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The two Hollywood stars re-prised their roles as male models Derek Zoolander and Hansel, im-mortalized in the hugely popular 2001 movie, on the catwalk for Valentino’s ready to wear fall/win-ter 2015-16 show.

The sequel will hit U.S. movie theaters on Feb. 12, 2016, Para-

mount Pictures said in a statement. It said Stiller and Wilson will again star in the movie, which will be written by Justin Theroux and di-rected by Stiller.

Stiller appeared in a dark electric blue suit-and-tie ensemble with a navy trenchcoat. Wil-son, sporting shaggy long

blond locks, strutted in a shiny light blue pajama print outfit with blind-ingly white sneakers, topped off with an eggshell blue trench coat.

It was such a surprise that the audience immediately whipped

out their phones to c a t c h t h e m o -

ment. (ap)

SYDNEY - Hollywood super-star Johnny Depp was jetting back to the United States Wednesday for surgery after injuring his hand in Australia where he is filming the latest “Pirates of the Carib-bean” instalment, reports said.

Depp, who stars as “Captain Jack Sparrow” in the Disney franchise and has been shooting on the Gold Coast tourist strip in Australia’s east, was hurt over the weekend but not while filming or on set, the Gold Coast Bulletin

said, citing undisclosed sources.A Disney spokesman con-

firmed the injury to the news-paper and said the film’s release remained scheduled for July 7, 2017.

US-based website Variety said he would need surgery. It was not known how he sustained the injury or how serious it was.

The Bulletin said Depp was flying to Los Angeles on a private jet and would return to Australia in two weeks.

It added that his absence would only “minimally” impact the production schedule of the film, which also stars Javier Bardem as villain Captain Salazar.

“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales” is the fifth instalment in the blockbuster series, which has raked in more than US$3.6 billion at the box office.

The reported injury came as local police said a man dressed as a pirate with a parrot on his

shoulder and carrying a knife tried to enter the movie set on Tuesday but was intercepted by a security guard.

Police said the man “was attempting to imitate a cast member by wearing a pirate suit”. He was being interviewed but no charg-es have yet been laid. (afp)

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Actors Ben Stiller, left, and Owen Wilson wear creations for Valentino’s ready-to-wear fall-winter 2015-2016 fashion collection presented during the Paris fashion week, in Paris, France, Tuesday, March 10, 2015.

Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson hit catwalk for ‘Zoolander 2’

PARIS — To deafening cheers, Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller stormed the Valentino catwalk during Paris Fashion Week Tuesday in a headline-grabbing stunt to announce the decision to make ‘Zoolander 2.’

Johnny Depp injures hand in Australia

Rainfall this March however has been on the decrease in North and West Buleleng, Nusa Penida and Klungkung, while some re-gions in Jembrana and Gianyar the dry season has already started.

Meanwhile, in other regions of Bali such as Bangli, Tabanan, Badung and Denpasar rains are expected to stop around April or May. “In Denpasar the dry season usually starts in April” said Rah-

mat. Broadly speaking, for about 75 percent of Bali, the dry season starts in April”.

By predicting the emergence of the dry season ahead of time, Head of the BBMKG Region III, I

Wayan Suardana, said that relevant institutions can apply specific policies. “Cropping patterns, for instance, should be planned in anticipation of water shortages,” he said.

In addition to education, rel-evant agencies are setting up early warning systems in anticipation of natural disasters such as floods,

landslides and falling trees.In order to alleviate the impact

of disasters such as tsunamis, si-rens have been install at some loca-tions, such as the Hardrock Kuta, Seminyak, Kedonganan, Benoa, BTDC and Sanur. “This year, we will also install sirens in Singaraja, and then in Tabanan and Serangan as well,” he said. (kmb42)

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Motorists passed during the high winds that occured in Denpasar, recently. March is a transitional month between rainy season and dry season and often brings extreme weather such as high and frontal winds.

Extreme weather predicted to occur in March

DENPASAR - March is a transitional month between rainy season and dry season and often brings extreme weather such as high and frontal winds. “Extreme weather frequently occurs this month,” said Rahmat Prasetia, Section Chief of BMKG Negara, on Tuesday.

MEXICO CITY — Mexican actress Stepha-nie Sigman will become the latest “Bond girl” when she appears in 007’s upcoming movie “Spectre.”

The official 007 website “Inside the World of James Bond” is announcing Sig-man’s role in the 24th Bond movie. It says she will play a character named “Estrella” opposite Daniel Craig as Bond.

Sigman starred in the award-winning 2011 Mexican film “Miss Bala,” about a beauty pageant contestant involved with drug traffickers.

Linda Christian, the Hollywood starlet of the 1940s who was born in Mexico, was arguably the first Bond girl. In 1954 she starred as James Bond’s love interest in the television adaptation of the novel Casino Royale. Christian died in 2011 at the age of 87.

Nicaraguan-American actress Bar-bara Carrera appeared as Fatima Blush in 1984’s Never Say Never Again. (ap)

Mexican actress Stephanie Sigman to be latest ‘Bond girl’

International2 Thursday, March 12, 2015 15International Activities

Bali News

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

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

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

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These travelers from Sidney, Australia, have been choosing Griya Santrian for 35 times as their accommodation in Bali. They averagely stay for two weeks. Even, until their fourth generations are still loyal to choose the hotel.

They are Adriamus and Suzanne Van Der Mast. According to Adriamus, Griya Santrian offered friendly services where the entire hotel staff was courteous and helpful. He considered they had been cared for like a family. “The hotel is like a second home for me and my wife, Suzanne. Likewise, my family having stayed here also got similar experience,” he said.

The travelers who have been visiting Bali since 1974 said they were also pleased with the variety of menu offered at the hotel restaurant. They included spring rolls, fried rice and ground chili condiment. “When visiting Bali again, we will go back to Griya Santrian and recommend the hotel to my friends,” said Suzanne accompanied by Adriamus. (ocha)

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Resort & Villas – Nusa Dua, Bali is launching a Family-Style Dinner at the bespoke beachfront restaurant. Guests are invited to gather with their friends or loved ones to savour an exquisitely prepared Mediter-ranean menu or an exotic Asian feast of Indonesian, Thai and Vietnamese cuisine to be enjoyed at a lei-surely pace served “family style” to share. The impressive blend of fine local seafood and produce cooked in Italian or Pan-Asian style will leave you completely satisfied.

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Headman of Pejaten, I Nyoman Alit Wijaya, explained that 90 percent of Pejaten residents are professional tile craftsmen. In the past, people could easily find the raw material in their backyard, but this is no longer the case. ”The clay has been used up,” he said.

The depletion of clay stocks at Pejaten has been apparent for about 15 years. So, in order to be able to keep producing tiles, craftsmen at Pejaten have been purchasing the raw material from other villages like Wana-sari village (Tabanan), Riang Gede (Penebel), Kelating village (Kerambitan) and Selemadeg. Now, the courtyards of Pejaten are perforated and provide ideal conditions for the breeding of mosquitoes. As a result, the cases of dengue fever in this area have increased forcing the Tabanan Health Agency to hold mass mosquitoes nest eradication and fogging at this village.

SEMARAPURA - One of the gas stations in Nusa Penida sub-district has been out of order for the last four days. Such conditions have made it difficult for residents and fishermen in Nusa Penida to ob-tain fuel for their daily needs. The second gas station, on which people now depend for all their fuel, has been running out of stock almost immediately after the refueling Pertamina tanker trucks arrive.

The fuel trucks are immediately flocked to by residents. Some came on motorcycle, while others brought dozens of jerry cans on pickup truck to be filled so that they could sell the fuel to others who could not make it to the gas station themselves. ”Typi-cally the fuel sells out in less than two hours” complained one Nusa Penida resident, Wayan Kurnia. Premium fuel usually sold for IDR 6,800 per liter by retailers is now

being sold for about IDR 10,000 per liter or more, when things are desperate.

Meanwhile, subdistrict head of Nusa Penida, Ketut Sukla, when contacted on Tuesday (Mar. 10) revealed that damage had occurred to the gas station at Sental, Ped village, on March 7 causing the flow of fuel from the tanks to be hindered. Thus, of the two gas stations in Nusa Penida, only the

one located at Batunungul village is operational. Consequently, this gas station has been constantly crowded by residents whenever the Pertamina fuel truck arrives. He also admitted that such conditions have affected the retail price of fuel sold to consumers.

Sukla, the local owner of the damaged gas station, has brought in experts to repair the gas station at Sental, and predicts that it should

be operational again by Tuesday afternoon. ”It is vital that both gas stations be operational, when one of them breaks down, residents panic because they must rely on a single source for their fuel” said Sukla.

He hopes that when the opera-tions returns to normal, prices will also return to normal otherwise residents are bound to feel a heavy burden, given that the price of fuel has already been rising. (kmb31)

Gas station out of order, Nusa Penida residents complain

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The roof tile producer in Pejaten, Tabanan

Fate of Pejaten roof tiles

Raw materials running lowTABANAN - The commu-

nity of Pejaten village, Kediri, has been making roof tiles from as far back as the Dutch colonial era. But now, the fate of roof tile makers in Pejaten is in a critical situation. The vil-lage stocks of clay, as the raw material of the tiles, are dwin-dling, forcing craftsmen to buy clay from other villages. Costly labor, the rarity of firewood and stiff competition from tile products made outside of Bali are placing the Pejaten tiles in a precarious situation.

Aside from the depletion of raw materials, craftsmen also have trouble finding firewood and so they must compete with craftsmen from Java to get co-conut finer to burn. ”Today most coconut fiber from Bali is sent to Java to be woven into mats, making it hard to buy the finer in Bali” said Alit. Difficulty in

acquiring raw materials and fire-wood coupled with high wages for workers has made the Pejaten roof tiles more expensive than roof tiles produced in Java. An average Java tile is sold for IDR 850 retail, while the Pejaten tile is sold for IDR 1,400.

Currently the roof tile mak-ers at Pejaten are still running

despite faltering. As a side job, the craftsmen also make pottery, pressed brick or ceramics. ”The pressed brick business account for about 10 percent and ceramic for about 6 percent. About 20 percent of the tile makers also produce pottery,” said Alit. The raw material for the roof tiles-clay is a non renewable resource.

For this reason, Alit encourages the young people of Pejaten vil-lage to pursue other professions. ”Some residents have opened wooden craft and engine repair shops” he said. In the future, he hopes that the younger genera-tion can think of some other ma-terial that could be used to make the tiles. (kmb24)

3Thursday, March 12, 2015 14 InternationalInternational Bali NewsHealth Thursday, March 12, 2015

TOKYO - An incision from the surgeon’s scalpel sends liquid oozing over the surface of a the lung, but on this occasion it doesn’t matter if something goes wrong -- the doctor can simply create another model with a 3D printer.

The ultra-realistic lung -- wet, soft, and complete with tumours and blood vessels -- is one of a range of organs being produced by a Japanese firm that will allow surgeons to hone their skills without hurting anyone.

“With the wet model, doctors can experience the softness of organs and see them bleed,” said Tomo-hiro Kinoshita of creator Fasotec, a company based in Chiba, southeast

of Tokyo.“We aim to help doctors improve

their skills with the models,” he added.

From guns to cars, prosthetics and works of art, 3D printing is predicted to transform our lives in the coming decades, researchers say, as dramati-cally as the Internet did before it.

The so-called Biotexture Wet Model, which will come onto the market for surgery training and medical equipment-testing in Japan in as early as April, is created by scanning a real organ in minute detail and creating molds on a 3D printer.

That shell is then injected with

gel-type synthetic resin to give it a wet, lifelike feeling in the surgeon’s hands.

Each one is designed to exactly mimic the texture and weight of a real organ so it can react to the surgi-cal knife in exactly the same way.

Maki Sugimoto, a medical doctor who has tried samples, said the wet models are almost “too realistic”.

Seen without their context, he said, it would be easy to mistake them for the real thing.

“The touch is similar to that of the real liver,” said Sugimoto, who is also a special instructor at Kobe Uni-versity Graduate School of Medicine in Kobe, western Japan.

“I suppose that not only young, inexperienced doctors but also expe-rienced doctors can perform a better operation if they can have a rehearsal first,” he said.

Toshiaki Morikawa, a medical doctor at Jikei University Hospital in Tokyo, also said: “The current models are too simple and details of anatomy are not accurately re-flected.”

“But this is obviously superior as it’s produced precisely and is very close to the living organ in quality,” he said.

For Morikawa, the world of 3D printing, which works by building up layers of material, offers endless

possibilities for medicine, including maybe one day functional organs for use in transplants.

“Considering future progress in life sciences, I think it is an urgent and significant theme that this outstanding technology should be modified for application to biology,” he said.

Fasotec began pre-sales of wet model bladders and urethral tubes in October, with a price tag of 15,000 yen ($127).

The firm plans to expand sales overseas and has already received enquiries from other Asian coun-tries, the company’s Kinoshita said. (afp)

The findings in the journal PLOS Medicine were based on 319 industry documents from the 1960s and 1970s that were stored in a public library collection at the University of Illinois.

They show that “a sugar indus-try trade organization represent-ing 30 international members had accepted the fact that sugar caused tooth decay as early as 1950,” said the study, authored by experts at the University of California, San Francisco who discovered the archives.

By 1969, the National Institutes of Health had decided that reduc-ing sugar consumption, “while theoretically possible,” was not practical as a public health mea-sure, the researchers said.

Representatives of the sugar industry then worked closely with the NIH, the main US government research body, on alternative re-search approaches.

The study found that 78 percent of the trade organization’s own re-search priorities were directly in-corporated into the 1971 National Caries (tooth decay) Program’s first request for research proposals from scientists.

“The dental community has always known that preventing tooth decay required restricting sugar intake,” said first author Cristin Kearns, a UCSF postdoc-toral scholar.

“It was disappointing to learn

3D printed organs offer ultra-realistic practice models

AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews

Foods that might have added sugar or another sweetener like high-fructose corn syrup as an ingredient are pictured Wednesday, March 4, 2015, in New York. The sugar industry convinced US government scientists decades ago to research ways of preventing cavities that did not involve eliminating sweets from the diet, a study said Tuesday.

Sugar industry influenced US cavity research

MIAMI - The sugar in-dustry convinced US govern-ment scientists decades ago to research ways of preventing cavities that did not involve eliminating sweets from the diet, a study said Tuesday.

that the policies we are debating today could have been addressed more than forty years ago.”

Kearns and colleagues com-pared the papers -- which included 1,551 pages of correspondence among sugar industry executives from 1959 to 1971 -- to documents from the then National Institute of Dental Research to explore how the sugar industry may have influ-enced the research policies of the 1971 tooth decay program.

They found that the sugar

industry funded research on en-zymes to break up dental plaque and a vaccine against tooth decay, and “cultivated relationships with the NIDR and that a sugar industry expert panel overlapped by all but one member with the NIDR panel that influenced the priorities for the NIH tooth decay program.”

“These tactics are strikingly similar to what we saw in the to-bacco industry in the same era,” said co-author Stanton Glantz.

The researchers also found

that the sugar industry-led efforts “largely failed to produce results” when it came to preventing cavi-ties, which affect half of US adults and are the leading chronic dis-ease in American children.

Ronald Burakoff, chairman of dental medicine at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, New York, found the study to be “quite disturbing.”

The research suggests they “conspired to push the research agenda away from decreasing

sugar consumption to ways of mitigating the damaging effects of sugar consumption,” added Burakoff, who was not involved in the study.

“The parallels to the tobacco industry’s denial of the harmful effects of smoking are alarm-ing.”

The National Institute of Den-tal and Craniofacial Research -- the NIDR’s successor -- did not immediately respond to an AFP request for comment. (afp)

Suardana said that the Research and Development divi-sion of the BMKG has already conducted field research regarding the benefits of the celebration of Nyepi on the greenhouse effect.

The study was conducted five days before the celebration of Nyepi and for a week after the Nyepi celebration, at five locations in Bali. The results, indicated a decline in carbon monoxide gas, smoke and pollution by 30 percent compared to normal conditions. This means that the celebration of Nyepi contributs to a healthier environment. Suardana said that ”the findings have been presented at hearings in Geneva,” which has encouraged the researchers to conduct further research.

On the day of the Nyepi celebrations this year (2015), the BMKG will conduct the same research again - that is, observe the levels of greenhouse gases eight days before the celebra-tion of Nyepi and seven days after Nyepi at eight locations in Bali; the Ngurah Rai Airport, in Denpasar, Negara, Bedugul, Singaraja and Karangasem.

During Nyepi, all activities are totally suspended, so there are no vehicles running, no factory activities, no operation of aircrafts and little to no electricity is used. Such condition result in a decrease in the greenhouse effect. ”This event is the only one of its kind in the world,” he said. (kmb42)

DENPASAR - Chief of the Asia Europe Meeting (ASEM) Forum on Lifelong Learning Clause Holm has stated that the Indonesian govern-ment has a strong commitment to improving the education sector.

A strong commitment was im-portant to build lifelong learning in the face of numerous challenges, in-cluding understanding the relevant

differences between skills promoted by the education system and the demands of the labor market, he said on Tuesday.

A long-term commitment was needed to reduce and eliminate this gap to have access to education, he said.

“The forum was organized through a parallel seminar and panel

discussion. This forum is dedicated to facilitate researchers all over Asia and Europe to convene sessions and share research results, best prac-tices, and experiences in lifelong learning discourses,” he noted.

Hopefully, the forum will en-courage better cooperation between Indonesia and Denmark, particu-larly in the field of culture and

education, he added.Secretary-General of the Edu-

cation and Culture Ministry Prof Ainun Naim, meanwhile, said ASEM was a foundation for in-formal dialogs and involved 22 Asian countries and 31 European countries.

“The meeting focused on the aspects of education, cooperation,

and partnership, known as ASEM Education Process,” he pointed out.

ASEM Education Process covers quality assurance and recognition, engaging businesses and industries in education, balancing mobility and lifelong learning courses, in-cluding Technical and Vocational Education and Training. (ant)

AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati

Germany’s Hans Peter Naumann sits in a courtroom during his verdict trial in Bali, Indonesia, Wednesday, March 11, 2015. Indonesian judges sentenced Naumann to 15 years in prison. Naumann is accused of smuggling cocaine onto the tourist island of Bali.

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Pecalang, a traditional security officer, guarded Nyepi celebration at Kuta area. Nyepi or Day of Silence celebration has very good benefit, not only to human but also to nature. The Head of the National Weather Services (BBMKG) Region III, I Wayan Suardana, revealed it.

Nyepi reduces greenhouse gas effectDENPASAR - Nyepi or the celebration of the

Day of Silence is very beneficial, not only for human but also for nature. The Head of the Na-tional Weather Services (BBMKG) Region III, I Wayan Suardana, revealed recently.

Indonesia has strong commitment to improve education

International4 Thursday, March 12, 2015 Thursday, March 12, 2015 13InternationalBali News

Singh as prime minister of the former Congress-led government had direct charge of the coal min-istry when some of the coal field allocations to private companies were made. He was questioned by the CBI in January about the alloca-tion of a coal field in Odisha state in 2005 to Hindalco Industries.

Reacting to the summons, Singh said he was “open for legal scru-tiny.” “I am sure that the truth will prevail and I will get a chance to put forward my case with all the facts,” he said in a statement.

India’s Supreme Court last year scrapped all 218 allocations of coal reserves from 1993 to 2010 saying they were carried out under proce-dures that were arbitrary and lacked fairness and transparency. Singh’s Congress party-led government was accused by critics of costing India’s treasury billions of dollars.

The scandal, along with several other high-profile cases of alleged graft, was a key reason for the Congress party’s huge loss in last year’s elections to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party. Modi’s government has be-gun a process of re-auctioning the coal blocks and hopes to recoup the true value of the coal reserves.

Senior BJP leader and Environ-ment Minister Prakash Javadekar denied that there was any element of vindictiveness in pursuing the case. “The courts do not operate under the BJP. They operate independently,” Javadekar told reporters. “Manmo-han Singh was the prime minister. He was in office. He should have exercised his diligence,” he said. Congress Party spokesman Manish Tewari said Singh was “a person of utmost integrity and probity.”(ap)

SEOUL — A flight attendant who says she was living her dream by working for Korean Air is now suing the airline and its infamous nut rage executive, claiming the bizarre onboard tantrum ruined her career. Kim Do Hee, the flight attendant, is seeking compensation through a trial in New York city af-ter she was verbally and physically attacked by Korean Air heiress Cho Hyun-ah, according to a statement on Wednesday by two American law firms, the Weinstein Law Firm and Kobre & Kim.

Cho, a vice president overseeing cabin service at the time of the Dec. 5 incident, was enraged that Kim, 27, served her macadamia nuts in a bag, not on a dish.

After a heated confrontation with crew in the first class cabin, Cho ordered head flight attendant Park Chang-jin off the plane, forc-ing it to return to a gate at John F. Kennedy International Airport.

It is the first civil lawsuit con-nected with the nut rage case, which infuriated South Koreans and hogged global headlines. Last month a South Korean court sen-tenced Cho, 40, to one year in prison for violating aviation secu-rity laws, using violence against a flight attendant and other charges. Cho, who is the daughter of Korean Air’s chairman, has appealed the ruling from prison.

The summons filed Monday with

the Supreme Court of the State of New York County of Queens said Cho screamed obscenities at Kim and hit and threatened her.

She was also pressured to lie to government investigators to cover up the incident and to ap-pear in public with Cho “as part of an orchestrated effort to try and rehabilitate Cho’s public image,” the summons said. Kim is seeking compensatory damages and puni-tive damages in an amount to be determined at the trial.

Kim was unable to resolve the dispute privately and both Korean Air and Cho did not engage in “any substantive” settlement discussions with Kim’s lawyers, the statement said. Cho will be held responsible for the damage that she has caused to Kim’s career, reputation, and emotional well-being, it said.

During Cho’s trial in Seoul last month, Kim testified that Cho’s power at the airline was “unimagin-ably big” and she could not refuse her orders.

She also said Korean Air was her dream job since she was a high school student but after false rumors spread on the Internet about her accepting a professorship in exchange for lying to investiga-tors, she could not return to work as a flight attendant. Both Cho’s lawyer and Korean Air Lines Co. did not respond to a request for comment. (ap)

AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File

FILE - In this Dec. 30, 2014 file photo, Cho Hyun-ah, former vice president of Korean Air Lines Co., arrives at the Seoul Western District Prosecutors Office in Seoul, South Korea.

Nut rage flight attendant sues Korean

Air, former execFormer Indian PM

Singh faces charges in coal scandal

NEW DELHI — A special Indian court on Wednesday summoned former prime minister Manmohan Singh, accusing him of criminal conspiracy and breach of trust for his alleged role in a multibillion dollar scandal over the sale of coal fields. The court’s move comes despite the Central Bureau of Investigation finding no prosecutable evidence against Singh or others em-broiled in the case. Judges ordered Singh and five others to appear in court on April 8.

FILE - In this Wednesday, May 21, 2014 file photo, out-going Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh attends a function marking the death

anniversary of former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi,

in New Delhi, India. AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File

Apparently the land extending all the way to the cliff belongs to local resident and was sold in plots. Unfortunately, the developer dredged the land very close to the border of the adjacent land near an existing building. Ngurah Darma, the adjacent resident to the north, claimed on Monday (Mar. 9) to have protested because without

notice the heavy equipment dredged the land and almost eroded the foundation of his house.

”It (the dredging) is quite deep- about two meters. We are worried about an avalanche because it is very close to us,” he said. He had expressed his objection to the lo-cal hamlet chief and even to the Jembrana government. The land-

owner had to install a revetment to diminish any risk but his land has nonetheless been eroded by the dredging. The adjacent resident worried that if the border between the two plots was not protected with revetment, it could avalanche when it rained.

Based on observations last Tuesday, the dredging with heavy

equipment had ceased. According to residents, it had been stopped two days ago. Only a few workers were still working on the revet-ment on the north side of the cliff. Despite having been protected with the revetment, the adjacent resident said he was worried about the quality of the revetment. In addition to dredging on the north and south sides of the land it was also taking place very close to the road and gutter which public property.

Meanwhile, the Chief of Jem-

brana Municipal Police, I Gusti Ngurah Rai Budhi, when asked for his confirmation on Tuesday (Mar. 10) confirmed that the dredging had been stopped due to protesting by the adjacent resident. The land dredging was too deep and too close to the land of the adjacent resident. His party would summon the land owner to be reunited with the protesting adjacent resident. ”We have stopped operations and will arrange a meeting between the parties,” said Rai Budhi. (kmb26)

AMLAPURA - Traditional salt produced at Amed is considered the best salt for spa therapies. Unfor-tunately, the area at Amed hamlet Purwakerthi village, Abang, for producing the salt, which formerly covered about 2 hectares, is get-ting narrower and now only covers about 0.6 hectares.

This was announced by the Secretary of the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) Karangasem, I Wayan Kariyasa, on Monday (Mar. 9) after attending a meeting with the Chairman of the

Traditional French Salting Associa-tion in Karangasem. Kariyasa said that at his spa business in Candi-dasa, they use a lot of traditional salt, especially that produced by salt farmers at Amed because of its high quality. It is used for scrubs that are given before starting massage therapy. ”The salt acts as a detoxi-fier. Amed salt is very good because the crystals are large” he said.

He said that before starting a massage, lukewarm water filled with salt is smeared onto the body. In addition to spa therapy, tradi-

tional Amed salt has been used since ancient times for household consumption. Cattle farmers in the area of Abang also require a lot of traditional salt for their cattles’ drinking water during the rainy season, as a way to encourage the cattle to drink more water. The price of Amed traditional salt is around IDR 8,000 per kg.

Karyasa said the narrowing of the traditional salt area is due to the proliferation of hotel developments. Salt farmers are also increasingly rare as young people do not want

to make salt because they consider that the income derived from this hard work under the hot sun is just not worth it.

Headman of Purwakerthi , Wayan Sentuni Artana, said that he thought that the area for mak-ing the salt had been narrowed down because so many villag-ers had contracted or sold their land. He did however say that he was grateful for the existence of Regional Bylaw (Perda) which prohibits any construction on the land 100 meters from the coast

line. Because of this Bylaw, in-vestors rarely want to buy land on the edge of the beach because a hundred meters inland falls on the provincial highway.

”Indeed, some local residents have built two or three rooms tour-ist accommodations. If however, at some point the laws are tightened in order to preserve the traditional salt making as a tourist attraction, hotels or restaurants built o that land would be in violation and would be forced to be dismantled” he said. (013)

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The land dredging activity which is being complained by the locals.

Amed’s salt good for therapyUnfortunatly salt producing area is shrinking

Land dredging at Sawe protestedNEGARA - Land dredging and leveling at Sawe Rangsasa, Dauhwaru village, is being pro-

tested by residents from the adjacent villages. Heavy equipment is being used to dredge the land land up to five meters down, right on the shore. The project was eventually discontinued by the Jembrana Municipal Police before any agreement could be made.

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CUPERTINO — Apple CEO Tim Cook took a figurative vic-tory lap at his company’s annual shareholder meeting, one day after he announced details about the new smartwatch Apple plans to start sell-ing next month.

A year ago, some investors were voicing frustration over Apple’s lag-ging stock and activist Carl Icahn was pressing Cook to return more cash to shareholders. But no complaints were heard Tuesday. Apple shares are up 65 percent from a year ago, the company has a market value of more than $700 billion — making it the most valuable U.S. company in history — and will soon bump AT&T to join the benchmark Dow Jones industrial average.

Apple sold a record 200 million iPhones in 2014, which provided the bulk of the company’s $200 billion in revenue. Cook cited those and other milestones in what he called an “unbelievable” year. He also said Apple returned $57 billion to share-holders through dividends and stock buybacks last year.

The stock fell 1.7 percent Tuesday, amid a broader market decline, as some analysts questioned whether the company’s new smartwatch will be a hit. Cook has vowed the new wearable gadget will change the way people use the Internet, as previous Apple products including the iPhone

and iPad have done.The company also said it had work

to do on diversity efforts. Two speak-ers, civil rights leader Jesse Jackson and a black Apple shareholder who did not say his name when he spoke, urged Cook to improve diversity in Apple’s leadership and board. Apple has no black or Latino directors, and 12 of the 15 top executives listed on its website are white men.

Jackson has pressed Silicon Valley companies to improve diversity. He praised Cook for releasing workforce demographics statistics, as several other top tech companies have done, but urged Apple to follow Intel’s lead in setting more specific goals.

Cook promised more progress. Later in the meeting, he introduced two Apple vice presidents who are black women: Lisa Jackson, the former U.S. EPA administrator who now runs Apple’s environmental programs, and Denise Young Smith, the company’s top human resources official. “Our diversity is increasing,” Cook said. “I want it to be better. It will be better.”

As for future projects, Cook ac-knowledged that iPad sales are down but said he’s “extremely bullish” on Apple’s partnership with IBM to cre-ate new iPad business software and “other things in the pipeline.” An iPad with a larger screen is rumored to be in development. (ap)

The likelihood of a Fed hike, coupled with the European Central Bank’s new bond-buying stimulus programme and fears over Greece, also sent the dollar surging against the yen and towards parity with the euro.

In afternoon trade, Shanghai re-versed early gains to sit 0.12 percent lower, while Hong Kong was down 0.50 percent.

Sydney lost 0.53 percent, or 31.0 points, to 5,793.2 and Seoul was off 0.20 percent, or 3.94 points, at 1,980.83.

However, Tokyo ended 0.31 percent, or 58.41 points, higher at 18.723,52.

Wall Street provided another negative lead as investors bet on a Fed rate rise sooner rather than later, with some predicting a move in June after Friday’s data show-ing a surge in US jobs creation in February.

The Dow tumbled 1.85 percent, the S&P 500 fell 1.70 percent and the Nasdaq lost 1.67 percent.

The jobs report ramped up dol-

lar buying, which had already been strong owing to a string of upbeat indicators in recent weeks as well as monetary easing in the eurozone and Japan.

In Japanese trade Wednesday, the greenback was at 121.25 yen, compared with 121.07 yen late in New York. At one point Tuesday it broke above 122.00 yen for the first time since late 2007.

Adding to yen weakness has been a raft of poor data out of Japan, which has heaped pressure on the country’s central bank to further easing monetary policy.

The greenback also surged against the euro after the ECB kicked off its own bond-buying scheme, known as quantitative easing (QE), in a drive to fight off deflation.

Worries about Greece’s tense talks due Wednesday over its bail-out provisions are also sapping the euro.

The euro bought $1.0694 com-pared with $1.0698 in US trade,

where it fell through $1.07 for the first time in 12 years. The single currency was also at 129.66 yen against 129.53 yen.

“This is not a time to stick your neck out and get too aggressive,” Ted Weisberg, president of Seaport Securities Corp. in New York, told Bloomberg TV.

“You have the strong dollar and the very real threat of the Fed raising interest rates sooner, rather than later.”

In China, growth in industrial output, retail sales and fixed asset investment all fell to multi-year lows in January-February, accord-ing to official data Wednesday, the latest indicators showing the world’s number two economy is suffering a severe slowdown.

Beijing combines the two months to ease out distortions caused by the Lunar New Year holiday.

On oil markets, prices rebounded Wednesday following steep losses in the previous session caused by the surging dollar. (afp)

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A passerby looks at Japan’s Nikkei stock prices displayed on an electronic board in Tokyo Wednesday, March 11, 2015. Asian stocks got off to a weak start Wednesday following sharp declines on Wall Street sparked by growing investor anxiety about a looming U.S. interest rate hike.

Fed speculation hits Asian markets,

dollar ralliesHONG KONG - Most Asian markets fell again Wednesday on increasing expectations the US

Federal Reserve will hike interest rates in the summer, while another weak data release from China added to selling pressure.

SAN FRANSISCO - Google chief financial officer Patrick Pichette is re-tiring after nearly seven years as one of the Internet titan’s top executives.

His pending departure was dis-closed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing available online Tuesday.

A date for Pichette’s departure from Google had yet to be set and he “intends to assist in the search for a new CFO and ensure an orderly transition,” expected by the company to occur within six months.

Prior to joining Google in 2008, Canada-born Pichette worked at McKinsey & Company, and Bell Canada. The Rhodes Scholar earned degrees from the University of Quebec in Montreal and from Britain’s Oxford University.

Pichette laid out his reasons for retiring in a heartfelt post at Google+ social network, explaining in touching

detail how after more than 25 years of non-stop work he is shifting gears to explore the world with his longtime wife, Tamar.

“I could not find a good argument to tell Tamar we should wait any lon-ger for us to grab our backpacks and hit the road -- celebrate our last 25 years together by turning the page and enjoy a perfectly fine mid-life crisis full of bliss and beauty, and leave the door open to serendipity for our next leadership opportunities, once our long list of travels and adventures is exhausted,” Pichette said in his post.

Pichette described working at Google as a privilege and expressed thanks for the friendship of co-found-ers Sergey Brin and Larry Page, along with chairman Eric Schmidt.

“Patrick has been a joy to work with and I wish him all the best on his new adventures,” Page said in a Google+ post of his own. (afp)

Google chief financial officer retiring

Apple’s Tim Cook cites record sales and

“unbelievable” year

DENPASAR - Nutritional prob-lem among children in Bali gradu-ally increases. Based on the data of basic health research in 2013, the prevalence of malnutrition among children under five reached 3.0 percent, poor nutrition (10.2 per-cent), good nutrition (81.4 percent) and better nutrition (5.5 percent). Compared to 32 other provinces, Bali Province belongs to the best among the other provinces. Un-fortunately, the data on the area of malnutrition and poor nutrition in Bali cannot be obtained because the data constantly changes. “The data continue to change, so that it cannot be made,” said Dewi, a civil servant of the Bali Health Agency.

The Section Head of Health Promotion of the Bali Health Agency, Dian Nardiani, explained that malnutrition among children occurred in the areas that were dif-ficult to reach by health services. “Usually their home is located in the heights,” said Dian.

In addition, the factor of busy working parents has also caused them to have no time to take care

of children so that it results in mal-nutrition in children. “Sick children are not taken for getting treatment,” she added.

Every effort to reach out had been made. Each headman already scheduled the implementation of the integrated health care for children (Posyandu), so that people could bring their children to the activity site. By setting fixed schedule of the inte-grated health care for children, people were expected to easily remember and intensely come to monitor the development of their children.

In addition, the lack of parental education caused the low awareness of the importance to monitor the growth of their children. The pro-gram of the integrated health care for children featuring the growth, activeness and responsiveness be-came one of the programs to moni-tor the development of children. According to her, malnutrition in Bali was not caused by the lack of food, but caused by the diseases accompanying the children so that the growth of their weight was disrupted. (kmb42)

“Fortunately no casualty amid the ruins of the houses,” village secretary AA Gede Alit said on Wednesday.

The whirlwind slammed across Banjar Bukit Sari, Jagaperang, Sidan and the village of Sidan, in the sub-district of Gianyar, Gede

Alit said.“The rain that followed strong

winds from Bunutan Guliang, in the regency of Bangli hit when most of the people were perform-ing a ritual ahead of the Saka New Year of 1937 at the Siut Tulikup beach that afternoon, Gede Alit

said.Material losses were estimated

to reach hundreds of millions of rupiahs, he said.

The district natural disaster con-trol agency (BPBD) and the military helped the villagers to remove the ruins from the village. (ant)


Heather Mack, left, and her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer, both from Chicago, Ill., arrive at a court room to witness a trial in Bali, Indonesia, Wednesday, March 11, 2015. The couple is charged with murdering Mack’s mother, Sheila von Wiese-Mack, whose badly beaten body was found in a suitcase in the trunk of a taxi outside an upscale hotel in the resort island last year.

Difficult access makes nutrition

handling get hampered

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Strong winds followed with heavy rain seriously damaged 75 houses some of them were lev-eled to the ground in the village of Sidan, the regency of Gianyar, Bali, on Tuesday.

Strong winds destroy 75 houses in Gianyar, Bangli

GIANYAR - Strong winds followed with heavy rain seriously damaged 75 houses some of them were leveled to the ground in the village of Sidan, the regency of Gianyar, Bali, on Tuesday.

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SLEMAN - An advert for a house in Indonesia has gone viral online after the woman selling it offered to throw in an unusual extra feature for free -- her hand in mar-riage. The Internet ad reads for the most part like a regular house list-ing, saying that the single-storey property has two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a parking space and a fish pond.

But it also proposes to buyers a “rare offer” -- “when you buy this

house, you can ask the owner to marry you”, alongside a picture of Wina Lia, a 40-year-old widow and beauty salon owner, leaning against a car in front of the house.

The ad said that terms and conditions apply, and notes the offer is “for serious buyers and non-negotiable”. The house in Sleman, on the island of Java, is on the market for 999 million rupiah (about $75,000).

News of the offer quickly spread

among Internet users in social media-crazy Indonesia.

Boldies99, a user on popular online forum Kaskus, said Lia was “quite smart -- even though the house will be sold, she will remain the owner.”

Lia told AFP she was “shocked at the reaction”, as she had been overwhelmed by journalists com-ing to interview her, and even the police in the conservative, Muslim-majority country had been

asking questions.The police “came to verify

the news as they consider it as an improper advertisement. But I explained to them that it was not my idea,” she said.

The mother of two explained that she had asked a friend who was a property agent to help her find a buyer -- and in the process a husband -- but she had expected him to pass on the news to a lim-ited number of people, not put an

ad online.“I told a friend of mine who

also works as property agent that if there is a buyer who is a single man or a widower who wants to buy a house, and at the same time look for a wife, he can let me know as I’m also a widow,” she said.

She added that there was only one potential buyer, who had vis-ited on Wednesday, but refused to give further details. (afp)

Several foreigners are due to be executed for drug-related crimes with Australia among countries pleading with Indonesian President Joko Widodo to show mercy to their citizens.

They include Australians An-drew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, as well as a Frenchman, Brazilian, three Nigerians and convicts from the Philippines and Ghana.

Australia’s repeated calls for clemency have included comments by Prime Minister Tony Abbott that appeared to tie his country’s aid donations to the pair’s fate.

But the bid caused great offence in Indonesia.

Indonesian Security Minister Tedjo Edhy Purdijatno said this week that his country could release a “human tsunami” of asylum-seekers in retaliation.

“Indonesia has done a lot in pre-venting illegal migrants from other countries from going to Australia,” he was quoted as saying by Indo-nesian media.

“If Canberra keeps acting this way, Jakarta will certainly release migrants wanting to go to Aus-tralia.

“There are over 10,000 currently in Indonesia. If they are released and we let them go to Australia, it will be like a human tsunami.”

Australia has struggled for years to stem a rising tide of asylum-seek-ers trying to reach its shores, often from transit hubs in Indonesia.

Many have died making the haz-ardous journey in crammed, rickety boats, normally after paying huge fees to people-smugglers.

Abbott last month said Jakarta should remember the $1 billion of assistance sent from Australia in the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which killed around 220,000 people.

But the bid backfired in Indo-nesia, where groups of protesters this week delivered bags of coins to the Australian embassy, saying they were handing back tsunami aid money.

Shouting “Shut Abbott’s mouth” and “Abbott, say sorry”, they tram-pled on a poster bearing a picture of the Australian prime minister with tape plastered over his mouth, as they handed over the coins.

Virgin chief Richard Branson on Wednesday added his voice to those urging death row inmates to be spared, saying the death penalty was a “failed deterrent” while offer-ing to fly to Jakarta for talks.

Branson, a member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy, said in a letter to the Indonesian leader published on Virgin’s website that he was willing to fly to Jakarta to discuss the issue.

“We have done a lot of research into the war on drugs on a global basis,” he told the Australian Broad-casting Corporation of the com-mission.

“And based on science and real

House for sale in Indonesia with free wife

Indonesia threatens Australia with ‘tsunami’ of asylum-seekers

JAKARTA - An Indonesian minister has warned a “human tsunami” of asylum-seekers could be unleashed on Australia in retaliation if Canberra keeps pressing for clemency for two Australian drug smugglers on death row, as ties between the neighbours fray.

studied research, we found that countries that still carry out execu-tions for drug offences have not seen any significant shifts in supply and demand and the drug trade re-mains remarkably unaffected by the threat of capital punishment.”

Branson said Portugal, which decriminalised drug use in 2001, was an example of how the issue could be tackled. Health experts have credited Portugal’s move as

partly responsible for the drug ad-diction decline.

His plea came as Australian me-dia said Sukumaran, 33, had made a personal appeal to Widodo by painting a portrait of the president, signing it “people can change”.

Sukumaran and Chan, 31, started programmes that ranged from painting to photography in the decade they were held at Kerobokan jail in Bali after their

arrests in 2005 as ringleaders of the so-called “Bali Nine” drug smuggling gang.

Sukumaran’s brother Chinthu said Wednesday before visiting Sukumaran that his family re-mained hopeful Widodo “will get to see how much Myuran and An-drew have done inside the prison to help the Indonesian people and that he will show mercy on our family”. (afp)

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Sukumaran’s brother Chinthu said Wednesday before visiting Sukumaran that his family re-mained hopeful Widodo “will get to see how much Myuran and Andrew have done inside the prison to help the Indonesian people and that he will show mercy on our family”.

He found a vast emptiness. With the mind-boggling sea of debris cleared away, a massive public works project was un-derway to raise the low-lying, tsunami-flattened area by several meters (yards) before rebuild-ing on it. The rumble of passing dump trucks and long conveyor belts bringing in load after load of soil pierced the silence. On higher nearby ground, displaced residents waited in temporary housing. A look at the devasta-tion and the recovery:

BY THE NUMBERS 15,891 people confirmed

dead, 6,152 injured and 2,584 st i l l unaccounted for. Some 229,000 people, about half as many as initially, remain evacu-

ated from their homes. About 90,000 live in temporary hous-ing. Of the total, more than half come from areas affected by the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant meltdowns. About one-fifth of the 29,000 government housing units planned for completion by March 2016 are finished.

WHAT’S NEXT?Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on

Tuesday pledged funding for a second five-year reconstruction period to start in April 2016. He didn’t give a specific amount, but Japanese media speculation put it at 6 trillion yen ($50 billion), less than a quarter of the current package. He said the government plans to compile a plan by the summer. Abe also vowed to ex-

pedite housing construction.

THE EMPEROR’S WORDSAt a solemn ceremony in Tokyo

on Wednesday, Emperor Akihito said he still recalls the “unforget-table, horrifying” footage of the tsunami on television four years ago, and that he shares the pain of those still without prospect of returning home because of the radiation in Fukushima.

“Many of the people who were affected by the disasters are still living under a difficult environ-ment today,” he said. “I’m espe-cially concerned about the health of the people who are getting older every year. It is important for all Japanese to put their hearts together and stay close by them for support.”

PENSACOLA, Florida — Seven Marines and four soldiers were missing early Wednesday after a U.S. Army helicopter crashed dur-ing a night training exercise at a Florida Air Force base. The area where the crash happened Tuesday night was under a fog advisory. It was still extremely foggy Wednes-day morning, which was affecting the search, said Sara Vidoni, public affairs specialist at Eglin Air Force Base.

Base officials said the Marines are part of a Camp Lejeune-based special operations group and the soldiers were from a Louisiana-based National Guard unit. The helicopter was reported missing around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday and search and rescue crews found debris from the crash around 2 a.m. Wednesday, Eglin spokesman Andy Bourland said.

Names of those involved were not immediately released, pending notification of next of kin, he said.

Bourland said the Army helicopter took off from a nearby airport and joined other aircraft in the routine training exercise. The UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter went down on a remote swath of beach owned by the military used for test missions.

The training area includes 20 miles (30 kilometers) of pristine beachfront that has been under the control of the military since before World War II. Military police keep a close watch on the area and have been known to run off private vendors who rent jet skis or paddle boards without permission.

Test range manager Glenn Barn-dollar told The Associated Press in August that the beach provides an ideal training area for special opera-tions units from all branches of the military to practice over the water, on the beach and in the bay. The military sometimes drops trainees over the water using boats or heli-copters and the trainees must make their way onshore. (ap)

BERLIN — Thousands of Ger-man public service workers are staging a short-term strike in a bid to receive higher wages and pre-serve pension benefits.

The ver.di union said teach-ers and other public employees including police and firefighters walked off the job in multiple states Wednesday to put pressure on the government ahead of third round of negotiations starting next week.

The union says it is seeking a pay rise of at least 5.5 percent for the 800,000 public workers it represents and is fighting against a plan to change pensions that it says would reduce benefits by 20 per-cent. Ver.di says the final agreement could also apply to a further 1.2 million employees and that some 700,000 already-retired workers would also benefit.

The union says so far it has re-ceived no counter-offer. (ap)

AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko

In this Wednesday, March 4, 2015 photo, people walk next to a temporary breakwater in the Tsunami damaged area in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

Japan’s slow tsunami recovery, 4 years on

TOKYO — Small clusters of survivors, bundled up against a chilly wind, gathered along Japan’s northeast coast Wednesday to remember the nearly 19,000 lives lost in the March 11, 2011, tsunami. Four years later, the region is still struggling to recover. Associated Press pho-tographer Eugene Hoshiko returned to the devastated town of Rikuzentakata last week for the first time since the immediate aftermath of the disaster.

AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan

Indian Army soldiers walk towards the site of a helicopter crash on a hill in Bandipora district, some 38 kilometers north of Srinagar, India, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015.

German teachers on strike for higher wages

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GIANYAR - For Balinese people, witnessing trading ac-tivities at Payangan traditional market may have become a com-monplace. However, it may be a different case for foreign travel-ers. They are very impressed with traditional shopping tradition. And the most memorable, foreign travelers can get to know and learn about a variety of crops sold

by Payangan society. Payangan traditional market is

located in the heart of Payangan subdistrict town, Gianyar, or about 35 km from the city of Den-pasar. As tourism path to Kin-tamani or Ubud, the Payangan market has become an alternative tourist attraction. Travelers usu-ally drop in after a long trip from Kintamani or from Ubud. They

get to know the names of fruits and vegetables.

When compared to other tradi-tional markets, the Payangan mar-ket is probably not much different. It sells food and clothing as well as a variety of crops such as rice, vegetables and fruits. Besides, it also sells different kinds of meat, such as beef, pork, lamb, chicken and fish.

Meanwhile, there are also traders selling a variety of herbal drinks such as daluman, cendol and traditional cakes. This market also sells clothing, school uniform and customary fashion for attend-ing temple worship. Payangan market is open from 04:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Then, it is resumed with night market until 00:00 p.m. and even until the morning when the

market is re-opened.In addition to the community

of Payangan, foreigners are also commonly shopping at this mar-ket. They are foreigners who have been long living in Payangan because these days a lot of ac-commodations grow as in Ubud. Besides, hotel employees also purchase food ingredients to be prepared for their guests.

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Kyrie Irving scored 22 points, while Kevin Love had 21 points and 14 rebounds. J.R. Smith also scored 21 points and Timofey Mozgov, the other starter, had 17. Chandler Parsons led Dallas with 18 points, while Monta Ellis had 17 and Amare Stoudemire 15. Dirk Nowitzki scored 13 points on only 3-of-10 shooting.

San Antonio’s Kawhi Leonard had 24 points, 11 rebounds and matched a career high with five steals, as

the Spurs withstood a second-half letdown to beat the Toronto Raptors 117-107 for their sixth straight vic-tory. Tony Parker added 23 points and nine assists, and Danny Green was 5 for 6 on 3-pointers in scoring 19 points for San Antonio. Toronto lost its fourth straight despite 32 points from Kyle Lowry and 21 for DeMar DeRozan. Amir Johnson had 16 points and 14 rebounds.

In Indianapolis, reserve Rodney Stuckey had 34 points, six rebounds

and seven assists as the Indiana Pac-ers beat the Orlando Magic 118-86 for their sixth straight victory.

Damjan Rudez scored 17 points, and Luis Scola added 15 points and 10 rebounds for the surging Pac-ers (29-34), who moved into sole possession of seventh place in the Eastern Conference. Tobias Harris had 22 points and six rebounds, and Elfrid Payton finished with 14 points for the Magic, who have lost five of seven games. (ap)

MELBOURNE — An Australian state court has potentially cleared the way for Formula One driver Giedo van der Garde to compete in this weekend’s season-opening Grand Prix in Melbourne after his legal challenge against Sauber was ruled successful, although the racing team has appealed the decision.

The Dutch driver was challeng-ing to get a spot in Sunday’s race with Swiss F1 team Sauber, which replaced him as a driver late last year. A Swiss arbitration court had already ruled Sauber could not deny van der Garde the right to drive for the team, and he sought to have the rul-ing enforced in Victoria state, where the Australian Grand Prix is being staged. Justice Clyde Croft in the Supreme Court of Victoria decided Wednesday the Swiss ruling should be upheld.

Lawyers for the Sauber team appeared in the same court later Wednesday, and an appeal into the case will be heard Thursday morn-ing. Van der Garde said outside the court after the appeal was granted that he was still confident the court would rule in his favor. “We’ll see what comes out tomorrow and I’m still hopeful,” he said.

Lawyers for the Sauber team had argued van der Garde was an unac-ceptable risk because he wasn’t trained in the team’s car and he did not have a custom seat, but van der Garde’s lawyer Tom Clarke said his client was ready to work with the team to get a seat fitted before racing begins. Sauber said in a statement “the outcome is unfortunately not as expected.”

“We are disappointed with this decision and now need to take time to understand what it means and the impact it will have on the start of our season,” Sauber team chief executive Monisha Kaltenborn said. “What we cannot do is jeopardize the safety of our team, or any other driver on the track, by having an unprepared driver in a car that has now been tailored to two other assigned drivers.” But van der Garde said outside court he was ready to race. Practice begins Friday for Sunday’s race.

“I’m very fit and very strong. I’m looking forward to going back

to the team, work hard and do our best for the weekend,” he said. “I’m the fittest ever. I’ve been training the last three months flat out.” Van der Garde also said that despite the legal battle, he was keen to work with Sauber again.

“I’m looking forward to going back to the team. I had a very good relationship, I still have a very good relationship, with the team,” he said. One of Sauber’s current drivers, Marcus Ericsson or Felipe Nasr, would have to miss out for van der Garde to race in one of the two team cars. “Well, I think it’s up to them what they’re going to do, and up to the team. It’s not my thing,” van der Garde said.

Van der Garde’s lawyers lodged papers with the court last Friday. The driver, who was a reserve with Sauber last season, claimed to have a contract for a race seat this season, but the financially-troubled team appointed Ericsson and Nasr as its drivers for 2015, with both bringing lucrative sponsorship backing.

The 29-year-old van der Garde was also considered a leading candi-date to be appointed as a race driver for the Manor team, which has just come under new ownership that will allow it to compete this season. In documents lodged with the court, van der Garde said he was guaranteed a spot on this year’s Sauber team on June 28, 2014, but team bosses reneged on the deal.

“In early November 2014, Mr. van der Garde was informed by Sauber’s chief executive officer, Ms. Monisha Kaltenborn, that Sauber’s two seats had been given to other drivers and that, as a consequence, Mr. van der Garde would not have a place as a driver in the team in 2015,” the docu-ments said. Van der Garde originally took his case to the Arbitration Insti-tution in Switzerland, which ordered Sauber to keep him on the team.

“The respondent (Sauber) was ordered to refrain from taking any action the effect of which would be to deprive Mr. van der Garde of his entitlement to participate in the 2015 Formula One season as one of Sau-ber’s two nominated race drivers,” the court documents said. (ap)

Court clears way for van der Garde to

drive in Australian GP

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Giedo van der Garde

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Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James (23) shoots as Dallas Mavericks guard Devin Har-ris (20) defends during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Tuesday, March 10, 2015, in Dallas. Cleveland won 127-94.

No headband, no problem: James helps Cavs rout Mavs

DALLAS — Even without his trademark headband, LeBron James had 27 points and took over sole possession of the Cavaliers’ career assists record as Cleveland beat the Dallas Maver-icks 127-94 on Tuesday. James was one of four players with more than 20 points for the Central Division-leading Cavaliers, who have won 12 of their last 13 games against Western Conference opponents and broke a 14-game losing streak in Texas.

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“On the one hand we are of course very happy that we managed to win but at the same time it’s a bit hard to take in that we scored four goals in Madrid and didn’t get through,” Italian Di Matteo told a news conference.

Netherlands striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, a former Real player,

struck twice for the Bundesliga side, including an 84th-minute stunner that put them within a goal of pulling off a remarkable comeback.

It was Real’s first Champions League defeat at home in 22 games since Barcelona beat them 2-0 in April 2011 and was only the second

time they had conceded four goals in a European game at the Bernabeu.

However, a Cristiano Ronaldo double and a Karim Benzema strike were enough to secure a place for Real in the draw for the last eight on March 20.

“I was hoping we could go into the break 2-1 up but we unfortu-

PORTO — FC Porto trounced Basel 4-0 on Tuesday to reach the quarterfinals of the Champions League for the first time since 2004, when the Portuguese club won the title. Goals from Yacine Brahimi, Hector Herrera, Casemiro and Vincent Aboubakar in the last-16 return leg built on a 1-1 draw in Switzerland two weeks earlier to give Porto a convincing 5-1 aggre-gate victory.

Porto, a two-time European champion, is on a strong run of form. In the group stage it was one of three clubs, with Real Madrid and Chelsea, to complete the first phase unbeaten. “We gave a fantas-tic performance,” Porto coach Julen Lopetegui said. “We’re among the eight best teams in Europe and we deserve to be there ... We never sat back, we kept attacking. We are showing a lot of ambition.”

Basel, which last appeared in the quarterfinals of Europe’s top-tier tournament 41 years ago, was strong in midfield but created few goalscoring chances over the two legs. In Tuesday’s other last-16 game, Schalke beat Real Madrid 4-3 on the night at the Bernabeu, but lost 5-4 on aggregate to the holders.

Porto was the dominant team in Portugal as Basel worked hard to shut down the hosts in midfield but struggled in attack. Brahimi opened the scoring in the 14th,

curling an expert free-kick from just outside the area over the Basel wall that goalkeeper Tomas Vaclik didn’t even attempt to stop. Soon after, Casemiro saw Vaclik off his goal line and fired a powerful shot from long range that went just over the bar.

Porto cranked up the pressure as Aboubakar struck a thundering volley that flew just wide of Vaclik’s left post, and Cristian Tello got be-hind Basel’s defense before Walter Samuel cleared.

Marco Streller’s wayward effort from outside the Porto area in the 32nd and Shkelzen Gashi’s low left-foot shot past the post just before the break were the visitors’ only first-half efforts on goal. Herrera extended Porto’s lead two minutes into the second half with a shot from the left of the area that went into the far corner. Less than 10 minutes later, Casemiro scored from a free-kick 30 meters out, and Aboubakar sealed it in the 76th with another long-range shot.

Porto goalkeeper Fabiano saved from Luca Zuffi at close range in the 60th and kept out Streller’s effort in the 83rd as Porto recorded another clean sheet.

Porto has won its last six Portu-guese league games without con-ceding a goal — its best run since the 2010-11 season. Samuel was shown his second yellow card and sent off in added time. (ap)

MADRID - Two-goal Cristiano Ronaldo may have become the re-cord scorer in European competition on Tuesday but the Real Madrid forward was left seething by another poor performance from the stutter-ing European champions. Television cameras captured a grim-looking Ronaldo shaking his head and appar-ently mouthing “disgrace” to Karim Benzema shortly before the end of Real’s 4-3 defeat to Schalke 04 at the Bernabeu, the holders squeaking through to the quarter-finals 5-4 on aggregate.

Ronaldo’s two first-half headers had helped keep hopes of a record-extending 11th European crown alive and took his tally in European compe-tition to a record 78 goals, surpassing Barcelona forward Lionel Messi (76)

and former Real striker Raul (77).However, they were one of the

few bright spots in a generally weak showing that came hard on the heels of the 1-0 defeat at Athletic Bilbao at the weekend that cost Real top spot in La Liga.

The reverse to Schalke was their first home defeat in the Champions League in 22 matches since April 2011 and the players were whistled off the pitch by the angry home fans, many of whom waved white handkerchiefs in the traditional sign of discontent.

Ronaldo gruffly announced to reporters he was not going to speak to the media again until the end of the season, leaving captain and goal-keeper Iker Casillas to try to explain the team’s recent slump.

“The team has again failed to reach

the level of recent months but what’s important is that we realise that,” the Spain international said. “We have to understand the Madrid fans and today we weren’t up to the standards of Real Madrid and the Champions League last 16,” he added.

“We were made to sweat too much but what we have to do is be more united than ever. “Although we fell short of what was required, we did enough to get through.” Real have little time to set things right with a trip to Barca for the La Liga ‘Clasico’ looming on March 22.

They host Levante on Sunday, when they could find themselves four points behind their great rivals, who play at Eibar on Saturday. The draw for the Champions League quarter-finals is on March 20. (rtr)

MADRID - Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti did not mince his words after the Champions League holders managed to get past Schalke 04 into the quarter-finals by the skin of their teeth on Tuesday and were whistled off the pitch. Real slumped to a stunning 4-3 home reverse to the battling Bundesliga side, who came within a goal of pulling off a remark-able upset after losing last month’s first leg in Gelsenkirchen 2-0.

“There are problems across the board,” the Italian told a news confer-ence. “In attack, in defence, in a lack of fight, motivation and concentration,” he added. “It is not good for our image and that of the club. The whistles were totally justified. “We have to work harder and focus more. We have to have more of everything.”

It was the latest poor performance from Ancelotti’s expensively-assem-bled team, who surrendered top spot in La Liga to Barcelona when they were beaten 1-0 at Athletic Bilbao at the weekend, and their first home defeat in Europe’s elite club com-petition since April 2011. In recent weeks, Real have been a shadow of the side that romped to a Spanish record 22 straight wins at the end of last year and Ancelotti said Tuesday’s showing confirmed the team were playing “very badly”.

Real have little time to set things right with a trip to Barca for the La Liga ‘Clasico’ looming on March 22. Barca’s front three of Lionel Messi, Neymar and Luis Suarez have been in prolific form since the turn of the year, while Real’s forwards Cristiano

Ronaldo, Karim Benzema and Gareth Bale have gone off the boil.

Ronaldo did score twice on Tues-day, taking his tally in European competition to a record 78 goals, but it did not mask what was a gener-ally disappointing showing from the team. One bright spot was the return from a long-term injury of Luka Mo-dric, who came on as a second-half substitute.

Real have missed the control he gives them in central midfield and he was given a huge ovation when he re-placed the ineffective Sami Khedira.

“He will give us more control of the ball, so we are more effective,” Ancelotti said. “We can’t demand too much of him, we have to take things slowly. He played well for 30 minutes and he will help us.” (rtr)

MANCHESTER, England — Struggling Manchester United striker Radamel Falcao made a surprise appearance for the club’s

under-21 team on Tuesday.The two-time Ballon d’Or nom-

inee failed to find the net against Tottenham in his first appearance

for United’s second string during 72 minutes on the pitch before being substituted.

Falcao has scored just four

goals since joining United on loan in September from Monaco, mak-ing a permanent deal at the end of the season look less likely.

The 29-year-old Colombian failed to get off the bench on Mon-day when Arsenal beat United 2-1 in the FA Cup quarterfinals.

We are playing very badly, says Real coach Ancelotti

Angry Ronaldo’s record overshadowed by poor Real showing

AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza

Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo, right, and Karim Benzema, left, gesture after Schalke scored the opening goal during a Champions League soccer match round of 16 second leg, between Real Madrid and Schalke 04 at Santiago Bernabeu stadium, in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, March 10, 2015.

AP Photo/Paulo Duarte

Porto’s Cristian Tello jumps over Basel’s goalkeeper Tomas Vaclik during the Champions League round of sixteen second leg soccer match between FC Porto and FC Basel at the at Dragao Stadiumin Porto, Portugal, Tuesday, March 10, 2015.

Porto advances in Champions League with 4-0 win over Basel

Falcao plays for Man United second string, fails to score

REUTERS/Susana Vera

Schalke 04’s coach Roberto Di Matteo (L) ducks as Schalke 04’s Sidney Sam kicks the ball past him during a training session at Madrid’s San-tiago Bernabeu stadium, March 9, 2015.


MADRID - Schalke 04 coach Roberto Di Matteo was finding it hard to take in how his team managed to score four goals at Real Madrid on Tuesday but still failed to get past the holders into the Champions League quarter-finals. Schalke produced one of the best performances of the season to claim a 4-3 victory at the Bernabeu but were eliminated 5-4 on aggregate after losing last month’s last 16, first leg in Gelsenkirchen 2-0.

nately didn’t manage it. That would of course have made the game more interesting for us,” added Di Matteo. “Perhaps we just didn’t have that little bit of luck tonight that you need to get through such ties.” Schalke return to action in the Bundesliga with a game at Hertha Berlin on Saturday.

They are fifth with 10 games left, three points behind third-placed Bo-russia Moenchengladbach, and have a good chance of winning a berth in Europe’s elite club competition again for next season.

Di Matteo said the quality of Real’s forwards had been the dif-ference between the two sides, who met at the same stage last term when Real won 9-2 on aggregate on their way to a record-extending 10th European crown.

“We didn’t allow Real Madrid to get into a rhythm but they have such quality in the team and they showed that both in the first leg and tonight,” Di Matteo said. “They had relatively few chances and scored three goals and that makes a differ-ence.” (ap)

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“On the one hand we are of course very happy that we managed to win but at the same time it’s a bit hard to take in that we scored four goals in Madrid and didn’t get through,” Italian Di Matteo told a news conference.

Netherlands striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, a former Real player,

struck twice for the Bundesliga side, including an 84th-minute stunner that put them within a goal of pulling off a remarkable comeback.

It was Real’s first Champions League defeat at home in 22 games since Barcelona beat them 2-0 in April 2011 and was only the second

time they had conceded four goals in a European game at the Bernabeu.

However, a Cristiano Ronaldo double and a Karim Benzema strike were enough to secure a place for Real in the draw for the last eight on March 20.

“I was hoping we could go into the break 2-1 up but we unfortu-

PORTO — FC Porto trounced Basel 4-0 on Tuesday to reach the quarterfinals of the Champions League for the first time since 2004, when the Portuguese club won the title. Goals from Yacine Brahimi, Hector Herrera, Casemiro and Vincent Aboubakar in the last-16 return leg built on a 1-1 draw in Switzerland two weeks earlier to give Porto a convincing 5-1 aggre-gate victory.

Porto, a two-time European champion, is on a strong run of form. In the group stage it was one of three clubs, with Real Madrid and Chelsea, to complete the first phase unbeaten. “We gave a fantas-tic performance,” Porto coach Julen Lopetegui said. “We’re among the eight best teams in Europe and we deserve to be there ... We never sat back, we kept attacking. We are showing a lot of ambition.”

Basel, which last appeared in the quarterfinals of Europe’s top-tier tournament 41 years ago, was strong in midfield but created few goalscoring chances over the two legs. In Tuesday’s other last-16 game, Schalke beat Real Madrid 4-3 on the night at the Bernabeu, but lost 5-4 on aggregate to the holders.

Porto was the dominant team in Portugal as Basel worked hard to shut down the hosts in midfield but struggled in attack. Brahimi opened the scoring in the 14th,

curling an expert free-kick from just outside the area over the Basel wall that goalkeeper Tomas Vaclik didn’t even attempt to stop. Soon after, Casemiro saw Vaclik off his goal line and fired a powerful shot from long range that went just over the bar.

Porto cranked up the pressure as Aboubakar struck a thundering volley that flew just wide of Vaclik’s left post, and Cristian Tello got be-hind Basel’s defense before Walter Samuel cleared.

Marco Streller’s wayward effort from outside the Porto area in the 32nd and Shkelzen Gashi’s low left-foot shot past the post just before the break were the visitors’ only first-half efforts on goal. Herrera extended Porto’s lead two minutes into the second half with a shot from the left of the area that went into the far corner. Less than 10 minutes later, Casemiro scored from a free-kick 30 meters out, and Aboubakar sealed it in the 76th with another long-range shot.

Porto goalkeeper Fabiano saved from Luca Zuffi at close range in the 60th and kept out Streller’s effort in the 83rd as Porto recorded another clean sheet.

Porto has won its last six Portu-guese league games without con-ceding a goal — its best run since the 2010-11 season. Samuel was shown his second yellow card and sent off in added time. (ap)

MADRID - Two-goal Cristiano Ronaldo may have become the re-cord scorer in European competition on Tuesday but the Real Madrid forward was left seething by another poor performance from the stutter-ing European champions. Television cameras captured a grim-looking Ronaldo shaking his head and appar-ently mouthing “disgrace” to Karim Benzema shortly before the end of Real’s 4-3 defeat to Schalke 04 at the Bernabeu, the holders squeaking through to the quarter-finals 5-4 on aggregate.

Ronaldo’s two first-half headers had helped keep hopes of a record-extending 11th European crown alive and took his tally in European compe-tition to a record 78 goals, surpassing Barcelona forward Lionel Messi (76)

and former Real striker Raul (77).However, they were one of the

few bright spots in a generally weak showing that came hard on the heels of the 1-0 defeat at Athletic Bilbao at the weekend that cost Real top spot in La Liga.

The reverse to Schalke was their first home defeat in the Champions League in 22 matches since April 2011 and the players were whistled off the pitch by the angry home fans, many of whom waved white handkerchiefs in the traditional sign of discontent.

Ronaldo gruffly announced to reporters he was not going to speak to the media again until the end of the season, leaving captain and goal-keeper Iker Casillas to try to explain the team’s recent slump.

“The team has again failed to reach

the level of recent months but what’s important is that we realise that,” the Spain international said. “We have to understand the Madrid fans and today we weren’t up to the standards of Real Madrid and the Champions League last 16,” he added.

“We were made to sweat too much but what we have to do is be more united than ever. “Although we fell short of what was required, we did enough to get through.” Real have little time to set things right with a trip to Barca for the La Liga ‘Clasico’ looming on March 22.

They host Levante on Sunday, when they could find themselves four points behind their great rivals, who play at Eibar on Saturday. The draw for the Champions League quarter-finals is on March 20. (rtr)

MADRID - Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti did not mince his words after the Champions League holders managed to get past Schalke 04 into the quarter-finals by the skin of their teeth on Tuesday and were whistled off the pitch. Real slumped to a stunning 4-3 home reverse to the battling Bundesliga side, who came within a goal of pulling off a remark-able upset after losing last month’s first leg in Gelsenkirchen 2-0.

“There are problems across the board,” the Italian told a news confer-ence. “In attack, in defence, in a lack of fight, motivation and concentration,” he added. “It is not good for our image and that of the club. The whistles were totally justified. “We have to work harder and focus more. We have to have more of everything.”

It was the latest poor performance from Ancelotti’s expensively-assem-bled team, who surrendered top spot in La Liga to Barcelona when they were beaten 1-0 at Athletic Bilbao at the weekend, and their first home defeat in Europe’s elite club com-petition since April 2011. In recent weeks, Real have been a shadow of the side that romped to a Spanish record 22 straight wins at the end of last year and Ancelotti said Tuesday’s showing confirmed the team were playing “very badly”.

Real have little time to set things right with a trip to Barca for the La Liga ‘Clasico’ looming on March 22. Barca’s front three of Lionel Messi, Neymar and Luis Suarez have been in prolific form since the turn of the year, while Real’s forwards Cristiano

Ronaldo, Karim Benzema and Gareth Bale have gone off the boil.

Ronaldo did score twice on Tues-day, taking his tally in European competition to a record 78 goals, but it did not mask what was a gener-ally disappointing showing from the team. One bright spot was the return from a long-term injury of Luka Mo-dric, who came on as a second-half substitute.

Real have missed the control he gives them in central midfield and he was given a huge ovation when he re-placed the ineffective Sami Khedira.

“He will give us more control of the ball, so we are more effective,” Ancelotti said. “We can’t demand too much of him, we have to take things slowly. He played well for 30 minutes and he will help us.” (rtr)

MANCHESTER, England — Struggling Manchester United striker Radamel Falcao made a surprise appearance for the club’s

under-21 team on Tuesday.The two-time Ballon d’Or nom-

inee failed to find the net against Tottenham in his first appearance

for United’s second string during 72 minutes on the pitch before being substituted.

Falcao has scored just four

goals since joining United on loan in September from Monaco, mak-ing a permanent deal at the end of the season look less likely.

The 29-year-old Colombian failed to get off the bench on Mon-day when Arsenal beat United 2-1 in the FA Cup quarterfinals.

We are playing very badly, says Real coach Ancelotti

Angry Ronaldo’s record overshadowed by poor Real showing

AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza

Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo, right, and Karim Benzema, left, gesture after Schalke scored the opening goal during a Champions League soccer match round of 16 second leg, between Real Madrid and Schalke 04 at Santiago Bernabeu stadium, in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, March 10, 2015.

AP Photo/Paulo Duarte

Porto’s Cristian Tello jumps over Basel’s goalkeeper Tomas Vaclik during the Champions League round of sixteen second leg soccer match between FC Porto and FC Basel at the at Dragao Stadiumin Porto, Portugal, Tuesday, March 10, 2015.

Porto advances in Champions League with 4-0 win over Basel

Falcao plays for Man United second string, fails to score

REUTERS/Susana Vera

Schalke 04’s coach Roberto Di Matteo (L) ducks as Schalke 04’s Sidney Sam kicks the ball past him during a training session at Madrid’s San-tiago Bernabeu stadium, March 9, 2015.


MADRID - Schalke 04 coach Roberto Di Matteo was finding it hard to take in how his team managed to score four goals at Real Madrid on Tuesday but still failed to get past the holders into the Champions League quarter-finals. Schalke produced one of the best performances of the season to claim a 4-3 victory at the Bernabeu but were eliminated 5-4 on aggregate after losing last month’s last 16, first leg in Gelsenkirchen 2-0.

nately didn’t manage it. That would of course have made the game more interesting for us,” added Di Matteo. “Perhaps we just didn’t have that little bit of luck tonight that you need to get through such ties.” Schalke return to action in the Bundesliga with a game at Hertha Berlin on Saturday.

They are fifth with 10 games left, three points behind third-placed Bo-russia Moenchengladbach, and have a good chance of winning a berth in Europe’s elite club competition again for next season.

Di Matteo said the quality of Real’s forwards had been the dif-ference between the two sides, who met at the same stage last term when Real won 9-2 on aggregate on their way to a record-extending 10th European crown.

“We didn’t allow Real Madrid to get into a rhythm but they have such quality in the team and they showed that both in the first leg and tonight,” Di Matteo said. “They had relatively few chances and scored three goals and that makes a differ-ence.” (ap)

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by Payangan society. Payangan traditional market is

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When compared to other tradi-tional markets, the Payangan mar-ket is probably not much different. It sells food and clothing as well as a variety of crops such as rice, vegetables and fruits. Besides, it also sells different kinds of meat, such as beef, pork, lamb, chicken and fish.

Meanwhile, there are also traders selling a variety of herbal drinks such as daluman, cendol and traditional cakes. This market also sells clothing, school uniform and customary fashion for attend-ing temple worship. Payangan market is open from 04:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Then, it is resumed with night market until 00:00 p.m. and even until the morning when the

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of Payangan, foreigners are also commonly shopping at this mar-ket. They are foreigners who have been long living in Payangan because these days a lot of ac-commodations grow as in Ubud. Besides, hotel employees also purchase food ingredients to be prepared for their guests.

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Kyrie Irving scored 22 points, while Kevin Love had 21 points and 14 rebounds. J.R. Smith also scored 21 points and Timofey Mozgov, the other starter, had 17. Chandler Parsons led Dallas with 18 points, while Monta Ellis had 17 and Amare Stoudemire 15. Dirk Nowitzki scored 13 points on only 3-of-10 shooting.

San Antonio’s Kawhi Leonard had 24 points, 11 rebounds and matched a career high with five steals, as

the Spurs withstood a second-half letdown to beat the Toronto Raptors 117-107 for their sixth straight vic-tory. Tony Parker added 23 points and nine assists, and Danny Green was 5 for 6 on 3-pointers in scoring 19 points for San Antonio. Toronto lost its fourth straight despite 32 points from Kyle Lowry and 21 for DeMar DeRozan. Amir Johnson had 16 points and 14 rebounds.

In Indianapolis, reserve Rodney Stuckey had 34 points, six rebounds

and seven assists as the Indiana Pac-ers beat the Orlando Magic 118-86 for their sixth straight victory.

Damjan Rudez scored 17 points, and Luis Scola added 15 points and 10 rebounds for the surging Pac-ers (29-34), who moved into sole possession of seventh place in the Eastern Conference. Tobias Harris had 22 points and six rebounds, and Elfrid Payton finished with 14 points for the Magic, who have lost five of seven games. (ap)

MELBOURNE — An Australian state court has potentially cleared the way for Formula One driver Giedo van der Garde to compete in this weekend’s season-opening Grand Prix in Melbourne after his legal challenge against Sauber was ruled successful, although the racing team has appealed the decision.

The Dutch driver was challeng-ing to get a spot in Sunday’s race with Swiss F1 team Sauber, which replaced him as a driver late last year. A Swiss arbitration court had already ruled Sauber could not deny van der Garde the right to drive for the team, and he sought to have the rul-ing enforced in Victoria state, where the Australian Grand Prix is being staged. Justice Clyde Croft in the Supreme Court of Victoria decided Wednesday the Swiss ruling should be upheld.

Lawyers for the Sauber team appeared in the same court later Wednesday, and an appeal into the case will be heard Thursday morn-ing. Van der Garde said outside the court after the appeal was granted that he was still confident the court would rule in his favor. “We’ll see what comes out tomorrow and I’m still hopeful,” he said.

Lawyers for the Sauber team had argued van der Garde was an unac-ceptable risk because he wasn’t trained in the team’s car and he did not have a custom seat, but van der Garde’s lawyer Tom Clarke said his client was ready to work with the team to get a seat fitted before racing begins. Sauber said in a statement “the outcome is unfortunately not as expected.”

“We are disappointed with this decision and now need to take time to understand what it means and the impact it will have on the start of our season,” Sauber team chief executive Monisha Kaltenborn said. “What we cannot do is jeopardize the safety of our team, or any other driver on the track, by having an unprepared driver in a car that has now been tailored to two other assigned drivers.” But van der Garde said outside court he was ready to race. Practice begins Friday for Sunday’s race.

“I’m very fit and very strong. I’m looking forward to going back

to the team, work hard and do our best for the weekend,” he said. “I’m the fittest ever. I’ve been training the last three months flat out.” Van der Garde also said that despite the legal battle, he was keen to work with Sauber again.

“I’m looking forward to going back to the team. I had a very good relationship, I still have a very good relationship, with the team,” he said. One of Sauber’s current drivers, Marcus Ericsson or Felipe Nasr, would have to miss out for van der Garde to race in one of the two team cars. “Well, I think it’s up to them what they’re going to do, and up to the team. It’s not my thing,” van der Garde said.

Van der Garde’s lawyers lodged papers with the court last Friday. The driver, who was a reserve with Sauber last season, claimed to have a contract for a race seat this season, but the financially-troubled team appointed Ericsson and Nasr as its drivers for 2015, with both bringing lucrative sponsorship backing.

The 29-year-old van der Garde was also considered a leading candi-date to be appointed as a race driver for the Manor team, which has just come under new ownership that will allow it to compete this season. In documents lodged with the court, van der Garde said he was guaranteed a spot on this year’s Sauber team on June 28, 2014, but team bosses reneged on the deal.

“In early November 2014, Mr. van der Garde was informed by Sauber’s chief executive officer, Ms. Monisha Kaltenborn, that Sauber’s two seats had been given to other drivers and that, as a consequence, Mr. van der Garde would not have a place as a driver in the team in 2015,” the docu-ments said. Van der Garde originally took his case to the Arbitration Insti-tution in Switzerland, which ordered Sauber to keep him on the team.

“The respondent (Sauber) was ordered to refrain from taking any action the effect of which would be to deprive Mr. van der Garde of his entitlement to participate in the 2015 Formula One season as one of Sau-ber’s two nominated race drivers,” the court documents said. (ap)

Court clears way for van der Garde to

drive in Australian GP

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Giedo van der Garde

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Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James (23) shoots as Dallas Mavericks guard Devin Har-ris (20) defends during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Tuesday, March 10, 2015, in Dallas. Cleveland won 127-94.

No headband, no problem: James helps Cavs rout Mavs

DALLAS — Even without his trademark headband, LeBron James had 27 points and took over sole possession of the Cavaliers’ career assists record as Cleveland beat the Dallas Maver-icks 127-94 on Tuesday. James was one of four players with more than 20 points for the Central Division-leading Cavaliers, who have won 12 of their last 13 games against Western Conference opponents and broke a 14-game losing streak in Texas.

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SLEMAN - An advert for a house in Indonesia has gone viral online after the woman selling it offered to throw in an unusual extra feature for free -- her hand in mar-riage. The Internet ad reads for the most part like a regular house list-ing, saying that the single-storey property has two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a parking space and a fish pond.

But it also proposes to buyers a “rare offer” -- “when you buy this

house, you can ask the owner to marry you”, alongside a picture of Wina Lia, a 40-year-old widow and beauty salon owner, leaning against a car in front of the house.

The ad said that terms and conditions apply, and notes the offer is “for serious buyers and non-negotiable”. The house in Sleman, on the island of Java, is on the market for 999 million rupiah (about $75,000).

News of the offer quickly spread

among Internet users in social media-crazy Indonesia.

Boldies99, a user on popular online forum Kaskus, said Lia was “quite smart -- even though the house will be sold, she will remain the owner.”

Lia told AFP she was “shocked at the reaction”, as she had been overwhelmed by journalists com-ing to interview her, and even the police in the conservative, Muslim-majority country had been

asking questions.The police “came to verify

the news as they consider it as an improper advertisement. But I explained to them that it was not my idea,” she said.

The mother of two explained that she had asked a friend who was a property agent to help her find a buyer -- and in the process a husband -- but she had expected him to pass on the news to a lim-ited number of people, not put an

ad online.“I told a friend of mine who

also works as property agent that if there is a buyer who is a single man or a widower who wants to buy a house, and at the same time look for a wife, he can let me know as I’m also a widow,” she said.

She added that there was only one potential buyer, who had vis-ited on Wednesday, but refused to give further details. (afp)

Several foreigners are due to be executed for drug-related crimes with Australia among countries pleading with Indonesian President Joko Widodo to show mercy to their citizens.

They include Australians An-drew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, as well as a Frenchman, Brazilian, three Nigerians and convicts from the Philippines and Ghana.

Australia’s repeated calls for clemency have included comments by Prime Minister Tony Abbott that appeared to tie his country’s aid donations to the pair’s fate.

But the bid caused great offence in Indonesia.

Indonesian Security Minister Tedjo Edhy Purdijatno said this week that his country could release a “human tsunami” of asylum-seekers in retaliation.

“Indonesia has done a lot in pre-venting illegal migrants from other countries from going to Australia,” he was quoted as saying by Indo-nesian media.

“If Canberra keeps acting this way, Jakarta will certainly release migrants wanting to go to Aus-tralia.

“There are over 10,000 currently in Indonesia. If they are released and we let them go to Australia, it will be like a human tsunami.”

Australia has struggled for years to stem a rising tide of asylum-seek-ers trying to reach its shores, often from transit hubs in Indonesia.

Many have died making the haz-ardous journey in crammed, rickety boats, normally after paying huge fees to people-smugglers.

Abbott last month said Jakarta should remember the $1 billion of assistance sent from Australia in the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which killed around 220,000 people.

But the bid backfired in Indo-nesia, where groups of protesters this week delivered bags of coins to the Australian embassy, saying they were handing back tsunami aid money.

Shouting “Shut Abbott’s mouth” and “Abbott, say sorry”, they tram-pled on a poster bearing a picture of the Australian prime minister with tape plastered over his mouth, as they handed over the coins.

Virgin chief Richard Branson on Wednesday added his voice to those urging death row inmates to be spared, saying the death penalty was a “failed deterrent” while offer-ing to fly to Jakarta for talks.

Branson, a member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy, said in a letter to the Indonesian leader published on Virgin’s website that he was willing to fly to Jakarta to discuss the issue.

“We have done a lot of research into the war on drugs on a global basis,” he told the Australian Broad-casting Corporation of the com-mission.

“And based on science and real

House for sale in Indonesia with free wife

Indonesia threatens Australia with ‘tsunami’ of asylum-seekers

JAKARTA - An Indonesian minister has warned a “human tsunami” of asylum-seekers could be unleashed on Australia in retaliation if Canberra keeps pressing for clemency for two Australian drug smugglers on death row, as ties between the neighbours fray.

studied research, we found that countries that still carry out execu-tions for drug offences have not seen any significant shifts in supply and demand and the drug trade re-mains remarkably unaffected by the threat of capital punishment.”

Branson said Portugal, which decriminalised drug use in 2001, was an example of how the issue could be tackled. Health experts have credited Portugal’s move as

partly responsible for the drug ad-diction decline.

His plea came as Australian me-dia said Sukumaran, 33, had made a personal appeal to Widodo by painting a portrait of the president, signing it “people can change”.

Sukumaran and Chan, 31, started programmes that ranged from painting to photography in the decade they were held at Kerobokan jail in Bali after their

arrests in 2005 as ringleaders of the so-called “Bali Nine” drug smuggling gang.

Sukumaran’s brother Chinthu said Wednesday before visiting Sukumaran that his family re-mained hopeful Widodo “will get to see how much Myuran and An-drew have done inside the prison to help the Indonesian people and that he will show mercy on our family”. (afp)

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Sukumaran’s brother Chinthu said Wednesday before visiting Sukumaran that his family re-mained hopeful Widodo “will get to see how much Myuran and Andrew have done inside the prison to help the Indonesian people and that he will show mercy on our family”.

He found a vast emptiness. With the mind-boggling sea of debris cleared away, a massive public works project was un-derway to raise the low-lying, tsunami-flattened area by several meters (yards) before rebuild-ing on it. The rumble of passing dump trucks and long conveyor belts bringing in load after load of soil pierced the silence. On higher nearby ground, displaced residents waited in temporary housing. A look at the devasta-tion and the recovery:

BY THE NUMBERS 15,891 people confirmed

dead, 6,152 injured and 2,584 st i l l unaccounted for. Some 229,000 people, about half as many as initially, remain evacu-

ated from their homes. About 90,000 live in temporary hous-ing. Of the total, more than half come from areas affected by the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant meltdowns. About one-fifth of the 29,000 government housing units planned for completion by March 2016 are finished.

WHAT’S NEXT?Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on

Tuesday pledged funding for a second five-year reconstruction period to start in April 2016. He didn’t give a specific amount, but Japanese media speculation put it at 6 trillion yen ($50 billion), less than a quarter of the current package. He said the government plans to compile a plan by the summer. Abe also vowed to ex-

pedite housing construction.

THE EMPEROR’S WORDSAt a solemn ceremony in Tokyo

on Wednesday, Emperor Akihito said he still recalls the “unforget-table, horrifying” footage of the tsunami on television four years ago, and that he shares the pain of those still without prospect of returning home because of the radiation in Fukushima.

“Many of the people who were affected by the disasters are still living under a difficult environ-ment today,” he said. “I’m espe-cially concerned about the health of the people who are getting older every year. It is important for all Japanese to put their hearts together and stay close by them for support.”

PENSACOLA, Florida — Seven Marines and four soldiers were missing early Wednesday after a U.S. Army helicopter crashed dur-ing a night training exercise at a Florida Air Force base. The area where the crash happened Tuesday night was under a fog advisory. It was still extremely foggy Wednes-day morning, which was affecting the search, said Sara Vidoni, public affairs specialist at Eglin Air Force Base.

Base officials said the Marines are part of a Camp Lejeune-based special operations group and the soldiers were from a Louisiana-based National Guard unit. The helicopter was reported missing around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday and search and rescue crews found debris from the crash around 2 a.m. Wednesday, Eglin spokesman Andy Bourland said.

Names of those involved were not immediately released, pending notification of next of kin, he said.

Bourland said the Army helicopter took off from a nearby airport and joined other aircraft in the routine training exercise. The UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter went down on a remote swath of beach owned by the military used for test missions.

The training area includes 20 miles (30 kilometers) of pristine beachfront that has been under the control of the military since before World War II. Military police keep a close watch on the area and have been known to run off private vendors who rent jet skis or paddle boards without permission.

Test range manager Glenn Barn-dollar told The Associated Press in August that the beach provides an ideal training area for special opera-tions units from all branches of the military to practice over the water, on the beach and in the bay. The military sometimes drops trainees over the water using boats or heli-copters and the trainees must make their way onshore. (ap)

BERLIN — Thousands of Ger-man public service workers are staging a short-term strike in a bid to receive higher wages and pre-serve pension benefits.

The ver.di union said teach-ers and other public employees including police and firefighters walked off the job in multiple states Wednesday to put pressure on the government ahead of third round of negotiations starting next week.

The union says it is seeking a pay rise of at least 5.5 percent for the 800,000 public workers it represents and is fighting against a plan to change pensions that it says would reduce benefits by 20 per-cent. Ver.di says the final agreement could also apply to a further 1.2 million employees and that some 700,000 already-retired workers would also benefit.

The union says so far it has re-ceived no counter-offer. (ap)

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In this Wednesday, March 4, 2015 photo, people walk next to a temporary breakwater in the Tsunami damaged area in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

Japan’s slow tsunami recovery, 4 years on

TOKYO — Small clusters of survivors, bundled up against a chilly wind, gathered along Japan’s northeast coast Wednesday to remember the nearly 19,000 lives lost in the March 11, 2011, tsunami. Four years later, the region is still struggling to recover. Associated Press pho-tographer Eugene Hoshiko returned to the devastated town of Rikuzentakata last week for the first time since the immediate aftermath of the disaster.

AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan

Indian Army soldiers walk towards the site of a helicopter crash on a hill in Bandipora district, some 38 kilometers north of Srinagar, India, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015.

German teachers on strike for higher wages

7 US Marines, 4 soldiers missing after helicopter crashes

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CUPERTINO — Apple CEO Tim Cook took a figurative vic-tory lap at his company’s annual shareholder meeting, one day after he announced details about the new smartwatch Apple plans to start sell-ing next month.

A year ago, some investors were voicing frustration over Apple’s lag-ging stock and activist Carl Icahn was pressing Cook to return more cash to shareholders. But no complaints were heard Tuesday. Apple shares are up 65 percent from a year ago, the company has a market value of more than $700 billion — making it the most valuable U.S. company in history — and will soon bump AT&T to join the benchmark Dow Jones industrial average.

Apple sold a record 200 million iPhones in 2014, which provided the bulk of the company’s $200 billion in revenue. Cook cited those and other milestones in what he called an “unbelievable” year. He also said Apple returned $57 billion to share-holders through dividends and stock buybacks last year.

The stock fell 1.7 percent Tuesday, amid a broader market decline, as some analysts questioned whether the company’s new smartwatch will be a hit. Cook has vowed the new wearable gadget will change the way people use the Internet, as previous Apple products including the iPhone

and iPad have done.The company also said it had work

to do on diversity efforts. Two speak-ers, civil rights leader Jesse Jackson and a black Apple shareholder who did not say his name when he spoke, urged Cook to improve diversity in Apple’s leadership and board. Apple has no black or Latino directors, and 12 of the 15 top executives listed on its website are white men.

Jackson has pressed Silicon Valley companies to improve diversity. He praised Cook for releasing workforce demographics statistics, as several other top tech companies have done, but urged Apple to follow Intel’s lead in setting more specific goals.

Cook promised more progress. Later in the meeting, he introduced two Apple vice presidents who are black women: Lisa Jackson, the former U.S. EPA administrator who now runs Apple’s environmental programs, and Denise Young Smith, the company’s top human resources official. “Our diversity is increasing,” Cook said. “I want it to be better. It will be better.”

As for future projects, Cook ac-knowledged that iPad sales are down but said he’s “extremely bullish” on Apple’s partnership with IBM to cre-ate new iPad business software and “other things in the pipeline.” An iPad with a larger screen is rumored to be in development. (ap)

The likelihood of a Fed hike, coupled with the European Central Bank’s new bond-buying stimulus programme and fears over Greece, also sent the dollar surging against the yen and towards parity with the euro.

In afternoon trade, Shanghai re-versed early gains to sit 0.12 percent lower, while Hong Kong was down 0.50 percent.

Sydney lost 0.53 percent, or 31.0 points, to 5,793.2 and Seoul was off 0.20 percent, or 3.94 points, at 1,980.83.

However, Tokyo ended 0.31 percent, or 58.41 points, higher at 18.723,52.

Wall Street provided another negative lead as investors bet on a Fed rate rise sooner rather than later, with some predicting a move in June after Friday’s data show-ing a surge in US jobs creation in February.

The Dow tumbled 1.85 percent, the S&P 500 fell 1.70 percent and the Nasdaq lost 1.67 percent.

The jobs report ramped up dol-

lar buying, which had already been strong owing to a string of upbeat indicators in recent weeks as well as monetary easing in the eurozone and Japan.

In Japanese trade Wednesday, the greenback was at 121.25 yen, compared with 121.07 yen late in New York. At one point Tuesday it broke above 122.00 yen for the first time since late 2007.

Adding to yen weakness has been a raft of poor data out of Japan, which has heaped pressure on the country’s central bank to further easing monetary policy.

The greenback also surged against the euro after the ECB kicked off its own bond-buying scheme, known as quantitative easing (QE), in a drive to fight off deflation.

Worries about Greece’s tense talks due Wednesday over its bail-out provisions are also sapping the euro.

The euro bought $1.0694 com-pared with $1.0698 in US trade,

where it fell through $1.07 for the first time in 12 years. The single currency was also at 129.66 yen against 129.53 yen.

“This is not a time to stick your neck out and get too aggressive,” Ted Weisberg, president of Seaport Securities Corp. in New York, told Bloomberg TV.

“You have the strong dollar and the very real threat of the Fed raising interest rates sooner, rather than later.”

In China, growth in industrial output, retail sales and fixed asset investment all fell to multi-year lows in January-February, accord-ing to official data Wednesday, the latest indicators showing the world’s number two economy is suffering a severe slowdown.

Beijing combines the two months to ease out distortions caused by the Lunar New Year holiday.

On oil markets, prices rebounded Wednesday following steep losses in the previous session caused by the surging dollar. (afp)

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A passerby looks at Japan’s Nikkei stock prices displayed on an electronic board in Tokyo Wednesday, March 11, 2015. Asian stocks got off to a weak start Wednesday following sharp declines on Wall Street sparked by growing investor anxiety about a looming U.S. interest rate hike.

Fed speculation hits Asian markets,

dollar ralliesHONG KONG - Most Asian markets fell again Wednesday on increasing expectations the US

Federal Reserve will hike interest rates in the summer, while another weak data release from China added to selling pressure.

SAN FRANSISCO - Google chief financial officer Patrick Pichette is re-tiring after nearly seven years as one of the Internet titan’s top executives.

His pending departure was dis-closed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing available online Tuesday.

A date for Pichette’s departure from Google had yet to be set and he “intends to assist in the search for a new CFO and ensure an orderly transition,” expected by the company to occur within six months.

Prior to joining Google in 2008, Canada-born Pichette worked at McKinsey & Company, and Bell Canada. The Rhodes Scholar earned degrees from the University of Quebec in Montreal and from Britain’s Oxford University.

Pichette laid out his reasons for retiring in a heartfelt post at Google+ social network, explaining in touching

detail how after more than 25 years of non-stop work he is shifting gears to explore the world with his longtime wife, Tamar.

“I could not find a good argument to tell Tamar we should wait any lon-ger for us to grab our backpacks and hit the road -- celebrate our last 25 years together by turning the page and enjoy a perfectly fine mid-life crisis full of bliss and beauty, and leave the door open to serendipity for our next leadership opportunities, once our long list of travels and adventures is exhausted,” Pichette said in his post.

Pichette described working at Google as a privilege and expressed thanks for the friendship of co-found-ers Sergey Brin and Larry Page, along with chairman Eric Schmidt.

“Patrick has been a joy to work with and I wish him all the best on his new adventures,” Page said in a Google+ post of his own. (afp)

Google chief financial officer retiring

Apple’s Tim Cook cites record sales and

“unbelievable” year

DENPASAR - Nutritional prob-lem among children in Bali gradu-ally increases. Based on the data of basic health research in 2013, the prevalence of malnutrition among children under five reached 3.0 percent, poor nutrition (10.2 per-cent), good nutrition (81.4 percent) and better nutrition (5.5 percent). Compared to 32 other provinces, Bali Province belongs to the best among the other provinces. Un-fortunately, the data on the area of malnutrition and poor nutrition in Bali cannot be obtained because the data constantly changes. “The data continue to change, so that it cannot be made,” said Dewi, a civil servant of the Bali Health Agency.

The Section Head of Health Promotion of the Bali Health Agency, Dian Nardiani, explained that malnutrition among children occurred in the areas that were dif-ficult to reach by health services. “Usually their home is located in the heights,” said Dian.

In addition, the factor of busy working parents has also caused them to have no time to take care

of children so that it results in mal-nutrition in children. “Sick children are not taken for getting treatment,” she added.

Every effort to reach out had been made. Each headman already scheduled the implementation of the integrated health care for children (Posyandu), so that people could bring their children to the activity site. By setting fixed schedule of the inte-grated health care for children, people were expected to easily remember and intensely come to monitor the development of their children.

In addition, the lack of parental education caused the low awareness of the importance to monitor the growth of their children. The pro-gram of the integrated health care for children featuring the growth, activeness and responsiveness be-came one of the programs to moni-tor the development of children. According to her, malnutrition in Bali was not caused by the lack of food, but caused by the diseases accompanying the children so that the growth of their weight was disrupted. (kmb42)

“Fortunately no casualty amid the ruins of the houses,” village secretary AA Gede Alit said on Wednesday.

The whirlwind slammed across Banjar Bukit Sari, Jagaperang, Sidan and the village of Sidan, in the sub-district of Gianyar, Gede

Alit said.“The rain that followed strong

winds from Bunutan Guliang, in the regency of Bangli hit when most of the people were perform-ing a ritual ahead of the Saka New Year of 1937 at the Siut Tulikup beach that afternoon, Gede Alit

said.Material losses were estimated

to reach hundreds of millions of rupiahs, he said.

The district natural disaster con-trol agency (BPBD) and the military helped the villagers to remove the ruins from the village. (ant)


Heather Mack, left, and her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer, both from Chicago, Ill., arrive at a court room to witness a trial in Bali, Indonesia, Wednesday, March 11, 2015. The couple is charged with murdering Mack’s mother, Sheila von Wiese-Mack, whose badly beaten body was found in a suitcase in the trunk of a taxi outside an upscale hotel in the resort island last year.

Difficult access makes nutrition

handling get hampered

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Strong winds followed with heavy rain seriously damaged 75 houses some of them were lev-eled to the ground in the village of Sidan, the regency of Gianyar, Bali, on Tuesday.

Strong winds destroy 75 houses in Gianyar, Bangli

GIANYAR - Strong winds followed with heavy rain seriously damaged 75 houses some of them were leveled to the ground in the village of Sidan, the regency of Gianyar, Bali, on Tuesday.

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Singh as prime minister of the former Congress-led government had direct charge of the coal min-istry when some of the coal field allocations to private companies were made. He was questioned by the CBI in January about the alloca-tion of a coal field in Odisha state in 2005 to Hindalco Industries.

Reacting to the summons, Singh said he was “open for legal scru-tiny.” “I am sure that the truth will prevail and I will get a chance to put forward my case with all the facts,” he said in a statement.

India’s Supreme Court last year scrapped all 218 allocations of coal reserves from 1993 to 2010 saying they were carried out under proce-dures that were arbitrary and lacked fairness and transparency. Singh’s Congress party-led government was accused by critics of costing India’s treasury billions of dollars.

The scandal, along with several other high-profile cases of alleged graft, was a key reason for the Congress party’s huge loss in last year’s elections to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party. Modi’s government has be-gun a process of re-auctioning the coal blocks and hopes to recoup the true value of the coal reserves.

Senior BJP leader and Environ-ment Minister Prakash Javadekar denied that there was any element of vindictiveness in pursuing the case. “The courts do not operate under the BJP. They operate independently,” Javadekar told reporters. “Manmo-han Singh was the prime minister. He was in office. He should have exercised his diligence,” he said. Congress Party spokesman Manish Tewari said Singh was “a person of utmost integrity and probity.”(ap)

SEOUL — A flight attendant who says she was living her dream by working for Korean Air is now suing the airline and its infamous nut rage executive, claiming the bizarre onboard tantrum ruined her career. Kim Do Hee, the flight attendant, is seeking compensation through a trial in New York city af-ter she was verbally and physically attacked by Korean Air heiress Cho Hyun-ah, according to a statement on Wednesday by two American law firms, the Weinstein Law Firm and Kobre & Kim.

Cho, a vice president overseeing cabin service at the time of the Dec. 5 incident, was enraged that Kim, 27, served her macadamia nuts in a bag, not on a dish.

After a heated confrontation with crew in the first class cabin, Cho ordered head flight attendant Park Chang-jin off the plane, forc-ing it to return to a gate at John F. Kennedy International Airport.

It is the first civil lawsuit con-nected with the nut rage case, which infuriated South Koreans and hogged global headlines. Last month a South Korean court sen-tenced Cho, 40, to one year in prison for violating aviation secu-rity laws, using violence against a flight attendant and other charges. Cho, who is the daughter of Korean Air’s chairman, has appealed the ruling from prison.

The summons filed Monday with

the Supreme Court of the State of New York County of Queens said Cho screamed obscenities at Kim and hit and threatened her.

She was also pressured to lie to government investigators to cover up the incident and to ap-pear in public with Cho “as part of an orchestrated effort to try and rehabilitate Cho’s public image,” the summons said. Kim is seeking compensatory damages and puni-tive damages in an amount to be determined at the trial.

Kim was unable to resolve the dispute privately and both Korean Air and Cho did not engage in “any substantive” settlement discussions with Kim’s lawyers, the statement said. Cho will be held responsible for the damage that she has caused to Kim’s career, reputation, and emotional well-being, it said.

During Cho’s trial in Seoul last month, Kim testified that Cho’s power at the airline was “unimagin-ably big” and she could not refuse her orders.

She also said Korean Air was her dream job since she was a high school student but after false rumors spread on the Internet about her accepting a professorship in exchange for lying to investiga-tors, she could not return to work as a flight attendant. Both Cho’s lawyer and Korean Air Lines Co. did not respond to a request for comment. (ap)

AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File

FILE - In this Dec. 30, 2014 file photo, Cho Hyun-ah, former vice president of Korean Air Lines Co., arrives at the Seoul Western District Prosecutors Office in Seoul, South Korea.

Nut rage flight attendant sues Korean

Air, former execFormer Indian PM

Singh faces charges in coal scandal

NEW DELHI — A special Indian court on Wednesday summoned former prime minister Manmohan Singh, accusing him of criminal conspiracy and breach of trust for his alleged role in a multibillion dollar scandal over the sale of coal fields. The court’s move comes despite the Central Bureau of Investigation finding no prosecutable evidence against Singh or others em-broiled in the case. Judges ordered Singh and five others to appear in court on April 8.

FILE - In this Wednesday, May 21, 2014 file photo, out-going Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh attends a function marking the death

anniversary of former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi,

in New Delhi, India. AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File

Apparently the land extending all the way to the cliff belongs to local resident and was sold in plots. Unfortunately, the developer dredged the land very close to the border of the adjacent land near an existing building. Ngurah Darma, the adjacent resident to the north, claimed on Monday (Mar. 9) to have protested because without

notice the heavy equipment dredged the land and almost eroded the foundation of his house.

”It (the dredging) is quite deep- about two meters. We are worried about an avalanche because it is very close to us,” he said. He had expressed his objection to the lo-cal hamlet chief and even to the Jembrana government. The land-

owner had to install a revetment to diminish any risk but his land has nonetheless been eroded by the dredging. The adjacent resident worried that if the border between the two plots was not protected with revetment, it could avalanche when it rained.

Based on observations last Tuesday, the dredging with heavy

equipment had ceased. According to residents, it had been stopped two days ago. Only a few workers were still working on the revet-ment on the north side of the cliff. Despite having been protected with the revetment, the adjacent resident said he was worried about the quality of the revetment. In addition to dredging on the north and south sides of the land it was also taking place very close to the road and gutter which public property.

Meanwhile, the Chief of Jem-

brana Municipal Police, I Gusti Ngurah Rai Budhi, when asked for his confirmation on Tuesday (Mar. 10) confirmed that the dredging had been stopped due to protesting by the adjacent resident. The land dredging was too deep and too close to the land of the adjacent resident. His party would summon the land owner to be reunited with the protesting adjacent resident. ”We have stopped operations and will arrange a meeting between the parties,” said Rai Budhi. (kmb26)

AMLAPURA - Traditional salt produced at Amed is considered the best salt for spa therapies. Unfor-tunately, the area at Amed hamlet Purwakerthi village, Abang, for producing the salt, which formerly covered about 2 hectares, is get-ting narrower and now only covers about 0.6 hectares.

This was announced by the Secretary of the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) Karangasem, I Wayan Kariyasa, on Monday (Mar. 9) after attending a meeting with the Chairman of the

Traditional French Salting Associa-tion in Karangasem. Kariyasa said that at his spa business in Candi-dasa, they use a lot of traditional salt, especially that produced by salt farmers at Amed because of its high quality. It is used for scrubs that are given before starting massage therapy. ”The salt acts as a detoxi-fier. Amed salt is very good because the crystals are large” he said.

He said that before starting a massage, lukewarm water filled with salt is smeared onto the body. In addition to spa therapy, tradi-

tional Amed salt has been used since ancient times for household consumption. Cattle farmers in the area of Abang also require a lot of traditional salt for their cattles’ drinking water during the rainy season, as a way to encourage the cattle to drink more water. The price of Amed traditional salt is around IDR 8,000 per kg.

Karyasa said the narrowing of the traditional salt area is due to the proliferation of hotel developments. Salt farmers are also increasingly rare as young people do not want

to make salt because they consider that the income derived from this hard work under the hot sun is just not worth it.

Headman of Purwakerthi , Wayan Sentuni Artana, said that he thought that the area for mak-ing the salt had been narrowed down because so many villag-ers had contracted or sold their land. He did however say that he was grateful for the existence of Regional Bylaw (Perda) which prohibits any construction on the land 100 meters from the coast

line. Because of this Bylaw, in-vestors rarely want to buy land on the edge of the beach because a hundred meters inland falls on the provincial highway.

”Indeed, some local residents have built two or three rooms tour-ist accommodations. If however, at some point the laws are tightened in order to preserve the traditional salt making as a tourist attraction, hotels or restaurants built o that land would be in violation and would be forced to be dismantled” he said. (013)

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The land dredging activity which is being complained by the locals.

Amed’s salt good for therapyUnfortunatly salt producing area is shrinking

Land dredging at Sawe protestedNEGARA - Land dredging and leveling at Sawe Rangsasa, Dauhwaru village, is being pro-

tested by residents from the adjacent villages. Heavy equipment is being used to dredge the land land up to five meters down, right on the shore. The project was eventually discontinued by the Jembrana Municipal Police before any agreement could be made.

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TOKYO - An incision from the surgeon’s scalpel sends liquid oozing over the surface of a the lung, but on this occasion it doesn’t matter if something goes wrong -- the doctor can simply create another model with a 3D printer.

The ultra-realistic lung -- wet, soft, and complete with tumours and blood vessels -- is one of a range of organs being produced by a Japanese firm that will allow surgeons to hone their skills without hurting anyone.

“With the wet model, doctors can experience the softness of organs and see them bleed,” said Tomo-hiro Kinoshita of creator Fasotec, a company based in Chiba, southeast

of Tokyo.“We aim to help doctors improve

their skills with the models,” he added.

From guns to cars, prosthetics and works of art, 3D printing is predicted to transform our lives in the coming decades, researchers say, as dramati-cally as the Internet did before it.

The so-called Biotexture Wet Model, which will come onto the market for surgery training and medical equipment-testing in Japan in as early as April, is created by scanning a real organ in minute detail and creating molds on a 3D printer.

That shell is then injected with

gel-type synthetic resin to give it a wet, lifelike feeling in the surgeon’s hands.

Each one is designed to exactly mimic the texture and weight of a real organ so it can react to the surgi-cal knife in exactly the same way.

Maki Sugimoto, a medical doctor who has tried samples, said the wet models are almost “too realistic”.

Seen without their context, he said, it would be easy to mistake them for the real thing.

“The touch is similar to that of the real liver,” said Sugimoto, who is also a special instructor at Kobe Uni-versity Graduate School of Medicine in Kobe, western Japan.

“I suppose that not only young, inexperienced doctors but also expe-rienced doctors can perform a better operation if they can have a rehearsal first,” he said.

Toshiaki Morikawa, a medical doctor at Jikei University Hospital in Tokyo, also said: “The current models are too simple and details of anatomy are not accurately re-flected.”

“But this is obviously superior as it’s produced precisely and is very close to the living organ in quality,” he said.

For Morikawa, the world of 3D printing, which works by building up layers of material, offers endless

possibilities for medicine, including maybe one day functional organs for use in transplants.

“Considering future progress in life sciences, I think it is an urgent and significant theme that this outstanding technology should be modified for application to biology,” he said.

Fasotec began pre-sales of wet model bladders and urethral tubes in October, with a price tag of 15,000 yen ($127).

The firm plans to expand sales overseas and has already received enquiries from other Asian coun-tries, the company’s Kinoshita said. (afp)

The findings in the journal PLOS Medicine were based on 319 industry documents from the 1960s and 1970s that were stored in a public library collection at the University of Illinois.

They show that “a sugar indus-try trade organization represent-ing 30 international members had accepted the fact that sugar caused tooth decay as early as 1950,” said the study, authored by experts at the University of California, San Francisco who discovered the archives.

By 1969, the National Institutes of Health had decided that reduc-ing sugar consumption, “while theoretically possible,” was not practical as a public health mea-sure, the researchers said.

Representatives of the sugar industry then worked closely with the NIH, the main US government research body, on alternative re-search approaches.

The study found that 78 percent of the trade organization’s own re-search priorities were directly in-corporated into the 1971 National Caries (tooth decay) Program’s first request for research proposals from scientists.

“The dental community has always known that preventing tooth decay required restricting sugar intake,” said first author Cristin Kearns, a UCSF postdoc-toral scholar.

“It was disappointing to learn

3D printed organs offer ultra-realistic practice models

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Foods that might have added sugar or another sweetener like high-fructose corn syrup as an ingredient are pictured Wednesday, March 4, 2015, in New York. The sugar industry convinced US government scientists decades ago to research ways of preventing cavities that did not involve eliminating sweets from the diet, a study said Tuesday.

Sugar industry influenced US cavity research

MIAMI - The sugar in-dustry convinced US govern-ment scientists decades ago to research ways of preventing cavities that did not involve eliminating sweets from the diet, a study said Tuesday.

that the policies we are debating today could have been addressed more than forty years ago.”

Kearns and colleagues com-pared the papers -- which included 1,551 pages of correspondence among sugar industry executives from 1959 to 1971 -- to documents from the then National Institute of Dental Research to explore how the sugar industry may have influ-enced the research policies of the 1971 tooth decay program.

They found that the sugar

industry funded research on en-zymes to break up dental plaque and a vaccine against tooth decay, and “cultivated relationships with the NIDR and that a sugar industry expert panel overlapped by all but one member with the NIDR panel that influenced the priorities for the NIH tooth decay program.”

“These tactics are strikingly similar to what we saw in the to-bacco industry in the same era,” said co-author Stanton Glantz.

The researchers also found

that the sugar industry-led efforts “largely failed to produce results” when it came to preventing cavi-ties, which affect half of US adults and are the leading chronic dis-ease in American children.

Ronald Burakoff, chairman of dental medicine at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, New York, found the study to be “quite disturbing.”

The research suggests they “conspired to push the research agenda away from decreasing

sugar consumption to ways of mitigating the damaging effects of sugar consumption,” added Burakoff, who was not involved in the study.

“The parallels to the tobacco industry’s denial of the harmful effects of smoking are alarm-ing.”

The National Institute of Den-tal and Craniofacial Research -- the NIDR’s successor -- did not immediately respond to an AFP request for comment. (afp)

Suardana said that the Research and Development divi-sion of the BMKG has already conducted field research regarding the benefits of the celebration of Nyepi on the greenhouse effect.

The study was conducted five days before the celebration of Nyepi and for a week after the Nyepi celebration, at five locations in Bali. The results, indicated a decline in carbon monoxide gas, smoke and pollution by 30 percent compared to normal conditions. This means that the celebration of Nyepi contributs to a healthier environment. Suardana said that ”the findings have been presented at hearings in Geneva,” which has encouraged the researchers to conduct further research.

On the day of the Nyepi celebrations this year (2015), the BMKG will conduct the same research again - that is, observe the levels of greenhouse gases eight days before the celebra-tion of Nyepi and seven days after Nyepi at eight locations in Bali; the Ngurah Rai Airport, in Denpasar, Negara, Bedugul, Singaraja and Karangasem.

During Nyepi, all activities are totally suspended, so there are no vehicles running, no factory activities, no operation of aircrafts and little to no electricity is used. Such condition result in a decrease in the greenhouse effect. ”This event is the only one of its kind in the world,” he said. (kmb42)

DENPASAR - Chief of the Asia Europe Meeting (ASEM) Forum on Lifelong Learning Clause Holm has stated that the Indonesian govern-ment has a strong commitment to improving the education sector.

A strong commitment was im-portant to build lifelong learning in the face of numerous challenges, in-cluding understanding the relevant

differences between skills promoted by the education system and the demands of the labor market, he said on Tuesday.

A long-term commitment was needed to reduce and eliminate this gap to have access to education, he said.

“The forum was organized through a parallel seminar and panel

discussion. This forum is dedicated to facilitate researchers all over Asia and Europe to convene sessions and share research results, best prac-tices, and experiences in lifelong learning discourses,” he noted.

Hopefully, the forum will en-courage better cooperation between Indonesia and Denmark, particu-larly in the field of culture and

education, he added.Secretary-General of the Edu-

cation and Culture Ministry Prof Ainun Naim, meanwhile, said ASEM was a foundation for in-formal dialogs and involved 22 Asian countries and 31 European countries.

“The meeting focused on the aspects of education, cooperation,

and partnership, known as ASEM Education Process,” he pointed out.

ASEM Education Process covers quality assurance and recognition, engaging businesses and industries in education, balancing mobility and lifelong learning courses, in-cluding Technical and Vocational Education and Training. (ant)


Germany’s Hans Peter Naumann sits in a courtroom during his verdict trial in Bali, Indonesia, Wednesday, March 11, 2015. Indonesian judges sentenced Naumann to 15 years in prison. Naumann is accused of smuggling cocaine onto the tourist island of Bali.

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Pecalang, a traditional security officer, guarded Nyepi celebration at Kuta area. Nyepi or Day of Silence celebration has very good benefit, not only to human but also to nature. The Head of the National Weather Services (BBMKG) Region III, I Wayan Suardana, revealed it.

Nyepi reduces greenhouse gas effectDENPASAR - Nyepi or the celebration of the

Day of Silence is very beneficial, not only for human but also for nature. The Head of the Na-tional Weather Services (BBMKG) Region III, I Wayan Suardana, revealed recently.

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

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

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

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These travelers from Sidney, Australia, have been choosing Griya Santrian for 35 times as their accommodation in Bali. They averagely stay for two weeks. Even, until their fourth generations are still loyal to choose the hotel.

They are Adriamus and Suzanne Van Der Mast. According to Adriamus, Griya Santrian offered friendly services where the entire hotel staff was courteous and helpful. He considered they had been cared for like a family. “The hotel is like a second home for me and my wife, Suzanne. Likewise, my family having stayed here also got similar experience,” he said.

The travelers who have been visiting Bali since 1974 said they were also pleased with the variety of menu offered at the hotel restaurant. They included spring rolls, fried rice and ground chili condiment. “When visiting Bali again, we will go back to Griya Santrian and recommend the hotel to my friends,” said Suzanne accompanied by Adriamus. (ocha)

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Resort & Villas – Nusa Dua, Bali is launching a Family-Style Dinner at the bespoke beachfront restaurant. Guests are invited to gather with their friends or loved ones to savour an exquisitely prepared Mediter-ranean menu or an exotic Asian feast of Indonesian, Thai and Vietnamese cuisine to be enjoyed at a lei-surely pace served “family style” to share. The impressive blend of fine local seafood and produce cooked in Italian or Pan-Asian style will leave you completely satisfied.

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Headman of Pejaten, I Nyoman Alit Wijaya, explained that 90 percent of Pejaten residents are professional tile craftsmen. In the past, people could easily find the raw material in their backyard, but this is no longer the case. ”The clay has been used up,” he said.

The depletion of clay stocks at Pejaten has been apparent for about 15 years. So, in order to be able to keep producing tiles, craftsmen at Pejaten have been purchasing the raw material from other villages like Wana-sari village (Tabanan), Riang Gede (Penebel), Kelating village (Kerambitan) and Selemadeg. Now, the courtyards of Pejaten are perforated and provide ideal conditions for the breeding of mosquitoes. As a result, the cases of dengue fever in this area have increased forcing the Tabanan Health Agency to hold mass mosquitoes nest eradication and fogging at this village.

SEMARAPURA - One of the gas stations in Nusa Penida sub-district has been out of order for the last four days. Such conditions have made it difficult for residents and fishermen in Nusa Penida to ob-tain fuel for their daily needs. The second gas station, on which people now depend for all their fuel, has been running out of stock almost immediately after the refueling Pertamina tanker trucks arrive.

The fuel trucks are immediately flocked to by residents. Some came on motorcycle, while others brought dozens of jerry cans on pickup truck to be filled so that they could sell the fuel to others who could not make it to the gas station themselves. ”Typi-cally the fuel sells out in less than two hours” complained one Nusa Penida resident, Wayan Kurnia. Premium fuel usually sold for IDR 6,800 per liter by retailers is now

being sold for about IDR 10,000 per liter or more, when things are desperate.

Meanwhile, subdistrict head of Nusa Penida, Ketut Sukla, when contacted on Tuesday (Mar. 10) revealed that damage had occurred to the gas station at Sental, Ped village, on March 7 causing the flow of fuel from the tanks to be hindered. Thus, of the two gas stations in Nusa Penida, only the

one located at Batunungul village is operational. Consequently, this gas station has been constantly crowded by residents whenever the Pertamina fuel truck arrives. He also admitted that such conditions have affected the retail price of fuel sold to consumers.

Sukla, the local owner of the damaged gas station, has brought in experts to repair the gas station at Sental, and predicts that it should

be operational again by Tuesday afternoon. ”It is vital that both gas stations be operational, when one of them breaks down, residents panic because they must rely on a single source for their fuel” said Sukla.

He hopes that when the opera-tions returns to normal, prices will also return to normal otherwise residents are bound to feel a heavy burden, given that the price of fuel has already been rising. (kmb31)

Gas station out of order, Nusa Penida residents complain

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The roof tile producer in Pejaten, Tabanan

Fate of Pejaten roof tiles

Raw materials running lowTABANAN - The commu-

nity of Pejaten village, Kediri, has been making roof tiles from as far back as the Dutch colonial era. But now, the fate of roof tile makers in Pejaten is in a critical situation. The vil-lage stocks of clay, as the raw material of the tiles, are dwin-dling, forcing craftsmen to buy clay from other villages. Costly labor, the rarity of firewood and stiff competition from tile products made outside of Bali are placing the Pejaten tiles in a precarious situation.

Aside from the depletion of raw materials, craftsmen also have trouble finding firewood and so they must compete with craftsmen from Java to get co-conut finer to burn. ”Today most coconut fiber from Bali is sent to Java to be woven into mats, making it hard to buy the finer in Bali” said Alit. Difficulty in

acquiring raw materials and fire-wood coupled with high wages for workers has made the Pejaten roof tiles more expensive than roof tiles produced in Java. An average Java tile is sold for IDR 850 retail, while the Pejaten tile is sold for IDR 1,400.

Currently the roof tile mak-ers at Pejaten are still running

despite faltering. As a side job, the craftsmen also make pottery, pressed brick or ceramics. ”The pressed brick business account for about 10 percent and ceramic for about 6 percent. About 20 percent of the tile makers also produce pottery,” said Alit. The raw material for the roof tiles-clay is a non renewable resource.

For this reason, Alit encourages the young people of Pejaten vil-lage to pursue other professions. ”Some residents have opened wooden craft and engine repair shops” he said. In the future, he hopes that the younger genera-tion can think of some other ma-terial that could be used to make the tiles. (kmb24)

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The two Hollywood stars re-prised their roles as male models Derek Zoolander and Hansel, im-mortalized in the hugely popular 2001 movie, on the catwalk for Valentino’s ready to wear fall/win-ter 2015-16 show.

The sequel will hit U.S. movie theaters on Feb. 12, 2016, Para-

mount Pictures said in a statement. It said Stiller and Wilson will again star in the movie, which will be written by Justin Theroux and di-rected by Stiller.

Stiller appeared in a dark electric blue suit-and-tie ensemble with a navy trenchcoat. Wil-son, sporting shaggy long

blond locks, strutted in a shiny light blue pajama print outfit with blind-ingly white sneakers, topped off with an eggshell blue trench coat.

It was such a surprise that the audience immediately whipped

out their phones to c a t c h t h e m o -

ment. (ap)

SYDNEY - Hollywood super-star Johnny Depp was jetting back to the United States Wednesday for surgery after injuring his hand in Australia where he is filming the latest “Pirates of the Carib-bean” instalment, reports said.

Depp, who stars as “Captain Jack Sparrow” in the Disney franchise and has been shooting on the Gold Coast tourist strip in Australia’s east, was hurt over the weekend but not while filming or on set, the Gold Coast Bulletin

said, citing undisclosed sources.A Disney spokesman con-

firmed the injury to the news-paper and said the film’s release remained scheduled for July 7, 2017.

US-based website Variety said he would need surgery. It was not known how he sustained the injury or how serious it was.

The Bulletin said Depp was flying to Los Angeles on a private jet and would return to Australia in two weeks.

It added that his absence would only “minimally” impact the production schedule of the film, which also stars Javier Bardem as villain Captain Salazar.

“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales” is the fifth instalment in the blockbuster series, which has raked in more than US$3.6 billion at the box office.

The reported injury came as local police said a man dressed as a pirate with a parrot on his

shoulder and carrying a knife tried to enter the movie set on Tuesday but was intercepted by a security guard.

Police said the man “was attempting to imitate a cast member by wearing a pirate suit”. He was being interviewed but no charg-es have yet been laid. (afp)

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Actors Ben Stiller, left, and Owen Wilson wear creations for Valentino’s ready-to-wear fall-winter 2015-2016 fashion collection presented during the Paris fashion week, in Paris, France, Tuesday, March 10, 2015.

Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson hit catwalk for ‘Zoolander 2’

PARIS — To deafening cheers, Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller stormed the Valentino catwalk during Paris Fashion Week Tuesday in a headline-grabbing stunt to announce the decision to make ‘Zoolander 2.’

Johnny Depp injures hand in Australia

Rainfall this March however has been on the decrease in North and West Buleleng, Nusa Penida and Klungkung, while some re-gions in Jembrana and Gianyar the dry season has already started.

Meanwhile, in other regions of Bali such as Bangli, Tabanan, Badung and Denpasar rains are expected to stop around April or May. “In Denpasar the dry season usually starts in April” said Rah-

mat. Broadly speaking, for about 75 percent of Bali, the dry season starts in April”.

By predicting the emergence of the dry season ahead of time, Head of the BBMKG Region III, I

Wayan Suardana, said that relevant institutions can apply specific policies. “Cropping patterns, for instance, should be planned in anticipation of water shortages,” he said.

In addition to education, rel-evant agencies are setting up early warning systems in anticipation of natural disasters such as floods,

landslides and falling trees.In order to alleviate the impact

of disasters such as tsunamis, si-rens have been install at some loca-tions, such as the Hardrock Kuta, Seminyak, Kedonganan, Benoa, BTDC and Sanur. “This year, we will also install sirens in Singaraja, and then in Tabanan and Serangan as well,” he said. (kmb42)

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Motorists passed during the high winds that occured in Denpasar, recently. March is a transitional month between rainy season and dry season and often brings extreme weather such as high and frontal winds.

Extreme weather predicted to occur in March

DENPASAR - March is a transitional month between rainy season and dry season and often brings extreme weather such as high and frontal winds. “Extreme weather frequently occurs this month,” said Rahmat Prasetia, Section Chief of BMKG Negara, on Tuesday.

MEXICO CITY — Mexican actress Stepha-nie Sigman will become the latest “Bond girl” when she appears in 007’s upcoming movie “Spectre.”

The official 007 website “Inside the World of James Bond” is announcing Sig-man’s role in the 24th Bond movie. It says she will play a character named “Estrella” opposite Daniel Craig as Bond.

Sigman starred in the award-winning 2011 Mexican film “Miss Bala,” about a beauty pageant contestant involved with drug traffickers.

Linda Christian, the Hollywood starlet of the 1940s who was born in Mexico, was arguably the first Bond girl. In 1954 she starred as James Bond’s love interest in the television adaptation of the novel Casino Royale. Christian died in 2011 at the age of 87.

Nicaraguan-American actress Bar-bara Carrera appeared as Fatima Blush in 1984’s Never Say Never Again. (ap)

Mexican actress Stephanie Sigman to be latest ‘Bond girl’

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