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Tuesday, March 24, 2015

‘Insurgent’ seizes top spot; ‘The Gunman’ misfires

LOS ANGELES — Sean Penn’s “The Gunman” was no match for the rebel kids of “Insurgent.” The second installment in the “Divergent” series easily topped the box office with $54 million from 3,875 theaters, according to Rentrak estimates Sunday. Penn’s geopolitical thriller stumbled with only $5 million.

While the second films in both the “Hunger Games” and the “Twilight” series boasted opening weekend gains over the first, “Insurgent’s” opening nearly matches that of its predecessor, “Divergent,” which debuted to $54.6 million just last year.

Many predicted a bit of growth for this second film, which sees the return of stars Shailene Woodley, Theo James, and Kate Winslet to author Veronica Roth’s dystopian world. But, both distributor Lionsgate and box office analysts see the consistency as a good thing.

“We’re extremely pleased with the outcome,” said Lionsgate’s President of Domestic Distribution Richie Fay. “I think this is exactly where we thought we’d be,” he added. “We attracted a few more males this time around, and I think we’re headed in the right direction. The uptick from Friday to Saturday was considerably higher than it was for ‘Divergent.’ That, the A- CinemaScore and what’s coming into the marketplace will allow us to grow very nicely.”

According to Lionsgate, 60 percent of audiences were female.

Rentrak’s Senior Media Analyst Paul Dergarabedian credits Lionsgate’s consistent release date strategy and impressive marketing campaign

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This photo provided by Lionsgate shows, Kate Winslet, left, as Jeanine, and Ansel Elgort, as Caleb, in a scene from the film, “The Divergent Series: Insurgent.” The movie opens in U.S. theaters Friday, March 20, 2015.

for the strong repeat performance.

“It’s really about driving a very fickle audience, that teen, YA — whatever you want to call them — they’re really tough to get a handle on. Their tastes change like the wind,” he said.

“The key is keeping the young adult audience engaged, excited and enthusiastic.”

“Insurgent” also performed well overseas, taking in $47 million from 76 markets, bringing its worldwide total to $101 million.

Disney’s live-action “Cinderella,” meanwhile, fell 49 percent in Week 2 to take second place with $34.5 million. The PG-rated film has earned an impressive $122 million domestically to date.

Also in its second weekend in theaters, the R-rated Liam Neeson-led action film “Run All Night,” managed a slight edge over Open Road’s “The Gunman.” Neeson’s film, a Warner

Bros. release, dropped 54 percent with its $5.1 million weekend, while Penn’s film debuted in fourth place with only $5 million.

“You have a lot of R-rated competition out there right now,” noted Dergarabedian, who also added that Penn’s foray into the action genre has not garnered the best reviews.

“Kingsman: The Secret Service,” one of the better performing R-rated releases in recent weeks, rounded out the top five with $4.6 million in its sixth weekend in theaters.

The 20th Century Fox film has now earned over $114.6 million domestically.

“Over the past couple of weeks, films driven by the female audience have done much better than films driven by the male audience. But that’s all going to change because ‘Furious 7’ is on the way,” said Dergarabedian. (ap)

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Kerry Washington, Roland Emmerich among GLAAD honorees

BEVERLY HILLS — Actress Kerry Washington, director Roland Emmerich, the film “The Imitation Game” and television shows “Transparent” and “How to Get Away With Murder” have received stamps of approval from a leading advocacy group for gays in the media.

GLAAD is a U.S.based group that promotes lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender presence in the media, and celebrated its honorees at a ceremony here Saturday night.

GLADD president and Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP CEO Sarah Kate Ellis Kerry Washington arrives at the said “Scandal” star Wash- 26th Annual GLAAD Media Awards ington was chosen by the held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel group because, “She’s on Saturday, March 21, 2015, in done quite a bit for the Beverly Hills, Calif.

LGBT community and she’s a phenomenal spokeswoman for us. And she’s got our back. And she always has.”

In Washington’s acceptance speech, the actress reminded the audience, “In 1997, when Ellen (DeGeneres) made her famous declaration, it took place in an America where the Defense of Marriage Act had just passed months earlier, and civil unions were not legal in any state. But also remember that just 30 years before that, the Supreme Court was deciding that the ban against interracial marriage was unconstitutional.

“Up until then, heterosexual people of different races couldn’t marry who they wanted to marry either. So, when black people today say that they don’t believe in gay marriage ... the first thing that I say is, ‘Please don’t let anybody try to get you to vote against your own best interest by feeding you messages of hate.’ And then I say, ‘People used to say things about that about you and your love.’”

The German Emmerich is perhaps best known for producing and directing the 1996 blockbuster “Independence Day,” as well as the 1998 remake of “Godzilla” and 2004’s “The Day After Tomorrow.” Now openly gay, Emmerich said he long kept his homosexuality private because he didn’t want to be limited to making only films with gay stories, as had happened with other directors in Germany.

Emmerich’s gay-themed historical drama “Stonewall” will be released later this year. And Emmerich said “Independence Day 2,” due next year, will feature an openly gay character. (ap)

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A woman takes photos of cards for former Singaporean prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, placed at a well-wishing corner at the Singapore General Hospital in Singapore March 23, 2015.

Lee, Singapore’s first prime minister and architect of the tiny Southeast Asian city-state’s rapid rise from British tropical outpost to global trade and financial centre, died early on Monday, aged 91, the Prime Minister’s Office said.

Singapore in mourning as first PM Lee Kuan Yew dies

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SINGAPORE - Singapore plunged into mourning and world leaders united in tribute Monday after the death of Lee Kuan Yew, the iron-fisted politician who forged a prosperous citystate out of unpromising beginnings.

His son, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, issued a statement before dawn announcing the passing of his 91-year-old father at Singapore General Hospital following a long illness.

“He fought for our independence, built a nation where there was none, and made us proud to be Singaporeans. We won’t see another like him,” the prime minister said in an emotional televised address.

US President Barack Obama led foreign leaders in hailing Lee, who turned a small territory lacking natural resources into a world player in finance, trading and ship-

ping -- all the while with a heavy political grip that was long decried by rights campaigners.

His mix of economic reform allied with political authoritarianism was of particular appeal to communist China as it opened up in the 1980s, and the ethnic-Chinese Lee’s advice was held in high esteem in Beijing.

President Xi Jinping praised Lee as an “old friend of the Chinese people” and said he was “widely respected by the international community as a strategist and a statesman”.

After news broke of Lee’s death, hundreds of Singaporeans, some

weeping, visited the gates of the Istana state complex to leave flowers and cards, and sign a condolence board.

Some chanted “Mr Lee, Mr Lee” as a hearse carrying his body drove into the compound for a two-day private family wake, after which his coffin will be borne on a gun carriage to lie in state at Parliament House.

A tearful Sharon Tan, 39, and her five-year-old son Ryan Mackay were among the first to arrive.

“I brought Ryan here to share an important part of Singapore’s history to him and also to help him understand why mummy is so sad,” she said.

A state funeral service will be held at the National University of Singapore on Sunday before Lee is cremated, ending seven days of

national mourning.

Lee, whose health rapidly deteriorated after his wife of 63 years, Kwa Geok Choo, died in 2010, was in hospital for nearly seven weeks with severe pneumonia.

Despite growing anticipation of his death, sales manager June Tay Mae Sann, 37, said “it was still very different when it happened”.

Lee served as prime minister from 1959, when colonial ruler Britain granted self-rule, to 1990, leading Singapore to independence in 1965 after a brief and stormy union with Malaysia.

Singapore now has one of the world’s highest per capita incomes and its residents enjoy near-universal home ownership, low crime rates and first-class infrastructure.

The opposition Workers’ Party,

whose leaders were among those harried for years by Lee under his unyielding rule, joined the rest of the nation of 5.5 million people in mourning him.

“His contributions to Singapore will be remembered for generations to come,” it said in a statement.

On the diplomatic front, Lee’s counsel was often sought by Western leaders, particularly on China, as well as on more volatile neighbours in Southeast Asia.

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Pengrupukan, waste volume increases

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School may not set passing grade rashly

Do not just seek 100-percent graduation

BANGLI - The waste produced by residents of Bangli on Pengerupukan, -the day before Nyepi, Friday (Mar. 20), was considerably more than on normal days, amounting to about 180 cubic meters, compared to the average of about 125 cubic meters. The added trash meant that janitors were burdened with overtime lasting well into the night, said Head of Bangli Urban Planning Agency, Ida Ayu Yudi Sutha on Sunday (Mar. 22).

“On Pengrupukan Nyepi, the amount of waste produced increased by about 50 cubic meters, mostly as a result of the ogoh-ogoh parade” explained said Sutha, who went on to explain that 70 percent of the waste was inorganic mostly refuse from the papier macho demons, with only 30 percent being organic waste that is attributed to household refuse produced in preparation for Nyepi. The increase in waste happened on Nyepi, she said, which means that many more hours are spent cleaning and more trucks are need to transport the increased refuse. “The trucks have an added 2 cubic meters or 4 extra trucks and janitors work up to 6 hours over-time,” she said.

To speed up the transportation of the waste, Sutha said that at least 80 janitors are deployed, most of whom are borrowed from the Bangli Urban Planning Agency.

The extra waste results from both the ogoh-ogoh themselves as well as general refuse left behind by those attending the parade.

Janitors focus their attention on cleaning up the streets where the ogoh ogoh have passed, they then move onto public spaces such as fields and such. “More janitorial officers are focused on the points of ogoh-ogoh parade,” she explained.

Sutha said the number of janitors and trucks insufficient to deal with the huge amount of waste (up to 180 cubic meters), so to overcome this problem, they have the trucks working more quickly than usual. Also, “To speed up the transport and sorting of the waste, we also cooperate with scavengers who help us to gather plastic waste that can be brought to junk banks,” she concluded. (kmb45)

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The garbage is pilling up due to the Pengerupukan and Nyepi Day

DENPASAR - School authorities are now making preparation to draft the passing grade to determine students’ graduation. They are expected to be cautious and do not rashly determine the passing grade. They may not set the passing grade too low so as the students can reach graduation of 100 percent or even on the contrary, may not be too high.

“We have conveyed to principal colleagues not to rashly determine the passing grade,” said the Head of Karangasem Education Agency, Gede Ariyasa.

He said that Karangasem Education Agency already summoned the principals of junior, senior high and vocational schools in Karangasem to follow up the issuance of the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) of national exam and Regulation of the Minister of Education No.5/2015 concerning the Criteria of Student Passing Grade, Implementation of National Exam and School Exam or Education of Equality for junior high, senior high and vocational school or respective equivalence. Principals were emphasized to examine the national exam and regulation of the Minister of Education and Culture.

Then, each school was asked to agree together how much the passing grade is and the scoring between school exam and the average score of report cards.

He added that to determine the passing grade, schools must examine the ability of students at the school concerned. Do not set the passing grade too high, while the ability of students is below the passing grade. Actually it will hurt the students. Similarly, the passing grade must not be set too low, below the average of the student’s ability in general. “If a passing grade is too low, it will make the quality of our education not well-guaranteed.

Finally, all the students can pass but are inappropriate with their actual ability,” he said.

Ariyasa admitted that his side will not question if the passing grade between one school and another is different. Indeed the ability of schools and students at different location is different. Moreover, the existing rule allows the differences in passing grade. Data on the passing grade and scoring at each school will be duly deposited to Karangasem Education Agency.

Separately, a member of Commis-

sion IV of the Bali House, Nyoman Parta, in charge of education, also asked the schools not to arbitrarily determine the passing grade for students’ graduation. The passing grade must not be designed to enable the graduation of 100 percent without considering the actual ability of students. “Do not let all the schools make a low passing grade so that they can solely pass their students 100 percent.

It is dangerous and a setback for the education in Bali,” said Parta doubling as Chairman of the PDI-P Faction in the Bali House.

Parta added that determination of the passing grade is given to schools and the graduation of students is determined by the Teacher Council. On one side, this can become a step forward. Its positive side, public schools in urban and rural areas can make different passing grade according to their own ability. Likewise, public schools and private schools in rural areas are equally able to make the passing grade corresponding to their school conditions. “However, it has the disadvantages where schools can set the passing grade too low for fear that their students will not pass 100 percent,” he added.

Another weakness, added the PDI-P politician from Gianyar, if the passing grade is different among the schools, the government will have difficulty in making an evaluation on the quality of education in the region.

Besides, the government will have difficulty to make a mapping on the teacher quality as well as the quality and quantity of infrastructure at a school. “This may happen because the weakness of a school will be covered up by the 100 percent graduation,” said Parta.

As reported previously (Mar. 18), schools are given the authority and flexibility in determining the graduation of students based on passing grade (minimum score criteria) determined by the schools from the combination of school test scores and score of report cards whose composition is determined by the schools. Graduation of students is determined by the score of the school which is a combination of school test scores and the average score of the report card with the composition of 30 percent to 50 percent of school test scores and 50 percent to 70 percent of the average score of report cards. (kmb29)

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CANGGU - Soon to celebrate its first birthday, Body Temple Spa has been using its first year of operation wisely by listening to its clientele and creating some tailored packages aimed at those who are fortunate to call Bali their home.

What they heard from their guests is that, contrary to holidaymakers, relaxation is nice, but it takes a backseat to regular grooming once you choose to

live your life in Bali. Between school runs, work and the hundred other obligations facing the Bali modern woman, time, efficiency and value for money

are a definite concern.

A branch of well-known Bali hospitality group Semara Resorts, who also owns landmarks such as Canggu Club,

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Unique jars attract French travelers Behind the widespread development of hotel and restaurant business in Bali, in fact, the jar business also begins to draw the interests of foreign tourists. Even, the jar commonly just functioning to hold drinking water, rice and ritual paraphernalia becomes an attractive ornament for foreign tourists that will be used for decorations such as flower pots, flower vases or just put as indoor or outdoor decoration.

A jar showroom entrepreneur of Duuran Gemilang, I Wayan Wirthawan, became interested in developing jar business in Bali. According to him, the business pioneered in 2004 with family was considered rare because it could still be counted on fingers. “In the first year, we only the sold ready-to-use jars and the buyers were still around local community. Then, in harmony with the passage of time, we started our self-production and did promotion not only locally but also abroad,” he said friendly.

The first showroom, said Wirthawan, was located on Jalan Raya Kerobokan, Kuta. As a result, the business he pioneered started to grow and began to draw the interests of foreign tourists. Since then, he opened a branch at Lukluk area. “Since there are foreign tourists so we need to increase the production and more spacious location.

Currently, 80 percent of the consumers are French travelers,” said the businessman from Singaraja.

Aside from French tourists, continued Wirthawan, his jars were also ordered by many Australian travelers.

Even lately, Indian travelers were also getting interested. “In Bali, our jars were usually ordered by hotels, villas, restaurants, offices and the expatriate community. So other than using export system, consumers usually come in person to our showroom,” he explained.

Jars belonging to Wirthawan are unique, ranging from the material processing to painting and they are entirely done manually. However, the products yielded are no less good, even have better quality and the result is slicker. “The process of making jars here is almost the same as making tiles. However, it is made directly by skilled hands and wooden craft tools,” he explained.

In the first phase, said Wirthawan, was the pulping of clay. “Clay is pulping with enough water and then mixed with the processed white sand especially earmarked for jars. After that, it is shaped in accordance with the order and dried under the sun. Then, burning is made approximately for 5 hours. Ultimately, it is resumed with the coloring process like into yellow, black, brown, blue and green or according to taste,”

he said.

Currently, with the help of 12 employees, Duuran Gemilang can produce jars up to hundreds of pieces every month with varied sizes and about 50 motifs such as floral, leaf, animal and much more. The most preferred jar is the classical product in jumbo-size.

“Recently, we are constantly making innovation to develop new motifs.

Hopefully, we can open a new branch,” he added. (kmb)

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

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

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

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

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

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Neanderthals shape up as globe’s first jewellers ZAGREB - The widely-held vision of Neanderthals as brutes may need a stark rethink after research found they crafted the world’s earliest jewellery from eagle talons 130,000 years ago, long before modern humans appeared in Europe.

“While reviewing eight, whitetailed eagle talons and an associated phalanx, on the latter I noticed numerous cut marks and a revelation just struck me -- they were made by a human hand,” Davorka Radovcic, a curator at Croatia’s Natural History Museum, told AFP. The revelation came in late 2013 while reviewing the Krapina Neanderthal collection she had just taken over, items from a site once inhabited by the extinct people in what is modern-day Croatia.

“I knew immediately what might be the implication of that finding,” said the anthropologist, carefully holding one of the talons that are kept in a small box.

An international study began with the research published earlier this month by the PLOS peer-reviewed international online scien-

tific publication.

The Krapina site, some 50 kilometres (31 miles) north of Zagreb, has yielded the world’s richest collection of Neanderthal fossils. The site containing the remains of some 80 individuals, and including the talons, was discovered in 1899 by Croatian palaeontologist Dragutin Gorjanovic-Kramberger.

But it took 115 years to establish that the talons and phalanx at the Zagreb museum were jewellery, and therefore used for a symbolic purpose.

“I simply had a fresh eye,” Radovcic said modestly of her find that for decades had escaped the numerous scientists visiting to study the rich collection.

She initiated the research conducted along with two Croatian colleagues -- Ankica Oros Srsen

and Jakov Radovcic -- as well US anthropology professor David Frayer from the University of Kansas.

The four scientists for months carefully reviewed the specimens that had cut marks, polished facets and abrasions suggesting they had been mounted into jewellery.

They could not determine their symbolic value for Neanderthals or how they wore them, as a necklace or a bracelet. But there is evidence they collected the remains of eagles, as in the Krapina talon assemblage they identified at least three individual birds.

“This is, at least for the time being, the world’s earliest jewellery,” Radovcic said.

Up until now early jewellery was linked to anatomically modern humans -- estimated to be up to

110,000 years old -- and consisting of shell beads found at prehistoric sites in Israel.

The researchers also say the Krapina jewellery indicates that contrary to long-held beliefs, Neanderthals possessed the capacity for complex cognitive thinking.

“This is an example of abstract thinking. It proves that Neanderthals possessed a symbolic culture some 80,000 years before the appearance of more modern human forms in Europe,” Radovcic emphasised.

Eagles, with a wingspan of more than two meters (seven feet), were among the most impressive flying predators in the Neanderthal environment, and the mighty birds apparently had special value.

“I believe they were admiring eagles .... This jewellery is a message. We don’t know what it means, but perhaps they wanted to give themselves the characteristics of an eagle,” the young woman said.

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The new Krapina research may further help reduce prejudice about Neanderthals, seen as clumsy, stupid brutes in popular culture.

“When you say to someone that he is a Neanderthal it sounds derogatory,” Radovcic said.

Neanderthals lived in parts of Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East for up to 250,000 years.

The reason they vanished some 40,000 years ago is a matter of debate.

According to some theories, their population dwindled due to extreme cold winters.

Others believe they were outsmarted by the more sophisticated Homo sapiens who moved into Neanderthal territory from what is now Africa.

Eagle talons are rarely found at prehistoric sites in Europe and rarely involve more than one element. Krapina is the only Neanderthal site where eight have been found. (afp)

British DNA gives window into ancient past, Vikings and all NEW YORK — Genetic samples collected from across the United Kingdom are shedding light on the ancient past, including Viking invasions and a mystery about the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons, researchers report.

The DNA also suggests that, genetically speaking, people in Wales are the closest matches to early settlers of Britain after the last ice age, people who began showing up some 10,000 to 11,000 years ago.

That’s because the Welsh genetic material has been the least affected by later migrations, said Peter Donnelly of Oxford University, a key author of the research.

The work is presented in a paper released Wednesday by the journal Nature.

The researchers studied DNA samples from 2,039 white residents of Britain and Northern Ireland, chosen for their family roots in rural areas. The DNA they inherited from their grandparents reflects the genetic landscape of those areas in the late 1880s, researchers said.

To identify signs of ancient immigrations, the researchers consulted DNA samples taken from continental Europeans.

Analysis showed that Danish Vikings, who occupied and controlled a large part of England after invading in the year 865, have left no clear genetic heritage today.

That suggests they didn’t settle in large numbers, Donnelly said in an email.

The study also weighed in on the question of what happened after Anglo-Saxons migrated into Britain from Europe, which began in the fifth century. After they showed up, their language, cereal crops and pottery styles replaced those of the existing British population.

So was the British population wiped out or elbowed aside? Or did it simply adopt cultural practices of a few new arrivals?

The new study argues instead that a substantial number of Anglo-Saxons showed up and intermingled with the locals, said study co-author Mark Robinson of Oxford. That’s because the study found a clear but limited Anglo-Saxon genetic legacy. (ap)

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Panji villagers hold goak game

SINGARAJA - After implementing the catur bratha penyepian or four abstinences, Buleleng residents filled in the Ngembak Geni, Sunday (Mar. 22) by visiting coastal areas in North Bali.

Other than visiting the beach, residents also enjoyed an entertainment of climbing areca nut.

Meanwhile, the Panji villagers, Sukasada subdistrict played magoak-goakan game.

The competition of areca nut climbing looked to be crowded by residents in the surrounding area of Hepi Beach at Tukadmungga village and Lila Cita coastal area at Anturan village, Buleleng subdistrict. Residents coming from villages in the highland areas looked to very much enjoy the entertainment held by each village. People started going to the beach from eight o’clock in morning and kept increasing by midday. Inevitably, the crowds made by street vendors get considerable profits because their goods sold well. Other than areca nut climbing, it was also performed an entertainment like Joged Dance and Balinese pop song karaoke.

Demer, a resident from Anturan village, Buleleng subdistrict, said that every Ngembak Geni day he never misses the opportunity with

family to make a visit to the beach.

He admitted the competition of areca nut climbing and the dance are quite entertaining. In addition, the Ngembak Geni was also used to visit and congratulate family and relatives after performing the four abstinences. “I was visiting relatives and now it is time to enjoy holiday by visiting the beach.

Moreover, the entertainment is quite interesting for kids,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Ngembak Geni at Panji village, Sukasada subdistrict, was filled with performance of traditional games known as magoak-goakan. The game created in the days of King Buleleng named Ki Gusti Anglurah Panji Sakti is always played on the celebration of Nyepi. Children and teenagers at this village always play the goak game at two separate locations namely in the area of Bhuana Ker-

tha Monument and in the Public Square of Panji village.

The goak game is held in the public square drained with water from the rice field irrigation in the upstream area. Inevitably, the field area changes into a pool with a water depth of adult’s knee. Brown and muddy water do not hamper children to demonstrate the goak game. Children look so joyful and they occasionally invite the audience to join the goak game.

The goak game is staged as an entertainment for local residents and neighboring villages after the Hindus implementing the abstinences of Nyepi. In addition, the game also provides education for younger generation in order they know and love the traditional game of Buleleng and it will not come to extinction due to influence of modern entertainment. (kmb38)

The Panji villagers, Sukasada subdistrict played magoak-goakan game.

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The tradition of nyakan diwang becomes a regular tradition of residents at Banjar village, Banjar subdistrict, Buleleng.

Nyakan diwang tradition, enliven Banjar villagers after Nyepi SINGARAJA - The tradition of nyakan diwang becomes a regular tradition of residents at Banjar village, Banjar subdistrict, Buleleng.

As a tradition handed down through generations, a number of residents are conducting activities at roadside near their home and they even start the nyakan diwang from two o’clock to six o’clock in the morning, Sunday (Mar. 22).

According to a local resident, Ida Bagus Kade Susila, the tradition of nyakan diwang is a regular activity on the day after Nyepi celebration of the Çaka New Year 1937. When the cooking in daily life is held in the kitchen, this time it is carried out at roadside near their home. This hereditary tradition is believed to be a local belief as a measure to keep the kitchen silent and strengthen relationship among the community. “This activity is an effort to improve the relationship among people, especially when doing nyakan diwang,” he said.

Similar opinion was delivered by the Chief of Melanting custom-

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In this June 22, 1939 file photo, participants in a “Gorsedd,” a group of poets and bards, announce the upcoming 1940 Welsh Eisteddfod cultural festival at Bridgend, Glamorganshire, Wales, at an ancient druid stone circle near the River Ogwar. In report released Thursday, March 19, 2015 in the journal Nature, genetic samples collected from across the United Kingdom are shedding light on the ancient past, including Viking invasions and a mystery about the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons.

DENPASAR - To provide better service to postpaid customers, PT XL Axiata Tbk (XL) second largest mobile operator in Indonesia, launch Smarty package. This postpaid package featured internet, voice and SMS. Vice President of XL East Region, Desy Sari Dewi said postpaid subscribers are a premium customer. With a superior package, postpaid subscribers expected to be more comfortable; no need to worry anymore for calling and

SMS, even using internet service can be more convenient and faster with XL. “No need to worry about running out of quota and had to wait for midnight to browse at high speed,” she said.

To subscribe to this postpaid package, customers simply access via *123#. Smarty package only IDR 75 thousand per month consisting of 2GB quota for internet, 100 minutes of calls to all XL customers, and 30 SMS to all operators. In addition to Smarty pack-

age, there is also a Professional package, only IDR 150 thousand per month consists of 4GB quota for internet, 300 minutes calls to all XL customers, and 30 SMS to all operators, and Platinum package only IDR 250 thousand per month consisting of a quota for internet 8GB , 300 minutes of calls to all XL customers, and 30 SMS to all operators. XL postpaid customers can enjoy unlimited internet access at speeds of up to 14.4 Mbps.

Currently XL postpaid subscriber base is less than 1% of the total 59.6 million customers nationwide, but provide more than 500 billion revenue. XL currently has deployed 52 thousand BTS (Base Transceiver Station, 2G / 3G) to ensure customers comfort. In addition, XL also has a network of fiber optic infrastructure throughout more than 30 thousand km connecting almost all major islands in Indonesia. (kmb18)

ary hamlet, Banjar village, Banjar subdistrict, Buleleng, Ida Bagus Ngurah Kade. The implementation of nyakan diwang is believed by local people of Banjar hamlet to keep the yard and kitchen silent.

This tradition is done through generations and carried out around two o’clock until six o’clock in the morning. “It’s been done for generations and is intended to keep the yard and kitchen silent. At the same time, it is also meant to preserve the traditions having existed from time immemorial,” he said. (kmb34)

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For wandering in rice fields on Nyepi SEMARAPURA - Celebrations of Nyepi on Satruday (Mar 21), in the region of Klungkung generally took place smoothly and safely.

However, the peacefulness of the day was colored by delinquency that took place at Sangkanbuana customary village, Klungkung.

Five teenagers living at BTN Penasan, Banjarangkan, were arrested by the pecalang or customary guards of Sangkabuana because they were caught wandering in the rice fields of Subak Jro Kuta on the day of Nyepi. As result, the five teenagers were arrested by the pecalang and brought to the village hall of Sangkanbuana.

According to information obtained in the field, the five teenagers arrested by the pecalang consisted of college students as well as junior and high school students named; Gde Adi Putra, 19, Dewa Gde Rai, 19, Putu Gde Julian Yuan Primary, 16, Sang Kadek Widya Jati, 18, and Jodi Sura Semadi, 15. The five teenagers that live at BTN Penasan were arrested by the pecalang of Banjarangkan around 3:30 p.m.The arrest of the five teenagers occurred after the hamlet chief of Sangkanbuana, Nengah Sukana, along with a few pecalang guards thought they saw some people picking flowers in a nearby rice paddy.

As they got closer to the rice field, they clearly saw five suspicious people strolling along the embankment of the Subak Jro Kuta paddy field. Not knowing who these suspicious people were, the pecalang of Sangkabuana called out to them. Not only did they not answer but they proceeded to attempt to escape into the middle of the rice field. The pecalang guards then chased down the five teenagers, some of whom fell down as they tried to run away. The five youths were finally apprehended and brought to the village hall of Sangkanbuana for questioning.

Members of the local Cossack community undergo military training at a boot camp set up by the Russkiye Vityazi (Russian Knights) military patriotic club in the village of Sengileyevskoye, south of Stavropol, March 22, 2015.

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Five teenagers living at BTN Penasan, Banjarangkan, were arrested by the pecalang or customary guards of Sangkabuana because they were caught wandering in the rice fields of Subak Jro Kuta on the day of Nyepi.

While being questioned, the teenagers did not appear to feel guilty in the least. One of them even grinned while being interrogated thus angering one of the pecalang.

The teenagers admitted that they had intended to go to Budaga village, where Dewa Gde Rai has a home, to grill some fish. “We were going to grill fish at my home, sir then, we intended to upload pictures of the BBQ to Instagram. We got bored just staying home,” said

Dewa Gede Rai without remorse.In an attempt to hold the delinquents responsible for their bad deed of wandering on Nyepi, the chief of Sangkanbuana customary village, Nyoman Suarta, eventually invited the chief of Tihingan customary village and its pecalang guards to cooperate. The parents of the five teenagers were also immediately summoned to the village hall. After being given direction and guidance, the five teenagers were charged and

finally released. They were returned to their respective parents to face the consequences of their actions.

Before being released, the parents of the five teenagers apologized to the customary village authorities and the pecalang. They expressed their embarrassment about their children having wandered during Nyepi.

During the briefing, the chief of Sangkabuana customary village, Nyoman Suarta, expressed

his hope that the five teenagers would not repeatsuch disrespectful actions. The chief of customary village even asked them to make an effort to respect the people who were celebrating Nyepi. “We’re here merely to provide guidance and nurture positive relations. But if any of our (Sangkanbuana) residents act like this, then we impose sanctions in the form of fines,” said Suarta. (kmb)

Insulting Nyepi on Facebook

Bali Police promise to investigate the culprit

DENPASAR - As in previous years, the tranquility of Hindus celebrating Nyepi, was disturbed.

The owner of a Facebook (FB) account with the initials NIM posted a status blaspheming the Nyepi celebration which took place on Saturday (Mar. 21).

Spokesman of Bali Police, Hery Wiyanto, confirmed the strory on Sunday (Mar. 22) and affirmed that an investigation would be conduct-

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ed. He asserted that if the evidence was proven to be true, the crime would fall under the category of a crime of complaint and pure crime about information and electronic transaction (ITE).

NIM wrote the post with insulting words about the Nyepi celebration and the Hindus on Saturday (Mar. 21) at approximately at 11:59 p.m. He wrote: “Nyepi is really a fuck! Stupid, I cannot watch the

football play of Arsenal, I curse the crazy celebration of Nyepi. Maybe, the ogoh-ogoh next year will be on fire with all the people celebrating it. Fuck you Hindu.”

This Facebook status by a youth claiming to be from NTB received long posts protesting his statement.

He was cursed and condemned, both by Hindu circles and nonHindu communities. Perhaps out of fear, NIM imediatly removed

the blasphemous post and posted a status containing apologies, which read: “All circles that I’ve hurt, please do accept our sincere apologies for my ignorant statement I’ve posted, apologize once again.

I realize my mistakes so please apologize. Hopefully, this can be a lesson to me and others. Sorry I cannot enumerate singly the name of the community that I have hurt, sorry.”

However, the apologies were not enough to dissolve the outrage of a number of NGOs. Reportedly a number of Hindu NGOs were upset and intended to go to the Bali Police to report NIM, on Monday. “Indeed, there is a Hindu NGO that plans to go to the Bali Police to report the case tomorrow (Monday—Ed).

One of the report contents is about blasphemy,” said a source at Bali Police. (kmb36)

WASHINGTON - The United States will struggle to follow through on threats to impose deeper sanctions on the Russian energy sector, as European fears over collateral economic damage leave President Barack Obama’s administration with diminished options. Energy is the economic lifeblood of Russia, which vies with the United States and Saudi Arabia to be the world’s top oil producer, and the sector is the main target of Western sanctions over Moscow’s role in the conflict in Ukraine.

But current sanctions have already hit the easiest targets in Russia’s high-tech exploration projects in the Arctic, Siberian shale, and deep-sea.

That leaves the United States with less palatable options, such as trying to target the country’s oil exports, as it has done with Iran.

Even though global oil prices have dropped by roughly half since last year, the United States’ European allies remain skittish over any damaging repercussions on energy supplies. Russia could respond by squeezing the gas exports on which Europe relies heavily.

“If you start playing around with oil prices, Russia is going to play around with gas, and there’s no way Europe is going to go along with it,” said Carlos Pascual, who until last August was the top energy diplomat at the U.S. State Department.

The current top U.S. diplomat on energy issues, Amos Hochstein, says Washington has not exhausted its sanctions toolkit should Russian

President Vladimir Putin expand the war in Ukraine. And Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said last week that the administration is ready to “increase the costs” on Russia if it breaks the terms of a ceasefire.

Hochstein, the State Department’s special envoy and coordinator for international affairs, told Reuters it was unlikely Washington would put sanctions on Russia’s current oil production, though he stopped short of ruling it out.

“We’d want to look at what affects Russia, the assessment today versus a year ago is different, because the oil markets today are different than they were then,” Hochstein said.

“Russia can and should be a market participant, but it has to play by the rules of the game.”

Cracks are showing in European support for more sanctions. Going alone on sanctions is not a realistic option for Washington since it would block U.S. energy companies from collaborating with Russia and let

European ones in.

Western sanctions imposed late last year forced U.S. oil company Exxon Mobil out of Russia’s Arctic and ended its collaboration with Russian state oil company Rosneft, with which it signed a $3.2 billion deal in 2011 to develop the region.

European Council President Donald Tusk said on Friday it was increasingly hard to maintain a united position on sanctions in the 28-country bloc. EU officials speaking on condition of anonymity said that half or more of the bloc’s countries would like to see easing of the measures.

So far, Western sanctions have blocked investments and technology transfers in the frontier oil drilling projects, targeted capital flows into Russia and slapped Putin’s inner circle with asset freezes and travel bans. Combined with the drop in oil prices, the sanctions have hammered the Russian economy, with the rouble down 40 percent against the dollar since mid-2014, driving it toward recession.

But none of this has loosened Putin’s grip on Crimea since Russia annexed it a year ago, even though Russia agreed last month in Minsk to a cease-fire with Ukraine. Putin’s domestic popularity has risen since the imposition of sanctions.(rtr)

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Dozens detained in Turkey over alleged cheating scandal

ANKARA — Turkey’s state-run news agency says police have detained dozens of people as part of an investigation into alleged fraud and cheating in a national exam in 2010 for prospective civil servants.

The Anadolu Agency says more than 60 suspects were detained in Ankara and 13 other cities on Monday. It said police had arrest warrants for a total of 82 people.

The investigation stems from

allegations of cheating in the Public Personnel Selection Examination in which a surprisingly large number of candidates scored top marks.

The government has suggested that a movement led by U.S.based Muslim cleric may have carried out fraud in a bid to place followers into key public sector positions. Media organizations close to the movement reject the allegations.(ap)

Uganda shuts down 5 madrassas over training extremists

KAMPALA — Five madrassas in Uganda have been shut down over allegations they are training students to become extremists, a Ugandan police official said Monday. A Muslim leader denied the allegations. The Islamic schools targeted for closure have been training children to become fighters in a rebel group opposed to Uganda’s government, Patrick Onyango, a spokesman for police in the Ugandan capital of Kampala, told The Associated Press.

“They are brainwashing the children, training them to become recruits in a rebel group,” he said.

“The plan is that when they reach the right age they will be taken to become rebels.” He said three of the schools ordered shut are located in Uganda’s central region while two of them are in the east.

Uganda’s Daily Monitor newspaper reported Monday that a senior Ugandan Muslim leader, Kassim Nakibinge, had criticized the police’s actions, saying Islamic schools are being unfairly targeted by the authorities. He reportedly accused the police of

“hiding behind security to close our (madrassas).”

Local police link the madrassas to the Allied Democratic Forces, a Congo-based armed group whose fugitive Ugandan leader is wanted

by Interpol over terror allegations.

Jamil Mukulu, who is widely believed to be hiding in eastern Congo, has also been sanctioned by the U.S. over his alleged role in violence there.

Ugandan authorities have been warning of the growing threat of home-grown Islamic extremism that stems in part from Uganda’s military involvement in Somalia, where Ugandan forces are part of an African Union force fighting al-Shabab extremists.

At least five Ugandans are currently on trial for their alleged roles in the July 2010 bombings in Kampala that killed more than 70 people who were watching the 2010 soccer World Cup final on TV. Although responsibility for that attack was claimed by al-Shabab, Ugandan officials say some Ugandans were recruited to direct that attack.(ap)

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The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor Fatou Bensouda speaks about the case of Ugandan rebel commander Dominic Ongwen, at a press conference in Kampala, Uganda, Friday, Feb. 27, 2015.

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DENPASAR - Hindu possesses a medical science that has been very renowned from time immemorial, namely Ayurvedic medicine.

Ayurvedic medicine refers to the contents of the scripture Ayurveda born thousands of years ago. Ayurvedic scripture denotes a part of Upaweda in the group of Smriti Vedas. However, the Ayurvedic scripture is often confused with Yajur Veda, the scripture containing sacrificial formula that also belongs to Smriti Veda. Yajur Veda itself is a scripture discussing about Yajña or ceremony.

OPEC must work with other producers to boost oil prices

willing to work with non-members, Naimi pointed to the crash of 1998 when the cartel cooperated with other producers to cut output and support oil prices.

“Today, the situation is difficult.

We tried, met with them but did not succeed because they insisted that OPEC should take the responsibility alone,” said Naimi, in reference to meetings with non-OPEC producers ahead of the cartel’s meeting in November.

“All must contribute if we want to improve prices because it is in the interest of all,” the Saudi minister said.

Oil prices fell in Asian trade Monday with US benchmark West Texas Intermediate for May delivery was down 65 cents at $45.92 and Brent tumbled 58 cents to $54.74.

Bloomberg News quoted Naimi as saying on Sunday that his country is producing almost 10 million barrels of crude a day.

Saudi Arabia pumped 9.85 million barrels a day in February, according to Bloomberg. (afp)

China says new bank to complement existing institutions BEIJING — China’s finance minister said a proposed Chineseled Asian regional bank that has raised concerns in Washington will complement rather than compete with established international lenders such as the World Bank, state media reported Saturday.

The official Xinhua News Agency cited Lou Jiwei as saying that the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s establishment, expected by the end of 2015, would enable China to shoulder more responsibility for global development.

Like other regional investment vehicles, such as the Asian Development Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the AIIB would not weaken established institutions, but reinforce them and “more vigorously push forward the global economy,” Lou was quoted as

saying. Lou’s comments appeared aimed at assuaging U.S. worries after Germany, France and Italy followed Britain on Tuesday in announcing plans to join the AIIB. Washington has expressed concern that the new bank will allow looser lending standards for transparency, the environment and labor, and undercut the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

Lou said other countries would be welcome to join even after a March 31 deadline expires.

China proposed the bank in 2013 to finance construction of roads, ports and other infrastructure. It has pledged to put up most of its initial $50 billion in capital.

Twenty-one other governments, including India, New Zealand and Thailand, have said they want to join, but the U.S. and close allies Japan, South Korea and Australia have not. (ap)

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RIYADH - Oil producers outside OPEC must cooperate to boost falling crude prices as the cartel refuses to take responsibility alone, the Saudi oil minister has said.

“We refuse to take responsibility alone because (OPEC) produces 30 percent of market output and 70 percent comes from outside,” Ali al-Naimi said in remarks carried Monday by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA).

Crude prices slumped by about 60 percent between June and February, weighed down by a glut of global supplies and concerns about stalling demand.

The slide was exacerbated in November when Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) refused to cut production to rescue falling prices, saying it wanted to maintain its market share.

The 12-member group, led by top producer Saudi Arabia, pumps around a third of the world’s oil but other major producers, such as Russia, are not tied by its decisions.

Asked whether OPEC would be

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Author of the book Usada Bali (Balinese Traditional Healing), the late Prof. IGN Nala, once said that to help the healing, the Ayurvedic healers usually provided natural herbal medicine having few side effects. Almost all plants existing around us could be eaten, they were medicine. On that account, all plants having efficacy for healing were necessary to be inventoried and developed.

In the meantime, the Dean of Faculty of Health Science, Hindu University of Indonesia (Unhi), I Nyoman Prastika, said that based Taru Premana palm-manuscript there were a number of beneficial herbs having the efficacy to cure

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A man walks by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Monday, March 2, 2015. Asian markets mostly advanced Monday following rallies on Wall Street and in Europe, while the dollar continued to struggle after the Federal Reserve dampened expectations for an early interest rate hike.

Asian markets mostly up after US, Europe gains HONG KONG - Asian markets mostly advanced Monday following rallies on Wall Street and in Europe, while the dollar continued to struggle after the Federal Reserve dampened expectations for an early interest rate hike.

Tokyo ended 0.99 percent higher, adding 194.14 points, to 19,754.36 while in late trade Hong Kong was up 0.32 percent and Shanghai surged 1.03 percent, marking a ninth straight gain.

Seoul was flat, dipping 0.65 points to 2,036.59 and Sydney eased 0.32 percent, or 19.4 points, to 5,956.1.

With few catalysts to drive business early in the week, investors took their lead from their US counterparts who have been cheered by the Fed’s dovish comments on rates.

While the central bank on Wednesday opened the door for a rise this year, it said there were still weaknesses in the US economy, including low inflation and soft manufacturing.

The news sent global shares soaring and the dollar tumbling.

In New York on Friday the Dow jumped 0.94 percent, the S&P 500 climbed 0.90 percent and the Nasdaq added 0.68 percent to end above 5,000 points for the first time since March 2000 and for only the fourth time ever.

European markets also surged, helped by Greece’s promise to submit fresh bailout reform plans. London’s FTSE closed above 7,000 points for the first time in its history, while the Paris CAC 40 is at levels not seen since early 2008.

In currency trading on Monday the dollar bought 119.86 yen in afternoon

trade, down from 120.11 yen in New York and well off the 120.71 yen in Tokyo earlier Friday.

The euro bought $1.0818 compared with $1.0821 but is well up from the levels below $1.05 seen at the start of last week. The single currency was also at 129.69 yen against 129.98 yen.

“The overriding factor for the Fed is whether they can afford to overstimulate the economy or raise rates too soon,” Tim Schroeders, a portfolio manager at Pengana Capital Ltd. in Melbourne, told Bloomberg News.

“They can’t be too aggressive in raising rates as the underlying US economy isn’t as strong. Equities will continue to trend higher but as valuations become stretched, markets will be more vulnerable to a pullback.” (afp)

diseases. Parts of those plants taken advantage consisted of its leaf, flower, fruit, bark or roots. Each herb had different quality such as cool, warm and mild.

To know whether a particular plant had a cold, warm or mild quality, it could be observed from the color of its flower and flavor.

For instance, white, yellow and green flower had warm quality. If their flowers were red and blue, these plants had cool efficacy.

Meanwhile, if the flower was multicolors, they could be ensured to have mild efficacy.

Likewise, if they tasted sweet and sour, its quality might be warm.

However, if they tasted bitter and

hot, they had cool efficacy. Then, if they were tasteless, they belonged to mild plant.

In herbal medicine system, added Prastika, people would be healthy if they consumed (ahara) nutritious healthy foods regularly, had adequate rest or sleep (nidra), and behaved (vihara) healthy. If the three aspects had been committed well, but it was still found health disturbances, then a herbal treatment (ausadhi) was required.

Preparation method of herbal medicine could be divided into three kinds, namely grinding, spraying and boiled. Its healing method could be performed by drinking and dropping for internal healing, while the spraying or applying the paste for external use.

Then, what kinds of plant could be used to cure diseases? Prastika said that virtually all edible plants by animals could be eaten by humans. Whether the herbs had medicinal quality, they could be observed from the color of their flow-

ers and flavor as mentioned above.

Similarly, the plants frequently used for spices in the cooking contained drug efficacy.

Red ginger for example, was good to increase warmth of the body as well as to stimulate or maintain immunity. If red ginger added with the flowers of carambola, bark of tamarind and kalmegh leaves, they could be used to accelerate breathing and relieve cough.

Meanwhile, to break up kidney stones and cure colic, people could also use herbal medicine. Its ingredients consisted of roots of reed, roots of palm tree, root of areca nut tree and added with palm sugar. All materials were thoroughly boiled.

Afterward, its decoction water was drunk in the morning and afternoon.

Herbal remedies could also cope with cardiac palpitations. Its ingredients comprised the soy beans, green beans, ginger, cumin, fennel, bidara upas (Merremia mammosa) leaf, coriander and pulasari (Alyxia

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Stellata). All ingredients should be boiled and then water of its decoction was drunk regularly.

Meanwhile, Balinese traditional healing used several palm-leaf manuscripts as reference. One of them was Lontar Usada Tiwang.

This manuscript described about various types of diseases along with their treatments. Tiwang conveyed numerous symptoms in the form of disorder on the function of organ.

There were several types of tiwang presented in the manuscripts such as tiwang utara, tiwang tojos, tiwang wedul, tiwang pemali pepasangan, tiwang wong, and tiwang rajasa.

Prastika added that tiwang pemali pepasangan had symptoms like prickling pain in the chest and on the back. Being no resistant to the pain, the sufferers often groaned.

The disease itself could be treated by means of bark of rauvolfia, temu tis (Curcuma purpurascens), grilled coconut, hazelnut and fennel. It was applied by spraying its paste. (kmb)

Sidetapa, an old and unique Bali’s village

by Nyoman Suwela SINGARAJA - Sidetapa is a village, located in the hilly area of North Bali and is acknowledged as one among several old and unique Bali’s villages of North Bali, namely the village of Cempaga, Tigawasa, Pedawa, Julah and Sembiran. All of these villages are believed of having different characteristic such as its tradition, dialect and home lay-out even though that all of them are Hindu devotees.

Sidetapa derives its name from two words “sida” and “tapa”. Sida literally in English means “wounded” and tapa means “meditation”. How this village got its name related to these two words, as told by the prominent people in the village that it has a long story and has become a legend and the people of the village still adhere until recently.

The legend has it that ancestors of the people many centuries ago were living in Java and after the advent of Islam then it advanced widely and most Javanese Hindu people converted into Muslim, a few refused to covert and they fled to Bali and eventually they settled down in the what is now the site of Besakih Mother Temple. It was told that three families out of them went to the north and they dwelt in an area on the eastern part of the current village of Sidetapa and latter on they were followed by the rest of families and settled on the southern part. What happened then, the first families coming to this area was scared by a colony of ants and they decided to

move to assemble with other families which had become the centre of a new settlement or village which was called “ Gunung Sari Munggah Tapa” literally in English is “Flower Mountain Climbing to Meditation”.

The legend further has it that when the people were building a shrine of which all materials of the structure mostly consisted of bamboo and they did it in the spirit of “togetherness” what is now called “gotong royong”, everyone was taking part in the process of doing something without pay.

Those who were working would cut the bamboo with sharp knives.

The bamboo was just laid on the knee and then cut it. The knee would not be wounded and by doing so a very strict and though restriction must be adhered such as it was strictly prohibited of having any kind of impure thought and any kind of wrong do-

ing even included of having sexual intercourse.

It might be true that to err is human that is not completely free of sexual urge and one day, it was told, a member of the village to have sexual intercourse the night before working for his community and then could be predicted his knee was wounded due to the breaching of the imposed restrictions. Since then, the name of the village was changed into the village of Sida Tapa.

Observing the distinct uniqueness of the village is worth noting in the lay-out of the family compounds and houses. All the compounds are relatively similar with ubiquitous Bali’s style gates made of bricks or raw bricks, top with bamboo or zinc roofing. The houses were built along the narrow alleys and they do not overlook into the alleys but the other around instead. They were built very

close one to the other and it was said the houses built in such a way to prevent the endangered creatures such as ogress to sneak into the compound or the house. In line with this concept all activities such as cooking and sleeping are conducted in the house.

In the rest of Bali we can frequently find an elaborated decorated temple in the cemetery but in this village the temple generally made of bamboo and it looks very simple.

A century ago, the village was so isolated and it now has changed due to the development and it now is also facing of challenges of modernization and globalization. The village is currently easily accessible by car. The road has been paved either directly from Singaraja or Denpasar.

From tourism point of view, the village of Sidetapa, actually has a lot to offer and it can possibly be a tourist destination in Bali even in the

world. The uniqueness of the village is an asset owned by the village can be promoted to be a tourist attraction and if the promotion and tourism development in the village would be conducted whether by governments either central, province, regency, local or even by investor must be carefully designed and conducted in such a way without sacrificing the interest of the people in the village.

What is going to happen in the future of this unique and interesting village will entirely in the hand of the people of the village. Many villagers there are now more educated and so they can donate their knowledge and experiences for the benefit of the whole people of Sidetapa.

We do hope that the future of the village would be better. Time will tell the truth. We keep our fingers crossed for the better future of the village of Sidetapa.

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Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras addresses a news conference during a European Union leaders summit in Brussels March 20, 2015.

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Tunisian prime minister fires security chiefs after attack TUNIS, Tunisia — Tunisia’s prime minister has fired five leading security officials after three gunmen attacked a renowned Tunis museum, killing 21 in the deadliest attack on tourists in Tunisia in 13 years, the government said Monday.

The ousted officials include the director of Tunisia’s tourist police and the police chief for the neighborhood around the National Bardo Museum, government spokesman Mufdi Mseddi told The Associated Press.

The decision was made after the prime minister visited the neighborhood of the attack and noted security problems, the spokesman said. President Beji Caid Essebsi had also criticized security failings around last week’s attack. The gunmen opened fire on tourists getting out of buses and then entered the museum, apparently unimpeded, and fired on more tourists inside. Two gunmen were killed in a shootout with police.

The Interior Ministry has identified a man suspected of coordinating the attack and posted two photos of him on its Facebook page. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for attacking the museum — a trove of Roman mosaics and Tunisia’s leading historical museum.

Police identified the two dead attackers as Tunisians in their 20s who had trained in Libya. Several well-armed groups in neighboring and chaotic Libya have pledged allegiance to IS. Tunisia is also fighting extremists claiming allegiance to al-Qaida in its western mountains, near Algeria. A Tunisian defense official said Monday one soldier was killed and three others wounded when a mine blew up their vehicle in an area known to be a refuge for al-Qaida-linked Islamic radicals.

Lt. Col. Belhassen Oueslati, a Defense Ministry spokesman, said the incident occurred Sunday near the Algerian border. Al-Qaida linked radicals have staged attacks against army and politicians in the area for the past two years. (ap)

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BERLIN — Alexis Tsipras is visiting Germany for the first time since becoming Greece’s prime Singapore-based political analyst Derek da Cunha told AFP minister, meeting Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday as his debt-ridden country and its key credi- that “Lee Kuan Yew gave Singapore an international profile tor seek to halt a downward spiral in relations. Tsipras’ visit comes after Merkel and other European completely disproportionate to the country’s size”. leaders last week told Tsipras to come up soon with budget cuts and tax increases that would enable But the Cambridge-educated lawyer was also criticised for him to get urgently needed bailout money. jailing political opponents and driving his critics to self-imMerkel has downplayed chances of Tsipras producing those measures when they meet, saying “it is not the place for any lists with proposed reforms to be submitted” and they must go to Greece’s international debt inspectors, not to Germany.

Tsipras’ first weeks in office have been marked by tensions over the two governments’ contrasting approaches to the debt crisis and Athens’ revival of calls for new reparations from Berlin stemming from Germany’s World War II occupation of Greece.

Tsipras’ party won general elections in January after campaigning against the spending cuts favored

by Germany in exchange for 240 billion euros ($260 billion) in international bailout money. The new government agreed a month ago to push through reforms in exchange for keeping European Union aid flowing, but has delayed submitting

the measures for approval.

German officials have complained about their Greek counterparts making commitments and then publicly casting doubt on them, but also insist the debt spat isn’t a bilateral matter between the two countries. German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel told ARD television Sunday he hopes for a “new beginning” in relations.

“The Greek government must clearly recognize that the rest of Europe, Germany too, wants to help but that we cannot do that without something in return, without fair agreements on the necessary reforms,” he said — though he added that “social hardship is huge” in Greece and must be addressed.

Merkel’s governing coalition insists talk of wartime reparations has no place in discussions of Greece’s current debt troubles. Greece believes it is due payments for wrecked

infrastructure, war crimes and a loan that occupied Greece was forced to make to the Nazis, but German officials say the matter has been resolved through previous payments and agreements.

The two countries’ foreign ministers met on Sunday night and agreed to work on strengthening relations. Germany’s Frank-Walter Steinmeier said that the debt crisis must not be allowed to “erode the strong foundations of GermanGreek relations.”

Greek counterpart Nikos Kotzias, in an interview with German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung, advocated creating a German-Greek panel of experts to examine the reparations issue — but Germany promptly made clear that it isn’t interested.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Schaefer reiterated that “for us, the chapter of reparations is politically and legally concluded.” (ap)

posed exile or financial ruin as a result of costly libel suits.

Singapore strictly controls freedom of speech and assembly. While it has become more liberal in recent years, it still uses corporal punishment and ranks 150th in the annual press freedom ranking of Reporters Without Borders -- below Russia and Zimbabwe among others.

Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director of Human Rights Watch, acknowledged Lee’s economic legacy but said “it also came at a significant cost for human rights”.

He said it may now be time for a national “conversation” on greater political liberalisation.

Lee stepped down in 1990 in favour of his deputy Goh Chok Tong, who in turn handed the reins to the former leader’s eldest son Lee Hsien Loong in 2004.

The People’s Action Party (PAP), which was co-founded by the elder Lee, has won every election since 1959 and currently holds 80 of the 87 seats in parliament.

Lee retired from advisory roles in government in 2011 after the PAP suffered its worst poll result since it came to power, getting only 60 percent of votes cast amid public anger over a large influx of immigrants, the rising cost of living, urban congestion and insufficient supply of public housing.

In his last book “One Man’s View of the World”, published in 2013, Lee looked back at his remarkable career and concluded: “As for me, I have done what I had wanted to, to the best of my ability. I am satisfied.” (afp)

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INDONESIA Indonesia’s president to attend Lee Kuan Yew’s funeral

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Indonesian anti-terror police have arrested five men who allegedly arranged for a group of mostly women and children to try and enter Syria to join the Islamic State (IS) group, an official said.

Indonesia detains alleged IS recruiters

JAKARTA - Indonesian anti-terror police have arrested five men who allegedly arranged for a group of mostly women and children to try and enter Syria to join the Islamic State (IS) group, an official said.

The 11 children, four women and one man, detained in the Turkish border town of Gaziantep, are the latest example of Indonesians heading to battlegrounds in the Middle East.

Fears have been growing about the influence of IS in Indonesia, which is the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation and has long struggled with Islamic militancy. Hundreds of Indonesians are feared to have joined the jihadists.

In a series of raids in and around Jakarta at the weekend, elite antiterror police rounded up the five men, who are suspected of helping the 16 people who were recently caught.

The men are accused of involve-

ment in “coaching, guidance, and recruitment of sympathisers of IS to depart to Iraq and Syria... and the collection and distribution of funds for the activities of IS volunteers in Indonesia,” said national police spokesman Rikwanto, who goes by one name, late Sunday.

Four were charged specifically with helping arrange documents for the group to depart for Turkey, as well as previously helping another 21 Indonesians who went to join IS. One of the suspects faced a separate charge of urging people to join IS on his website, as well as creating and uploading a video online of children being trained by the jihadists.

Police did not name any of the

suspects.

They also confiscated items including nine mobile phones, eight million rupiah ($600) and $5,300 in US dollars.

The 16 recently arrested are still in detention in Turkey.

Jakarta has already banned support for IS, which controls vast swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria, although experts have called on authorities to take further steps to stop the flow of fighters.

Indonesia has waged a crackdown on Islamic militant groups for more than a decade following attacks on Western targets, including the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people. The campaign has been credited with weakening key networks. (afp)

TOKYO - President Joko Widodo will attend the state funeral of former prime minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew who died on Monday, at 3:18 a.m. local time.

Cabinet Secretary Andi Widjajanto in a press release on Monday from Tokyo, Japan, stated that the president will attend the funeral of former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew after his visit to Malaysia on March 29, 2015.

“On March 29, President Joko Widodo will go to Singapore to attend the state funeral,” he remarked.

President Joko Widodo stated that the government and the people of Indonesia expressed their deepest sympathies over the death of Singaporean founding father Lee Kuan Yew. “Lee Kuan Yew, known as the founding father of modern Singapore, was a close friend of Indonesia,” the president said.

He noted that as a leader, Lee is also known as one of the influential political figures in Asia.

“Under his leadership, Singapore has transformed into a major economic hub in Asia and is at par with other developed countries,” he emphasized.

The president said the government and the people of Indonesia prayed for the bereaved family and the people of Singapore to give them strength and fortitude in the face of grief over the death of Lee. “The government and people of Indonesia believe that the people of Singapore can pass through this difficult time,” he noted.

Earlier, Lee Kuan Yew had been hospitalized for several weeks as he was suffering from pneumonia and was on life support before he passed away in the early hours of Monday morning. (ant)

JAKARTA - A survey showed that Megawati Soekarnoputri is no longer favored by the public to lead the ruling Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI Perjuangan).

“The public acknowledged Megawati’s success in leading PDI Perjuangan but the majority of them no longer want her to lead the party,” Haryadi, a lecturer at the state University of Airlangga in Surabaya, said quoting a survey held ahead of the party congress in April.

The party would next month hold a national congress, which is expected to confirm that Megawati would remain at the helm of the party a position already unanimously agreed earlier in a party meeting.

The daughter of the country’s founding father President Soekarno, had been the chairperson of the party since it was formed after the fall of the dictatorial government of President Suharto.

Haryadi said that what the public want might not be the same as what the cadres of the party want.

“This shows a disconnection of interest between the public and the cadres and the sympathizers of PDI Perjuangan. Most of the public have quasi information from the mass

media,” he said.

Therefore, it is natural that the majority of the public have their own perception of parties based on the mass media information, he said.

Meanwhile cadres and sympathizers of PDI Perjuangan have experience and authentic knowledge about the party dynamics.

The cadres and the sympathizers believe that Megawati’s leadership is still needed to consolidate the party and at the same time to watch over the performance of President Joko Widodo as a cadre of the party.

“Therefore, the presence of Megawati in PDI Perjuangan is vital to safeguard the process of transition in the party leadership in the next 5 years. I think Megawati wants to make sure success in consolidation, and to strengthen ideological foundation,” he said.

The process of regeneration in a party as big as PDI Perjuangan would need strong leadership, he added.

The most crucial point for survival and the future of the party is consolidation in the process of transition of leadership. For that purpose Megawati is still needed to lead PDI Perjuangan, he said. (ant)

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Spurs win 114-95 at faltering Hawks

Puputan Klungkung Monument

ATLANTA — San Antonio won comfortably at Atlanta 114-95 in Sunday’s clash of two teams with form lines heading in opposite directions leading up to the NBA playoffs. The Spurs have won three straight and the Hawks have lost three straight, though they can afford to ease up given they are still eight games clear atop the Eastern Conference, ahead of Cleveland, which won at Milwaukee.

SEMARAPURA - This monument or building is skyrocketing as high as 28 meters from the pedestal of the building located downtown Semarapura. The monument in the form of Lingam-Yoni and built in an area of 123 square meters was named Puputan Klungkung Monument and inaugurated by the Minister of Home Affairs on April 28, 1992. The entire monument building is made from black stone so it is in harmony with the meaning of Hindu philosophy, namely fighting all-out by the royal family of Klungkung Kingdom together with their people. Puputan Klungkung Monument is situated in the middle of Semarapura City so it is easily achieved from Denpasar, Besakih or Candi Dasa because it sits on the outskirts of the road side with busy traffic. Additionally, location of the Puputan Klungkung Monument is very strategic because it is adjacent to Kertha Ghosa/Taman Gili, Shopping Centre, Traditional Market and Government Offices.

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Atlanta Hawks’ Pero Antic, right, of Macedonia, reacts while falling to the floor after making a layup and drawing the foul from San Antonio Spurs’ Boris Diaw, left, of France, during the fourth quarter of an NBA basketball game Sunday, March 22, 2015, in Atlanta.

In the key games among playoff aspirants in the West, the Los Angeles Clippers defeated New Orleans, and Phoenix won a close one against Dallas.

Defending champion San Antonio got a season-high 23 points from Tiago Splitter and 20 from Kawhi Leonard. The Spurs never trailed and led by as much as 26 points in the third quarter. Paul Millsap finished with 22 points for the faltering Hawks. The Clippers won a fourth straight game by beating New Orleands 107-100.

Blake Griffin scored 23 points and Chris Paul contributed 23 points and 11 assists for Los Angeles, which converted 18 Pelicans turnovers into 30 points and had a 25-6 advantage on second-chance points.

Anthony Davis led New Orleans with 26 points and 12 rebounds in 39 minutes after missing two games with a sprained ankle. Tyreke Evans was sidelined because of the same injury and was replaced in the starting lineup.

Phoenix’s Archie Goodwin

sank the go-ahead 3-pointer and Markieff Morris added a critical jumper in the final 30 seconds to secure a 98-92 win for the Suns against Dallas.

The Mavericks rallied from a 17point, third-quarter deficit and were up 86-80 with 5 minutes to play, but then went four minutes without scoring while the Suns climbed back into the lead. Eric Bledsoe had 20 points, nine assists and six rebounds for Phoenix. Chandler Parsons scored 19 points for Dallas, which has lost all three games against Phoenix this season.

Cleveland’s LeBron James scored 28 points and sparked a key second-half run with an emphatic dunk to lead the Cavaliers to a 10890 win against Milwaukee.

J.R. Smith added 23 points for Cleveland, including three straight 3s to close out the decisive run that turned a six-point deficit into a 93-78 lead with 6:19 left. Giannis Antetokounmpo had 15 points and nine rebounds for the Bucks, who have won six straight. (ap)

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Ducati’s 2015 MotoGP bike is “stronger and more competitive” than the machines with which Casey Stoner won 23 grands prix and a championship between 2007 and ‘10, reckons Andrea Dovizioso. Although Ducati’s win-less streak now stretches back to Stoner’s 2010 Australian GP triumph, the restructured team topped the final pre-season test in Qatar last week with Dovizioso and team-mate Andrea Iannone.

Asked by Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport how the revitalised Ducati compared to Stoner’s era, Dovizioso replied: “I believe nowadays we are stronger and more competitive. “Back then Casey would dominate, but it was mostly down to himself making the difference, as in fact the second Ducati was nowhere near. That means the bike wasn’t so competitive.

“Now, instead, the GP15 is competitive, it’s basically normal and it works. Now it’s up to us to work on the details to make the difference and win.”

Despite his confidence and the Ducati’s Qatar test pace, Dovizioso said a podium was his realistic aim for Losail as he expects the factory Hondas and Yamahas to be stronger than they were in the test. “We go to Qatar to get on the podium,” he said. “We were quick in the tests, but I know those four rivals very well, I know the bikes they have, how they work in the tests and on race weekends.

“To get on the podium will be very difficult anyway.” Ducati currently benefits from several rules breaks that will be taken away

should it begin winning races, but Dovizioso said the team is now quick enough to succeed even without the tyre compound and engine development allowances provided for 2014.

“Regardless what happens, it won’t influence us,” he said. “We have built a competitive bike, so if those advantages are

taken away from us, they won’t make us go backwards.” Dovizioso still only has one MotoGP win to his name - from his 2009 British GP triumph for Honda - and hopes Ducati’s recovery can boost his reputation too.

“When you are in a team that has won a lot, people automatically think your bike is a

winner. That’s stupid and wrong,” he said. “I think I was underrated for some years, when I got good results without winning.

“Yes, I’ve matured, I can manage certain situations better, but I’m not very different compared to the past. The truth, as usual, is in the middle.” (net)

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Barca squander head-to-head advantage against Real BARCELONA - Barcelona’s 2-1 win over Real Madrid in Sunday’s ‘Clasico’ may have put them four points clear at the top of La Liga but they will be kicking themselves for not taking a host of second-half chances and grabbing the head-to-head advantage. If Real manage to draw level on points with their great rivals over the remaining 10 games -- and they have what looks on paper like a slightly easier run-in -- they will snatch the title as they beat Barca 3-1 in Madrid in October. fans packed into the giant stadium and millions more around the world, Jeremy Mathieu had put Barca ahead in the 19th minute before Cristiano Ronaldo levelled for Real in the 31st.

“For the moment it is the most important goal I have scored for Barca and it has an extra significance considering who we were playing,” a jubilant Suarez, who debuted for the club in October’s ‘Clasico’ after a four-month ban for biting, told reporters.

“There is a long way to go and we know that winning the league

is going to be very tough,” added the Uruguay striker. “Just like in all the leagues, you never know what can happen if you relax just a little.”

Real coach Carlo Ancelotti and his players, meanwhile, will be wondering how they let slip a match they seemed to be well in control of after Ronaldo’s leveller.

The Portugal captain was almost completely anonymous in the second half and Real’s Wales winger Gareth Bale also made little impact. “In the end we suf-

fered because of a slight lack of cool heads in our efforts to equalise,” Ancelotti told a news conference. “We played too many long balls without a clear idea,” added the Italian. “It was a good hour, and 30 minutes that weren’t so good.” (rtr)

Barcelona’s Luis Suarez celebrates after scoring a goal against Real Madrid during their Spanish first division “Clasico” soccer match at Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, March 22, 2015.

With just over a quarter of an hour gone, the Vasco da Gama keeper Martin Silva tried to roll the ball to defender Rodrigo and it got stuck in a puddle. Alecsandro reacted quickest and nipped in to slam the ball into the net. Within minutes the rain had turned the rebuilt World Cup venue into an unplayable swamp.

The referee brought the players out again after a 50-minute

break and Vasco quickly levelled through Gilberto. But Alecsandro netted a second from the penalty spot after 52 minutes to give Flamengo the winner. With nine minutes left on the clock, Paulinho brought down Vasco’s Bernardo as he raced toward goal, sparking a brawl.

The referee sent off both players, plus Vasco’s Guinazu and Flamengo’s Anderson Pico. The

win takes Flamengo above Vasco into third place in the Carioca state championship table.

Earlier in the day, league leaders Botafogo beat Cabofriense 1-0, while Fluminense and Tigres drew 1-1 on Saturday night. In Sao Paulo, both Santos and Corinthians kept up their impressive starts to the season. Corinthians struggled to beat Capivariano 3-2 but the win ensured they con-

PARIS — Belgian forward Michy Batshuayi enhanced his growing reputation with two more goals as third-place Marseille thumped Lens 4-0 on Sunday to move one point behind Lyon and two adrift of leader Paris Saint-Germain in a hard-fought French title race. Batshuayi replaced top scorer Andre-Pierre Gignac at halftime and made an immediate impact, scoring one minute into the second half to give the visitors the lead.

Last month, Batshuayi did exactly the same, coming off the bench and scoring immediately in a 2-2 draw at Saint-Etienne. “Whether I start games or not, I have to stay focused. I work hard in training and I’m rewarded in the games,” the 21-year-old Batshuayi said. “Every time I get chances I do everything to put them away. Things are going well for me at the moment, I’m happy for the team. Of course the title is possible.”

He took his season’s tally to eight goals in 19 games — with only five of those as starts — when he scored his side’s fourth goal deep into injury time. In between his goals, midfielder Alaixys Romao struck in the 67th and winger Andre Ayew pounced five minutes later. Marseille had struggled on the road for most of the season until a 6-1 rout of Toulouse two weeks ago.

The title race is intriguingly poised and could take another twist when it resumes after the international break, with PSG travelling to play Marseille on April 5. Monaco is also in contention, one point behind Marseille and with a game in hand.

But Marseille appears to be peaking at the right time and — like Lyon — has no other competitions to play in, while PSG is chasing a domestic treble and is through to the Champions League quarterfinals.

Since returning from the African Cup of Nations, where he reached the final playing for Ghana last month, Ayew has scored four goals in six games, adding some much-needed firepower to an attack overly reliant on Gignac in the first half of the campaign.

Marseille started the game well, with Gignac missing a chance in the first minute and again two minutes later after being set up by winger Dimitri Payet. But 19th-place Lens came back into the game and goalkeeper Steve Mandanda twice foiled striker Yoann Touzghar in the first half.

“We had problems in the first half but in the second we were able to dictate play,” Romao said. “We have very good teamwork in this side and top-quality players.” Payet set up the first goal and was involved in the second when his free kick bounced off the post and fell kindly for Romao.

Bielsa has earned a reputation as a

fearless coach and he again showed no mercy, hauling Gignac — just like he did against Saint-Etienne. It proved another smart move from the Argentine coach as Batshuayi again showed Gignac — Marseille’s top scorer with 16 league goals — how to be more clinical. Batshuayi also had another goal ruled out for offside and was involved in the build up to Ayew’s goal.

Earlier, teenage striker Anthony Martial scored his fourth league goal in the last three games as Monaco won 3-1 at Reims. Brazilian defender Fabinho and midfielder Nabil Dirar also scored for Monaco, while forward Diego Rigonato netted for Reims.

Monaco is enjoying a strong resurgence following a poor start to the season, and coach Leonardo Jardim’s team is also qualified for the Champions League quarters, where it will take on Juventus. “We’ve had a taste of the Champions League this year and we want to back next season,” Dirar said.

Also, Ivory Coast winger MaxAlain Gradel scored both goals in Saint-Etienne’s 2-0 home win against Lille, taking his tally to 10 this season — including five in the last four games.

Lille midfielder Rony Lopes was sent off in the 52nd. Fifth-place SaintEtienne is one point behind Monaco, having played one game more, and is four clear of sixth-place Bordeaux. (ap)

tinued an unbeaten run that started m i d January.

Santos, meanwhile, beat Audax 1-0 on Saturday to give new manager Marcelo Fernandes his fifth win in five games. They have the best overall record so far with 29 points in 11 games, while Corinthians have 26 and a game in hand. (rtr)

Mancini: Keep foreign-born players off Italy’s squad ROME — Inter Milan coach Roberto Mancini does not like seeing foreign-born players on Italy’s national team.

Speaking at a Serie A meeting Monday, Mancini says, “The

Italian national team should be Italian. ... An Italian player deserves to play for the national team while someone who wasn’t born in Italy, even if they have relatives, I don’t think deserves

to.”

Mancini was responding to this weekend’s call ups of Sampdoria’s Brazilian-born striker Eder and Palermo’s Argentineborn midfielder Franco Vazquez

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to Italy’s squad.

Vazquez’s mother is Italian while Eder gained citizenship through more distant relatives.

Dozens of foreign-born players — mainly Brazilians and

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Marseille’s French forward Andre-Pierre Gignac reacts, during the League One soccer match between Marseille and Lyon, at the Velodrome Stadium, in Marseille, southern France, Sunday, March 15, 2015.

Hull’s “best ever” performance for nothing, says Bruce

Four sent off in rain-hit Rio derby RIO DE JANEIRO - Torrential rain in Rio de Janeiro forced the referee to suspend the FlamengoVasco derby for almost an hour on Sunday but the stoppage did not dampen passions, with four sent off at the end of an action-packed 2-1 win for Flamengo. The game was halted midway through the first half, with the conditions already having contributed to the opening goal.

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Head-to-head record is used before goal difference to separate teams with equal points and Real famously pipped Barca to the title in 2006-07 despite having scored 12 fewer goals and conceded seven more.

Any disappointment Barca coach Luis Enrique and the players may be feeling on Monday morning will be outweighed by their joy at seeing off Real at the Nou Camp, thanks to a superb Luis Suarez goal 11 minutes after halftime.

Watched by almost 100,000

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by Omar Sivori and Jose Altafini in the 1960’s and Omar Camoranesi during the Azzurri’s 2006 World Cup victory. (ap)

Hull City manager Steve Bruce looks dejected

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LONDON - Hull City manager Steve Bruce hailed his side’s performance against Chelsea as their “best ever” in the Premier League but it proved in vain as substitute Loic Remy snatched a 3-2 victory for the leaders on Sunday. Chelsea looked to be in brutal form early on and goals from Eden Hazard and Diego Costa put Jose Mourinho’s side 2-0 ahead after nine minutes at the KC Stadium.

Undeterred, Hull stormed back and scored two goals in 74 seconds as Ahmed Elmohamady slid the ball home on 26 minutes before Abel Hernandez took full advantage of an error by Chelsea goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois.

Hull continued to press the Chelsea goal and forced Courtois to make a terrific treble-save in the second half, but the visitors made them pay for not taking their chances when Remy scored with his first touch after replacing Costa.

“Really frustrating afternoon you could say, but arguably it’s the best we’ve played since we’ve been in the Premier League,” Bruce told the BBC. “To respond in the way we did was

great, but for me the game hinges on the saves Courtois makes when we’re on top. We’ve had the best opportunities.

“When that chance comes, we’ve had three goes at it and the keeper’s made some great saves, but you have to take those chances against sides like Chelsea. “It would’ve been very easy to capitulate after going 2-0 down, but we didn’t do that.” Hull are 15th with 28 points from 30 matches, three more than 18th-placed Burnley at the head of the drop zone.

The hosts had 19 shots on target as leaders Chelsea failed to cope with their attacking force and Bruce is hoping for more of the same before the end of the season.

“The players put in a hell of a shift and something like 19 shots on target against a really strong Chelsea team shows we’re ready for the challenge ahead,” Bruce told Sky Sports. “I thought we really deserved something for it. For that, we’re disappointed, but if we keep playing like that, we’ll be fine.” (rtr)

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Barca squander head-to-head advantage against Real BARCELONA - Barcelona’s 2-1 win over Real Madrid in Sunday’s ‘Clasico’ may have put them four points clear at the top of La Liga but they will be kicking themselves for not taking a host of second-half chances and grabbing the head-to-head advantage. If Real manage to draw level on points with their great rivals over the remaining 10 games -- and they have what looks on paper like a slightly easier run-in -- they will snatch the title as they beat Barca 3-1 in Madrid in October. fans packed into the giant stadium and millions more around the world, Jeremy Mathieu had put Barca ahead in the 19th minute before Cristiano Ronaldo levelled for Real in the 31st.

“For the moment it is the most important goal I have scored for Barca and it has an extra significance considering who we were playing,” a jubilant Suarez, who debuted for the club in October’s ‘Clasico’ after a four-month ban for biting, told reporters.

“There is a long way to go and we know that winning the league

is going to be very tough,” added the Uruguay striker. “Just like in all the leagues, you never know what can happen if you relax just a little.”

Real coach Carlo Ancelotti and his players, meanwhile, will be wondering how they let slip a match they seemed to be well in control of after Ronaldo’s leveller.

The Portugal captain was almost completely anonymous in the second half and Real’s Wales winger Gareth Bale also made little impact. “In the end we suf-

fered because of a slight lack of cool heads in our efforts to equalise,” Ancelotti told a news conference. “We played too many long balls without a clear idea,” added the Italian. “It was a good hour, and 30 minutes that weren’t so good.” (rtr)

Barcelona’s Luis Suarez celebrates after scoring a goal against Real Madrid during their Spanish first division “Clasico” soccer match at Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, March 22, 2015.

With just over a quarter of an hour gone, the Vasco da Gama keeper Martin Silva tried to roll the ball to defender Rodrigo and it got stuck in a puddle. Alecsandro reacted quickest and nipped in to slam the ball into the net. Within minutes the rain had turned the rebuilt World Cup venue into an unplayable swamp.

The referee brought the players out again after a 50-minute

break and Vasco quickly levelled through Gilberto. But Alecsandro netted a second from the penalty spot after 52 minutes to give Flamengo the winner. With nine minutes left on the clock, Paulinho brought down Vasco’s Bernardo as he raced toward goal, sparking a brawl.

The referee sent off both players, plus Vasco’s Guinazu and Flamengo’s Anderson Pico. The

win takes Flamengo above Vasco into third place in the Carioca state championship table.

Earlier in the day, league leaders Botafogo beat Cabofriense 1-0, while Fluminense and Tigres drew 1-1 on Saturday night. In Sao Paulo, both Santos and Corinthians kept up their impressive starts to the season. Corinthians struggled to beat Capivariano 3-2 but the win ensured they con-

PARIS — Belgian forward Michy Batshuayi enhanced his growing reputation with two more goals as third-place Marseille thumped Lens 4-0 on Sunday to move one point behind Lyon and two adrift of leader Paris Saint-Germain in a hard-fought French title race. Batshuayi replaced top scorer Andre-Pierre Gignac at halftime and made an immediate impact, scoring one minute into the second half to give the visitors the lead.

Last month, Batshuayi did exactly the same, coming off the bench and scoring immediately in a 2-2 draw at Saint-Etienne. “Whether I start games or not, I have to stay focused. I work hard in training and I’m rewarded in the games,” the 21-year-old Batshuayi said. “Every time I get chances I do everything to put them away. Things are going well for me at the moment, I’m happy for the team. Of course the title is possible.”

He took his season’s tally to eight goals in 19 games — with only five of those as starts — when he scored his side’s fourth goal deep into injury time. In between his goals, midfielder Alaixys Romao struck in the 67th and winger Andre Ayew pounced five minutes later. Marseille had struggled on the road for most of the season until a 6-1 rout of Toulouse two weeks ago.

The title race is intriguingly poised and could take another twist when it resumes after the international break, with PSG travelling to play Marseille on April 5. Monaco is also in contention, one point behind Marseille and with a game in hand.

But Marseille appears to be peaking at the right time and — like Lyon — has no other competitions to play in, while PSG is chasing a domestic treble and is through to the Champions League quarterfinals.

Since returning from the African Cup of Nations, where he reached the final playing for Ghana last month, Ayew has scored four goals in six games, adding some much-needed firepower to an attack overly reliant on Gignac in the first half of the campaign.

Marseille started the game well, with Gignac missing a chance in the first minute and again two minutes later after being set up by winger Dimitri Payet. But 19th-place Lens came back into the game and goalkeeper Steve Mandanda twice foiled striker Yoann Touzghar in the first half.

“We had problems in the first half but in the second we were able to dictate play,” Romao said. “We have very good teamwork in this side and top-quality players.” Payet set up the first goal and was involved in the second when his free kick bounced off the post and fell kindly for Romao.

Bielsa has earned a reputation as a

fearless coach and he again showed no mercy, hauling Gignac — just like he did against Saint-Etienne. It proved another smart move from the Argentine coach as Batshuayi again showed Gignac — Marseille’s top scorer with 16 league goals — how to be more clinical. Batshuayi also had another goal ruled out for offside and was involved in the build up to Ayew’s goal.

Earlier, teenage striker Anthony Martial scored his fourth league goal in the last three games as Monaco won 3-1 at Reims. Brazilian defender Fabinho and midfielder Nabil Dirar also scored for Monaco, while forward Diego Rigonato netted for Reims.

Monaco is enjoying a strong resurgence following a poor start to the season, and coach Leonardo Jardim’s team is also qualified for the Champions League quarters, where it will take on Juventus. “We’ve had a taste of the Champions League this year and we want to back next season,” Dirar said.

Also, Ivory Coast winger MaxAlain Gradel scored both goals in Saint-Etienne’s 2-0 home win against Lille, taking his tally to 10 this season — including five in the last four games.

Lille midfielder Rony Lopes was sent off in the 52nd. Fifth-place SaintEtienne is one point behind Monaco, having played one game more, and is four clear of sixth-place Bordeaux. (ap)

tinued an unbeaten run that started m i d January.

Santos, meanwhile, beat Audax 1-0 on Saturday to give new manager Marcelo Fernandes his fifth win in five games. They have the best overall record so far with 29 points in 11 games, while Corinthians have 26 and a game in hand. (rtr)

Mancini: Keep foreign-born players off Italy’s squad ROME — Inter Milan coach Roberto Mancini does not like seeing foreign-born players on Italy’s national team.

Speaking at a Serie A meeting Monday, Mancini says, “The

Italian national team should be Italian. ... An Italian player deserves to play for the national team while someone who wasn’t born in Italy, even if they have relatives, I don’t think deserves

to.”

Mancini was responding to this weekend’s call ups of Sampdoria’s Brazilian-born striker Eder and Palermo’s Argentineborn midfielder Franco Vazquez

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to Italy’s squad.

Vazquez’s mother is Italian while Eder gained citizenship through more distant relatives.

Dozens of foreign-born players — mainly Brazilians and

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Marseille’s French forward Andre-Pierre Gignac reacts, during the League One soccer match between Marseille and Lyon, at the Velodrome Stadium, in Marseille, southern France, Sunday, March 15, 2015.

Hull’s “best ever” performance for nothing, says Bruce

Four sent off in rain-hit Rio derby RIO DE JANEIRO - Torrential rain in Rio de Janeiro forced the referee to suspend the FlamengoVasco derby for almost an hour on Sunday but the stoppage did not dampen passions, with four sent off at the end of an action-packed 2-1 win for Flamengo. The game was halted midway through the first half, with the conditions already having contributed to the opening goal.

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Forward Batshuayi scores 2 as Marseille thumps Lens 4-0

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Head-to-head record is used before goal difference to separate teams with equal points and Real famously pipped Barca to the title in 2006-07 despite having scored 12 fewer goals and conceded seven more.

Any disappointment Barca coach Luis Enrique and the players may be feeling on Monday morning will be outweighed by their joy at seeing off Real at the Nou Camp, thanks to a superb Luis Suarez goal 11 minutes after halftime.

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by Omar Sivori and Jose Altafini in the 1960’s and Omar Camoranesi during the Azzurri’s 2006 World Cup victory. (ap)

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LONDON - Hull City manager Steve Bruce hailed his side’s performance against Chelsea as their “best ever” in the Premier League but it proved in vain as substitute Loic Remy snatched a 3-2 victory for the leaders on Sunday. Chelsea looked to be in brutal form early on and goals from Eden Hazard and Diego Costa put Jose Mourinho’s side 2-0 ahead after nine minutes at the KC Stadium.

Undeterred, Hull stormed back and scored two goals in 74 seconds as Ahmed Elmohamady slid the ball home on 26 minutes before Abel Hernandez took full advantage of an error by Chelsea goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois.

Hull continued to press the Chelsea goal and forced Courtois to make a terrific treble-save in the second half, but the visitors made them pay for not taking their chances when Remy scored with his first touch after replacing Costa.

“Really frustrating afternoon you could say, but arguably it’s the best we’ve played since we’ve been in the Premier League,” Bruce told the BBC. “To respond in the way we did was

great, but for me the game hinges on the saves Courtois makes when we’re on top. We’ve had the best opportunities.

“When that chance comes, we’ve had three goes at it and the keeper’s made some great saves, but you have to take those chances against sides like Chelsea. “It would’ve been very easy to capitulate after going 2-0 down, but we didn’t do that.” Hull are 15th with 28 points from 30 matches, three more than 18th-placed Burnley at the head of the drop zone.

The hosts had 19 shots on target as leaders Chelsea failed to cope with their attacking force and Bruce is hoping for more of the same before the end of the season.

“The players put in a hell of a shift and something like 19 shots on target against a really strong Chelsea team shows we’re ready for the challenge ahead,” Bruce told Sky Sports. “I thought we really deserved something for it. For that, we’re disappointed, but if we keep playing like that, we’ll be fine.” (rtr)

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Spurs win 114-95 at faltering Hawks

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ATLANTA — San Antonio won comfortably at Atlanta 114-95 in Sunday’s clash of two teams with form lines heading in opposite directions leading up to the NBA playoffs. The Spurs have won three straight and the Hawks have lost three straight, though they can afford to ease up given they are still eight games clear atop the Eastern Conference, ahead of Cleveland, which won at Milwaukee.

SEMARAPURA - This monument or building is skyrocketing as high as 28 meters from the pedestal of the building located downtown Semarapura. The monument in the form of Lingam-Yoni and built in an area of 123 square meters was named Puputan Klungkung Monument and inaugurated by the Minister of Home Affairs on April 28, 1992. The entire monument building is made from black stone so it is in harmony with the meaning of Hindu philosophy, namely fighting all-out by the royal family of Klungkung Kingdom together with their people. Puputan Klungkung Monument is situated in the middle of Semarapura City so it is easily achieved from Denpasar, Besakih or Candi Dasa because it sits on the outskirts of the road side with busy traffic. Additionally, location of the Puputan Klungkung Monument is very strategic because it is adjacent to Kertha Ghosa/Taman Gili, Shopping Centre, Traditional Market and Government Offices.

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Atlanta Hawks’ Pero Antic, right, of Macedonia, reacts while falling to the floor after making a layup and drawing the foul from San Antonio Spurs’ Boris Diaw, left, of France, during the fourth quarter of an NBA basketball game Sunday, March 22, 2015, in Atlanta.

In the key games among playoff aspirants in the West, the Los Angeles Clippers defeated New Orleans, and Phoenix won a close one against Dallas.

Defending champion San Antonio got a season-high 23 points from Tiago Splitter and 20 from Kawhi Leonard. The Spurs never trailed and led by as much as 26 points in the third quarter. Paul Millsap finished with 22 points for the faltering Hawks. The Clippers won a fourth straight game by beating New Orleands 107-100.

Blake Griffin scored 23 points and Chris Paul contributed 23 points and 11 assists for Los Angeles, which converted 18 Pelicans turnovers into 30 points and had a 25-6 advantage on second-chance points.

Anthony Davis led New Orleans with 26 points and 12 rebounds in 39 minutes after missing two games with a sprained ankle. Tyreke Evans was sidelined because of the same injury and was replaced in the starting lineup.

Phoenix’s Archie Goodwin

sank the go-ahead 3-pointer and Markieff Morris added a critical jumper in the final 30 seconds to secure a 98-92 win for the Suns against Dallas.

The Mavericks rallied from a 17point, third-quarter deficit and were up 86-80 with 5 minutes to play, but then went four minutes without scoring while the Suns climbed back into the lead. Eric Bledsoe had 20 points, nine assists and six rebounds for Phoenix. Chandler Parsons scored 19 points for Dallas, which has lost all three games against Phoenix this season.

Cleveland’s LeBron James scored 28 points and sparked a key second-half run with an emphatic dunk to lead the Cavaliers to a 10890 win against Milwaukee.

J.R. Smith added 23 points for Cleveland, including three straight 3s to close out the decisive run that turned a six-point deficit into a 93-78 lead with 6:19 left. Giannis Antetokounmpo had 15 points and nine rebounds for the Bucks, who have won six straight. (ap)

Dovizioso: 2015 Ducati better than Stoner’s

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Ducati’s 2015 MotoGP bike is “stronger and more competitive” than the machines with which Casey Stoner won 23 grands prix and a championship between 2007 and ‘10, reckons Andrea Dovizioso. Although Ducati’s win-less streak now stretches back to Stoner’s 2010 Australian GP triumph, the restructured team topped the final pre-season test in Qatar last week with Dovizioso and team-mate Andrea Iannone.

Asked by Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport how the revitalised Ducati compared to Stoner’s era, Dovizioso replied: “I believe nowadays we are stronger and more competitive. “Back then Casey would dominate, but it was mostly down to himself making the difference, as in fact the second Ducati was nowhere near. That means the bike wasn’t so competitive.

“Now, instead, the GP15 is competitive, it’s basically normal and it works. Now it’s up to us to work on the details to make the difference and win.”

Despite his confidence and the Ducati’s Qatar test pace, Dovizioso said a podium was his realistic aim for Losail as he expects the factory Hondas and Yamahas to be stronger than they were in the test. “We go to Qatar to get on the podium,” he said. “We were quick in the tests, but I know those four rivals very well, I know the bikes they have, how they work in the tests and on race weekends.

“To get on the podium will be very difficult anyway.” Ducati currently benefits from several rules breaks that will be taken away

should it begin winning races, but Dovizioso said the team is now quick enough to succeed even without the tyre compound and engine development allowances provided for 2014.

“Regardless what happens, it won’t influence us,” he said. “We have built a competitive bike, so if those advantages are

taken away from us, they won’t make us go backwards.” Dovizioso still only has one MotoGP win to his name - from his 2009 British GP triumph for Honda - and hopes Ducati’s recovery can boost his reputation too.

“When you are in a team that has won a lot, people automatically think your bike is a

winner. That’s stupid and wrong,” he said. “I think I was underrated for some years, when I got good results without winning.

“Yes, I’ve matured, I can manage certain situations better, but I’m not very different compared to the past. The truth, as usual, is in the middle.” (net)

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Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras addresses a news conference during a European Union leaders summit in Brussels March 20, 2015.

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Tunisian prime minister fires security chiefs after attack TUNIS, Tunisia — Tunisia’s prime minister has fired five leading security officials after three gunmen attacked a renowned Tunis museum, killing 21 in the deadliest attack on tourists in Tunisia in 13 years, the government said Monday.

The ousted officials include the director of Tunisia’s tourist police and the police chief for the neighborhood around the National Bardo Museum, government spokesman Mufdi Mseddi told The Associated Press.

The decision was made after the prime minister visited the neighborhood of the attack and noted security problems, the spokesman said. President Beji Caid Essebsi had also criticized security failings around last week’s attack. The gunmen opened fire on tourists getting out of buses and then entered the museum, apparently unimpeded, and fired on more tourists inside. Two gunmen were killed in a shootout with police.

The Interior Ministry has identified a man suspected of coordinating the attack and posted two photos of him on its Facebook page. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for attacking the museum — a trove of Roman mosaics and Tunisia’s leading historical museum.

Police identified the two dead attackers as Tunisians in their 20s who had trained in Libya. Several well-armed groups in neighboring and chaotic Libya have pledged allegiance to IS. Tunisia is also fighting extremists claiming allegiance to al-Qaida in its western mountains, near Algeria. A Tunisian defense official said Monday one soldier was killed and three others wounded when a mine blew up their vehicle in an area known to be a refuge for al-Qaida-linked Islamic radicals.

Lt. Col. Belhassen Oueslati, a Defense Ministry spokesman, said the incident occurred Sunday near the Algerian border. Al-Qaida linked radicals have staged attacks against army and politicians in the area for the past two years. (ap)

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BERLIN — Alexis Tsipras is visiting Germany for the first time since becoming Greece’s prime Singapore-based political analyst Derek da Cunha told AFP minister, meeting Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday as his debt-ridden country and its key credi- that “Lee Kuan Yew gave Singapore an international profile tor seek to halt a downward spiral in relations. Tsipras’ visit comes after Merkel and other European completely disproportionate to the country’s size”. leaders last week told Tsipras to come up soon with budget cuts and tax increases that would enable But the Cambridge-educated lawyer was also criticised for him to get urgently needed bailout money. jailing political opponents and driving his critics to self-imMerkel has downplayed chances of Tsipras producing those measures when they meet, saying “it is not the place for any lists with proposed reforms to be submitted” and they must go to Greece’s international debt inspectors, not to Germany.

Tsipras’ first weeks in office have been marked by tensions over the two governments’ contrasting approaches to the debt crisis and Athens’ revival of calls for new reparations from Berlin stemming from Germany’s World War II occupation of Greece.

Tsipras’ party won general elections in January after campaigning against the spending cuts favored

by Germany in exchange for 240 billion euros ($260 billion) in international bailout money. The new government agreed a month ago to push through reforms in exchange for keeping European Union aid flowing, but has delayed submitting

the measures for approval.

German officials have complained about their Greek counterparts making commitments and then publicly casting doubt on them, but also insist the debt spat isn’t a bilateral matter between the two countries. German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel told ARD television Sunday he hopes for a “new beginning” in relations.

“The Greek government must clearly recognize that the rest of Europe, Germany too, wants to help but that we cannot do that without something in return, without fair agreements on the necessary reforms,” he said — though he added that “social hardship is huge” in Greece and must be addressed.

Merkel’s governing coalition insists talk of wartime reparations has no place in discussions of Greece’s current debt troubles. Greece believes it is due payments for wrecked

infrastructure, war crimes and a loan that occupied Greece was forced to make to the Nazis, but German officials say the matter has been resolved through previous payments and agreements.

The two countries’ foreign ministers met on Sunday night and agreed to work on strengthening relations. Germany’s Frank-Walter Steinmeier said that the debt crisis must not be allowed to “erode the strong foundations of GermanGreek relations.”

Greek counterpart Nikos Kotzias, in an interview with German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung, advocated creating a German-Greek panel of experts to examine the reparations issue — but Germany promptly made clear that it isn’t interested.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Schaefer reiterated that “for us, the chapter of reparations is politically and legally concluded.” (ap)

posed exile or financial ruin as a result of costly libel suits.

Singapore strictly controls freedom of speech and assembly. While it has become more liberal in recent years, it still uses corporal punishment and ranks 150th in the annual press freedom ranking of Reporters Without Borders -- below Russia and Zimbabwe among others.

Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director of Human Rights Watch, acknowledged Lee’s economic legacy but said “it also came at a significant cost for human rights”.

He said it may now be time for a national “conversation” on greater political liberalisation.

Lee stepped down in 1990 in favour of his deputy Goh Chok Tong, who in turn handed the reins to the former leader’s eldest son Lee Hsien Loong in 2004.

The People’s Action Party (PAP), which was co-founded by the elder Lee, has won every election since 1959 and currently holds 80 of the 87 seats in parliament.

Lee retired from advisory roles in government in 2011 after the PAP suffered its worst poll result since it came to power, getting only 60 percent of votes cast amid public anger over a large influx of immigrants, the rising cost of living, urban congestion and insufficient supply of public housing.

In his last book “One Man’s View of the World”, published in 2013, Lee looked back at his remarkable career and concluded: “As for me, I have done what I had wanted to, to the best of my ability. I am satisfied.” (afp)

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INDONESIA Indonesia’s president to attend Lee Kuan Yew’s funeral

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Indonesian anti-terror police have arrested five men who allegedly arranged for a group of mostly women and children to try and enter Syria to join the Islamic State (IS) group, an official said.

Indonesia detains alleged IS recruiters

JAKARTA - Indonesian anti-terror police have arrested five men who allegedly arranged for a group of mostly women and children to try and enter Syria to join the Islamic State (IS) group, an official said.

The 11 children, four women and one man, detained in the Turkish border town of Gaziantep, are the latest example of Indonesians heading to battlegrounds in the Middle East.

Fears have been growing about the influence of IS in Indonesia, which is the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation and has long struggled with Islamic militancy. Hundreds of Indonesians are feared to have joined the jihadists.

In a series of raids in and around Jakarta at the weekend, elite antiterror police rounded up the five men, who are suspected of helping the 16 people who were recently caught.

The men are accused of involve-

ment in “coaching, guidance, and recruitment of sympathisers of IS to depart to Iraq and Syria... and the collection and distribution of funds for the activities of IS volunteers in Indonesia,” said national police spokesman Rikwanto, who goes by one name, late Sunday.

Four were charged specifically with helping arrange documents for the group to depart for Turkey, as well as previously helping another 21 Indonesians who went to join IS. One of the suspects faced a separate charge of urging people to join IS on his website, as well as creating and uploading a video online of children being trained by the jihadists.

Police did not name any of the

suspects.

They also confiscated items including nine mobile phones, eight million rupiah ($600) and $5,300 in US dollars.

The 16 recently arrested are still in detention in Turkey.

Jakarta has already banned support for IS, which controls vast swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria, although experts have called on authorities to take further steps to stop the flow of fighters.

Indonesia has waged a crackdown on Islamic militant groups for more than a decade following attacks on Western targets, including the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people. The campaign has been credited with weakening key networks. (afp)

TOKYO - President Joko Widodo will attend the state funeral of former prime minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew who died on Monday, at 3:18 a.m. local time.

Cabinet Secretary Andi Widjajanto in a press release on Monday from Tokyo, Japan, stated that the president will attend the funeral of former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew after his visit to Malaysia on March 29, 2015.

“On March 29, President Joko Widodo will go to Singapore to attend the state funeral,” he remarked.

President Joko Widodo stated that the government and the people of Indonesia expressed their deepest sympathies over the death of Singaporean founding father Lee Kuan Yew. “Lee Kuan Yew, known as the founding father of modern Singapore, was a close friend of Indonesia,” the president said.

He noted that as a leader, Lee is also known as one of the influential political figures in Asia.

“Under his leadership, Singapore has transformed into a major economic hub in Asia and is at par with other developed countries,” he emphasized.

The president said the government and the people of Indonesia prayed for the bereaved family and the people of Singapore to give them strength and fortitude in the face of grief over the death of Lee. “The government and people of Indonesia believe that the people of Singapore can pass through this difficult time,” he noted.

Earlier, Lee Kuan Yew had been hospitalized for several weeks as he was suffering from pneumonia and was on life support before he passed away in the early hours of Monday morning. (ant)

JAKARTA - A survey showed that Megawati Soekarnoputri is no longer favored by the public to lead the ruling Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI Perjuangan).

“The public acknowledged Megawati’s success in leading PDI Perjuangan but the majority of them no longer want her to lead the party,” Haryadi, a lecturer at the state University of Airlangga in Surabaya, said quoting a survey held ahead of the party congress in April.

The party would next month hold a national congress, which is expected to confirm that Megawati would remain at the helm of the party a position already unanimously agreed earlier in a party meeting.

The daughter of the country’s founding father President Soekarno, had been the chairperson of the party since it was formed after the fall of the dictatorial government of President Suharto.

Haryadi said that what the public want might not be the same as what the cadres of the party want.

“This shows a disconnection of interest between the public and the cadres and the sympathizers of PDI Perjuangan. Most of the public have quasi information from the mass

media,” he said.

Therefore, it is natural that the majority of the public have their own perception of parties based on the mass media information, he said.

Meanwhile cadres and sympathizers of PDI Perjuangan have experience and authentic knowledge about the party dynamics.

The cadres and the sympathizers believe that Megawati’s leadership is still needed to consolidate the party and at the same time to watch over the performance of President Joko Widodo as a cadre of the party.

“Therefore, the presence of Megawati in PDI Perjuangan is vital to safeguard the process of transition in the party leadership in the next 5 years. I think Megawati wants to make sure success in consolidation, and to strengthen ideological foundation,” he said.

The process of regeneration in a party as big as PDI Perjuangan would need strong leadership, he added.

The most crucial point for survival and the future of the party is consolidation in the process of transition of leadership. For that purpose Megawati is still needed to lead PDI Perjuangan, he said. (ant)

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DENPASAR - Hindu possesses a medical science that has been very renowned from time immemorial, namely Ayurvedic medicine.

Ayurvedic medicine refers to the contents of the scripture Ayurveda born thousands of years ago. Ayurvedic scripture denotes a part of Upaweda in the group of Smriti Vedas. However, the Ayurvedic scripture is often confused with Yajur Veda, the scripture containing sacrificial formula that also belongs to Smriti Veda. Yajur Veda itself is a scripture discussing about Yajña or ceremony.

OPEC must work with other producers to boost oil prices

willing to work with non-members, Naimi pointed to the crash of 1998 when the cartel cooperated with other producers to cut output and support oil prices.

“Today, the situation is difficult.

We tried, met with them but did not succeed because they insisted that OPEC should take the responsibility alone,” said Naimi, in reference to meetings with non-OPEC producers ahead of the cartel’s meeting in November.

“All must contribute if we want to improve prices because it is in the interest of all,” the Saudi minister said.

Oil prices fell in Asian trade Monday with US benchmark West Texas Intermediate for May delivery was down 65 cents at $45.92 and Brent tumbled 58 cents to $54.74.

Bloomberg News quoted Naimi as saying on Sunday that his country is producing almost 10 million barrels of crude a day.

Saudi Arabia pumped 9.85 million barrels a day in February, according to Bloomberg. (afp)

China says new bank to complement existing institutions BEIJING — China’s finance minister said a proposed Chineseled Asian regional bank that has raised concerns in Washington will complement rather than compete with established international lenders such as the World Bank, state media reported Saturday.

The official Xinhua News Agency cited Lou Jiwei as saying that the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s establishment, expected by the end of 2015, would enable China to shoulder more responsibility for global development.

Like other regional investment vehicles, such as the Asian Development Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the AIIB would not weaken established institutions, but reinforce them and “more vigorously push forward the global economy,” Lou was quoted as

saying. Lou’s comments appeared aimed at assuaging U.S. worries after Germany, France and Italy followed Britain on Tuesday in announcing plans to join the AIIB. Washington has expressed concern that the new bank will allow looser lending standards for transparency, the environment and labor, and undercut the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

Lou said other countries would be welcome to join even after a March 31 deadline expires.

China proposed the bank in 2013 to finance construction of roads, ports and other infrastructure. It has pledged to put up most of its initial $50 billion in capital.

Twenty-one other governments, including India, New Zealand and Thailand, have said they want to join, but the U.S. and close allies Japan, South Korea and Australia have not. (ap)

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RIYADH - Oil producers outside OPEC must cooperate to boost falling crude prices as the cartel refuses to take responsibility alone, the Saudi oil minister has said.

“We refuse to take responsibility alone because (OPEC) produces 30 percent of market output and 70 percent comes from outside,” Ali al-Naimi said in remarks carried Monday by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA).

Crude prices slumped by about 60 percent between June and February, weighed down by a glut of global supplies and concerns about stalling demand.

The slide was exacerbated in November when Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) refused to cut production to rescue falling prices, saying it wanted to maintain its market share.

The 12-member group, led by top producer Saudi Arabia, pumps around a third of the world’s oil but other major producers, such as Russia, are not tied by its decisions.

Asked whether OPEC would be

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Author of the book Usada Bali (Balinese Traditional Healing), the late Prof. IGN Nala, once said that to help the healing, the Ayurvedic healers usually provided natural herbal medicine having few side effects. Almost all plants existing around us could be eaten, they were medicine. On that account, all plants having efficacy for healing were necessary to be inventoried and developed.

In the meantime, the Dean of Faculty of Health Science, Hindu University of Indonesia (Unhi), I Nyoman Prastika, said that based Taru Premana palm-manuscript there were a number of beneficial herbs having the efficacy to cure

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A man walks by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Monday, March 2, 2015. Asian markets mostly advanced Monday following rallies on Wall Street and in Europe, while the dollar continued to struggle after the Federal Reserve dampened expectations for an early interest rate hike.

Asian markets mostly up after US, Europe gains HONG KONG - Asian markets mostly advanced Monday following rallies on Wall Street and in Europe, while the dollar continued to struggle after the Federal Reserve dampened expectations for an early interest rate hike.

Tokyo ended 0.99 percent higher, adding 194.14 points, to 19,754.36 while in late trade Hong Kong was up 0.32 percent and Shanghai surged 1.03 percent, marking a ninth straight gain.

Seoul was flat, dipping 0.65 points to 2,036.59 and Sydney eased 0.32 percent, or 19.4 points, to 5,956.1.

With few catalysts to drive business early in the week, investors took their lead from their US counterparts who have been cheered by the Fed’s dovish comments on rates.

While the central bank on Wednesday opened the door for a rise this year, it said there were still weaknesses in the US economy, including low inflation and soft manufacturing.

The news sent global shares soaring and the dollar tumbling.

In New York on Friday the Dow jumped 0.94 percent, the S&P 500 climbed 0.90 percent and the Nasdaq added 0.68 percent to end above 5,000 points for the first time since March 2000 and for only the fourth time ever.

European markets also surged, helped by Greece’s promise to submit fresh bailout reform plans. London’s FTSE closed above 7,000 points for the first time in its history, while the Paris CAC 40 is at levels not seen since early 2008.

In currency trading on Monday the dollar bought 119.86 yen in afternoon

trade, down from 120.11 yen in New York and well off the 120.71 yen in Tokyo earlier Friday.

The euro bought $1.0818 compared with $1.0821 but is well up from the levels below $1.05 seen at the start of last week. The single currency was also at 129.69 yen against 129.98 yen.

“The overriding factor for the Fed is whether they can afford to overstimulate the economy or raise rates too soon,” Tim Schroeders, a portfolio manager at Pengana Capital Ltd. in Melbourne, told Bloomberg News.

“They can’t be too aggressive in raising rates as the underlying US economy isn’t as strong. Equities will continue to trend higher but as valuations become stretched, markets will be more vulnerable to a pullback.” (afp)

diseases. Parts of those plants taken advantage consisted of its leaf, flower, fruit, bark or roots. Each herb had different quality such as cool, warm and mild.

To know whether a particular plant had a cold, warm or mild quality, it could be observed from the color of its flower and flavor.

For instance, white, yellow and green flower had warm quality. If their flowers were red and blue, these plants had cool efficacy.

Meanwhile, if the flower was multicolors, they could be ensured to have mild efficacy.

Likewise, if they tasted sweet and sour, its quality might be warm.

However, if they tasted bitter and

hot, they had cool efficacy. Then, if they were tasteless, they belonged to mild plant.

In herbal medicine system, added Prastika, people would be healthy if they consumed (ahara) nutritious healthy foods regularly, had adequate rest or sleep (nidra), and behaved (vihara) healthy. If the three aspects had been committed well, but it was still found health disturbances, then a herbal treatment (ausadhi) was required.

Preparation method of herbal medicine could be divided into three kinds, namely grinding, spraying and boiled. Its healing method could be performed by drinking and dropping for internal healing, while the spraying or applying the paste for external use.

Then, what kinds of plant could be used to cure diseases? Prastika said that virtually all edible plants by animals could be eaten by humans. Whether the herbs had medicinal quality, they could be observed from the color of their flow-

ers and flavor as mentioned above.

Similarly, the plants frequently used for spices in the cooking contained drug efficacy.

Red ginger for example, was good to increase warmth of the body as well as to stimulate or maintain immunity. If red ginger added with the flowers of carambola, bark of tamarind and kalmegh leaves, they could be used to accelerate breathing and relieve cough.

Meanwhile, to break up kidney stones and cure colic, people could also use herbal medicine. Its ingredients consisted of roots of reed, roots of palm tree, root of areca nut tree and added with palm sugar. All materials were thoroughly boiled.

Afterward, its decoction water was drunk in the morning and afternoon.

Herbal remedies could also cope with cardiac palpitations. Its ingredients comprised the soy beans, green beans, ginger, cumin, fennel, bidara upas (Merremia mammosa) leaf, coriander and pulasari (Alyxia

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Stellata). All ingredients should be boiled and then water of its decoction was drunk regularly.

Meanwhile, Balinese traditional healing used several palm-leaf manuscripts as reference. One of them was Lontar Usada Tiwang.

This manuscript described about various types of diseases along with their treatments. Tiwang conveyed numerous symptoms in the form of disorder on the function of organ.

There were several types of tiwang presented in the manuscripts such as tiwang utara, tiwang tojos, tiwang wedul, tiwang pemali pepasangan, tiwang wong, and tiwang rajasa.

Prastika added that tiwang pemali pepasangan had symptoms like prickling pain in the chest and on the back. Being no resistant to the pain, the sufferers often groaned.

The disease itself could be treated by means of bark of rauvolfia, temu tis (Curcuma purpurascens), grilled coconut, hazelnut and fennel. It was applied by spraying its paste. (kmb)

Sidetapa, an old and unique Bali’s village

by Nyoman Suwela SINGARAJA - Sidetapa is a village, located in the hilly area of North Bali and is acknowledged as one among several old and unique Bali’s villages of North Bali, namely the village of Cempaga, Tigawasa, Pedawa, Julah and Sembiran. All of these villages are believed of having different characteristic such as its tradition, dialect and home lay-out even though that all of them are Hindu devotees.

Sidetapa derives its name from two words “sida” and “tapa”. Sida literally in English means “wounded” and tapa means “meditation”. How this village got its name related to these two words, as told by the prominent people in the village that it has a long story and has become a legend and the people of the village still adhere until recently.

The legend has it that ancestors of the people many centuries ago were living in Java and after the advent of Islam then it advanced widely and most Javanese Hindu people converted into Muslim, a few refused to covert and they fled to Bali and eventually they settled down in the what is now the site of Besakih Mother Temple. It was told that three families out of them went to the north and they dwelt in an area on the eastern part of the current village of Sidetapa and latter on they were followed by the rest of families and settled on the southern part. What happened then, the first families coming to this area was scared by a colony of ants and they decided to

move to assemble with other families which had become the centre of a new settlement or village which was called “ Gunung Sari Munggah Tapa” literally in English is “Flower Mountain Climbing to Meditation”.

The legend further has it that when the people were building a shrine of which all materials of the structure mostly consisted of bamboo and they did it in the spirit of “togetherness” what is now called “gotong royong”, everyone was taking part in the process of doing something without pay.

Those who were working would cut the bamboo with sharp knives.

The bamboo was just laid on the knee and then cut it. The knee would not be wounded and by doing so a very strict and though restriction must be adhered such as it was strictly prohibited of having any kind of impure thought and any kind of wrong do-

ing even included of having sexual intercourse.

It might be true that to err is human that is not completely free of sexual urge and one day, it was told, a member of the village to have sexual intercourse the night before working for his community and then could be predicted his knee was wounded due to the breaching of the imposed restrictions. Since then, the name of the village was changed into the village of Sida Tapa.

Observing the distinct uniqueness of the village is worth noting in the lay-out of the family compounds and houses. All the compounds are relatively similar with ubiquitous Bali’s style gates made of bricks or raw bricks, top with bamboo or zinc roofing. The houses were built along the narrow alleys and they do not overlook into the alleys but the other around instead. They were built very

close one to the other and it was said the houses built in such a way to prevent the endangered creatures such as ogress to sneak into the compound or the house. In line with this concept all activities such as cooking and sleeping are conducted in the house.

In the rest of Bali we can frequently find an elaborated decorated temple in the cemetery but in this village the temple generally made of bamboo and it looks very simple.

A century ago, the village was so isolated and it now has changed due to the development and it now is also facing of challenges of modernization and globalization. The village is currently easily accessible by car. The road has been paved either directly from Singaraja or Denpasar.

From tourism point of view, the village of Sidetapa, actually has a lot to offer and it can possibly be a tourist destination in Bali even in the

world. The uniqueness of the village is an asset owned by the village can be promoted to be a tourist attraction and if the promotion and tourism development in the village would be conducted whether by governments either central, province, regency, local or even by investor must be carefully designed and conducted in such a way without sacrificing the interest of the people in the village.

What is going to happen in the future of this unique and interesting village will entirely in the hand of the people of the village. Many villagers there are now more educated and so they can donate their knowledge and experiences for the benefit of the whole people of Sidetapa.

We do hope that the future of the village would be better. Time will tell the truth. We keep our fingers crossed for the better future of the village of Sidetapa.

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For wandering in rice fields on Nyepi SEMARAPURA - Celebrations of Nyepi on Satruday (Mar 21), in the region of Klungkung generally took place smoothly and safely.

However, the peacefulness of the day was colored by delinquency that took place at Sangkanbuana customary village, Klungkung.

Five teenagers living at BTN Penasan, Banjarangkan, were arrested by the pecalang or customary guards of Sangkabuana because they were caught wandering in the rice fields of Subak Jro Kuta on the day of Nyepi. As result, the five teenagers were arrested by the pecalang and brought to the village hall of Sangkanbuana.

According to information obtained in the field, the five teenagers arrested by the pecalang consisted of college students as well as junior and high school students named; Gde Adi Putra, 19, Dewa Gde Rai, 19, Putu Gde Julian Yuan Primary, 16, Sang Kadek Widya Jati, 18, and Jodi Sura Semadi, 15. The five teenagers that live at BTN Penasan were arrested by the pecalang of Banjarangkan around 3:30 p.m.The arrest of the five teenagers occurred after the hamlet chief of Sangkanbuana, Nengah Sukana, along with a few pecalang guards thought they saw some people picking flowers in a nearby rice paddy.

As they got closer to the rice field, they clearly saw five suspicious people strolling along the embankment of the Subak Jro Kuta paddy field. Not knowing who these suspicious people were, the pecalang of Sangkabuana called out to them. Not only did they not answer but they proceeded to attempt to escape into the middle of the rice field. The pecalang guards then chased down the five teenagers, some of whom fell down as they tried to run away. The five youths were finally apprehended and brought to the village hall of Sangkanbuana for questioning.

Members of the local Cossack community undergo military training at a boot camp set up by the Russkiye Vityazi (Russian Knights) military patriotic club in the village of Sengileyevskoye, south of Stavropol, March 22, 2015.

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Five teenagers living at BTN Penasan, Banjarangkan, were arrested by the pecalang or customary guards of Sangkabuana because they were caught wandering in the rice fields of Subak Jro Kuta on the day of Nyepi.

While being questioned, the teenagers did not appear to feel guilty in the least. One of them even grinned while being interrogated thus angering one of the pecalang.

The teenagers admitted that they had intended to go to Budaga village, where Dewa Gde Rai has a home, to grill some fish. “We were going to grill fish at my home, sir then, we intended to upload pictures of the BBQ to Instagram. We got bored just staying home,” said

Dewa Gede Rai without remorse.In an attempt to hold the delinquents responsible for their bad deed of wandering on Nyepi, the chief of Sangkanbuana customary village, Nyoman Suarta, eventually invited the chief of Tihingan customary village and its pecalang guards to cooperate. The parents of the five teenagers were also immediately summoned to the village hall. After being given direction and guidance, the five teenagers were charged and

finally released. They were returned to their respective parents to face the consequences of their actions.

Before being released, the parents of the five teenagers apologized to the customary village authorities and the pecalang. They expressed their embarrassment about their children having wandered during Nyepi.

During the briefing, the chief of Sangkabuana customary village, Nyoman Suarta, expressed

his hope that the five teenagers would not repeatsuch disrespectful actions. The chief of customary village even asked them to make an effort to respect the people who were celebrating Nyepi. “We’re here merely to provide guidance and nurture positive relations. But if any of our (Sangkanbuana) residents act like this, then we impose sanctions in the form of fines,” said Suarta. (kmb)

Insulting Nyepi on Facebook

Bali Police promise to investigate the culprit

DENPASAR - As in previous years, the tranquility of Hindus celebrating Nyepi, was disturbed.

The owner of a Facebook (FB) account with the initials NIM posted a status blaspheming the Nyepi celebration which took place on Saturday (Mar. 21).

Spokesman of Bali Police, Hery Wiyanto, confirmed the strory on Sunday (Mar. 22) and affirmed that an investigation would be conduct-

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ed. He asserted that if the evidence was proven to be true, the crime would fall under the category of a crime of complaint and pure crime about information and electronic transaction (ITE).

NIM wrote the post with insulting words about the Nyepi celebration and the Hindus on Saturday (Mar. 21) at approximately at 11:59 p.m. He wrote: “Nyepi is really a fuck! Stupid, I cannot watch the

football play of Arsenal, I curse the crazy celebration of Nyepi. Maybe, the ogoh-ogoh next year will be on fire with all the people celebrating it. Fuck you Hindu.”

This Facebook status by a youth claiming to be from NTB received long posts protesting his statement.

He was cursed and condemned, both by Hindu circles and nonHindu communities. Perhaps out of fear, NIM imediatly removed

the blasphemous post and posted a status containing apologies, which read: “All circles that I’ve hurt, please do accept our sincere apologies for my ignorant statement I’ve posted, apologize once again.

I realize my mistakes so please apologize. Hopefully, this can be a lesson to me and others. Sorry I cannot enumerate singly the name of the community that I have hurt, sorry.”

However, the apologies were not enough to dissolve the outrage of a number of NGOs. Reportedly a number of Hindu NGOs were upset and intended to go to the Bali Police to report NIM, on Monday. “Indeed, there is a Hindu NGO that plans to go to the Bali Police to report the case tomorrow (Monday—Ed).

One of the report contents is about blasphemy,” said a source at Bali Police. (kmb36)

WASHINGTON - The United States will struggle to follow through on threats to impose deeper sanctions on the Russian energy sector, as European fears over collateral economic damage leave President Barack Obama’s administration with diminished options. Energy is the economic lifeblood of Russia, which vies with the United States and Saudi Arabia to be the world’s top oil producer, and the sector is the main target of Western sanctions over Moscow’s role in the conflict in Ukraine.

But current sanctions have already hit the easiest targets in Russia’s high-tech exploration projects in the Arctic, Siberian shale, and deep-sea.

That leaves the United States with less palatable options, such as trying to target the country’s oil exports, as it has done with Iran.

Even though global oil prices have dropped by roughly half since last year, the United States’ European allies remain skittish over any damaging repercussions on energy supplies. Russia could respond by squeezing the gas exports on which Europe relies heavily.

“If you start playing around with oil prices, Russia is going to play around with gas, and there’s no way Europe is going to go along with it,” said Carlos Pascual, who until last August was the top energy diplomat at the U.S. State Department.

The current top U.S. diplomat on energy issues, Amos Hochstein, says Washington has not exhausted its sanctions toolkit should Russian

President Vladimir Putin expand the war in Ukraine. And Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said last week that the administration is ready to “increase the costs” on Russia if it breaks the terms of a ceasefire.

Hochstein, the State Department’s special envoy and coordinator for international affairs, told Reuters it was unlikely Washington would put sanctions on Russia’s current oil production, though he stopped short of ruling it out.

“We’d want to look at what affects Russia, the assessment today versus a year ago is different, because the oil markets today are different than they were then,” Hochstein said.

“Russia can and should be a market participant, but it has to play by the rules of the game.”

Cracks are showing in European support for more sanctions. Going alone on sanctions is not a realistic option for Washington since it would block U.S. energy companies from collaborating with Russia and let

European ones in.

Western sanctions imposed late last year forced U.S. oil company Exxon Mobil out of Russia’s Arctic and ended its collaboration with Russian state oil company Rosneft, with which it signed a $3.2 billion deal in 2011 to develop the region.

European Council President Donald Tusk said on Friday it was increasingly hard to maintain a united position on sanctions in the 28-country bloc. EU officials speaking on condition of anonymity said that half or more of the bloc’s countries would like to see easing of the measures.

So far, Western sanctions have blocked investments and technology transfers in the frontier oil drilling projects, targeted capital flows into Russia and slapped Putin’s inner circle with asset freezes and travel bans. Combined with the drop in oil prices, the sanctions have hammered the Russian economy, with the rouble down 40 percent against the dollar since mid-2014, driving it toward recession.

But none of this has loosened Putin’s grip on Crimea since Russia annexed it a year ago, even though Russia agreed last month in Minsk to a cease-fire with Ukraine. Putin’s domestic popularity has risen since the imposition of sanctions.(rtr)

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Dozens detained in Turkey over alleged cheating scandal

ANKARA — Turkey’s state-run news agency says police have detained dozens of people as part of an investigation into alleged fraud and cheating in a national exam in 2010 for prospective civil servants.

The Anadolu Agency says more than 60 suspects were detained in Ankara and 13 other cities on Monday. It said police had arrest warrants for a total of 82 people.

The investigation stems from

allegations of cheating in the Public Personnel Selection Examination in which a surprisingly large number of candidates scored top marks.

The government has suggested that a movement led by U.S.based Muslim cleric may have carried out fraud in a bid to place followers into key public sector positions. Media organizations close to the movement reject the allegations.(ap)

Uganda shuts down 5 madrassas over training extremists

KAMPALA — Five madrassas in Uganda have been shut down over allegations they are training students to become extremists, a Ugandan police official said Monday. A Muslim leader denied the allegations. The Islamic schools targeted for closure have been training children to become fighters in a rebel group opposed to Uganda’s government, Patrick Onyango, a spokesman for police in the Ugandan capital of Kampala, told The Associated Press.

“They are brainwashing the children, training them to become recruits in a rebel group,” he said.

“The plan is that when they reach the right age they will be taken to become rebels.” He said three of the schools ordered shut are located in Uganda’s central region while two of them are in the east.

Uganda’s Daily Monitor newspaper reported Monday that a senior Ugandan Muslim leader, Kassim Nakibinge, had criticized the police’s actions, saying Islamic schools are being unfairly targeted by the authorities. He reportedly accused the police of

“hiding behind security to close our (madrassas).”

Local police link the madrassas to the Allied Democratic Forces, a Congo-based armed group whose fugitive Ugandan leader is wanted

by Interpol over terror allegations.

Jamil Mukulu, who is widely believed to be hiding in eastern Congo, has also been sanctioned by the U.S. over his alleged role in violence there.

Ugandan authorities have been warning of the growing threat of home-grown Islamic extremism that stems in part from Uganda’s military involvement in Somalia, where Ugandan forces are part of an African Union force fighting al-Shabab extremists.

At least five Ugandans are currently on trial for their alleged roles in the July 2010 bombings in Kampala that killed more than 70 people who were watching the 2010 soccer World Cup final on TV. Although responsibility for that attack was claimed by al-Shabab, Ugandan officials say some Ugandans were recruited to direct that attack.(ap)

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The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor Fatou Bensouda speaks about the case of Ugandan rebel commander Dominic Ongwen, at a press conference in Kampala, Uganda, Friday, Feb. 27, 2015.

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Neanderthals shape up as globe’s first jewellers ZAGREB - The widely-held vision of Neanderthals as brutes may need a stark rethink after research found they crafted the world’s earliest jewellery from eagle talons 130,000 years ago, long before modern humans appeared in Europe.

“While reviewing eight, whitetailed eagle talons and an associated phalanx, on the latter I noticed numerous cut marks and a revelation just struck me -- they were made by a human hand,” Davorka Radovcic, a curator at Croatia’s Natural History Museum, told AFP. The revelation came in late 2013 while reviewing the Krapina Neanderthal collection she had just taken over, items from a site once inhabited by the extinct people in what is modern-day Croatia.

“I knew immediately what might be the implication of that finding,” said the anthropologist, carefully holding one of the talons that are kept in a small box.

An international study began with the research published earlier this month by the PLOS peer-reviewed international online scien-

tific publication.

The Krapina site, some 50 kilometres (31 miles) north of Zagreb, has yielded the world’s richest collection of Neanderthal fossils. The site containing the remains of some 80 individuals, and including the talons, was discovered in 1899 by Croatian palaeontologist Dragutin Gorjanovic-Kramberger.

But it took 115 years to establish that the talons and phalanx at the Zagreb museum were jewellery, and therefore used for a symbolic purpose.

“I simply had a fresh eye,” Radovcic said modestly of her find that for decades had escaped the numerous scientists visiting to study the rich collection.

She initiated the research conducted along with two Croatian colleagues -- Ankica Oros Srsen

and Jakov Radovcic -- as well US anthropology professor David Frayer from the University of Kansas.

The four scientists for months carefully reviewed the specimens that had cut marks, polished facets and abrasions suggesting they had been mounted into jewellery.

They could not determine their symbolic value for Neanderthals or how they wore them, as a necklace or a bracelet. But there is evidence they collected the remains of eagles, as in the Krapina talon assemblage they identified at least three individual birds.

“This is, at least for the time being, the world’s earliest jewellery,” Radovcic said.

Up until now early jewellery was linked to anatomically modern humans -- estimated to be up to

110,000 years old -- and consisting of shell beads found at prehistoric sites in Israel.

The researchers also say the Krapina jewellery indicates that contrary to long-held beliefs, Neanderthals possessed the capacity for complex cognitive thinking.

“This is an example of abstract thinking. It proves that Neanderthals possessed a symbolic culture some 80,000 years before the appearance of more modern human forms in Europe,” Radovcic emphasised.

Eagles, with a wingspan of more than two meters (seven feet), were among the most impressive flying predators in the Neanderthal environment, and the mighty birds apparently had special value.

“I believe they were admiring eagles .... This jewellery is a message. We don’t know what it means, but perhaps they wanted to give themselves the characteristics of an eagle,” the young woman said.

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The new Krapina research may further help reduce prejudice about Neanderthals, seen as clumsy, stupid brutes in popular culture.

“When you say to someone that he is a Neanderthal it sounds derogatory,” Radovcic said.

Neanderthals lived in parts of Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East for up to 250,000 years.

The reason they vanished some 40,000 years ago is a matter of debate.

According to some theories, their population dwindled due to extreme cold winters.

Others believe they were outsmarted by the more sophisticated Homo sapiens who moved into Neanderthal territory from what is now Africa.

Eagle talons are rarely found at prehistoric sites in Europe and rarely involve more than one element. Krapina is the only Neanderthal site where eight have been found. (afp)

British DNA gives window into ancient past, Vikings and all NEW YORK — Genetic samples collected from across the United Kingdom are shedding light on the ancient past, including Viking invasions and a mystery about the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons, researchers report.

The DNA also suggests that, genetically speaking, people in Wales are the closest matches to early settlers of Britain after the last ice age, people who began showing up some 10,000 to 11,000 years ago.

That’s because the Welsh genetic material has been the least affected by later migrations, said Peter Donnelly of Oxford University, a key author of the research.

The work is presented in a paper released Wednesday by the journal Nature.

The researchers studied DNA samples from 2,039 white residents of Britain and Northern Ireland, chosen for their family roots in rural areas. The DNA they inherited from their grandparents reflects the genetic landscape of those areas in the late 1880s, researchers said.

To identify signs of ancient immigrations, the researchers consulted DNA samples taken from continental Europeans.

Analysis showed that Danish Vikings, who occupied and controlled a large part of England after invading in the year 865, have left no clear genetic heritage today.

That suggests they didn’t settle in large numbers, Donnelly said in an email.

The study also weighed in on the question of what happened after Anglo-Saxons migrated into Britain from Europe, which began in the fifth century. After they showed up, their language, cereal crops and pottery styles replaced those of the existing British population.

So was the British population wiped out or elbowed aside? Or did it simply adopt cultural practices of a few new arrivals?

The new study argues instead that a substantial number of Anglo-Saxons showed up and intermingled with the locals, said study co-author Mark Robinson of Oxford. That’s because the study found a clear but limited Anglo-Saxon genetic legacy. (ap)

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SINGARAJA - After implementing the catur bratha penyepian or four abstinences, Buleleng residents filled in the Ngembak Geni, Sunday (Mar. 22) by visiting coastal areas in North Bali.

Other than visiting the beach, residents also enjoyed an entertainment of climbing areca nut.

Meanwhile, the Panji villagers, Sukasada subdistrict played magoak-goakan game.

The competition of areca nut climbing looked to be crowded by residents in the surrounding area of Hepi Beach at Tukadmungga village and Lila Cita coastal area at Anturan village, Buleleng subdistrict. Residents coming from villages in the highland areas looked to very much enjoy the entertainment held by each village. People started going to the beach from eight o’clock in morning and kept increasing by midday. Inevitably, the crowds made by street vendors get considerable profits because their goods sold well. Other than areca nut climbing, it was also performed an entertainment like Joged Dance and Balinese pop song karaoke.

Demer, a resident from Anturan village, Buleleng subdistrict, said that every Ngembak Geni day he never misses the opportunity with

family to make a visit to the beach.

He admitted the competition of areca nut climbing and the dance are quite entertaining. In addition, the Ngembak Geni was also used to visit and congratulate family and relatives after performing the four abstinences. “I was visiting relatives and now it is time to enjoy holiday by visiting the beach.

Moreover, the entertainment is quite interesting for kids,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Ngembak Geni at Panji village, Sukasada subdistrict, was filled with performance of traditional games known as magoak-goakan. The game created in the days of King Buleleng named Ki Gusti Anglurah Panji Sakti is always played on the celebration of Nyepi. Children and teenagers at this village always play the goak game at two separate locations namely in the area of Bhuana Ker-

tha Monument and in the Public Square of Panji village.

The goak game is held in the public square drained with water from the rice field irrigation in the upstream area. Inevitably, the field area changes into a pool with a water depth of adult’s knee. Brown and muddy water do not hamper children to demonstrate the goak game. Children look so joyful and they occasionally invite the audience to join the goak game.

The goak game is staged as an entertainment for local residents and neighboring villages after the Hindus implementing the abstinences of Nyepi. In addition, the game also provides education for younger generation in order they know and love the traditional game of Buleleng and it will not come to extinction due to influence of modern entertainment. (kmb38)

The Panji villagers, Sukasada subdistrict played magoak-goakan game.

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The tradition of nyakan diwang becomes a regular tradition of residents at Banjar village, Banjar subdistrict, Buleleng.

Nyakan diwang tradition, enliven Banjar villagers after Nyepi SINGARAJA - The tradition of nyakan diwang becomes a regular tradition of residents at Banjar village, Banjar subdistrict, Buleleng.

As a tradition handed down through generations, a number of residents are conducting activities at roadside near their home and they even start the nyakan diwang from two o’clock to six o’clock in the morning, Sunday (Mar. 22).

According to a local resident, Ida Bagus Kade Susila, the tradition of nyakan diwang is a regular activity on the day after Nyepi celebration of the Çaka New Year 1937. When the cooking in daily life is held in the kitchen, this time it is carried out at roadside near their home. This hereditary tradition is believed to be a local belief as a measure to keep the kitchen silent and strengthen relationship among the community. “This activity is an effort to improve the relationship among people, especially when doing nyakan diwang,” he said.

Similar opinion was delivered by the Chief of Melanting custom-

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In this June 22, 1939 file photo, participants in a “Gorsedd,” a group of poets and bards, announce the upcoming 1940 Welsh Eisteddfod cultural festival at Bridgend, Glamorganshire, Wales, at an ancient druid stone circle near the River Ogwar. In report released Thursday, March 19, 2015 in the journal Nature, genetic samples collected from across the United Kingdom are shedding light on the ancient past, including Viking invasions and a mystery about the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons.

DENPASAR - To provide better service to postpaid customers, PT XL Axiata Tbk (XL) second largest mobile operator in Indonesia, launch Smarty package. This postpaid package featured internet, voice and SMS. Vice President of XL East Region, Desy Sari Dewi said postpaid subscribers are a premium customer. With a superior package, postpaid subscribers expected to be more comfortable; no need to worry anymore for calling and

SMS, even using internet service can be more convenient and faster with XL. “No need to worry about running out of quota and had to wait for midnight to browse at high speed,” she said.

To subscribe to this postpaid package, customers simply access via *123#. Smarty package only IDR 75 thousand per month consisting of 2GB quota for internet, 100 minutes of calls to all XL customers, and 30 SMS to all operators. In addition to Smarty pack-

age, there is also a Professional package, only IDR 150 thousand per month consists of 4GB quota for internet, 300 minutes calls to all XL customers, and 30 SMS to all operators, and Platinum package only IDR 250 thousand per month consisting of a quota for internet 8GB , 300 minutes of calls to all XL customers, and 30 SMS to all operators. XL postpaid customers can enjoy unlimited internet access at speeds of up to 14.4 Mbps.

Currently XL postpaid subscriber base is less than 1% of the total 59.6 million customers nationwide, but provide more than 500 billion revenue. XL currently has deployed 52 thousand BTS (Base Transceiver Station, 2G / 3G) to ensure customers comfort. In addition, XL also has a network of fiber optic infrastructure throughout more than 30 thousand km connecting almost all major islands in Indonesia. (kmb18)

ary hamlet, Banjar village, Banjar subdistrict, Buleleng, Ida Bagus Ngurah Kade. The implementation of nyakan diwang is believed by local people of Banjar hamlet to keep the yard and kitchen silent.

This tradition is done through generations and carried out around two o’clock until six o’clock in the morning. “It’s been done for generations and is intended to keep the yard and kitchen silent. At the same time, it is also meant to preserve the traditions having existed from time immemorial,” he said. (kmb34)

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School may not set passing grade rashly

Do not just seek 100-percent graduation

BANGLI - The waste produced by residents of Bangli on Pengerupukan, -the day before Nyepi, Friday (Mar. 20), was considerably more than on normal days, amounting to about 180 cubic meters, compared to the average of about 125 cubic meters. The added trash meant that janitors were burdened with overtime lasting well into the night, said Head of Bangli Urban Planning Agency, Ida Ayu Yudi Sutha on Sunday (Mar. 22).

“On Pengrupukan Nyepi, the amount of waste produced increased by about 50 cubic meters, mostly as a result of the ogoh-ogoh parade” explained said Sutha, who went on to explain that 70 percent of the waste was inorganic mostly refuse from the papier macho demons, with only 30 percent being organic waste that is attributed to household refuse produced in preparation for Nyepi. The increase in waste happened on Nyepi, she said, which means that many more hours are spent cleaning and more trucks are need to transport the increased refuse. “The trucks have an added 2 cubic meters or 4 extra trucks and janitors work up to 6 hours over-time,” she said.

To speed up the transportation of the waste, Sutha said that at least 80 janitors are deployed, most of whom are borrowed from the Bangli Urban Planning Agency.

The extra waste results from both the ogoh-ogoh themselves as well as general refuse left behind by those attending the parade.

Janitors focus their attention on cleaning up the streets where the ogoh ogoh have passed, they then move onto public spaces such as fields and such. “More janitorial officers are focused on the points of ogoh-ogoh parade,” she explained.

Sutha said the number of janitors and trucks insufficient to deal with the huge amount of waste (up to 180 cubic meters), so to overcome this problem, they have the trucks working more quickly than usual. Also, “To speed up the transport and sorting of the waste, we also cooperate with scavengers who help us to gather plastic waste that can be brought to junk banks,” she concluded. (kmb45)

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The garbage is pilling up due to the Pengerupukan and Nyepi Day

DENPASAR - School authorities are now making preparation to draft the passing grade to determine students’ graduation. They are expected to be cautious and do not rashly determine the passing grade. They may not set the passing grade too low so as the students can reach graduation of 100 percent or even on the contrary, may not be too high.

“We have conveyed to principal colleagues not to rashly determine the passing grade,” said the Head of Karangasem Education Agency, Gede Ariyasa.

He said that Karangasem Education Agency already summoned the principals of junior, senior high and vocational schools in Karangasem to follow up the issuance of the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) of national exam and Regulation of the Minister of Education No.5/2015 concerning the Criteria of Student Passing Grade, Implementation of National Exam and School Exam or Education of Equality for junior high, senior high and vocational school or respective equivalence. Principals were emphasized to examine the national exam and regulation of the Minister of Education and Culture.

Then, each school was asked to agree together how much the passing grade is and the scoring between school exam and the average score of report cards.

He added that to determine the passing grade, schools must examine the ability of students at the school concerned. Do not set the passing grade too high, while the ability of students is below the passing grade. Actually it will hurt the students. Similarly, the passing grade must not be set too low, below the average of the student’s ability in general. “If a passing grade is too low, it will make the quality of our education not well-guaranteed.

Finally, all the students can pass but are inappropriate with their actual ability,” he said.

Ariyasa admitted that his side will not question if the passing grade between one school and another is different. Indeed the ability of schools and students at different location is different. Moreover, the existing rule allows the differences in passing grade. Data on the passing grade and scoring at each school will be duly deposited to Karangasem Education Agency.

Separately, a member of Commis-

sion IV of the Bali House, Nyoman Parta, in charge of education, also asked the schools not to arbitrarily determine the passing grade for students’ graduation. The passing grade must not be designed to enable the graduation of 100 percent without considering the actual ability of students. “Do not let all the schools make a low passing grade so that they can solely pass their students 100 percent.

It is dangerous and a setback for the education in Bali,” said Parta doubling as Chairman of the PDI-P Faction in the Bali House.

Parta added that determination of the passing grade is given to schools and the graduation of students is determined by the Teacher Council. On one side, this can become a step forward. Its positive side, public schools in urban and rural areas can make different passing grade according to their own ability. Likewise, public schools and private schools in rural areas are equally able to make the passing grade corresponding to their school conditions. “However, it has the disadvantages where schools can set the passing grade too low for fear that their students will not pass 100 percent,” he added.

Another weakness, added the PDI-P politician from Gianyar, if the passing grade is different among the schools, the government will have difficulty in making an evaluation on the quality of education in the region.

Besides, the government will have difficulty to make a mapping on the teacher quality as well as the quality and quantity of infrastructure at a school. “This may happen because the weakness of a school will be covered up by the 100 percent graduation,” said Parta.

As reported previously (Mar. 18), schools are given the authority and flexibility in determining the graduation of students based on passing grade (minimum score criteria) determined by the schools from the combination of school test scores and score of report cards whose composition is determined by the schools. Graduation of students is determined by the score of the school which is a combination of school test scores and the average score of the report card with the composition of 30 percent to 50 percent of school test scores and 50 percent to 70 percent of the average score of report cards. (kmb29)

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CANGGU - Soon to celebrate its first birthday, Body Temple Spa has been using its first year of operation wisely by listening to its clientele and creating some tailored packages aimed at those who are fortunate to call Bali their home.

What they heard from their guests is that, contrary to holidaymakers, relaxation is nice, but it takes a backseat to regular grooming once you choose to

live your life in Bali. Between school runs, work and the hundred other obligations facing the Bali modern woman, time, efficiency and value for money

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Unique jars attract French travelers Behind the widespread development of hotel and restaurant business in Bali, in fact, the jar business also begins to draw the interests of foreign tourists. Even, the jar commonly just functioning to hold drinking water, rice and ritual paraphernalia becomes an attractive ornament for foreign tourists that will be used for decorations such as flower pots, flower vases or just put as indoor or outdoor decoration.

A jar showroom entrepreneur of Duuran Gemilang, I Wayan Wirthawan, became interested in developing jar business in Bali. According to him, the business pioneered in 2004 with family was considered rare because it could still be counted on fingers. “In the first year, we only the sold ready-to-use jars and the buyers were still around local community. Then, in harmony with the passage of time, we started our self-production and did promotion not only locally but also abroad,” he said friendly.

The first showroom, said Wirthawan, was located on Jalan Raya Kerobokan, Kuta. As a result, the business he pioneered started to grow and began to draw the interests of foreign tourists. Since then, he opened a branch at Lukluk area. “Since there are foreign tourists so we need to increase the production and more spacious location.

Currently, 80 percent of the consumers are French travelers,” said the businessman from Singaraja.

Aside from French tourists, continued Wirthawan, his jars were also ordered by many Australian travelers.

Even lately, Indian travelers were also getting interested. “In Bali, our jars were usually ordered by hotels, villas, restaurants, offices and the expatriate community. So other than using export system, consumers usually come in person to our showroom,” he explained.

Jars belonging to Wirthawan are unique, ranging from the material processing to painting and they are entirely done manually. However, the products yielded are no less good, even have better quality and the result is slicker. “The process of making jars here is almost the same as making tiles. However, it is made directly by skilled hands and wooden craft tools,” he explained.

In the first phase, said Wirthawan, was the pulping of clay. “Clay is pulping with enough water and then mixed with the processed white sand especially earmarked for jars. After that, it is shaped in accordance with the order and dried under the sun. Then, burning is made approximately for 5 hours. Ultimately, it is resumed with the coloring process like into yellow, black, brown, blue and green or according to taste,”

he said.

Currently, with the help of 12 employees, Duuran Gemilang can produce jars up to hundreds of pieces every month with varied sizes and about 50 motifs such as floral, leaf, animal and much more. The most preferred jar is the classical product in jumbo-size.

“Recently, we are constantly making innovation to develop new motifs.

Hopefully, we can open a new branch,” he added. (kmb)

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

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

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

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

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

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‘Insurgent’ seizes top spot; ‘The Gunman’ misfires

LOS ANGELES — Sean Penn’s “The Gunman” was no match for the rebel kids of “Insurgent.” The second installment in the “Divergent” series easily topped the box office with $54 million from 3,875 theaters, according to Rentrak estimates Sunday. Penn’s geopolitical thriller stumbled with only $5 million.

While the second films in both the “Hunger Games” and the “Twilight” series boasted opening weekend gains over the first, “Insurgent’s” opening nearly matches that of its predecessor, “Divergent,” which debuted to $54.6 million just last year.

Many predicted a bit of growth for this second film, which sees the return of stars Shailene Woodley, Theo James, and Kate Winslet to author Veronica Roth’s dystopian world. But, both distributor Lionsgate and box office analysts see the consistency as a good thing.

“We’re extremely pleased with the outcome,” said Lionsgate’s President of Domestic Distribution Richie Fay. “I think this is exactly where we thought we’d be,” he added. “We attracted a few more males this time around, and I think we’re headed in the right direction. The uptick from Friday to Saturday was considerably higher than it was for ‘Divergent.’ That, the A- CinemaScore and what’s coming into the marketplace will allow us to grow very nicely.”

According to Lionsgate, 60 percent of audiences were female.

Rentrak’s Senior Media Analyst Paul Dergarabedian credits Lionsgate’s consistent release date strategy and impressive marketing campaign

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This photo provided by Lionsgate shows, Kate Winslet, left, as Jeanine, and Ansel Elgort, as Caleb, in a scene from the film, “The Divergent Series: Insurgent.” The movie opens in U.S. theaters Friday, March 20, 2015.

for the strong repeat performance.

“It’s really about driving a very fickle audience, that teen, YA — whatever you want to call them — they’re really tough to get a handle on. Their tastes change like the wind,” he said.

“The key is keeping the young adult audience engaged, excited and enthusiastic.”

“Insurgent” also performed well overseas, taking in $47 million from 76 markets, bringing its worldwide total to $101 million.

Disney’s live-action “Cinderella,” meanwhile, fell 49 percent in Week 2 to take second place with $34.5 million. The PG-rated film has earned an impressive $122 million domestically to date.

Also in its second weekend in theaters, the R-rated Liam Neeson-led action film “Run All Night,” managed a slight edge over Open Road’s “The Gunman.” Neeson’s film, a Warner

Bros. release, dropped 54 percent with its $5.1 million weekend, while Penn’s film debuted in fourth place with only $5 million.

“You have a lot of R-rated competition out there right now,” noted Dergarabedian, who also added that Penn’s foray into the action genre has not garnered the best reviews.

“Kingsman: The Secret Service,” one of the better performing R-rated releases in recent weeks, rounded out the top five with $4.6 million in its sixth weekend in theaters.

The 20th Century Fox film has now earned over $114.6 million domestically.

“Over the past couple of weeks, films driven by the female audience have done much better than films driven by the male audience. But that’s all going to change because ‘Furious 7’ is on the way,” said Dergarabedian. (ap)

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Kerry Washington, Roland Emmerich among GLAAD honorees

BEVERLY HILLS — Actress Kerry Washington, director Roland Emmerich, the film “The Imitation Game” and television shows “Transparent” and “How to Get Away With Murder” have received stamps of approval from a leading advocacy group for gays in the media.

GLAAD is a U.S.based group that promotes lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender presence in the media, and celebrated its honorees at a ceremony here Saturday night.

GLADD president and Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP CEO Sarah Kate Ellis Kerry Washington arrives at the said “Scandal” star Wash- 26th Annual GLAAD Media Awards ington was chosen by the held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel group because, “She’s on Saturday, March 21, 2015, in done quite a bit for the Beverly Hills, Calif.

LGBT community and she’s a phenomenal spokeswoman for us. And she’s got our back. And she always has.”

In Washington’s acceptance speech, the actress reminded the audience, “In 1997, when Ellen (DeGeneres) made her famous declaration, it took place in an America where the Defense of Marriage Act had just passed months earlier, and civil unions were not legal in any state. But also remember that just 30 years before that, the Supreme Court was deciding that the ban against interracial marriage was unconstitutional.

“Up until then, heterosexual people of different races couldn’t marry who they wanted to marry either. So, when black people today say that they don’t believe in gay marriage ... the first thing that I say is, ‘Please don’t let anybody try to get you to vote against your own best interest by feeding you messages of hate.’ And then I say, ‘People used to say things about that about you and your love.’”

The German Emmerich is perhaps best known for producing and directing the 1996 blockbuster “Independence Day,” as well as the 1998 remake of “Godzilla” and 2004’s “The Day After Tomorrow.” Now openly gay, Emmerich said he long kept his homosexuality private because he didn’t want to be limited to making only films with gay stories, as had happened with other directors in Germany.

Emmerich’s gay-themed historical drama “Stonewall” will be released later this year. And Emmerich said “Independence Day 2,” due next year, will feature an openly gay character. (ap)

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A woman takes photos of cards for former Singaporean prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, placed at a well-wishing corner at the Singapore General Hospital in Singapore March 23, 2015.

Lee, Singapore’s first prime minister and architect of the tiny Southeast Asian city-state’s rapid rise from British tropical outpost to global trade and financial centre, died early on Monday, aged 91, the Prime Minister’s Office said.

Singapore in mourning as first PM Lee Kuan Yew dies

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SINGAPORE - Singapore plunged into mourning and world leaders united in tribute Monday after the death of Lee Kuan Yew, the iron-fisted politician who forged a prosperous citystate out of unpromising beginnings.

His son, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, issued a statement before dawn announcing the passing of his 91-year-old father at Singapore General Hospital following a long illness.

“He fought for our independence, built a nation where there was none, and made us proud to be Singaporeans. We won’t see another like him,” the prime minister said in an emotional televised address.

US President Barack Obama led foreign leaders in hailing Lee, who turned a small territory lacking natural resources into a world player in finance, trading and ship-

ping -- all the while with a heavy political grip that was long decried by rights campaigners.

His mix of economic reform allied with political authoritarianism was of particular appeal to communist China as it opened up in the 1980s, and the ethnic-Chinese Lee’s advice was held in high esteem in Beijing.

President Xi Jinping praised Lee as an “old friend of the Chinese people” and said he was “widely respected by the international community as a strategist and a statesman”.

After news broke of Lee’s death, hundreds of Singaporeans, some

weeping, visited the gates of the Istana state complex to leave flowers and cards, and sign a condolence board.

Some chanted “Mr Lee, Mr Lee” as a hearse carrying his body drove into the compound for a two-day private family wake, after which his coffin will be borne on a gun carriage to lie in state at Parliament House.

A tearful Sharon Tan, 39, and her five-year-old son Ryan Mackay were among the first to arrive.

“I brought Ryan here to share an important part of Singapore’s history to him and also to help him understand why mummy is so sad,” she said.

A state funeral service will be held at the National University of Singapore on Sunday before Lee is cremated, ending seven days of

national mourning.

Lee, whose health rapidly deteriorated after his wife of 63 years, Kwa Geok Choo, died in 2010, was in hospital for nearly seven weeks with severe pneumonia.

Despite growing anticipation of his death, sales manager June Tay Mae Sann, 37, said “it was still very different when it happened”.

Lee served as prime minister from 1959, when colonial ruler Britain granted self-rule, to 1990, leading Singapore to independence in 1965 after a brief and stormy union with Malaysia.

Singapore now has one of the world’s highest per capita incomes and its residents enjoy near-universal home ownership, low crime rates and first-class infrastructure.

The opposition Workers’ Party,

whose leaders were among those harried for years by Lee under his unyielding rule, joined the rest of the nation of 5.5 million people in mourning him.

“His contributions to Singapore will be remembered for generations to come,” it said in a statement.

On the diplomatic front, Lee’s counsel was often sought by Western leaders, particularly on China, as well as on more volatile neighbours in Southeast Asia.

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