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Tuesday, February 26, 2019
Melissa McCarthy wins worst-actress Razzie, but there’s a silver lining
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R&B singer R. Kelly arrives at the 1st District-Central police station on February 22, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois.
Singer R. Kelly, facing sex abuse charges, gets $1 million bail CHICAGO - A US judge set $1 million bail for R&B superstar R. Kelly on Saturday after prosecutors laid out graphic details of charges that he sexually abused four victims, three of them minors. Kelly, known for hits like “I Believe I Can Fly,” surrendered to police late Friday after decades of allegations of sexual abuse, especially of underage girls, led to the first sexual assault charges against him. Kelly was acquitted in a child porn trial more than a decade ago, and had maintained a steady fan base and continued to perform. But his fortunes changed after a docuseries last month led Chicago prosecutors to publicly seek out any potential victims. A Chicago grand jury on Friday charged him with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse against four females,
the youngest 14 years old at the time of the alleged crimes, which spanned between 1998 and 2010. The charges carry three to seven years of prison per count. A grave-faced Kelly appeared in a packed courtroom in a black hooded sweatshirt with his hands handcuffed behind his back. Two women who had previously publicly accused him of abuse came to court to observe the proceedings. In setting bail, Cook County Judge John Fitzgerald Lyke Jr. ordered Kelly to have no contact with anyone under 18 years old, and to have no contact with any of the alleged victims or witnesses. The singer also was required to relinquish his passport. “He’s devastated,” Kelly’s attorney Steve Greenberg said. “Here is someone who at one point was a huge star. Now he is sitting behind bars.” (afp)
LOS ANGELES - Actress and comedian Melissa McCarthy might hope there’s truth in the saying that “all publicity is good publicity” now that she has won “Razzie” awards as worst actress for not one but two movies. The Golden Raspberry Awards, or Razzies -- given out annually on the eve of the more sought-after Academy Awards to “celebrate” the worst in cinema -- also found easy targets in comedy “Holmes & Watson” and potboiler “Fifty Shades Freed.” McCarthy, one of Hollywood’s most popular comic actresses, was cited for her roles in both “The Happytime Murders” (critic Jess Fenton said he was “underwhelmed; my sides were left unsplit”) and “Life of the Party” (trashed by critic Leigh Monson as “100 minutes of self-indulgence and tedium”). But the Razzies, which claim to be a constructive exercise in “cathartic mockery,” also granted McCarthy a Redeemer Award for her Oscar-nominated and widely praised performance as a curmudgeonly forger in “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” Critic Joe Morgenstern said she played the part “with unerring wit and ferocious verve.” So there’s that. The Razzies’ crosshairs were squarely on “Holmes & Watson.” It nabbed not only the Worst Picture award but also a Worst Supporting Actor prize for John C. Reilly, a Worst Actor nomination for Will Ferrell, a Worst Screen Combo for the two of them (for “trashing two of literature’s most beloved characters”), a Worst
Director award for Etan Cohen, and a Worst Remake, Ripoff or Sequel prize for the film. Critics had been unsparing of the film -- a money-loser so far. A New York Times’ critic suggested “smuggling in booze to dispel the sense of dull routine.” US President Donald Trump was a big Razzie winner -- enough so that he might almost be tired of winning. He was named Worst Actor for appearances as himself in documentaries “Death of a Nation” and “Fahrenheit 11/9” (the latter movie, from director Michael Moore, also netted a Worst Supporting Actress award for his adviser Kellyanne Conway). A n d t h e Wo r s t Screen Combo award went to “Donald J. Trump and his self-perpetuating pettiness” for the same t w o films. (afp)
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Cuaron wins three Oscars for ‘Roma’ but ‘Green Book’ is best film
Alfonso Cuaron bagged a hat trick of Oscars on Sunday for “Roma,” his love letter to his childhood in 1970s Mexico City, but controversial civil rights drama “Green Book” crashed his party with a win for best picture. The 57-year-old Mexican filmmaker won the prizes for best director, cinematography and foreign language film, capping a brilliant awards season for him -- and offering streaming giant Netflix a new feather in its cap. Diversity, though, was perhaps the biggest winner on a night when a beloved black filmmaker won his first competitive Oscar, a superhero blockbuster set in Africa scored big, and two black actors and an Egyptian firstgeneration American won three of the four acting prizes. The wide range of films honored at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre on Sunday bridged the divide between art house fare and popular blockbusters. “I grew up watching foreign language films, learning so much from them, being inspired -films like ‘Citizen Kane,’ ‘Jaws.’ And there are no waves, there’s only the ocean,” an emotional Cuaron said. “I think the nominees tonight have proven that we are part of the same ocean.” - Story ‘about loving each other’ “Roma” was the frontrunner going into the night with 10 nominations, despite spending little time in movie theaters, in keeping with Netflix’s customary release strategy. But “Green Book” -- the real-life story of a celebrated black pianist who befriends his white driver as they tour the segregated American South in the 1960s -- overcame a series of controversies to win the top prize. “The whole story is about love. It’s about
loving each other, despite our differences, and finding out the truth about who we are,” said director Peter Farrelly. “Green Book” also won a widely expected best supporting actor trophy for Mahershala Ali, and a best original screenplay award. But many criticized it as a feel-good movie that suffered from the so-called “white savior” complex, and veteran director Spike Lee made comments that suggested he was upset by its coronation. - We Are the Champions Rock legends Queen, fronted by US singer Adam Lambert, opened what turned out to be one of the more enjoyable ceremonies in recent years with a mini-medley of mega-hits “We Will Rock You” and “We Are the Champions.” The British rockers may have experienced more nerves than during a normal gig: biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody” was up for several awards and ended up the biggest winner of the night with four Oscars. The film -- which tracks the band’s rise to fame from the moment when Freddie Mercury joined the band in 1970 to their legendary 1985 Live Aid performance -- took statuettes for best actor Rami Malek, as well as sound editing, sound mixing and film editing. “We made a film about a gay man, an immigrant, who lived his life just unapologetically himself,” said Malek, whose spell-binding turn as Mercury captivated audiences. “The fact that I’m celebrating him and this story with you tonight is proof that we’re longing for stories like this.” (afp)
Alfonso Cuaron, winner of Best Foreign Language Film, Best Director and Best Cinematography for “Roma,” poses in the press room during the 91st Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood and Highland on February 24, 2019 in Hollywood, California.
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Airline ticket price increases
Impacts on decreasing domestic arrival
MANGUPURA - Adjustment or the increase of airline ticket prices for domestic route has an impact on passenger arrivals at Ngurah Rai Airport. As a result, the arrival of passengers during the implementation of the increase in ticket prices last January showed a decrease. General Manager of Angkasa Pura I, Yanus Suprayogi, did not dismiss this matter. He said the number of domestic passengers decreased by 2.1 percent. According to him, this condition is not too significant compared to other airports. Even though domestic arrivals declined, the conditions are still backed up by the arrival of foreign tourists. “Domestic decline is around 2.1 percent from the average condition,
but the international rose by around 35 percent,” he explained. Despite the decline, he revealed that such condition did not cause flight cancellation. Regarding the losses that may occur, he has not been able to calculate in details because February still belongs to the first quarter. The overall data can only be calculated after the annual Budget Work Plan (RKA) has been prepared. “This is still
the beginning, we cannot calculate it now. Maybe this time we suffer losses, but next month will be profitable. So, let’s look ahead,” he said when met amid the 54th anniversary of Angkasa Pura on Saturday (Feb. 23). Nevertheless, the government has done various efforts in addressing to this problem including reducing the price of aviation fuel. “What Angkasa Pura I did in
providing services has been in accordance with the SOP. Well, the increase (of tariff) is the authority of the government. One of them is the decline in aviation fuel prices and many other policies,” he said. He hoped the condition will be restored soon. By that way, all tourist activities especially domestic tourists will be able to return to normal. When confirmed separately, Deputy Governor of Bali, Tjok Oka Artha Ardana Sukawati, stated that related to the increase in ticket prices in general in terms of predic-
GIANYAR - In order to suppress deviations in smartphone use, the junior high, high and vocational school students across Gianyar are invited to take part in the Gianyar Student Film Festival (FFPG) 2019. This FFPG is initiated as a positive and creative forum for children, especially students. It is to prevent violence against children due to irregularities in the use of smartphone functions. Entitled “Gianyar Student Smart-
phone Documentary Film/Video Festival 2019,” it aims to preserve Balinese traditional culture through film media. “All the participants can be students of junior high and high school/vocational school both individuals and groups,” explained Commissioner of the KPPAD Bali, Kadek Ariyasa, when confirmed on Sunday (Feb. 24). More specifically, the theme of the film adopted is Bayu Premana as the
preservation of Balinese traditional culture in Gianyar. Participants can raise stories about the culture of ancestral heritage considered to have a strong influence on the development of social life in the community. More interestingly, the film making is enough by using a mobile phone with a simple and professional editing process. The requirement is that each film has maximum duration of 15 minutes including bumpers, titles,
credits and titles. “Most importantly, the film does not contain elements of promotion, racial violence, and pornography,” he said. The film festival initiated by the Gianyar Culture Agency supported by film activists and documentation community, Listibya of Film Documentation Division and the Bali Child Protection Commission (KPPAD) in the field of Education and Culture Division will last for two
tions there would be a decrease in passengers. Certainly this will have an impact on the tourism industry including the SMEs in Bali. However, he admitted in this condition the arrival of foreign tourists to Bali is still growing when compared to the same period in 2018. “Of course, this price problem happened due to an increase in aviation fuel prices. We hope there will be a review. Do not only see from the aspect of income collection, but also needs to be seen from the overall side,” he hoped. (kmb23)
months. “We will do dissemination this February and then register for interested students,” he explained. At the beginning of March, a one-day workshop will be held in relation to film production. He said the production process is given the freedom of time for a full month. After the film works are collected at the beginning of April, the judging process is carried out for a week from April 5 to April 12, 2019. (kmb35)
Gianyar Student Film Festival suppresses misuse of smartphone
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Attract Millennial Staff Enthusiasm, The ONE Legian Invite Ida Mas Dalem Segara Piodalan Ceremony of The ONE Legian
The ONE Legian held a piodalan ceremony which fell on Purnama Kesanga on Tuesday, February 19, 2019 ago, as a form of gratitude to Ida Sang Hyang Widhi Wasa for His help and gifts and had done the Sekala and Niskala customs. A series of events were carried out on this day such as mebat since early morning, gebogan competition and fashion show competition for Balinese outfit, which was attended by six departments from The ONE Legian, continued with Rejang dance
from The ONE Legian’s staff as a symbol of welcome to God, lunch with media partner as one of the invitee, and ended with Dharma Wacana for The ONE Legian’s employee by Ida Mas Dalem Segara who is also the initiator (Pemuput) of the ceremony. The presence of Ida Mas Dalem Segara became an attraction for the employees of The ONE Legian, he became an inspirational figure because he succeeded in proving that young age is not a matter of being purified. Proben by his sincerity, Ida Mas Dalem Segara,
able to prove his ability to become Sulinggih at the age of 23 years. In line with the experience passed, at the Dharma Wacana Ida Mas Dalem Segara brought the theme “Bekerja Ikhlas Dari hati”. Ida Mas Dalem Segara explained how hard it must be to run the fate of being a Sulinggih. For him, being Sulinggih is not an easy matter. It is need commitment, responsibility with a sense of sincerity in faith. The principle of ngayah, activates is vital in carrying out its role as a Sulinggih. Sulinggih, he continued, logically means a war-
rior. Ngayah for the God, worship, and serve the community. This is what he tries to associate with wherever and whatever our work, we need to deliver with a full sincerely and responsibly. A hesitation in doing work must have come, but it is important for us to find one big target that is able to brush aside any negative feelings and even the other person’s opinion that discourages us. The General Manager of The ONE Legian, Eka Pertama said, “In addition to this ceremony, regarding gratitude for the success of
the past, present and future, Dharma Wacana by Ida Mas Dalem Segara can also be provided to inspire our millenial employees to always keep it going and loving what they do. Not only in work in the hotel area but also in their life, day by day. An acceptance to what yours is important.” “On behalf of The ONE Legian, we greatly appreciate the presence of Ida Dalem Segara Mas a very low profile has been pleased to give us direction and guidance to this ceremony. “, concluded Eka Pertama.
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The world’s largest bee has been rediscovered after 38 years
EVERYTHING about Wallace’s giant bee is goliath: It reaches an average body length of around 4 centimeters — about the size of a walnut — and has a wingspan of over 7.5 centimeters. Yet despite its eye-popping size, it’s been nearly 40 years since the world’s largest bee (Megachile pluto) was officially sighted in the wild. So when Eli Wyman, an entomologist at Princeton University, had an opportunity to hunt for the elusive bee, he jumped at the chance. He and two other scientists, along with photographer Clay Bolt, set off in January for a two-week expedition to forests on two of only three Indonesian islands where the bee has ever been found. It’s thought that the females build a home by using their formidable jaws to burrow into termite nests and line the tunnels with resin to ward off termites. So while trekking in the oppressive jungle heat, the team stopped at every termite nest spotted on the trunk of a tree and watched for 20 minutes for a telltale bore hole or a bee
emerging. “After several days of searching and looking at a lot of these termite nests and not seeing anything, I think we all kind of internally just accepted that we weren’t going to be successful,” Wyman says. As the search
was ending, the team decided to check one last nest only about 2.4 meters off the ground — and found the signature hole. Wyman, standing on a small platform, glanced inside and tapped the hole a few times with a stiff blade of grass. Moments later, a lone female Wallace’s giant bee emerged. “We were just all over the moon,” Wyman says. “It was a great relief and incredibly exciting.” The team captured the female and put her inside a tented enclosure to observe her
A honeybee’s size pales in comparison to that of a the recently rediscovered Wallace’s giant bee, as seen in this composite image.
before releasing her back to her nest. She buzzed and opened and closed her enormous jaws. And yes, she had a stinger to match her goliath size, one she presumably uses, though Wyman wasn’t willing to find that out firsthand. “She was the most precious thing on the planet to us,” Wyman says. The nonprofit organization Global Wildlife Conservation, which included Wallace’s giant bee on its 25 Most Wanted lost species list, announced the bee’s rediscovery February 21. While there are no set plans to look for more bees, the team hopes the rediscovery sparks efforts to protect the habitat from deforestation. In a blogpost, Bolt noted: “Just knowing that this bee’s giant wings go thrumming through this ancient Indonesian forest helps me feel that, in a world of so much loss, hope and wonder still do exist.” (net)
A deer-sized T. rex ancestor shows how fast tyrannosaurs became giants
NORTH CAROLINA - A new dinosaur shows that even Tyrannosaurus rex had humble beginnings. Dubbed Moros intrepidus, or “the harbinger of doom,” the new species is one of the smallest tyrannosaurs yet discovered from the Cretaceous Period. Analyses of the animal’s fossilized leg show that the creature would have stood only 1.2 meters at the hip, a n d
weighed an estimated 78 kilograms — about the size of a mule deer, researchers report February 21 in Communications Biology. Dating to around 96 million years ago, the fossil is the oldest Cretaceous tyrannosaur found in North America. Its discovery helps fill in a 70-mil-
lion-year gap in the evolution of tyrannosaurs leading up to the ferocious giants like T. rex. Teeth from early, petite tyrannosaurs have been found in rocks in North America dating to the Late Jurassic Period around 150 million years ago, when larger predator dinosaurs called allosaurs topped the food chain. But the next time tyrannosaurs are seen in the North American fos-
sil record is 70 million years later, when they’ve become the colossal top predators. When, and how, the dinosaurs sized up within that period is a mystery. Paleontologist Lindsay Zanno of North Carolina State University in Raleigh and her colleagues dug for 10 years around Emery County in Utah, searching for clues to solve that mystery.
That’s where the team discovered M. intrepidus’ long, thin leg, a characteristic indicative of a swift runner, quite unlike later titanic tyrannosaurs. “What Moros shows is that the ancestral stock of the big tyrannosaurs was small and fast,” says Thomas Carr, a vertebrate paleontologist at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wis., who wasn’t involved in the study. And it “suggests that the tyrannosaurs became giant some time in that 16-millionyear stretch between Moros and the earliest of the big guys.” Comparing M. intrepidus’ fossil traits with other tyrannosaurs to see where it fit in the tyrannosaur family tree, the researchers determined that M. intrepidus emerged from Asia. It was part of a great migration that included mammals, lizards and dinosaurs moving between modern Siberia and Alaska during occasional drops in sea levels, the
authors suggest. Eventually, the Cretaceous Period’s warming climate probably killed off the allosaurs, Zanno says, but not tyrannosaurs. “They rapidly increase in size and go on really quickly to become the dominant predators of Late Cretaceous ecosystems,” she says. Even with the discovery of M. intrepidus, the picture of tyrannosaur evolution remains incomplete. “It’s great that [the new fossil] helps fill in part of the history,” says vertebrate paleontologist and tyrannosaur expert Thomas Holtz Jr. at the University of Maryland in College Park. But scientists need to find the rest of the skeleton of M. intrepidus as well as other tyrannosaurs in the narrow 16-million-year span between M. intrepidus and its giant descendants to help pinpoint when the creatures grew in size. “The story of tyrannosaurs is definitely not over,” he says. (net)
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Arrival of VP candidate Sandiaga Uno denied in Tabanan
TABANAN — Sandiaga Uno, VP candidate of number 2, made a working visit on Saturday (Feb. 23) to a number of districts in Bali. One of them is to Tabanan district. Unfortunately, the arrival of Sandiaga Uno to Tabanan scheduled to Pagi hamlet, Senganan, Penebel, was rejected by local residents. Surely, he canceled the visit to Tabanan to create conducive conditions. From the information obtained, Sandiaga Uno was scheduled to visit Subak Gangganan, Senganan, Penebel, on Sunday (Feb. 24). He was also going to visit farmers at Katimemes hamlet, Sudimara and Kukuh village, Marga. Unfortunately, a number of residents and village apparatus rejected his visit to make a statement of rejection. In the letter was written that people of Pagi customary village agreed to reject the arrival of Sandiaga Uno in any capacity because the Pagi community did not want the situation to be not conducive because they have agreed to support candidate from PDI-P for the smooth development of Pagi customary village (hall). The letter was also ratified by the signature of chief of customary village, I Wayan Yastera, hamlet chief of Pagi I Nyoman Subagan and administrative hamlet chief of Pagi, I Wayan Sukawijaya. When confirmed separately, chief of Pagi customary village, I Wayan Yastera, admitted that he and customary villagers did not reject the arrival of VP candidate Sandiaga Uno to Pagi village. He claimed that local residents were not ready to accept him because there are traditional activities and it is to maintain the situation at Pagi customary village to remain conducive. “Please do our apologies in advance. We do not reject him. We can clarify here because there is a customary activity so that we are not ready to accept so that the situation of Pagi customary village remains conducive,” he said when confirmed on Saturday (Feb. 23). If the busyness of customary activities and political year are over, they are ready to accept his arrival. “This is purely because of the customary activities so that the condition of the community at the village remains conducive,” he affirmed. Yastera admitted to get information on the arrival of Sandiaga Uno on Wednesday (Feb. 20), and schedule of the visit to Pagi hamlet for farmers of Subak Ganggangan. “I’ve got the information from the team of VP candidate Sandiaga Uno to Tabanan last Wednesday,” he said. (kmb28)
Nyepi as a rare moment celebrated once a year by Balinese people.
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Nyepi without internet in Bali
DENPASAR — The implementation of this year’s Nyepi Day is ensured to return without the internet following the joint appeal issued by the Religious Assembly of the Bali Province. Although it had drew pros and cons when it was first implemented last year, now it is believed to be implemented properly. “Last year, it was held for the first time. Now, it will return to be implemented. I think the last year’s implementation has become our experience that there is no problem. We can live without it. Moreover, this year I am confident it will work as it did last year in better way,” said Deputy Governor of Bali, Cok Oka Artha Ardana Sukawati, in Denpasar on Saturday (Feb. 23). This man familiarly addressed as Cok Ace also added that Nyepi as a rare moment celebrated once a year by Balinese people, especially the Hindus, can reflect the state of silence other than being proven to be able to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. With the absence of the internet, Nyepi Day is also expected to no longer be littered with fake news. “We use this moment together to absorb positive vibrations of the Island of Bali as much as possible,” he said. Cok Ace stated that other prohibitions such as lighting firecrackers should be adhered to and respected by the public. Pecalang or customary security guard and police officers are ex-
pected to take firm action against those who violate. Regarding Nyepi without internet, Chairman of Commission I of the Bali House of Representatives, I Ketut Tama Tenaya, hoped that all cellular service providers can be orderly this year. In the internet service, it only turns off the entertainment, including social media but telephone and SMS can still be used. Meanwhile, the internet in vital places is still being turned on. Non-activation of the internet on Nyepi Day is just meant to keep the holy days of Hinduism to remain quiet, high quality, and the beratha penyepian (abstinences) can be done well. “At the time of Nyepi, sometimes there is incident of mutual blasphemous as happened last year leading to commotion in the community. There were people posting photos, those who came out and those who sold something. We actually avoid these,” he explained. In addition, continued Tama, radio and television broadcasting stations are equally not allowed to broadcast on the Nyepi Day
and has become a regular ban every year. However, apparently there are still leaking broadcasts transmitted to Bali, especially from East Java and NTB. “That’s why currently there is MoU with the Radio Frequency Spectrum Monitoring Center (Balmon) in East Java and NTB because last year the broadcast still reached Bali,” he said. In addition to the MoU, continued Tama, the Central Indonesia Broadcasting Commission (KPI) and the Ministry of Communication and Informatics had also been asked to give an appeal to Balmon of East Java and NTB. In this case, they are ordered to reduce the transmitting power of the broadcast so that the transmission does not reach Bali on Nyepi Day, mainly to East Bali and West Bali. “Last year, the transmission still reached Jembrana and even Tabanan, as well. Meanwhile, in the East Bali or Karangasem the transmission came from Mataram. Balmon had agreed to reduce the transmitting power,” he concluded. (kmb32)
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Salted egg demand getting higher ahead of feast day made salted eggs is done by word of mouth. “The buyers directly come here to take my salted eggs,” she said. This 67-year-old woman claimed to get involved in the business of making salted eggs since 25 years ago. She learned how to make salted eggs from trial and error. This business was taken after her grocery business could not develop. It is not so difficult to make salted eggs. The ingredients needed are only duck egg, salt and water. At first, the duck eggs must be washed. Then, soak in salt water and a little ash for approximately 3 weeks. After that, the soaked eggs are steamed. Her salted egg can last up to 2 days, and can be longer if steamed.
Jero Tut Kenten added that to produce savory and good quality eggs, the duck eggs must be selected carefully. Good eggs must be still fresh. The eggs should be taken maximally two days after being laid. Otherwise, the results will be bad. To get fresh eggs, all this time she bought directly from duck farmers. Jero Tut Kenten admitted that to produce salted eggs in large quantities, the problem faced is the limited ingredient of duck eggs. Especially during the rainy season, she often finds it difficult to get such ingredient. “Regarding the selling price, I usually adjust to the fluctuating price of the duck eggs. But all this time, I usually sell three pieces of salted eggs for IDR 10, 000,” she said. (kmb40)
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Lost and usually found at humanity’s biggest gathering
BANGLI - Consumer demand for salted eggs is quite high especially during the religious holiday season in Bali. In addition to being consumed directly as a side dish, salted eggs are also usually used for content of ritual oblation or offerings. Jero Ketut Kenten, a salted egg maker from Geria hamlet, Kawan, Bangli sub-district, revealed that ahead of religious holidays she will usually produce more salted eggs than on normal days. During normal days, she only produces 600 pieces of salted eggs every three days, while when approaching holidays such as Galungan, Kuningan or other feast days, she can produce salted eggs up to 2,000 pieces. “Ahead of this Nyepi Day, I make approximately 1,000-1,500 pieces,” she said when met at her house recently. He said that her homemade salted eggs are mostly purchased by consumers in the Bangli region. Her salted eggs are also purchased by merchants for resale on the market. Marketing of her home-
Tuesday, February 26, 2019
International
ALLAHABAD - Meghsingh Badouria, 75, was left freezing in his underpants after losing his clothes and his friends following a dip in the holy waters at humanity’s biggest gathering, India’s Kumbh Mela.
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In addition to being consumed directly as a side dish, salted eggs are also usually used for content of ritual oblation or offerings.
Ahead of Nyepi, ogoh-ogoh starts blooming NEGARA - Ahead of the Nyepi celebration, a number of sekaa taruna or customary village youth clubs in Jembrana began to make ogoh-ogoh or papier mâché demon. Some of the ogoh-ogoh works will be included in the ogoh-ogoh competition as being held in previous years. The competition scheduled to be held during the Pengerupukan (a day before Nyepi) is conducted the selection of ogoh-ogoh at each customary village. Results of the selection will later be submitted to appear in the competition held at the catus pata or central intersection in front of the office of Jembrana regent. Chief of the assessment team, Arya Tangkas, said the assessment criteria will include the composition and creativity expression of the ogoh-ogoh. “In the assessment, the committee has prepared a number of technical requirements, such as the ogoh-ogoh must be in the form of bhutakala (evil spirits), made from ecofriendly materials (Styrofoam is strictly prohibited), maximum height of 3 meters (above carrying poles), maximum width of 6 meters, only born by 20 people, and completion of at least 95 percent at the inspection time,” said this Chief of Sabha Yowana Jembrana. Meanwhile, the Head of the Jembrana Culture and Tourism Office, Nengah Alit, said the selection carried out at each hamlet across Jembrana district will later be represented by the three best ogoh-ogoh in each subdistrict throughout Jembrana. (kmb26) Some of the ogoh-ogoh works will be included in the ogoh-ogoh competition as being held in previous years.
He is not alone. In the cacophony and chaos of the vast religious festival, it’s easy to get lost among the millions upon millions of Hindu devotees. “I got separated from my villagers and went to the sangam (the holy confluence of rivers) and gave my bag to a stranger to look after while I went to bathe,” Badouria told AFP. “When I came back my bag was nowhere to be seen... It was early in the morning and it was cold,” he added. But help is at hand: There are 15 lost and found centres around the Kumbh grounds, a dusty maze of tents the size of Manhattan thronging with people from mid-January until early March. “We get 70 or 100 people every day,” said Shivani Singh Sengar, 21, a volunteer who spends long days making announcements over the Kumbh’s 3,500 loudspeakers in a bid to reunite friends and family. As Badouria explained his story, clothed by festival volunteers but still without his friends, a panicked mother sobbed tears of relief
after being reunited with her two daughters, aged five and seven in the centre. “After the bathing ritual, we decided to shop before heading home. As we purchased some clothes, I realised both my children were missing,” said mother Ranjana. “It was a nightmare and I cried a lot,” she added. - An app for that As many as 150 million people are expected to visit this Kumbh. On the day of Badouria’s calamity there were 20 million people attending. Getting separated at the Kumbh and reuniting miraculously decades later is a common Bollywood story line. But technology and in particular the ubiquity of mobile phones -- there are now 830 million of them in India -- means that people get lost a lot less they used to. The 15 lost and found centres are connected via computer and there is a state-of-the-art police command centre to oversee operations. Pictures of the missing rotate
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In this picture taken on February 10, 2019, Indian Sadhus (Hindu holy men) walk in a procession towards Sangam -- the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati rivers -- during the auspicious bathing day of ‘Basant Panchami’ at the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad. on television screens. There is a special Kumbh app helping reunite people, providing they can read, which is far from a given. Comprehension too can be an issue, with India home to 22
major languages and hundreds of dialects. “One lady...it was the first time she had left her village. She couldn’t explain where she came from, she couldn’t identify any landmark,”
Sengar said. “We checked Google. We asked her about the river near her home and temples. Eventually we worked out she was from Bengal,” he added. (afp)
Chagos Islands: international dispute and human drama
PARIS - Britain separated the Chagos Islands from its colony Mauritius more than 50 years ago, expelling the entire population to make way for a strategic US military base.
Britain’s 1965 acquisition of the remote Indian Ocean archipelago of about 55 islands has been disputed ever since, with Mauritius demanding its return. As the UN’s International Court
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Located several hundred kilometres (miles) south of the Maldives, the Chagos Islands were colonised by France in the 18th century and African slaves shipped in to cultivate coconuts and copra.
of Justice (ICJ) prepares to give a legal opinion on the long-running case on Monday, here is some background.
- Indian Ocean colony Located several hundred kilometres (miles) south of the Maldives, the Chagos Islands were colonised by France in the 18th century and African slaves shipped in to cultivate coconuts and copra. In 1814 France was made to cede the islands to Britain, which in 1903 merged them with Mauritius, its colony around 2,000 kilometres (1,200 miles) to the southwest. After the abolition of slavery in 1834, Indian workers arrived and mixed with the first settlers. Only three of the islands were inhabited: Diego Garcia, Salomon and Peros Banhos. - Mass eviction In 1965 Britain separated the Chagos islands from the rest of Mauritius, then a semi-autonomous British territory and eyeing independence, paying three million pounds for them.
When Mauritius became independent three years later, the islands remained under British control, renamed the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT). In 1966 Britain leased the islands to the United States for 50 years so that it could set up a military base. In 2016 the deal was extended to 2036. Between 1968 and 1973 around 2,000 Chagos islanders were evicted, described in a British diplomatic cable at the time as the removal of “some few Tarzans and Man Fridays”. Most were shipped to Mauritius and the Seychelles. Mauritius argues it was illegal for Britain to break up its territory. It claims sovereignty over the archipelago and demands the right to resettle former residents. - Strategic military base The US military base on Diego Garcia, the largest island, became of major strategic importance during the Cold War. It offered proximity to Asia as an assertive Soviet navy was extending communist influence in the Indian
Ocean. After the 1979 Iranian revolution, the United States expanded the base to receive more warships and heavy bombers. In recent years it served as a staging ground for US bombing campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. - Islanders take action Chagos islanders living in Mauritius launched legal proceedings in 1975 against their expulsion, resulting in a 1982 payment of four million pounds in compensation along with land valued at one million pounds. There were no reparations for islanders settled in the Seychelles. In 2007 a British appeals court paved the way for Chagossians to return home but its decision was annulled by the upper House of Lords the following year. In 2016 the British government confirmed its opposition to the resettlement of Chagossians, including for reasons of defence, security and cost. Today around 10,000 Chagossians and their descendants are divided among Mauritius, the Seychelles and Britain. (afp)
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BUSINESS As prices soar, Turkey’s Erdogan woos voters with vegetables
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Tradition of Barong Ngunya at Serokadan Village
Virtually all villages have unique traditions denoting the heritage from their ancestors. Residents of Serokadan customary village, Susut, Bangli, for instance, regularly organize Ngelawang Agung or Barong Ngunya (street show) every Kuningan Day.
ISTANBUL - In a middle class Istanbul neighborhood shoppers form a long line to an immense tent carrying a sign that reads “Total combat against inflation.”
The weapons in that battle: spinach, tomatoes and peppers that the Turkish government is selling in a makeshift stall at almost half the price of the regular markets. “People who live on minimum wage can’t go to the neighborhood bazaar,” says Reyhan Kelleci, a 38year-old homemaker waiting in line who is, like many Turks, struggling with a jump in the cost of food and consumer goods. “These regulated tents have been very good for us... What should we do? Should we sit at home and wait for our death?” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government has set up dozens of these temporary stalls in at least six cities to help families. The cost of goods like food has jumped by about a third after turmoil in financial markets last year over Erdogan’s policies caused the national currency to slump. Erdogan faces local elections on March 31, when runaway prices and an economic downturn could cost his ruling party key municipal seats — and his traditional lowincome voter base is the most affected by the price increases. In campaign speeches, Erdogan has portrayed the economic downturn as a foreign plot against the country and has vowed to fight food price hikes in the same way that the country has fought terror groups. “We have taught, are teaching and will continue to teach a lesson to those who have terrorized through food,” Erdogan has said, while promising to increase the numbers of government-run discount markets. While the government blames traders and outsiders, the rise in prices is largely due to the rapid depreciation of the Turkish lira last summer. In August, the lira lost as much as 33 percent of its value against the dollar over a diplomatic spat with the United States. Inflation hovered around 20 percent in January, with food and non-alcoholic beverage prices up 31 percent on the year — a 15year high. By contrast, inflation for
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Chief of Serokadan customary village, I Dewa Gede Oka, revealed that Ngelawang Agung is indeed held every Kuningan Day. It is different from ngelawang in general where the ngelawang agung held on Kuningan feast involves the whole sanctified effigies of the village such as eight sacred barongs, Ratu Lingsir, Ratu Gede Anom, Ratu Mas, Ratu Gede Tameng and Ratu Gede Alit. “The Ratu Lingsir in particular is the oldest owned by the village. It is believed to have reached thousands of years. This tradition aims to purify the environment from negative energies,” he said. The procession of ngelawang agung, said Dewa Gede Oka, is held at 13:00 until the afternoon. It is started with a ceremony followed by the sacred barongs coming out simultaneously and then gathers somewhere. He explained the ngelawang agung is not implemented by visiting one home to another, but walk to the ends of the village in accordance with the points of the compass. Local people call the procession nyatur desa. “After doing nyatur desa, the eight sacred barongs gather in the middle (catus pata). Usually, the ngelawang agung is witnessed by the whole community around and outside the village,” he added. (kmb)
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In this Sunday, Feb. 17, 2019 photo, a shopper stands after buying groceries at a government-run market selling spinach, tomatoes and peppers at discounted prices in an Istanbul neighbourhood. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government has set up dozens of these temporary stalls in Turkey’s largest cities in a bid to mitigate the effects of soaring food prices that have stung households. such goods in the United States and Europe has been around 2 percent or less. The currency drop makes imported foods more expensive. But even the foods grown in Turkey are becoming pricier, as the seeds, fertilizers and pesticides used in agriculture are largely imported. Selva Demiralp, professor of economics at Istanbul’s Koc University, says the situation is worsened by factors like weather conditions, including floods in southern Turkey, and will be a concern for Erdogan. “Economic factors have a big impact on the election performance of a government and the high inflation and the resulting deterioration in income distribution is not going to help out the government,” she said. Government authorities this
month raided wholesale markets where Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan said middlemen were demanding “extortionate” prices. She said the busts revealed an 800 percent increase in prices and announced some 88 companies would be fined. The stalls operated by the government buy produce directly from farmers, eliminating intermediary commissions. The vegetables on offer are limited and buyers cannot purchase more than 3 kilograms (6.6 pounds) per person. Unlike regular stores, the government markets can avoid many costs. In Istanbul, the ruling partyrun municipality moved some workers employed by its catering and hotelier company to the food stalls. It’s unclear if the goods are sold at a loss and what effect these
sales have on the state budget. The sales could be expanded to include dry legumes, cleaning products and even medicine, officials said. Erdogan said the government markets would continue until the local elections and could become permanent if “opportunists” continue hiking prices. Intermediaries add commissions to the prices of food, but they also have a crucial role in funding farmers, offering storage facilities and organizing sales to wholesalers. Demiralp, the economist, says the government stalls could hurt independent businesses if they are forced to slash their own prices to compete. That is all the more worrying as an increasing number of companies across industries have been declaring bankruptcy.
One stall keeper in a bustling weekly bazaar said the government’s discount tents were hurting regular sellers. “How can we sell it for that price?” said Yasin Bayer, 33, who arrived at the bazaar before dawn to set up his stall. “We have costs. Opening this counter today costs 1,000, 1,500 liras ($188-282). Labor, bags, gas,” Still, the discount markets seem to address a public need. Many at the government tents expressed their support for the government’s efforts, but others were critical, saying they were an indication of how poorly the economy has been run. Savas Bag, one of the shoppers, said he was having trouble making ends meet and pointed to the long lines: “Isn’t this poverty?” (ap)
Charms of Timpag Village Awaits You
Put this village in your itinerary! Timpag village in Kerambitan subdistrict has enormous natural potential. The environmental conditions are still natural and have not been touched much by the development of tourist accommodation. Additionally, the local community has a strong commitment to maintain the agricultural sector. This commitment is stated in the pararem or appendix to customary bylaw. Armed with such potential, the Kerambitan subdistrict government seeks to develop the potential of the Timpag village. The development begins with the UMaurip program in which there is owl preservation, black pig culinary delight and jogging tracks launched in 2018. Right now, the potential of Timpag village is being developed with the synergy of other tourist destinations having been managed by communities such as Undagi Farmers village posing religious tourist destination consisting of seveneyed showers at Undagi hamlet,
D’Bendungan destination evoking the management of Telaga Tunjung dam by providing a selfie spot with a view of the dam and panoramic background of Mount Batukaru as well as typical Kerambitan culinary delight. Do not to forget, there is river tubing attraction utilizing the irrigation canals sourcing directly from Telaga Tunjung water. “We are trying to synergize the four tourist destinations known as the nature of Timpag, so that in the future there will be no potential of competition,” said Kerambitan sub-district head Gede Sukanada on Sunday (Jan. 13) on the sidelines of the village charity event taking place at Subak Celem Manik, Timpag village. According to him, the fundraising activity for the development of this village is the fifth pre-event of the Kerambitan Festival to be held next October. “This bazaar activity offers black pig menu and jukut gonda or gooseweed vegetable in cooperation with tourism players
with the aim of getting input and directions for the development of the Timpag nature,” he said. The activities are planned to introduce Timpag’s nature that will be held regularly with rotating locations among the four local tourist destinations. “We in the sub-district government are only tasked to design, so that there is single entity and help promote and package their activities. Later on, the Timpag nature will be handled by a management body formed by the village official. Of course, it is equipped with regulations so that it will not overlap later,” he explained. With the synergy of Timpag natural tourism, in the future tourists having been scattered so far can be more focused. In other words, they are not only focused on one destination, but organized into a tour package. Moreover, lately the nature of Timpag has begun to be visited by travelers, ranging from local tourists to foreign tourists. Sukanada further explained,
that the village potential is strong and runs as expected, then it will be proposed to become a tourism village. A tourism village must be pioneered based on village potential readiness that strengthens local community resources and systems or regulations. This is very important, considering that a number of
other tourism villages have not been maximally managed. “For this reason, I want Timpag to strengthen the potential and the system, then it is proposed to become a tourism village. We target to submit it in 2020 target after everything is ready,” he stressed. (kmb)
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My dog and I, til death do us part
TELTOW - Ralf Hendrichs was devastated when his Dobermann died. But he was even more distraught when he learnt that its carcass ended up in a public grinder along with those of roadkill and farm animals. “We cried for days on end,” Hendrichs said, recalling the death of his faithful friend more than 15 years ago and its sad end that prompted him to set up a cemetery for pets south of Berlin. Hendrichs now not only manages the 10,000-square-metre (108,000-square-foot) cemetery called Tierhimmel (Animal Heaven), he also offers grieving pet owners comfort. The graveyard at Teltow is the only one in Germany offering pet burials as well as cremations. “We often see very sad scenes here. People cry buckets,” the 66-year-old said, noting that some even turn suicidal. “For us, a pet is not just an animal, but a companion, a member of the family” who deserves to be given a dignified send-off, he said. Domestic pets have claimed a firm spot in the hearts of Germans. Today, 34.3 million people in the country of 80 million own a pet, up 45 percent from a decade
ago, according to a joint study by the Industrial Association of Pet Care Producers (IVH) and the German Pet Trade and Industry Association. No clear reason for the increase however has been identified. And more people than before are ready to give their fourlegged friends a peaceful resting place. Teltow cemetery started its first year in 2003 with 120 burials, but that has jumped to more than 4,000 annually now. Sebastian Oehlandt said he goes to the cemetery two or three times a week to spend time at the small tomb of his cat of almost 15 years, Hiro. “Suddenly, there was this massive hole,” he said, recalling the day when Hiro died just before Christmas. “I needed time for me,” said the 27-year-old, who lives with his father and another cat. Another regular face at the cemetery, Karla Lemke, was still inconsolable more than a year after losing her miniature pinscher, Alien. “For the last 14 months since he died, I’ve come here everyday, twice a day,” said the 63-yearold, who has turned Alien’s grave into the most decorated and colourful in the cemetery. (afp)
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Supporters of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido take part in a march in Caracas, on February 23, 2019.
Venezuela’s Guaido meets with foreign allies for anti-Maduro strategy The trip comes after two people were killed and hundreds wounded as Guaido supporters clashed with Venezuelan security forces in a failed attempt to cross in truckloads of humanitarian aid from Colombia and Brazil. The European Union condemned Venezuela’s use of violence and armed civilians to block the aid entry, while United Nations SecretaryGeneral Antonio Guterres said he was “shocked and saddened” by the civilian deaths. Guaido, the 35-year-old leader of Venezuela’s National Assembly, declared himself acting president in January after the opposition controlled legislature concluded that Maduro was fraudulently re-elected. Some 50 countries recognize him as Venezuela’s legitimate president.
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BOGOTA - Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido is meeting with members of a multinational support group in Bogota Monday to hammer out a strategy to remove his rival Nicolas Maduro from office.
A visitor lights a candle on the grave of his pet in the cemetery of the Tierhimmel (“Animal Heaven”) crematorium and pet cemetery in Teltow, just outside Berlin, on January 31, 2019.
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- Maduro’s ‘days numbered’ Guaido flew to the Colombian capital Sunday for the meeting with members of the Lima Group - 13 Latin American countries plus Canada that are seeking to resolve Venezuela’s political impasse. Vice President Mike Pence will represent Washington at the event.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he was confident that “Maduro’s days are numbered,” blaming the border violence on armed civilian loyalists known as “colectivos.” “We’re aimed at a singular mission -- ensuring the Venezuelan people get the democracy they so richly deserve,” Pompeo said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” President Donald Trump has said the United States is not ruling out armed action. Upon landing in Bogota Guaido called on the international community to consider “all measures to free” Venezuela. This is the first time that the Lima Group, which first met in the Peruvian capital in 2017, will speak directly to Guaido. Venezuela is in the midst of a humanitarian crisis that has seen poverty soar during a prolonged recession and hyperinflation. Humanitarian aid, much of it from the United States, has been at the center of the standoff between Maduro and Guaido. Maduro claims the aid is a smokescreen for a US invasion, and has ordered several crossings on Venezuela’s borders with Colombia and Brazil closed.
- ‘Victory consolidated’ “Today we consolidated yesterday’s victory, tomorrow we’ll consolidate it even more,” Maduro’s right-hand man Diosdado Cabello said Sunday at a pro-government rally in the border town of Tachira. “Not a single one of those trucks with aid got through,” Cabello said. Maduro seems to have won this round in the power struggle, even though 156 members of Venezuela’s security forces deserted to Colombia or Brazil. After Saturday’s events it is “not very clear” that Guaido has “massive” support in Venezuela, analyst Rafael Pineros told AFP. However the events, which also led to increased repression by the Maduro regime, may instead result in a forceful foreign intervention in Venezuela, according to political scientist Laura Gil. “In the Lima Group the consensus is that Maduro must be removed, but there is no consensus on how to do that,” Gil told AFP. Another winner is Washington, because the only way to justify a use of force, if they are willing to actually do that, “is by invitation,” she said. (afp)
Firefighters attempt to extinguish burning wooden boats at Muara Baru port in Jakarta on February 23, 2019.
Police question seven witnesses in fire at North Jakarta Port
JAKARTA - Police have questioned seven witnesses in the fire that happened in North Jakarta. “We have questioned seven wit-
nesses,” Chief of the Jakarta Metropolitan Police Inspector General Gatot Eddy Pramono said.
No suspect has been named in the case as the police were still questioning the witnesses, he said. The police will send a foren-
sic team to the scene to conduct further investigation after the fire was put out, he said. According to the preliminary
result of investigation, the fire was caused by welding sparks. No injuries and fatalities were reported.(ant)
We will not tolerate corruption: Prabowo Subianto
MEDAN - Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto reiterated his zero-tolerance stance to corruption in the country and expressed readiness to take stern measures against corruptors. “We will not tolerate corruption,” Prabowo remarked at a mass gathering with thousand of his supporters here on Saturday. Prabowo said if he were to be elected as president for the 20192014 period, he would select clean and anti-corruption figures as his cabinet members.
He explained that a ministerial candidate will have to sign an integrity pact on not misusing the position as minister to enrich himself or herself or his or her relatives. “If he or she refuses to sign the anti-corruption pact, then that person cannot become a member of the cabinet. This is our commitment since the start to make this nation free from corruption,” he noted. He vowed to conduct reform in all sectors, including salaries for civil servants, judges, prosecutors, medical doctor, nurse, governor,
and others, due to which they would focus on their work and avoid corruption. Prabowo has also touched on the issue of farmers, who were unable to cover the high production cost. “How can they smile if, at the time of the harvest season, the government imports (the same commodities). This cannot happen again. We will help farmers to become more prosperous. All of us should be able to enjoy the wealth of this nation,” he emphasized.(ant)
Indonesian presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto (C), a former military general, is welcomed by his supporters in Mojokerto, West Java province on February 24, 2019. Prabowo, who lost to current president Joko Widodo in the 2014 election, was a top military figure in the chaotic months before dictator Suharto was toppled by student protests in 1998.
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Knicks snap home losing skid, Ross haunts former Raptor team
NEW YORK - Damyean Dotson scored 27 points and the New York Knicks snapped their franchise-record home losing streak at 18 games with a 130-118 win over the San Antonio Spurs on Sunday night.
Melanting Temple PEMUTERAN - Aside from the spectacular underwater splendors off its coastline and around the nearby Menjangan Island, the serene little village of Pemuteran is also surrounded by Balinese distinct cultural charm which radiates from the beautiful temples that lie in some of the most dramatic natural settings. Among the most notable are the Pura Agung Pulaki, Pura Pabean, and Pura Melanting. Pura Melanting also features the beautifully presented inner compound of the main temple. The inner compound houses a small but serene pond and stunning meru painted in a rainbow of colours and decorated with countless yellow and white ceremonial umbrellas. The tranquility of the place creates a perfect atmosphere and ambience for people to do their prayers and also to meditate. The tale of Melanting Temple is quite interesting. Believe it or not this mystic tale is still being told till now. Melanting temple is one of the temples built commemorating the visit of the Javanese Hindu Priest, Danghyang Nirartha. The temple is believed to be the place where his eldest daughter, Ida Swabawa, turned into the spirit. The temple nestles in the middle of a jungle on a foot hill in Pemuteran, North Bali. A huge parking lot is available for visitors and some warung stand in the area
providing drinks and snacks. The jungle has turned from wild into a bit civilized with the street lights stretching on the road sides and the parking lot. To reach the area from the Pemuteran main road there is a narrow road passing through a small jungle and the local houses. From the parking lot you can see the stairs
that we need to climb to get into the temple compound. Two huge statues of dragons decorate the main gate and from below the stairway the temple looks majestic. On the way to the main gate there is a small place where the people who are going to pray put their offerings and get the holy water to clean their mind before they go further to
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the main court. Like most of the temples in Bali, after the main gate we enter the middle court where people do their preparation for the offering. After that there is the main court where a huge and beautiful temple stands. The temple building was rebuilt by the government and it was redesigned by a prominent Balinese architect, Ida Bagus Tugur. The tranquility of the place creates a perfect atmosphere and ambience for people to do their prayers and also to meditate. Some people come in the night time especially to do meditation. The panorama one can see from the temple is gorgeous, the green layered hills backed the temple while from the main court one can see the blue Java Sea. The chill breeze and the natural sound of living things in the jungle are very calming. The priests, who take care of the temple are very welcoming to visitors. They have an information office where you can rent sarongs and get some information about the temple. The Hindus, who come to pray in this temple, are not only from the local area but from all over Bali and also from outside the island. The praying activity in this temple takes place day and night. In the night the ambience in the temple becomes more mystic and mysterious. (IBP/net)
Kevin Knox, Dennis Smith and Emmanual Mudiay all had 19 points in the Knicks’ first home victory since December 1 against the Milwaukee Bucks. “It’s major,” guard Smith said. “We’ve been having our fans come out and support every night and haven’t won here since December 1. “I’m glad that we could get it tonight and just give the fans something to see.” The NBA win even attracted the attention of the 2019 Oscar presenter Samuel L. Jackson, who pointed out the result during Sunday’s show to Hollywood director Spike Lee before presenting Lee with the Best Adapted Screenplay award. “The Knicks won tonight. I repeat, the Knicks won tonight,” Jackson said addressing Lee, a Knicks’ megafan. Smith also had 13 assists and Knox had 10 rebounds, while rookie Mitchell Robinson finished with 15 points and 14 rebounds. DeMar DeRozan had 32 points and nine rebounds for the Spurs, who dropped to 1-6 on their road trip that ends Monday against the
Brooklyn Nets. LaMarcus Aldridge scored 18 points, but was limited to just 13 minutes through three quarters because of foul trouble. The Spurs came in as the NBA’s best three-point shooting team but were just six for 24 from behind the arc. The Knicks led by nine at halftime and then started to seize command in the third quarter to go up by 19 with just over two minutes left in the period. San Antonio cut it to 94-83 entering the fourth but their troubles continued in the fourth. - Magic beats Raptors Elsewhere, Terrence Ross torched his former team for a game-high 28 points and center Nikola Vucevic finished with 23 points and 12 assists as the Orlando Magic beat the Toronto Raptors 113-98. Ross, who played over four seasons in Toronto, came off the
bench to spark the Magic. “He’s been great,” Vucevic said of Ross. “When he scores for us like that, it just gives us a huge advantage.” The Magic, who were coming off a disappointing loss to the Chicago Bulls at home on Friday, snapped the Raptors winning streak at seven games. “This is the part of the season where you’ve got to move forward, no matter what,” Ross said. “You’ve got to make sure that you’re ready to play.” Ross made nine of 21 shots, including three of eight from three-point range. He equalled his season high with nine rebounds. The Raptors, who played without star Kawhi Leonard, fell to 44-17 and slid two games behind Milwaukee for the best record in the NBA and the Eastern Conference. Leonard was rested to manage his workload, the Raptors said. (afp)
Damyean Dotson #21 of the New York Knicks takes a shot as Bryn Forbes #11 of the San Antonio Spurs defends at Madison Square Garden on February 24, 2019 in New York City.
Brazier sets 600m world best at US Indoor Championships
NEW YORK - Donavan Brazier set a world best by winning the 600 meters in 1min 13.77secs on Sunday at the US Indoor Track and Field Championships. The 21-year-old 800m runner from Michigan smashed the old 600 mark of 1:14.79 set in January 2018 by Kenya’s Michael Saruni, who edged Brazier two weeks ago at 800 in the Millrose Games. “I was just trying to win today. I didn’t want to spoil it trying to get a record,” Brazier said. “Because I didn’t win (at Millrose) I was still hungry.” Brazier said the win at the less-contested distance signals good things ahead for a season that features a US outdoor meet in July and the World Championships in September and October at Doha, Qatar. “I can afford to take a little rest because I got in this shape this early,” he said. “I can come back in May.” Sam Ellison was a distant second in the US men’s 600 final in 1:15.20 with Kameron Jones third in 1:15.32. Athing Mu, only 16, won the women’s 600 in an American record 1:23.57.
“I’m so shocked. I’m just blown away right now,” Mu said. Clayton Murphy, third at 800m at the 2016 Rio Olympics, won the men’s 1,000 in 2:20.36. Reigning US outdoor champion Kenturah Orji, fourth at the 2016 Rio Olympics and World Indoors, won the US women’s indoor triple jump crown by leaping 14.55m. Katie Nageotte defended her US women’s indoor pole vault crown by clearing 4.81m, but she needed a third-try clearance at 4.61 to secure the victory. Craig Engels won his first mile indoor crown in 3:59.69 while Shelby Houlihan took the women’s two-mile in 9:31.98. Ajee Wilson, twice a world indoor runner-up at 800, won the women’s 1,000 in a meet record 2:34.71.Sharika Nelvis won the women’s 60 hurdles in a 2019 world best 7.85 seconds, then took third in the women’s 60 behind winner Shania Collins (7.16). Devon Allen took the men’s 60 hurdles in 7.60, edging Aaron Mallett by .04, and looked to the outdoor season. Demek Kemp won the men’s 60 in 6.55 in his meet debut. (afp)
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Manchester City’s Belgian defender Vincent Kompany (C) lifts the trophy as Manchester City players celebrate their victory in the English League Cup final football match between Manchester City and Chelsea at Wembley stadium in north London on February 24, 2019.
De Bruyne says quadruple would make Man City ‘best team ever’
Kevin De Bruyne has played down Manchester City’s quadruple prospects after they beat Chelsea in the League Cup final but admitted such an achievement would make them the “best team ever”. With Liverpool also missing the chance to move three points clear at the top of the Premier League after being held to a 0-0 draw at Old Trafford on Sunday, the odds on City completing an unprecedented clean sweep have shortened. But asked if Pep Guardiola’s men could win all four trophies on offer, midfielder De Bruyne said
it would be “almost impossible”. “If you do that you must be considered the best team ever because nobody has done it,” he said. “However, we are not looking at that. We want to win as much as possible. We are not thinking about the quadruple. “If we win three and then we play the Champions League final maybe we can talk about it but before that -- no
way.” Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United won the treble of Champions League, Premier League and FA Cup in 1999 -- a unique feat in English football. City’s latest trophy, their fourth League Cup triumph in six seasons, came via a penalty shootout after a drab clash ended goalless after 120 minutes.
The main talking point was an extraordinary incident late in extra time when Chelsea goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga, to the fury of manager Maurizio Sarri, appeared to refuse to be substituted. The Spaniard had required treatment twice in the latter stages and Chelsea had a penalty specialist in Willy Caballero, who saved three spot-kicks for City in the 2016 final, ready to come on. City, who are also on course for the Champions League quarterfinals and play in the FA Cup last
eight next month, resume their title defence against West Ham on Wednesday. “We are here to fight for all the competitions,” said striker Sergio Aguero. “Obviously the Champions League isn’t easy but we are going to try to at least go as far as possible. And then with the Premier League we are (up) there.” On the downside for City, Fernandinho and Aymeric Laporte could both face spells on the sidelines after being withdrawn with injuries.(ap)
Harry Kane insists Tottenham are still in the Premier League title race despite suffering a major setback in their defeat at Burnley. After winning all four league games while Kane recovered from an ankle ligament injury sustained in the January home defeat to Manchester United, Tottenham capitulated at Turf Moor on Saturday, falling 2-1 to Ashley Barnes’ late strike after England forward Kane marked his comeback with the away side’s equaliser. Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino effectively conceded his third placed team were out of the race after the loss, which leaves Spurs six points behind leaders Liverpool, but Kane refuses to write off his side’s chances. “That would be their opinion. It’s been like that for the whole season,” Kane said. “People have been talking us not being in it, then we would win a few games and we’re there. “People will probably say now it’s a two-horse race, but that’s not our problem. All we can do is take care of ourselves. “It’s a shame because when we needed to find another level, another gear, we didn’t have it in the locker. Unfortunately that was the case.” Tottenham will not have long to wait if they are to prove their worth. They are at the start of a period that sees them play league derbies against Chelsea on Wednesday and Arsenal on Saturday, as well as the return leg of their Champions League last 16 tie against Borussia Dortmund, in which they have a 3-0 lead. - Character -
Kane and his team-mates have made a habit all season of bouncing back from disappointments -- such as the week in January when, without Kane, they exited both domestic cup competitions in the same week. However, the manner of the latest defeat did have a terminal feeling about it as Spurs squandered the opportunity to close the gap on Liverpool and City. “We’ve done it before and that shows the character of the squad, but it would have been nice if we had won this game and built from that,” Kane said. “We don’t always want to be having to react from a poor result. But we will dust it off. “we have three massive games to get up for. The motivation is there.” The odds appear in favour of Spurs enduring another frustrating season without silverware. Kane admits it has been hard for Tottenham to play their home games at Wembley for two seasons while White Hart Lane is rebuilt. But he claims the team’s ability to remain in contention during that period deserves praise. “We’re a team that doesn’t like to make excuses, but at the end of the day we’ve been playing away from home for the last two years,” he said. “We’ve had a tough time. It is what it is, we’re in the hunt for the Premier League. We’re still in the Champions League, we’re in a good place. “We’ve been there for the last few years and we’ve got to see if we can take it up another level, whether that’s in the Premier League or Champions League and see if we can really progress.”(afp)
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Tottenham Hotspur’s English striker Harry Kane reacts after shot on goal during the English Premier League football match between Burnley and Tottenham Hotspur at Turf Moor in Burnley, north west England on February 23, 2019.
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Juventus’ Argentine forward Paulo Dybala celebrates after opening the scoring during the Italian Serie A football match Bologna vs Juventus on February 24, 2019 at the Renato-Dall’Ara stadium in Bologna.
Juventus preserve huge Serie A lead, Inter stalled in Florence
Juventus maintained their 13-point lead at the top of Serie A on Sunday after Paulo Dybala hit the winner in a 1-0 victory at Bologna to keep the champions ahead of Napoli who easily saw off Parma 4-0. But there was drama in Tuscany as Jordan Veretout converted a 101st-minute penalty to hold third-placed Inter Milan 3-3 in a chaotic game. Inter, now nine points behind Napoli in third, are just two points ahead of city rivals AC Milan who remain fourth after a 3-0 win over Empoli on Friday. In Turin, Dybala came off the bench to slot home in the 67th minute after defender Danilo deflected Blaise Matuidi’s low cross straight to the Argentine international in front of a gaping goal. Napoli eased past mid-table Parma, Piotr Zielinski scoring in the 19th minute before Arkadiusz Milik rolled a cheeky free-kick under the wall and past Luigi Sepe. Milik added the third with a fine strike past Sepe in the 73rd minute following sloppy play from Parma, and Adam Ounas
completed the rout by finishing off a superb passing move with an angled strike. The goals were the first in Serie A for Carlo Ancelotti’s side in three matches. “Juve are far away but next week we want to play well against them at the (Stadio) San Paolo,” said Milik, who now has 14 league goals for the season. “We’re a long way from the title but we need to keep going and hope that they go through a bad patch.” Juventus travel to Napoli next week knowing that anything other than a defeat effectively seals their eighth straight league title before they try to overhaul a 2-0 deficit against Atletico Madrid in their Champions League last-16 second leg at the Allianz Stadium. “We’ll be up against an even more defensive Atletico, we’ll have to be even more quick and precise with our passes, something that we weren’t today,” said Juve coach Massimiliano Allegri. “I’m convinced we can go through.” Bologna stay third-from-bottom on 18 points and three from
safety.
- ‘No ifs or buts’ There was frustration for Inter who had fought back after going a goal down through a Stefan de Vrij own goal just seconds into their game in Florence. Matias Vecino levelled after six minutes with Matteo Politano pulling the visitors ahead four minutes before the break. Ivan Perisic converted a 52ndminute penalty awarded after consultation with VAR, with Colombian striker Luis Muriel pulling one back for Fiorentina with an incredible free-kick from distance after 74 minutes. In a dramatic finale, Fiorentina were awarded a penalty for a contested Danilo D’Ambrosio handball, which looked to have bounced off his chest. Veretout kept his cool to send Samir Handanovic the wrong way, giving Fiorentina a precious point to move up to ninth, two points off the Europa League places. “There are no ifs or buts, it’s clear. It’s his chest. There is no argument,” raged Inter coach Luciano Spalletti.(afp)
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Kane vows Spurs aren’t out of title race
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Manchester City’s Belgian defender Vincent Kompany (C) lifts the trophy as Manchester City players celebrate their victory in the English League Cup final football match between Manchester City and Chelsea at Wembley stadium in north London on February 24, 2019.
De Bruyne says quadruple would make Man City ‘best team ever’
Kevin De Bruyne has played down Manchester City’s quadruple prospects after they beat Chelsea in the League Cup final but admitted such an achievement would make them the “best team ever”. With Liverpool also missing the chance to move three points clear at the top of the Premier League after being held to a 0-0 draw at Old Trafford on Sunday, the odds on City completing an unprecedented clean sweep have shortened. But asked if Pep Guardiola’s men could win all four trophies on offer, midfielder De Bruyne said
it would be “almost impossible”. “If you do that you must be considered the best team ever because nobody has done it,” he said. “However, we are not looking at that. We want to win as much as possible. We are not thinking about the quadruple. “If we win three and then we play the Champions League final maybe we can talk about it but before that -- no
way.” Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United won the treble of Champions League, Premier League and FA Cup in 1999 -- a unique feat in English football. City’s latest trophy, their fourth League Cup triumph in six seasons, came via a penalty shootout after a drab clash ended goalless after 120 minutes.
The main talking point was an extraordinary incident late in extra time when Chelsea goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga, to the fury of manager Maurizio Sarri, appeared to refuse to be substituted. The Spaniard had required treatment twice in the latter stages and Chelsea had a penalty specialist in Willy Caballero, who saved three spot-kicks for City in the 2016 final, ready to come on. City, who are also on course for the Champions League quarterfinals and play in the FA Cup last
eight next month, resume their title defence against West Ham on Wednesday. “We are here to fight for all the competitions,” said striker Sergio Aguero. “Obviously the Champions League isn’t easy but we are going to try to at least go as far as possible. And then with the Premier League we are (up) there.” On the downside for City, Fernandinho and Aymeric Laporte could both face spells on the sidelines after being withdrawn with injuries.(ap)
Harry Kane insists Tottenham are still in the Premier League title race despite suffering a major setback in their defeat at Burnley. After winning all four league games while Kane recovered from an ankle ligament injury sustained in the January home defeat to Manchester United, Tottenham capitulated at Turf Moor on Saturday, falling 2-1 to Ashley Barnes’ late strike after England forward Kane marked his comeback with the away side’s equaliser. Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino effectively conceded his third placed team were out of the race after the loss, which leaves Spurs six points behind leaders Liverpool, but Kane refuses to write off his side’s chances. “That would be their opinion. It’s been like that for the whole season,” Kane said. “People have been talking us not being in it, then we would win a few games and we’re there. “People will probably say now it’s a two-horse race, but that’s not our problem. All we can do is take care of ourselves. “It’s a shame because when we needed to find another level, another gear, we didn’t have it in the locker. Unfortunately that was the case.” Tottenham will not have long to wait if they are to prove their worth. They are at the start of a period that sees them play league derbies against Chelsea on Wednesday and Arsenal on Saturday, as well as the return leg of their Champions League last 16 tie against Borussia Dortmund, in which they have a 3-0 lead. - Character -
Kane and his team-mates have made a habit all season of bouncing back from disappointments -- such as the week in January when, without Kane, they exited both domestic cup competitions in the same week. However, the manner of the latest defeat did have a terminal feeling about it as Spurs squandered the opportunity to close the gap on Liverpool and City. “We’ve done it before and that shows the character of the squad, but it would have been nice if we had won this game and built from that,” Kane said. “We don’t always want to be having to react from a poor result. But we will dust it off. “we have three massive games to get up for. The motivation is there.” The odds appear in favour of Spurs enduring another frustrating season without silverware. Kane admits it has been hard for Tottenham to play their home games at Wembley for two seasons while White Hart Lane is rebuilt. But he claims the team’s ability to remain in contention during that period deserves praise. “We’re a team that doesn’t like to make excuses, but at the end of the day we’ve been playing away from home for the last two years,” he said. “We’ve had a tough time. It is what it is, we’re in the hunt for the Premier League. We’re still in the Champions League, we’re in a good place. “We’ve been there for the last few years and we’ve got to see if we can take it up another level, whether that’s in the Premier League or Champions League and see if we can really progress.”(afp)
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Tottenham Hotspur’s English striker Harry Kane reacts after shot on goal during the English Premier League football match between Burnley and Tottenham Hotspur at Turf Moor in Burnley, north west England on February 23, 2019.
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Juventus’ Argentine forward Paulo Dybala celebrates after opening the scoring during the Italian Serie A football match Bologna vs Juventus on February 24, 2019 at the Renato-Dall’Ara stadium in Bologna.
Juventus preserve huge Serie A lead, Inter stalled in Florence
Juventus maintained their 13-point lead at the top of Serie A on Sunday after Paulo Dybala hit the winner in a 1-0 victory at Bologna to keep the champions ahead of Napoli who easily saw off Parma 4-0. But there was drama in Tuscany as Jordan Veretout converted a 101st-minute penalty to hold third-placed Inter Milan 3-3 in a chaotic game. Inter, now nine points behind Napoli in third, are just two points ahead of city rivals AC Milan who remain fourth after a 3-0 win over Empoli on Friday. In Turin, Dybala came off the bench to slot home in the 67th minute after defender Danilo deflected Blaise Matuidi’s low cross straight to the Argentine international in front of a gaping goal. Napoli eased past mid-table Parma, Piotr Zielinski scoring in the 19th minute before Arkadiusz Milik rolled a cheeky free-kick under the wall and past Luigi Sepe. Milik added the third with a fine strike past Sepe in the 73rd minute following sloppy play from Parma, and Adam Ounas
completed the rout by finishing off a superb passing move with an angled strike. The goals were the first in Serie A for Carlo Ancelotti’s side in three matches. “Juve are far away but next week we want to play well against them at the (Stadio) San Paolo,” said Milik, who now has 14 league goals for the season. “We’re a long way from the title but we need to keep going and hope that they go through a bad patch.” Juventus travel to Napoli next week knowing that anything other than a defeat effectively seals their eighth straight league title before they try to overhaul a 2-0 deficit against Atletico Madrid in their Champions League last-16 second leg at the Allianz Stadium. “We’ll be up against an even more defensive Atletico, we’ll have to be even more quick and precise with our passes, something that we weren’t today,” said Juve coach Massimiliano Allegri. “I’m convinced we can go through.” Bologna stay third-from-bottom on 18 points and three from
safety.
- ‘No ifs or buts’ There was frustration for Inter who had fought back after going a goal down through a Stefan de Vrij own goal just seconds into their game in Florence. Matias Vecino levelled after six minutes with Matteo Politano pulling the visitors ahead four minutes before the break. Ivan Perisic converted a 52ndminute penalty awarded after consultation with VAR, with Colombian striker Luis Muriel pulling one back for Fiorentina with an incredible free-kick from distance after 74 minutes. In a dramatic finale, Fiorentina were awarded a penalty for a contested Danilo D’Ambrosio handball, which looked to have bounced off his chest. Veretout kept his cool to send Samir Handanovic the wrong way, giving Fiorentina a precious point to move up to ninth, two points off the Europa League places. “There are no ifs or buts, it’s clear. It’s his chest. There is no argument,” raged Inter coach Luciano Spalletti.(afp)
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Knicks snap home losing skid, Ross haunts former Raptor team
NEW YORK - Damyean Dotson scored 27 points and the New York Knicks snapped their franchise-record home losing streak at 18 games with a 130-118 win over the San Antonio Spurs on Sunday night.
Melanting Temple PEMUTERAN - Aside from the spectacular underwater splendors off its coastline and around the nearby Menjangan Island, the serene little village of Pemuteran is also surrounded by Balinese distinct cultural charm which radiates from the beautiful temples that lie in some of the most dramatic natural settings. Among the most notable are the Pura Agung Pulaki, Pura Pabean, and Pura Melanting. Pura Melanting also features the beautifully presented inner compound of the main temple. The inner compound houses a small but serene pond and stunning meru painted in a rainbow of colours and decorated with countless yellow and white ceremonial umbrellas. The tranquility of the place creates a perfect atmosphere and ambience for people to do their prayers and also to meditate. The tale of Melanting Temple is quite interesting. Believe it or not this mystic tale is still being told till now. Melanting temple is one of the temples built commemorating the visit of the Javanese Hindu Priest, Danghyang Nirartha. The temple is believed to be the place where his eldest daughter, Ida Swabawa, turned into the spirit. The temple nestles in the middle of a jungle on a foot hill in Pemuteran, North Bali. A huge parking lot is available for visitors and some warung stand in the area
providing drinks and snacks. The jungle has turned from wild into a bit civilized with the street lights stretching on the road sides and the parking lot. To reach the area from the Pemuteran main road there is a narrow road passing through a small jungle and the local houses. From the parking lot you can see the stairs
that we need to climb to get into the temple compound. Two huge statues of dragons decorate the main gate and from below the stairway the temple looks majestic. On the way to the main gate there is a small place where the people who are going to pray put their offerings and get the holy water to clean their mind before they go further to
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the main court. Like most of the temples in Bali, after the main gate we enter the middle court where people do their preparation for the offering. After that there is the main court where a huge and beautiful temple stands. The temple building was rebuilt by the government and it was redesigned by a prominent Balinese architect, Ida Bagus Tugur. The tranquility of the place creates a perfect atmosphere and ambience for people to do their prayers and also to meditate. Some people come in the night time especially to do meditation. The panorama one can see from the temple is gorgeous, the green layered hills backed the temple while from the main court one can see the blue Java Sea. The chill breeze and the natural sound of living things in the jungle are very calming. The priests, who take care of the temple are very welcoming to visitors. They have an information office where you can rent sarongs and get some information about the temple. The Hindus, who come to pray in this temple, are not only from the local area but from all over Bali and also from outside the island. The praying activity in this temple takes place day and night. In the night the ambience in the temple becomes more mystic and mysterious. (IBP/net)
Kevin Knox, Dennis Smith and Emmanual Mudiay all had 19 points in the Knicks’ first home victory since December 1 against the Milwaukee Bucks. “It’s major,” guard Smith said. “We’ve been having our fans come out and support every night and haven’t won here since December 1. “I’m glad that we could get it tonight and just give the fans something to see.” The NBA win even attracted the attention of the 2019 Oscar presenter Samuel L. Jackson, who pointed out the result during Sunday’s show to Hollywood director Spike Lee before presenting Lee with the Best Adapted Screenplay award. “The Knicks won tonight. I repeat, the Knicks won tonight,” Jackson said addressing Lee, a Knicks’ megafan. Smith also had 13 assists and Knox had 10 rebounds, while rookie Mitchell Robinson finished with 15 points and 14 rebounds. DeMar DeRozan had 32 points and nine rebounds for the Spurs, who dropped to 1-6 on their road trip that ends Monday against the
Brooklyn Nets. LaMarcus Aldridge scored 18 points, but was limited to just 13 minutes through three quarters because of foul trouble. The Spurs came in as the NBA’s best three-point shooting team but were just six for 24 from behind the arc. The Knicks led by nine at halftime and then started to seize command in the third quarter to go up by 19 with just over two minutes left in the period. San Antonio cut it to 94-83 entering the fourth but their troubles continued in the fourth. - Magic beats Raptors Elsewhere, Terrence Ross torched his former team for a game-high 28 points and center Nikola Vucevic finished with 23 points and 12 assists as the Orlando Magic beat the Toronto Raptors 113-98. Ross, who played over four seasons in Toronto, came off the
bench to spark the Magic. “He’s been great,” Vucevic said of Ross. “When he scores for us like that, it just gives us a huge advantage.” The Magic, who were coming off a disappointing loss to the Chicago Bulls at home on Friday, snapped the Raptors winning streak at seven games. “This is the part of the season where you’ve got to move forward, no matter what,” Ross said. “You’ve got to make sure that you’re ready to play.” Ross made nine of 21 shots, including three of eight from three-point range. He equalled his season high with nine rebounds. The Raptors, who played without star Kawhi Leonard, fell to 44-17 and slid two games behind Milwaukee for the best record in the NBA and the Eastern Conference. Leonard was rested to manage his workload, the Raptors said. (afp)
Damyean Dotson #21 of the New York Knicks takes a shot as Bryn Forbes #11 of the San Antonio Spurs defends at Madison Square Garden on February 24, 2019 in New York City.
Brazier sets 600m world best at US Indoor Championships
NEW YORK - Donavan Brazier set a world best by winning the 600 meters in 1min 13.77secs on Sunday at the US Indoor Track and Field Championships. The 21-year-old 800m runner from Michigan smashed the old 600 mark of 1:14.79 set in January 2018 by Kenya’s Michael Saruni, who edged Brazier two weeks ago at 800 in the Millrose Games. “I was just trying to win today. I didn’t want to spoil it trying to get a record,” Brazier said. “Because I didn’t win (at Millrose) I was still hungry.” Brazier said the win at the less-contested distance signals good things ahead for a season that features a US outdoor meet in July and the World Championships in September and October at Doha, Qatar. “I can afford to take a little rest because I got in this shape this early,” he said. “I can come back in May.” Sam Ellison was a distant second in the US men’s 600 final in 1:15.20 with Kameron Jones third in 1:15.32. Athing Mu, only 16, won the women’s 600 in an American record 1:23.57.
“I’m so shocked. I’m just blown away right now,” Mu said. Clayton Murphy, third at 800m at the 2016 Rio Olympics, won the men’s 1,000 in 2:20.36. Reigning US outdoor champion Kenturah Orji, fourth at the 2016 Rio Olympics and World Indoors, won the US women’s indoor triple jump crown by leaping 14.55m. Katie Nageotte defended her US women’s indoor pole vault crown by clearing 4.81m, but she needed a third-try clearance at 4.61 to secure the victory. Craig Engels won his first mile indoor crown in 3:59.69 while Shelby Houlihan took the women’s two-mile in 9:31.98. Ajee Wilson, twice a world indoor runner-up at 800, won the women’s 1,000 in a meet record 2:34.71.Sharika Nelvis won the women’s 60 hurdles in a 2019 world best 7.85 seconds, then took third in the women’s 60 behind winner Shania Collins (7.16). Devon Allen took the men’s 60 hurdles in 7.60, edging Aaron Mallett by .04, and looked to the outdoor season. Demek Kemp won the men’s 60 in 6.55 in his meet debut. (afp)
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TELTOW - Ralf Hendrichs was devastated when his Dobermann died. But he was even more distraught when he learnt that its carcass ended up in a public grinder along with those of roadkill and farm animals. “We cried for days on end,” Hendrichs said, recalling the death of his faithful friend more than 15 years ago and its sad end that prompted him to set up a cemetery for pets south of Berlin. Hendrichs now not only manages the 10,000-square-metre (108,000-square-foot) cemetery called Tierhimmel (Animal Heaven), he also offers grieving pet owners comfort. The graveyard at Teltow is the only one in Germany offering pet burials as well as cremations. “We often see very sad scenes here. People cry buckets,” the 66-year-old said, noting that some even turn suicidal. “For us, a pet is not just an animal, but a companion, a member of the family” who deserves to be given a dignified send-off, he said. Domestic pets have claimed a firm spot in the hearts of Germans. Today, 34.3 million people in the country of 80 million own a pet, up 45 percent from a decade
ago, according to a joint study by the Industrial Association of Pet Care Producers (IVH) and the German Pet Trade and Industry Association. No clear reason for the increase however has been identified. And more people than before are ready to give their fourlegged friends a peaceful resting place. Teltow cemetery started its first year in 2003 with 120 burials, but that has jumped to more than 4,000 annually now. Sebastian Oehlandt said he goes to the cemetery two or three times a week to spend time at the small tomb of his cat of almost 15 years, Hiro. “Suddenly, there was this massive hole,” he said, recalling the day when Hiro died just before Christmas. “I needed time for me,” said the 27-year-old, who lives with his father and another cat. Another regular face at the cemetery, Karla Lemke, was still inconsolable more than a year after losing her miniature pinscher, Alien. “For the last 14 months since he died, I’ve come here everyday, twice a day,” said the 63-yearold, who has turned Alien’s grave into the most decorated and colourful in the cemetery. (afp)
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Supporters of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido take part in a march in Caracas, on February 23, 2019.
Venezuela’s Guaido meets with foreign allies for anti-Maduro strategy The trip comes after two people were killed and hundreds wounded as Guaido supporters clashed with Venezuelan security forces in a failed attempt to cross in truckloads of humanitarian aid from Colombia and Brazil. The European Union condemned Venezuela’s use of violence and armed civilians to block the aid entry, while United Nations SecretaryGeneral Antonio Guterres said he was “shocked and saddened” by the civilian deaths. Guaido, the 35-year-old leader of Venezuela’s National Assembly, declared himself acting president in January after the opposition controlled legislature concluded that Maduro was fraudulently re-elected. Some 50 countries recognize him as Venezuela’s legitimate president.
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BOGOTA - Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido is meeting with members of a multinational support group in Bogota Monday to hammer out a strategy to remove his rival Nicolas Maduro from office.
A visitor lights a candle on the grave of his pet in the cemetery of the Tierhimmel (“Animal Heaven”) crematorium and pet cemetery in Teltow, just outside Berlin, on January 31, 2019.
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- Maduro’s ‘days numbered’ Guaido flew to the Colombian capital Sunday for the meeting with members of the Lima Group - 13 Latin American countries plus Canada that are seeking to resolve Venezuela’s political impasse. Vice President Mike Pence will represent Washington at the event.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he was confident that “Maduro’s days are numbered,” blaming the border violence on armed civilian loyalists known as “colectivos.” “We’re aimed at a singular mission -- ensuring the Venezuelan people get the democracy they so richly deserve,” Pompeo said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” President Donald Trump has said the United States is not ruling out armed action. Upon landing in Bogota Guaido called on the international community to consider “all measures to free” Venezuela. This is the first time that the Lima Group, which first met in the Peruvian capital in 2017, will speak directly to Guaido. Venezuela is in the midst of a humanitarian crisis that has seen poverty soar during a prolonged recession and hyperinflation. Humanitarian aid, much of it from the United States, has been at the center of the standoff between Maduro and Guaido. Maduro claims the aid is a smokescreen for a US invasion, and has ordered several crossings on Venezuela’s borders with Colombia and Brazil closed.
- ‘Victory consolidated’ “Today we consolidated yesterday’s victory, tomorrow we’ll consolidate it even more,” Maduro’s right-hand man Diosdado Cabello said Sunday at a pro-government rally in the border town of Tachira. “Not a single one of those trucks with aid got through,” Cabello said. Maduro seems to have won this round in the power struggle, even though 156 members of Venezuela’s security forces deserted to Colombia or Brazil. After Saturday’s events it is “not very clear” that Guaido has “massive” support in Venezuela, analyst Rafael Pineros told AFP. However the events, which also led to increased repression by the Maduro regime, may instead result in a forceful foreign intervention in Venezuela, according to political scientist Laura Gil. “In the Lima Group the consensus is that Maduro must be removed, but there is no consensus on how to do that,” Gil told AFP. Another winner is Washington, because the only way to justify a use of force, if they are willing to actually do that, “is by invitation,” she said. (afp)
Firefighters attempt to extinguish burning wooden boats at Muara Baru port in Jakarta on February 23, 2019.
Police question seven witnesses in fire at North Jakarta Port
JAKARTA - Police have questioned seven witnesses in the fire that happened in North Jakarta. “We have questioned seven wit-
nesses,” Chief of the Jakarta Metropolitan Police Inspector General Gatot Eddy Pramono said.
No suspect has been named in the case as the police were still questioning the witnesses, he said. The police will send a foren-
sic team to the scene to conduct further investigation after the fire was put out, he said. According to the preliminary
result of investigation, the fire was caused by welding sparks. No injuries and fatalities were reported.(ant)
We will not tolerate corruption: Prabowo Subianto
MEDAN - Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto reiterated his zero-tolerance stance to corruption in the country and expressed readiness to take stern measures against corruptors. “We will not tolerate corruption,” Prabowo remarked at a mass gathering with thousand of his supporters here on Saturday. Prabowo said if he were to be elected as president for the 20192014 period, he would select clean and anti-corruption figures as his cabinet members.
He explained that a ministerial candidate will have to sign an integrity pact on not misusing the position as minister to enrich himself or herself or his or her relatives. “If he or she refuses to sign the anti-corruption pact, then that person cannot become a member of the cabinet. This is our commitment since the start to make this nation free from corruption,” he noted. He vowed to conduct reform in all sectors, including salaries for civil servants, judges, prosecutors, medical doctor, nurse, governor,
and others, due to which they would focus on their work and avoid corruption. Prabowo has also touched on the issue of farmers, who were unable to cover the high production cost. “How can they smile if, at the time of the harvest season, the government imports (the same commodities). This cannot happen again. We will help farmers to become more prosperous. All of us should be able to enjoy the wealth of this nation,” he emphasized.(ant)
Indonesian presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto (C), a former military general, is welcomed by his supporters in Mojokerto, West Java province on February 24, 2019. Prabowo, who lost to current president Joko Widodo in the 2014 election, was a top military figure in the chaotic months before dictator Suharto was toppled by student protests in 1998.
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BUSINESS As prices soar, Turkey’s Erdogan woos voters with vegetables
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Tradition of Barong Ngunya at Serokadan Village
Virtually all villages have unique traditions denoting the heritage from their ancestors. Residents of Serokadan customary village, Susut, Bangli, for instance, regularly organize Ngelawang Agung or Barong Ngunya (street show) every Kuningan Day.
ISTANBUL - In a middle class Istanbul neighborhood shoppers form a long line to an immense tent carrying a sign that reads “Total combat against inflation.”
The weapons in that battle: spinach, tomatoes and peppers that the Turkish government is selling in a makeshift stall at almost half the price of the regular markets. “People who live on minimum wage can’t go to the neighborhood bazaar,” says Reyhan Kelleci, a 38year-old homemaker waiting in line who is, like many Turks, struggling with a jump in the cost of food and consumer goods. “These regulated tents have been very good for us... What should we do? Should we sit at home and wait for our death?” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government has set up dozens of these temporary stalls in at least six cities to help families. The cost of goods like food has jumped by about a third after turmoil in financial markets last year over Erdogan’s policies caused the national currency to slump. Erdogan faces local elections on March 31, when runaway prices and an economic downturn could cost his ruling party key municipal seats — and his traditional lowincome voter base is the most affected by the price increases. In campaign speeches, Erdogan has portrayed the economic downturn as a foreign plot against the country and has vowed to fight food price hikes in the same way that the country has fought terror groups. “We have taught, are teaching and will continue to teach a lesson to those who have terrorized through food,” Erdogan has said, while promising to increase the numbers of government-run discount markets. While the government blames traders and outsiders, the rise in prices is largely due to the rapid depreciation of the Turkish lira last summer. In August, the lira lost as much as 33 percent of its value against the dollar over a diplomatic spat with the United States. Inflation hovered around 20 percent in January, with food and non-alcoholic beverage prices up 31 percent on the year — a 15year high. By contrast, inflation for
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Chief of Serokadan customary village, I Dewa Gede Oka, revealed that Ngelawang Agung is indeed held every Kuningan Day. It is different from ngelawang in general where the ngelawang agung held on Kuningan feast involves the whole sanctified effigies of the village such as eight sacred barongs, Ratu Lingsir, Ratu Gede Anom, Ratu Mas, Ratu Gede Tameng and Ratu Gede Alit. “The Ratu Lingsir in particular is the oldest owned by the village. It is believed to have reached thousands of years. This tradition aims to purify the environment from negative energies,” he said. The procession of ngelawang agung, said Dewa Gede Oka, is held at 13:00 until the afternoon. It is started with a ceremony followed by the sacred barongs coming out simultaneously and then gathers somewhere. He explained the ngelawang agung is not implemented by visiting one home to another, but walk to the ends of the village in accordance with the points of the compass. Local people call the procession nyatur desa. “After doing nyatur desa, the eight sacred barongs gather in the middle (catus pata). Usually, the ngelawang agung is witnessed by the whole community around and outside the village,” he added. (kmb)
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In this Sunday, Feb. 17, 2019 photo, a shopper stands after buying groceries at a government-run market selling spinach, tomatoes and peppers at discounted prices in an Istanbul neighbourhood. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government has set up dozens of these temporary stalls in Turkey’s largest cities in a bid to mitigate the effects of soaring food prices that have stung households. such goods in the United States and Europe has been around 2 percent or less. The currency drop makes imported foods more expensive. But even the foods grown in Turkey are becoming pricier, as the seeds, fertilizers and pesticides used in agriculture are largely imported. Selva Demiralp, professor of economics at Istanbul’s Koc University, says the situation is worsened by factors like weather conditions, including floods in southern Turkey, and will be a concern for Erdogan. “Economic factors have a big impact on the election performance of a government and the high inflation and the resulting deterioration in income distribution is not going to help out the government,” she said. Government authorities this
month raided wholesale markets where Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan said middlemen were demanding “extortionate” prices. She said the busts revealed an 800 percent increase in prices and announced some 88 companies would be fined. The stalls operated by the government buy produce directly from farmers, eliminating intermediary commissions. The vegetables on offer are limited and buyers cannot purchase more than 3 kilograms (6.6 pounds) per person. Unlike regular stores, the government markets can avoid many costs. In Istanbul, the ruling partyrun municipality moved some workers employed by its catering and hotelier company to the food stalls. It’s unclear if the goods are sold at a loss and what effect these
sales have on the state budget. The sales could be expanded to include dry legumes, cleaning products and even medicine, officials said. Erdogan said the government markets would continue until the local elections and could become permanent if “opportunists” continue hiking prices. Intermediaries add commissions to the prices of food, but they also have a crucial role in funding farmers, offering storage facilities and organizing sales to wholesalers. Demiralp, the economist, says the government stalls could hurt independent businesses if they are forced to slash their own prices to compete. That is all the more worrying as an increasing number of companies across industries have been declaring bankruptcy.
One stall keeper in a bustling weekly bazaar said the government’s discount tents were hurting regular sellers. “How can we sell it for that price?” said Yasin Bayer, 33, who arrived at the bazaar before dawn to set up his stall. “We have costs. Opening this counter today costs 1,000, 1,500 liras ($188-282). Labor, bags, gas,” Still, the discount markets seem to address a public need. Many at the government tents expressed their support for the government’s efforts, but others were critical, saying they were an indication of how poorly the economy has been run. Savas Bag, one of the shoppers, said he was having trouble making ends meet and pointed to the long lines: “Isn’t this poverty?” (ap)
Charms of Timpag Village Awaits You
Put this village in your itinerary! Timpag village in Kerambitan subdistrict has enormous natural potential. The environmental conditions are still natural and have not been touched much by the development of tourist accommodation. Additionally, the local community has a strong commitment to maintain the agricultural sector. This commitment is stated in the pararem or appendix to customary bylaw. Armed with such potential, the Kerambitan subdistrict government seeks to develop the potential of the Timpag village. The development begins with the UMaurip program in which there is owl preservation, black pig culinary delight and jogging tracks launched in 2018. Right now, the potential of Timpag village is being developed with the synergy of other tourist destinations having been managed by communities such as Undagi Farmers village posing religious tourist destination consisting of seveneyed showers at Undagi hamlet,
D’Bendungan destination evoking the management of Telaga Tunjung dam by providing a selfie spot with a view of the dam and panoramic background of Mount Batukaru as well as typical Kerambitan culinary delight. Do not to forget, there is river tubing attraction utilizing the irrigation canals sourcing directly from Telaga Tunjung water. “We are trying to synergize the four tourist destinations known as the nature of Timpag, so that in the future there will be no potential of competition,” said Kerambitan sub-district head Gede Sukanada on Sunday (Jan. 13) on the sidelines of the village charity event taking place at Subak Celem Manik, Timpag village. According to him, the fundraising activity for the development of this village is the fifth pre-event of the Kerambitan Festival to be held next October. “This bazaar activity offers black pig menu and jukut gonda or gooseweed vegetable in cooperation with tourism players
with the aim of getting input and directions for the development of the Timpag nature,” he said. The activities are planned to introduce Timpag’s nature that will be held regularly with rotating locations among the four local tourist destinations. “We in the sub-district government are only tasked to design, so that there is single entity and help promote and package their activities. Later on, the Timpag nature will be handled by a management body formed by the village official. Of course, it is equipped with regulations so that it will not overlap later,” he explained. With the synergy of Timpag natural tourism, in the future tourists having been scattered so far can be more focused. In other words, they are not only focused on one destination, but organized into a tour package. Moreover, lately the nature of Timpag has begun to be visited by travelers, ranging from local tourists to foreign tourists. Sukanada further explained,
that the village potential is strong and runs as expected, then it will be proposed to become a tourism village. A tourism village must be pioneered based on village potential readiness that strengthens local community resources and systems or regulations. This is very important, considering that a number of
other tourism villages have not been maximally managed. “For this reason, I want Timpag to strengthen the potential and the system, then it is proposed to become a tourism village. We target to submit it in 2020 target after everything is ready,” he stressed. (kmb)
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Salted egg demand getting higher ahead of feast day made salted eggs is done by word of mouth. “The buyers directly come here to take my salted eggs,” she said. This 67-year-old woman claimed to get involved in the business of making salted eggs since 25 years ago. She learned how to make salted eggs from trial and error. This business was taken after her grocery business could not develop. It is not so difficult to make salted eggs. The ingredients needed are only duck egg, salt and water. At first, the duck eggs must be washed. Then, soak in salt water and a little ash for approximately 3 weeks. After that, the soaked eggs are steamed. Her salted egg can last up to 2 days, and can be longer if steamed.
Jero Tut Kenten added that to produce savory and good quality eggs, the duck eggs must be selected carefully. Good eggs must be still fresh. The eggs should be taken maximally two days after being laid. Otherwise, the results will be bad. To get fresh eggs, all this time she bought directly from duck farmers. Jero Tut Kenten admitted that to produce salted eggs in large quantities, the problem faced is the limited ingredient of duck eggs. Especially during the rainy season, she often finds it difficult to get such ingredient. “Regarding the selling price, I usually adjust to the fluctuating price of the duck eggs. But all this time, I usually sell three pieces of salted eggs for IDR 10, 000,” she said. (kmb40)
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Lost and usually found at humanity’s biggest gathering
BANGLI - Consumer demand for salted eggs is quite high especially during the religious holiday season in Bali. In addition to being consumed directly as a side dish, salted eggs are also usually used for content of ritual oblation or offerings. Jero Ketut Kenten, a salted egg maker from Geria hamlet, Kawan, Bangli sub-district, revealed that ahead of religious holidays she will usually produce more salted eggs than on normal days. During normal days, she only produces 600 pieces of salted eggs every three days, while when approaching holidays such as Galungan, Kuningan or other feast days, she can produce salted eggs up to 2,000 pieces. “Ahead of this Nyepi Day, I make approximately 1,000-1,500 pieces,” she said when met at her house recently. He said that her homemade salted eggs are mostly purchased by consumers in the Bangli region. Her salted eggs are also purchased by merchants for resale on the market. Marketing of her home-
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ALLAHABAD - Meghsingh Badouria, 75, was left freezing in his underpants after losing his clothes and his friends following a dip in the holy waters at humanity’s biggest gathering, India’s Kumbh Mela.
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In addition to being consumed directly as a side dish, salted eggs are also usually used for content of ritual oblation or offerings.
Ahead of Nyepi, ogoh-ogoh starts blooming NEGARA - Ahead of the Nyepi celebration, a number of sekaa taruna or customary village youth clubs in Jembrana began to make ogoh-ogoh or papier mâché demon. Some of the ogoh-ogoh works will be included in the ogoh-ogoh competition as being held in previous years. The competition scheduled to be held during the Pengerupukan (a day before Nyepi) is conducted the selection of ogoh-ogoh at each customary village. Results of the selection will later be submitted to appear in the competition held at the catus pata or central intersection in front of the office of Jembrana regent. Chief of the assessment team, Arya Tangkas, said the assessment criteria will include the composition and creativity expression of the ogoh-ogoh. “In the assessment, the committee has prepared a number of technical requirements, such as the ogoh-ogoh must be in the form of bhutakala (evil spirits), made from ecofriendly materials (Styrofoam is strictly prohibited), maximum height of 3 meters (above carrying poles), maximum width of 6 meters, only born by 20 people, and completion of at least 95 percent at the inspection time,” said this Chief of Sabha Yowana Jembrana. Meanwhile, the Head of the Jembrana Culture and Tourism Office, Nengah Alit, said the selection carried out at each hamlet across Jembrana district will later be represented by the three best ogoh-ogoh in each subdistrict throughout Jembrana. (kmb26) Some of the ogoh-ogoh works will be included in the ogoh-ogoh competition as being held in previous years.
He is not alone. In the cacophony and chaos of the vast religious festival, it’s easy to get lost among the millions upon millions of Hindu devotees. “I got separated from my villagers and went to the sangam (the holy confluence of rivers) and gave my bag to a stranger to look after while I went to bathe,” Badouria told AFP. “When I came back my bag was nowhere to be seen... It was early in the morning and it was cold,” he added. But help is at hand: There are 15 lost and found centres around the Kumbh grounds, a dusty maze of tents the size of Manhattan thronging with people from mid-January until early March. “We get 70 or 100 people every day,” said Shivani Singh Sengar, 21, a volunteer who spends long days making announcements over the Kumbh’s 3,500 loudspeakers in a bid to reunite friends and family. As Badouria explained his story, clothed by festival volunteers but still without his friends, a panicked mother sobbed tears of relief
after being reunited with her two daughters, aged five and seven in the centre. “After the bathing ritual, we decided to shop before heading home. As we purchased some clothes, I realised both my children were missing,” said mother Ranjana. “It was a nightmare and I cried a lot,” she added. - An app for that As many as 150 million people are expected to visit this Kumbh. On the day of Badouria’s calamity there were 20 million people attending. Getting separated at the Kumbh and reuniting miraculously decades later is a common Bollywood story line. But technology and in particular the ubiquity of mobile phones -- there are now 830 million of them in India -- means that people get lost a lot less they used to. The 15 lost and found centres are connected via computer and there is a state-of-the-art police command centre to oversee operations. Pictures of the missing rotate
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In this picture taken on February 10, 2019, Indian Sadhus (Hindu holy men) walk in a procession towards Sangam -- the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati rivers -- during the auspicious bathing day of ‘Basant Panchami’ at the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad. on television screens. There is a special Kumbh app helping reunite people, providing they can read, which is far from a given. Comprehension too can be an issue, with India home to 22
major languages and hundreds of dialects. “One lady...it was the first time she had left her village. She couldn’t explain where she came from, she couldn’t identify any landmark,”
Sengar said. “We checked Google. We asked her about the river near her home and temples. Eventually we worked out she was from Bengal,” he added. (afp)
Chagos Islands: international dispute and human drama
PARIS - Britain separated the Chagos Islands from its colony Mauritius more than 50 years ago, expelling the entire population to make way for a strategic US military base.
Britain’s 1965 acquisition of the remote Indian Ocean archipelago of about 55 islands has been disputed ever since, with Mauritius demanding its return. As the UN’s International Court
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Located several hundred kilometres (miles) south of the Maldives, the Chagos Islands were colonised by France in the 18th century and African slaves shipped in to cultivate coconuts and copra.
of Justice (ICJ) prepares to give a legal opinion on the long-running case on Monday, here is some background.
- Indian Ocean colony Located several hundred kilometres (miles) south of the Maldives, the Chagos Islands were colonised by France in the 18th century and African slaves shipped in to cultivate coconuts and copra. In 1814 France was made to cede the islands to Britain, which in 1903 merged them with Mauritius, its colony around 2,000 kilometres (1,200 miles) to the southwest. After the abolition of slavery in 1834, Indian workers arrived and mixed with the first settlers. Only three of the islands were inhabited: Diego Garcia, Salomon and Peros Banhos. - Mass eviction In 1965 Britain separated the Chagos islands from the rest of Mauritius, then a semi-autonomous British territory and eyeing independence, paying three million pounds for them.
When Mauritius became independent three years later, the islands remained under British control, renamed the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT). In 1966 Britain leased the islands to the United States for 50 years so that it could set up a military base. In 2016 the deal was extended to 2036. Between 1968 and 1973 around 2,000 Chagos islanders were evicted, described in a British diplomatic cable at the time as the removal of “some few Tarzans and Man Fridays”. Most were shipped to Mauritius and the Seychelles. Mauritius argues it was illegal for Britain to break up its territory. It claims sovereignty over the archipelago and demands the right to resettle former residents. - Strategic military base The US military base on Diego Garcia, the largest island, became of major strategic importance during the Cold War. It offered proximity to Asia as an assertive Soviet navy was extending communist influence in the Indian
Ocean. After the 1979 Iranian revolution, the United States expanded the base to receive more warships and heavy bombers. In recent years it served as a staging ground for US bombing campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. - Islanders take action Chagos islanders living in Mauritius launched legal proceedings in 1975 against their expulsion, resulting in a 1982 payment of four million pounds in compensation along with land valued at one million pounds. There were no reparations for islanders settled in the Seychelles. In 2007 a British appeals court paved the way for Chagossians to return home but its decision was annulled by the upper House of Lords the following year. In 2016 the British government confirmed its opposition to the resettlement of Chagossians, including for reasons of defence, security and cost. Today around 10,000 Chagossians and their descendants are divided among Mauritius, the Seychelles and Britain. (afp)
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The world’s largest bee has been rediscovered after 38 years
EVERYTHING about Wallace’s giant bee is goliath: It reaches an average body length of around 4 centimeters — about the size of a walnut — and has a wingspan of over 7.5 centimeters. Yet despite its eye-popping size, it’s been nearly 40 years since the world’s largest bee (Megachile pluto) was officially sighted in the wild. So when Eli Wyman, an entomologist at Princeton University, had an opportunity to hunt for the elusive bee, he jumped at the chance. He and two other scientists, along with photographer Clay Bolt, set off in January for a two-week expedition to forests on two of only three Indonesian islands where the bee has ever been found. It’s thought that the females build a home by using their formidable jaws to burrow into termite nests and line the tunnels with resin to ward off termites. So while trekking in the oppressive jungle heat, the team stopped at every termite nest spotted on the trunk of a tree and watched for 20 minutes for a telltale bore hole or a bee
emerging. “After several days of searching and looking at a lot of these termite nests and not seeing anything, I think we all kind of internally just accepted that we weren’t going to be successful,” Wyman says. As the search
was ending, the team decided to check one last nest only about 2.4 meters off the ground — and found the signature hole. Wyman, standing on a small platform, glanced inside and tapped the hole a few times with a stiff blade of grass. Moments later, a lone female Wallace’s giant bee emerged. “We were just all over the moon,” Wyman says. “It was a great relief and incredibly exciting.” The team captured the female and put her inside a tented enclosure to observe her
A honeybee’s size pales in comparison to that of a the recently rediscovered Wallace’s giant bee, as seen in this composite image.
before releasing her back to her nest. She buzzed and opened and closed her enormous jaws. And yes, she had a stinger to match her goliath size, one she presumably uses, though Wyman wasn’t willing to find that out firsthand. “She was the most precious thing on the planet to us,” Wyman says. The nonprofit organization Global Wildlife Conservation, which included Wallace’s giant bee on its 25 Most Wanted lost species list, announced the bee’s rediscovery February 21. While there are no set plans to look for more bees, the team hopes the rediscovery sparks efforts to protect the habitat from deforestation. In a blogpost, Bolt noted: “Just knowing that this bee’s giant wings go thrumming through this ancient Indonesian forest helps me feel that, in a world of so much loss, hope and wonder still do exist.” (net)
A deer-sized T. rex ancestor shows how fast tyrannosaurs became giants
NORTH CAROLINA - A new dinosaur shows that even Tyrannosaurus rex had humble beginnings. Dubbed Moros intrepidus, or “the harbinger of doom,” the new species is one of the smallest tyrannosaurs yet discovered from the Cretaceous Period. Analyses of the animal’s fossilized leg show that the creature would have stood only 1.2 meters at the hip, a n d
weighed an estimated 78 kilograms — about the size of a mule deer, researchers report February 21 in Communications Biology. Dating to around 96 million years ago, the fossil is the oldest Cretaceous tyrannosaur found in North America. Its discovery helps fill in a 70-mil-
lion-year gap in the evolution of tyrannosaurs leading up to the ferocious giants like T. rex. Teeth from early, petite tyrannosaurs have been found in rocks in North America dating to the Late Jurassic Period around 150 million years ago, when larger predator dinosaurs called allosaurs topped the food chain. But the next time tyrannosaurs are seen in the North American fos-
sil record is 70 million years later, when they’ve become the colossal top predators. When, and how, the dinosaurs sized up within that period is a mystery. Paleontologist Lindsay Zanno of North Carolina State University in Raleigh and her colleagues dug for 10 years around Emery County in Utah, searching for clues to solve that mystery.
That’s where the team discovered M. intrepidus’ long, thin leg, a characteristic indicative of a swift runner, quite unlike later titanic tyrannosaurs. “What Moros shows is that the ancestral stock of the big tyrannosaurs was small and fast,” says Thomas Carr, a vertebrate paleontologist at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wis., who wasn’t involved in the study. And it “suggests that the tyrannosaurs became giant some time in that 16-millionyear stretch between Moros and the earliest of the big guys.” Comparing M. intrepidus’ fossil traits with other tyrannosaurs to see where it fit in the tyrannosaur family tree, the researchers determined that M. intrepidus emerged from Asia. It was part of a great migration that included mammals, lizards and dinosaurs moving between modern Siberia and Alaska during occasional drops in sea levels, the
authors suggest. Eventually, the Cretaceous Period’s warming climate probably killed off the allosaurs, Zanno says, but not tyrannosaurs. “They rapidly increase in size and go on really quickly to become the dominant predators of Late Cretaceous ecosystems,” she says. Even with the discovery of M. intrepidus, the picture of tyrannosaur evolution remains incomplete. “It’s great that [the new fossil] helps fill in part of the history,” says vertebrate paleontologist and tyrannosaur expert Thomas Holtz Jr. at the University of Maryland in College Park. But scientists need to find the rest of the skeleton of M. intrepidus as well as other tyrannosaurs in the narrow 16-million-year span between M. intrepidus and its giant descendants to help pinpoint when the creatures grew in size. “The story of tyrannosaurs is definitely not over,” he says. (net)
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Arrival of VP candidate Sandiaga Uno denied in Tabanan
TABANAN — Sandiaga Uno, VP candidate of number 2, made a working visit on Saturday (Feb. 23) to a number of districts in Bali. One of them is to Tabanan district. Unfortunately, the arrival of Sandiaga Uno to Tabanan scheduled to Pagi hamlet, Senganan, Penebel, was rejected by local residents. Surely, he canceled the visit to Tabanan to create conducive conditions. From the information obtained, Sandiaga Uno was scheduled to visit Subak Gangganan, Senganan, Penebel, on Sunday (Feb. 24). He was also going to visit farmers at Katimemes hamlet, Sudimara and Kukuh village, Marga. Unfortunately, a number of residents and village apparatus rejected his visit to make a statement of rejection. In the letter was written that people of Pagi customary village agreed to reject the arrival of Sandiaga Uno in any capacity because the Pagi community did not want the situation to be not conducive because they have agreed to support candidate from PDI-P for the smooth development of Pagi customary village (hall). The letter was also ratified by the signature of chief of customary village, I Wayan Yastera, hamlet chief of Pagi I Nyoman Subagan and administrative hamlet chief of Pagi, I Wayan Sukawijaya. When confirmed separately, chief of Pagi customary village, I Wayan Yastera, admitted that he and customary villagers did not reject the arrival of VP candidate Sandiaga Uno to Pagi village. He claimed that local residents were not ready to accept him because there are traditional activities and it is to maintain the situation at Pagi customary village to remain conducive. “Please do our apologies in advance. We do not reject him. We can clarify here because there is a customary activity so that we are not ready to accept so that the situation of Pagi customary village remains conducive,” he said when confirmed on Saturday (Feb. 23). If the busyness of customary activities and political year are over, they are ready to accept his arrival. “This is purely because of the customary activities so that the condition of the community at the village remains conducive,” he affirmed. Yastera admitted to get information on the arrival of Sandiaga Uno on Wednesday (Feb. 20), and schedule of the visit to Pagi hamlet for farmers of Subak Ganggangan. “I’ve got the information from the team of VP candidate Sandiaga Uno to Tabanan last Wednesday,” he said. (kmb28)
Nyepi as a rare moment celebrated once a year by Balinese people.
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Nyepi without internet in Bali
DENPASAR — The implementation of this year’s Nyepi Day is ensured to return without the internet following the joint appeal issued by the Religious Assembly of the Bali Province. Although it had drew pros and cons when it was first implemented last year, now it is believed to be implemented properly. “Last year, it was held for the first time. Now, it will return to be implemented. I think the last year’s implementation has become our experience that there is no problem. We can live without it. Moreover, this year I am confident it will work as it did last year in better way,” said Deputy Governor of Bali, Cok Oka Artha Ardana Sukawati, in Denpasar on Saturday (Feb. 23). This man familiarly addressed as Cok Ace also added that Nyepi as a rare moment celebrated once a year by Balinese people, especially the Hindus, can reflect the state of silence other than being proven to be able to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. With the absence of the internet, Nyepi Day is also expected to no longer be littered with fake news. “We use this moment together to absorb positive vibrations of the Island of Bali as much as possible,” he said. Cok Ace stated that other prohibitions such as lighting firecrackers should be adhered to and respected by the public. Pecalang or customary security guard and police officers are ex-
pected to take firm action against those who violate. Regarding Nyepi without internet, Chairman of Commission I of the Bali House of Representatives, I Ketut Tama Tenaya, hoped that all cellular service providers can be orderly this year. In the internet service, it only turns off the entertainment, including social media but telephone and SMS can still be used. Meanwhile, the internet in vital places is still being turned on. Non-activation of the internet on Nyepi Day is just meant to keep the holy days of Hinduism to remain quiet, high quality, and the beratha penyepian (abstinences) can be done well. “At the time of Nyepi, sometimes there is incident of mutual blasphemous as happened last year leading to commotion in the community. There were people posting photos, those who came out and those who sold something. We actually avoid these,” he explained. In addition, continued Tama, radio and television broadcasting stations are equally not allowed to broadcast on the Nyepi Day
and has become a regular ban every year. However, apparently there are still leaking broadcasts transmitted to Bali, especially from East Java and NTB. “That’s why currently there is MoU with the Radio Frequency Spectrum Monitoring Center (Balmon) in East Java and NTB because last year the broadcast still reached Bali,” he said. In addition to the MoU, continued Tama, the Central Indonesia Broadcasting Commission (KPI) and the Ministry of Communication and Informatics had also been asked to give an appeal to Balmon of East Java and NTB. In this case, they are ordered to reduce the transmitting power of the broadcast so that the transmission does not reach Bali on Nyepi Day, mainly to East Bali and West Bali. “Last year, the transmission still reached Jembrana and even Tabanan, as well. Meanwhile, in the East Bali or Karangasem the transmission came from Mataram. Balmon had agreed to reduce the transmitting power,” he concluded. (kmb32)
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Airline ticket price increases
Impacts on decreasing domestic arrival
MANGUPURA - Adjustment or the increase of airline ticket prices for domestic route has an impact on passenger arrivals at Ngurah Rai Airport. As a result, the arrival of passengers during the implementation of the increase in ticket prices last January showed a decrease. General Manager of Angkasa Pura I, Yanus Suprayogi, did not dismiss this matter. He said the number of domestic passengers decreased by 2.1 percent. According to him, this condition is not too significant compared to other airports. Even though domestic arrivals declined, the conditions are still backed up by the arrival of foreign tourists. “Domestic decline is around 2.1 percent from the average condition,
but the international rose by around 35 percent,” he explained. Despite the decline, he revealed that such condition did not cause flight cancellation. Regarding the losses that may occur, he has not been able to calculate in details because February still belongs to the first quarter. The overall data can only be calculated after the annual Budget Work Plan (RKA) has been prepared. “This is still
the beginning, we cannot calculate it now. Maybe this time we suffer losses, but next month will be profitable. So, let’s look ahead,” he said when met amid the 54th anniversary of Angkasa Pura on Saturday (Feb. 23). Nevertheless, the government has done various efforts in addressing to this problem including reducing the price of aviation fuel. “What Angkasa Pura I did in
providing services has been in accordance with the SOP. Well, the increase (of tariff) is the authority of the government. One of them is the decline in aviation fuel prices and many other policies,” he said. He hoped the condition will be restored soon. By that way, all tourist activities especially domestic tourists will be able to return to normal. When confirmed separately, Deputy Governor of Bali, Tjok Oka Artha Ardana Sukawati, stated that related to the increase in ticket prices in general in terms of predic-
GIANYAR - In order to suppress deviations in smartphone use, the junior high, high and vocational school students across Gianyar are invited to take part in the Gianyar Student Film Festival (FFPG) 2019. This FFPG is initiated as a positive and creative forum for children, especially students. It is to prevent violence against children due to irregularities in the use of smartphone functions. Entitled “Gianyar Student Smart-
phone Documentary Film/Video Festival 2019,” it aims to preserve Balinese traditional culture through film media. “All the participants can be students of junior high and high school/vocational school both individuals and groups,” explained Commissioner of the KPPAD Bali, Kadek Ariyasa, when confirmed on Sunday (Feb. 24). More specifically, the theme of the film adopted is Bayu Premana as the
preservation of Balinese traditional culture in Gianyar. Participants can raise stories about the culture of ancestral heritage considered to have a strong influence on the development of social life in the community. More interestingly, the film making is enough by using a mobile phone with a simple and professional editing process. The requirement is that each film has maximum duration of 15 minutes including bumpers, titles,
credits and titles. “Most importantly, the film does not contain elements of promotion, racial violence, and pornography,” he said. The film festival initiated by the Gianyar Culture Agency supported by film activists and documentation community, Listibya of Film Documentation Division and the Bali Child Protection Commission (KPPAD) in the field of Education and Culture Division will last for two
tions there would be a decrease in passengers. Certainly this will have an impact on the tourism industry including the SMEs in Bali. However, he admitted in this condition the arrival of foreign tourists to Bali is still growing when compared to the same period in 2018. “Of course, this price problem happened due to an increase in aviation fuel prices. We hope there will be a review. Do not only see from the aspect of income collection, but also needs to be seen from the overall side,” he hoped. (kmb23)
months. “We will do dissemination this February and then register for interested students,” he explained. At the beginning of March, a one-day workshop will be held in relation to film production. He said the production process is given the freedom of time for a full month. After the film works are collected at the beginning of April, the judging process is carried out for a week from April 5 to April 12, 2019. (kmb35)
Gianyar Student Film Festival suppresses misuse of smartphone
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Attract Millennial Staff Enthusiasm, The ONE Legian Invite Ida Mas Dalem Segara Piodalan Ceremony of The ONE Legian
The ONE Legian held a piodalan ceremony which fell on Purnama Kesanga on Tuesday, February 19, 2019 ago, as a form of gratitude to Ida Sang Hyang Widhi Wasa for His help and gifts and had done the Sekala and Niskala customs. A series of events were carried out on this day such as mebat since early morning, gebogan competition and fashion show competition for Balinese outfit, which was attended by six departments from The ONE Legian, continued with Rejang dance
from The ONE Legian’s staff as a symbol of welcome to God, lunch with media partner as one of the invitee, and ended with Dharma Wacana for The ONE Legian’s employee by Ida Mas Dalem Segara who is also the initiator (Pemuput) of the ceremony. The presence of Ida Mas Dalem Segara became an attraction for the employees of The ONE Legian, he became an inspirational figure because he succeeded in proving that young age is not a matter of being purified. Proben by his sincerity, Ida Mas Dalem Segara,
able to prove his ability to become Sulinggih at the age of 23 years. In line with the experience passed, at the Dharma Wacana Ida Mas Dalem Segara brought the theme “Bekerja Ikhlas Dari hati”. Ida Mas Dalem Segara explained how hard it must be to run the fate of being a Sulinggih. For him, being Sulinggih is not an easy matter. It is need commitment, responsibility with a sense of sincerity in faith. The principle of ngayah, activates is vital in carrying out its role as a Sulinggih. Sulinggih, he continued, logically means a war-
rior. Ngayah for the God, worship, and serve the community. This is what he tries to associate with wherever and whatever our work, we need to deliver with a full sincerely and responsibly. A hesitation in doing work must have come, but it is important for us to find one big target that is able to brush aside any negative feelings and even the other person’s opinion that discourages us. The General Manager of The ONE Legian, Eka Pertama said, “In addition to this ceremony, regarding gratitude for the success of
the past, present and future, Dharma Wacana by Ida Mas Dalem Segara can also be provided to inspire our millenial employees to always keep it going and loving what they do. Not only in work in the hotel area but also in their life, day by day. An acceptance to what yours is important.” “On behalf of The ONE Legian, we greatly appreciate the presence of Ida Dalem Segara Mas a very low profile has been pleased to give us direction and guidance to this ceremony. “, concluded Eka Pertama.
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Melissa McCarthy wins worst-actress Razzie, but there’s a silver lining
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R&B singer R. Kelly arrives at the 1st District-Central police station on February 22, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois.
Singer R. Kelly, facing sex abuse charges, gets $1 million bail CHICAGO - A US judge set $1 million bail for R&B superstar R. Kelly on Saturday after prosecutors laid out graphic details of charges that he sexually abused four victims, three of them minors. Kelly, known for hits like “I Believe I Can Fly,” surrendered to police late Friday after decades of allegations of sexual abuse, especially of underage girls, led to the first sexual assault charges against him. Kelly was acquitted in a child porn trial more than a decade ago, and had maintained a steady fan base and continued to perform. But his fortunes changed after a docuseries last month led Chicago prosecutors to publicly seek out any potential victims. A Chicago grand jury on Friday charged him with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse against four females,
the youngest 14 years old at the time of the alleged crimes, which spanned between 1998 and 2010. The charges carry three to seven years of prison per count. A grave-faced Kelly appeared in a packed courtroom in a black hooded sweatshirt with his hands handcuffed behind his back. Two women who had previously publicly accused him of abuse came to court to observe the proceedings. In setting bail, Cook County Judge John Fitzgerald Lyke Jr. ordered Kelly to have no contact with anyone under 18 years old, and to have no contact with any of the alleged victims or witnesses. The singer also was required to relinquish his passport. “He’s devastated,” Kelly’s attorney Steve Greenberg said. “Here is someone who at one point was a huge star. Now he is sitting behind bars.” (afp)
LOS ANGELES - Actress and comedian Melissa McCarthy might hope there’s truth in the saying that “all publicity is good publicity” now that she has won “Razzie” awards as worst actress for not one but two movies. The Golden Raspberry Awards, or Razzies -- given out annually on the eve of the more sought-after Academy Awards to “celebrate” the worst in cinema -- also found easy targets in comedy “Holmes & Watson” and potboiler “Fifty Shades Freed.” McCarthy, one of Hollywood’s most popular comic actresses, was cited for her roles in both “The Happytime Murders” (critic Jess Fenton said he was “underwhelmed; my sides were left unsplit”) and “Life of the Party” (trashed by critic Leigh Monson as “100 minutes of self-indulgence and tedium”). But the Razzies, which claim to be a constructive exercise in “cathartic mockery,” also granted McCarthy a Redeemer Award for her Oscar-nominated and widely praised performance as a curmudgeonly forger in “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” Critic Joe Morgenstern said she played the part “with unerring wit and ferocious verve.” So there’s that. The Razzies’ crosshairs were squarely on “Holmes & Watson.” It nabbed not only the Worst Picture award but also a Worst Supporting Actor prize for John C. Reilly, a Worst Actor nomination for Will Ferrell, a Worst Screen Combo for the two of them (for “trashing two of literature’s most beloved characters”), a Worst
Director award for Etan Cohen, and a Worst Remake, Ripoff or Sequel prize for the film. Critics had been unsparing of the film -- a money-loser so far. A New York Times’ critic suggested “smuggling in booze to dispel the sense of dull routine.” US President Donald Trump was a big Razzie winner -- enough so that he might almost be tired of winning. He was named Worst Actor for appearances as himself in documentaries “Death of a Nation” and “Fahrenheit 11/9” (the latter movie, from director Michael Moore, also netted a Worst Supporting Actress award for his adviser Kellyanne Conway). A n d t h e Wo r s t Screen Combo award went to “Donald J. Trump and his self-perpetuating pettiness” for the same t w o films. (afp)
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Cuaron wins three Oscars for ‘Roma’ but ‘Green Book’ is best film
Alfonso Cuaron bagged a hat trick of Oscars on Sunday for “Roma,” his love letter to his childhood in 1970s Mexico City, but controversial civil rights drama “Green Book” crashed his party with a win for best picture. The 57-year-old Mexican filmmaker won the prizes for best director, cinematography and foreign language film, capping a brilliant awards season for him -- and offering streaming giant Netflix a new feather in its cap. Diversity, though, was perhaps the biggest winner on a night when a beloved black filmmaker won his first competitive Oscar, a superhero blockbuster set in Africa scored big, and two black actors and an Egyptian firstgeneration American won three of the four acting prizes. The wide range of films honored at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre on Sunday bridged the divide between art house fare and popular blockbusters. “I grew up watching foreign language films, learning so much from them, being inspired -films like ‘Citizen Kane,’ ‘Jaws.’ And there are no waves, there’s only the ocean,” an emotional Cuaron said. “I think the nominees tonight have proven that we are part of the same ocean.” - Story ‘about loving each other’ “Roma” was the frontrunner going into the night with 10 nominations, despite spending little time in movie theaters, in keeping with Netflix’s customary release strategy. But “Green Book” -- the real-life story of a celebrated black pianist who befriends his white driver as they tour the segregated American South in the 1960s -- overcame a series of controversies to win the top prize. “The whole story is about love. It’s about
loving each other, despite our differences, and finding out the truth about who we are,” said director Peter Farrelly. “Green Book” also won a widely expected best supporting actor trophy for Mahershala Ali, and a best original screenplay award. But many criticized it as a feel-good movie that suffered from the so-called “white savior” complex, and veteran director Spike Lee made comments that suggested he was upset by its coronation. - We Are the Champions Rock legends Queen, fronted by US singer Adam Lambert, opened what turned out to be one of the more enjoyable ceremonies in recent years with a mini-medley of mega-hits “We Will Rock You” and “We Are the Champions.” The British rockers may have experienced more nerves than during a normal gig: biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody” was up for several awards and ended up the biggest winner of the night with four Oscars. The film -- which tracks the band’s rise to fame from the moment when Freddie Mercury joined the band in 1970 to their legendary 1985 Live Aid performance -- took statuettes for best actor Rami Malek, as well as sound editing, sound mixing and film editing. “We made a film about a gay man, an immigrant, who lived his life just unapologetically himself,” said Malek, whose spell-binding turn as Mercury captivated audiences. “The fact that I’m celebrating him and this story with you tonight is proof that we’re longing for stories like this.” (afp)
Alfonso Cuaron, winner of Best Foreign Language Film, Best Director and Best Cinematography for “Roma,” poses in the press room during the 91st Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood and Highland on February 24, 2019 in Hollywood, California.
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