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A statement Sunday from the Ministry of Transport said Ma-laysia had received the images from “French authorities showing potential objects in the vicinity of the southern corridor.”

That is thought to be close to an area of the Indian Ocean where Australia and China have also had satellites capture images of objects that could be debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which went missing March 8 with 239 people on board.

Air and sea searches since Thurs-day in a remote area of the southern Indian Ocean to determine whether

the objects were from the Malaysia jet have been unsuccessful.

Meanwhile, more planes joined the search Sunday of a remote patch of the southern Indian Ocean in hopes of finding answers to the fate of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, after China released a satellite image showing a large object float-ing in the search zone.

The desolate area in the Indian Ocean is about 2,500 kilometers (1,550 miles) southwest of Perth, Australia, where three days of search-ing for similar images from another satellite that emerged earlier in the week have produced no results.

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority, which is coordinating the operation from the country’s western coast, said it refined the search based on the latest clue from the Chinese satellite showing an object that appeared to be 22 meters (72 feet) by 13 meters (43 feet). It said the object’s position also fell within Saturday’s search area but it had not been sighted.

Sunday’s search involving eight aircraft has been split into two areas within the same proximity covering 59,000 square kilometers (22,800 square miles). These areas have been determined by drift modelling, the AMSA said.

Despite the frustrating lack of answers, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott was upbeat.

“Obviously we have now had a number of very credible leads

and there is increasing hope — no more than hope, no more than hope — that we might be on the road to discovering what did happen to this ill-fated aircraft,” Abbott told reporters in Papua New Guinea.

Malaysian Defense Minister His-hammuddin Hussein put a message on his Twitter account Sunday asking those in churches around the country to offer a “prayer please” for the pas-sengers and crew on Fight 370.

More than 300 Malaysian cy-cling enthusiasts rode their bikes to the Kuala Lumpur airport to remember the people onboard the jet. The cyclists decorated the bikes with small Malaysian flags and stickers that read “Pray for MH370.”

Seven planes left a base near Perth, where an intense wind was blowing, for a four-hour journey

to the search region, the safety authority said. One more will fly out later. The HMAS Success, an Australian navy supply ship, is also taking part.

A cold front was forecast to move through the region later Sunday, which could bring clouds and wind, further hampering efforts to locate any debris thought to be from the plane.

The latest satellite image is another clue in the baffling search for Flight 370, which dropped off air traffic control screens March 8 over the Gulf of Thailand with 239 people on board.

“China hopes that these data will be helpful for searching and rescuing efforts,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said in a statement.

France has images of possible jet debris

Associated Press

KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia says France has satellite images of objects that could be from a passenger jet that went missing more than two weeks ago.

AP Photo/Rob Griffith

Two Chinese Ilyushin IL-76s aircraft sit on the tarmac at RAAF Pearce base ready to join the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in Perth, Australia, Sunday, March 23, 2014. More planes were joining the search Sunday of a remote patch of the southern Indian Ocean in hopes of finding answers to the fate of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, after China released a satellite image showing a large object floating in the search zone.

“The first time I read it, I got scared,” the director says. “I thought, ‘What if I’m not good enough to get on the boat?’” It’s an altogether unlikely project: a $130 million Bible-based studio film made by a widely respected filmmaker (“Black Swan,” ‘’Requiem for a Dream”) few would have pegged as a modern-day DeMille. In the lead-up to its March 28th release, “Noah” has been flooded by controversy, with some religious con-servatives claiming it isn’t literal enough to the Old Testament and that Noah has been inaccurately made, as Aronofsky has called him, “the first environmentalist.”

“Noah” is a culmination of the shift brought on by Mel Gibson’s indepen-dently produced “The Passion of the Christ,” which awakened Hollywood with its unforeseen $612 million box of-fice haul in 2004. In the time since, Hol-lywood has carefully developed closer ties to faith-based communities, (Sony and 20th Century Fox have set up faith-based studios targeting evangelicals).

Yet the debate about “Noah” proves that it can be tricky to satisfy both believers and non-believers, and that

finding the right intersection of art, commerce and religion is a task loaded with as much risk as potential reward. A lot is at stake, and not just for “Noah” and distributor Paramount Pictures. In December, Fox will release Ridley Scott’s “Exodus,” starring Christian Bale as Moses.

On the heels of the recently re-leased “Son of God,” the religious drama “God’s Not Dead” opened Friday and Sony is releas-ing the less straight-forwardly Biblical “Heaven Is for Real” ahead of Easter next month. The studio is also developing a vampire twist on Cain and Able with Will Smith. In Li-onsgate’s pipeline is a Mary Magdalene film, hyped as a pre-quel to “The Passion of the Christ” and co-produced by mega-

church pastor Joel Osteen.When Jonathan Boch started his com-

pany Grace Hill Media in 2000 to consult Hollywood studios on reaching the faith community, the two “really didn’t know each other,” he says. Since then, films like “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” and “The Blind Side” have benefited from outreach to churchgoers.

Associated Press Writer

LONDON — In a high-profile case of mistaken identity by a Premier League referee, the wrong Arsenal player was sent off during Saturday’s 6-0 loss at Chelsea — adding a farcical element to a one-sided encounter between the two title rivals. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain blatant-ly handled in the penalty area in the 15th minute, making a diving save to tip away Eden Hazard’s shot when Arsenal was al-ready 2-0 down. But Oxlade-Chamberlain escaped any sanction and referee Andre Marriner instead sent off defender Kieran Gibbs for no obvious reason.

Oxlade-Chamberlain was seen saying “it was me” to Marriner but the referee ignored protests, while his assistants also failed to spot the mistake. Marriner later admitted he made a mistake via a state-ment from the Premier League referees’ body, with officials prevented from speak-ing publicly to the media.

“Andre is an experienced referee and is obviously disappointed that an error of mistaken identity was made in this case,” Professional Game Match Officials said in a statement. “Incidents of mistaken iden-

tity are very rare and are often the result of a number of different technical factors. “Whilst this was a difficult decision Andre is disappointed that he failed to identify the correct player. He expressed his disap-pointment to Arsenal when he was made aware of the issue.”

Hazard scored from the resulting penalty spot and three more goals followed for the hosts as Arsenal was consigned to one of its heaviest losses in manager Arsene Wenger’s 1,000th match in charge. Technology is only used in the Premier League to rule on disputed goals, but Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho called for referees to be allowed to base decisions on video replays.

“The sending off is a big ammunition for people like me that thinks that one little screen in front of the fourth official is a big help against these kinds of mis-takes,” Mourinho said.

European football’s governing body quickly used the incident by Marriner to argue that the Premier League should adopt its five-official system. An extra official is placed behind each goal in Champions League and Europa League matches after UEFA President Michel Platini rejected the use of technology.

AP Photo/Alastair Grant

Referee Andre Marriner, in grey, sends off Arsenal’s Kieran Gibbs, left, during their English Premier League soccer match between Chelsea and Arsenal at Stamford Bridge stadium in London Saturday, March 22 2014.

Referee sends off wrong Arsenal player at Chelsea

‘Noah,’ revival of Bible epics, finds rough seas

AP Photo/Paramount Pictures, Niko Tavernise

This image released by Paramount Pictures shows Rus-sell Crowe as Noah in a scene from the film, “Noah.”


NEW YORK — In the beginning of their work together on “Noah,” director Darren Aronofsky made Russell Crowe a promise: “I’ll never shoot you on a houseboat in a robe and sandals with two giraffes popping up behind you.” Decades after Cecil B. DeMille’s “The Ten Commandments” and “Ben-Hur,” Aronofsky has renewed the tradition of the studio-made, mass-audience Bible epic, albeit as a distinctly darker parable about sin, justice and mercy. While much of his “Noah” is true to Scripture, it’s nothing like the picture-book version many encounter as children.

World leaders gather for Hague nuclear summit

Japan’s biggest slum not on maps or in film fest

Rooney double gives Man United 2-0 win at West Ham

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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.

Balinese Temple Ceremony


Calendar Event for March 5 through May 21, 2014

5 Mar Hari Urip 6 Mar Hari Patetegan7 Mar Pengeradanan Pura Dadia Agung Pasek Kabayan Penebel Tabanan

8 Mar Saraswati Pura Pasek tangkas Gempinis Dalang TabananPura Pasek Gelgel Sayan AbiansemalPura Watu Gunung BimaPura Agung Jagat Karana SurabayaPura Aditya Jaya JakartaPura Pemaksan Banyuning TimurPura Agung Wira Loka Cimahi Jawa Barat

9 Mar Hari Banyu Pinaruh 10 Mar Soma ribek Pura Jati JembranaPura Kawitan Bayu Gaiyang BangliTirta Wening SurabayaPura Desa Lingga Wana Abang Karangasem

11 Mar Sabuh Mas12 Mar Hari Pagerwesi Pura Labang Sindu JiwaUbudPura Kehen BangliPura Wira Bhuana Magelang Jawa tengahPura Padang Sakti Denpasar TimurPura Payogan Agung Ketewel GianyarPura Gaduh Pangiasan Dauh Puri DenpasarPura Masceti Tampak SiringPura Dalem Ularan DenpasarPura Siwa Penebel TabananPura Luhur Sliki BanyuwangiPura Gunung Lebah UbudPura Puseh Sukawati

15 Mar Purnama Sasih Kesanga Pura Nataran Sasih Pejeng GianyarPura Bukit Mentik Gunung lebah Batur Kintamani

17 Mar Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan 22 Mar Tumpek Landep Pura Mutering Jagat Dalem Sidakarya

DenpasarPura Agung Pasek TabananPura Pasek Tangkas TabananPura Kerta Banyuning BulelengPura Dalem Tenggaling Singapadu GianyarPura Bhujangga JembranaPura Dalem pingit TegalalangPura Penataran Pande Pandean MengwiPura Ida Ratu Pande BesakihPura Penataran AGung TulikupPura Kumuda Saraswati UbudPura Batur Arya Tabanan

23 Mar radite Umanis Ukir Sanggah Gede Dukuh Segening Tegal Tugu Gianyar

26 Mar Buda Cemeng Ukir Pura Pajenengan Kawitan Arya Gelgel KelungkungPura Pasar Agung BesakihPura Pasek Bendesa Legian Kuta BadungPura Gde Gunung Agung Munggu BadungPura Puseh Bebalang BangliPura Dalem Peruncak BadungPura Pasek Bendesa Hyang Krobokan BadungPura Kereban Langit Mengwi Badung

28 Mar Melasti Pakiyisan Ke Segara Pura Pasek Gelgel Kukuh Marga

30 Mar Tilem Kesanga Tawur Agung 31 Mar Hari raya Nyepi 1 May Buda Kajeng Kliwon Enyitan 2 May Bhatara Sri Ida Ratu Geng BesakihPura Penataran Agung BesakihIda Ratu Raja Puraus BesakihMerajan Saloding Besakih

6 May Anggara Kasih Juluwangi Pura Thirta Harum Tegal Wangi BangliPura Baratan BaturitiPura Batu Klotok Klungkung

Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Wanasari TabananPura Ibu Wanagiri Selemadeg TabananPura Manik Bingin Dukuh Sidemen

7 May Pura Penataran Gana Bebalang BangliPura Dalem Gede Pande BangliPura Puncak Sari Sangeh Abian SemalPura Puseh Penegil Dharma Kubu Tam-bahan BangliPura Dalem Maya Blahbatuh GianyarPura Linggih Betara Kayu Selem Penataran Agung Besakih

13 May Purnama Sasih Jiyestha Pura Dwija Warsa MalangPura Pucak Tinggah Angsri BaturitiPura Kawitan Luhur Bhujangga Jati Lu-wih PenebelPura Kawitan Batur Pande Tonja Tonja DenpasarPura Penataran Agung Sidemen Karan-gasemPura Maospahit Grenceng Denpasar

15 May Sugihan Jawa Pura Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Tang-kas KlungkungPura Siang Kangin Peninjoan Tembuku BangliPura Ida Ratu Mas Penataran Agung BesakihPura Ida Bhatara Bang Tulus Besakih

16 May Sugihan Bali Dan Kajeng Kliwon 18 May Penyekeban 19 May Penyajaan Galungan 20 May Penampahan Galungan21 May Hari raya Galungan Pura Wakika Kupang NTTPura Agung Girinatha Sumbawa Besar NTBPura Dukuh Sakti Dukuh Kediri Ta-bananPura Atambuananta Kutamba NTTPura Webananta Kupang NTTPura Giripati Mulawarman PontianakPura Mustika Dharma Cijantung Jakarta Timur

Sofitel, the only worldwide French luxury hotel brand launched its innovative Wine Dinner event aimed at highlighting its rich variety of French vintage wines. Held at the hotel’s Cut, Catch, Cucina (CCC) restaurant, the event saw guests treated to a world-class five courses set menu. Our in-house French wine experts at Sofitel Bali Nusa Dua Beach Resort had personally handpicked a selection of rare French wines. The wine list was specially tailored with prestigious French vineyard collection including Chateau Ducru’s Beaucaillou exclusive from 1982, 1990 and 2001, Croix de Beaucaillou 2003 and Chateau Lalande’s Borie 2004.

“We had prioritized our exceptional wine collection over more conventional choices already offered in different Sofitel locations and countries. As the cus-tomer glanced down our Sofitel favorites list, they found themselves transported to France where it would be impossible to resist the pleasure of tasting our wines amidst a candle lit dinner,” stated the release.

The dinner, prepared by Executive Chef Daine Gilbert, a skilled and qualified Australian-born food artisan, and his culinary team. Chef Daine remarked taste-fully, “The event is sure to provide an incredible epicurean experience, especially for the wine enthusiast.”

The elegant surroundings at Sofitel Bali Nusa Dua Beach Resort provided the perfect setting for an evening of tasteful delight and an exceptionally elite dining experience. The cocktail reception began promptly at 5.00 PM. At just IDR1,299,000++ this dinner was sure to please even the most criti-cal oenophile.

IBP/Courtesy of Sofitel

Sofitel present Wine dinnerIBP

NUSA DUA - An evening of exclusivity lied in store for Bali’s guests on March 14th 2014 when the Sofitel Bali Nusa Dua Beach Resort hosted its inaugural Chateau Ducru-Beaucaillou Domains Borie Wine Dinner.

“The prayer was based on our belief that removal of the Vishnu Murti statue is feared to have a negative impact on our residents,” said the Chief of Kediri customary village, AA Ngurah Panji Wisnu.

He also added that in the prayers at this time, villagers also present-ed guru piduka oblations symbolizing the apology if there were any mistakes, so the villagers could be kept away from any disasters.

“Hopefully, what we have carried out today can become a consid-eration for the local government to restore the Vishnu Murti statue to the original place,” he explained.

On that occasion, he reiterated that in this case his party was not in the capacity to support or reject, but everything having been un-dertaken was solely to pray for safety and avoid disasters.

“We deliberately restrict the residents participating in the worship activity at this time. They are only the representatives of each hamlet so as not to interfere with the traffic flows,” he said.

Related to this matter, he also hoped this issue should not be overextended so that it would not turn ambiguous and become a prolonged polemic. (kmb28)

Bali PostMANGUPURA - Friction in society

in the ogoh-ogoh (papier mâché demon) parade on Pengrupukan Day potentially oc-curs. It can happen if the ogoh-ogoh parade is infiltrated by political interests ahead of the legislative election. Based on this consideration, the regent of Badung issued a circular which urged the public to abolish the ogoh-ogoh parade.

Spokesperson of Badung Regional Secre-tariat, AA Raka Yuda, revealed on Saturday (Mar 22) that in the circular of the Badung regent related to the Nyepi Day of Caka Year 1936 was mentioned that ogoh-ogoh should be abolished. It was based on con-sideration that the ogoh-ogoh itself was not the paraphernalia having close relation to the implementation of the Tawur Kesanga and Pengrupukan.

Besides, in order to implement the Pengerupukan and maintain the secure and conducive atmosphere, it was not allowed

to conduct the activities resulting in loud noises, explosions and the like. Related to the series of the Nyepi Day, Regent Gde Agung asked the Hindus to carry out the Catur Brata Penyepian (four abstinences) as well as possible according to the Hindu teachings.

In fact, the appeal not to implement the ogoh-ogoh parade could not dampen the creativity of younger generation. As proof, some areas in Badung such as Kuta remained to organize the ogoh-ogoh parade this year.

Responding to that matter, Raka Yuda asserted that Badung government did not prohibit the implementation of ogoh-ogoh parade. Even, the circular had firmly ex-pressed if it was only an appeal. “Ogoh-ogoh may be held provided that there is a security guarantee from the local customary village in coordination with relevant secu-rity forces. The ogoh-ogoh cannot be ridden with political interests,” he said. (kmb25)

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The residents of Kediri pray on the intersection during Tumpek Landep celebration

To invoke safety, Kediri residents worship at central intersectionBali Post

TABANAN - Coinciding with the Tumpek Landep feast, hundreds of villagers of Kediri, Tabanan, consisting of seven hamlets organized a ritual prayer at the catus pata or central intersection of Kediri, Saturday morning (Mar 22). This worship was to invoke in order that all residents of Kediri could be bestowed with wellbeing and kept away from all kinds of danger that could possibly arise after the removal of the vishnu Murti statue.

Vulnerably ridden by political interestsBadung regent urged not to hold ogoh-ogoh parade

IBP/File

One of the ogoh-ogoh made by the Hindus

3Monday, March 24, 201414 InternationalInternational Bali NewsLifestyle Monday, March 24, 2014

When 89-year-old Stella Peshlakai Smith dies, her residency permit dies with her, ending forever the Navajo presence at Wupatki. The Peshlakais have vowed to fight for the land sur-rounded by the Little Colorado River valley, snow-capped mountains and towering mesas, where their sheep once grazed freely. Support for the family is mounting among state and tribal officials, but it’s up to Congress to decide whether they can stay.

“This family has had a home-stead there for generations and generations, years, and we want that to be made right,” Navajo Nation lawmaker Walter Phelps said. Smith estimates that dozens of extended members of her family would move back if given the chance.

An exhibit at the Wupatki visi-tors center highlights the struggle


AMSTERDAM — A giraffe gave a lick to a dying man who asked as a last wish to be taken to Blijdorp Zoo in Rotterdam, Netherlands, where he had done odd jobs for 25 years.

Mario Eijs, who is men-tally disabled, had developed a brain tumor and had dif-ficulty walking or speaking. He wanted to pay a final visit to the co-workers and animals he loved.

The Stichting Ambulance Wens offers free transport to terminally ill patients.

Several giraffes became curious when Eijs was brought to their inside enclosure on March 19.

“Mario got a lick on his nose after a lot of snuffles,” Foundation worker Olaf Exoo said in a written summary of the day.

Exoo said it was “a last greeting to each other that gave everybody watching goose bumps.”

AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca

This photo taken March 10, 2014, shows a sign marking the entrance of Wupatki National Monument in northern Arizona. The National Park Service, which manages the monument, is at odds with a Navajo family pursuing residency in the vast expanse of grassland and pueblo ruins.

Navajo woman family’s last link to monument landAssociated Press Writer

WUPATKI NATIONAL MONUMENT, Arizona — Before an expanse of grassland and pueblo ruins in northern Arizona was declared a national monument, it was home to hundreds of Navajos whose ancestors returned to settle the area after a forced march to an eastern New Mexico internment camp. Slowly, the Navajo families left Wupatki National Monument too, either voluntarily or under pressure by the National Park Service, which sought to eliminate private use of the public land it managed. Only one Navajo woman remains.

between the Peshlakais and the Park Service, and hints at the broader story of American Indian ancestral lands across the country that have become public property.

One 1970 letter on display is from the Park Service to a former U.S. senator from Arizona. It says: “At no time have the Navajos who grazed within the monument had any title in the land. ... In the absence of appropriate legislation, these lands could not be surren-dered to the Peshlakai family. We believe such legislation would not be in the public interest.”

It’s the same position that monu-ment Superintendent Kayci Cook Collins takes today. She said tribal members connected to Wupatki are able to conduct ceremonies there, and the Peshlakai family can visit

Smith’s homestead. But reserving property for the Peshlakais could invite other tribes, whose ancestors built pueblos and traded goods at

Wupatki, to lay claim to the land.“In general, units of the National

Park Service are not managed to hold private residences on public

land,” she said. “The situation the National Park Service tried to be sensitive to does not exist for the other families.”

Giraffe licks dying zoo worker

AP Photo/Stichting Ambulance Wens

This photo released Saturday March 22, 2014 by Stichting Ambulance Wens or Ambu-lance Wish Foundation shows a giraffe at Blijdorp Zoo in Rot-terdam giving a lick to terminal-ly ill Mario Eijs on Wednesday March 19, 2014 .

“The head of state during the visit met with families of national heroes in Bali. They met them in Taman Punjaan Bangsa (TPB) Park of the Margarana National Heroes Cemetery, Marge village, Tabanan District,” Energy and Mineral Re-sources Minister Jero Wacik said here on Sunday.

He earlier inspected preparations made by various elements in Marga-rana Heroes’ Cemetery Park to wel-come the head of state in the location, some 27 km northwest of Denpasar, provincial capital of Bali.

AntaraBADUNG - The general chairperson

of the Indonesia Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP), Megawati Soekarnopu-tri, has revealed her reason for choosing Joko Widodo (Jokowi) as the party’s presidential candidate on Saturday.

“Why I chose Jokowi to receive the mandate to run for president is because Jokowi is not only popular, but also he works hard, is sincere, committed and humble,” she said in her speech at an elec-tion campaign rally in Badung, Bali.

She added that she had monitored him and his style of leadership since he was the mayor of Solo, and later governor of Jakarta.

She said Jokowi is a hard worker and has worked sincerely for the people and his region, and is humble and genuine in his behavior, she said.

“Because of these qualities, Jokowi has become well-known in various regions in Indonesia. He has become popular not because he has conducted image building, but because of his character,” she said.

The former president, meanwhile, expressed optimism that Indonesia could become a great country, in view of its hu-man, as well as natural resources.

She said it was not easy to become an Indonesian leader because “a leader is not only a president, but also a figure who has a conscience, can provide pro-tection, is just and honest. That is what I am looking for.”

Megawati said a leader must also have a commitment to improving the welfare of the people and care about them.

She admitted she had previously made an inventory of candidates, but had never found the right one before the “skinny” emerged.

“Although he is skinny, he is actually strong like a bull, and that one is Jokowi,” she said.

She said she once asked him if he would be willing to be a president. He answered, “If you assign me, I am ready. I am just a party worker.”

President Yudhoyono visits BaliAntara

TABANAN - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, accompanied by First Lady Ani Yud-hoyono and a number of ministers, paid a working visit to the tourist resort province of Bali on Sunday.

During his visit to Bali, Yud-hoyono will also be awarded with the Main Honorable Guest “Seme-ton Tamu Utama” Tile of Pekraman village in Tampaksiring, Gianyar District.

The minister stressed the Presi-dent arrived in Tabanan not for a campaign but as a head of state visiting the Margarana Heroes’ Cemetery in the village of Marga-rana, Tabanan.

With the visit, Yudhoyono is the only Indonesian president who has so far visited the heroes cemetery

where national hero I Gusti Ngurah Rai and other heroes were buried.

“This is an extraordinary visit that could be recorded in history because the President made it on the sidelines of his business. The President allocated time to meet the families of heroes and veterans and the veterans who are still alive,” Jero Wacik said.

In the meantime, the Indonesian Defense Forces and Regional Police cooperated in providing security during President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s visit.

“It should not happen that the President’s visit is abused by cer-tain parties to create an undesired situation,” Chief of the Udayana Military Command IX Maj. Gen. Wisnu Bawa Tenaya said after lead-ing a roll-call here on Saturday.

He noted that security measures must be tightened because legisla-tive campaigns were underway for the upcoming April 9 legislative elections.

The regional military com-mander stressed that personnel involved in securing the area must understand the standard security procedures for the president, based on their respective tasks.

Currently, a total of 12 national political parties are conducting a

21-day campaign through April 5 for the upcoming legislative elec-tions on April 9, 2014.

The national parties include the National Democratic Party (Nasdem), the National Awaken-ing Party (PKB), the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), the Indonesian Democratic Party Struggle (PDIP), the Golkar Party (Golkar), and the Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra).

The line-up also includes the Democratic Party (Demokrat), the National Mandate Party (PAN), the United Development Party (PPP), the People’s Conscience Party (Hanura), the Crescent Star Party (PBB) and the Indonesian Justice and Unity Party (PKPI).

Megawati reveals reasons for picking Jokowi

ANTARA FOTO/Nyoman Budhiana

Candidate president from Indonesia Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP), Joko Widodo, spending his time at Gianyar traditional market on Sunday, March 23. The general chairperson of the Indonesia Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP), Megawati Soekarnoputri, has revealed her reason for choosing Joko Widodo (Jokowi) as the party’s presidential can-didate.

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Russian President Vladimir Pu-tin is not attending, instead sending Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who is expected to hold talks with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. But experts say frantic diplomacy focused on Ukraine shouldn’t divert from the goal of better security of nuclear material.

“International attention can turn in a moment,” said Deepti Choubey, a senior director at the non-government Nuclear Threat Initiative. “The attentions of terror-ists do not.”

Delegations from 53 countries, including the leaders of the U.S., China and Japan, have started to ar-rive in the Hague. They will meet to negotiate on reducing and securing supplies, and keeping them out of terrorists’ hands. The G-7 includes the U.S., Britain, Germany, Japan, France, Italy and Canada. Notable absentees from the summit are

North Korea and Iran, excluded by mutual consent.

The summit is the third since US President Barack Obama launched the series in 2009 shortly after tak-ing office, saying that reducing the risk of a terrorist attack with either a nuclear weapon or a “dirty bomb” was one of his most important in-ternational policy goals.

Because countries usually regard protecting nuclear weapons and facilities as a confidential sovereign matter, the summits center on indi-vidual commitments by participants and conclude with a non-binding accord. Still, they already have reached tangible results.

The number of countries that possess enough highly enriched uranium or plutonium to make a bomb has fallen steadily, from 39 before the first conference in Wash-ington in 2010 to 25 at the start of the Hague summit.


NEW DELHI — Who would have expected a toilet to one day filter water, charge a cellphone or create charcoal to combat climate change? These are lofty ambitions beyond what most of the world’s 2.5 billion people with no access to modern sanitation would expect. Yet, scientists and toilet innovators around the world say these are exactly the sort of goals needed to improve global public health amid challenges such as poverty, water scarcity and urban growth.

Scientists who accepted the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s challenge to reinvent the toilet showcased their inventions in the Indian capital Saturday. The primary goal: to sanitize waste, use minimal water or electricity, and produce a usable product at low cost. The World Bank estimates the annual global cost of poor sanitation at $260 billion, including loss of life, missed work, medical bills and other related fac-tors. India alone accounts for $54 billion - more than the entire GDP of Kenya or Costa Rica.

India is by far the worst culprit, with more than 640 million people defecating in the open and producing a stunning 72,000 tons of human waste each day - the equivalent weight of almost 10 Eiffel Towers or 1,800 humpback whales.

Pooping in public is so acceptable that many Indians will do it on sidewalks or in open fields. Gaze out the window of any Indian train and

face a line of bare bottoms doing their business on the tracks. Meanwhile, diarrheal diseases kill 700,000 children every year, most of which could have been prevented with better sanita-tion.

“In the West, such things are a nuisance, but people don’t lose their lives,” said Christopher Elias, president of global development at the Gates Foundation. “People don’t immediately realize the damage done by infections coming from human waste.”

India has been encouraging rural communi-ties to build toilets, and last year launched a $1.6 billion program to help. But building sanitation systems in developing countries is not easy. Flush toilets are not always an option. Many poor communities live in water-stressed areas. Others lack links to sewage pipes or treatment plants.

To be successful, scientists said, the designs being exhibited at Saturday’s Toilet Fair had to go beyond treating urine and feces as undesirable waste, and recognize them as profit-generating resources for electricity, fertilizer or fuel.

“Traditionally, people have gone into com-munities and said, ‘Let’s dig you a pit.’ That’s seen as condescension, a token that isn’t very helpful. After all, who is going to clean that pit?” said M. Sohail, professor of sustainable infrastructure at Loughborough University in the U.K.

World leaders gather for Hague nuclear summitAssociated Press Writer

AMSTERDAM — Nuclear terrorism is officially the main topic for world leaders at a two-day summit in the Netherlands starting Monday. In practice, the Ukraine crisis will likely overshadow those talks. The Nuclear Security Summit in the Hague will form the back-drop for an emergency meeting of Group of Seven leaders on Russia’s annexation of Crimea. It’s a confrontation between Russia and the West reminiscent of the Cold War.

AP Photo/Peter DejongChina’s President Xi Jinping, second left, his wife Peng Liyuan, left, Dutch King Willem Alexander, center, Queen Maxima, second right, and Princess Beatrix, right, pose for the official photo at the royal palace in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Saturday March 22, 2014.

Toilet tech fair tackles global sanitation woes

AP Photo/Tsering TopgyalIn this Friday, March 21, 2014 photo, an exhibitor from Loughborough University demonstrates the use of a toilet during Reinvent The Toilet Fair in New Delhi, India. Scientists who accepted the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s challenge to reinvent the toilet showcased their inventions in the Indian capital Saturday.

Bali Post

SEMARAPURA - Low interest of people in pursuing the agricultur-al sector makes the effort to raise it increasingly difficult, moreover, for those living in the areas such as the Islands of Nusa Penida, Klungkung. Agriculture has been synonymous with poverty. Finally, the majority of local residents choose to specu-late by jointing the resettlement program to other region.

Many parties judge that Bali and Klungkung in particular has not been able to get out of the clas-sical problems of the agricultural sector. According to a community leader of Nusa Penida who has been successful after wandering, Ketut Pesta, Friday (Mar 21), it was very difficult to build the agriculture in Nusa Penida. Actually, the majority of local residents were previously

seasonal farmers, so their food reserves were not much disturbed. However, lately the people espe-cially those living in the upper region had difficulty to obtain basic foodstuff in dry season.

A number of factors made it hard for the community of Nusa Penida to build farming. One of them, he explained, was the soil fertility. Soil fertility level in Nusa Penida was generally very low as having very thin layer of soil. “If in the other region we know the term ‘stony soil,’ in Nusa Penida it is more ap-propriately called ‘earthy stone,’” he said.

Another factor was the season, where the dry season was longer than the wet season. With this con-dition, farmers were increasingly difficult to carry out cultivation. Actually, the local farming was only powered by rainwater, but the

rainfall in Nusa Penida was even relatively lower than in other areas. So, when observed, farmers were only able to grow crops once a year at the beginning of rainy season.

The other factor was the very low public knowledge about the intensification of dry land. So, he affirmed that it required the role of government through relevant agencies to provide education to the community. Moreover, there had been an Agricultural Extension Center in Nusa Penida. The institu-tions should be utilized in order to agriculture in Nusa Penida would not be increasingly abandoned. Anyway, a new region had better food security when people were able to feed themselves. It should be emphasized in order to get the attention from the various elements of society to care about the fate of agriculture and the people getting

involved in it.No less important was the needs

to rethink about the other types of food that could be developed and estimated to meet the food needs of the local area. Aside from plant-ing corn, cassava or the like, it was required a scientific study regarding the other types of plants that could provide food security and economic benefits. If they could meet their self-consumption, then it was the time to think about the distribution or marketing of the agricultural products. The success in produc-tion without being poised with distribution and marketing would be in vain.

Another figure, I Gede Tanjung, also concerned about the issue. The image of agriculture being synonymous with poverty should be changed. He observed that government’s role was minimal in

building the agriculture and food security in Nusa Penida. The Unit Head of Agriculture, Plantation and Forestry in Nusa Penida, I Wayan Kanca, said that to resolve the prob-lems of agriculture and improve the food security, his party affirmed the importance of the development of agricultural business through intensive and efficient cultivation techniques. According to him, this pattern was more promising high production at low cost such as the cultivation of hybrid and Bali proma coconut, rambutan and ca-shew nut, dragon fruit, pineapple, grapefruit, tangerines and bananas. Meanwhile, crops remained to be-come priority in which he said that government had provided maize composite seeds to an area of ap-proximately 3,666 hectares and cultivation of peanuts at an area of 1,954 hectares. (kmb31)

Bali Post

NEGARA - Since the past month, residents in the surrounding area of Tuwed petrol station, precisely Munduk Bayur Hamlet, has fretted. Their drinking water obtained from the well smells gasoline. They guess their well water has been con-taminated by petrol station suspected to have a leakage so that it seeps into the well of residents.

Since then, they are forced to purchase refill mineral water in gallon packaging to meet the water needs for drinking and cooking. Actu-ally they have submitted the complaint to local hamlet head and headman of Tuwed, Ketut Coblos. Nasirin, 45, a local resident, said that after the report, the subdistrict head of Melaya, Putu Eka Suarnama, with the personnel of Municipal Police had checked the wells and taken a sample of the well water.

The house of Nasirin is not far from the petrol station. He knew the water of his well had the smell of gasoline since last February. Another resident, Habibi, had an artesian well and claimed if his well was also contaminated by gasoline. Even, the smell was more pungent and had been happening since two months ago. The water used for bathing smelt like a mixture of oil. Finally, they no longer used it.

On the other hand, the headman of Tuwed, Ketut Coblos, confirmed the report from the residents living around the petrol station. The village authority had also taken the sample of well water for examination. On the other hand, the manager of Tuwed petrol station, Iskandar, denied if the well water was contaminated by the petrol station. (kmb26)

Synonymous with povertyHard to build agriculture in Nusa Penida

Tuwed residents complain about gasoline-smelling water

IBP/fileThe resident of Munduk Bayur Hamlet is showing the well contaminated by petrol

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AHMEDABAD — British supermarket giant Tesco announced a joint venture in India on Friday with a company owned by Tata Group to invest in a chain of grocery and household goods stores. It is the first multinational entry into India’s vast but underserved supermarket sector since the country allowed such investment in 2012.

Tesco said in a statement it would invest 85 million pounds ($140 million) to take a 50 percent share of Tata-owned Trent Hypermarket Ltd., which operates the Star Bazaar chain. It said the chain would operate 12 stores in southern and western India selling food and groceries, home and personal products, plus fashion and accessories.

Other major international multi-brand retailers have stayed out of India’s $400 billion market in retailing — despite its huge potential for growth with a population of 1.2 billion people who now shop mostly at small family-owned stores. Most have cited strict local-sourcing rules they say make doing business in India too difficult.

In a politically sensitive move, India last year gave the green light for international companies to open multi-brand retail stores, but to allay concerns about the impact on small traders and family-run shops, those companies must obtain 30 percent of their products from local small and medium-sized businesses.

The world’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart, promi-nently split from its Indian business partner last year and shelved plans to open its own stores, saying it could not meet the local sourcing rules and make a profit.

Tesco, Britain’s largest retailer by sales, focuses heavily on food and groceries that are easier to buy from small Indian suppliers. It has since 2008 been running a wholesale business to supply goods and technical knowledge to Trent Hypermarket.

The Tata Group, owner of Trent Hypermar-ket, is one of India’s largest and best-known conglomerates. Its more than 100 companies include Tata Motors, owner of the Jaguar-Land Rover brand; Tata Steel; Tata Consultancy Ser-vices; Tata Beverages, the maker of Tetley brand tea; and holdings in insurance, investment and telecommunications.

Proponents of opening up India’s retail mar-ket say easing foreign investment restrictions would give consumers more choice and spur spending in an economy which slowed last year to its weakest rate in 10 years after two decades of rapid growth. India first began opening up to foreign investment in the 1990s but advocates say those measures have gone as far as they can and more liberalization is needed to spark growth.

Single-brand retailers are now allowed full ownership of stores in India, and previously unavailable cosmetic brands as Body Shop and Clinique, food outlets like McDonald’s and Domino’s and fashion giants Mango and Zara have all opened stores.

Online news sites have been around for years, but in recent months the trend has gained momentum, defying predictions of a troubled media industry.

The latest was the relaunch of Fiv-eThirtyEight, headed by Nate Silver, a statistician and journalist who made his own headlines with his accurate prediction of the 2012 presidential election.

The site, which covers a range of news with a statistician’s eye, is backed by the

sports broadcaster ESPN, after Silver left The New York Times with his blog.

Also joining the fray was The Intercept, a news site backed by tech entrepreneur Pierre Omidyar with an editorial team led by Glenn Greenwald, the former Guardian reporter who broke news with documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.

Omidyar has pledged to invest $250 million in his First Look Media, which

includes a not-for-profit news operation and a separate technology arm for new media. The Washington Post’s popular “Wonkblog” columnist Ezra Klein mean-while left the newspaper to start a news website backed by Vox Media.

Yahoo wooed television news star Katie Couric and former New York Times tech writer David Pogue. And journalists at The Wall Street Journal-backed tech blog AllThingsD broke off in January to create Re/code, a separate website with support from Comcast’s NBCUniversal.

The new energy in Internet news comes as the entrenched news industry faces deepening financial woes, and the model for online profits remains unclear.

Tesco announces India entry

Online news attracts star power and big money

Cliff Schechtman, Portland Press Herald executive editor, left, and Steve Greenlee, managing editor, right, talk with Brian Robitaille, seated, on the copy desk/slot to discuss the next day’s front page in Portland, Maine on Tuesday, March 11, 2014. The news media is generating some big news of its own, as a growing number of star US journalists move online, bringing followers and financial backers with them.

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WASHINGTON - The news media is generating some big news of its own, as a growing number of star US journalists move online, bringing followers and finan-cial backers with them.

Antara

BADUNG - Among the favorite political parties to win a large vote in the upcoming legislative elec-tions, PDIP has set three goals for its national agenda.

“The most important thing for the future national leadership, is that they must be able to carry out three main agendas, namely

boosting state authority, economic growth and social harmony,” the Indonesia Democratic Party Struggle’s deputy secretary gen-eral, Hasto Krsitiyanto, said before a PDIP rally in Blahkiuh village here on Saturday, which was at-tended by PDIP chief Megawati Soekarnoputri.

He said the next national leader must be able to boost the authority

of the state, which has plummeted in recent years.

By increasing the state’s au-thority, the country’s sovereignty in the international world would be increased, he added.

Hasto said the next national leader must also be able to over-come economic issues, such as food, energy, and manpower prob-lems, while increasing economic

growth.He said PDIP viewed Indone-

sia’s economic growth as having only occurred at a macro-level, and has not yet resulted in im-provements in the welfare of com-mon people.

“The reality is that many people are still poor,” he said.

Hasto said the next leader must also be able to overcome

intolerance in the community, claiming the Indonesian people are no longer known as a friendly people.

“Conflicts among communities have often happened,” he said.

He noted that the next lead-er must be able to create unity throughout the country so people may live in harmony and with tolerance.

“However, to go beyond the performance of South Korea’s creative industrial development, Indonesia needs synergy and concerted efforts by the government, industrial players and other stakeholders to remove barriers such as fund-ing and market access as well as intellectual property rights,” MS Hidayat stated during the

inauguration of the Denpasar Design Center (DDC) on Friday.

“South Korea’s creative industry is leading in the world but we can catch up with it and step over if the relevant creative sectors help create opportunities,” the minister remarked.

He explained that funding sources which

could not yet be equitably accessed by businesses still constituted unresolved problems for creative industrial players and entrepreneurs in other small and medium-sized businesses (UKM).

In the meantime, when he was still a trade minister in January 2014, Gita Wirjawan once disclosed that about 60 percent of UKM in the country were still facing difficulties in having access to funding sources. In 2012, the creative industry contributed 6.69 percent to the Gross Domestic Products (GDP), or worth Rp573 trillion.

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DENPASAR - State Udayana University professor Dr I Wayan Windia said the sustainability of the traditional “subak” irrigation system in Bali would depend on farmers’ support and participa-tion.

“If the farmers are satisfied with it and hope to earn their livelihood from the agricultural sector, subak should be preserved as an integral part of Balinese cultural heritage,” Prof Windia, who is also the chair-man of the university’s Subak Re-search Center, stated.

He noted that subak, which has been in existence for the past 11 cen-turies, has now been recognized as part of the world’s cultural heritage. UNESCO has recognized subak as a cultural heritage icon as it is specific to Bali.

“It is a remarkable achievement,” he added.

Prof Windia called on the govern-ment and other concerned parties to support its preservation so that it will continue being recognized as a world heritage icon.

“If this is not done, we will lose an important part of Balinese culture, and this will affect all economic sectors in the region,” he remarked.

He said this would happen be-cause the performance of all eco-nomic sectors in Bali, especially tourism, depended on the popularity of the local culture.

He expressed concern that tour-ism had started cannibalizing the agricultural sector since it had grown far beyond the island’s capacity.

According to a SCETO (Societe Centrale pour l’equpeent Touristique Ouetre-Mer) study in 1985, Bali was only capable of accommodating 24 thousand star-rated hotel rooms, but now the number of international ho-tel rooms had reached 80 thousand, he added.

PDIP sets three main goals for national leadership

Subak’s sustainability depends on farmers

Indonesia to exceed South Korea’s creative industry

IBP/BP DocIndonesia’s performance in the creative industry can surpass that of South Korea in the coming five years, Industry Minister MS Hi-dayat stated.

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DENPASAR - Indonesia’s performance in the creative industry can surpass that of South Korea in the coming five years, Industry Minister MS Hidayat stated.

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The missing plane, which had been bound for Beijing, carried 153 Chinese passengers.

After about a week of confusion, Malaysian authorities said pings sent by the Boeing 777-200 for several hours after it disap-peared indicated that the plane ended up in one of two huge arcs: a northern corridor stretching from Malaysia to Central Asia, or a southern corridor that stretches toward Antarctica.

The discovery of the initial two objects by a satellite led several countries to send planes and ships to a stretch of the ocean south-west of Australia. But three days of searching have produced no confirmed signs of the plane.

One of the objects spotted in the earlier satellite imagery was described as 24 meters (almost 80 feet) in length and the other was 5 meters (15 feet).

In a statement on its website announcing China’s find, the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense did not explain why it took four days to release the infor-mation. But there was a similar delay in the release of the initial satellite images because experts needed time to examine them.

Two military planes from China have arrived in Perth, and the AMSA said they would join the search on Monday. They join Australian, New Zealand and U.S. aircraft. Japanese planes are also expected soon.

Even if both satellites detected the same object, it may be un-related to the plane. One possibility is that it could have fallen off a cargo vessel.

Because the search area is a four-hour flight from land, some of the planes can search for about only two hours before they must fly back. Others may be able to stay for up to five hours before heading back to the base.

The area where the objects were first identified by the Australian authorities is marked by strong currents and rough seas, and the ocean depth varies between 1,150 meters (3,770 feet) and 7,000 meters (23,000 feet).

Malaysian authorities have not ruled out any possible explana-tion for what happened to the jet, but have said the evidence so far suggests it was deliberately turned back across Malaysia to the Strait of Malacca, with its communications systems disabled. They are unsure what happened next.

Police are considering the possibilities of hijacking, sabotage, terrorism or issues related to the mental health of the pilots or anyone else on board.

Malaysia has also asked the U.S. for undersea surveillance equipment to help in the search.

Osaka officials asked Shingo Ota to remove scenes and lingo that identify the slum, on the grounds that it was insensitive to residents. “To me, what they were asking was a cover-up at-tempt to make this place non-existent,” he said in a recent interview.

This place is Kamagasaki, home to day laborers, the jobless and home-less, where one in three are on wel-fare. About 25,000 people live in this compact area, mostly single men who stay in free shelters or dozens of cheap dorms that charge as little as 800 yen ($8) a night.

The day starts early at the welfare-employment center, where hundreds of people line up for manual labor work, mostly with subcontractors of Japan’s construction giants. Those not picked stroll the backstreets aimlessly, queue for free meals or resort to cheap alcohol. In the evening, the homeless line up at the center to get tickets for the shelters.

“I’m jobless, for months,” said one 52-year-old resident who came

to Kamagasaki after losing his home in the 1995 Kobe earthquake. He gambled away his monthly welfare money of 70,000 yen ($700). “Now I’m doomed.”

Ota’s movie, “Fragile,” tells the story of a TV assistant director who takes off from his job one day after conflicts with his girlfriend and his colleague. He heads to Kamagasaki to make a film about a teenage boy, and whether success and wealth are necessary for happiness. But he quickly falls into trouble, and his plan unravels.

The full-length feature shows recognizable landmarks of the slum, such as a park known for both squat-ters and illegal garbage dumping and the center where men line up for jobs. It also shows the protagonist receiving an amphetamine injec-tion from a drug dealer operating in the slum. Ota says Osaka officials wanted those scenes and others deleted, as well as the slang words “doya” (cheap accommodations) and

“shabu” (stimulants).Osaka official Kazumitsu Oue said

the film festival organizers wanted to protect the area and its people from exposure to prejudice. “We felt that the film lacked consideration to the area and its people,” he said.

Ota says while living there to shoot the film for several weeks, his outsider’s impression of the slum as a poor, dangerous place changed and he began to regard the community — also known by the nickname Airin or “loving neighborhood” — and its inhabitants with more compassion. The scenes city officials objected to are needed to portray the different faces of the town, he said.

The city provided a 600,000 yen ($6,000) grant for the director on con-dition that it premieres at the Osaka film festival. Ota says he has offered to return the grant, but the city wanted him to keep it and not disclose details of the dispute to the media. The two sides are examining the dispute and seeking ways to explain it to the public.


SEATTLE — Rescue crews searched into the night for survivors from a massive mudslide in Washington state that killed at least three people, after hearing voices from the debris field pleading for help.

The slide of mud, trees and rocks happened Saturday morning. Several people, including an infant, were critically injured, and at least six houses were destroyed.

Snohomish County Fire District 21 Chief Travis Hots said at a news briefing that searchers weren’t giving up on finding more people.

“We have people who are yelling for our help, and we are going to take extreme risks,” Hots said. It wasn’t clear how many people might still be alive, he said.

The Snohomish County sheriff’s office reported that two people had been killed at the scene. Authorities later said one person who was rescued died at a hospital.

The injured included a 6-month-old boy, who was in critical condition at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.

Hospital spokeswoman Susan Gregg said two other victims were in critical condition — an 81-year-old man and a 58-year-old man — while a 37-year-old man was in serious condition.

Search for survivors continues in US mudslide

France...AP Photo/Mari Yamaguchi

In this Wednesday, March 5, 2014, a man stands by his shelter where he keeps his belongings in front of the welfare-employment center in Kamagasaki, Osaka, western Japan.

Japan’s biggest slum not on maps or in film festAssociated Press Writer

OSAKA, Japan — Japan’s biggest slum is visible just blocks from bustling restaurants and shops in Osaka, the country’s second-largest city. But it cannot be found on official maps. Nor did it appear in the recent Osaka Asian Film Festival, after the director of a new movie that is set in the area pulled it, accusing city organizers of censorship.

Defense Minister Purnomo Yus-giantoro said the incident at the Jakarta International Defense Dialogue was inappropriate and would be investi-gated. The marines wore name labels for Usman Haji Mohamed Ali and Harun Said, two commandos sent by Indonesia to carry out an attack in 1965 that killed three civilians and injured 33 others, as part of President Sukarno’s “confrontation” policy. Indonesia has named a warship after the two men, whom Singapore regards as terrorists.

Singapore’s delegation withdrew from the talks, which were held Wednesday and Thursday, and its diplomats protested to Indonesia’s Foreign Ministry and military. Yus-giantoro, however, said he was con-fident the incident would not affect bilateral relations.

“We have asked the navy to inves-tigate why that could happen because it was clearly inappropriate,” Yusgian-toro told reporters. Tensions between

wealthy, small Singapore and its giant and still-developing neighbor have flared in recent times over Indonesia’s naming of the warship — the KRI Usman Harun — after the two com-mandos who carried out the deadly bombing.

Singapore has branded the com-mandos, who were arrested and ex-ecuted a few years later, as terrorists, and says naming the warship after them reopened old wounds.

Indonesian officials have defended the ship’s naming as an internal affair. Navy spokesman Untung Suropati described the two marines as “heroes” who should serve as role models for young Indonesians.

“Usman and Harun are our heroes, and it was an international expo with a young generation of the military and students visiting,” he said.

“We need to show them we have great heroes in the hope that they can be role models for them.”

Singapore said a delegation from its

armed forces had pulled out of the Ja-karta International Defence Dialogue (JIDD) exhibition on Wednesday after learning of the stunt, while diplomats from its embassy in Jakarta have spoken with officials there “to express disappointment”. The two marines had been stationed at the navy’s stall at the JIDD dressed in vintage uniforms and purple berets, with “Usman” and “Harun” on their name tags.

Indonesia had already outraged Singapore last month by naming a newly refurbished navy frigate “Us-man Harun” in honour of the marines. The ship has been banned from Singa-porean ports and naval bases.

Relations between the two coun-tries hit a low point in the late 1990s after the fall of former dictator Su-harto, and his successor B.J. Habibie famously referred to the tiny city-state as a “little red dot” on the map. But ties have improved considerably in recent years, and Indonesia is now Singa-pore’s third largest trading partner.

AP Photo/ A.K. Hendratmo

Indonesian children perform a masked dance representing the ritual of scaring away evil spirits during Tlatah Bocah art festival in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia, Saturday, March 22, 2014. The festival was held annually to provide opportunity for children to stage traditional performance arts and learn about the values of their local cultures.

Associated Press

JAKARTA — Indonesian police arrested three suspected lslamic extremists after intercepting a bomb shipment that authorities said was intended to attack brothels.

Among those arrested last week was Ambo Intang, who was sought for his alleged involvement in the 2012 killings of two policemen in in the Central Sulawesi district of Poso, said national police spokesman Maj. Gen. Ronny F. Sompie.

An anti-terrorism police squad has earlier nabbed two other suspects. One of them was identified as Bambang Aribowo, who was arrested upon arrival at Jakarta’s airport.

Sompie said police intercepted a shipment containing two homemade bombs that was sent from East Java town of Trenggalek to Makassar. The bombs were to be used to attack brothels in the province, Sompie said.

Police said the group was led by Indonesia’s most wanted terrorist suspect, Abu Wardah Santoso. He is sought in connection with several attacks on Java island and Poso in Central Sulawesi province, where a Muslim-Christian conflict killed at least 1,000 people from 1998 to 2002. He also faces charges of running a terrorist training camp. It’s unclear whether Santoso was among those arrested.

Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation with a secular central government, has been battling terrorists since 2002, when militants linked to the Southeast Asian network Jemaah Islamiyah began attacking Western nightclubs, restaurants and embassies. Their mostly deadly at-tacks by far were at Bali nightclubs in 2002, killing 202 people, mostly foreign tourists.

More recent terror attacks in Indonesia have been less deadly, and have targeted security forces and local “infidels” instead of Westerners.

AntaraTANGERANG - The National Anti-Narcotic Agency (BNN) is con-

cerned that quite many Indonesian migrant workers have been used as drug couriers.

“There are still many Indonesian migrant workers (TKI) who have been used as drug couriers to help smuggle in illicit drugs to this country,” Senior Commissioner Sumirat Dwiyanto, a BNN spokesman, said here recently.

The migrant workers were given a lot of money for carrying the illicit drugs to Indonesia.

“Migrant workers who desperately need money to go home to Indonesia are usually the easy targets to illegally carry the drug packages,” he said.

The drugs were usually hidden in their luggage, under their clothes or inside their shoes.

The Soekarno-Hatta customs and excise officials recently detained 24 people for trying to smuggle in illicit drugs worth Rp6.9 billion.

They consisted of 12 Indonesians and 12 foreigners, Okto Irianto, the head of the Soekarno-Hatta customs and excise office, said on Friday.

The arrests were made during a special operation carried out from Febru-ary 25 to March 17, 2014. Some 4,182 grams of crystal methamphetamine and 20 “happy five” pills were seized during the operation.

Most of the nabbed Indonesians were migrant workers, he said. A UN report last year pointed to the role of transnational crime groups

in Indonesia’s meth trade and highlighted Hong Kong and Guangzhou as primary sources of illicit drugs and the precursor chemicals needed to pro-duce methamphetamine, South China Morning Post wrote.

The media reported recently that Hong Kong’s triads are targeting Indo-nesian migrant workers to smuggle drugs into the Southeast Asian nation.

Organized crime gangs from Hong Kong and southern China have long been key players in Indonesia’s illicit drugs market, but recent cases indicate they are diversifying tactics - and according to domestic helper rights groups - maids can be easy prey for drug rings looking for couriers.

Fresh row on “Usman - Harun”

Singapore outraged over 2 marines dressed as bombersAssociated Press/AFP

JAKARTA — Indonesia acknowledged Friday that two of its marines wore bombers’ names on their uniforms while on duty at international talks this week, an action that prompted the Singapore delegation to leave.

BNN concerned over use of workers as drug couriers

Police arrest 3 suspected militants

IBP

GIANYAR - Bali is a bijou is-land, but the content of traditional values, arts, history and culture is not as small as the area. Artistic heritage, history and culture almost

spread throughout the nine regen-cies and city existing on the Island of the Gods. The search on the

heritage, arts and cultural relics of this time is to Yeh Pulu Relief.

Relief of the ancient rock stone is located at the Bedulu (Bedahulu) Village, Blahbatuh Subdistrict, Gianyar Regency. Location to Tampaksiring and Kintamani is

only about 40 minutes drive from Denpasar City. The entrance to the tourist attraction of holy water is

not far from the main road east of Goa Gajah Temple, to the right, into the village street. Visitors should be careful because there are many road junctions without a clue heading for the object of Yeh Pulu Relief, or ask the way to local residents.

The monument in the form of relief becoming the main attrac-tion to tourists, especially foreign

tourists, was discovered in 1925 by a courtier or Ubud Royal fam-ily. The name was taken from the barrel (or container of rice in the past) located at the central axis of purified water nestling in the west of the relief. The word yeh in Balinese

language means water and pulu means a barrel.

The appeal of this monument is

not only because of the uniqueness of relief sculpture immortalized on the rock stone wall of the hill, but also due to the spread of rice field view along the two-hundred-meters and the sound of clinking water on the left-right path to loca-tion is always neatly trimmed and maintained sustainably, emanating a natural beauty.

With such a natural atmosphere, the clear and the sharpness of splashing water are always flow-ing along the trench making the ambience around this object really peaceful and enchanting. On that account, it is not mistaken if the niches (caves) in southern relief suspected as the hermitage of the last Balinese ancient King before the collapse of Bali to Majapahit administration in 1343.

Relief with magical nuance and meaningful is 25 meters long and 2 meters high. Many researches con-ducted by experts from home and overseas to recognize the implicit meaning behind the wall relief of the rock cliffs on the hills. As conse-quence, it drove many commentaries and analysis to uncover the mystery behind the veil of the true meaning of the relief. Overall, the theme of this story recounts the life in the for-est atmosphere and daily life in the ancient kingdom of Bali. In addition to the Balinese classical carvings, this monument also has niches of Bedahulu Royal Hermitage before his death against the army of the Majapahit kingdom in 1343 AD.

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The Sixers moved ahead of the Vancouver Grizzlies (1995-96), Denver Nuggets (1997-98) and Charlotte Bobcats (2011-12) for the second-longest, single-season losing streak.

The Cleveland Cavaliers dropped 26 during the 2010-11 season, and Philadelphia would have to pull off

an upset to avoid equaling that.The next two games are at San

Antonio and Houston. Drop them, and the Sixers could set the record at home against Detroit on March 29, particularly if they continue to shoot like this from the outside.

They missed their first 18 3-point-ers before Byron Mullens made one early in the fourth and were 1 of 20 in the game.

New Orleans power forward Anthony Davis had 30 points, 11 rebounds and three steals as the Pelicans beat the Heat 105-95 for struggling Miami’s seventh loss in 11 games.

LeBron James twisted his right ankle while stepping on Pelicans

guard Tyreke Evans’ foot during a drive to the hoop late in the third quarter, but remained in the game and finished with 25 points, nine assists and eight rebounds. It was not enough for Miami, which gave guard Dwyane Wade and center Greg Oden the night off following Friday’s victory at Memphis.

At Memphis, Tennessee, Mike Conley scored 21 points, and Zach Randolph added 18 points and 13 rebounds as the Grizzlies beat the Pacers 82-71 — Indiana’s lowest point total of the season.

Mike Miller added 13 points as Memphis won for the seventh time in nine games and maintained its hold on the final playoff spot in the Western Conference. Marc Gasol, returning after spraining his ankle Friday night, had 10 points and nine rebounds. Lance Stephenson led the Pacers with 15 points and eight rebounds.


KEY BISCAYNE, Florida — Maria Sharapova needed nine match points before she finally closed out a win Sat-urday in the third round of the Sony Open, beating Lucie Safarova 6-4, 6-7 (7), 6-2. No. 1-ranked Serena Williams won a marathon, too, taking 2½ hours to eliminate Caroline Garcia 6-4, 4-6, 6-4. Men’s No. 1 Rafael Nadal began a bid for his first Key Biscayne title by beating Lleyton Hewitt 6-1, 6-3.

Sharapova had two match points in the tiebreaker, and seven more in the final game. The No. 26-seeded Safarova stayed alive with a succession of vital winners. “She kept hitting unbelievable shots,” Sharapova said. “One more. One more. I said, ‘How many chances are you going to get?’”

With the capacity crowd in a frenzy, a long exchange on the final point ended with Safarova pushing a weary forehand into the net. She then shared a hug with Sharapova.

The match took three hours and ended at 10 p.m. to conclude an 11-hour day session on the stadium court, with two night-session matches yet to come. “After a match like that, it’s tough to have only one winner,” Sharapova said, “because

both players give a lot and both want to win so much.”

Williams’ match was a thriller, too. A succession of long rallies left her grunt-ing, stumbling, lunging, squealing, flail-ing her arms and scolding herself. Despite all the drama and trauma, she moved one round closer to a record seventh Key Biscayne title.

Williams is playing in her first tourna-ment after a monthlong layoff, and rusti-ness might explain her 41 unforced errors, including seven double-faults. And the 20-year-old Garcia kept Williams on her heels with deep groundstrokes and serves that topped out at 117 mph.

“I can play a hundred times better,” Williams said. “I really gave myself a tremendous amount of trouble out there. Granted she played great, but I made so many errors ... 40-something errors. It’s not the way to play professional tennis. Maybe amateur.”

Maria Sharapova, from Russia, cel-ebrates after winning a point in her

match against Lucie Safarova during the Sony Open Tennis in Key Bis-

cayne, Fl., Saturday, March 22, 2014.

76ers’ skid hits 24 games with 91-81 loss to BullsAssociated Press Writer

CHICAGO — The Philadelphia 76ers suffered their 24th straight loss as Joakim Noah finished with 20 points and Jimmy Butler scored 17 in the Chicago Bulls 91-81 victory Saturday.

AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh

Chicago Bulls guard D.J. Au-gustin (14) drives to the basket between Philadelphia 76ers guard Michael Carter-Williams, right, and center Byron Mullens, left, during the second half of an NBA basketball game in Chicago on Saturday, March 22, 2014. The Bulls won 91-81.

Maria Sharapova advances at Sony Open

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“It’s just instinct, I’ve turned and had a quick look and seen the goalkeeper off his line,” Rooney said. “It’s one of those I’ve tried many times and thankfully today it’s gone in.” Just as it did on the opening day of the 1996-97 season for Beckham, who lobbed Wimbledon goal-keeper Neil Sullivan from the halfway line and celebrated Rooney’s strike inside Upton Park almost 18 years on.

Manager David Moyes watched in astonish-ment from the touchline. “Wayne’s technical abil-ity, his awareness to know where the goalkeeper was, was amazing in the build-up, and then to actually execute it was superb,” Moyes said. “My only worry was whether the bounce would take it over the bar or not.”

Moyes was actually more pleased with the sec-ond after the wonder goal. With England manager

Roy Hodgson a spectator, Rooney was primed in front of goal to slot in from close range in the 33rd after Mark Noble failed to fully clear Ashley Young’s low cross. “He was getting in the box and leading the line,” Moyes said of Rooney.

Rooney’s first double in almost four months moved him to third on United’s all-time scoring chart, 37 behind Bobby Charlton’s record 249. The striker, who signed a new deal through June 2019 last month, thrived at Upton Park in the absence of Robin van Persie, who is beginning at least a month out with a left knee injury.

Moyes almost had to cope with a makeshift defense as United reeled off a third consecutive away win in the league without conceding, days after advancing to a Champions League quarterfi-nal with Bayern Munich by beating Olympiakos. However rare this comfortable league win was

for Moyes’ seventh-place side, reaching the top four seems beyond this team, with Arsenal 11 points in front in fourth place.

But coming less than a week after what Rooney described as “one of my worst days” — a 3-0 home loss to Liverpool — confidence is high in the United camp heading into Tuesday’s derby against Manchester City. “The win on Wednesday night against Olympiakos has given us all a big lift,” Rooney said. “You could see today the confidence running through the team, so it’s a good victory and we’re really pleased with that.”


LONDON — In a high-profile case of mistaken identity by a Premier League referee, the wrong Arsenal player was sent off during Saturday’s 6-0 loss at Chelsea — adding a farcical element to a one-sided encounter between the two title rivals. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain blatantly handled in the penalty area in the 15th minute, making a diving save to tip away Eden Hazard’s shot when Arsenal was already 2-0 down. But Oxlade-Chamberlain escaped any sanction and referee Andre Marriner instead sent off defender Kieran Gibbs for no obvious reason.

Oxlade-Chamberlain was seen saying “it was me” to Marriner but the referee ignored protests, while his assistants also failed to spot the mistake. Marriner later admitted he made a mistake via a statement from the Premier League referees’ body, with officials prevented from speaking publicly to the media.

“Andre is an experienced referee and is obviously disappointed that an error of mistaken identity was made in this case,” Professional Game Match Officials said in a statement. “Incidents of mistaken identity are very rare and are often the result of a number of different technical factors. “Whilst this was a difficult decision Andre is disappointed that he failed to identify the correct player. He expressed his disappointment to Arsenal when he was made aware of the issue.”


“The sending off is a big ammunition for people like me that thinks that one little screen in front of the fourth official is a big help against these kinds of mistakes,” Mourinho said.



ZURICH — FIFA President Sepp Blatter refused to comment on allega-tions linking Qatar’s winning World Cup bid to payments received by vot-ers. Blatter said at a news conference on Friday “I have not even the right”


MILAN — Ciro Immobile netted a hat trick to help Torino beat relegation-threatened Livorno 3-1 and make him Serie A’s top scorer on Saturday. Meanwhile, second-place Roma eased to a 2-0 win at struggling Chievo Verona. Roma was 11 points behind leader Juventus and six ahead of third-place Napoli.

Immobile scored his first in the 25th minute, heading in Cesare Bovo’s free kick, and the second on the hour mark after Francesco Bardi proved staunch in the Livorno goal. Immobile mishit Omar El Kaddouri’s pass but the ball’s bounce deceived Bardi. The forward, co-owned by Juventus, completed his first Serie A hat trick seven minutes later with a great shot from distance for his 16th goal of the season.

Immobile was given a standing ovation when he was substituted with 13 minutes remaining. He’s a contender for Italy coach Cesare Prandelli’s World Cup squad. “I’m proud and happy with this hat trick, I didn’t even do it at Pescara and I’m taking the match ball home,” Immobile said. “Prandelli knows me, he knows how I work and if he calls me up I’ll be ready.”

Luca Siligardi volleyed home a consola-tion for Livorno in the final minute. Torino reignited its European hopes as it ended a run of four consecutive defeats, although it was provisionally seven points behind sixth spot. Livorno remained a point above the relega-tion zone, ahead of the rest of the weekend’s matches.

It was equally easy for Roma, which

was never troubled by Chievo. Chievo gifted Roma the lead in the 17th minute when B o s t j a n C e -sar’s header b a c k t o g o a l - keepe r M i c h a e l A g a z z i w a s t o o weak and was easily in- t e r c e p t e d b y G e r v i n - ho, who slotted c a l m l y home.

M a t t i a Destro doubled R o m a ’ s lead three min-u te s f rom halftime, firing Rodrigo Tad- dei’s delightful t h r o u g h b a l l into the bottom right corner.


MADRID — Athletic Bilbao provisionally stretched its fourth-place advantage while compounding Getafe’s miserable run with a 1-0 victory in the Spanish league on Saturday. Markel Susaeta curled home from a well-designed set-piece for the 40th-minute winner at San Mames to see Bilbao move nine points clear of Real Sociedad in the race to clinch the league’s final Champions League qualifying spot.

Susaeta had no opposition to worry about as he stepped in to An-der Herrera’s pass with the Getafe defensive wall expecting a shot from outside the area, as the Basque midfielder shot exquisitely to give the hosts the lead in a dour contest up until then. “We’re not a machine. The last game we scored four goals against Granada but today it was hard work,” Bilbao coach Ernesto Valverde said after his team stretched its unbeaten run to five games.

Getafe striker Ciprian Marica saw a pair of strong scoring op-portunities saved by Athletic goalkeeper Gorka Iraizoz in the second half. Getafe remained one point above the drop after its winless run was stretched to 14 games dating to November.

Spanish leader Real Madrid hosts Barcelona on Sunday in a cla-sico with title implications as Madrid holds a four-point lead over its rival. Atletico Madrid, which trails Madrid by three points, is at last-place Real Betis. “It’s the last chance we have to take the league,” Barcelona coach Gerardo Martino said.

Earlier, Granada moved eight points clear of the relegation zone following a 1-0 victory against 10-man Elche, while Rayo Vallecano rallied for a 1-1 draw at Real Valladolid.




Blatter: No comment on Qatar 2022 payment claims

AP Photo/Keystone,Walter Bieri

FIFA President Joseph “Sepp” Blatter speaks during a press conference at the conclusion of the meeting of the FIFA Ex-ecutive Committee at the Home of FIFA in Zurich, Switzerland, Friday, March 21, 2014.

to discuss claims published this week by the Daily Telegraph. The British newspaper said it had evidence that a Qatari company controlled by former FIFA board member Mohamed bin Hammam paid almost $2 million to former FIFA vice president Jack Warner’s family after the December

2010 vote.Blatter referred questions to a

statement on behalf of its ethics investigation panel, which was “aware of the material identified in the published article.” The claims were aired as Blatter and other FIFA executive committee members were being interviewed in Zurich as part of an investigation by ethics pros-ecutor Michael Garcia into the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding con-tests, won by Russia and Qatar.

Pressed further on the subject, Blatter insisted he will not com-ment “until they have finished their work.” Garcia is expected to deliver a report this year to the judging panel of FIFA’s ethics court.

“As with any allegations of misconduct by football officials the ethics committee will take whatever action it feels is appro-priate,” the statement on behalf of Garcia said.

Still, he has limited jurisdiction at best. Bin Hammam is already banned from football for life, and Warner resigned in June 2011 to avoid a previous FIFA investigation into a cash-for-votes scandal linked to the Qatari’s failed presidential bid.

Athletic compounds Getafe’s misery

with 1-0 win

Immobile’s hat trick helps Torino beat Livorno 3-1

Manchester United’s Wayne

Rooney cel-ebrates his goal

against West Ham United dur-ing their English Premier League

soccer match at Upton Park,

London, Saturday, March 22, 2014.

Rooney double gives Man United 2-0 win at West HamAssociated Press Writer

LONDON — With David Beckham watching in the stands, Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney replicated one of the retired star’s most memorable strikes in a 2-0 victory at West Ham on Saturday. Rooney outmuscled James Tomkins after just seven minutes and sent the ball high for 58 yards (meters) from inside the halfway line over goalkeeper Adrian.

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“It’s just instinct, I’ve turned and had a quick look and seen the goalkeeper off his line,” Rooney said. “It’s one of those I’ve tried many times and thankfully today it’s gone in.” Just as it did on the opening day of the 1996-97 season for Beckham, who lobbed Wimbledon goal-keeper Neil Sullivan from the halfway line and celebrated Rooney’s strike inside Upton Park almost 18 years on.

Manager David Moyes watched in astonish-ment from the touchline. “Wayne’s technical abil-ity, his awareness to know where the goalkeeper was, was amazing in the build-up, and then to actually execute it was superb,” Moyes said. “My only worry was whether the bounce would take it over the bar or not.”

Moyes was actually more pleased with the sec-ond after the wonder goal. With England manager

Roy Hodgson a spectator, Rooney was primed in front of goal to slot in from close range in the 33rd after Mark Noble failed to fully clear Ashley Young’s low cross. “He was getting in the box and leading the line,” Moyes said of Rooney.

Rooney’s first double in almost four months moved him to third on United’s all-time scoring chart, 37 behind Bobby Charlton’s record 249. The striker, who signed a new deal through June 2019 last month, thrived at Upton Park in the absence of Robin van Persie, who is beginning at least a month out with a left knee injury.

Moyes almost had to cope with a makeshift defense as United reeled off a third consecutive away win in the league without conceding, days after advancing to a Champions League quarterfi-nal with Bayern Munich by beating Olympiakos. However rare this comfortable league win was

for Moyes’ seventh-place side, reaching the top four seems beyond this team, with Arsenal 11 points in front in fourth place.

But coming less than a week after what Rooney described as “one of my worst days” — a 3-0 home loss to Liverpool — confidence is high in the United camp heading into Tuesday’s derby against Manchester City. “The win on Wednesday night against Olympiakos has given us all a big lift,” Rooney said. “You could see today the confidence running through the team, so it’s a good victory and we’re really pleased with that.”


LONDON — In a high-profile case of mistaken identity by a Premier League referee, the wrong Arsenal player was sent off during Saturday’s 6-0 loss at Chelsea — adding a farcical element to a one-sided encounter between the two title rivals. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain blatantly handled in the penalty area in the 15th minute, making a diving save to tip away Eden Hazard’s shot when Arsenal was already 2-0 down. But Oxlade-Chamberlain escaped any sanction and referee Andre Marriner instead sent off defender Kieran Gibbs for no obvious reason.

Oxlade-Chamberlain was seen saying “it was me” to Marriner but the referee ignored protests, while his assistants also failed to spot the mistake. Marriner later admitted he made a mistake via a statement from the Premier League referees’ body, with officials prevented from speaking publicly to the media.

“Andre is an experienced referee and is obviously disappointed that an error of mistaken identity was made in this case,” Professional Game Match Officials said in a statement. “Incidents of mistaken identity are very rare and are often the result of a number of different technical factors. “Whilst this was a difficult decision Andre is disappointed that he failed to identify the correct player. He expressed his disappointment to Arsenal when he was made aware of the issue.”


“The sending off is a big ammunition for people like me that thinks that one little screen in front of the fourth official is a big help against these kinds of mistakes,” Mourinho said.



ZURICH — FIFA President Sepp Blatter refused to comment on allega-tions linking Qatar’s winning World Cup bid to payments received by vot-ers. Blatter said at a news conference on Friday “I have not even the right”


MILAN — Ciro Immobile netted a hat trick to help Torino beat relegation-threatened Livorno 3-1 and make him Serie A’s top scorer on Saturday. Meanwhile, second-place Roma eased to a 2-0 win at struggling Chievo Verona. Roma was 11 points behind leader Juventus and six ahead of third-place Napoli.

Immobile scored his first in the 25th minute, heading in Cesare Bovo’s free kick, and the second on the hour mark after Francesco Bardi proved staunch in the Livorno goal. Immobile mishit Omar El Kaddouri’s pass but the ball’s bounce deceived Bardi. The forward, co-owned by Juventus, completed his first Serie A hat trick seven minutes later with a great shot from distance for his 16th goal of the season.

Immobile was given a standing ovation when he was substituted with 13 minutes remaining. He’s a contender for Italy coach Cesare Prandelli’s World Cup squad. “I’m proud and happy with this hat trick, I didn’t even do it at Pescara and I’m taking the match ball home,” Immobile said. “Prandelli knows me, he knows how I work and if he calls me up I’ll be ready.”

Luca Siligardi volleyed home a consola-tion for Livorno in the final minute. Torino reignited its European hopes as it ended a run of four consecutive defeats, although it was provisionally seven points behind sixth spot. Livorno remained a point above the relega-tion zone, ahead of the rest of the weekend’s matches.

It was equally easy for Roma, which

was never troubled by Chievo. Chievo gifted Roma the lead in the 17th minute when B o s t j a n C e -sar’s header b a c k t o g o a l - keepe r M i c h a e l A g a z z i w a s t o o weak and was easily in- t e r c e p t e d b y G e r v i n - ho, who slotted c a l m l y home.

M a t t i a Destro doubled R o m a ’ s lead three min-u te s f rom halftime, firing Rodrigo Tad- dei’s delightful t h r o u g h b a l l into the bottom right corner.


MADRID — Athletic Bilbao provisionally stretched its fourth-place advantage while compounding Getafe’s miserable run with a 1-0 victory in the Spanish league on Saturday. Markel Susaeta curled home from a well-designed set-piece for the 40th-minute winner at San Mames to see Bilbao move nine points clear of Real Sociedad in the race to clinch the league’s final Champions League qualifying spot.

Susaeta had no opposition to worry about as he stepped in to An-der Herrera’s pass with the Getafe defensive wall expecting a shot from outside the area, as the Basque midfielder shot exquisitely to give the hosts the lead in a dour contest up until then. “We’re not a machine. The last game we scored four goals against Granada but today it was hard work,” Bilbao coach Ernesto Valverde said after his team stretched its unbeaten run to five games.

Getafe striker Ciprian Marica saw a pair of strong scoring op-portunities saved by Athletic goalkeeper Gorka Iraizoz in the second half. Getafe remained one point above the drop after its winless run was stretched to 14 games dating to November.

Spanish leader Real Madrid hosts Barcelona on Sunday in a cla-sico with title implications as Madrid holds a four-point lead over its rival. Atletico Madrid, which trails Madrid by three points, is at last-place Real Betis. “It’s the last chance we have to take the league,” Barcelona coach Gerardo Martino said.

Earlier, Granada moved eight points clear of the relegation zone following a 1-0 victory against 10-man Elche, while Rayo Vallecano rallied for a 1-1 draw at Real Valladolid.




Blatter: No comment on Qatar 2022 payment claims

AP Photo/Keystone,Walter Bieri

FIFA President Joseph “Sepp” Blatter speaks during a press conference at the conclusion of the meeting of the FIFA Ex-ecutive Committee at the Home of FIFA in Zurich, Switzerland, Friday, March 21, 2014.

to discuss claims published this week by the Daily Telegraph. The British newspaper said it had evidence that a Qatari company controlled by former FIFA board member Mohamed bin Hammam paid almost $2 million to former FIFA vice president Jack Warner’s family after the December

2010 vote.Blatter referred questions to a

statement on behalf of its ethics investigation panel, which was “aware of the material identified in the published article.” The claims were aired as Blatter and other FIFA executive committee members were being interviewed in Zurich as part of an investigation by ethics pros-ecutor Michael Garcia into the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding con-tests, won by Russia and Qatar.

Pressed further on the subject, Blatter insisted he will not com-ment “until they have finished their work.” Garcia is expected to deliver a report this year to the judging panel of FIFA’s ethics court.

“As with any allegations of misconduct by football officials the ethics committee will take whatever action it feels is appro-priate,” the statement on behalf of Garcia said.

Still, he has limited jurisdiction at best. Bin Hammam is already banned from football for life, and Warner resigned in June 2011 to avoid a previous FIFA investigation into a cash-for-votes scandal linked to the Qatari’s failed presidential bid.

Athletic compounds Getafe’s misery

with 1-0 win

Immobile’s hat trick helps Torino beat Livorno 3-1

Manchester United’s Wayne

Rooney cel-ebrates his goal

against West Ham United dur-ing their English Premier League

soccer match at Upton Park,

London, Saturday, March 22, 2014.

Rooney double gives Man United 2-0 win at West HamAssociated Press Writer

LONDON — With David Beckham watching in the stands, Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney replicated one of the retired star’s most memorable strikes in a 2-0 victory at West Ham on Saturday. Rooney outmuscled James Tomkins after just seven minutes and sent the ball high for 58 yards (meters) from inside the halfway line over goalkeeper Adrian.

AP Photo/Sang Tan

IBP

GIANYAR - Bali is a bijou is-land, but the content of traditional values, arts, history and culture is not as small as the area. Artistic heritage, history and culture almost

spread throughout the nine regen-cies and city existing on the Island of the Gods. The search on the

heritage, arts and cultural relics of this time is to Yeh Pulu Relief.

Relief of the ancient rock stone is located at the Bedulu (Bedahulu) Village, Blahbatuh Subdistrict, Gianyar Regency. Location to Tampaksiring and Kintamani is

only about 40 minutes drive from Denpasar City. The entrance to the tourist attraction of holy water is

not far from the main road east of Goa Gajah Temple, to the right, into the village street. Visitors should be careful because there are many road junctions without a clue heading for the object of Yeh Pulu Relief, or ask the way to local residents.

The monument in the form of relief becoming the main attrac-tion to tourists, especially foreign

tourists, was discovered in 1925 by a courtier or Ubud Royal fam-ily. The name was taken from the barrel (or container of rice in the past) located at the central axis of purified water nestling in the west of the relief. The word yeh in Balinese

language means water and pulu means a barrel.

The appeal of this monument is

not only because of the uniqueness of relief sculpture immortalized on the rock stone wall of the hill, but also due to the spread of rice field view along the two-hundred-meters and the sound of clinking water on the left-right path to loca-tion is always neatly trimmed and maintained sustainably, emanating a natural beauty.

With such a natural atmosphere, the clear and the sharpness of splashing water are always flow-ing along the trench making the ambience around this object really peaceful and enchanting. On that account, it is not mistaken if the niches (caves) in southern relief suspected as the hermitage of the last Balinese ancient King before the collapse of Bali to Majapahit administration in 1343.

Relief with magical nuance and meaningful is 25 meters long and 2 meters high. Many researches con-ducted by experts from home and overseas to recognize the implicit meaning behind the wall relief of the rock cliffs on the hills. As conse-quence, it drove many commentaries and analysis to uncover the mystery behind the veil of the true meaning of the relief. Overall, the theme of this story recounts the life in the for-est atmosphere and daily life in the ancient kingdom of Bali. In addition to the Balinese classical carvings, this monument also has niches of Bedahulu Royal Hermitage before his death against the army of the Majapahit kingdom in 1343 AD.

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The Sixers moved ahead of the Vancouver Grizzlies (1995-96), Denver Nuggets (1997-98) and Charlotte Bobcats (2011-12) for the second-longest, single-season losing streak.

The Cleveland Cavaliers dropped 26 during the 2010-11 season, and Philadelphia would have to pull off

an upset to avoid equaling that.The next two games are at San

Antonio and Houston. Drop them, and the Sixers could set the record at home against Detroit on March 29, particularly if they continue to shoot like this from the outside.

They missed their first 18 3-point-ers before Byron Mullens made one early in the fourth and were 1 of 20 in the game.

New Orleans power forward Anthony Davis had 30 points, 11 rebounds and three steals as the Pelicans beat the Heat 105-95 for struggling Miami’s seventh loss in 11 games.

LeBron James twisted his right ankle while stepping on Pelicans

guard Tyreke Evans’ foot during a drive to the hoop late in the third quarter, but remained in the game and finished with 25 points, nine assists and eight rebounds. It was not enough for Miami, which gave guard Dwyane Wade and center Greg Oden the night off following Friday’s victory at Memphis.

At Memphis, Tennessee, Mike Conley scored 21 points, and Zach Randolph added 18 points and 13 rebounds as the Grizzlies beat the Pacers 82-71 — Indiana’s lowest point total of the season.

Mike Miller added 13 points as Memphis won for the seventh time in nine games and maintained its hold on the final playoff spot in the Western Conference. Marc Gasol, returning after spraining his ankle Friday night, had 10 points and nine rebounds. Lance Stephenson led the Pacers with 15 points and eight rebounds.


KEY BISCAYNE, Florida — Maria Sharapova needed nine match points before she finally closed out a win Sat-urday in the third round of the Sony Open, beating Lucie Safarova 6-4, 6-7 (7), 6-2. No. 1-ranked Serena Williams won a marathon, too, taking 2½ hours to eliminate Caroline Garcia 6-4, 4-6, 6-4. Men’s No. 1 Rafael Nadal began a bid for his first Key Biscayne title by beating Lleyton Hewitt 6-1, 6-3.

Sharapova had two match points in the tiebreaker, and seven more in the final game. The No. 26-seeded Safarova stayed alive with a succession of vital winners. “She kept hitting unbelievable shots,” Sharapova said. “One more. One more. I said, ‘How many chances are you going to get?’”

With the capacity crowd in a frenzy, a long exchange on the final point ended with Safarova pushing a weary forehand into the net. She then shared a hug with Sharapova.

The match took three hours and ended at 10 p.m. to conclude an 11-hour day session on the stadium court, with two night-session matches yet to come. “After a match like that, it’s tough to have only one winner,” Sharapova said, “because

both players give a lot and both want to win so much.”

Williams’ match was a thriller, too. A succession of long rallies left her grunt-ing, stumbling, lunging, squealing, flail-ing her arms and scolding herself. Despite all the drama and trauma, she moved one round closer to a record seventh Key Biscayne title.

Williams is playing in her first tourna-ment after a monthlong layoff, and rusti-ness might explain her 41 unforced errors, including seven double-faults. And the 20-year-old Garcia kept Williams on her heels with deep groundstrokes and serves that topped out at 117 mph.

“I can play a hundred times better,” Williams said. “I really gave myself a tremendous amount of trouble out there. Granted she played great, but I made so many errors ... 40-something errors. It’s not the way to play professional tennis. Maybe amateur.”

Maria Sharapova, from Russia, cel-ebrates after winning a point in her

match against Lucie Safarova during the Sony Open Tennis in Key Bis-

cayne, Fl., Saturday, March 22, 2014.

76ers’ skid hits 24 games with 91-81 loss to BullsAssociated Press Writer

CHICAGO — The Philadelphia 76ers suffered their 24th straight loss as Joakim Noah finished with 20 points and Jimmy Butler scored 17 in the Chicago Bulls 91-81 victory Saturday.

AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh

Chicago Bulls guard D.J. Au-gustin (14) drives to the basket between Philadelphia 76ers guard Michael Carter-Williams, right, and center Byron Mullens, left, during the second half of an NBA basketball game in Chicago on Saturday, March 22, 2014. The Bulls won 91-81.

Maria Sharapova advances at Sony Open

AP Photo/J Pat Carter

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The missing plane, which had been bound for Beijing, carried 153 Chinese passengers.

After about a week of confusion, Malaysian authorities said pings sent by the Boeing 777-200 for several hours after it disap-peared indicated that the plane ended up in one of two huge arcs: a northern corridor stretching from Malaysia to Central Asia, or a southern corridor that stretches toward Antarctica.

The discovery of the initial two objects by a satellite led several countries to send planes and ships to a stretch of the ocean south-west of Australia. But three days of searching have produced no confirmed signs of the plane.

One of the objects spotted in the earlier satellite imagery was described as 24 meters (almost 80 feet) in length and the other was 5 meters (15 feet).

In a statement on its website announcing China’s find, the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense did not explain why it took four days to release the infor-mation. But there was a similar delay in the release of the initial satellite images because experts needed time to examine them.

Two military planes from China have arrived in Perth, and the AMSA said they would join the search on Monday. They join Australian, New Zealand and U.S. aircraft. Japanese planes are also expected soon.

Even if both satellites detected the same object, it may be un-related to the plane. One possibility is that it could have fallen off a cargo vessel.

Because the search area is a four-hour flight from land, some of the planes can search for about only two hours before they must fly back. Others may be able to stay for up to five hours before heading back to the base.

The area where the objects were first identified by the Australian authorities is marked by strong currents and rough seas, and the ocean depth varies between 1,150 meters (3,770 feet) and 7,000 meters (23,000 feet).

Malaysian authorities have not ruled out any possible explana-tion for what happened to the jet, but have said the evidence so far suggests it was deliberately turned back across Malaysia to the Strait of Malacca, with its communications systems disabled. They are unsure what happened next.

Police are considering the possibilities of hijacking, sabotage, terrorism or issues related to the mental health of the pilots or anyone else on board.

Malaysia has also asked the U.S. for undersea surveillance equipment to help in the search.

Osaka officials asked Shingo Ota to remove scenes and lingo that identify the slum, on the grounds that it was insensitive to residents. “To me, what they were asking was a cover-up at-tempt to make this place non-existent,” he said in a recent interview.

This place is Kamagasaki, home to day laborers, the jobless and home-less, where one in three are on wel-fare. About 25,000 people live in this compact area, mostly single men who stay in free shelters or dozens of cheap dorms that charge as little as 800 yen ($8) a night.

The day starts early at the welfare-employment center, where hundreds of people line up for manual labor work, mostly with subcontractors of Japan’s construction giants. Those not picked stroll the backstreets aimlessly, queue for free meals or resort to cheap alcohol. In the evening, the homeless line up at the center to get tickets for the shelters.

“I’m jobless, for months,” said one 52-year-old resident who came

to Kamagasaki after losing his home in the 1995 Kobe earthquake. He gambled away his monthly welfare money of 70,000 yen ($700). “Now I’m doomed.”

Ota’s movie, “Fragile,” tells the story of a TV assistant director who takes off from his job one day after conflicts with his girlfriend and his colleague. He heads to Kamagasaki to make a film about a teenage boy, and whether success and wealth are necessary for happiness. But he quickly falls into trouble, and his plan unravels.

The full-length feature shows recognizable landmarks of the slum, such as a park known for both squat-ters and illegal garbage dumping and the center where men line up for jobs. It also shows the protagonist receiving an amphetamine injec-tion from a drug dealer operating in the slum. Ota says Osaka officials wanted those scenes and others deleted, as well as the slang words “doya” (cheap accommodations) and

“shabu” (stimulants).Osaka official Kazumitsu Oue said

the film festival organizers wanted to protect the area and its people from exposure to prejudice. “We felt that the film lacked consideration to the area and its people,” he said.

Ota says while living there to shoot the film for several weeks, his outsider’s impression of the slum as a poor, dangerous place changed and he began to regard the community — also known by the nickname Airin or “loving neighborhood” — and its inhabitants with more compassion. The scenes city officials objected to are needed to portray the different faces of the town, he said.

The city provided a 600,000 yen ($6,000) grant for the director on con-dition that it premieres at the Osaka film festival. Ota says he has offered to return the grant, but the city wanted him to keep it and not disclose details of the dispute to the media. The two sides are examining the dispute and seeking ways to explain it to the public.


SEATTLE — Rescue crews searched into the night for survivors from a massive mudslide in Washington state that killed at least three people, after hearing voices from the debris field pleading for help.

The slide of mud, trees and rocks happened Saturday morning. Several people, including an infant, were critically injured, and at least six houses were destroyed.

Snohomish County Fire District 21 Chief Travis Hots said at a news briefing that searchers weren’t giving up on finding more people.

“We have people who are yelling for our help, and we are going to take extreme risks,” Hots said. It wasn’t clear how many people might still be alive, he said.

The Snohomish County sheriff’s office reported that two people had been killed at the scene. Authorities later said one person who was rescued died at a hospital.

The injured included a 6-month-old boy, who was in critical condition at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.

Hospital spokeswoman Susan Gregg said two other victims were in critical condition — an 81-year-old man and a 58-year-old man — while a 37-year-old man was in serious condition.

Search for survivors continues in US mudslide

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In this Wednesday, March 5, 2014, a man stands by his shelter where he keeps his belongings in front of the welfare-employment center in Kamagasaki, Osaka, western Japan.

Japan’s biggest slum not on maps or in film festAssociated Press Writer

OSAKA, Japan — Japan’s biggest slum is visible just blocks from bustling restaurants and shops in Osaka, the country’s second-largest city. But it cannot be found on official maps. Nor did it appear in the recent Osaka Asian Film Festival, after the director of a new movie that is set in the area pulled it, accusing city organizers of censorship.

Defense Minister Purnomo Yus-giantoro said the incident at the Jakarta International Defense Dialogue was inappropriate and would be investi-gated. The marines wore name labels for Usman Haji Mohamed Ali and Harun Said, two commandos sent by Indonesia to carry out an attack in 1965 that killed three civilians and injured 33 others, as part of President Sukarno’s “confrontation” policy. Indonesia has named a warship after the two men, whom Singapore regards as terrorists.

Singapore’s delegation withdrew from the talks, which were held Wednesday and Thursday, and its diplomats protested to Indonesia’s Foreign Ministry and military. Yus-giantoro, however, said he was con-fident the incident would not affect bilateral relations.

“We have asked the navy to inves-tigate why that could happen because it was clearly inappropriate,” Yusgian-toro told reporters. Tensions between

wealthy, small Singapore and its giant and still-developing neighbor have flared in recent times over Indonesia’s naming of the warship — the KRI Usman Harun — after the two com-mandos who carried out the deadly bombing.

Singapore has branded the com-mandos, who were arrested and ex-ecuted a few years later, as terrorists, and says naming the warship after them reopened old wounds.

Indonesian officials have defended the ship’s naming as an internal affair. Navy spokesman Untung Suropati described the two marines as “heroes” who should serve as role models for young Indonesians.

“Usman and Harun are our heroes, and it was an international expo with a young generation of the military and students visiting,” he said.

“We need to show them we have great heroes in the hope that they can be role models for them.”

Singapore said a delegation from its

armed forces had pulled out of the Ja-karta International Defence Dialogue (JIDD) exhibition on Wednesday after learning of the stunt, while diplomats from its embassy in Jakarta have spoken with officials there “to express disappointment”. The two marines had been stationed at the navy’s stall at the JIDD dressed in vintage uniforms and purple berets, with “Usman” and “Harun” on their name tags.

Indonesia had already outraged Singapore last month by naming a newly refurbished navy frigate “Us-man Harun” in honour of the marines. The ship has been banned from Singa-porean ports and naval bases.

Relations between the two coun-tries hit a low point in the late 1990s after the fall of former dictator Su-harto, and his successor B.J. Habibie famously referred to the tiny city-state as a “little red dot” on the map. But ties have improved considerably in recent years, and Indonesia is now Singa-pore’s third largest trading partner.

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Indonesian children perform a masked dance representing the ritual of scaring away evil spirits during Tlatah Bocah art festival in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia, Saturday, March 22, 2014. The festival was held annually to provide opportunity for children to stage traditional performance arts and learn about the values of their local cultures.

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JAKARTA — Indonesian police arrested three suspected lslamic extremists after intercepting a bomb shipment that authorities said was intended to attack brothels.

Among those arrested last week was Ambo Intang, who was sought for his alleged involvement in the 2012 killings of two policemen in in the Central Sulawesi district of Poso, said national police spokesman Maj. Gen. Ronny F. Sompie.

An anti-terrorism police squad has earlier nabbed two other suspects. One of them was identified as Bambang Aribowo, who was arrested upon arrival at Jakarta’s airport.

Sompie said police intercepted a shipment containing two homemade bombs that was sent from East Java town of Trenggalek to Makassar. The bombs were to be used to attack brothels in the province, Sompie said.

Police said the group was led by Indonesia’s most wanted terrorist suspect, Abu Wardah Santoso. He is sought in connection with several attacks on Java island and Poso in Central Sulawesi province, where a Muslim-Christian conflict killed at least 1,000 people from 1998 to 2002. He also faces charges of running a terrorist training camp. It’s unclear whether Santoso was among those arrested.

Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation with a secular central government, has been battling terrorists since 2002, when militants linked to the Southeast Asian network Jemaah Islamiyah began attacking Western nightclubs, restaurants and embassies. Their mostly deadly at-tacks by far were at Bali nightclubs in 2002, killing 202 people, mostly foreign tourists.

More recent terror attacks in Indonesia have been less deadly, and have targeted security forces and local “infidels” instead of Westerners.

AntaraTANGERANG - The National Anti-Narcotic Agency (BNN) is con-

cerned that quite many Indonesian migrant workers have been used as drug couriers.

“There are still many Indonesian migrant workers (TKI) who have been used as drug couriers to help smuggle in illicit drugs to this country,” Senior Commissioner Sumirat Dwiyanto, a BNN spokesman, said here recently.

The migrant workers were given a lot of money for carrying the illicit drugs to Indonesia.

“Migrant workers who desperately need money to go home to Indonesia are usually the easy targets to illegally carry the drug packages,” he said.

The drugs were usually hidden in their luggage, under their clothes or inside their shoes.

The Soekarno-Hatta customs and excise officials recently detained 24 people for trying to smuggle in illicit drugs worth Rp6.9 billion.

They consisted of 12 Indonesians and 12 foreigners, Okto Irianto, the head of the Soekarno-Hatta customs and excise office, said on Friday.

The arrests were made during a special operation carried out from Febru-ary 25 to March 17, 2014. Some 4,182 grams of crystal methamphetamine and 20 “happy five” pills were seized during the operation.

Most of the nabbed Indonesians were migrant workers, he said. A UN report last year pointed to the role of transnational crime groups

in Indonesia’s meth trade and highlighted Hong Kong and Guangzhou as primary sources of illicit drugs and the precursor chemicals needed to pro-duce methamphetamine, South China Morning Post wrote.

The media reported recently that Hong Kong’s triads are targeting Indo-nesian migrant workers to smuggle drugs into the Southeast Asian nation.

Organized crime gangs from Hong Kong and southern China have long been key players in Indonesia’s illicit drugs market, but recent cases indicate they are diversifying tactics - and according to domestic helper rights groups - maids can be easy prey for drug rings looking for couriers.

Fresh row on “Usman - Harun”

Singapore outraged over 2 marines dressed as bombersAssociated Press/AFP

JAKARTA — Indonesia acknowledged Friday that two of its marines wore bombers’ names on their uniforms while on duty at international talks this week, an action that prompted the Singapore delegation to leave.

BNN concerned over use of workers as drug couriers

Police arrest 3 suspected militants

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AHMEDABAD — British supermarket giant Tesco announced a joint venture in India on Friday with a company owned by Tata Group to invest in a chain of grocery and household goods stores. It is the first multinational entry into India’s vast but underserved supermarket sector since the country allowed such investment in 2012.

Tesco said in a statement it would invest 85 million pounds ($140 million) to take a 50 percent share of Tata-owned Trent Hypermarket Ltd., which operates the Star Bazaar chain. It said the chain would operate 12 stores in southern and western India selling food and groceries, home and personal products, plus fashion and accessories.

Other major international multi-brand retailers have stayed out of India’s $400 billion market in retailing — despite its huge potential for growth with a population of 1.2 billion people who now shop mostly at small family-owned stores. Most have cited strict local-sourcing rules they say make doing business in India too difficult.

In a politically sensitive move, India last year gave the green light for international companies to open multi-brand retail stores, but to allay concerns about the impact on small traders and family-run shops, those companies must obtain 30 percent of their products from local small and medium-sized businesses.

The world’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart, promi-nently split from its Indian business partner last year and shelved plans to open its own stores, saying it could not meet the local sourcing rules and make a profit.

Tesco, Britain’s largest retailer by sales, focuses heavily on food and groceries that are easier to buy from small Indian suppliers. It has since 2008 been running a wholesale business to supply goods and technical knowledge to Trent Hypermarket.

The Tata Group, owner of Trent Hypermar-ket, is one of India’s largest and best-known conglomerates. Its more than 100 companies include Tata Motors, owner of the Jaguar-Land Rover brand; Tata Steel; Tata Consultancy Ser-vices; Tata Beverages, the maker of Tetley brand tea; and holdings in insurance, investment and telecommunications.

Proponents of opening up India’s retail mar-ket say easing foreign investment restrictions would give consumers more choice and spur spending in an economy which slowed last year to its weakest rate in 10 years after two decades of rapid growth. India first began opening up to foreign investment in the 1990s but advocates say those measures have gone as far as they can and more liberalization is needed to spark growth.

Single-brand retailers are now allowed full ownership of stores in India, and previously unavailable cosmetic brands as Body Shop and Clinique, food outlets like McDonald’s and Domino’s and fashion giants Mango and Zara have all opened stores.

Online news sites have been around for years, but in recent months the trend has gained momentum, defying predictions of a troubled media industry.

The latest was the relaunch of Fiv-eThirtyEight, headed by Nate Silver, a statistician and journalist who made his own headlines with his accurate prediction of the 2012 presidential election.

The site, which covers a range of news with a statistician’s eye, is backed by the

sports broadcaster ESPN, after Silver left The New York Times with his blog.

Also joining the fray was The Intercept, a news site backed by tech entrepreneur Pierre Omidyar with an editorial team led by Glenn Greenwald, the former Guardian reporter who broke news with documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.

Omidyar has pledged to invest $250 million in his First Look Media, which

includes a not-for-profit news operation and a separate technology arm for new media. The Washington Post’s popular “Wonkblog” columnist Ezra Klein mean-while left the newspaper to start a news website backed by Vox Media.

Yahoo wooed television news star Katie Couric and former New York Times tech writer David Pogue. And journalists at The Wall Street Journal-backed tech blog AllThingsD broke off in January to create Re/code, a separate website with support from Comcast’s NBCUniversal.

The new energy in Internet news comes as the entrenched news industry faces deepening financial woes, and the model for online profits remains unclear.

Tesco announces India entry

Online news attracts star power and big money

Cliff Schechtman, Portland Press Herald executive editor, left, and Steve Greenlee, managing editor, right, talk with Brian Robitaille, seated, on the copy desk/slot to discuss the next day’s front page in Portland, Maine on Tuesday, March 11, 2014. The news media is generating some big news of its own, as a growing number of star US journalists move online, bringing followers and financial backers with them.

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WASHINGTON - The news media is generating some big news of its own, as a growing number of star US journalists move online, bringing followers and finan-cial backers with them.

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BADUNG - Among the favorite political parties to win a large vote in the upcoming legislative elec-tions, PDIP has set three goals for its national agenda.

“The most important thing for the future national leadership, is that they must be able to carry out three main agendas, namely

boosting state authority, economic growth and social harmony,” the Indonesia Democratic Party Struggle’s deputy secretary gen-eral, Hasto Krsitiyanto, said before a PDIP rally in Blahkiuh village here on Saturday, which was at-tended by PDIP chief Megawati Soekarnoputri.

He said the next national leader must be able to boost the authority

of the state, which has plummeted in recent years.

By increasing the state’s au-thority, the country’s sovereignty in the international world would be increased, he added.

Hasto said the next national leader must also be able to over-come economic issues, such as food, energy, and manpower prob-lems, while increasing economic

growth.He said PDIP viewed Indone-

sia’s economic growth as having only occurred at a macro-level, and has not yet resulted in im-provements in the welfare of com-mon people.

“The reality is that many people are still poor,” he said.

Hasto said the next leader must also be able to overcome

intolerance in the community, claiming the Indonesian people are no longer known as a friendly people.

“Conflicts among communities have often happened,” he said.

He noted that the next lead-er must be able to create unity throughout the country so people may live in harmony and with tolerance.

“However, to go beyond the performance of South Korea’s creative industrial development, Indonesia needs synergy and concerted efforts by the government, industrial players and other stakeholders to remove barriers such as fund-ing and market access as well as intellectual property rights,” MS Hidayat stated during the

inauguration of the Denpasar Design Center (DDC) on Friday.

“South Korea’s creative industry is leading in the world but we can catch up with it and step over if the relevant creative sectors help create opportunities,” the minister remarked.

He explained that funding sources which

could not yet be equitably accessed by businesses still constituted unresolved problems for creative industrial players and entrepreneurs in other small and medium-sized businesses (UKM).

In the meantime, when he was still a trade minister in January 2014, Gita Wirjawan once disclosed that about 60 percent of UKM in the country were still facing difficulties in having access to funding sources. In 2012, the creative industry contributed 6.69 percent to the Gross Domestic Products (GDP), or worth Rp573 trillion.

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DENPASAR - State Udayana University professor Dr I Wayan Windia said the sustainability of the traditional “subak” irrigation system in Bali would depend on farmers’ support and participa-tion.

“If the farmers are satisfied with it and hope to earn their livelihood from the agricultural sector, subak should be preserved as an integral part of Balinese cultural heritage,” Prof Windia, who is also the chair-man of the university’s Subak Re-search Center, stated.

He noted that subak, which has been in existence for the past 11 cen-turies, has now been recognized as part of the world’s cultural heritage. UNESCO has recognized subak as a cultural heritage icon as it is specific to Bali.

“It is a remarkable achievement,” he added.

Prof Windia called on the govern-ment and other concerned parties to support its preservation so that it will continue being recognized as a world heritage icon.

“If this is not done, we will lose an important part of Balinese culture, and this will affect all economic sectors in the region,” he remarked.

He said this would happen be-cause the performance of all eco-nomic sectors in Bali, especially tourism, depended on the popularity of the local culture.

He expressed concern that tour-ism had started cannibalizing the agricultural sector since it had grown far beyond the island’s capacity.

According to a SCETO (Societe Centrale pour l’equpeent Touristique Ouetre-Mer) study in 1985, Bali was only capable of accommodating 24 thousand star-rated hotel rooms, but now the number of international ho-tel rooms had reached 80 thousand, he added.

PDIP sets three main goals for national leadership

Subak’s sustainability depends on farmers

Indonesia to exceed South Korea’s creative industry

IBP/BP DocIndonesia’s performance in the creative industry can surpass that of South Korea in the coming five years, Industry Minister MS Hi-dayat stated.

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DENPASAR - Indonesia’s performance in the creative industry can surpass that of South Korea in the coming five years, Industry Minister MS Hidayat stated.

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Russian President Vladimir Pu-tin is not attending, instead sending Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who is expected to hold talks with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. But experts say frantic diplomacy focused on Ukraine shouldn’t divert from the goal of better security of nuclear material.

“International attention can turn in a moment,” said Deepti Choubey, a senior director at the non-government Nuclear Threat Initiative. “The attentions of terror-ists do not.”

Delegations from 53 countries, including the leaders of the U.S., China and Japan, have started to ar-rive in the Hague. They will meet to negotiate on reducing and securing supplies, and keeping them out of terrorists’ hands. The G-7 includes the U.S., Britain, Germany, Japan, France, Italy and Canada. Notable absentees from the summit are

North Korea and Iran, excluded by mutual consent.

The summit is the third since US President Barack Obama launched the series in 2009 shortly after tak-ing office, saying that reducing the risk of a terrorist attack with either a nuclear weapon or a “dirty bomb” was one of his most important in-ternational policy goals.

Because countries usually regard protecting nuclear weapons and facilities as a confidential sovereign matter, the summits center on indi-vidual commitments by participants and conclude with a non-binding accord. Still, they already have reached tangible results.

The number of countries that possess enough highly enriched uranium or plutonium to make a bomb has fallen steadily, from 39 before the first conference in Wash-ington in 2010 to 25 at the start of the Hague summit.


NEW DELHI — Who would have expected a toilet to one day filter water, charge a cellphone or create charcoal to combat climate change? These are lofty ambitions beyond what most of the world’s 2.5 billion people with no access to modern sanitation would expect. Yet, scientists and toilet innovators around the world say these are exactly the sort of goals needed to improve global public health amid challenges such as poverty, water scarcity and urban growth.

Scientists who accepted the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s challenge to reinvent the toilet showcased their inventions in the Indian capital Saturday. The primary goal: to sanitize waste, use minimal water or electricity, and produce a usable product at low cost. The World Bank estimates the annual global cost of poor sanitation at $260 billion, including loss of life, missed work, medical bills and other related fac-tors. India alone accounts for $54 billion - more than the entire GDP of Kenya or Costa Rica.

India is by far the worst culprit, with more than 640 million people defecating in the open and producing a stunning 72,000 tons of human waste each day - the equivalent weight of almost 10 Eiffel Towers or 1,800 humpback whales.

Pooping in public is so acceptable that many Indians will do it on sidewalks or in open fields. Gaze out the window of any Indian train and

face a line of bare bottoms doing their business on the tracks. Meanwhile, diarrheal diseases kill 700,000 children every year, most of which could have been prevented with better sanita-tion.

“In the West, such things are a nuisance, but people don’t lose their lives,” said Christopher Elias, president of global development at the Gates Foundation. “People don’t immediately realize the damage done by infections coming from human waste.”

India has been encouraging rural communi-ties to build toilets, and last year launched a $1.6 billion program to help. But building sanitation systems in developing countries is not easy. Flush toilets are not always an option. Many poor communities live in water-stressed areas. Others lack links to sewage pipes or treatment plants.

To be successful, scientists said, the designs being exhibited at Saturday’s Toilet Fair had to go beyond treating urine and feces as undesirable waste, and recognize them as profit-generating resources for electricity, fertilizer or fuel.

“Traditionally, people have gone into com-munities and said, ‘Let’s dig you a pit.’ That’s seen as condescension, a token that isn’t very helpful. After all, who is going to clean that pit?” said M. Sohail, professor of sustainable infrastructure at Loughborough University in the U.K.

World leaders gather for Hague nuclear summitAssociated Press Writer

AMSTERDAM — Nuclear terrorism is officially the main topic for world leaders at a two-day summit in the Netherlands starting Monday. In practice, the Ukraine crisis will likely overshadow those talks. The Nuclear Security Summit in the Hague will form the back-drop for an emergency meeting of Group of Seven leaders on Russia’s annexation of Crimea. It’s a confrontation between Russia and the West reminiscent of the Cold War.

AP Photo/Peter DejongChina’s President Xi Jinping, second left, his wife Peng Liyuan, left, Dutch King Willem Alexander, center, Queen Maxima, second right, and Princess Beatrix, right, pose for the official photo at the royal palace in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Saturday March 22, 2014.

Toilet tech fair tackles global sanitation woes

AP Photo/Tsering TopgyalIn this Friday, March 21, 2014 photo, an exhibitor from Loughborough University demonstrates the use of a toilet during Reinvent The Toilet Fair in New Delhi, India. Scientists who accepted the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s challenge to reinvent the toilet showcased their inventions in the Indian capital Saturday.

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SEMARAPURA - Low interest of people in pursuing the agricultur-al sector makes the effort to raise it increasingly difficult, moreover, for those living in the areas such as the Islands of Nusa Penida, Klungkung. Agriculture has been synonymous with poverty. Finally, the majority of local residents choose to specu-late by jointing the resettlement program to other region.

Many parties judge that Bali and Klungkung in particular has not been able to get out of the clas-sical problems of the agricultural sector. According to a community leader of Nusa Penida who has been successful after wandering, Ketut Pesta, Friday (Mar 21), it was very difficult to build the agriculture in Nusa Penida. Actually, the majority of local residents were previously

seasonal farmers, so their food reserves were not much disturbed. However, lately the people espe-cially those living in the upper region had difficulty to obtain basic foodstuff in dry season.

A number of factors made it hard for the community of Nusa Penida to build farming. One of them, he explained, was the soil fertility. Soil fertility level in Nusa Penida was generally very low as having very thin layer of soil. “If in the other region we know the term ‘stony soil,’ in Nusa Penida it is more ap-propriately called ‘earthy stone,’” he said.

Another factor was the season, where the dry season was longer than the wet season. With this con-dition, farmers were increasingly difficult to carry out cultivation. Actually, the local farming was only powered by rainwater, but the

rainfall in Nusa Penida was even relatively lower than in other areas. So, when observed, farmers were only able to grow crops once a year at the beginning of rainy season.

The other factor was the very low public knowledge about the intensification of dry land. So, he affirmed that it required the role of government through relevant agencies to provide education to the community. Moreover, there had been an Agricultural Extension Center in Nusa Penida. The institu-tions should be utilized in order to agriculture in Nusa Penida would not be increasingly abandoned. Anyway, a new region had better food security when people were able to feed themselves. It should be emphasized in order to get the attention from the various elements of society to care about the fate of agriculture and the people getting

involved in it.No less important was the needs

to rethink about the other types of food that could be developed and estimated to meet the food needs of the local area. Aside from plant-ing corn, cassava or the like, it was required a scientific study regarding the other types of plants that could provide food security and economic benefits. If they could meet their self-consumption, then it was the time to think about the distribution or marketing of the agricultural products. The success in produc-tion without being poised with distribution and marketing would be in vain.

Another figure, I Gede Tanjung, also concerned about the issue. The image of agriculture being synonymous with poverty should be changed. He observed that government’s role was minimal in

building the agriculture and food security in Nusa Penida. The Unit Head of Agriculture, Plantation and Forestry in Nusa Penida, I Wayan Kanca, said that to resolve the prob-lems of agriculture and improve the food security, his party affirmed the importance of the development of agricultural business through intensive and efficient cultivation techniques. According to him, this pattern was more promising high production at low cost such as the cultivation of hybrid and Bali proma coconut, rambutan and ca-shew nut, dragon fruit, pineapple, grapefruit, tangerines and bananas. Meanwhile, crops remained to be-come priority in which he said that government had provided maize composite seeds to an area of ap-proximately 3,666 hectares and cultivation of peanuts at an area of 1,954 hectares. (kmb31)

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NEGARA - Since the past month, residents in the surrounding area of Tuwed petrol station, precisely Munduk Bayur Hamlet, has fretted. Their drinking water obtained from the well smells gasoline. They guess their well water has been con-taminated by petrol station suspected to have a leakage so that it seeps into the well of residents.

Since then, they are forced to purchase refill mineral water in gallon packaging to meet the water needs for drinking and cooking. Actu-ally they have submitted the complaint to local hamlet head and headman of Tuwed, Ketut Coblos. Nasirin, 45, a local resident, said that after the report, the subdistrict head of Melaya, Putu Eka Suarnama, with the personnel of Municipal Police had checked the wells and taken a sample of the well water.

The house of Nasirin is not far from the petrol station. He knew the water of his well had the smell of gasoline since last February. Another resident, Habibi, had an artesian well and claimed if his well was also contaminated by gasoline. Even, the smell was more pungent and had been happening since two months ago. The water used for bathing smelt like a mixture of oil. Finally, they no longer used it.

On the other hand, the headman of Tuwed, Ketut Coblos, confirmed the report from the residents living around the petrol station. The village authority had also taken the sample of well water for examination. On the other hand, the manager of Tuwed petrol station, Iskandar, denied if the well water was contaminated by the petrol station. (kmb26)

Synonymous with povertyHard to build agriculture in Nusa Penida

Tuwed residents complain about gasoline-smelling water

IBP/fileThe resident of Munduk Bayur Hamlet is showing the well contaminated by petrol

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When 89-year-old Stella Peshlakai Smith dies, her residency permit dies with her, ending forever the Navajo presence at Wupatki. The Peshlakais have vowed to fight for the land sur-rounded by the Little Colorado River valley, snow-capped mountains and towering mesas, where their sheep once grazed freely. Support for the family is mounting among state and tribal officials, but it’s up to Congress to decide whether they can stay.

“This family has had a home-stead there for generations and generations, years, and we want that to be made right,” Navajo Nation lawmaker Walter Phelps said. Smith estimates that dozens of extended members of her family would move back if given the chance.

An exhibit at the Wupatki visi-tors center highlights the struggle


AMSTERDAM — A giraffe gave a lick to a dying man who asked as a last wish to be taken to Blijdorp Zoo in Rotterdam, Netherlands, where he had done odd jobs for 25 years.

Mario Eijs, who is men-tally disabled, had developed a brain tumor and had dif-ficulty walking or speaking. He wanted to pay a final visit to the co-workers and animals he loved.

The Stichting Ambulance Wens offers free transport to terminally ill patients.

Several giraffes became curious when Eijs was brought to their inside enclosure on March 19.

“Mario got a lick on his nose after a lot of snuffles,” Foundation worker Olaf Exoo said in a written summary of the day.

Exoo said it was “a last greeting to each other that gave everybody watching goose bumps.”

AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca

This photo taken March 10, 2014, shows a sign marking the entrance of Wupatki National Monument in northern Arizona. The National Park Service, which manages the monument, is at odds with a Navajo family pursuing residency in the vast expanse of grassland and pueblo ruins.

Navajo woman family’s last link to monument landAssociated Press Writer

WUPATKI NATIONAL MONUMENT, Arizona — Before an expanse of grassland and pueblo ruins in northern Arizona was declared a national monument, it was home to hundreds of Navajos whose ancestors returned to settle the area after a forced march to an eastern New Mexico internment camp. Slowly, the Navajo families left Wupatki National Monument too, either voluntarily or under pressure by the National Park Service, which sought to eliminate private use of the public land it managed. Only one Navajo woman remains.

between the Peshlakais and the Park Service, and hints at the broader story of American Indian ancestral lands across the country that have become public property.

One 1970 letter on display is from the Park Service to a former U.S. senator from Arizona. It says: “At no time have the Navajos who grazed within the monument had any title in the land. ... In the absence of appropriate legislation, these lands could not be surren-dered to the Peshlakai family. We believe such legislation would not be in the public interest.”

It’s the same position that monu-ment Superintendent Kayci Cook Collins takes today. She said tribal members connected to Wupatki are able to conduct ceremonies there, and the Peshlakai family can visit

Smith’s homestead. But reserving property for the Peshlakais could invite other tribes, whose ancestors built pueblos and traded goods at

Wupatki, to lay claim to the land.“In general, units of the National

Park Service are not managed to hold private residences on public

land,” she said. “The situation the National Park Service tried to be sensitive to does not exist for the other families.”

Giraffe licks dying zoo worker

AP Photo/Stichting Ambulance Wens

This photo released Saturday March 22, 2014 by Stichting Ambulance Wens or Ambu-lance Wish Foundation shows a giraffe at Blijdorp Zoo in Rot-terdam giving a lick to terminal-ly ill Mario Eijs on Wednesday March 19, 2014 .

“The head of state during the visit met with families of national heroes in Bali. They met them in Taman Punjaan Bangsa (TPB) Park of the Margarana National Heroes Cemetery, Marge village, Tabanan District,” Energy and Mineral Re-sources Minister Jero Wacik said here on Sunday.

He earlier inspected preparations made by various elements in Marga-rana Heroes’ Cemetery Park to wel-come the head of state in the location, some 27 km northwest of Denpasar, provincial capital of Bali.

AntaraBADUNG - The general chairperson

of the Indonesia Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP), Megawati Soekarnopu-tri, has revealed her reason for choosing Joko Widodo (Jokowi) as the party’s presidential candidate on Saturday.

“Why I chose Jokowi to receive the mandate to run for president is because Jokowi is not only popular, but also he works hard, is sincere, committed and humble,” she said in her speech at an elec-tion campaign rally in Badung, Bali.

She added that she had monitored him and his style of leadership since he was the mayor of Solo, and later governor of Jakarta.

She said Jokowi is a hard worker and has worked sincerely for the people and his region, and is humble and genuine in his behavior, she said.

“Because of these qualities, Jokowi has become well-known in various regions in Indonesia. He has become popular not because he has conducted image building, but because of his character,” she said.

The former president, meanwhile, expressed optimism that Indonesia could become a great country, in view of its hu-man, as well as natural resources.

She said it was not easy to become an Indonesian leader because “a leader is not only a president, but also a figure who has a conscience, can provide pro-tection, is just and honest. That is what I am looking for.”

Megawati said a leader must also have a commitment to improving the welfare of the people and care about them.

She admitted she had previously made an inventory of candidates, but had never found the right one before the “skinny” emerged.

“Although he is skinny, he is actually strong like a bull, and that one is Jokowi,” she said.

She said she once asked him if he would be willing to be a president. He answered, “If you assign me, I am ready. I am just a party worker.”

President Yudhoyono visits BaliAntara

TABANAN - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, accompanied by First Lady Ani Yud-hoyono and a number of ministers, paid a working visit to the tourist resort province of Bali on Sunday.

During his visit to Bali, Yud-hoyono will also be awarded with the Main Honorable Guest “Seme-ton Tamu Utama” Tile of Pekraman village in Tampaksiring, Gianyar District.

The minister stressed the Presi-dent arrived in Tabanan not for a campaign but as a head of state visiting the Margarana Heroes’ Cemetery in the village of Marga-rana, Tabanan.

With the visit, Yudhoyono is the only Indonesian president who has so far visited the heroes cemetery

where national hero I Gusti Ngurah Rai and other heroes were buried.

“This is an extraordinary visit that could be recorded in history because the President made it on the sidelines of his business. The President allocated time to meet the families of heroes and veterans and the veterans who are still alive,” Jero Wacik said.

In the meantime, the Indonesian Defense Forces and Regional Police cooperated in providing security during President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s visit.

“It should not happen that the President’s visit is abused by cer-tain parties to create an undesired situation,” Chief of the Udayana Military Command IX Maj. Gen. Wisnu Bawa Tenaya said after lead-ing a roll-call here on Saturday.

He noted that security measures must be tightened because legisla-tive campaigns were underway for the upcoming April 9 legislative elections.

The regional military com-mander stressed that personnel involved in securing the area must understand the standard security procedures for the president, based on their respective tasks.

Currently, a total of 12 national political parties are conducting a

21-day campaign through April 5 for the upcoming legislative elec-tions on April 9, 2014.

The national parties include the National Democratic Party (Nasdem), the National Awaken-ing Party (PKB), the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), the Indonesian Democratic Party Struggle (PDIP), the Golkar Party (Golkar), and the Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra).

The line-up also includes the Democratic Party (Demokrat), the National Mandate Party (PAN), the United Development Party (PPP), the People’s Conscience Party (Hanura), the Crescent Star Party (PBB) and the Indonesian Justice and Unity Party (PKPI).

Megawati reveals reasons for picking Jokowi

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Candidate president from Indonesia Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP), Joko Widodo, spending his time at Gianyar traditional market on Sunday, March 23. The general chairperson of the Indonesia Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP), Megawati Soekarnoputri, has revealed her reason for choosing Joko Widodo (Jokowi) as the party’s presidential can-didate.

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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.

Balinese Temple Ceremony


Calendar Event for March 5 through May 21, 2014

5 Mar Hari Urip 6 Mar Hari Patetegan7 Mar Pengeradanan Pura Dadia Agung Pasek Kabayan Penebel Tabanan

8 Mar Saraswati Pura Pasek tangkas Gempinis Dalang TabananPura Pasek Gelgel Sayan AbiansemalPura Watu Gunung BimaPura Agung Jagat Karana SurabayaPura Aditya Jaya JakartaPura Pemaksan Banyuning TimurPura Agung Wira Loka Cimahi Jawa Barat

9 Mar Hari Banyu Pinaruh 10 Mar Soma ribek Pura Jati JembranaPura Kawitan Bayu Gaiyang BangliTirta Wening SurabayaPura Desa Lingga Wana Abang Karangasem

11 Mar Sabuh Mas12 Mar Hari Pagerwesi Pura Labang Sindu JiwaUbudPura Kehen BangliPura Wira Bhuana Magelang Jawa tengahPura Padang Sakti Denpasar TimurPura Payogan Agung Ketewel GianyarPura Gaduh Pangiasan Dauh Puri DenpasarPura Masceti Tampak SiringPura Dalem Ularan DenpasarPura Siwa Penebel TabananPura Luhur Sliki BanyuwangiPura Gunung Lebah UbudPura Puseh Sukawati

15 Mar Purnama Sasih Kesanga Pura Nataran Sasih Pejeng GianyarPura Bukit Mentik Gunung lebah Batur Kintamani

17 Mar Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan 22 Mar Tumpek Landep Pura Mutering Jagat Dalem Sidakarya

DenpasarPura Agung Pasek TabananPura Pasek Tangkas TabananPura Kerta Banyuning BulelengPura Dalem Tenggaling Singapadu GianyarPura Bhujangga JembranaPura Dalem pingit TegalalangPura Penataran Pande Pandean MengwiPura Ida Ratu Pande BesakihPura Penataran AGung TulikupPura Kumuda Saraswati UbudPura Batur Arya Tabanan

23 Mar radite Umanis Ukir Sanggah Gede Dukuh Segening Tegal Tugu Gianyar

26 Mar Buda Cemeng Ukir Pura Pajenengan Kawitan Arya Gelgel KelungkungPura Pasar Agung BesakihPura Pasek Bendesa Legian Kuta BadungPura Gde Gunung Agung Munggu BadungPura Puseh Bebalang BangliPura Dalem Peruncak BadungPura Pasek Bendesa Hyang Krobokan BadungPura Kereban Langit Mengwi Badung

28 Mar Melasti Pakiyisan Ke Segara Pura Pasek Gelgel Kukuh Marga

30 Mar Tilem Kesanga Tawur Agung 31 Mar Hari raya Nyepi 1 May Buda Kajeng Kliwon Enyitan 2 May Bhatara Sri Ida Ratu Geng BesakihPura Penataran Agung BesakihIda Ratu Raja Puraus BesakihMerajan Saloding Besakih

6 May Anggara Kasih Juluwangi Pura Thirta Harum Tegal Wangi BangliPura Baratan BaturitiPura Batu Klotok Klungkung

Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Wanasari TabananPura Ibu Wanagiri Selemadeg TabananPura Manik Bingin Dukuh Sidemen

7 May Pura Penataran Gana Bebalang BangliPura Dalem Gede Pande BangliPura Puncak Sari Sangeh Abian SemalPura Puseh Penegil Dharma Kubu Tam-bahan BangliPura Dalem Maya Blahbatuh GianyarPura Linggih Betara Kayu Selem Penataran Agung Besakih

13 May Purnama Sasih Jiyestha Pura Dwija Warsa MalangPura Pucak Tinggah Angsri BaturitiPura Kawitan Luhur Bhujangga Jati Lu-wih PenebelPura Kawitan Batur Pande Tonja Tonja DenpasarPura Penataran Agung Sidemen Karan-gasemPura Maospahit Grenceng Denpasar

15 May Sugihan Jawa Pura Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Tang-kas KlungkungPura Siang Kangin Peninjoan Tembuku BangliPura Ida Ratu Mas Penataran Agung BesakihPura Ida Bhatara Bang Tulus Besakih

16 May Sugihan Bali Dan Kajeng Kliwon 18 May Penyekeban 19 May Penyajaan Galungan 20 May Penampahan Galungan21 May Hari raya Galungan Pura Wakika Kupang NTTPura Agung Girinatha Sumbawa Besar NTBPura Dukuh Sakti Dukuh Kediri Ta-bananPura Atambuananta Kutamba NTTPura Webananta Kupang NTTPura Giripati Mulawarman PontianakPura Mustika Dharma Cijantung Jakarta Timur

Sofitel, the only worldwide French luxury hotel brand launched its innovative Wine Dinner event aimed at highlighting its rich variety of French vintage wines. Held at the hotel’s Cut, Catch, Cucina (CCC) restaurant, the event saw guests treated to a world-class five courses set menu. Our in-house French wine experts at Sofitel Bali Nusa Dua Beach Resort had personally handpicked a selection of rare French wines. The wine list was specially tailored with prestigious French vineyard collection including Chateau Ducru’s Beaucaillou exclusive from 1982, 1990 and 2001, Croix de Beaucaillou 2003 and Chateau Lalande’s Borie 2004.

“We had prioritized our exceptional wine collection over more conventional choices already offered in different Sofitel locations and countries. As the cus-tomer glanced down our Sofitel favorites list, they found themselves transported to France where it would be impossible to resist the pleasure of tasting our wines amidst a candle lit dinner,” stated the release.

The dinner, prepared by Executive Chef Daine Gilbert, a skilled and qualified Australian-born food artisan, and his culinary team. Chef Daine remarked taste-fully, “The event is sure to provide an incredible epicurean experience, especially for the wine enthusiast.”

The elegant surroundings at Sofitel Bali Nusa Dua Beach Resort provided the perfect setting for an evening of tasteful delight and an exceptionally elite dining experience. The cocktail reception began promptly at 5.00 PM. At just IDR1,299,000++ this dinner was sure to please even the most criti-cal oenophile.

IBP/Courtesy of Sofitel

Sofitel present Wine dinnerIBP

NUSA DUA - An evening of exclusivity lied in store for Bali’s guests on March 14th 2014 when the Sofitel Bali Nusa Dua Beach Resort hosted its inaugural Chateau Ducru-Beaucaillou Domains Borie Wine Dinner.

“The prayer was based on our belief that removal of the Vishnu Murti statue is feared to have a negative impact on our residents,” said the Chief of Kediri customary village, AA Ngurah Panji Wisnu.

He also added that in the prayers at this time, villagers also present-ed guru piduka oblations symbolizing the apology if there were any mistakes, so the villagers could be kept away from any disasters.

“Hopefully, what we have carried out today can become a consid-eration for the local government to restore the Vishnu Murti statue to the original place,” he explained.

On that occasion, he reiterated that in this case his party was not in the capacity to support or reject, but everything having been un-dertaken was solely to pray for safety and avoid disasters.

“We deliberately restrict the residents participating in the worship activity at this time. They are only the representatives of each hamlet so as not to interfere with the traffic flows,” he said.

Related to this matter, he also hoped this issue should not be overextended so that it would not turn ambiguous and become a prolonged polemic. (kmb28)

Bali PostMANGUPURA - Friction in society

in the ogoh-ogoh (papier mâché demon) parade on Pengrupukan Day potentially oc-curs. It can happen if the ogoh-ogoh parade is infiltrated by political interests ahead of the legislative election. Based on this consideration, the regent of Badung issued a circular which urged the public to abolish the ogoh-ogoh parade.

Spokesperson of Badung Regional Secre-tariat, AA Raka Yuda, revealed on Saturday (Mar 22) that in the circular of the Badung regent related to the Nyepi Day of Caka Year 1936 was mentioned that ogoh-ogoh should be abolished. It was based on con-sideration that the ogoh-ogoh itself was not the paraphernalia having close relation to the implementation of the Tawur Kesanga and Pengrupukan.

Besides, in order to implement the Pengerupukan and maintain the secure and conducive atmosphere, it was not allowed

to conduct the activities resulting in loud noises, explosions and the like. Related to the series of the Nyepi Day, Regent Gde Agung asked the Hindus to carry out the Catur Brata Penyepian (four abstinences) as well as possible according to the Hindu teachings.

In fact, the appeal not to implement the ogoh-ogoh parade could not dampen the creativity of younger generation. As proof, some areas in Badung such as Kuta remained to organize the ogoh-ogoh parade this year.

Responding to that matter, Raka Yuda asserted that Badung government did not prohibit the implementation of ogoh-ogoh parade. Even, the circular had firmly ex-pressed if it was only an appeal. “Ogoh-ogoh may be held provided that there is a security guarantee from the local customary village in coordination with relevant secu-rity forces. The ogoh-ogoh cannot be ridden with political interests,” he said. (kmb25)

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The residents of Kediri pray on the intersection during Tumpek Landep celebration

To invoke safety, Kediri residents worship at central intersectionBali Post

TABANAN - Coinciding with the Tumpek Landep feast, hundreds of villagers of Kediri, Tabanan, consisting of seven hamlets organized a ritual prayer at the catus pata or central intersection of Kediri, Saturday morning (Mar 22). This worship was to invoke in order that all residents of Kediri could be bestowed with wellbeing and kept away from all kinds of danger that could possibly arise after the removal of the vishnu Murti statue.

Vulnerably ridden by political interestsBadung regent urged not to hold ogoh-ogoh parade

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One of the ogoh-ogoh made by the Hindus


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A statement Sunday from the Ministry of Transport said Ma-laysia had received the images from “French authorities showing potential objects in the vicinity of the southern corridor.”

That is thought to be close to an area of the Indian Ocean where Australia and China have also had satellites capture images of objects that could be debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which went missing March 8 with 239 people on board.

Air and sea searches since Thurs-day in a remote area of the southern Indian Ocean to determine whether

the objects were from the Malaysia jet have been unsuccessful.

Meanwhile, more planes joined the search Sunday of a remote patch of the southern Indian Ocean in hopes of finding answers to the fate of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, after China released a satellite image showing a large object float-ing in the search zone.

The desolate area in the Indian Ocean is about 2,500 kilometers (1,550 miles) southwest of Perth, Australia, where three days of search-ing for similar images from another satellite that emerged earlier in the week have produced no results.

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority, which is coordinating the operation from the country’s western coast, said it refined the search based on the latest clue from the Chinese satellite showing an object that appeared to be 22 meters (72 feet) by 13 meters (43 feet). It said the object’s position also fell within Saturday’s search area but it had not been sighted.

Sunday’s search involving eight aircraft has been split into two areas within the same proximity covering 59,000 square kilometers (22,800 square miles). These areas have been determined by drift modelling, the AMSA said.

Despite the frustrating lack of answers, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott was upbeat.

“Obviously we have now had a number of very credible leads

and there is increasing hope — no more than hope, no more than hope — that we might be on the road to discovering what did happen to this ill-fated aircraft,” Abbott told reporters in Papua New Guinea.

Malaysian Defense Minister His-hammuddin Hussein put a message on his Twitter account Sunday asking those in churches around the country to offer a “prayer please” for the pas-sengers and crew on Fight 370.

More than 300 Malaysian cy-cling enthusiasts rode their bikes to the Kuala Lumpur airport to remember the people onboard the jet. The cyclists decorated the bikes with small Malaysian flags and stickers that read “Pray for MH370.”

Seven planes left a base near Perth, where an intense wind was blowing, for a four-hour journey

to the search region, the safety authority said. One more will fly out later. The HMAS Success, an Australian navy supply ship, is also taking part.

A cold front was forecast to move through the region later Sunday, which could bring clouds and wind, further hampering efforts to locate any debris thought to be from the plane.

The latest satellite image is another clue in the baffling search for Flight 370, which dropped off air traffic control screens March 8 over the Gulf of Thailand with 239 people on board.

“China hopes that these data will be helpful for searching and rescuing efforts,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said in a statement.

France has images of possible jet debris

Associated Press

KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia says France has satellite images of objects that could be from a passenger jet that went missing more than two weeks ago.

AP Photo/Rob Griffith

Two Chinese Ilyushin IL-76s aircraft sit on the tarmac at RAAF Pearce base ready to join the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in Perth, Australia, Sunday, March 23, 2014. More planes were joining the search Sunday of a remote patch of the southern Indian Ocean in hopes of finding answers to the fate of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, after China released a satellite image showing a large object floating in the search zone.

“The first time I read it, I got scared,” the director says. “I thought, ‘What if I’m not good enough to get on the boat?’” It’s an altogether unlikely project: a $130 million Bible-based studio film made by a widely respected filmmaker (“Black Swan,” ‘’Requiem for a Dream”) few would have pegged as a modern-day DeMille. In the lead-up to its March 28th release, “Noah” has been flooded by controversy, with some religious con-servatives claiming it isn’t literal enough to the Old Testament and that Noah has been inaccurately made, as Aronofsky has called him, “the first environmentalist.”

“Noah” is a culmination of the shift brought on by Mel Gibson’s indepen-dently produced “The Passion of the Christ,” which awakened Hollywood with its unforeseen $612 million box of-fice haul in 2004. In the time since, Hol-lywood has carefully developed closer ties to faith-based communities, (Sony and 20th Century Fox have set up faith-based studios targeting evangelicals).

Yet the debate about “Noah” proves that it can be tricky to satisfy both believers and non-believers, and that

finding the right intersection of art, commerce and religion is a task loaded with as much risk as potential reward. A lot is at stake, and not just for “Noah” and distributor Paramount Pictures. In December, Fox will release Ridley Scott’s “Exodus,” starring Christian Bale as Moses.

On the heels of the recently re-leased “Son of God,” the religious drama “God’s Not Dead” opened Friday and Sony is releas-ing the less straight-forwardly Biblical “Heaven Is for Real” ahead of Easter next month. The studio is also developing a vampire twist on Cain and Able with Will Smith. In Li-onsgate’s pipeline is a Mary Magdalene film, hyped as a pre-quel to “The Passion of the Christ” and co-produced by mega-

church pastor Joel Osteen.When Jonathan Boch started his com-

pany Grace Hill Media in 2000 to consult Hollywood studios on reaching the faith community, the two “really didn’t know each other,” he says. Since then, films like “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” and “The Blind Side” have benefited from outreach to churchgoers.


LONDON — In a high-profile case of mistaken identity by a Premier League referee, the wrong Arsenal player was sent off during Saturday’s 6-0 loss at Chelsea — adding a farcical element to a one-sided encounter between the two title rivals. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain blatant-ly handled in the penalty area in the 15th minute, making a diving save to tip away Eden Hazard’s shot when Arsenal was al-ready 2-0 down. But Oxlade-Chamberlain escaped any sanction and referee Andre Marriner instead sent off defender Kieran Gibbs for no obvious reason.

Oxlade-Chamberlain was seen saying “it was me” to Marriner but the referee ignored protests, while his assistants also failed to spot the mistake. Marriner later admitted he made a mistake via a state-ment from the Premier League referees’ body, with officials prevented from speak-ing publicly to the media.

“Andre is an experienced referee and is obviously disappointed that an error of mistaken identity was made in this case,” Professional Game Match Officials said in a statement. “Incidents of mistaken iden-

tity are very rare and are often the result of a number of different technical factors. “Whilst this was a difficult decision Andre is disappointed that he failed to identify the correct player. He expressed his disap-pointment to Arsenal when he was made aware of the issue.”


“The sending off is a big ammunition for people like me that thinks that one little screen in front of the fourth official is a big help against these kinds of mis-takes,” Mourinho said.





‘Noah,’ revival of Bible epics, finds rough seas

AP Photo/Paramount Pictures, Niko Tavernise

This image released by Paramount Pictures shows Rus-sell Crowe as Noah in a scene from the film, “Noah.”


NEW YORK — In the beginning of their work together on “Noah,” director Darren Aronofsky made Russell Crowe a promise: “I’ll never shoot you on a houseboat in a robe and sandals with two giraffes popping up behind you.” Decades after Cecil B. DeMille’s “The Ten Commandments” and “Ben-Hur,” Aronofsky has renewed the tradition of the studio-made, mass-audience Bible epic, albeit as a distinctly darker parable about sin, justice and mercy. While much of his “Noah” is true to Scripture, it’s nothing like the picture-book version many encounter as children.

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