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Ed Sheeran and Dua Lipa dominate Brit Award nominations LONDON - Ed Sheeran, Dua Lipa, Liam Payne and Stormzy are among the nominees for this year’s Brit Awards, Britain’s most prestigious pop music prizes.

Sheeran is in the running in four categories - British male solo artist, best video and single for “Shape of You”, and best album.

Singer Dua Lipa received the most nominations. Her single “New Rules” was a break out hit last year and she is nominated in five categories including best album, best female artist and best single.

And former One Direction star Payne was nominated for best single and video for “Strip That Down”, which has now been a hit in Britain, Australia and United States. “The song’s done extremely

well, I am extremely happy with the success so far... We just reached a billion streams. I have never written down that number, I have never had the need,” Payne said backstage at an event to announce the nominees in London.

“It’s amazing. You look at it and you’re like, wow, it’s one-sixth of the world’s population, incredible.”

Dua Lipa will compete for best female artist against the likes of Jessie Ware and 2015 winner Paloma Faith.

East London rapper J Hus and platinum-selling songwriter Rag’n’Bone Man have three nominations apiece, including for best album, while Stormzy’s “Gang Signs and Prayer” is also nominated. (rtr)

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Plane skids off Turkish runway on Black Sea coast, passengers unhurt

ISTANBUL - A Pegasus Airlines flight skidded off the runway of a Turkish coastal airport and ended up halfway down a steep slope into the Black Sea, but no passengers or crew were hurt, Turkish media reported on Sunday.

The incident happened on Saturday night at Trabzon airport in northeast Turkey. Pictures from the site showed the plane’s nose close to the water’s edge.

Pegasus Airlines said in a statement that the Boeing 737-800

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aircraft, flying from Ankara to Trabzon, “had a runway excursion incident” as it landed but the 162 passengers, two pilots and four cabin crew were unhurt.

The Pegasus Airline’s Boeing 737 was flying from the Turkish

capital Ankara to Trabzon Airport.

It is not yet known what caused the plane to skid off on to the cliff face. The local governor, Yucel Yavuz, said an investigation had been launched into the incident -

which Pegasus Airlines described in a statement as a “runway excursion”.

The airport, situated in the Turkish province of the same name, was closed for several hours afterwards but has since reopened.

Social media users reacted to the footage of the crash, with some saying it was “incredible it stopped where it did”. “How lucky are

those passengers!” wrote one person on Twitter. (rtr) 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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DiCaprio to star in Charles Manson-era Tarantino movie

LOS ANGELES - Leonardo DiCaprio will star in a movie set around the Charles Manson murders, Hollywood entertainment publications reported on Friday, but he will not play the role of the American cult leader.

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DiCaprio will instead take the part of an aging, out-of-work actor in the as-yet untitled movie being produced and directed by Oscarwinner Quentin Tarantino, Variety and Deadline.com said.

Plot details have not been released but Tarantino said in November that it was not a biographical movie but a story set during the summer of 1969, when a string of gruesome killings in Southern California were carried out by Manson’s followers.

Manson, one of the 20th century’s most notorious criminals, died in November at the age of 83. He had been serving a life sentence for ordering the murders of nine people including actress Sharon Tate.

The Sony Pictures movie is to be released on Aug. 9, 2019, exactly 50 years after Tate and four friends were stabbed or shot dead.

Deadline and Variety said that Australian actress Margot Robbie has been asked to play Sharon

Tate. Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Al Pacino are also rumored to be interested, or are being sought, for the movie.

Sony Pictures, part of Sony Corp, did not return a request for comment on the casting.

The movie will be the first Tarantino film to be released without the Weinstein Company following allegations by more than 70 women of sexual misconduct against its former chief executive Harvey Weinstein. (rtr)

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After radius of disater-prone area reduced

Head of Information and Public Relations of the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB), Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, said that as of Friday (Jan. 12), there were still 51,914 evacuees spread over some 232 evacuation posts. The phreatic eruption on Thursday did not pose a threat to flight safety and Ngruah Rai Airport is still operating as usual. Volcanic ash from the eruption of Mount Agung did not reach the City of Denpasar.

There was some volcanic ashfall in area to the north and north east of Mount Agung. The distribution of ash fall was only very close to Mount Agung as the ash burst only reached 2, 500 kilometers above the great mountain. The weather that day was cloudy and rainy around most of the mountain. According to information from Pasebaya, there awas thin volcanic ash-fall in Tulamben, Rubaya and Dukuh Kubu. People’s activities were not interrupted and there was no panic in these communities.

People are nonetheless encouraged to remain calm.

Mount Agung is still experiencing volcanic activity and the alert level for the mountain remains at “warning”. It is still possible that the volcano will erupt explosively.

The public is being urged to continue to comply with the government’s recommendation that no activities take place within a radius of 6 kilometers from the peak of the mountain. “Nobody should climb the mountain and certainly not be anywhere near the crater because it is still dangerous. The area beyond 6 kilometers of the crater is safe and normal activities are taking place”, said Sutopo Purwo Nugroho.

PVMBG in its official release on Friday (Jan. 12) stated that the maximum amplitude of the latest eruption was recorded as 27 mm (over scale) with a duration of 130 seconds. In addition to the area within the direct vicinity of the peak, volcanic ashes also spread northward and northeastward following the wind. In line with the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), in an effort to improve safety, the Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) issued a code orange Volcano Observatory Notice for Aviation (VONA. If the height of the eruption column is more than 6,000 meters above sea level, the a code red will be issued which means that pilots should avoid the area around Mount Agung.

Mount Agung which stands at a height of 3,142 meters has showed signs of volcanic activity since since September 2017 and continues to show sign of varying degrees of activity. After a series of some 27,000 small earthquakes known as tremors, the volcano first erupted on November 21, 2017. The most intense eruptions to date occurred on November 27-28, 2017 when the height of the eruption column of ash reaches about 4,000 meters above the peak of Mount Agung or more than 7,000 meters above sea level. (kmb31)

Refugees started to come home after radius of disater-prone area reduced.

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“Balinese Living Arts”

21,000 evacuees return home

AMLAPURA - A week after the the radius of the disaster-prone area of Mount Agung was reduced to 6 km from the summit, there remain some 53, 000 people living in evacuation posts while another 21,000 have returned to their home on the lower slopes of Mount Agung.

Although there was another small eruption on Thursday Afternoon (Jan 11), apparently none of the evacuees that had returned home panicked or returned to the evacuation posts.

It would appear that they have grown accustomed to Mount Agung having small eruptions at any time.

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Beliefs, Rituals and Spirits behind day to day life in Bali The meeting held at Tanah Ampo Command Post.

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Evaluation of taskforce commander

Rice stocks run out, relying on supply from Klungkung

AMLAPURA - After a the most recent small eruption of Mount Agung, commander of the Mount Agung eruption task-force, Benny Rahadian, intensified the disaster evaluation meeting at Tanah Ampo Command Post, Manggis, Karangasem, on Friday (Jan. 12).

The coordinators of each field were asked to report the latest conditions in the filed in order to optimize the handling of evacuees. One urgent matter is the rice stocks for the evacuees that have been running out since January 5. Currently they are relying on Klungkung for their supply of rice In the evaluation meeting it was revealed that rice stocks were temporarily being borrowed from the Klungkung Logisitcs Agency (Bulog) while waiting for the rice reserves from the central Bulog to be dropped off. The funds for rice stocks accounted for in the main regional budget ( APBD) 2018 are still being processed. Currently the need for rice can still be fulfilled, however there is fear that this might not be the case for long.

The Public Works and Housing (PUPR) Agency conveyed that several evacuees posts are also facing a decrease in the amount of water being discharged. Also the irrigation channels in Tangkup, Selat and Bebandem that were damaged by the eruption will be fixed this year.

Clean water springs in the 6 km radius disaster-prone area that were affected by the eruption will also be mapped. Municipal Waterworks (PDAM) pipelines within the 6 km radius that have been damaged will

also be discussed further with the PDAM. In terms of livestock, it was revealed that there are currently 3, 200 head of livestocks spread across evacuation posts in five subdistricts. Feed for the livestock is no longer an issue as a lot of feed is being provided and livestock owners are being proactive in looking for feed to keep their cows healthy.

Since the radius of the disasterprone area was reduced from 8 km to 6 km, there are now 18 elementary schools, 2 junior high schools in 5 subdistricts located between 8 and 6 kilometers of the crater of Mount Agung. Teachers have told their students that if there is a large eruption the kentongan (bamboo wooden split gate) will be sounded.

Students are expected not to panic if there is really a large eruption. “ Schools located within the radius of 6 km are certainly closed”, said the Taskforce commander In response to the reduction of the radius of the disaster-prone area, Head of the Karangasem Education Agency, Gusti Ngurah Kartika, has asked teachers from schools within the 6 kilometer radius to temporarily teach in the evacuation posts.

The Taskforce commander also asked that all people in charge of different areas continue to work hard as the volcanic activity of Mount Agung is still fluctuating. If conditions remain like this until March, each evacuation post needs to be ready to facilitate evacuees in carrying out the Hindu holiday of abstinence known as Nyepi. (kmb31)

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Qin Shi Huang Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum BEIJING - A remarkable sight appeared in 1974, near the ancient capital of Xi’an. Some farmers happened to dig up what turned out to be a large-scale pit with terracotta soldiers and horses, belonging to the Emperor Qin Shi Huang, or the Founding Emperor of the Qin. After 2,200 years, the Emperor’s tremendous army stood as though living again before people’s eyes.

The figures that the farmers found were around the size of real people. The pit was in Shaanxi Province, Lintong County, Jiangzhai xichang Village. It was around three Chinese li, or roughly one mile, from the east side of the Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s tomb mound. The Chinese Cultural Relics Administrative Department immediately organized its forces and carried out an investigation. After further excavation they actually found that the area of the discovery was a great deal larger and that inside this area were buried some 6,000 terracotta figures of horses

and soldiers. After this, archaeologists discovered a second and third pit of horses and soldiers: the first discovery was called #1 pit, nearby in test excavations they discovered pits #2 and #3. Linked together, the three pits covered an area of 20,000 square meters and included around 8,000 figures.

To bury an entire army of individual soldiers under the ground was unheard of in the world. This ancient phenomenon gave evidence to the world of the Chinese people’s sophistication and rich cultural heritage. It is no wonder that the former French Premier expressed amazement when he saw it, ‘The Qin terracotta pit is one of the marvels of the world. To go to Egypt and not see the pyramids is not really going to Egypt; to go to China and not see this sight is not really going to China.’

In order to better protect this historical treasure house, a building was put over the #1 pit which has a bow-shaped steel framework,

to form a vast exhibition hall. The building is 230 meters long, 72 meters wide, and 22 meters high. It can hold two football fields inside.

The Qin Shi Huang Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum was officially inaugurated and opened to the public in 1979.

Standing inside the hall over #1 pit, people can see over 1,000 of the horses and soldiers that have been excavated and cleaned up; the rest of the 5,000 are in the process of being cleaned, one by one. The army is arrayed in a rectangular formation, all facing east. In front are three rows each with 210 warriors making up the front ranks, after them are marching soldiers and horses drawing war chariots, making up the main body of this army. The two sides of the army and the rear each have a line of warriors, divided to face south, north, west - this was perhaps to maintain a contingent for the sides and the rear of the hall, to guard against rear attack.

The terracotta statues, horses and people, are roughly the same size as real horses and people, the proportions are extremely accurate. This reflects the high level of sculptural arts at the time of the Qin dynasty. From the placement, the hair and clothing styles and weaponry of the statues, one can generally understand their rank and position. Some wear tunics, some carry shields, some have their hair tied in a bun, some wear footwear while others do not, some have armor breastplates, some have fishscale armour. Soldiers with relatively long beards are placed towards the rear, and one sees at a glance that they are seasoned older generals. In addition to foot soldiers there are also some cavalry members leading horses or driving chariots. Some of the soldiers are kneeling, ready to shoot their arrows: each has a special posture according to his duties.

In terms of finer features, the statues are remarkably lifelike. The

head and facial expression of each soldier is different, so that clearly each was the work of a sculptor and they were not produced from a mold. Through fine detail on the eyebrows, face, mouth and nose, the internal character and rich expressions of each soldier are expressed. Some of the statues were clearly northwest minority peoples, which also shows the origins of the Qin-dynasty soldiers.

The cavalry and war chariots had an extremely important place in ancient armies. Those examples excavated from the pit included steeds that were vigorous and fat.

Their ears were erect, their eyes wide and mouths open, they were generally 1.5 high, with smallish heads and relatively short legs.

Some people say that these horses seem to resemble the Hequ Horses found in Gansu today or the Hetian Horses found in Xinjiang, which are excellent racehorses, good at climbing slopes, and also are excellent warhorses with great strength. (net)

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Charm of giant butterfly draws tourists

GIANYAR — The charm of giant barong butterfly of Sukawati attracts foreign tourists to visit Kemenuh village. The beautifully colored large wing span of these rare buttterflies have made The Kemenuh Butterfly Park the iconic tourist attraction of Kemenuh village.

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The district of Badung has reduced the number of homes that will be part of the home refurbishment program in 2018 (RTS), from 525 to just 150 homes.

Badung refurbishes 150 homes in 2018

MANGUPURA — The district of Badung has reduced the number of homes that will be part of the home refurbishment program in 2018 (RTS), from 525 to just 150 homes.

Head of the Badung Housing and Settlement Agency, AAN Bayu Kumara Putra, explained that a total of 150 homes have already been refurbished with a total budget of IDR 8.2 billion. “We will allocate funds for the remaiing 717 homes in the program next year”, said AAN Kumara when contacted on Wednesday (Jan. 10).

AAN Kumara added that he hopes that the home refurbishment program can be completed no later than 2019. “The home refurbishment for 2017 is completed. A total of 625 target households have been selected”, he said.

If the district of Badung’s financial condition is better this coming year, then the budget for the home refurbishment program may be increased, so that less people will need the program in 2019.

The number of targeted households that were verified in 2017 based on proposals from village authorities amounted to 3,815 households in Badung. They consist of 841 households targeted for total renovations with funding of IDR 55 million, 794 households for partial renovations with funding of IDR 30 million and light improvements to some 1,190 targeted homes with a funding of IDR 15 million.

Habitable home assistance was accorded to 625 homes in 2017 with grants of IDR 55 million each

while the rest will be proposed in the Regional Budget 2018 and Regional Budget 2019. Social assistance funds for home refurbishment is transferred directly to the accounts of beneficiaries according to the decree of determination issued by the regent of Badung. Of the 625 beneficiaries of habitable homes, Petang subdistrict receives aid allocation of 111 RTS, Abiansemal (264), Mengwi (244), North Kuta (3) and South Kuta (3) originating from 45 villages in Badung.

Deputy Regent of Badung, Ketut Suiasa, previously explained that a healthy house consists of 2 bedrooms, 1 living room and 1 bathroom or toilet. This program is expected to be accounted properly and correctly, including reporting that must include receipts from the purchase of materials.

“Hopefully, village headmen can monitor and oversee the use of the funds provided to those in need to ensure that they are properly utilized to improve people’s welfare”, he added.

Suiasa further explained that the habitable house program is part of the District of Badung’s ongoing efforts to improve the welfare of the community – in this case those 3,300 houses targeted for improvement. Gradually they will all have improvement made to their facilities and infrastructure. “This assistance is meant to lift people out of poverty and encourage people to improve their lives by being pro-active, diligent and hard working”, he concluded. (kmb27)

Kemenuh Butterfly Park also serves as a conservation area and as local tour guide Gusdek explained this butterfly is considered a rare sight as they only live for 5 days. There entire like cycle from caterpillar to cocoon to butterfly takes about 2 months.

The Kemenuh Butterfly Park consists of a main butterfly garden, an artificial waterfall decorated with a butterfly statue and artificial bridges, as well as a larvae breeding area and butterfly house. The larvae breeding area serves as a shelter for the larvae before they become caterpillars as is only planted with erythrina trees and protected by a giant net.

The larvae or worms hang out in the erythrina trees eating their leaves and will continue to do so until they become caterpillars and take refuge in their cocoons.

The cocoons are then moved to the cocoon house to

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protect them from the rain. “Many cocoons perish during the rainy season, so we made this house to protect them”, said Gusdek. The butterflies also seek refuge in the cocoon house.

Most of the visitors to the Kemnenuh Butterfly Park are foregin tourists. When Bali Post visited this tourist attraction, there were visibly more foreingers with only about 5- 10 percent local tourirts. Gusdek added that most visitors are from Europe while Chinese tourists tend to come in groups.

Hundreds of butterflies fill the park as as one enters the garden butterflies can be seen fluttering to and fro amongst the flowers. “This is like a giant butterfly house”, said an Arab tourist.

After passing through the main garden, visitors arrive at the artificial waterfall. From there a coral path then leads to the breeding area and then the cocoon breeding area where the trees are filled with larvae and coccoon. The area is not too vaste so it is easy to see all the groungs. Upon leaving the area, two large butterflies were seen perched on the edge of their former coocoon indicating that they had just hatched. (kmb42)

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Gardening in small spaces and hydroponics

DENPASAR — Lacking vast expanses of land is not reason to give up on gardening. There are always ways to plant in narrow spaces and besides this calming activity yields many benefits for both the environment and people as the more plants there are the more oxygen is produced which is certainly beneficial for humans. Gardening is also good for the health as it requires light exercise and calms the mind.

Owner of Bali Fruit Garden, Made Sumertana explained that although he never formally studied agriculture, he has mastered certain gardening techniques. His gardening business also helps him remain fit and agile. “Farming is a fun and healthy activity”, he added.

One of the agricultural systems that he promotes is container gardening or growing fruit plants in pots as this method does not require extensive lands. Fruit trees planted in pots can still yield fruit even when they are small, there is not need to wait for the tree to grow to full size. Using certain methods of urban gardening, an area of just 100 meters can yield as much as 2000 square meters of land planted the conventional way. “With container gardening techniques trees can be moved and arranged. Even dwarf sized plants can bear enough fruit to make money”,explained Sumertana.

Hydroponics and verticulture techniques can also be used in limited spaces. Hydroponics is a technique of farming that relies solely on water and certain additives instead of soil.

Chairman of the Bali Hydroponics Community, Handoyo, said that another advantage of hydroponics

system is that when the vegetable garden in the area Bedugul fail to harvest due to bad weather, hydroponically gorwn crops are not affected.

Hydroponically grown crops are not affected by climate with either, too much rain or drought, the plants still survive, he said. “When vegetable farmers in Bedugul face crop failure it causes vegetable prices to soar. This problem can be overcome with hydroponic farming”,said Handoyo. If hydroponic agriculture is developed in Bali he said, the scarcity caused by seasonal vegetable supplies will no longer occur.

Another advantage of hydroponic farming is that crops can be harvested 30 percent faster than conventionally grown crops. “There are many benefits to hydroponic gardening. For one it does not require large areas of land but also crops can be harvested in a shorted time with a more stable and higher level of quality”, said Handoyo.

Vegetable products grown hydroponically are organic and have a better texture, so they are easier to consume, he added.

Chairperson of WTI Bali, Tutik Kusuma Wardani, said

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Using certain methods of urban gardening, an area of just 100 meters can yield as much as 2000 square meters of land planted the conventional way. that hydroponics is one way to assure food security and is very appropriate for Bali, where there is less and less agricultural land available. “Urban hydroponic systems should be developed. So we are continuing to introduce

this method to the public, staring with individual households”, explained Wardani.

If enough households adopt this system, Wardani said that she is confident that the unstable price of chili can be overcome. “Hydro-

ponic farming is the answer to the problem of narrowing agricultural land and extreme weather that is problematic for the agricultural sector. Hydroponics should really be developed in Bali”, she concluded. (kmb42)

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For now, Australia’s plans for cannabis market dominance are more smoke than fire

SYDNEY - When Australia said this month it would allow exports of medicinal cannabis in a bid to dominate a global market set to be worth $55 billion by 2025, investors scrambled to buy shares in marijuana companies - pushing several of them, and the sector as a whole, to record highs.

But convoluted and restrictive licensing demands, substantial finance requirements and a guarded medical profession means even Australia’s largest marijuana companies are at least a year away from a commercial crop. And doubts linger about the prospects for smaller entities, belying the government’s ambitious plans to be the world’s leading exporter.

“There will be more cannabis used in Australia and overseas over the next 10, 20 and 50 years but it is not clear that any of the local market can capture that, let alone make money from it,” said Scott Phillips, director of research at investment company Motley Fool. “Look at the gold rush: sure, some made money, but the biggest winners were the sellers of the shovels.”

Australia’s medicinal cannabis sector, with 12 listed companies, produces a range of products that include chronic pain management and acne creams with extracts of marijuana to aid acne. The businesses acknowledge some barriers to growth but say they are primed to profit from a maturing market.

Australia already produces 50 percent of the world’s legal pop-

pies, which are processed into pharmaceutical opiates such as morphine and codeine. Last year, it expanded its legal drug market by legalising medicinal marijuana use, a move that spurred a wave of IPOs and backdoor listings on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX).

Contradicting the hype, however, only several hundred patients in Australia have so far been prescribed medical cannabis, data from the country’s Ministry for Health show, as local doctors remain wary of the benefits of marijuana.

The reluctance of doctors has curtailed the growth of Australia’s cannabis market. Australian law requires the seven companies licensed to grow medicinal cannabis to produce only enough to meet domestic demand.

But when the Australian government said it planned to allow medicinal cannabis exports - perhaps within months - the three largest companies, AusCann Group, Cann Group and Hydroponics Company immediately looked for ways to expand production.

Cann Group’s chief executive,

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Marijuana is seen for sale at Harborside, one of California’s largest and oldest dispensaries of medical marijuana, on the first day of legalized recreational marijuana sales in Oakland, California, U.S., January 1, 2018.

Peter Crock, said the company hopes to complete a new 16,000to 20,000-square-metre medicinal cannabis facility this year, while Hydroponics Company’s chief executive, David Radford, said a new production site to produce enough marijuana for 16,000 patients was

Lack of modern rice mills

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Since Bali has unique conditions, the rice sold in most markets is premium quality.

sia, Causa Iman Karana, Balinese people are not accustomed to eating medium to low-grade rice. “Since Bali has unique conditions, the rice sold in most markets is premium quality. Quite likely most of the rice being sold on the island is of premium quality”, she said.

However, there are still very few modern rice mills in Bali. Head of Bali Food, Horticulture and Plantation Agency, I.B. Wisnuardana, said that of more than 800 rice mills in Bali, only 5 percent of the are modern. “Most of the milling machines are remnants of the Dutch colonial era. A lot of the rice grains and thus broken in the process of milling. Bali is in need of modern rice mills”, said Wisnuardana.

Modern rice mills can also process a larger amount of rice at a time with a capacity for many tons a day. Modern rice mills also come with grain dryers. “With a dryer the rice grains retain their high quality.

Meanwhile currently small rice mills dry the rice in the sun, which is problematic in the dry season.

Also sometimes the rice gets mixed with dirt form the ground on which it is dried”, he explained.

Modern rice mills are also equipped with rice polishers that can produce white and fragrant rice. The Horticultural and Plantation Agency has therefor created a program to replace several old rice mills. They plan to replace 3-4 rice mills a year. (kmb42)

“95 percent” complete.

Even once the facilities are built, however, both companies might not be allowed to grow an exportable crop right away. Australia said it will only allow exports of processed or manufactured cannabis products such as oil extracts, which

require a separate manufacturing licence.

“Obtaining a licence is an exhaustive and complicated process,” Crock said. Cann Group hopes to have full regulatory approval by the time its new facility is ready at the end of 2018. (rtr)

People evacuated from Papua New Guinea island after volcano explodes

Medium–grade rice unappealing to Balinese market DENPASAR — Based on observations by the Bank Indonesia, since early November 2017, the price of medium-grade rice has been gradually rising in Denpasar and Singaraja, As of the second week of January 2018, the price of medium–grade rice had reached IDR 11,113 / kg in Denpasar, while in Singaraja slightly more at IDR 11,875.

Market operations conducted since October by the Logisitics Agency (Bulog) seem unable to prevent the price hikes. prices..

Through their market operations, the Bulog has distributed some 300 tons of low quality rice.

According to Chief of Bali Representative Office of Bank Indone-

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The remote island volcano of Kadovar spews ash into the sky in Papua New Guinea, January 6, 2018.

SYDNEY - About 1,500 people are being evacuated from an island off the northern coast of Papua New Guinea (PNG) after a nearby volcano erupted, the local Red Cross said on Sunday.

A volcano on the island of Kadovar, located about 24 km (15 miles) north of the Papuan mainland, began erupting on Jan. 5. That prompted the evacuation of 590 people on Kadovar to the nearby island of Blup Blup.

After venting ash for several days, the volcano exploded on Friday, blasting out glowing red rocks and sulphur dioxide, the Rabaul Volcanological Observatory said in a bulletin. The PNG government then decided to evacuate Blup Blup as well because of issues with supplying people on the island along with the danger from the eruption.

The evacuees are being moved to the mainland and the International Red

Cross is providing about 87,000 kina ($26,274) in funding to help them, said PNG Red Cross Secretary General Uvenama Rova by telephone from the capital of Port Moresby.

“The people there, as the volcano erupted, they rushed immediately to escape. So they are in immediate need of food, water, shelter and clothing as well,” he said.

In the latest bulletin issued on Sunday, the Observatory said a dome of lava on Kadover was visible in the sea at the base of thick white steam clouds that are rising to 600 metres (1,969 feet) above sea level.

Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop announced on twitter that the Australian Government was contributing A$25,000 ($19,775) worth of humanitarian supplies for those affected. (rtr)

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South Africa to target investment, graft under new ANC leader

EAST LONDON - South Africa wants to attract foreign investors to help it kick-start economic growth and will crack down on corruption, the new leader of the ruling African National Congress said on Saturday. Cyril Ramaphosa, who narrowly won the race to succeed President Jacob Zuma as ANC leader last month, also used a speech to mark 106 years since the founding of Africa’s oldest liberation movement to call for party unity after a bitter leadership contest.

South Africa’s economy has slowed to a near-standstill over Zuma’s two presidential terms, as allegations of influence-peddling in government and mismanagement of state-owned enterprises have dented consumer and business confidence. But Ramaphosa’s election win has injected a sense of optimism that the ANC, which has governed South Africa since the end of apartheid in 1994, could win back the trust of voters and investors disillusioned with Zuma’s rule.

Ramaphosa, 65, a former trade union leader and one of the country’s wealthiest businessmen, pledged during his campaign for ANC leader to address record unemployment and a sluggish economy.

“South Africa is open for investment,” he told tens of thousands of cheering ANC members in a stadium in the Eastern Cape province on Saturday. Through foreign investment “we can grow our economy, create jobs, end poverty,” he said. “We must have an economy that offers policy certainty and addresses areas that inhibit investment, growth as well as social inclusion.”

Ramaphosa reassured investors that the

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Peliatan Customary Village Holds Ngeredag Desa

Dollar hits three-year low vs euro; Wall St hits new highs NEW YORK - The U.S. dollar fell to a more than three-year low against the euro on Friday, extending recent losses on expectations European Central Bank policymakers are preparing to reduce stimulus, while U.S. stocks continued to rally and marked record closing highs. Optimism about fourth-quarter earnings boosted stocks.

Bank shares climbed following quarterly results from JPMorgan Chase & Co and Wells Fargo. A global stock index registered an eighth straight week of gains.

The euro’s rise weighed on the dollar index, which measures the greenback against six rival currencies. The index was down 1 percent, after slipping to a four-month low of 90.954. For the year, the dollar index was down 1.28 percent, its worst performance over a year’s first nine trading days since 2010, according to Reuters data. “The latest ECB comments were a bit on the hawkish side, so that’s giving more life to the euro,” said Minh Trang, senior currency trader at Silicon Valley Bank in Santa Clara, California.

Sterling rocketed to its highest level against the dollar since the Brexit vote to leave the European Union after a report that the Netherlands and Spain were open to a deal for Britain to remain as close as possible to the trading bloc. Sterling was last trading at $1.3731, up 0.03 percent.

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq both registered an eighth record closing high out of the first nine trading days of 2018, while the Dow boasted its sixth closing high of the year.Data showing robust U.S. retail sales drove investor optimism about economic growth, also boosting sentiment in the stock market.

“It seems like the economy is going OK, inflation is kind of nonexistent right now, wage growth is not an issue for most income statements, so what’s not to like here?” said Stephen Massocca, senior vice president at Wedbush Securities in San Francisco.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 228.46 points, or 0.89 percent, to 25,803.19, the S&P 500 gained 18.68 points, or 0.67 percent, to 2,786.24, and the Nasdaq Composite added 49.29 points, or 0.68 percent, to 7,261.06. The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index rose 0.23 percent, and MSCI’s gauge of stocks across the globe gained 0.66 percent.

A robust U.S. inflation report boosted Treasury yields. The two-year yield, sensitive to traders’ views on interest rates, rose to more than 2 percent for the first time since the financial crisis.

In commodities, oil prices rose for a sixth day after Russia’s oil minister said global crude supplies were “not balanced yet,” alleviating market concerns about a wind-down of the OPEC-led deal to reduce production. U.S crude oil rose 50 cents to settle at $64.30 a barrel, while Brent rose 61 cents to settle at $69.87. (rtr)

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role, mandate and independence of the central bank would be maintained while plans for free higher education for the poor would be implemented gradually so as to safeguard public finances.

The ANC needs to follow the example of liberation hero Nelson Mandela to unite the country and combat the racial inequalities that persist to this day, he added.

Ramaphosa faces a difficult balancing act as he must accommodate the competing interests of rival ANC factions vying for control of the party. One faction backed his bid for ANC leader, while another favoured Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, a former cabinet minister and ex-wife of Zuma.

ZUMA’S FUTURE There has been widespread speculation that Ramaphosa and his allies are lobbying ANC members to oust Zuma as head of state in the coming weeks, but he made no mention of Zuma’s future. Zuma, 75, sat alongside Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to hear Ramaphosa speak and was booed on several occasions during Saturday’s anniversary celebrations.

Zuma’s second presidential term doesn’t officially end until 2019 when national elections will be held, but he could be removed early through a motion of no confidence in parliament or at a meeting of the ANC’s national executive committee. Ramaphosa welcomed Zuma’s recent announcement that there would be an inquiry into influence-peddling in government and said it was a top priority for those responsible to be prosecuted.

Zuma has denied allegations that he has allowed his friends to influence the appointment of ministers. Ramaphosa said that corruption in the private sector was also an important issue.

ANC member Vanita Kok, from the Khoisan royal house, said Ramaphosa’s message struck a chord because “corruption is rife”. While markets have rallied since Ramaphosa’s victory, some analysts are sceptical he will deliver on his bold promises.

Gwen Ngwenya, an economist at South Africa’s Institute of Race Relations, said: “Ramaphosa is hamstrung by the need to ensure unity, and this will result in confused policymaking.” (rtr)

Thousands of people of Peliatan customary village, Ubud, attended the tradition of ngeredag ??desa on Saturday (Nov. 18). The tradition taking place late afternoon until midnight was preceded with a convoy of dozens of bala ngeredag ??with unique uniforms and hit bamboo split drum (kulkul) followed by dozens of sacred barongs surrounding the village with ritual at every border.

The ngeredag ??desa procession began to move towards the border of customary village, precisely in front of Bebek Tepi Sawah Restaurant around 18:00 Local Time.

Procession of the villagers wearing unique uniform surrounded the village while beating kulkul. They put on kukusan meselet siyut (bamboo steamer and stirrer) and cross sign made of whiting.

Tirta Sudamala Temple is located in Sedit hamlet, Bebalang, Bangli. This temple is already well

Various forms of sacred barong were also paraded in the series of this tradition and followed by thousands of citizens. The sacred barong includes the Rangda Mask, Garuda, Barong Landung, Barong Ket, Male Boar and Tiger Barong.

After walking around the village, this series of ceremony then paused at Dalem Puri Temple, Ubud. Until evening, the procession continued

towards the center of local village.

As a peak of the procession, a big ceremony called caru sambleh was held.

Chief of Peliatan customary village, I Ketut Sandi, explained that the annual ritual is called sasuhunan nguya nyatur desa or in the old term was named as ngeredag ??desa. This unique ceremony is meant to neutralize basic elements

of nature, thus giving peace and prosperity. Moreover, considering the full moon of the sixth month in the Balinese calendar is believed to be very sacred, where all sorts of diseases and pests are endemic.

It is indicated by the beginning of rain plus sea breezes blowing hard as well as flies and plant pests are breeding.

Meanwhile, the barong sanctified effigy included in this tradition as a symbol of the catastrophe repellent is invoked to constantly control the negative aura entering the village area. At the same time, residents were led to realize and

Tirta Sudamala Temple known by Balinese people who often visit the temple om the full moon, the new moon as well as ma-

jor holidays such as Banyupinaruh.

There are twelve water spouts that are used by worshippers to purify themselves with the temple water.

Tirta Sudamala Temple is close to the center of Bangli, and is easy to access. Since the temple is located in the bank of the Sangsang river, worshippers visiting the temple will often descend numerous staits to pruify themselves in Tirta Sudamala as well.

Hamlet chief of Sedit, Gusti Putu Kariyadnya, recently gave a brief explanation of the origins ot Tirta Sudamala Temple. An old inscription says that the establishment of the temple is related to the pilgrimage of Ida Pedanda Hender who, upon the request of the king of Bangli, went looking for a holy spring to take water from for a grandioase ceremony that was to take place. Ida Pedanda Hender

started his pilgrimage from the south and sat in a plcae overgrown by many sambng plants to meditate about where he should go to find the stpring. During his meditation, a huge pig appeared. The pig proceeded to loosen the soil and formed a mound resembling a hill, in an attempt to distract Ida Pedanda Hender from his meditation.

One of Ida Pendanda Hender’s companions however saw what the pig was doing and shooed the pig away. Because the mound abandoned by the huge pig resembled a hill, Ida Pedanda Hender then named the location Buung Hill. In his meditation Ida Pedanda Hender however did manage to find the location of the spring that he was looking for. He then resumed his pilgrimage northwards until he reached the location of the Sudamala spring.

understand the condition of each body. “So, people must also understand together the condition of natural environment so that balance is constantly well maintained,” he said.

On the other hand, the activity in the series of this tradition also triggered congestion on the road section to Ubud. Rows of vehicles have been seen since Saturday afternoon around 15:00 until night.

The procession taking place for several hours and utilized the entire road body made the traffic from the direction of Gianyar paralyzed. (kmb)

After Ida Pedanda Hender’s visit to the spring, the local people built a small shrine at the spring. The shrine was built near the current Tirta Sudamala water spouts. “Our senior figures once made a vow that Tirta Sudamala woould be able to repel pests attacking their crops, if they set up a temple near the location of Tirta Sudamala” explained hamlet chief Kariadnya.

In fact, thanks to the Tirta Sudamala, the local community finally managed to keep the monkeys from invading their paddy fields. As promised, the community then established a temple called Tirta Sudamala Temple. Until now, Tirta Sudamala Temple is supported by the community of Sedit hamle.

Temple celebrations for for Tirta Sudamala are normally held every six months (210 days) on Anggarkasih Prangbakat. (kmb)

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HONOLULU - An emergency alert was sent mistakenly on Saturday to Hawaii’s residents warning of an imminent ballistic missile attack when an employee at the state emergency management agency pushed the “wrong button,” Hawaii’s governor said.

State officials and the U.S. military’s Pacific Command confirmed that there was no actual threat to the state. But for more than a half hour, while the agency struggled to retract the warning, panicked Hawaiians scrambled to find shelter.

The mistaken alert stated: “EMERGENCY ALERT BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.” The alert, sent to mobile phones and aired on television and radio shortly after 8 a.m., was issued amid high international tensions over North Korea’s development of ballistic nuclear weapons.

Governor David Ige told a news conference he was “angry and disappointed” over the incident, apologized for it and said the state would take steps to ensure it nevers happen again.

“What happened today was totally unacceptable,”

the Democratic governor said.

Ige said the alert was sent during a employee shift change at the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, and that the state had no automated process to get out the word that it was a false alarm. Vern Miyagi, the agency’s administrator, called it “human error.”

“An employee pushed the wrong button,” Ige said.

Stacey Bow, 56, of Honolulu, said she received the emergency alert on her smart phone. She awakened her 16-year-old daughter with the news. “She became hysterical, crying, you know, just lost it,” she said.

Ige said the emergency management agency after the incident ordered a change in its procedures requiring two employees, not just one, to send out such an alert in the future. He said such shift changes occur three times a day every day of the year.

Miyagi, who said Hawaii would have only 12 to 13 minutes of warning in an actual attack, declined to say what action would be taken against the employee. Miyagi said the agency routinely tests its emergency alert system and that employee thought he was conducting a test, not realizing he had transmitted the warning with a two-step process on a computer screen until receiving it on his own cellphone minutes later. (rtr)

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An electronic sign reads “There is no threat” in Oahu, Hawaii, U.S., after a false emergency alert that said a ballistic missile was headed for Hawaii, in this January 13, 2018 photo obtained from social media.

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Palestinian security forces loyal to Hamas patrol near the border between Egypt and Gaza, in the southern Gaza Strip January 14, 2018.

Israel says destroyed Gaza attack tunnel under Israel, Egypt borders GAZA - The Israeli military said on Sunday it had destroyed a cross-border attack tunnel that ran from Gaza into Israel and Egypt, dug by the Hamas, the Islamist group that controls the Palestinian enclave.

Residents in Gaza said Israeli jets bombed an area east of the southern town of Rafah, by the Egyptian and Israeli borders, late on Saturday night. Israel confirmed the attack immediately after, but gave no details until Sunday.

There was no immediate comment from Hamas or Egypt, or any reports of casualties.

Tensions have risen since President Donald Trump reversed decades of U.S. policy on Dec. 6 by recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

Gaza militants have launched 18 cross-border rockets or mortar bombs, causing no fatalities or serious injuries in Israel, and 15 protesters and two gunmen have been killed by Israeli fire.

The attacks from Gaza, which Israel has blamed on groups not affiliated with Hamas, have drawn Israeli air strikes, usually on targets that have been evacuated.

“There are those who say the Israeli military attacks sand dunes - that is incorrect,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, addressing criticism from lawmakers who have called for a stronger armed response, told reporters after the tunnel was targeted.

Netanyahu cautioned Hamas that Israel “will respond with even greater force” if rocket strikes continue. Israel has said Hamas, as the dominant force in Gaza, bears overall responsibility for any attacks from the enclave.

But Yoav Galant, a member of Netanyahu’s security cabinet, said on Army Radio that Israel is “not looking for confrontation with Hamas”.

Nonetheless, he said Israel “could not abide by a situation in which Israelis are harmed by fire (from Gaza)”.

Colonel Jonathan Conricus, an Israeli military spokesman, described the target hit on Saturday as 1.5 km (one mile)-lone “terror tunnel” running the Kerem Shalom border crossing into Israel, and into Egypt.

“It could also have served to transfer terrorists from the Gaza Strip into Egypt in order to attack Israeli targets from Egypt,” he said.

Kerem Shalom, the main passage point for goods entering Gaza, was shut down on Saturday before the Israeli attack.

Underground tunnels are used to smuggle in all manner of commerical goods to Gaza, and to bring in weapons for militants from Hamas and other groups. They have also been used by Hamas to launch attacks inside Israel.

During the last Gaza war, in 2014, Hamas fighters used dozens of tunnels to blindside Israel’s superior forces.

The Israeli military said it has destroyed three tunnels in the past two months.

Israel has been constructing a sensor-equipped underground wall along the 60-km (36-mile) Gaza border, aiming to complete the $1.1 billion project by mid-2019. (rtr)

JAKARTA - Several hundred Indonesian Islamists held a protest rally outside Facebook’s headquarters in Jakarta on Friday, accusing the social media giant of discrimination for blocking some pages operated by hardline groups for allegedly spreading hate. The protesters, many dressed in white and including members of the hardline Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), marched from a mosque to Facebook’s offices in the capital of the world’s biggest Muslimmajority country.

“We want to remind Facebook to remain neutral and balanced,” Slamet Maarif, a spokesman for FPI, told reporters. “There are many accounts that spread hate about Islam, ulamas, that are allowed to operate. There are accounts that talk about Islamic humanitarian aid, those are blocked,” said Maarif, adding that the group still planned to use Facebook and intended to open new accounts.

Facebook said its policy was to delete content that violated its community standards. “Our community standards are made to prevent organisations or individuals that urge hate speech or violence against those who hold different views,” said a company representative, who declined to be identified.

A spokesman for Indonesia’s communications ministry, Semuel Pangerapan, said, “We have never requested that FPI’s accounts be closed.” Some Islamist groups in Indonesia use social media extensively and FPI usually has about 100 accounts on Facebook, as well as on other social media platforms such as Twitter.

The rally was peaceful, though more than 1,200 police officers were brought in to guard the offices, media said. Indonesians are avid users of social media and Facebook had 115 million users in the second quarter of 2017, according to media citing its country manager, ranking the country fourth globally after the United States, India and Brazil.

Some of the protesters on Friday made live video streams of the rally to air via Facebook. The vast majority of Indonesians practice a moderate form of Islam, though a reputation for religious tolerance has come under scrutiny as hardline groups muscle their way into public and political life in the young democracy.

President Joko Widodo has expressed concerns over hoax stories and hate speech spread online and has pledged to “clobber” any group threatening to destroy Indonesia’s tradition of pluralism and moderate Islam.

At a rally late last year in Jakarta by Muslims opposing U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, a body of Muslim clerics urged a boycott of U.S. and Israel products if Trump did not revoke his action.

So far there has been no indication the measure will gain traction and Indonesia’s vice president said calls to stop using U.S. goods and technology were misguided. (rtr)

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Islamists hold a protest rally outside Facebook’s local headquarters accusing the social media giant of discrimination for blocking some pages operated by hardline groups in Jakarta, Indonesia January 12, 2018.

UN Indonesia earthquake plan foresees 47 million affected, 10,000 dead

GENEVA - A U.N. contingency plan for an earthquake in Indonesia foresees a scenario where 10,000 people would die within 24 hours with 47 million more affected, according to emergency response planning documents. The U.N.-led exercise to prepare for disaster in one of the world’s most quake-prone regions, is based on a magnitude 7.8 quake in the Sunda Strait, close to the capital Jakarta, similar in size to one that struck the Caribbean this week.

“Within the first 24 hours, approximately 10,000 deaths with a substantial number of missing people is reported,” said the contingency plan based on a worst-case scenario.

A further 60,000 people would be seri-

ously injured and 200,000 lightly injured, while 9.6 million would be temporarily displaced. Although 2.5 million people would need immediate help, fewer than one in 10 would get it. Electricity and telephone networks would go down for as long as two weeks, and large scale oil and chemical spills would cause fires and disrupt fuel supplies for a week after the quake. There would be major disruption to air and sea ports.

In 2004 the Indian Ocean tsunami killed 226,000 people in 13 countries, including more than 120,000 in Indonesia. Since then, a culture of disaster prevention has spread around the world, said Denis McClean, spokesman for the U.N. Office for

Disaster Risk Reduction. Indonesia has established disaster management agencies at national and local levels and a tsunami warning system, he said. But as in most earthquake-prone countries, it needed to improve building regulations.

“It is buildings which kill in earthquakes,” McClean said. The scenario, which assumes an earthquake affecting west Java and Sumatra with no tsunami, was developed by Indonesia’s geophysics and meteorological agency BMKG, based on a huge 1699 earthquake in Batavia, the location of modern-day Jakarta.

Further scenario modelling should look into multiple disasters such as a tsunami

or flooding in a big city, bringing in more accurate data on damaged buildings and infrastructure, the documents said.

The World Bank reckons natural disasters cost Indonesia 0.3 percent of its GDP annually, but a 2015 report on disaster risk management prepared by Indonesia’s government said a major earthquake, occuring once every 250 years, could cause losses in excess of $30 billion, or 3 percent of GDP. In December a 6.5 magnitude quake killed at least three people when it hit Java, Indonesia’s most densely populated island, at a depth of 92 km (57 miles), and buildings in Jakarta swayed for several seconds. (rtr)

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MELBOURNE - Australian maverick Nick Kyrgios is ready to win over his doubters and can become an ‘international sporting superstar’ according to former world number one Boris Becker.

Charming Bulian Beach in Nusa Penida SEMARAPURA - Within the past few years, the government of Klungkung has promoted Nusa Penida massively. Every year it organizes festival to introduce all the potentials owned by the region of bijou island cluster. Several new tourist attractions begin to emerge as alternative destinations other than Lembongan and Ceningan having been well known. Two of them are the Saren Cliff Point and Bulian Beach.

A tour guide of Nusa Penida, I Gede Sukara, not long ago said that both destinations give impression of different nature from the objects having been already known, such as the Atuh Beach, Crystal Bay and Uug Beach.

Sukara said that the Saren Cliff Point, for instance, offers contortion of cliff that cannot be found elsewhere. This object has not been touched by arrangement, but

has become a byword among the communities of Nusa Penida and travelers to Nusa Penida.

To get to Saren hamlet, Batumadeg, is not too hard. From the highway leading to this location has been equipped with signposts. A swing under a tree becomes one of the icons of this place. As planned, Sukara said that local governments will arrange this object with the addition of a number of public facilities, including road access as remaining badly damaged.

Similar conditions also happen to other alternative attractions, such as the Bulian Beach at Penangkidan hamlet, Bunga Mekar. It is adjacent to Kelingking Beach. After the implementation of the Nusa Penida Festival, it also becomes a byword.

However, it has a problem of road access to this location staying severely damaged.

Nevertheless, there are still visi-

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“Hopefully, the road access could be immediately repaired at both locations,” said Sukara.

He admitted that in the islands of Nusa Penida there are quite a lot of choices to make a visit. Aside from Ceningan and Lembongan, Nusa Gede Island is no less good.

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No home player has won the Australian men’s title since Mark Edmondson in 1976 but hopes are soaring that Kyrgios could end that long wait after his spectacular start to the year.

The 22-year-old, ranked 17th in the world, won the Brisbane title in the build-up to his home slam and Becker says the man who divides opinion like no other in Australia is finally beginning to look like the real deal.

“There has never been a question mark over his talent but there was a question mark about his discipline,” Becker, commentating for Eurosport, told Reuters.

“But he’s getting it together now. It would be wonderful to see him get to the quarters or semi-finals. He has a huge following and is slowly getting it together. It’s great. I am a huge fan of Nick.”

Kyrgios’s antics and unruly behaviour have rightly attracted scorn.

He was accused of ‘tanking’ a match against Richard Gasquet at Wimbledon in 2015 and was booed by his own fans last year when he suffered a meltdown to lose to Andreas Seppi in five sets in the second round at Melbourne.

He has also said that some days he does not even like playing tennis, although Becker says that could be a smokescreen for dealing with the inevitable spotlight that came his way after he stunned Rafael Nadal at Wimbledon in 2014.

“He has a very interesting personality and doesn’t make it easy for himself at times,” the German said. “But he must love tennis otherwise he couldn’t do the things he’s doing.

“He’s not as clean cut as some Australians would like to see. But he could be an international superstar in sport, with his multi-ethnic background, his style, the ear rings. (rtr) Nick Kyrgios of Australia reacts during a news conference ahead of the Australian Open tennis tournament.

Sainz takes Dakar lead as Peterhansel hits trouble

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LA PAZ - Spaniard Carlos Sainz seized the lead in the Dakar Rally from Peugeot team mate Stephane Peterhansel on Saturday after the defending champion struck a rock and lost an hour and 45 minutes repairing his car.

Sainz, father of the Formula One driver of the same name, won the 425km timed section of the 727km seventh stage from La Paz to Uyuni to lead Toyota’s Qatari driver Nasser al-Attiyah by an hour and 11 minutes.

Peterhansel, who had been 27 minutes ahead of Sainz after leading the rally from Peru into Bolivia, hit trouble while trying

to overtake a motorbike at the 186km mark and came to a halt.

The Peugeot’s left rear wheel, upper suspension link, shock absorber and radiator were all damaged.

The Frenchman was helped back on the road by compatriot and team mate Cyril Despres, the five-times Dakar winner who had long dropped out of contention for the overall victory.

Peterhansel ended the stage third overall, an hour and 20 minutes off the lead.

Peugeot, who are pulling out of the South American event after this year, will now be

hoping 2010 Dakar winner and two-times world rally champion Sainz keeps out of trouble in motorsport’s most gruelling endurance test.

In the motorcycle category, French Yamaha rider Adrien van Beveren reclaimed the overall lead from Argentina’s Kevin Benavides, on a Honda.

Van Beveren was three minutes and 14 seconds clear of his rival.

Sunday sees the longest special stage of the rally, a 498km timed section from Uyuni to Tupiza that includes high-altitude sand dunes at 3,500 metres. (rtr)

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Sp rt Madrid crisis deepens with defeat by Villarreal, Atletico and Valencia win

MADRID - Real Madrid’s struggles showed no signs of easing on Saturday as the champions slumped to a second La Liga defeat in three games which increased pressure on coach Zinedine Zidane. Beaten 1-0 by Villarreal and with their title hopes in total disarray on a rain swept Saturday, Zidane’s men trudged off the sodden pitch with jeers ringing around the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium.

Zidane’s side dominated the game but succumbed to an 87th minute strike from Pablo Fornals, who chipped over goalkeeper Keylor Navas on the rebound after a lightning quick counterattack, giving Villarreal their first ever win at the Bernabeu in 19 visits in all competitions. Real remain fourth in the Liga standings on 32 points and are only one point and one place above Villarreal and trail Atletico Madrid by 10 points after their city rivals won 1-0 away to Eibar thanks to a solitary strike by Kevin Gameiro. Valencia clung on to beat Deportivo La

Coruna 2-1 away to tighten their grip on third place, moving eight points above Madrid although Zidane’s side have a game in hand.

They could fall a gaping 19 points behind runaway leaders Barcelona if Ernesto Valverde’s side beat Real Sociedad on Sunday. “We don’t deserve this, we think we played well but the ball just didn’t want to go in for us and I cannot explain why,” Zidane told reporters.

“We then couldn’t prevent them counter attacking us and it’s really tough on the players.”

Real’s slim chances of getting back into the title race after their 3-0 defeat by Barcelona before Christmas had faded further with last week’s 2-2 draw away to Celta Vigo and, coupled with the persistent rain, there was little enthusiasm for the game at the Bernabeu, which was three-quarters full. The home side began brightly as Gareth Bale had a goal correctly ruled offside and Ronaldo hit the woodwork twice. Villarreal goalkeeper Sergio Asenjo tipped away a stinging distance strike from outside the area from Marcelo with little more than half an hour on the clock.

Madrid also had a penalty appeal waved away when visiting defender Alvaro Gonzalez appeared to block a shot from Bale with his arm, while Asenjo made his best save of an outstanding overall display by thwarting Ronaldo from close range on the stroke of halftime.

Kane to break all English goal records, says Pochettino LONDON - Harry Kane is on course to break all the goalscoring records in top-flight English football after setting his latest landmark on Saturday, the striker’s Tottenham Hotspur manager, Mauricio Pochettino, believes. The Argentine was left purring again after watching Kane break the club’s Premier League record, set by Teddy Sheringham, with a double that took his career tally to 98 goals in the 4-0 thrashing of Everton at Wembley.

“He’s such a talented player, so professional and I’m very happy.

He deserves all the credit and the praise. This way, he’s going to break all the records in the Premier League and in England,” Pochettino told BT Sport. “The good thing is Jimmy Greaves’ (all-time club record) is far away, so not every week he is going to break something.”

Kane, who ended 2017 as Europe’s leading marksman of the year in the top five leagues, has started 2018 in the same vein but, even while homing in on 100 league goals for Spurs, he remains far adrift of the 220 notched by the great Greaves.

Yet Pochettino believes the England man, who is still only 24, may have 10 to 12 years ahead of him, should he steer clear of major injuries, to attack all the landmarks.

REUTERS/Javier Barbancho

Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo shoots at goal as Villarreal’s Alvaro Gonzalez challenges

Villarreal slowly grew into the game as the second half progressed and capitalised on Real’s desperation to try and win the game by outnumbering Zidane’s side on the break after clearing Toni Kroos’s corner.

“We knew that we could make history today and we always believed it,” said Villarreal coach Javi Calleja.

“Madrid have many virtues but we thought that at this moment of the season and playing at home they might make more mistakes.” Second-placed Atletico survived a potentially tricky trip to Eibar without the suspended Diego Costa, with Gameiro knocking in a pass from Antoine Griezmann in the 27th minute.

Valencia went ahead at Deportivo with the help of a tremendous goalkeeping blunder from Ruben Martinez, who let Goncalo Guedes’s blunt shot through his hands and between his legs in the 37th minute.

Spain international Rodrigo Moreno struck the second in the 64th with the help of a huge deflection off Depor defender Pablo Mosquera. The hosts pulled one back in the 88th minute through Florin Andone and Adrian Lopez had a gilt-edged chance to level in stoppage time but smashed the ball into the stands.

At the other end of the table, basement club Las Palmas were hammered 6-0 by Liga debutants Girona, while 19th-placed Malaga sacked hapless coach Michel a day after Friday’s 1-0 defeat at Getafe, a fourth consecutive loss in the league. (rtr)

Germain shines as Marseille beat Rennes in action-packed game PARIS - Valere Germain scored one and set up another as Olympique de Marseille stayed in the hunt for second place in Ligue 1 when they beat Stade Rennais away 3-0 in a highly-charged game on Saturday. Local newspaper Ouest France reported clashes between fans prior to the game, which was then interrupted for a few minutes because of lit flares.

Marseille prevailed through goals by Germain, Morgan Sanson and Florian Thauvin, exposing the home defence’s weaknesses. The Provence side are fourth with 41 points from 20 matches, one point behind second-placed Monaco, who were held to a goalless stalemate at Montpellier, the league’s best defence, also on Saturday.

Third-placed Olympique Lyonnais, who are level on point with Marseille, take on Angers on Sunday while runaway leaders Paris St Germain, on 50 points, will travel to Nantes without the injured Neymar. At the Roazhon Park, Thauvin saw his penalty kick in the 28th minute saved by Tomas Koubek, but Marseille were soon rewarded for their early domination.

In the 35th minute, Thauvin’s through ball was collected in the box by Germain, who coolly slotted it past Koubek to open the scoring. Sanson doubled the tally on the stroke of halftime with a fine half-volley on the turn from Germain’s perfect cross. Thauvin wrapped it up seven minutes from time as he headed home from Luiz Gustavo’s teasing cross from the left. Nice are sixth on 30 points after beating Amiens 1-0 at home. (rtr)

The modest Kane, for his part, just shrugs as he ticks off another milestone.

“It’s something I’m very proud of but it’s on to the next one, we’ve got to keep going,” he said. “These boys are great, they set me up and we’ve got to keep going and winning games. Hopefully I’ll keep scoring.”

Kane has now scored 20 league goals this season, three more than the next most prolific, Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah. In total, he has 28 in 28 appearances in all competitions. Luck is on his side too, with his first goal from Son Heung-min’s delivery soon after halftime that put Spurs 2-0 ahead looking fractionally offside.

“Sometimes you get it, sometimes you don’t. Luckily it went my way,” Kane said. Nothing, though, went the way of Everton manager Sam Allardyce, who ended up lambasting his side afterwards.

“I’m hugely disappointed in the professionalism of my players today,” he said, admitting that the result could have been even worse than the 4-0 drubbing, which also featured goals from Son and Christian Eriksen, suggested. “It’s hugely out of order that you relinquish that defensive responsibility when you’ve just gone 2-0 down.” (rtr) REUTERS/Stephane Mahe

Marseille’s Valere Germain celebrates scoring their first goal with Lucas Ocampos

Argentina to revamp domestic leagues and relegation system

REAL DESPERATION

BUENOS AIRES - Argentina will end their complicated system of relegating teams with the lowest points average gained over three years, the president of the country’s football association said on Saturday.

Claudio Tapia said the system, known as the “promedios” and common in Latin America, will be phased out by 2021. However, he did not say whether a conventional system would replace it.

REUTERS/Eddie Keogh

Tottenham’s Harry Kane celebrates scoring their third goal

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A full range of measures, which include revamps for the second and third divisions, regional leagues, and the lifting of a ban on visiting supporters at some games, will be announced in March, Tapia said.

“It seems to me that these are the changes needed in football, along with more professional tournaments, where we can bring more value to the product we have,” he said in a statement posted on the Argentine Football Association’s website. (rtr)

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Sp rt Madrid crisis deepens with defeat by Villarreal, Atletico and Valencia win

MADRID - Real Madrid’s struggles showed no signs of easing on Saturday as the champions slumped to a second La Liga defeat in three games which increased pressure on coach Zinedine Zidane. Beaten 1-0 by Villarreal and with their title hopes in total disarray on a rain swept Saturday, Zidane’s men trudged off the sodden pitch with jeers ringing around the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium.

Zidane’s side dominated the game but succumbed to an 87th minute strike from Pablo Fornals, who chipped over goalkeeper Keylor Navas on the rebound after a lightning quick counterattack, giving Villarreal their first ever win at the Bernabeu in 19 visits in all competitions. Real remain fourth in the Liga standings on 32 points and are only one point and one place above Villarreal and trail Atletico Madrid by 10 points after their city rivals won 1-0 away to Eibar thanks to a solitary strike by Kevin Gameiro. Valencia clung on to beat Deportivo La

Coruna 2-1 away to tighten their grip on third place, moving eight points above Madrid although Zidane’s side have a game in hand.

They could fall a gaping 19 points behind runaway leaders Barcelona if Ernesto Valverde’s side beat Real Sociedad on Sunday. “We don’t deserve this, we think we played well but the ball just didn’t want to go in for us and I cannot explain why,” Zidane told reporters.

“We then couldn’t prevent them counter attacking us and it’s really tough on the players.”

Real’s slim chances of getting back into the title race after their 3-0 defeat by Barcelona before Christmas had faded further with last week’s 2-2 draw away to Celta Vigo and, coupled with the persistent rain, there was little enthusiasm for the game at the Bernabeu, which was three-quarters full. The home side began brightly as Gareth Bale had a goal correctly ruled offside and Ronaldo hit the woodwork twice. Villarreal goalkeeper Sergio Asenjo tipped away a stinging distance strike from outside the area from Marcelo with little more than half an hour on the clock.

Madrid also had a penalty appeal waved away when visiting defender Alvaro Gonzalez appeared to block a shot from Bale with his arm, while Asenjo made his best save of an outstanding overall display by thwarting Ronaldo from close range on the stroke of halftime.

Kane to break all English goal records, says Pochettino LONDON - Harry Kane is on course to break all the goalscoring records in top-flight English football after setting his latest landmark on Saturday, the striker’s Tottenham Hotspur manager, Mauricio Pochettino, believes. The Argentine was left purring again after watching Kane break the club’s Premier League record, set by Teddy Sheringham, with a double that took his career tally to 98 goals in the 4-0 thrashing of Everton at Wembley.

“He’s such a talented player, so professional and I’m very happy.

He deserves all the credit and the praise. This way, he’s going to break all the records in the Premier League and in England,” Pochettino told BT Sport. “The good thing is Jimmy Greaves’ (all-time club record) is far away, so not every week he is going to break something.”

Kane, who ended 2017 as Europe’s leading marksman of the year in the top five leagues, has started 2018 in the same vein but, even while homing in on 100 league goals for Spurs, he remains far adrift of the 220 notched by the great Greaves.

Yet Pochettino believes the England man, who is still only 24, may have 10 to 12 years ahead of him, should he steer clear of major injuries, to attack all the landmarks.

REUTERS/Javier Barbancho

Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo shoots at goal as Villarreal’s Alvaro Gonzalez challenges

Villarreal slowly grew into the game as the second half progressed and capitalised on Real’s desperation to try and win the game by outnumbering Zidane’s side on the break after clearing Toni Kroos’s corner.

“We knew that we could make history today and we always believed it,” said Villarreal coach Javi Calleja.

“Madrid have many virtues but we thought that at this moment of the season and playing at home they might make more mistakes.” Second-placed Atletico survived a potentially tricky trip to Eibar without the suspended Diego Costa, with Gameiro knocking in a pass from Antoine Griezmann in the 27th minute.

Valencia went ahead at Deportivo with the help of a tremendous goalkeeping blunder from Ruben Martinez, who let Goncalo Guedes’s blunt shot through his hands and between his legs in the 37th minute.

Spain international Rodrigo Moreno struck the second in the 64th with the help of a huge deflection off Depor defender Pablo Mosquera. The hosts pulled one back in the 88th minute through Florin Andone and Adrian Lopez had a gilt-edged chance to level in stoppage time but smashed the ball into the stands.

At the other end of the table, basement club Las Palmas were hammered 6-0 by Liga debutants Girona, while 19th-placed Malaga sacked hapless coach Michel a day after Friday’s 1-0 defeat at Getafe, a fourth consecutive loss in the league. (rtr)

Germain shines as Marseille beat Rennes in action-packed game PARIS - Valere Germain scored one and set up another as Olympique de Marseille stayed in the hunt for second place in Ligue 1 when they beat Stade Rennais away 3-0 in a highly-charged game on Saturday. Local newspaper Ouest France reported clashes between fans prior to the game, which was then interrupted for a few minutes because of lit flares.

Marseille prevailed through goals by Germain, Morgan Sanson and Florian Thauvin, exposing the home defence’s weaknesses. The Provence side are fourth with 41 points from 20 matches, one point behind second-placed Monaco, who were held to a goalless stalemate at Montpellier, the league’s best defence, also on Saturday.

Third-placed Olympique Lyonnais, who are level on point with Marseille, take on Angers on Sunday while runaway leaders Paris St Germain, on 50 points, will travel to Nantes without the injured Neymar. At the Roazhon Park, Thauvin saw his penalty kick in the 28th minute saved by Tomas Koubek, but Marseille were soon rewarded for their early domination.

In the 35th minute, Thauvin’s through ball was collected in the box by Germain, who coolly slotted it past Koubek to open the scoring. Sanson doubled the tally on the stroke of halftime with a fine half-volley on the turn from Germain’s perfect cross. Thauvin wrapped it up seven minutes from time as he headed home from Luiz Gustavo’s teasing cross from the left. Nice are sixth on 30 points after beating Amiens 1-0 at home. (rtr)

The modest Kane, for his part, just shrugs as he ticks off another milestone.

“It’s something I’m very proud of but it’s on to the next one, we’ve got to keep going,” he said. “These boys are great, they set me up and we’ve got to keep going and winning games. Hopefully I’ll keep scoring.”

Kane has now scored 20 league goals this season, three more than the next most prolific, Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah. In total, he has 28 in 28 appearances in all competitions. Luck is on his side too, with his first goal from Son Heung-min’s delivery soon after halftime that put Spurs 2-0 ahead looking fractionally offside.

“Sometimes you get it, sometimes you don’t. Luckily it went my way,” Kane said. Nothing, though, went the way of Everton manager Sam Allardyce, who ended up lambasting his side afterwards.

“I’m hugely disappointed in the professionalism of my players today,” he said, admitting that the result could have been even worse than the 4-0 drubbing, which also featured goals from Son and Christian Eriksen, suggested. “It’s hugely out of order that you relinquish that defensive responsibility when you’ve just gone 2-0 down.” (rtr) REUTERS/Stephane Mahe

Marseille’s Valere Germain celebrates scoring their first goal with Lucas Ocampos

Argentina to revamp domestic leagues and relegation system

REAL DESPERATION

BUENOS AIRES - Argentina will end their complicated system of relegating teams with the lowest points average gained over three years, the president of the country’s football association said on Saturday.

Claudio Tapia said the system, known as the “promedios” and common in Latin America, will be phased out by 2021. However, he did not say whether a conventional system would replace it.

REUTERS/Eddie Keogh

Tottenham’s Harry Kane celebrates scoring their third goal

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A full range of measures, which include revamps for the second and third divisions, regional leagues, and the lifting of a ban on visiting supporters at some games, will be announced in March, Tapia said.

“It seems to me that these are the changes needed in football, along with more professional tournaments, where we can bring more value to the product we have,” he said in a statement posted on the Argentine Football Association’s website. (rtr)

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MELBOURNE - Australian maverick Nick Kyrgios is ready to win over his doubters and can become an ‘international sporting superstar’ according to former world number one Boris Becker.

Charming Bulian Beach in Nusa Penida SEMARAPURA - Within the past few years, the government of Klungkung has promoted Nusa Penida massively. Every year it organizes festival to introduce all the potentials owned by the region of bijou island cluster. Several new tourist attractions begin to emerge as alternative destinations other than Lembongan and Ceningan having been well known. Two of them are the Saren Cliff Point and Bulian Beach.

A tour guide of Nusa Penida, I Gede Sukara, not long ago said that both destinations give impression of different nature from the objects having been already known, such as the Atuh Beach, Crystal Bay and Uug Beach.

Sukara said that the Saren Cliff Point, for instance, offers contortion of cliff that cannot be found elsewhere. This object has not been touched by arrangement, but

has become a byword among the communities of Nusa Penida and travelers to Nusa Penida.

To get to Saren hamlet, Batumadeg, is not too hard. From the highway leading to this location has been equipped with signposts. A swing under a tree becomes one of the icons of this place. As planned, Sukara said that local governments will arrange this object with the addition of a number of public facilities, including road access as remaining badly damaged.

Similar conditions also happen to other alternative attractions, such as the Bulian Beach at Penangkidan hamlet, Bunga Mekar. It is adjacent to Kelingking Beach. After the implementation of the Nusa Penida Festival, it also becomes a byword.

However, it has a problem of road access to this location staying severely damaged.

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tors coming to this object. Sukara affirmed that when arriving at location, the journey will pass through damaged road yet will be paid by the pristine beauty of Bulian beach.

“Hopefully, the road access could be immediately repaired at both locations,” said Sukara.

He admitted that in the islands of Nusa Penida there are quite a lot of choices to make a visit. Aside from Ceningan and Lembongan, Nusa Gede Island is no less good.

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No home player has won the Australian men’s title since Mark Edmondson in 1976 but hopes are soaring that Kyrgios could end that long wait after his spectacular start to the year.

The 22-year-old, ranked 17th in the world, won the Brisbane title in the build-up to his home slam and Becker says the man who divides opinion like no other in Australia is finally beginning to look like the real deal.

“There has never been a question mark over his talent but there was a question mark about his discipline,” Becker, commentating for Eurosport, told Reuters.

“But he’s getting it together now. It would be wonderful to see him get to the quarters or semi-finals. He has a huge following and is slowly getting it together. It’s great. I am a huge fan of Nick.”

Kyrgios’s antics and unruly behaviour have rightly attracted scorn.

He was accused of ‘tanking’ a match against Richard Gasquet at Wimbledon in 2015 and was booed by his own fans last year when he suffered a meltdown to lose to Andreas Seppi in five sets in the second round at Melbourne.

He has also said that some days he does not even like playing tennis, although Becker says that could be a smokescreen for dealing with the inevitable spotlight that came his way after he stunned Rafael Nadal at Wimbledon in 2014.

“He has a very interesting personality and doesn’t make it easy for himself at times,” the German said. “But he must love tennis otherwise he couldn’t do the things he’s doing.

“He’s not as clean cut as some Australians would like to see. But he could be an international superstar in sport, with his multi-ethnic background, his style, the ear rings. (rtr) Nick Kyrgios of Australia reacts during a news conference ahead of the Australian Open tennis tournament.

Sainz takes Dakar lead as Peterhansel hits trouble

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Carlos Sainz of Spain and copilot Lucas Cruz of Spain drive their Peugeot.

LA PAZ - Spaniard Carlos Sainz seized the lead in the Dakar Rally from Peugeot team mate Stephane Peterhansel on Saturday after the defending champion struck a rock and lost an hour and 45 minutes repairing his car.

Sainz, father of the Formula One driver of the same name, won the 425km timed section of the 727km seventh stage from La Paz to Uyuni to lead Toyota’s Qatari driver Nasser al-Attiyah by an hour and 11 minutes.

Peterhansel, who had been 27 minutes ahead of Sainz after leading the rally from Peru into Bolivia, hit trouble while trying

to overtake a motorbike at the 186km mark and came to a halt.

The Peugeot’s left rear wheel, upper suspension link, shock absorber and radiator were all damaged.

The Frenchman was helped back on the road by compatriot and team mate Cyril Despres, the five-times Dakar winner who had long dropped out of contention for the overall victory.

Peterhansel ended the stage third overall, an hour and 20 minutes off the lead.

Peugeot, who are pulling out of the South American event after this year, will now be

hoping 2010 Dakar winner and two-times world rally champion Sainz keeps out of trouble in motorsport’s most gruelling endurance test.

In the motorcycle category, French Yamaha rider Adrien van Beveren reclaimed the overall lead from Argentina’s Kevin Benavides, on a Honda.

Van Beveren was three minutes and 14 seconds clear of his rival.

Sunday sees the longest special stage of the rally, a 498km timed section from Uyuni to Tupiza that includes high-altitude sand dunes at 3,500 metres. (rtr)

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Ballistic missile warning sent in error

by Hawaii authorities

HONOLULU - An emergency alert was sent mistakenly on Saturday to Hawaii’s residents warning of an imminent ballistic missile attack when an employee at the state emergency management agency pushed the “wrong button,” Hawaii’s governor said.

State officials and the U.S. military’s Pacific Command confirmed that there was no actual threat to the state. But for more than a half hour, while the agency struggled to retract the warning, panicked Hawaiians scrambled to find shelter.

The mistaken alert stated: “EMERGENCY ALERT BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.” The alert, sent to mobile phones and aired on television and radio shortly after 8 a.m., was issued amid high international tensions over North Korea’s development of ballistic nuclear weapons.

Governor David Ige told a news conference he was “angry and disappointed” over the incident, apologized for it and said the state would take steps to ensure it nevers happen again.

“What happened today was totally unacceptable,”

the Democratic governor said.

Ige said the alert was sent during a employee shift change at the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, and that the state had no automated process to get out the word that it was a false alarm. Vern Miyagi, the agency’s administrator, called it “human error.”

“An employee pushed the wrong button,” Ige said.

Stacey Bow, 56, of Honolulu, said she received the emergency alert on her smart phone. She awakened her 16-year-old daughter with the news. “She became hysterical, crying, you know, just lost it,” she said.

Ige said the emergency management agency after the incident ordered a change in its procedures requiring two employees, not just one, to send out such an alert in the future. He said such shift changes occur three times a day every day of the year.

Miyagi, who said Hawaii would have only 12 to 13 minutes of warning in an actual attack, declined to say what action would be taken against the employee. Miyagi said the agency routinely tests its emergency alert system and that employee thought he was conducting a test, not realizing he had transmitted the warning with a two-step process on a computer screen until receiving it on his own cellphone minutes later. (rtr)

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An electronic sign reads “There is no threat” in Oahu, Hawaii, U.S., after a false emergency alert that said a ballistic missile was headed for Hawaii, in this January 13, 2018 photo obtained from social media.

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Protest by Indonesian Islamists accuses Facebook of discrimination

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Palestinian security forces loyal to Hamas patrol near the border between Egypt and Gaza, in the southern Gaza Strip January 14, 2018.

Israel says destroyed Gaza attack tunnel under Israel, Egypt borders GAZA - The Israeli military said on Sunday it had destroyed a cross-border attack tunnel that ran from Gaza into Israel and Egypt, dug by the Hamas, the Islamist group that controls the Palestinian enclave.

Residents in Gaza said Israeli jets bombed an area east of the southern town of Rafah, by the Egyptian and Israeli borders, late on Saturday night. Israel confirmed the attack immediately after, but gave no details until Sunday.

There was no immediate comment from Hamas or Egypt, or any reports of casualties.

Tensions have risen since President Donald Trump reversed decades of U.S. policy on Dec. 6 by recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

Gaza militants have launched 18 cross-border rockets or mortar bombs, causing no fatalities or serious injuries in Israel, and 15 protesters and two gunmen have been killed by Israeli fire.

The attacks from Gaza, which Israel has blamed on groups not affiliated with Hamas, have drawn Israeli air strikes, usually on targets that have been evacuated.

“There are those who say the Israeli military attacks sand dunes - that is incorrect,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, addressing criticism from lawmakers who have called for a stronger armed response, told reporters after the tunnel was targeted.

Netanyahu cautioned Hamas that Israel “will respond with even greater force” if rocket strikes continue. Israel has said Hamas, as the dominant force in Gaza, bears overall responsibility for any attacks from the enclave.

But Yoav Galant, a member of Netanyahu’s security cabinet, said on Army Radio that Israel is “not looking for confrontation with Hamas”.

Nonetheless, he said Israel “could not abide by a situation in which Israelis are harmed by fire (from Gaza)”.

Colonel Jonathan Conricus, an Israeli military spokesman, described the target hit on Saturday as 1.5 km (one mile)-lone “terror tunnel” running the Kerem Shalom border crossing into Israel, and into Egypt.

“It could also have served to transfer terrorists from the Gaza Strip into Egypt in order to attack Israeli targets from Egypt,” he said.

Kerem Shalom, the main passage point for goods entering Gaza, was shut down on Saturday before the Israeli attack.

Underground tunnels are used to smuggle in all manner of commerical goods to Gaza, and to bring in weapons for militants from Hamas and other groups. They have also been used by Hamas to launch attacks inside Israel.

During the last Gaza war, in 2014, Hamas fighters used dozens of tunnels to blindside Israel’s superior forces.

The Israeli military said it has destroyed three tunnels in the past two months.

Israel has been constructing a sensor-equipped underground wall along the 60-km (36-mile) Gaza border, aiming to complete the $1.1 billion project by mid-2019. (rtr)

JAKARTA - Several hundred Indonesian Islamists held a protest rally outside Facebook’s headquarters in Jakarta on Friday, accusing the social media giant of discrimination for blocking some pages operated by hardline groups for allegedly spreading hate. The protesters, many dressed in white and including members of the hardline Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), marched from a mosque to Facebook’s offices in the capital of the world’s biggest Muslimmajority country.

“We want to remind Facebook to remain neutral and balanced,” Slamet Maarif, a spokesman for FPI, told reporters. “There are many accounts that spread hate about Islam, ulamas, that are allowed to operate. There are accounts that talk about Islamic humanitarian aid, those are blocked,” said Maarif, adding that the group still planned to use Facebook and intended to open new accounts.

Facebook said its policy was to delete content that violated its community standards. “Our community standards are made to prevent organisations or individuals that urge hate speech or violence against those who hold different views,” said a company representative, who declined to be identified.

A spokesman for Indonesia’s communications ministry, Semuel Pangerapan, said, “We have never requested that FPI’s accounts be closed.” Some Islamist groups in Indonesia use social media extensively and FPI usually has about 100 accounts on Facebook, as well as on other social media platforms such as Twitter.

The rally was peaceful, though more than 1,200 police officers were brought in to guard the offices, media said. Indonesians are avid users of social media and Facebook had 115 million users in the second quarter of 2017, according to media citing its country manager, ranking the country fourth globally after the United States, India and Brazil.

Some of the protesters on Friday made live video streams of the rally to air via Facebook. The vast majority of Indonesians practice a moderate form of Islam, though a reputation for religious tolerance has come under scrutiny as hardline groups muscle their way into public and political life in the young democracy.

President Joko Widodo has expressed concerns over hoax stories and hate speech spread online and has pledged to “clobber” any group threatening to destroy Indonesia’s tradition of pluralism and moderate Islam.

At a rally late last year in Jakarta by Muslims opposing U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, a body of Muslim clerics urged a boycott of U.S. and Israel products if Trump did not revoke his action.

So far there has been no indication the measure will gain traction and Indonesia’s vice president said calls to stop using U.S. goods and technology were misguided. (rtr)

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Islamists hold a protest rally outside Facebook’s local headquarters accusing the social media giant of discrimination for blocking some pages operated by hardline groups in Jakarta, Indonesia January 12, 2018.

UN Indonesia earthquake plan foresees 47 million affected, 10,000 dead

GENEVA - A U.N. contingency plan for an earthquake in Indonesia foresees a scenario where 10,000 people would die within 24 hours with 47 million more affected, according to emergency response planning documents. The U.N.-led exercise to prepare for disaster in one of the world’s most quake-prone regions, is based on a magnitude 7.8 quake in the Sunda Strait, close to the capital Jakarta, similar in size to one that struck the Caribbean this week.

“Within the first 24 hours, approximately 10,000 deaths with a substantial number of missing people is reported,” said the contingency plan based on a worst-case scenario.

A further 60,000 people would be seri-

ously injured and 200,000 lightly injured, while 9.6 million would be temporarily displaced. Although 2.5 million people would need immediate help, fewer than one in 10 would get it. Electricity and telephone networks would go down for as long as two weeks, and large scale oil and chemical spills would cause fires and disrupt fuel supplies for a week after the quake. There would be major disruption to air and sea ports.

In 2004 the Indian Ocean tsunami killed 226,000 people in 13 countries, including more than 120,000 in Indonesia. Since then, a culture of disaster prevention has spread around the world, said Denis McClean, spokesman for the U.N. Office for

Disaster Risk Reduction. Indonesia has established disaster management agencies at national and local levels and a tsunami warning system, he said. But as in most earthquake-prone countries, it needed to improve building regulations.

“It is buildings which kill in earthquakes,” McClean said. The scenario, which assumes an earthquake affecting west Java and Sumatra with no tsunami, was developed by Indonesia’s geophysics and meteorological agency BMKG, based on a huge 1699 earthquake in Batavia, the location of modern-day Jakarta.

Further scenario modelling should look into multiple disasters such as a tsunami

or flooding in a big city, bringing in more accurate data on damaged buildings and infrastructure, the documents said.

The World Bank reckons natural disasters cost Indonesia 0.3 percent of its GDP annually, but a 2015 report on disaster risk management prepared by Indonesia’s government said a major earthquake, occuring once every 250 years, could cause losses in excess of $30 billion, or 3 percent of GDP. In December a 6.5 magnitude quake killed at least three people when it hit Java, Indonesia’s most densely populated island, at a depth of 92 km (57 miles), and buildings in Jakarta swayed for several seconds. (rtr)

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South Africa to target investment, graft under new ANC leader

EAST LONDON - South Africa wants to attract foreign investors to help it kick-start economic growth and will crack down on corruption, the new leader of the ruling African National Congress said on Saturday. Cyril Ramaphosa, who narrowly won the race to succeed President Jacob Zuma as ANC leader last month, also used a speech to mark 106 years since the founding of Africa’s oldest liberation movement to call for party unity after a bitter leadership contest.

South Africa’s economy has slowed to a near-standstill over Zuma’s two presidential terms, as allegations of influence-peddling in government and mismanagement of state-owned enterprises have dented consumer and business confidence. But Ramaphosa’s election win has injected a sense of optimism that the ANC, which has governed South Africa since the end of apartheid in 1994, could win back the trust of voters and investors disillusioned with Zuma’s rule.

Ramaphosa, 65, a former trade union leader and one of the country’s wealthiest businessmen, pledged during his campaign for ANC leader to address record unemployment and a sluggish economy.

“South Africa is open for investment,” he told tens of thousands of cheering ANC members in a stadium in the Eastern Cape province on Saturday. Through foreign investment “we can grow our economy, create jobs, end poverty,” he said. “We must have an economy that offers policy certainty and addresses areas that inhibit investment, growth as well as social inclusion.”

Ramaphosa reassured investors that the

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Peliatan Customary Village Holds Ngeredag Desa

Dollar hits three-year low vs euro; Wall St hits new highs NEW YORK - The U.S. dollar fell to a more than three-year low against the euro on Friday, extending recent losses on expectations European Central Bank policymakers are preparing to reduce stimulus, while U.S. stocks continued to rally and marked record closing highs. Optimism about fourth-quarter earnings boosted stocks.

Bank shares climbed following quarterly results from JPMorgan Chase & Co and Wells Fargo. A global stock index registered an eighth straight week of gains.

The euro’s rise weighed on the dollar index, which measures the greenback against six rival currencies. The index was down 1 percent, after slipping to a four-month low of 90.954. For the year, the dollar index was down 1.28 percent, its worst performance over a year’s first nine trading days since 2010, according to Reuters data. “The latest ECB comments were a bit on the hawkish side, so that’s giving more life to the euro,” said Minh Trang, senior currency trader at Silicon Valley Bank in Santa Clara, California.

Sterling rocketed to its highest level against the dollar since the Brexit vote to leave the European Union after a report that the Netherlands and Spain were open to a deal for Britain to remain as close as possible to the trading bloc. Sterling was last trading at $1.3731, up 0.03 percent.

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq both registered an eighth record closing high out of the first nine trading days of 2018, while the Dow boasted its sixth closing high of the year.Data showing robust U.S. retail sales drove investor optimism about economic growth, also boosting sentiment in the stock market.

“It seems like the economy is going OK, inflation is kind of nonexistent right now, wage growth is not an issue for most income statements, so what’s not to like here?” said Stephen Massocca, senior vice president at Wedbush Securities in San Francisco.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 228.46 points, or 0.89 percent, to 25,803.19, the S&P 500 gained 18.68 points, or 0.67 percent, to 2,786.24, and the Nasdaq Composite added 49.29 points, or 0.68 percent, to 7,261.06. The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index rose 0.23 percent, and MSCI’s gauge of stocks across the globe gained 0.66 percent.

A robust U.S. inflation report boosted Treasury yields. The two-year yield, sensitive to traders’ views on interest rates, rose to more than 2 percent for the first time since the financial crisis.

In commodities, oil prices rose for a sixth day after Russia’s oil minister said global crude supplies were “not balanced yet,” alleviating market concerns about a wind-down of the OPEC-led deal to reduce production. U.S crude oil rose 50 cents to settle at $64.30 a barrel, while Brent rose 61 cents to settle at $69.87. (rtr)

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role, mandate and independence of the central bank would be maintained while plans for free higher education for the poor would be implemented gradually so as to safeguard public finances.

The ANC needs to follow the example of liberation hero Nelson Mandela to unite the country and combat the racial inequalities that persist to this day, he added.

Ramaphosa faces a difficult balancing act as he must accommodate the competing interests of rival ANC factions vying for control of the party. One faction backed his bid for ANC leader, while another favoured Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, a former cabinet minister and ex-wife of Zuma.

ZUMA’S FUTURE There has been widespread speculation that Ramaphosa and his allies are lobbying ANC members to oust Zuma as head of state in the coming weeks, but he made no mention of Zuma’s future. Zuma, 75, sat alongside Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to hear Ramaphosa speak and was booed on several occasions during Saturday’s anniversary celebrations.

Zuma’s second presidential term doesn’t officially end until 2019 when national elections will be held, but he could be removed early through a motion of no confidence in parliament or at a meeting of the ANC’s national executive committee. Ramaphosa welcomed Zuma’s recent announcement that there would be an inquiry into influence-peddling in government and said it was a top priority for those responsible to be prosecuted.

Zuma has denied allegations that he has allowed his friends to influence the appointment of ministers. Ramaphosa said that corruption in the private sector was also an important issue.

ANC member Vanita Kok, from the Khoisan royal house, said Ramaphosa’s message struck a chord because “corruption is rife”. While markets have rallied since Ramaphosa’s victory, some analysts are sceptical he will deliver on his bold promises.

Gwen Ngwenya, an economist at South Africa’s Institute of Race Relations, said: “Ramaphosa is hamstrung by the need to ensure unity, and this will result in confused policymaking.” (rtr)

Thousands of people of Peliatan customary village, Ubud, attended the tradition of ngeredag ??desa on Saturday (Nov. 18). The tradition taking place late afternoon until midnight was preceded with a convoy of dozens of bala ngeredag ??with unique uniforms and hit bamboo split drum (kulkul) followed by dozens of sacred barongs surrounding the village with ritual at every border.

The ngeredag ??desa procession began to move towards the border of customary village, precisely in front of Bebek Tepi Sawah Restaurant around 18:00 Local Time.

Procession of the villagers wearing unique uniform surrounded the village while beating kulkul. They put on kukusan meselet siyut (bamboo steamer and stirrer) and cross sign made of whiting.

Tirta Sudamala Temple is located in Sedit hamlet, Bebalang, Bangli. This temple is already well

Various forms of sacred barong were also paraded in the series of this tradition and followed by thousands of citizens. The sacred barong includes the Rangda Mask, Garuda, Barong Landung, Barong Ket, Male Boar and Tiger Barong.

After walking around the village, this series of ceremony then paused at Dalem Puri Temple, Ubud. Until evening, the procession continued

towards the center of local village.

As a peak of the procession, a big ceremony called caru sambleh was held.

Chief of Peliatan customary village, I Ketut Sandi, explained that the annual ritual is called sasuhunan nguya nyatur desa or in the old term was named as ngeredag ??desa. This unique ceremony is meant to neutralize basic elements

of nature, thus giving peace and prosperity. Moreover, considering the full moon of the sixth month in the Balinese calendar is believed to be very sacred, where all sorts of diseases and pests are endemic.

It is indicated by the beginning of rain plus sea breezes blowing hard as well as flies and plant pests are breeding.

Meanwhile, the barong sanctified effigy included in this tradition as a symbol of the catastrophe repellent is invoked to constantly control the negative aura entering the village area. At the same time, residents were led to realize and

Tirta Sudamala Temple known by Balinese people who often visit the temple om the full moon, the new moon as well as ma-

jor holidays such as Banyupinaruh.

There are twelve water spouts that are used by worshippers to purify themselves with the temple water.

Tirta Sudamala Temple is close to the center of Bangli, and is easy to access. Since the temple is located in the bank of the Sangsang river, worshippers visiting the temple will often descend numerous staits to pruify themselves in Tirta Sudamala as well.

Hamlet chief of Sedit, Gusti Putu Kariyadnya, recently gave a brief explanation of the origins ot Tirta Sudamala Temple. An old inscription says that the establishment of the temple is related to the pilgrimage of Ida Pedanda Hender who, upon the request of the king of Bangli, went looking for a holy spring to take water from for a grandioase ceremony that was to take place. Ida Pedanda Hender

started his pilgrimage from the south and sat in a plcae overgrown by many sambng plants to meditate about where he should go to find the stpring. During his meditation, a huge pig appeared. The pig proceeded to loosen the soil and formed a mound resembling a hill, in an attempt to distract Ida Pedanda Hender from his meditation.

One of Ida Pendanda Hender’s companions however saw what the pig was doing and shooed the pig away. Because the mound abandoned by the huge pig resembled a hill, Ida Pedanda Hender then named the location Buung Hill. In his meditation Ida Pedanda Hender however did manage to find the location of the spring that he was looking for. He then resumed his pilgrimage northwards until he reached the location of the Sudamala spring.

understand the condition of each body. “So, people must also understand together the condition of natural environment so that balance is constantly well maintained,” he said.

On the other hand, the activity in the series of this tradition also triggered congestion on the road section to Ubud. Rows of vehicles have been seen since Saturday afternoon around 15:00 until night.

The procession taking place for several hours and utilized the entire road body made the traffic from the direction of Gianyar paralyzed. (kmb)

After Ida Pedanda Hender’s visit to the spring, the local people built a small shrine at the spring. The shrine was built near the current Tirta Sudamala water spouts. “Our senior figures once made a vow that Tirta Sudamala woould be able to repel pests attacking their crops, if they set up a temple near the location of Tirta Sudamala” explained hamlet chief Kariadnya.

In fact, thanks to the Tirta Sudamala, the local community finally managed to keep the monkeys from invading their paddy fields. As promised, the community then established a temple called Tirta Sudamala Temple. Until now, Tirta Sudamala Temple is supported by the community of Sedit hamle.

Temple celebrations for for Tirta Sudamala are normally held every six months (210 days) on Anggarkasih Prangbakat. (kmb)

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Gardening in small spaces and hydroponics

DENPASAR — Lacking vast expanses of land is not reason to give up on gardening. There are always ways to plant in narrow spaces and besides this calming activity yields many benefits for both the environment and people as the more plants there are the more oxygen is produced which is certainly beneficial for humans. Gardening is also good for the health as it requires light exercise and calms the mind.

Owner of Bali Fruit Garden, Made Sumertana explained that although he never formally studied agriculture, he has mastered certain gardening techniques. His gardening business also helps him remain fit and agile. “Farming is a fun and healthy activity”, he added.

One of the agricultural systems that he promotes is container gardening or growing fruit plants in pots as this method does not require extensive lands. Fruit trees planted in pots can still yield fruit even when they are small, there is not need to wait for the tree to grow to full size. Using certain methods of urban gardening, an area of just 100 meters can yield as much as 2000 square meters of land planted the conventional way. “With container gardening techniques trees can be moved and arranged. Even dwarf sized plants can bear enough fruit to make money”,explained Sumertana.

Hydroponics and verticulture techniques can also be used in limited spaces. Hydroponics is a technique of farming that relies solely on water and certain additives instead of soil.

Chairman of the Bali Hydroponics Community, Handoyo, said that another advantage of hydroponics

system is that when the vegetable garden in the area Bedugul fail to harvest due to bad weather, hydroponically gorwn crops are not affected.

Hydroponically grown crops are not affected by climate with either, too much rain or drought, the plants still survive, he said. “When vegetable farmers in Bedugul face crop failure it causes vegetable prices to soar. This problem can be overcome with hydroponic farming”,said Handoyo. If hydroponic agriculture is developed in Bali he said, the scarcity caused by seasonal vegetable supplies will no longer occur.

Another advantage of hydroponic farming is that crops can be harvested 30 percent faster than conventionally grown crops. “There are many benefits to hydroponic gardening. For one it does not require large areas of land but also crops can be harvested in a shorted time with a more stable and higher level of quality”, said Handoyo.

Vegetable products grown hydroponically are organic and have a better texture, so they are easier to consume, he added.

Chairperson of WTI Bali, Tutik Kusuma Wardani, said

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Using certain methods of urban gardening, an area of just 100 meters can yield as much as 2000 square meters of land planted the conventional way. that hydroponics is one way to assure food security and is very appropriate for Bali, where there is less and less agricultural land available. “Urban hydroponic systems should be developed. So we are continuing to introduce

this method to the public, staring with individual households”, explained Wardani.

If enough households adopt this system, Wardani said that she is confident that the unstable price of chili can be overcome. “Hydro-

ponic farming is the answer to the problem of narrowing agricultural land and extreme weather that is problematic for the agricultural sector. Hydroponics should really be developed in Bali”, she concluded. (kmb42)

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For now, Australia’s plans for cannabis market dominance are more smoke than fire

SYDNEY - When Australia said this month it would allow exports of medicinal cannabis in a bid to dominate a global market set to be worth $55 billion by 2025, investors scrambled to buy shares in marijuana companies - pushing several of them, and the sector as a whole, to record highs.

But convoluted and restrictive licensing demands, substantial finance requirements and a guarded medical profession means even Australia’s largest marijuana companies are at least a year away from a commercial crop. And doubts linger about the prospects for smaller entities, belying the government’s ambitious plans to be the world’s leading exporter.

“There will be more cannabis used in Australia and overseas over the next 10, 20 and 50 years but it is not clear that any of the local market can capture that, let alone make money from it,” said Scott Phillips, director of research at investment company Motley Fool. “Look at the gold rush: sure, some made money, but the biggest winners were the sellers of the shovels.”

Australia’s medicinal cannabis sector, with 12 listed companies, produces a range of products that include chronic pain management and acne creams with extracts of marijuana to aid acne. The businesses acknowledge some barriers to growth but say they are primed to profit from a maturing market.

Australia already produces 50 percent of the world’s legal pop-

pies, which are processed into pharmaceutical opiates such as morphine and codeine. Last year, it expanded its legal drug market by legalising medicinal marijuana use, a move that spurred a wave of IPOs and backdoor listings on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX).

Contradicting the hype, however, only several hundred patients in Australia have so far been prescribed medical cannabis, data from the country’s Ministry for Health show, as local doctors remain wary of the benefits of marijuana.

The reluctance of doctors has curtailed the growth of Australia’s cannabis market. Australian law requires the seven companies licensed to grow medicinal cannabis to produce only enough to meet domestic demand.

But when the Australian government said it planned to allow medicinal cannabis exports - perhaps within months - the three largest companies, AusCann Group, Cann Group and Hydroponics Company immediately looked for ways to expand production.

Cann Group’s chief executive,

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Marijuana is seen for sale at Harborside, one of California’s largest and oldest dispensaries of medical marijuana, on the first day of legalized recreational marijuana sales in Oakland, California, U.S., January 1, 2018.

Peter Crock, said the company hopes to complete a new 16,000to 20,000-square-metre medicinal cannabis facility this year, while Hydroponics Company’s chief executive, David Radford, said a new production site to produce enough marijuana for 16,000 patients was

Lack of modern rice mills

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Since Bali has unique conditions, the rice sold in most markets is premium quality.

sia, Causa Iman Karana, Balinese people are not accustomed to eating medium to low-grade rice. “Since Bali has unique conditions, the rice sold in most markets is premium quality. Quite likely most of the rice being sold on the island is of premium quality”, she said.

However, there are still very few modern rice mills in Bali. Head of Bali Food, Horticulture and Plantation Agency, I.B. Wisnuardana, said that of more than 800 rice mills in Bali, only 5 percent of the are modern. “Most of the milling machines are remnants of the Dutch colonial era. A lot of the rice grains and thus broken in the process of milling. Bali is in need of modern rice mills”, said Wisnuardana.

Modern rice mills can also process a larger amount of rice at a time with a capacity for many tons a day. Modern rice mills also come with grain dryers. “With a dryer the rice grains retain their high quality.

Meanwhile currently small rice mills dry the rice in the sun, which is problematic in the dry season.

Also sometimes the rice gets mixed with dirt form the ground on which it is dried”, he explained.

Modern rice mills are also equipped with rice polishers that can produce white and fragrant rice. The Horticultural and Plantation Agency has therefor created a program to replace several old rice mills. They plan to replace 3-4 rice mills a year. (kmb42)

“95 percent” complete.

Even once the facilities are built, however, both companies might not be allowed to grow an exportable crop right away. Australia said it will only allow exports of processed or manufactured cannabis products such as oil extracts, which

require a separate manufacturing licence.

“Obtaining a licence is an exhaustive and complicated process,” Crock said. Cann Group hopes to have full regulatory approval by the time its new facility is ready at the end of 2018. (rtr)

People evacuated from Papua New Guinea island after volcano explodes

Medium–grade rice unappealing to Balinese market DENPASAR — Based on observations by the Bank Indonesia, since early November 2017, the price of medium-grade rice has been gradually rising in Denpasar and Singaraja, As of the second week of January 2018, the price of medium–grade rice had reached IDR 11,113 / kg in Denpasar, while in Singaraja slightly more at IDR 11,875.

Market operations conducted since October by the Logisitics Agency (Bulog) seem unable to prevent the price hikes. prices..

Through their market operations, the Bulog has distributed some 300 tons of low quality rice.

According to Chief of Bali Representative Office of Bank Indone-

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The remote island volcano of Kadovar spews ash into the sky in Papua New Guinea, January 6, 2018.

SYDNEY - About 1,500 people are being evacuated from an island off the northern coast of Papua New Guinea (PNG) after a nearby volcano erupted, the local Red Cross said on Sunday.

A volcano on the island of Kadovar, located about 24 km (15 miles) north of the Papuan mainland, began erupting on Jan. 5. That prompted the evacuation of 590 people on Kadovar to the nearby island of Blup Blup.

After venting ash for several days, the volcano exploded on Friday, blasting out glowing red rocks and sulphur dioxide, the Rabaul Volcanological Observatory said in a bulletin. The PNG government then decided to evacuate Blup Blup as well because of issues with supplying people on the island along with the danger from the eruption.

The evacuees are being moved to the mainland and the International Red

Cross is providing about 87,000 kina ($26,274) in funding to help them, said PNG Red Cross Secretary General Uvenama Rova by telephone from the capital of Port Moresby.

“The people there, as the volcano erupted, they rushed immediately to escape. So they are in immediate need of food, water, shelter and clothing as well,” he said.

In the latest bulletin issued on Sunday, the Observatory said a dome of lava on Kadover was visible in the sea at the base of thick white steam clouds that are rising to 600 metres (1,969 feet) above sea level.

Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop announced on twitter that the Australian Government was contributing A$25,000 ($19,775) worth of humanitarian supplies for those affected. (rtr)

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Qin Shi Huang Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum BEIJING - A remarkable sight appeared in 1974, near the ancient capital of Xi’an. Some farmers happened to dig up what turned out to be a large-scale pit with terracotta soldiers and horses, belonging to the Emperor Qin Shi Huang, or the Founding Emperor of the Qin. After 2,200 years, the Emperor’s tremendous army stood as though living again before people’s eyes.

The figures that the farmers found were around the size of real people. The pit was in Shaanxi Province, Lintong County, Jiangzhai xichang Village. It was around three Chinese li, or roughly one mile, from the east side of the Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s tomb mound. The Chinese Cultural Relics Administrative Department immediately organized its forces and carried out an investigation. After further excavation they actually found that the area of the discovery was a great deal larger and that inside this area were buried some 6,000 terracotta figures of horses

and soldiers. After this, archaeologists discovered a second and third pit of horses and soldiers: the first discovery was called #1 pit, nearby in test excavations they discovered pits #2 and #3. Linked together, the three pits covered an area of 20,000 square meters and included around 8,000 figures.

To bury an entire army of individual soldiers under the ground was unheard of in the world. This ancient phenomenon gave evidence to the world of the Chinese people’s sophistication and rich cultural heritage. It is no wonder that the former French Premier expressed amazement when he saw it, ‘The Qin terracotta pit is one of the marvels of the world. To go to Egypt and not see the pyramids is not really going to Egypt; to go to China and not see this sight is not really going to China.’

In order to better protect this historical treasure house, a building was put over the #1 pit which has a bow-shaped steel framework,

to form a vast exhibition hall. The building is 230 meters long, 72 meters wide, and 22 meters high. It can hold two football fields inside.

The Qin Shi Huang Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum was officially inaugurated and opened to the public in 1979.

Standing inside the hall over #1 pit, people can see over 1,000 of the horses and soldiers that have been excavated and cleaned up; the rest of the 5,000 are in the process of being cleaned, one by one. The army is arrayed in a rectangular formation, all facing east. In front are three rows each with 210 warriors making up the front ranks, after them are marching soldiers and horses drawing war chariots, making up the main body of this army. The two sides of the army and the rear each have a line of warriors, divided to face south, north, west - this was perhaps to maintain a contingent for the sides and the rear of the hall, to guard against rear attack.

The terracotta statues, horses and people, are roughly the same size as real horses and people, the proportions are extremely accurate. This reflects the high level of sculptural arts at the time of the Qin dynasty. From the placement, the hair and clothing styles and weaponry of the statues, one can generally understand their rank and position. Some wear tunics, some carry shields, some have their hair tied in a bun, some wear footwear while others do not, some have armor breastplates, some have fishscale armour. Soldiers with relatively long beards are placed towards the rear, and one sees at a glance that they are seasoned older generals. In addition to foot soldiers there are also some cavalry members leading horses or driving chariots. Some of the soldiers are kneeling, ready to shoot their arrows: each has a special posture according to his duties.

In terms of finer features, the statues are remarkably lifelike. The

head and facial expression of each soldier is different, so that clearly each was the work of a sculptor and they were not produced from a mold. Through fine detail on the eyebrows, face, mouth and nose, the internal character and rich expressions of each soldier are expressed. Some of the statues were clearly northwest minority peoples, which also shows the origins of the Qin-dynasty soldiers.

The cavalry and war chariots had an extremely important place in ancient armies. Those examples excavated from the pit included steeds that were vigorous and fat.

Their ears were erect, their eyes wide and mouths open, they were generally 1.5 high, with smallish heads and relatively short legs.

Some people say that these horses seem to resemble the Hequ Horses found in Gansu today or the Hetian Horses found in Xinjiang, which are excellent racehorses, good at climbing slopes, and also are excellent warhorses with great strength. (net)

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Charm of giant butterfly draws tourists

GIANYAR — The charm of giant barong butterfly of Sukawati attracts foreign tourists to visit Kemenuh village. The beautifully colored large wing span of these rare buttterflies have made The Kemenuh Butterfly Park the iconic tourist attraction of Kemenuh village.

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The district of Badung has reduced the number of homes that will be part of the home refurbishment program in 2018 (RTS), from 525 to just 150 homes.

Badung refurbishes 150 homes in 2018

MANGUPURA — The district of Badung has reduced the number of homes that will be part of the home refurbishment program in 2018 (RTS), from 525 to just 150 homes.

Head of the Badung Housing and Settlement Agency, AAN Bayu Kumara Putra, explained that a total of 150 homes have already been refurbished with a total budget of IDR 8.2 billion. “We will allocate funds for the remaiing 717 homes in the program next year”, said AAN Kumara when contacted on Wednesday (Jan. 10).

AAN Kumara added that he hopes that the home refurbishment program can be completed no later than 2019. “The home refurbishment for 2017 is completed. A total of 625 target households have been selected”, he said.

If the district of Badung’s financial condition is better this coming year, then the budget for the home refurbishment program may be increased, so that less people will need the program in 2019.

The number of targeted households that were verified in 2017 based on proposals from village authorities amounted to 3,815 households in Badung. They consist of 841 households targeted for total renovations with funding of IDR 55 million, 794 households for partial renovations with funding of IDR 30 million and light improvements to some 1,190 targeted homes with a funding of IDR 15 million.

Habitable home assistance was accorded to 625 homes in 2017 with grants of IDR 55 million each

while the rest will be proposed in the Regional Budget 2018 and Regional Budget 2019. Social assistance funds for home refurbishment is transferred directly to the accounts of beneficiaries according to the decree of determination issued by the regent of Badung. Of the 625 beneficiaries of habitable homes, Petang subdistrict receives aid allocation of 111 RTS, Abiansemal (264), Mengwi (244), North Kuta (3) and South Kuta (3) originating from 45 villages in Badung.

Deputy Regent of Badung, Ketut Suiasa, previously explained that a healthy house consists of 2 bedrooms, 1 living room and 1 bathroom or toilet. This program is expected to be accounted properly and correctly, including reporting that must include receipts from the purchase of materials.

“Hopefully, village headmen can monitor and oversee the use of the funds provided to those in need to ensure that they are properly utilized to improve people’s welfare”, he added.

Suiasa further explained that the habitable house program is part of the District of Badung’s ongoing efforts to improve the welfare of the community – in this case those 3,300 houses targeted for improvement. Gradually they will all have improvement made to their facilities and infrastructure. “This assistance is meant to lift people out of poverty and encourage people to improve their lives by being pro-active, diligent and hard working”, he concluded. (kmb27)

Kemenuh Butterfly Park also serves as a conservation area and as local tour guide Gusdek explained this butterfly is considered a rare sight as they only live for 5 days. There entire like cycle from caterpillar to cocoon to butterfly takes about 2 months.

The Kemenuh Butterfly Park consists of a main butterfly garden, an artificial waterfall decorated with a butterfly statue and artificial bridges, as well as a larvae breeding area and butterfly house. The larvae breeding area serves as a shelter for the larvae before they become caterpillars as is only planted with erythrina trees and protected by a giant net.

The larvae or worms hang out in the erythrina trees eating their leaves and will continue to do so until they become caterpillars and take refuge in their cocoons.

The cocoons are then moved to the cocoon house to

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protect them from the rain. “Many cocoons perish during the rainy season, so we made this house to protect them”, said Gusdek. The butterflies also seek refuge in the cocoon house.

Most of the visitors to the Kemnenuh Butterfly Park are foregin tourists. When Bali Post visited this tourist attraction, there were visibly more foreingers with only about 5- 10 percent local tourirts. Gusdek added that most visitors are from Europe while Chinese tourists tend to come in groups.

Hundreds of butterflies fill the park as as one enters the garden butterflies can be seen fluttering to and fro amongst the flowers. “This is like a giant butterfly house”, said an Arab tourist.

After passing through the main garden, visitors arrive at the artificial waterfall. From there a coral path then leads to the breeding area and then the cocoon breeding area where the trees are filled with larvae and coccoon. The area is not too vaste so it is easy to see all the groungs. Upon leaving the area, two large butterflies were seen perched on the edge of their former coocoon indicating that they had just hatched. (kmb42)

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After radius of disater-prone area reduced

Head of Information and Public Relations of the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB), Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, said that as of Friday (Jan. 12), there were still 51,914 evacuees spread over some 232 evacuation posts. The phreatic eruption on Thursday did not pose a threat to flight safety and Ngruah Rai Airport is still operating as usual. Volcanic ash from the eruption of Mount Agung did not reach the City of Denpasar.

There was some volcanic ashfall in area to the north and north east of Mount Agung. The distribution of ash fall was only very close to Mount Agung as the ash burst only reached 2, 500 kilometers above the great mountain. The weather that day was cloudy and rainy around most of the mountain. According to information from Pasebaya, there awas thin volcanic ash-fall in Tulamben, Rubaya and Dukuh Kubu. People’s activities were not interrupted and there was no panic in these communities.

People are nonetheless encouraged to remain calm.

Mount Agung is still experiencing volcanic activity and the alert level for the mountain remains at “warning”. It is still possible that the volcano will erupt explosively.

The public is being urged to continue to comply with the government’s recommendation that no activities take place within a radius of 6 kilometers from the peak of the mountain. “Nobody should climb the mountain and certainly not be anywhere near the crater because it is still dangerous. The area beyond 6 kilometers of the crater is safe and normal activities are taking place”, said Sutopo Purwo Nugroho.

PVMBG in its official release on Friday (Jan. 12) stated that the maximum amplitude of the latest eruption was recorded as 27 mm (over scale) with a duration of 130 seconds. In addition to the area within the direct vicinity of the peak, volcanic ashes also spread northward and northeastward following the wind. In line with the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), in an effort to improve safety, the Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) issued a code orange Volcano Observatory Notice for Aviation (VONA. If the height of the eruption column is more than 6,000 meters above sea level, the a code red will be issued which means that pilots should avoid the area around Mount Agung.

Mount Agung which stands at a height of 3,142 meters has showed signs of volcanic activity since since September 2017 and continues to show sign of varying degrees of activity. After a series of some 27,000 small earthquakes known as tremors, the volcano first erupted on November 21, 2017. The most intense eruptions to date occurred on November 27-28, 2017 when the height of the eruption column of ash reaches about 4,000 meters above the peak of Mount Agung or more than 7,000 meters above sea level. (kmb31)

Refugees started to come home after radius of disater-prone area reduced.

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21,000 evacuees return home

AMLAPURA - A week after the the radius of the disaster-prone area of Mount Agung was reduced to 6 km from the summit, there remain some 53, 000 people living in evacuation posts while another 21,000 have returned to their home on the lower slopes of Mount Agung.

Although there was another small eruption on Thursday Afternoon (Jan 11), apparently none of the evacuees that had returned home panicked or returned to the evacuation posts.

It would appear that they have grown accustomed to Mount Agung having small eruptions at any time.

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Beliefs, Rituals and Spirits behind day to day life in Bali The meeting held at Tanah Ampo Command Post.

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Evaluation of taskforce commander

Rice stocks run out, relying on supply from Klungkung

AMLAPURA - After a the most recent small eruption of Mount Agung, commander of the Mount Agung eruption task-force, Benny Rahadian, intensified the disaster evaluation meeting at Tanah Ampo Command Post, Manggis, Karangasem, on Friday (Jan. 12).

The coordinators of each field were asked to report the latest conditions in the filed in order to optimize the handling of evacuees. One urgent matter is the rice stocks for the evacuees that have been running out since January 5. Currently they are relying on Klungkung for their supply of rice In the evaluation meeting it was revealed that rice stocks were temporarily being borrowed from the Klungkung Logisitcs Agency (Bulog) while waiting for the rice reserves from the central Bulog to be dropped off. The funds for rice stocks accounted for in the main regional budget ( APBD) 2018 are still being processed. Currently the need for rice can still be fulfilled, however there is fear that this might not be the case for long.

The Public Works and Housing (PUPR) Agency conveyed that several evacuees posts are also facing a decrease in the amount of water being discharged. Also the irrigation channels in Tangkup, Selat and Bebandem that were damaged by the eruption will be fixed this year.

Clean water springs in the 6 km radius disaster-prone area that were affected by the eruption will also be mapped. Municipal Waterworks (PDAM) pipelines within the 6 km radius that have been damaged will

also be discussed further with the PDAM. In terms of livestock, it was revealed that there are currently 3, 200 head of livestocks spread across evacuation posts in five subdistricts. Feed for the livestock is no longer an issue as a lot of feed is being provided and livestock owners are being proactive in looking for feed to keep their cows healthy.

Since the radius of the disasterprone area was reduced from 8 km to 6 km, there are now 18 elementary schools, 2 junior high schools in 5 subdistricts located between 8 and 6 kilometers of the crater of Mount Agung. Teachers have told their students that if there is a large eruption the kentongan (bamboo wooden split gate) will be sounded.

Students are expected not to panic if there is really a large eruption. “ Schools located within the radius of 6 km are certainly closed”, said the Taskforce commander In response to the reduction of the radius of the disaster-prone area, Head of the Karangasem Education Agency, Gusti Ngurah Kartika, has asked teachers from schools within the 6 kilometer radius to temporarily teach in the evacuation posts.

The Taskforce commander also asked that all people in charge of different areas continue to work hard as the volcanic activity of Mount Agung is still fluctuating. If conditions remain like this until March, each evacuation post needs to be ready to facilitate evacuees in carrying out the Hindu holiday of abstinence known as Nyepi. (kmb31)

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Ed Sheeran and Dua Lipa dominate Brit Award nominations LONDON - Ed Sheeran, Dua Lipa, Liam Payne and Stormzy are among the nominees for this year’s Brit Awards, Britain’s most prestigious pop music prizes.

Sheeran is in the running in four categories - British male solo artist, best video and single for “Shape of You”, and best album.

Singer Dua Lipa received the most nominations. Her single “New Rules” was a break out hit last year and she is nominated in five categories including best album, best female artist and best single.

And former One Direction star Payne was nominated for best single and video for “Strip That Down”, which has now been a hit in Britain, Australia and United States. “The song’s done extremely

well, I am extremely happy with the success so far... We just reached a billion streams. I have never written down that number, I have never had the need,” Payne said backstage at an event to announce the nominees in London.

“It’s amazing. You look at it and you’re like, wow, it’s one-sixth of the world’s population, incredible.”

Dua Lipa will compete for best female artist against the likes of Jessie Ware and 2015 winner Paloma Faith.

East London rapper J Hus and platinum-selling songwriter Rag’n’Bone Man have three nominations apiece, including for best album, while Stormzy’s “Gang Signs and Prayer” is also nominated. (rtr)

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Plane skids off Turkish runway on Black Sea coast, passengers unhurt

ISTANBUL - A Pegasus Airlines flight skidded off the runway of a Turkish coastal airport and ended up halfway down a steep slope into the Black Sea, but no passengers or crew were hurt, Turkish media reported on Sunday.

The incident happened on Saturday night at Trabzon airport in northeast Turkey. Pictures from the site showed the plane’s nose close to the water’s edge.

Pegasus Airlines said in a statement that the Boeing 737-800

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aircraft, flying from Ankara to Trabzon, “had a runway excursion incident” as it landed but the 162 passengers, two pilots and four cabin crew were unhurt.

The Pegasus Airline’s Boeing 737 was flying from the Turkish

capital Ankara to Trabzon Airport.

It is not yet known what caused the plane to skid off on to the cliff face. The local governor, Yucel Yavuz, said an investigation had been launched into the incident -

which Pegasus Airlines described in a statement as a “runway excursion”.

The airport, situated in the Turkish province of the same name, was closed for several hours afterwards but has since reopened.

Social media users reacted to the footage of the crash, with some saying it was “incredible it stopped where it did”. “How lucky are

those passengers!” wrote one person on Twitter. (rtr) 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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DiCaprio to star in Charles Manson-era Tarantino movie

LOS ANGELES - Leonardo DiCaprio will star in a movie set around the Charles Manson murders, Hollywood entertainment publications reported on Friday, but he will not play the role of the American cult leader.

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DiCaprio will instead take the part of an aging, out-of-work actor in the as-yet untitled movie being produced and directed by Oscarwinner Quentin Tarantino, Variety and Deadline.com said.

Plot details have not been released but Tarantino said in November that it was not a biographical movie but a story set during the summer of 1969, when a string of gruesome killings in Southern California were carried out by Manson’s followers.

Manson, one of the 20th century’s most notorious criminals, died in November at the age of 83. He had been serving a life sentence for ordering the murders of nine people including actress Sharon Tate.

The Sony Pictures movie is to be released on Aug. 9, 2019, exactly 50 years after Tate and four friends were stabbed or shot dead.

Deadline and Variety said that Australian actress Margot Robbie has been asked to play Sharon

Tate. Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Al Pacino are also rumored to be interested, or are being sought, for the movie.

Sony Pictures, part of Sony Corp, did not return a request for comment on the casting.

The movie will be the first Tarantino film to be released without the Weinstein Company following allegations by more than 70 women of sexual misconduct against its former chief executive Harvey Weinstein. (rtr)

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