Page 6 16 Pages Number 47 8 th Year e-mail: [email protected] online: http://www.internationalbalipost.com. http://epaper.internationalbalipost.com. Price: Rp 3.000,- I N T E R N A T I O N A L DPS 23 - 32 WEATHER FORECAST Monday, March 7, 2016 With two wins, Cruz stakes claim as Trump’s main Republican rival Page 13 ‘Ghostlike’ octopus found in Pacific may belong to new species Ronaldo scores 4 goals to become Liga’s 2nd all-time scorer This year, the spirit of opposition to the reclamation of Benoa Bay is becom- ing even more vivacious, as evidenced by the increasing number of customary youth clubs, youth and hamlet groups that have made ogoh-ogoh (papier mâché demons) that clearly express their opposition to the Benao Bay reclamation plan. Most of theses ogoh-ogoh depict the anger of Lord Vishnu regarding the reclamation plan. The Union of Young Rsidents of Abian- base, Kuta (Basegreen) for instance, have made a very unique ogoh-ogoh that holds an excavator in its clenched fist. This ogoh-ogoh that is currently being painted is named “The Varuna”. Basegeen Representative, Eka Bowtix said that the ogoh-ogoh represents Lord Varuna who does not want the land of Bali to be excavated and backfilled all over the place. “The hand of The Varuna emerges to destroy the heavy equipment that would like to dredge the motherland and dam- age the surrounding nature” he said while adding that this ogoh-ogoh has taken two weeks to make. In Kancil hamlet, Kerobokan, North Kuta, the Eka Dharma Canthi Customary Youth Club (STT) has made an ogoh- ogoh named: ”The Jogormanik Rejects Reclamation.” Chief of the youth club, I Komang Sukrawijaya, said that he is to only making ogoh-ogoh but as a way to preserve this cultural practice, but also feels a call from his soul to contribute to the growing social movement of op- position to the Benao Bay reclamation project. Kerobokan Customary Village has declared its official opposition to the plan to excavate 700 hectares of Benoa Bay. Ogoh .... Continued on page 6 The ogoh-ogoh which will join the parade during Pengerupukan Day. South Badung threatened to get no clean water MANGUPURA — Clean water crisis still threatens the area of South Badung such as Kuta, Jimbaran and Nusa Dua. Actually, local government through its municipality waterworks (PDAM) Tirta Mangu- tama has attempted to in- stall pipeline worth IDR 55 billion. However, this effort does not guarantee the availability of wa- ter in the long term. As a result, South Badung will be threat- ened to get no clean wa- ter. In order to meet the water needs for 67,000 customers, the PDAM Tirta Mangutama requires raw water supply of about 750 liters per second. Currently, he said, the water supply just reaches 478 liters per second where 350 liters are obtained from the estuary dam at Suwung, 100 liters from the Ayung River and a number of artesian wells. Director of PDAM Tirta Mangutama Badung, Made Subarga Yasa, described the pipeline project with the funds taken from regional budget in 2014 and 2015 has been installed, so that the water discharge can be increased from 300 liters per second to 450 liters per second. However, the increase of 150 liters per second is threatened to be useless due to increased sedimentation in the estuary dam. “With the increased sedimentation in the estuary dam, when it rains like today the water is wasted into the sea and Benoa Bay. It cannot be accommodated in the estu- ary dam,” said Subarga Yasa when met on Tuesday (Mar. 1). Water... Continued on page 2 DENPASAR - Do you remember Pengeru- pukan night of Nyepi last year when the Sadharana Dharma customary youth club of Pelasa hamlet, Kuta, made surprised ev- eryone ogoh-ogoh parade when then suddenly hoisted up a banner that read “Reject Reclamation Posing as Revitilization”? Inevitably, those who were watching the parade - including the Former Regent of Badung ,A.A. Gde Agung, ranks of Badung Parliament, chief of Kuta Customary Villageall read the sign that spoke of the people’s opposition to the Benoa Bay reclamation plan. 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.listen2my- radio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.
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DPs 23 - 32WEATHER FORECAsT
Monday, March 7, 2016
With two wins, Cruz stakes claim as Trump’s main Republican rival
Page 13
‘Ghostlike’ octopus found in Pacific may belong to new species
Monday, March 7, 2016
Ronaldo scores 4 goals to become Liga’s 2nd all-time scorer
LONDON - Media mogul Rupert Murdoch and actress and model Jerry Hall celebrated their marriage with a blessing service on Sat-urday at St. Bride’s church on London’s Fleet Street, the spiritual home of British journalism.
A star-studded guest list included actor Michael Caine, Irish rockstar Bob Geldof, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and British Justice Secretary Michael Gove, a senior figure among those who want the UK to leave the European Union.
But conspicuous by their absence were Prime Minister David Cameron and finance minister George Osborne, who want Britain to stay in the 28-member bloc.
Murdoch and Hall wed on Friday in a private ceremony in central London, after which the now four-times married 84-year-old said he was the happiest man in the world.
Murdoch, executive chairman of News Corp and owner of 21st Century Fox Inc, and Hall, 59, posed for photographs after the service at the historic church, which is famed for its wedding-cake spire, but simply smiled and made no comment to the waiting media.
Texan model and actress Hall was wearing a pale blue chiffon and silk wedding gown, reported to have been designed by Vivienne Westwood, while Murdoch was dressed in a navy suit, white shirt and brown shoes. He sported a single white rose in his breast pocket.
GUEST LISTThe couple’s 10 children from previous relationships attended
the service, as did Rebekah Brooks, who returned to run Murdoch’s British newspapers in September, and Robert Thomson, CEO of News Corp.
Other guests included former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman, artist Tracey Emin, photographer David Bailey and UK employment minister Priti Patel, who like Gove is backing Brexit.
Murdoch is an influential figure in Britain through his ownership of a clutch of newspapers.
Last month his Sun on Sunday publication said Cameron had failed to get a proper deal for Britain from other EU leaders and on Thursday he tweeted that the UK government had made false claims about the implications of Brexit aimed at scaring voters.
Murdoch and Hall began dating last summer after being introduced while in Australia and were first seen in public together at the Rugby Union World Cup Final in London in October. They got engaged in January. (rtr)
Jenner told gay and lesbian publication The Advocate in an interview posted this week that she admired Cruz despite the social conservative’s stance on transgen-der issues.
The 66-year-old Olympic gold medalist turned television person-ality called Cruz a “great constitu-tionalist” and said she would like to advise him on questions relating to her community.
“Yes, trans ambassador to the president of the United States, so we can say, ‘Ted, love what you’re doing but here’s what’s going on,’” Jenner, who last year became the most high-profile American to transition to a different gender, told
The Advocate.The muted reaction to Jenner’s
support for Cruz appeared to show the high level of esteem she enjoys in the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. But that did not stop some of its members speaking out.
“Doing my best to not send tweets to a woman I respect for her courage, but dang it, @Cait-lyn_Jenner you’re killing me with Cruz support!” Chely Wright, the first country music star to come out as gay, wrote in a post on Twitter.
Some in the LGBT community took a more pointed stand, citing Cruz’s opposition to same-sex marriage and his criticism of gov-
ernment efforts to allow students to use a bathroom that conforms to their gender identity.
In January, at a campaign stop in Iowa, Cruz said “inflicting” transgender students on teachers by allowing them to use a faculty restroom in line with their gender identity was better than having them share a bathroom with other students, according to video from NBC News.
Zack Ford, the LGBT editor at ThinkProgress, a website af-filiated with the left-leaning Center for American Progress, wrote in a post that Jenner’s support for Republicans like Cruz taints her “credibility.”
Mara Keisling, executive di-rector of the National Center for Transgender Equality, said Jenner’s comments highlight the fact a sig-nificant share of transgender people are Republicans. (rtr)
Jenner’s offer to be ‘trans ambassador’ for Cruz draws some fire
REUTERS/Danny Moloshok/Files
Caitlyn Jenner arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, California in this Febru-ary 28, 2016 file photo. Reality star Jenner’s offer to be a “trans ambassador” to Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz drew sharp criticism on March 4, 2016, from some members of the LGBT community, but major transgender rights organizations stayed out of the fray.
LOS ANGELES - Reality star Caitlyn Jenner’s offer to be a “trans ambassador” to U.S. Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz drew criticism on Friday from some members of the LGBT community, but major transgender rights organizations stayed out of the fray.
Newly-weds Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall
blessed in London church
REUTERS/Peter Nicholls
Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch and former supermodel Jerry Hall pose for a photograph outside St Bride’s church following a service to celebrate their wedding which took place on Friday, in London, Britain March 5, 2016.
This year, the spirit of opposition to the reclamation of Benoa Bay is becom-ing even more vivacious, as evidenced by the increasing number of customary youth clubs, youth and hamlet groups that have made ogoh-ogoh (papier mâché demons) that clearly express their opposition to the Benao Bay reclamation plan. Most of theses ogoh-ogoh depict the anger of Lord Vishnu regarding the reclamation plan.
The Union of Young Rsidents of Abian-base, Kuta (Basegreen) for instance, have made a very unique ogoh-ogoh that holds an excavator in its clenched fist. This ogoh-ogoh that is currently being painted is named “The Varuna”.
Basegeen Representative, Eka Bowtix said that the ogoh-ogoh represents Lord Varuna who does not want the land of Bali to be excavated and backfilled all over the place.
“The hand of The Varuna emerges to destroy the heavy equipment that would like to dredge the motherland and dam-age the surrounding nature” he said while adding that this ogoh-ogoh has taken two weeks to make.
In Kancil hamlet, Kerobokan, North Kuta, the Eka Dharma Canthi Customary Youth Club (STT) has made an ogoh-ogoh named: ”The Jogormanik Rejects Reclamation.” Chief of the youth club, I Komang Sukrawijaya, said that he is to only making ogoh-ogoh but as a way to preserve this cultural practice, but also feels a call from his soul to contribute to the growing social movement of op-position to the Benao Bay reclamation project. Kerobokan Customary Village has declared its official opposition to the plan to excavate 700 hectares of Benoa Bay.
Ogoh ....Continued on page 6
The ogoh-ogoh which will join the parade during Pengerupukan Day.
South Badung threatened
to get no clean water
M A N G U P U R A — Clean water crisis still threatens the area of South Badung such
as Kuta, Jimbaran and Nusa Dua. Actually, local government through its municipality waterworks (PDAM) Tirta Mangu-tama has attempted to in-stall pipeline worth IDR 55 billion. However, this effort does not guarantee the availability of wa-ter in the long term. As
a result, S o u t h Badung
w i l l b e th rea t -ened to get no
clean wa-ter.
In order to meet the water needs for 67,000 customers, the PDAM Tirta Mangutama requires raw water supply of about 750 liters per second. Currently, he said, the water supply just reaches 478 liters per second where 350 liters are obtained from the estuary dam at Suwung, 100 liters from the Ayung River and a number of artesian wells.
Director of PDAM Tirta Mangutama Badung, Made Subarga Yasa, described the pipeline project with the funds taken from regional budget in 2014 and 2015 has been installed, so that the water discharge can be increased from 300 liters per second to 450 liters per second. However, the increase of 150 liters per second is threatened to be useless due to increased sedimentation in the estuary dam.
“With the increased sedimentation in the estuary dam, when it rains like today the water is wasted into the sea and Benoa Bay. It cannot be accommodated in the estu-ary dam,” said Subarga Yasa when met on Tuesday (Mar. 1).
Water...Continued on page 2
DENPASAR - Do you remember Pengeru-pukan night of Nyepi last year when the Sadharana Dharma customary youth club of Pelasa hamlet, Kuta, made surprised ev-eryone ogoh-ogoh parade when then suddenly hoisted up a banner that read “Reject Reclamation Posing as Revitilization”? Inevitably, those who were watching the parade - including the Former Regent of Badung ,A.A. Gde Agung, ranks of Badung Parliament, chief of Kuta Customary Villageall read the sign that spoke of the people’s opposition to the Benoa Bay reclamation plan.
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.listen2my-
radio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http://ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.
According to him, the estuary dam must be dredged, so that the water stock will become abun-dant primarily for stock during dry season predicted to occur in early April. “The dam has vital function to supply raw water. So, if it is dredged somewhat deeper, the reservoir can hold more wa-ter. When drought comes, it will be more secure,” he said.
Nevertheless, Subarga Yasa claimed that his company cannot normalize the estuary dam be-cause the area belongs to the as-set of central government under the Bali-Penida River Agency. “With the installation of the new pipeline, there is no problem of
water flow into people’s house. But now, the problem is the mat-ter of raw water,” he said.
The Head of Bali-Penida River Agency (BWS-BP), Ketut Jayada, said that his agency was still finalizing the dredging plan of the estuary dam. Location of mud disposal after the dredging becomes a challenge because it requires a spacious location.
“We need cooperation with the government of Badung dis-trict, especially the municipality waterworks where the mud will be accommodated,” he said.
Not to mention, he said the transportation method also needs to be studied. “If transported carelessly and it is scattered on the road, we will surely get com-plaints,” he said. (kmb27)
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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 hap-pens 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 wor-shipped in the shrines.
In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars,
tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Ho-liness. 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 at-tire, 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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TAUZIA Hotel Management with a network of 43 hotels across Indonesia, operates 5 renowned hotel brands on various different segmentations. Starting with Pré-férence – a collection of upscale boutique hotels emphasizing on authenticity and allure; HARRIS – a midscale hotel supporting healthy lifestyle; YELLO – an economic hotel bearing the concept of “tech-volution”; POP! – a modern and stylish budget hotel for eco-friendly & smart travelers, and last but never least, Managed by TAUZIA consisting of Eden Hotel Kuta, Solo Paragon Hotel & Residences and also PesonaAlam Resort & Spa Puncak.
Taking insight that around thirty five percent of TAUZIA’s hotel
portfolio is concentrated in the island of Bali, there’s a huge drive to stay connected and forge stronger relationship with local media.
“We always see media as true business partners and they never once stopped supporting us since day one. And even though Bali now has become such a highly com-petitive environment for hospitality players, we remain optimistic that media will always be there for us and for our new developments in the coming years,” added Yosua Tanuwiria, ALWAYS TOGETHER BALI Project Head & TAUZIA’s Corporate Communications & So-cial Media Manager.
The theme of “Flower Genera-tion” was picked to represent the color blend of all hotel brands
within TAUZIA.ALWAYS TOGETHER Bali fell
on Friday evening of 26 February 2016 at Sunset Garden Ballroom - HARRIS Hotel & Residences Sunset Road Bali.
Around 60 representatives from numerous media companies at-tended the event, beginning with a media tour to the first combo hotel concept in Bali, HARRIS-POP! Hotel & Conventions Denpasar.
“Even if we have to cut through the traffic, the idea is to expose a wide range of hotel brands and destinations within TAUZIA for media to experience and write about,” addedHerna Lee, ALWAYS TOGETHER BALI Program Man-ager & Director of Sales & Market-ing – HARRIS Hotel Kuta Galleria
Bali.Upon their arrival at HARRIS
Hotel & Residences Sunset Road Bali, media were welcomed with a stencil-art mural photo wall, before the HARRIS Move by HARRIS Players brought down the house.
Throughout the entire program, a variety of fun entertainment were provided: from internal band performance, special guest stars by local celebrities – Eddi Brokoli & Rockabali, band cabaret and fash-ion show featuring hotels’ General Managers, DJ performance and many other hotel brand-related activities and games.
Furthermore to officially open the show, Xavier Droin – TAUZIA’s Chief Operating Officer updated the media with news about brand
essences, new hotel developments, the newly launched My TAUZIA Privilege loyalty program, and last but never least, TAUZIA Equal Chance – the corporate responsi-bility program which supports the education of 64 children.
Adding to the excitement, nu-merous high-profile brands and merchants also contributed to this enlivened program: Indonesian Fashion Chamber, Dua Artha, Telkomsel, Rip Curl, Abbey Travel, Hatten Wines, Multi Bintang, Bali Moon, Mirror Club and Gardin Bistro & Patisserie.
As an extensive effort for public awareness, participants are wel-comed to make postings on social media using hash tag #alwaysto-getherBali
TAUZIA Hotel Management Holds Its High-Profile Media Gathering
in Bali for the First Time
One of the farmers from Bangbang village, Tembuku, I Nyoman Yasa, said on Friday (Mar. 4) that since the past few years, the problems he faced as a farmer does not only water avail-ability. In line with this, the cost of rice planting is also likely to increase. In addition, it is difficult to find planting laborer. “Fate of farmers is increasingly suffocated. Planting cost is increasing as well while searching for laborer is difficult. He has to look for to Karangasem and must wait a few days,” he said.
He added that such an issue has caused some farmers to switch to other professions. On the other hand, the interest of younger generation to engage in agricultural sector seems to have faded. To prevent the condition from prolonging, he said it needs the touches of agricultural technology where one of them is the use of rice transplanter. “Touch of technology is
very much needed. We have got rice transplanter from the government, but only for a few subak groups. Hopefully, it can get more in the fu-ture. It is quite relieving the burden of farmers, especially for the elderly,” he said.
The Head of the Bangli Agriculture Agency, Ni Wayan Manik, through the Division Head of Processing, Marketing and Facilities, I Dewa Putu Sugiarta, recently justified if the wage of rice planting tends to increase. According to information, farmers have to spend IDR 1.7 mil-lion per hectare. It is considered very high so that it is difficult to survive in cultivating the land. “Laborer wages tend to rise and is increasingly rare,” he said when met directly at Subak Griya, Tamanbali, in the demonstra-tion of rice transplanter.
He added that to alleviate the burden on farmers, this year Bangli
district received nine units of rice transplanter from central government and they are the granted to a number of subak groups in three subdistricts, namely the Bangli, Susut and Tem-buku. Admittedly this amount is not comparable to the existing paddy field areas. Nevertheless, it will be proposed again to central govern-ment next year. “This is the first assistance. Later, we will propose again,” he explained. Accompanied by the Division Head of Food and Horticulture I Wayan Tagel Sujana, he mentioned that rice cultivation with this tool will be much more quickly. “As comparison, with the use this tool to manual works is 4,000 sqm : 1 sqm,” he said.
On the other hand, this large-sized enough tool has not been supported by adequate farm road, so that the mobility becomes more difficult. “The pathway at paddy field is still relatively inadequate in Bangli. This year, we want to build pathway at 12 subak areas with the length of one kilometer. Hopefully, the tool can be used maximally,” said Sugiarta. (kmb45)
IBP/File
The entrance to Indonesia Tourism Development Cor-poration in NUsa Dua. The rapid development of tourist accomodation in southern of Badung could lead to water crisis.
IBP/Wawan
The tourists are taking picture of the Hindus doing Melasti ritual on Padanggalak Beach. The HIndus in Bali carry out Melasti ahead of Nyepi Day which is the symbol of purification.
Rice transplanter,solution to high wage
of rice planting
IBP/Sosiawan
The rice planting device that can help the farmer.
BANGLI — The wage of transplanting rice tending to increase is complained by farmers. It is aggravated by the difficulty in find-ing planting laborer. To avoid the agricultural sector from being abandoned due to this condition, subak needs to be supported with the touch of technology, where one of them is rice transplanter.
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Organizers chose Cleveland, Mississippi — two hours north of the state capital Jackson — for the nearly $20 million project and promise one of the most advanced museums in the country. It’s a smaller but updated version of its sister museum in California and employs high-definition touch-screens and interactive technology to chronicle American music his-tory from before the first Grammy Awards in 1959 to the present.
The bedrock of that history is the Mississippi Delta, said Bob Santelli, executive director of the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles. The rhythmic guitar and soulful ballads of bluesmen like Robert Johnson and B.B. King traveled up the Mississippi River and across the country, influencing nearly every style of American popular music including, jazz, hip-hop and rock
‘n roll. The state also claims the most Grammy winners per capita in the world.
“Isn’t that wild?” Santelli said. “You take the state of Mississippi out of American music history and you have a very large gap to fill.”
The blues mesmerized musicians ranging from Tupelo native Elvis Presley to The Beatles and more in generations since, said Patricia Walker, songwriter and head of Delta State University’s music department. The original blues-men — mostly African-American men living in the Jim Crow era of discrimination in the South — lived off the land and eased their hard-ships through music.
“Everybody at one time or an-other has had the blues,” Walker said. “The musicians that came out of here had to dig deep in the soil to make a living, and they dug
deep to capture those feelings in their music.”
Officials designed the museum — the most upscale building to come to the region — with the Delta’s history in mind. Corrugated metal on the building’s exterior is a nod to the tin metal sharecropper shacks many blues musicians grew up in. The entrance looks like a big front porch, a common feature of many Delta homes.
Cleveland Chamber of Com-merce Director Judson Thigpen estimates the museum could bring in about $20 million annually as a tourist draw to the entire region.
The museum was a collabora-tive effort to spotlight the Delta’s music legacy, said Allen Hammons who helped establish the B.B. King Museum in Indianola, Mississippi, as well as a Blues Trail along high-ways in the state. In 2011 Hammons joined Walker and others to form the Cleveland Music Foundation, a nonprofit foundation that built and operates the museum. (ap)
LOS ANGELES — Hotels are going for a new minimal-ist look to attract younger guests, but the move has left some experienced travelers angry, wondering how they’re expected to get work done without a desk.
Younger travelers, hotels note, just want a clean and efficient space to stay. They spend less time in rooms and like to socialize and work in vibrant lobbies with a sense of community.
So carpets are being replaced by easy-to-clean laminate floors. Tubs are being ripped out in favor of glass showers. And instead of working at a desk, guests are increasingly expected to use glorified window sills or oversized TV trays.
If those “flexible workspaces” aren’t conducive to creativ-ity, hotels are hoping to nudge guests to bring their laptops to the lobby, where they might buy a glass of wine while typing away.
But for seasoned travelers who enjoy working in the quiet of their rooms this has caused major headaches.
“Flexible, I have no problem with. Unusable, is what I have a problem with,” says Don Wright, 59, a computer consultant from Lexington, Kentucky.
Often, these surfaces aren’t “bigger than a sheet of paper,” he says, adding that a laptop might fit, but not also a binder full of documents.
Wright has spent up to 200 nights a year in hotels and under-stands that many make changes to cater to younger travelers. But he can’t imagine any millennial deciding not to stay in a hotel because the room has a desk. But for older road warriors, a lack of a desk is a deal breaker.
“When you are 25 all is well and you can roll up in a ball and sit anywhere,” Wright says. “But when you turn 45, 50 or older, your body doesn’t like those types of positons.”
It’s such a concern that frequent traveler forums online list desk-less hotels to avoid. (ap)
Scott Mayerowitz
In this Jan. 26, 2016 photo, a prototype room of Hilton’s new Tru brand on display in Los Angeles. Instead of desks, rooms in the new hotels will feature chairs with large armrests to place a laptop.
Why your hotel room might come without a closet
or a desk
AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis
In this Wednesday, March 2, 2016 photo, a workman paints the trim to one of the four record-ing pods at the Grammy Museum Mississippi in Cleveland, Miss. The second and only official Grammy Museum outside of Los Angeles opens Saturday in the Mississippi Delta, cradle of the blues.
Grammy Museum opens in
Mississippi DeltaCLEVELAND — The second and only official Grammy Mu-
seum outside of Los Angeles opens Saturday in the Mississippi Delta, cradle of the blues.
This was conveyed by the Regent of Karangasem, I Gusti Ayu Mas Sumatri, during the bazaar activities being held to welcome Nyepi that were organized by the Karangasem Trade and Industry Agency in the area of the East Amlapura Market, on Friday (Mar. 4). The event was held to help alleviate the economic burden that people in Karangasem feel before Nyepi as the prices of basic commodities tend to soar at this time of year.
Mas Sumatri asserted that the gov-ernment needs to be doing more to help promote public appreciation for local fruit so that more people will turn to local pro-duce during holidays. She suggested that vegetable also need to be more attractively packages to attract people’s interest and thus empower Karangasem’s famers and grocers.
Regent Mas Sumatri explained that in addition to providing basic commodities at slightly lowered prices, the bazaar also serves as medium to campaign for local agricultural commodities. This type of event is expected to foster a love for lo-cal produce -whether raw or processed, amongst the people of Karangasem, so that they will want to consume local agri-cultural products.
Head of the Karangasem Industry and Trade Agency, I Gusti Ngurah Suarta, said that there will be another such bazaar held
before Nyepi, on March 7th at East Am-lapura Market. “ As directed by the Regent, next year similar bazaars will be held in all subdistricts of Karangasem” he said.
When asked if there will be a market operating, Suarta said that this would not be necessary because the price of basic commodities is currently stable. The gov-ernment of Karangasem he said uses these activities as a way to train farmers in how to improve their products, including the matter of packaging.
The bazaar opened at 10:00 and - as usual, was crowded with customers due to the low prices. During the bazaar, cooking oil and rice are the best-selling products because they are priced far below the regular market price. Bulog premium rice for instance, is sold for IDR 51,000 per five kilograms -IDR 4,000 cheaper than the normal price in the market. Like-wise, Orchid rice is sold for IDR 53,000 for the same weight, significantly below the normal price of IDR 55,000 to IDR 60,000. “Not bad, this price allows people to save money ahead of the holiday” said one consumers.
The bazaar also sold vegetables like spinach, chayote, tubers as well as fruits. The bazaar also teamed up with the Farm-ers and Fishermen Group (KTNA) and the private sector, so that they too could be empowered. (kmb31)
TABANAN — The flood of Hoo River accompanied with west winds happening recently caused the condition of Klecung Beach to be strewn with marine debris. Aside from plastic waste, there are also dry twigs. As a result, the beach located at Klecung hamlet, Tegal Mengkeb, East Selemadeg, is unsightly.
In response to this condition, on Friday (Mar. 4) all components of society ranging from the ranks of police, military, tourism players, government agencies, village offi-cials to students cornucopia sought to clean up the beach frequently used as location of melasti. Other than beach clean-up activities, it was also accompanied with refor-estation.
Chief of Tabanan Police, Putu Putra Sedana, participating in the reforestation and beach cleanup activities said that favorable social order condition can be seen from economic factors of advanced so-ciety. He also saw tremendous po-tential to increase people’s income along the path passed to Klecung
Beach through tourism sector with the fascination of unspoiled natu-ral scenery owned. “Arrangement along the beach will be able to draw more tourists to visit the beach,” he said.
According to him, such activities should not only be implemented once but carried out continuously, so what is expected to improve people’s welfare, especially at the hamlet of Klecung and Bali in general through the arrange-ment of Klecung Beach, can be realized. Chief of Tabanan Police also donated 150 coconut trees and tropical almond trees and so did the community.
One of the community leaders who is also the Chief of Indo-nesian Fishermen Association (HNSI) of Tabanan, Ketut Arsana Yasa, said that as coastal residents his organization welcomed and thanked for the concern of all the components having helped clean up trash along the beach. “Thanks for the support to clean up the beach so that it looks beautiful again,” he said. (kmb28)
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Reforestation and beach cleanup activities in Klecung Beach.
Marine debris, residents do beach cleanup on Klecung Beach
Nyepi Bazaar addresses produce issues
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AMLAPURA — Karangasem produces a lot of fruit, however this local fruit cannot compete with imported fruit in the markets because of their lack of packaging.
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TOKYO - Retired Japanese airline employee Tarou Tanzawa said he hadn’t thought much about his own death until his 84-year-old mother was diagnosed with malignant lymphoma and decided against costly and inva-sive life-prolonging treatment.
He watched his mother die peace-fully at a nursing home where she received only palliative care after checking out of the hospital where she was diagnosed.
Soon after, Tanzawa made his own “living will”, stipulating he did not want life-prolonging treatment if he became terminally ill or was in a vegetative state.
“I felt it was too soon (for my mother to die) but I also thought ‘Ah, there is this way of dying,” Tanzawa,
now 68, told Reuters. “My generation of baby-boomers ... are reaching old age, and we must confront death as a practical issue.”
Although Japan has one of the world’s fastest ageing populations, the country has no laws regarding “living wills”, let alone assisted suicide, which is legal in a few U.S. states such as California and some nations including Canada and Belgium.
Japanese like the Tanzawas with “living wills” are a small minority. But as ageing baby-boomers ponder their own demise and the country struggles with the worst public debt among advanced countries due partly to rising expenditure on medical care, the taboo on avoiding life-extending care is eroding.
The topic of “natural death” is in-creasingly being tackled in TV shows, newspaper and magazine articles and books; seminars on preparing for death are popular; and health experts say the use of feeding tubes for feeble elderly patients is declining.
“I think we are at a turning point in terms of attitudes,” said Teruhiko Mashiko, an opposition lawmaker and head of a parliamentarians group set up a decade ago to discuss a law giving legal protection to doctors who withhold life-prolonging care with the patient’s consent.
“The view that it is not dignified as a human to simply be kept alive by medical treatment is becoming more common,” Mashiko said in an interview. (rtr)
The milky white creature, nick-named “Casper the Friendly Ghost” by Twitter users, was caught on cameras mounted on the craft as it explored the Pacific Ocean at a depth of 4,290 meters, or about 2-1/2 miles, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
said.Describing the animal as an
incirrate octopod, one of two main groupings of octopods, NOAA said it was the first time an incirrate was spotted so deep in the ocean.
“This animal was particularly unusual because it lacked the pig-
ment cells, called chromatophores, typical of most cephalopods, and it did not seem very muscular,” said Michael Vecchione, a research zo-ologist at NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service. Cephalopods belong to a biological class that includes octopuses, squid and cuttlefish.
“The deep sea is so poorly known that finding new or unex-pected things happens fairly often,” Vecchione said in an email, adding that he was excited by the images.
“What is unusual is the opportunity to explore this deep.”
The octopod “almost certainly” was one of a species never previ-ously described by scientists, and it may well belong to a genus that has yet to be identified, wrote Vec-chione, who is affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution in Wash-ington, D.C.
To be certain, he said in the email, scientists would need at least one specimen, and preferably several of them.
NOAA has posted a video on the website showing a pale, rounded form with expressionless eyes and languid tentacles resting on the ocean floor. Its appearance led some Twitter users to say it resembled the cartoon character Casper the Friendly Ghost.
Last week’s discovery came dur-ing the first dive of the 2016 season from the Okeanos Explorer, a ship operated by NOAA that explores little-known parts of the oceans. (rtr)
‘Ghostlike’ octopus found in Pacific may belong to new species
An incirrate octopod is shown at a depth of 4,290 me-ters taken by a remotely oper-ated underwater vehicle Deep Discoverer near Necker Island, or Mokumanamana, on the north-western end of the Hawaiian Ar-chipelago in this image courtesy of NOAA Office of Ocean Explo-ration and Re-search, Hohonu Moana 2016, re-leased on March 5, 2016.
NEW YORK - An underwater research craft has spotted a “ghostlike” octopus that appears to belong to a previously unknown species on the ocean floor near Hawaii, a discovery that highlights how little is known about the deep sea, a U.S. zoologist said on Saturday.
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President of the non-profit Human Care Association Shoji Nakanishi, 72, who has been wheel-chair bound since a spinal cord injury at age 21, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Tokyo, Japan, February 18, 2016. Although Japan has one of the world’s fastest ageing populations, the country has no laws regarding “living wills”.
Ageing, indebted Japan debates right to ‘die with dignity’
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SINGARAJA — An increase of security for the celebration of Nyepi of the Caka Year 1938, that lands on March 9th is be-ing assured but eh ranks of the Buleleng Police Public Order and Security. Field patrols are being on foot, by bicycle and motorcycle as officers scour the area for alcohol and bamboo canons.
“These patrols are expected to help maintain security ahead of Nyepi so that the situation remains conducive to peace and order. We expect the celebration of Nyepi to run smoothly” said Chief of the Buleleng Police Public Order and Security Unit, I Wayan Parta, with permission from the Chief of Buleleng Police, Harry Haryadi Badjuri, on Friday (Mar. 4).
He explained that these patrols aim to prevent any kind of commotion on the night of Pengerupukan that lands on the new moon of the ninth month of the Balinese calendar. Police want to ensure security on the ground as early as possible, which also involves conducting spot checks on migrants and checking vehicles with license plates from outside of Bali. “Police want to ensure security, so apart from targeting migrants, parents also also being asked to prevent their children from making or using bamboo canons that could disturb the peace of the community” he explained. (kmb34)
“Actually if we sort out the organic and inorganic waste, it means that only 10 percent residue needs to dis-card to landfill. Currently our landfill has been full,” said Chief of the Bali Environment Agency (BLH), Gede Suarjana, in Denpasar, Tuesday (Mar. 1). He mentioned that plastic waste or inorganic waste becomes a very frightening scourge. When burned, it will produce dioxins and interferes with public health. If left unchecked, it harms the aesthetics and the decom-position process takes tens or even hundreds of years.
“In terms of technology, we have strived through waste bank and inte-grated waste management to do the processing and sorting. But people’s behavior has not changed, they just talk to have done sorting but have not yet implemented,” he complained.
Actually, continued Suarjana, waste production continues to increase from year to year. Previously, waste pro-duction was predicted to reach 10,030 cubic meters per day, in fact reached 11,045 cubic meters per day in 2015. Such amount poses the accumulation of waste belonging to households, markets, hospitals, restaurants, hotels, and industry throughout Bali. Among them, the highest waste producer is the city of Denpasar.
“If the waste is not managed well, its liquid will have effects on soil and water pollution. Then it will result in smell and aesthetic problem due to the methane produced. All the waste produces methane and then goes out into the air. Ultimately, it has an effect on the ozone layer and global warm-ing,” he said.
Chairman of Commission III of the
Bali House of Representatives, Nen-gah Tamba, agreed the waste prob-lem has great impact on society. He pointed that communities around the Suwung landfill are disturbed and lose the right to get fresh air. It happens because the mounting waste in the Suwung landfill generates scents.
“People are harmed and there are also fuel tanks owned by Pertamina. This is very dangerous because the distance is not more than half a ki-lometer,” he said. He added that the government should become a good example related to waste manage-ment.
After that, people can keep up by changing their behavior. Thus, they will no longer litter as well as will do the sorting of waste and composting.
“The government should be the leading sector first. If the government really has good intention and nice con-cept, the community will participate. Have a look at Surabaya, for instance, the road section is superb just look like overseas as they are all clean,” he explained. (kmb32)
DENPASAR - Just around the corner, the Hindus in Bali will carry out the catur brata penyepian or four abstinences. All the activities will be suspended for one full day, including tourism activities. The entire tourism components are required to respect the implementation of Nyepi. Thus, tourists may not be let wander or even do frivolous activities where they stay.
“Should there be any Nyepi packages offered to tourists as a strategy to attract tourists to come to Bali, the tourist activities must be clear. Do not let guests do rah-rah activities to get drunk at hotel as last year’s incident, it is immoral activity. It also included the involvement of hotel employees getting drunk,” said Chairman of the Indonesian Tourism Scholars Association (ICPI) of Bali, I Putu Anom, in Denpasar, Saturday (Mar. 5).
Anom added that guests should be given an explanation on the meaning of catur brata penyepian. Thus, they do not just get something to see, but also something to do and something to buy. Most importantly, guests get something to learn and understand during their visit in Bali.
“Three days before Nyepi, the Hindus perform melasti pro-cession. Usually it is done to beach area also denoting a tourist area. Surely it can become a unique spectacle for tourists, so that local authorities both the agencies and customary authority must set in such a way so that guests witnessing the melasti procession dress politely,” he added.
He also continued that the officials need to set the area where tourists are allowed so the procession can run solemnly. Should there be tourists wishing to see the ceremony at village temple, it must be regulate so as not to disturb the ceremony. “Special rules should be made and implemented if there are tourists visiting so the essence of ritual can run according to the philosophy and ethics, while maintaining people’s solemnity in the ceremony,” explained the former Dean of the Faculty of Tourism, Udayana University.
In particular, Anom also reminded that the attributes of the ogoh-ogoh during the parade at the night of Pengerupukan should remain to have Balinese nuance. Ogoh-ogoh should reflect the properties of bhuta kala and still refers to the rule, norm, religion, moral ethics, aesthetics, and local tradition because the ogoh-ogoh parade is the culmination of interesting spectacle for tourists.
“On that account, Balinese nuance should be really reflected in the ogoh-ogoh. Besides, togetherness, security, tranquility and comfort should also remain to become a priority,” he said. (kmb32)
Security patrols increases before Nyepi
Ahead of Nyepi, avoid rah-rah Waste, worst threat hitting Bali
Each person contributes 2 kg of waste each day
DENPASAR - Waste is a severe threat to the environment of Bali. Each resident contributes waste as much as 2 to 2.5 kilograms every day. Solution by technology alone is not enough to resolve the waste problem considering people’s behavior never changes just to sort organic and inorganic waste.
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Waste is a severe threat to the environment of Bali. Each resident contributes waste as much as 2 to 2.5 kilograms every day.
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JAKARTA - Twenty-one ministerial-level delegations have arrived in Jakarta to attend the 5th Organization of Islamic Cooperation Extraordinary Summit, scheduled here on March 6 to 7, 2018.
“Until 16.00 hours on Saturday, 21 ministe-rial delegations have arrived,” chief of the VIP Security Task Force, Senior Commissioner Aan Suchanan, said here on Saturday.
He did not elaborate which countries had they came from but said mostly arrived at Ja-kartas Soekarno-Hatta airport, and added that officials who had arrived at Jakartas Halim Perdanakusuma airport were from Turkey. Aan said certain VIP delegations had arrived on Thursday.
The director of security of the vital objects under the Jakarta Metropolitan Police Com-mand, said the command has deployed 4,356 personnel to ensure the security of the event.
Aan said the police would be fully in charge of securing the Senior Officials Meeting, sched-uled on Sunday.
He said he had received no information yet about the arrival of a VVIP guest or head of state as they would only meet on Monday.(ant)
Foreign ministers and members of delegates pose for photographers in a group photo during the ministerial
meeting at the extraordinary Organiza-tion of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) sum-
mit on Palestinian issues in Jakarta, Indonesia, Sunday, March 6, 2016.
JAKARTA - Indonesia’s legend-ary Jazz musician Ireng Maulana died of heart attack on early Sunday. “Just now, Indonesias prominent musician Ireng Maulana passed away because of heart attack,” Peter F Gontha, initiator of Java Jazz Fes-tival, wrote on his Twitter account @PeterGontha.
Born in Jakarta on June 15, 1944, Ireng Maulana or Eugene Lodewijk Willem Maulana, was younger brother of Indonesian famous Jazz guitarist Kiboud Maulana. Ireng was one of the initiators of Jakarta International Jazz Festival or Jak-Jazz, which was organized for the first time in 1988.
In 1978 he established the Ireng Maulana All Stars group consisting of among others Benny Likuma-hua (trombone), Hendra Wijaya (piano), Maryono (saxophone), Benny Mustapha (drum), Karim Tes (trumpet), and Roni (bass).
Ireng had performed in the North Sea Jazz Festival, in the Nether-lands.
He studied to play classical gui-
tar at the City Line Guitar Centre, the US, and later at the Konijnklijk Conservatorium in The Hague, the Netherlands.(ant)
JAKARTA - The Indonesian government has expressed deep condolences over the death of one of the founding fathers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Thanat Khoman, at the age of 101.
“The Indonesian government and the people of Indonesia ex-pressed deep condolences over the death of Thanat Khoman,” the foreign ministry noted a state-ment received here Saturday. “Our prayers and sympathies go to his family, friends and colleagues hop-ing they will be given strength,” it noted.
Thanat Khoman was foreign minister of Thailand from 1959 to 1971 and deputy prime minister from 1980 to 1982.
He helped strengthen the rela-tions between his country and the
United States during the Vietnam war. Khoman died at the Rama-thibodi hospital on Friday of old age.
He was a leader who had con-tributed and given invaluable service to promoting regional reconciliation and cooperation in Southeast Asia.
He was one of the founders of ASEAN along with the late Indone-sian former foreign minister Adam Malik, former Philippine foreign minister Narsisco Ramos, Malaysias former foreign minister Tun Abdul Razak and Singapores former for-eign minister S. Rajaratnam.
With his death ASEAN no longer has “founding fathers” that would personally see various developments and achievements of ASEAN cooperation in the future.(ant)
OIC Summit - 21 delegations already in Jakarta
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Indonesia conveys deep condolences over death of Thanat Koman
Legendary Jazz Musician Ireng Maulana Passes Away
Monsanto’s joint venture firm in India said that it would be dif-ficult to bring new technologies to India because it was becoming difficult for the company to recoup its investments in research and development of genetically modified seeds.
Shilpa Divekar Nirula, chief of Monsanto’s India unit, said in a statement seen late Saturday that if the committee recommends imposing a cut in the fees that local seed companies pay to use Mon-santo’s crop genes then the company would have to reevaluate its position in India. Nirula said it was difficult for Mahyco Monsanto Biotech (India) Limited, the company’s joint venture, “to justify bringing new technologies into India in an environment where such arbitrary and innovation-stifling government interventions make it impossible to recoup research and development investments.”
The Indian government had in December ordered that cotton seed prices, including royalties on seeds, be controlled from the 2016-17 crop year. India’s agriculture ministry has set up a committee to determine the price of cotton seeds, including fees the company charges for licensing crop genes.
“If the committee recommends imposing a sharp, mandatory cut in the trait fees paid on Bt-cotton seeds, MMBL will have no choice but to reevaluate every aspect of our position in India,” Nirula said.
Around 7 million cotton farmers in India use the company’s seeds, the company said. Over the last two decades, millions of small farm-ers have adopted genetically modified cotton seeds, making India one of the world’s biggest producers of cotton.
Genetically modified plants are grown from seeds that are engi-neered to resist insects and herbicides, add nutritional benefits or otherwise improve crop yields and increase the global food supply. Advocates say these new strains will boost yields and stabilize sup-ply by also improving drought resistance.
India has allowed the use of genetically modified seeds only to grow cotton. It says further study needs to be done to guarantee consumer safety before genetically modified food crops can be cultivated in the country.(ap)
NEW YORK — Amazon is re-versing course and will let custom-ers resume encrypting locally stored data on their Fire tablets.
Amazon removed the ability to encrypt local data in September because it said customers weren’t using the service. That decision came under new scrutiny last week as Apple squares off against the FBI over access to the encrypted iPhone of San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook.
Amazon spokeswoman Robin Handaly said Saturday that a full
encryption option will be offered in a Fire software update coming this spring. She said the company had no further comment on the issue.
Encryption protects user data by scrambling it and only allowing access with a password. Amazon removed device encryption, but communication between Fire de-vices and Amazon’s cloud, and data stored within the cloud, is still encrypted.
Amazon is one of 15 companies, including Google, Facebook and
Microsoft, who filed court papers backing Apple in its fight with the FBI.
Farook and his wife killed 14 co-workers in San Bernardino County on Dec. 2. The government says Farook’s encrypted, work-issued iPhone could contain information about accomplices or other details about the case. But Apple says un-locking Farook’s phone would make all other iPhones more vulnerable to future attacks. Apple is scheduled to ask the judge to reverse her order on March 22.(ap)
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FILE - In this Sept. 16, 2015, file photo, Amazon’s Fire tablet is displayed in San Francisco. Amazon has removed the ability to encrypt locally stored data on its Fire tablets because it says customers weren’t using the service.
Amazon reverses course, will allow local encryption
Seeds of trouble: Monsanto threatens to pull out of India
AP Photo/Ajit Solanki, file
FILE- In this April 30, 2012 file photo, Indian laborers unload cotton from a truck at a cotton mill near Kadi, about 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Ahmadabad, India. U.S. seed giant Monsanto has threatened to pull its genetically modified crop technology from India if the government goes ahead with its plan to cut the company’s royalty fees.
NEW DELHI — U.S. seed giant Monsanto has threat-ened to pull its genetically modified crop technology from India if the government goes ahead with its plan to cut the company’s royalty fees.
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“The deities reject this reclama-tion -not just human beings. When we parade this ogoh-ogoh, we will also carry a banner that reads: “STT Eka Dharma Canthi, Kancil Hamlet, Kerobokan Rejects Benoa Bay Recla-mation” said the man who is familiarly called Toris.
In Denpasar, the Youth of Tanah Abu on Jalan Gunung Agung, has also made an ogoh-ogoh that addresses tho issue, named simply “ Reject Reclamation”. The youth of this area are known for making ogoh-ogoh that criticize social problems. Previously, they made an ogoh-ogoh depiction the figures Gayus Tambunan and Angelina Sondakh who were involved in a well known corruption case. This year, their ogoh-ogoh speaks of the reclamation that affects Bali.
“Our current ogoh-ogoh represents the god of the sea (Varuna) being angry at the investors that want to re-claim Benoa Bay” said Pipet, a Tanah Abu youth representative. He added their “Reject Reclamation” ogoh-ogoh will be paraded in the area of Den-pasar’s Catur Muka statue along with a banner that will read: “Tanah Abu keeping silent is the same as Bali being drown. Cancel Presidential Regulation No.51/2014”, and a billboard that will read: “Bali Not for Sale.”
The youth of Dam Buana Kubu, West Denpasar, are making an ogoh-ogoh titled “Varuna Krodha” meaning the anger of Lord Varuna and depicts
lord Varuna intervening to prevent damage caused to the sea by the Benoa Bay reclamation in the form of two small demons (kala) representing the investor and accomplice, attempting to destroy Bali. In one hand he holds an excavator used for dredging and in the other a drill used to drill into the bowels of the earth - both equally destructive.
“This theme is featured in order to represent the issue that has been developing over the past three years in Bali related to the Benoa Bay reclamation plan. Investors cannot excessively exploit Bali for personal gain, regardless of the impact on the environmen,” said Alit, a representa-tive of the local youth.
Tenaya Kusuma Customary Youth Club of Buagan hamlet, Denpasar, have created an ogoh ogoh that high-lights Bali’s environmental issues more generally. This ogoh-ogoh titled: “Sandikalaning Bali’ (the twilight of Bali) not only addressese the issue of the Benao Bay reclamation plan but also draws attention to the pollution caused by plastic refuse as well as the shift away from cultural tourism toward mass tourism that seems to be occurring. The ‘Sandikalaning Bali ‘ogoh-ogoh shows bhuta kala carrying the island of Bali and an excavator.
“Twilight is used to represent the transition of Bali from natural and cultural tourism to artificial tourism. We are focused on nature, not solely on the reclamation but also on the threat of plastic waste and other such things” said chief of the customary youth club, Sumarna. (kmb32)
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The wins for Trump and Cruz on Saturday were a setback for a Republican establishment that has largely lined up behind Marco Rubio, a U.S. senator who was shut out in the four contests.
“I think it’s time that he dropped out of the race,” Trump said of Rubio afterward. “I want Ted one on one.”
The Republican campaign now moves to Puerto Rico on Sunday and contests on Tuesday in Michi-gan, Mississippi, Idaho and Hawaii, where Trump will be looking to expand his lead in the battle to pick
nominees for the Nov. 8 presiden-tial election to succeed President Barack Obama.
On the Democratic side, front-runner Hillary Clinton won on Saturday in Louisiana and rival Bernie Sanders won in Kansas and Nebraska in results that slightly ex-panded Clinton’s delegate lead over the U.S. senator from Vermont.
Next up for Democrats is a contest in Maine on Sunday and a nationally televised debate on Sunday night from Flint, Michigan, a majority-black and impoverished city that has suffered a health crisis
caused by a contaminated water supply.
Democrats in Michigan and Mis-sissippi also will vote on Tuesday.
“Now all eyes turn to Michigan,” Clinton said on Saturday night at a rally in Detroit.
The Republican race has been marked by a growing wave of attacks on Trump from the Re-publican establishment, which has blanched at his calls to build a wall on the border with Mexico, round up and deport 11 million undocu-mented immigrants and temporarily bar all Muslims from entering the United States.
But Trump has shrugged off the attacks and won contests on Sat-urday in Louisiana and Kentucky. Cruz, a U.S. senator from Texas, won in Kansas and Maine. (rtr)
KUALA LUMPUR - The fami-lies of passengers lost aboard Ma-laysia Airlines flight MH370 say the two-year search for the missing aircraft must go on beyond a June deadline, as new hope emerged last week of resolving the aviation mystery.
Debris found off the African coast rekindled hope for many, prompting relatives like Grace Subathirai Na-than to demand investigators go back over mistakes made early on.
“A lot of it was based on calcula-tions that had never been used before, where there’s room for human error,” Nathan said in an interview. Nathan’s mother, Anne Daisy, was on board when MH370 disappeared on its way to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur on March 8, 2014, with 239 passengers and crew on board.
Some 120,000 sq km (46,300 sq mi) of the sea floor is being scoured at an estimated cost of about A$170 million ($124.17 million). But no trace of the missing Boeing 777 has been found except for a wing part, known as a flaperon, which surfaced on Reunion island off Madagascar
last July.Australia said in August that initial
drift models of where debris from the jet might first wash up had incorrectly identified Indonesia as the most likely location.
“If that could be wrong, what else could be wrong?” Nathan, a 28-year-old lawyer, said. A meeting set for June between Australia, Malaysia, and China will determine whether to extend the search.
But families are calling for the search to continue after the discov-ery last week of a white, metre-long chunk of metal suspected to be from MH370 off the coast of Mozambique. Just as they prepare to mark the two-year anniversary of the jet’s disap-pearance, the relatives are asking for efforts to focus on the southeast African coast.
Voice370, a support group for MH370 next-of-kin, said last week in a statement that the claims of funds drying up was “unacceptable” as a reason for ending the investiga-tion, which they say could benefit the broader industry and increase safety. (rtr)
Two years on, MH370 families say search for
missing jet must continue
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Republican U.S. presidential candidate Texas Senator Ted Cruz speaks at the 2016 Conserva-tive Political Action Conference (CPAC) at National Harbor, Maryland March 4, 2016.
With two wins, Cruz stakes claim as Trump’s main Republican rival
WASHINGTON - Republican presidential contender Ted Cruz solidified his claim to be front-runner Donald Trump’s prime challenger by splitting four nominating contests with the real estate mogul, and both turned their attention to a crucial showdown in Michigan on Tuesday.
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LONDON - Jason Kenny fired a timely warning to those target-ing his Olympic crown when he swooped to land sprint gold at the world track championships in front of a partisan home crowd on Saturday.
The 27-year-old British rider battled back from losing the open-ing race of the best-of-three final against Australian flyer Matthew Glaetzer to edge the next two.
It was his first world sprint title for five years and will send him to Rio in August as the man to beat.
“Those last two rides were tough,” said Kenny who won the individual and team sprints at the same London velodrome in the 2012 Olympics.
“We were both knackered to
be honest. It was a real slog, it wasn’t the prettiest race of the day,” he told reporters as his smil-ing girlfriend Laura Trott warmed up for her elimination race in the omnium.
Kenny was under pressure when Glaetzer took the opener by 0.002 of a second but responded superbly to keep the hosts at the top of the medals table with three golds, one of them won by Trott in the scratch race earlier this week.
Russian Denis Dmitriev took the bronze.
Colombia’s Fernando Rendon Gaviria won the men’s omnium title for the second year running, underlining his credentials for Olympic gold after an enthralling finale to the multi-discipline event
that spans two days.The 21-year-old, already tipped
to become a multiple stage winner in the Tour de France, held off an incredible charge up the leader-board by German Roger Kluge and Australian Glenn O’Shea to retain the rainbow jersey he won in Paris last year.
There was disappointment for Britain’s Mark Cavendish as he finished sixth, putting in jeapoardy his hopes of securing a place in the British track team for Rio.
The 30-year-old, one of the most prolific stage winners in the history of the Tour de France, has inter-rupted his road season to return to the boards with the aim of finally winning a long-overdue Olympic medal. (rtr)
The world number 11’s win on a steamy afternoon at Melbourne’s Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club sealed the tie 3-1 with a singles rubber in hand, while silencing a raucous crowd of yellow-clad fans.
“Our team prepared very, very well and I think it showed out here,” Isner, who closed out the contest with his 49th ace on match point, said courtside.
The win will take some heat off U.S. captain Jim Courier, who came into the tie on the back of two first-round exits from the team tournament.
“We knew it was going to be very dif-ficult,” said Courier, whose team will face Croatia or Belgium in the last eight in July.
“Our team certainly came good, John stepped up so big ... and finally cracked it there in the breaker which was really impressive.”
The United States, Davis Cup champi-ons 32 times, arrived Down Under early to prepare and had first practice on Kooyong’s temporary grass court even before Austra-lia’s team had assembled in Melbourne.
The Lleyton Hewitt-captained Australia lost young gun Nick Kyrgios to a virus in a major blow in the leadup but Isner led off superbly for the Americans with a dominant win over Sam Groth in the open-ing singles.
He also appeared set to cruise to another emphatic win on Sunday before wobbling when serving late in the fourth set.
Tomic finally broke the towering Ameri-can on the fifth set point but neither player offered a look at the other’s serve in the decider.
Isner’s chief weapon would ultimately prevail, as he blasted a string of huge serves to seal the tiebreak and condemn Australia to a first round exit after their run to the semi-finals last year. (rtr)
Isner puts United States through to Davis Cup quarter-finals
Kenny is sprint king as Gaviria wins omnium
REUTERS/Andrew Winning
UCI World Track Cycling Championships - London, Britain - 5/3/2016 - Jason Kenny of Britain (L) edges past Matthew Glaetzer of Australia to win the men’s sprint.
MELBOURNE - John Isner fended off Australia’s Bernard Tomic 6-4 6-4 5-7 7-6(4) on Sunday to book the United States a berth in the Davis Cup quarter-finals for the first time in three years.
AP Photo/Andrew Brownbill
John Isner of the United States smile after defeating Australia’s Bernard Tomic during
their Davis Cup singles match in Mel-bourne, Australia, Sunday, March 6, 2016.
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Ronaldo’s haul gave him 252 ca-reer goals according to the league, surpassing Telmo Zarra’s mark of 251 goals that had stood as a record until Barcelona star Lionel Messi passed that milestone in 2014. Messi’s hat trick in a 5-1 win at Rayo Vallecano on Thursday took his leading tally to 305.
After Pepe put Madrid ahead be-fore halftime, Ronaldo scored with a long blast. He added another goal from a free kick, tapped in a short cross, and headed home a corner kick. Jese Rodriguez and Gareth Bale completed the demolition of a Celta side that held its own be-fore halftime but fell apart in the second half.
Besides surpassing Zarra’s mark for Athletic Bilbao from 1955, Ron-aldo also passed Barcelona’s Luis Suarez as the league top scorer for the season. Ronaldo has 27 goals to Suarez’s 25.
Madrid remained in third place and a provisional nine points be-hind leader Barcelona, which visits Eibar on Sunday, when second-place Atletico Madrid also visits Valencia.
Disqualified from the Copa del Rey and its Liga title hopes all but gone, Madrid turns back to its most realistic chance to salvage the season when it hosts Roma on Tuesday in the Champions League round of 16, holding a 2-0 advan-tage. “Ronaldo is one of a kind,” Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane said. “I never scored four goals. It’s important that he scores heading into the Champions League.”
Elsewhere, Las Palmas ended fourth-place Villarreal’s 14-round unbeaten streak with a 1-0 away win, dropping the host seven points behind Madrid. David Garcia’s header on the half-hour mark helped the Canary Island club edge
away from the relegation zone with a third consecutive victory.
Fifth-place Sevilla stayed win-less on the road this season after conceding a late goal in a 1-1 draw at Getafe, which broke a streak of seven losses. Ever Banega’s free kick put Sevilla ahead late, only for Emiliano Velazquez to level with four minutes left.
An own goal by Deportivo La Coruna’s Alejando Arribas in the 89th gifted Malaga a 3-3 draw as the hosts remained winless in 12 rounds.
Madrid’s big win over sixth-place Celta came at a perfect time, as Madrid was jeered by the same Santiago Bernabeu Stadium fans the previous weekend after a 1-0 loss to Atletico. That defeat ended with Ronaldo criticizing his team-mates, opening the first squad crisis that Zidane had to publicly quell.
“Nobody can doubt Cristia-no,” said Madrid forward Lucas Vazquez, who started along with 18-year-old striker Borja Mayoral in place of the injured Karim Ben-
zema. “You have to congratulate him. Today there wasn’t any fric-tion and I didn’t hear any jeers.”
Defender Pepe headed the hosts in front in the 41st minute after a drab first half for Madrid that saw Celta’s Iago Aspas hit the woodwork early.
But the second half was lopsided after Ronaldo looped an unstoppable long strike over goalkeeper Ruben Blanco and into the net. Earlier, a poor pass by Ronaldo earned him some whistles from the crowd, and in-stead of celebrating the impressive goal, he pointed to his ear while soaking up the applause.
Ronaldo curved a free kick over the wall to make it 3-0, tapped in another goal after Aspas hit on the break, and got his fourth goal with a header, a minute before Rodriguez scored. Bale, who played his first minutes as a sub-stitute since being injured in January, scored off the post. (ap)
BERLIN — Bay-ern Munich took another small step
toward an unprec-e d e n t e d f o u r t h
successive Bundes-liga title with a hard-
fought scoreless draw at clos-est rival Borussia Dortmund on Saturday.
Bayern, which had a healthy eight-point lead before Wednes-day’s shock home defeat to Mainz, preserved the five-point gap with nine games remaining.
Bayern midfielder Arturo Vidal came closest to scoring for either side in the 65th minute when Dort-mund ‘keeper Roman Buerki pro-duced a fine reflex save to deflect his shot onto the crossbar.
“I’m happy the ball didn’t go in,” said Buerki, who also got the better of Douglas Costa in a one-on-one in the first half but had a shaky start to the game. “There are always things you can improve upon.”
Buerki conceded the title was less likely with Dortmund hav-ing failed to narrow the deficit and now needing two slip-ups
from Bayern. “It’s the same as before the game, five points. We’ll try and win
all our games,” the Dortmund ‘keeper said.
The visitors had 17 efforts at goal, compared to Dortmund’s 11. League top-scorer Robert Lewan-dowski was quiet on his return to his former club, while Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang was unable to seriously trouble Manuel Neuer at the other end. It was the first 0-0 draw in 26 competitive meetings between the rivals.
Thomas Mueller missed the first big chance in the fifth minute when he fired high and wide after Buerki failed to deal properly with Costa’s cross. Neuer denied Aubameyang on a quick break at the other end minutes later and the tone was set for the game, with both sides’ high tempo creating chances at either end.
Vidal had another good chance before Erik Durm hit the side-netting with Dortmund’s next op-portunity. The outstanding Joshua Kimmich, filling in for Bayern’s defense, made a brilliant last-ditch tackle to deny Marco Reus before Buerki thwarted Costa.
Bayern grew stronger as the game progressed but Buerki shut the door with his reflex save. “Nil-nil is definitely a result we can
live with. I’d like to have seen our efforts rewarded with a 1-0 win,” said Mueller, who said the league wasn’t won yet. “It stays exciting. We’re still under pressure for the remaining games.”
Earlier, Claudio Pizarro scored his 100th Bundesliga goal for Werder Bremen in a 4-1 win over last-place Hannover and Bayer Leverkusen came from three goals down to draw 3-3 at Augsburg.
South Korea midfielder Koo Ja-cheol’s hat trick wasn’t enough for Augsburg as Hakan Calhano-glu’s injury-time penalty earned Leverkusen an unlikely draw and prevented the team from slumping to its fourth straight defeat.
Jeffrey Gouweleeuw was sent off for conceding the hand-ball penalty in the 92nd minute, 12 minutes after Paul Verhaegh’s own goal put Leverkusen in touching distance. Karim Bellarabi started the comeback with a half-hour remaining.
Leverkusen coach Roger Schmidt wasn’t in the stadium to see any of it after leaving for Spain to watch Europa League opponent Villarreal in action against Las Palmas.
Veteran Peru striker Pizarro
scored one goal — his 11th of the season and fifth in three games — and set up another to boost Bremen’s hopes of avoid-ing the drop.
Fin Bartels opened the scoring before Pizarro made it 2-0 with a brilliant strike in the 26th. The 37-year-old lifted the ball over two Hannover defenders with his right boot and smacked it past the goalkeeper with his left.
Kenan Karaman pulled one back but Pizarro set up Theodor Gebre Selassie in the 56th. Zlatko Junuzovic sealed it. “The win was very impor-tant. Now we can breathe in and carry on working,” Pizarro said. (ap)
WATFORD — Leicester moved five points clear at the top of the English Premier League with nine games left after a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Watford on Saturday. Riyad Mahrez took his goal beauti-fully as he controlled a clearance before slamming the ball past Wat-ford goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes in the 56th minute.
Leicester moved five points ahead of Tottenham, which drew with fellow title rival Arsenal 2-2.
The first half at Vicarage Road was tense, with neither team willing to commit too many numbers for-ward. Both created chances without seriously threatening to score.
The game came to life early in the second half when Mahrez scored what proved to be the win-ner with a sublime finish from just inside the penalty area. Fol-lowing that, Leicester defended its lead well, goalkeeper Kasper
Schmeichel dealing with Watford’s few oppor-tunities.
“It was very tough,
we knew coming here would be a tough ask. Riyad has come up with a bit of magic so we are delighted,”
Schmeichel said. “We are in a good position, but (with) nine games (to go), a lot can happen.” (ap)
FRANKFURT — Strug-gling Bundesliga side Ein-tracht Frankfurt has sacked coach Armin Veh in a bid to avoid relegation.
Frankfurt chairman Heribert Bruchhagen says his dismissal was “very hard for us because Armin Veh had our confidence to the end. Still, we wanted to give the team a fresh boost with a
coach-ing change
in the relegat ion battle so we can secure
our survival. Eintracht Frank-furt thanks Armin Veh for his work.”
Veh began his second stint in charge of Frankfurt last summer, but the side is in the relegation play-off place after just five wins and 11 defeats from 25 league games.
Veh led the side to promotion and clinched European quali-fication in his first stint from 2011 to 2014. Assistant coach Reiner Geyer was to take over on an interim basis. (ap)
Bayern closer to Bundesliga title after 0-0 draw in Dortmund
Bayern head coach Pep Guardiola reacts during the German Bundesliga soccer match between
Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich, in Dort-mund, Germany, Satur-
day, March 5, 2016.
Mahrez scores as Leicester’s dream season continues
AP Photo/Tim Ireland
Leicester’s Riyad Mahrez, right, celebrates after scoring a goal, with his teammates, during the English Premier League soc-cer match between Watford and Leicester City at the Vicarage Road stadium in London, Saturday, March 5, 2016.
Ronaldo scores 4 goals to become Liga’s 2nd all-time scorer
Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates after
scoring a goal against Celta during a Spanish
La Liga soccer match between Real Madrid and Celta Vigo at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Ma-drid, Saturday, March 5,
2016. Ronaldo scored four goals in Real Madrid’s 7-1
victory.
Struggling Eintracht Frankfurt sacks Armin Veh as coach
BARCELONA — Cristiano Ronaldo scored four second-half goals to become the second all-time leading scorer in La Liga as Real Madrid routed Celta Vigo 7-1 on Saturday.
Frankfurt head coach Armin Veh arrives for the kick off for the German Bundesliga soccer match between Hertha BSC Berlin and Eintracht Frankfurt in Berlin, Germany, Wednes-day, March 2, 2016.
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Ronaldo’s haul gave him 252 ca-reer goals according to the league, surpassing Telmo Zarra’s mark of 251 goals that had stood as a record until Barcelona star Lionel Messi passed that milestone in 2014. Messi’s hat trick in a 5-1 win at Rayo Vallecano on Thursday took his leading tally to 305.
After Pepe put Madrid ahead be-fore halftime, Ronaldo scored with a long blast. He added another goal from a free kick, tapped in a short cross, and headed home a corner kick. Jese Rodriguez and Gareth Bale completed the demolition of a Celta side that held its own be-fore halftime but fell apart in the second half.
Besides surpassing Zarra’s mark for Athletic Bilbao from 1955, Ron-aldo also passed Barcelona’s Luis Suarez as the league top scorer for the season. Ronaldo has 27 goals to Suarez’s 25.
Madrid remained in third place and a provisional nine points be-hind leader Barcelona, which visits Eibar on Sunday, when second-place Atletico Madrid also visits Valencia.
Disqualified from the Copa del Rey and its Liga title hopes all but gone, Madrid turns back to its most realistic chance to salvage the season when it hosts Roma on Tuesday in the Champions League round of 16, holding a 2-0 advan-tage. “Ronaldo is one of a kind,” Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane said. “I never scored four goals. It’s important that he scores heading into the Champions League.”
Elsewhere, Las Palmas ended fourth-place Villarreal’s 14-round unbeaten streak with a 1-0 away win, dropping the host seven points behind Madrid. David Garcia’s header on the half-hour mark helped the Canary Island club edge
away from the relegation zone with a third consecutive victory.
Fifth-place Sevilla stayed win-less on the road this season after conceding a late goal in a 1-1 draw at Getafe, which broke a streak of seven losses. Ever Banega’s free kick put Sevilla ahead late, only for Emiliano Velazquez to level with four minutes left.
An own goal by Deportivo La Coruna’s Alejando Arribas in the 89th gifted Malaga a 3-3 draw as the hosts remained winless in 12 rounds.
Madrid’s big win over sixth-place Celta came at a perfect time, as Madrid was jeered by the same Santiago Bernabeu Stadium fans the previous weekend after a 1-0 loss to Atletico. That defeat ended with Ronaldo criticizing his team-mates, opening the first squad crisis that Zidane had to publicly quell.
“Nobody can doubt Cristia-no,” said Madrid forward Lucas Vazquez, who started along with 18-year-old striker Borja Mayoral in place of the injured Karim Ben-
zema. “You have to congratulate him. Today there wasn’t any fric-tion and I didn’t hear any jeers.”
Defender Pepe headed the hosts in front in the 41st minute after a drab first half for Madrid that saw Celta’s Iago Aspas hit the woodwork early.
But the second half was lopsided after Ronaldo looped an unstoppable long strike over goalkeeper Ruben Blanco and into the net. Earlier, a poor pass by Ronaldo earned him some whistles from the crowd, and in-stead of celebrating the impressive goal, he pointed to his ear while soaking up the applause.
Ronaldo curved a free kick over the wall to make it 3-0, tapped in another goal after Aspas hit on the break, and got his fourth goal with a header, a minute before Rodriguez scored. Bale, who played his first minutes as a sub-stitute since being injured in January, scored off the post. (ap)
BERLIN — Bay-ern Munich took another small step
toward an unprec-e d e n t e d f o u r t h
successive Bundes-liga title with a hard-
fought scoreless draw at clos-est rival Borussia Dortmund on Saturday.
Bayern, which had a healthy eight-point lead before Wednes-day’s shock home defeat to Mainz, preserved the five-point gap with nine games remaining.
Bayern midfielder Arturo Vidal came closest to scoring for either side in the 65th minute when Dort-mund ‘keeper Roman Buerki pro-duced a fine reflex save to deflect his shot onto the crossbar.
“I’m happy the ball didn’t go in,” said Buerki, who also got the better of Douglas Costa in a one-on-one in the first half but had a shaky start to the game. “There are always things you can improve upon.”
Buerki conceded the title was less likely with Dortmund hav-ing failed to narrow the deficit and now needing two slip-ups
from Bayern. “It’s the same as before the game, five points. We’ll try and win
all our games,” the Dortmund ‘keeper said.
The visitors had 17 efforts at goal, compared to Dortmund’s 11. League top-scorer Robert Lewan-dowski was quiet on his return to his former club, while Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang was unable to seriously trouble Manuel Neuer at the other end. It was the first 0-0 draw in 26 competitive meetings between the rivals.
Thomas Mueller missed the first big chance in the fifth minute when he fired high and wide after Buerki failed to deal properly with Costa’s cross. Neuer denied Aubameyang on a quick break at the other end minutes later and the tone was set for the game, with both sides’ high tempo creating chances at either end.
Vidal had another good chance before Erik Durm hit the side-netting with Dortmund’s next op-portunity. The outstanding Joshua Kimmich, filling in for Bayern’s defense, made a brilliant last-ditch tackle to deny Marco Reus before Buerki thwarted Costa.
Bayern grew stronger as the game progressed but Buerki shut the door with his reflex save. “Nil-nil is definitely a result we can
live with. I’d like to have seen our efforts rewarded with a 1-0 win,” said Mueller, who said the league wasn’t won yet. “It stays exciting. We’re still under pressure for the remaining games.”
Earlier, Claudio Pizarro scored his 100th Bundesliga goal for Werder Bremen in a 4-1 win over last-place Hannover and Bayer Leverkusen came from three goals down to draw 3-3 at Augsburg.
South Korea midfielder Koo Ja-cheol’s hat trick wasn’t enough for Augsburg as Hakan Calhano-glu’s injury-time penalty earned Leverkusen an unlikely draw and prevented the team from slumping to its fourth straight defeat.
Jeffrey Gouweleeuw was sent off for conceding the hand-ball penalty in the 92nd minute, 12 minutes after Paul Verhaegh’s own goal put Leverkusen in touching distance. Karim Bellarabi started the comeback with a half-hour remaining.
Leverkusen coach Roger Schmidt wasn’t in the stadium to see any of it after leaving for Spain to watch Europa League opponent Villarreal in action against Las Palmas.
Veteran Peru striker Pizarro
scored one goal — his 11th of the season and fifth in three games — and set up another to boost Bremen’s hopes of avoid-ing the drop.
Fin Bartels opened the scoring before Pizarro made it 2-0 with a brilliant strike in the 26th. The 37-year-old lifted the ball over two Hannover defenders with his right boot and smacked it past the goalkeeper with his left.
Kenan Karaman pulled one back but Pizarro set up Theodor Gebre Selassie in the 56th. Zlatko Junuzovic sealed it. “The win was very impor-tant. Now we can breathe in and carry on working,” Pizarro said. (ap)
WATFORD — Leicester moved five points clear at the top of the English Premier League with nine games left after a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Watford on Saturday. Riyad Mahrez took his goal beauti-fully as he controlled a clearance before slamming the ball past Wat-ford goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes in the 56th minute.
Leicester moved five points ahead of Tottenham, which drew with fellow title rival Arsenal 2-2.
The first half at Vicarage Road was tense, with neither team willing to commit too many numbers for-ward. Both created chances without seriously threatening to score.
The game came to life early in the second half when Mahrez scored what proved to be the win-ner with a sublime finish from just inside the penalty area. Fol-lowing that, Leicester defended its lead well, goalkeeper Kasper
Schmeichel dealing with Watford’s few oppor-tunities.
“It was very tough,
we knew coming here would be a tough ask. Riyad has come up with a bit of magic so we are delighted,”
Schmeichel said. “We are in a good position, but (with) nine games (to go), a lot can happen.” (ap)
FRANKFURT — Strug-gling Bundesliga side Ein-tracht Frankfurt has sacked coach Armin Veh in a bid to avoid relegation.
Frankfurt chairman Heribert Bruchhagen says his dismissal was “very hard for us because Armin Veh had our confidence to the end. Still, we wanted to give the team a fresh boost with a
coach-ing change
in the relegat ion battle so we can secure
our survival. Eintracht Frank-furt thanks Armin Veh for his work.”
Veh began his second stint in charge of Frankfurt last summer, but the side is in the relegation play-off place after just five wins and 11 defeats from 25 league games.
Veh led the side to promotion and clinched European quali-fication in his first stint from 2011 to 2014. Assistant coach Reiner Geyer was to take over on an interim basis. (ap)
Bayern closer to Bundesliga title after 0-0 draw in Dortmund
Bayern head coach Pep Guardiola reacts during the German Bundesliga soccer match between
Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich, in Dort-mund, Germany, Satur-
day, March 5, 2016.
Mahrez scores as Leicester’s dream season continues
AP Photo/Tim Ireland
Leicester’s Riyad Mahrez, right, celebrates after scoring a goal, with his teammates, during the English Premier League soc-cer match between Watford and Leicester City at the Vicarage Road stadium in London, Saturday, March 5, 2016.
Ronaldo scores 4 goals to become Liga’s 2nd all-time scorer
Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates after
scoring a goal against Celta during a Spanish
La Liga soccer match between Real Madrid and Celta Vigo at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Ma-drid, Saturday, March 5,
2016. Ronaldo scored four goals in Real Madrid’s 7-1
victory.
Struggling Eintracht Frankfurt sacks Armin Veh as coach
BARCELONA — Cristiano Ronaldo scored four second-half goals to become the second all-time leading scorer in La Liga as Real Madrid routed Celta Vigo 7-1 on Saturday.
Frankfurt head coach Armin Veh arrives for the kick off for the German Bundesliga soccer match between Hertha BSC Berlin and Eintracht Frankfurt in Berlin, Germany, Wednes-day, March 2, 2016.
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LONDON - Jason Kenny fired a timely warning to those target-ing his Olympic crown when he swooped to land sprint gold at the world track championships in front of a partisan home crowd on Saturday.
The 27-year-old British rider battled back from losing the open-ing race of the best-of-three final against Australian flyer Matthew Glaetzer to edge the next two.
It was his first world sprint title for five years and will send him to Rio in August as the man to beat.
“Those last two rides were tough,” said Kenny who won the individual and team sprints at the same London velodrome in the 2012 Olympics.
“We were both knackered to
be honest. It was a real slog, it wasn’t the prettiest race of the day,” he told reporters as his smil-ing girlfriend Laura Trott warmed up for her elimination race in the omnium.
Kenny was under pressure when Glaetzer took the opener by 0.002 of a second but responded superbly to keep the hosts at the top of the medals table with three golds, one of them won by Trott in the scratch race earlier this week.
Russian Denis Dmitriev took the bronze.
Colombia’s Fernando Rendon Gaviria won the men’s omnium title for the second year running, underlining his credentials for Olympic gold after an enthralling finale to the multi-discipline event
that spans two days.The 21-year-old, already tipped
to become a multiple stage winner in the Tour de France, held off an incredible charge up the leader-board by German Roger Kluge and Australian Glenn O’Shea to retain the rainbow jersey he won in Paris last year.
There was disappointment for Britain’s Mark Cavendish as he finished sixth, putting in jeapoardy his hopes of securing a place in the British track team for Rio.
The 30-year-old, one of the most prolific stage winners in the history of the Tour de France, has inter-rupted his road season to return to the boards with the aim of finally winning a long-overdue Olympic medal. (rtr)
The world number 11’s win on a steamy afternoon at Melbourne’s Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club sealed the tie 3-1 with a singles rubber in hand, while silencing a raucous crowd of yellow-clad fans.
“Our team prepared very, very well and I think it showed out here,” Isner, who closed out the contest with his 49th ace on match point, said courtside.
The win will take some heat off U.S. captain Jim Courier, who came into the tie on the back of two first-round exits from the team tournament.
“We knew it was going to be very dif-ficult,” said Courier, whose team will face Croatia or Belgium in the last eight in July.
“Our team certainly came good, John stepped up so big ... and finally cracked it there in the breaker which was really impressive.”
The United States, Davis Cup champi-ons 32 times, arrived Down Under early to prepare and had first practice on Kooyong’s temporary grass court even before Austra-lia’s team had assembled in Melbourne.
The Lleyton Hewitt-captained Australia lost young gun Nick Kyrgios to a virus in a major blow in the leadup but Isner led off superbly for the Americans with a dominant win over Sam Groth in the open-ing singles.
He also appeared set to cruise to another emphatic win on Sunday before wobbling when serving late in the fourth set.
Tomic finally broke the towering Ameri-can on the fifth set point but neither player offered a look at the other’s serve in the decider.
Isner’s chief weapon would ultimately prevail, as he blasted a string of huge serves to seal the tiebreak and condemn Australia to a first round exit after their run to the semi-finals last year. (rtr)
Isner puts United States through to Davis Cup quarter-finals
Kenny is sprint king as Gaviria wins omnium
REUTERS/Andrew Winning
UCI World Track Cycling Championships - London, Britain - 5/3/2016 - Jason Kenny of Britain (L) edges past Matthew Glaetzer of Australia to win the men’s sprint.
MELBOURNE - John Isner fended off Australia’s Bernard Tomic 6-4 6-4 5-7 7-6(4) on Sunday to book the United States a berth in the Davis Cup quarter-finals for the first time in three years.
AP Photo/Andrew Brownbill
John Isner of the United States smile after defeating Australia’s Bernard Tomic during
their Davis Cup singles match in Mel-bourne, Australia, Sunday, March 6, 2016.
BALANGAN Beach is a white sandy beach stretch 200 meters with panoramic view to the Indian Ocean and blessed by the spectacular sunset that create the romantic nuance for ev-ery visitor who visiting this beach. This beach is also endowed by enormous wave that is demanded by all surfers in particular for experi-ence up to professional surfers. The beach is located in the white stone hill area of Pecatu, south part of Bali Island right in Uluwatu pen-insula, become the famous place, and selected
as one of the best surfing points in the island of god. This beach is very popular within the surfers ranging from local and foreign surfers. Balangan Beach is located in Unggasan Vil-lage, South Kuta District, Badung Regency and Bali Province – Indonesia. This beach is just 25 minutes from Denpasar Airport or 5 minutes to GWK (Garuda Wisnu Kencana) or 20 minutes to Uluwatu Temple. This beach is strategically located among other famous surf points in the southern peninsula of Bali. (IBP/net)
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“The deities reject this reclama-tion -not just human beings. When we parade this ogoh-ogoh, we will also carry a banner that reads: “STT Eka Dharma Canthi, Kancil Hamlet, Kerobokan Rejects Benoa Bay Recla-mation” said the man who is familiarly called Toris.
In Denpasar, the Youth of Tanah Abu on Jalan Gunung Agung, has also made an ogoh-ogoh that addresses tho issue, named simply “ Reject Reclamation”. The youth of this area are known for making ogoh-ogoh that criticize social problems. Previously, they made an ogoh-ogoh depiction the figures Gayus Tambunan and Angelina Sondakh who were involved in a well known corruption case. This year, their ogoh-ogoh speaks of the reclamation that affects Bali.
“Our current ogoh-ogoh represents the god of the sea (Varuna) being angry at the investors that want to re-claim Benoa Bay” said Pipet, a Tanah Abu youth representative. He added their “Reject Reclamation” ogoh-ogoh will be paraded in the area of Den-pasar’s Catur Muka statue along with a banner that will read: “Tanah Abu keeping silent is the same as Bali being drown. Cancel Presidential Regulation No.51/2014”, and a billboard that will read: “Bali Not for Sale.”
The youth of Dam Buana Kubu, West Denpasar, are making an ogoh-ogoh titled “Varuna Krodha” meaning the anger of Lord Varuna and depicts
lord Varuna intervening to prevent damage caused to the sea by the Benoa Bay reclamation in the form of two small demons (kala) representing the investor and accomplice, attempting to destroy Bali. In one hand he holds an excavator used for dredging and in the other a drill used to drill into the bowels of the earth - both equally destructive.
“This theme is featured in order to represent the issue that has been developing over the past three years in Bali related to the Benoa Bay reclamation plan. Investors cannot excessively exploit Bali for personal gain, regardless of the impact on the environmen,” said Alit, a representa-tive of the local youth.
Tenaya Kusuma Customary Youth Club of Buagan hamlet, Denpasar, have created an ogoh ogoh that high-lights Bali’s environmental issues more generally. This ogoh-ogoh titled: “Sandikalaning Bali’ (the twilight of Bali) not only addressese the issue of the Benao Bay reclamation plan but also draws attention to the pollution caused by plastic refuse as well as the shift away from cultural tourism toward mass tourism that seems to be occurring. The ‘Sandikalaning Bali ‘ogoh-ogoh shows bhuta kala carrying the island of Bali and an excavator.
“Twilight is used to represent the transition of Bali from natural and cultural tourism to artificial tourism. We are focused on nature, not solely on the reclamation but also on the threat of plastic waste and other such things” said chief of the customary youth club, Sumarna. (kmb32)
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The wins for Trump and Cruz on Saturday were a setback for a Republican establishment that has largely lined up behind Marco Rubio, a U.S. senator who was shut out in the four contests.
“I think it’s time that he dropped out of the race,” Trump said of Rubio afterward. “I want Ted one on one.”
The Republican campaign now moves to Puerto Rico on Sunday and contests on Tuesday in Michi-gan, Mississippi, Idaho and Hawaii, where Trump will be looking to expand his lead in the battle to pick
nominees for the Nov. 8 presiden-tial election to succeed President Barack Obama.
On the Democratic side, front-runner Hillary Clinton won on Saturday in Louisiana and rival Bernie Sanders won in Kansas and Nebraska in results that slightly ex-panded Clinton’s delegate lead over the U.S. senator from Vermont.
Next up for Democrats is a contest in Maine on Sunday and a nationally televised debate on Sunday night from Flint, Michigan, a majority-black and impoverished city that has suffered a health crisis
caused by a contaminated water supply.
Democrats in Michigan and Mis-sissippi also will vote on Tuesday.
“Now all eyes turn to Michigan,” Clinton said on Saturday night at a rally in Detroit.
The Republican race has been marked by a growing wave of attacks on Trump from the Re-publican establishment, which has blanched at his calls to build a wall on the border with Mexico, round up and deport 11 million undocu-mented immigrants and temporarily bar all Muslims from entering the United States.
But Trump has shrugged off the attacks and won contests on Sat-urday in Louisiana and Kentucky. Cruz, a U.S. senator from Texas, won in Kansas and Maine. (rtr)
KUALA LUMPUR - The fami-lies of passengers lost aboard Ma-laysia Airlines flight MH370 say the two-year search for the missing aircraft must go on beyond a June deadline, as new hope emerged last week of resolving the aviation mystery.
Debris found off the African coast rekindled hope for many, prompting relatives like Grace Subathirai Na-than to demand investigators go back over mistakes made early on.
“A lot of it was based on calcula-tions that had never been used before, where there’s room for human error,” Nathan said in an interview. Nathan’s mother, Anne Daisy, was on board when MH370 disappeared on its way to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur on March 8, 2014, with 239 passengers and crew on board.
Some 120,000 sq km (46,300 sq mi) of the sea floor is being scoured at an estimated cost of about A$170 million ($124.17 million). But no trace of the missing Boeing 777 has been found except for a wing part, known as a flaperon, which surfaced on Reunion island off Madagascar
last July.Australia said in August that initial
drift models of where debris from the jet might first wash up had incorrectly identified Indonesia as the most likely location.
“If that could be wrong, what else could be wrong?” Nathan, a 28-year-old lawyer, said. A meeting set for June between Australia, Malaysia, and China will determine whether to extend the search.
But families are calling for the search to continue after the discov-ery last week of a white, metre-long chunk of metal suspected to be from MH370 off the coast of Mozambique. Just as they prepare to mark the two-year anniversary of the jet’s disap-pearance, the relatives are asking for efforts to focus on the southeast African coast.
Voice370, a support group for MH370 next-of-kin, said last week in a statement that the claims of funds drying up was “unacceptable” as a reason for ending the investiga-tion, which they say could benefit the broader industry and increase safety. (rtr)
Two years on, MH370 families say search for
missing jet must continue
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Republican U.S. presidential candidate Texas Senator Ted Cruz speaks at the 2016 Conserva-tive Political Action Conference (CPAC) at National Harbor, Maryland March 4, 2016.
With two wins, Cruz stakes claim as Trump’s main Republican rival
WASHINGTON - Republican presidential contender Ted Cruz solidified his claim to be front-runner Donald Trump’s prime challenger by splitting four nominating contests with the real estate mogul, and both turned their attention to a crucial showdown in Michigan on Tuesday.
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JAKARTA - Twenty-one ministerial-level delegations have arrived in Jakarta to attend the 5th Organization of Islamic Cooperation Extraordinary Summit, scheduled here on March 6 to 7, 2018.
“Until 16.00 hours on Saturday, 21 ministe-rial delegations have arrived,” chief of the VIP Security Task Force, Senior Commissioner Aan Suchanan, said here on Saturday.
He did not elaborate which countries had they came from but said mostly arrived at Ja-kartas Soekarno-Hatta airport, and added that officials who had arrived at Jakartas Halim Perdanakusuma airport were from Turkey. Aan said certain VIP delegations had arrived on Thursday.
The director of security of the vital objects under the Jakarta Metropolitan Police Com-mand, said the command has deployed 4,356 personnel to ensure the security of the event.
Aan said the police would be fully in charge of securing the Senior Officials Meeting, sched-uled on Sunday.
He said he had received no information yet about the arrival of a VVIP guest or head of state as they would only meet on Monday.(ant)
Foreign ministers and members of delegates pose for photographers in a group photo during the ministerial
meeting at the extraordinary Organiza-tion of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) sum-
mit on Palestinian issues in Jakarta, Indonesia, Sunday, March 6, 2016.
JAKARTA - Indonesia’s legend-ary Jazz musician Ireng Maulana died of heart attack on early Sunday. “Just now, Indonesias prominent musician Ireng Maulana passed away because of heart attack,” Peter F Gontha, initiator of Java Jazz Fes-tival, wrote on his Twitter account @PeterGontha.
Born in Jakarta on June 15, 1944, Ireng Maulana or Eugene Lodewijk Willem Maulana, was younger brother of Indonesian famous Jazz guitarist Kiboud Maulana. Ireng was one of the initiators of Jakarta International Jazz Festival or Jak-Jazz, which was organized for the first time in 1988.
In 1978 he established the Ireng Maulana All Stars group consisting of among others Benny Likuma-hua (trombone), Hendra Wijaya (piano), Maryono (saxophone), Benny Mustapha (drum), Karim Tes (trumpet), and Roni (bass).
Ireng had performed in the North Sea Jazz Festival, in the Nether-lands.
He studied to play classical gui-
tar at the City Line Guitar Centre, the US, and later at the Konijnklijk Conservatorium in The Hague, the Netherlands.(ant)
JAKARTA - The Indonesian government has expressed deep condolences over the death of one of the founding fathers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Thanat Khoman, at the age of 101.
“The Indonesian government and the people of Indonesia ex-pressed deep condolences over the death of Thanat Khoman,” the foreign ministry noted a state-ment received here Saturday. “Our prayers and sympathies go to his family, friends and colleagues hop-ing they will be given strength,” it noted.
Thanat Khoman was foreign minister of Thailand from 1959 to 1971 and deputy prime minister from 1980 to 1982.
He helped strengthen the rela-tions between his country and the
United States during the Vietnam war. Khoman died at the Rama-thibodi hospital on Friday of old age.
He was a leader who had con-tributed and given invaluable service to promoting regional reconciliation and cooperation in Southeast Asia.
He was one of the founders of ASEAN along with the late Indone-sian former foreign minister Adam Malik, former Philippine foreign minister Narsisco Ramos, Malaysias former foreign minister Tun Abdul Razak and Singapores former for-eign minister S. Rajaratnam.
With his death ASEAN no longer has “founding fathers” that would personally see various developments and achievements of ASEAN cooperation in the future.(ant)
OIC Summit - 21 delegations already in Jakarta
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Indonesia conveys deep condolences over death of Thanat Koman
Legendary Jazz Musician Ireng Maulana Passes Away
Monsanto’s joint venture firm in India said that it would be dif-ficult to bring new technologies to India because it was becoming difficult for the company to recoup its investments in research and development of genetically modified seeds.
Shilpa Divekar Nirula, chief of Monsanto’s India unit, said in a statement seen late Saturday that if the committee recommends imposing a cut in the fees that local seed companies pay to use Mon-santo’s crop genes then the company would have to reevaluate its position in India. Nirula said it was difficult for Mahyco Monsanto Biotech (India) Limited, the company’s joint venture, “to justify bringing new technologies into India in an environment where such arbitrary and innovation-stifling government interventions make it impossible to recoup research and development investments.”
The Indian government had in December ordered that cotton seed prices, including royalties on seeds, be controlled from the 2016-17 crop year. India’s agriculture ministry has set up a committee to determine the price of cotton seeds, including fees the company charges for licensing crop genes.
“If the committee recommends imposing a sharp, mandatory cut in the trait fees paid on Bt-cotton seeds, MMBL will have no choice but to reevaluate every aspect of our position in India,” Nirula said.
Around 7 million cotton farmers in India use the company’s seeds, the company said. Over the last two decades, millions of small farm-ers have adopted genetically modified cotton seeds, making India one of the world’s biggest producers of cotton.
Genetically modified plants are grown from seeds that are engi-neered to resist insects and herbicides, add nutritional benefits or otherwise improve crop yields and increase the global food supply. Advocates say these new strains will boost yields and stabilize sup-ply by also improving drought resistance.
India has allowed the use of genetically modified seeds only to grow cotton. It says further study needs to be done to guarantee consumer safety before genetically modified food crops can be cultivated in the country.(ap)
NEW YORK — Amazon is re-versing course and will let custom-ers resume encrypting locally stored data on their Fire tablets.
Amazon removed the ability to encrypt local data in September because it said customers weren’t using the service. That decision came under new scrutiny last week as Apple squares off against the FBI over access to the encrypted iPhone of San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook.
Amazon spokeswoman Robin Handaly said Saturday that a full
encryption option will be offered in a Fire software update coming this spring. She said the company had no further comment on the issue.
Encryption protects user data by scrambling it and only allowing access with a password. Amazon removed device encryption, but communication between Fire de-vices and Amazon’s cloud, and data stored within the cloud, is still encrypted.
Amazon is one of 15 companies, including Google, Facebook and
Microsoft, who filed court papers backing Apple in its fight with the FBI.
Farook and his wife killed 14 co-workers in San Bernardino County on Dec. 2. The government says Farook’s encrypted, work-issued iPhone could contain information about accomplices or other details about the case. But Apple says un-locking Farook’s phone would make all other iPhones more vulnerable to future attacks. Apple is scheduled to ask the judge to reverse her order on March 22.(ap)
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FILE - In this Sept. 16, 2015, file photo, Amazon’s Fire tablet is displayed in San Francisco. Amazon has removed the ability to encrypt locally stored data on its Fire tablets because it says customers weren’t using the service.
Amazon reverses course, will allow local encryption
Seeds of trouble: Monsanto threatens to pull out of India
AP Photo/Ajit Solanki, file
FILE- In this April 30, 2012 file photo, Indian laborers unload cotton from a truck at a cotton mill near Kadi, about 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Ahmadabad, India. U.S. seed giant Monsanto has threatened to pull its genetically modified crop technology from India if the government goes ahead with its plan to cut the company’s royalty fees.
NEW DELHI — U.S. seed giant Monsanto has threat-ened to pull its genetically modified crop technology from India if the government goes ahead with its plan to cut the company’s royalty fees.
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TOKYO - Retired Japanese airline employee Tarou Tanzawa said he hadn’t thought much about his own death until his 84-year-old mother was diagnosed with malignant lymphoma and decided against costly and inva-sive life-prolonging treatment.
He watched his mother die peace-fully at a nursing home where she received only palliative care after checking out of the hospital where she was diagnosed.
Soon after, Tanzawa made his own “living will”, stipulating he did not want life-prolonging treatment if he became terminally ill or was in a vegetative state.
“I felt it was too soon (for my mother to die) but I also thought ‘Ah, there is this way of dying,” Tanzawa,
now 68, told Reuters. “My generation of baby-boomers ... are reaching old age, and we must confront death as a practical issue.”
Although Japan has one of the world’s fastest ageing populations, the country has no laws regarding “living wills”, let alone assisted suicide, which is legal in a few U.S. states such as California and some nations including Canada and Belgium.
Japanese like the Tanzawas with “living wills” are a small minority. But as ageing baby-boomers ponder their own demise and the country struggles with the worst public debt among advanced countries due partly to rising expenditure on medical care, the taboo on avoiding life-extending care is eroding.
The topic of “natural death” is in-creasingly being tackled in TV shows, newspaper and magazine articles and books; seminars on preparing for death are popular; and health experts say the use of feeding tubes for feeble elderly patients is declining.
“I think we are at a turning point in terms of attitudes,” said Teruhiko Mashiko, an opposition lawmaker and head of a parliamentarians group set up a decade ago to discuss a law giving legal protection to doctors who withhold life-prolonging care with the patient’s consent.
“The view that it is not dignified as a human to simply be kept alive by medical treatment is becoming more common,” Mashiko said in an interview. (rtr)
The milky white creature, nick-named “Casper the Friendly Ghost” by Twitter users, was caught on cameras mounted on the craft as it explored the Pacific Ocean at a depth of 4,290 meters, or about 2-1/2 miles, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
said.Describing the animal as an
incirrate octopod, one of two main groupings of octopods, NOAA said it was the first time an incirrate was spotted so deep in the ocean.
“This animal was particularly unusual because it lacked the pig-
ment cells, called chromatophores, typical of most cephalopods, and it did not seem very muscular,” said Michael Vecchione, a research zo-ologist at NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service. Cephalopods belong to a biological class that includes octopuses, squid and cuttlefish.
“The deep sea is so poorly known that finding new or unex-pected things happens fairly often,” Vecchione said in an email, adding that he was excited by the images.
“What is unusual is the opportunity to explore this deep.”
The octopod “almost certainly” was one of a species never previ-ously described by scientists, and it may well belong to a genus that has yet to be identified, wrote Vec-chione, who is affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution in Wash-ington, D.C.
To be certain, he said in the email, scientists would need at least one specimen, and preferably several of them.
NOAA has posted a video on the website showing a pale, rounded form with expressionless eyes and languid tentacles resting on the ocean floor. Its appearance led some Twitter users to say it resembled the cartoon character Casper the Friendly Ghost.
Last week’s discovery came dur-ing the first dive of the 2016 season from the Okeanos Explorer, a ship operated by NOAA that explores little-known parts of the oceans. (rtr)
‘Ghostlike’ octopus found in Pacific may belong to new species
An incirrate octopod is shown at a depth of 4,290 me-ters taken by a remotely oper-ated underwater vehicle Deep Discoverer near Necker Island, or Mokumanamana, on the north-western end of the Hawaiian Ar-chipelago in this image courtesy of NOAA Office of Ocean Explo-ration and Re-search, Hohonu Moana 2016, re-leased on March 5, 2016.
NEW YORK - An underwater research craft has spotted a “ghostlike” octopus that appears to belong to a previously unknown species on the ocean floor near Hawaii, a discovery that highlights how little is known about the deep sea, a U.S. zoologist said on Saturday.
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President of the non-profit Human Care Association Shoji Nakanishi, 72, who has been wheel-chair bound since a spinal cord injury at age 21, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Tokyo, Japan, February 18, 2016. Although Japan has one of the world’s fastest ageing populations, the country has no laws regarding “living wills”.
Ageing, indebted Japan debates right to ‘die with dignity’
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SINGARAJA — An increase of security for the celebration of Nyepi of the Caka Year 1938, that lands on March 9th is be-ing assured but eh ranks of the Buleleng Police Public Order and Security. Field patrols are being on foot, by bicycle and motorcycle as officers scour the area for alcohol and bamboo canons.
“These patrols are expected to help maintain security ahead of Nyepi so that the situation remains conducive to peace and order. We expect the celebration of Nyepi to run smoothly” said Chief of the Buleleng Police Public Order and Security Unit, I Wayan Parta, with permission from the Chief of Buleleng Police, Harry Haryadi Badjuri, on Friday (Mar. 4).
He explained that these patrols aim to prevent any kind of commotion on the night of Pengerupukan that lands on the new moon of the ninth month of the Balinese calendar. Police want to ensure security on the ground as early as possible, which also involves conducting spot checks on migrants and checking vehicles with license plates from outside of Bali. “Police want to ensure security, so apart from targeting migrants, parents also also being asked to prevent their children from making or using bamboo canons that could disturb the peace of the community” he explained. (kmb34)
“Actually if we sort out the organic and inorganic waste, it means that only 10 percent residue needs to dis-card to landfill. Currently our landfill has been full,” said Chief of the Bali Environment Agency (BLH), Gede Suarjana, in Denpasar, Tuesday (Mar. 1). He mentioned that plastic waste or inorganic waste becomes a very frightening scourge. When burned, it will produce dioxins and interferes with public health. If left unchecked, it harms the aesthetics and the decom-position process takes tens or even hundreds of years.
“In terms of technology, we have strived through waste bank and inte-grated waste management to do the processing and sorting. But people’s behavior has not changed, they just talk to have done sorting but have not yet implemented,” he complained.
Actually, continued Suarjana, waste production continues to increase from year to year. Previously, waste pro-duction was predicted to reach 10,030 cubic meters per day, in fact reached 11,045 cubic meters per day in 2015. Such amount poses the accumulation of waste belonging to households, markets, hospitals, restaurants, hotels, and industry throughout Bali. Among them, the highest waste producer is the city of Denpasar.
“If the waste is not managed well, its liquid will have effects on soil and water pollution. Then it will result in smell and aesthetic problem due to the methane produced. All the waste produces methane and then goes out into the air. Ultimately, it has an effect on the ozone layer and global warm-ing,” he said.
Chairman of Commission III of the
Bali House of Representatives, Nen-gah Tamba, agreed the waste prob-lem has great impact on society. He pointed that communities around the Suwung landfill are disturbed and lose the right to get fresh air. It happens because the mounting waste in the Suwung landfill generates scents.
“People are harmed and there are also fuel tanks owned by Pertamina. This is very dangerous because the distance is not more than half a ki-lometer,” he said. He added that the government should become a good example related to waste manage-ment.
After that, people can keep up by changing their behavior. Thus, they will no longer litter as well as will do the sorting of waste and composting.
“The government should be the leading sector first. If the government really has good intention and nice con-cept, the community will participate. Have a look at Surabaya, for instance, the road section is superb just look like overseas as they are all clean,” he explained. (kmb32)
DENPASAR - Just around the corner, the Hindus in Bali will carry out the catur brata penyepian or four abstinences. All the activities will be suspended for one full day, including tourism activities. The entire tourism components are required to respect the implementation of Nyepi. Thus, tourists may not be let wander or even do frivolous activities where they stay.
“Should there be any Nyepi packages offered to tourists as a strategy to attract tourists to come to Bali, the tourist activities must be clear. Do not let guests do rah-rah activities to get drunk at hotel as last year’s incident, it is immoral activity. It also included the involvement of hotel employees getting drunk,” said Chairman of the Indonesian Tourism Scholars Association (ICPI) of Bali, I Putu Anom, in Denpasar, Saturday (Mar. 5).
Anom added that guests should be given an explanation on the meaning of catur brata penyepian. Thus, they do not just get something to see, but also something to do and something to buy. Most importantly, guests get something to learn and understand during their visit in Bali.
“Three days before Nyepi, the Hindus perform melasti pro-cession. Usually it is done to beach area also denoting a tourist area. Surely it can become a unique spectacle for tourists, so that local authorities both the agencies and customary authority must set in such a way so that guests witnessing the melasti procession dress politely,” he added.
He also continued that the officials need to set the area where tourists are allowed so the procession can run solemnly. Should there be tourists wishing to see the ceremony at village temple, it must be regulate so as not to disturb the ceremony. “Special rules should be made and implemented if there are tourists visiting so the essence of ritual can run according to the philosophy and ethics, while maintaining people’s solemnity in the ceremony,” explained the former Dean of the Faculty of Tourism, Udayana University.
In particular, Anom also reminded that the attributes of the ogoh-ogoh during the parade at the night of Pengerupukan should remain to have Balinese nuance. Ogoh-ogoh should reflect the properties of bhuta kala and still refers to the rule, norm, religion, moral ethics, aesthetics, and local tradition because the ogoh-ogoh parade is the culmination of interesting spectacle for tourists.
“On that account, Balinese nuance should be really reflected in the ogoh-ogoh. Besides, togetherness, security, tranquility and comfort should also remain to become a priority,” he said. (kmb32)
Security patrols increases before Nyepi
Ahead of Nyepi, avoid rah-rah Waste, worst threat hitting Bali
Each person contributes 2 kg of waste each day
DENPASAR - Waste is a severe threat to the environment of Bali. Each resident contributes waste as much as 2 to 2.5 kilograms every day. Solution by technology alone is not enough to resolve the waste problem considering people’s behavior never changes just to sort organic and inorganic waste.
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Waste is a severe threat to the environment of Bali. Each resident contributes waste as much as 2 to 2.5 kilograms every day.
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Organizers chose Cleveland, Mississippi — two hours north of the state capital Jackson — for the nearly $20 million project and promise one of the most advanced museums in the country. It’s a smaller but updated version of its sister museum in California and employs high-definition touch-screens and interactive technology to chronicle American music his-tory from before the first Grammy Awards in 1959 to the present.
The bedrock of that history is the Mississippi Delta, said Bob Santelli, executive director of the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles. The rhythmic guitar and soulful ballads of bluesmen like Robert Johnson and B.B. King traveled up the Mississippi River and across the country, influencing nearly every style of American popular music including, jazz, hip-hop and rock
‘n roll. The state also claims the most Grammy winners per capita in the world.
“Isn’t that wild?” Santelli said. “You take the state of Mississippi out of American music history and you have a very large gap to fill.”
The blues mesmerized musicians ranging from Tupelo native Elvis Presley to The Beatles and more in generations since, said Patricia Walker, songwriter and head of Delta State University’s music department. The original blues-men — mostly African-American men living in the Jim Crow era of discrimination in the South — lived off the land and eased their hard-ships through music.
“Everybody at one time or an-other has had the blues,” Walker said. “The musicians that came out of here had to dig deep in the soil to make a living, and they dug
deep to capture those feelings in their music.”
Officials designed the museum — the most upscale building to come to the region — with the Delta’s history in mind. Corrugated metal on the building’s exterior is a nod to the tin metal sharecropper shacks many blues musicians grew up in. The entrance looks like a big front porch, a common feature of many Delta homes.
Cleveland Chamber of Com-merce Director Judson Thigpen estimates the museum could bring in about $20 million annually as a tourist draw to the entire region.
The museum was a collabora-tive effort to spotlight the Delta’s music legacy, said Allen Hammons who helped establish the B.B. King Museum in Indianola, Mississippi, as well as a Blues Trail along high-ways in the state. In 2011 Hammons joined Walker and others to form the Cleveland Music Foundation, a nonprofit foundation that built and operates the museum. (ap)
LOS ANGELES — Hotels are going for a new minimal-ist look to attract younger guests, but the move has left some experienced travelers angry, wondering how they’re expected to get work done without a desk.
Younger travelers, hotels note, just want a clean and efficient space to stay. They spend less time in rooms and like to socialize and work in vibrant lobbies with a sense of community.
So carpets are being replaced by easy-to-clean laminate floors. Tubs are being ripped out in favor of glass showers. And instead of working at a desk, guests are increasingly expected to use glorified window sills or oversized TV trays.
If those “flexible workspaces” aren’t conducive to creativ-ity, hotels are hoping to nudge guests to bring their laptops to the lobby, where they might buy a glass of wine while typing away.
But for seasoned travelers who enjoy working in the quiet of their rooms this has caused major headaches.
“Flexible, I have no problem with. Unusable, is what I have a problem with,” says Don Wright, 59, a computer consultant from Lexington, Kentucky.
Often, these surfaces aren’t “bigger than a sheet of paper,” he says, adding that a laptop might fit, but not also a binder full of documents.
Wright has spent up to 200 nights a year in hotels and under-stands that many make changes to cater to younger travelers. But he can’t imagine any millennial deciding not to stay in a hotel because the room has a desk. But for older road warriors, a lack of a desk is a deal breaker.
“When you are 25 all is well and you can roll up in a ball and sit anywhere,” Wright says. “But when you turn 45, 50 or older, your body doesn’t like those types of positons.”
It’s such a concern that frequent traveler forums online list desk-less hotels to avoid. (ap)
Scott Mayerowitz
In this Jan. 26, 2016 photo, a prototype room of Hilton’s new Tru brand on display in Los Angeles. Instead of desks, rooms in the new hotels will feature chairs with large armrests to place a laptop.
Why your hotel room might come without a closet
or a desk
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In this Wednesday, March 2, 2016 photo, a workman paints the trim to one of the four record-ing pods at the Grammy Museum Mississippi in Cleveland, Miss. The second and only official Grammy Museum outside of Los Angeles opens Saturday in the Mississippi Delta, cradle of the blues.
Grammy Museum opens in
Mississippi DeltaCLEVELAND — The second and only official Grammy Mu-
seum outside of Los Angeles opens Saturday in the Mississippi Delta, cradle of the blues.
This was conveyed by the Regent of Karangasem, I Gusti Ayu Mas Sumatri, during the bazaar activities being held to welcome Nyepi that were organized by the Karangasem Trade and Industry Agency in the area of the East Amlapura Market, on Friday (Mar. 4). The event was held to help alleviate the economic burden that people in Karangasem feel before Nyepi as the prices of basic commodities tend to soar at this time of year.
Mas Sumatri asserted that the gov-ernment needs to be doing more to help promote public appreciation for local fruit so that more people will turn to local pro-duce during holidays. She suggested that vegetable also need to be more attractively packages to attract people’s interest and thus empower Karangasem’s famers and grocers.
Regent Mas Sumatri explained that in addition to providing basic commodities at slightly lowered prices, the bazaar also serves as medium to campaign for local agricultural commodities. This type of event is expected to foster a love for lo-cal produce -whether raw or processed, amongst the people of Karangasem, so that they will want to consume local agri-cultural products.
Head of the Karangasem Industry and Trade Agency, I Gusti Ngurah Suarta, said that there will be another such bazaar held
before Nyepi, on March 7th at East Am-lapura Market. “ As directed by the Regent, next year similar bazaars will be held in all subdistricts of Karangasem” he said.
When asked if there will be a market operating, Suarta said that this would not be necessary because the price of basic commodities is currently stable. The gov-ernment of Karangasem he said uses these activities as a way to train farmers in how to improve their products, including the matter of packaging.
The bazaar opened at 10:00 and - as usual, was crowded with customers due to the low prices. During the bazaar, cooking oil and rice are the best-selling products because they are priced far below the regular market price. Bulog premium rice for instance, is sold for IDR 51,000 per five kilograms -IDR 4,000 cheaper than the normal price in the market. Like-wise, Orchid rice is sold for IDR 53,000 for the same weight, significantly below the normal price of IDR 55,000 to IDR 60,000. “Not bad, this price allows people to save money ahead of the holiday” said one consumers.
The bazaar also sold vegetables like spinach, chayote, tubers as well as fruits. The bazaar also teamed up with the Farm-ers and Fishermen Group (KTNA) and the private sector, so that they too could be empowered. (kmb31)
TABANAN — The flood of Hoo River accompanied with west winds happening recently caused the condition of Klecung Beach to be strewn with marine debris. Aside from plastic waste, there are also dry twigs. As a result, the beach located at Klecung hamlet, Tegal Mengkeb, East Selemadeg, is unsightly.
In response to this condition, on Friday (Mar. 4) all components of society ranging from the ranks of police, military, tourism players, government agencies, village offi-cials to students cornucopia sought to clean up the beach frequently used as location of melasti. Other than beach clean-up activities, it was also accompanied with refor-estation.
Chief of Tabanan Police, Putu Putra Sedana, participating in the reforestation and beach cleanup activities said that favorable social order condition can be seen from economic factors of advanced so-ciety. He also saw tremendous po-tential to increase people’s income along the path passed to Klecung
Beach through tourism sector with the fascination of unspoiled natu-ral scenery owned. “Arrangement along the beach will be able to draw more tourists to visit the beach,” he said.
According to him, such activities should not only be implemented once but carried out continuously, so what is expected to improve people’s welfare, especially at the hamlet of Klecung and Bali in general through the arrange-ment of Klecung Beach, can be realized. Chief of Tabanan Police also donated 150 coconut trees and tropical almond trees and so did the community.
One of the community leaders who is also the Chief of Indo-nesian Fishermen Association (HNSI) of Tabanan, Ketut Arsana Yasa, said that as coastal residents his organization welcomed and thanked for the concern of all the components having helped clean up trash along the beach. “Thanks for the support to clean up the beach so that it looks beautiful again,” he said. (kmb28)
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Reforestation and beach cleanup activities in Klecung Beach.
Marine debris, residents do beach cleanup on Klecung Beach
Nyepi Bazaar addresses produce issues
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I Gusti Ayu Mas Sumatri
AMLAPURA — Karangasem produces a lot of fruit, however this local fruit cannot compete with imported fruit in the markets because of their lack of packaging.
According to him, the estuary dam must be dredged, so that the water stock will become abun-dant primarily for stock during dry season predicted to occur in early April. “The dam has vital function to supply raw water. So, if it is dredged somewhat deeper, the reservoir can hold more wa-ter. When drought comes, it will be more secure,” he said.
Nevertheless, Subarga Yasa claimed that his company cannot normalize the estuary dam be-cause the area belongs to the as-set of central government under the Bali-Penida River Agency. “With the installation of the new pipeline, there is no problem of
water flow into people’s house. But now, the problem is the mat-ter of raw water,” he said.
The Head of Bali-Penida River Agency (BWS-BP), Ketut Jayada, said that his agency was still finalizing the dredging plan of the estuary dam. Location of mud disposal after the dredging becomes a challenge because it requires a spacious location.
“We need cooperation with the government of Badung dis-trict, especially the municipality waterworks where the mud will be accommodated,” he said.
Not to mention, he said the transportation method also needs to be studied. “If transported carelessly and it is scattered on the road, we will surely get com-plaints,” he said. (kmb27)
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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 hap-pens 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 wor-shipped in the shrines.
In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars,
tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Ho-liness. 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 at-tire, 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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One of the farmers from Bangbang village, Tembuku, I Nyoman Yasa, said on Friday (Mar. 4) that since the past few years, the problems he faced as a farmer does not only water avail-ability. In line with this, the cost of rice planting is also likely to increase. In addition, it is difficult to find planting laborer. “Fate of farmers is increasingly suffocated. Planting cost is increasing as well while searching for laborer is difficult. He has to look for to Karangasem and must wait a few days,” he said.
He added that such an issue has caused some farmers to switch to other professions. On the other hand, the interest of younger generation to engage in agricultural sector seems to have faded. To prevent the condition from prolonging, he said it needs the touches of agricultural technology where one of them is the use of rice transplanter. “Touch of technology is
very much needed. We have got rice transplanter from the government, but only for a few subak groups. Hopefully, it can get more in the fu-ture. It is quite relieving the burden of farmers, especially for the elderly,” he said.
The Head of the Bangli Agriculture Agency, Ni Wayan Manik, through the Division Head of Processing, Marketing and Facilities, I Dewa Putu Sugiarta, recently justified if the wage of rice planting tends to increase. According to information, farmers have to spend IDR 1.7 mil-lion per hectare. It is considered very high so that it is difficult to survive in cultivating the land. “Laborer wages tend to rise and is increasingly rare,” he said when met directly at Subak Griya, Tamanbali, in the demonstra-tion of rice transplanter.
He added that to alleviate the burden on farmers, this year Bangli
district received nine units of rice transplanter from central government and they are the granted to a number of subak groups in three subdistricts, namely the Bangli, Susut and Tem-buku. Admittedly this amount is not comparable to the existing paddy field areas. Nevertheless, it will be proposed again to central govern-ment next year. “This is the first assistance. Later, we will propose again,” he explained. Accompanied by the Division Head of Food and Horticulture I Wayan Tagel Sujana, he mentioned that rice cultivation with this tool will be much more quickly. “As comparison, with the use this tool to manual works is 4,000 sqm : 1 sqm,” he said.
On the other hand, this large-sized enough tool has not been supported by adequate farm road, so that the mobility becomes more difficult. “The pathway at paddy field is still relatively inadequate in Bangli. This year, we want to build pathway at 12 subak areas with the length of one kilometer. Hopefully, the tool can be used maximally,” said Sugiarta. (kmb45)
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The entrance to Indonesia Tourism Development Cor-poration in NUsa Dua. The rapid development of tourist accomodation in southern of Badung could lead to water crisis.
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The tourists are taking picture of the Hindus doing Melasti ritual on Padanggalak Beach. The HIndus in Bali carry out Melasti ahead of Nyepi Day which is the symbol of purification.
Rice transplanter,solution to high wage
of rice planting
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The rice planting device that can help the farmer.
BANGLI — The wage of transplanting rice tending to increase is complained by farmers. It is aggravated by the difficulty in find-ing planting laborer. To avoid the agricultural sector from being abandoned due to this condition, subak needs to be supported with the touch of technology, where one of them is rice transplanter.
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LONDON - Media mogul Rupert Murdoch and actress and model Jerry Hall celebrated their marriage with a blessing service on Sat-urday at St. Bride’s church on London’s Fleet Street, the spiritual home of British journalism.
A star-studded guest list included actor Michael Caine, Irish rockstar Bob Geldof, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and British Justice Secretary Michael Gove, a senior figure among those who want the UK to leave the European Union.
But conspicuous by their absence were Prime Minister David Cameron and finance minister George Osborne, who want Britain to stay in the 28-member bloc.
Murdoch and Hall wed on Friday in a private ceremony in central London, after which the now four-times married 84-year-old said he was the happiest man in the world.
Murdoch, executive chairman of News Corp and owner of 21st Century Fox Inc, and Hall, 59, posed for photographs after the service at the historic church, which is famed for its wedding-cake spire, but simply smiled and made no comment to the waiting media.
Texan model and actress Hall was wearing a pale blue chiffon and silk wedding gown, reported to have been designed by Vivienne Westwood, while Murdoch was dressed in a navy suit, white shirt and brown shoes. He sported a single white rose in his breast pocket.
GUEST LISTThe couple’s 10 children from previous relationships attended
the service, as did Rebekah Brooks, who returned to run Murdoch’s British newspapers in September, and Robert Thomson, CEO of News Corp.
Other guests included former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman, artist Tracey Emin, photographer David Bailey and UK employment minister Priti Patel, who like Gove is backing Brexit.
Murdoch is an influential figure in Britain through his ownership of a clutch of newspapers.
Last month his Sun on Sunday publication said Cameron had failed to get a proper deal for Britain from other EU leaders and on Thursday he tweeted that the UK government had made false claims about the implications of Brexit aimed at scaring voters.
Murdoch and Hall began dating last summer after being introduced while in Australia and were first seen in public together at the Rugby Union World Cup Final in London in October. They got engaged in January. (rtr)
Jenner told gay and lesbian publication The Advocate in an interview posted this week that she admired Cruz despite the social conservative’s stance on transgen-der issues.
The 66-year-old Olympic gold medalist turned television person-ality called Cruz a “great constitu-tionalist” and said she would like to advise him on questions relating to her community.
“Yes, trans ambassador to the president of the United States, so we can say, ‘Ted, love what you’re doing but here’s what’s going on,’” Jenner, who last year became the most high-profile American to transition to a different gender, told
The Advocate.The muted reaction to Jenner’s
support for Cruz appeared to show the high level of esteem she enjoys in the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. But that did not stop some of its members speaking out.
“Doing my best to not send tweets to a woman I respect for her courage, but dang it, @Cait-lyn_Jenner you’re killing me with Cruz support!” Chely Wright, the first country music star to come out as gay, wrote in a post on Twitter.
Some in the LGBT community took a more pointed stand, citing Cruz’s opposition to same-sex marriage and his criticism of gov-
ernment efforts to allow students to use a bathroom that conforms to their gender identity.
In January, at a campaign stop in Iowa, Cruz said “inflicting” transgender students on teachers by allowing them to use a faculty restroom in line with their gender identity was better than having them share a bathroom with other students, according to video from NBC News.
Zack Ford, the LGBT editor at ThinkProgress, a website af-filiated with the left-leaning Center for American Progress, wrote in a post that Jenner’s support for Republicans like Cruz taints her “credibility.”
Mara Keisling, executive di-rector of the National Center for Transgender Equality, said Jenner’s comments highlight the fact a sig-nificant share of transgender people are Republicans. (rtr)
Jenner’s offer to be ‘trans ambassador’ for Cruz draws some fire
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Caitlyn Jenner arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, California in this Febru-ary 28, 2016 file photo. Reality star Jenner’s offer to be a “trans ambassador” to Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz drew sharp criticism on March 4, 2016, from some members of the LGBT community, but major transgender rights organizations stayed out of the fray.
LOS ANGELES - Reality star Caitlyn Jenner’s offer to be a “trans ambassador” to U.S. Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz drew criticism on Friday from some members of the LGBT community, but major transgender rights organizations stayed out of the fray.
Newly-weds Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall
blessed in London church
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Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch and former supermodel Jerry Hall pose for a photograph outside St Bride’s church following a service to celebrate their wedding which took place on Friday, in London, Britain March 5, 2016.
This year, the spirit of opposition to the reclamation of Benoa Bay is becom-ing even more vivacious, as evidenced by the increasing number of customary youth clubs, youth and hamlet groups that have made ogoh-ogoh (papier mâché demons) that clearly express their opposition to the Benao Bay reclamation plan. Most of theses ogoh-ogoh depict the anger of Lord Vishnu regarding the reclamation plan.
The Union of Young Rsidents of Abian-base, Kuta (Basegreen) for instance, have made a very unique ogoh-ogoh that holds an excavator in its clenched fist. This ogoh-ogoh that is currently being painted is named “The Varuna”.
Basegeen Representative, Eka Bowtix said that the ogoh-ogoh represents Lord Varuna who does not want the land of Bali to be excavated and backfilled all over the place.
“The hand of The Varuna emerges to destroy the heavy equipment that would like to dredge the motherland and dam-age the surrounding nature” he said while adding that this ogoh-ogoh has taken two weeks to make.
In Kancil hamlet, Kerobokan, North Kuta, the Eka Dharma Canthi Customary Youth Club (STT) has made an ogoh-ogoh named: ”The Jogormanik Rejects Reclamation.” Chief of the youth club, I Komang Sukrawijaya, said that he is to only making ogoh-ogoh but as a way to preserve this cultural practice, but also feels a call from his soul to contribute to the growing social movement of op-position to the Benao Bay reclamation project. Kerobokan Customary Village has declared its official opposition to the plan to excavate 700 hectares of Benoa Bay.
Ogoh ....Continued on page 6
The ogoh-ogoh which will join the parade during Pengerupukan Day.
South Badung threatened
to get no clean water
M A N G U P U R A — Clean water crisis still threatens the area of South Badung such
as Kuta, Jimbaran and Nusa Dua. Actually, local government through its municipality waterworks (PDAM) Tirta Mangu-tama has attempted to in-stall pipeline worth IDR 55 billion. However, this effort does not guarantee the availability of wa-ter in the long term. As
a result, S o u t h Badung
w i l l b e th rea t -ened to get no
clean wa-ter.
In order to meet the water needs for 67,000 customers, the PDAM Tirta Mangutama requires raw water supply of about 750 liters per second. Currently, he said, the water supply just reaches 478 liters per second where 350 liters are obtained from the estuary dam at Suwung, 100 liters from the Ayung River and a number of artesian wells.
Director of PDAM Tirta Mangutama Badung, Made Subarga Yasa, described the pipeline project with the funds taken from regional budget in 2014 and 2015 has been installed, so that the water discharge can be increased from 300 liters per second to 450 liters per second. However, the increase of 150 liters per second is threatened to be useless due to increased sedimentation in the estuary dam.
“With the increased sedimentation in the estuary dam, when it rains like today the water is wasted into the sea and Benoa Bay. It cannot be accommodated in the estu-ary dam,” said Subarga Yasa when met on Tuesday (Mar. 1).
Water...Continued on page 2
DENPASAR - Do you remember Pengeru-pukan night of Nyepi last year when the Sadharana Dharma customary youth club of Pelasa hamlet, Kuta, made surprised ev-eryone ogoh-ogoh parade when then suddenly hoisted up a banner that read “Reject Reclamation Posing as Revitilization”? Inevitably, those who were watching the parade - including the Former Regent of Badung ,A.A. Gde Agung, ranks of Badung Parliament, chief of Kuta Customary Villageall read the sign that spoke of the people’s opposition to the Benoa Bay reclamation plan.
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