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LaBeouf makes a scene at Berlin film festival Associated Press Writer

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Actor Shia LaBeouf poses for photographers, with a paper bag over his head that says ‘I am not famous anymore’, on the red carpet for the film Nymphomaniac at the International Film Festival Berlinale in Berlin, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2014.

BERLIN — Actor Shia LaBeouf hit the Berlin Film Festival in memorable style Sunday, first walking out of a press conference for the film “Nymphomaniac Volume I” and then wearing a paper bag over his head at the red carpet premiere. The actor posed for photographers in a stylish tuxedo — and a paper bag with eyeholes and the words “I am not famous anymore” written across it. LaBeouf has frequently used the statement on his Twitter page, and he was identifiable by a tattoo on his hand.

The unconventional attire came shortly after the star walked out of a press conference with co-stars Uma Thurman and Christian Slater to promote Lars von Trier’s film, the first installment of a two-part drama about a woman’s sexual life from girlhood to age 50.

A reporter’s question as to whether the actors were worried about the film’s sex scenes elicited the response: “When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea. Thank you very much.” He then walked out.

LaBeouf’s line was borrowed from French soccer player Eric

‘Lego Movie’ opens with big $69.1M box office

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Cantona, who baffled reporters with it in the mid-1990s following his suspension for a flying kick on a heckler.

The actor has come under fire for borrowing dialogue and story line for his short film, “Howard Cantour.com,” which closely resembled a 2007 graphic novel

by Daniel Clowes.

“In my excitement and naiveté as an amateur filmmaker, I got lost in the creative process and neglected to follow proper accreditation,” LaBeouf said on Twitter in December in response to Clowes’ publisher’s claim that he stole dialogue verbatim.

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Barca, Real on the brink of Cup final showdown

Rice farmers protest as Thai government’s funding woes mount

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Page 13 Australian Schapelle Corby, covering her face, listens to an official after she received her parole in Bali, Indonesia, Monday, Feb. 10, 2014.

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — “The Lego Movie” clicked with moviegoers, assembling an exceptional $69.1 million debut at the weekend box office, according to studio estimates. The better-than-expected result made the Warner Bros. collaboration with the Danish toy company easily the biggest hit of the year so far. A sequel is already in development for the 3-D animated film, digitally drawn to mimic a world composed entirely of Lego bricks.

The film has drawn raves from critics.

Co-directors and co-writers Phil Lord and Chris Miller (“21 Jump Street,” ‘’Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs”) gave the film a playful tone to capture the whimsy of a child playing in a box of Legos. Characters are largely voiced by comic actors like Chris Pratt and Will Ferrell.

The film marks the biggest animation hit for Warner Bros., a studio that despite popular live-action franchises has struggled to develop animated hits on par

with other studios. “I can’t imagine this not turning into a long-term franchise,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for box-office tracker Rentrak.

“This is such a runaway success that Warner Bros is now a major player in the animated genre.”

Dan Fellman, head of distribution for Warner Bros., said the film, made with a production budget of $60 million, resounded because of the popularity of the Lego brand. This is the first feature film for

the toy company. Fellow toy-maker Hasbro has seen mixed results since the launch of the “Transformers” franchise, which was followed by “G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra” and the notorious flop “Battleship.”

George Clooney’s World War II caper “The Monuments Men” opened in second place with $22.7 million. Reviews have been weak for the based-on-a-truestory tale about the mission to retrieve artwork stolen by the Nazis.

The Sony Pictures film was postponed from a Dec. 25 release because, Clooney then said, more time was needed to finish the visual effects.

Clooney served as director, cowriter, producer and star on the film.

“The Monuments Men,” based on the nonfiction book by Robert Edsel and Brett Witter, was particularly popular with older moviegoers, with 75 percent of its audience aged 35 and older. “It’s right where we hoped to be,” said Rory Bruer, head of distribution for Sony. “There’s a lot of love for George and the ensemble cast.”

Sliding to third was the cop AP Photo/Warner Bros. Pictures, file comedy “Ride Along,” with Kevin This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows characters, from left, Benny, Hart and Ice Cube. After three voiced by Charlie Day, Batman, voiced by Will Arnett, Vitruvius, voiced by Morgan straight weeks atop the box office, Freeman, Wyldstyle, voiced by Elizabeth Banks and Unikitty, voiced by Alison Brie, the Universal film earned $9.4 in a scene from “The Lego Movie.” million.

AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati

Corby released from prison

Agence France-Presse

KEROBOKAN - Australian drug trafficker Schapelle Corby, her face veiled against a horde of press photographers, was hustled out of prison Monday to start the next chapter of her troubled life after more than nine years behind bars in Bali.

The 36-year-old, who is now out on parole, covered her face with a scarf and hat as she was ushered into a minibus waiting outside Kerobokan jail on the resort island, as camera crews and photographers fought to get a shot of her.

Corby, whose case has drawn huge fascination in Australia since she was caught entering Bali in

2004 with marijuana stashed in her surfing gear, sped off to complete final administrative steps for her release, with journalists giving chase.

After visiting government officials who will oversee her parole in Indonesia -- where she must remain until 2017 -- she was whisked away by a black SUV to a luxury resort and spa in the popular Seminyak

district.

A bidding war has heated up in recent days for her first post-jail interview and a second black car containing a TV crew raced into the resort after Corby, while the rest of the following media pack were barred from entering.

As expected the former beauty school student, whose proclamations of innocence and battle with depression in prison drew great sympathy in Australia, did not comment but one official said she seemed upset.

“We asked her how she was.

She cried and said she was still feeling traumatised due to all the

journalists,” said Agung Bagus Kusimantara, from the Bali prosecutors’ office.

The media have been camped outside Kerobokan jail for the past week in anticipation of her release, with one Australian television network alone having reportedly dispatched 17 staff.

In Australia her release dominated TV networks on Monday and sparked celebrations at the home of her mother, Rosleigh Rose, in Loganlea, in the northeastern state of Queensland.

Champagne and cheers The sound of cheers could be

heard from the family’s backyard and Rose appeared briefly outside to pop a champagne cork in front of journalists, although she refused to comment.

Indonesian Justice Minister Amir Syamsuddin announced on Friday that Corby had been granted parole following a drawnout process that repeatedly ran into bureaucratic hurdles.

The move was welcomed in Australia but drew protests from Indonesian lawmakers and an anti-drugs group, who said it went against the country’s tough antinarcotics laws.

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Bali News

Culverts clogged Semarapura town besieged by floods Bali Post

The situation in Badung traditional market

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Growth of modern market eats away at traditional market

Bali Post

MANGUPURA - The growth of modern markets in Bali continues to eat away at traditional markets.

Government as regulator must support the existence of traditional markets by strengthening them with favoring policies.

Secretary of the Indonesian Economists Association (ISEI) of Bali Chapter, Prof. Dr. I.B. Raka Suardana, said that modern market should pay attention to the existence of traditional markets, so it would not shut off the traditional markets. “Traditional market must be grown, developed and reinforced by favoring policies of the government, especially in terms of regulation,” said Raka Suardana, Saturday (Feb 8).

According to him, traditional markets should also make improvement in line with the demands of today’s consumers accentuating services, comfort, sanitation, safety and satisfaction.

Thus, the behavior of traders in traditional markets should also be changed.

Besides, the modern store should also pay attention to the existing regulations, especially the chained modern stores, so as not to aggressively open

more outlets to remote villages that could shut off stalls or shops owned by local communities.

“The players of traditional stalls or shops should also improve, at least can make their stall or shop worth visiting by today’s modern consumers, especially in terms of services and the comfort must be considered,” he explained.

He said the weakness of traditional stall or shop lay in the matter of sanitation and comfort. This deficiency should be improved in order to provide convenience for consumers.

“The government, both county and municipal government, must be more selective in issuing permit to modern markets and modern stores. The distance between the modern market and modern store should consider the existence of traditional markets or stores,” he said.

He argued that establishment of the modern market or modern stores should make partnership with the players of local Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and have CSR programs. It could be done by marketing the SME products such as packaging or repackaging the products with the brand of modern stores or another brand having been agreed in order to increase the selling value of the products. Besides, the marketing the SME products could also be made through the storefront or outlet of modern store.

“Modern stores can also provide business space in the area of modern markets or modern stores for small businesses with rental price in accordance with the capability of the small businesses or which can be used by small business through other cooperation in the form of partnerships,” he said. (kmb27)

SEMARAPURA - Heavy rain for two hours resulted in flooding in the Semarapura town, Klungkung, Sunday (Feb 9). The rain accompanied with strong winds and flashes of lightning caused the culvert to clog. As a result, a number of lines in the Semarapura town were hit by floods. One of them was at the four-way intersection. This icon of the Klungkung town was besieged by floods from three directions as high as adult thigh.

Heavy rains in Klungkung began around two o’clock in the afternoon. Flush of the rain for two hours caused large enough floodwater from the north, right from Jalan Gajah Mada. Apparently, the culvert along the road was clogged.

Thus, the rainwater directly besieged the four-way intersection on Jalan Gajah Mada. At the location, the floodwater also flowed to Jalan Diponegoro eastward, Jalan Puputan southward and Jalan Untung Surapati westward. Floods at the four-way intersection were getting severe after the coming of floods from the opposite direction on Jalan Diponegoro and Jalan Untung Surapati. Thus, the four-way intersection was completely surrounded by floods.

By degrees, the flood leading to Jalan Puputan westward receded. A number of road users were trapped in the middle of flood, precisely at point of four-way intersection. Even, vehicles such as cars and motorcycles broke down in the middle of the flood. Meanwhile, other motorists seemed to turn round after seeing the path in front of them was surrounded by floods. Meanwhile, the rain at that time was still very heavy. “The flood is quite large. Rather than being trapped in flood and breaks down, I prefer to turn round to other line,” said one of the residents, Wayan Nata, Sunday.

Until 4:30 in the afternoon, the flood at the four-way intersection was not secure enough to be passed through by vehicles. Though having receded, the floodwater on Jalan Puputan remained quite high. Even, the next heavy rain flushed Klungkung at 4:45 p.m. Thus, both cars and motorcycles coming from the four-way intersection ultimately turned round.

Similarly, the flooding also caused vehicles on the road to jam for four hours. However, the vehicles could begin to move at late afternoon. Unsurprisingly, the flood also drew the attention of local residents. One of them was Gede Sarjana where he said the flood at the intersection very rarely happened. “This severe flood is for the first time. Apparently, the culvert in the north is blocked. Moreover, the culvert was never maintained. Due to clogged culvert, a number of sidewalk parts exploded. So far, it has not been repaired,” he said. Other than the intersection, the Semarapura Market was also besieged by floods. For instance, the Block D was hit by floods and receded slowly around 5:10 p.m.

Another resident, Wayan Putra, said the other path in the Semarapura town was also besieged by floods. For instance, it happened on the five-way intersection leading to Jalan Flamboyan, Jalan Ngurah Rai, Jalan Surapati and Pegending village. However, the floods at these areas were not as severe as at the four-way intersection. Puddles were also seen on Jalan Kecubung. Seeing this phenomenon, every culvert needed to be checked and repaired. Allegedly, a number of culverts in the Semarapura town had been clogged by rubbish.

“When it rained heavily like this, we just knew if the culvert has been filled by rubbish,” said Wayan Putra. (kmb31)

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Nyepi at Hanging Gardens

IBP

UBUD - Luxuriate, contemplate and unwind to the sounds of silence this Nyepi Hindu holiday at Hanging Gardens Ubud, a five-star luxury hotel hidden deep in the heart of the Ubud jungle. On this day of silence and reflection, guests can simply enjoy total serenity, complemented by chattering monkeys and indigenous birds, the gentle soothing sounds of the jungle wildlife and the occasional ripples from the waterfalls coursing through the holy Ayung river - all whilst enjoying our premium luxury services. The hotel has created a Nyepi package that will guarantee a peaceful, relaxing and indulgent Nyepi holiday.

Nyepi, known as the “ Day of Silence,” marks the celebration of the Balinese New Year of Saka 1935 in the Hindu Lunar calendar. A spectacular series of ceremonies, parades of unusual paper mache ogres (Ogah Ogahs) and fireworks occur on the Eve of Nyepi (30th March 2014), followed by a day of total silence and seclusion.

This 2014, Hanging Gardens Ubud, with 38 luxurious private villas each with its own infinity pool, is treating guests to a three-night Nyepi cultural package. The package includes a tour of the local villages’ Ogah Ogahs, a traditional and sumptuous Balinese Ristaffel dinner, New Year Nyepi blessing, meditation and/or yoga class and a spiritual healing massage.

On 30th March guests will be treated to a tour of the local village and its Ogah Ogah creations before these local masterpieces are paraded in a ceremonial procession. Ancient Hindu history tells that the Ogah Ogahs invite and store all the bad spirits. That night they are paraded through the streets, then tradition dictates that they are burnt and the bad spirits released into the atmosphere. The following day the community strongly believes that if the island is silent and dark, the bad spirits will leave and the New Year will start in peace.

Nyepi day (31st March) is thus reserved for self-reflection and silence. On this day the hotel offers guests a spiritual healing massage and ceremonial

blessing to encourage supreme peace, tranquility and relaxation. Guests can also enjoy a yoga or meditation class in the valley of the rainforest overlooking the holy river and facing the ancient temple.

On Nyepi evening, the hotel’s chef will create a traditional Royal Balinese Ristaffel dinner drawing on his local knowledge of Balinese recipes handed down through generations. He has sourced the very best local and international produce, some grown organically on Hanging Gardens estate. Dinner will be served overlooking the Hanging Garden’s famous tiered swimming pool, #1 World’s best swimming pool by Conde Nast Traveller and recently voted #1 in the World by Trip Advisor

Calendar Event for January 1 through February 26, 2014 1 Jan Buda Kliwon Matal, Kajeng Kliwon And Tilem Sasih Kenam Pura Desa Sukawati Sukawati Pura Pasek Gelgel Gelgel Bebetin Pura Maspahit Sesetan Pura Padharman Arya Kanuruhan Besakih 11 Jan Tumpek Kandang Pura Desa Gianyar Pura Luhur Dalem Sagening Kediri Tabanan Pura Sang Hyang Tegal Tegalalang 15 Jan Purnama Sasih Kapitu Pura Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Kaja Gianyar Pura Puseh Manakaji Peninjauan Bangli Pura Taman Limut Pengosekan Mas Ubud Pura Benua Besakih Pura Gunung Rena Sidemen Karangasem Pura Pasek Gelgel Abadi Karangasem Pura Pucak Gunung Mangun Kubu Karangasem 16 Jan Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan

17 Jan Hari Bhatara Sri 21 Jan Anggara Kasih Prangbakat Pura Bukit Buluh Gunaksa Klungkung Pura Tirtha Sidamala Bebalang Bangli Pura Gunung Pangsong Lombok Pura Dalem Benawah Gianyar Pura Dalem Bitra Gianyar Pura Pura Hyang Haluh/Jenggala Besakih

Pura Tengkulak Tulikup Gianyar Pura Taman Sari Ubud Pura Penataran Badung

Pura Penataran Giri Purwo Tegal Delimo Banyuwangi Pura jala Sidhi amerta Juanda Surabaya

29 Jan Hari Siwaratri

19 Feb Buda Cemeng Kelawu Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang Karangasem Pura Melanting Camenggaon Sukawati Pura Penataran ped Nusa Penida Pura Gaduhan Jagat Singakerta Ubud Pura Masceti Sanding Tampak Siring Pura Penataran Batu Lepang Kamasan Kelungkung Pura Paibon Pasek Gelgel Kedonganan Kuta Pura Guwa Besakih Pura Basukian Besakih Pura Jati Ubud Pura Melanting Ubud Pura Dalem Peed Nusa Penida Pura Sad Kayangan Nusa Penida Pura Penataran Agung Gunung Karangasem

30 Jan Tilem Sasih Kepitu Pura Buana Kawan Besakih Pura Ulun Kulkul Besakih 31 Jan Kajeng Kliwon Enyitan 5 Feb Buda Kliwon Ugu Pura Dalem Tarukan Peninjauan Tembuku Bangli Pura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah Buleleng Pura Kayangan Tiga Seririt Buleleng Pura Agung Gunung Raung Taro Tegalalang 6 Feb Pura Dalem Puri Besakih 14 Feb Purnama Sasih Kawulu Pura Dalem Batur Bangli Pura Ida Ratu Pasek Besakih Pura Dalem Suci Sidemen Karangasem Pura Buana Kawan Besakih 15 Feb Tumpek Wayang & Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan Pura Majapahit Jembrana Pura Panti Gelgel Pengembungan Sesetan Pura Pedarman Dalem Sukawati Besakih Pura Pedarman Mengwi Besakih Pura Pedarman Kaba-kaba Besakih Pura Pedarman Dalem Bakas Besakih Pura Pedarman Dinasti Dalem Besakih

21 Feb Hari Bhatara Sri 25 Feb Anggara Kasih Dukut Pura Dalem Batuyang Batubulan Pura Pasek Gelgel Mengening Kediri Tabanan Pura Pasek Undagi Krambitan Tabanan Pura Pucak Taman bedulu Gianyar Pura Puser Jagat Nusa Penida Pura Dalem Purwa Kawan Bangli Pura Desa Ketewel Gianyar 26 Feb Pura Agung Pasek gelgel Sibang Kaja Abian Semal Pura Dalem Samprangan Gianyar

IBP/Courtesy of Hanging Gardens

Balinese Temple Ceremony Every Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbulumbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land.

Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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Bottle released

by US scientist in 1956 found

AP Photo/British Museum

Undated handout photo issued by the British Museum Friday Feb. 7, 2014 of some of the human footprints, thought to be more than 800,000 years old, found in silt on the beach at Happisburgh on the Norfolk coast of England, with a camera lens cap laid beside them to indicate scale.

Scientists find 800,000-year-old footprints in UK

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scientists think may be the ancient Thames, beside grasslands where bison, mammoth, hippos and rhinoceros roamed.

University of Southampton archaeology professor Clive Gamble, who was not involved in the project, said the discovery was “tremendously significant.” “It’s just so tangible,” he said. “This is the closest we’ve got to seeing the people.

“When I heard about it, it was like hearing the first line of (William Blake’s hymn) ‘Jerusalem’ — ‘And did those feet, in ancient time, walk upon England’s mountains green?’ Well, they walked upon its muddy estuary.”

The researchers said the humans who left the footprints may have been related to Homo antecessor, or “pioneer man,” whose fossilized remains have been found in

Spain. That species died out about 800,000 years ago.

Ashton said the footprints are between 800,000 — “as a conservative estimate” — and 1 million years old, at least 100,000 years older than scientists’ earlier estimate of the first human habitation in Britain. That’s significant because 700,000 years ago, Britain had a warm, Mediterranean-style climate. The earlier period was much colder, similar to modernday Scandinavia.

Natural History Museum archaeologist Chris Stringer said that 800,000 or 900,000 years ago Britain was “the edge of the inhabited world.” “This makes us rethink our feelings about the capacity of these early people, that they were coping with conditions somewhat colder than the present day,” he said.

Overcome congestion

Hotel employees prohibited from parking on Kuta Beach DENPASAR - After cars, now motorcycles owned by restaurant and hotel employees are prohibited from parking along Jalan Pantai Kuta. This measure is taken because police are often complained by travelers due to traffic jam. Later, the parking space on the roadside will only be intended for motorcycle of travelers or visitor.

LONDON — They were a British family on a day out — almost a million years ago. Archaeologists announced Friday that they have discovered human footprints in England that are between 800,000 and 1 million years old — the most ancient found outside Africa, and the earliest evidence of human life in northern Europe.

A team from the British Museum, London’s Natural History Museum and Queen Mary college at the University of London uncovered imprints from up to five individuals in ancient estuary mud at Happisburgh on the country’s eastern coast. British Museum archaeologist Nick Ashton said the discovery — recounted in detail in the journal PLOS ONE — was “a tangible link to our earliest human relatives.”

Preserved in layers of silt and sand for hundreds of millennia before being exposed by the tide last year, the prints give a vivid glimpse of some of our most ancient ancestors. They were left by a group, including at least two children and one adult male.

They could have been be a family foraging on the banks of a river

IBP/File Photo

After cars, now motorcycles owned by restaurant and hotel employees are prohibited from parking along Jalan Pantai Kuta. This measure is taken because police are often complained by travelers due to traffic jam.

Bali Post

Associated Press Writer

AP Photo/Warren N. Joyce

This January 2014 photo released by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, shows a glass bottle that had contained a message from the institution, which was recovered on Sable Island, Nova Scotia, by biologist Warren N. Joyce of Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans.

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Sustainable farmland in Badung

Associated Press Writer

BOSTON — It was April 1956, and the No. 1 song was Elvis Presley’s “Heartbreak Hotel.” At the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod, scientist Dean Bumpus was busy releasing glass bottles into the Atlantic Ocean as part of his work to track currents. Nearly 58 years later, a biologist studying grey seals off Nova Scotia found one of the bottles in a pile of debris on a beach.

“It was almost like finding treasure in a way,” Warren Joyce said Friday. The drift bottle was among thousands dumped in the Atlantic Ocean between 1956 and 1972 as part of Bumpus’ study of surface and bottom currents. About 10 percent of the 300,000 bottles have been found over the years.

Joyce found the bottle Jan. 20 on Sable Island, about 185 miles southeast of Halifax. He contacted scientists at Woods Hole and dutifully gave them the time and place information Bumpus had asked for in a postcard inside the bottle. His reward will be exactly what Bumpus promised in 1956 to anyone who returned a bottle: a 50-cent piece.

“I didn’t want the reward, but they said they are sending it to me anyway,” Joyce said, chuckling. Joyce said the bottle had been sandblasted over about 75 percent of its surface. He could still read the words, “Break This Bottle,” so he did. Inside, there was a note from Bumpus explaining that the bottle was among many being released to study the ocean.

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“We have held a meeting with hundreds of hoteliers and restaurateurs located on Kuta Beach in Kuta subdistrict head office, Thursday (Feb 6). After we explained the legal instrument and its benefits, they finally agreed to prepare the parking space for their employees.

If there is any violation, we will ticket it,” said the Traffic Affairs Chief of Denpasar Police, I Nyoman Nuryana.

Such a measure was made because many travelers complained related to traffic jam. Having been surveyed and analyzed, said Nuryana, in fact it was not caused by the number of vehicles, but by the poorly managed parking. On that account, his party took decisive measure to gather the hoteliers and restaurateurs.

“Actually it is the vehicle, especially the car coming in and out of the parking lot, triggering the traffic jam. Moreover, the parking space is dominantly used by hotel and restaurant employees, including the hawkers,” he said.

Such a breakthrough, said the former Traffic Affairs Chief of Jembrana Police, obtained great support from customary village, headman and people’s empowerment agency (LPM). The endeavor was made for

the advancement of tourism in Kuta.

“If traffic jam occurs and travelers do not want to make a visit, they also suffer a loss. We are doing this endeavor for the common good, not for ours,” said Nuryana.

When the parking space was well organized and traffic flow ran smoothly, according to him, a growing number of travelers would visit the tourist village. In addition, the view along the road would look more beautiful because the parking of motorcycle was neatly arranged.

“We told to parking authority in order the head of motorcycle is facing out (facing the road—Ed).

Thus, the motorcycle owner can directly move. Now, we still focus on arranging the parking space on Jalan Pantai Kuta,” he added.

Meanwhile, according to tourism academician, Ni Made Eka Mahadewi, tourism was a dominant and leading sector of Bali. No doubt all the economic, cultural, social and environmental activities were driven by the presence of tourism.

“Tourism is defined as an activity for fun or to get a delight or better live, done in free time or vacation, done with spending money, and get out of the area where people live or there is removal. If any of these activities are not met then the activity cannot be

categorized into tourism activities,” she added.

Tourism, said the lecturer of the Bali Tourism Institute (STP Nusa Dua), had an impact as described above. If it was related to tourism, then the presence of congestion could affect the tourism activities. Such condition would have an impact in the whole and could directly affect the revenue of all related sectors of the industry.

“For example, the impact of traffic congestion is that tour guides are unable to set the time of their trip schedule, tour package sales will get disturbed and fun activities will be disrupted. In addition, the flow of tourist money that should be spent to shop, eat, buy a souvenir and enjoy attractions will be delayed and even canceled. Consequently, travelers will get irritated and complain. This can lead to poor destination image,” said Eka. In order to remain to become a preferred destination, according to associate professor of the STP Nusa Dua, Bali should at least focus on destination competitiveness index factor.

Bali should also focus on creating a transportation system complying with the requirements and creating comfort, security, value for money destination, satisfaction and a positive image for travelers. (rah)

MANGUPURA - Badung government will establish a sustainable farmland with total area of 17,223 hectares. This acreage is less than the previous estimation namely at least 18,000 hectares. Of the six subdistricts in Badung, it is only Kuta having no sustainable farmland.

The Head of Badung Agriculture, Plantation and Forestry Agency, IGAK Sudaratmaja, said the sustainable farmland would set forth in the Detail Spatial Plan (RDTR) of each subdistrict. The current acreage of farmland had been socialized with the RDTR to each subdistrict.

He said that among the six subdistricts in Badung, only Kuta subdistrict that did not have a sustainable farmland. It happened because the development in this subdistrict was very crowded. Thus, it left no productive farmland.

Meanwhile, related to the total area of sustainable farmland, Sudaratmaja admitted there was a change from the previously estimated amount. Current farmland conversion reaching hundreds of hectares was difficult to be prevented due to a variety of reasons and considerations, especially with regard to the infrastructure development. He said the sustainable farmland consisted of wetlands or paddy fields and dry farmlands. Later on, these lands could not be tampered with or converted or they were exclusively intended for farmland. Meanwhile, the paddy field in Badung totally spread across 9,723 hectares.

On the other hand, Sudaratmaja also highlighted the problem of farmland conversion in Badung. Decline in the farmland was also one of the causes of the reduced number of farming households (RTP) in Badung.

From the results of the Agricultural Census 2013 in Badung, the farming household in Badung decreased by 34.72 percent from the previous census 10 years before (2003). In 2013, the farming household in Badung amounted to 39,975 people, while in 2003 reached 44,773 people. “Other than decline in the farmland, many farmers also switched their profession by looking for other job opportunities to sustain their economy,” he said.

To note, approximately at the end of 2013 the Badung government planned to set at least 18,000 hectares of sustainable farmland. Such acreage was predicted to come from the 10,195 hectares of paddy fields and about 8,000 hectares of dry land agriculture. The decrease in the land area at the time was predicted only about 195 hectares. Besides, the county government also stated that Badung had a spare of 100 hectares of paddy field if the water tunnel at Belok Sidan could have been materialized. (kmb25)

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Badung government will establish a sustainable farmland with total area of 17,223 hectares. This acreage is less than the previous estimation namely at least 18,000 hectares.

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Protected forest of Kintamani to be developed into nature-based tourism The beautiful landscape of Kintamani in Bangli Regency

Bali Post BANGLI - Bangli government offers another opportunity to investors to develop forest areas in Kintamani. At this time, the forest in Kintamani is planned to be used as a nature-based tourism (TWA).

Such a measure is meant to encourage the Kintamani tourist attraction as tourist destination.

It was revealed when the Bangli Regent I Made Gianyar held a hearing with Chairman of the Indonesian Association of Nature Tourism and Manager of Sustainable Tourism, PT Bukit Penelokan Hijau as investor who would develop the nature-based tourism at the forest region of Suter village, Kintamani.

Manager of the Sustainable Tourism of PT Bukit Penelokan Hijau, Teguh Hartono, said on that occasion the nature-based tourism

(TWA) was a model of sustainable tourism development. In other words, the development of this area would not be destructive to nature and retained in its original condition. Moreover, in this sustainable tourism, the community development in the area of the naturebased tourism would be placed as the player not only as a spectator.

Later on, at least a minimum of 25 hectares of land would be required for the nature-based tourism development.

Based on field research, the forest area of Suter village is the most appropriate place for the development of this nature-based tourism because the nature is very supportive and has very strategic location in the proximity to Penelokan tourist attraction. It poses the center of Kintamani tourist attraction. The nature-based tourism will be developed in various types of tourist attraction such as bird park, trekking, jungle trekking, horse riding as well as educational tour and research. In addition, a restaurant will be built on tree top, and the facilities of outbound and hanging house on cliff top. The core of this is nature-based tourism development is to harmonize tourism development with the condition of nature. Apart from the nature-based tourism in the forest of

Suter village, it will also be built the Bangli Welcome Center (BWC) as a tourist information center of Bangli in the whole.

The BWC development is expected to enhance the tourism development in Bangli County where all the information about tourism in Bangli County can be accessed here. However, the development plan of the nature-based tourism and Bangli Welcome Center in the forest area of Suter village, Kintamani, still takes time it because must complete various requirements before the development permit is issued by the Ministry of Forestry and the development plan of nature-based tourism and Bangli Welcome Center lies in the protected forest area.

Meanwhile, the Bangli Regent I

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Made Gianyar claimed to be ready to fully support the plan of investor provided that all the legal requirements for the development of this area could be met. According to Gianyar, Bangli chiefly Kintamani had a lot of very promising natural potentials if they were developed into a tourist attraction. However, they had not been exposed and managed optimally. The naturebased tourism development plan was considered to have the same concept as the Geopark that promoted the nature conservation.

Gianyar expected the nature-based tourism and Bangli Welcome Center could be realized, so that Bangli County had high class tourist attraction and could gradually enhance the glory of Kintamani tourism. (ina)

Charged for 2.5 years, an Australia citizen acquitted by judge Bali Post DENPASAR - Indictment of the public prosecutor, Nyoman Sucitrawan, against an Australian national named Kavin Barry Grossman, 54, was countered by the judges led by Cening Budiana.

Even though he was previously sentenced to prison for 2.5 years, the judge had a different opinion. Barry accused of fraud and embezzlement case was acquitted of all charges or

declared free.

Judge Cening Budiana stated that he did not agree with the prosecutor I Nyoman Sucitrawan and Nunik Nurlaili, Friday (Feb 7) because according to the facts revealed in the trial the defendant Barry Kavin Grossman was not proved legally and convincingly to have committed any offense referred to in the indictment of article 378 or 374 of the Criminal Code.

On the contrary, the judges

agreed with the legal counsel of the accused, namely Chris Harno. The accused never committed criminal acts of fraud or embezzlement in the sale of precious stone with the victim witness Patrick Finlay as described in the indictment.

Another consideration was that the judges stated the case did not belong to a criminal act but to civil act so he should be acquitted of all charges and lawsuits.

When asked for his confirma-

tion, the prosecutor I Nyoman Sucitrawan justified on Sunday (Feb 9) if the accused Barry was acquitted because the judges believed if his case did not belong to criminal law but to civil law. Against the verdict, Sucitrawan claimed that he would report it to the leadership to determine the next step, whether accepting the verdict or filing an appeal to the Supreme Court (MA).

In the previous trial, the prosecutor declared the accused Barry Kavin

Grossman legally and convincingly guilty because he deliberately wanted to benefit himself or others unlawfully, using a false name or false dignity, ruse or a series of lies and moved other people to give something or created or eliminated the receivable in accordance with Article 378 of the Criminal Code in the first indictment, so it requested the judge to impose imprisonment to Barry Kavin Grossman for 2.5 years. (110)

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Farmers from Kanchanaburi province chant slogans while taking up the street during a rally outside Justice Ministry in Bangkok, Thailand Monday, Feb. 10, 2014. An ambitious rice buying program that Thailand’s ruling party hoped would uplift millions of its poor rural supporters may end up helping to bring down the increasingly cornered government.

Rice farmers protest as Thai government’s funding woes mount

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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea has canceled for a second time its invitation for a senior U.S. envoy to visit the country to discuss a long-detained American’s possible release, the State Department said Monday.

The cancellation comes only days after detained American missionary Kenneth Bae told a pro-Pyongyang newspaper that he expected to meet this month with the envoy. It signals an apparent protest of upcoming annual military drills between Washington and Seoul and an alleged mobilization of U.S. nuclear-capable B-52 bombers during training near the Korean Peninsula. North Korea calls the planned drills a rehearsal for invasion, a claim the allies deny.

The State Department also said in a statement that civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson has offered to travel to North Korea at the request of Bae’s family.

The State Department did not elaborate and referred questions to Jackson, whose spokesman didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Analysts say North Korea has previously used detained Americans as leverage in its standoff with the U.S. over its nuclear and missile programs; North Korea denies this.

Bae has been held in North Korea for 15 months. The North accused him of smuggling in inflammatory literature and trying to establish a base for antigovernment activities at a border city hotel.

Bae was quoted last week in an interview with the Japanbased Choson Sinbo newspaper as saying that a Swedish diplomat told him the U.S. envoy on North Korean human rights issues, Bob King, would visit him as early as Monday and no later than the end of the month.

Bae said he also heard from the diplomat that the U.S. government had told North Korea that it intends to send the Rev. Jackson, but the North instead allowed King to come to the country, the report said, without elaborating.

The U.S. and North Korea, which fought the 1950-53 Korean War, have no diplomatic relations. The Swedish Embassy in Pyongyang handles consular matters there for the U.S.

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BANGKOK - More than 1,000 farmers protested outside the Thai government’s temporary headquarters on Monday over the state’s failure to pay for rice bought under a subsidy scheme that the caretaker administration admits it is struggling to fund. The rice programme was a signature policy of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, who was swept to power in 2011 with the help of millions of rural votes, but has become one of the biggest threats to her grip on power.

The unrest among farmers has opened a new front against Yingluck’s government, which has been facing off against a Bangkok-based protest movement seeking to drive it from office for nearly three months. One of the organisers of those protests was arrested on Monday, the first of the core leaders to be held since the campaign to disrupt normal business in the capital began in November.

The protests, which are still blocking parts of Bangkok, have found much of their support from middle-class, urban taxpayers appalled at what they see as corruption and waste in the rice scheme. Tarit Pengdith, head of the Department of Special Investigation (DSI), Thailand’s equivalent of the FBI, said protest leader Sonthiyarn Chuenruethai-naitham was being detained by border patrol police on the outskirts of the city.

He was among 19 people against whom arrest warrants were issued

last week for defying a state of emergency that bans political gatherings of more than five people and gives authorities powers to detain suspects without charge. DSI chief Tarit also said he would announce the names of 136 individuals and companies suspected of providing financial support to the protest movement at a news conference on Tuesday.

“We have strong evidence that 58 of these firms have financially supported protests ... and will summon the remaining companies and individuals to the DSI to explain themselves,” Tarit told Reuters.

LIMITED POWERS Troops stood guard behind a barbed wire fence at the Defence Ministry offices in northern Bangkok that have been Yingluck’s base since the protests forced her to relocate in January. “Don’t cheat farmers, Yingluck. If you can’t administer the country then get out because there

are plenty of capable people willing to govern,” one farmer shouted through a loudspeaker.

About 30 representatives of the farmers were allowed inside to meet Commerce Minister Niwatthamrong Bunsongphaisan and Finance Minister Kittirat Na-Ranong, but left after less than half an hour telling reporters there had been no progress.

“We will not put up with this any longer,” said Kittisak Ratanawarahal, president of the Network for Northern Farmers. “We will seize government rice warehouses around the country so that the government can’t swindle us anymore.”

Yingluck has led a caretaker administration since December, when she dissolved parliament and called a snap election in an attempt to end the street protests, the latest instalment in eight years of on-off political turmoil that began with the ousting of her brother, Thaksin Shinawatra, in a 2006 coup.

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FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2014 file photo, American missionary Kenneth Bae, right, leaves after speaking to reporters at Pyongyang Friendship Hospital in Pyongyang. Bae, 45, who has been jailed in North Korea for more than a year, appealed for the U.S. to do its best to secure his release.

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US economy may be stuck in slow lane for long run Associated Press

WASHINGTON — In the 4½ years since the Great Recession ended, millions of Americans who have gone without jobs or raises have found themselves wondering something about the economic recovery: Is this as good as it gets?

It increasingly looks that way.

Two straight weak job reports have raised doubts about economists’ predictions of breakout growth in 2014. The global economy is showing signs of slowing — again. Manufacturing has slumped.

Fewer people are signing contracts to buy homes. Global stock markets have sunk as anxiety has gripped developing nations.

Some long-term trends are equally dispiriting.

The Congressional Budget Office foresees growth picking up through 2016, only to weaken starting in 2017. By the CBO’s reckon-

ing, the economy will soon slam into a demographic wall: The vast baby boom generation will retire.

Their exodus will shrink the share of Americans who are working, which will hamper the economy’s ability to accelerate.

At the same time, the government may have to borrow more, raise taxes or cut spending to support Social Security and Medicare for those retirees.

Only a few weeks ago, at least the short-term view looked brighter.

Entering 2014, many economists predicted growth would top 3 percent for the first time since 2005.

That pace would bring the U.S.

economy near its average postWorld War II annual growth rate.

Some of the expected improvement would come from the government exerting less drag on the economy this year after having slashed spending and raised taxes in 2013.

In addition, steady job gains dating back to 2010 should unleash more consumer spending. Each of the 7.8 million jobs that have been added provided income to someone who previously had little or none. It amounts to “adrenaline” for the economy, said Carl Tannenbaum, chief economist for Northern Trust.

And since 70 percent of the economy flows from consumers, their increased spending would be expected to drive stronger hiring and growth.

“There is a dividing line between a slow-growth economy that is not satisfactory and above-trend growth

with a tide strong enough to lift all the boats and put people back to work,” said Chris Rupkey, chief financial economist at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi. “That number is 3 percent.”

The recovery had appeared to achieve a breakthrough in the final quarter of 2013. The economy grew at an annual pace of 3.2 percent last quarter. Leading the upswing was a 3.3 percent surge in the rate of consumer spending, which had been slack for much of the recovery partly because of high debt loads and stagnant pay.

Yet for now, winter storms and freezing temperatures, along with struggles in Europe and Asia, have slowed manufacturing and the pace of hiring.

Just 113,000 jobs were added in January, the government said Friday. In December, employers had added a puny 75,000. Job creation for the past two months is roughly

half its average for the past two years. A third sluggish jobs report in February would further dim hopes for a breakout year.

“Three months in a row would mean the job market is taking a turn for the worst,” said Stuart Hoffman, chief economist for PNC Financial Services.

Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman have suggested that the economy might be in a semipermanent funk. In November, Summers warned in a speech that the economy is trapped by “secular stagnation.” By that, he meant a prolonged period of weak demand and slow growth.

If the United States hasn’t already slipped into that period, the CBO predicts it could over the next four years. That’s when the retirements of baby boomers would start to restrain growth.

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg biggest US 2013 giver Associated Press

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In this July 9, 2011 file photo, Mark Zuckerberg, president and CEO of Facebook, walks with Priscilla Chan during the 2011 Allen and Co. Sun Valley Conference, in Sun Valley, Idaho. Zuckerberg and his wife Chan were the most generous American philanthropists in 2013, with a donation of 18 million Facebook shares, valued at more than $970 million, given to a Silicon Valley nonprofit in December.

SEATTLE — Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, were the most generous American philanthropists in 2013, with a donation of 18 million shares of Facebook stock, valued at more than $970 million, to a Silicon Valley nonprofit in December.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy reported Monday that Zuckerberg’s donation was the largest charitable gift on the public record in 2013 and put the young couple at the top of the magazine’s annual list of 50 most generous Americans in 2013.

The top 50 contributors made donations last year totaling $7.7 billion, plus pledges of $2.9 billion.

The Chronicle’s editor says the most significant fact from the list was the amount of money coming from living donors, which totaled about the same amount as the two previous years combined.

“It’s a sure sign that the economy is getting better and people are getting a lot less cautious,” said Stacy Palmer, Chronicle editor.

Some of the nation’s biggest givers do not appear on the 2013 list, not because they stopped being generous, but because their donations in 2013 were counted as pledges in previous years.

For example, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, gave their foundation slightly more than $181.3 million last year, but they were paying off a pledge of about $3.3 billion they made in 2004. CNN-founder Ted Turner and Berkshire Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett also

made large gifts toward previous pledges.

It took gifts totaling at least $37.5 million to make the list this year. Forty-two of the top 50 made gifts of $50 million or more.

Thirty made big gifts to colleges and universities, but Palmer noted most college gifts went to science and research this year, not to buildings, as in previous years.

Ten of the 50 made the list because of bequests after their deaths, including the second biggest giver in 2013, George Mitchell, a Galveston, Texas, man who made his fortune in energy and real estate.

At No. 3 were Nike chairman Philip Knight and his wife, Penelope, of Portland, Oregon, who made a $500 million challenge grant to Oregon Health & Science University Foundation for cancer research. The Knight pledge requires the university match it within the next two years.

No. 4 was philanthropist and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, who made gifts totaling $452 million in 2013 to arts, education, environment, public health and other causes.

Nineteen people or couples on the list have signed the Giving Pledge, started by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett in 2010. More than 120 of the world’s wealthiest individuals and families have pledged to give at least half their wealth to charity since the movement began.

Although most people on the list were prominent wealthy people who have given generously in the past, Palmer said a few were surprises, including Jack MacDonald, a Seattle lawyer, who gave $139 million to three nonprofits upon his death.

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Avalanche hampers roads access of Tampaksiring-Tegallalang Bali Post

GIANYAR - The rain flushing on Sunday afternoon (Feb 9) caused another avalanche at Tampaksiring region. At this time, the avalanche occurred at the border region between Tampaksiring and Tegallalang (leading to Bayad hamlet, Kedisan village). As a result, the road access connecting two subdistricts was hampered by the avalanche materials.

Based on information compiled at the location, the avalanche was said to occur around five o’clock in the afternoon. Around the scene, it rained somewhat heavily. Land condition at roadside turned unstable so that the avalanche was inevitable. A jackfruit tree uprooted as the land was dragged by the avalanche. The entire road body was blocked by avalanche materials and trees.

However, such incident did not last long. The quick response team of the Gianyar Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) directly came down to location thirty minutes after receiving the information and then made an evacuation. Up to five o’clock in the afternoon, the avalanche could be resolved so that the road access of TampaksiringTegallalang could be back to normal.

The Head of BPBD Gianyar, Anak Agung Oka Digjaya, accompanied by his section head Wayan Eka said the team along with a number of equipment was directly deployed to the scene to help residents open the road access. Until the night, the officers were still trying to open the line of Tampaksiring to Bayad hamlet, Kedisan village, Tegallalang subdistrict.

In response to the extreme weather happened lately, he expected all people to always improve alertness. Particularly, the Tampaksiring and Tegallalang in the mapping of disaster area was declared prone to avalanche. “We do expect the people to be alert and immediately report in case there is disaster so that we can make any mitigation effort,” he explained. (kmb16)

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The rain flushing on Sunday afternoon (Feb 9) caused another avalanche at Tampaksiring region. At this time, the avalanche occurred at the border region between Tampaksiring and Tegallalang (leading to Bayad hamlet, Kedisan village).

Balinese characters: From palm-leaf to keyboards IBP

Probably, you have watched or are going to watch arja operetta or Ramayana Ballet during the visit in Bali. It would be more convenient if it is enjoyed while having dinner of Balinese cuisine. At the same time, you watch the beauty of culture and taste the delicacy of local culinary.

You may hear the language spoken by players or puppeteer was not understandable. Of course, it is Balinese language.

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As Japanese and Chinese, Balinese language also has its own characters. They consist of some 18 main characters and 10 vowel sounds. Ordinarily, Balinese characters are used to write palm-leaf manuscript or lontar. Such characters are incised with sharp knife or stylus. When the writing works have completed, they should be rubbed with a blend of oil and lamp shoot to blacken them. So they are visible easily. Since the works were performed manually, the copying of a manuscript took a long time.

At a glance, Balinese characters look like Old Javanese, Tamil (India). It is inseparable from historical aspect where they had similarity of genealogical lines. Today, Balinese characters still have restricted use, namely at school for local subject from elementary school to senior high school. It is becoming the responsibility of local government to preserve and develop Balinese language in order it could survive in the midst of the growth of other languages like Bahasa Indonesia and foreign languages.

Balinese language poses a medium and spirit of Balinese

culture. To preserve Balinese culture should also simultaneously maintain and use of Balinese language in daily life. In other words, speaking Balinese language also characterizes one of the identities as a Balinese. Among the use of other languages, Balinese language should remain to give a space to grow and develop. Other than speaking and teaching it at schools, it should also accommodate the need of modern community or use in wider functions of language.

Balinese community receives abundant heritages of lontar or palm-leaf manuscripts from the predecessors retained by individuals and museums. They carry many aspects of knowledge, ranging from philosophy, local healing, literature, architecture, agriculture, herbal practice, astrology and so forth. Therefore, if they could be interpreted and presented in popular language, they could become attractive information for young generation and saleable books for commercial needs. Today, there is also a trend of poising the tradition with modern science namely by re-interpreting the indigenous

wisdoms that are relevant to the current time. People will get balanced inputs from the past and current orientation.

Of course, such treasures will be beneficial for the conservation and future development of Balinese culture because it stays in touch with its original roots.

Young generation should be introduced to these roots at early stage. Later, they will not lose their identity and even could feel proud of it. Moreover, it could give them inspiration in making their creativities, either in fine arts, performance, traditional architecture or herbal healings.

Thanks to modern technology, the writing of Balinese characters now can be made easy by Bali Simbar font. It is the innovative thinking of I Made Suatjana (1986) lies behind the composing of this font. His work has helped the writing of Balinese characters in word processing application like Microsoft Word. Hopefully, there would be more creative software helping the development and learning of Balinese language so it would not come into extinction or be far left behind with the modern life.

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In this photo taken on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014, Ukrainian protesters look at books organized on shelves in an improvised library set inside the Ukrainian House in Kiev.

Ukraine protest library a break from the tensions Associated Press Writer

KIEV, Ukraine — When the fervor flags for the protesters in Ukraine’s capital and they want to get away from the barricades, many head to an improvised library in one of the buildings seized by demonstrators. Shelves with a couple thousand books have been crammed into a hallway of Ukrainian House, an exhibition center and former Lenin museum that protesters took over two weeks ago after attacking it with rocks and firebombs to drive out police who were sheltering there.

It’s hardly a model of finicky propriety — no one hushes the patrons, tough young men holding clubs confront unfamiliar people — but for those who come to read, it’s an oasis for the intellect and a break from the tensions of the Maidan, the downtown square that is the center of protests now in their third month.

“It’s very important for the Maidan because it’s cool, it’s not extremist, not radical — it’s study: painting, art, different

projects,” said Eugeniy Fedirets, a young IT specialist who was pawing through a box of newly donated books.

He was picking out some books on Ukrainian history, which one of the library’s organizers, Andzhelika Zozula, said has been the most popular topic among the 200-500 people who visit every day.

The library is an element of the extensive community that has grown up around the protests, including field kitchens, first aid

stations and clothes distribution booths. Zozula said the library’s lending policies are in line with that communitarian spirit, trusting patrons to sign their correct names and rewarding the return of books with a piece of candy.

“Libraries in Ukraine usually are very poor,” said volunteer Lilija Shmyhelska. “When we have the opportunity to bring it all together, to create it, we do it and we do it better than the government.”

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woman Dana Cirtkova says the 52-year-old suspect allegedly abused a 13-year old girl for producing pornography. No further details were given because of the girl’s age.

Cirtkova said Monday the

priest is also suspected of raping a 37-year-old woman four times late last year. The priest is from the town of Havlickuv Brod, 120 kilometers (75 miles) southeast of Prague. If tried and convicted, he faces up to 10 years in prison.

Priest in Czech Republic arrested for sex abuse

PRAGUE — Czech police say they have arrested a Roman Catholic priest suspected of sexually abusing a teenage girl and raping a woman. Police spokes-

SINGAPORE — Airbus showed off its new wide-body A350 on Monday ahead of Asia’s biggest airshow, signaling that the jet’s delivery schedule is on track and stepping up its battle with Boeing for the lucrative long-haul market. The European plane-maker gave reporters a look at the twin-engine A350 before it goes on display at the Singapore show starting Tuesday in its first public appearance since its debut flight in June last year. It will also join the show’s flying display.

A little more than half of the jet is made of lightweight carbon fiber to make it lighter and more fuel efficient, a key consideration for airlines contending with volatile fuel prices. The A350, which comes in three versions typically carrying 276 to 369 passengers and has a list price ranging from $254.3 million to $332.1 million, will allow Airbus to step up competition in the long-haul market dominated by Boeing’s 777 and 787 jets.

Airbus has received 814 orders for the A350 so far, with 30 percent coming from Asian airlines such as Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways and Singapore Airlines. The region is a crucial market for plane makers because its economic growth is driving rapid expansion of jet fleets. Airbus hopes to woo buyers by showing off the plane to trade visitors on the show’s first two days. Visitors won’t see a plane with a completed passenger cabin because it’s still outfitted with monitoring equipment used in ongoing testing.

The A350 presents an alternative to Boeing’s 787, which also make extensive use of carbon fiber but suffered from teething problems last year. Lightweight lithium-ion batteries that caught fire on some planes were the highest profile problem. Airbus opted to abandon using the same type of battery on the A350 after the fires forced authorities to ground the 787 fleet for more than a month.

“Airbus has learned a lot from the 787 Dreamliner’s unfortunate problems since its launch. This is the plane for the next decade and beyond,” said Shukor Yusof, an airline analyst at Standard & Poor’s.

He predicted that Asian and Middle East carriers would place more orders over the next two years because of the plane’s fuel efficiency, advanced design, long range and cheap operating and maintenance costs. “If you’re the CEO of an airline and you’ve seen the problems that airlines have had with their 787s, you’d seriously have to consider the A350.”

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INDONESIA Indonesia officials to skip Singapore Airshow amid name row

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SINGAPORE - Indonesian defence officials have pulled out of this week’s Singapore Airshow, Jakarta said Sunday, as a row over the controversial naming of an Indonesian warship shows no sign of abating.

The Southeast Asian neighbours are locked in a bitter dispute over the Indonesian navy’s decision to name a refurbished frigate after two marines who staged a deadly bombing in Singapore in the 1960s.

“The visit by senior TNI (Indonesian National Armed

Forces) officers, military chiefs of staff and TNI commander to Singapore has been cancelled,” Indonesia’s defence ministry said in a statement issued late Sunday.

The statement also said that a visit by Deputy Defence Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin to Sin-

gapore for a “strategic dialogue” had been scrapped too.

However, an aerobatic team would perform at the Singapore Airshow, which starts on Tuesday, to “demonstrate the capabilities of the Indonesian Air Force pilots before the international community,” it added.

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In Jakarta, Kerry will co-chair the Joint Commission Meeting under the U.S.-Indonesia Comprehensive Partnership, Jen Psaki, the Department spokesperson, said in a press statement posted on the website of the US embassy on Monday.

“The Secretary will reiterate that the United States values

Indonesia’s growing leadership on global challenges and looks forward to continue working with Indonesia on issues including climate change, security, democracy, regional integration, and human rights,” Psaki said.

He will also underline the importance of our engagement with Asia’s multilateral institutions when he meets the ASEAN Secretary General in Jakarta.

This is the fifth trip to Asia for the Secretary in the past year.

In Seoul, the Secretary will meet with senior government officials and reaffirm the strength of the U.S.-ROK alliance, discuss ways to expand our cooperation on regional and global issues, and continue our close coordination with the ROK on North Korea.

In Beijing, Secretary Kerry will meet with senior government officials and relay the message that the United States is committed to pursuing a positive, cooperative, comprehensive relationship and welcomes the rise of a peaceful and prosperous China that plays a positive role in world affairs. The Secretary will also discuss regional issues including the DPRK as well as highlight the importance of U.S.-China collaboration on climate change and clean energy.

In Abu Dhabi, Secretary Kerry will meet with senior Emirati officials to discuss a range of bilateral and regional issues that are of mutual interest to the U.S.-UAE relationship.

Singapore has complained to Indonesia, its third-largest trading partner, about naming the warship “KRI Usman Harun”.

Usman Haji Mohamed Ali and Harun Said were executed in Singapore for their role in the March 1965 blast at a downtown office complex which killed three people and injured 33.

The attack was part of an effort by then Indonesian president Sukarno to stage an armed confrontation against the newly formed federation of Malaysia,

which included Singapore.

Singapore acrimoniously split from Malaysia to become an independent country on August 9, 1965.

Total trade between Singapore and Indonesia reached Sg$79.4 billion ($62.6 billion) in 2012.

Singapore’s airshow is Asia’s top aerospace and defence gathering and features daily flying displays by military aircraft from several countries including the United States. It runs until Sunday.

US Secretary of State to visit Jakarta

JAKARTA - Secretary of State of the United States (US) John Kerry will visit Jakarta as part of his Asian tour that will also take him to Seoul, Beijing, and Abu Dhabi, to meet with senior government officials and address a range of bilateral, regional, and global issues.

Corby released...

Following her release, Corby will not be able to return to Australia until 2017. Her sentence ends in 2016 and then she will be required to stay for another year to comply with the conditions of her parole.

Despite having first headed for the luxury Seminyak resort, during her parole Corby is expected to live on the resort island with her sister Mercedes, who has a Balinese husband.

Ketut Artha, head of the Bali corrections office, part of the justice ministry which will oversee her parole, said he had talked to her about her release conditions during a 20-minute meeting.

“I told her that she should be good and not break the rules,” he said, adding she would have to report to the office every month.

Corby, who has always insisted that the 4.1 kilos (nine pounds) of marijuana found in her body board bag were planted, will emerge a changed woman after years in Kerobokan prison.

Prisoners typically live side by side in overcrowded cells where drug abuse, fighting between inmates and beatings by jail wardens are reportedly common.

She has suffered from mental health problems in prison and needed hospital treatment for depression.

Corby was convicted and jailed for 20 years in 2005.

The end of her sentence was brought forward to 2016 after she received several remissions for good behaviour, and a five-year cut following an appeal for clemency to the Indonesian president.

Her parole bid was a complex, months-long process which repeatedly ran into bureaucratic hurdles. The process sped up in recent weeks when a justice ministry parole board in Jakarta finally heard her case.

Her application included letters of support from the Australian government, as well as her family, the head of the Balinese village where she will live and Kerobokan prison.

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JEMBRANA - The Sangkaragung village is located approximately 5 km to the east of Negara. The village has a unique and native art to Jembrana namely the Jegog Dance. The Sangkaragung village has been famous in the world for the Jegog art, especially in Japan. The Jegog Sangkaragung is performed in Japan every year, more than three times. Meanwhile, at Sangkaragung village, the Jegog is staged for tourists every Sunday and Thursday in the Jegog Suar Agung Dance Studio. Visitors can learn to play the jegog gamelan in this studio.

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We haven’t won yet, say women, after long battle to reach Games Reuters

ROSA KHUTOR - Women ski jumpers will compete in the Olympics for the first time on Tuesday after more than a decade of pleading, fighting, tears and humiliation and while the athletes are happy to make their Games debut in Sochi they say their fight isn’t over yet. The sport favours light jumpers and although women can often leap as far as men, they were excluded on the grounds there were not enough good athletes to ensure a real competition.

Jessica Jerome realised in 2002 she was not being allowed to compete and that U.S. skiing authorities had little interest in women’s jumping.

Peter Jerome bought a book titled: “Non profits for dummies” and set up a body to raise money and awareness of the sport.

“It very quickly turned into other things, like a huge lobbying organisation for inclusion of women in the Olympics,” he told Reuters. The small non-profit is now Women’s Ski Jumping USA, which runs and largely funds the sport. “I didn’t think it would be as costly as it was ... for all the board members in terms of the amount of time and effort and angst and heartache,” said Jerome, who had to fit his work for the body around a career as an airline pilot for Delta.

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Nicholas Goepper of the United States takes a jump during freestyle skiing slopestyle training at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Monday, Feb. 10, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia.

Women jumpers had petitioned to be included in every Games since Nagano in 1998 but it was not until April 2011 that the International Olympic Committee announced female athletes could compete on the normal hill in Sochi. For some competitors, though, this is only the first step.

Coline Mattel of France, a good bet to win a medal, said women

were still not allowed to compete on the large hill or take part in the mixed team event, which features on the World Cup circuit. “We haven’t won yet,” the 18-year-old told reporters.

The fact she will be jumping even one hill can in many ways be traced back to Park City, Utah, where the parents of young jumper

‘DARK AGES’ Women have been jumping since the early 1900s but it was not until 1998 that they began to petition the IOC ahead of every Olympics to be allowed to compete. Each time the IOC argued there were not enough good women jumpers to guarantee a quality competition. And the backers of women’s ski jumping were learning that few people seemed to realise or care that female athletes had been excluded.

“I definitely had levels of frustration beyond belief. I just couldn’t believe ... that so many people still lived in the Dark Ages,” Jessica’s mother Barb told Reuters. Women eventually gained their own secondtier international competition in 2004 but could not break into the Olympics. Some suspected sexism might be partly responsible and noted comments that International Ski Federation President Gian Franco Kasper made to National Public Radio in 2005.

“Don’t forget, it’s like jumping down from, let’s say, about two metres on the ground about a thousand times a year, which seems not to be appropriate for ladies from a medical point of view,” he said.

In 2013, after the women had won their fight, U.S. jumper Lindsey Van told NBC the comments had made her want to vomit.

AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill

Los Angeles Clippers guard Darren Collison, left, goes up for a shot as Philadelphia 76ers forward Arnett Moultrie defends during the second half of an NBA basketball game, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2014, in Los Angeles. The Clippers won 123-78.

Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES — Blake Griffin had 26 points, 11 rebounds and six assists as the Los Angeles Clippers stormed out to a 31-point lead in the first quarter with Chris Paul back in the lineup before downing the Philadelphia 76ers 123-78 Sunday.

Jamal Crawford scored 21 for the defending Pacific Division champions, who won 12 of their 18 games while Paul was sidelined with a separated right shoulder that occurred on Jan. 3 at Dallas. The seven-time AllStar point guard had seven points and eight assists in 23 minutes.

DeAndre Jordan had 20 rebounds and 10 points, helping Los Angeles increase its division lead over idle Phoenix to four games.

Reserve Tony Wroten scored 21 points for the 76ers, losers of six straight and 13 of 16. Center Spencer Hawes missed all eight shots in 23 scoreless minutes and had just two rebounds. Oklahoma City’s Kevin Durant made 41 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists to help the Thunder beat the New York Knicks 112-100.

Reggie Jackson added 19 points and six assists, and Serge Ibaka had 16 points and nine rebounds for the Thunder, who were coming off a 103-102 loss to struggling Orlando on Friday.

Durant, the NBA’s leading scorer, got the best of his duel with New York’s Carmelo Anthony, the league’s No. 2 scorer.

Anthony had with 15 points on 5-for-19 shooting for the Knicks, who have lost four of five.

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Barcelona’s Lionel Messi (R) kicks the ball to score in front of Sevilla’s Alberto Moreno during their Spanish First Division soccer match at Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium in Seville, February 9, 2014.

Barca, Real on the brink of Cup final showdown

Reuters

MADRID - Barcelona and Real Madrid are poised to secure their places in April’s King’s Cup final this week before turning their attention to the main prize on their agendas: the European Champions League. The record domestic Cup winners with 26 titles, Barca are 2-0 up on Real Sociedad ahead of their semi-final second leg in San Sebastian on Wednesday (2100 GMT). two-month injury layoff around the turn of the year but his superb double in Seville suggested he is not far off his scintillating best.

“If anyone says anything negative about him all they are doing is provoking him,” Barca coach Gerardo Martino, who hails from Messi’s home town of Rosario in Argentina, told a news conference. “And if you provoke the world’s best player his next opponent will have a problem.

“He is always decisive, even if it is merely a matter of dragging opposition players into the centre and anything that distracts their attention is positive.”

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Real also look to have their latest “galactico” signing, Wales

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Monaco fights back to secure 1-1 draw against PSG Associated Press Writer

Real, who have claimed the trophy 18 times and are third on the all-time list behind Athletic Bilbao with 23, have a 3-0 cushion before their trip across the capital to play holders Atletico Madrid on Tuesday (2000). As well as revenge for last season’s 2-1 defeat in the final, Real’s convincing performance in last week’s first leg at the Bernabeu was the latest evidence they are coming into form just as the season is approaching a critical juncture.

Barca suffered a surprise wobble in La Liga at the beginning of the month, losing 3-2 at home to Valencia, but have made serene progress in the Cup and returned to the top of the league thanks to Sunday’s impressive 4-1 comeback win at Sevilla. Their four-time World Player of the Year Lionel Messi has taken time to get back into his stride following a

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winger Gareth Bale, back to full fitness after a series of minor niggles. The world’s most expensive player opened the scoring in Saturday’s 4-2 La Liga win at home to Villarreal and set up Karim Benzema for the second of the night. “I scored a fantastic goal and made an assist,” Bale told reporters. “I am very pleased and available for the coach for our upcoming games.

“I am working hard on the pitch and in every training session so I can be in the team.” Once the Cup semi-finals are out of the way, Barca have one more La Liga game, at home to struggling Rayo Vallecano, before they play at Manchester City in the last 16 of the Champions League on Feb. 18.

PARIS — Paris Saint-Germain defender Thiago Silva turned the ball into his own net as Monaco fought back to draw 1-1 against the French league leaders in their tabletopping clash on Sunday. PSG took the lead in the eighth minute when Argentina midfielder Javier Pastore headed in from close range after Brazil defender Alex had flicked on a corner from the right.

However, fellow Brazilian Silva lunged to keep out a cross from right back Fabinho and the ball looped past goalkeeper Salvatore Sirigu in the 74th. “Monaco played really well in the second half. We backed off a bit but that’s also down to their quality,” PSG midfielder Blaise Matuidi said. “I think a draw is a fair result. They’re a good team.”

The draw means that PSG maintains its five-point lead over second-place Monaco with 14 matches remaining. “We had a few chances to score a second goal, but it was more difficult for us in the

second half,” PSG coach Laurent Blanc said. “Both teams tried to win it — you only need to look at the players who came on.”

But Monaco coach Claudio Ranieri continues to play down his side’s title chances. “I have to be honest with the fans We have ambition, OK, but this is our first season together,” Ranieri said. “We must stay calm and play for second place. If somewhere along the line PSG slips up, we’ll be there.”

Within two minutes of PSG’s goal, Lucas Ocampos forced a smart save from Sirigu and the rebound fell to Emmanuel Riviere, who fired just wide. Riviere went close again moments later but Silva got to the ball just before him.

PSG soaked up the pressure and nearly added a second goal in the 25th when Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s firmly-hit free kick drew a good save from goalie Danijel Subasic.

Monaco center half Ricardo Carvalho and Colombia winger James Rodriguez were both booked for challenges on Ibrahimovic, whose low free kick 10

minutes into the second half was brilliantly saved by Subasic. Then, Sirigu was almost caught out by a looping pass that went over his head, but he managed to get a hand onto it and grab it before Riviere could pounce.

Ranieri brought on substitute Dimitar Berbatov with about 25 minutes to go, and the equalizer came in the 74th when Rodriguez fed Brazilian defender Fabinho down the right and his cross forced Silva to commit himself. “There was someone behind me, but I didn’t manage to get it away,” Silva said. “Monaco was very motivated tonight and defended well.”

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Paris Saint Germain’s Thiago Motta of Italy congratulates Paris Saint Germain’s Javier Pastore of Argentina after scoring the first goal during their French League One soccer match against Monaco, in Monaco stadium, Sunday, Feb. 9 , 2014.

Moyes searching for killer instinct as United struggle again Reuters

Wind damage to stadium postpones Lisbon derby

Associated Press Writer

LISBON, Portugal — The Lisbon derby between Portuguese league leader Benfica and Sporting was postponed after heavy winds tore off pieces of the Estadio da Luz’s roof on Sunday, while title rival FC Porto beat Pacos Ferreira 3-0 at home.

The highly anticipated match was postponed until Tuesday after bits of the roof fell on the pitch. The crowd of some 50,000 had already been evacuated when pieces of sheet metal were blown into the empty stands.

Porto’s win left it in second place with 39 points. Benfica has 40 and Sporting has 38 before their game.

Porto’s Ricardo Quaresma scored a penalty in the 43rd after Jean Seri had handled the ball in the area.

Striker Jackson Martinez scored in the 88th, and substitute Ricardo Pereira capped the win in injury time.

Manchester United’s Juan Mata wipes his hair as Fulham players celebrate their first goal, scored by Steve Sidwell, during their English Premier League soccer match at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, England, Sunday Feb. 9, 2014.

AP Photo/Jon Super

LONDON - Manchester United manager David Moyes was singing from a familiar hymn sheet as he blamed his side’s profligate finishing and failure to kill off the game after a 2-2 home draw against Fulham on Sunday. United enjoyed the lion’s share of possession but could not turn their dominance of the ball into the solid currency of three points and were undone in the 94th minute when Fulham’s Darren Bent grabbed a late leveller.

“We deserved to get back in the game and we deserved to win it, but we gave away a diabolical second goal,” Moyes told reporters. “We should have made it 3-1 and it was really disappointing that we didn’t do that. We should have seen the game out. “I don’t know if we could have done an awful lot more. We completely dominated the game and should have won it comfortably.”

He added on MUTV: “We needed to take the opportunities that were given to us, like some of the half chances. “I don’t think anyone can really say we did a lot wrong, we tried to play it, get it wide at the right times. What we needed to do was get the third goal when we were 2-1 up.” The draw

was a blow to United’s hopes of qualifying for next season’s Champions League and left them in seventh place, nine points adrift of Liverpool in fourth.

United’s leaky defence were undone after 19 minutes when Steve Sidwell was left unmarked to sidefoot home a pass from Lewis Holtby. The champions set up camp in the Fulham half but did not find a breakthrough until the 78th minute when Robin van Persie finished from close range. When Michael Carrick’s deflected effort gave them the lead it looked like United were set to complete a deserved victory, but out of nowhere Bent headed home in stoppage time to leave Moyes scratching his head for answers once again.

“I was probably the most relieved person (when we went 2-1 up) because I thought ‘my goodness’ as we needed to win the game,” Moyes said. “Even in the last five minutes Fulham weren’t even coming up for the ball, we were keeping the ball and they weren’t necessarily trying to score an equaliser - but somehow they did...

“But maybe there were a few things today that we didn’t quite do well enough.

Maybe our finishing wasn’t quite good enough and bits of our defending weren’t quite good enough either.”

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Barcelona’s Lionel Messi (R) kicks the ball to score in front of Sevilla’s Alberto Moreno during their Spanish First Division soccer match at Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium in Seville, February 9, 2014.

Barca, Real on the brink of Cup final showdown

Reuters

MADRID - Barcelona and Real Madrid are poised to secure their places in April’s King’s Cup final this week before turning their attention to the main prize on their agendas: the European Champions League. The record domestic Cup winners with 26 titles, Barca are 2-0 up on Real Sociedad ahead of their semi-final second leg in San Sebastian on Wednesday (2100 GMT). two-month injury layoff around the turn of the year but his superb double in Seville suggested he is not far off his scintillating best.

“If anyone says anything negative about him all they are doing is provoking him,” Barca coach Gerardo Martino, who hails from Messi’s home town of Rosario in Argentina, told a news conference. “And if you provoke the world’s best player his next opponent will have a problem.

“He is always decisive, even if it is merely a matter of dragging opposition players into the centre and anything that distracts their attention is positive.”

MINOR NIGGLES

Real also look to have their latest “galactico” signing, Wales

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Monaco fights back to secure 1-1 draw against PSG Associated Press Writer

Real, who have claimed the trophy 18 times and are third on the all-time list behind Athletic Bilbao with 23, have a 3-0 cushion before their trip across the capital to play holders Atletico Madrid on Tuesday (2000). As well as revenge for last season’s 2-1 defeat in the final, Real’s convincing performance in last week’s first leg at the Bernabeu was the latest evidence they are coming into form just as the season is approaching a critical juncture.

Barca suffered a surprise wobble in La Liga at the beginning of the month, losing 3-2 at home to Valencia, but have made serene progress in the Cup and returned to the top of the league thanks to Sunday’s impressive 4-1 comeback win at Sevilla. Their four-time World Player of the Year Lionel Messi has taken time to get back into his stride following a

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winger Gareth Bale, back to full fitness after a series of minor niggles. The world’s most expensive player opened the scoring in Saturday’s 4-2 La Liga win at home to Villarreal and set up Karim Benzema for the second of the night. “I scored a fantastic goal and made an assist,” Bale told reporters. “I am very pleased and available for the coach for our upcoming games.

“I am working hard on the pitch and in every training session so I can be in the team.” Once the Cup semi-finals are out of the way, Barca have one more La Liga game, at home to struggling Rayo Vallecano, before they play at Manchester City in the last 16 of the Champions League on Feb. 18.

PARIS — Paris Saint-Germain defender Thiago Silva turned the ball into his own net as Monaco fought back to draw 1-1 against the French league leaders in their tabletopping clash on Sunday. PSG took the lead in the eighth minute when Argentina midfielder Javier Pastore headed in from close range after Brazil defender Alex had flicked on a corner from the right.

However, fellow Brazilian Silva lunged to keep out a cross from right back Fabinho and the ball looped past goalkeeper Salvatore Sirigu in the 74th. “Monaco played really well in the second half. We backed off a bit but that’s also down to their quality,” PSG midfielder Blaise Matuidi said. “I think a draw is a fair result. They’re a good team.”

The draw means that PSG maintains its five-point lead over second-place Monaco with 14 matches remaining. “We had a few chances to score a second goal, but it was more difficult for us in the

second half,” PSG coach Laurent Blanc said. “Both teams tried to win it — you only need to look at the players who came on.”

But Monaco coach Claudio Ranieri continues to play down his side’s title chances. “I have to be honest with the fans We have ambition, OK, but this is our first season together,” Ranieri said. “We must stay calm and play for second place. If somewhere along the line PSG slips up, we’ll be there.”

Within two minutes of PSG’s goal, Lucas Ocampos forced a smart save from Sirigu and the rebound fell to Emmanuel Riviere, who fired just wide. Riviere went close again moments later but Silva got to the ball just before him.

PSG soaked up the pressure and nearly added a second goal in the 25th when Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s firmly-hit free kick drew a good save from goalie Danijel Subasic.

Monaco center half Ricardo Carvalho and Colombia winger James Rodriguez were both booked for challenges on Ibrahimovic, whose low free kick 10

minutes into the second half was brilliantly saved by Subasic. Then, Sirigu was almost caught out by a looping pass that went over his head, but he managed to get a hand onto it and grab it before Riviere could pounce.

Ranieri brought on substitute Dimitar Berbatov with about 25 minutes to go, and the equalizer came in the 74th when Rodriguez fed Brazilian defender Fabinho down the right and his cross forced Silva to commit himself. “There was someone behind me, but I didn’t manage to get it away,” Silva said. “Monaco was very motivated tonight and defended well.”

AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau

Paris Saint Germain’s Thiago Motta of Italy congratulates Paris Saint Germain’s Javier Pastore of Argentina after scoring the first goal during their French League One soccer match against Monaco, in Monaco stadium, Sunday, Feb. 9 , 2014.

Moyes searching for killer instinct as United struggle again Reuters

Wind damage to stadium postpones Lisbon derby

Associated Press Writer

LISBON, Portugal — The Lisbon derby between Portuguese league leader Benfica and Sporting was postponed after heavy winds tore off pieces of the Estadio da Luz’s roof on Sunday, while title rival FC Porto beat Pacos Ferreira 3-0 at home.

The highly anticipated match was postponed until Tuesday after bits of the roof fell on the pitch. The crowd of some 50,000 had already been evacuated when pieces of sheet metal were blown into the empty stands.

Porto’s win left it in second place with 39 points. Benfica has 40 and Sporting has 38 before their game.

Porto’s Ricardo Quaresma scored a penalty in the 43rd after Jean Seri had handled the ball in the area.

Striker Jackson Martinez scored in the 88th, and substitute Ricardo Pereira capped the win in injury time.

Manchester United’s Juan Mata wipes his hair as Fulham players celebrate their first goal, scored by Steve Sidwell, during their English Premier League soccer match at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, England, Sunday Feb. 9, 2014.

AP Photo/Jon Super

LONDON - Manchester United manager David Moyes was singing from a familiar hymn sheet as he blamed his side’s profligate finishing and failure to kill off the game after a 2-2 home draw against Fulham on Sunday. United enjoyed the lion’s share of possession but could not turn their dominance of the ball into the solid currency of three points and were undone in the 94th minute when Fulham’s Darren Bent grabbed a late leveller.

“We deserved to get back in the game and we deserved to win it, but we gave away a diabolical second goal,” Moyes told reporters. “We should have made it 3-1 and it was really disappointing that we didn’t do that. We should have seen the game out. “I don’t know if we could have done an awful lot more. We completely dominated the game and should have won it comfortably.”

He added on MUTV: “We needed to take the opportunities that were given to us, like some of the half chances. “I don’t think anyone can really say we did a lot wrong, we tried to play it, get it wide at the right times. What we needed to do was get the third goal when we were 2-1 up.” The draw

was a blow to United’s hopes of qualifying for next season’s Champions League and left them in seventh place, nine points adrift of Liverpool in fourth.

United’s leaky defence were undone after 19 minutes when Steve Sidwell was left unmarked to sidefoot home a pass from Lewis Holtby. The champions set up camp in the Fulham half but did not find a breakthrough until the 78th minute when Robin van Persie finished from close range. When Michael Carrick’s deflected effort gave them the lead it looked like United were set to complete a deserved victory, but out of nowhere Bent headed home in stoppage time to leave Moyes scratching his head for answers once again.

“I was probably the most relieved person (when we went 2-1 up) because I thought ‘my goodness’ as we needed to win the game,” Moyes said. “Even in the last five minutes Fulham weren’t even coming up for the ball, we were keeping the ball and they weren’t necessarily trying to score an equaliser - but somehow they did...

“But maybe there were a few things today that we didn’t quite do well enough.

Maybe our finishing wasn’t quite good enough and bits of our defending weren’t quite good enough either.”

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JEMBRANA - The Sangkaragung village is located approximately 5 km to the east of Negara. The village has a unique and native art to Jembrana namely the Jegog Dance. The Sangkaragung village has been famous in the world for the Jegog art, especially in Japan. The Jegog Sangkaragung is performed in Japan every year, more than three times. Meanwhile, at Sangkaragung village, the Jegog is staged for tourists every Sunday and Thursday in the Jegog Suar Agung Dance Studio. Visitors can learn to play the jegog gamelan in this studio.

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We haven’t won yet, say women, after long battle to reach Games Reuters

ROSA KHUTOR - Women ski jumpers will compete in the Olympics for the first time on Tuesday after more than a decade of pleading, fighting, tears and humiliation and while the athletes are happy to make their Games debut in Sochi they say their fight isn’t over yet. The sport favours light jumpers and although women can often leap as far as men, they were excluded on the grounds there were not enough good athletes to ensure a real competition.

Jessica Jerome realised in 2002 she was not being allowed to compete and that U.S. skiing authorities had little interest in women’s jumping.

Peter Jerome bought a book titled: “Non profits for dummies” and set up a body to raise money and awareness of the sport.

“It very quickly turned into other things, like a huge lobbying organisation for inclusion of women in the Olympics,” he told Reuters. The small non-profit is now Women’s Ski Jumping USA, which runs and largely funds the sport. “I didn’t think it would be as costly as it was ... for all the board members in terms of the amount of time and effort and angst and heartache,” said Jerome, who had to fit his work for the body around a career as an airline pilot for Delta.

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AP Photo/Sergei Grits

Nicholas Goepper of the United States takes a jump during freestyle skiing slopestyle training at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Monday, Feb. 10, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia.

Women jumpers had petitioned to be included in every Games since Nagano in 1998 but it was not until April 2011 that the International Olympic Committee announced female athletes could compete on the normal hill in Sochi. For some competitors, though, this is only the first step.

Coline Mattel of France, a good bet to win a medal, said women

were still not allowed to compete on the large hill or take part in the mixed team event, which features on the World Cup circuit. “We haven’t won yet,” the 18-year-old told reporters.

The fact she will be jumping even one hill can in many ways be traced back to Park City, Utah, where the parents of young jumper

‘DARK AGES’ Women have been jumping since the early 1900s but it was not until 1998 that they began to petition the IOC ahead of every Olympics to be allowed to compete. Each time the IOC argued there were not enough good women jumpers to guarantee a quality competition. And the backers of women’s ski jumping were learning that few people seemed to realise or care that female athletes had been excluded.

“I definitely had levels of frustration beyond belief. I just couldn’t believe ... that so many people still lived in the Dark Ages,” Jessica’s mother Barb told Reuters. Women eventually gained their own secondtier international competition in 2004 but could not break into the Olympics. Some suspected sexism might be partly responsible and noted comments that International Ski Federation President Gian Franco Kasper made to National Public Radio in 2005.

“Don’t forget, it’s like jumping down from, let’s say, about two metres on the ground about a thousand times a year, which seems not to be appropriate for ladies from a medical point of view,” he said.

In 2013, after the women had won their fight, U.S. jumper Lindsey Van told NBC the comments had made her want to vomit.

AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill

Los Angeles Clippers guard Darren Collison, left, goes up for a shot as Philadelphia 76ers forward Arnett Moultrie defends during the second half of an NBA basketball game, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2014, in Los Angeles. The Clippers won 123-78.

Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES — Blake Griffin had 26 points, 11 rebounds and six assists as the Los Angeles Clippers stormed out to a 31-point lead in the first quarter with Chris Paul back in the lineup before downing the Philadelphia 76ers 123-78 Sunday.

Jamal Crawford scored 21 for the defending Pacific Division champions, who won 12 of their 18 games while Paul was sidelined with a separated right shoulder that occurred on Jan. 3 at Dallas. The seven-time AllStar point guard had seven points and eight assists in 23 minutes.

DeAndre Jordan had 20 rebounds and 10 points, helping Los Angeles increase its division lead over idle Phoenix to four games.

Reserve Tony Wroten scored 21 points for the 76ers, losers of six straight and 13 of 16. Center Spencer Hawes missed all eight shots in 23 scoreless minutes and had just two rebounds. Oklahoma City’s Kevin Durant made 41 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists to help the Thunder beat the New York Knicks 112-100.

Reggie Jackson added 19 points and six assists, and Serge Ibaka had 16 points and nine rebounds for the Thunder, who were coming off a 103-102 loss to struggling Orlando on Friday.

Durant, the NBA’s leading scorer, got the best of his duel with New York’s Carmelo Anthony, the league’s No. 2 scorer.

Anthony had with 15 points on 5-for-19 shooting for the Knicks, who have lost four of five.

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In this photo taken on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014, Ukrainian protesters look at books organized on shelves in an improvised library set inside the Ukrainian House in Kiev.

Ukraine protest library a break from the tensions Associated Press Writer

KIEV, Ukraine — When the fervor flags for the protesters in Ukraine’s capital and they want to get away from the barricades, many head to an improvised library in one of the buildings seized by demonstrators. Shelves with a couple thousand books have been crammed into a hallway of Ukrainian House, an exhibition center and former Lenin museum that protesters took over two weeks ago after attacking it with rocks and firebombs to drive out police who were sheltering there.

It’s hardly a model of finicky propriety — no one hushes the patrons, tough young men holding clubs confront unfamiliar people — but for those who come to read, it’s an oasis for the intellect and a break from the tensions of the Maidan, the downtown square that is the center of protests now in their third month.

“It’s very important for the Maidan because it’s cool, it’s not extremist, not radical — it’s study: painting, art, different

projects,” said Eugeniy Fedirets, a young IT specialist who was pawing through a box of newly donated books.

He was picking out some books on Ukrainian history, which one of the library’s organizers, Andzhelika Zozula, said has been the most popular topic among the 200-500 people who visit every day.

The library is an element of the extensive community that has grown up around the protests, including field kitchens, first aid

stations and clothes distribution booths. Zozula said the library’s lending policies are in line with that communitarian spirit, trusting patrons to sign their correct names and rewarding the return of books with a piece of candy.

“Libraries in Ukraine usually are very poor,” said volunteer Lilija Shmyhelska. “When we have the opportunity to bring it all together, to create it, we do it and we do it better than the government.”

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woman Dana Cirtkova says the 52-year-old suspect allegedly abused a 13-year old girl for producing pornography. No further details were given because of the girl’s age.

Cirtkova said Monday the

priest is also suspected of raping a 37-year-old woman four times late last year. The priest is from the town of Havlickuv Brod, 120 kilometers (75 miles) southeast of Prague. If tried and convicted, he faces up to 10 years in prison.

Priest in Czech Republic arrested for sex abuse

PRAGUE — Czech police say they have arrested a Roman Catholic priest suspected of sexually abusing a teenage girl and raping a woman. Police spokes-

SINGAPORE — Airbus showed off its new wide-body A350 on Monday ahead of Asia’s biggest airshow, signaling that the jet’s delivery schedule is on track and stepping up its battle with Boeing for the lucrative long-haul market. The European plane-maker gave reporters a look at the twin-engine A350 before it goes on display at the Singapore show starting Tuesday in its first public appearance since its debut flight in June last year. It will also join the show’s flying display.

A little more than half of the jet is made of lightweight carbon fiber to make it lighter and more fuel efficient, a key consideration for airlines contending with volatile fuel prices. The A350, which comes in three versions typically carrying 276 to 369 passengers and has a list price ranging from $254.3 million to $332.1 million, will allow Airbus to step up competition in the long-haul market dominated by Boeing’s 777 and 787 jets.

Airbus has received 814 orders for the A350 so far, with 30 percent coming from Asian airlines such as Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways and Singapore Airlines. The region is a crucial market for plane makers because its economic growth is driving rapid expansion of jet fleets. Airbus hopes to woo buyers by showing off the plane to trade visitors on the show’s first two days. Visitors won’t see a plane with a completed passenger cabin because it’s still outfitted with monitoring equipment used in ongoing testing.

The A350 presents an alternative to Boeing’s 787, which also make extensive use of carbon fiber but suffered from teething problems last year. Lightweight lithium-ion batteries that caught fire on some planes were the highest profile problem. Airbus opted to abandon using the same type of battery on the A350 after the fires forced authorities to ground the 787 fleet for more than a month.

“Airbus has learned a lot from the 787 Dreamliner’s unfortunate problems since its launch. This is the plane for the next decade and beyond,” said Shukor Yusof, an airline analyst at Standard & Poor’s.

He predicted that Asian and Middle East carriers would place more orders over the next two years because of the plane’s fuel efficiency, advanced design, long range and cheap operating and maintenance costs. “If you’re the CEO of an airline and you’ve seen the problems that airlines have had with their 787s, you’d seriously have to consider the A350.”

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INDONESIA Indonesia officials to skip Singapore Airshow amid name row

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SINGAPORE - Indonesian defence officials have pulled out of this week’s Singapore Airshow, Jakarta said Sunday, as a row over the controversial naming of an Indonesian warship shows no sign of abating.

The Southeast Asian neighbours are locked in a bitter dispute over the Indonesian navy’s decision to name a refurbished frigate after two marines who staged a deadly bombing in Singapore in the 1960s.

“The visit by senior TNI (Indonesian National Armed

Forces) officers, military chiefs of staff and TNI commander to Singapore has been cancelled,” Indonesia’s defence ministry said in a statement issued late Sunday.

The statement also said that a visit by Deputy Defence Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin to Sin-

gapore for a “strategic dialogue” had been scrapped too.

However, an aerobatic team would perform at the Singapore Airshow, which starts on Tuesday, to “demonstrate the capabilities of the Indonesian Air Force pilots before the international community,” it added.

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In Jakarta, Kerry will co-chair the Joint Commission Meeting under the U.S.-Indonesia Comprehensive Partnership, Jen Psaki, the Department spokesperson, said in a press statement posted on the website of the US embassy on Monday.

“The Secretary will reiterate that the United States values

Indonesia’s growing leadership on global challenges and looks forward to continue working with Indonesia on issues including climate change, security, democracy, regional integration, and human rights,” Psaki said.

He will also underline the importance of our engagement with Asia’s multilateral institutions when he meets the ASEAN Secretary General in Jakarta.

This is the fifth trip to Asia for the Secretary in the past year.

In Seoul, the Secretary will meet with senior government officials and reaffirm the strength of the U.S.-ROK alliance, discuss ways to expand our cooperation on regional and global issues, and continue our close coordination with the ROK on North Korea.

In Beijing, Secretary Kerry will meet with senior government officials and relay the message that the United States is committed to pursuing a positive, cooperative, comprehensive relationship and welcomes the rise of a peaceful and prosperous China that plays a positive role in world affairs. The Secretary will also discuss regional issues including the DPRK as well as highlight the importance of U.S.-China collaboration on climate change and clean energy.

In Abu Dhabi, Secretary Kerry will meet with senior Emirati officials to discuss a range of bilateral and regional issues that are of mutual interest to the U.S.-UAE relationship.

Singapore has complained to Indonesia, its third-largest trading partner, about naming the warship “KRI Usman Harun”.

Usman Haji Mohamed Ali and Harun Said were executed in Singapore for their role in the March 1965 blast at a downtown office complex which killed three people and injured 33.

The attack was part of an effort by then Indonesian president Sukarno to stage an armed confrontation against the newly formed federation of Malaysia,

which included Singapore.

Singapore acrimoniously split from Malaysia to become an independent country on August 9, 1965.

Total trade between Singapore and Indonesia reached Sg$79.4 billion ($62.6 billion) in 2012.

Singapore’s airshow is Asia’s top aerospace and defence gathering and features daily flying displays by military aircraft from several countries including the United States. It runs until Sunday.

US Secretary of State to visit Jakarta

JAKARTA - Secretary of State of the United States (US) John Kerry will visit Jakarta as part of his Asian tour that will also take him to Seoul, Beijing, and Abu Dhabi, to meet with senior government officials and address a range of bilateral, regional, and global issues.

Corby released...

Following her release, Corby will not be able to return to Australia until 2017. Her sentence ends in 2016 and then she will be required to stay for another year to comply with the conditions of her parole.

Despite having first headed for the luxury Seminyak resort, during her parole Corby is expected to live on the resort island with her sister Mercedes, who has a Balinese husband.

Ketut Artha, head of the Bali corrections office, part of the justice ministry which will oversee her parole, said he had talked to her about her release conditions during a 20-minute meeting.

“I told her that she should be good and not break the rules,” he said, adding she would have to report to the office every month.

Corby, who has always insisted that the 4.1 kilos (nine pounds) of marijuana found in her body board bag were planted, will emerge a changed woman after years in Kerobokan prison.

Prisoners typically live side by side in overcrowded cells where drug abuse, fighting between inmates and beatings by jail wardens are reportedly common.

She has suffered from mental health problems in prison and needed hospital treatment for depression.

Corby was convicted and jailed for 20 years in 2005.

The end of her sentence was brought forward to 2016 after she received several remissions for good behaviour, and a five-year cut following an appeal for clemency to the Indonesian president.

Her parole bid was a complex, months-long process which repeatedly ran into bureaucratic hurdles. The process sped up in recent weeks when a justice ministry parole board in Jakarta finally heard her case.

Her application included letters of support from the Australian government, as well as her family, the head of the Balinese village where she will live and Kerobokan prison.

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Secretary of State John Kerry

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US economy may be stuck in slow lane for long run Associated Press

WASHINGTON — In the 4½ years since the Great Recession ended, millions of Americans who have gone without jobs or raises have found themselves wondering something about the economic recovery: Is this as good as it gets?

It increasingly looks that way.

Two straight weak job reports have raised doubts about economists’ predictions of breakout growth in 2014. The global economy is showing signs of slowing — again. Manufacturing has slumped.

Fewer people are signing contracts to buy homes. Global stock markets have sunk as anxiety has gripped developing nations.

Some long-term trends are equally dispiriting.

The Congressional Budget Office foresees growth picking up through 2016, only to weaken starting in 2017. By the CBO’s reckon-

ing, the economy will soon slam into a demographic wall: The vast baby boom generation will retire.

Their exodus will shrink the share of Americans who are working, which will hamper the economy’s ability to accelerate.

At the same time, the government may have to borrow more, raise taxes or cut spending to support Social Security and Medicare for those retirees.

Only a few weeks ago, at least the short-term view looked brighter.

Entering 2014, many economists predicted growth would top 3 percent for the first time since 2005.

That pace would bring the U.S.

economy near its average postWorld War II annual growth rate.

Some of the expected improvement would come from the government exerting less drag on the economy this year after having slashed spending and raised taxes in 2013.

In addition, steady job gains dating back to 2010 should unleash more consumer spending. Each of the 7.8 million jobs that have been added provided income to someone who previously had little or none. It amounts to “adrenaline” for the economy, said Carl Tannenbaum, chief economist for Northern Trust.

And since 70 percent of the economy flows from consumers, their increased spending would be expected to drive stronger hiring and growth.

“There is a dividing line between a slow-growth economy that is not satisfactory and above-trend growth

with a tide strong enough to lift all the boats and put people back to work,” said Chris Rupkey, chief financial economist at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi. “That number is 3 percent.”

The recovery had appeared to achieve a breakthrough in the final quarter of 2013. The economy grew at an annual pace of 3.2 percent last quarter. Leading the upswing was a 3.3 percent surge in the rate of consumer spending, which had been slack for much of the recovery partly because of high debt loads and stagnant pay.

Yet for now, winter storms and freezing temperatures, along with struggles in Europe and Asia, have slowed manufacturing and the pace of hiring.

Just 113,000 jobs were added in January, the government said Friday. In December, employers had added a puny 75,000. Job creation for the past two months is roughly

half its average for the past two years. A third sluggish jobs report in February would further dim hopes for a breakout year.

“Three months in a row would mean the job market is taking a turn for the worst,” said Stuart Hoffman, chief economist for PNC Financial Services.

Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman have suggested that the economy might be in a semipermanent funk. In November, Summers warned in a speech that the economy is trapped by “secular stagnation.” By that, he meant a prolonged period of weak demand and slow growth.

If the United States hasn’t already slipped into that period, the CBO predicts it could over the next four years. That’s when the retirements of baby boomers would start to restrain growth.

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg biggest US 2013 giver Associated Press

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In this July 9, 2011 file photo, Mark Zuckerberg, president and CEO of Facebook, walks with Priscilla Chan during the 2011 Allen and Co. Sun Valley Conference, in Sun Valley, Idaho. Zuckerberg and his wife Chan were the most generous American philanthropists in 2013, with a donation of 18 million Facebook shares, valued at more than $970 million, given to a Silicon Valley nonprofit in December.

SEATTLE — Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, were the most generous American philanthropists in 2013, with a donation of 18 million shares of Facebook stock, valued at more than $970 million, to a Silicon Valley nonprofit in December.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy reported Monday that Zuckerberg’s donation was the largest charitable gift on the public record in 2013 and put the young couple at the top of the magazine’s annual list of 50 most generous Americans in 2013.

The top 50 contributors made donations last year totaling $7.7 billion, plus pledges of $2.9 billion.

The Chronicle’s editor says the most significant fact from the list was the amount of money coming from living donors, which totaled about the same amount as the two previous years combined.

“It’s a sure sign that the economy is getting better and people are getting a lot less cautious,” said Stacy Palmer, Chronicle editor.

Some of the nation’s biggest givers do not appear on the 2013 list, not because they stopped being generous, but because their donations in 2013 were counted as pledges in previous years.

For example, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, gave their foundation slightly more than $181.3 million last year, but they were paying off a pledge of about $3.3 billion they made in 2004. CNN-founder Ted Turner and Berkshire Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett also

made large gifts toward previous pledges.

It took gifts totaling at least $37.5 million to make the list this year. Forty-two of the top 50 made gifts of $50 million or more.

Thirty made big gifts to colleges and universities, but Palmer noted most college gifts went to science and research this year, not to buildings, as in previous years.

Ten of the 50 made the list because of bequests after their deaths, including the second biggest giver in 2013, George Mitchell, a Galveston, Texas, man who made his fortune in energy and real estate.

At No. 3 were Nike chairman Philip Knight and his wife, Penelope, of Portland, Oregon, who made a $500 million challenge grant to Oregon Health & Science University Foundation for cancer research. The Knight pledge requires the university match it within the next two years.

No. 4 was philanthropist and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, who made gifts totaling $452 million in 2013 to arts, education, environment, public health and other causes.

Nineteen people or couples on the list have signed the Giving Pledge, started by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett in 2010. More than 120 of the world’s wealthiest individuals and families have pledged to give at least half their wealth to charity since the movement began.

Although most people on the list were prominent wealthy people who have given generously in the past, Palmer said a few were surprises, including Jack MacDonald, a Seattle lawyer, who gave $139 million to three nonprofits upon his death.

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Avalanche hampers roads access of Tampaksiring-Tegallalang Bali Post

GIANYAR - The rain flushing on Sunday afternoon (Feb 9) caused another avalanche at Tampaksiring region. At this time, the avalanche occurred at the border region between Tampaksiring and Tegallalang (leading to Bayad hamlet, Kedisan village). As a result, the road access connecting two subdistricts was hampered by the avalanche materials.

Based on information compiled at the location, the avalanche was said to occur around five o’clock in the afternoon. Around the scene, it rained somewhat heavily. Land condition at roadside turned unstable so that the avalanche was inevitable. A jackfruit tree uprooted as the land was dragged by the avalanche. The entire road body was blocked by avalanche materials and trees.

However, such incident did not last long. The quick response team of the Gianyar Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) directly came down to location thirty minutes after receiving the information and then made an evacuation. Up to five o’clock in the afternoon, the avalanche could be resolved so that the road access of TampaksiringTegallalang could be back to normal.

The Head of BPBD Gianyar, Anak Agung Oka Digjaya, accompanied by his section head Wayan Eka said the team along with a number of equipment was directly deployed to the scene to help residents open the road access. Until the night, the officers were still trying to open the line of Tampaksiring to Bayad hamlet, Kedisan village, Tegallalang subdistrict.

In response to the extreme weather happened lately, he expected all people to always improve alertness. Particularly, the Tampaksiring and Tegallalang in the mapping of disaster area was declared prone to avalanche. “We do expect the people to be alert and immediately report in case there is disaster so that we can make any mitigation effort,” he explained. (kmb16)

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The rain flushing on Sunday afternoon (Feb 9) caused another avalanche at Tampaksiring region. At this time, the avalanche occurred at the border region between Tampaksiring and Tegallalang (leading to Bayad hamlet, Kedisan village).

Balinese characters: From palm-leaf to keyboards IBP

Probably, you have watched or are going to watch arja operetta or Ramayana Ballet during the visit in Bali. It would be more convenient if it is enjoyed while having dinner of Balinese cuisine. At the same time, you watch the beauty of culture and taste the delicacy of local culinary.

You may hear the language spoken by players or puppeteer was not understandable. Of course, it is Balinese language.

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As Japanese and Chinese, Balinese language also has its own characters. They consist of some 18 main characters and 10 vowel sounds. Ordinarily, Balinese characters are used to write palm-leaf manuscript or lontar. Such characters are incised with sharp knife or stylus. When the writing works have completed, they should be rubbed with a blend of oil and lamp shoot to blacken them. So they are visible easily. Since the works were performed manually, the copying of a manuscript took a long time.

At a glance, Balinese characters look like Old Javanese, Tamil (India). It is inseparable from historical aspect where they had similarity of genealogical lines. Today, Balinese characters still have restricted use, namely at school for local subject from elementary school to senior high school. It is becoming the responsibility of local government to preserve and develop Balinese language in order it could survive in the midst of the growth of other languages like Bahasa Indonesia and foreign languages.

Balinese language poses a medium and spirit of Balinese

culture. To preserve Balinese culture should also simultaneously maintain and use of Balinese language in daily life. In other words, speaking Balinese language also characterizes one of the identities as a Balinese. Among the use of other languages, Balinese language should remain to give a space to grow and develop. Other than speaking and teaching it at schools, it should also accommodate the need of modern community or use in wider functions of language.

Balinese community receives abundant heritages of lontar or palm-leaf manuscripts from the predecessors retained by individuals and museums. They carry many aspects of knowledge, ranging from philosophy, local healing, literature, architecture, agriculture, herbal practice, astrology and so forth. Therefore, if they could be interpreted and presented in popular language, they could become attractive information for young generation and saleable books for commercial needs. Today, there is also a trend of poising the tradition with modern science namely by re-interpreting the indigenous

wisdoms that are relevant to the current time. People will get balanced inputs from the past and current orientation.

Of course, such treasures will be beneficial for the conservation and future development of Balinese culture because it stays in touch with its original roots.

Young generation should be introduced to these roots at early stage. Later, they will not lose their identity and even could feel proud of it. Moreover, it could give them inspiration in making their creativities, either in fine arts, performance, traditional architecture or herbal healings.

Thanks to modern technology, the writing of Balinese characters now can be made easy by Bali Simbar font. It is the innovative thinking of I Made Suatjana (1986) lies behind the composing of this font. His work has helped the writing of Balinese characters in word processing application like Microsoft Word. Hopefully, there would be more creative software helping the development and learning of Balinese language so it would not come into extinction or be far left behind with the modern life.

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North Korea rescinds invitation to US envoy

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Protected forest of Kintamani to be developed into nature-based tourism The beautiful landscape of Kintamani in Bangli Regency

Bali Post BANGLI - Bangli government offers another opportunity to investors to develop forest areas in Kintamani. At this time, the forest in Kintamani is planned to be used as a nature-based tourism (TWA).

Such a measure is meant to encourage the Kintamani tourist attraction as tourist destination.

It was revealed when the Bangli Regent I Made Gianyar held a hearing with Chairman of the Indonesian Association of Nature Tourism and Manager of Sustainable Tourism, PT Bukit Penelokan Hijau as investor who would develop the nature-based tourism at the forest region of Suter village, Kintamani.

Manager of the Sustainable Tourism of PT Bukit Penelokan Hijau, Teguh Hartono, said on that occasion the nature-based tourism

(TWA) was a model of sustainable tourism development. In other words, the development of this area would not be destructive to nature and retained in its original condition. Moreover, in this sustainable tourism, the community development in the area of the naturebased tourism would be placed as the player not only as a spectator.

Later on, at least a minimum of 25 hectares of land would be required for the nature-based tourism development.

Based on field research, the forest area of Suter village is the most appropriate place for the development of this nature-based tourism because the nature is very supportive and has very strategic location in the proximity to Penelokan tourist attraction. It poses the center of Kintamani tourist attraction. The nature-based tourism will be developed in various types of tourist attraction such as bird park, trekking, jungle trekking, horse riding as well as educational tour and research. In addition, a restaurant will be built on tree top, and the facilities of outbound and hanging house on cliff top. The core of this is nature-based tourism development is to harmonize tourism development with the condition of nature. Apart from the nature-based tourism in the forest of

Suter village, it will also be built the Bangli Welcome Center (BWC) as a tourist information center of Bangli in the whole.

The BWC development is expected to enhance the tourism development in Bangli County where all the information about tourism in Bangli County can be accessed here. However, the development plan of the nature-based tourism and Bangli Welcome Center in the forest area of Suter village, Kintamani, still takes time it because must complete various requirements before the development permit is issued by the Ministry of Forestry and the development plan of nature-based tourism and Bangli Welcome Center lies in the protected forest area.

Meanwhile, the Bangli Regent I

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Made Gianyar claimed to be ready to fully support the plan of investor provided that all the legal requirements for the development of this area could be met. According to Gianyar, Bangli chiefly Kintamani had a lot of very promising natural potentials if they were developed into a tourist attraction. However, they had not been exposed and managed optimally. The naturebased tourism development plan was considered to have the same concept as the Geopark that promoted the nature conservation.

Gianyar expected the nature-based tourism and Bangli Welcome Center could be realized, so that Bangli County had high class tourist attraction and could gradually enhance the glory of Kintamani tourism. (ina)

Charged for 2.5 years, an Australia citizen acquitted by judge Bali Post DENPASAR - Indictment of the public prosecutor, Nyoman Sucitrawan, against an Australian national named Kavin Barry Grossman, 54, was countered by the judges led by Cening Budiana.

Even though he was previously sentenced to prison for 2.5 years, the judge had a different opinion. Barry accused of fraud and embezzlement case was acquitted of all charges or

declared free.

Judge Cening Budiana stated that he did not agree with the prosecutor I Nyoman Sucitrawan and Nunik Nurlaili, Friday (Feb 7) because according to the facts revealed in the trial the defendant Barry Kavin Grossman was not proved legally and convincingly to have committed any offense referred to in the indictment of article 378 or 374 of the Criminal Code.

On the contrary, the judges

agreed with the legal counsel of the accused, namely Chris Harno. The accused never committed criminal acts of fraud or embezzlement in the sale of precious stone with the victim witness Patrick Finlay as described in the indictment.

Another consideration was that the judges stated the case did not belong to a criminal act but to civil act so he should be acquitted of all charges and lawsuits.

When asked for his confirma-

tion, the prosecutor I Nyoman Sucitrawan justified on Sunday (Feb 9) if the accused Barry was acquitted because the judges believed if his case did not belong to criminal law but to civil law. Against the verdict, Sucitrawan claimed that he would report it to the leadership to determine the next step, whether accepting the verdict or filing an appeal to the Supreme Court (MA).

In the previous trial, the prosecutor declared the accused Barry Kavin

Grossman legally and convincingly guilty because he deliberately wanted to benefit himself or others unlawfully, using a false name or false dignity, ruse or a series of lies and moved other people to give something or created or eliminated the receivable in accordance with Article 378 of the Criminal Code in the first indictment, so it requested the judge to impose imprisonment to Barry Kavin Grossman for 2.5 years. (110)

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Farmers from Kanchanaburi province chant slogans while taking up the street during a rally outside Justice Ministry in Bangkok, Thailand Monday, Feb. 10, 2014. An ambitious rice buying program that Thailand’s ruling party hoped would uplift millions of its poor rural supporters may end up helping to bring down the increasingly cornered government.

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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea has canceled for a second time its invitation for a senior U.S. envoy to visit the country to discuss a long-detained American’s possible release, the State Department said Monday.

The cancellation comes only days after detained American missionary Kenneth Bae told a pro-Pyongyang newspaper that he expected to meet this month with the envoy. It signals an apparent protest of upcoming annual military drills between Washington and Seoul and an alleged mobilization of U.S. nuclear-capable B-52 bombers during training near the Korean Peninsula. North Korea calls the planned drills a rehearsal for invasion, a claim the allies deny.

The State Department also said in a statement that civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson has offered to travel to North Korea at the request of Bae’s family.

The State Department did not elaborate and referred questions to Jackson, whose spokesman didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Analysts say North Korea has previously used detained Americans as leverage in its standoff with the U.S. over its nuclear and missile programs; North Korea denies this.

Bae has been held in North Korea for 15 months. The North accused him of smuggling in inflammatory literature and trying to establish a base for antigovernment activities at a border city hotel.

Bae was quoted last week in an interview with the Japanbased Choson Sinbo newspaper as saying that a Swedish diplomat told him the U.S. envoy on North Korean human rights issues, Bob King, would visit him as early as Monday and no later than the end of the month.

Bae said he also heard from the diplomat that the U.S. government had told North Korea that it intends to send the Rev. Jackson, but the North instead allowed King to come to the country, the report said, without elaborating.

The U.S. and North Korea, which fought the 1950-53 Korean War, have no diplomatic relations. The Swedish Embassy in Pyongyang handles consular matters there for the U.S.

Reuters

BANGKOK - More than 1,000 farmers protested outside the Thai government’s temporary headquarters on Monday over the state’s failure to pay for rice bought under a subsidy scheme that the caretaker administration admits it is struggling to fund. The rice programme was a signature policy of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, who was swept to power in 2011 with the help of millions of rural votes, but has become one of the biggest threats to her grip on power.

The unrest among farmers has opened a new front against Yingluck’s government, which has been facing off against a Bangkok-based protest movement seeking to drive it from office for nearly three months. One of the organisers of those protests was arrested on Monday, the first of the core leaders to be held since the campaign to disrupt normal business in the capital began in November.

The protests, which are still blocking parts of Bangkok, have found much of their support from middle-class, urban taxpayers appalled at what they see as corruption and waste in the rice scheme. Tarit Pengdith, head of the Department of Special Investigation (DSI), Thailand’s equivalent of the FBI, said protest leader Sonthiyarn Chuenruethai-naitham was being detained by border patrol police on the outskirts of the city.

He was among 19 people against whom arrest warrants were issued

last week for defying a state of emergency that bans political gatherings of more than five people and gives authorities powers to detain suspects without charge. DSI chief Tarit also said he would announce the names of 136 individuals and companies suspected of providing financial support to the protest movement at a news conference on Tuesday.

“We have strong evidence that 58 of these firms have financially supported protests ... and will summon the remaining companies and individuals to the DSI to explain themselves,” Tarit told Reuters.

LIMITED POWERS Troops stood guard behind a barbed wire fence at the Defence Ministry offices in northern Bangkok that have been Yingluck’s base since the protests forced her to relocate in January. “Don’t cheat farmers, Yingluck. If you can’t administer the country then get out because there

are plenty of capable people willing to govern,” one farmer shouted through a loudspeaker.

About 30 representatives of the farmers were allowed inside to meet Commerce Minister Niwatthamrong Bunsongphaisan and Finance Minister Kittirat Na-Ranong, but left after less than half an hour telling reporters there had been no progress.

“We will not put up with this any longer,” said Kittisak Ratanawarahal, president of the Network for Northern Farmers. “We will seize government rice warehouses around the country so that the government can’t swindle us anymore.”

Yingluck has led a caretaker administration since December, when she dissolved parliament and called a snap election in an attempt to end the street protests, the latest instalment in eight years of on-off political turmoil that began with the ousting of her brother, Thaksin Shinawatra, in a 2006 coup.

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FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2014 file photo, American missionary Kenneth Bae, right, leaves after speaking to reporters at Pyongyang Friendship Hospital in Pyongyang. Bae, 45, who has been jailed in North Korea for more than a year, appealed for the U.S. to do its best to secure his release.

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Undated handout photo issued by the British Museum Friday Feb. 7, 2014 of some of the human footprints, thought to be more than 800,000 years old, found in silt on the beach at Happisburgh on the Norfolk coast of England, with a camera lens cap laid beside them to indicate scale.

Scientists find 800,000-year-old footprints in UK

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scientists think may be the ancient Thames, beside grasslands where bison, mammoth, hippos and rhinoceros roamed.

University of Southampton archaeology professor Clive Gamble, who was not involved in the project, said the discovery was “tremendously significant.” “It’s just so tangible,” he said. “This is the closest we’ve got to seeing the people.

“When I heard about it, it was like hearing the first line of (William Blake’s hymn) ‘Jerusalem’ — ‘And did those feet, in ancient time, walk upon England’s mountains green?’ Well, they walked upon its muddy estuary.”

The researchers said the humans who left the footprints may have been related to Homo antecessor, or “pioneer man,” whose fossilized remains have been found in

Spain. That species died out about 800,000 years ago.

Ashton said the footprints are between 800,000 — “as a conservative estimate” — and 1 million years old, at least 100,000 years older than scientists’ earlier estimate of the first human habitation in Britain. That’s significant because 700,000 years ago, Britain had a warm, Mediterranean-style climate. The earlier period was much colder, similar to modernday Scandinavia.

Natural History Museum archaeologist Chris Stringer said that 800,000 or 900,000 years ago Britain was “the edge of the inhabited world.” “This makes us rethink our feelings about the capacity of these early people, that they were coping with conditions somewhat colder than the present day,” he said.

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Hotel employees prohibited from parking on Kuta Beach DENPASAR - After cars, now motorcycles owned by restaurant and hotel employees are prohibited from parking along Jalan Pantai Kuta. This measure is taken because police are often complained by travelers due to traffic jam. Later, the parking space on the roadside will only be intended for motorcycle of travelers or visitor.

LONDON — They were a British family on a day out — almost a million years ago. Archaeologists announced Friday that they have discovered human footprints in England that are between 800,000 and 1 million years old — the most ancient found outside Africa, and the earliest evidence of human life in northern Europe.

A team from the British Museum, London’s Natural History Museum and Queen Mary college at the University of London uncovered imprints from up to five individuals in ancient estuary mud at Happisburgh on the country’s eastern coast. British Museum archaeologist Nick Ashton said the discovery — recounted in detail in the journal PLOS ONE — was “a tangible link to our earliest human relatives.”

Preserved in layers of silt and sand for hundreds of millennia before being exposed by the tide last year, the prints give a vivid glimpse of some of our most ancient ancestors. They were left by a group, including at least two children and one adult male.

They could have been be a family foraging on the banks of a river

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After cars, now motorcycles owned by restaurant and hotel employees are prohibited from parking along Jalan Pantai Kuta. This measure is taken because police are often complained by travelers due to traffic jam.

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This January 2014 photo released by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, shows a glass bottle that had contained a message from the institution, which was recovered on Sable Island, Nova Scotia, by biologist Warren N. Joyce of Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans.

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Sustainable farmland in Badung

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BOSTON — It was April 1956, and the No. 1 song was Elvis Presley’s “Heartbreak Hotel.” At the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod, scientist Dean Bumpus was busy releasing glass bottles into the Atlantic Ocean as part of his work to track currents. Nearly 58 years later, a biologist studying grey seals off Nova Scotia found one of the bottles in a pile of debris on a beach.

“It was almost like finding treasure in a way,” Warren Joyce said Friday. The drift bottle was among thousands dumped in the Atlantic Ocean between 1956 and 1972 as part of Bumpus’ study of surface and bottom currents. About 10 percent of the 300,000 bottles have been found over the years.

Joyce found the bottle Jan. 20 on Sable Island, about 185 miles southeast of Halifax. He contacted scientists at Woods Hole and dutifully gave them the time and place information Bumpus had asked for in a postcard inside the bottle. His reward will be exactly what Bumpus promised in 1956 to anyone who returned a bottle: a 50-cent piece.

“I didn’t want the reward, but they said they are sending it to me anyway,” Joyce said, chuckling. Joyce said the bottle had been sandblasted over about 75 percent of its surface. He could still read the words, “Break This Bottle,” so he did. Inside, there was a note from Bumpus explaining that the bottle was among many being released to study the ocean.

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“We have held a meeting with hundreds of hoteliers and restaurateurs located on Kuta Beach in Kuta subdistrict head office, Thursday (Feb 6). After we explained the legal instrument and its benefits, they finally agreed to prepare the parking space for their employees.

If there is any violation, we will ticket it,” said the Traffic Affairs Chief of Denpasar Police, I Nyoman Nuryana.

Such a measure was made because many travelers complained related to traffic jam. Having been surveyed and analyzed, said Nuryana, in fact it was not caused by the number of vehicles, but by the poorly managed parking. On that account, his party took decisive measure to gather the hoteliers and restaurateurs.

“Actually it is the vehicle, especially the car coming in and out of the parking lot, triggering the traffic jam. Moreover, the parking space is dominantly used by hotel and restaurant employees, including the hawkers,” he said.

Such a breakthrough, said the former Traffic Affairs Chief of Jembrana Police, obtained great support from customary village, headman and people’s empowerment agency (LPM). The endeavor was made for

the advancement of tourism in Kuta.

“If traffic jam occurs and travelers do not want to make a visit, they also suffer a loss. We are doing this endeavor for the common good, not for ours,” said Nuryana.

When the parking space was well organized and traffic flow ran smoothly, according to him, a growing number of travelers would visit the tourist village. In addition, the view along the road would look more beautiful because the parking of motorcycle was neatly arranged.

“We told to parking authority in order the head of motorcycle is facing out (facing the road—Ed).

Thus, the motorcycle owner can directly move. Now, we still focus on arranging the parking space on Jalan Pantai Kuta,” he added.

Meanwhile, according to tourism academician, Ni Made Eka Mahadewi, tourism was a dominant and leading sector of Bali. No doubt all the economic, cultural, social and environmental activities were driven by the presence of tourism.

“Tourism is defined as an activity for fun or to get a delight or better live, done in free time or vacation, done with spending money, and get out of the area where people live or there is removal. If any of these activities are not met then the activity cannot be

categorized into tourism activities,” she added.

Tourism, said the lecturer of the Bali Tourism Institute (STP Nusa Dua), had an impact as described above. If it was related to tourism, then the presence of congestion could affect the tourism activities. Such condition would have an impact in the whole and could directly affect the revenue of all related sectors of the industry.

“For example, the impact of traffic congestion is that tour guides are unable to set the time of their trip schedule, tour package sales will get disturbed and fun activities will be disrupted. In addition, the flow of tourist money that should be spent to shop, eat, buy a souvenir and enjoy attractions will be delayed and even canceled. Consequently, travelers will get irritated and complain. This can lead to poor destination image,” said Eka. In order to remain to become a preferred destination, according to associate professor of the STP Nusa Dua, Bali should at least focus on destination competitiveness index factor.

Bali should also focus on creating a transportation system complying with the requirements and creating comfort, security, value for money destination, satisfaction and a positive image for travelers. (rah)

MANGUPURA - Badung government will establish a sustainable farmland with total area of 17,223 hectares. This acreage is less than the previous estimation namely at least 18,000 hectares. Of the six subdistricts in Badung, it is only Kuta having no sustainable farmland.

The Head of Badung Agriculture, Plantation and Forestry Agency, IGAK Sudaratmaja, said the sustainable farmland would set forth in the Detail Spatial Plan (RDTR) of each subdistrict. The current acreage of farmland had been socialized with the RDTR to each subdistrict.

He said that among the six subdistricts in Badung, only Kuta subdistrict that did not have a sustainable farmland. It happened because the development in this subdistrict was very crowded. Thus, it left no productive farmland.

Meanwhile, related to the total area of sustainable farmland, Sudaratmaja admitted there was a change from the previously estimated amount. Current farmland conversion reaching hundreds of hectares was difficult to be prevented due to a variety of reasons and considerations, especially with regard to the infrastructure development. He said the sustainable farmland consisted of wetlands or paddy fields and dry farmlands. Later on, these lands could not be tampered with or converted or they were exclusively intended for farmland. Meanwhile, the paddy field in Badung totally spread across 9,723 hectares.

On the other hand, Sudaratmaja also highlighted the problem of farmland conversion in Badung. Decline in the farmland was also one of the causes of the reduced number of farming households (RTP) in Badung.

From the results of the Agricultural Census 2013 in Badung, the farming household in Badung decreased by 34.72 percent from the previous census 10 years before (2003). In 2013, the farming household in Badung amounted to 39,975 people, while in 2003 reached 44,773 people. “Other than decline in the farmland, many farmers also switched their profession by looking for other job opportunities to sustain their economy,” he said.

To note, approximately at the end of 2013 the Badung government planned to set at least 18,000 hectares of sustainable farmland. Such acreage was predicted to come from the 10,195 hectares of paddy fields and about 8,000 hectares of dry land agriculture. The decrease in the land area at the time was predicted only about 195 hectares. Besides, the county government also stated that Badung had a spare of 100 hectares of paddy field if the water tunnel at Belok Sidan could have been materialized. (kmb25)

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Badung government will establish a sustainable farmland with total area of 17,223 hectares. This acreage is less than the previous estimation namely at least 18,000 hectares.

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Culverts clogged Semarapura town besieged by floods Bali Post

The situation in Badung traditional market

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Growth of modern market eats away at traditional market

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MANGUPURA - The growth of modern markets in Bali continues to eat away at traditional markets.

Government as regulator must support the existence of traditional markets by strengthening them with favoring policies.

Secretary of the Indonesian Economists Association (ISEI) of Bali Chapter, Prof. Dr. I.B. Raka Suardana, said that modern market should pay attention to the existence of traditional markets, so it would not shut off the traditional markets. “Traditional market must be grown, developed and reinforced by favoring policies of the government, especially in terms of regulation,” said Raka Suardana, Saturday (Feb 8).

According to him, traditional markets should also make improvement in line with the demands of today’s consumers accentuating services, comfort, sanitation, safety and satisfaction.

Thus, the behavior of traders in traditional markets should also be changed.

Besides, the modern store should also pay attention to the existing regulations, especially the chained modern stores, so as not to aggressively open

more outlets to remote villages that could shut off stalls or shops owned by local communities.

“The players of traditional stalls or shops should also improve, at least can make their stall or shop worth visiting by today’s modern consumers, especially in terms of services and the comfort must be considered,” he explained.

He said the weakness of traditional stall or shop lay in the matter of sanitation and comfort. This deficiency should be improved in order to provide convenience for consumers.

“The government, both county and municipal government, must be more selective in issuing permit to modern markets and modern stores. The distance between the modern market and modern store should consider the existence of traditional markets or stores,” he said.

He argued that establishment of the modern market or modern stores should make partnership with the players of local Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and have CSR programs. It could be done by marketing the SME products such as packaging or repackaging the products with the brand of modern stores or another brand having been agreed in order to increase the selling value of the products. Besides, the marketing the SME products could also be made through the storefront or outlet of modern store.

“Modern stores can also provide business space in the area of modern markets or modern stores for small businesses with rental price in accordance with the capability of the small businesses or which can be used by small business through other cooperation in the form of partnerships,” he said. (kmb27)

SEMARAPURA - Heavy rain for two hours resulted in flooding in the Semarapura town, Klungkung, Sunday (Feb 9). The rain accompanied with strong winds and flashes of lightning caused the culvert to clog. As a result, a number of lines in the Semarapura town were hit by floods. One of them was at the four-way intersection. This icon of the Klungkung town was besieged by floods from three directions as high as adult thigh.

Heavy rains in Klungkung began around two o’clock in the afternoon. Flush of the rain for two hours caused large enough floodwater from the north, right from Jalan Gajah Mada. Apparently, the culvert along the road was clogged.

Thus, the rainwater directly besieged the four-way intersection on Jalan Gajah Mada. At the location, the floodwater also flowed to Jalan Diponegoro eastward, Jalan Puputan southward and Jalan Untung Surapati westward. Floods at the four-way intersection were getting severe after the coming of floods from the opposite direction on Jalan Diponegoro and Jalan Untung Surapati. Thus, the four-way intersection was completely surrounded by floods.

By degrees, the flood leading to Jalan Puputan westward receded. A number of road users were trapped in the middle of flood, precisely at point of four-way intersection. Even, vehicles such as cars and motorcycles broke down in the middle of the flood. Meanwhile, other motorists seemed to turn round after seeing the path in front of them was surrounded by floods. Meanwhile, the rain at that time was still very heavy. “The flood is quite large. Rather than being trapped in flood and breaks down, I prefer to turn round to other line,” said one of the residents, Wayan Nata, Sunday.

Until 4:30 in the afternoon, the flood at the four-way intersection was not secure enough to be passed through by vehicles. Though having receded, the floodwater on Jalan Puputan remained quite high. Even, the next heavy rain flushed Klungkung at 4:45 p.m. Thus, both cars and motorcycles coming from the four-way intersection ultimately turned round.

Similarly, the flooding also caused vehicles on the road to jam for four hours. However, the vehicles could begin to move at late afternoon. Unsurprisingly, the flood also drew the attention of local residents. One of them was Gede Sarjana where he said the flood at the intersection very rarely happened. “This severe flood is for the first time. Apparently, the culvert in the north is blocked. Moreover, the culvert was never maintained. Due to clogged culvert, a number of sidewalk parts exploded. So far, it has not been repaired,” he said. Other than the intersection, the Semarapura Market was also besieged by floods. For instance, the Block D was hit by floods and receded slowly around 5:10 p.m.

Another resident, Wayan Putra, said the other path in the Semarapura town was also besieged by floods. For instance, it happened on the five-way intersection leading to Jalan Flamboyan, Jalan Ngurah Rai, Jalan Surapati and Pegending village. However, the floods at these areas were not as severe as at the four-way intersection. Puddles were also seen on Jalan Kecubung. Seeing this phenomenon, every culvert needed to be checked and repaired. Allegedly, a number of culverts in the Semarapura town had been clogged by rubbish.

“When it rained heavily like this, we just knew if the culvert has been filled by rubbish,” said Wayan Putra. (kmb31)

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Nyepi at Hanging Gardens

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UBUD - Luxuriate, contemplate and unwind to the sounds of silence this Nyepi Hindu holiday at Hanging Gardens Ubud, a five-star luxury hotel hidden deep in the heart of the Ubud jungle. On this day of silence and reflection, guests can simply enjoy total serenity, complemented by chattering monkeys and indigenous birds, the gentle soothing sounds of the jungle wildlife and the occasional ripples from the waterfalls coursing through the holy Ayung river - all whilst enjoying our premium luxury services. The hotel has created a Nyepi package that will guarantee a peaceful, relaxing and indulgent Nyepi holiday.

Nyepi, known as the “ Day of Silence,” marks the celebration of the Balinese New Year of Saka 1935 in the Hindu Lunar calendar. A spectacular series of ceremonies, parades of unusual paper mache ogres (Ogah Ogahs) and fireworks occur on the Eve of Nyepi (30th March 2014), followed by a day of total silence and seclusion.

This 2014, Hanging Gardens Ubud, with 38 luxurious private villas each with its own infinity pool, is treating guests to a three-night Nyepi cultural package. The package includes a tour of the local villages’ Ogah Ogahs, a traditional and sumptuous Balinese Ristaffel dinner, New Year Nyepi blessing, meditation and/or yoga class and a spiritual healing massage.

On 30th March guests will be treated to a tour of the local village and its Ogah Ogah creations before these local masterpieces are paraded in a ceremonial procession. Ancient Hindu history tells that the Ogah Ogahs invite and store all the bad spirits. That night they are paraded through the streets, then tradition dictates that they are burnt and the bad spirits released into the atmosphere. The following day the community strongly believes that if the island is silent and dark, the bad spirits will leave and the New Year will start in peace.

Nyepi day (31st March) is thus reserved for self-reflection and silence. On this day the hotel offers guests a spiritual healing massage and ceremonial

blessing to encourage supreme peace, tranquility and relaxation. Guests can also enjoy a yoga or meditation class in the valley of the rainforest overlooking the holy river and facing the ancient temple.

On Nyepi evening, the hotel’s chef will create a traditional Royal Balinese Ristaffel dinner drawing on his local knowledge of Balinese recipes handed down through generations. He has sourced the very best local and international produce, some grown organically on Hanging Gardens estate. Dinner will be served overlooking the Hanging Garden’s famous tiered swimming pool, #1 World’s best swimming pool by Conde Nast Traveller and recently voted #1 in the World by Trip Advisor

Calendar Event for January 1 through February 26, 2014 1 Jan Buda Kliwon Matal, Kajeng Kliwon And Tilem Sasih Kenam Pura Desa Sukawati Sukawati Pura Pasek Gelgel Gelgel Bebetin Pura Maspahit Sesetan Pura Padharman Arya Kanuruhan Besakih 11 Jan Tumpek Kandang Pura Desa Gianyar Pura Luhur Dalem Sagening Kediri Tabanan Pura Sang Hyang Tegal Tegalalang 15 Jan Purnama Sasih Kapitu Pura Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Kaja Gianyar Pura Puseh Manakaji Peninjauan Bangli Pura Taman Limut Pengosekan Mas Ubud Pura Benua Besakih Pura Gunung Rena Sidemen Karangasem Pura Pasek Gelgel Abadi Karangasem Pura Pucak Gunung Mangun Kubu Karangasem 16 Jan Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan

17 Jan Hari Bhatara Sri 21 Jan Anggara Kasih Prangbakat Pura Bukit Buluh Gunaksa Klungkung Pura Tirtha Sidamala Bebalang Bangli Pura Gunung Pangsong Lombok Pura Dalem Benawah Gianyar Pura Dalem Bitra Gianyar Pura Pura Hyang Haluh/Jenggala Besakih

Pura Tengkulak Tulikup Gianyar Pura Taman Sari Ubud Pura Penataran Badung

Pura Penataran Giri Purwo Tegal Delimo Banyuwangi Pura jala Sidhi amerta Juanda Surabaya

29 Jan Hari Siwaratri

19 Feb Buda Cemeng Kelawu Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang Karangasem Pura Melanting Camenggaon Sukawati Pura Penataran ped Nusa Penida Pura Gaduhan Jagat Singakerta Ubud Pura Masceti Sanding Tampak Siring Pura Penataran Batu Lepang Kamasan Kelungkung Pura Paibon Pasek Gelgel Kedonganan Kuta Pura Guwa Besakih Pura Basukian Besakih Pura Jati Ubud Pura Melanting Ubud Pura Dalem Peed Nusa Penida Pura Sad Kayangan Nusa Penida Pura Penataran Agung Gunung Karangasem

30 Jan Tilem Sasih Kepitu Pura Buana Kawan Besakih Pura Ulun Kulkul Besakih 31 Jan Kajeng Kliwon Enyitan 5 Feb Buda Kliwon Ugu Pura Dalem Tarukan Peninjauan Tembuku Bangli Pura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah Buleleng Pura Kayangan Tiga Seririt Buleleng Pura Agung Gunung Raung Taro Tegalalang 6 Feb Pura Dalem Puri Besakih 14 Feb Purnama Sasih Kawulu Pura Dalem Batur Bangli Pura Ida Ratu Pasek Besakih Pura Dalem Suci Sidemen Karangasem Pura Buana Kawan Besakih 15 Feb Tumpek Wayang & Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan Pura Majapahit Jembrana Pura Panti Gelgel Pengembungan Sesetan Pura Pedarman Dalem Sukawati Besakih Pura Pedarman Mengwi Besakih Pura Pedarman Kaba-kaba Besakih Pura Pedarman Dalem Bakas Besakih Pura Pedarman Dinasti Dalem Besakih

21 Feb Hari Bhatara Sri 25 Feb Anggara Kasih Dukut Pura Dalem Batuyang Batubulan Pura Pasek Gelgel Mengening Kediri Tabanan Pura Pasek Undagi Krambitan Tabanan Pura Pucak Taman bedulu Gianyar Pura Puser Jagat Nusa Penida Pura Dalem Purwa Kawan Bangli Pura Desa Ketewel Gianyar 26 Feb Pura Agung Pasek gelgel Sibang Kaja Abian Semal Pura Dalem Samprangan Gianyar

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Balinese Temple Ceremony Every Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbulumbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land.

Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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Actor Shia LaBeouf poses for photographers, with a paper bag over his head that says ‘I am not famous anymore’, on the red carpet for the film Nymphomaniac at the International Film Festival Berlinale in Berlin, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2014.

BERLIN — Actor Shia LaBeouf hit the Berlin Film Festival in memorable style Sunday, first walking out of a press conference for the film “Nymphomaniac Volume I” and then wearing a paper bag over his head at the red carpet premiere. The actor posed for photographers in a stylish tuxedo — and a paper bag with eyeholes and the words “I am not famous anymore” written across it. LaBeouf has frequently used the statement on his Twitter page, and he was identifiable by a tattoo on his hand.

The unconventional attire came shortly after the star walked out of a press conference with co-stars Uma Thurman and Christian Slater to promote Lars von Trier’s film, the first installment of a two-part drama about a woman’s sexual life from girlhood to age 50.

A reporter’s question as to whether the actors were worried about the film’s sex scenes elicited the response: “When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea. Thank you very much.” He then walked out.

LaBeouf’s line was borrowed from French soccer player Eric

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Cantona, who baffled reporters with it in the mid-1990s following his suspension for a flying kick on a heckler.

The actor has come under fire for borrowing dialogue and story line for his short film, “Howard Cantour.com,” which closely resembled a 2007 graphic novel

by Daniel Clowes.

“In my excitement and naiveté as an amateur filmmaker, I got lost in the creative process and neglected to follow proper accreditation,” LaBeouf said on Twitter in December in response to Clowes’ publisher’s claim that he stole dialogue verbatim.

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Page 13 Australian Schapelle Corby, covering her face, listens to an official after she received her parole in Bali, Indonesia, Monday, Feb. 10, 2014.

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — “The Lego Movie” clicked with moviegoers, assembling an exceptional $69.1 million debut at the weekend box office, according to studio estimates. The better-than-expected result made the Warner Bros. collaboration with the Danish toy company easily the biggest hit of the year so far. A sequel is already in development for the 3-D animated film, digitally drawn to mimic a world composed entirely of Lego bricks.

The film has drawn raves from critics.

Co-directors and co-writers Phil Lord and Chris Miller (“21 Jump Street,” ‘’Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs”) gave the film a playful tone to capture the whimsy of a child playing in a box of Legos. Characters are largely voiced by comic actors like Chris Pratt and Will Ferrell.

The film marks the biggest animation hit for Warner Bros., a studio that despite popular live-action franchises has struggled to develop animated hits on par

with other studios. “I can’t imagine this not turning into a long-term franchise,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for box-office tracker Rentrak.

“This is such a runaway success that Warner Bros is now a major player in the animated genre.”

Dan Fellman, head of distribution for Warner Bros., said the film, made with a production budget of $60 million, resounded because of the popularity of the Lego brand. This is the first feature film for

the toy company. Fellow toy-maker Hasbro has seen mixed results since the launch of the “Transformers” franchise, which was followed by “G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra” and the notorious flop “Battleship.”

George Clooney’s World War II caper “The Monuments Men” opened in second place with $22.7 million. Reviews have been weak for the based-on-a-truestory tale about the mission to retrieve artwork stolen by the Nazis.

The Sony Pictures film was postponed from a Dec. 25 release because, Clooney then said, more time was needed to finish the visual effects.

Clooney served as director, cowriter, producer and star on the film.

“The Monuments Men,” based on the nonfiction book by Robert Edsel and Brett Witter, was particularly popular with older moviegoers, with 75 percent of its audience aged 35 and older. “It’s right where we hoped to be,” said Rory Bruer, head of distribution for Sony. “There’s a lot of love for George and the ensemble cast.”

Sliding to third was the cop AP Photo/Warner Bros. Pictures, file comedy “Ride Along,” with Kevin This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows characters, from left, Benny, Hart and Ice Cube. After three voiced by Charlie Day, Batman, voiced by Will Arnett, Vitruvius, voiced by Morgan straight weeks atop the box office, Freeman, Wyldstyle, voiced by Elizabeth Banks and Unikitty, voiced by Alison Brie, the Universal film earned $9.4 in a scene from “The Lego Movie.” million.

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Corby released from prison

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KEROBOKAN - Australian drug trafficker Schapelle Corby, her face veiled against a horde of press photographers, was hustled out of prison Monday to start the next chapter of her troubled life after more than nine years behind bars in Bali.

The 36-year-old, who is now out on parole, covered her face with a scarf and hat as she was ushered into a minibus waiting outside Kerobokan jail on the resort island, as camera crews and photographers fought to get a shot of her.

Corby, whose case has drawn huge fascination in Australia since she was caught entering Bali in

2004 with marijuana stashed in her surfing gear, sped off to complete final administrative steps for her release, with journalists giving chase.

After visiting government officials who will oversee her parole in Indonesia -- where she must remain until 2017 -- she was whisked away by a black SUV to a luxury resort and spa in the popular Seminyak

district.

A bidding war has heated up in recent days for her first post-jail interview and a second black car containing a TV crew raced into the resort after Corby, while the rest of the following media pack were barred from entering.

As expected the former beauty school student, whose proclamations of innocence and battle with depression in prison drew great sympathy in Australia, did not comment but one official said she seemed upset.

“We asked her how she was.

She cried and said she was still feeling traumatised due to all the

journalists,” said Agung Bagus Kusimantara, from the Bali prosecutors’ office.

The media have been camped outside Kerobokan jail for the past week in anticipation of her release, with one Australian television network alone having reportedly dispatched 17 staff.

In Australia her release dominated TV networks on Monday and sparked celebrations at the home of her mother, Rosleigh Rose, in Loganlea, in the northeastern state of Queensland.

Champagne and cheers The sound of cheers could be

heard from the family’s backyard and Rose appeared briefly outside to pop a champagne cork in front of journalists, although she refused to comment.

Indonesian Justice Minister Amir Syamsuddin announced on Friday that Corby had been granted parole following a drawnout process that repeatedly ran into bureaucratic hurdles.

The move was welcomed in Australia but drew protests from Indonesian lawmakers and an anti-drugs group, who said it went against the country’s tough antinarcotics laws.

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