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Ben Affleck is not directing Batman, but will produce, star

LOS ANGELES — Ben Affleck is no longer directing the Batman standalone movie for Warner Bros. In a statement Monday, Affleck said it “has become clear that I cannot do both jobs to the level they require” and that he and the studio are looking for a new director.

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Ben Affleck, the director, producer, writer and star of “Live by Night,” poses at the premiere of the film at the TCL Chinese Theatre on Monday, Jan. 9, 2017 in Los Angeles.

“There are certain characters who hold a special place in the hearts of millions,” Affleck said in the statement. “Performing this role demands focus, passion and the very best performance I can give.”

Affleck made his debut as the superhero for the studio last summer in “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” and he had been attached to write and direct the Batman standalone movie for about a year. He attended Comic-Con this summer with his fellow DC Universe directors, like “Wonder Woman’s” Patty Jenkins, “Justice League’s” Zack Snyder, and Rick Famuyiwa, who this past fall also stepped away from directing “The Flash.”

The studio in a statement said that it “fully supports” his decision and “remains committed to working with him to bring a standalone Batman picture to life.”

Warner Bros. and Affleck have had a longstanding relationship. This past fall alone, Affleck made a cameo as Batman/Bruce Wayne in “Suicide Squad,” starred in “The Accountant,” and wrote, directed and starred in the period drama “Live by Night.”

Speaking to The Associated Press in December , Affleck said he was taking his time with the script for Batman, which he called an “exhilarating” challenge, “like jumping out of an airplane.”

Warner Bros. has had a rocky start kicking off its expanded universe of DC Comics films. Both “Batman v Superman” and “Suicide Squad” were savaged by critics, but they still managed to be decently profitable.

Affleck will appear next as Batman in “Justice League,” which comes out on Nov. 17. The Batman standalone doesn’t yet have an official title or release date, but it was tentatively pegged for 2018.

“I am still in this, and we are making it,” Affleck’s statement continued. “I remain extremely committed to this project, and look forward to bringing this to life for fans around the world.”(ap)

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Friends and loved ones of John Jezreel David, 21, who was shot dead in what police said was an anti-drug operation, cry during his funeral rites at the north cemetery in Metro Manila, Philippines February 1, 2017.

Philippines police behave like “criminal underworld” in drugs war

MANILA - Police prosecuting the war on drugs in the Philippines have behaved like the criminal underworld they are supposed to be suppressing, taking payments for killings and delivering bodies to funeral homes, according to a report released on Wednesday.

Amnesty International’s report said the wave of drugs-related killings since President Rodrigo Duterte came to power in mid2016 appeared to be “systematic, planned and organised” by authorities and could constitute crimes against humanity.

Responding to the findings, presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella defended the Philippine National Police (PNP), saying no extra-judicial killings were statesponsored and investigations by Senate committees had proved that.

“There is no state-sponsored policy of extra-judicial deaths and that there is relentless effort on the part of the PNP to carry out the campaign properly and within legal processes,” he said.

In a series of reports last year, Reuters showed that the police had a 97-percent kill rate in their drug operations, the strongest proof yet that police were summarily shooting drug suspects.

The Reuters reports also found that low-level officials in poor neighbourhoods helped police assemble “watch lists” of alleged

drug users and pushers that were effectively hit lists, with many of the people named ending up dead.

Duterte used exaggerated and flawed data, including the number of drug users in the Philippines, to justify his anti-narcotics crackdown, according to a Reuters investigation.

The release of Amnesty’s investigation, which was based on 59 killings in 20 cities and towns, comes amid uncertainty over the crackdown after the government suspended all anti-drug operations by police on Monday due to rampant corruption. The Philippine Drugs Enforcement Agency (PDEA) has now been given the lead role in the campaign.

Duterte made the decision after a security meeting on Sunday trig-

gered by the kidnap and killing of a South Korean businessmen by drugs squad police. He said the incident, which took place at the national police headquarters, had embarrassed the country and tarnished the image of the police.

‘RELENTLESS PRESSURE’ Amnesty said the vast majority of the killings it investigated “appear to have been extra-judicial killings - unlawful and deliberate killings carried out by government order or with its complicity or acquiescence”.

“The Duterte administration’s relentless pressure on the police to deliver results in anti-drug operations has helped encourage these abusive practices,” the report said.

A senior police officer told Amnesty that police are “paid by the encounter”, receiving the equivalent of at least $160 per killing and received nothing for making arrests.

Amnesty reported that some police are rewarded by undertakers for sending dead bodies their way, police steal from victims’ homes, and paid killers are on the police payroll.

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Pure Bali cattle must be conserved

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Prior to the implementation of the shared meal, female villagers give pajegan offerings and pray together in the temple.

Unique Timbrah village tradition

All the villagers share a meal in usaba muhu-muhu

THERE is a unique moment that only occurs once a year in Timbrah customary village, Karangasem, it is known by the inhabitants of this old village as usaba muhu-muhu. This caru ritual brings everyone together with the sharing of a meal known as megibung. This unique tradition involves setting up more than 100 portions of food for everyone in the village to partake in.

This year, the unique event took place on Friday (Jan. 27). Before the sacred meal, people from four of the villages hamlets had been busy since morning preparing and processing a wide range of spices. Every hamlet has its respective duties including processing seasonings, grating coconut, preparing caru oblations, and slicing and grilling beef. Completing the caru oblations paraphernalia for the caru and other ceremonial needs is done by the undagi group. Throughout the day, the community of four hamlets and two sesabu hamlets are busy with the preparations before the implementation of the joint prayers at the main Dalem Temple.

Chief of Timbrah customary village, Wayan Sukerta, said that prior to the implementation of the shared meal, female villagers give pajegan offerings and pray together in the temple. Meawhile the male villagers carry drinking water from their homes for the shared meal.

“This tradition has been ongoing for generations and is a way to foster a sense of togetherness”, said Sukerta. This year however there was a slight change to the way the meal took olace. Whereas in previsou years, the shared meal took lace in four separate pavillions ( the meeting pavilion, the gamelan troue pavilion, the long pavilion and the studio pavilion, this year everyone was gathered together in the wantilan hall of the customary youth club.

These shared meals are processed from the leftover meat from the caru oblations. This event is eagerly awaited by local residents who still live in the village and those who have moved away bt come back especially so they can share a meal with their kinfolk.

More than 100 portions of this shared meal are prepared by residents serving as saya and malun saya in cooperation with the village apparatus. Each gibungan or portion of this shared meals is eaten by six to eight people. “We all eat together after praying together in the central Dalem Temple” said Sukerta.

What about residents who abstain from consuming beef? This is likelyhood is anticipated and so six portions of chicken gibungan are also prepared. “Everyone is expected to enjoy the food offerings called ngelungsur that have been presented. So chicken gibungan is also prepared”, he said.

The usaba muhu-muhu ritual is done as a form of village wide caru in order to transform bhuta kala into bhuta hita so that local residents can always live in harmony with the universe. This traditional event starts with the nyaga ritual. Three days before the usaba-muhu muhu, residents carry out this ritual to transform bhuta kala at a smaller level, so athat people’S courtyards will not be distrurbed. This ritual is also called metuun buah. During the usaba muhumuhu, a nyomia ritual is performed at a higher level by the customary village using caru oblation made of buffalo as the sacrificial animal.

The Undagi procession that involves the slaughering of a cow for the caru, always draws great attention from surrounding residents. The cow is tied to a concrete pole and is pacified with the indangi procession. However when slaughtered the cow thrashes about makign everyine a little tense. This procession is however safer than a similar ritual known as usaba kaulu that takes place at Asak village, where the cow is released into the village. The beast is then attacked with swords, machetes and other sharp weapons. Usaba Kaulu will be held on Wednesday (Feb. 1). Sources in the village say that the usaba muhu-muhu tradition is considered as the application of the Shiva Purana scripture, in which Dewi Dhurgha goes up against the demon Mahisasura in the form of cow or buffalo. In recent times, this ritual is commemorated as a moment to conduct introspection, exercise self-control and to avoide letting ones animal nature take over. (gik)

DENPASAR - Texture of Bali beef is indeed not as tender as wagyu beef imported from Japan.

This reason also makes Bali beef Bali unable to meet the international market demand. Nevertheless, the pure Bali cow must still be maintained. It does not need to do crossbreeding with wagyu cattle in order to get tender meat.

“If only oriented to calf of Bali cattle, it will not be able to become wagyu. But the regulation does not allow the crossbreeding. We shall also consider our regulations because it contains germplasm preservation of Bali cattle,” said Deputy Governor of Bali I Ketut Sudikerta when receiving Kamichiku Holdings, a Japanese cattle company at Prajasabha meeting room, the office of the Governor of Bali, on Tuesday (Jan. 31).

On the other hand, continued Sudikerta, Bali must also deal with the dynamics in harmony with the changing times. Pursuant to the solutions offered by Japanese businessmen, a crossbreeding must be done to improve the quality of Bali beef. However, it does not necessarily mean the government will soon revise the existing regulation. It needs further study about the matter.

“Indeed, we need it (crossbreeding), but can only be performed outside Bali. It cannot be carried out in Bali, so the solution is to improve the quality of beef in Bali by accelerating the slaughter age as well as improving the quality of their feed,” he explained.

Chairperson of the Center for Bali Cattle Studies, Udayana University, Prof. Dr. Ni Ketut Suwiti, considered that Bali cattle actually have a tremendous advantage when compared to other beef in Indonesia in terms of meat quality. Therefore, the pure Bali cattle should be maintained. Actually, so far there has been no improvement carried out to Bali cattle, including the application of technology from the beginning to post-harvest.

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“Do not make crossbreeding first, please preserve first the Bali pure cattle germplasm in Bali. We must improve it and please wait for the results until one or two years. So, it’s not like eating spicy chili that straightly tastes spicy,” she said.

Suwiti explained that at the initial stage is required to apply feed management and application of technology for one year. Then, Bali cattle are raised by paying attention to the aspects of animal health. After 1.5 or 2 years, it can be slaughtered in appropriate with the standard operating procedures (SOP) of international slaughter.

Finally, post-harvest handling should be done properly.

“Hopefully, one day Bali cattle can approach the quality of foreign beef,” added this professor of the Faculty of Animal Husbandry. She added that the current slaughter age is between five and six years old and the weight must reach 350 kg in appropriate with the regulations concerning Bali cattle. This happened because the cattle are raised as they are without feed management and application of technology. By and large, farmer community has not owned business orientation.

“Improvement of cattle weight only reaches 0.3 kg for male cow and 0.29 kg for female cow per day. It is very low compared to wagyu reaching 2 kg per cow per day. Then, my research proved that by feeding with a formulation, we are able to increase the weight up to 0.8 kg per head per day, almost 1 kg. In 1.5 years, it can reach 350 kg,” he explained.

Suwiti claimed to have conducted a research for two years and found an integrated feed formulation to accelerate the age of beef cattle. It can be done by providing feed taken from surrounding areas like grass coupled with additional formulation of 0.5 kg of bran and 0.5 kg of maize plus mineral mixture. (kmb32)

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The pure Bali cow must still be maintained. It does not need to do crossbreeding with wagyu cattle in order to get tender meat.

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Adult swaddling therapy fad hits Tokyo

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TOKYO - Wrapped up from head to toe in a white bag and gently rocking from side to side, five Japanese mothers are hopeful Tokyo’s latest health trend can cure their postpregnancy aches and pains.

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Adult swaddling therapy is Tokyo’s latest health trend.

According to its exponents, Otonamaki, which translates as “adult wrapping”, was devised by a Kyoto midwife who thought replicating how children are swaddled at birth could help mothers overcome post labour shoulder and hip pain.

The five mothers at a recent session in Tokyo lay on their backs with their knees on their chests bundled up in white cloths. Staff then helped them rock over cushions.

“It felt warm and there was this feeling with my body,” said one mother who tried the 20 minute session.

“I have never experienced this before so its quite hard to describe properly.”

Not everyone is a fan. Chiropractor Shiro Oba was sceptical about its powers of healing and encouraged mothers with back pain to visit a physician.

“There may be cases where people with asthma may find it easier to breath (in that position), but once the cloth is off it’s the same thing,” said Oba. “But apart from that, I just can’t think of how people can benefit from this even as a form of reflexology or exercise.” (rtr)

Skipping breakfast may be bad for your heart, doctors say

NEW YORK- Planning meals and snacks in advance and eating breakfast every day may help lower the risk of cardiovascular disease, new guidelines from U.S. doctors say.

Eating more calories earlier in the day and consuming less food at night may also reduce the odds of a heart attack, stroke or other cardiac or blood vessel diseases, according to the scientific statement from the American Heart Association.

“When we eat may be important to consider, in addition to what we eat,” said Marie-Pierre St-Onge, chair of the group that wrote the guidelines and a nutrition researcher at Columbia University Medical Center in New York.

As many as 30 percent of U.S. adults may routinely skip breakfast, a habit that has become more common in recent years as more people snack throughout the day instead of sitting down for three traditional meals, St-Onge and colleagues note in the journal Circulation.

When people do eat breakfast daily, they’re less likely to have risk factors for cardiovascular disease like high cholesterol and elevated blood pressure. And people who skip this morning meal are more likely to have risk factors like obesity, poor nutrition and diabetes or high blood sugar.

That’s because meal timing may affect health by impacting the body’s internal clock. We may not

process sugars as well at night as we do during the day, and studies of shift workers have linked this schedule with a greater risk of obesity and heart disease than a typical day job, St-Onge said by email.

“We know from population studies that eating breakfast is related to lower weight and healthier diet, along with lower risk of cardiovascular disease,” St-Onge said.

“However, interventions to increase breakfast consumption in those who typically skip breakfast do not support a strong causal role of this meal for weight management, in particular,” St-Onge cautioned. “Adding breakfast, for some, leads to an additional meal and weight gain.”

It’s possible that some people who add breakfast aren’t eating the right things or cutting back on what they eat later in the day, resulting in more calories but not necessarily good nutrition.

A healthy diet is heavy on fruits and vegetables, whole grains, lowfat dairy, poultry and fish, according to the guidelines. Eating well also means limiting red meat, salt and foods high in added sugars.

Plotting out what to eat ahead of time, especially for busy people who eat on the go, can help create a diet that’s better for heart health, St-Onge said.

“Planning ahead and making healthy, carry-on foods is important,” St-Onge suggested. “This

could be a homemade smoothie or whole grain muffin or cereal bar for breakfast; packing a sandwich or leftovers for those times when time is tight.”

Advance thought can also help people eat the right amount of food throughout the day and eat at the right time, said Samantha Heller, a nutritionist at New York University Langone Medical Center who

wasn’t involved in the guidelines.

“The ‘eating several small meals’ during the day advice that we commonly hear is unrealistic for most people because the ‘small’ meals often turn into meal-sized meals and weight gain is inevitable,” Heller said by email.

“Another booby trap for overeating is after dinner,” Heller added.

“Night time eating is quite common

and an easy way to add unnecessary calories and pack on the pounds over time because people snack when in front of TV, computer and tablet screens.”

Heller’s advice: “Once dinner is finished, the kitchen should be closed. If your schedule is crazy and you cannot get to dinner until later in the evening, then eat light at night.” (rtr)

The children have returned to their school after police officers of Seririt pick up and drop off them through highway.

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After emergency bridge washed away

Police shuttle students of SDN 5 Ringdikit

SINGARAJA - Dozens of students of SDN 5 Ringdikit elementary school from Lokapaksa, Seririt, are back to school as usual. The children have returned to their school after police officers of Seririt pick up and drop off them through highway.

They get shuttle service by using patrol car of Seririt subdistrict police. Police give them shuttle service through detour of Lokapaksa, passing Seririt village and Ringdikit village.

The concern of police is carried out because they do not want the students and their parents to be burdened by worries if they are desperate to cross Saba River. Moreover, since the bridge built provincial government is damaged again due to floods, students get trouble to cross the river when going to school.

Chief of Seririt police, Anak Agung Wiranata Kusuma, with permission of Buleleng Police chief, Made Suka Wijaya, explained on Tuesday (Jan. 31) that shuttle assistance for

students of SDN 5 Ringdikit is provided until the government repairs the floated emergency bridge or there is a permanent handling for the bridge.

Every day he assigns his personnel and a patrol car to provide shuttle service for dozens of students from Lokapaksa village. With this effort, parents are expected to be peaceful and no longer worried about the student safety and no longer unencumbered when going to school. When the water recedes, the shuttle service will be stopped. Police will be back to help students cross the river by providing a rope having been installed.

“After we get permission from the leadership, we will provide shuttle service for students until there is a repair or the permanent bridge is made. We do this because we have a pity on the students whose safety is at risk if forced to cross raging river and such damaged bridge,” he said.

On the other hand, he added although his institution will be ready to provide shuttle service for the students as the best short-term solution, the district and provincial government are

expected to take prompt efforts to address the problems. Probably, the effort can be the repair to the floated emergency bridge or the making of emergency bridge in other construction.

“Hopefully, there is a repair or the making of a new bridge as soon as possible. The access of crossing the river is shorter than by passing the road through Lokapaksa village, then to Seririt village and southward to Ringdikit village,” he explained.

As reported earlier, dozens of students of SDN 5 Ringdikit from Lokapaksa, Seririt, were forced to take day-off on Monday (Jan. 30). They were prohibited to go to school by their parents because they cannot cross the river. Floods on Sunday (Jan. 29) cut off the newly completed emergency bridge eight days before. Joints of the concrete pier column of the bridge came off because the hollow were clogged by rubbish and hit by pieces of driftwood washed away by twometer deep flood. Due to difficulty of crossing, parents then forbade their children to go to school and suggested them to wait until the river water recedes. (kmb38)

Many elementary school libraries in unkempt condition

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A traditional full English breakfast of sausages, chips, baked beans, bacon, black pudding and toast is pictured at ‘Enough To Feed an Elephant’ cafe in London May 24, 2012.

TABANAN - The Saturday reading program plan echoed by the Tabanan Education Agency received appreciation from the circles of the Education Council and Education Clinic. However, both education-observing institutions even viewed that the program cannot run maximally because the results of their monitoring indicate that a number of libraries at primary schools and junior high schools in Tabanan are in unkempt conditions.

“We appreciate to the idea of the Education Agency in the effort to increase reading interest among

the students. However, there is still a problem where the library rooms are less well maintained and so are the collection of books on display,” said Chairman of the Education Council, Wayan Madra Suartana, on Tuesday (Feb. 1).

Results of their monitoring indicated that condition of many libraries at elementary and junior high school is less well maintained. Moreover, he acknowledged there are library rooms that are always locked. At the same time, a number of books that should be displayed instead look well-wrapped and stacked away

in the corner of the room.

Previously, the data reported by the Education Agency indicated that of 328 elementary schools in Tabanan district, only 185 schools already have owned a library.

To comply with minimum service standards (SPM) at primary schools, the Education Agency will continue to boost the provision of library room at each school. In keeping with the effort of the education agency, added Madra, next March his council will hold a workshop for librarians. This activity aims to

set up a representative library room that can attract students to visit, readiness of the librarians to serve the borrowing and setting up the books.

“Arrange the library in accordance with contemporary look so that it can attract the interest of students to spend their resting hours in the library,” he concluded.

Similar ideas were also expressed by Chief of Education Clinic, I Wayan Kawi. He said that in 2016 the Education Council and Education Clinic already distributed books of Balinese

story telling at each school and this program will be resumed in 2017. Distribution of books on Balinese story telling is also a support for education given by education observers to increase the number of student visiting library.

As reported previously, the Tabanan Education Agency makes a breakthrough named the Saturday reading program. As the implementation, each school must oblige their students to read books having been prepared for one to one and a half hour every Saturday. (kmb28)

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Traffic congestion frequently affecting Badung tourism is highlighted by the Association of Bali Tourism Industry (GIPI) Bali.

GIPI Bali complains about waste and congestion in Badung

MANGUPURA - Traffic congestion frequently affecting Badung tourism is highlighted by the Association of Bali Tourism Industry (GIPI) Bali. Similarly, the highlight is directed to waste at Suwung landfill that exudes scent getting to Sanur especially when the current west wind blows.

It was revealed when the GIPI Bali led by Chairman of GIPI Bali, I.B. Agung Partha, met the Regent of Badung, Giri Prasta, in the Badung Civic Center on Tuesday (Jan. 31).

“Today, transportation from the airport to Ubud takes up to three hours due to traffic congestion. On

that account, many travelers divert their destination to outside Bali.

Rubbish at Suwung landfill also exudes scent when the current west wind blows,” he said.

Agung Partha hoped that Badung could immediately take strategic measures to help tourism players in dealing with the issue.

“It is necessary to synchronize the programs, so that from the accommodation to tourist destination will not take a long time for travelers,” he said.

On the occasion, Regent of Badung, Giri Prasta, explained that government of Badung is ready to become the spearhead to realize the Bali Tourism, from Badung building Bali. “One of them is supporting the Bali ring railway, where Badung is ready to become the starting point of the railway line,” he said.

Badung government is also ready to build an underpass at the Statue of Ngurah Rai to reduce congestion from the airport to Gianyar, ring road, shortcut to overcome bottlenecks and West Benoa ring road. “Congestion is a major problem to tourism and it needs concrete measure to resolve it,” he said.

Related to waste problem, Badung district already has a waste management program at each village in Badung. “Currently, the Badung district has been trying to

reduce the supply of waste to Suwung landfill by sorting the waste at village into fertilizer for organic waste, while the inorganic one is brought to waste bank,” he said.

This official from Pelaga, Petang, said that Badung government will team up with tourism stakeholders for tourism promotion. The government would like to make one island management and one stop destination that can extend the length of stay of tourists in Bali to realize the development of Bali from Badung. (kmb27)

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Student supporters of Islamic charity organization Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), carry signs and chant slogans to condemn the house arrest of Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, chief of (JuD), during a protest demonstration in Karachi, Pakistan, January 31, 2017.

Protests after Pakistan detains alleged architect of Mumbai attack

Grand design and one island management

LAHORE, Pakistan/ISLAMABAD - Pakistani supporters of Islamist leader Hafiz Saeed staged small protests on Tuesday and condemned the United States, after police detained the accused architect of an attack on the Indian city of Mumbai that killed 166 people in 2008.

BALI always becoming number one tourist destination is certainly visited by many travelers. The current increasing number of tourist visit to Bali as well as the lack of convenience factor caused by traffic congestion is still considered as the problems in Bali tourism.

Surely, these problems affect the tourism development itself.

Met when attending the discussion with the theme “Management of Bali Transportation” at the office of the Bali Tourism Board (BTB) on Tuesday (Jan. 31), a lecturer in Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Udayana University, who is also transportation observer, Prof. Putu Alit Suthanaya, said that

Saeed, pointed to by critics as evidence of Pakistan’s reluctance to crack down hard enough on militants, was held late on Monday at the headquarters of his charity before being placed under house arrest at his home in the eastern city of Lahore. He denies involvement in the Mumbai attack.

The move follows a U.S. visa ban by President Donald Trump aimed at countries deemed linked to terrorism, and, while Pakistan was not named, a Pakistani official said worry over the new administration was a factor in the decision.

Pressure from key ally China may also have played a role, according to senior Pakistani officials, who say Beijing has for months been quietly lobbying Islamabad to crack down on Saeed and other

Required to overcome congestion to address the problem is required the existence of grand design that can be used as a reference by all stakeholders in Bali Province.

Transportation problems cannot be limited by boundaries of local autonomy, but must be considered holistically for Bali on the whole. In this regard, it should be applied the one island management, so that transportation should also be managed by one island system. “Policy and master plan of the province must also be followed by the district / municipality so as to be coherent with the master plan in the province,” he said.

He added that in the future the carrying capacity of Bali with the tourist arrival must be considered.

It will also influence the multiplier effect for the tourism and related derivatives to tourism activities that cause movement served by the transportation infrastructure.

According to him, currently it should begin to consider the making of grand design that must also be agreed by Balinese people for 20-30 years to come. Currently there has been a design, but remains not to be integrated. So far, each agency issues their respective design.

“This time of the ministry of public works issued its own design, transportation agency has its own design and so does the tourism office. It must be integrated into a grand design for Bali integrating

all the aspects such as tourism, agriculture and transportation into a single unity,” he said.

He explained that the grand design is expected to become a reference for the development in Bali. Without this grand design, the development will become unfocused. Thus, the grand design should include the short-, mediumand long-term programs.

“This should be implemented consistently by the government, whoever will continue the government in the future. Therefore, each new government will not start again from zero point. In that way, we will never be moving forward, and what we want will never be real-

ized,” he added.

Responding to this problem, Chairman of the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) Bali, Tjokorda Oka Artha Ardhana Sukawati, revealed that it is very good. However, this remains to take time, while congestion problem has been in front of the eyes.

According to him, what to do now is applying discipline to users and law enforcement. “Currently, congestion happens due to undisciplined road users and weak law enforcement. Sometimes those who violate are mostly local people (residents nearby), so that the officers are difficult to crack down on them,” he said. (kmb23)

Islamist leaders. “Release Hafiz Saeed! ... Anyone who is a friend of the U.S. is a traitor!” chanted about 150 members of Saeed’s Islamic charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) in the southern city of Karachi.

About 500 protesters shouted similar slogans outside the provincial assembly in Lahore.

Demonstrations also were held in Islamabad, according to the JuD, which the United States says is a front for the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant group blamed for the Mumbai attack.

Saeed founded LeT in the 1990s but later distanced himself from it.

Arch-rival India was sceptical that Pakistan would bring Saeed to justice, pointing out that he had been detained before and released.

“Only a credible crack down

on the mastermind of the Mumbai terrorist attack and terrorist organizations involved in cross border terrorism would be proof of Pakistan’s sincerity,” said a statement from India’s Ministry of External Affairs.

BRINK OF WAR India has been demanding action against Saeed since the Mumbai raid by 10 gunmen from Pakistan, who infiltrated the city by boat and killed 166 people in a rampage that included attacks on two luxury hotels, a Jewish centre and a train station. The attack brought nucleararmed Pakistan and India closer to war, although Islamabad denied any state involvement.

Pakistan’s military has long been accused of sponsoring LeT and other anti-India militants, a charge it rejects. Saeed was placed under house arrest just after the Mumbai attacks but was released six months later when a court ruled there was insufficient evidence against him.

In recent months, Saeed has

been holding regular news conferences to denounce a security crackdown in the Indian-controlled part of the divided Kashmir region. “If they believe that they can throw the Kashmir issue into the background through our arrests and our confinement, that is not possible,” Saeed said as he was being led away by police.

U.S. PRESSURE, CHINESE PERSUASION Saeed accused the government of bowing to pressure from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the United States. “This is taking place because of Modi’s insistence, Trump’s pressure and Pakistan’s helplessness,” Saeed told reporters.

The United States has listed both the LeT and the charity as “foreign terrorist” organisations and has a $10 million reward for information leading to Saeed’s arrest.

The Pakistani government has not officially commented on why it acted now. A senior defence min-

istry official said the government had not been contacted by the new U.S. administration, but it had been feeling American pressure on the issue. “Trump is taking hard decisions against Muslim countries, there is open talk of actions against Pakistan also. So yes, this was a consideration,” said the official, who declined to be identified.

Several other government officials have said recently that longtime ally China has been working to persuade Pakistan to act against wanted militants such as Saeed.

Officials in Beijing did not respond to queries on Tuesday, which falls during the Lunar New Year holiday.

Since 2007, Pakistan has been battling the Pakistani Taliban and other militants seeking to impose strict Islamic law.

But critics say it has targeted only militants who attack its own state, not those active in neighbouring Afghanistan and India, such as the Afghan Taliban, Haqqani network and LeT.(rtr)

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Europe’s recovery gains speed in turbulent year

FRANKFURT — Europe’s economic recovery is on more solid ground ahead of what could be a turbulent political year.

Official figures showed clear signs of improvement in the 19 countries that share the euro currency. Statistics agency Eurostat said Tuesday that eurozone growth accelerated in the fourth quarter to 0.5 percent from 0.4 percent in the previous three-month period. As a result, the eurozone economy grew by 1.7 percent in 2016.

That solid — if unspectacular — growth helped unemployment drop 0.1 percentage point in December to 9.6 percent. That is the lowest since May 2009, before a financial implosion in Greece that year set off a debt crisis that almost shattered the eurozone.

The growth and unemployment figures offer a boost to supporters of the European Union and the euro currency after years of crisis management. Eurozone governments have had to bail out Greece, Portugal, Ireland and Cyprus, and set up new banking regulations aimed at preventing future crises.

A perceived emphasis on controlling deficits over promoting growth fueled resentment in bailed-out countries.

One of the most striking numbers from Eurostat showed inflation across the eurozone rising sharply in January to 1.8 percent from 1.1 percent the month before — a jump that will likely encourage critics

who think it’s time for the European Central Bank to start withdrawing its stimulus programs.

Inflation was the highest since February 2013 and now — on paper anyway — at the ECB’s goal of just below 2 percent.

The upturn is unlikely to quell populist resentment of the EU in a year that will see challenges from nationalist and populist anti-EU parties. Elections in France, the Netherlands, Germany and possibly Italy will give such forces a chance to test their support.

French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen of the Front National, for example, wants a referendum on leaving the EU, which she has compared to the Soviet Union.

Polls suggest she could make it past the first round of voting in April but would lose in the May runoff.

Europe’s recovery remains uneven. Germany, benefiting from strong exports and domestic demand, has an unemployment rate of only 3.9 percent, according to Eurostat.

Greece, which has struggled to get its finances under control despite three rounds of bailout loans from its euro partners and the International Monetary Fund, remains mired in economic misery.

The latest unemployment figures there, from October, showed 23.0 percent of the workforce out of a job. Spain has showed a stronger recovery from a collapsed real estate boom, but the jobless rate remains at 18.4 percent despite a substantial drop in December from

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FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2013 file photo trucks loaded with containers leave the harbor in Duisburg, Germany. Europe’s statistic agency Eurostat releases growth, inflation and unemployment figures for the 19 countries that use the euro currency on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017.

20.7 percent.

Unemployment for young people leaving school is even worse in the lagging countries still feeling the effects of the debt crisis: 44.2 percent for under-25s in Greece, 42.9 percent in Spain and 40.1 percent in Italy.

The inflation figure could present a headache for Mario Draghi, head of the European Central Bank. It’s likely to embolden critics, particularly in Germany, who say it’s time for the bank to start withdrawing its extraordinary

stimulus aimed at increasing inflation toward the bank’s goal.

The ECB has held its short-term benchmark interest rate at zero and is purchasing government and corporate bonds with newly printed money, a step that pumps fresh cash into the financial system and drives down longer-term borrowing rates.

Critics say the zero-interest rate policy punishes savers, who get no return on conservative holdings such as bank deposits, and supports indebted governments with cheap borrowing costs.

Draghi however has shown no signs of readiness to start scaling back. He says the spike in inflation is caused by volatile oil prices, not by underlying price pressures in the economy such as wage increases passed on to consumers. That means the inflation spike could fade over coming months, as the effect of sharply lower oil prices a year ago is left behind. Core inflation, which excludes oil and food prices, remained stuck at 0.9 percent, about where it has been for months.(ap)

Dollar heads for worst January in a decade

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LONDON - The dollar was on course for its worst start to a year in more than a decade on Tuesday after a trade adviser to President Donald Trump added to signs the new administration may be trying to talk its currency down. Suggestions by the head of Trump’s new National Trade Council, Peter Navarro, that Germany was benefiting from a “grossly undervalued” exchange rate drove the euro 0.6 percent higher and sparked a broader fall in the dollar.

Already down 1 percent this week against the yen after Trump’s ordering of a ban on travelers from seven mainly Muslim states spurred protests worldwide and across the United States, the dollar fell another half percent in the European morning.

Navarro’s words, quoted by the Financial Times,

followed comments by both the president and his Treasury nominee Steven Mnuchin on the strength of the dollar in relation to other trade partners in recent weeks.

“I don’t think this is a dollar debasement policy,” said Stephen Gallo, head of European FX strategy with Bank of Montreal. “But they are trying to go into talks (on trade deals) with a strong hand which says: you guys have been debasing your currencies, we think you owe us something.”

Gallo, like many in markets since Trump’s election last November, expects the dollar to benefit from a push to encourage repatriation of corporate capital to the United States and other moves to support growth.(rtr)

Unique Nyekar Tradition in Sawan, Buleleng

VIRTUALLY all districts in Bali have unique tradition. One of which is Buleleng district. More uniquely, Buleleng is rich in traditions and religious rituals that cannot be encountered in other regions. Three customary villages in Sawan subdistrict namely the Kerobokan, Kloncing and Sinabun regularly hold nyekar tradition. This ritual is a heritage that must be undertaken by villagers by staying up all night on Kerobokan Beach.

This tradition is in a series of pakelem ritual held amid high seas. It involved the apparatus of customary village, head of the family or representative of family head and family members together.

Unavoidably, the beach is thronged by villagers. Aside from rituals, the moment is also taken advantage to have a recreation with family.

Villagers come and bring along their offerings to be sacrificed, while lunch will be enjoyed together on the beach. Therefore, they are willing to come to the beach early just to take pleasure in beautiful sunset and pounding waves while enjoying lunch having brought from home.

From previous morning, the

main road access of the nyekar tradition has been crowded by pacing residents. They bring bamboo of various sizes to build a kind of tent on the beach with a tarpaulin roof and stay up from the morning.

In addition, there are also residents building tent using fabric or parachute roof. After that, residents take a rest inside while waiting for the starting time of ritual procession of the nyekar tradition.

After passing 21:00, residents were busy preparing for the nyekar procession or delivering pakelem ritual to the open sea. Pakelem ritual usually takes place about 03:00 or before sunrise. All the ritual paraphernalia are placed on

banana midribs having been arranged in such a way. A number of ritual paraphernalia commonly called sekah are washed out to the sea.

A temple priest of Kerobokan customary village, Jro Made Mangku Sudirtha, told that nyekar ritual is an expression of gratitude to God because the ceremony implemented in the territory of customary village has run successfully. People have confidence that this ritual serves as a proclamation of the errors occurred during the ritual. After this ritual, the next day becomes the starting point to live a new life at the customary village.

According to Sudirtha, the

nyekar ritual procession has been carried out for generations.

Even though time has evolved, people still very enthusiastically involve in the nyekar procession until the end. However, the development of time has also affected how the procession takes place.

Before the rapid development of transportation means, the customary villagers usually walked to Kerobokan Beach. Now, they can take advantage of transportation means like car or motorcycle.

“The development of time indeed brings in a change, but the meaning of this ritual has not changed,” he explained. (kmb)

Jaje Waluh, the taste of paradise If you are a fan of Balinese traditional cakes, you should try the great taste of jaje waluh ketan Bali.

The taste of the cake usually called jaje waluh is very delicious. The yellow of the cake is also urged your desire to try it. It is simple but once you have tried it, you will be asking for more.

Jaje waluh has a soft texture and unique taste. It is sweet but the sweet come from natural flavor so children and adult can enjoy the cake as much as they like. In Bali, there is a saying for those who are shy to eat jaje waluh, “peh jejeh ngajeng jaje waluh mati sabuke” which means that if you eat the cake, all of your power will be gone.

The process of making jaje waluh is very simple.

The one who usually make rice could make it because the process is quite similar. The main material is waluh or pumpkin, coconut, sticky rice, salt and pandanus leaf. If you want a sweeter taste, you can add sugar.

The sticky rice must be washed and then keep overnight. Next, boil it until medium then mix it with pandanus leaf and salt. Put the pumpkin into the dough and cut it in the shape of square. After that boil it until it is ready to be served.

Usually, the jaje waluh is served using banana leaf so it can give a batter taste and unique appearance.

There is also an addition of grated coconut so it can make it more delicious. (kmb)

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Netanyahu tweets like Trump. Great idea!

Benjamin Netanyahu doesn’t just appreciate Donald Trump’s politics. He is starting to sound like him on Twitter.

Over the past year, Netanyahu has increasingly taken to social media to make policy statements. He also uses it to deride the Israeli media for its reporting on him.

“It’s fun. I enjoy it,” he told the foreign media at a gathering last month. While he fully supported press freedom and the right to criticise, he added: “Guess what? We should have the freedom to criticise them, and that’s what I do on occa-

sion. And it’s a lot of fun.”

In recent weeks, in the build up to Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration and in the days since, some of Netanyahu’s posts have adopted the president’s unmistakable rat-a-tat syntax.

“President Trump is right. I

built a wall along Israel’s southern border. It stopped all illegal immigration. Great success. Great idea,” Netanyahu tweeted on Jan. 28, posting pictures of the U.S. and Israeli flags next to each other.

Trump retweeted it to his 23 million followers, contributing to it getting far more attention than Netanyahu’s tweets normally do: 53,000 retweets and more than 100,000 likes.

The ramping-up of Netanyahu’s

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) stands next to Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump during their meeting in New York, September 25, 2016.

presence on Twitter and Facebook has largely taken place since he appointed a new English-language spokesman in early 2016 - Americanborn David Keyes, who has a background in online video campaigns.

“He speaks directly to the people and can bypass the often deeply biased traditional media,” Keyes said last month. “The prime minister’s innovative use of social media is making Israel accessible and understood to countless people around the globe.”

The 67-year-old prime minister also employs a 24-year-old, Topaz Luk, as director of social media strategy.

The right-wing Israeli leader has dreamed of a Republican in the White House throughout his four terms in office, including three awkward years with Bill Clinton and eight years of dust-ups with Barack Obama. Obama’s term ended with Netanyahu using Twitter to accuse the outgoing president of secretly backing an anti-Israel U.N. resolution.

Trump has promised to carry out policies that Netanyahu has long sought, such as moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, rethinking a nuclear accord with Iran and keeping quiet while Israel builds more settlements. The two men will meet in Washington on Feb. 15.

TROUBLE

Netanyahu’s critics say social

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media can cause trouble when posts are misunderstood. In the case of his tweet about Trump and walls, it prompted a formal protest by the Mexican government, which saw Netanyahu as taking sides on a bilateral issue by supporting Trump’s plan to build a wall on the U.S. southern border.

Netanyahu said he was not commenting on U.S.-Mexican relations or the wisdom of Trump’s wall, simply responding to comments from Trump that praised Israel’s own wall-building.

Trump may have been referring to the concrete-and-steel barrier Israel has built along and inside the occupied West Bank, which Israel refuses to call a “wall” at all, and which Palestinians regard as an illegal land grab.

The wall Netanyahu boasted about in his reply is a smaller, less controversial steel barrier on the border with Egypt largely designed to stop illegal migrants from Africa. But whatever the source of the misunderstanding, Netanyahu knew who to blame.

“The left-wing media is engaged in a Bolshevik hunt, brainwashing and character assassination against me and my family,” he said in Hebrew, before going on to invoke one of Trump’s favourite phrases.

“It happens every day and night.

They are producing about us a flood, there is no other word for it, a flood of fake news.” (rtr)

attractions.

“Animal Care staff conducted an immediate search and have not located the bobcat,” it said. Zoo officials asked anyone spotting the animal to call them. The species is not known to be aggressive to humans.

Ollie, who is thought to be almost 7 years old, may return for food and shelter. The area around the bobcat exhibit is closed because she likely will stay hidden from humans, the zoo said.

Bobcats, which are similar to lynxes, range from Mexico to southern Canada and can run up to 30 miles per hour (48 km per hour).

They are from 1.5 to 2 feet (46 to 64 cm) tall at the shoulder and their fur is buff to brown, sometimes with a reddish tinge, according to the zoo’s website.

Officials at the Virginia Zoo in Norfolk, almost 200 miles (320 km) to the south, are on the hunt for a female red panda, missing since last Tuesday. (rtr)

Philippines police...

it said.

The government has denied sponsoring extra-judicial killings, or police collaboration with assassins.

Amnesty’s report included numerous references to the series of Reuters stories and investigations into the war on drugs in the Philippines.

In the series, Reuters found that

officers often gave remarkably similar accounts of drug operations each time a suspect was shot dead.

Eyewitnesses also provided starkly different accounts of drug operations, with some saying suspects were shot dead as they pleaded for their lives.

Amnesty reported similar findings. The report said that police

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“The police are behaving like the criminal underworld that they are supposed to be enforcing the law against, by carrying out extrajudicial executions disguised as unknown killers and ‘contracting out’ killings,”

Jakarta Police Chief Mochamad Iriawan listens during an interview with Reuters in Jakarta, Indonesia, January 30, 2017. Picture taken on January 30.

Indonesia police vow to block “political” rally led by Islamists

JAKARTA - Indonesian police will block a rally in Jakarta next month led by the hardline Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) if the group intends to make it political just days before an election for city governor that has raised religious tension.

The FPI has led two rallies over the past year targeting the ethnic Chinese, Christian Jakarta governor, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, which drew hundreds of thousands of Muslims calling for his jailing over allegations he insulted the Koran.

The FPI leader, Habib Rizieq, was on Monday declared a suspect over allegations he insulted Indonesia’s state ideology, Pancasila, which enshrines religious diversity in an officially secular system.

Jakarta police chief Mochamad

Bobcat escapes from National Zoo in Washington

WASHINGTON - A 25-pound (11-kg) female bobcat escaped from Washington’s National Zoo on Monday, zoo officials said, while warning area residents not to approach the brownish feline if they see her.

The wild-born bobcat, Ollie, was last seen during a routine daily count at 7:30 a.m., the zoo said in a statement. She did not show for the bobcats’ daily feeding just over three hours later at the zoo, one of the U.S. capital’s major tourist

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accounts of shootouts and deaths during operations were “startlingly similar”, and often far different to witness testimony and witness accounts of victims being shot dead despite having shouted that they would surrender.

The investigation by Amnesty, a London-based advocacy group, was

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carried out mainly in November and December and was based on interviews with 110 people.

Latest police data shows 7,669 people have been killed since Duterte unleashed his war on drugs seven months ago, 2,555 in police operations, which the police says were all in self-defence. (rtr)

An employee rides his bike past barrels of petroleum products at a stateowned Pertamina fuel depot in Jakarta September 9, 2014.

Iriawan told Reuters in an interview on Monday the FPI’s plan for another rally on Feb. 11, four days before the Jakarta elections, indicated it would be political in nature, and if so, it would not be allowed. “The end of the campaign period should not be disrupted by the planned protest,” Iriawan said.

“If the context is as they said on social media - ‘we should vote for a Muslim person as our leader’ - it looks like a political campaign.”

The rallies late last year raised concerns among investors that Is-

lamist militancy and mob rule were taking hold in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy. Indonesia has the world’s largest Muslim population, the majority of whom follow a moderate form of Islam.

The naming of Rizieq as a suspect comes amid signs that authorities are taking a firmer stance to contain the rise of the FPI and other Islamist groups.

‘BIG MESS’

Purnama, who is known as Ahok and is an ally of President Joko Widodo, is contesting the Feb. 15 election against two Muslim candidates. He was named a blasphemy suspect on Nov. 16, days after the first big FPI rally, and is on trial.

He denies the charge.

Iriawan said the FPI had yet to apply for a permit for its rally, and the group would only be allowed to proceed if “they just hold a prayer”.

Rizieq also faces investigations into alleged blasphemy and hate speech, including remarks by him that communist symbols had been hidden in new Indonesian bank notes and comments mocking the notion that Jesus was the son of God. FPI spokesman Slamet Maarif said the group’s supporters would defend Rizieq “until the last drop of our blood”.

There has been a increase in blasphemy complaints filed to police since the accusation was lev-

elled against Purnama in October.

Tobias Basuki, a political analyst at the Jakarta-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies, said Indonesia’s laws criminalising slights against religion and the national ideology of Pancasila were being abused.

“These blasphemy laws are being used against pretty well anyone for anything,” he said. “Frankly, they are just politically motivated plays but they are creating a big mess for Indonesia.”

“These are just concepts and we are repressing the potential for healthy debate. Meanwhile, very little is done to stop actual hate speech which threatens lives.” (rtr) REUTERS/Darren Whiteside

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Japan organizer: No history book at hotel during Asian Games

TOKYO — Japanese organizers for next month’s Asian Winter Games said Tuesday that contentious history books will be removed from guestrooms at a hotel that will be used to house athletes. The organizers also said that Chinese athletes will stay at another hotel in accordance with a request from Beijing.

BADUNG - Gunung Payung Beach, otherwise referred to locally as Pantai Gunung Payung, is one of the ‘hidden beaches’ on Bali’s southern coast, where you can find a remote and quiet setting over great seascapes. The location takes its name from a Balinese Hindu temple complex of the same name (Pura Dhang Kahyangan Gunung Payung) that is located high up on the cliff where visitors can see before heading down to the beach. Getting to Gunung Payung Beach requires an approximate half-hour drive to Kutuh village from Nusa Dua. Along the main Jalan Gunung Payung road, you’ll also encounter the landscaped greens of the 18-hole Bukit Pandawa Golf Club together with its rugged limestone terrain. Just outside the temple, catch glimpses of grey long-tailed macaques, which are more of the shyer kind compared to its notoriously cheeky counterparts at the Uluwatu cliff area.

Approaching the cliff edge after the temple, you’re immediately welcomed to soaring ocean views and sounds of the waves below. The beach is quite an effort to reach, only for the fit and determined – down a steep flight of stairs that locals claim to total around 300. The deep green patches in the clear waters are growing grounds of local seaweed farmers, and upon reaching the base, you’ll discover deep and coarse sand with calm waters great for snorkelling. The remoteness and effort required to discover the beach keeps it untouched by vendors. Therefore, it’s good to bring your own drinking water and perhaps some snacks to replenish once you get down here. The natural reef barriers also means calm and swimmable waters most of the time, but beware of spiny sea urchins that grow around these southern coasts and high tide conditions, as there are no lifeguards around. Also, midday trips are recommended when the seascape is clearer and the water warmer. The temple has its piodalan anniversary every full moon on the eighth month of the Balinese pawukon calendar (coinciding January or February on the Gregorian calendar). (IBP/net)

A rapidly growing Japanese hotel chain operator, APA Group, has faced criticism in China and elsewhere over a history book written by its owner which says the 1937 Nanjing Massacre involving Japanese soldiers was fabricated.

Copies of the book are placed in the guestrooms at most of APA’s nearly 400 hotels across Japan.

Japanese organizers and the hotel said they have agreed that all printed materials, including the book, will be removed from guestrooms at APA’s Sapporo hotel during the Feb. 19-26 event.

Yasushi Suzuki, an official in charge of accommodations at the organizing committee, said it reminded the hotel on Monday to remove all printed materials unrelated to the games from its guestrooms, a condition the hotel agreed to last year ahead of the history book flap.

APA said on its website Tuesday it will comply with the request.

Only printed materials needed for the games are allowed inside hotel rooms during the event to ensure religious and political neutrality, Suzuki said.

The organizers have also decided to put approximately 250 Chinese athletes in the Sapporo Prince Hotel, another designated

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Snow-covered vehicles are parked in front of APA Hotel in Sapporo, northern Japan, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017. accommodation for the games, instead of APA at the request of Chinese Olympic authorities, Suzuki said.

The issue is the latest dispute between the Asian neighbors over Japanese aggression before and during World War II. It follows

recent tensions between Japan and South Korea over a Korean statue representing “comfort women” used for sex in Japanese militarylinked wartime brothels from the 1930s to the war’s end.

In the book, “The Real History of Japan: Theoretical Modern

History II,” APA president Toshio Motoya writes that the Nanjing Massacre is an “imaginary” event concocted by China to criticize Japan. The book also denies that Japan forced “comfort women” to provide sex to Japanese soldiers.

The wartime massacre of Chi-

nese citizens by the Japanese military in Nanking, now called Nanjing, is one of the biggest flashpoints between the two countries.

China says up to 300,000 people were killed, while Japanese nationalists put the number much lower or deny the massacre entirely.(ap)

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FILE In this Saturday, Jan. 18. 2014 file photo Russia’s third placed Alexander Zubkov, left, and Dmitry Trunenkov pose for media after the two-men bob race at the Bob World Cup in Innsbruck, Austria.

BERLIN - Russian Olympic bobsleigh champion Dmitriy Trunenkov has been banned from his sport for four years after violating anti-doping rules, Russia’s anti-doping agency (RUSADA) said on Tuesday.

“The Bobsleigh Federation of Russia, following the materials provided by RUSADA Disciplinary anti-doping committee, rendered a decision that made athlete Trunenkov Dmitriy ineligible for four years... the period commencing on April 19, 2016,” RUSADA said.

It did not say what specific violation Trunenkov, who won the gold medal as part of the four-man team at the Sochi 2014 winter Olympics, had committed.

Russian sent a small team to last year’s Rio de Janeiro Olympics following a doping scandal which caused hundreds of its athletes to be banned from competing there.

Russia’s athletics federation remains suspended and sports events have been moved away from Russia as the country grapples with the fallout of a widespread state-backed doping programme involving athletes across many sports.

The International Olympic Committee is also retesting samples from past Games including Sochi, where organisers allegedly switched positive doping samples of Russian athletes with clean ones in order to avoid detection and to give them the edge over their rivals.(rtr)

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West Ham fans offered deal to get Payet off their backs

LONDON - After selling Dimitri Payet to Olympique de Marseille for 25 million pounds ($31.2 million), West Ham United are offering fans a cut-price deal to get the French forward off their backs as well.

“Bring back your Payet shirt to any of the club shops & you will get a new replacement for 25 pounds,” the Premier League club’s vice-chairman Karen Brady said on Twitter on Monday in response to a query.

Basic short-sleeved 2016-17 West Ham team shirts without a player’s name on the back usually retail at 55 pounds each but are currently reduced to 36.66 in a sale at the club’s online store.

French international Payet, who stood out for the host nation at Euro 2016, had become a fan favourite at the Hammers after he joined from Marseille in 2015 for a reported 10.7 million pounds.

The relationship broke down when he told the East Londoners he no longer wanted to play for them and sought a return to Marseille in the current transfer window. “(This move) is what I wanted. It was clear from the start,” Payet told a news conference in Marseille on Monday.

“I didn’t feel very good over there (London). I wanted to be part of this project that is just getting started. It came at a time when I missed France.

“It was drawn out because I started my stand-off with West Ham a long time ago. Slaven Bilic had his view. I spoke to him. I don’t want to talk about this at the moment, but I don’t have to justify my behaviour.

“I needed to come back to France to Marseille it was a personal choice. I’m very happy. My main motivation is to play football. If I was playing for money, I’d be in another country.”

West Ham co-chairman David Sullivan said later on Monday that Payet’s team mates wanted the Frenchman to leave. “As much as we (the club’s owners) didn’t want him out, you can’t go against the consensus of the team,” Sullivan told the BBC, adding that Payet sacrificed his wages for January.

“He’s not been talking to anyone in the squad.

H e ’s b e e n sitting in the corner of the room for his meals and he’s isolated himself. Before that he was bubbly, happy, shaking everyone’s hand before the match.

“Either it was a tactic or something in his head had changed.

“The team wanted him out, the manager (Bilic) -- with great reluctance -- wanted him out. We think i t ’s b o n d e d t h e team better together.”

After a difficult start to the season, West Ham have won their last two Premier League games and are in 10th place. (rtr) FILE- In this Monday, Sept. 14, 2015 file photo, West Ham’s Dimitri Payet celebrates after scoring during the English Premier League soccer match between West Ham and Newcastle at Boleyn Ground in London.

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Struggling AC Milan loses Bonaventura, De Sciglio to injury

MILAN — Already struggling in recent weeks, AC Milan has lost key starters Giacomo Bonaventura and Mattia De Sciglio to injury. Bonaventura, a midfielder, was diagnosed with a tear to his left thigh muscle and will

require surgery. He will likely miss three months.

De Sciglio, a fullback, damaged ligaments in his right ankle in a 2-1 loss at Udinese on Sunday and could be out until March.

Milan has won just one of its last

six Serie A matches and fallen from the Champions League spots to seventh place, 14 points behind leader Juventus. The Rossoneri were also eliminated from the Italian Cup by Juventus last week. (ap)

La Liga to introduce video referees from 2018

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Middlesbrough manager Aitor Karanka

Karanka upset by lack of signings at Middlesbrough Middlesbrough manager Aitor Karanka has criticized the club’s lack of activity in the January transfer window and said they were being left behind rivals in the battle to avoid the Premier League drop.

Middlesbrough, who are four points and two places above the relegation zone, host West Bromwich Albion later on Tuesday aiming to end a winless run in the league that stretches back to mid-December.

The club signed Rudy Gestede from second-tier Aston Villa and Patrick Bamford from Chelsea this

month, but neither forward has played much this season.

“We need to improve the team, and the club knew a month and a half ago the players that I wanted,” the Spaniard told British media.

“I always said the aim in the transfer window was to improve the squad. At the moment,

we haven’t done that. We will be disappointed if nobody else comes in, but I have tried my best.

“Teams in our position are signing players for 14 million pounds ($17.5 million) - we are signing players that didn’t play in the Championship.”

Karanka said it was unrealistic to expect Bamford, who made six substitute appearances while on loan at Burnley prior to joining the club, to shoulder the scoring burden. “If we are expecting that Patrick was going to arrive and score five goals straight away then we are making a big mistake because he is not ready now,” he added.

“I don’t know why we haven’t signed our targets. That is not my job. I am the coach,” added Karanka, who earlier this month hit out at the club’s fans for creating an “awful” atmosphere in a game against West Ham. “When we got promotion last season, there were a lot of people who got a medal. A lot of people had a medal, and a lot of people had done their job. Now? I don’t know... With this group of players, the only thing I can do is trust and believe.” (rtr)

MADRID - Video referees are expected to be used in Spanish soccer by the 2018-19 season when they are fully approved by FIFA, La Liga president Javier Tebas has said. Tebas was speaking after Sunday’s 1-1 draw between Barcelona and Real Betis, a game in which champions Barca appeared to have been denied a clear goal.

Video replays showed that after Betis’ Cristiano Piccini diverted Aleix Vidal’s pass towards goal the ball crossed the line by around a metre before defender Aissi Mandi slid in and scrambled the it away.

“The tests are already underway. We have been working on video referees for the last eight months,” Tebas told El Pais. “We will be testing it from next season in La Liga,” he added. “If FIFA finally approve it, we will start using it from July 2018.”

Football’s law-making body IFAB approved last March

a two-year trial of the video assistant referee (VAR) system with access to replays to help match officials review key decisions. Unlike other top leagues in Europe, La Liga does not have goal-line technology available because it is considered too expensive to be put in place. Barcelona coach Luis Enrique believes the officials need assistance.

“The referees need help, whether it’s with cameras or whatever, for decisions that favour us or go against us,” he said. “The technology can help us. I’ve already said that before.” Not everyone, however, is in favour of the technology.

“I’m against video refereeing because it would break the essence of what soccer is,” Atletico Madrid president Enrique Cerezo told Marca.

“Referees make mistakes and get it right. There are times that those go in favour and others were they go against. I don’t see a problem with this.” (rtr)

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AP Photo/Antonio Calanni

AC Milan’s Giacomo Bonaventura celebrates after scoring his side’s second goal during an Italian Cup, Round of 16 soccer match between AC Milan and Torino, at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017.

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West Ham fans offered deal to get Payet off their backs

LONDON - After selling Dimitri Payet to Olympique de Marseille for 25 million pounds ($31.2 million), West Ham United are offering fans a cut-price deal to get the French forward off their backs as well.

“Bring back your Payet shirt to any of the club shops & you will get a new replacement for 25 pounds,” the Premier League club’s vice-chairman Karen Brady said on Twitter on Monday in response to a query.

Basic short-sleeved 2016-17 West Ham team shirts without a player’s name on the back usually retail at 55 pounds each but are currently reduced to 36.66 in a sale at the club’s online store.

French international Payet, who stood out for the host nation at Euro 2016, had become a fan favourite at the Hammers after he joined from Marseille in 2015 for a reported 10.7 million pounds.

The relationship broke down when he told the East Londoners he no longer wanted to play for them and sought a return to Marseille in the current transfer window. “(This move) is what I wanted. It was clear from the start,” Payet told a news conference in Marseille on Monday.

“I didn’t feel very good over there (London). I wanted to be part of this project that is just getting started. It came at a time when I missed France.

“It was drawn out because I started my stand-off with West Ham a long time ago. Slaven Bilic had his view. I spoke to him. I don’t want to talk about this at the moment, but I don’t have to justify my behaviour.

“I needed to come back to France to Marseille it was a personal choice. I’m very happy. My main motivation is to play football. If I was playing for money, I’d be in another country.”

West Ham co-chairman David Sullivan said later on Monday that Payet’s team mates wanted the Frenchman to leave. “As much as we (the club’s owners) didn’t want him out, you can’t go against the consensus of the team,” Sullivan told the BBC, adding that Payet sacrificed his wages for January.

“He’s not been talking to anyone in the squad.

H e ’s b e e n sitting in the corner of the room for his meals and he’s isolated himself. Before that he was bubbly, happy, shaking everyone’s hand before the match.

“Either it was a tactic or something in his head had changed.

“The team wanted him out, the manager (Bilic) -- with great reluctance -- wanted him out. We think i t ’s b o n d e d t h e team better together.”

After a difficult start to the season, West Ham have won their last two Premier League games and are in 10th place. (rtr) FILE- In this Monday, Sept. 14, 2015 file photo, West Ham’s Dimitri Payet celebrates after scoring during the English Premier League soccer match between West Ham and Newcastle at Boleyn Ground in London.

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Struggling AC Milan loses Bonaventura, De Sciglio to injury

MILAN — Already struggling in recent weeks, AC Milan has lost key starters Giacomo Bonaventura and Mattia De Sciglio to injury. Bonaventura, a midfielder, was diagnosed with a tear to his left thigh muscle and will

require surgery. He will likely miss three months.

De Sciglio, a fullback, damaged ligaments in his right ankle in a 2-1 loss at Udinese on Sunday and could be out until March.

Milan has won just one of its last

six Serie A matches and fallen from the Champions League spots to seventh place, 14 points behind leader Juventus. The Rossoneri were also eliminated from the Italian Cup by Juventus last week. (ap)

La Liga to introduce video referees from 2018

Reuters / Scott Heppell Livepic

Middlesbrough manager Aitor Karanka

Karanka upset by lack of signings at Middlesbrough Middlesbrough manager Aitor Karanka has criticized the club’s lack of activity in the January transfer window and said they were being left behind rivals in the battle to avoid the Premier League drop.

Middlesbrough, who are four points and two places above the relegation zone, host West Bromwich Albion later on Tuesday aiming to end a winless run in the league that stretches back to mid-December.

The club signed Rudy Gestede from second-tier Aston Villa and Patrick Bamford from Chelsea this

month, but neither forward has played much this season.

“We need to improve the team, and the club knew a month and a half ago the players that I wanted,” the Spaniard told British media.

“I always said the aim in the transfer window was to improve the squad. At the moment,

we haven’t done that. We will be disappointed if nobody else comes in, but I have tried my best.

“Teams in our position are signing players for 14 million pounds ($17.5 million) - we are signing players that didn’t play in the Championship.”

Karanka said it was unrealistic to expect Bamford, who made six substitute appearances while on loan at Burnley prior to joining the club, to shoulder the scoring burden. “If we are expecting that Patrick was going to arrive and score five goals straight away then we are making a big mistake because he is not ready now,” he added.

“I don’t know why we haven’t signed our targets. That is not my job. I am the coach,” added Karanka, who earlier this month hit out at the club’s fans for creating an “awful” atmosphere in a game against West Ham. “When we got promotion last season, there were a lot of people who got a medal. A lot of people had a medal, and a lot of people had done their job. Now? I don’t know... With this group of players, the only thing I can do is trust and believe.” (rtr)

MADRID - Video referees are expected to be used in Spanish soccer by the 2018-19 season when they are fully approved by FIFA, La Liga president Javier Tebas has said. Tebas was speaking after Sunday’s 1-1 draw between Barcelona and Real Betis, a game in which champions Barca appeared to have been denied a clear goal.

Video replays showed that after Betis’ Cristiano Piccini diverted Aleix Vidal’s pass towards goal the ball crossed the line by around a metre before defender Aissi Mandi slid in and scrambled the it away.

“The tests are already underway. We have been working on video referees for the last eight months,” Tebas told El Pais. “We will be testing it from next season in La Liga,” he added. “If FIFA finally approve it, we will start using it from July 2018.”

Football’s law-making body IFAB approved last March

a two-year trial of the video assistant referee (VAR) system with access to replays to help match officials review key decisions. Unlike other top leagues in Europe, La Liga does not have goal-line technology available because it is considered too expensive to be put in place. Barcelona coach Luis Enrique believes the officials need assistance.

“The referees need help, whether it’s with cameras or whatever, for decisions that favour us or go against us,” he said. “The technology can help us. I’ve already said that before.” Not everyone, however, is in favour of the technology.

“I’m against video refereeing because it would break the essence of what soccer is,” Atletico Madrid president Enrique Cerezo told Marca.

“Referees make mistakes and get it right. There are times that those go in favour and others were they go against. I don’t see a problem with this.” (rtr)

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AP Photo/Antonio Calanni

AC Milan’s Giacomo Bonaventura celebrates after scoring his side’s second goal during an Italian Cup, Round of 16 soccer match between AC Milan and Torino, at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017.

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Japan organizer: No history book at hotel during Asian Games

TOKYO — Japanese organizers for next month’s Asian Winter Games said Tuesday that contentious history books will be removed from guestrooms at a hotel that will be used to house athletes. The organizers also said that Chinese athletes will stay at another hotel in accordance with a request from Beijing.

BADUNG - Gunung Payung Beach, otherwise referred to locally as Pantai Gunung Payung, is one of the ‘hidden beaches’ on Bali’s southern coast, where you can find a remote and quiet setting over great seascapes. The location takes its name from a Balinese Hindu temple complex of the same name (Pura Dhang Kahyangan Gunung Payung) that is located high up on the cliff where visitors can see before heading down to the beach. Getting to Gunung Payung Beach requires an approximate half-hour drive to Kutuh village from Nusa Dua. Along the main Jalan Gunung Payung road, you’ll also encounter the landscaped greens of the 18-hole Bukit Pandawa Golf Club together with its rugged limestone terrain. Just outside the temple, catch glimpses of grey long-tailed macaques, which are more of the shyer kind compared to its notoriously cheeky counterparts at the Uluwatu cliff area.

Approaching the cliff edge after the temple, you’re immediately welcomed to soaring ocean views and sounds of the waves below. The beach is quite an effort to reach, only for the fit and determined – down a steep flight of stairs that locals claim to total around 300. The deep green patches in the clear waters are growing grounds of local seaweed farmers, and upon reaching the base, you’ll discover deep and coarse sand with calm waters great for snorkelling. The remoteness and effort required to discover the beach keeps it untouched by vendors. Therefore, it’s good to bring your own drinking water and perhaps some snacks to replenish once you get down here. The natural reef barriers also means calm and swimmable waters most of the time, but beware of spiny sea urchins that grow around these southern coasts and high tide conditions, as there are no lifeguards around. Also, midday trips are recommended when the seascape is clearer and the water warmer. The temple has its piodalan anniversary every full moon on the eighth month of the Balinese pawukon calendar (coinciding January or February on the Gregorian calendar). (IBP/net)

A rapidly growing Japanese hotel chain operator, APA Group, has faced criticism in China and elsewhere over a history book written by its owner which says the 1937 Nanjing Massacre involving Japanese soldiers was fabricated.

Copies of the book are placed in the guestrooms at most of APA’s nearly 400 hotels across Japan.

Japanese organizers and the hotel said they have agreed that all printed materials, including the book, will be removed from guestrooms at APA’s Sapporo hotel during the Feb. 19-26 event.

Yasushi Suzuki, an official in charge of accommodations at the organizing committee, said it reminded the hotel on Monday to remove all printed materials unrelated to the games from its guestrooms, a condition the hotel agreed to last year ahead of the history book flap.

APA said on its website Tuesday it will comply with the request.

Only printed materials needed for the games are allowed inside hotel rooms during the event to ensure religious and political neutrality, Suzuki said.

The organizers have also decided to put approximately 250 Chinese athletes in the Sapporo Prince Hotel, another designated

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Snow-covered vehicles are parked in front of APA Hotel in Sapporo, northern Japan, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017. accommodation for the games, instead of APA at the request of Chinese Olympic authorities, Suzuki said.

The issue is the latest dispute between the Asian neighbors over Japanese aggression before and during World War II. It follows

recent tensions between Japan and South Korea over a Korean statue representing “comfort women” used for sex in Japanese militarylinked wartime brothels from the 1930s to the war’s end.

In the book, “The Real History of Japan: Theoretical Modern

History II,” APA president Toshio Motoya writes that the Nanjing Massacre is an “imaginary” event concocted by China to criticize Japan. The book also denies that Japan forced “comfort women” to provide sex to Japanese soldiers.

The wartime massacre of Chi-

nese citizens by the Japanese military in Nanking, now called Nanjing, is one of the biggest flashpoints between the two countries.

China says up to 300,000 people were killed, while Japanese nationalists put the number much lower or deny the massacre entirely.(ap)

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FILE In this Saturday, Jan. 18. 2014 file photo Russia’s third placed Alexander Zubkov, left, and Dmitry Trunenkov pose for media after the two-men bob race at the Bob World Cup in Innsbruck, Austria.

BERLIN - Russian Olympic bobsleigh champion Dmitriy Trunenkov has been banned from his sport for four years after violating anti-doping rules, Russia’s anti-doping agency (RUSADA) said on Tuesday.

“The Bobsleigh Federation of Russia, following the materials provided by RUSADA Disciplinary anti-doping committee, rendered a decision that made athlete Trunenkov Dmitriy ineligible for four years... the period commencing on April 19, 2016,” RUSADA said.

It did not say what specific violation Trunenkov, who won the gold medal as part of the four-man team at the Sochi 2014 winter Olympics, had committed.

Russian sent a small team to last year’s Rio de Janeiro Olympics following a doping scandal which caused hundreds of its athletes to be banned from competing there.

Russia’s athletics federation remains suspended and sports events have been moved away from Russia as the country grapples with the fallout of a widespread state-backed doping programme involving athletes across many sports.

The International Olympic Committee is also retesting samples from past Games including Sochi, where organisers allegedly switched positive doping samples of Russian athletes with clean ones in order to avoid detection and to give them the edge over their rivals.(rtr)

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Netanyahu tweets like Trump. Great idea!

Benjamin Netanyahu doesn’t just appreciate Donald Trump’s politics. He is starting to sound like him on Twitter.

Over the past year, Netanyahu has increasingly taken to social media to make policy statements. He also uses it to deride the Israeli media for its reporting on him.

“It’s fun. I enjoy it,” he told the foreign media at a gathering last month. While he fully supported press freedom and the right to criticise, he added: “Guess what? We should have the freedom to criticise them, and that’s what I do on occa-

sion. And it’s a lot of fun.”

In recent weeks, in the build up to Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration and in the days since, some of Netanyahu’s posts have adopted the president’s unmistakable rat-a-tat syntax.

“President Trump is right. I

built a wall along Israel’s southern border. It stopped all illegal immigration. Great success. Great idea,” Netanyahu tweeted on Jan. 28, posting pictures of the U.S. and Israeli flags next to each other.

Trump retweeted it to his 23 million followers, contributing to it getting far more attention than Netanyahu’s tweets normally do: 53,000 retweets and more than 100,000 likes.

The ramping-up of Netanyahu’s

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) stands next to Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump during their meeting in New York, September 25, 2016.

presence on Twitter and Facebook has largely taken place since he appointed a new English-language spokesman in early 2016 - Americanborn David Keyes, who has a background in online video campaigns.

“He speaks directly to the people and can bypass the often deeply biased traditional media,” Keyes said last month. “The prime minister’s innovative use of social media is making Israel accessible and understood to countless people around the globe.”

The 67-year-old prime minister also employs a 24-year-old, Topaz Luk, as director of social media strategy.

The right-wing Israeli leader has dreamed of a Republican in the White House throughout his four terms in office, including three awkward years with Bill Clinton and eight years of dust-ups with Barack Obama. Obama’s term ended with Netanyahu using Twitter to accuse the outgoing president of secretly backing an anti-Israel U.N. resolution.

Trump has promised to carry out policies that Netanyahu has long sought, such as moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, rethinking a nuclear accord with Iran and keeping quiet while Israel builds more settlements. The two men will meet in Washington on Feb. 15.

TROUBLE

Netanyahu’s critics say social

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media can cause trouble when posts are misunderstood. In the case of his tweet about Trump and walls, it prompted a formal protest by the Mexican government, which saw Netanyahu as taking sides on a bilateral issue by supporting Trump’s plan to build a wall on the U.S. southern border.

Netanyahu said he was not commenting on U.S.-Mexican relations or the wisdom of Trump’s wall, simply responding to comments from Trump that praised Israel’s own wall-building.

Trump may have been referring to the concrete-and-steel barrier Israel has built along and inside the occupied West Bank, which Israel refuses to call a “wall” at all, and which Palestinians regard as an illegal land grab.

The wall Netanyahu boasted about in his reply is a smaller, less controversial steel barrier on the border with Egypt largely designed to stop illegal migrants from Africa. But whatever the source of the misunderstanding, Netanyahu knew who to blame.

“The left-wing media is engaged in a Bolshevik hunt, brainwashing and character assassination against me and my family,” he said in Hebrew, before going on to invoke one of Trump’s favourite phrases.

“It happens every day and night.

They are producing about us a flood, there is no other word for it, a flood of fake news.” (rtr)

attractions.

“Animal Care staff conducted an immediate search and have not located the bobcat,” it said. Zoo officials asked anyone spotting the animal to call them. The species is not known to be aggressive to humans.

Ollie, who is thought to be almost 7 years old, may return for food and shelter. The area around the bobcat exhibit is closed because she likely will stay hidden from humans, the zoo said.

Bobcats, which are similar to lynxes, range from Mexico to southern Canada and can run up to 30 miles per hour (48 km per hour).

They are from 1.5 to 2 feet (46 to 64 cm) tall at the shoulder and their fur is buff to brown, sometimes with a reddish tinge, according to the zoo’s website.

Officials at the Virginia Zoo in Norfolk, almost 200 miles (320 km) to the south, are on the hunt for a female red panda, missing since last Tuesday. (rtr)

Philippines police...

it said.

The government has denied sponsoring extra-judicial killings, or police collaboration with assassins.

Amnesty’s report included numerous references to the series of Reuters stories and investigations into the war on drugs in the Philippines.

In the series, Reuters found that

officers often gave remarkably similar accounts of drug operations each time a suspect was shot dead.

Eyewitnesses also provided starkly different accounts of drug operations, with some saying suspects were shot dead as they pleaded for their lives.

Amnesty reported similar findings. The report said that police

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“The police are behaving like the criminal underworld that they are supposed to be enforcing the law against, by carrying out extrajudicial executions disguised as unknown killers and ‘contracting out’ killings,”

Jakarta Police Chief Mochamad Iriawan listens during an interview with Reuters in Jakarta, Indonesia, January 30, 2017. Picture taken on January 30.

Indonesia police vow to block “political” rally led by Islamists

JAKARTA - Indonesian police will block a rally in Jakarta next month led by the hardline Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) if the group intends to make it political just days before an election for city governor that has raised religious tension.

The FPI has led two rallies over the past year targeting the ethnic Chinese, Christian Jakarta governor, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, which drew hundreds of thousands of Muslims calling for his jailing over allegations he insulted the Koran.

The FPI leader, Habib Rizieq, was on Monday declared a suspect over allegations he insulted Indonesia’s state ideology, Pancasila, which enshrines religious diversity in an officially secular system.

Jakarta police chief Mochamad

Bobcat escapes from National Zoo in Washington

WASHINGTON - A 25-pound (11-kg) female bobcat escaped from Washington’s National Zoo on Monday, zoo officials said, while warning area residents not to approach the brownish feline if they see her.

The wild-born bobcat, Ollie, was last seen during a routine daily count at 7:30 a.m., the zoo said in a statement. She did not show for the bobcats’ daily feeding just over three hours later at the zoo, one of the U.S. capital’s major tourist

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accounts of shootouts and deaths during operations were “startlingly similar”, and often far different to witness testimony and witness accounts of victims being shot dead despite having shouted that they would surrender.

The investigation by Amnesty, a London-based advocacy group, was

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carried out mainly in November and December and was based on interviews with 110 people.

Latest police data shows 7,669 people have been killed since Duterte unleashed his war on drugs seven months ago, 2,555 in police operations, which the police says were all in self-defence. (rtr)

An employee rides his bike past barrels of petroleum products at a stateowned Pertamina fuel depot in Jakarta September 9, 2014.

Iriawan told Reuters in an interview on Monday the FPI’s plan for another rally on Feb. 11, four days before the Jakarta elections, indicated it would be political in nature, and if so, it would not be allowed. “The end of the campaign period should not be disrupted by the planned protest,” Iriawan said.

“If the context is as they said on social media - ‘we should vote for a Muslim person as our leader’ - it looks like a political campaign.”

The rallies late last year raised concerns among investors that Is-

lamist militancy and mob rule were taking hold in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy. Indonesia has the world’s largest Muslim population, the majority of whom follow a moderate form of Islam.

The naming of Rizieq as a suspect comes amid signs that authorities are taking a firmer stance to contain the rise of the FPI and other Islamist groups.

‘BIG MESS’

Purnama, who is known as Ahok and is an ally of President Joko Widodo, is contesting the Feb. 15 election against two Muslim candidates. He was named a blasphemy suspect on Nov. 16, days after the first big FPI rally, and is on trial.

He denies the charge.

Iriawan said the FPI had yet to apply for a permit for its rally, and the group would only be allowed to proceed if “they just hold a prayer”.

Rizieq also faces investigations into alleged blasphemy and hate speech, including remarks by him that communist symbols had been hidden in new Indonesian bank notes and comments mocking the notion that Jesus was the son of God. FPI spokesman Slamet Maarif said the group’s supporters would defend Rizieq “until the last drop of our blood”.

There has been a increase in blasphemy complaints filed to police since the accusation was lev-

elled against Purnama in October.

Tobias Basuki, a political analyst at the Jakarta-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies, said Indonesia’s laws criminalising slights against religion and the national ideology of Pancasila were being abused.

“These blasphemy laws are being used against pretty well anyone for anything,” he said. “Frankly, they are just politically motivated plays but they are creating a big mess for Indonesia.”

“These are just concepts and we are repressing the potential for healthy debate. Meanwhile, very little is done to stop actual hate speech which threatens lives.” (rtr) REUTERS/Darren Whiteside

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Europe’s recovery gains speed in turbulent year

FRANKFURT — Europe’s economic recovery is on more solid ground ahead of what could be a turbulent political year.

Official figures showed clear signs of improvement in the 19 countries that share the euro currency. Statistics agency Eurostat said Tuesday that eurozone growth accelerated in the fourth quarter to 0.5 percent from 0.4 percent in the previous three-month period. As a result, the eurozone economy grew by 1.7 percent in 2016.

That solid — if unspectacular — growth helped unemployment drop 0.1 percentage point in December to 9.6 percent. That is the lowest since May 2009, before a financial implosion in Greece that year set off a debt crisis that almost shattered the eurozone.

The growth and unemployment figures offer a boost to supporters of the European Union and the euro currency after years of crisis management. Eurozone governments have had to bail out Greece, Portugal, Ireland and Cyprus, and set up new banking regulations aimed at preventing future crises.

A perceived emphasis on controlling deficits over promoting growth fueled resentment in bailed-out countries.

One of the most striking numbers from Eurostat showed inflation across the eurozone rising sharply in January to 1.8 percent from 1.1 percent the month before — a jump that will likely encourage critics

who think it’s time for the European Central Bank to start withdrawing its stimulus programs.

Inflation was the highest since February 2013 and now — on paper anyway — at the ECB’s goal of just below 2 percent.

The upturn is unlikely to quell populist resentment of the EU in a year that will see challenges from nationalist and populist anti-EU parties. Elections in France, the Netherlands, Germany and possibly Italy will give such forces a chance to test their support.

French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen of the Front National, for example, wants a referendum on leaving the EU, which she has compared to the Soviet Union.

Polls suggest she could make it past the first round of voting in April but would lose in the May runoff.

Europe’s recovery remains uneven. Germany, benefiting from strong exports and domestic demand, has an unemployment rate of only 3.9 percent, according to Eurostat.

Greece, which has struggled to get its finances under control despite three rounds of bailout loans from its euro partners and the International Monetary Fund, remains mired in economic misery.

The latest unemployment figures there, from October, showed 23.0 percent of the workforce out of a job. Spain has showed a stronger recovery from a collapsed real estate boom, but the jobless rate remains at 18.4 percent despite a substantial drop in December from

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FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2013 file photo trucks loaded with containers leave the harbor in Duisburg, Germany. Europe’s statistic agency Eurostat releases growth, inflation and unemployment figures for the 19 countries that use the euro currency on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017.

20.7 percent.

Unemployment for young people leaving school is even worse in the lagging countries still feeling the effects of the debt crisis: 44.2 percent for under-25s in Greece, 42.9 percent in Spain and 40.1 percent in Italy.

The inflation figure could present a headache for Mario Draghi, head of the European Central Bank. It’s likely to embolden critics, particularly in Germany, who say it’s time for the bank to start withdrawing its extraordinary

stimulus aimed at increasing inflation toward the bank’s goal.

The ECB has held its short-term benchmark interest rate at zero and is purchasing government and corporate bonds with newly printed money, a step that pumps fresh cash into the financial system and drives down longer-term borrowing rates.

Critics say the zero-interest rate policy punishes savers, who get no return on conservative holdings such as bank deposits, and supports indebted governments with cheap borrowing costs.

Draghi however has shown no signs of readiness to start scaling back. He says the spike in inflation is caused by volatile oil prices, not by underlying price pressures in the economy such as wage increases passed on to consumers. That means the inflation spike could fade over coming months, as the effect of sharply lower oil prices a year ago is left behind. Core inflation, which excludes oil and food prices, remained stuck at 0.9 percent, about where it has been for months.(ap)

Dollar heads for worst January in a decade

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LONDON - The dollar was on course for its worst start to a year in more than a decade on Tuesday after a trade adviser to President Donald Trump added to signs the new administration may be trying to talk its currency down. Suggestions by the head of Trump’s new National Trade Council, Peter Navarro, that Germany was benefiting from a “grossly undervalued” exchange rate drove the euro 0.6 percent higher and sparked a broader fall in the dollar.

Already down 1 percent this week against the yen after Trump’s ordering of a ban on travelers from seven mainly Muslim states spurred protests worldwide and across the United States, the dollar fell another half percent in the European morning.

Navarro’s words, quoted by the Financial Times,

followed comments by both the president and his Treasury nominee Steven Mnuchin on the strength of the dollar in relation to other trade partners in recent weeks.

“I don’t think this is a dollar debasement policy,” said Stephen Gallo, head of European FX strategy with Bank of Montreal. “But they are trying to go into talks (on trade deals) with a strong hand which says: you guys have been debasing your currencies, we think you owe us something.”

Gallo, like many in markets since Trump’s election last November, expects the dollar to benefit from a push to encourage repatriation of corporate capital to the United States and other moves to support growth.(rtr)

Unique Nyekar Tradition in Sawan, Buleleng

VIRTUALLY all districts in Bali have unique tradition. One of which is Buleleng district. More uniquely, Buleleng is rich in traditions and religious rituals that cannot be encountered in other regions. Three customary villages in Sawan subdistrict namely the Kerobokan, Kloncing and Sinabun regularly hold nyekar tradition. This ritual is a heritage that must be undertaken by villagers by staying up all night on Kerobokan Beach.

This tradition is in a series of pakelem ritual held amid high seas. It involved the apparatus of customary village, head of the family or representative of family head and family members together.

Unavoidably, the beach is thronged by villagers. Aside from rituals, the moment is also taken advantage to have a recreation with family.

Villagers come and bring along their offerings to be sacrificed, while lunch will be enjoyed together on the beach. Therefore, they are willing to come to the beach early just to take pleasure in beautiful sunset and pounding waves while enjoying lunch having brought from home.

From previous morning, the

main road access of the nyekar tradition has been crowded by pacing residents. They bring bamboo of various sizes to build a kind of tent on the beach with a tarpaulin roof and stay up from the morning.

In addition, there are also residents building tent using fabric or parachute roof. After that, residents take a rest inside while waiting for the starting time of ritual procession of the nyekar tradition.

After passing 21:00, residents were busy preparing for the nyekar procession or delivering pakelem ritual to the open sea. Pakelem ritual usually takes place about 03:00 or before sunrise. All the ritual paraphernalia are placed on

banana midribs having been arranged in such a way. A number of ritual paraphernalia commonly called sekah are washed out to the sea.

A temple priest of Kerobokan customary village, Jro Made Mangku Sudirtha, told that nyekar ritual is an expression of gratitude to God because the ceremony implemented in the territory of customary village has run successfully. People have confidence that this ritual serves as a proclamation of the errors occurred during the ritual. After this ritual, the next day becomes the starting point to live a new life at the customary village.

According to Sudirtha, the

nyekar ritual procession has been carried out for generations.

Even though time has evolved, people still very enthusiastically involve in the nyekar procession until the end. However, the development of time has also affected how the procession takes place.

Before the rapid development of transportation means, the customary villagers usually walked to Kerobokan Beach. Now, they can take advantage of transportation means like car or motorcycle.

“The development of time indeed brings in a change, but the meaning of this ritual has not changed,” he explained. (kmb)

Jaje Waluh, the taste of paradise If you are a fan of Balinese traditional cakes, you should try the great taste of jaje waluh ketan Bali.

The taste of the cake usually called jaje waluh is very delicious. The yellow of the cake is also urged your desire to try it. It is simple but once you have tried it, you will be asking for more.

Jaje waluh has a soft texture and unique taste. It is sweet but the sweet come from natural flavor so children and adult can enjoy the cake as much as they like. In Bali, there is a saying for those who are shy to eat jaje waluh, “peh jejeh ngajeng jaje waluh mati sabuke” which means that if you eat the cake, all of your power will be gone.

The process of making jaje waluh is very simple.

The one who usually make rice could make it because the process is quite similar. The main material is waluh or pumpkin, coconut, sticky rice, salt and pandanus leaf. If you want a sweeter taste, you can add sugar.

The sticky rice must be washed and then keep overnight. Next, boil it until medium then mix it with pandanus leaf and salt. Put the pumpkin into the dough and cut it in the shape of square. After that boil it until it is ready to be served.

Usually, the jaje waluh is served using banana leaf so it can give a batter taste and unique appearance.

There is also an addition of grated coconut so it can make it more delicious. (kmb)

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Traffic congestion frequently affecting Badung tourism is highlighted by the Association of Bali Tourism Industry (GIPI) Bali.

GIPI Bali complains about waste and congestion in Badung

MANGUPURA - Traffic congestion frequently affecting Badung tourism is highlighted by the Association of Bali Tourism Industry (GIPI) Bali. Similarly, the highlight is directed to waste at Suwung landfill that exudes scent getting to Sanur especially when the current west wind blows.

It was revealed when the GIPI Bali led by Chairman of GIPI Bali, I.B. Agung Partha, met the Regent of Badung, Giri Prasta, in the Badung Civic Center on Tuesday (Jan. 31).

“Today, transportation from the airport to Ubud takes up to three hours due to traffic congestion. On

that account, many travelers divert their destination to outside Bali.

Rubbish at Suwung landfill also exudes scent when the current west wind blows,” he said.

Agung Partha hoped that Badung could immediately take strategic measures to help tourism players in dealing with the issue.

“It is necessary to synchronize the programs, so that from the accommodation to tourist destination will not take a long time for travelers,” he said.

On the occasion, Regent of Badung, Giri Prasta, explained that government of Badung is ready to become the spearhead to realize the Bali Tourism, from Badung building Bali. “One of them is supporting the Bali ring railway, where Badung is ready to become the starting point of the railway line,” he said.

Badung government is also ready to build an underpass at the Statue of Ngurah Rai to reduce congestion from the airport to Gianyar, ring road, shortcut to overcome bottlenecks and West Benoa ring road. “Congestion is a major problem to tourism and it needs concrete measure to resolve it,” he said.

Related to waste problem, Badung district already has a waste management program at each village in Badung. “Currently, the Badung district has been trying to

reduce the supply of waste to Suwung landfill by sorting the waste at village into fertilizer for organic waste, while the inorganic one is brought to waste bank,” he said.

This official from Pelaga, Petang, said that Badung government will team up with tourism stakeholders for tourism promotion. The government would like to make one island management and one stop destination that can extend the length of stay of tourists in Bali to realize the development of Bali from Badung. (kmb27)

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Student supporters of Islamic charity organization Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), carry signs and chant slogans to condemn the house arrest of Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, chief of (JuD), during a protest demonstration in Karachi, Pakistan, January 31, 2017.

Protests after Pakistan detains alleged architect of Mumbai attack

Grand design and one island management

LAHORE, Pakistan/ISLAMABAD - Pakistani supporters of Islamist leader Hafiz Saeed staged small protests on Tuesday and condemned the United States, after police detained the accused architect of an attack on the Indian city of Mumbai that killed 166 people in 2008.

BALI always becoming number one tourist destination is certainly visited by many travelers. The current increasing number of tourist visit to Bali as well as the lack of convenience factor caused by traffic congestion is still considered as the problems in Bali tourism.

Surely, these problems affect the tourism development itself.

Met when attending the discussion with the theme “Management of Bali Transportation” at the office of the Bali Tourism Board (BTB) on Tuesday (Jan. 31), a lecturer in Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Udayana University, who is also transportation observer, Prof. Putu Alit Suthanaya, said that

Saeed, pointed to by critics as evidence of Pakistan’s reluctance to crack down hard enough on militants, was held late on Monday at the headquarters of his charity before being placed under house arrest at his home in the eastern city of Lahore. He denies involvement in the Mumbai attack.

The move follows a U.S. visa ban by President Donald Trump aimed at countries deemed linked to terrorism, and, while Pakistan was not named, a Pakistani official said worry over the new administration was a factor in the decision.

Pressure from key ally China may also have played a role, according to senior Pakistani officials, who say Beijing has for months been quietly lobbying Islamabad to crack down on Saeed and other

Required to overcome congestion to address the problem is required the existence of grand design that can be used as a reference by all stakeholders in Bali Province.

Transportation problems cannot be limited by boundaries of local autonomy, but must be considered holistically for Bali on the whole. In this regard, it should be applied the one island management, so that transportation should also be managed by one island system. “Policy and master plan of the province must also be followed by the district / municipality so as to be coherent with the master plan in the province,” he said.

He added that in the future the carrying capacity of Bali with the tourist arrival must be considered.

It will also influence the multiplier effect for the tourism and related derivatives to tourism activities that cause movement served by the transportation infrastructure.

According to him, currently it should begin to consider the making of grand design that must also be agreed by Balinese people for 20-30 years to come. Currently there has been a design, but remains not to be integrated. So far, each agency issues their respective design.

“This time of the ministry of public works issued its own design, transportation agency has its own design and so does the tourism office. It must be integrated into a grand design for Bali integrating

all the aspects such as tourism, agriculture and transportation into a single unity,” he said.

He explained that the grand design is expected to become a reference for the development in Bali. Without this grand design, the development will become unfocused. Thus, the grand design should include the short-, mediumand long-term programs.

“This should be implemented consistently by the government, whoever will continue the government in the future. Therefore, each new government will not start again from zero point. In that way, we will never be moving forward, and what we want will never be real-

ized,” he added.

Responding to this problem, Chairman of the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) Bali, Tjokorda Oka Artha Ardhana Sukawati, revealed that it is very good. However, this remains to take time, while congestion problem has been in front of the eyes.

According to him, what to do now is applying discipline to users and law enforcement. “Currently, congestion happens due to undisciplined road users and weak law enforcement. Sometimes those who violate are mostly local people (residents nearby), so that the officers are difficult to crack down on them,” he said. (kmb23)

Islamist leaders. “Release Hafiz Saeed! ... Anyone who is a friend of the U.S. is a traitor!” chanted about 150 members of Saeed’s Islamic charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) in the southern city of Karachi.

About 500 protesters shouted similar slogans outside the provincial assembly in Lahore.

Demonstrations also were held in Islamabad, according to the JuD, which the United States says is a front for the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant group blamed for the Mumbai attack.

Saeed founded LeT in the 1990s but later distanced himself from it.

Arch-rival India was sceptical that Pakistan would bring Saeed to justice, pointing out that he had been detained before and released.

“Only a credible crack down

on the mastermind of the Mumbai terrorist attack and terrorist organizations involved in cross border terrorism would be proof of Pakistan’s sincerity,” said a statement from India’s Ministry of External Affairs.

BRINK OF WAR India has been demanding action against Saeed since the Mumbai raid by 10 gunmen from Pakistan, who infiltrated the city by boat and killed 166 people in a rampage that included attacks on two luxury hotels, a Jewish centre and a train station. The attack brought nucleararmed Pakistan and India closer to war, although Islamabad denied any state involvement.

Pakistan’s military has long been accused of sponsoring LeT and other anti-India militants, a charge it rejects. Saeed was placed under house arrest just after the Mumbai attacks but was released six months later when a court ruled there was insufficient evidence against him.

In recent months, Saeed has

been holding regular news conferences to denounce a security crackdown in the Indian-controlled part of the divided Kashmir region. “If they believe that they can throw the Kashmir issue into the background through our arrests and our confinement, that is not possible,” Saeed said as he was being led away by police.

U.S. PRESSURE, CHINESE PERSUASION Saeed accused the government of bowing to pressure from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the United States. “This is taking place because of Modi’s insistence, Trump’s pressure and Pakistan’s helplessness,” Saeed told reporters.

The United States has listed both the LeT and the charity as “foreign terrorist” organisations and has a $10 million reward for information leading to Saeed’s arrest.

The Pakistani government has not officially commented on why it acted now. A senior defence min-

istry official said the government had not been contacted by the new U.S. administration, but it had been feeling American pressure on the issue. “Trump is taking hard decisions against Muslim countries, there is open talk of actions against Pakistan also. So yes, this was a consideration,” said the official, who declined to be identified.

Several other government officials have said recently that longtime ally China has been working to persuade Pakistan to act against wanted militants such as Saeed.

Officials in Beijing did not respond to queries on Tuesday, which falls during the Lunar New Year holiday.

Since 2007, Pakistan has been battling the Pakistani Taliban and other militants seeking to impose strict Islamic law.

But critics say it has targeted only militants who attack its own state, not those active in neighbouring Afghanistan and India, such as the Afghan Taliban, Haqqani network and LeT.(rtr)

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TOKYO - Wrapped up from head to toe in a white bag and gently rocking from side to side, five Japanese mothers are hopeful Tokyo’s latest health trend can cure their postpregnancy aches and pains.

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Adult swaddling therapy is Tokyo’s latest health trend.

According to its exponents, Otonamaki, which translates as “adult wrapping”, was devised by a Kyoto midwife who thought replicating how children are swaddled at birth could help mothers overcome post labour shoulder and hip pain.

The five mothers at a recent session in Tokyo lay on their backs with their knees on their chests bundled up in white cloths. Staff then helped them rock over cushions.

“It felt warm and there was this feeling with my body,” said one mother who tried the 20 minute session.

“I have never experienced this before so its quite hard to describe properly.”

Not everyone is a fan. Chiropractor Shiro Oba was sceptical about its powers of healing and encouraged mothers with back pain to visit a physician.

“There may be cases where people with asthma may find it easier to breath (in that position), but once the cloth is off it’s the same thing,” said Oba. “But apart from that, I just can’t think of how people can benefit from this even as a form of reflexology or exercise.” (rtr)

Skipping breakfast may be bad for your heart, doctors say

NEW YORK- Planning meals and snacks in advance and eating breakfast every day may help lower the risk of cardiovascular disease, new guidelines from U.S. doctors say.

Eating more calories earlier in the day and consuming less food at night may also reduce the odds of a heart attack, stroke or other cardiac or blood vessel diseases, according to the scientific statement from the American Heart Association.

“When we eat may be important to consider, in addition to what we eat,” said Marie-Pierre St-Onge, chair of the group that wrote the guidelines and a nutrition researcher at Columbia University Medical Center in New York.

As many as 30 percent of U.S. adults may routinely skip breakfast, a habit that has become more common in recent years as more people snack throughout the day instead of sitting down for three traditional meals, St-Onge and colleagues note in the journal Circulation.

When people do eat breakfast daily, they’re less likely to have risk factors for cardiovascular disease like high cholesterol and elevated blood pressure. And people who skip this morning meal are more likely to have risk factors like obesity, poor nutrition and diabetes or high blood sugar.

That’s because meal timing may affect health by impacting the body’s internal clock. We may not

process sugars as well at night as we do during the day, and studies of shift workers have linked this schedule with a greater risk of obesity and heart disease than a typical day job, St-Onge said by email.

“We know from population studies that eating breakfast is related to lower weight and healthier diet, along with lower risk of cardiovascular disease,” St-Onge said.

“However, interventions to increase breakfast consumption in those who typically skip breakfast do not support a strong causal role of this meal for weight management, in particular,” St-Onge cautioned. “Adding breakfast, for some, leads to an additional meal and weight gain.”

It’s possible that some people who add breakfast aren’t eating the right things or cutting back on what they eat later in the day, resulting in more calories but not necessarily good nutrition.

A healthy diet is heavy on fruits and vegetables, whole grains, lowfat dairy, poultry and fish, according to the guidelines. Eating well also means limiting red meat, salt and foods high in added sugars.

Plotting out what to eat ahead of time, especially for busy people who eat on the go, can help create a diet that’s better for heart health, St-Onge said.

“Planning ahead and making healthy, carry-on foods is important,” St-Onge suggested. “This

could be a homemade smoothie or whole grain muffin or cereal bar for breakfast; packing a sandwich or leftovers for those times when time is tight.”

Advance thought can also help people eat the right amount of food throughout the day and eat at the right time, said Samantha Heller, a nutritionist at New York University Langone Medical Center who

wasn’t involved in the guidelines.

“The ‘eating several small meals’ during the day advice that we commonly hear is unrealistic for most people because the ‘small’ meals often turn into meal-sized meals and weight gain is inevitable,” Heller said by email.

“Another booby trap for overeating is after dinner,” Heller added.

“Night time eating is quite common

and an easy way to add unnecessary calories and pack on the pounds over time because people snack when in front of TV, computer and tablet screens.”

Heller’s advice: “Once dinner is finished, the kitchen should be closed. If your schedule is crazy and you cannot get to dinner until later in the evening, then eat light at night.” (rtr)

The children have returned to their school after police officers of Seririt pick up and drop off them through highway.

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After emergency bridge washed away

Police shuttle students of SDN 5 Ringdikit

SINGARAJA - Dozens of students of SDN 5 Ringdikit elementary school from Lokapaksa, Seririt, are back to school as usual. The children have returned to their school after police officers of Seririt pick up and drop off them through highway.

They get shuttle service by using patrol car of Seririt subdistrict police. Police give them shuttle service through detour of Lokapaksa, passing Seririt village and Ringdikit village.

The concern of police is carried out because they do not want the students and their parents to be burdened by worries if they are desperate to cross Saba River. Moreover, since the bridge built provincial government is damaged again due to floods, students get trouble to cross the river when going to school.

Chief of Seririt police, Anak Agung Wiranata Kusuma, with permission of Buleleng Police chief, Made Suka Wijaya, explained on Tuesday (Jan. 31) that shuttle assistance for

students of SDN 5 Ringdikit is provided until the government repairs the floated emergency bridge or there is a permanent handling for the bridge.

Every day he assigns his personnel and a patrol car to provide shuttle service for dozens of students from Lokapaksa village. With this effort, parents are expected to be peaceful and no longer worried about the student safety and no longer unencumbered when going to school. When the water recedes, the shuttle service will be stopped. Police will be back to help students cross the river by providing a rope having been installed.

“After we get permission from the leadership, we will provide shuttle service for students until there is a repair or the permanent bridge is made. We do this because we have a pity on the students whose safety is at risk if forced to cross raging river and such damaged bridge,” he said.

On the other hand, he added although his institution will be ready to provide shuttle service for the students as the best short-term solution, the district and provincial government are

expected to take prompt efforts to address the problems. Probably, the effort can be the repair to the floated emergency bridge or the making of emergency bridge in other construction.

“Hopefully, there is a repair or the making of a new bridge as soon as possible. The access of crossing the river is shorter than by passing the road through Lokapaksa village, then to Seririt village and southward to Ringdikit village,” he explained.

As reported earlier, dozens of students of SDN 5 Ringdikit from Lokapaksa, Seririt, were forced to take day-off on Monday (Jan. 30). They were prohibited to go to school by their parents because they cannot cross the river. Floods on Sunday (Jan. 29) cut off the newly completed emergency bridge eight days before. Joints of the concrete pier column of the bridge came off because the hollow were clogged by rubbish and hit by pieces of driftwood washed away by twometer deep flood. Due to difficulty of crossing, parents then forbade their children to go to school and suggested them to wait until the river water recedes. (kmb38)

Many elementary school libraries in unkempt condition

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A traditional full English breakfast of sausages, chips, baked beans, bacon, black pudding and toast is pictured at ‘Enough To Feed an Elephant’ cafe in London May 24, 2012.

TABANAN - The Saturday reading program plan echoed by the Tabanan Education Agency received appreciation from the circles of the Education Council and Education Clinic. However, both education-observing institutions even viewed that the program cannot run maximally because the results of their monitoring indicate that a number of libraries at primary schools and junior high schools in Tabanan are in unkempt conditions.

“We appreciate to the idea of the Education Agency in the effort to increase reading interest among

the students. However, there is still a problem where the library rooms are less well maintained and so are the collection of books on display,” said Chairman of the Education Council, Wayan Madra Suartana, on Tuesday (Feb. 1).

Results of their monitoring indicated that condition of many libraries at elementary and junior high school is less well maintained. Moreover, he acknowledged there are library rooms that are always locked. At the same time, a number of books that should be displayed instead look well-wrapped and stacked away

in the corner of the room.

Previously, the data reported by the Education Agency indicated that of 328 elementary schools in Tabanan district, only 185 schools already have owned a library.

To comply with minimum service standards (SPM) at primary schools, the Education Agency will continue to boost the provision of library room at each school. In keeping with the effort of the education agency, added Madra, next March his council will hold a workshop for librarians. This activity aims to

set up a representative library room that can attract students to visit, readiness of the librarians to serve the borrowing and setting up the books.

“Arrange the library in accordance with contemporary look so that it can attract the interest of students to spend their resting hours in the library,” he concluded.

Similar ideas were also expressed by Chief of Education Clinic, I Wayan Kawi. He said that in 2016 the Education Council and Education Clinic already distributed books of Balinese

story telling at each school and this program will be resumed in 2017. Distribution of books on Balinese story telling is also a support for education given by education observers to increase the number of student visiting library.

As reported previously, the Tabanan Education Agency makes a breakthrough named the Saturday reading program. As the implementation, each school must oblige their students to read books having been prepared for one to one and a half hour every Saturday. (kmb28)

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Pure Bali cattle must be conserved

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Prior to the implementation of the shared meal, female villagers give pajegan offerings and pray together in the temple.

Unique Timbrah village tradition

All the villagers share a meal in usaba muhu-muhu

THERE is a unique moment that only occurs once a year in Timbrah customary village, Karangasem, it is known by the inhabitants of this old village as usaba muhu-muhu. This caru ritual brings everyone together with the sharing of a meal known as megibung. This unique tradition involves setting up more than 100 portions of food for everyone in the village to partake in.

This year, the unique event took place on Friday (Jan. 27). Before the sacred meal, people from four of the villages hamlets had been busy since morning preparing and processing a wide range of spices. Every hamlet has its respective duties including processing seasonings, grating coconut, preparing caru oblations, and slicing and grilling beef. Completing the caru oblations paraphernalia for the caru and other ceremonial needs is done by the undagi group. Throughout the day, the community of four hamlets and two sesabu hamlets are busy with the preparations before the implementation of the joint prayers at the main Dalem Temple.

Chief of Timbrah customary village, Wayan Sukerta, said that prior to the implementation of the shared meal, female villagers give pajegan offerings and pray together in the temple. Meawhile the male villagers carry drinking water from their homes for the shared meal.

“This tradition has been ongoing for generations and is a way to foster a sense of togetherness”, said Sukerta. This year however there was a slight change to the way the meal took olace. Whereas in previsou years, the shared meal took lace in four separate pavillions ( the meeting pavilion, the gamelan troue pavilion, the long pavilion and the studio pavilion, this year everyone was gathered together in the wantilan hall of the customary youth club.

These shared meals are processed from the leftover meat from the caru oblations. This event is eagerly awaited by local residents who still live in the village and those who have moved away bt come back especially so they can share a meal with their kinfolk.

More than 100 portions of this shared meal are prepared by residents serving as saya and malun saya in cooperation with the village apparatus. Each gibungan or portion of this shared meals is eaten by six to eight people. “We all eat together after praying together in the central Dalem Temple” said Sukerta.

What about residents who abstain from consuming beef? This is likelyhood is anticipated and so six portions of chicken gibungan are also prepared. “Everyone is expected to enjoy the food offerings called ngelungsur that have been presented. So chicken gibungan is also prepared”, he said.

The usaba muhu-muhu ritual is done as a form of village wide caru in order to transform bhuta kala into bhuta hita so that local residents can always live in harmony with the universe. This traditional event starts with the nyaga ritual. Three days before the usaba-muhu muhu, residents carry out this ritual to transform bhuta kala at a smaller level, so athat people’S courtyards will not be distrurbed. This ritual is also called metuun buah. During the usaba muhumuhu, a nyomia ritual is performed at a higher level by the customary village using caru oblation made of buffalo as the sacrificial animal.

The Undagi procession that involves the slaughering of a cow for the caru, always draws great attention from surrounding residents. The cow is tied to a concrete pole and is pacified with the indangi procession. However when slaughtered the cow thrashes about makign everyine a little tense. This procession is however safer than a similar ritual known as usaba kaulu that takes place at Asak village, where the cow is released into the village. The beast is then attacked with swords, machetes and other sharp weapons. Usaba Kaulu will be held on Wednesday (Feb. 1). Sources in the village say that the usaba muhu-muhu tradition is considered as the application of the Shiva Purana scripture, in which Dewi Dhurgha goes up against the demon Mahisasura in the form of cow or buffalo. In recent times, this ritual is commemorated as a moment to conduct introspection, exercise self-control and to avoide letting ones animal nature take over. (gik)

DENPASAR - Texture of Bali beef is indeed not as tender as wagyu beef imported from Japan.

This reason also makes Bali beef Bali unable to meet the international market demand. Nevertheless, the pure Bali cow must still be maintained. It does not need to do crossbreeding with wagyu cattle in order to get tender meat.

“If only oriented to calf of Bali cattle, it will not be able to become wagyu. But the regulation does not allow the crossbreeding. We shall also consider our regulations because it contains germplasm preservation of Bali cattle,” said Deputy Governor of Bali I Ketut Sudikerta when receiving Kamichiku Holdings, a Japanese cattle company at Prajasabha meeting room, the office of the Governor of Bali, on Tuesday (Jan. 31).

On the other hand, continued Sudikerta, Bali must also deal with the dynamics in harmony with the changing times. Pursuant to the solutions offered by Japanese businessmen, a crossbreeding must be done to improve the quality of Bali beef. However, it does not necessarily mean the government will soon revise the existing regulation. It needs further study about the matter.

“Indeed, we need it (crossbreeding), but can only be performed outside Bali. It cannot be carried out in Bali, so the solution is to improve the quality of beef in Bali by accelerating the slaughter age as well as improving the quality of their feed,” he explained.

Chairperson of the Center for Bali Cattle Studies, Udayana University, Prof. Dr. Ni Ketut Suwiti, considered that Bali cattle actually have a tremendous advantage when compared to other beef in Indonesia in terms of meat quality. Therefore, the pure Bali cattle should be maintained. Actually, so far there has been no improvement carried out to Bali cattle, including the application of technology from the beginning to post-harvest.

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“Do not make crossbreeding first, please preserve first the Bali pure cattle germplasm in Bali. We must improve it and please wait for the results until one or two years. So, it’s not like eating spicy chili that straightly tastes spicy,” she said.

Suwiti explained that at the initial stage is required to apply feed management and application of technology for one year. Then, Bali cattle are raised by paying attention to the aspects of animal health. After 1.5 or 2 years, it can be slaughtered in appropriate with the standard operating procedures (SOP) of international slaughter.

Finally, post-harvest handling should be done properly.

“Hopefully, one day Bali cattle can approach the quality of foreign beef,” added this professor of the Faculty of Animal Husbandry. She added that the current slaughter age is between five and six years old and the weight must reach 350 kg in appropriate with the regulations concerning Bali cattle. This happened because the cattle are raised as they are without feed management and application of technology. By and large, farmer community has not owned business orientation.

“Improvement of cattle weight only reaches 0.3 kg for male cow and 0.29 kg for female cow per day. It is very low compared to wagyu reaching 2 kg per cow per day. Then, my research proved that by feeding with a formulation, we are able to increase the weight up to 0.8 kg per head per day, almost 1 kg. In 1.5 years, it can reach 350 kg,” he explained.

Suwiti claimed to have conducted a research for two years and found an integrated feed formulation to accelerate the age of beef cattle. It can be done by providing feed taken from surrounding areas like grass coupled with additional formulation of 0.5 kg of bran and 0.5 kg of maize plus mineral mixture. (kmb32)

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Ben Affleck is not directing Batman, but will produce, star

LOS ANGELES — Ben Affleck is no longer directing the Batman standalone movie for Warner Bros. In a statement Monday, Affleck said it “has become clear that I cannot do both jobs to the level they require” and that he and the studio are looking for a new director.

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Ben Affleck, the director, producer, writer and star of “Live by Night,” poses at the premiere of the film at the TCL Chinese Theatre on Monday, Jan. 9, 2017 in Los Angeles.

“There are certain characters who hold a special place in the hearts of millions,” Affleck said in the statement. “Performing this role demands focus, passion and the very best performance I can give.”

Affleck made his debut as the superhero for the studio last summer in “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” and he had been attached to write and direct the Batman standalone movie for about a year. He attended Comic-Con this summer with his fellow DC Universe directors, like “Wonder Woman’s” Patty Jenkins, “Justice League’s” Zack Snyder, and Rick Famuyiwa, who this past fall also stepped away from directing “The Flash.”

The studio in a statement said that it “fully supports” his decision and “remains committed to working with him to bring a standalone Batman picture to life.”

Warner Bros. and Affleck have had a longstanding relationship. This past fall alone, Affleck made a cameo as Batman/Bruce Wayne in “Suicide Squad,” starred in “The Accountant,” and wrote, directed and starred in the period drama “Live by Night.”

Speaking to The Associated Press in December , Affleck said he was taking his time with the script for Batman, which he called an “exhilarating” challenge, “like jumping out of an airplane.”

Warner Bros. has had a rocky start kicking off its expanded universe of DC Comics films. Both “Batman v Superman” and “Suicide Squad” were savaged by critics, but they still managed to be decently profitable.

Affleck will appear next as Batman in “Justice League,” which comes out on Nov. 17. The Batman standalone doesn’t yet have an official title or release date, but it was tentatively pegged for 2018.

“I am still in this, and we are making it,” Affleck’s statement continued. “I remain extremely committed to this project, and look forward to bringing this to life for fans around the world.”(ap)

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Friends and loved ones of John Jezreel David, 21, who was shot dead in what police said was an anti-drug operation, cry during his funeral rites at the north cemetery in Metro Manila, Philippines February 1, 2017.

Philippines police behave like “criminal underworld” in drugs war

MANILA - Police prosecuting the war on drugs in the Philippines have behaved like the criminal underworld they are supposed to be suppressing, taking payments for killings and delivering bodies to funeral homes, according to a report released on Wednesday.

Amnesty International’s report said the wave of drugs-related killings since President Rodrigo Duterte came to power in mid2016 appeared to be “systematic, planned and organised” by authorities and could constitute crimes against humanity.

Responding to the findings, presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella defended the Philippine National Police (PNP), saying no extra-judicial killings were statesponsored and investigations by Senate committees had proved that.

“There is no state-sponsored policy of extra-judicial deaths and that there is relentless effort on the part of the PNP to carry out the campaign properly and within legal processes,” he said.

In a series of reports last year, Reuters showed that the police had a 97-percent kill rate in their drug operations, the strongest proof yet that police were summarily shooting drug suspects.

The Reuters reports also found that low-level officials in poor neighbourhoods helped police assemble “watch lists” of alleged

drug users and pushers that were effectively hit lists, with many of the people named ending up dead.

Duterte used exaggerated and flawed data, including the number of drug users in the Philippines, to justify his anti-narcotics crackdown, according to a Reuters investigation.

The release of Amnesty’s investigation, which was based on 59 killings in 20 cities and towns, comes amid uncertainty over the crackdown after the government suspended all anti-drug operations by police on Monday due to rampant corruption. The Philippine Drugs Enforcement Agency (PDEA) has now been given the lead role in the campaign.

Duterte made the decision after a security meeting on Sunday trig-

gered by the kidnap and killing of a South Korean businessmen by drugs squad police. He said the incident, which took place at the national police headquarters, had embarrassed the country and tarnished the image of the police.

‘RELENTLESS PRESSURE’ Amnesty said the vast majority of the killings it investigated “appear to have been extra-judicial killings - unlawful and deliberate killings carried out by government order or with its complicity or acquiescence”.

“The Duterte administration’s relentless pressure on the police to deliver results in anti-drug operations has helped encourage these abusive practices,” the report said.

A senior police officer told Amnesty that police are “paid by the encounter”, receiving the equivalent of at least $160 per killing and received nothing for making arrests.

Amnesty reported that some police are rewarded by undertakers for sending dead bodies their way, police steal from victims’ homes, and paid killers are on the police payroll.

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