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In Oscars crisis, Chris Rock and a microphone loom large AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File

But despite constant clamorNEW YORK — When Chris Rock first hosted the Oscars in 2005, the four black actors nominated that year — Morgan Free- ing — and TMZ cameras chasing man, Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo and Jamie Foxx (twice!) him outside a comedy club over the weekend — Rock has been — didn’t escape his notice.

“It’s like the Def Oscar Jam!” Rock exclaimed.

The story will be slightly different this time around. When Rock strides onto the Dolby Theatre stage on Feb. 28, he’ll see no nominated African-American actors before him. He’ll instead be greeted by a Hollywood beset by a crisis over diversity that has led to calls for a boycott of the broadcast, spurred the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences to rewrite its membership bylaws and even sparked pleas for Rock, himself, to pull out.

In the ongoing fallout, Rock has loomed on the horizon like Judgment Day. But it’s unclear just what awaits the academy and Hollywood come show time. A reckoning? A catharsis? Awkward fits of laughter?

Probably all of the above.

What is certain is that a conflu-

ence of events has placed one of America’s most perceptive and sharp-tongued commentators on race smack dab in the middle of a storm that could hardly suit anyone better. It’s safe to say that no Academy Awards opening monologue has ever been more anticipated.

The spotlight on Oscar night will be trained on no one — not Leonardo DiCaprio or Jennifer Lawrence — like it is on Rock.

“This could be a defining moment for Chris Rock,” Cheadle told The Associated Press. “And I hope it is.”

Cheadle is far from alone. In the turmoil that has enveloped the Academy Awards since a second straight year of white nominees filled the acting categories, everyone from Spike Lee to George Clooney has had their say on the issue.

mum. Other than a tweet in which he unveiled his first promo for the show —and referred to the Oscars as “the White BET Awards” — he has stayed quiet amid uproar all around him.

Reginald Hudlin, who’s coproducing this year’s broadcast, sought to assure viewers, telling “Entertainment Tonight” that Rock is “hard at work” and that he had thrown out preparations and was now “writing a new show.”

“And, yes, the academy is ready for him to do that,” Hudlin said.

“They’re excited about him doing that.” But Rock’s publicist, Leslie Sloane, on Monday shot down Hudlin’s remarks, saying the comedian “has made no decisions about the content of the show.” The point was clear: No one is going to speak for Rock except Rock himself. “All will be revealed on February 28th,” said Sloane, ominously. (ap)

MIAMI - A bouncer at a Florida bar has sued Backstreet Boys singer Nick Carter for attacking and choking him, labeling the star “nothing more than a backstreet thug.”

Skylar Carden, 21, filed the lawsuit Monday in a court in the Florida Keys, alleging Carter caused “bodily injury, mental anguish, pain and suffering,” attorney Mark DiCowden told AFP. Carter was arrested on January 13 after he and a friend were escorted, drunk, by security personnel outside Hog’s Breath Saloon in Key West.

The singer was originally shown the door due to his “unruly and disrespectful” behavior, but he then became aggressive, beating and briefly choking Carden, according to the lawsuit.

In court, Carter pleaded not guilty and was released on $1,500 bail.

He broke his silence via a message on Twitter over the weekend.

“I am human and at times it can be a struggle to balance a healthy lifestyle. I’m not perfect and for that I am sorry,” he wrote.

“When we fall we have to get up and keep on walking. I hope

you stay by my side and continue to walk with me.”

But Carden’s lawyer said that regardless of Carter’s celebrity status, the singer should respect other people’s rights, just like everyone else.

“Nick Carter has shown the world that he is nothing more than a backstreet thug,” DiCowden wrote.

“Carter’s backhanded apology in the form of a tweet was a crude attempt to control public relations and did nothing to address his remorse for the harm he caused Carden.

“No amount of fame or fortune justifies Carter’s shameful and outrageous conduct. To send him that message and deter his misbehavior in the future, we will seek punitive damages against him as allowed by Florida law.”

The Backstreet Boys achieved worldwide success in the 1990s and early 2000s as teen idols, with songs like “I Want It That Way,” “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)” and “Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely.”

He has also participated in the television game show “Dancing with the Stars.” (afp)

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Amdal test for reclamation plan: January 29

Communities must remain critical and speak out

DENPASAR - The environmental impact assessment (Amdal) testing activity for the Benoa Bay reclamation plan will be held at Wiswasabha, the Governor of Bali’ office on Friday (Jan. 29), confirmed the Head of the Bali Environment Agency (BLH), Gede Suarjana on Tuesday (Jan. 26). “Consultants and the initiator will give presentations, relevant communities will give their response and the public will be able to provide their input,” he said.

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Singer Nick Carter is surrounded by media after being released on $1,500 bond from the Monroe County Detention Center in Key West, Fla., Jan. 14, 2016. Carter was charged with misdemeanor battery.

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People hold banner rejecting reclamation plan on Benoa Bay during a demonstration held in Ku ta Beach recently. The environmental impact assessment (Amdal) testing activity for the Benoa Bay reclamation plan will be held at Wiswasabha, the Governor of Bali’ office on Friday (Jan. 29).

Suarjana specified that those that have been invited to respond include: the communities that would be most affected by the reclamation project, customary leaders, religious leaders, subdistrict heads, headmen, NGOs, other experts and university academics.

ForBALI coordinator, Wayan ‘Gendo’ Suardana, said that he received a written invitation from the Environmental Impact Analysis (Amdal) on Friday (Jan. 15), that included the Amdal documents regarding the Benoa Bay revitalization action plan and sea sand mining.

“Actually it is a fairly difficult document to sift through. Is two weeks enough time? I don’t think it is. But the problem is that we have no choice but to accept it,” said Gendo.

He also said that many things in the Amdal document still raise questions -primarily with regards to the magnitude of project’s scope.

Many things seem odd and should be questioned during the meeting for the Amdal test. “However, we cannot say exactly how to do this now because we are still learning and exploring the documents,” Gendo explained.

Most importantly, he said, the different communities involved, need to begin to address the issues objectively and cannot afford to remain silent. Addressing the issues must

continue to be carried out though peaceful means and people need to be involved in the environmental policy making process - especially with mega-projects like this reclamation plan, he said.

Gendo asserted that people should be informed about the details of project developments particularly the Amdal, because this project has a big impact on the future of Bali.

The future of the communities in the area of Benoa Bay is at stake also the interests of Balinese people as a whole.

The investors in the Benoa Bay project not openly plan to create islands covering an area of some 700 hectares, but they also plan to build a variety if accommodations ranging from apartments, condotel, and villas, all the way up to four- and five-star hotels, not to mention the manpower that this project would absorb; 60 percent local workers and 40 percent non-local workers. (kmb32) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.

Preserving the environment

Village forest planted with thousands of bamboo

T H O U SANDS of bamboo were recently planted in the village forest of Masem Dwi Tirta Hamlet, South Batur Kintamani.

Hundreds of members of the Subak Abian Pelisan. planted the bamboo

in an effort to preserve the natural environment of the area that has become vulnerable to damage.

The Bangli Agriculture and Forestry Agency, the Bangli House of Representatives, the subdistrict police, the Kintamani military region

and other institutions also participated in this forest conservation effort.

Acting Head of the Bangli Agriculture and Forestry Agency, Ni Wayan Manik, explained that this community bamboo planting effort will benefit the above ground envi-

ronment and will also benefit the maintenance of ground water.

The 2016 bamboo planting effort is targeting 57 hectares of the protected forest. “A total of 2,000 bamboo are being planted. Later we will also be planting champak

and fruit trees,” explained Manik, accompanied by the Division Head of Plantation and Forestry Rehabilitation, I Ketut Gede Wiradana.

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Manik also highlighted the fact that bamboo crafts are in high demand so eventually the bamboo that were recently planted will be of economic benefit to the local economy. She also emphasized that the local community needs to be seriously engaged in environmental conservation on an ongoing basis. Only then, she said, will the government be willing to support and facilitate such efforts.

“We would welcome and facilitate any proposal requesting seedlings, for example,” said Manik.

Headman of South Batur, I Gede Sarjana, explained that in addition to acting as a buffer for springs in the surrounding woods, bamboo can also be used for the creation of ritual paraphernalia such as the structures needed for cremation ceremonies. “Bamboo

is very important for Balinese people,” said Sarjana.

Masem Dwi Tirta’s forest, that is rife with pine trees, was formerly managed by the central government. However, in 2015 there was a request made to have the forest be managed by the local village. “At the end of last year, the official recommendation was issued and we were asked to complete certain requirements. Hopefully the handover of authority will happen soon,” said Sarjana.

Once the village in in charge of managing the forest, they plan to plant several types of plants and tress and use parts of the forest for agro-tourism. “Obviously, we will use the forest in a sustainable manner,” he added.

Deputy Chairman of the Bangli House of Representatives, I Komang Carles, said that he hopes that environmental conservation efforts are not simply undertaken

ceremonially but that efforts towards sustainability are maintained over time. Carles added that the Bangli House of Repre-

sentatives is ready to support and facilitate agro-tourism and will coordinate with the provincial and national government in the matter.

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“We strongly support this activity and will definitely help with communications with the central government.” (sos)

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Thousands of bamboo were recently planted in the village forest of Masem Dwi Tirta Hamlet, South Batur Kintamani.

Traditional houses and bamboo crafts

Tigawasa village borders Pedawa village to the south, Cempaga village to the west, Kayuputih Melaka village (that belongs to Sukasada subdistrict) to the east, and Kaliasem village and Temukus village to the north. There are 1,700

families living in the administrative village and 1,200 families living in the customary village, most of whom work as clove farmers and sideline as bamboo crafters.

Headman of Tigawasa, I Made Suadarma Yasa, said that based on

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Tigawasa ancient village

THE ANCIENT village of Tigawasa in Banjar subdistrict, is the pride of Buleleng. Sitting at an altitude of 600 meters above sea level, Tigawasa has many unique features including specific cultural practices such as bamboo crafting that are still widely practiced to this day.

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research and material evidence it is estimated that the village was first established in the Stone Age. Prehistoric objects that have been found in the village include stone axes, seven sarcophagi, and a bronze slonding gamelan instrument, all of which are stood neatly in the sacred temple of Tigawasa.

“Research indicated that our sacred objects originated in the Stone Age. We continue to preserve our village that is today known as a Bali Aga

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Tigawasa has many unique features including specific cultural practices such as bamboo crafting that are still widely practiced to this day.

Village,” he said.

Suardana also explained that his ancestors not only pass down sacred objects but also passed down cultural heritages that have been maintained, such as the traditional houses of Tigawasa that are known as saka roras meaning twelve pillared house. The pillars are made from fragrant high quality mango wood. These 12 pillars are carved with Buleleng style motifs and the braces of the pillars are decorated with beautiful gold ornaments.

Eight of the pillars of the soka roras are used to frame two beds while the area between the remaining four pillars is used to store a variety of objects. A clay table is placed in the centre of each house. The walls of these houses are made of clay with zinc sheet roofs. “Most of these houses are located northeast of local village temple, indicating that this is where the village was first established before it spread out to other areas. Today, only a few of these houses remain but they are carefully maintained to ensure that this heritage does not disappear,” Suardana.

In the past almost all residents of Tigawsa cultivated gogo rice paddy and the yields were so great that almost every home had a jineng (rice granary). However clive has be-

come increasingly popular because of its value on the market and as a result the rice granaries have been slowly disappearing. Other modern influences are also to blame.

Although agricultural activities have moved away from providing basic staples towards the selling of commodities, the ability of local residents to create bamboo crafts remains a potential means of earning a living.

Various crafts, including sokasi (used for carrying oblations) of a variety of sizes, building materials and others can be made here.

Nobody knows for sure when people in Tigawasa started making bamboo crafts as the only evidence of this craft making is the skills that the villagers have. with a variety of sizes, bamboo wall for building materials, and others. Many suspect that bamboo weaving has been practiced in this village since the Stone Age because all of the traditional houses have Bali reed bamboo (used for weaving), planted nearby.

“Woven bamboo crafts has become a source of income of all our residents. And even though there is no clear evidence, we believe that bamboo weaving has been practiced here since the village was first established,” stated Suardana. (mud)

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In Coffee Cupping Class, for example, participants will get knowledge on coffee origins, how to taste coffee, and learned about coffee from picking to serving process. Participants will also have a chance to use manual coffee maker, like pour over (V60), plunger, dan syphon.

According to one of Indonesia Coffee Academy’s founder, Irvan Helmi, this academy was develop to fullfil the thirst of knowledge from coffee lovers. Moreover, Indonesia is one of top coffee producers in the world.

“Nowadays, drinking coffee has become a lifestyle for many people in Indonesia. This trend was begin on 2007, as many multi-national coffee company open their business in Indonesia,” he explained on Wednesday.

As more people interested in coffee knowledge, they will choose the most sophisticated coffee taste. That’s why, they need to learn about coffee cupping, he added. (iah)

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Balinese Temple Ceremony

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

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

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

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

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Zika virus, a wolf in sheep’s clothing

PARIS - The world’s latest health scare is a seemingly minor illness that carries a killer wrapped inside: Zika, the mosquitoborne virus sweeping Latin America, usually lasts less than a week, except when it derails a whole life.

Zika, which resembles a light case of the flu, is often so mild that people don’t realize they have it.

But health officials in Latin America say the tropical fever is linked to neurological problems and a surge in microcephaly, a condition in which babies are born with abnormally small heads. The defect can cause brain damage and death.

The outbreak has led authorities in some countries to urge couples not to get pregnant, while the US

Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has warned pregnant women to avoid traveling to 22 affected countries.

The virus was first identified in a monkey in Africa in 1947.

Its name comes from a forest in Uganda where the first infected rhesus monkeys were found. Within several years the virus had jumped to humans in Uganda and Tanzania, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Like dengue fever and chikun-

gunya, two similar diseases, Zika is transmitted by mosquito species found in tropical and sub-tropical regions: Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus, or tiger mosquitoes.

In 70 to 80 percent of cases, the disease goes unnoticed. The symptoms resemble a mild case of the flu -- headache, muscle and joint pain, and mild fever -- plus a rash.

Symptoms usually last two to seven days.

The disease is suspected of causing two serious complications: neurological problems and birth defects in babies born to infected women. But while there appears to be a connection with Zika, researchers have not definitively confirmed

a causal link.

The main neurological complication is Guillain-Barre syndrome, a disorder in which the immune system attacks the nervous system, causing weakness and sometimes paralysis.

Most patients recover, but the syndrome is sometimes deadly.

Cases linked to Zika have been reported in Brazil and French Polynesia.

Microcephaly and other brain deformities in newborns have also been reported, particularly in Brazil. Microcephaly cases in the giant South American country surged from 163 per year on average to 3,893 after the Zika outbreak began

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A researcher holds a container with female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes at the Biomedical Sciences Institute in the Sao Paulo’s University, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Monday, Jan. 18, 2016. The Aedes aegypti is a vector for transmitting the Zika virus.

last year. Forty-nine of those babies have died.

There is no vaccine for Zika, and no specific treatment -- patients simply take pain-killers and other medication to combat the symptoms.

The virus is transmitted through mosquito bites, so prevention entails fighting mosquitoes and avoiding contact with them. Health officials recommend covering up, using insect repellant and keeping windows closed or screened.

Authorities have responded to the outbreak by fumigating and cleaning up the standing water where mosquitoes breed.

Authorities in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador and Jamaica have advised couples to avoid pregnancy for the time being.

In Brazil, authorities have announced a crackdown on mosquito breeding grounds ahead of the Olympics, which will bring hundreds of thousands of travelers from around the world to Rio de Janeiro in August.

The virus was first reported in Africa, Asia and the Pacific before leaping to the Americas last year.

It is now spreading locally in some 20 Latin American and Caribbean countries, as far north as Mexico. Brazil has been the hardest hit.

Travelers have also brought it back to the US states of Florida, Hawaii and New York. A woman in Hawaii gave birth to a baby with microcephaly after traveling to Brazil.

So far there have been no locally transmitted US cases reported, though the Aedes aegypti mosquito’s habitat stretches into the United States.

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) says on its website that “there is no evidence of transmission (of) Zika virus in Europe to date and imported cases are rare.” (afp)

Nano-thin pressure sensor could aid breast cancer exams TOKYO - Super-thin bendable sensors developed by Japanese and US scientists could someday be used in special gloves to detect breast lumps and make a digital record of the exam, the scientists said in a report.

The nanofibre sensors are as thin as 3.4 micrometres -- less than half the thickness of kitchen wrap -- according to research published in the online version of British science magazine Nature Nanotechnology.

“Healthcare practitioners may one day be able to physically screen for breast cancer using pres-

sure-sensitive rubber gloves to detect tumours,” the researchers said in a statement before the publication.

A square sheet 4.8 by 4.8 centimetres (1.9 inches) in size has 144 locations that can measure pressure, said the research teams led by Tokyo University professor Takao Someya and Harvard University’s Zhigang Suo. The sheet is so flexible it can detect pressure changes accurately even when twisted like cloth -- a development claimed as a global first.

“Sensitive human fingers of a veteran doctor may be able to find a small tumour, but such perceived sensation cannot be measured,” Someya told AFP Monday.

But digitisation of the sensations means that they could be shared with other doctors who could theoretically experience the same sensations as the physician who performed the examination, he said.

Many researchers are developing flexible pressure sensors but they are vulnerable when bent and twisted, which makes it difficult to

detect pressure changes accurately, the Tokyo University and Harvard researchers say.

The nanofibre pressure sensor they have developed can be bent over a radius of as small as 80 micrometres -- “equivalent to just twice the width of a human hair” -- they say.

When tested on an artificial blood vessel, the sheet successfully detected “small pressure changes and speed of pressure propagation”, Sungwon Lee, a leading researcher in Someya’s team, said in the statement.

Someya stressed that the development would one day enable the equivalent of medical palpation -- examining a patient by physical touch -- by doctors in different locations from the patient.

“The new sensor would make it possible to measure the human sensation so that findings by palpation could even be shared remotely,” he said.

“In the future, we would be able to record and make tangible certain sensations that can only be perceived by an experienced doctor.” (afp)

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“Flying squad” of BSMP rescue dugong calf

GIANYAR - A “flying squad” consisting of a marine mammal veterinarian and animal care staff from Bali Safari & Marine Park (BSMP) and the Batang Dolphin Center recently responded to an urgent call for assistance from the Indonesian Government. The team flew at just one day notice to a seaside resort in the Komodo National Park to provide emergency supportive care and rehabilitation to a dugong calf found stranded a few days earlier.

The dugong – also known in Indonesia as a duyung or sea cow, is a medium-sized marine mammal.

Capable of living up to 75 years - these gentle, docile and shy animals spend their lives in the ocean’s shallows surviving exclusively on a diet of sea grass. In time’s past, the dugong was hunted for its prized flesh, hide and body oils. Today, it is internationally classified as a species vulnerable to extinction, protected under national laws and international treaties.

Responding to a request for assistance from the Indonesian Conservation Agency (BKSDA), the “flying squad” formed by veterinarians from BSMP – Dr. Nimal Fernando and Dr.

Kadek Kesuma; BSMP supervisor Nyoman Suartawan; and Sutejo of the Batang Dolphin Center arrived at Kanawa Island resort where a group of vacationing marine biologists from the USA had spent the past three days hand feeding and nurturing a male dugong estimated to be only one-month-old.

The Indonesian ’flying squad’ arrived to find the animal with several lacerations caused by encounters with sharp coral and suffering from a lack of mother’s milk. It was presumed to be an orphaned calf, but the details of the mother and whether she had died is not known. Knowing that, statistically, the chances of survival for orphaned dugong calves is small, the team of

dedicated professionals wasted no time and literally “plunged” into their work, spending up to 8 hours a day in the sea , under a makeshift shelter administering a schedule of bottlefeedings using a special formula that they had carried from Bali Safari & Marine Park.

Cautiously optimistic, the team of caregivers reports that their patient is now mixing a diet of formula milk with sea grass. Monitoring the animals input and output, the team was further encouraged by indications that the dugong’s alimentary tract was functioning normally.

In consultation with representatives of the KSDA, the Komodo National Park, the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF) and supporting members of the surrounding community, a decision was made for members of the animal rescue flying squad to stay on site to supervise the sea mammal’s condition and provide ongoing training in its care and feeding to local community members. (r)

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A “flying squad” consisting of a marine mammal veterinarian and animal care staff from Bali Safari & Marine Park (BSMP) and the Batang Dolphin Center provide emergency supportive care and rehabilitation to a dugong calf found stranded.

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Washington faces days of cleanup after epic blizzard

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK - Washington will need several more days to return to normal after a weekend blizzard dropped more than 2 feet (60 cm) of snow along the U.S. East Coast, likely causing billions of dollars in damage and killing more than 30 people. The U.S. capital was at a standstill, with federal government offices to be closed again on Tuesday, schools in the district and surrounding suburbs shut until at least Wednesday, and the U.S. House of Representatives canceling all votes until next week.

The crossing to Nusa Penida going on normally even the weather condition is not good. The corssing is one of the favorite of the tourists who want to visit Nusa Penida.

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Bomb threat has no impact on tourist visits to Gianyar

GIANYAR – The bomb threat in Bali that followed the explosion and shooting incidents in Thamrin, Jakarta not long time ago, has had no impact on the number of tourist visiting Gianyar -including Ubud, said Head of the Gianyar Tourism Office, A.A. Bagus Ari Brahmanta on Tuesday.

Brahmanta did concede that there were less tourist visiting Gianyar in January, compared to December, but he added that is a common trend every year and that the next peak season for tourism starts in June. “This time of year is known as the low season with hotel and villa occupancy rates averaging about 20 -30 percent,” he explained.

Overall, 2015 saw significant increases in the number of tourist visiting Gianyar, with 2.8 million visitors, whereas the target for

2015 was only 2.5 million, said Brahmanta.

Large numbers of tourist visited five main tourist destinations that are managed by the government of Gianyar: Goa Gajah, Gunung Kawi Tampaksiring, Yeh Pulu, Gunung Kawi Sebatu and Tirta Empul Tampaksiring. Tirta Empul showed an excellent ability to draw visitors with 25 percent of all visitors paying a visit to this temple.

Goa Gajah and Gunung Kawi Tampaksiring were also very popular showing higher increases in

visitor numbers than the other sites.

“New tourist destinations such as Gajah Taro also showed increases in the number of both domestic and foreign visitors,” added Brahmanta.

The security measures taken by the ranks of the Gianyar Police were also lauded as important efforts towards ensuring that Bali’s security is comparable to places like Singapore, Europe and America.

“Security is very good. In Ubud, for instance, I see a number of officers in complete uniform, and more intensive patrolling and more security posts. In this way visitors to Bali can rest assured that security conditions are the same as they are in their country of origin,” concluded Brahmanta. (kmb35)

Washington’s mayor, Muriel Bowser, said city public schools would remain closed on Tuesday but that city government offices would reopen. She urged people to use mass transit rather than trying to drive and park on the city’s snow-clogged roads. “We knew that we would have ... several days of cleanup ahead of us,” Bowser told reporters. “Know that we’re going to be dealing with snow all of this week.”

Officials reported at least 36 storm-related deaths, including traffic accidents and heart attacks while shoveling snow in Washington, Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee and Virginia.

The dead included a North Carolina man who was shot and killed when he saw a motorist who had run off the road in the storm and attempted to help him. The motorist remained jailed on murder charges on Monday. Risk Management Solutions meteorologist Jeff Waters said he could not provide specific damage estimates yet, but said the storm “could rank as one of the more significant events in recent history.”

He said comparable historical

storms would include the Blizzard of 1996, which caused approximately $1.5 billion in economic losses and $740 million insured losses at the time. Reinsurance broker Aon Benfield said on Monday the storm likely caused billions of dollars in economic losses, including damage to buildings and lost business from closures.

Officials said all but one line on Washington’s second-busiest subway system would resume service on Tuesday and bus services would be expanded. High snowbanks at street corners made travel within Washington difficult for pedestrians.

“The hardest part was getting the stroller through the unclean sidewalks,” said Isam Qahwash, a 41-year-old scientist from Princeton, New Jersey, as he carried his 14-month-old son in a stroller across a downtown street. “It seems like they move really slow cleaning the snow here.”

Even with federal government offices officially closed, the Supreme Court was open for business, scheduled to issue rulings and act on pending appeals from the snowbound courthouse across from the U.S. Capitol building.

Washington officials said the city

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Grace McGuire of Washington shovels out her car in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016, as the nation’s capital digs out following a monster weekend snow. East Coast cities hit hard by a massive snowstorm are getting closer to their normal routines after more than three days with life at a virtual standstill. has applied for federal disaster relief to help pay for the snowstorm’s costs, which they did not estimate.

Ten public schools around the city opened to provide breakfast and lunch to low-income children who typically receive free meals at school, officials said.

“THIS HAS BEEN A NIGHTMARE” Air travel remained seriously affected as some 1,603 U.S. flights were canceled on Monday, with Newark Liberty International

a public servant. Immigration, he explained is related to security as it is through immigration services that foreigners enter the country.

“The immigration office has been enhancing services including passport services and increased hours of operation,” he said. Thus, the Denpasar Immigration Office can can now issue 150-250 passport each day and Ngurah Rai Immigration Office around 70 to 80 passports.

When asked about allegations of brokering, Sulistiono immediately

denied that such practices were still going on. “We make sure that there is no brokering in the passport application process. There is no such practice going on,” affirmed the Head of the Denpasar Immigration office.

As for the matter of supervising foreigners in relation to criminal activities like pedohilia, Head of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights for Bali Office, Sulistiono, said that anyone found to be in violation of the law is handed over to law enforcement officers. “Legal processes are handled by the police,

only the last step of investigations that confirm guilt is dealt with by the immigration office: deportation. We’re ready to prevent such criminals from operating here,” he said.

Sulistiono went on to say that the supervision of foreigners needs to be done careful given that Bali is a tourist destination, and so supervision must not interfere with the comfort of tourists. “We only approach situations with technical support” he said. If cases are related to investment or the assessment of

human resources, they will be examined and reviewed,” he added.

“Immigration guards the country’s entrances and sovereignty. The monitoring of foreigners is done with integrity by involving all relevant authorities. Immigration also serves to safeguard against unlawful competition on the job market and in investments. Laws need to be followed, otherwise the spirit of maintaining the Homeland and state sovereignty, will disappear altogether,” concluded Sulistiono. (kmb37)

the city’s public schools open.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio told a local radio station he thought the city would face more storms of this magnitude in the future.

“We’re now in the age of extreme weather. You know, this is what climate change has done to us. These storms are much bigger than what we’ve seen in the past,” de Blasio said. “The mega storm is going to be with us for a while now.” N.Y. officials warned the cost of snow removal was rising.(rtr)

Turkish prosecutor seeks life term for 2 jailed journalists

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The tourists are enjoying their time in Ubud. The bom threat has no impact on tourism in Bali

Supervision of foreigners tightened

DENPASAR - Head of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights for Bali Office, Sulistiono, accompanied by the Head of First Class Immigration Office of Denpasar, Fery MS, on the sidelines of the 66th Immigration Service Day on Tuesday (Jan. 26) said that the supervision of foreigners in Bali is being tightened. Ethics and politeness are still a priority so that foreigners do not feel disturbed, he added.

Sulistiono said that the function of the Ministry of Law and Human Rights, in sub immigration, is as

Airport, New York’s LaGuardia Airport and Washington Dulles International Airport the hardest hit, according to FlightAware. com.

“This has been a nightmare,” said Mary Lavigne, 34, as she waited at LaGuardia with her 18month-old daughter for a flight to Montreal. “We’ve come to the airport twice, only to have to go back home ... The trip is proving as brutal as the storm.” New York was quicker to return to business, with the New York Stock Exchange and

Can Dundar

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ISTANBUL — A Turkish newspaper says prosecutors are seeking life prison terms for two of its journalists who have been jailed on terror and espionage charges for their reports on alleged government arms smuggling to Syria.

Cumhuriyet newspaper says Wednesday an Istanbul prosecutor has completed an indictment against editor-in-chief, Can Dundar, and the paper’s Ankara representative, Erdem Gul. The indict-

ment needs to be accepted by a court before a trial can begin.

In May, Cumhuriyet published what it said were images of Turkish trucks carrying ammunition to Syrian militants. The paper said the images proved that Turkey was smuggling arms to rebels — a claim the government rejects.

The journalists were investigated after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he would not let Dundar get away with it and filed a criminal complaint.(ap)

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Dollar slips ahead of Fed’s first 2016 meeting

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Rights groups rap treatment of Indonesian sect members

JAKARTA - Indonesia has relocated more than 1,500 members of a controversial sect from their village “for their own safety”, an official said Wednesday, but rights groups described their treatment as religious persecution.

Members of the mysterious Light of Nusantara Movement -- or Gafatar -- have been moved from a remote communal farm in Indonesia’s half of Borneo island after a mob attack.

They are now in the country’s main island of Java undergoing “rehabilitation” instruction sessions on Islam and civic duties.

Meanwhile, followers of a separate minority group face ejection from their community unless they

convert to mainstream Islam, according to Human Rights Watch.

Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, is seen as largely tolerant and pluralist. But a number of high-profile attacks against minority groups in recent years has marred this image.

The controversy surrounding Gafatar, a group accused of luring followers from across Indonesia to practise a deviant blend of

the Muslim faith, has captivated national attention despite its tiny following in a country of 250 million.

Last week an angry mob torched their village base in Kalimantan, displacing roughly 500 families -more than 1,500 people. They were evacuated by government authorities first to temporary shelters then back to Indonesia’s main island of Java, some by warship.

A spokesman for President Joko Widodo said the decision was made “for their own safety” and several government departments had been instructed to handle the crisis.

“We must protect our citizens

regardless of their identity. They are also Indonesian citizens,” spokesman Johan Budi told AFP. Gafatar insists that it does not practise deviant Islam. The country’s top clerical body, the Indonesia Ulema Council (MUI), is expected to rule next month on whether its beliefs are heretical.

Anyone charged with heresy under Indonesian law can face five years in prison, said Human Rights Watch researcher Andreas Harsono.

Police have said they are investigating any criminal links to the Gafatar movement.

The evacuees in Java have begun what officials are calling “reha-

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bilitation” sessions on religion and civic duty, some run by the MUI. The classes are expected to last five days and include special instruction for women and children and those deemed “ideologues” within the Gafatar movement, said Central Java MUI chairman Ahmad Daroji.

Several local rights groups, including the Jakarta Legal Aid Institute and the Setara Institute, have criticised the treatment of Gafatar.

“It is religious persecution,” Harsono told AFP. “This re-education programme is simply an abuse of human rights.” (afp)

Jualo secures series A funding from NSI Ventures

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TOKYO - The dollar slipped against the yen and most emerging currencies Wednesday as markets focus on the Federal Reserve’s first meeting of the year.

Visitors check out Toyota Vitz at a Toyota showroom in Tokyo, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016. Toyota Motor Corp. says it sold 10.151 million vehicles in 2015, retaining its status as the world’s topselling automaker for the fourth straight year.

The US central bank is not expected to announce any change in monetary policy after the meeting ends later Wednesday, following its historic interest rate raise in December.

But dealers will pore over its post-meeting statement looking for signs that it will back off its signal of four interest rate hikes this year, which would support the dollar.

“If the Fed sounds too dovish a chord, they’ll lose the option to raise rates in March,” Masato Yanagiya, head of foreign-exchange and money trading at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking, told Bloomberg.

“If the Fed isn’t so dovish, it’s likely US yields will rise, and the dollar will strengthen.”

The Bank of Japan wraps up its first policy meeting of the year Friday, after speculation at the start of this week that it is considering more stimulus to counter weakness in the world’s number three economy.

In Tokyo, the greenback weakened to 118.09 yen from 118.42 yen Tuesday in New York.

The euro slipped to $1.0864 and 128.30 yen from $1.0868 and 128.70 yen.

Speculation that the Fed may back away from its ambitious rate-hike schedule gave a boost to emerging currencies while a broad regional equities rally also lifted appetite for higher-yielding, riskier, units.

The oil-dependent Malaysian ringgit rose 0.67 percent after crude rallied Tuesday, while the South Korean won was up 0.2 percent, Indonesia’s rupiah tacked on 0.1 percent, and the Thai baht also edged up 0.1 percent.

The Australian dollar climbed 0.3 percent after a report showing a pick-up in inflation lowered expectations the country’s central bank will cut interest rates again soon. (afp)

TOKYO - Toyota on Wednesday kept the title of world’s biggest automaker for the fourth straight year after saying it sold 10.15 million vehicles globally in 2015, driving past Volkswagen and General Motors.

Dented by a pollution-cheating scandal, Volkswagen earlier logged sales of 9.93 million vehicles worldwide, while Chevrolet and Cadillac maker GM moved 9.8 million last year.

Toyota shares jumped 3.80 percent to end at 6,881 yen ($58) in Tokyo on Wednesday, boosted by reports it is in talks with Suzuki over a partnership to build compact cars for emerging markets, including India.

Strong North American demand drove Toyota’s figures as total sales slipped 0.8 percent from 2014,

Toyota keeps top global automaker crown, sells 10.15 mn in 2015 largely owing to a slowdown in Japan where a weak economy hit demand.

Toyota is also facing sluggish sales in Thailand and Indonesia while a Japanese consumption tax hike planned for next year could spark a rush in buying -- and subsequent slowdown as prices go up.

The Japanese giant was likely to keep the top automaker crown for at least another year, but a slowdown in top vehicle market China could hurt its numbers, analysts said.

“Toyota is benefiting from the strength of the US auto market, and we expect it to continue to grow this year, so the company should keep its crown,” said Yoshiaki Kawano, a Tokyo-based analyst at research firm IHS.

Oil prices resume slide in Asia

SINGAPORE - Oil prices resumed their slide in Asia Wednesday as long-running concerns over the saturated market overshadowed talk of possible coordination between some major producers to slash output.

Traders are also eyeing the release later in the day of a report on US commercial

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crude stockpiles, seeking clues about demand in the world’s biggest economy and key oil user.

At around 0630 GMT US benchmark West Texas Intermediate for March delivery was down 39 cents, or 1.24 percent, at $31.06. Brent crude for March was down 17 cents, or 0.53 percent, at $31.63 a barrel.

They had risen around four percent Tuesday on hopes of output talks.

Iraqi Oil Minister Adel Abdulmahdi said Tuesday Baghdad was “ready to cooperate” on cutting production, but only if nonOPEC producers did so as well.

Abdulmahdi was also quoted by Bloomberg as describing increased “flex-

“But in China, Toyota lags behind VW or Nissan”.

In the first half of the year, the German giant, whose other brands include Porsche and Audi, was set to become the world’s biggest automaker as it rode momentum in emerging economies.

But then it posted its first drop in annual sales for more than a decade, as the company was hammered by a massive pollution cheating scandal.

Volkswagen was sideswiped by stunning revelations in September that it had fitted 11 million vehicles with devices designed to dodge pollution tests.

The US government has said it was suing VW for $20 billion in civil penalties over the scandal. (afp)

ibility” on output between Russia and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), fuelling hopes of talks on an agreement.

Russian news agency Tass reported that Russian oil company Lukoil has asked the Kremlin to work with OPEC to limit output. (afp)

JAKARTA - Jualo, Indonesia’s rapidly expanding marketplace for second-hand goods, has secured a multi-million-dollar Series A round funding from NSI Ventures, a respected regional VC firm with strong ties to Indonesia. Last year Jualo obtained seed funding from Mountain Kejora and Alpha JWC Ventures, both seasoned Indonesiafocussed VC firms. Alpha JWC Ventures is also participating in the Series A round.

The fresh funds will help to expand the business, attract prime-talent, increase customer satisfaction, and propel Jualo into prime position within their sector. “NSI Ventures is very pleased to lead this investment round in Jualo and help them to accelerate their product development and growth. We have been impressed by the progress of Chaim and the team and their sharp focus on innovation and value creation for buyer and seller in a rapidly developing market,” commented Shane Chesson, Partner of NSI Ventures.

Jualo was founded in 2014 by Chaim Fetter and close friends. It is based in Jakarta with a team of 15 including a strong tech development team. Boasting such features as Jualo Escrow, Geo Search and Home Delivery, the business has positioned itself as a hybrid with the functionality of a marketplace and the broad product choice of a classic e-classifieds platform. It offers a seamless mobile and desktop experience to make transaction.

From its launch in January 2014, Jualo’s numbers have grown rapidly without significant marketing expenditure, reaching more than 2,000,000 monthly active users and displaying 500,000 active listings. The team has an in-depth understanding of the rapidly developing Indonesian market, and blends cost-effective guerillia-entrepreneurship with a lean operating approach.

“Any business should generate revenue to be able to claim its rights of existence,” Chaim mentioned.

Jualo has generated revenue from day one, monetises through both the user and advertisements and is progressively layering in value-added transaction services over the

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Chaim Fetter (2nd left), Founder Jualo.com and the Peduli Anak Foundation with Sebastian Togelang (right), the investor of Jualo, Managing Director of Mountain Kejora welcomed two new investor Shane Chesson (left), Founder General Partner NSI Ventures and Jeffry Joe (2nd right), Alpha JWC, during a press conference on Monday. platform.

Using an e-classifieds marketplace platform can be tricky. Building user trust, as well as a smooth fulfilment and payment process, are considered the main challenges. Jualo continuously collects detailed feedback from the Indonesian consumer at all levels to help solve key pain points and build new services.

Jualo has already became the second largest marketplace for second-hand goods in Indonesia and aims to use the proceeds of

this capital raise to build toward Indonesian market leadership over the next 18 months as well as offer Jualo in additional regional markets.

Jefrey Joe of Alpha JWC Ventures added, “Jualo’s product-focus approach and deep understanding of the local market will be a key success factor in this space. We are happy to see the strong organic growthcontinue, and are confident that the Series A investment will propel Jualo to the next level.”

“With strong backers such as NSI Venture, Jualo will be able to become the marketplace of choice across Indonesia and emerging Asia,” indicates Chaim.

New online marketplace users are being added rapidly every year, and their expectations will be different from those of the past.

Jualo is offering a services suitable for this new generation of consumer and fundamentally improving the liquidity of second hand goods. (kmb18)

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FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 4, 2016, file photo, a Syrian refugee man walks in mud after a heavy rain at a refugee camp in the town of Hosh Hareem, in the Bekaa valley, east Lebanon. In a report published Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016, the New York-based rights group Human Rights Watch said Lebanese residency laws are putting Syrian refugees in danger.

Rights group: fearing refugees, West curtails human rights

ISTANBUL — Western governments fearful of terror attacks and the potential threat posed by refugees are shortchanging human rights and adopting counterproductive policies in the name of security, Human Rights Watch said in its world report Wednesday.

HRW executive director Kenneth Roth chided Europe and the United States “for blatant Islamophobia and shameless demonizing of refugees,” warning this creates “the kind of division and animosity that terrorist recruiters love to exploit.”

The organization unveiled its annual report reviewing human rights practices around the world in Istanbul. Turkey is home to 2.2 million Syrian refugees and the main departure point for migrants headed to Europe. There are more than 60 million people displaced by war or repression, according to HRW.

Roth writes that the estimated 1 million asylum seekers who reached Europe by sea in 2015 would represent only 0.20 percent of the European Union population if resettlement sharing occurred.

“Creating a safe and orderly way for refugees to make their way to Europe would reduce lives lost at sea while helping immigration officials to screen out security risks,” Roth said.

Policy makers in the US and Europe, he said, are using the terrorist threat as an opportunity to expand law-enforcement powers, including

mass surveillance.

Meanwhile, Russia and China have embarked on the largest crackdown on civil society in decades, according to the 659-page report reviewing more than 90 countries.

It noted similar trends in Turkey, Kenya, Sudan, South Africa and Israel.

Human Rights Watch celebrated gains for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities in 2015 - including the legalization of same-sex marriage in Ireland, Mexico, and the United States.

Mozambique decriminalized homosexuality.

The organization noted that roughly one in three girls in the developing world are married before the age of 18, and more than 1 million children are behind bars. (ap)

French justice chief resigns amid flap over terrorism bill

PARIS — France’s justice minister unexpectedly resigned Wednesday after objecting to President Francois Hollande’s push to revoke citizenship from convicted terrorists with dual nationality. Hollande announced Christiane Taubira’s resignation Wednesday — just ahead of a Cabinet meeting, and hours before a Parliament commission takes up the citizenship bill.

Taubira, a devoted leftist best known for championing the legalization of gay marriage, tweeted that “sometimes to resist is to remain, sometimes to resist is to leave.”

Taubira, from French Guiana on the Caribbean coast, has been a pioneer for women and minorities in French politics.

She had suffered tensions in the past with center-leaning Prime Min-

ister Manuel Valls. Taubira is being replaced by Jean-Jacques Urvoas, a lawmaker from Brittany who is considered a specialist of security issues within the Socialist Party — and seen as close to Valls.

The citizenship bill, prompted by the Paris attacks Nov. 13, is popular among conservatives and the far right but is especially divisive for the governing Socialists. Polls show most French support the idea, but opponents fear it would unfairly target Muslims, and some compare it to the revocation of citizenship of French Jews during World War II. French and Belgian extremists linked to the Islamic State group, some of Moroccan descent, were behind the Paris attacks, which killed 130 and wounded hundreds. (ap)

Germany bans far-right Internet platform, detains 2

BERLIN — The German government has banned a far-right Internet platform that it accuses of spreading “racist, xenophobic, anti-Semitic, homophobic and anti-Islamic content” and federal prosecutors say two people have been arrested.

German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said Wednesday the ban on the Altermedia Deutschland platform is “a clear sign that the rule of law doesn’t allow hate crime.”

The prosecutor’s office said in a statement that two Germans, identified only as Jutta V. and Ralph Thomas K. in line with German privacy rules, were arrested on suspicion of founding a criminal organization and incitement. Three other suspects weren’t arrested.

The raids were conducted in homes in four German states and the northeastern Spanish town of Lloret de Mar. (ap)

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GIANYAR - Aura of this temple is very intense. It does not only retain shrines in Balinese architecture, but also features a temple of old Javanese style. This sacred ancient relic remains to survive up to these days. For a venue of meditation, it must be solemn. Moreover, if it is carried out in Garba Cave located in the east of the temple exactly at the Pakerisan riverside, the ambience will surely be more stable. Foreign tourists are very eager to visit the sanctuary.

It’s the Pengukurukuran Temple. It is believed to be the first to measure the strength of Bali in the past time.

Here, the strength of Kebo Iwa was measured before becoming a chief minister in ancient Balinese kingdom.

The location on the edge of Pakerisan River was used as a school for the kings of Bali. Its location is at the Sawagunung customary village, Pejeng, Tampaksiring subdistrict, Gianyar County.

Chief of local temple priests, Jero Mangku Dewa Gede Rauh, revealed the temple had some shrines along with the sites originating from ancient times. The temple spreading across 2 hectares of land was said to be the venue where the kings of ancient Bali measured the land, including finding a suitable place to build the center of a temple. The values of prehistoric and historic remains in the form of Great Temple were stored in the shrine of Ratu Bujangga. Meanwhile, in the east of the temple, exactly on the edge of Pakerisan Temple, lay a relic named Garba Cave believed to guard the temple.

It was said the cave was once taken advantage by Chief Minister Kebo Iwa from Bedahulu kingdom.

In the south of the temple occurred a stone path and rock stone gates. The road was heading for the Garba Cave. There was a stone containing a trace of footprint whose size exceeded the size of a human foot soles and believed if it belonged to Kebo Iwa. At the making of a ladder, the stones were said to walk by itself pursuant to the will of Kebo Iwa. Uniquely, every time stepping down the stairs, the amount was always different.

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Durant’s 44 points lift Thunder to OT victory at Knicks

NEW YORK — Oklahoma City’s Kevin Durant scored a season-high 44 points, including the basket that tied the game in regulation time, and the Thunder went on to win 128-122 in overtime at the New York Knicks on Tuesday.

The Knicks put up a gallant showing without injured leading scorer Carmelo Anthony but the Thunder won to maintain a 13game lead atop the NBA’s Northwest Division, ahead of Portland, which had a home win against Sacramento.

Among other results, the Los Angeles Clippers held on to win narrowly at Indiana, and Toronto tied a franchise record with its ninth straight win, defeating Washington.

Oklahoma City’s Durant hit the tying jumper with 16.2 seconds left in regulation, then scored seven points in overtime.

He hit four straight free throws in the final half-minute to finish 16 for 18 from the line. Russell Westbrook finished with 30 points, 10 assists and eight rebounds for the Thunder,

who have won eight of nine.

Langston Galloway scored 21 points for the Knicks. Los Angeles went on a 13-0 run in the fourth quarter which proved decisive as the Clippers won 91-89 at Indiana.

Chris Paul scored 26 points for the Clippers, who were without All-Star forward Blake Griffin, who broke his shooting hand in a scuffle with the team’s equipment manager.

Indiana went scoreless for eight minutes during the fourth quarter but closed with a 14-7 run. The Pacers forced a turnover with 2.1 seconds left but couldn’t get a shot off to attempt a tying basket.

Paul George finished with 31 points and 11 rebounds for the Pacers, who have lost three in a row.

Toronto’s Kyle Lowry put up 29 points before leaving with an injury

Ivanisevic demands proof of matchfixing allegations

MELBOURNE - Former Wimbledon champion Goran Ivanisevic says players are being hounded like “serial killers” and demanded proof of the match-fixing allegations that have rocked the sport at the Australian Open.

Tennis officials have been forced onto the back foot at the season opening grand slam after media reports alleged the anti-corruption watchdog had failed to properly police the game.

A review of the Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) was announced earlier on Wednesday by the sport’s power brokers in an effort to head off criticism that could lead to it being dragged down the same path as athletics and soccer. Ivanisevic said statistics and numbers were not enough to prove guilt.

“There is no evidence. We are talking about algorithms and mathematics and some computer spits your name out like a serial killer and everyone is chasing you,” he told reporters on Wednesday. “You need proof. Show me that some-

body did something wrong then I will believe you.”

The reports by the BBC and Buzzfeed News in part involved using an algorithm to cross-check thousands of tennis matches with those that produced irregular betting patterns. The reports did not identify players but said the matches had been red flagged to tennis anti-corruption officials, who then failed to act.

Ivanisevic, however, said irregular betting patterns on matches only resulted in players being placed on a ‘maybe list’. “Maybe I am going to have a date with Angelina Jolie,” the tall Croat added.

“Maybe not.

“How can you say maybe? It’s a serious thing, worse than taking drugs, worse than killing somebody. Don’t give me a maybe, don’t give me the mathematics, give me proof.”

Tennis great Martina Navratilova, who won 18 grand slam singles titles, said the reports were ‘baloney’. (rtr)

in the final minutes as the Raptors beat Washington 106-89 to extend their winning sequence.

Lowry suffered what appeared to be an injured hand with just under four minutes to go in the fourth quarter. He briefly returned courtside before going back to the locker room. Jonas Valanciunas had 13 points and 12 rebounds for the Raptors. John Wall led the way for the Wizards with 18 points and 14 assists.

Portland succeeded in shutting down in-form DeMarcus Cousins and beat Sacramento 112-97. Cousins, coming off 56 and 48-point performances in his past two games, led the Kings with 17 points, but hit only 4 of 21 shots. Cousins also struggled at the free throw line, making 9 of 17.

C.J. McCollum scored 18 points and Damian Lillard had 15 points and 12 assists for the Trail Blazers, who had seven players score in double figures. (ap)

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Oklahoma City Thunder’s Kevin Durant (35) dunks the ball as New York Knicks’ Kristaps Porzingis (6) and Derrick Williams (23) watch during the second half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016, in New York. The Thunder won 128-122.

Lorenzo wants to fight Valentino Rossi for MotoGP title again

Jorge Lorenzo wants another MotoGP title fight with team-mate Valentino Rossi in 2016, even for the simple reason that it means Yamaha is still at the front of the field.

Yamaha emerged as the dominant manufacturer in the 2015 season, with champion Lorenzo winning seven races and runner-up Rossi

four from the 18 grands prix.

While Honda won the other seven races, only one came with its 2015 bike, with Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa reverting to the ‘14 frame after early-season struggles.

Rossi led the standings from the first round, but was overhauled by Lorenzo in the Valencia finale.

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Yamaha’s MotoGP riders Jorge Lorenzo (L) and Valentino Rossi pose with the new Yamaha YZR-M1 for the 2016 season in Barcelona, Spain, January 18, 2016.

When asked if he fancied another battle with the Italian, Lorenzo said: “I hope, and we hope, because this would mean that our competitors are still behind.

“Hopefully it is like this again, because it would mean that Valentino or myself will become world champion again. “In general the bike is very complete. Now the problem is that with the new regulations of electronics, and also the new brand of tyres, it changes so many things.

“Apart from the challenge, to keep the same more or less, if the electronics change and the tyres change, it changes so much of the feeling that you feel on the bike.

Lorenzo admitted a clearer picture would emerge following the first pre-season test in Valencia next week. “It’s difficult to know at this moment, because just made one practice, that was in Valencia after the race,” he said. “So we didn’t check how the new electronics and tyres are working on other tracks.

“Especially also the factories have been improving their bikes and electronics in this time, from Valencia. (rtr)

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Barcelona to face Athletic Bilbao in Copa del Rey

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FIFA presidential candidate Jerome Champagne and his wife arrive on the red carpet for the FIFA Ballon d’Or 2015 awards ceremony in Zurich, Switzerland, January 11, 2016.

Champagne backs United States for 2022 if Qatar is stripped GENEVA — The United States should directly get to host the 2022 World Cup if Qatar is stripped of the tournament, according to FIFA presidential candidate Jerome Champagne.

The 2018 and 2022 bidding contests are under scrutiny by Switzerland’s attorney general who is investigating suspected money laundering, and American federal prosecutors’ wider probe of corruption in FIFA business that includes World Cup bids.

Champagne told French radio station RTL on Tuesday that FIFA should give hosting rights to the second-place bidder if corruption is proven linked to Qatar’s win. “It should not be a revote but apply the IOC’s legal precedent, giving the gold medal to the silver medalist,” the former FIFA international relations director said.

Qatar won the December 2010 vote of FIFA executive committee members in a five-bidder contest, finally beating the Americans 14-8 in the last round.

“The presumption of innocence must also go to the Qataris,” insisted Champagne, who was forced out of his FIFA job months before the hosting votes by rivals of Sepp Blatter.

Champagne is competing in the Feb. 26 election to succeed his former boss Blatter with Prince Ali of Jordan, Sheikh Salman of Bahrain, Gianni Infantino of Switzerland and Tokyo Sexwale of South Africa.

A supporter of keeping the World Cup as a 32-team event, Champagne criticized the “totally electioneering proposals” of his opponents to expand it to 40 teams for 2026 and distribute hundreds of millions of dollars more from FIFA reserves.

Champagne is the only candidate due in Brussels on Wednesday to meet with European lawmakers for an event originally planned as a debate of all five.

Also Tuesday, a German court confirmed details of a civil case brought by Qatari officials against former FIFA executive committee member Theo Zwanziger. (ap)

BARCELONA — Barcelona coach Luis Enrique is concerned that Wednesday’s Copa del Rey match against Athletic Bilbao could wear down his team ahead of its critical Spanish league game against Atletico Madrid. Barcelona holds a 2-1 advantage when it hosts Bilbao in the second leg of the quarterfinals. On the same night in the capital, Atletico will also seek its spot in the semifinals when it plays Celta Vigo after their scoreless first leg.

Three days later, Atletico will travel to Camp Nou trailing Barcelona on goal difference at the top of the Spanish league standings.

“The only game key to reaching the Copa semifinals is tomorrow’s, who knows what will happen with the rest,” Luis Enrique said. “I am worried about the physical wear and tear taking into account that Atletico is coming on Saturday. My team is fine, but these are both very intense matches.”

Neymar returned to team training on Tuesday after muscle pain forced him to miss Barcelona’s last game. But fever may sideline midfielders Andres Iniesta, Sergio Busquets and Arda Turan after all sat out of training.

Thursday’s quarterfinals will feature Valencia needing to turn around a 1-1

draw when it visits Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, while Sevilla takes a 2-0 advantage to second-division club Mirandes.

Barcelona is closing in on a club record set by former coach Pep Guardiola, who kept the team undefeated for 28 consecutive games in the 2010-11 season. After a stellar debut season that ended with the team matching Guardiola’s rare treble of Champions League, Spanish league and Copa del Rey titles, Luis Enrique has guided his team to 24 games without a loss.

Barcelona will look to make good on first-leg goals by Neymar and Munir El Haddadi, who scored before Aritz Aduriz gave the Basque club a lifeline.

Lionel Messi missed the opening leg because of muscle pain, but returned

to score the winning goal in Saturday’s 2-1 victory at Malaga in the league.

Only Barcelona, with 27 cups, can boast more success in the competition than Bilbao, which has won the tournament 23 times.

But Bilbao faces a daunting challenge at a stadium where it hasn’t won since November 2001. Barcelona is unbeaten in all 17 home games this season and routed Bilbao 6-0 at Camp Nou in the league less than two weeks ago.

Ernesto Valverde’s team can cling to its upset of Barcelona in the Spanish Super Cup to start the season, when it secured a 1-1 away draw after stunning the European champions 4-0 at San Mames. A draw with goals would suffice for Celta to eliminate Atletico, but Diego Simeone’s team is expert at keeping a clean sheet. Atletico hasn’t conceded a goal in five straight matches and has only allowed one in its last nine games.

While Jan Oblak has emerged as the league’s top goalkeeper, Miguel Moya has been Simeone’s pick for the Copa del Rey, where he has let two goals past him in five outings. (ap)

AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos

FC Barcelona’s Adriano Correia of Brazil, right, fights with Athletic Bilbao’s Inaki Williams, during their Spanish Copa del Rey soccer match, round 8, first leg, between Athletic Bilbao and FC Barcelona , at San Mames stadium, in Bilbao northern Spain, Wednesday, Jan. 20 2016.

Balotelli penalty helps AC Milan to win in Italian Cup semis

TURIN — Mario Balotelli converted a first-half penalty and AC Milan beat third-division Alessandria 1-0 in the opening leg of the Italian Cup semifinals on Tuesday.

Getting his first start after several months out with an injured pelvis, Balotelli calmly scored from the spot shortly before halftime after Luca Antonelli was fouled inside the area as he slalomed between defenders.

As usual, Balotelli did not celebrate. A few minutes earlier, Balotelli wasted a great chance after being set up by Keisuke Honda with only the goalkeeper to beat.

Milan substitute M’Baye Niang, who replaced Balotelli midway through the second half, hit the post near the end.

The match was at Turin’s Stadio Olimpico because the stadium in Alessandria, outside Turin, wasn’t big enough.

It’s the first time a third-division club has reached the last four since Bari 32 years ago. Alessandria

eliminated Serie A clubs Palermo and Genoa.

Juventus hosts Inter Milan in the other semifinal on Wednesday.

The return legs are scheduled for March 1, 2 or 3. (ap)

Alejandro Dominguez unanimously elected CONMEBOL president

ASUNCION, Paraguay — Alejandro Dominguez of Paraguay was elected on Tuesday as the fourth president in three years of turmoil for the governing body of South American soccer. Dominguez was the only candidate to lead CONMEBOL, and received all 10 votes from the 10 member federations. Wilmar Valdez of Uruguay withdrew his candidacy before the voting began.

The Paraguayan official also became a FIFA vice president and member of its often-discredited executive committee until May 2019.

Dominguez stepped into the positions after the last three CONMEBOL presidents were implicated in taking bribes from marketing contracts for the Copa America. All three were arrested at the request of United States authorities in a sweeping corruption scandal surrounding FIFA and Latin America in particular.

The previous CONMEBOL president was Juan Angel Napout of Paraguay, a close friend of Dominguez, who was arrested in Switzerland last month and agreed to be extradited to the U.S. Eugenio Figueredo of Uruguay faces charges in his own country after Swiss authorities who arrested him last May agreed to extradite him home instead of to the U.S. Previously, Nicolas Leoz of Paraguay led CONMEBOL for almost three decades before

leaving FIFA in 2013 to avoid sanctions in a longrunning World Cup kickbacks case. Leoz was also indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice last May and is under house arrest in Paraguay.

The vote was held in a conference center that carries

the name of Leoz.

CONMEBOL members filled a second vacancy on the FIFA executive committee by picking Argentina association president Luis Segura.

The election meeting in Asuncion was attended by FIFA presidential candidates Gianni Infantino, the UEFA general secretary from Switzerland, and former FIFA vice president Prince Ali of Jordan.

Dominguez said CONMEBOL would vote as a bloc for the FIFA president, but he did not say which candidate would be chosen. “We’ll analyze various topics over the next few days,” Dominguez said. (ap) Paraguayan Alejandro Dominguez, right, smiles after voting, during an extraordinary session of Conmebol, the South American football federation, in Luque, Paraguay, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016. Representatives elected Dominguez as their new president, replacing Angel Napout.

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Liverpool will win League Cup regardless of opposition Liverpool will win the League Cup title regardless of who they meet in the final, manager Juergen Klopp has predicted after his side’s dramatic penalty shootout victory over Stoke City on Tuesday.

Goalkeeper Simon Mignolet saved two penalties in the semi-final as Liverpool won the penalty shootout 6-5 to reach Wembley after the tie finished 1-1 at Anfield.

They have to wait until Wednesday to find out whether Manchester City or Everton will join them in the Feb. 28 final.

“Manchester City or Everton, I don’t care, we will win the cup,” Klopp, who returns to Wembley for the first time since leading Borussia Dortmund to the 2013 Champions League final, told

reporters after the game.

“Over the two legs, with all the games the players have had in the last two months, they deserved it. The fans deserved it. Liverpool deserved it. It was hard work but it was never easy to get to a final - I take this game as difficult but deserved.”

Stoke manager Mark Hughes felt the better side were knocked out of the tournament and that Liverpool were lucky to win.

“I think the reaction of us all is pure disappointment because on the night we were by far the better team,” Hughes said.

“You can see by the reaction of their fans and their players that they have been incredibly fortunate to progress to the final. These things happen in sport and football unfortunately, but that still doesn’t make it any easier to take.” (rtr)

Adebayor looks to resurrect career at Crystal Palace LONDON — Emmanuel Adebayor has signed for Crystal Palace until the end of the season in a bid to resurrect his career in the English Premier League. The Togo striker has been without a club since being released from his contract at Tottenham last September.

Palace announced the short-term signing of Adebayor on Tuesday. Adebayor will boost Palace’s attacking options, with manager Alan Pardew lacking a proven goalscorer as his team stumbles after a strong start to the season. Palace is winless in its last six league games to drop to 11th place.

The 31-year-old Adebayor has played for Arsenal, Manchester City, and Tottenham since arriving in England in 2006. (ap)

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FIFA presidential candidate Jerome Champagne and his wife arrive on the red carpet for the FIFA Ballon d’Or 2015 awards ceremony in Zurich, Switzerland, January 11, 2016.

Champagne backs United States for 2022 if Qatar is stripped GENEVA — The United States should directly get to host the 2022 World Cup if Qatar is stripped of the tournament, according to FIFA presidential candidate Jerome Champagne.

The 2018 and 2022 bidding contests are under scrutiny by Switzerland’s attorney general who is investigating suspected money laundering, and American federal prosecutors’ wider probe of corruption in FIFA business that includes World Cup bids.

Champagne told French radio station RTL on Tuesday that FIFA should give hosting rights to the second-place bidder if corruption is proven linked to Qatar’s win. “It should not be a revote but apply the IOC’s legal precedent, giving the gold medal to the silver medalist,” the former FIFA international relations director said.

Qatar won the December 2010 vote of FIFA executive committee members in a five-bidder contest, finally beating the Americans 14-8 in the last round.

“The presumption of innocence must also go to the Qataris,” insisted Champagne, who was forced out of his FIFA job months before the hosting votes by rivals of Sepp Blatter.

Champagne is competing in the Feb. 26 election to succeed his former boss Blatter with Prince Ali of Jordan, Sheikh Salman of Bahrain, Gianni Infantino of Switzerland and Tokyo Sexwale of South Africa.

A supporter of keeping the World Cup as a 32-team event, Champagne criticized the “totally electioneering proposals” of his opponents to expand it to 40 teams for 2026 and distribute hundreds of millions of dollars more from FIFA reserves.

Champagne is the only candidate due in Brussels on Wednesday to meet with European lawmakers for an event originally planned as a debate of all five.

Also Tuesday, a German court confirmed details of a civil case brought by Qatari officials against former FIFA executive committee member Theo Zwanziger. (ap)

BARCELONA — Barcelona coach Luis Enrique is concerned that Wednesday’s Copa del Rey match against Athletic Bilbao could wear down his team ahead of its critical Spanish league game against Atletico Madrid. Barcelona holds a 2-1 advantage when it hosts Bilbao in the second leg of the quarterfinals. On the same night in the capital, Atletico will also seek its spot in the semifinals when it plays Celta Vigo after their scoreless first leg.

Three days later, Atletico will travel to Camp Nou trailing Barcelona on goal difference at the top of the Spanish league standings.

“The only game key to reaching the Copa semifinals is tomorrow’s, who knows what will happen with the rest,” Luis Enrique said. “I am worried about the physical wear and tear taking into account that Atletico is coming on Saturday. My team is fine, but these are both very intense matches.”

Neymar returned to team training on Tuesday after muscle pain forced him to miss Barcelona’s last game. But fever may sideline midfielders Andres Iniesta, Sergio Busquets and Arda Turan after all sat out of training.

Thursday’s quarterfinals will feature Valencia needing to turn around a 1-1

draw when it visits Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, while Sevilla takes a 2-0 advantage to second-division club Mirandes.

Barcelona is closing in on a club record set by former coach Pep Guardiola, who kept the team undefeated for 28 consecutive games in the 2010-11 season. After a stellar debut season that ended with the team matching Guardiola’s rare treble of Champions League, Spanish league and Copa del Rey titles, Luis Enrique has guided his team to 24 games without a loss.

Barcelona will look to make good on first-leg goals by Neymar and Munir El Haddadi, who scored before Aritz Aduriz gave the Basque club a lifeline.

Lionel Messi missed the opening leg because of muscle pain, but returned

to score the winning goal in Saturday’s 2-1 victory at Malaga in the league.

Only Barcelona, with 27 cups, can boast more success in the competition than Bilbao, which has won the tournament 23 times.

But Bilbao faces a daunting challenge at a stadium where it hasn’t won since November 2001. Barcelona is unbeaten in all 17 home games this season and routed Bilbao 6-0 at Camp Nou in the league less than two weeks ago.

Ernesto Valverde’s team can cling to its upset of Barcelona in the Spanish Super Cup to start the season, when it secured a 1-1 away draw after stunning the European champions 4-0 at San Mames. A draw with goals would suffice for Celta to eliminate Atletico, but Diego Simeone’s team is expert at keeping a clean sheet. Atletico hasn’t conceded a goal in five straight matches and has only allowed one in its last nine games.

While Jan Oblak has emerged as the league’s top goalkeeper, Miguel Moya has been Simeone’s pick for the Copa del Rey, where he has let two goals past him in five outings. (ap)

AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos

FC Barcelona’s Adriano Correia of Brazil, right, fights with Athletic Bilbao’s Inaki Williams, during their Spanish Copa del Rey soccer match, round 8, first leg, between Athletic Bilbao and FC Barcelona , at San Mames stadium, in Bilbao northern Spain, Wednesday, Jan. 20 2016.

Balotelli penalty helps AC Milan to win in Italian Cup semis

TURIN — Mario Balotelli converted a first-half penalty and AC Milan beat third-division Alessandria 1-0 in the opening leg of the Italian Cup semifinals on Tuesday.

Getting his first start after several months out with an injured pelvis, Balotelli calmly scored from the spot shortly before halftime after Luca Antonelli was fouled inside the area as he slalomed between defenders.

As usual, Balotelli did not celebrate. A few minutes earlier, Balotelli wasted a great chance after being set up by Keisuke Honda with only the goalkeeper to beat.

Milan substitute M’Baye Niang, who replaced Balotelli midway through the second half, hit the post near the end.

The match was at Turin’s Stadio Olimpico because the stadium in Alessandria, outside Turin, wasn’t big enough.

It’s the first time a third-division club has reached the last four since Bari 32 years ago. Alessandria

eliminated Serie A clubs Palermo and Genoa.

Juventus hosts Inter Milan in the other semifinal on Wednesday.

The return legs are scheduled for March 1, 2 or 3. (ap)

Alejandro Dominguez unanimously elected CONMEBOL president

ASUNCION, Paraguay — Alejandro Dominguez of Paraguay was elected on Tuesday as the fourth president in three years of turmoil for the governing body of South American soccer. Dominguez was the only candidate to lead CONMEBOL, and received all 10 votes from the 10 member federations. Wilmar Valdez of Uruguay withdrew his candidacy before the voting began.

The Paraguayan official also became a FIFA vice president and member of its often-discredited executive committee until May 2019.

Dominguez stepped into the positions after the last three CONMEBOL presidents were implicated in taking bribes from marketing contracts for the Copa America. All three were arrested at the request of United States authorities in a sweeping corruption scandal surrounding FIFA and Latin America in particular.

The previous CONMEBOL president was Juan Angel Napout of Paraguay, a close friend of Dominguez, who was arrested in Switzerland last month and agreed to be extradited to the U.S. Eugenio Figueredo of Uruguay faces charges in his own country after Swiss authorities who arrested him last May agreed to extradite him home instead of to the U.S. Previously, Nicolas Leoz of Paraguay led CONMEBOL for almost three decades before

leaving FIFA in 2013 to avoid sanctions in a longrunning World Cup kickbacks case. Leoz was also indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice last May and is under house arrest in Paraguay.

The vote was held in a conference center that carries

the name of Leoz.

CONMEBOL members filled a second vacancy on the FIFA executive committee by picking Argentina association president Luis Segura.

The election meeting in Asuncion was attended by FIFA presidential candidates Gianni Infantino, the UEFA general secretary from Switzerland, and former FIFA vice president Prince Ali of Jordan.

Dominguez said CONMEBOL would vote as a bloc for the FIFA president, but he did not say which candidate would be chosen. “We’ll analyze various topics over the next few days,” Dominguez said. (ap) Paraguayan Alejandro Dominguez, right, smiles after voting, during an extraordinary session of Conmebol, the South American football federation, in Luque, Paraguay, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016. Representatives elected Dominguez as their new president, replacing Angel Napout.

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Liverpool will win League Cup regardless of opposition Liverpool will win the League Cup title regardless of who they meet in the final, manager Juergen Klopp has predicted after his side’s dramatic penalty shootout victory over Stoke City on Tuesday.

Goalkeeper Simon Mignolet saved two penalties in the semi-final as Liverpool won the penalty shootout 6-5 to reach Wembley after the tie finished 1-1 at Anfield.

They have to wait until Wednesday to find out whether Manchester City or Everton will join them in the Feb. 28 final.

“Manchester City or Everton, I don’t care, we will win the cup,” Klopp, who returns to Wembley for the first time since leading Borussia Dortmund to the 2013 Champions League final, told

reporters after the game.

“Over the two legs, with all the games the players have had in the last two months, they deserved it. The fans deserved it. Liverpool deserved it. It was hard work but it was never easy to get to a final - I take this game as difficult but deserved.”

Stoke manager Mark Hughes felt the better side were knocked out of the tournament and that Liverpool were lucky to win.

“I think the reaction of us all is pure disappointment because on the night we were by far the better team,” Hughes said.

“You can see by the reaction of their fans and their players that they have been incredibly fortunate to progress to the final. These things happen in sport and football unfortunately, but that still doesn’t make it any easier to take.” (rtr)

Adebayor looks to resurrect career at Crystal Palace LONDON — Emmanuel Adebayor has signed for Crystal Palace until the end of the season in a bid to resurrect his career in the English Premier League. The Togo striker has been without a club since being released from his contract at Tottenham last September.

Palace announced the short-term signing of Adebayor on Tuesday. Adebayor will boost Palace’s attacking options, with manager Alan Pardew lacking a proven goalscorer as his team stumbles after a strong start to the season. Palace is winless in its last six league games to drop to 11th place.

The 31-year-old Adebayor has played for Arsenal, Manchester City, and Tottenham since arriving in England in 2006. (ap)

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GIANYAR - Aura of this temple is very intense. It does not only retain shrines in Balinese architecture, but also features a temple of old Javanese style. This sacred ancient relic remains to survive up to these days. For a venue of meditation, it must be solemn. Moreover, if it is carried out in Garba Cave located in the east of the temple exactly at the Pakerisan riverside, the ambience will surely be more stable. Foreign tourists are very eager to visit the sanctuary.

It’s the Pengukurukuran Temple. It is believed to be the first to measure the strength of Bali in the past time.

Here, the strength of Kebo Iwa was measured before becoming a chief minister in ancient Balinese kingdom.

The location on the edge of Pakerisan River was used as a school for the kings of Bali. Its location is at the Sawagunung customary village, Pejeng, Tampaksiring subdistrict, Gianyar County.

Chief of local temple priests, Jero Mangku Dewa Gede Rauh, revealed the temple had some shrines along with the sites originating from ancient times. The temple spreading across 2 hectares of land was said to be the venue where the kings of ancient Bali measured the land, including finding a suitable place to build the center of a temple. The values of prehistoric and historic remains in the form of Great Temple were stored in the shrine of Ratu Bujangga. Meanwhile, in the east of the temple, exactly on the edge of Pakerisan Temple, lay a relic named Garba Cave believed to guard the temple.

It was said the cave was once taken advantage by Chief Minister Kebo Iwa from Bedahulu kingdom.

In the south of the temple occurred a stone path and rock stone gates. The road was heading for the Garba Cave. There was a stone containing a trace of footprint whose size exceeded the size of a human foot soles and believed if it belonged to Kebo Iwa. At the making of a ladder, the stones were said to walk by itself pursuant to the will of Kebo Iwa. Uniquely, every time stepping down the stairs, the amount was always different.

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Durant’s 44 points lift Thunder to OT victory at Knicks

NEW YORK — Oklahoma City’s Kevin Durant scored a season-high 44 points, including the basket that tied the game in regulation time, and the Thunder went on to win 128-122 in overtime at the New York Knicks on Tuesday.

The Knicks put up a gallant showing without injured leading scorer Carmelo Anthony but the Thunder won to maintain a 13game lead atop the NBA’s Northwest Division, ahead of Portland, which had a home win against Sacramento.

Among other results, the Los Angeles Clippers held on to win narrowly at Indiana, and Toronto tied a franchise record with its ninth straight win, defeating Washington.

Oklahoma City’s Durant hit the tying jumper with 16.2 seconds left in regulation, then scored seven points in overtime.

He hit four straight free throws in the final half-minute to finish 16 for 18 from the line. Russell Westbrook finished with 30 points, 10 assists and eight rebounds for the Thunder,

who have won eight of nine.

Langston Galloway scored 21 points for the Knicks. Los Angeles went on a 13-0 run in the fourth quarter which proved decisive as the Clippers won 91-89 at Indiana.

Chris Paul scored 26 points for the Clippers, who were without All-Star forward Blake Griffin, who broke his shooting hand in a scuffle with the team’s equipment manager.

Indiana went scoreless for eight minutes during the fourth quarter but closed with a 14-7 run. The Pacers forced a turnover with 2.1 seconds left but couldn’t get a shot off to attempt a tying basket.

Paul George finished with 31 points and 11 rebounds for the Pacers, who have lost three in a row.

Toronto’s Kyle Lowry put up 29 points before leaving with an injury

Ivanisevic demands proof of matchfixing allegations

MELBOURNE - Former Wimbledon champion Goran Ivanisevic says players are being hounded like “serial killers” and demanded proof of the match-fixing allegations that have rocked the sport at the Australian Open.

Tennis officials have been forced onto the back foot at the season opening grand slam after media reports alleged the anti-corruption watchdog had failed to properly police the game.

A review of the Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) was announced earlier on Wednesday by the sport’s power brokers in an effort to head off criticism that could lead to it being dragged down the same path as athletics and soccer. Ivanisevic said statistics and numbers were not enough to prove guilt.

“There is no evidence. We are talking about algorithms and mathematics and some computer spits your name out like a serial killer and everyone is chasing you,” he told reporters on Wednesday. “You need proof. Show me that some-

body did something wrong then I will believe you.”

The reports by the BBC and Buzzfeed News in part involved using an algorithm to cross-check thousands of tennis matches with those that produced irregular betting patterns. The reports did not identify players but said the matches had been red flagged to tennis anti-corruption officials, who then failed to act.

Ivanisevic, however, said irregular betting patterns on matches only resulted in players being placed on a ‘maybe list’. “Maybe I am going to have a date with Angelina Jolie,” the tall Croat added.

“Maybe not.

“How can you say maybe? It’s a serious thing, worse than taking drugs, worse than killing somebody. Don’t give me a maybe, don’t give me the mathematics, give me proof.”

Tennis great Martina Navratilova, who won 18 grand slam singles titles, said the reports were ‘baloney’. (rtr)

in the final minutes as the Raptors beat Washington 106-89 to extend their winning sequence.

Lowry suffered what appeared to be an injured hand with just under four minutes to go in the fourth quarter. He briefly returned courtside before going back to the locker room. Jonas Valanciunas had 13 points and 12 rebounds for the Raptors. John Wall led the way for the Wizards with 18 points and 14 assists.

Portland succeeded in shutting down in-form DeMarcus Cousins and beat Sacramento 112-97. Cousins, coming off 56 and 48-point performances in his past two games, led the Kings with 17 points, but hit only 4 of 21 shots. Cousins also struggled at the free throw line, making 9 of 17.

C.J. McCollum scored 18 points and Damian Lillard had 15 points and 12 assists for the Trail Blazers, who had seven players score in double figures. (ap)

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Oklahoma City Thunder’s Kevin Durant (35) dunks the ball as New York Knicks’ Kristaps Porzingis (6) and Derrick Williams (23) watch during the second half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016, in New York. The Thunder won 128-122.

Lorenzo wants to fight Valentino Rossi for MotoGP title again

Jorge Lorenzo wants another MotoGP title fight with team-mate Valentino Rossi in 2016, even for the simple reason that it means Yamaha is still at the front of the field.

Yamaha emerged as the dominant manufacturer in the 2015 season, with champion Lorenzo winning seven races and runner-up Rossi

four from the 18 grands prix.

While Honda won the other seven races, only one came with its 2015 bike, with Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa reverting to the ‘14 frame after early-season struggles.

Rossi led the standings from the first round, but was overhauled by Lorenzo in the Valencia finale.

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Yamaha’s MotoGP riders Jorge Lorenzo (L) and Valentino Rossi pose with the new Yamaha YZR-M1 for the 2016 season in Barcelona, Spain, January 18, 2016.

When asked if he fancied another battle with the Italian, Lorenzo said: “I hope, and we hope, because this would mean that our competitors are still behind.

“Hopefully it is like this again, because it would mean that Valentino or myself will become world champion again. “In general the bike is very complete. Now the problem is that with the new regulations of electronics, and also the new brand of tyres, it changes so many things.

“Apart from the challenge, to keep the same more or less, if the electronics change and the tyres change, it changes so much of the feeling that you feel on the bike.

Lorenzo admitted a clearer picture would emerge following the first pre-season test in Valencia next week. “It’s difficult to know at this moment, because just made one practice, that was in Valencia after the race,” he said. “So we didn’t check how the new electronics and tyres are working on other tracks.

“Especially also the factories have been improving their bikes and electronics in this time, from Valencia. (rtr)

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FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 4, 2016, file photo, a Syrian refugee man walks in mud after a heavy rain at a refugee camp in the town of Hosh Hareem, in the Bekaa valley, east Lebanon. In a report published Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016, the New York-based rights group Human Rights Watch said Lebanese residency laws are putting Syrian refugees in danger.

Rights group: fearing refugees, West curtails human rights

ISTANBUL — Western governments fearful of terror attacks and the potential threat posed by refugees are shortchanging human rights and adopting counterproductive policies in the name of security, Human Rights Watch said in its world report Wednesday.

HRW executive director Kenneth Roth chided Europe and the United States “for blatant Islamophobia and shameless demonizing of refugees,” warning this creates “the kind of division and animosity that terrorist recruiters love to exploit.”

The organization unveiled its annual report reviewing human rights practices around the world in Istanbul. Turkey is home to 2.2 million Syrian refugees and the main departure point for migrants headed to Europe. There are more than 60 million people displaced by war or repression, according to HRW.

Roth writes that the estimated 1 million asylum seekers who reached Europe by sea in 2015 would represent only 0.20 percent of the European Union population if resettlement sharing occurred.

“Creating a safe and orderly way for refugees to make their way to Europe would reduce lives lost at sea while helping immigration officials to screen out security risks,” Roth said.

Policy makers in the US and Europe, he said, are using the terrorist threat as an opportunity to expand law-enforcement powers, including

mass surveillance.

Meanwhile, Russia and China have embarked on the largest crackdown on civil society in decades, according to the 659-page report reviewing more than 90 countries.

It noted similar trends in Turkey, Kenya, Sudan, South Africa and Israel.

Human Rights Watch celebrated gains for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities in 2015 - including the legalization of same-sex marriage in Ireland, Mexico, and the United States.

Mozambique decriminalized homosexuality.

The organization noted that roughly one in three girls in the developing world are married before the age of 18, and more than 1 million children are behind bars. (ap)

French justice chief resigns amid flap over terrorism bill

PARIS — France’s justice minister unexpectedly resigned Wednesday after objecting to President Francois Hollande’s push to revoke citizenship from convicted terrorists with dual nationality. Hollande announced Christiane Taubira’s resignation Wednesday — just ahead of a Cabinet meeting, and hours before a Parliament commission takes up the citizenship bill.

Taubira, a devoted leftist best known for championing the legalization of gay marriage, tweeted that “sometimes to resist is to remain, sometimes to resist is to leave.”

Taubira, from French Guiana on the Caribbean coast, has been a pioneer for women and minorities in French politics.

She had suffered tensions in the past with center-leaning Prime Min-

ister Manuel Valls. Taubira is being replaced by Jean-Jacques Urvoas, a lawmaker from Brittany who is considered a specialist of security issues within the Socialist Party — and seen as close to Valls.

The citizenship bill, prompted by the Paris attacks Nov. 13, is popular among conservatives and the far right but is especially divisive for the governing Socialists. Polls show most French support the idea, but opponents fear it would unfairly target Muslims, and some compare it to the revocation of citizenship of French Jews during World War II. French and Belgian extremists linked to the Islamic State group, some of Moroccan descent, were behind the Paris attacks, which killed 130 and wounded hundreds. (ap)

Germany bans far-right Internet platform, detains 2

BERLIN — The German government has banned a far-right Internet platform that it accuses of spreading “racist, xenophobic, anti-Semitic, homophobic and anti-Islamic content” and federal prosecutors say two people have been arrested.

German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said Wednesday the ban on the Altermedia Deutschland platform is “a clear sign that the rule of law doesn’t allow hate crime.”

The prosecutor’s office said in a statement that two Germans, identified only as Jutta V. and Ralph Thomas K. in line with German privacy rules, were arrested on suspicion of founding a criminal organization and incitement. Three other suspects weren’t arrested.

The raids were conducted in homes in four German states and the northeastern Spanish town of Lloret de Mar. (ap)

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Dollar slips ahead of Fed’s first 2016 meeting

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Rights groups rap treatment of Indonesian sect members

JAKARTA - Indonesia has relocated more than 1,500 members of a controversial sect from their village “for their own safety”, an official said Wednesday, but rights groups described their treatment as religious persecution.

Members of the mysterious Light of Nusantara Movement -- or Gafatar -- have been moved from a remote communal farm in Indonesia’s half of Borneo island after a mob attack.

They are now in the country’s main island of Java undergoing “rehabilitation” instruction sessions on Islam and civic duties.

Meanwhile, followers of a separate minority group face ejection from their community unless they

convert to mainstream Islam, according to Human Rights Watch.

Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, is seen as largely tolerant and pluralist. But a number of high-profile attacks against minority groups in recent years has marred this image.

The controversy surrounding Gafatar, a group accused of luring followers from across Indonesia to practise a deviant blend of

the Muslim faith, has captivated national attention despite its tiny following in a country of 250 million.

Last week an angry mob torched their village base in Kalimantan, displacing roughly 500 families -more than 1,500 people. They were evacuated by government authorities first to temporary shelters then back to Indonesia’s main island of Java, some by warship.

A spokesman for President Joko Widodo said the decision was made “for their own safety” and several government departments had been instructed to handle the crisis.

“We must protect our citizens

regardless of their identity. They are also Indonesian citizens,” spokesman Johan Budi told AFP. Gafatar insists that it does not practise deviant Islam. The country’s top clerical body, the Indonesia Ulema Council (MUI), is expected to rule next month on whether its beliefs are heretical.

Anyone charged with heresy under Indonesian law can face five years in prison, said Human Rights Watch researcher Andreas Harsono.

Police have said they are investigating any criminal links to the Gafatar movement.

The evacuees in Java have begun what officials are calling “reha-

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bilitation” sessions on religion and civic duty, some run by the MUI. The classes are expected to last five days and include special instruction for women and children and those deemed “ideologues” within the Gafatar movement, said Central Java MUI chairman Ahmad Daroji.

Several local rights groups, including the Jakarta Legal Aid Institute and the Setara Institute, have criticised the treatment of Gafatar.

“It is religious persecution,” Harsono told AFP. “This re-education programme is simply an abuse of human rights.” (afp)

Jualo secures series A funding from NSI Ventures

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TOKYO - The dollar slipped against the yen and most emerging currencies Wednesday as markets focus on the Federal Reserve’s first meeting of the year.

Visitors check out Toyota Vitz at a Toyota showroom in Tokyo, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016. Toyota Motor Corp. says it sold 10.151 million vehicles in 2015, retaining its status as the world’s topselling automaker for the fourth straight year.

The US central bank is not expected to announce any change in monetary policy after the meeting ends later Wednesday, following its historic interest rate raise in December.

But dealers will pore over its post-meeting statement looking for signs that it will back off its signal of four interest rate hikes this year, which would support the dollar.

“If the Fed sounds too dovish a chord, they’ll lose the option to raise rates in March,” Masato Yanagiya, head of foreign-exchange and money trading at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking, told Bloomberg.

“If the Fed isn’t so dovish, it’s likely US yields will rise, and the dollar will strengthen.”

The Bank of Japan wraps up its first policy meeting of the year Friday, after speculation at the start of this week that it is considering more stimulus to counter weakness in the world’s number three economy.

In Tokyo, the greenback weakened to 118.09 yen from 118.42 yen Tuesday in New York.

The euro slipped to $1.0864 and 128.30 yen from $1.0868 and 128.70 yen.

Speculation that the Fed may back away from its ambitious rate-hike schedule gave a boost to emerging currencies while a broad regional equities rally also lifted appetite for higher-yielding, riskier, units.

The oil-dependent Malaysian ringgit rose 0.67 percent after crude rallied Tuesday, while the South Korean won was up 0.2 percent, Indonesia’s rupiah tacked on 0.1 percent, and the Thai baht also edged up 0.1 percent.

The Australian dollar climbed 0.3 percent after a report showing a pick-up in inflation lowered expectations the country’s central bank will cut interest rates again soon. (afp)

TOKYO - Toyota on Wednesday kept the title of world’s biggest automaker for the fourth straight year after saying it sold 10.15 million vehicles globally in 2015, driving past Volkswagen and General Motors.

Dented by a pollution-cheating scandal, Volkswagen earlier logged sales of 9.93 million vehicles worldwide, while Chevrolet and Cadillac maker GM moved 9.8 million last year.

Toyota shares jumped 3.80 percent to end at 6,881 yen ($58) in Tokyo on Wednesday, boosted by reports it is in talks with Suzuki over a partnership to build compact cars for emerging markets, including India.

Strong North American demand drove Toyota’s figures as total sales slipped 0.8 percent from 2014,

Toyota keeps top global automaker crown, sells 10.15 mn in 2015 largely owing to a slowdown in Japan where a weak economy hit demand.

Toyota is also facing sluggish sales in Thailand and Indonesia while a Japanese consumption tax hike planned for next year could spark a rush in buying -- and subsequent slowdown as prices go up.

The Japanese giant was likely to keep the top automaker crown for at least another year, but a slowdown in top vehicle market China could hurt its numbers, analysts said.

“Toyota is benefiting from the strength of the US auto market, and we expect it to continue to grow this year, so the company should keep its crown,” said Yoshiaki Kawano, a Tokyo-based analyst at research firm IHS.

Oil prices resume slide in Asia

SINGAPORE - Oil prices resumed their slide in Asia Wednesday as long-running concerns over the saturated market overshadowed talk of possible coordination between some major producers to slash output.

Traders are also eyeing the release later in the day of a report on US commercial

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crude stockpiles, seeking clues about demand in the world’s biggest economy and key oil user.

At around 0630 GMT US benchmark West Texas Intermediate for March delivery was down 39 cents, or 1.24 percent, at $31.06. Brent crude for March was down 17 cents, or 0.53 percent, at $31.63 a barrel.

They had risen around four percent Tuesday on hopes of output talks.

Iraqi Oil Minister Adel Abdulmahdi said Tuesday Baghdad was “ready to cooperate” on cutting production, but only if nonOPEC producers did so as well.

Abdulmahdi was also quoted by Bloomberg as describing increased “flex-

“But in China, Toyota lags behind VW or Nissan”.

In the first half of the year, the German giant, whose other brands include Porsche and Audi, was set to become the world’s biggest automaker as it rode momentum in emerging economies.

But then it posted its first drop in annual sales for more than a decade, as the company was hammered by a massive pollution cheating scandal.

Volkswagen was sideswiped by stunning revelations in September that it had fitted 11 million vehicles with devices designed to dodge pollution tests.

The US government has said it was suing VW for $20 billion in civil penalties over the scandal. (afp)

ibility” on output between Russia and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), fuelling hopes of talks on an agreement.

Russian news agency Tass reported that Russian oil company Lukoil has asked the Kremlin to work with OPEC to limit output. (afp)

JAKARTA - Jualo, Indonesia’s rapidly expanding marketplace for second-hand goods, has secured a multi-million-dollar Series A round funding from NSI Ventures, a respected regional VC firm with strong ties to Indonesia. Last year Jualo obtained seed funding from Mountain Kejora and Alpha JWC Ventures, both seasoned Indonesiafocussed VC firms. Alpha JWC Ventures is also participating in the Series A round.

The fresh funds will help to expand the business, attract prime-talent, increase customer satisfaction, and propel Jualo into prime position within their sector. “NSI Ventures is very pleased to lead this investment round in Jualo and help them to accelerate their product development and growth. We have been impressed by the progress of Chaim and the team and their sharp focus on innovation and value creation for buyer and seller in a rapidly developing market,” commented Shane Chesson, Partner of NSI Ventures.

Jualo was founded in 2014 by Chaim Fetter and close friends. It is based in Jakarta with a team of 15 including a strong tech development team. Boasting such features as Jualo Escrow, Geo Search and Home Delivery, the business has positioned itself as a hybrid with the functionality of a marketplace and the broad product choice of a classic e-classifieds platform. It offers a seamless mobile and desktop experience to make transaction.

From its launch in January 2014, Jualo’s numbers have grown rapidly without significant marketing expenditure, reaching more than 2,000,000 monthly active users and displaying 500,000 active listings. The team has an in-depth understanding of the rapidly developing Indonesian market, and blends cost-effective guerillia-entrepreneurship with a lean operating approach.

“Any business should generate revenue to be able to claim its rights of existence,” Chaim mentioned.

Jualo has generated revenue from day one, monetises through both the user and advertisements and is progressively layering in value-added transaction services over the

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Chaim Fetter (2nd left), Founder Jualo.com and the Peduli Anak Foundation with Sebastian Togelang (right), the investor of Jualo, Managing Director of Mountain Kejora welcomed two new investor Shane Chesson (left), Founder General Partner NSI Ventures and Jeffry Joe (2nd right), Alpha JWC, during a press conference on Monday. platform.

Using an e-classifieds marketplace platform can be tricky. Building user trust, as well as a smooth fulfilment and payment process, are considered the main challenges. Jualo continuously collects detailed feedback from the Indonesian consumer at all levels to help solve key pain points and build new services.

Jualo has already became the second largest marketplace for second-hand goods in Indonesia and aims to use the proceeds of

this capital raise to build toward Indonesian market leadership over the next 18 months as well as offer Jualo in additional regional markets.

Jefrey Joe of Alpha JWC Ventures added, “Jualo’s product-focus approach and deep understanding of the local market will be a key success factor in this space. We are happy to see the strong organic growthcontinue, and are confident that the Series A investment will propel Jualo to the next level.”

“With strong backers such as NSI Venture, Jualo will be able to become the marketplace of choice across Indonesia and emerging Asia,” indicates Chaim.

New online marketplace users are being added rapidly every year, and their expectations will be different from those of the past.

Jualo is offering a services suitable for this new generation of consumer and fundamentally improving the liquidity of second hand goods. (kmb18)

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Washington faces days of cleanup after epic blizzard

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK - Washington will need several more days to return to normal after a weekend blizzard dropped more than 2 feet (60 cm) of snow along the U.S. East Coast, likely causing billions of dollars in damage and killing more than 30 people. The U.S. capital was at a standstill, with federal government offices to be closed again on Tuesday, schools in the district and surrounding suburbs shut until at least Wednesday, and the U.S. House of Representatives canceling all votes until next week.

The crossing to Nusa Penida going on normally even the weather condition is not good. The corssing is one of the favorite of the tourists who want to visit Nusa Penida.

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Bomb threat has no impact on tourist visits to Gianyar

GIANYAR – The bomb threat in Bali that followed the explosion and shooting incidents in Thamrin, Jakarta not long time ago, has had no impact on the number of tourist visiting Gianyar -including Ubud, said Head of the Gianyar Tourism Office, A.A. Bagus Ari Brahmanta on Tuesday.

Brahmanta did concede that there were less tourist visiting Gianyar in January, compared to December, but he added that is a common trend every year and that the next peak season for tourism starts in June. “This time of year is known as the low season with hotel and villa occupancy rates averaging about 20 -30 percent,” he explained.

Overall, 2015 saw significant increases in the number of tourist visiting Gianyar, with 2.8 million visitors, whereas the target for

2015 was only 2.5 million, said Brahmanta.

Large numbers of tourist visited five main tourist destinations that are managed by the government of Gianyar: Goa Gajah, Gunung Kawi Tampaksiring, Yeh Pulu, Gunung Kawi Sebatu and Tirta Empul Tampaksiring. Tirta Empul showed an excellent ability to draw visitors with 25 percent of all visitors paying a visit to this temple.

Goa Gajah and Gunung Kawi Tampaksiring were also very popular showing higher increases in

visitor numbers than the other sites.

“New tourist destinations such as Gajah Taro also showed increases in the number of both domestic and foreign visitors,” added Brahmanta.

The security measures taken by the ranks of the Gianyar Police were also lauded as important efforts towards ensuring that Bali’s security is comparable to places like Singapore, Europe and America.

“Security is very good. In Ubud, for instance, I see a number of officers in complete uniform, and more intensive patrolling and more security posts. In this way visitors to Bali can rest assured that security conditions are the same as they are in their country of origin,” concluded Brahmanta. (kmb35)

Washington’s mayor, Muriel Bowser, said city public schools would remain closed on Tuesday but that city government offices would reopen. She urged people to use mass transit rather than trying to drive and park on the city’s snow-clogged roads. “We knew that we would have ... several days of cleanup ahead of us,” Bowser told reporters. “Know that we’re going to be dealing with snow all of this week.”

Officials reported at least 36 storm-related deaths, including traffic accidents and heart attacks while shoveling snow in Washington, Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee and Virginia.

The dead included a North Carolina man who was shot and killed when he saw a motorist who had run off the road in the storm and attempted to help him. The motorist remained jailed on murder charges on Monday. Risk Management Solutions meteorologist Jeff Waters said he could not provide specific damage estimates yet, but said the storm “could rank as one of the more significant events in recent history.”

He said comparable historical

storms would include the Blizzard of 1996, which caused approximately $1.5 billion in economic losses and $740 million insured losses at the time. Reinsurance broker Aon Benfield said on Monday the storm likely caused billions of dollars in economic losses, including damage to buildings and lost business from closures.

Officials said all but one line on Washington’s second-busiest subway system would resume service on Tuesday and bus services would be expanded. High snowbanks at street corners made travel within Washington difficult for pedestrians.

“The hardest part was getting the stroller through the unclean sidewalks,” said Isam Qahwash, a 41-year-old scientist from Princeton, New Jersey, as he carried his 14-month-old son in a stroller across a downtown street. “It seems like they move really slow cleaning the snow here.”

Even with federal government offices officially closed, the Supreme Court was open for business, scheduled to issue rulings and act on pending appeals from the snowbound courthouse across from the U.S. Capitol building.

Washington officials said the city

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Grace McGuire of Washington shovels out her car in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016, as the nation’s capital digs out following a monster weekend snow. East Coast cities hit hard by a massive snowstorm are getting closer to their normal routines after more than three days with life at a virtual standstill. has applied for federal disaster relief to help pay for the snowstorm’s costs, which they did not estimate.

Ten public schools around the city opened to provide breakfast and lunch to low-income children who typically receive free meals at school, officials said.

“THIS HAS BEEN A NIGHTMARE” Air travel remained seriously affected as some 1,603 U.S. flights were canceled on Monday, with Newark Liberty International

a public servant. Immigration, he explained is related to security as it is through immigration services that foreigners enter the country.

“The immigration office has been enhancing services including passport services and increased hours of operation,” he said. Thus, the Denpasar Immigration Office can can now issue 150-250 passport each day and Ngurah Rai Immigration Office around 70 to 80 passports.

When asked about allegations of brokering, Sulistiono immediately

denied that such practices were still going on. “We make sure that there is no brokering in the passport application process. There is no such practice going on,” affirmed the Head of the Denpasar Immigration office.

As for the matter of supervising foreigners in relation to criminal activities like pedohilia, Head of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights for Bali Office, Sulistiono, said that anyone found to be in violation of the law is handed over to law enforcement officers. “Legal processes are handled by the police,

only the last step of investigations that confirm guilt is dealt with by the immigration office: deportation. We’re ready to prevent such criminals from operating here,” he said.

Sulistiono went on to say that the supervision of foreigners needs to be done careful given that Bali is a tourist destination, and so supervision must not interfere with the comfort of tourists. “We only approach situations with technical support” he said. If cases are related to investment or the assessment of

human resources, they will be examined and reviewed,” he added.

“Immigration guards the country’s entrances and sovereignty. The monitoring of foreigners is done with integrity by involving all relevant authorities. Immigration also serves to safeguard against unlawful competition on the job market and in investments. Laws need to be followed, otherwise the spirit of maintaining the Homeland and state sovereignty, will disappear altogether,” concluded Sulistiono. (kmb37)

the city’s public schools open.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio told a local radio station he thought the city would face more storms of this magnitude in the future.

“We’re now in the age of extreme weather. You know, this is what climate change has done to us. These storms are much bigger than what we’ve seen in the past,” de Blasio said. “The mega storm is going to be with us for a while now.” N.Y. officials warned the cost of snow removal was rising.(rtr)

Turkish prosecutor seeks life term for 2 jailed journalists

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The tourists are enjoying their time in Ubud. The bom threat has no impact on tourism in Bali

Supervision of foreigners tightened

DENPASAR - Head of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights for Bali Office, Sulistiono, accompanied by the Head of First Class Immigration Office of Denpasar, Fery MS, on the sidelines of the 66th Immigration Service Day on Tuesday (Jan. 26) said that the supervision of foreigners in Bali is being tightened. Ethics and politeness are still a priority so that foreigners do not feel disturbed, he added.

Sulistiono said that the function of the Ministry of Law and Human Rights, in sub immigration, is as

Airport, New York’s LaGuardia Airport and Washington Dulles International Airport the hardest hit, according to FlightAware. com.

“This has been a nightmare,” said Mary Lavigne, 34, as she waited at LaGuardia with her 18month-old daughter for a flight to Montreal. “We’ve come to the airport twice, only to have to go back home ... The trip is proving as brutal as the storm.” New York was quicker to return to business, with the New York Stock Exchange and

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ISTANBUL — A Turkish newspaper says prosecutors are seeking life prison terms for two of its journalists who have been jailed on terror and espionage charges for their reports on alleged government arms smuggling to Syria.

Cumhuriyet newspaper says Wednesday an Istanbul prosecutor has completed an indictment against editor-in-chief, Can Dundar, and the paper’s Ankara representative, Erdem Gul. The indict-

ment needs to be accepted by a court before a trial can begin.

In May, Cumhuriyet published what it said were images of Turkish trucks carrying ammunition to Syrian militants. The paper said the images proved that Turkey was smuggling arms to rebels — a claim the government rejects.

The journalists were investigated after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he would not let Dundar get away with it and filed a criminal complaint.(ap)

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Zika virus, a wolf in sheep’s clothing

PARIS - The world’s latest health scare is a seemingly minor illness that carries a killer wrapped inside: Zika, the mosquitoborne virus sweeping Latin America, usually lasts less than a week, except when it derails a whole life.

Zika, which resembles a light case of the flu, is often so mild that people don’t realize they have it.

But health officials in Latin America say the tropical fever is linked to neurological problems and a surge in microcephaly, a condition in which babies are born with abnormally small heads. The defect can cause brain damage and death.

The outbreak has led authorities in some countries to urge couples not to get pregnant, while the US

Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has warned pregnant women to avoid traveling to 22 affected countries.

The virus was first identified in a monkey in Africa in 1947.

Its name comes from a forest in Uganda where the first infected rhesus monkeys were found. Within several years the virus had jumped to humans in Uganda and Tanzania, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Like dengue fever and chikun-

gunya, two similar diseases, Zika is transmitted by mosquito species found in tropical and sub-tropical regions: Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus, or tiger mosquitoes.

In 70 to 80 percent of cases, the disease goes unnoticed. The symptoms resemble a mild case of the flu -- headache, muscle and joint pain, and mild fever -- plus a rash.

Symptoms usually last two to seven days.

The disease is suspected of causing two serious complications: neurological problems and birth defects in babies born to infected women. But while there appears to be a connection with Zika, researchers have not definitively confirmed

a causal link.

The main neurological complication is Guillain-Barre syndrome, a disorder in which the immune system attacks the nervous system, causing weakness and sometimes paralysis.

Most patients recover, but the syndrome is sometimes deadly.

Cases linked to Zika have been reported in Brazil and French Polynesia.

Microcephaly and other brain deformities in newborns have also been reported, particularly in Brazil. Microcephaly cases in the giant South American country surged from 163 per year on average to 3,893 after the Zika outbreak began

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A researcher holds a container with female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes at the Biomedical Sciences Institute in the Sao Paulo’s University, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Monday, Jan. 18, 2016. The Aedes aegypti is a vector for transmitting the Zika virus.

last year. Forty-nine of those babies have died.

There is no vaccine for Zika, and no specific treatment -- patients simply take pain-killers and other medication to combat the symptoms.

The virus is transmitted through mosquito bites, so prevention entails fighting mosquitoes and avoiding contact with them. Health officials recommend covering up, using insect repellant and keeping windows closed or screened.

Authorities have responded to the outbreak by fumigating and cleaning up the standing water where mosquitoes breed.

Authorities in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador and Jamaica have advised couples to avoid pregnancy for the time being.

In Brazil, authorities have announced a crackdown on mosquito breeding grounds ahead of the Olympics, which will bring hundreds of thousands of travelers from around the world to Rio de Janeiro in August.

The virus was first reported in Africa, Asia and the Pacific before leaping to the Americas last year.

It is now spreading locally in some 20 Latin American and Caribbean countries, as far north as Mexico. Brazil has been the hardest hit.

Travelers have also brought it back to the US states of Florida, Hawaii and New York. A woman in Hawaii gave birth to a baby with microcephaly after traveling to Brazil.

So far there have been no locally transmitted US cases reported, though the Aedes aegypti mosquito’s habitat stretches into the United States.

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) says on its website that “there is no evidence of transmission (of) Zika virus in Europe to date and imported cases are rare.” (afp)

Nano-thin pressure sensor could aid breast cancer exams TOKYO - Super-thin bendable sensors developed by Japanese and US scientists could someday be used in special gloves to detect breast lumps and make a digital record of the exam, the scientists said in a report.

The nanofibre sensors are as thin as 3.4 micrometres -- less than half the thickness of kitchen wrap -- according to research published in the online version of British science magazine Nature Nanotechnology.

“Healthcare practitioners may one day be able to physically screen for breast cancer using pres-

sure-sensitive rubber gloves to detect tumours,” the researchers said in a statement before the publication.

A square sheet 4.8 by 4.8 centimetres (1.9 inches) in size has 144 locations that can measure pressure, said the research teams led by Tokyo University professor Takao Someya and Harvard University’s Zhigang Suo. The sheet is so flexible it can detect pressure changes accurately even when twisted like cloth -- a development claimed as a global first.

“Sensitive human fingers of a veteran doctor may be able to find a small tumour, but such perceived sensation cannot be measured,” Someya told AFP Monday.

But digitisation of the sensations means that they could be shared with other doctors who could theoretically experience the same sensations as the physician who performed the examination, he said.

Many researchers are developing flexible pressure sensors but they are vulnerable when bent and twisted, which makes it difficult to

detect pressure changes accurately, the Tokyo University and Harvard researchers say.

The nanofibre pressure sensor they have developed can be bent over a radius of as small as 80 micrometres -- “equivalent to just twice the width of a human hair” -- they say.

When tested on an artificial blood vessel, the sheet successfully detected “small pressure changes and speed of pressure propagation”, Sungwon Lee, a leading researcher in Someya’s team, said in the statement.

Someya stressed that the development would one day enable the equivalent of medical palpation -- examining a patient by physical touch -- by doctors in different locations from the patient.

“The new sensor would make it possible to measure the human sensation so that findings by palpation could even be shared remotely,” he said.

“In the future, we would be able to record and make tangible certain sensations that can only be perceived by an experienced doctor.” (afp)

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“Flying squad” of BSMP rescue dugong calf

GIANYAR - A “flying squad” consisting of a marine mammal veterinarian and animal care staff from Bali Safari & Marine Park (BSMP) and the Batang Dolphin Center recently responded to an urgent call for assistance from the Indonesian Government. The team flew at just one day notice to a seaside resort in the Komodo National Park to provide emergency supportive care and rehabilitation to a dugong calf found stranded a few days earlier.

The dugong – also known in Indonesia as a duyung or sea cow, is a medium-sized marine mammal.

Capable of living up to 75 years - these gentle, docile and shy animals spend their lives in the ocean’s shallows surviving exclusively on a diet of sea grass. In time’s past, the dugong was hunted for its prized flesh, hide and body oils. Today, it is internationally classified as a species vulnerable to extinction, protected under national laws and international treaties.

Responding to a request for assistance from the Indonesian Conservation Agency (BKSDA), the “flying squad” formed by veterinarians from BSMP – Dr. Nimal Fernando and Dr.

Kadek Kesuma; BSMP supervisor Nyoman Suartawan; and Sutejo of the Batang Dolphin Center arrived at Kanawa Island resort where a group of vacationing marine biologists from the USA had spent the past three days hand feeding and nurturing a male dugong estimated to be only one-month-old.

The Indonesian ’flying squad’ arrived to find the animal with several lacerations caused by encounters with sharp coral and suffering from a lack of mother’s milk. It was presumed to be an orphaned calf, but the details of the mother and whether she had died is not known. Knowing that, statistically, the chances of survival for orphaned dugong calves is small, the team of

dedicated professionals wasted no time and literally “plunged” into their work, spending up to 8 hours a day in the sea , under a makeshift shelter administering a schedule of bottlefeedings using a special formula that they had carried from Bali Safari & Marine Park.

Cautiously optimistic, the team of caregivers reports that their patient is now mixing a diet of formula milk with sea grass. Monitoring the animals input and output, the team was further encouraged by indications that the dugong’s alimentary tract was functioning normally.

In consultation with representatives of the KSDA, the Komodo National Park, the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF) and supporting members of the surrounding community, a decision was made for members of the animal rescue flying squad to stay on site to supervise the sea mammal’s condition and provide ongoing training in its care and feeding to local community members. (r)

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A “flying squad” consisting of a marine mammal veterinarian and animal care staff from Bali Safari & Marine Park (BSMP) and the Batang Dolphin Center provide emergency supportive care and rehabilitation to a dugong calf found stranded.

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COVER STORY Bamboo ...

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Manik also highlighted the fact that bamboo crafts are in high demand so eventually the bamboo that were recently planted will be of economic benefit to the local economy. She also emphasized that the local community needs to be seriously engaged in environmental conservation on an ongoing basis. Only then, she said, will the government be willing to support and facilitate such efforts.

“We would welcome and facilitate any proposal requesting seedlings, for example,” said Manik.

Headman of South Batur, I Gede Sarjana, explained that in addition to acting as a buffer for springs in the surrounding woods, bamboo can also be used for the creation of ritual paraphernalia such as the structures needed for cremation ceremonies. “Bamboo

is very important for Balinese people,” said Sarjana.

Masem Dwi Tirta’s forest, that is rife with pine trees, was formerly managed by the central government. However, in 2015 there was a request made to have the forest be managed by the local village. “At the end of last year, the official recommendation was issued and we were asked to complete certain requirements. Hopefully the handover of authority will happen soon,” said Sarjana.

Once the village in in charge of managing the forest, they plan to plant several types of plants and tress and use parts of the forest for agro-tourism. “Obviously, we will use the forest in a sustainable manner,” he added.

Deputy Chairman of the Bangli House of Representatives, I Komang Carles, said that he hopes that environmental conservation efforts are not simply undertaken

ceremonially but that efforts towards sustainability are maintained over time. Carles added that the Bangli House of Repre-

sentatives is ready to support and facilitate agro-tourism and will coordinate with the provincial and national government in the matter.

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“We strongly support this activity and will definitely help with communications with the central government.” (sos)

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Thousands of bamboo were recently planted in the village forest of Masem Dwi Tirta Hamlet, South Batur Kintamani.

Traditional houses and bamboo crafts

Tigawasa village borders Pedawa village to the south, Cempaga village to the west, Kayuputih Melaka village (that belongs to Sukasada subdistrict) to the east, and Kaliasem village and Temukus village to the north. There are 1,700

families living in the administrative village and 1,200 families living in the customary village, most of whom work as clove farmers and sideline as bamboo crafters.

Headman of Tigawasa, I Made Suadarma Yasa, said that based on

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Tigawasa ancient village

THE ANCIENT village of Tigawasa in Banjar subdistrict, is the pride of Buleleng. Sitting at an altitude of 600 meters above sea level, Tigawasa has many unique features including specific cultural practices such as bamboo crafting that are still widely practiced to this day.

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research and material evidence it is estimated that the village was first established in the Stone Age. Prehistoric objects that have been found in the village include stone axes, seven sarcophagi, and a bronze slonding gamelan instrument, all of which are stood neatly in the sacred temple of Tigawasa.

“Research indicated that our sacred objects originated in the Stone Age. We continue to preserve our village that is today known as a Bali Aga

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Tigawasa has many unique features including specific cultural practices such as bamboo crafting that are still widely practiced to this day.

Village,” he said.

Suardana also explained that his ancestors not only pass down sacred objects but also passed down cultural heritages that have been maintained, such as the traditional houses of Tigawasa that are known as saka roras meaning twelve pillared house. The pillars are made from fragrant high quality mango wood. These 12 pillars are carved with Buleleng style motifs and the braces of the pillars are decorated with beautiful gold ornaments.

Eight of the pillars of the soka roras are used to frame two beds while the area between the remaining four pillars is used to store a variety of objects. A clay table is placed in the centre of each house. The walls of these houses are made of clay with zinc sheet roofs. “Most of these houses are located northeast of local village temple, indicating that this is where the village was first established before it spread out to other areas. Today, only a few of these houses remain but they are carefully maintained to ensure that this heritage does not disappear,” Suardana.

In the past almost all residents of Tigawsa cultivated gogo rice paddy and the yields were so great that almost every home had a jineng (rice granary). However clive has be-

come increasingly popular because of its value on the market and as a result the rice granaries have been slowly disappearing. Other modern influences are also to blame.

Although agricultural activities have moved away from providing basic staples towards the selling of commodities, the ability of local residents to create bamboo crafts remains a potential means of earning a living.

Various crafts, including sokasi (used for carrying oblations) of a variety of sizes, building materials and others can be made here.

Nobody knows for sure when people in Tigawasa started making bamboo crafts as the only evidence of this craft making is the skills that the villagers have. with a variety of sizes, bamboo wall for building materials, and others. Many suspect that bamboo weaving has been practiced in this village since the Stone Age because all of the traditional houses have Bali reed bamboo (used for weaving), planted nearby.

“Woven bamboo crafts has become a source of income of all our residents. And even though there is no clear evidence, we believe that bamboo weaving has been practiced here since the village was first established,” stated Suardana. (mud)

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Balinese Temple Ceremony

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

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

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

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

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In Oscars crisis, Chris Rock and a microphone loom large AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File

But despite constant clamorNEW YORK — When Chris Rock first hosted the Oscars in 2005, the four black actors nominated that year — Morgan Free- ing — and TMZ cameras chasing man, Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo and Jamie Foxx (twice!) him outside a comedy club over the weekend — Rock has been — didn’t escape his notice.

“It’s like the Def Oscar Jam!” Rock exclaimed.

The story will be slightly different this time around. When Rock strides onto the Dolby Theatre stage on Feb. 28, he’ll see no nominated African-American actors before him. He’ll instead be greeted by a Hollywood beset by a crisis over diversity that has led to calls for a boycott of the broadcast, spurred the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences to rewrite its membership bylaws and even sparked pleas for Rock, himself, to pull out.

In the ongoing fallout, Rock has loomed on the horizon like Judgment Day. But it’s unclear just what awaits the academy and Hollywood come show time. A reckoning? A catharsis? Awkward fits of laughter?

Probably all of the above.

What is certain is that a conflu-

ence of events has placed one of America’s most perceptive and sharp-tongued commentators on race smack dab in the middle of a storm that could hardly suit anyone better. It’s safe to say that no Academy Awards opening monologue has ever been more anticipated.

The spotlight on Oscar night will be trained on no one — not Leonardo DiCaprio or Jennifer Lawrence — like it is on Rock.

“This could be a defining moment for Chris Rock,” Cheadle told The Associated Press. “And I hope it is.”

Cheadle is far from alone. In the turmoil that has enveloped the Academy Awards since a second straight year of white nominees filled the acting categories, everyone from Spike Lee to George Clooney has had their say on the issue.

mum. Other than a tweet in which he unveiled his first promo for the show —and referred to the Oscars as “the White BET Awards” — he has stayed quiet amid uproar all around him.

Reginald Hudlin, who’s coproducing this year’s broadcast, sought to assure viewers, telling “Entertainment Tonight” that Rock is “hard at work” and that he had thrown out preparations and was now “writing a new show.”

“And, yes, the academy is ready for him to do that,” Hudlin said.

“They’re excited about him doing that.” But Rock’s publicist, Leslie Sloane, on Monday shot down Hudlin’s remarks, saying the comedian “has made no decisions about the content of the show.” The point was clear: No one is going to speak for Rock except Rock himself. “All will be revealed on February 28th,” said Sloane, ominously. (ap)

MIAMI - A bouncer at a Florida bar has sued Backstreet Boys singer Nick Carter for attacking and choking him, labeling the star “nothing more than a backstreet thug.”

Skylar Carden, 21, filed the lawsuit Monday in a court in the Florida Keys, alleging Carter caused “bodily injury, mental anguish, pain and suffering,” attorney Mark DiCowden told AFP. Carter was arrested on January 13 after he and a friend were escorted, drunk, by security personnel outside Hog’s Breath Saloon in Key West.

The singer was originally shown the door due to his “unruly and disrespectful” behavior, but he then became aggressive, beating and briefly choking Carden, according to the lawsuit.

In court, Carter pleaded not guilty and was released on $1,500 bail.

He broke his silence via a message on Twitter over the weekend.

“I am human and at times it can be a struggle to balance a healthy lifestyle. I’m not perfect and for that I am sorry,” he wrote.

“When we fall we have to get up and keep on walking. I hope

you stay by my side and continue to walk with me.”

But Carden’s lawyer said that regardless of Carter’s celebrity status, the singer should respect other people’s rights, just like everyone else.

“Nick Carter has shown the world that he is nothing more than a backstreet thug,” DiCowden wrote.

“Carter’s backhanded apology in the form of a tweet was a crude attempt to control public relations and did nothing to address his remorse for the harm he caused Carden.

“No amount of fame or fortune justifies Carter’s shameful and outrageous conduct. To send him that message and deter his misbehavior in the future, we will seek punitive damages against him as allowed by Florida law.”

The Backstreet Boys achieved worldwide success in the 1990s and early 2000s as teen idols, with songs like “I Want It That Way,” “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)” and “Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely.”

He has also participated in the television game show “Dancing with the Stars.” (afp)

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Amdal test for reclamation plan: January 29

Communities must remain critical and speak out

DENPASAR - The environmental impact assessment (Amdal) testing activity for the Benoa Bay reclamation plan will be held at Wiswasabha, the Governor of Bali’ office on Friday (Jan. 29), confirmed the Head of the Bali Environment Agency (BLH), Gede Suarjana on Tuesday (Jan. 26). “Consultants and the initiator will give presentations, relevant communities will give their response and the public will be able to provide their input,” he said.

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People hold banner rejecting reclamation plan on Benoa Bay during a demonstration held in Ku ta Beach recently. The environmental impact assessment (Amdal) testing activity for the Benoa Bay reclamation plan will be held at Wiswasabha, the Governor of Bali’ office on Friday (Jan. 29).

Suarjana specified that those that have been invited to respond include: the communities that would be most affected by the reclamation project, customary leaders, religious leaders, subdistrict heads, headmen, NGOs, other experts and university academics.

ForBALI coordinator, Wayan ‘Gendo’ Suardana, said that he received a written invitation from the Environmental Impact Analysis (Amdal) on Friday (Jan. 15), that included the Amdal documents regarding the Benoa Bay revitalization action plan and sea sand mining.

“Actually it is a fairly difficult document to sift through. Is two weeks enough time? I don’t think it is. But the problem is that we have no choice but to accept it,” said Gendo.

He also said that many things in the Amdal document still raise questions -primarily with regards to the magnitude of project’s scope.

Many things seem odd and should be questioned during the meeting for the Amdal test. “However, we cannot say exactly how to do this now because we are still learning and exploring the documents,” Gendo explained.

Most importantly, he said, the different communities involved, need to begin to address the issues objectively and cannot afford to remain silent. Addressing the issues must

continue to be carried out though peaceful means and people need to be involved in the environmental policy making process - especially with mega-projects like this reclamation plan, he said.

Gendo asserted that people should be informed about the details of project developments particularly the Amdal, because this project has a big impact on the future of Bali.

The future of the communities in the area of Benoa Bay is at stake also the interests of Balinese people as a whole.

The investors in the Benoa Bay project not openly plan to create islands covering an area of some 700 hectares, but they also plan to build a variety if accommodations ranging from apartments, condotel, and villas, all the way up to four- and five-star hotels, not to mention the manpower that this project would absorb; 60 percent local workers and 40 percent non-local workers. (kmb32) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.

Preserving the environment

Village forest planted with thousands of bamboo

T H O U SANDS of bamboo were recently planted in the village forest of Masem Dwi Tirta Hamlet, South Batur Kintamani.

Hundreds of members of the Subak Abian Pelisan. planted the bamboo

in an effort to preserve the natural environment of the area that has become vulnerable to damage.

The Bangli Agriculture and Forestry Agency, the Bangli House of Representatives, the subdistrict police, the Kintamani military region

and other institutions also participated in this forest conservation effort.

Acting Head of the Bangli Agriculture and Forestry Agency, Ni Wayan Manik, explained that this community bamboo planting effort will benefit the above ground envi-

ronment and will also benefit the maintenance of ground water.

The 2016 bamboo planting effort is targeting 57 hectares of the protected forest. “A total of 2,000 bamboo are being planted. Later we will also be planting champak

and fruit trees,” explained Manik, accompanied by the Division Head of Plantation and Forestry Rehabilitation, I Ketut Gede Wiradana.

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