will end monitoring of allied countries’ leaderships. Frank-Walter Steinmeier was quoted as saying in an interview with the weekly Der Spiegel published Sunday that the task of overcoming differ-ences over U.S. surveillance activities “should not be underestimated.”
But he added his voice to growing skepticism over a hoped-for “no-spy” accord with the U.S., saying: “I doubt that a ‘no-spy’ agreement will get us much further.”
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government sought such an accord following revelations about surveillance by the National Security Agency, including allegations Merkel’s cellphone was monitored. This month, President Barack Obama said there’s no country with which Washington has a no-spy agreement.
Associated Press Writer
BEIJING — Six children have drowned while skating on a river in a rural area of northern China, a local government said Sunday.
The children aged 5 to 11 were skating together Saturday afternoon near a village in Pingyao county in Shanxi province, the county govern-ment said on its official microblog.
After residents alerted police that children had fallen in, rescuers were sent to the scene. About an hour later, they pulled out four bodies. It took divers another 1 ½ hour to find the bodies of the remaining two children.
The county government statement said an investigation was ongoing. Calls to the authority and police rang unanswered Sunday.
AP Photo/Marco Ugarte
Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is escorted to a helicopter in handcuffs by Mexican navy marines at a navy hanger in Mexico City, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014.
Mexico captures Sinaloa cartel boss ‘Chapo’ GuzmanAssociated Press Writer
MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities captured the world’s most powerful drug lord in a resort city Saturday after a massive search through the home state of the legendary capo whose global organization is the leading supplier of cocaine to the United States. Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, 56, looked pudgy, bowed and much like his wanted photos when he arrived in Mexico City from Mazatlan in Sinaloa state. He was marched by masked marines across the airport tarmac to a helicopter waiting to whisk him to jail.
name and spoke on condition of anonymity.
During the four-day operation, authorities arrested 13 people, 97
rifles, 36 handguns, two grenade launchers, a rocket launcher, 43 ve-hicles, of which 19 were armored, 16 homes and four ranches.
German foreign minister hopeful on US surveillance
6 children drown while skating on river in China
The entry of foreign educational institutions without accommodating the local wisdom of Bali in the educational process could become a threat to the existence of Balinese local wisdom. “Some foreign educational institutions in Bali understand where they provide space for local wisdom. Otherwise, who will oversee it? Thus, they should be protected by rules and if foreign educational institutions operate in Bali they must incorporate local knowl-edge,” he said.
Viraguna asserted that globalization and free market competition in the AEC 2015 in sight without being supported with local rules to fortify Bali would lead the competition to local liberalism. “With the position as the lead-ing tourism region in the world, Bali will become a battlefield of global mar-kets, while we are just going to be the object. Without being organized with local rules, all the opportunities and economic investment can be dominated by foreign parties because they were more efficient, more sophisticated and stronger in terms of information technology. Later, we would only become a nation of users unless it was undertaken strategically and effectively. So, there should be an initiative to provide a foundation for younger generation in the matter of human resource development,” he said.
To face the free market competition, our human resources should be prepared and strengthened early on. Emphasis should be given to the char-acter building, work ethic and responsibility that had to be cultivated from an early age.
Viraguna also highlighted the current educational process that all this time putting emphasis on final results on paper without paying attention to the process on the formation of character and personality of students. “Our education is more oriented in ranking and scores without giving emphasis on the process and understanding as well as the formation of students’ character. It is very hazardous. Thus, when the students graduate they are not ready to understand the real world in the field and they do not have emotional and spiritual intelligence.
So, the alteration of paradigm should be continuously pursued as well as made as an effort to improve the human resources of Bali in facing the free market competition of the AEC 2015,” he concluded. (kmb29)
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AMLAPURA - Torrential rains flushing Karangasem for some two hours on Saturday (Feb 22) caused flood in each river without bridge in the eastern ring of tourist lane from Amed to Seraya, Karan-gasem. Major floods like in the Tuba River and See River caused the path to disconnect for about three hours.
The road in the river without a bridge caused traffic users not to dare cross the river with such huge flood. The road in the river without a bridge during great flood was very hazardous where vehicles could be washed away to the sea or stuck out of the road when being hit by flood and boulders rolled out by flood.
Similar incident occurred in the Perit River last year where three students were killed as washed away by floods in the river without a bridge.
A legislator from Unutan village Karangasem, Iluh Pur-naminingsih, said the east ring road whose rivers had not been established with bridge posed the road section owned by Bali government. Thus, it did not
belong to the authority of the Regent of Karangasem to build bridge in the path. Purnami expected the Gover-nor of Bali Mangku Pastika to give attention to the problem because it was the only tourist path from Amed
to Lean and Seraya. She said local people had always been shouting in order the rivers without bridge could be made a bridge project, but so far the promise of the government had never been realized. (013)
Antara
DENPASAR - The value of Bali Province’s exports of traditional houses was down 29.73 percent from US$1.4 million in the January - October 2013 to US$1.92 million in the same period this year.
Bali’s traditional house exports dropped in value but in volume they actually increased, according to data from Trade Department of Bali Province.
Based on that figure, shipment volumes of the commodity in-creased significantly from 442 units in the last ten months of 2012 to 933 units in the corresponding this year.
International consumers liked Bali’s traditional houses very much because its built with wood that reflected artistic values of Bali. Demand from a number of countries continued to come.
Agence France-Presse
DENPASAR - A New Zealand woman has been arrested on the Indonesian resort island of Bali in possession of hash and ecstasy after police raided her villa, an official said.
Leeza Tracey Ormsby, 37, was detained last week at the property in the tourist area of Kuta after police received a tipoff about a party involving drugs in the neighbourhood.
Police found a cigarette containing a small amount of hash in her bag, 27 grammes (almost one ounce) of hash, and ec-stasy pills weighing 132 grammes in a cupboard.
Agus Tri Waluyo, head of the anti-narcotics branch of the Bali police, said police were still deciding whether to charge her with sale of illegal drugs or possession for personal use.
If she is charged with sale of drugs, she could face the death penalty under Indonesia’s tough anti-narcotics laws.
A charge of drug use would not carry a maximum penalty of death but she is still likely to receive a jail term.
Her lawyer Ari Soenardi said Ormsby was “a bit stressed” following her arrest.
Foreigners regularly get caught with illegal drugs in Indo-nesia, particularly on the hard-partying holiday island of Bali, and some are on death row.
British grandmother Lindsay Sandiford was sentenced to death last year after being found with $2.4 million worth of cocaine in her luggage as she arrived in Bali.
The case of drug trafficker Schapelle Corby, who spent more than nine years behind bars for smuggling marijuana into Bali, received huge attention in her native Australia.
The 36-year-old was released on bail on February 10.
Arrested for drugs New Zealand woman could face death penalty
Floods in Tuba River Lean tourist line disconnects for 3 hours
IBP/BudanaTorrential rains flushing Karangasem for some two hours on Saturday (Feb 22) caused flood in each river without bridge in the eastern ring of tourist lane from Amed to Seraya, Karangasem.
The value of Bali Province’s ex-ports of traditional houses was down 29.73 percent from US$1.4 million in the January - October 2013 to US$1.92 million in the same period this year.
Traditional house export down
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Agence France-Presse
SYDNEY - The OECD on Friday warned declining global productivity will usher in a new and extended era of low growth unless there are major structural reforms.
Its new “Going for Growth” report identifies infrastructure shortages and slowing trade ac-tivity as key problems -- issues that will be in focus at the G20 meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors in Sydney this weekend.
“The widespread deceleration in productivity since the (global
financial) crisis could presage the beginning of a new low-growth era,” the Organisation for Eco-nomic Cooperation and Develop-ment said.
“The global economy’s mo-mentum remains sluggish, height-ening concerns that there has been a structural downshift in growth rates compared with pre-crisis levels.
“These concerns, already preva-lent among advanced OECD coun-tries for some time, now encompass emerging-market economies and are fuelled also by high unemploy-ment and falling labour force par-
ticipation in many countries.”OECD chief Angel Gurria said
the report came at a time of transi-tion for the global economy, when “we see the recovery strengthening in advanced economies, albeit at different speeds, while growth in emerging economies is slowing”.
“Normally it’s the other way around,” Gurria told reporters in Sydney, noting that key drivers of productivity growth such as credit, investment and trade, had been “very very sluggish, in some cases unusually weak since the crisis”.
Growth was muted, unemploy-ment and economic inequality was
rising and the OECD chief said there had been a “big drop in the confidence, in the trust in all the in-stitutions we’ve built up over 50 to 100 years”. With traditional stimu-latory instruments such as fiscal and monetary policy nearing or at their limit, Gurria said “ambitious” structural reform agendas needed to be pursued “with determination by all G20 countries.”
“Stronger demand is indeed fundamental but by no means sufficient to avoid the low-growth trap,” he said.
Gurria said the OECD report could be seen as a glass half-full
or half-empty assessment.On the positive side, he said the
speed of reform remained “on av-erage well above the pace observed before the crisis.”
Detracting from this, however, momentum had slowed “visibly” in the past two years and reforms were “fragmented, piecemeal, in-cremental and unlikely to fully ad-dress the underlying challenges.”
The report calls for investment in skills to boost labour force par-ticipation, and a fresh approach to encourage private investment in infrastructure to help boost growth.
OECD warns of new era of low growth
G20 works to nail down growth targetsAustralian Treasurer Joe Hockey reported much
good will among officials from the world’s top econo-mies to reach consensus on a raft of issues ahead of the G20 leaders’ summit in Brisbane in November.
Hockey has been pushing ministers to agree to faster global growth targets with private sector investment as a central plank, and a draft of the com-munique, cited by Bloomberg, said they would agree on “concrete measures” to achieve this.
The draft stated collective gross domestic product could be raised by “at least two percent” above cur-rent projections over the next five years, although this could not be confirmed.
Hockey said he did not want to comment on spe-cifics before the talks end later Sunday.
“There is a lot of good will but I don’t want to preempt the discussions,” he said. Not every-one is on the same page however with Germany voicing opposition to setting an overall growth target, while Indian central bank governor Raghuram Rajan also expressed reservations.
“I think it’s important for all of us to be more ambitious about growth and do what is necessary,” Rajan told the Australian Financial Review, but questioned to “what extent collective exaltation will move us more”.
The newspaper said he emphasised
that the drive for growth-boosting policies was a “domestic political battle and we all have to fight our own battles and push forward”.Hockey stressed the need for structural reforms to drive growth.
Ahead of the meeting the IMF said more coordi-nated work was needed to keep output expanding and boost demand, as the world economy still struggles to leave behind the financial crisis that began in 2008.
Officials in Sydney have been focusing on how to free up labour markets, encourage infrastructure investment as well the structural reforms needed to spur domestic demand.
Hockey said there was general agreement within the G20 that large pools of private-sector money around the world needed to be tapped to fund much-needed infrastructure projects.
The officials are also considering the next steps needed to reform the IMF while drawing up a road-map on financial regulatory reforms.
Agence France-Presse
SYDNEY - G20 finance ministers and central bank governors worked Sunday to nail down agreements on boosting growth and creating jobs after “excellent” talks on the winding back of US monetary stimulus.
Australia’s Treasurer Joe Hockey delivers a closing statement to the media during a press conference at the G-20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting in Sydney, Australia, Sunday,
Feb. 23, 2014.
AP Photo/Rob Griffith
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Bali News International4 Monday, February 24, 2014 Monday, February 24, 2014 13International RLDW
The Kiev protest camp at the center of the anti-Yanukovych movement filled with more and more dedicated demonstrators Sunday morning setting up new tents after a day that saw a stunning reversal of fortune in a political standoff that has left scores dead and worried the United States, Eu-rope and Russia.
Ukraine is deeply divided be-tween eastern regions that are largely pro-Russian and western areas that widely detest Yanuk-ovych and long for closer ties with the European Union. Yanukovych’s shelving of an agreement with the EU in November set off the wave of protests, but they quickly expanded their grievances to corruption, hu-man rights abuses and calls for Yanukovych’s resignation.
“We need to catch and punish those with blood on their hands,” Artyom Zhilyansky, a 45-year-old engineer on Independence Square on Sunday, referring to those killed
in clashes with police last week. He and other protesters called for law enforcement chiefs to be held accountable and Yanukovych put on trial.
The newly emboldened parlia-ment, in a special session Sunday, tried to work out a coalition gov-ernment. But the legitimacy of the parliament’s flurry of decisions in recent days — including a vote Saturday to remove Yanukovych from the presidency — was under question. The votes are based on a decision Friday to return to a 10-year-old constitution that grants parliament greater powers. Yanuk-ovych, however, has not signed that decision into law, and said Saturday that the parliament is now acting illegally.
The political crisis in the nation of 46 million has changed with blinding speed repeatedly in the past week. First there were signs that tensions were easing, followed by horrifying violence and then a
deal signed under Western pressure that aimed to resolve the conflict but left the unity of the country in question.
Protester self-defense units who have taken control of the capital peacefully changed shifts Sunday. Helmeted and wearing makeshift shields, they have replaced police guarding the president’s adminis-tration and parliament, and have sought to stop radical forces from inflicting damage or unleashing violence. Thousands of curious and contemptuous Ukrainians roamed the suddenly open grounds of the lavish compound outside Kiev where Yanukovych was believed to live.
Parliament, which he controlled last week but is now turned against him, voted to remove him and set elections for May 25. But Yanuk-ovych said in a televised address that he now regards the parliament as illegitimate and he won’t respect its decisions.
Associated Press Writer
BANGKOK — Gunmen in a pickup truck attacked an anti-gov-ernment protest in eastern Thai-land, killing a child and wounding dozens of other people, as vio-lence in the country’s 3-month-old political crisis spread outside the capital, officials said Sunday. The attack took place Saturday night in Trat province, where about 500 protesters demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra were hold-ing a rally near food stalls where people were dining. Trat is about 300 kilometers (180 miles) east of the capital, Bangkok.
The attack was the latest in a string of protest-related violent incidents roiling Thailand over the past three months, in which at least 16 people have been killed and hundreds hurt. The protesters want Yingluck to quit to make way for an appointed interim government to implement anti-corruption reforms, but she has refused.
Thai media reported that as many as three people were killed in the violence in Trat and that
several others were in critical condition, but National Security Council chief Lt. Gen. Paradorn Pattanathuabutr said there was just one fatality — an 8-year-old girl. A nurse at Trat Hospital, Nantiya Thientawatchai, said the girl who died was 5 years old. The reason for the discrepancy was not clear.
Police Lt. Thanabhum Newanit said unidentified assailants in a pickup shot into the crowd and two explosive devices went off. It was not clear whether the protest group, which uses armed guards, fought back. He and other officials said that about three dozen people were hurt.
Both supporters and opponents of the protesters, as well as police, have been victims of the political violence, which before Saturday was mostly confined to Bangkok. On Friday night, six people were hurt when unknown attackers threw a grenade into a protest crowd in the capital. A spokes-man for the protesters, Akanat Promphan, described the attack in Trat as “a massacre of innocents” that was “planned and organized terror.”
AP Photo/Efrem LukatskyPeople raise their fists during a rally in Independence Square, the epicenter of the country’s current unrest, in Kiev, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014.
KIEV, Ukraine — The whereabouts of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych were unclear on Sun-day, after he left the capital and his archfoe Yulia Tymoshenko was freed from prison and returned to Kiev to address a massive, adoring crowd. A plane with Yanukovych onboard was denied permission to take off Saturday evening from Donetsk, a city in eastern Ukraine that is the president’s base of support the State Border Guard Service said. The president’s spokesman said Sunday morning that even he does not know where Yanukovych is.
Girl killed, dozens hurt in attack on Thai protest
AP Photo/Sakchai LalitRiot police officers hold protective shields on a pickup truck after clashes in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014. Clashes between police and anti-government demonstrators in Bangkok left three people dead and 57 others injured Tuesday as riot police attempted to clear out protest camps around the Thai capital.
Bali Post
TABANAN - The effort of Kediri customary villagers de-manding in order the Vishnu Murti statue could be re-built at the catus pata or four-way inter-section of Kediri and the Bung Karno statue could be built in ap-propriate place was continuously inflamed. On Saturday afternoon (Feb 22) precisely at six o’clock, dozens of components of Kediri customary villagers included the
temple priests throughout Kediri customary village, hamlet chief and customary village authorities took worship action en masse started at the local Puseh Temple and continued to say prayers at the four-way intersection of Kediri.
According to the action co-ordinator, Nyoman Muliadi, the worship activity was intended to pray for the leaders who so far had wrongly thought, said and behaved could be apologized by the spirit of gods abiding at the location.
“We just pray in order the spirit of Lord Vishnu Murti statue dis-mantled will not result in psychic impact on the village. In addition, we also pray and invoke so as the government plan can be canceled and the Vishnu Murti statue can be re-built at that location,” he explained.
Further, he said the Kediri com-munity highly supported the inten-tion of local government to make the Bung Karno statue. However, the placement should be made at
appropriate place or elsewhere.“People of Kediri actually do
not disagree. Even, they strongly agree if Bung Karno is made a statue. However, they do not agree to the placement at the four-way intersection because it does not correspond to his caliber as a na-tional hero,” he explained.
Moreover, he said, all this time the local community of Kediri organized pecaruan nangluk merana or exorcism ritual every sixth month in Balinese calendar
(around December) at the inter-section. “As local belief, the sixth month of Balinese calendar in Bali is considered a dry month so it is exorcised with nangluk merana ritual to prevent the drought. And this cultural tradition poses a heri-tage,” he explained.
In the worship activity, the member of Kediri community de-livered pejati oblation and spiritu-ally informed if there had been any mistakes to have been committed. (kmb28)
Based on observation at location, the stench of the integrated landfill was from the area of Lovina such as Kalibukbuk, Temukus, Dencarik and Kaliasem village. Local residents also often saw people from outside the village who intentionally disposed house-hold waste, animal carcasses like rat, rabbit and pig haphazardly to the landfill.
A resident around the location, Jafar Salih, told the stench was so harassing to people indirectly. Activities of people often turned uncomfortable because since three months of operation the landfill produced stench. Even, it tended to get puffy to people living and passing around the location. “Garbage is indeed smelly, but it should be prevented by arranging the landfill. Necessarily, it can be made a representative landfill so the garbage will not be scattered to cause odor. Sometimes we feel inconvenient when eating as the stench was smelt first,” he said in blushing face.
Another resident, Komang Artini, also recognized the stench of garbage disrupted her daily activities. On the other hand, many tourists also complained about the stench. “As the heart of Lovina, the Kalibukbuk and Kaliasem village should be addressed from the garbage smell. Do not be ignored without any treatment,” she complained.
The Transport Section Head of the Buleleng Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (DKP), Made Suciasa, said on Thursday (Feb 20) that his party had come to Kaliasem landfill. At the location, he was immediately criticized and protested by residents around the location. The agency was asked to be responsible for the smell disrupting the local residences.
Suciasa said the garbage and the stench would be promptly addressed. He would clean up and organize the garbage at the Kaliasem village. The non-domestic garbage would be removed to Bengkala landfill, while the domestic one would still be arranged and managed at Kaliasem landfill. “We will coordinate this waste management immediately. This building is actually not a landfill but should be functioned for waste management only. We’ll manage the types of waste generating stench, both the domestic one and others,” he said. (dgk)
Ask Vishnu Murti statue to be rebuilt
Kediri community worship at intersection
Due to stench
Kaliasem villagers protest integrated landfillBali Post
SINGARAJA - The stench emitted by the piles of garbage at the integrated landfills (TPST) of Kaliasem village, Banjar subdistrict, caused the residents disappointed and to protest. Most people claimed to feel uncomfortable and expected the landfill to be improved and the rules to dispose garbage at the site should be tightened.
IBP/FileThe officers are collecting garbage in the integrated landfills (TPST) of Kaliasem village, Banjar subdistrict, Buleleng
3Monday, February 24, 201414 InternationalInternational Bali NewsLifestyle Monday, February 24, 2014
According General Manager of Bali Travel News, Gde Palgunadi, as a medium of tourism, BTN play a role to encouraging all parties to do well for Bali. Therefore, this award is not only given to individuals, but also governments, corporations that have role and participate in building tourism and Balinese society. “This year, we gave 14 awards, not only to individuals but also to governments and corporations in the context of their role and participation to build tourism and Balinese society,” he said.
The annual event, which was at-tended by Regent of Buleleng, Agus Suradnyana and Karangasem Re-gent, Wayan Geredeg, also attended by CEO of Bali Post Media Group (KMB) Satria Naradha.
Among receivers of THK Nu-graha, Pasifika Museum awarded as art museum that collected more than 600 works of art from 25 countries. Meanwhile, Furama Villas and Spa
has been chosen for its commitment to support development of rural tourism at Badung Regency. THK Nugraha also given to Moeliono who has concern on fight against plastic waste. Public Relation of Inna Grand Bali Beach, Ida Ayu Dewi Aprianti, received THK Nugraha for her active role in establish harmonious relation-ship between hotel, media, and tradi-tional leaders, I Gusti Ngurah Pujawan as one of pioneers in building and establishing relationships and good cooperation between Denpasar and Japan, primarily in the field of educa-tion, and Putu Arsaningsih, S.E. over her activeness to teach and share the teachings of love.
BTN also gave awards to the Karan-gasem Regency that received by Wayan Geredeg for keeping Virgin Beach as a hidden treasure in eastern part of Bali and Buleleng Regency that managed to keep Pemuteran Village as one of beautiful destinations. (kmb18)
AntaraDENPASAR - The destruction
of “subak, the traditional irriga-tion system in Bali, will affect all aspects of life on this paradise island, according to Prof. I Wayan Windia of Udayana University.
“The destruction of subak due to the diversion of land for other purposes outside agricultural has been discussed for a long time, but it has never been addressed completely,” Windia said on Saturday.
He noted that if the subak in Bali was destroyed, the culture of Bali that has been passed on from generation to generation would also disappear.
“The destruction of subak will also destroy all economic sectors in Bali because they are inter-related,” he said, explaining that economic sectors, particularly tourism, on the island were based on local culture and tradition.
But he pointed out that, in reality, the tourism sector has destroyed the agricultural area and the subak on Bali.
Antara
DENPASAR - Indonesian Consulate in Houston, U.S. has provided a lawyer for an Indonesian ship crew, Bali’s Chief of Agency for Placement and Protection of Migrant Workers (BP3TKI) I Wayan Pageh stated on Friday.
Earlier it was reported that an Indonesian man, work-ing as a crew member in a Netherlands-flag cruise ship, heading to the U.S., got arrested by the FBI for allegedly assaulting a woman passenger. The arrest was done on February 16.
According to media report in the U.S., the Indonesian, originally from Bali felt insulted by the woman passen-ger’s words when he served breakfast in her room. He then planned to enter the woman’s room using a spare key to assault her.
“Indonesian Consulate General in Houston has ar-ranged a lawyer for him,” Pageh confirmed, adding that the Indonesian ship crew was a legal worker and had completed documents for working abroad.The Indone-sian ship crew has now been detained at the Broward County jail in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
IBP/Yudi Karnaedi
Bali Travel News (BTN) held Tri Hita Karana (THK) Nugraha 2014 at K. Nadha Press Building on Friday. This 3rd time award was given to stakeholders of tourism that have great contribution in keeping Bali through THK concept.
BTN awarded THK Nugraha 2014 to 14 stakeholdersIBP
DENPASAR - Bali Travel News (BTN) held Tri Hita Karana (THK) Nugraha 2014 at K. Nadha Press Building on Friday. This 3rd time award was given to stakeholders of tourism that have great contribution in keeping Bali through THK concept.
Crew ship from Bali arrested Consulate in Houston
provided lawyer
Destruction of Subak to change life
IBP/Dewa Kusuma
The destruction of “subak, the traditional irrigation system in Bali, will affect all aspects of life on this paradise island, according to Prof. I Wayan Windia of Udayana University.
The girl’s mother, Heidi Carney, got the idea after hearing about what hap-pened in San Francisco. “For me, this isn’t anything controversial,” Carney said. “It’s medication. It’s no different than standing in front of a Walgreens or a CVS.” Lexi and her parents came on Friday with between 100 and 150 boxes to sell. Her family said they sold more than 50.
“It’s better than she would’ve gotten outside a grocery store,” said Justin Menees, Lexi’s father. Susan de Queljoe, a spokeswoman for the Girl Scouts-Arizona Cactus-Pine Council, said selling in front of marijuana dispensaries isn’t something the organization would encourage, but that it’s up to the parents.
“The girls’ safety is our primary concern. So we give guidelines out to all the parents and hope that they will follow them,” de Queljoe said. Lauren Gooding, an oncology nurse who is the president of TruMed, runs the state-licensed facility with her father and brother. Gooding said Carney called her Friday morning with the idea, and she was immediately on board. In fact, she had already received several messages on Facebook about the San Francisco sale with people sug-gesting she do the same thing, Gooding said.
Gooding also sent a text message to more than 2,000 customers about the cookie sale and threw in a tie-in deal: Patients who buy at least half of an ounce of pot will have their pick of a free box of Thin Mints, Samoas or any of the other cookie choices. “People will wait to buy when there are incentives,” Gooding said.
She hopes the presence of the Girl Scouts will help eliminate the stigma tied to medical marijuana dispensaries, Gooding said. Furthermore, with a security guard always on site to ensure nobody illegally consumes their pot purchase, there is no danger of Lexi or any child being exposed to marijuana, she said. “We are not promoting medical marijuana to her,” Gooding said.
Associated Press Writer
MIAMI BEACH, Florida — For years, fans have been telling Ruth Reichl that they love her novels. Problem was, she hadn’t written any. Reichl, author of two best-selling memoirs and the former editor-in-chief of the now shuttered Gourmet magazine, finally won’t have to correct her readers in May, when her first novel, “Delicious!” is published.
“I can’t imagine a life without fiction, it’s sort of the thing that keeps me together,” she said in an interview Saturday at the South Beach Wine and Food Festival. “And I always said, if I didn’t have a day job I would write a novel, and then suddenly I didn’t have a day job.”
That abrupt switch came in 2009, when Conde Nast closed the nearly 70-year-old Gourmet, blaming the weak economy. Perhaps unsurpris-ingly, the novel’s plot also features the end of a venerable food maga-zine, but it is not autobiographical.
Instead, it follows a protagonist Reichl calls “the anti-Ruth,” a young
woman named Billie hired at the magazine just before it closed and who stumbles upon a collection of mysterious letters hidden in its li-brary. The letters, written by a plucky 12-year-old name Lulu to legendary chef James Beard during World War II, came to Reichl in a vision when she returned to Gourmet weeks after it closed to clean out her office and took a last look at the library.
“I just had this sudden inspiration of what if I had opened this (door) and it had been this fabulous, magi-cal library, and what if I had found these letters?” she said. “That’s why it’s set there but it’s really not about the magazine.”
The true tale of Gourmet will be in one of Reichl’s future memoirs, she said, but first she is finishing up a combination memoir/cookbook based on her Twitter feed. And she is starting a new novel, putting into practice what she learned while writing her first. “People would say, ‘Oh, your memoirs read like nov-els, you’ll have no trouble writing fiction,’ but I had to learn to write fiction,” she said.
AP Photo/Terry Tang
Heidi Carney speaks with her husband, Justin Menees, while their daughter, Lexi, 8, sells Girl Scout Cookies outside a marijuana dispensary in Phoenix on Friday, Feb. 21, 2014.
Girl Scout’s effort to sell cookies goes to ‘pot’Associated Press Writer
PHOENIX — Customers of some medical marijuana dispen-saries are discovering this week that they don’t have to go far if they have a case of the munchies. A few days after a teenager sold dozens of cookie boxes outside a San Francisco pot dispensary, 8-year-old Lexi Menees is returning to TruMed Dispensary in Phoenix on Saturday for the same purpose.
Ruth Reichl draws on Gourmet as novel inspiration
AP Photo/Lynne Sladky
Ruth Reichl, the former editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine, responds to a question during an interview, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014, in Miami Beach, Fla. After the shuttering of Gourmet magazine, Reichl needed to find her footing and has written her first novel “Delicious!” will be published in May 2014.
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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 con-sidered 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 umbrellas 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, decorated 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
Monday, February 24, 2014
Calendar Event for January 1 through February 26, 2014
1 Jan Buda Kliwon Matal, Kajeng Kliwon And Tilem Sasih Kenam Pura Desa Sukawati SukawatiPura Pasek Gelgel Gelgel BebetinPura Maspahit SesetanPura Padharman Arya Kanuruhan Besakih
11 Jan Tumpek Kandang Pura Desa GianyarPura Luhur Dalem Sagening Kediri TabananPura Sang Hyang Tegal Tegalalang
15 Jan Purnama Sasih Kapitu Pura Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Kaja GianyarPura Puseh Manakaji Peninjauan BangliPura Taman Limut Pengosekan Mas UbudPura Benua BesakihPura Gunung Rena Sidemen KarangasemPura Pasek Gelgel Abadi KarangasemPura Pucak Gunung Mangun Kubu Karangasem
16 Jan Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan 17 Jan Hari Bhatara Sri 21 Jan Anggara Kasih Prangbakat Pura Bukit Buluh Gunaksa KlungkungPura Tirtha Sidamala Bebalang BangliPura Gunung Pangsong LombokPura Dalem Benawah GianyarPura Dalem Bitra GianyarPura Pura Hyang Haluh/Jenggala Besakih
Pura Tengkulak Tulikup GianyarPura Taman Sari UbudPura Penataran Badung
5 Feb Buda Kliwon Ugu Pura Dalem Tarukan Peninjauan Tem-buku BangliPura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah Bule-lengPura Kayangan Tiga Seririt BulelengPura Agung Gunung Raung Taro Tegalalang
6 Feb Pura Dalem Puri Besakih
14 Feb Purnama Sasih Kawulu Pura Dalem Batur BangliPura Ida Ratu Pasek BesakihPura Dalem Suci Sidemen KarangasemPura Buana Kawan Besakih
19 Feb Buda Cemeng Kelawu Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang KarangasemPura Melanting Camenggaon SukawatiPura Penataran ped Nusa PenidaPura Gaduhan Jagat Singakerta UbudPura Masceti Sanding Tampak SiringPura Penataran Batu Lepang Kamasan KelungkungPura Paibon Pasek Gelgel Kedonganan KutaPura Guwa BesakihPura Basukian BesakihPura Jati UbudPura Melanting UbudPura Dalem Peed Nusa PenidaPura Sad Kayangan Nusa PenidaPura Penataran Agung Gunung Karangasem
21 Feb Hari Bhatara Sri 25 Feb Anggara Kasih Dukut Pura Dalem Batuyang BatubulanPura Pasek Gelgel Mengening Kediri TabananPura Pasek Undagi Krambitan TabananPura Pucak Taman bedulu GianyarPura Puser Jagat Nusa PenidaPura Dalem Purwa Kawan BangliPura Desa Ketewel Gianyar
26 Feb Pura Agung Pasek gelgel Sibang Kaja Abian SemalPura Dalem Samprangan Gianyar
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Bali PostDENPASAR - Investigation on
the murder of the U.S. citizen, Paul Robb Latourell, 54, has not indicated a significant progress. Although the investigators have got the identity, they still do not manage to catch the culprit. Even, police have lost tracks of the culprit who is so far being pursued outside of Bali.
“We cannot have arrested the culprit. Our personnel are still giving chase,” said the Spokesperson of Den-pasar Police, IB Sarjana, recently.
Sarjana explained that police investigators had done an examina-tion against six witnesses. However, his party still continued to do the investigation and pursuit against the suspect. “Related to witnesses, a total of six witnesses have been examined. It is a matter of time to arrest the culprit. Our personnel have been trying hard to catch the
culprit,” he told reporters Saturday.Where was the culprit pursued
to? Sarjana did not dare to explain in detail where police chase it. He only said the chase was undertaken to a number of regions. “Clearly, the joint team of Bali Police, Denpasar Police and East Denpasar Police pursue the culprit to a number of regions. We will not tell the exact location as we worry if the culprit even run away first,” he said.
As mentioned in the previous news, the Chief of Denpasar Police Crimi-nal Investigator, Benny Murjayanto, claimed to have got the culprit’s iden-tity. His party was pursuing the culprit and expected to immediately arrest it. Meanwhile, Paul Robb Latourell was found to have been covered in blood in the room of his house at Jalan Banteng 2 E Denpasar. After further investiga-tion, it was known if the victim got 65 stabbing wounds. (kmb21)
It was mentioned by a com-munity leader of Nusa Penida, I Made Jana, recently on Nusa Penida. The equitable develop-ment in Nusa Penida subdistrict itself was still far from the ex-pectation of society. “Without wishing to offend the west and east, the fact of development on the island is imbalanced,” said the fast boat businessman. Apart from the development of public infrastructure and facilities, of the 16 villages in Nusa Penida, the ‘injustice’ was also apparent in terms of education sector. For instance, the SMAN 1 Nusa Peni-da high school and SMKN Nusa Penida vocational school were all located in the western region. Not only that, other public services such as police and military office and subdistrict head office were also in the west. “As planned, the Bali government is going to establish a primary hospital in the west region of Nusa Gede, namely at Nyuh hamlet, Ped vil-lage,” he said.
Geographically, if it had orien-tation in lowland, with the central point at Sampalan of Nusa Gede, the length of coastline eastward to Semaya was also quite exten-sive. In other words, the land availability in the east was still enough for the infrastructure development. However, in real-ity the entire infrastructure was focused on the western part of Nusa Penida. Even, this owner of Celebrity fast boat accused the people’s representatives in the eastern part of Nusa Penida of being unable to fight for the interests of local community.
“Is the eastern part of Nusa Penida considered not to exist? Instead, this equalization is sup-posed to be fought,” he said while adding that other villages in the east to the north such as the Pe-
Bali PostTABANAN - The automated
teller machine (ATM) owned by the Bank Nasional Indonesia (BNI) at Luwus village, Baturiti, was bur-glarized by thief, Friday morning (Feb 21). The burglarized ATM is precisely located in the parking lot of Teman Joger. The machine located in front of the famous souvenir shop in Bali was known to have been burglarized around seven o’clock in the morning by a janitor.
Chief of Tabanan Police Crimi-nal Investigator, Wayan Arta Ari-awan, amidst the crime scene investigation revealed that his party was trying to follow up the case by continuing to investigate and collect testimony from several witnesses at the scene.
“We’re still investigating the BNI ATM fraud trial to uncover the culprit of the theft. The loss is only the damage to the ATM machine, while the money in the safe had not been taken away,” said Chief of Tabanan Police Criminal Investiga-
tor, Wayan Arta Ariawan.He said that based on the footage
of CCTV around the scene or inside the ATM itself was seen a person showing off a suspicious gesture. The man alleged to be the culprit came into the ATM by using white helmet and raincoat at 1:02 a.m. and came out of the ATM booth around 1:07 a.m.
“However, not long after when the man arrived in front of the ATM, the man suspected to be the culprit was back again into the ATM to perform his action. Possibly, when trying to perform the action again, the culprit cancelled it because of fear of getting caught considering at the same time a truck came to park at the parking area in front of the ATM long enough through 5:00 a.m. Perhaps, the driver was unwinding in the truck,” he said.
Allegedly the culprit of burglary trial was still fairly amateur. It was evident from the tools used by the culprit to destroy the cash dispenser and his action when trying to destroy the hinges of the safe. (kmb)
Police investigate ATM burglary case trial at Luwus
Murder of U.S. citizenPolice lose traces, culprit under pursuit
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The development in Nusa Penida Island
Imbalance, Nusa Penida infrastructure development Bali Post
SEMARAPURA - Development inequality does not only occur between mainland Klungkung and the islands of Nusa Penida. However, the islands of Nusa Penida, particularly Nusa Gede, also experiences similar condition. In recent years, the Nusa Gede only develops in the western part ranging from Toya Pakeh, Ped village, Kutampi, Batu Nunggul, Suana and other villages in the west side.
jukutan, Batumadeg, Batukandik, Klumpu, Bunga Mekar, Sakti and others should also be developed.
He hoped the regent and his government regarded as the best figure of Nusa Penida should un-derstand more about Nusa Penida Islands (Nusa Gede, Ceningan and Lembongan) and the reality of the field. Thus, the government was capable of realizing the equitable development in the three islands. Moreover, if Nusa Gede was com-pared to Nusa Lembongan and Nusa Ceningan it was very much imbalanced and needed to be ad-dressed more seriously. Jana said the Gede Nusa society, especially in the eastern part, began to realize that they had the same rights and obligations as the community of Nusa Penida. “If the reality as it is today, all people can only knead the chest. Have they been choos-ing a wrong leader for years?” he questioned.
Regent of Klungkung Nyoman
Suwirta recently confirmed his commitment to bringing Nusa Penida out of the impression as suburban residents. He emphasized the role of local people were en-couraged to build their own region because the expectation could not be met by local residents. Precise-ly, many local people even chose to wander whereas local people were obliged to build their own region. Even, they were expected to create job opportunities.
Such expectations were hoped to grow from school, particularly at vocational school. It was revealed by the regent during his visit to the SMKN 1 Nusa Penida recently. He expected the vocational school to produce the students with skills to build their own region. To achieve that, it was surely required quali-fied teachers having the capabil-ity of direct their students. Then, the teaching staff was also re-quired to undertake innovations at school. (kmb31)
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“It’s been a historical year in film for all of us in this room, and I’m so proud to be a part of that history,” Nyong’o said. “It’s such an honor to be recognized for a film that has meant so much to so many people, a film that has inspired discourse long overdue.”
Kevin Hart won as entertainer of the year and actor in a comedy series for “Real Husbands of Hollywood,” his BET reality TV lampoon that was also selected as outstanding comedy series.
Kerry Washington picked up her
fifth Image Award: outstanding ac-tress in a drama series for her role as crisis management consultant Olivia Pope on ABC’s “Scandal,” which was also honored as outstanding drama series.
Other winners at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium ceremony hosted by actor Anthony Anderson included “Steve Har-vey” as talk show and David Oyelowo as supporting actor in a motion picture for “Lee Daniels’ The Butler.” “Thank you America for embracing me,” the British
actor said. “I’m one of those guys with the funny accent.”
Forest Whitaker won the actor in a motion picture prize for “The Butler.” Whitaker, who founded the Whitaker Peace and Development Initiative, was also honored with the NAACAP Chair-man’s Award, which recognizes distin-guished public service. Whitaker serves as the chairman of the International Institute for Peace and is a member of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities.
“All I’ve tried to do with my life and work is to deeper my connection with humanity, so I’ve lived by the words of an old Nat King Cole song my daddy used to play on his stereo, which is, ‘The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return,’” said Whitaker.
Associated Press Writer
SYDNEY — Australian TV star and former model Char-lotte Dawson, who became an anti-bullying activist after she was targeted online, has been found dead at age 47. Famed for TV shows such as “Austra-lia’s Next Top Model,” the New Zealand-born star had a history of depression. She was found dead in her Sydney apartment on Saturday morning. Police said there were no suspicious circumstances, which is how they usually describe suicide.
Sydney’s The Sunday Tele-graph newspaper reported that she was found hanged. In 2012, she was admitted to a Sydney hospital after a suicide attempt following an ongoing tirade of abuse on Twitter. She had taken prescription tablets with wine and tweeted: “you win” in a suicide note to her cyber tormentors.
She later made fighting bul-lying her personal mission,
waging an anti-bullying media campaign on television and radio and in newspapers and magazines as well as her be-loved Twitter. Her efforts and high public profile on the issue were recognized by the Na-tional Rugby League, a major Australian football association, which last year made her an anti-bullying ambassador.
The NRL’s One-Community campaign is an extension of its zero-tolerance policy toward racial abuse in football. Dawson revealed in her 2012 autobiog-raphy “Air Kiss & Tell” that she was frequently visited by the “depression bogeyman.”
She had long graced the pages of women’s gossip maga-zines and scenes in reality TV shows. Her modeling career had taken her to Italy, Britain and Germany during the 1980s. New Zealand Prime Minister John Key tweeted he was “shocked and saddened” by the news of her death.
Australian TV star Charlotte Dawson found dead
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In this April 26, 2008 photo, Charlotte Dawson arrives on the red carpet for the MTV Australia awards in Sydney. Austra-lian TV star and former model Dawson was found dead at age 47 in her Sydney apartment on Saturday morning, Feb. 22, 2014, following a history of depression.
‘12 Years a Slave’ wins big at NAACP Image Awards
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Kevin Hart accepts the award for entertainer of the year at the 45th NAACP Image Awards at the Pasa-dena Civic Auditorium on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014, in Pasadena, Calif.
Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES — “12 Years a Slave” swept the film categories at the NAACP Image Awards with four wins. The historical epic’s prizes at Saturday’s 45th annual ceremony honoring diversity in the arts included outstanding motion picture, directing for Steve McQueen, writing for John Ridley and supporting actress for Lupita Nyong’o.
According to an economic and education observer, Viraguna Ba-goes Oka, it could become a threat of its own if foreign educational institutions worked on the local
market and in the education process did not provide for the portion of the Balinese local wisdom-based content. “In terms of competence and content, probably the entry of
foreign education institution into Bali does not matter. But on the other hand, local wisdom values will not be accommodated. Every-thing has orientation in business and free market, so the value of local wisdom will be disrupted,” said Viraguna.
On the other hand, the free entry of foreign educational institutions into Bali would kindle a gap be-tween the national educational institution and local wisdom-based education with the profit-based
foreign educational institution. “It’s hazardous. If there is no rule pro-tecting the values of local wisdom, the education in Bali can be misdi-rected. Students will be encouraged to think in terms of business orien-tation and total efficiency or total liberal so there will be no values of nationalism and local wisdom characterizing our typicality. With-out early anticipation with adequate local rules, the local wisdom will be eroded,” he said.
According to Viraguna, in order
to face the competition of free mar-ket, Bali should be able to prepare first the local rule. He exemplified how Malaysia was able to protect local knowledge, local economy and local products before it actually received the free market. “Malaysia is first preparing local rules in the field of education and economy. After strengthening local rules, it then accepted the free market. We in Bali should be able to make such a local rule,” he said.
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Free market competition like the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) 2015 has been in sight. Other than foreign products as well as foreign workers freely coming into Bali, the foreign educational institutions are also worried to invade Bali and seize the education market on the Island of the Gods.
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DENPASAR - Free market competition like the ASEAN Eco-nomic Community (AEC) 2015 has been in sight. Other than foreign products as well as foreign workers freely coming into Indonesia, including Bali, the foreign educational institutions are also worried to invade Bali and seize the education market on the Island of the Gods.
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