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Hulk Hogan’s side rests after slamming Gawker in sex tape lawsuit

ST. PETERSBURG - Attorneys for wrestling celebrity Hulk Hogan rested their $100 million privacy invasion case against the Gawker news outlet on Friday, wrapping up a lively week of testimony in a Florida lawsuit examining the posting of a sex tape in modern media.

Next week, Gawker will call its witnesses, which could include website founder Nick Denton and the editor behind the post, as the civil trial continues in St. Petersburg, Florida, near the wrestler’s home. It also may show the tape to the jury.

Gawker’s one-minute, 41-second edited excerpt shows Hogan having consensual sex with the wife of his then best friend, radio “shock jock” personality Bubba the Love Sponge.

The 62-year-old former professional wrestler, whose legal name is Terry Bollea, told jurors he still is suffering from the humiliation of the sex tape’s posting in 2012.

Hogan said he did not know the

encounter was being recorded when it took place five years earlier in Bubba’s home.

Hogan’s side on Friday highlighted the video’s viral spread, with an expert witness tallying that it reached millions more than the 2.5 million who saw it on Gawker over six months.

Testimony this week ranged from journalism ethics and website analytics to Hogan’s public statements about his sex life, including the his penis size.

Hogan, one the wrestling world’s lead figures in the 1980s and ‘90s, emphasized a distinction he drew between his true personality and the bombastic persona he used professionally with “artistic liberty.”

The Hogan side presented examples this week designed to question Gawker’s approach to sexual content. In a taped video deposition, former editor A.J. Daulerio called celebrity sex tapes newsworthy unless involving a child. When pressed on an age, he drew the line at under four.

Gawker later called the age reference a “flip” response.

On Friday, attorneys for Hogan read some of Daulerio’s emails regarding a woman seeking the removal of a video showing her having sex in a public bathroom.

He wrote: “Blah, blah, blah.”

Hogan attorney David Houston called it “disgusting” that Gawker claimed speech protections under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

“This is a case of pandering to the very basest of human curiosity,” he told Reuters, expecting a favorable verdict to demonstrate

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DENPASAR - Altough Bali has thousands of tourist destination, not all of them have been fully developed. These destinations are in fact Bali’s capital and defence against the competition of the 10 ‘new Balis” that the central government plans on developing in other parts of Indonesia. Therefor destinations that are already up and running need to be maximized while those that are still on their infancy need to be worked on.

“With attention to infrastructure, promotion and increased value, there are thousands of destinations in Bali that could yield tourism revenue” ” said the member of Commission II of the Bali House of Representatives, A.A. Ngurah Adhi Ardhana, in Denpasar, Thursday (Mar. 10).

Adhi said that the government does not need to create new tourist destinations but should instead establish management boards for each existing destination or alternately, the government could cooperate with companies that share of vision for maintaining the welfare of the people such as local or state owned companies like the ITDC.

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Terry Bollea, aka Hulk Hogan, testifies in court during his trial against Gawker Media, in St. Petersburg, Florida, in this file photo taken March 8, 2016. “there is still privacy in the modern world.”

Gawker could show the video next week. Circuit Court Judge

Pamela Campbell has ruled that only the jury may see it, and not others in the courtroom or watching online. (rtr) Local police stand beside the aircraft of English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, after it was damaged while on the ground when a steering pin evidently fell out, at the airport in Santiago, Chile, Saturday, March 12, 2016. Iron Maiden’s statement said the plane suffered a collision when it made a turn, injuring two workers on the ground. They were taken to a hospital for treatment.

Heavy metal group Iron Maiden’s plane damaged in Chile

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SANTIAGO — English heavy metal band Iron Maiden said Saturday that the group’s airplane was damaged in an accident in South America.

A statement on the group’s website says the accident occurred when the plane called Ed Force One was tethered to a tow truck in Santiago, Chile early Saturday to be taken for

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‘New Balis’ in Indonesia

Jennifer Garner explains how new faith film made her return to church IN new faith film ‘Miracles from Heaven’, which is based on a true story, actress Jennifer Garner plays Christy Beam, the mother of a young girl Annabel (Kylie Rogers) who is diagnosed with an incurable and painful disease.

Because of the illness, pressure on the young family was high as Annabel had to undergo numerous hospital appointments and procedures. (rtr)

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refueling before continuing over the Andes to Cordoba, Argentina.

A steering pin evidently fell out during the movement and left the aircraft without steering.

Iron Maiden’s statement said the plane suffered a collision when it made a turn, injuring two workers on the ground. They were taken to a hospital for treatment. The band

said initial reports show that the plane’s engines suffered major damage and will need repairs or even replacement.

The band said it’s making other arrangements to get its members and equipment to Cordoba, where the next concert is scheduled. It called its show in Chile was a success. (ap)

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The forest fore which happen in Sumatra is getting more severe. The government must act to handle the situation.

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Indonesia begins efforts to tackle forest fires

Jakarta -Authorities in western Indonesia began efforts to fight forest fires, as the dry season begins to set in.

Last week, the Sumatran province declared a state of emergency over fires spreading rapidly because of strong winds. In just two months, more than 200 hectares of forests there have been razed, Channel

News Asia reported.

More than 700 personnel from the military, police and forestry ministry have been deployed to put out the fires in Riau.

For the first time, coordinated joint patrols are also being deployed, not only to detect fires but also to educate the population on fire prevention.

On Monday, the Riau provincial

government declared its highest level of disaster readiness since fires were detected in at least three districts two months ago.

The environment and forestry ministry said 10 people have so far been questioned for allegedly starting the fires.

Riau was one of the provinces severely affected by forest fires last year, made worse by the prolonged

dry season caused by the El Nino weather pattern.

It was considered to be one of the worst environmental disasters in recent years, costing the Indonesian government an estimated $16 billion.

The haze from the fires choked its neighbours Singapore and Malaysia - and several parts of Thailand -- causing schools, offices and

airports to shut down for several days.(ant) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.

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From page 1 “ITDC or the STDC in Singapore should cooperate with all district/municipal governments to make that tourist destinations more professional, have higher-value and increase levies to allow these to add to Bali’s economy” he explained adding that accommodations are not the only source of tourism income. “Many people forget that the main source of income for tourism comes from the tariffs from high quality destinations” said Adhi. The key to to creating a quality destination, he explained, lies in good solid infrastructure and good promotion that - he added, needs to be carried out by the Provincial Government not just the managing body of the site. Unfortunately, there are virtually no funds budgeted for this.

“By increasing levies, management

boards will eventually be able to generate enough income to run and promote their destinations without the help of the government” he added.

Adhi went on to say that in order for Bali to reach its targeted 40 percent increase in the number of tourists who visit the island by 2019, such efforts must aggressively undertaken. A simple example, he said, is the Kertagosa attraction in Klungkung that needs to become more professional. Presently many tourists are reluctant to go there because they don’t know about parking, toilets or places to eat nearby.

“Kertagosa is one of the more difficult cases but if it is well managed though cooperation with the ITDC, there could be enough changes that would warrant raising the entrance fee from IDR 5,000 to IDR 50,000” he said.

In contrast to this PDI-P politi-

cian, Governor of Bali, Made Mang- not be able to accommodate our 10 trillion, they are: Lake Toba, ku Pastika, has previously said when labor” he explained.

Borobudur, Mandalika, Labuan the 10 ‘new Balis’ are realized, Bali The ten tourist destinations that Bajo, Bromo-Tengger-Semeru, will be number eleven. According to the central government will be Seribu Islands, Wakatobi, Tanjung the Governor, Bali needs to create developing -not half- heartedly, Lesung, Morotai and Tanjung Kenew destinations on order to meet will each be disbursed some IDR layang. (kmb32) this challenge. He has also quoted the contentious data that states that 60 percent of tourist prefer ‘artificial tourism’ whereas Bali relies on cultural and natural tourism.

“It (cultural and natural tourism—Ed) is the problem if we look at market trends. Probably we will lose visitors” said Governor Pastika who added that creating new destinations would also help to prevent the exodus of local labour given that Balinses typically do not want to leave the island. .

“So, do not let people accuse me of driving them to move out of Bali and then asking outsiders to come to Bali, this is not my intention. Inevitably, our monotonous IBP/net destinations as they are today will Lake Toba, one of the tourism destination in Indonesia

Many hectares of land eroded by abrasion

Thousands gather to voice their opposition to reclamation

GIANYAR— Starting the Caka New Year 1938 (Balinese New Year), on Thursday (March 10) thousands of villagers from Lebih Customary Village rallied together to protest against the Benoa Bay reclamation plan, by voicing their desire to have Presidential Regulation N0.51/2014 -that opened the way for reclamation, repealed.

Lebih Village’s official declaration of their opposition to the reclamation of Benoa Bay began with a group prayer at the village’s Dalem Temple at around 14:30. After the group prayer session, thousands of protesters -mostly young people, headed to Lebih Beten Kelod’s hamlet hall to gather their signs and other props that

were created to voice their opposition to the reclamation project.

Accompanied by gamelan music, the people then walked southward crossing Jalan Bypass I.B Mantra to Lebih Beach where they stood on the breakwater holding their banners and chanting slogans of protest against the Benao Bay reclamation plan.

Chief of Lebih customary village, I Wayan Wisma, joined the protest and in his speech to the crowd, spoke of the many hectares of land owned by residents of Lebih Village, that have already been swept away by abrasion.

This abrasion he pointed out became severe after the reclamation that was undertaken to create Sarangan Island.

“Based on the subak chief’s records, in 1960, Lebih Customary Village spread over some 86 hectares. After the reclamation of Serangan Island in 1994, massive abrasion started occurring and today there only remains 16 hectares of our village” he said.

The people of allied together to protest against the Benoa Bay reclamation plan.

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Given such a history, the people of Lebih are worried that if the plan to reclaim 700 hectares in Benoa Bay goes through, that Lebih Village will be entirely submerged into the ocean.

“So, through this action of protest, we are inviting the government to hear our screams for help. Mr. Governor, please join our struggle to avoid a dire fate for this and other coastal villages and Mr. President, please repeal Presidential Regulation N0.

51/2014” cried Wisma.

The Chief of Lebih Village added that if the government really wants to develop tourism, it must be done in other districts and more even spread throughout the island. Denpasar and Badung are already overcrowded with tourist accommodations. “Bali has eight districts and one municipality.

But tourism seems to only be developed in Badung and Denpasar. To my knowledge, the districts of Bangli, Karangasem, Buleleng and Jembrana remain untouched by tourism development and are instead spoon fed special financial assistance that does little to actually help them” he said.

Coordinator ForBALI, Wayan ‘Gendo’ Suardana, who participated in the protest said that there was no

option for the government apart from stopping the Benoa Bay reclamation plan and that he hopes President Jokowi will immediately revoke Presidential Regulation No. 51/2014.

“As of today there are 26 customary villages in Bali that have officially expressed their opposition or rejection of the plan: 13 villages in the district of Badung , 8 in Denpasar, 2 in Gianyar (Lebih and Ketewel) and 3villages in Karangasem” he explained.

Gendo went on to say that the government needs to hear this expression of opposition to the reclamation plan and understand that it is a warning that such government policies run contrary to the will of the people.

Moreover, Lebih customary village residents and others in Bali have been traumatized by the abrasion caused by the reclamation of Serangan Island in 1994. “Today, they see for themselves how abrasion continues to eat away at coastal areas. Lebih customary village does not want to become like a donkey. Therefore, this way of seeing things needs to be appreciated as the voice of the people - a pure voice that cannot be deviated or ignored” he emphasized. (kmb35)

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Rip Curl Hosts ”King of Benoa” International Wakeboarding Competition at Bali Wake Park!

The new Bali Wake Park at Benoa Harbor will be the site of Rip Curl’s King of Benoa International Wakeboarding Competition to take place on March 26th & 27th 2016. This will be the very first International wakeboarding competition in Bali sponsored by RIPCURL and will boast 2 Professional and 4 Amateur categories.

This first-of-its-kind two-day celebration of high performance board riding will offer action from Professional Wakeboard, Professional Wake Skate, Amateur Men’s Wakeboard, Amateur Women Wakeboard, Amateur Groms as well as Amateur Wakeskate cat-

egories.

“Rip Curl has always been proud to support wakeboarding” Says Rip Curl Marketing Manager James Hendy, “and with the best Wakeboarding Park in Indonesia right in our own backyard, this was a natural fit. We are really looking forward to witnessing cutting edge performances from all the six divisions”.

“Within this international field of athletes there are sure to be some rising stars from Indonesia challenging the best Wakeboarders in the world” Hendy goes on to say, “We are hoping this event will give rise to a whole new generation

of healthy, motivated Indonesian athletes that want to be part of the Ocean and water sports lifestyle we all love”.

Wakeboarding is one of the fastest growing sports in South East Asia and with the advent of specially designed wakeboarding parks like Bali Wake Park, with sophisticated tow lines instead of engine driven boats, this sport is now safer, more affordable and accessible to riders of all ages and skill levels. Moreover there is no pollution from the electric motors driving the system thus making Bali Wake Park environmentally friendly as well.

“Bali Wake Park is stoked to collaborate with Rip Curl on this event” says Managing Director of BWP, Kimo Rusna. “Since we opened in April of 2015, we have seen a significant number of new riders taking up this fun and healthy sport, some of which would also be taking part in this competition. Watching professional riders from all over the world compete will definitely open up these riders perspective of what can be done on a wakeboard and we foresee a bright future for wakeboarding in this country.

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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,

26th- 27th at the newly built Bali Wake Park at Benoa Harbor. This large, modern facility offers all the creature comforts to fans and spectators with a full service restaurant, multiple viewing platforms and a fully stocked Rip Curl Pro Shop catering for all rider abilities and needs.

Come be a part of what is sure to be a spectacular two days of high flying action at the Rip Curl King of Benoa International Wakeboarding event at the Bali Wake Park, Benoa Harbor!

For more information please contact : media@baliwakepark.com

tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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Field Museum’s Wari Ale the latest homage to ancient brews

SIOUX FALLS — Fourteen years ago, University of South Dakota anthropology professor Matthew Sayre unearthed pepper tree seed from the southern tip of Peru, unaware he’d stumbled upon a spent ingredient from a small 1,000year-old brewery.

That discovery evolved into a team from Chicago’s Field Museum team excavating a larger 500-gallon batch operation at Cerro Baul and the issuance of an ale inspired by the ingredients and brewing practices of the ancient Wari people.

In the recent craft-beer booms, brewers have turned to ancient civilizations’ obscure, millenniaold recipes using corn, rice, peppers and berries to set themselves apart from their colleagues’ beers as well as the vast majority of modern beer, which is brewed primarily with barley, hops and yeast.

“They started spreading out and trying other things, and it turned out that ancient people were doing the same thing,” said Patrick McGovern, an ancient

beverage expert at the University of Pennsylvania Museum in Philadelphia. “It takes us back to our roots.”

Wari Ale, the latest offering that taps ancient cultures for inspiration, carries the sourness of a corn mash with a late-breaking, delicate hint of sweetness from the pepper, said Patrick Ryan Williams, the museum’s associate curator and head of anthropology.

“It’s very refreshing, clear, summer ale type,” Williams said of the purple beer, which was made by Chicago’s Off Color Brewing. “Maybe like a shandy.”

Delaware-based Dogfish Head Craft Brewery was among the first to tap into ancient beers market in 1999 as part of col-

laboration with McGovern. The recipe for the beer-wine-mead hybrid brew Midas Touch — honey, barley malt, white muscat grapes and saffron — came from molecular evidence found in a Turkish tomb believed to have belonged to King Midas.

Inspirations for later Dogfish Head ancients, which McGovern will be chronicling in his upcoming book “Liquid Time Capsules,” include a 3,500-year-old Danish drinking vessel, 3,400-year-old pottery fragments found in Honduras and a 9,000-year-old tomb from Neolithic China.

A 2009 batch of the traditional Peruvian chicha replicated the ancient act of milling and moistening the corn in Dogfish brewers’ mouths before adding it into the boil. Attendees of the Great American Beer Festival couldn’t wait to try it, McGovern said.

“The line of people across the Denver Convention Center was unbelievable,” he said.

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In this Feb. 26, 2016 photo provided by the University of South Dakota in Vermillion, USD assistant professor Matthew Sayre, left, and student Aaron Mayer, who are researching the Wari people of Peru, hold seeds from that part of the world that inspired a new craft beer called Wari.

Sayre’s seed discovery, which he quickly connected to berries growing nearby, came along with

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This photo provided by the Field Museum in Chicago shows a special issue beer made with Peruvian pepper berries and purple corn. Brewers in the recent craft-beer booms have turned to ancient civilizations’ obscure, millennia-old recipes to set themselves apart.

evidence of many smaller sites that were home probably breweries, he said, but the giant operation unearthed by Field Museum anthropologists was much larger than the ones he found.

“When it was brewed in large amounts, that was probably for big feast events,” Sayre said.

To map out a process for a modern take on chicha, Williams and a team of researchers brewed experimental batches in Peru using locally grown corn and pepper berries.

“We used reproduction ceramic vessels of the boiling jars and we did it over an open fire using natural woods and fuel,” Williams said. “We really wanted to understand how the brew was created.”

The batches gave the scientists a pretty good idea of how the brew should taste, and then the museum took its information to Off Color Brewing.

To be called a beer in the U.S., breweries must use barley and hops, so those ingredients were incorporated into the recipe.

“So it’s not an exact recreation,” Williams said. “It’s a chicha de molle-inspired ale.

Off Color co-founder David Bleitner brewed some small batches until settling on a method that would work for a large-scale replication, overcoming logistical challenges such as finding an importer to source the purple corn from Peru.

“We’ve never done anything like this before,” Bleitner said.

“This was probably the most work I’ve ever put into concepting and making a beer.” (ap)

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Preserving tradition of lukat geni To purify macrocosm and microcosm

SEMARAPURA - Residents of Satria Kawan Palace at Paksebali village, Dawan implemented lukat geni tradition at catus pata (central intersection) of Paksebali village on new moon of the ninth month in Balinese calendar, Tuesday (Mar. 8). The tradition having been implemented through generations poses the purification of macrocosm and microcosm. The lukat geni followed by dozens of youth is carried out every night of the Pengerupukan to welcome the Caka New Year. Lukat Geni is interpreted as spiritual purification and the balance the universe by means of fire. The fire used is derived from a bundle of burned dried palm leaves.

Lukat geni tradition is started with a self-purification at sacred spring and performing joint worship at family temple.

Accompanied by baleganjur gamelan music and 33 torches, the participants of lukat geni headed for central intersection to start the procession. Here, dozens of youths taking part in the tradition of lukat geni hit their respective opponents in turns by means of fire set in palm leaves. No revenge is seen among the participants.

According to senior figure of Satria Kawan Palace, A.A. Gde Agung Rimawan, the lukat geni is a tradition having existed at Satria Kawan Palace since long time ago. This tradition is held every year to welcome the Caka New Year.

It poses a form of purification of macrocosm and microcosm.

“Hopefully, with this lukat geni we can be bestowed with safety, both for ourselves and the surrounding environment,” said Rimawan.

He explained the lukat geni tradition uses fire of 36 pieces of dried palm leaves tied together or summed into nine (9) located in the nine points of the compass or Dewata Nawa Sanga. In addition, the use of 33 torches represents the strength of 33 gods abiding in five places, namely the Eastern or White (5), South or Red (9), West or Yellow (7), North or Black (4) and Central or multicolor (8). “These signify the invocation of protection or safety for ritual processions in progress,” he explained.

A participant of the lukat geni procession, A.A. Gde Agung Aris Pratama, stated that he participated in the lukat geni to preserve the tradition and cultural heritage from their ancestors. “Through this lukat geni tradition, we muffled the anger inside,” said a teenager that regularly participates in this annual tradition.

Another participant, A.A. Gde Bagus Alit Putra, claimed to be proud to help preserve this tradition. It is the first time for him to participate in the tradition and claimed not to feel hot when being hit by his opponent using a fire of palm leaves.

“There is no feeling of heat. It is meant to preserve the traditions and cultural heritages,” he said. (dwa)

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Lukat Geni is interpreted as spiritual purification and the balance the universe by means of fire. The fire used is derived from a bundle of burned dried palm leaves.

Haunted by terrorism issues

Two cruise ships cancel to stop in Bali

DENPASAR — Travel advisory for Indonesia issued by the Government of Australia and the United Kingdom (UK) is bad for Bali. Two cruise ships eventually cancelled to stop at the Island of the Gods.

Surely this incident will have bad implications for tourism unless the government immediately issues official statement related to security, especially from terrorism act.

As information compiled by Bali Post, both cruise ships are the Celebrity Solstice and Radiance of the Seas (Royal Caribbean International) having sent letter to Benoa Harbor authority respectively on

March 6 and March 10. In essence, the letter cancelled the schedule to dock in Bali because there is a travel advisory from the government of Australia and the UK. Indonesia is said to be a country becoming the target of terrorist attacks.

Captain Trym Selvag signing the letter of the Royal Caribbean International said there is indication if the potential incidents in Bali have increased. His company realized that many guests and crew members will feel disappointed because they cannot stop in Bali. “However, we cannot bring our guests and crews to the harbor where we cannot guar-

antee their safety. We are forced to take this decision for the safety of our guests and crews,” he wrote.

A member of Commission II of Bali House of Representatives, A.A. Ngurah Adhi Ardhana, said these conditions will endanger Bali tourism in the future. Moreover, the reason for cancellation is without confirmation or request for security guarantees to the authorities in Bali.

Bali tourism will become vulnerable and very easily drop.

“Both cruise ships respectively hold 2,800 and 2,000 passengers.

When calculated modestly, it is detrimental to the community to

be visited approximately IDR 20 billion and will continue to grow,” he said last Saturday. Therefore, said Adhi, it is crucial for governor and Bali police chief to immediately issue a statement guaranteeing the security of Bali.

A similar opinion was expressed by the Head of Commission I of the Bali House of Representatives, Ketut Tama Tenaya. If necessary, President Joko Widodo must also state that Indonesia, especially Bali, is conducive and safe.

“We’re worried if terrorist threat really exists or it’s just a matter of business competition.

We may suspect if it is a business competition. On that account, the governor representing the executive and Bali police chief in charge of security in Bali have to make an official counter so that such an issue will not continue,” he said.

Tama asserted that Bali tourism should not go bankrupt because it is successively attacked by the issue of terrorism. Moreover, this issue arises from other countries that do not necessarily know exactly about the security conditions in Bali in particular and Indonesia in general. (kmb32)

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Drug trafficking in Bali has touched the circle of students. It is indicated by some arrested drug suspects by the authorities involving students.

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Circulation of drugs in Bali alarming

A role model needs to be built to be imitated

DRUG crimes are serious concern to all parties. In Bali, drug trafficking has touched the circle of students. It is indicated by some arrested drug suspects by the authorities involving students. As a result, the next generations are now threatened.

An observer of education, Prof.

Dr. Putu Rumawan Salain, admitted to be anxious and wary of the young generation because in the case of drugs, students have always been the object. “As an observer of education, I always feel anxious and worried about the younger generation. However, why do we never ask where they obtain it (drug—Ed)?” asked Rumawan Salain, Thursday (Mar. 10).

He considered if the authorities have not seriously combat

the drugs. So far, they only catch the retailers. “Occasionally, they must also arrest the traffickers,” he exclaimed.

If really wishing to seriously fight against drugs, he said, the authorities may not only arrest the small ones or retailers. According to him, drug cases can be said the same as terrorism cases because they equally threaten the integrity of the state.

If police catch terrorists, the subsequent arrest can grow up to seven or even dozens of people because

they know the syndicates. Well, the drug crimes are the same where they certainly have a syndicate, at home and overseas.

“We see when the authorities catch drug offenders at Ngurah Rai Airport, Tuban. Why did they only arrest the suspects, while others are untouchable?” he questioned. If this is allowed, he added, it will never succeed to fight drugs forever because they distribute their drugs to the next generation such as students having the most unstable age.

“Moreover, for example, they are less sociable and getting less attention from parents. Ultimately, they will certainly escape to drug consumption,” he said.

According to him, seeing the current condition of drug circulation in Bali, there is possibility if the factory is situated in Bali.

Moreover, Bali lies in the world’s crossing stripe. Indeed, the airport is heavily guarded and a number of seaports in Bali are also under extra tight supervision. “However, have you ever thought whether traditional ports such as at Sanur, Serangan, Kelan and several other smaller ports in Bali have also been maintained like other ports?” he asked.

The existence of so many small ports can be utilized by the dealers.

They will exploit existing weaknesses. So, in order to prevent

young generation from falling into the black world, both the drug and other cases, they need the attention of all parties. In the family, parents should be most responsible for nurturing their children.

Later, in the school environment, the teachers directing their students must avoid things that can hurt themselves. Similarly, in the neighborhood, they should be concerned with others and equally inform positive things.

“In addition, it must also establish the role models that can be replicated. Do not let these figures get involved in drug cases. If this happens, there will be a crisis of confidence,” he added. (jay)

Lightweight brick of Java competes against red brick

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Lately brick makers in Jembrana are restless because the brick products from outside Bali offered at lower selling price enter freely.

NEGARA — Lately brick makers in Jembrana are restless because the brick products from outside Bali offered at lower selling price enter freely. According to the sellers, the incoming brick is actually not red brick, but lighter and bigger one.

The price is much cheaper than their red brick production. Erfan, a seller of red brick, said on Friday (Mar. 11) that he is concerned with the expansion of brick product from Java. He did not know what material is used to make such a larger but lighter brick. It is said the brick is made from mudflow of Lapindo

in Sidoarjo. “Clearly, the entry of the brick causes local red brick makers restless and displaced,” he said. Besides, their sales turnover slumps dramatically.

He sells red brick of Jembrana to serve a number of building material stores to outside Jembrana.

After the entry of brick from Java, the stores also complain because their stocks both the red brick and concrete block are still piling up.

Marketing of the lightweight brick from Java has been done directly to retail level. In addition to a little demand, the current price of red

brick also plummets.

Hadi, a red brick business owner, recognized that the current sales of red brick have decreased. Its selling price also slumps. Formerly, he sold for IDR 700,000 per 1,000 pieces of red brick, and then it reduced to IDR 550,000. According to him, seasonal factor also affect the price of red brick. When this has an impact on the business of red brick, it affects the livelihood of people working in the red brick business. In Jembrana, there are red brick businesses at some villages. (kmb26)

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watches the ballistic rocket launch drill of the Strategic Force of the Korean People’s Army (KPA) at an unknown location, in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang on March 11, 2016. North Korea on Sunday denied that it conducted cyber attacks against officials from rival South Korea.

North Korea denies cyber attacks on South Korea officials

SEOUL - North Korea on Sunday denied that it conducted cyber attacks against officials from rival South Korea, calling the South’s accusation that it did so a “fabrication”.

South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers on Friday that North Korea had recently stepped up cyber attack efforts against the South and succeeded in hacking the mobile phones of 40 national security officials, according to members of parliament who received a closeddoor briefing.

“The South is claiming the North’s cyber attack and using it for its own political purpose,” an opinion piece in the Rodong Sinmun, the official daily newspaper of the North’s ruling party, said on Sunday.

It accused the South of making the cyber attack claim in order to justify a controversial new “antiterrorism” law.

“There is nothing to expect but the sound of eating corpses from

a crow’s mouth. However, we cannot just overlook the South’s abrupt, provocative, and heinous accusations against its neighbor,” the article said.

Earlier in the week, South Korea’s National Intelligence Service also said North Korea had tried to hack into email accounts of South Korean railway workers in an attempt to attack the transport system’s control system, although it said had interrupted the hacking attempt against the railway workers and closed off their email accounts.

South Korea has been on heightened alert against the threat of cyber attacks by North Korea after it conducted a nuclear test in January and a long-range rocket launch last month, triggering new U.N.

sanctions.

Tensions are also heightened on the Korean peninsula as South Korea and the United States conduct annual joint military exercises that the South says are the largest ever and on Sunday included the arrival in South Korea of the nuclearpowered aircraft carrier USS John C Stennis.

North Korea has denounced the exercises as “nuclear war moves” and threatened to respond with an all-out offensive.

The North denied South Korea’s previous accusation that it conducted cyber attacks against the South’s nuclear operator.

The United States accused North Korea of a cyber attack against Sony Pictures in 2014 that led to the studio cancelling the release of a comedy based on the fictional assassination of the country’s leader, Kim Jong Un. North Korea denied the accusation. (rtr)

KINSHASA - Kevin Lusongo has been on the streets since he was 11. He sleeps on a piece of cardboard in an unlit parking lot in a poor neighbourhood of Kinshasa, behind trucks he hopes can shield him from view.

Some nights he’s unlucky. Recently police came looking for a stolen handbag and beat him up when they didn’t find it, said the boy, who’s now 14.

Then there are the older children.

“Often when you sleep, the others come and burn your feet with (flaming) plastic bags,” he said. “The oldest will see you and take your money. If you complain, they beat you severely.”

Kevin has the gaunt frame of a boy unused to nutritious meals since he was turned out by his family. He works odd jobs, begs and picks through trash to survive.

He is one of 25,000 street children in Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital, a number that has nearly doubled in a decade, according to 2014 figures from the U.N. children’s agency, with thousands more in the country’s other cities.

Congo is Africa’s top producer of copper and a mining boom has fuelled annual economic growth of 8 percent for five years, one of the highest rates in the world, according to the International Monetary Fund.

But like many commodity-dependent African countries such as Angola and Nigeria, it has struggled to translate export-driven growth into broader social gains. It is still suffering the after-effects of a civil war in the east that ended in 2003 but left disease, displacement and inter-community violence in its wake.

Kinshasa to the west is groaning under one of the world’s fastestgrowing urban populations. Outside the well-heeled city centre, there is little sign of prosperity, with most of its 11 million people crammed into rundown neighbourhoods where rubbish is piled in alleyways.

None are more vulnerable than the street children, who are known as “shegues”.

Denis Mabwa, who works for REEJER, a coalition of groups assisting street children, said charities like his find homes for about 3,000 children each year, while around 6,000 new children move in the opposite direction.

“There has been a reconstruction of large infrastructure. There is a stabilisation of the currency,” said Jean-Pierre Godding, director of the Ndako Ya Biso centre that works to reunite street children with their families.

“But in the big working-class neighbourhoods, no investment has yet been made to improve the infrastructure,” said Godding, citing routine flooding and frequent power blackouts. “The popular neighbourhoods have really been neglected.” (rtr)

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A boy smokes cannabis as they play in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital Kinshasa, in this November 12, 2006 file photo.

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A child holds his fishing rod at the beach of Maitara island in Tidore, North Maluku province, Indonesia, March 11, 2016.

Delta will offer nonstop winter flights from London to Utah

SALT LAKE CITY — Delta Air Lines will offer nonstop flights from London to Salt Lake City during the next ski season.

KSL-TV reports (http://bit.ly/1LgQK5u ) the only North American ski destinations previously served by direct flights from the United Kingdom were British Columbia and Denver. To get to Salt Lake City, British visitors would have to connect through a hub like Chicago or Dallas.

Delta held its first nonstop flight from London’s Heathrow Airport and Salt Lake International Airport in August. The summer trial went so well that Delta says it will offer the route three times a week in the winter.

Paul Marshall with Ski Utah says he is “beyond excited” about the new flights. He says international visitors stay in Utah longer and spend money at more establishments.(ap)

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Stock market extends rally to a 4th week as energy recovers

NEW YORK — A jump in crude oil and a rise in European markets set off a rally in U.S. stocks to cap a four-week winning streak for major indexes.

Investors bought across industries from the start of trading on Friday. Drillers, refiners and other energy companies rose sharply as the price for U.S. crude hit a high for the year. Devon Energy jumped 11 percent and Southwestern Energy gained 10 percent.

Just a month ago, investors were dumping shares amid talk of a possible U.S. recession. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell to almost a two-year low. But confidence has returned as data has suggested the U.S. economy is strengthening.

“While things aren’t great, they’re not the disaster we thought,” said Bill Strazzullo, chief market strategist at Bell Curve Trading.

“We’ve rallied after a horrendous start to the year.” The S&P 500 is up now nearly 11 percent from Feb. 11.

On Friday, the S&P 500 gained 32.62 points, or 1.6 percent, to 2,022.19. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 218.18 points,

or 1.3 percent, to 17,213.31.

The Nasdaq composite climbed 86.31 points, or 1.9 percent, to 4,748.47.

U.S. crude gained after the International Energy Agency said signs that the market has “bottomed out” have emerged. Energy companies have been shutting down rigs and laying off thousands of workers as oil prices plunged to around $30 per barrel, from well over $100 per barrel just two years ago. U.S. crude has risen 47 percent from a 13-year low of $26.21 a month ago.

Bank stocks also rose sharply.

That sector had been beaten down in recent weeks as investors worried about loans to highly leveraged energy companies going bad. The rally has got some investors worried, though.

Chief Equity Strategist Phil Orlando of Federated Investors said the “terrific four-week run” makes him a “little nervous.” Among his concerns are a steeper China

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People look at an electronic stock board showing Japan’s Nikkei 225 at a securities firm in Tokyo, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016. slowdown, a U.S. dollar strengthening even more and hurting U.S. exports, no relief from the corporate profits drop over the last year and more surprises in the presidential election.

“Don’t discount the fiscal policy uncertainty of the election,” he

warned. Xavier Smith, manager of the Centre Global Select Equity Fund, said he doesn’t buy the oil rally, either.

“Oil is a proxy for the overall economy, and it’s not going on four cylinders anywhere,” Smith said.

“So why would oil be strong? It

doesn’t make any sense.”

European markets rose sharply as investors hoped that the European Central Bank’s latest blast of stimulus policies would help revive the region’s economy. Germany’s DAX gained 3.5 percent, France’s CAC 40 advanced 3.3 percent and Britain’s FTSE 100 rose 1.7 percent.

The ECB moves included three interest rate cuts, loans to banks, and the expansion of a bond-buying stimulus program. Shares in banks, which will be supported by the ECB loans, were among the biggest gainers. Investors turn their attention to a meeting of the U.S. Federal Reserve next week. Unlike its counterparts in Europe and Japan, the Fed is looking to wind down its economic stimulus, though most investors do not expect it to tighten credit next week. The Fed raised rates for the first time in nine years in December.

Among stocks making big moves, driller Anadarko Petroleum rose $3.79, or 9 percent, to $46.29 after saying it would cut 1,000 workers, or 17 percent of its work force.(ap)

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Floods submerge 35 thousand houses in Bandung district

BANDUNG - Floods triggered by incessant heavy rains and the overflowing of Citarum River, have submerged some 35 thousand houses in the districts of Dayeuhkolot, Baleendah and Bojongsoang in Bandung District, West Java Province.

“This flooding is the worst over the past 10 years. The floodwaters have reached a height of up to 3.3 meters,” Coordinator of Bandungs Disaster-Alert Youth,

said on the phone, Sunday. The office of Dayeuhkolot Sub-district administration, which had never been flooded since 20 years ago, is now inundated at a height of 35

cm, he said.

In the meantime, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman of the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB), said in a statement in Jakarta, on Sunday that the floods left two dead and three others missing in Bandung District.

The dead victims were Risa, 13, and Ela, 40, who lived in Sawahl-

uhur, Sukasari village, Pameungpeuk Sub-district.

Elas husband and two daughters were missing as the building where they were staying and is located near the river bank, collapsed after being swept away by flash floods.

The floods affected 15 regions, namely Cicalengka, Rancaekek,

Cileunyi, Solokan Jeruk, Majalaya, Ciparay, Baleendah, Dayeuhkolot, Bojongsoang, Pameungpeuk, Banjaran, Arjasri, Cangkuang, Katapang and Kutawaringin.

The flooding forced more than three thousand people to evacuate themselves to higher grounds, and affected some 5,900 families comprising 24 thousand people.(ant)

President Expresses Yogyakarta to launch salt Condolences on Passing water fish eating campaign Away of JS Badudu JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has expressed his sincere condolences on the death of Prof Dr Jusuf Sjarif Badudu, a prominent Indonesian language expert, who passed away on March 12, 2016.

“The Indonesian nation has lost JS Badudu. He had dedicated his whole life for the Indonesian language. His dedication becomes a role model for all of us - Jkw,” the Head of State tweeted

on his Twitter account @jokowi.

JS Badudu, 89, passed away at Hasan Sadikin Hospital, Bandung, West Java, on Saturday at 10:10 p.m. local time.

He was rushed to the hospital with signs of a stroke.

Badudu was a language lecturer at the University of Padjajaran (Unpad) and the Indonesia University of Education (UPI).

His remains were buried in Cikutra Heroes Cemetery in Bandung.(ant)

YOGYAKARTA - The Department of Industry, Trade and Agricultural Cooperatives in Yogyakarta will soon launch fish eating campaigns, especially salt water fish, according to its spokesman Benny Nurhantoro.

“The salt water fish eating campaigns will be launched early April this year because the level of fish consumption in the city of Yogyakarta is still low,” Nurhantoro remarked here Saturday.

It will involve a variety of culinary and hospitality employers as well as a number of institutions in the city government of Yogyakarta to

enliven the campaign activities for the marine fish meal, according to him.

Early campaign activity will take place at Yogyakarta City Hall complex to give an example to the public that the local government is really committed to increasing the consumption of fish, he said.

“Later, culinary and hotel entrepreneurs will be required to cook the fish of the sea, and they will be challenged to make a dish that is tasty as well as show that marine fish was not fishy,” he said.

Types of fish that will be cooked in the campaign will be dominated by tuna fish.(ant)

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A carnival float with papier-mache caricature mocking US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, is displayed at a postponed “Rosenmontag” (Rose Monday) parade, at one location in Duesseldorf, Germany, March 13, 2016, after the original parade in February was cancelled due to severe weather.

New disturbance at Trump rally as crucial Republican contests near

DAYTON - Secret Service officers rushed on stage to protect U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump during a disturbance at a rally on Saturday, a day after rowdy protests shut down his event in Chicago.

Trump briefly ducked at the podium and four Secret Service members scrambled to surround him after a man charged the stage at Dayton International Airport in Ohio.

Officers then grabbed the man, dressed in a black T-shirt and jeans, before he was able to reach the stage and hauled him away.

“I was ready. I don’t know if I would have done well but I would have been out there fighting, folks,” Trump told a rally later in the day.

He said the man “was looking to do harm.”

The incident further increased tension after Trump’s Chicago rally was scrapped amid chaotic scenes on Friday.

Trump’s Republican rivals hurled scorn at the New York billionaire, saying he helped create the nervous atmosphere that is now

sweeping the race for the White House with his fiery rhetoric.

Trump blamed supporters of Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders for the incidents in Chicago, where scuffles broke out between protesters and backers of the real estate magnate. He called the U.S. senator from Vermont “our communist friend.”

The scenes in Chicago followed a series of recent incidents of violence at Trump rallies, in which protesters and journalists have been punched, tackled and hustled out of venues, raising concerns about degrading security leading into the Nov. 8 election.

“All of a sudden a planned attack just came out of nowhere,” Trump said in Dayton, describing the events in Chicago. He called the protest leaders there “professional people”.

Sanders, a U.S. Senator from Vermont, hit back.

“As is the case virtually every day, Donald Trump is showing the American people that he is a pathological liar. Obviously, while I appreciate that we had supporters at Trump’s rally in Chicago, our campaign did not organize the protests.”

President Barack Obama told a fundraising event in Dallas that political leaders “should be trying to bring us together and not turning us against one another.”

Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton drew criticism for releasing an initial statement that did not mention Trump by name and tied violent campaign events to a shooting in a South Carolina black church last year that left 9 people dead.

While campaigning in St. Louis, Missouri, on Saturday, Clinton criticized Trump directly for “ugly, divisive rhetoric” that encourages aggression and violence. (rtr)

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Greece steps up efforts to move migrants to sheltered camps

IDOMENI - Greece increased efforts on Saturday to move thousands of migrants near the border with Macedonia to sheltered camps, as the spread of infection became a concern with one person in a sprawling tent city diagnosed with Hepatitis A. Stranded in filthy conditions at a muddy tent city near the northern border town of Idomeni, at least 12,000 people, among them thousands of children, were waiting to cross the frontier although Macedonia and other nations along the so-called Western Balkan route have closed their borders.

Scuffles broke out at the camp in recent days as destitute people scrambled for food and firewood, while many have been sleeping in the open, often in the rain amid low temperatures.

Greek authorities handed out leaflets in Idomeni on Saturday informing people that the main route to northern Europe was shut. The pamphlets urged them to move to buildings and hospitality centres across Greece that have been set aside for the purpose, according to a government official from the country’s refugee crisis management coordination body.

“Our aim is not only to relieve Idomeni from the people, our aim is that no Idomeni (camp) even exists anymore. There are structures, why should people stay in the mud?” he said.

Leaflets would also be distributed in ports and on islands to discourage people from going up to Idomeni, the government of-

ficial said.

“Greece will offer you accommodation, food and healthcare,” read the leaflets which were written in Arabic, Farsi and Pashtun.

Deputy Defence Minister Dimitris Vitsas, in charge of coordinating Greek efforts to tackle the refugee crisis, said 400 people were moved from Idomeni to camps on Friday and the numbers would increase in the coming days.

“Many of them are waiting for a decision by the (EU) summit on March 17. We are saying that regardless of this decision, there are three camps very close (to shelter them),” he told Greek Mega television.

EU leaders and Turkey are due to meet again on Thursday and Friday to seal a deal to try to stem illegal migrant flows from Turkey to Europe through Greece.

The squalid, overcrowded conditions of the camp in Idomeni have given rise to infections. A nine-year old Syrian girl was diagnosed with Hepatitis A on Friday, according to Greece’s disease control agency.

According to the World Health Organisation, Hepatitis A is a virus which is transmitted through ingestion of contaminated food and water, or through direct contact with an infectious person. It is normally associated with lack of safe water or poor sanitation.

The girl was being treated in a stable condition, the agency said, adding that it had already taken action to prevent the disease spreading among migrants in Idomeni. (rtr)

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Migrants gather around the car of a Greek man distributing kids shoes at a makeshift camp on the Greek-Macedonian border, near the village of Idomeni, Greece March 12, 2016.

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Freakish injury will not slow Eaton’s world title bid

LOS ANGELES - Ashton Eaton’s bid for a third consecutive world indoor heptathlon title will not be affected by a freakish accident that left the American needing six stitches in his head, his coach told Reuters on Saturday.

Eaton was hit on the head by a pole vault crossbar while waiting to start his long jump at Friday’s U.S. championships in Portland. Six stitches were needed to close the wound, the Olympic and world decathlon champion said on Twitter.

“All good,” Harry Marra, Eaton’s long-time trainer, said in a text message.

After a scheduled day off on Saturday, Eaton would be “back at it tomorrow (Sunday),” Marra said of preparations for next week’s IAAF world indoor championships in Portland, Oregon.

Eaton, the heptathlon and decathlon world record holder, said he hoped to get the chance for some revenge on the offending crossbar.

“I hope they use the same crossbar for (the world championships),” Eaton added. “Going to pay back with a PV PR (pole vault personal record).

“I’m still waiting for pictures from when I had blood all over my hands and face.”

The world championships start on Thursday, with the heptathlon scheduled for Friday and Saturday. (rtr)

Balian Beach TABANAN - Balian Beach is one of the most relaxing destinations in Bali. ”Balian” means “sacred” in the local vernacular and is the perfect place to “get off the grid” for a few days.

Although Balian is on the same island as the bustling Kuta, it feels world’s away. Travelers in Kuta are bombarded by street vendors, in Balian your biggest worry will be… well, there aren’t really any worries in Balian.

The black sand beach is set at the mouth of the same-named river. It’s a big river and the combination of large surf, strong currents and the volume of water pouring out of the river — especially in wet season — doesn’t make for a good swimming beach, but if you’re a surfer, Balian is close to a must see.

Just about all the (quickly growing) accommodation at Balian beach is on the west side of the river and that’s where you’ll most likely spend most of your time, but if you’re surfed out (or don’t surf at all) wade across the river to the east side. That stretch of beach is really pleasant and ideal for aimless wandering — it’s also a bit better for swimming. (IBP/net)

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CALIFORNIA - World number two Andy Murray was given a tough test but pushed his way past Marcel Granollers 6-4 7-6(3) in his opening match at the BNP Paribas Open in California on Saturday.

Murray led Great Britain to a Davis Cup victory over Japan last week, but apart from that team event had not competed since his Australian Open final loss to Novak Djokovic on Jan. 31.

Murray has made plenty of news off the court since then, however, welcoming the birth of his first child last month and earlier this week rebuking Maria Sharapova for her drug test failure.

On the court in Indian Wells on Saturday, Murray overcame a break in the first set, and then took the second in a tiebreak against his Spanish opponent.

“It was very different conditions to what I have been practicing and playing in in the past five weeks, against a tough, unorthodox player,” Murray told reporters. “He’s got quite a different game. He’s very smart player, as well, intelligent player, and often makes the right decisions.”

Earlier, Canadian Milos Raonic took only 55 minutes to dispatch Inigo Cer-

vantes.

Raonic, playing for the first time since a groin injury contributed to his heartbreaking five-set semi-final loss to Murray at the Australian Open, was delighted with his form.

“To come out, and really not know how things are going to go, find your rhythm well early on, do the fundamentals well, dictate the match, I’m very pleased with that,” Raonic told the Tennis Channel.

“When I look at the overall picture of my progress, development, I have to be very pleased. I’ve incorporated a lot of new things in my game. I’m getting more efficient coming forward at the net and I think I’m able to put more and more pressure on my opponents.”

In other second-round action, third seed Stan Wawrinka easily handled Illya Marchenko 6-3 6-2 and sixth seed Tomas Berdych cruised past Juan Martin del Potro 7-6(4) 6-2.

Frenchman Gael Monfils and Richard Gasquet both advanced, controversial Australian Nick Kyrgios was docked a point for swearing in his loss to Albert RaAP Photo/Mark J. Terrill mos 7-6(4) 7-5, and 10th seed Marin Cilic Andy Murray, of Britain, serves to Marcel Granollers, of Spain, at the BNP Paribas topped Ryan Harrison 6-4 6-3. (rtr) Open tennis tournament, Saturday, March 12, 2016, in Indian Wells, Calif.

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Sp rt Messi fuels Barca’s 6-0 rout of Getafe before Arsenal visit

BARCELONA — Lionel Messi scored one goal and figured in four more to keep Barcelona on course to retaining its Spanish league title with a 6-0 rout of Getafe on Saturday, increasing its Spanish record to 37 games without a loss in all competitions. The only blemish on Messi’s superb display was a missed penalty in the first half.

Otherwise, the Argentina forward led a dominant performance that suggests problems for Arsenal as the London club bids to overturn a 2-0 loss in their Champions League round-of-16 second leg on Wednesday.

Atletico Madrid stayed eight points behind the defending champions in second place after a 3-0 victory over Deportivo La Coruna.

Barcelona never looked back after an opening own-goal by Getafe’s Juan Rodriguez.

Messi made up for his missed spot kick by scoring to make it 4-0 before halftime while also assisting Neymar for two goals and Munir El Haddadi on another.

“We are in a favorable posi-

tion,” said Barcelona manager Luis Enrique. “When we are in-sync and quick to circulate the ball, it’s tough to stop us. This team is one-of-a-kind, different from the rest. It makes winning like this look easy.”

Third-place Real Madrid will trail Barcelona by 15 points when it visits Las Palmas on Sunday. Also Saturday, Iago Aspas scored with a brilliant chipped shot to give Celta Vigo a 1-0 win over Real Sociedad and go provisionally fifth.

Barcelona got its 12th straight league win without striker Luis Suarez, kept on the bench by Luis Enrique ahead of Wednesday’s match.

What little fight Getafe had at

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FC Barcelona’s Lionel Messi, right, duels for the ball against Getafe’s Wanderson during a Spanish La Liga soccer match at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, March 12, 2016.

the start was sucked right out of the struggling side in the eighth minute when Messi played Jordi Alba wide, and his return pass intended for Messi was turned into Getafe’s goal by Rodriguez.

Not even goalkeeper Vicente Guaita blocking Messi’s spot kick three minutes later — after Neymar was fouled by Emiliano Velazquez — revived the visitors.

Andres Iniesta’s playmaking kept the action entirely in Getafe’s half, and Messi’s apparently offtarget shot from Iniesta’s pass became a perfect cross for El Haddadi to head home in the 19th.

“We didn’t have a chance,” said Getafe coach Fran Escriba, whose team hasn’t won in nine rounds.

“The game was lost from 2-0.”

Guaita did well to push Gerard Pique’s effort from another pass by Iniesta off his bar, but he could do nothing to stop Neymar’s curling strike when Messi played him clear with a pass in the 32nd.

“We didn’t let our opponent breathe,” Iniesta said. Messi then got his 22nd league goal of the season when he was given time outside the top of the box and struck a left-footed shot beyond the reach of Guaita four minutes before the break.

Messi picked right back up after the restart with a pass for Neymar to beat Guaita again in the 51st in the Brazilian’s 20th league goal of the campaign. Arda Turan polished off the demolition with a bicycle kick from close range after a corner in the 57th.

Atletico didn’t match Barcelona’s lopsided score, but its control was as complete at Vicente Calderon Stadium.

Saul Niguez charged into the area to head Filipe Luis’ cross into the net for the 18th-minute opener.

Antoine Griezmann scored his fourth goal in as many rounds with half an hour left before substitute Angel Correa added a late goal.

Atletico hosts PSV in the Champions League on Tuesday after a 0-0 away draw in the first leg. “We are competing with Barcelona and Real Madrid, who both have great squads,” said Atletico coach Diego Simeone. “We can come out on top (in La Liga) like two years ago, or we can finish second like we are now.” (ap)

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Inter Milan’s Mauro Icardi reacts after injuring during the Serie A soccer match between Inter Milan and Bologna at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Saturday, March 12, 2016.

Inter beats Bologna 2-1 to move provisionally 4th in Serie A

MILAN — Inter Milan beat Bologna 2-1 to move provisionally a point above Fiorentina into fourth place in Serie A on Saturday and maintain its bid for the final Champions League spot.

Bologna was the only team in Serie A not to have conceded a goal from a corner this season but it did so twice in four minutes.

Danilo D’Ambrosio headed a corner goalward and Ivan Perisic nodded the ball in from almost on the goal-line to give Inter the lead in the 72nd minute.

D’Ambrosio volleyed in the second goal, and substitute Franco Brienza netted a consolation in the final minute. Adem Ljajic also hit the post for Inter in the first half.

Fiorentina plays Hellas Verona on Sunday, while third-place Roma — which is two points above Inter — visits Udinese. Inter visits Roma in a crucial match next weekend.

Inter will be without captain Mauro Icardi, who limped off in the ninth minute after injuring his knee when sliding in to try and intercept Eder’s angled drive.

Fellow forward Rodrigo Palacio will also miss that match through suspension after receiving a fifth yellow card for time-wasting.

“(The attack) worries me now,” Inter coach Roberto Mancini said.

“It was important to win today, but there are still a lot of points, anything can happen from now until the end.

“We knew it would be a difficult match, because Bologna is in good form ... I’m happy, even though we made life difficult for ourselves at the end, but evidently that’s how we are. Inter likes suffering right until the end.”

Bologna also lost its key striker moments later when Mattia Destro — who was a member of Inter’s youth team — went off with an injured foot. Earlier, Empoli snatched a 1-1 draw against Sampdoria.

Fabio Quagliarella looked to have given Sampdoria the win with an effort which was deflected in

by Vincent Laurini shortly before halftime.

However, Empoli rescued a point when Laurini redeemed himself eight minutes from time, rushing in at the far post to head in Mario Rui’s free kick from the edge of the right side of the area.

It was the defender’s first goal in professional football. Empoli had a goal disallowed and also hit the post in the first half. (ap)

SINGAPORE - Manchester United should sack Louis Van Gaal and install his assistant Ryan Giggs as manager, according to former striker Dwight Yorke who wants to launch his own managerial career at struggling Aston Villa.

The former Trinidad and Tobago striker said changes were needed at United, with the 20-times English champions sixth in the Premier League, out of the Champions League and suffering a 2-0 loss to arch-rivals Liverpool in the Europa League this week.

“At the end of the day, it’s all about results,” Yorke was quoted as saying by Singaporean daily The New Paper on Saturday after a promotional event in the Southeast Asian citystate. “In the two years that he’s (Van Gaal) been there, he’s spent tons of money, brought in tons of players, and simply hasn’t got the results that he and everyone else had hoped to.

“You see a lot of young managers, Zinedine Zidane’s been given the opportunity at Real Madrid, you got Luis Enrique at Barcelona, Pep Guardiola who’s coming to Manchester City, Tottenham’s Mauricio Pochettino, they’re all ex-players.

“And I feel that the game is going down that road, and maybe this is the right time to give Giggsy the job.”

Yorke won three Premier League titles and the 1999 Champions League with United under former manager Alex Ferguson after joining from Aston Villa.

The 44-year-old said he was heartbroken to see Villa struggle at the foot of the table under manager Remi Garde and said he would love the chance to try and rectify the problems.

“I feel that I can turn it around for them, if they give me the opportunity to do that,” he said.

“They’re a club I know very well, the structure is very strong, and if they go into the Championship (second tier) next year...I have the experience and what it takes to win that Championship down there.” (rtr)

Real Madrid backs Nadal after doping accusations from France

MADRID — Real Madrid has joined the defense of Rafael Nadal after doping accusations made by a former French minister.

The Spanish soccer giant expressed its “total support” for the 14-time Grand Slam winner in a statement Saturday which called the accusations by former French Minister for Health and Sport Roselyne Bachelot “unjustifiable and intolerable.”

Bachelot claimed on French television on Thursday that the Spaniard’s seven-month injury hiatus in 2012 was “probably due to a positive doping test.”

Nadal is a prominent fan of Madrid and a “member of honor” of the club. Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane also backed Nadal.

“I feel bad for what is being said,” the former France great said. “Everyone who likes sports likes Nadal, whether you are French, American, he is spectacular.”

The Spanish Olympic Committee, national team manager Vicente del Bosque and Barcelona coach Luis Enrique have also supported Nadal, who denies any wrongdoing. (ap)

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Chelsea’s Diego Costa, center, narrowly fails to score past Everton’s goalkeeper Joel Robles during the English FA Cup quarter-final soccer match between Everton and Chelsea at Goodison Park Stadium, Liverpool, England, Saturday March 12, 2016.

Red-carded Costa denies biting rival as Chelsea exits FA Cup

Diego Costa told Chelsea he didn’t bite an Everton opponent in a confrontation that led to the fiery striker being sent off on Saturday as his team was knocked out of the FA Cup. Chelsea had just been humiliated by former striker Romelu Lukaku scoring twice in a five-minute span, including a breathtaking solo goal, when Costa was sent off in the 84th minute of Everton’s 2-0 win in the FA Cup quarterfinals.

Reacting to a challenge from Gareth Barry, Costa thrust his head at the Everton midfielder before appearing to sink his teeth toward Barry’s neck in a biting motion. Having already been shown a yellow card for a 10th-minute foul on Barry, Costa was dismissed for the first time in two seasons at Chelsea after being booked again.

There was no immediate reaction from Barry to suggest he had been bitten. More than four hours after the incident, Chelsea insisted there was no bite.

“Diego spoke to club officials after the game and expressed regret over his reaction to the challenge from Gareth Barry that led to his red card,” Chelsea said late Saturday on Twitter. “But Diego was also very clear that he did not bite him at any point during that altercation.”

Everton also ended with 10 men after Barry himself was shown a second yellow card three minutes later for catching Cesc Fabregas. “Diego Costa had a fighting spirit and I would like to praise the referee (Michael Oliver),” Everton manager Roberto Martinez said. “The sending off of Costa was right.

“The sending off of Gareth Barry was

right and the referee never allowed those emotions to stop the fluency. Whatever happens with Diego Costa I am sure the two players shook it off.”

The FA Cup exit followed Chelsea being eliminated from the Champions League

by Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday.

Any hopes of defending the Premier League trophy were extinguished long ago, with Chelsea currently 10th with nine games remaining and highly likely to miss out on European football next season.

Manchester City doesn’t look like it will be succeeding Chelsea as Premier League champions after being held 0-0 at relegation-threatened Norwich on Saturday to stay fourth, nine points behind surprise leader Leicester.

The late dismissals at Goodison Park overshadowed Lukaku’s superb goals which left Chelsea to rue offloading the Belgium striker in 2014 for 28 million pounds (then $47 million), having spent most of his career on loan away from Stamford Bridge.

Lukaku’s first goal came in the 77th minute after Ross Barkley slipped the ball through to him on the left wing. Lukaku slalomed past two players before cutting inside past defenders Cesar Azpilicueta and Branislav Ivanovic and striking low past compatriot Thibaut Courtois.

The Belgium goalkeeper was beaten again in the 82nd when Lukaku put the ball through his legs for his 25th goal of the season — a tally greater than Chelsea’s strikers combined.

So, unlike in 2009, Guus Hiddink will not be ending this interim spell as Chelsea

manager by lifting the FA Cup. And Jose Mourinho’s permanent successor will have to rebuild the squad by attracting players to a team likely out of Europe. At the same time, Chelsea is still dealing with the legal fallout from Mourinho’s rift with its former team doctor on the opening day of the season as Eva Carneiro’s constructive dismissal case heads to a public tribunal hearing.

Relegation was the immediate threat to Chelsea when Hiddink replaced Mourinho in December but the champions’ Premier League status is not under threat.

“My first task was to get us, as soon as possible, out of this relegation zone which we surprisingly did well within a few weeks from the 16th place to 10th,” Hiddink said. “But then it is difficult, as I said before, to achieve the Champions League places and maintain two roads to have success which is the FA Cup and which was the Champions League. They are gone now and that’s a pity.”

Bournemouth looks like staying for a second season in the top flight after beating Swansea 3-2 to move 13 points clear of the relegation zone with eight games to play. Steve Cook grabbed the winner after Max Gradel netted his first goal for the south-coast club and Joshua King only his second.

Swansea had leveled twice, first through Modou Barrow and then Gylfi Sigurdsson.

But the Welsh club is now only two places and eight points above the drop zone.

Norwich remains in the relegation zone despite drawing with Manchester City, but above Newcastle and Aston Villa. (ap)

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Sp rt Messi fuels Barca’s 6-0 rout of Getafe before Arsenal visit

BARCELONA — Lionel Messi scored one goal and figured in four more to keep Barcelona on course to retaining its Spanish league title with a 6-0 rout of Getafe on Saturday, increasing its Spanish record to 37 games without a loss in all competitions. The only blemish on Messi’s superb display was a missed penalty in the first half.

Otherwise, the Argentina forward led a dominant performance that suggests problems for Arsenal as the London club bids to overturn a 2-0 loss in their Champions League round-of-16 second leg on Wednesday.

Atletico Madrid stayed eight points behind the defending champions in second place after a 3-0 victory over Deportivo La Coruna.

Barcelona never looked back after an opening own-goal by Getafe’s Juan Rodriguez.

Messi made up for his missed spot kick by scoring to make it 4-0 before halftime while also assisting Neymar for two goals and Munir El Haddadi on another.

“We are in a favorable posi-

tion,” said Barcelona manager Luis Enrique. “When we are in-sync and quick to circulate the ball, it’s tough to stop us. This team is one-of-a-kind, different from the rest. It makes winning like this look easy.”

Third-place Real Madrid will trail Barcelona by 15 points when it visits Las Palmas on Sunday. Also Saturday, Iago Aspas scored with a brilliant chipped shot to give Celta Vigo a 1-0 win over Real Sociedad and go provisionally fifth.

Barcelona got its 12th straight league win without striker Luis Suarez, kept on the bench by Luis Enrique ahead of Wednesday’s match.

What little fight Getafe had at

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FC Barcelona’s Lionel Messi, right, duels for the ball against Getafe’s Wanderson during a Spanish La Liga soccer match at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, March 12, 2016.

the start was sucked right out of the struggling side in the eighth minute when Messi played Jordi Alba wide, and his return pass intended for Messi was turned into Getafe’s goal by Rodriguez.

Not even goalkeeper Vicente Guaita blocking Messi’s spot kick three minutes later — after Neymar was fouled by Emiliano Velazquez — revived the visitors.

Andres Iniesta’s playmaking kept the action entirely in Getafe’s half, and Messi’s apparently offtarget shot from Iniesta’s pass became a perfect cross for El Haddadi to head home in the 19th.

“We didn’t have a chance,” said Getafe coach Fran Escriba, whose team hasn’t won in nine rounds.

“The game was lost from 2-0.”

Guaita did well to push Gerard Pique’s effort from another pass by Iniesta off his bar, but he could do nothing to stop Neymar’s curling strike when Messi played him clear with a pass in the 32nd.

“We didn’t let our opponent breathe,” Iniesta said. Messi then got his 22nd league goal of the season when he was given time outside the top of the box and struck a left-footed shot beyond the reach of Guaita four minutes before the break.

Messi picked right back up after the restart with a pass for Neymar to beat Guaita again in the 51st in the Brazilian’s 20th league goal of the campaign. Arda Turan polished off the demolition with a bicycle kick from close range after a corner in the 57th.

Atletico didn’t match Barcelona’s lopsided score, but its control was as complete at Vicente Calderon Stadium.

Saul Niguez charged into the area to head Filipe Luis’ cross into the net for the 18th-minute opener.

Antoine Griezmann scored his fourth goal in as many rounds with half an hour left before substitute Angel Correa added a late goal.

Atletico hosts PSV in the Champions League on Tuesday after a 0-0 away draw in the first leg. “We are competing with Barcelona and Real Madrid, who both have great squads,” said Atletico coach Diego Simeone. “We can come out on top (in La Liga) like two years ago, or we can finish second like we are now.” (ap)

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Inter Milan’s Mauro Icardi reacts after injuring during the Serie A soccer match between Inter Milan and Bologna at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Saturday, March 12, 2016.

Inter beats Bologna 2-1 to move provisionally 4th in Serie A

MILAN — Inter Milan beat Bologna 2-1 to move provisionally a point above Fiorentina into fourth place in Serie A on Saturday and maintain its bid for the final Champions League spot.

Bologna was the only team in Serie A not to have conceded a goal from a corner this season but it did so twice in four minutes.

Danilo D’Ambrosio headed a corner goalward and Ivan Perisic nodded the ball in from almost on the goal-line to give Inter the lead in the 72nd minute.

D’Ambrosio volleyed in the second goal, and substitute Franco Brienza netted a consolation in the final minute. Adem Ljajic also hit the post for Inter in the first half.

Fiorentina plays Hellas Verona on Sunday, while third-place Roma — which is two points above Inter — visits Udinese. Inter visits Roma in a crucial match next weekend.

Inter will be without captain Mauro Icardi, who limped off in the ninth minute after injuring his knee when sliding in to try and intercept Eder’s angled drive.

Fellow forward Rodrigo Palacio will also miss that match through suspension after receiving a fifth yellow card for time-wasting.

“(The attack) worries me now,” Inter coach Roberto Mancini said.

“It was important to win today, but there are still a lot of points, anything can happen from now until the end.

“We knew it would be a difficult match, because Bologna is in good form ... I’m happy, even though we made life difficult for ourselves at the end, but evidently that’s how we are. Inter likes suffering right until the end.”

Bologna also lost its key striker moments later when Mattia Destro — who was a member of Inter’s youth team — went off with an injured foot. Earlier, Empoli snatched a 1-1 draw against Sampdoria.

Fabio Quagliarella looked to have given Sampdoria the win with an effort which was deflected in

by Vincent Laurini shortly before halftime.

However, Empoli rescued a point when Laurini redeemed himself eight minutes from time, rushing in at the far post to head in Mario Rui’s free kick from the edge of the right side of the area.

It was the defender’s first goal in professional football. Empoli had a goal disallowed and also hit the post in the first half. (ap)

SINGAPORE - Manchester United should sack Louis Van Gaal and install his assistant Ryan Giggs as manager, according to former striker Dwight Yorke who wants to launch his own managerial career at struggling Aston Villa.

The former Trinidad and Tobago striker said changes were needed at United, with the 20-times English champions sixth in the Premier League, out of the Champions League and suffering a 2-0 loss to arch-rivals Liverpool in the Europa League this week.

“At the end of the day, it’s all about results,” Yorke was quoted as saying by Singaporean daily The New Paper on Saturday after a promotional event in the Southeast Asian citystate. “In the two years that he’s (Van Gaal) been there, he’s spent tons of money, brought in tons of players, and simply hasn’t got the results that he and everyone else had hoped to.

“You see a lot of young managers, Zinedine Zidane’s been given the opportunity at Real Madrid, you got Luis Enrique at Barcelona, Pep Guardiola who’s coming to Manchester City, Tottenham’s Mauricio Pochettino, they’re all ex-players.

“And I feel that the game is going down that road, and maybe this is the right time to give Giggsy the job.”

Yorke won three Premier League titles and the 1999 Champions League with United under former manager Alex Ferguson after joining from Aston Villa.

The 44-year-old said he was heartbroken to see Villa struggle at the foot of the table under manager Remi Garde and said he would love the chance to try and rectify the problems.

“I feel that I can turn it around for them, if they give me the opportunity to do that,” he said.

“They’re a club I know very well, the structure is very strong, and if they go into the Championship (second tier) next year...I have the experience and what it takes to win that Championship down there.” (rtr)

Real Madrid backs Nadal after doping accusations from France

MADRID — Real Madrid has joined the defense of Rafael Nadal after doping accusations made by a former French minister.

The Spanish soccer giant expressed its “total support” for the 14-time Grand Slam winner in a statement Saturday which called the accusations by former French Minister for Health and Sport Roselyne Bachelot “unjustifiable and intolerable.”

Bachelot claimed on French television on Thursday that the Spaniard’s seven-month injury hiatus in 2012 was “probably due to a positive doping test.”

Nadal is a prominent fan of Madrid and a “member of honor” of the club. Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane also backed Nadal.

“I feel bad for what is being said,” the former France great said. “Everyone who likes sports likes Nadal, whether you are French, American, he is spectacular.”

The Spanish Olympic Committee, national team manager Vicente del Bosque and Barcelona coach Luis Enrique have also supported Nadal, who denies any wrongdoing. (ap)

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Chelsea’s Diego Costa, center, narrowly fails to score past Everton’s goalkeeper Joel Robles during the English FA Cup quarter-final soccer match between Everton and Chelsea at Goodison Park Stadium, Liverpool, England, Saturday March 12, 2016.

Red-carded Costa denies biting rival as Chelsea exits FA Cup

Diego Costa told Chelsea he didn’t bite an Everton opponent in a confrontation that led to the fiery striker being sent off on Saturday as his team was knocked out of the FA Cup. Chelsea had just been humiliated by former striker Romelu Lukaku scoring twice in a five-minute span, including a breathtaking solo goal, when Costa was sent off in the 84th minute of Everton’s 2-0 win in the FA Cup quarterfinals.

Reacting to a challenge from Gareth Barry, Costa thrust his head at the Everton midfielder before appearing to sink his teeth toward Barry’s neck in a biting motion. Having already been shown a yellow card for a 10th-minute foul on Barry, Costa was dismissed for the first time in two seasons at Chelsea after being booked again.

There was no immediate reaction from Barry to suggest he had been bitten. More than four hours after the incident, Chelsea insisted there was no bite.

“Diego spoke to club officials after the game and expressed regret over his reaction to the challenge from Gareth Barry that led to his red card,” Chelsea said late Saturday on Twitter. “But Diego was also very clear that he did not bite him at any point during that altercation.”

Everton also ended with 10 men after Barry himself was shown a second yellow card three minutes later for catching Cesc Fabregas. “Diego Costa had a fighting spirit and I would like to praise the referee (Michael Oliver),” Everton manager Roberto Martinez said. “The sending off of Costa was right.

“The sending off of Gareth Barry was

right and the referee never allowed those emotions to stop the fluency. Whatever happens with Diego Costa I am sure the two players shook it off.”

The FA Cup exit followed Chelsea being eliminated from the Champions League

by Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday.

Any hopes of defending the Premier League trophy were extinguished long ago, with Chelsea currently 10th with nine games remaining and highly likely to miss out on European football next season.

Manchester City doesn’t look like it will be succeeding Chelsea as Premier League champions after being held 0-0 at relegation-threatened Norwich on Saturday to stay fourth, nine points behind surprise leader Leicester.

The late dismissals at Goodison Park overshadowed Lukaku’s superb goals which left Chelsea to rue offloading the Belgium striker in 2014 for 28 million pounds (then $47 million), having spent most of his career on loan away from Stamford Bridge.

Lukaku’s first goal came in the 77th minute after Ross Barkley slipped the ball through to him on the left wing. Lukaku slalomed past two players before cutting inside past defenders Cesar Azpilicueta and Branislav Ivanovic and striking low past compatriot Thibaut Courtois.

The Belgium goalkeeper was beaten again in the 82nd when Lukaku put the ball through his legs for his 25th goal of the season — a tally greater than Chelsea’s strikers combined.

So, unlike in 2009, Guus Hiddink will not be ending this interim spell as Chelsea

manager by lifting the FA Cup. And Jose Mourinho’s permanent successor will have to rebuild the squad by attracting players to a team likely out of Europe. At the same time, Chelsea is still dealing with the legal fallout from Mourinho’s rift with its former team doctor on the opening day of the season as Eva Carneiro’s constructive dismissal case heads to a public tribunal hearing.

Relegation was the immediate threat to Chelsea when Hiddink replaced Mourinho in December but the champions’ Premier League status is not under threat.

“My first task was to get us, as soon as possible, out of this relegation zone which we surprisingly did well within a few weeks from the 16th place to 10th,” Hiddink said. “But then it is difficult, as I said before, to achieve the Champions League places and maintain two roads to have success which is the FA Cup and which was the Champions League. They are gone now and that’s a pity.”

Bournemouth looks like staying for a second season in the top flight after beating Swansea 3-2 to move 13 points clear of the relegation zone with eight games to play. Steve Cook grabbed the winner after Max Gradel netted his first goal for the south-coast club and Joshua King only his second.

Swansea had leveled twice, first through Modou Barrow and then Gylfi Sigurdsson.

But the Welsh club is now only two places and eight points above the drop zone.

Norwich remains in the relegation zone despite drawing with Manchester City, but above Newcastle and Aston Villa. (ap)

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Freakish injury will not slow Eaton’s world title bid

LOS ANGELES - Ashton Eaton’s bid for a third consecutive world indoor heptathlon title will not be affected by a freakish accident that left the American needing six stitches in his head, his coach told Reuters on Saturday.

Eaton was hit on the head by a pole vault crossbar while waiting to start his long jump at Friday’s U.S. championships in Portland. Six stitches were needed to close the wound, the Olympic and world decathlon champion said on Twitter.

“All good,” Harry Marra, Eaton’s long-time trainer, said in a text message.

After a scheduled day off on Saturday, Eaton would be “back at it tomorrow (Sunday),” Marra said of preparations for next week’s IAAF world indoor championships in Portland, Oregon.

Eaton, the heptathlon and decathlon world record holder, said he hoped to get the chance for some revenge on the offending crossbar.

“I hope they use the same crossbar for (the world championships),” Eaton added. “Going to pay back with a PV PR (pole vault personal record).

“I’m still waiting for pictures from when I had blood all over my hands and face.”

The world championships start on Thursday, with the heptathlon scheduled for Friday and Saturday. (rtr)

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CALIFORNIA - World number two Andy Murray was given a tough test but pushed his way past Marcel Granollers 6-4 7-6(3) in his opening match at the BNP Paribas Open in California on Saturday.

Murray led Great Britain to a Davis Cup victory over Japan last week, but apart from that team event had not competed since his Australian Open final loss to Novak Djokovic on Jan. 31.

Murray has made plenty of news off the court since then, however, welcoming the birth of his first child last month and earlier this week rebuking Maria Sharapova for her drug test failure.

On the court in Indian Wells on Saturday, Murray overcame a break in the first set, and then took the second in a tiebreak against his Spanish opponent.

“It was very different conditions to what I have been practicing and playing in in the past five weeks, against a tough, unorthodox player,” Murray told reporters. “He’s got quite a different game. He’s very smart player, as well, intelligent player, and often makes the right decisions.”

Earlier, Canadian Milos Raonic took only 55 minutes to dispatch Inigo Cer-

vantes.

Raonic, playing for the first time since a groin injury contributed to his heartbreaking five-set semi-final loss to Murray at the Australian Open, was delighted with his form.

“To come out, and really not know how things are going to go, find your rhythm well early on, do the fundamentals well, dictate the match, I’m very pleased with that,” Raonic told the Tennis Channel.

“When I look at the overall picture of my progress, development, I have to be very pleased. I’ve incorporated a lot of new things in my game. I’m getting more efficient coming forward at the net and I think I’m able to put more and more pressure on my opponents.”

In other second-round action, third seed Stan Wawrinka easily handled Illya Marchenko 6-3 6-2 and sixth seed Tomas Berdych cruised past Juan Martin del Potro 7-6(4) 6-2.

Frenchman Gael Monfils and Richard Gasquet both advanced, controversial Australian Nick Kyrgios was docked a point for swearing in his loss to Albert RaAP Photo/Mark J. Terrill mos 7-6(4) 7-5, and 10th seed Marin Cilic Andy Murray, of Britain, serves to Marcel Granollers, of Spain, at the BNP Paribas topped Ryan Harrison 6-4 6-3. (rtr) Open tennis tournament, Saturday, March 12, 2016, in Indian Wells, Calif.

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A carnival float with papier-mache caricature mocking US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, is displayed at a postponed “Rosenmontag” (Rose Monday) parade, at one location in Duesseldorf, Germany, March 13, 2016, after the original parade in February was cancelled due to severe weather.

New disturbance at Trump rally as crucial Republican contests near

DAYTON - Secret Service officers rushed on stage to protect U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump during a disturbance at a rally on Saturday, a day after rowdy protests shut down his event in Chicago.

Trump briefly ducked at the podium and four Secret Service members scrambled to surround him after a man charged the stage at Dayton International Airport in Ohio.

Officers then grabbed the man, dressed in a black T-shirt and jeans, before he was able to reach the stage and hauled him away.

“I was ready. I don’t know if I would have done well but I would have been out there fighting, folks,” Trump told a rally later in the day.

He said the man “was looking to do harm.”

The incident further increased tension after Trump’s Chicago rally was scrapped amid chaotic scenes on Friday.

Trump’s Republican rivals hurled scorn at the New York billionaire, saying he helped create the nervous atmosphere that is now

sweeping the race for the White House with his fiery rhetoric.

Trump blamed supporters of Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders for the incidents in Chicago, where scuffles broke out between protesters and backers of the real estate magnate. He called the U.S. senator from Vermont “our communist friend.”

The scenes in Chicago followed a series of recent incidents of violence at Trump rallies, in which protesters and journalists have been punched, tackled and hustled out of venues, raising concerns about degrading security leading into the Nov. 8 election.

“All of a sudden a planned attack just came out of nowhere,” Trump said in Dayton, describing the events in Chicago. He called the protest leaders there “professional people”.

Sanders, a U.S. Senator from Vermont, hit back.

“As is the case virtually every day, Donald Trump is showing the American people that he is a pathological liar. Obviously, while I appreciate that we had supporters at Trump’s rally in Chicago, our campaign did not organize the protests.”

President Barack Obama told a fundraising event in Dallas that political leaders “should be trying to bring us together and not turning us against one another.”

Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton drew criticism for releasing an initial statement that did not mention Trump by name and tied violent campaign events to a shooting in a South Carolina black church last year that left 9 people dead.

While campaigning in St. Louis, Missouri, on Saturday, Clinton criticized Trump directly for “ugly, divisive rhetoric” that encourages aggression and violence. (rtr)

International

Greece steps up efforts to move migrants to sheltered camps

IDOMENI - Greece increased efforts on Saturday to move thousands of migrants near the border with Macedonia to sheltered camps, as the spread of infection became a concern with one person in a sprawling tent city diagnosed with Hepatitis A. Stranded in filthy conditions at a muddy tent city near the northern border town of Idomeni, at least 12,000 people, among them thousands of children, were waiting to cross the frontier although Macedonia and other nations along the so-called Western Balkan route have closed their borders.

Scuffles broke out at the camp in recent days as destitute people scrambled for food and firewood, while many have been sleeping in the open, often in the rain amid low temperatures.

Greek authorities handed out leaflets in Idomeni on Saturday informing people that the main route to northern Europe was shut. The pamphlets urged them to move to buildings and hospitality centres across Greece that have been set aside for the purpose, according to a government official from the country’s refugee crisis management coordination body.

“Our aim is not only to relieve Idomeni from the people, our aim is that no Idomeni (camp) even exists anymore. There are structures, why should people stay in the mud?” he said.

Leaflets would also be distributed in ports and on islands to discourage people from going up to Idomeni, the government of-

ficial said.

“Greece will offer you accommodation, food and healthcare,” read the leaflets which were written in Arabic, Farsi and Pashtun.

Deputy Defence Minister Dimitris Vitsas, in charge of coordinating Greek efforts to tackle the refugee crisis, said 400 people were moved from Idomeni to camps on Friday and the numbers would increase in the coming days.

“Many of them are waiting for a decision by the (EU) summit on March 17. We are saying that regardless of this decision, there are three camps very close (to shelter them),” he told Greek Mega television.

EU leaders and Turkey are due to meet again on Thursday and Friday to seal a deal to try to stem illegal migrant flows from Turkey to Europe through Greece.

The squalid, overcrowded conditions of the camp in Idomeni have given rise to infections. A nine-year old Syrian girl was diagnosed with Hepatitis A on Friday, according to Greece’s disease control agency.

According to the World Health Organisation, Hepatitis A is a virus which is transmitted through ingestion of contaminated food and water, or through direct contact with an infectious person. It is normally associated with lack of safe water or poor sanitation.

The girl was being treated in a stable condition, the agency said, adding that it had already taken action to prevent the disease spreading among migrants in Idomeni. (rtr)

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Migrants gather around the car of a Greek man distributing kids shoes at a makeshift camp on the Greek-Macedonian border, near the village of Idomeni, Greece March 12, 2016.

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A child holds his fishing rod at the beach of Maitara island in Tidore, North Maluku province, Indonesia, March 11, 2016.

Delta will offer nonstop winter flights from London to Utah

SALT LAKE CITY — Delta Air Lines will offer nonstop flights from London to Salt Lake City during the next ski season.

KSL-TV reports (http://bit.ly/1LgQK5u ) the only North American ski destinations previously served by direct flights from the United Kingdom were British Columbia and Denver. To get to Salt Lake City, British visitors would have to connect through a hub like Chicago or Dallas.

Delta held its first nonstop flight from London’s Heathrow Airport and Salt Lake International Airport in August. The summer trial went so well that Delta says it will offer the route three times a week in the winter.

Paul Marshall with Ski Utah says he is “beyond excited” about the new flights. He says international visitors stay in Utah longer and spend money at more establishments.(ap)

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Stock market extends rally to a 4th week as energy recovers

NEW YORK — A jump in crude oil and a rise in European markets set off a rally in U.S. stocks to cap a four-week winning streak for major indexes.

Investors bought across industries from the start of trading on Friday. Drillers, refiners and other energy companies rose sharply as the price for U.S. crude hit a high for the year. Devon Energy jumped 11 percent and Southwestern Energy gained 10 percent.

Just a month ago, investors were dumping shares amid talk of a possible U.S. recession. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell to almost a two-year low. But confidence has returned as data has suggested the U.S. economy is strengthening.

“While things aren’t great, they’re not the disaster we thought,” said Bill Strazzullo, chief market strategist at Bell Curve Trading.

“We’ve rallied after a horrendous start to the year.” The S&P 500 is up now nearly 11 percent from Feb. 11.

On Friday, the S&P 500 gained 32.62 points, or 1.6 percent, to 2,022.19. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 218.18 points,

or 1.3 percent, to 17,213.31.

The Nasdaq composite climbed 86.31 points, or 1.9 percent, to 4,748.47.

U.S. crude gained after the International Energy Agency said signs that the market has “bottomed out” have emerged. Energy companies have been shutting down rigs and laying off thousands of workers as oil prices plunged to around $30 per barrel, from well over $100 per barrel just two years ago. U.S. crude has risen 47 percent from a 13-year low of $26.21 a month ago.

Bank stocks also rose sharply.

That sector had been beaten down in recent weeks as investors worried about loans to highly leveraged energy companies going bad. The rally has got some investors worried, though.

Chief Equity Strategist Phil Orlando of Federated Investors said the “terrific four-week run” makes him a “little nervous.” Among his concerns are a steeper China

AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko

People look at an electronic stock board showing Japan’s Nikkei 225 at a securities firm in Tokyo, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016. slowdown, a U.S. dollar strengthening even more and hurting U.S. exports, no relief from the corporate profits drop over the last year and more surprises in the presidential election.

“Don’t discount the fiscal policy uncertainty of the election,” he

warned. Xavier Smith, manager of the Centre Global Select Equity Fund, said he doesn’t buy the oil rally, either.

“Oil is a proxy for the overall economy, and it’s not going on four cylinders anywhere,” Smith said.

“So why would oil be strong? It

doesn’t make any sense.”

European markets rose sharply as investors hoped that the European Central Bank’s latest blast of stimulus policies would help revive the region’s economy. Germany’s DAX gained 3.5 percent, France’s CAC 40 advanced 3.3 percent and Britain’s FTSE 100 rose 1.7 percent.

The ECB moves included three interest rate cuts, loans to banks, and the expansion of a bond-buying stimulus program. Shares in banks, which will be supported by the ECB loans, were among the biggest gainers. Investors turn their attention to a meeting of the U.S. Federal Reserve next week. Unlike its counterparts in Europe and Japan, the Fed is looking to wind down its economic stimulus, though most investors do not expect it to tighten credit next week. The Fed raised rates for the first time in nine years in December.

Among stocks making big moves, driller Anadarko Petroleum rose $3.79, or 9 percent, to $46.29 after saying it would cut 1,000 workers, or 17 percent of its work force.(ap)

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Floods submerge 35 thousand houses in Bandung district

BANDUNG - Floods triggered by incessant heavy rains and the overflowing of Citarum River, have submerged some 35 thousand houses in the districts of Dayeuhkolot, Baleendah and Bojongsoang in Bandung District, West Java Province.

“This flooding is the worst over the past 10 years. The floodwaters have reached a height of up to 3.3 meters,” Coordinator of Bandungs Disaster-Alert Youth,

said on the phone, Sunday. The office of Dayeuhkolot Sub-district administration, which had never been flooded since 20 years ago, is now inundated at a height of 35

cm, he said.

In the meantime, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman of the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB), said in a statement in Jakarta, on Sunday that the floods left two dead and three others missing in Bandung District.

The dead victims were Risa, 13, and Ela, 40, who lived in Sawahl-

uhur, Sukasari village, Pameungpeuk Sub-district.

Elas husband and two daughters were missing as the building where they were staying and is located near the river bank, collapsed after being swept away by flash floods.

The floods affected 15 regions, namely Cicalengka, Rancaekek,

Cileunyi, Solokan Jeruk, Majalaya, Ciparay, Baleendah, Dayeuhkolot, Bojongsoang, Pameungpeuk, Banjaran, Arjasri, Cangkuang, Katapang and Kutawaringin.

The flooding forced more than three thousand people to evacuate themselves to higher grounds, and affected some 5,900 families comprising 24 thousand people.(ant)

President Expresses Yogyakarta to launch salt Condolences on Passing water fish eating campaign Away of JS Badudu JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has expressed his sincere condolences on the death of Prof Dr Jusuf Sjarif Badudu, a prominent Indonesian language expert, who passed away on March 12, 2016.

“The Indonesian nation has lost JS Badudu. He had dedicated his whole life for the Indonesian language. His dedication becomes a role model for all of us - Jkw,” the Head of State tweeted

on his Twitter account @jokowi.

JS Badudu, 89, passed away at Hasan Sadikin Hospital, Bandung, West Java, on Saturday at 10:10 p.m. local time.

He was rushed to the hospital with signs of a stroke.

Badudu was a language lecturer at the University of Padjajaran (Unpad) and the Indonesia University of Education (UPI).

His remains were buried in Cikutra Heroes Cemetery in Bandung.(ant)

YOGYAKARTA - The Department of Industry, Trade and Agricultural Cooperatives in Yogyakarta will soon launch fish eating campaigns, especially salt water fish, according to its spokesman Benny Nurhantoro.

“The salt water fish eating campaigns will be launched early April this year because the level of fish consumption in the city of Yogyakarta is still low,” Nurhantoro remarked here Saturday.

It will involve a variety of culinary and hospitality employers as well as a number of institutions in the city government of Yogyakarta to

enliven the campaign activities for the marine fish meal, according to him.

Early campaign activity will take place at Yogyakarta City Hall complex to give an example to the public that the local government is really committed to increasing the consumption of fish, he said.

“Later, culinary and hotel entrepreneurs will be required to cook the fish of the sea, and they will be challenged to make a dish that is tasty as well as show that marine fish was not fishy,” he said.

Types of fish that will be cooked in the campaign will be dominated by tuna fish.(ant)

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Beaten and discarded, Congo street children are strangers to mining boom

Drug trafficking in Bali has touched the circle of students. It is indicated by some arrested drug suspects by the authorities involving students.

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Circulation of drugs in Bali alarming

A role model needs to be built to be imitated

DRUG crimes are serious concern to all parties. In Bali, drug trafficking has touched the circle of students. It is indicated by some arrested drug suspects by the authorities involving students. As a result, the next generations are now threatened.

An observer of education, Prof.

Dr. Putu Rumawan Salain, admitted to be anxious and wary of the young generation because in the case of drugs, students have always been the object. “As an observer of education, I always feel anxious and worried about the younger generation. However, why do we never ask where they obtain it (drug—Ed)?” asked Rumawan Salain, Thursday (Mar. 10).

He considered if the authorities have not seriously combat

the drugs. So far, they only catch the retailers. “Occasionally, they must also arrest the traffickers,” he exclaimed.

If really wishing to seriously fight against drugs, he said, the authorities may not only arrest the small ones or retailers. According to him, drug cases can be said the same as terrorism cases because they equally threaten the integrity of the state.

If police catch terrorists, the subsequent arrest can grow up to seven or even dozens of people because

they know the syndicates. Well, the drug crimes are the same where they certainly have a syndicate, at home and overseas.

“We see when the authorities catch drug offenders at Ngurah Rai Airport, Tuban. Why did they only arrest the suspects, while others are untouchable?” he questioned. If this is allowed, he added, it will never succeed to fight drugs forever because they distribute their drugs to the next generation such as students having the most unstable age.

“Moreover, for example, they are less sociable and getting less attention from parents. Ultimately, they will certainly escape to drug consumption,” he said.

According to him, seeing the current condition of drug circulation in Bali, there is possibility if the factory is situated in Bali.

Moreover, Bali lies in the world’s crossing stripe. Indeed, the airport is heavily guarded and a number of seaports in Bali are also under extra tight supervision. “However, have you ever thought whether traditional ports such as at Sanur, Serangan, Kelan and several other smaller ports in Bali have also been maintained like other ports?” he asked.

The existence of so many small ports can be utilized by the dealers.

They will exploit existing weaknesses. So, in order to prevent

young generation from falling into the black world, both the drug and other cases, they need the attention of all parties. In the family, parents should be most responsible for nurturing their children.

Later, in the school environment, the teachers directing their students must avoid things that can hurt themselves. Similarly, in the neighborhood, they should be concerned with others and equally inform positive things.

“In addition, it must also establish the role models that can be replicated. Do not let these figures get involved in drug cases. If this happens, there will be a crisis of confidence,” he added. (jay)

Lightweight brick of Java competes against red brick

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Lately brick makers in Jembrana are restless because the brick products from outside Bali offered at lower selling price enter freely.

NEGARA — Lately brick makers in Jembrana are restless because the brick products from outside Bali offered at lower selling price enter freely. According to the sellers, the incoming brick is actually not red brick, but lighter and bigger one.

The price is much cheaper than their red brick production. Erfan, a seller of red brick, said on Friday (Mar. 11) that he is concerned with the expansion of brick product from Java. He did not know what material is used to make such a larger but lighter brick. It is said the brick is made from mudflow of Lapindo

in Sidoarjo. “Clearly, the entry of the brick causes local red brick makers restless and displaced,” he said. Besides, their sales turnover slumps dramatically.

He sells red brick of Jembrana to serve a number of building material stores to outside Jembrana.

After the entry of brick from Java, the stores also complain because their stocks both the red brick and concrete block are still piling up.

Marketing of the lightweight brick from Java has been done directly to retail level. In addition to a little demand, the current price of red

brick also plummets.

Hadi, a red brick business owner, recognized that the current sales of red brick have decreased. Its selling price also slumps. Formerly, he sold for IDR 700,000 per 1,000 pieces of red brick, and then it reduced to IDR 550,000. According to him, seasonal factor also affect the price of red brick. When this has an impact on the business of red brick, it affects the livelihood of people working in the red brick business. In Jembrana, there are red brick businesses at some villages. (kmb26)

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watches the ballistic rocket launch drill of the Strategic Force of the Korean People’s Army (KPA) at an unknown location, in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang on March 11, 2016. North Korea on Sunday denied that it conducted cyber attacks against officials from rival South Korea.

North Korea denies cyber attacks on South Korea officials

SEOUL - North Korea on Sunday denied that it conducted cyber attacks against officials from rival South Korea, calling the South’s accusation that it did so a “fabrication”.

South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers on Friday that North Korea had recently stepped up cyber attack efforts against the South and succeeded in hacking the mobile phones of 40 national security officials, according to members of parliament who received a closeddoor briefing.

“The South is claiming the North’s cyber attack and using it for its own political purpose,” an opinion piece in the Rodong Sinmun, the official daily newspaper of the North’s ruling party, said on Sunday.

It accused the South of making the cyber attack claim in order to justify a controversial new “antiterrorism” law.

“There is nothing to expect but the sound of eating corpses from

a crow’s mouth. However, we cannot just overlook the South’s abrupt, provocative, and heinous accusations against its neighbor,” the article said.

Earlier in the week, South Korea’s National Intelligence Service also said North Korea had tried to hack into email accounts of South Korean railway workers in an attempt to attack the transport system’s control system, although it said had interrupted the hacking attempt against the railway workers and closed off their email accounts.

South Korea has been on heightened alert against the threat of cyber attacks by North Korea after it conducted a nuclear test in January and a long-range rocket launch last month, triggering new U.N.

sanctions.

Tensions are also heightened on the Korean peninsula as South Korea and the United States conduct annual joint military exercises that the South says are the largest ever and on Sunday included the arrival in South Korea of the nuclearpowered aircraft carrier USS John C Stennis.

North Korea has denounced the exercises as “nuclear war moves” and threatened to respond with an all-out offensive.

The North denied South Korea’s previous accusation that it conducted cyber attacks against the South’s nuclear operator.

The United States accused North Korea of a cyber attack against Sony Pictures in 2014 that led to the studio cancelling the release of a comedy based on the fictional assassination of the country’s leader, Kim Jong Un. North Korea denied the accusation. (rtr)

KINSHASA - Kevin Lusongo has been on the streets since he was 11. He sleeps on a piece of cardboard in an unlit parking lot in a poor neighbourhood of Kinshasa, behind trucks he hopes can shield him from view.

Some nights he’s unlucky. Recently police came looking for a stolen handbag and beat him up when they didn’t find it, said the boy, who’s now 14.

Then there are the older children.

“Often when you sleep, the others come and burn your feet with (flaming) plastic bags,” he said. “The oldest will see you and take your money. If you complain, they beat you severely.”

Kevin has the gaunt frame of a boy unused to nutritious meals since he was turned out by his family. He works odd jobs, begs and picks through trash to survive.

He is one of 25,000 street children in Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital, a number that has nearly doubled in a decade, according to 2014 figures from the U.N. children’s agency, with thousands more in the country’s other cities.

Congo is Africa’s top producer of copper and a mining boom has fuelled annual economic growth of 8 percent for five years, one of the highest rates in the world, according to the International Monetary Fund.

But like many commodity-dependent African countries such as Angola and Nigeria, it has struggled to translate export-driven growth into broader social gains. It is still suffering the after-effects of a civil war in the east that ended in 2003 but left disease, displacement and inter-community violence in its wake.

Kinshasa to the west is groaning under one of the world’s fastestgrowing urban populations. Outside the well-heeled city centre, there is little sign of prosperity, with most of its 11 million people crammed into rundown neighbourhoods where rubbish is piled in alleyways.

None are more vulnerable than the street children, who are known as “shegues”.

Denis Mabwa, who works for REEJER, a coalition of groups assisting street children, said charities like his find homes for about 3,000 children each year, while around 6,000 new children move in the opposite direction.

“There has been a reconstruction of large infrastructure. There is a stabilisation of the currency,” said Jean-Pierre Godding, director of the Ndako Ya Biso centre that works to reunite street children with their families.

“But in the big working-class neighbourhoods, no investment has yet been made to improve the infrastructure,” said Godding, citing routine flooding and frequent power blackouts. “The popular neighbourhoods have really been neglected.” (rtr)

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A boy smokes cannabis as they play in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital Kinshasa, in this November 12, 2006 file photo.

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Field Museum’s Wari Ale the latest homage to ancient brews

SIOUX FALLS — Fourteen years ago, University of South Dakota anthropology professor Matthew Sayre unearthed pepper tree seed from the southern tip of Peru, unaware he’d stumbled upon a spent ingredient from a small 1,000year-old brewery.

That discovery evolved into a team from Chicago’s Field Museum team excavating a larger 500-gallon batch operation at Cerro Baul and the issuance of an ale inspired by the ingredients and brewing practices of the ancient Wari people.

In the recent craft-beer booms, brewers have turned to ancient civilizations’ obscure, millenniaold recipes using corn, rice, peppers and berries to set themselves apart from their colleagues’ beers as well as the vast majority of modern beer, which is brewed primarily with barley, hops and yeast.

“They started spreading out and trying other things, and it turned out that ancient people were doing the same thing,” said Patrick McGovern, an ancient

beverage expert at the University of Pennsylvania Museum in Philadelphia. “It takes us back to our roots.”

Wari Ale, the latest offering that taps ancient cultures for inspiration, carries the sourness of a corn mash with a late-breaking, delicate hint of sweetness from the pepper, said Patrick Ryan Williams, the museum’s associate curator and head of anthropology.

“It’s very refreshing, clear, summer ale type,” Williams said of the purple beer, which was made by Chicago’s Off Color Brewing. “Maybe like a shandy.”

Delaware-based Dogfish Head Craft Brewery was among the first to tap into ancient beers market in 1999 as part of col-

laboration with McGovern. The recipe for the beer-wine-mead hybrid brew Midas Touch — honey, barley malt, white muscat grapes and saffron — came from molecular evidence found in a Turkish tomb believed to have belonged to King Midas.

Inspirations for later Dogfish Head ancients, which McGovern will be chronicling in his upcoming book “Liquid Time Capsules,” include a 3,500-year-old Danish drinking vessel, 3,400-year-old pottery fragments found in Honduras and a 9,000-year-old tomb from Neolithic China.

A 2009 batch of the traditional Peruvian chicha replicated the ancient act of milling and moistening the corn in Dogfish brewers’ mouths before adding it into the boil. Attendees of the Great American Beer Festival couldn’t wait to try it, McGovern said.

“The line of people across the Denver Convention Center was unbelievable,” he said.

Carson Walker/University of South Dakota via AP

In this Feb. 26, 2016 photo provided by the University of South Dakota in Vermillion, USD assistant professor Matthew Sayre, left, and student Aaron Mayer, who are researching the Wari people of Peru, hold seeds from that part of the world that inspired a new craft beer called Wari.

Sayre’s seed discovery, which he quickly connected to berries growing nearby, came along with

Field Museum via AP

This photo provided by the Field Museum in Chicago shows a special issue beer made with Peruvian pepper berries and purple corn. Brewers in the recent craft-beer booms have turned to ancient civilizations’ obscure, millennia-old recipes to set themselves apart.

evidence of many smaller sites that were home probably breweries, he said, but the giant operation unearthed by Field Museum anthropologists was much larger than the ones he found.

“When it was brewed in large amounts, that was probably for big feast events,” Sayre said.

To map out a process for a modern take on chicha, Williams and a team of researchers brewed experimental batches in Peru using locally grown corn and pepper berries.

“We used reproduction ceramic vessels of the boiling jars and we did it over an open fire using natural woods and fuel,” Williams said. “We really wanted to understand how the brew was created.”

The batches gave the scientists a pretty good idea of how the brew should taste, and then the museum took its information to Off Color Brewing.

To be called a beer in the U.S., breweries must use barley and hops, so those ingredients were incorporated into the recipe.

“So it’s not an exact recreation,” Williams said. “It’s a chicha de molle-inspired ale.

Off Color co-founder David Bleitner brewed some small batches until settling on a method that would work for a large-scale replication, overcoming logistical challenges such as finding an importer to source the purple corn from Peru.

“We’ve never done anything like this before,” Bleitner said.

“This was probably the most work I’ve ever put into concepting and making a beer.” (ap)

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Preserving tradition of lukat geni To purify macrocosm and microcosm

SEMARAPURA - Residents of Satria Kawan Palace at Paksebali village, Dawan implemented lukat geni tradition at catus pata (central intersection) of Paksebali village on new moon of the ninth month in Balinese calendar, Tuesday (Mar. 8). The tradition having been implemented through generations poses the purification of macrocosm and microcosm. The lukat geni followed by dozens of youth is carried out every night of the Pengerupukan to welcome the Caka New Year. Lukat Geni is interpreted as spiritual purification and the balance the universe by means of fire. The fire used is derived from a bundle of burned dried palm leaves.

Lukat geni tradition is started with a self-purification at sacred spring and performing joint worship at family temple.

Accompanied by baleganjur gamelan music and 33 torches, the participants of lukat geni headed for central intersection to start the procession. Here, dozens of youths taking part in the tradition of lukat geni hit their respective opponents in turns by means of fire set in palm leaves. No revenge is seen among the participants.

According to senior figure of Satria Kawan Palace, A.A. Gde Agung Rimawan, the lukat geni is a tradition having existed at Satria Kawan Palace since long time ago. This tradition is held every year to welcome the Caka New Year.

It poses a form of purification of macrocosm and microcosm.

“Hopefully, with this lukat geni we can be bestowed with safety, both for ourselves and the surrounding environment,” said Rimawan.

He explained the lukat geni tradition uses fire of 36 pieces of dried palm leaves tied together or summed into nine (9) located in the nine points of the compass or Dewata Nawa Sanga. In addition, the use of 33 torches represents the strength of 33 gods abiding in five places, namely the Eastern or White (5), South or Red (9), West or Yellow (7), North or Black (4) and Central or multicolor (8). “These signify the invocation of protection or safety for ritual processions in progress,” he explained.

A participant of the lukat geni procession, A.A. Gde Agung Aris Pratama, stated that he participated in the lukat geni to preserve the tradition and cultural heritage from their ancestors. “Through this lukat geni tradition, we muffled the anger inside,” said a teenager that regularly participates in this annual tradition.

Another participant, A.A. Gde Bagus Alit Putra, claimed to be proud to help preserve this tradition. It is the first time for him to participate in the tradition and claimed not to feel hot when being hit by his opponent using a fire of palm leaves.

“There is no feeling of heat. It is meant to preserve the traditions and cultural heritages,” he said. (dwa)

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Lukat Geni is interpreted as spiritual purification and the balance the universe by means of fire. The fire used is derived from a bundle of burned dried palm leaves.

Haunted by terrorism issues

Two cruise ships cancel to stop in Bali

DENPASAR — Travel advisory for Indonesia issued by the Government of Australia and the United Kingdom (UK) is bad for Bali. Two cruise ships eventually cancelled to stop at the Island of the Gods.

Surely this incident will have bad implications for tourism unless the government immediately issues official statement related to security, especially from terrorism act.

As information compiled by Bali Post, both cruise ships are the Celebrity Solstice and Radiance of the Seas (Royal Caribbean International) having sent letter to Benoa Harbor authority respectively on

March 6 and March 10. In essence, the letter cancelled the schedule to dock in Bali because there is a travel advisory from the government of Australia and the UK. Indonesia is said to be a country becoming the target of terrorist attacks.

Captain Trym Selvag signing the letter of the Royal Caribbean International said there is indication if the potential incidents in Bali have increased. His company realized that many guests and crew members will feel disappointed because they cannot stop in Bali. “However, we cannot bring our guests and crews to the harbor where we cannot guar-

antee their safety. We are forced to take this decision for the safety of our guests and crews,” he wrote.

A member of Commission II of Bali House of Representatives, A.A. Ngurah Adhi Ardhana, said these conditions will endanger Bali tourism in the future. Moreover, the reason for cancellation is without confirmation or request for security guarantees to the authorities in Bali.

Bali tourism will become vulnerable and very easily drop.

“Both cruise ships respectively hold 2,800 and 2,000 passengers.

When calculated modestly, it is detrimental to the community to

be visited approximately IDR 20 billion and will continue to grow,” he said last Saturday. Therefore, said Adhi, it is crucial for governor and Bali police chief to immediately issue a statement guaranteeing the security of Bali.

A similar opinion was expressed by the Head of Commission I of the Bali House of Representatives, Ketut Tama Tenaya. If necessary, President Joko Widodo must also state that Indonesia, especially Bali, is conducive and safe.

“We’re worried if terrorist threat really exists or it’s just a matter of business competition.

We may suspect if it is a business competition. On that account, the governor representing the executive and Bali police chief in charge of security in Bali have to make an official counter so that such an issue will not continue,” he said.

Tama asserted that Bali tourism should not go bankrupt because it is successively attacked by the issue of terrorism. Moreover, this issue arises from other countries that do not necessarily know exactly about the security conditions in Bali in particular and Indonesia in general. (kmb32)

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From page 1 “ITDC or the STDC in Singapore should cooperate with all district/municipal governments to make that tourist destinations more professional, have higher-value and increase levies to allow these to add to Bali’s economy” he explained adding that accommodations are not the only source of tourism income. “Many people forget that the main source of income for tourism comes from the tariffs from high quality destinations” said Adhi. The key to to creating a quality destination, he explained, lies in good solid infrastructure and good promotion that - he added, needs to be carried out by the Provincial Government not just the managing body of the site. Unfortunately, there are virtually no funds budgeted for this.

“By increasing levies, management

boards will eventually be able to generate enough income to run and promote their destinations without the help of the government” he added.

Adhi went on to say that in order for Bali to reach its targeted 40 percent increase in the number of tourists who visit the island by 2019, such efforts must aggressively undertaken. A simple example, he said, is the Kertagosa attraction in Klungkung that needs to become more professional. Presently many tourists are reluctant to go there because they don’t know about parking, toilets or places to eat nearby.

“Kertagosa is one of the more difficult cases but if it is well managed though cooperation with the ITDC, there could be enough changes that would warrant raising the entrance fee from IDR 5,000 to IDR 50,000” he said.

In contrast to this PDI-P politi-

cian, Governor of Bali, Made Mang- not be able to accommodate our 10 trillion, they are: Lake Toba, ku Pastika, has previously said when labor” he explained.

Borobudur, Mandalika, Labuan the 10 ‘new Balis’ are realized, Bali The ten tourist destinations that Bajo, Bromo-Tengger-Semeru, will be number eleven. According to the central government will be Seribu Islands, Wakatobi, Tanjung the Governor, Bali needs to create developing -not half- heartedly, Lesung, Morotai and Tanjung Kenew destinations on order to meet will each be disbursed some IDR layang. (kmb32) this challenge. He has also quoted the contentious data that states that 60 percent of tourist prefer ‘artificial tourism’ whereas Bali relies on cultural and natural tourism.

“It (cultural and natural tourism—Ed) is the problem if we look at market trends. Probably we will lose visitors” said Governor Pastika who added that creating new destinations would also help to prevent the exodus of local labour given that Balinses typically do not want to leave the island. .

“So, do not let people accuse me of driving them to move out of Bali and then asking outsiders to come to Bali, this is not my intention. Inevitably, our monotonous IBP/net destinations as they are today will Lake Toba, one of the tourism destination in Indonesia

Many hectares of land eroded by abrasion

Thousands gather to voice their opposition to reclamation

GIANYAR— Starting the Caka New Year 1938 (Balinese New Year), on Thursday (March 10) thousands of villagers from Lebih Customary Village rallied together to protest against the Benoa Bay reclamation plan, by voicing their desire to have Presidential Regulation N0.51/2014 -that opened the way for reclamation, repealed.

Lebih Village’s official declaration of their opposition to the reclamation of Benoa Bay began with a group prayer at the village’s Dalem Temple at around 14:30. After the group prayer session, thousands of protesters -mostly young people, headed to Lebih Beten Kelod’s hamlet hall to gather their signs and other props that

were created to voice their opposition to the reclamation project.

Accompanied by gamelan music, the people then walked southward crossing Jalan Bypass I.B Mantra to Lebih Beach where they stood on the breakwater holding their banners and chanting slogans of protest against the Benao Bay reclamation plan.

Chief of Lebih customary village, I Wayan Wisma, joined the protest and in his speech to the crowd, spoke of the many hectares of land owned by residents of Lebih Village, that have already been swept away by abrasion.

This abrasion he pointed out became severe after the reclamation that was undertaken to create Sarangan Island.

“Based on the subak chief’s records, in 1960, Lebih Customary Village spread over some 86 hectares. After the reclamation of Serangan Island in 1994, massive abrasion started occurring and today there only remains 16 hectares of our village” he said.

The people of allied together to protest against the Benoa Bay reclamation plan.

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Given such a history, the people of Lebih are worried that if the plan to reclaim 700 hectares in Benoa Bay goes through, that Lebih Village will be entirely submerged into the ocean.

“So, through this action of protest, we are inviting the government to hear our screams for help. Mr. Governor, please join our struggle to avoid a dire fate for this and other coastal villages and Mr. President, please repeal Presidential Regulation N0.

51/2014” cried Wisma.

The Chief of Lebih Village added that if the government really wants to develop tourism, it must be done in other districts and more even spread throughout the island. Denpasar and Badung are already overcrowded with tourist accommodations. “Bali has eight districts and one municipality.

But tourism seems to only be developed in Badung and Denpasar. To my knowledge, the districts of Bangli, Karangasem, Buleleng and Jembrana remain untouched by tourism development and are instead spoon fed special financial assistance that does little to actually help them” he said.

Coordinator ForBALI, Wayan ‘Gendo’ Suardana, who participated in the protest said that there was no

option for the government apart from stopping the Benoa Bay reclamation plan and that he hopes President Jokowi will immediately revoke Presidential Regulation No. 51/2014.

“As of today there are 26 customary villages in Bali that have officially expressed their opposition or rejection of the plan: 13 villages in the district of Badung , 8 in Denpasar, 2 in Gianyar (Lebih and Ketewel) and 3villages in Karangasem” he explained.

Gendo went on to say that the government needs to hear this expression of opposition to the reclamation plan and understand that it is a warning that such government policies run contrary to the will of the people.

Moreover, Lebih customary village residents and others in Bali have been traumatized by the abrasion caused by the reclamation of Serangan Island in 1994. “Today, they see for themselves how abrasion continues to eat away at coastal areas. Lebih customary village does not want to become like a donkey. Therefore, this way of seeing things needs to be appreciated as the voice of the people - a pure voice that cannot be deviated or ignored” he emphasized. (kmb35)

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Rip Curl Hosts ”King of Benoa” International Wakeboarding Competition at Bali Wake Park!

The new Bali Wake Park at Benoa Harbor will be the site of Rip Curl’s King of Benoa International Wakeboarding Competition to take place on March 26th & 27th 2016. This will be the very first International wakeboarding competition in Bali sponsored by RIPCURL and will boast 2 Professional and 4 Amateur categories.

This first-of-its-kind two-day celebration of high performance board riding will offer action from Professional Wakeboard, Professional Wake Skate, Amateur Men’s Wakeboard, Amateur Women Wakeboard, Amateur Groms as well as Amateur Wakeskate cat-

egories.

“Rip Curl has always been proud to support wakeboarding” Says Rip Curl Marketing Manager James Hendy, “and with the best Wakeboarding Park in Indonesia right in our own backyard, this was a natural fit. We are really looking forward to witnessing cutting edge performances from all the six divisions”.

“Within this international field of athletes there are sure to be some rising stars from Indonesia challenging the best Wakeboarders in the world” Hendy goes on to say, “We are hoping this event will give rise to a whole new generation

of healthy, motivated Indonesian athletes that want to be part of the Ocean and water sports lifestyle we all love”.

Wakeboarding is one of the fastest growing sports in South East Asia and with the advent of specially designed wakeboarding parks like Bali Wake Park, with sophisticated tow lines instead of engine driven boats, this sport is now safer, more affordable and accessible to riders of all ages and skill levels. Moreover there is no pollution from the electric motors driving the system thus making Bali Wake Park environmentally friendly as well.

“Bali Wake Park is stoked to collaborate with Rip Curl on this event” says Managing Director of BWP, Kimo Rusna. “Since we opened in April of 2015, we have seen a significant number of new riders taking up this fun and healthy sport, some of which would also be taking part in this competition. Watching professional riders from all over the world compete will definitely open up these riders perspective of what can be done on a wakeboard and we foresee a bright future for wakeboarding in this country.

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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,

26th- 27th at the newly built Bali Wake Park at Benoa Harbor. This large, modern facility offers all the creature comforts to fans and spectators with a full service restaurant, multiple viewing platforms and a fully stocked Rip Curl Pro Shop catering for all rider abilities and needs.

Come be a part of what is sure to be a spectacular two days of high flying action at the Rip Curl King of Benoa International Wakeboarding event at the Bali Wake Park, Benoa Harbor!

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tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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Hulk Hogan’s side rests after slamming Gawker in sex tape lawsuit

ST. PETERSBURG - Attorneys for wrestling celebrity Hulk Hogan rested their $100 million privacy invasion case against the Gawker news outlet on Friday, wrapping up a lively week of testimony in a Florida lawsuit examining the posting of a sex tape in modern media.

Next week, Gawker will call its witnesses, which could include website founder Nick Denton and the editor behind the post, as the civil trial continues in St. Petersburg, Florida, near the wrestler’s home. It also may show the tape to the jury.

Gawker’s one-minute, 41-second edited excerpt shows Hogan having consensual sex with the wife of his then best friend, radio “shock jock” personality Bubba the Love Sponge.

The 62-year-old former professional wrestler, whose legal name is Terry Bollea, told jurors he still is suffering from the humiliation of the sex tape’s posting in 2012.

Hogan said he did not know the

encounter was being recorded when it took place five years earlier in Bubba’s home.

Hogan’s side on Friday highlighted the video’s viral spread, with an expert witness tallying that it reached millions more than the 2.5 million who saw it on Gawker over six months.

Testimony this week ranged from journalism ethics and website analytics to Hogan’s public statements about his sex life, including the his penis size.

Hogan, one the wrestling world’s lead figures in the 1980s and ‘90s, emphasized a distinction he drew between his true personality and the bombastic persona he used professionally with “artistic liberty.”

The Hogan side presented examples this week designed to question Gawker’s approach to sexual content. In a taped video deposition, former editor A.J. Daulerio called celebrity sex tapes newsworthy unless involving a child. When pressed on an age, he drew the line at under four.

Gawker later called the age reference a “flip” response.

On Friday, attorneys for Hogan read some of Daulerio’s emails regarding a woman seeking the removal of a video showing her having sex in a public bathroom.

He wrote: “Blah, blah, blah.”

Hogan attorney David Houston called it “disgusting” that Gawker claimed speech protections under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

“This is a case of pandering to the very basest of human curiosity,” he told Reuters, expecting a favorable verdict to demonstrate

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DENPASAR - Altough Bali has thousands of tourist destination, not all of them have been fully developed. These destinations are in fact Bali’s capital and defence against the competition of the 10 ‘new Balis” that the central government plans on developing in other parts of Indonesia. Therefor destinations that are already up and running need to be maximized while those that are still on their infancy need to be worked on.

“With attention to infrastructure, promotion and increased value, there are thousands of destinations in Bali that could yield tourism revenue” ” said the member of Commission II of the Bali House of Representatives, A.A. Ngurah Adhi Ardhana, in Denpasar, Thursday (Mar. 10).

Adhi said that the government does not need to create new tourist destinations but should instead establish management boards for each existing destination or alternately, the government could cooperate with companies that share of vision for maintaining the welfare of the people such as local or state owned companies like the ITDC.

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Terry Bollea, aka Hulk Hogan, testifies in court during his trial against Gawker Media, in St. Petersburg, Florida, in this file photo taken March 8, 2016. “there is still privacy in the modern world.”

Gawker could show the video next week. Circuit Court Judge

Pamela Campbell has ruled that only the jury may see it, and not others in the courtroom or watching online. (rtr) Local police stand beside the aircraft of English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, after it was damaged while on the ground when a steering pin evidently fell out, at the airport in Santiago, Chile, Saturday, March 12, 2016. Iron Maiden’s statement said the plane suffered a collision when it made a turn, injuring two workers on the ground. They were taken to a hospital for treatment.

Heavy metal group Iron Maiden’s plane damaged in Chile

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SANTIAGO — English heavy metal band Iron Maiden said Saturday that the group’s airplane was damaged in an accident in South America.

A statement on the group’s website says the accident occurred when the plane called Ed Force One was tethered to a tow truck in Santiago, Chile early Saturday to be taken for

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‘New Balis’ in Indonesia

Jennifer Garner explains how new faith film made her return to church IN new faith film ‘Miracles from Heaven’, which is based on a true story, actress Jennifer Garner plays Christy Beam, the mother of a young girl Annabel (Kylie Rogers) who is diagnosed with an incurable and painful disease.

Because of the illness, pressure on the young family was high as Annabel had to undergo numerous hospital appointments and procedures. (rtr)

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refueling before continuing over the Andes to Cordoba, Argentina.

A steering pin evidently fell out during the movement and left the aircraft without steering.

Iron Maiden’s statement said the plane suffered a collision when it made a turn, injuring two workers on the ground. They were taken to a hospital for treatment. The band

said initial reports show that the plane’s engines suffered major damage and will need repairs or even replacement.

The band said it’s making other arrangements to get its members and equipment to Cordoba, where the next concert is scheduled. It called its show in Chile was a success. (ap)

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Indonesia begins efforts to tackle forest fires

Jakarta -Authorities in western Indonesia began efforts to fight forest fires, as the dry season begins to set in.

Last week, the Sumatran province declared a state of emergency over fires spreading rapidly because of strong winds. In just two months, more than 200 hectares of forests there have been razed, Channel

News Asia reported.

More than 700 personnel from the military, police and forestry ministry have been deployed to put out the fires in Riau.

For the first time, coordinated joint patrols are also being deployed, not only to detect fires but also to educate the population on fire prevention.

On Monday, the Riau provincial

government declared its highest level of disaster readiness since fires were detected in at least three districts two months ago.

The environment and forestry ministry said 10 people have so far been questioned for allegedly starting the fires.

Riau was one of the provinces severely affected by forest fires last year, made worse by the prolonged

dry season caused by the El Nino weather pattern.

It was considered to be one of the worst environmental disasters in recent years, costing the Indonesian government an estimated $16 billion.

The haze from the fires choked its neighbours Singapore and Malaysia - and several parts of Thailand -- causing schools, offices and

airports to shut down for several days.(ant) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.