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The Head of Buleleng Public Works, Putu Yasa, when contacted confirmed that the coastal territory of Northern Bali continued to be beset by abrasion and getting worse. Yasa said the most severe abrasion occurred on Hepi Beach, Tukadmungga village, Buleleng.

The beach taken advantage for tourist area abraded along about one kilometer from the end of the breakwater of Hotel Baruna towards the west to coastal area

of Anturan village, Buleleng. The beach was abraded due to tidal wave disasters occurred a few years ago. When enter-ing the season of bad weather lately, the condition of abraded area was getting worsened. “The Hepi Beach indeed has been abraded and it is getting worsened in this bad weather condition. We still continue to make data collection while monitoring, so the data of the abraded area will become clear,” he said.

In addition to Hepi Beach at Tukad-mungga, the Penimbangan Beach is also in severe enough abrasion. However, the affected beach is only 50 meters long.

The most severe damaged beach oc-curred just north of the Penimbangan Temple. The breakwater having been installed since a few years ago are now destroyed after being hit by tidal waves.

48 kilometers of beach in Buleleng hit by abrasion

Bali Post

SINGARAJA - Coastal territory of Bule-leng has continued to be besieged by abrasion

recently. Even, when entering the season of bad weather lately, condition of the abraded

coastal area worsened. So far, the abraded area occurred approximately along 48,262 ki-

lometers of the total length of coastal territory in North Bali reaching 157 kilometers.

Coastal territory of Buleleng has continued to be besieged by abrasion recently. Even, when entering the season of bad weather lately, con-dition of the abraded coastal area worsened. IBP/File Photo

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Seth Meyers has departed “Saturday Night Live,” just

weeks before he begins his new job as host of “Late Night.” Meyers co-anchored

“Weekend Update” on the NBC sketch-comedy series for eight seasons and

was joined for his farewell newscast by “SNL” alumni Amy Poehler, Andy Sam-

berg, Bill Hader and Fred Armisen.They told Meyers they had come to

take him “to the other side.” Meyers called his “SNL” tenure “the job I always wanted.” He joined the cast in 2001. He’ll

take over at NBC’s “Late Night” on Feb. 24. “SNL” head writer Colin Jost will

replace Meyers at the “Weekend Update” anchor desk alongside Cecily Strong. He

signs on March 1.

Blige opened the show and had many in the crowd ignoring their din-ner by the end of her energetic set, which included hits like “I’m Goin’ Down,” ‘’Good Woman Down” and an impassioned rendition of “No More Drama” that brought the crowd to its feet. Serenading a swanky Manhattan crowd, Legend said he never thought he’d see the day a Super Bowl came to New York City.

Then he corrected himself: “More

accurately, New Jersey.” With that, he launched into a song by one of New Jersey’s favorite sons Bruce Springsteen: “Dancing in the Dark.”

Guests — who included supermodel Petra Nemcova, TV hosts Stephen Col-bert, Katie Couric and Gayle King, and film producer Harvey Weinstein — were served lobster, strip loin and branzino. The theme being fitness, dinner also included offerings of kale smoothies and nonalcoholic shots made with lemon

and ginger.A charity auction during the dinner

brought in hefty sums, including $8,000 for a dinner for six at Rao’s, a New York restaurant that’s notoriously difficult to get into, and $4,000 for a Movado sports watch.

Beneficiaries included the Happy Hearts Fund, which Nemcova intro-duced and which rebuilds schools and helps children after natural disasters.

The three performers each chose a charity to receive funds: Legend chose the Show Me Campaign, which works to give children access to quality education; Blige chose the Mary J. Blige Founda-tion for the Advancement of Women Now Inc.; and Anthony chose Maestro Cares, which works with orphaned chil-dren in Latin America.

Blige, Legend, Anthony head-

line NY Super Bowl bash

This image released by Starpix shows John Legend

performing at the Shape Magazine and Men’s Fitness Super Bowl Party at Cipriani

42nd Street on Friday, Jan. 31, 2014, in New York.

AP Photo/Starpix, Dave Allocca


NEW YORK — Mary J. Blige, John Legend and Marc Anthony kicked off the American football championship Super Bowl weekend in style by serenading a celebrity-filled crowd in Manhattan. Hundreds of New Yorkers and visitors packed into Cipriani’s 42nd Street on Friday night for a party sponsored by Shape and Men’s Fitness magazines. Tickets cost $2,500 per person.

Seth Meyers off ‘Saturday Night

Live’ for new job

Tense Thai elections go ahead despite protests

Syrian forces launch new Aleppo strikes

Valencia beats Barcelona 3-2 in Spanish league

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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 January 1 through February 26, 2014

1 Jan Buda Kliwon Matal, Kajeng Kliwon And Tilem Sasih Kenam Pura Desa Sukawati SukawatiPura Pasek Gelgel Gelgel BebetinPura Maspahit SesetanPura Padharman Arya Kanuruhan Besakih

11 Jan Tumpek Kandang Pura Desa GianyarPura Luhur Dalem Sagening Kediri TabananPura Sang Hyang Tegal Tegalalang

15 Jan Purnama Sasih Kapitu Pura Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Kaja GianyarPura Puseh Manakaji Peninjauan BangliPura Taman Limut Pengosekan Mas UbudPura Benua BesakihPura Gunung Rena Sidemen KarangasemPura Pasek Gelgel Abadi KarangasemPura Pucak Gunung Mangun Kubu Karangasem

16 Jan Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan 17 Jan Hari Bhatara Sri 21 Jan Anggara Kasih Prangbakat Pura Bukit Buluh Gunaksa KlungkungPura Tirtha Sidamala Bebalang BangliPura Gunung Pangsong LombokPura Dalem Benawah GianyarPura Dalem Bitra GianyarPura Pura Hyang Haluh/Jenggala Besakih

Pura Tengkulak Tulikup GianyarPura Taman Sari UbudPura Penataran Badung

29 Jan Hari Siwaratri

30 Jan Tilem Sasih Kepitu Pura Buana Kawan BesakihPura Ulun Kulkul Besakih

31 Jan Kajeng Kliwon Enyitan

5 Feb Buda Kliwon Ugu Pura Dalem Tarukan Peninjauan Tem-buku BangliPura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah Bule-lengPura Kayangan Tiga Seririt BulelengPura Agung Gunung Raung Taro Tegalalang

6 Feb Pura Dalem Puri Besakih

14 Feb Purnama Sasih Kawulu Pura Dalem Batur BangliPura Ida Ratu Pasek BesakihPura Dalem Suci Sidemen KarangasemPura Buana Kawan Besakih

15 Feb Tumpek Wayang & Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan Pura Majapahit JembranaPura Panti Gelgel Pengembungan SesetanPura Pedarman Dalem Sukawati BesakihPura Pedarman Mengwi BesakihPura Pedarman Kaba-kaba BesakihPura Pedarman Dalem Bakas BesakihPura Pedarman Dinasti Dalem Besakih

Pura Penataran Giri Purwo Tegal Delimo BanyuwangiPura jala Sidhi amerta Juanda Surabaya

19 Feb Buda Cemeng Kelawu Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang KarangasemPura Melanting Camenggaon SukawatiPura Penataran ped Nusa PenidaPura Gaduhan Jagat Singakerta UbudPura Masceti Sanding Tampak SiringPura Penataran Batu Lepang Kamasan KelungkungPura Paibon Pasek Gelgel Kedonganan KutaPura Guwa BesakihPura Basukian BesakihPura Jati UbudPura Melanting UbudPura Dalem Peed Nusa PenidaPura Sad Kayangan Nusa PenidaPura Penataran Agung Gunung Karangasem

21 Feb Hari Bhatara Sri 25 Feb Anggara Kasih Dukut Pura Dalem Batuyang BatubulanPura Pasek Gelgel Mengening Kediri TabananPura Pasek Undagi Krambitan TabananPura Pucak Taman bedulu GianyarPura Puser Jagat Nusa PenidaPura Dalem Purwa Kawan BangliPura Desa Ketewel Gianyar

26 Feb Pura Agung Pasek gelgel Sibang Kaja Abian SemalPura Dalem Samprangan Gianyar

The Aston Bojonegoro City Hotel is situated in the centre of Bojonegoro; a flourishing regency of North Java’s inland plain, about 110km west of Surabaya. Fringing the banks of the largest river in Java – the Bengawan Solo River – Bojonegoro is attracting nationwide attention due to a recent oil field discovery, bringing with it a wealth of savvy business travelers.

Responding to this rapid economic development, the Aston Bojonegoro City Hotel has been conceptualized to become the leading international 3-star hotel in the region, catering to the increasing domestic demand for contemporary, quality, and business-friendly hotels in Indonesia. Conveniently so, the hotel is located in the heart of the city, close to a number of business and government offices.

The hotel will be an international standard 3 star+ hotel, boasting 134 stylishly bedecked rooms and suites. Savvy business travel-ers will be well catered for with innovative meeting rooms and a grand pillar-less ballroom that can accommodate up to 600 guests. Leisure travelers will enjoy the luxurious outdoor swimming pool, fully kitted out fitness center and an indulgent day spa. Sumptuous food and beverage outlets will include an all-day dining café and Bojonegoros’s first and only upscale hotel bar & lounge. IBP/Courtesy of Archipelago International

Aston Bojonegoro opensIBP

JAKArTA - The 3rd week of January Archipelago Inter-national’s opens Aston Bojonegoro City Hotel. Just 5 minutes from the city center, train station, government offices and the banking district, this new build will be both convenient and business-friendly.

A resident who lives near the tourist information board said on Friday (Jan 31) that it was built at roadside by local authority a few years ago. It was usually used for placing tourist activi-ties announcement at Lovina and as a promotional tool for the management of hotels and restaurants. Surprisingly, the facil-ity was left in poor condition. Even, the poles looked oblique and almost collapsed. The roof collapsed and the board ragged after being stuck with brochures and posters. No wonder such condition was often complained by travelers. They were dis-appointed because the tourist information board was vile and rundown. “It’s been long not repaired whereas travelers often complained about the condition of the tourist information board almost collapsing,” he said.

Other than tourist information board looking in apprehensive condition, the signpost name of Kalibukbuk village right at the entrance into Lovina Beach had also been left in damaged condition since few years ago. Building of the village name signpost made of concrete has long collapsed. No one knows why it collapses. Chunks of the concrete are now left strewn over the pavement. Again, the debris harms the beauty of Lovina having been well known as an international village.

Residents who saw such condition admitted to be dis-appointed as the government deliberately ignored the de-struction of the supporting facilities at the Lovina tourist attraction. They hoped that technical agencies in charge could pay attention to such condition and provide relief fund to repair the damage. (mud)

Bali PostSEMARAPURA - The damage

of embankment along the coastline of Nusa Penida has been getting severer. After destroyed, a serious abrasion now starts to erode the highway. For instance, the ring road leading to Mentigi Market, Mentigi hamlet, Batununggul village, has already been damaged as hit by tidal waves. Moreover, the road composed of land and limestone is very easily destroyed by the wave brunt.

The ring road is very busy with daily activities. Its location near the Mentigi Public Market is frequently complained by residents. It has been going on since the past two years. Lately, the damage is getting

severer because the row of levees previously protecting the road has also collapsed and even destroyed. Asphalt layer looks to have come off and has lots of big gaping hole. Almost along the shoreline at this village, the levees built of limestone have been destroyed and need to be fixed immediately.

Last week, a number of regional working units (SKPD) checked the condition directly. Location being not far from the Mentigi Harbor also made the relevant agencies to imme-diately address the issue seriously. Chief of Dalem Setra Batununggul customary village, I Dewa Nyoman Yusa, had also complained about the damage to the embankment at Batununggul village. It was one of

the road accesses and alternative for residents to perform activities crossing the villages. “I worry if it is not immediately repaired the road access can be broken and the activities of people will also get disturbed,” he said.

Since long time ago the Nusa Penida subdistrict has been besieged by abrasion. The district is the most seriously affected. Based on the data of Public Works, among the 13 existing beaches, a total of 13,550 meters had been affected by abrasion and had not been handled yet. Most shoreline damages occurred to Sen-tal Beach and Suana Beach. Of the length of the Sental Beach reaching 18,000 meters, along 4,500 meters had not been handled. Similar condi-

tion also happened to Suana Beach. The damaged happened to 4,000 meters of the total length of 15,000 meters and the area was also prone to abrasion. Overall, along 18,850 meters of the beach in Nusa Penida were very prone to abrasion. Mean-while, the handled area only reached 9,129.96 meters.

The Head of Klungkung Public Works, A.A. Ngurah Agung, said on Friday (Jan 31) the damage to the road of Batununggul village would be fixed soon through the routine maintenance budget worth IDR 400 million. In addition to Batununggul village, the other road damage also occurred in Nusa Penida. Mean-while, physical activity of road improvement for road improvement

in Nusa Penida as a whole had been allocated as much as IDR 3.5 billion. However, his party could not give more details related to the location of the physical activity budget. In addition, levee repair this year was also budgeted at IDR 300 million for damages at two locations.

However, when asked about the location of the levees he claimed to have forgotten it. AA Ngurah Agung added that the River Region Agency for Bali - Penida also allo-cated a fund for repair of the levees in Nusa Penida at IDR 1 billion. “We will immediately coordinate with the agency again. The dam-aged embankment in Nusa Penida is quite long and must be repaired immediately,” he said. (kmb31)

Embankment collapses, ring road at risk of being disconnected

IBP/File

The damage information board is seen on Lovina Beach, Buleleng

Tourist information board rundownBali Post

SINGArAJA - Supporting tourism facilities at Lovina seems to get less maximal touch of maintenance by local government. As proof, the tourist information board established at roadside of Singaraja-Seririt, precisely at Kalibukbuk village, Lovina, looks in apprehensive condition. Even, the pole of the board almost collapses and the roof is leaking. Not surpris-ingly, such condition is often complained by travelers visiting Lovina.

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If the agriculture of Bali col-lapsed, the tourism would collapse as well. On that account, there should be a continuous effort to syn-ergize the agriculture and tourism where one of the ways was through the development of agrotourism. “Unfortunately, the development of agro-tourism in Bali stays to get less serious attention from the govern-ment whereas the potential is huge,” said Jelantik Sanjaya.

This politician from Karangasem confirmed that the discovery and development of the agrotourism potential in the regions across Bali

Bali Post

SINGARAJA - Celebration of Chinese New Year 2565 by Chinese descendant community took place with splendor. Some Chinese New Year ornaments like lanterns, banners and trinkets were dominated by red and yellow to make the atmosphere more festive. As observation at the Tri Dharma Chinese temple at TITD Seng Hong Bio, the pilgrims thronged the temple with their children and families.

One of the pilgrims named Kadek Darsana, 35, said that ahead of the Chinese New Year celebration at this time he prepared an offering to the ancestors. “In this year’s celebration, I offer lunar fruits such as grapes, rambutan, dragon fruit and typical pastries of Chinese New Year,” he said on Friday (Jan 31).

In line with the other pilgrims in the TITD Seng Hong Bio, Jenny S., 50, from Seririt, said she came with her family to the temple to invoke blessings. “Our family along with children hopes that we can be bestowed with the mercy of luck and health without lacking of nothing,” she said.

At different location in the TITD Ling Gwan Kiong were seen hundreds of pilgrims to flock the place of worship alternately. According to Harmini, more Chinese-descendant pilgrims came to pay homage in this Chinese New Year than previous years. “Atmosphere of the Chinese New Year this year seems more festive and crowded. My grandchildren come together to pray in order to be blessed and given a safety this year,” she said.

Most pilgrims come from the Pupuan, Busungbiu and Banyuatis area. Lien Wiek, 63, the temple guardian explained the weather this year was very bright and the pilgrims were very happy to come to temple. “Last year’s celebration was flushed by rain, but now the weather is very sunny in Singaraja. The TITD Ling Gwan Kiong is fairly old established in 1873 and it has significant meaning to Chinese-descendant people in Singaraja and surrounding areas,” he explained.

Meanwhile, Ceng Eng Sing, 78, added that he would continue to pre-serve the temple with young people and communities. This Lunar year was expected to be a source of fortune and strengthen the Chinese-descendant people from various parts of Indonesia. “We are concerned to preserve this temple. The atmosphere each year is also getting crowded, so we are more encouraged when Chinese New Year comes. The Chinese New Year 2565 this time is graced with the arts and cultural acculturation by featuring the art of Gong Kebyar from the hamlet nearby. It is intended to make the atmosphere of the Chinese New Year celebration more festive and crowded,” he said. (dgk)

Agrotourism development not worked on seriouslyBali Post

DENPASAR - Many circles assess that tourism development in Bali has gone too far and sacrificed the agriculture in Bali as indicated by farmland conversion for the benefit of prop-erty or tourism supporting facilities. Actually, said a member of the House of Representative, Commission IV, in charge of the agriculture, livestock, fisheries and forestry, AA Good Jelantik Sanjaya, the agriculture of Bali with the socio-cultural life in it had become one of the important elements or factors that supported tourism.

pursuant to the characteristics and their agricultural potential posed the appropriate development models to support the cultural tourism devel-opment model echoed all this time and could alleviate the gap between the tourism and agricultural sector.

He said the agrotourism posed the farm-based tourism develop-ment involving the agricultural activities ranging from planting to post-harvest or processing of the agricultural products to the socio-cultural activities in it. In that con-text, the farming in Bali was very closely related to cultural or ritual

activities believed to become an attraction to tourists when it was packaged better in the frame of the agrotourism development.

“Now, a lot of regions have been developing the agrotourism such as Karangasem and Kintamani in Bangli. However, they have not yet been fully completed. At least, they only showed off how to plant coffee and then process it into civet coffee and other agricultural practices. In the future, this agrotourism should be expanded and integrated with social and cultural life of our farm-ers,” he said.

Jelantik Sanjaya pointed out the development of ecotourism in the context of organic farming. For example, travelers could be invited to see the processing of cow dung into compost or the packag-ing of organic vegetables or fruits. In the context of subak as part of the agrotourism, for example, he said, travelers could be invited to see how the awig-awig or bylaw of the subak was applied and how the Tri Hita Karana concept was implemented in the farming life, especially concerning with the religious ceremony.

“Agrotourism must be made into a single package or attraction to travelers so as to give the im-pression if the organic farming has been populistic and involved in the region such as in the Jatiluwih re-gion. There will be no longer com-pany that is only looking for their own benefits but how the profits of

this agrotourism can be earned by people at the village concerned,” he said.

He added if the government was serious about building the agriculture and had a good will to synergize the agriculture and tour-ism it should give attention and a great support to the development of agrotourism. For example, it could fix or set up a good road infrastructure to the agrotourism destination, help educate and as-sist farmers in the agrotourism management, promotion and mar-keting. “The institution of farmer also plays a major role here so there will be no post-harvest losses due to middlemen tricks. Here, the government should facilitate the processing of the agricultural products to enhance the economic value as well as guarantee the marketing and other aspects,” he said. (kmb29)

Celebration of Chinese New Year 2565 lasts vibrantly in Singaraja

IBP/Dewa Kusuma

Celebration of Chinese New Year 2565 by Chinese descendant community took place with splendor. Some Chinese New Year ornaments like lanterns, banners and trinkets were domi-nated by red and yellow to make the atmosphere more festive.

The festival at Mohenjodaro aims to publicize the cultural heritage of the country’s south. But it drew controversy when some archaeologists said the event posed a threat to the site’s unbaked brick ruins dating to the 3rd millennium BC. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the son of assas-sinated Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, organized the event at Mohenjodaro, associ-ated with one of the world’s first urban societies, the Indus Valley civilization.

Benazir Bhutto was killed in a 2007 gun and bomb attack widely blamed on Pakistani Taliban and Bilawal has made opposi-tion to militancy a pillar of his platform.

Saturday night’s event was inaugurated by the 25-year-old politician, who now heads the

Pakistan People’s Party. His fa-ther served one term as the coun-try’s president but it has been the younger Zardari who has become the public face of the party. It is especially strong in Sindh prov-ince, the family’s homeland and the location of Mohenjodaro.

The festival has been seen as part of efforts to raise the younger Zardari’s profile on the national political stage. Zardari selected Mohenjodaro “to promote local culture, peace and tolerance,” government official Saqib Ahmed Soomro said. About 500 guests were in attendance — many flown in from the port city of Ka-rachi. Roughly 2,000 police of-ficers provided security although militant attacks are relatively rare in that part of Sindh province.

The festival drew controversy when archaeologists said they

fear the stage and other event infrastructure could damage the delicate mud ruins. “It is nothing but insanity” says archaeologist Asma Ibrahim, who is a member of the Management Board for Antiquities and Physical Heritage of the Sindh government. She says the stage and sound and light show could damage walls.

But organizers say there is no risk to the ruins. “There is no risk to Mohenjodaro because of the festival. Rather, it was never decorated the way we have done now,” Soomro said. He said he supervised arrangements for the festival to make sure no harm was caused to the site.

Zardari visited the site Thurs-day and said every step was being taken to protect it, and people would not be allowed to roam freely over the ruins.


MECHANICSBURG, Ohio — A motorcycle-loving man’s fam-ily has fulfilled his dying wish — to be buried astride his beloved Harley-Davidson encased in a see-through casket. But it wasn’t easy. The project required an extra-large cemetery plot to accommodate a Plexiglas casket for Billy Standley and his hulking custom-painted 1967 Electra Glide cruiser. Five embalmers worked to prepare his body with a metal back brace and straps to ensure he’ll never lose his seat.

Standley’s family said he’d been talking about it for years and liked to take people to the garage to show off the unusual casket his two sons had built for him. He told people he didn’t just want to ride off to heaven, he wanted the world to see him do it in the big see-through box. “He was a quirky man,” daughter Dorothy Brown said. “But when it comes to us kids, he loved us, he raised us well and, of course, we wanted to help him.”

The Dayton Daily News (http://bit.ly/1dS4hsq ) reported that Standley, of Mechanicsburg, west of Columbus, died of lung cancer Sunday at age 82. He was buried Friday.

Newspaper photos of the prepared casket showed Standley with his eyes closed astride the big bike. He was dressed in black leathers, a white helmet and glasses, his gloved hands grasping the handle-bars.

Standley told his family his motorcycle helped him retain his sense of adventure after he settled down to raise four children, which was quite a compromise for the man who made his start at 13 as ranch hand and rodeo rider.

AP Photo/Shakil Adil

Spotlights are installed at the ruins of Mohenjodaro, listed on UNESCO’s list of world heritage sites, in preparation of a grand cultural festival, near Larkana, some 400 kilometers (248 miles) north of the Pakistani port city of Karachi, Pakistan, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014.

Culture festival opens in ancient Pakistani ruinsAssociated Press Writer

MOHENJODARO, Pakistan — Folk dancers and singers wearing traditional multicolored dresses took the stage Saturday at one of the world’s most ancient archaeological sites in southern Pakistan for a festival that organizers say aspires to promote peace in a nation where political violence has left some 40,000 dead in recent years.

US man buried astride beloved

Harley motorcycle

AP Photo/The News-Sun, Marshall Gorby

The family of Billy Standley, of Mechanicsburg, Ohio, carried out his wish to be buried on his 1967 Harley Davidson motor-cycle Friday, Jan. 31, 2014, burying him in a large Plexiglas casket at Fairview Cemetery in Crawford County, Ohio.

Bali News International4 Monday, February 3, 2014 Monday, February 3, 2014 13International RLDW

The national focus was riveted to the capital where 488 of the capital’s 6,600 polling stations were shut and several skirmishes broke out between protesters intent on disrupting the vote and frustrated would-be voters. The Election Commission said the closure of polls affected more than 6 million registered voters.

In some cases, protesters formed blockades to prevent voters from entering polling stations. Elsewhere, protesters blocked the delivery of ballots and other election materi-als, preventing voting stations from opening. The Election Commission said that hundreds of polling stations in the south, an opposition strong-hold, faced similar problems. Angry voters at one Bangkok district stood outside of closed voting stations waving their identification cards and shouting “Election! Election!”

“We have the right to vote. You don’t have the right to take

that away from us,” said Sasikarn Wannachokechai, a 51-year-old Bangkok resident who said she had never missed a chance to vote.

The outcome of the vote will almost certainly be inconclusive. Because protesters blocked candidate registrations in some districts, parlia-ment will not have enough members to convene. That means beleaguered Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra will be unable to form a government or even pass a budget, and Thailand will be stuck in political limbo for months as by-elections are run in constituen-cies that were unable to vote.

Official results were not expected for weeks, with final counting de-layed until all districts have voted. Advance voting that was scheduled for last Sunday but thwarted in many districts has now been re-scheduled for late February.

The conflict pits demonstrators who say they want to suspend the country’s fragile democracy to

institute anti-corruption reforms against Yingluck’s supporters who know the election will not solve the nation’s crisis but insist the right to vote should not be taken away.

The protesters, a minority that cannot win power at the polls, are demanding the government be re-placed by an unelected council that would rewrite political and elec-toral laws to combat deep-seated problems of corruption and money politics. Yingluck has refused to step down, arguing she is open to reform and that such a council would be unconstitutional.

“This is not a fair election,” said Ampai Pittajit, 65, a retired civil servant helping to block bal-lot boxes in the Bangkok district of Ratchathewi. “I’m doing this because I want reforms before an election. I understand those who are saying this is violating their rights. But what about our rights to be heard?”


ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The African Union urged its members to “speak with one voice” to prevent criminal proceedings at the International Criminal court against sitting presidents, according to a state-ment Saturday.

The 54-nation organization said it was disappointed that a request to the U.N. Security Council to defer the trials of Kenya’s leaders “has not yielded the positive result expected.” The African Union also has sought the deferral of criminal proceedings against Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir, who has been charged with genocide in Darfur.

Only Botswana has opposed the stand taken by the African Union, made in a statement re-ceived Saturday after a summit in Ethiopia attended by 34 leaders. “African states parties should comply with African Union deci-sions on the ICC and continue to speak with one voice,” the state-ment said, adding “There is an imperative need for all member states to ensure that they adhere to and articulate commonly agreed positions ...”

Kenya’s President Uhuru Ke-nyatta and his deputy William Ruto face charges of crimes against humanity at the inter-

national court at The Hague for allegedly orchestrating post-election violence that killed more than 1,000 people following a disputed presidential election in late 2007. Both men deny the charges.

The International Criminal Court has recently come under strong criticism from African leaders who accuse it of racism in indicting only Africans. Coun-tries such as Uganda have sug-gested they may decide to sever ties with the court in solidarity with Kenya. Some Africans also argue that the Kenyan leaders need to concentrate on governing their countries to ensure stability as the region faces unprecedented terrorist challenges.

Ruto’s trial continues at The Hague but the case against Ke-nyatta may collapse. Kenyatta’s trial was to start in November but was postponed to February after the prosecution and defense teams said they needed more time to prepare. The prosecutor in December asked for an ad-ditional three-month adjourn-ment after one witness withdrew and another said they gave false evidence.

A Kenyan court on Friday re-fused to stop the arrest of a jour-nalist wanted by the international court for allegedly interfering with prosecution witnesses in the case against Ruto.

AP Photo/Apichart WeerawongThai policemen guard at a polling station during the general election in Bangkok Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014.

Tense Thai elections go ahead despite protestsAssociated Press Writer

BANGKOK — Protesters trying to derail Thailand’s national elections Sunday forced the closure of hundreds of polling stations in a highly contentious vote that has become the latest flash point in the country’s deepening political crisis. Around the country, the vast majority of voting stations were open and polling proceeded relatively peacefully. Polling stations closed for the day with no reports of violent clashes, easing fears of bloodshed a day after gun battles in Bangkok left seven people wounded.

AP Photo/Kenya PresidencyIn this photo released by the Kenya Presidency, Kenyan Presi-dent Uhuru Kenyatta, center, and Deputy President William Ruto, center-left, are welcomed back by Chief of the Defence Forces Staff Gen. Julius Karangi, center-right, after attending the Afri-can Union (AU) summit in Addis Ababa, at the airport in Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014.

Africa Union urges united stand against ICC trials

Bali Post

GIANYAR - Four foreign guests from various countries who stayed at Yogi House (YH) at Katik Lan-tang hamlet, Singakerta village, Ubud, experienced a theft, Thurs-day (Jan 30). Such incident was just known around 08:00 a.m. and then reported to police station.

Based on the data collected on

Friday (Jan 31), the four guests consisted of Yvette Jong, 34, from the USA who lost one Mac Book Air, while Vincent Michael Sales Math, 21, lost a laptop, an iPhone 5, hard drive, backpack, leather bag, computer charger, USB Flash Stick, wallet containing ID Card, Driving License and cash worth IDR 2,000,000.

Similar unlucky fate was also

suffered by Maria Farrugia, 26, a European nationality, lost an iPhone 4, hard drive, laptop case, leather handbag, head phone, Can-on camera and cash worth USD 800,000, EUR 150 and USD 100. Meanwhile, Matthew Nelson Bell, 29, lost green bag, Mac Book Pro laptop, Go Pro camera, two hard drives, sunglasses, head phone, iPhone and a wallet containing IDR

5,000,000.The theft incident occurred due

to weak security system in the YH. At the time of the incident, the gates of YH were not closed. In ad-dition, the compound wall around the YH was not too high or about 1.20 meters. More ironically, room of the victim was not locked and no security guards were in charge. Therefore, such condition provided

convenience for the culprit to take away the belongings.

Currently police were mak-ing elaborate investigation on the theft case by collecting more data. However, Chief of Ubud Police Wayan Sumara so far could not provide information. Confirmation of media via short message did not receive any answer related to the case. (kmb16)

As stated by Made Sudarta, a tile craftsman from Pangkung hamlet, Pejaten village, Kediri, Saturday (Jan 31), the long rainy season was considered to absolutely hamper the production process. If forced, it was feared the quality of tile produc-tion which so far had already been

well known by the public would be tarnished.

According to him, heat of the sun became an important part of tile dry-ing process. Since wet clay posed the main material of tile, it required the storing phase by placing it in the home yard under sun light before

the burning process.”Therefore, the current rainy season make us difficult to dry the tiles because it lacks of sunlight.

In normal weather, the tile man-ufacturing process can produce 9,000 pieces within a week, while if the weather is like this time the process even reaches up to 3 weeks,” he explained. Quite often, he added, when drying tiles in the yard and it suddenly rained many tiles would be exposed to rainwater and caused them to be damaged. Pejaten posed a village where

almost the entire community was getting involved in the industry of tile, ceramic, iron crafts, candles and various other crafts. Such busi-ness had become the backbone of local economies.

Similarly, most population of the neighboring village, Nyitdah, also had livelihood as a tile craftsman. Rainy season as today was a bar-rier in itself because their drying process remained to rely on nature and highly depended on the weather such as the drying of tiles under the sunlight.

Such condition was also expe-rienced by a brick maker, Nyoman Darsa, 45. According to him, his brick production would be faltered in rainy season due to lack of sunlight. In order to dry, he had to wait until a few days. “Both brick and tile equally need the heat of sunlight because when stored in the furnace can also speed up the drying process of brick. But when rainy season arrives we can do nothing and have to wait for a few days in order the brick can dry,” he concluded. (kmb28)

Four foreign guests suffer theft when staying at lodging

IBP/FileOne of the tile producers in Tabanan Regency

Rainy season hampers tile productionBali Post

TABANAN - Rainy season turns out to be a bad omen for tile artisans in Tabanan. It happens because the quality of product yielded highly depends on the weather. When the production is forced in the current unpredictable weather, it is worried to kindle the loss of quality.

His Excellency Mr. Anak Agung Ngurah Oka Ratmadi, Chairman of the House of Representatives (DPRD) Bali was Chief Guest. Other prominent guests included eminent Balinese painters Nyoman Gunarsa and Made Wianta, noted spiritual guru Ratu Bagus, Chair-man of World Hindu Summit, Prof. I Made Bakta, Mr. Panudiana Khun, Chairman of Indonesian Entrepre-neurs Association (APINDO) Bali Chapter and Shri P.L. Ramanchan-dran, Chief Executive of Bank of India Indonesia.

The event started with the ren-dering of National Anthems of India and Indonesia by school children and teachers of Gandhi Memorial International School (GMIS) Bali, followed by a patri-otic song – Sare Jahan Se Accha Hindosta Hamara.

Welcoming the guests, Consul General A.S. Takhi, informed that this was the first-ever National Day Reception hosted by the Consulate in Bali and also marked the second anniversary of the Consulate, set up by India in mid-January 2012. He elaborated on series of initiatives undertaken by the young Consulate mainly focusing on education, tour-ism, culture, capacity building and trade & investment to strengthen the bilateral relations and deepening people-to-people relations between India & Indonesia in general and Bali and eastern Indonesia in par-

ticular. Ambassador Gurjit Singh high-

lighted that both Indian & Indo-nesia enjoy healthy trade relations worth US$20 billion and the Indian companies have invested about US$15 billion in various sectors of economy in Indonesia. He stated that the world is looking towards our two countries, which would accelerate the economic activities and development & prosperity of not only our two countries but of several other countries in Asia and in the world. He stated that both countries will conduct General Elections during this year and the youth of India & Indonesia will come to the fore in these elections, while elaborating that nearly 30-40 million new voters in Indonesia and 170 million in India will vote for the first time.

Given the large young popula-tion in both our countries, collabo-ration in enhancing the capacity of our human resources is extremely important. The Embassy has launched a book on “Studying in India” in Bahasa Indonesia for the benefit of Indonesian students, lecturers, academicians, to pursue higher education in Indian univer-sities. Recognizing that Indonesia is working in a regional model, the Government of India opened the Consulate in Bali which has completed its second anniversary now. We have also reinvigorated

the activities of the Consulate in Medan. Keeping the importance of working with the regions of Indonesia in mind, the Embassy in Jakarta and the Consulates in Bali and Medan have undertaken sev-eral trade & culture initiatives in East Java, Central Java, Sumatra, East Kalimantan, North Sulawesi and Bali, and stepped up our eco-nomic & cultural engagement with various regions of Indonesia.

His Excellency Cok Ratmadi, Chairman of DPRD Bali conveyed

his warm greetings to the Ambassa-dor, Consul General and all Indians on the Republic Day celebrations and thanked them for choosing Bali for the Reception.

He elaborated on the close coop-eration between India & Indonesia during their colonial period and struggle for independence. He noted that India supported Indonesia’s struggle for freedom and was the first country to recognize Indone-sia’s independence. During his visit to India leading a delegation from

Bali Parliamentarians, he has had fruitful discussions with the Indian Parliamentarians.

He referred to close affinity that Bung Karno and Pt. Nehru shared and their cooperation in fighting against the colonization and in convening the Bandung Asia-Africa Conference. He also referred to the strong religio-cultural influences from India, including Rsi Mar-kandeya’s contribution to develop-ment of society and Pura Besakih in Bali.

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Agence France-Presse

TOKYO - Nearly 70 percent of listed Japanese companies are likely to post sales and profit growth this business year, a sign they are gaining traction after years of deflation, a report said Saturday.

More than 1,000 companies out of about 1,500 firms listed on stock markets are on track to log an-nual rises in both sales and recurring profits for the business year ending in March, the Nikkei business daily said.

The 1,500 companies are expected to post a combined 10 percent rise in sales and a 28 percent increase in recurring profit, the daily said, citing its tally of the companies’ forecasts.

The robust earnings are thanks to stronger exports business benefiting from a weaker yen, while domes-tic consumer spending is also picking up, it said.

Companies are making a steady shift to making profits out of higher sales from the past practice of eking out gains by restructuring businesses, it said.

The tally excluded firms in the financial sector and the report did not mention net profit.

The Nikkei said manufacturers were driving the overall improvement in corporate earnings, with sales expected to jump 16 percent for steelmakers, 14 percent for automakers, and 13 percent for ma-chinery makers.

Companies driven by domestic demand are ben-efiting from a resurgence in consumer spending, it said, pointing to soaring higher sales of jewellery and expensive watches.

Japanese stock prices have jumped and the yen plunged since late 2012 owing to a policy blitz dubbed Abenomics, which meshes government spending with massive central bank monetary easing aimed at stemming 15 years of deflation.

A weak yen is positive for Japanese exporters but inflates the cost of imports.

Japan’s two biggest airlines said Friday that the weak yen sent fuel costs soaring and profits into a nosedive in the nine months to December.

An IMF spokesperson said they could not find a single trigger for the turmoil, but also appeared to warn central banks generally to be cautious about tightening monetary conditions.

“Many emerging economies,

along with other asset classes, have come under renewed market pres-sure in recent days,” the spokesper-son said in an emailed statement.

“While it is difficult to pinpoint a single trigger for the sell-off, the turbulence underscores the

challenging situation that many countries face as a result of tighter external financing conditions, slow-er growth, and softer commodity prices.”

The IMF noted that several coun-tries had responded “forcefully”, not mentioning any by name but apparently referring to sharp inter-est rate hikes by the central banks of South Africa and Turkey, aimed at stabilizing their sinking currencies and stemming capital flight.

However, the spokesman said,

‘the turbulence highlights the need for coherent macroeconomic and financial policies, good commu-nication, and, in some cases, the need for urgent policy action to improve fundamentals and policy credibility.”

Moreover, the spokesperson added, “The turbulence also un-derscores the need for vigilance among central banks over liquidity conditions in international capital markets.”

Many officials in emerging mar-

ket economies have pointed a finger at the US Federal Reserve’s cuts to its stimulus program for sending US dollar interest rates high and provoking a strong, sustained out-flow from stocks and currencies in those countries.

Speaking on Bloomberg TV, on Thursday India’s central bank chief Raghuram Rajan assailed the Fed and central banks at other leading economies for not weighing the impact of monetary tightening on developing economies.

IMF warns over impact of global market turmoilAgence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - The International Monetary Fund on Friday warned emerging economies to shore up their defenses amid chal-lenging global turmoil that has sparked a broad-based sell-off in financial markets.

Most Japanese firms set for sales, profit growth

AP Photo/Shizuo KambayashiIn this Jan. 28, 2014 photo, a man walks by a shopping mall pillars decorated with bargain sale advertisements, offering further price reduction, in Tokyo. Nearly 70 percent of listed Japanese companies are likely to post sales and profit growth this business year, a sign they are gaining traction after years of deflation, a report said Saturday.

IBP

DENPASAR - Organizers of the Bali International Triathlon scheduled for June 22, 2014, have received formal notification from the Bali Police asking that the 8th edition of the Bali International Triathlon be postponed until the Indonesian Presidential Elections 2014 are concluded.

With the presidential election process only coming to a formal end with the swearing in of Indo-

nesia’s next president on October 20, 2014, the organizers of the Bali International Triathlon have been compelled to reluctantly postpone the next race until a new date in early June 2015.

Run every year since 2007, the Bali International Triathlon has grown with each successive event over the past seven years, attracting more in 2013 more than 1,000 participants.

The Bali event - based in Jimbaran Bay - comprised a 1.5-

kilometer swim, a 40-kilomter bike race through South Bali, and a 10 kilometer foot race. A sprint distance division cover-ing half the longer distance and a 5-kilometer fun run also form part of the Bali triathlon event.

Commenting on the decision to postpone, Arie Sukirno, Man-aging Director of Bali Discovery Tours and co-founder of the Bali event with Generic Events (USA) and Robb Strom, said: “The letter from the police came as

a complete surprise, especially after a series of meetings with the regency and police officials held to discuss preparations and operational plans for the coming race.”

Sukirno added having to post-pone the race for security reasons was “both bittersweet and ironic” given that the motivation for creating the first Bali Race in 2007 was to demonstrate to the world that Bali was safe follow the second Bali terror bombing

of 2005.Refunds are being arranged for

all those already registered and paid for the 2014 race.

Sukirno, demonstrating the same grit and determination that has made the Bali International Triathlon an award-winner event on the international sporting calendar, said: “We have every intention of returning with the 8th edition of the Bali International Triathlon in June of 2015 - bigger and better.

8th BIT postponed until June 2015

Grand celebrations marked the Republic Day of IndiaIBP

NUSA DUA - A grand National Day Reception was hosted by the Consulate General of India, Bali on 29 January 2014 at Westin Hotel in Nusa Dua to mark the 64th anniversary of the Republic Day of India. The event was attended by over 300 guests, including representatives of political parties, Members of Regional Parliament, officials from the provincial & Regency governments, Bali Police, academia, art & cultural personalities, spiritual leaders, ashrams, alumni of Indian universities, media, Consul Generals & Honorary Consuls and Indi-ans/PIOs resident in Bali.

IBP/Courtesy of Indian ConsulateA grand National Day Reception was hosted by the Consulate General of India, Bali on 29 January 2014 at Westin Hotel in Nusa Dua to mark the 64th anniversary of the Republic Day of India.

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Mount Sinabung erupted again Saturday just a day after authori-ties allowed thousands of villagers who had been evacuated to return to its slopes, saying volcanice activity was decreasing. Rescu-ers found 14 bodies and rescued three people with burn wounds, said National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho.

Rescue efforts resumed Sunday and rescuers found another body about three kilometers (two miles) from the volcano’s peak, said Lt. Col. Asep Sukarna, who led the operation. Another resident, a 24-year-old college student died in an intensive care unit, said an official at the Efarina Etaham hospital.

Among the dead were a local television journalist and four high-school students and their teacher who were visiting the mountain to see the eruptions up close, Nugroho said. At least three other people were injured and authorities fear the death toll will rise.

Sinabung in western Sumatra has been erupting for four months. Authorities had evacuated more than 30,000 people, housing them in cramped tents, schools and public buildings, but many were desperate to return to check on homes and farms.

On Friday, authorities allowed nearly 14,000 people living outside a five-kilometer (three-mile) dan-ger zone to return after believing

volcanic activity had decreased. Others living close to the peak have been returning to their homes over the past four months despite the dangers.

On Saturday, a series of huge blasts and eruptions thundered from the 2,600-meter (8,530-foot) volcano. Television footage showed villages, farms and trees covered in thick gray ash.

Indonesia is prone to seismic upheaval due to its location on the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” an arc of volcanoes and fault lines en-circling the Pacific Basin. Mount Sinabung is among about 130 ac-tive volcanoes in Indonesia and has sporadically erupted since September.

Associated Press

SURABAYA — An endangered komodo dragon and a pregnant bark-ing deer have been found dead in the latest animal deaths in Indonesia’s largest and problem-plagued zoo, a spokesman said Sunday.

Zoo spokesman Agus Supangkat said a 7-year-old giant lizard was found dead Saturday in his cage at the zoo in Surabaya, Indonesia’s second-largest city and the provincial capital of East Java. A day earlier, a pregnant barking deer died shortly after a visitor reported to a zookeeper the animal was having convulsions and was foaming at the mouth.

Supangkat denied any negligence, and said a police forensic team was performing autopsies as part of an investigation to determine the cause of deaths. The death left the Surabaya zoo with 57 komodo dragons, the world’s most critically endangered

that are thought to number about 2,500 in the wild, primarily on the eastern Indonesian islands of Komodo, Padar and Rinca.

The facility that houses 3,500 animals has long been plagued with problems, including premature deaths, uncontrolled breeding and a lack of funding. An online petition has called on the government to close the facility, dubbed “the zoo of death.”

Last month, an African lion was found hanged on a steel cable inside its cage and the zoo’s sole female wildebeest died of a suspected stom-ach problem due to hot weather and humidity.

The zoo has been criticized over the deaths of scores of animals, including another African lion and a Sumatran tiger, over the last few years. The death of a giraffe two years ago with a beach ball-sized wad of plastic food wrappers in its belly sparked outrage among conservationists.


JAKARTA - Indonesian secu-rity forces have shot dead a separatist rebel in the restive eastern province of Papua, police said on Sunday.

Acting on a tip-off, police and the military raided a gathering of members of the rebel Free Papua Movement (OPM) near a beach in the Yapen Waropen district on Saturday, Papua police spokesman Pudjo Sulistyo said.

“They were involved in shooting incidents against police before and had caused unrest in the area,” he said.

“We told them to surrender but they retaliated by shooting at us first. A firefight took place and we shot one of them dead,” he added.

Eleven members were arrested and firearms were seized along with outlawed pro-independence Morning Star flags. Three security officers were wounded in the gun-battle, Sulistyo said.

The OPM has since 1964 waged a low-level insurgency -- often us-ing bows and arrows rather than guns -- against Indonesian rule over the resource-rich, ethnically Melanesian region.

AP Photo

Villagers and a journalist prepare to flee as Mount Sinabung releases pyroclastic flows during an eruption in Namantaran, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014. The rumbling volcano in western Indonesia has unleashed fresh clouds of searing gas, killing a number people and injuring fewothers.

Sinabung erupted

Death toll rises to 16Associated Press

MOUNT SINABUNG — The death toll from an Indonesian volcano that has been rumbling for months rose to 16 Sunday after rescuers found another charred corpse and a critically in-jured college student died in a hospital, officials said.

Separatist rebel shot dead in Papua

Komodo dragon dies at KBS

AP Photo/Trisnadi

A police officer and a zoo employee take a Komodo dragon that was found dead in its cage for an autopsy, at Surabaya Zoo in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014.

Footage on al-Manar television, associated with the Shiite group Hezbollah, showed a bright or-ange blaze as black silhouettes of people ran by the gas station in the northeastern town of Hermel that lies near the Syrian border. Blasts could be heard in the background. The Lebanese Red Cross said another 18 people were wounded. The organization initially reported that four people were killed, but later revised the number down-wards. The large blast occurred near a school for impoverished and orphaned children. None were injured, officials said.

It was the latest in a series of attacks targeting Lebanon’s Shiite community, as Syria’s violence causes neighboring Lebanon’s sectarian tensions to escalate into

outright violence.Sunni militant groups have

claimed responsibility for a relent-less series of attacks on Shiite parts of Lebanon, including a bomb that exploded in Hermel in late Janu-ary. They say it is in retaliation for the Shiite Hezbollah group sending its fighters into Syria’s civil war to support forces of President Bashar Assad.

Lebanon’s Sunni community has also been hit, most notably by a deadly double car bombing out-side Sunni mosques in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli in August. In Aleppo, the raids with barrel bombs, as the crude weapons are known, have flattened residential buildings, forcing defenders to flee and allowing government troops to advance.

The latest attacks killed 13 peo-ple in the al-Bab area of Aleppo, Hassoun Abu Faisal of the Aleppo Media Center said via Skype. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights corroborated the information.

The blasts badly damaged buildings and caused a fuel tanker to explode, setting nearby vehicles alight, including one carrying a family of eight who were trying to flee the area as they heard the approaching helicopters, said Abu Faisal.

A video showed men dragging a charred victim out of a smashed building. “You want a political solution? Here is a political so-lution!” shouted one man as he pointed at two charred bodies on the rubble-strewn ground.

Reuters

MADRID - Thousands of people marched in Spain’s capital on Satur-day to protest against a government plan to limit abortions that has caused unusually open divisions in the ruling conservative People’s Party. Protest-ers from around the country joined the biggest demonstration so far against a draft bill to restrict abortion to cases of rape or severe danger to the mother’s health.Four years ago, Spain came in line with most of the rest of Europe when the then Socialist government legalised abortion on demand in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy.

“This is a step backward. We’re going back 30 years,” said Pilar Abad, 58, among the demonstrators waving purple signs who marched from the main train station to the national parliament. “We really hope that they’ll change this bill during the parliamentary debate, that’s why we’re here,” she said.

Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s cabinet approved the draft bill on abortion in December - in a move widely seen as an attempt to appease his party’s disgruntled right wing - but it has not been submitted yet to parliament for debate. Rajoy recently signalled he was open to modifying the proposal after critics from within the PP said he had failed to build party consensus for the bill and the changes would be out of step with public opin-ion. Polls show 80 percent of Span-iards, including practicing Catholics,

support abortion on demand.

BACKLASH IN THE PP

As Spain finally emerges from a prolonged slump, Rajoy has struggled to sell the good economic news amid the backlash over the abortion move. The first voter opinion survey after the cabinet approved the draft bill showed the PP losing ground to the opposition Socialists, who have vowed to fight the changes to abortion law.

However, the PP has an absolute majority in parliament so once it agrees on the wording of the bill it will be able to pass it into law. “A political party has to take into account what voters think. Voters have spoken through the opinion polls,” Celia Villalobos, a People’s Party MP who supports abortion on demand, told a group of foreign correspondents this week. The PP is Spain’s only significant conservative party and therefore always struggles to reconcile demands from the centre to the far right.

The more conservative wing has become frustrated with Rajoy over tax hikes to close a budget gap and over the release of prisoners from violent Basque separatist group ETA, under orders from a European court.

But the draft legislation failed to mollify the rightists and angered mod-erates. In a country where party disci-pline is strong, an unusual number of more centrist PP regional leaders and MPs have spoken out against it.

AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC

In this citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center (AMC), an anti-Bashar Assad activist group, and authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a Syrian man, top left, tried to extinguish a fire with a bucket of water at shops following a Syrian government forces warplane attack, at al-Bab neighborhood in Aleppo, Syria, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014.

Syrian forces launch new Aleppo strikesAssociated Press Writer

BEIRUT — Syrian military helicopters dropped barrels packed with explosives in the gov-ernment’s latest air raids on rebel-held areas of the northern city of Aleppo on Saturday, killing at least 23 people including a family trapped in a burning car, activists said. In neighboring Lebanon, a car bomb blew up near a gas station in a Shiite town, killing at least three people, in the latest attack linked to the war in neighboring Syria.

Thousands march in Madrid against planned abortion limits

Air Sanih Beach has also begun to indicate the signs of damage due to abrasion. Previously, the abrasion has been resolved by the making of revet-ment, but the signs of damage had appeared again. “Indeed, the damage to Penimbangan Beach is severe, but the length is not the same as that of Tukad-mungga. Similarly, the coastal area at Air Sanih having been handled is back to show the signs of damage. We will continue to monitor for the handling attempts,” he explained.

Yasa added the handling of coastal erosion in 2014 stayed to rely on financial support from the Ministry of Public Works through the River Region Agency (BWS) for Bali-Penida. It was undertaken because the budget sourcing from the Buleleng regional budget was insufficient to overcome the damage due to coastal abrasion. For this year, the Buleleng Public Works would perform data collection to complete the document on the coastal damage occurred. The data would be used as a reference in the preparation of the Detail Engineer-ing Design (DED) which would then be used as the basis for the proposal to the BWS. “We continue to rely on the financial support of the BWS because our budget does not enable for the handling of this abrasion as it needs quite expensive budget. We have not been able to set aside a large enough fund, so we ask for help to central government,” he explained.

Meanwhile, from Friday night (Jan 31) coinciding with the Chinese New Year the tidal waves hit back the coastal areas in Buleleng. Height of the waves at that night reached five meters. Such condition was estimated to continue to happen until the next few days.

Brunt of the waves entered into the home yard of local fishermen. The situ-ation occurred on Penimbangan Beach, Singaraja. As a result, the fishermen also running the business of canoe and used tire rental were forced to evacuate to a safer place. Likewise, their equipment was also evacuated so as not to be washed away by tidal waves. (mud)

48 kilometers...

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IBP

SEMARAPURA - Goa Lawah Temple is located in Pesinggahan village which belongs

to Dawan District, abot 9 kilometers east of Se-marapura town. It is worth visiting for its strate-gic location at the seashore. With the wonderful

view and the large parking area make it looks highly attractive. The activities of Hindu’s ritual

ceremony are almost daily seen at the environ-ment of Goa Lawah temple. The sight of bat

hanging and clinging each others on the edge of the cave makes anyone excited.

Gowa Lawah Temple

Two days after being selected to the All-Star game for the first time, Wall also had 15 assists and six steals and went 7 for 11 from the field after halftime, more than making up for an 0-for-7 first half. Trevor Ariza added 18 points and did a solid job defending Durant, whose 26 points came on 8-for-21 shooting, including 0 for 6 from 3-point range, along with five turnovers.

A win Monday against Port-land would give Washington a winning record for the first time since October 2009. Miami’s LeBron James had 30 points, eight rebounds and seven assists as the Heat avoided a winless

season in New York by breaking the Knicks’ four-game winning streak 106-91.

Dwyane Wade added 22 points for the Heat, who avoided becom-ing the first team to go 0-4 in New York this season after losing on their previous trip to Madison Square Garden last month and both games in Brooklyn. Carmelo Anthony had 26 points and eight rebounds for the Knicks, who had been 4-1 against the Heat over the last two seasons.

At Los Angeles, Jamal Crawford scored 27 points off the bench, and Blake Griffin had 25 points and 11 rebounds as the Clippers pulled away in the third quarter to beat the

Utah Jazz 102-87.The Clippers, looking to win

their second straight division title, are 19-7 since Dec. 14 and 11-4 since All-Star point guard Chris Paul separated his right shoulder. They lead second-place Phoenix by 3½ games in the Pacific Division standings following the Suns’ vic-tory over Charlotte. DeAndre Jordan had 14 rebounds and 10 points dur-ing a foul-plagued 35 minutes.

Enes Kanter led Utah with 23 points. The Indiana Pacers came back to edge the Brooklyn Nets 97-96 after Paul George and Roy Hibbert both had 20 points.

Lance Stephenson, left out of the All-Star game despite leading the NBA in triple-doubles, added 14 points for the Pacers (36-10), who improved the league’s best home record to 22-2. David West had 17 points and George Hill scored 10. Shaun Livingston had a season-high 24 points for the Nets.

Reuters

Hosts Japan sailed into the Davis Cup quarter-finals for the first time with a 4-1 victory against an injury-plagued Canada on Sunday. Japanese number one Kei Nishikori was leading 6-2 1-0 on the indoor hard court at Tokyo’s Ariake Coliseum when his opponent Frank Dancevic retired with injury, surrendering the tie in their first meet-ing since 1938.

Nishikori pocketed the first set in 29 minutes and broke Dancevic in the first game of the second when the world number 119 took an injury timeout but could not continue because of a stomach muscle injury. “The pressure is al-ways on me to win both singles matches,” said Nishikori, who won his opening singles against Peter Polansky on Friday before teaming up with Yasutaka Uchiyama to claim Saturday’s doubles.

“This time I was able to help win three matches. “The quarter-finals was our goal after getting back in the World Group. To do it in the first year is very rewarding.”

Back in World Group after a one-year absence, Japan now have a perfect 6-0 Davis Cup record against last year’s semi-finalists, who were laid low by a spate of injuries.

Their top-ranked player Milos Raonic withdrew on Thursday with a foot injury he sustained at last month’s Australian Open, while world number 25 Vasek Pospisil also missed Saturday’s doubles with an injury he picked up at Melbourne Park. Japan will host either Czech Re-public or Netherlands in the World Group quarter-finals in April.

Japan’s Kei Nishikori reacts after defeating Canada’s Frank Dancevic during their Davis Cup world group first round tennis match in Tokyo February 2, 2014.

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AP Photo/Alex BrandonOklahoma City Thunder forward Nick Collison (4) drives between Washington Wizards forwards Trevor Booker, left, and Nene, right, from Brazil, in the first half of an NBA basketball game on Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014, in Washington. The Wizards won 96-81.


WASHINGTON — John Wall scored 15 of his 17 points in the second half as the Washington Wizards took advantage of a rare off-game from hometown star Kevin Durant in a 96-81 win over the Thunder on Saturday that stopped Oklahoma City’s 10-game winning streak.

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The Spanish champion’s deci-sion not to sign a defender during the January transfer window may have backfired after Valencia took advantage of a lethargic, uninspired effort by its hosts at the Camp Nou, where former Spain coach Luis Ara-gones — who previously coached the Catalan side — was honored after his death on Saturday.

Barcelona led through Alexis Sanchez’s eighth-minute goal but Dani Parejo equalized for Valen-cia before the break. Pablo Piatti headed Valencia ahead after the restart before Lionel Messi’s pen-alty — and first league goal since September — leveled the game again. But Barcelona’s defense let Sofiane Feghouli burst free into the area to set up Paco Alcacer’s 59th-minute winner.

Barcelona played with 10 men


MANCHESTER, England — Man-chester United slumped to a 2-1 loss at relegation-threatened Stoke in the Premier League on Saturday to puncture the optimism generated by Juan Mata’s arrival and leave the reigning cham-pions with a huge task to finish in the Champions League positions. United’s eighth defeat of a wretched campaign means Liverpool, which currently oc-cupies the fourth and final Champions League place, could go nine points clear of its fierce rival by beating West Bromwich Albion on Sunday.

Charlie Adam scored both of Stoke’s goals at Britannia Stadium either side of Robin van Persie’s equalizer, with a miserable day for seventh-place United capped by first-half injuries to center halves Jonny Evans and Phil Jones that forced them off. It was Stoke’s maiden

win over United in the Premier League, and first since 1984.

“I don’t know what we have to do to win,” said United manager David Moyes. Everton bounced back from its derby thrashing by Liverpool in mid-week by coming from behind to beat Aston Villa 2-1 and climb to fifth above Tottenham, which drew 1-1 at Hull.

Cardiff climbed off the bottom by scoring two goals in 73 seconds at the start of the second half to defeat Nor-wich 2-1. That left Fulham, which was overwhelmed 3-0 at home to Southamp-ton, two points adrift in last place. West Ham completes the bottom three even though it beat Swansea 2-0 thanks to a brace by Kevin Nolan. That win was marred by a red card to striker Andy Carroll for elbowing an opponent.

The other match saw Sunderland earn a second straight 3-0 win at New-castle in the northeast derby, sparking

anger and frustration by home fans disillusioned by the sale of star player Yohan Cabaye to Paris Saint-Germain this week. Such is the tightness of the bottom half of the table, Sunderland — like Stoke — is now nearer mid-table than the relegation zone.

With Mata joining from Chelsea for a club-record fee last week and both Wayne Rooney and Van Persie back fit, things looked like turning around for United and its under-pressure manager David Moyes.

Most thought the comfortable 2-0 win over Cardiff on Tuesday would be the first in a run of victories to lift the champions up to the top four, but they came unstuck at the hands of a gutsy Stoke side man-aged by a former United favorite, Mark Hughes. “I thought we were, to a man, fantastic,” said Hughes, who played 467 games for United. “We got a great reward for a huge amount of effort.”


BERLIN — Kevin-Prince Boateng scored late for Schalke to beat Wolfsburg 2-1 and move fourth in the Bundesliga on Saturday, while Hamburger SV slipped further into crisis with a 3-0 loss at Hoffenheim. Boateng scored in the 81st minute following some good interplay between Leon Goretzka and Roman Neustaedter, restoring the home side’s lead after Maximilian Arnold equalized for 10-man Wolfsburg in the 65th.

Felipe Santana opened the scoring in the ninth, when Boateng’s effort rebounded off his shoulder and squirmed inside the post after a corner. Wolfsburg’s task was made more difficult when midfielder Daniel Caligiuri was sent off in the 50th. TV replays suggested he had made a remark to the linesman.

“I’m delighted with the win,” Boateng said. “It was hugely important. The fans got to see a good match, they had to fret for a little bit, but that keeps us all young.” Borussia Moenchengladbach lost 3-1 at Hannover in the late game, missing out on the chance to reclaim fourth place.

“It’s not undeserved, the 3-1,” Moenchengladbach coach Luc-ien Favre said. “We lost the ball too often, didn’t move enough. They played well, countered well, they’re very dangerous here.” Artjoms Rudnevs opened the scoring in the 57th when Szabolcs

Huszti crossed to the far post. It was the Latvian striker’s second goal in as many games since switching from Hamburg. Huszti also created Hannover’s second in the 82nd, with another precise cross for Mame Biram Diouf.

Peniel Kokou Mlapa pulled one back two minutes later to set up a frenetic finish, but Diouf sealed the result in the 89th to maintain new Hannover coach Tayfun Korkut’s winning start.

Earlier, Bayer Leverkusen left it late to come from behind and beat Stuttgart 2-1 and consolidate second place. Eren Derdiyok’s 84th-minute header condemned Stuttgart to its fourth successive defeat.

Moritz Leitner opened the scoring for Stuttgart with a fine strike to the top left corner in the 12th, 14 minutes before Stefan Kiessling equalized by beating a defender and curling his shot inside the far post. “It’s like Groundhog Day for me,” Stuttgart coach Thomas Schneider said. “We take the lead like in the last games and then give the game away. Altogether a bitter afternoon for us.” Mainz defeated Freiburg 2-0, and Augsburg beat 10-man Werder Bremen 3-1.


CARSON, California — Chris Won-dolowski scored both goals in the United States’ 2-0 victory over South Korea in an international friendly Saturday. Won-dolowski strengthened his case for inclu-sion on the U.S. World Cup squad for Bra-zil with his sixth and seventh goals in his last eight appearances for the U.S. team, which was missing several top players. The San Jose Earthquakes striker headed home a rebound in the fourth minute and struck again with a close-range strike in the 60th minute.

“My mind frame doesn’t change,” said the 31-year-old Wondolowski, who got his first call to the U.S. camp just over three years ago. “Any time I get this wonder-ful opportunity to represent my country, I’m going to try to make the most of it. That’s always been my mind frame since Day One, and that’s what it’s going to be until the last.”

The Americans’ won their 13th straight home match, thrilling a flag-waving sell-out crowd at StubHub Center. After win-ning 16 games and the Gold Cup title in 2013 during the most successful year in team history, the Americans began World

Cup preparations with a 2½-week training camp in Brazil last month before a week in Southern California.

“The guys showed a lot of quality, a lot of effort,” U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann said. Several key U.S. players were not in camp while busy with their European club teams, including captain Clint Dempsey, Jermaine Jones, Geoff Cameron, Jozy Altidore and goalkeeper Tim Howard. Michael Bradley also isn’t in town while getting settled in at Toronto FC.

Klinsmann remains encouraging about Wondolowski’s chances of getting to Brazil while also affirming Altidore’s spot

atop the U.S. lineup. Altidore, the team’s co-leader in goals last year, is having a difficult season at Sunderland.

“Wondo is a wonderful example of (what happens) if you are committed, if you’re hungry, if you give everything you have over a long period of time,” Klinsmann said. “Sooner or later, you’re going to get rewarded for it. It’s nice to see a player like him is still hungry.” South Korea also was missing several key players during its North American tour. The team was coached by Hong Myung-bo, a former Los Angeles Galaxy defender.

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fielder Ever Banega has joined Newell’s Old Boys on loan from Valencia for the rest of the season looking for regular playing time to prepare for the World Cup finals.

“The loan will be effective until June 30, 2014 with an option to buy the midfielder’s full transfer rights, at 12 million euros ($16.18 million),” the Argentine club said on their website (www. newellsoldboys.com.ar). The

25-year-old Banega, who joined La Liga side Valencia from Boca Juniors in January 2008 and also had a loan spell at Atletico Madrid, links up with coach Alfredo Berti’s squad which includes Argentina winger Maxi Ro-driguez.

Newell’s are preparing for the “Fi-nal” championship, the second of two in the season, starting next weekend when they host Boca in Rosario and the Libertadores Cup, South America’s Champions League equivalent, which he won with Boca in 2007.

Banega, who is from Rosario and a Newell’s supporter, is generally seen as Boca Juniors playmaker Fernando Gago’s understudy in Argentina’s World Cup squad. He has made 24 appearances for his country, scoring twice.

“I know what class of footballer Banega is,” Valencia’s Argentine coach Juan Antonio Pizzi was quoted as saying by the daily La Nacion. “I can’t guaran-tee any player matches and, given he has the chance of going to the World Cup, he needs regular competition.”

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Stoke’s Charlie Adam, centre, celebrates with teammates and manager Mark Hughes, left, after scoring his second goal against Manchester United during their English Premier League soccer match at the Britannia Stadium, Stoke, England, Saturday Feb. 1, 2014.

Man United’s optimism punctured by defeat at Stoke

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Schalke’s Kevin-Prince Boateng of Ghana celebrates af-ter the opening goal during the German Bundesliga soc-cer match between FC Schalke 04 and VfL Wolfsburg in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014.

Schalke goes 4th in Bundesliga, Hamburg in crisis

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Wondolowski double leads US past South Korea 2-0

FC Bar-celona’s Alexis San-chez, from Chile, reacts after scoring against Valencia during a Spanish La Liga soccer match at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014.

Valencia beats Barcelona 3-2 in Spanish leagueAssociated Press Writer

MADRID — Barcelona stumbled to a 3-2 home loss against Valencia on Saturday, giving Atletico Madrid a chance to move into sole possession of first place in the Spanish league.

from the 78th after Jodi Alba was shown a second yellow card. The defeat means Atletico can lead the league alone for the first time this season if it does not lose at home to Real Sociedad on Sunday, when Real Madrid can also overtake its greatest rival with a victory at fourth-place Athletic Bilbao.

Also on Saturday, Levante and Rayo Vallecano played to a score-less draw, as did Getafe and Val-ladolid, while Malaga rallied to beat Sevilla 3-2 in an entertaining encounter.

At the top of the standings, Atletico and Barcelona share 54 points, while Madrid has 53. Va-lencia provisionally moved into eighth. Barcelona coach Gerardo Martino was preoccupied by Bar-celona’s drop in play after just half an hour. “I’m always worried after

every one of our losses,” Martino said. “Despite us having played well for a while against Valencia, I’m very worried, much like the players are.”

Messi set up the opener after slashing a pass across the box beyond the far post where Alexis connected oddly to float it over goalkeeper Diego Alves. Valencia took control from the 44th when Parejo exploited a turnover inside the Barcelona half to lead a break-out with Feghouli, who returned a pass inside the area for Parejo to score easily.

“Their goal hurt us and, in the second half, the team failed to respond,” said defender Javier Mascherano, who refused to blame the off-field distractions that have enveloped Barcelona. “Today it wasn’t the distractions that beat us, but Valencia. The margin of error (to be champion) is zero.” Valencia went ahead in the 48th when the 1.63-meter (5-foot-3) Piatti held off Dani Alves to jump high and head a looping ball over goalkeeper Victor Valdes.

Valencia was unlucky as Pedro Rodriguez’s shot came off Ricardo Costa to set up the spot kick, even though it appeared Costa had no chance of getting out of the way as the ball grazed his shoulder. Messi slotted home his ninth league goal in the 54th, and first since Sept. 28 against Almeria.

Barcelona’s defense was dor-mant five minutes later as Feg-houli moved past three players to the goal line before cutting back to meet Alcacer, who blasted past Valdes for the winner. Messi had a golden opportunity to draw Barcelona even in the second minute of stoppage time, but he shot wide after precisely combining with Dani Alves and substitute Andres Iniesta to get free into the box.

Valencia, which was Spain’s most active team in the January transfer, snapped a five-game winless run to deal Barcelona its first home league defeat in nearly two years.

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SEMARAPURA - Goa Lawah Temple is located in Pesinggahan village which belongs

to Dawan District, abot 9 kilometers east of Se-marapura town. It is worth visiting for its strate-gic location at the seashore. With the wonderful

view and the large parking area make it looks highly attractive. The activities of Hindu’s ritual

ceremony are almost daily seen at the environ-ment of Goa Lawah temple. The sight of bat

hanging and clinging each others on the edge of the cave makes anyone excited.

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Two days after being selected to the All-Star game for the first time, Wall also had 15 assists and six steals and went 7 for 11 from the field after halftime, more than making up for an 0-for-7 first half. Trevor Ariza added 18 points and did a solid job defending Durant, whose 26 points came on 8-for-21 shooting, including 0 for 6 from 3-point range, along with five turnovers.

A win Monday against Port-land would give Washington a winning record for the first time since October 2009. Miami’s LeBron James had 30 points, eight rebounds and seven assists as the Heat avoided a winless

season in New York by breaking the Knicks’ four-game winning streak 106-91.

Dwyane Wade added 22 points for the Heat, who avoided becom-ing the first team to go 0-4 in New York this season after losing on their previous trip to Madison Square Garden last month and both games in Brooklyn. Carmelo Anthony had 26 points and eight rebounds for the Knicks, who had been 4-1 against the Heat over the last two seasons.

At Los Angeles, Jamal Crawford scored 27 points off the bench, and Blake Griffin had 25 points and 11 rebounds as the Clippers pulled away in the third quarter to beat the

Utah Jazz 102-87.The Clippers, looking to win

their second straight division title, are 19-7 since Dec. 14 and 11-4 since All-Star point guard Chris Paul separated his right shoulder. They lead second-place Phoenix by 3½ games in the Pacific Division standings following the Suns’ vic-tory over Charlotte. DeAndre Jordan had 14 rebounds and 10 points dur-ing a foul-plagued 35 minutes.

Enes Kanter led Utah with 23 points. The Indiana Pacers came back to edge the Brooklyn Nets 97-96 after Paul George and Roy Hibbert both had 20 points.

Lance Stephenson, left out of the All-Star game despite leading the NBA in triple-doubles, added 14 points for the Pacers (36-10), who improved the league’s best home record to 22-2. David West had 17 points and George Hill scored 10. Shaun Livingston had a season-high 24 points for the Nets.

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Hosts Japan sailed into the Davis Cup quarter-finals for the first time with a 4-1 victory against an injury-plagued Canada on Sunday. Japanese number one Kei Nishikori was leading 6-2 1-0 on the indoor hard court at Tokyo’s Ariake Coliseum when his opponent Frank Dancevic retired with injury, surrendering the tie in their first meet-ing since 1938.

Nishikori pocketed the first set in 29 minutes and broke Dancevic in the first game of the second when the world number 119 took an injury timeout but could not continue because of a stomach muscle injury. “The pressure is al-ways on me to win both singles matches,” said Nishikori, who won his opening singles against Peter Polansky on Friday before teaming up with Yasutaka Uchiyama to claim Saturday’s doubles.

“This time I was able to help win three matches. “The quarter-finals was our goal after getting back in the World Group. To do it in the first year is very rewarding.”

Back in World Group after a one-year absence, Japan now have a perfect 6-0 Davis Cup record against last year’s semi-finalists, who were laid low by a spate of injuries.

Their top-ranked player Milos Raonic withdrew on Thursday with a foot injury he sustained at last month’s Australian Open, while world number 25 Vasek Pospisil also missed Saturday’s doubles with an injury he picked up at Melbourne Park. Japan will host either Czech Re-public or Netherlands in the World Group quarter-finals in April.

Japan’s Kei Nishikori reacts after defeating Canada’s Frank Dancevic during their Davis Cup world group first round tennis match in Tokyo February 2, 2014.

Wizards end Thunder’s 10-game win streak, 96-81

AP Photo/Alex BrandonOklahoma City Thunder forward Nick Collison (4) drives between Washington Wizards forwards Trevor Booker, left, and Nene, right, from Brazil, in the first half of an NBA basketball game on Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014, in Washington. The Wizards won 96-81.


WASHINGTON — John Wall scored 15 of his 17 points in the second half as the Washington Wizards took advantage of a rare off-game from hometown star Kevin Durant in a 96-81 win over the Thunder on Saturday that stopped Oklahoma City’s 10-game winning streak.

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Mount Sinabung erupted again Saturday just a day after authori-ties allowed thousands of villagers who had been evacuated to return to its slopes, saying volcanice activity was decreasing. Rescu-ers found 14 bodies and rescued three people with burn wounds, said National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho.

Rescue efforts resumed Sunday and rescuers found another body about three kilometers (two miles) from the volcano’s peak, said Lt. Col. Asep Sukarna, who led the operation. Another resident, a 24-year-old college student died in an intensive care unit, said an official at the Efarina Etaham hospital.

Among the dead were a local television journalist and four high-school students and their teacher who were visiting the mountain to see the eruptions up close, Nugroho said. At least three other people were injured and authorities fear the death toll will rise.

Sinabung in western Sumatra has been erupting for four months. Authorities had evacuated more than 30,000 people, housing them in cramped tents, schools and public buildings, but many were desperate to return to check on homes and farms.

On Friday, authorities allowed nearly 14,000 people living outside a five-kilometer (three-mile) dan-ger zone to return after believing

volcanic activity had decreased. Others living close to the peak have been returning to their homes over the past four months despite the dangers.

On Saturday, a series of huge blasts and eruptions thundered from the 2,600-meter (8,530-foot) volcano. Television footage showed villages, farms and trees covered in thick gray ash.

Indonesia is prone to seismic upheaval due to its location on the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” an arc of volcanoes and fault lines en-circling the Pacific Basin. Mount Sinabung is among about 130 ac-tive volcanoes in Indonesia and has sporadically erupted since September.

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SURABAYA — An endangered komodo dragon and a pregnant bark-ing deer have been found dead in the latest animal deaths in Indonesia’s largest and problem-plagued zoo, a spokesman said Sunday.

Zoo spokesman Agus Supangkat said a 7-year-old giant lizard was found dead Saturday in his cage at the zoo in Surabaya, Indonesia’s second-largest city and the provincial capital of East Java. A day earlier, a pregnant barking deer died shortly after a visitor reported to a zookeeper the animal was having convulsions and was foaming at the mouth.

Supangkat denied any negligence, and said a police forensic team was performing autopsies as part of an investigation to determine the cause of deaths. The death left the Surabaya zoo with 57 komodo dragons, the world’s most critically endangered

that are thought to number about 2,500 in the wild, primarily on the eastern Indonesian islands of Komodo, Padar and Rinca.

The facility that houses 3,500 animals has long been plagued with problems, including premature deaths, uncontrolled breeding and a lack of funding. An online petition has called on the government to close the facility, dubbed “the zoo of death.”

Last month, an African lion was found hanged on a steel cable inside its cage and the zoo’s sole female wildebeest died of a suspected stom-ach problem due to hot weather and humidity.

The zoo has been criticized over the deaths of scores of animals, including another African lion and a Sumatran tiger, over the last few years. The death of a giraffe two years ago with a beach ball-sized wad of plastic food wrappers in its belly sparked outrage among conservationists.


JAKARTA - Indonesian secu-rity forces have shot dead a separatist rebel in the restive eastern province of Papua, police said on Sunday.

Acting on a tip-off, police and the military raided a gathering of members of the rebel Free Papua Movement (OPM) near a beach in the Yapen Waropen district on Saturday, Papua police spokesman Pudjo Sulistyo said.

“They were involved in shooting incidents against police before and had caused unrest in the area,” he said.

“We told them to surrender but they retaliated by shooting at us first. A firefight took place and we shot one of them dead,” he added.

Eleven members were arrested and firearms were seized along with outlawed pro-independence Morning Star flags. Three security officers were wounded in the gun-battle, Sulistyo said.

The OPM has since 1964 waged a low-level insurgency -- often us-ing bows and arrows rather than guns -- against Indonesian rule over the resource-rich, ethnically Melanesian region.

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Villagers and a journalist prepare to flee as Mount Sinabung releases pyroclastic flows during an eruption in Namantaran, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014. The rumbling volcano in western Indonesia has unleashed fresh clouds of searing gas, killing a number people and injuring fewothers.

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Death toll rises to 16Associated Press

MOUNT SINABUNG — The death toll from an Indonesian volcano that has been rumbling for months rose to 16 Sunday after rescuers found another charred corpse and a critically in-jured college student died in a hospital, officials said.

Separatist rebel shot dead in Papua

Komodo dragon dies at KBS

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A police officer and a zoo employee take a Komodo dragon that was found dead in its cage for an autopsy, at Surabaya Zoo in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014.

Footage on al-Manar television, associated with the Shiite group Hezbollah, showed a bright or-ange blaze as black silhouettes of people ran by the gas station in the northeastern town of Hermel that lies near the Syrian border. Blasts could be heard in the background. The Lebanese Red Cross said another 18 people were wounded. The organization initially reported that four people were killed, but later revised the number down-wards. The large blast occurred near a school for impoverished and orphaned children. None were injured, officials said.

It was the latest in a series of attacks targeting Lebanon’s Shiite community, as Syria’s violence causes neighboring Lebanon’s sectarian tensions to escalate into

outright violence.Sunni militant groups have

claimed responsibility for a relent-less series of attacks on Shiite parts of Lebanon, including a bomb that exploded in Hermel in late Janu-ary. They say it is in retaliation for the Shiite Hezbollah group sending its fighters into Syria’s civil war to support forces of President Bashar Assad.

Lebanon’s Sunni community has also been hit, most notably by a deadly double car bombing out-side Sunni mosques in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli in August. In Aleppo, the raids with barrel bombs, as the crude weapons are known, have flattened residential buildings, forcing defenders to flee and allowing government troops to advance.

The latest attacks killed 13 peo-ple in the al-Bab area of Aleppo, Hassoun Abu Faisal of the Aleppo Media Center said via Skype. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights corroborated the information.

The blasts badly damaged buildings and caused a fuel tanker to explode, setting nearby vehicles alight, including one carrying a family of eight who were trying to flee the area as they heard the approaching helicopters, said Abu Faisal.

A video showed men dragging a charred victim out of a smashed building. “You want a political solution? Here is a political so-lution!” shouted one man as he pointed at two charred bodies on the rubble-strewn ground.

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MADRID - Thousands of people marched in Spain’s capital on Satur-day to protest against a government plan to limit abortions that has caused unusually open divisions in the ruling conservative People’s Party. Protest-ers from around the country joined the biggest demonstration so far against a draft bill to restrict abortion to cases of rape or severe danger to the mother’s health.Four years ago, Spain came in line with most of the rest of Europe when the then Socialist government legalised abortion on demand in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy.

“This is a step backward. We’re going back 30 years,” said Pilar Abad, 58, among the demonstrators waving purple signs who marched from the main train station to the national parliament. “We really hope that they’ll change this bill during the parliamentary debate, that’s why we’re here,” she said.

Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s cabinet approved the draft bill on abortion in December - in a move widely seen as an attempt to appease his party’s disgruntled right wing - but it has not been submitted yet to parliament for debate. Rajoy recently signalled he was open to modifying the proposal after critics from within the PP said he had failed to build party consensus for the bill and the changes would be out of step with public opin-ion. Polls show 80 percent of Span-iards, including practicing Catholics,

support abortion on demand.

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As Spain finally emerges from a prolonged slump, Rajoy has struggled to sell the good economic news amid the backlash over the abortion move. The first voter opinion survey after the cabinet approved the draft bill showed the PP losing ground to the opposition Socialists, who have vowed to fight the changes to abortion law.

However, the PP has an absolute majority in parliament so once it agrees on the wording of the bill it will be able to pass it into law. “A political party has to take into account what voters think. Voters have spoken through the opinion polls,” Celia Villalobos, a People’s Party MP who supports abortion on demand, told a group of foreign correspondents this week. The PP is Spain’s only significant conservative party and therefore always struggles to reconcile demands from the centre to the far right.

The more conservative wing has become frustrated with Rajoy over tax hikes to close a budget gap and over the release of prisoners from violent Basque separatist group ETA, under orders from a European court.

But the draft legislation failed to mollify the rightists and angered mod-erates. In a country where party disci-pline is strong, an unusual number of more centrist PP regional leaders and MPs have spoken out against it.

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In this citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center (AMC), an anti-Bashar Assad activist group, and authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a Syrian man, top left, tried to extinguish a fire with a bucket of water at shops following a Syrian government forces warplane attack, at al-Bab neighborhood in Aleppo, Syria, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014.

Syrian forces launch new Aleppo strikesAssociated Press Writer

BEIRUT — Syrian military helicopters dropped barrels packed with explosives in the gov-ernment’s latest air raids on rebel-held areas of the northern city of Aleppo on Saturday, killing at least 23 people including a family trapped in a burning car, activists said. In neighboring Lebanon, a car bomb blew up near a gas station in a Shiite town, killing at least three people, in the latest attack linked to the war in neighboring Syria.

Thousands march in Madrid against planned abortion limits

Air Sanih Beach has also begun to indicate the signs of damage due to abrasion. Previously, the abrasion has been resolved by the making of revet-ment, but the signs of damage had appeared again. “Indeed, the damage to Penimbangan Beach is severe, but the length is not the same as that of Tukad-mungga. Similarly, the coastal area at Air Sanih having been handled is back to show the signs of damage. We will continue to monitor for the handling attempts,” he explained.

Yasa added the handling of coastal erosion in 2014 stayed to rely on financial support from the Ministry of Public Works through the River Region Agency (BWS) for Bali-Penida. It was undertaken because the budget sourcing from the Buleleng regional budget was insufficient to overcome the damage due to coastal abrasion. For this year, the Buleleng Public Works would perform data collection to complete the document on the coastal damage occurred. The data would be used as a reference in the preparation of the Detail Engineer-ing Design (DED) which would then be used as the basis for the proposal to the BWS. “We continue to rely on the financial support of the BWS because our budget does not enable for the handling of this abrasion as it needs quite expensive budget. We have not been able to set aside a large enough fund, so we ask for help to central government,” he explained.

Meanwhile, from Friday night (Jan 31) coinciding with the Chinese New Year the tidal waves hit back the coastal areas in Buleleng. Height of the waves at that night reached five meters. Such condition was estimated to continue to happen until the next few days.

Brunt of the waves entered into the home yard of local fishermen. The situ-ation occurred on Penimbangan Beach, Singaraja. As a result, the fishermen also running the business of canoe and used tire rental were forced to evacuate to a safer place. Likewise, their equipment was also evacuated so as not to be washed away by tidal waves. (mud)

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His Excellency Mr. Anak Agung Ngurah Oka Ratmadi, Chairman of the House of Representatives (DPRD) Bali was Chief Guest. Other prominent guests included eminent Balinese painters Nyoman Gunarsa and Made Wianta, noted spiritual guru Ratu Bagus, Chair-man of World Hindu Summit, Prof. I Made Bakta, Mr. Panudiana Khun, Chairman of Indonesian Entrepre-neurs Association (APINDO) Bali Chapter and Shri P.L. Ramanchan-dran, Chief Executive of Bank of India Indonesia.

The event started with the ren-dering of National Anthems of India and Indonesia by school children and teachers of Gandhi Memorial International School (GMIS) Bali, followed by a patri-otic song – Sare Jahan Se Accha Hindosta Hamara.

Welcoming the guests, Consul General A.S. Takhi, informed that this was the first-ever National Day Reception hosted by the Consulate in Bali and also marked the second anniversary of the Consulate, set up by India in mid-January 2012. He elaborated on series of initiatives undertaken by the young Consulate mainly focusing on education, tour-ism, culture, capacity building and trade & investment to strengthen the bilateral relations and deepening people-to-people relations between India & Indonesia in general and Bali and eastern Indonesia in par-

ticular. Ambassador Gurjit Singh high-

lighted that both Indian & Indo-nesia enjoy healthy trade relations worth US$20 billion and the Indian companies have invested about US$15 billion in various sectors of economy in Indonesia. He stated that the world is looking towards our two countries, which would accelerate the economic activities and development & prosperity of not only our two countries but of several other countries in Asia and in the world. He stated that both countries will conduct General Elections during this year and the youth of India & Indonesia will come to the fore in these elections, while elaborating that nearly 30-40 million new voters in Indonesia and 170 million in India will vote for the first time.

Given the large young popula-tion in both our countries, collabo-ration in enhancing the capacity of our human resources is extremely important. The Embassy has launched a book on “Studying in India” in Bahasa Indonesia for the benefit of Indonesian students, lecturers, academicians, to pursue higher education in Indian univer-sities. Recognizing that Indonesia is working in a regional model, the Government of India opened the Consulate in Bali which has completed its second anniversary now. We have also reinvigorated

the activities of the Consulate in Medan. Keeping the importance of working with the regions of Indonesia in mind, the Embassy in Jakarta and the Consulates in Bali and Medan have undertaken sev-eral trade & culture initiatives in East Java, Central Java, Sumatra, East Kalimantan, North Sulawesi and Bali, and stepped up our eco-nomic & cultural engagement with various regions of Indonesia.

His Excellency Cok Ratmadi, Chairman of DPRD Bali conveyed

his warm greetings to the Ambassa-dor, Consul General and all Indians on the Republic Day celebrations and thanked them for choosing Bali for the Reception.

He elaborated on the close coop-eration between India & Indonesia during their colonial period and struggle for independence. He noted that India supported Indonesia’s struggle for freedom and was the first country to recognize Indone-sia’s independence. During his visit to India leading a delegation from

Bali Parliamentarians, he has had fruitful discussions with the Indian Parliamentarians.

He referred to close affinity that Bung Karno and Pt. Nehru shared and their cooperation in fighting against the colonization and in convening the Bandung Asia-Africa Conference. He also referred to the strong religio-cultural influences from India, including Rsi Mar-kandeya’s contribution to develop-ment of society and Pura Besakih in Bali.

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TOKYO - Nearly 70 percent of listed Japanese companies are likely to post sales and profit growth this business year, a sign they are gaining traction after years of deflation, a report said Saturday.

More than 1,000 companies out of about 1,500 firms listed on stock markets are on track to log an-nual rises in both sales and recurring profits for the business year ending in March, the Nikkei business daily said.

The 1,500 companies are expected to post a combined 10 percent rise in sales and a 28 percent increase in recurring profit, the daily said, citing its tally of the companies’ forecasts.

The robust earnings are thanks to stronger exports business benefiting from a weaker yen, while domes-tic consumer spending is also picking up, it said.

Companies are making a steady shift to making profits out of higher sales from the past practice of eking out gains by restructuring businesses, it said.

The tally excluded firms in the financial sector and the report did not mention net profit.

The Nikkei said manufacturers were driving the overall improvement in corporate earnings, with sales expected to jump 16 percent for steelmakers, 14 percent for automakers, and 13 percent for ma-chinery makers.

Companies driven by domestic demand are ben-efiting from a resurgence in consumer spending, it said, pointing to soaring higher sales of jewellery and expensive watches.

Japanese stock prices have jumped and the yen plunged since late 2012 owing to a policy blitz dubbed Abenomics, which meshes government spending with massive central bank monetary easing aimed at stemming 15 years of deflation.

A weak yen is positive for Japanese exporters but inflates the cost of imports.

Japan’s two biggest airlines said Friday that the weak yen sent fuel costs soaring and profits into a nosedive in the nine months to December.

An IMF spokesperson said they could not find a single trigger for the turmoil, but also appeared to warn central banks generally to be cautious about tightening monetary conditions.

“Many emerging economies,

along with other asset classes, have come under renewed market pres-sure in recent days,” the spokesper-son said in an emailed statement.

“While it is difficult to pinpoint a single trigger for the sell-off, the turbulence underscores the

challenging situation that many countries face as a result of tighter external financing conditions, slow-er growth, and softer commodity prices.”

The IMF noted that several coun-tries had responded “forcefully”, not mentioning any by name but apparently referring to sharp inter-est rate hikes by the central banks of South Africa and Turkey, aimed at stabilizing their sinking currencies and stemming capital flight.

However, the spokesman said,

‘the turbulence highlights the need for coherent macroeconomic and financial policies, good commu-nication, and, in some cases, the need for urgent policy action to improve fundamentals and policy credibility.”

Moreover, the spokesperson added, “The turbulence also un-derscores the need for vigilance among central banks over liquidity conditions in international capital markets.”

Many officials in emerging mar-

ket economies have pointed a finger at the US Federal Reserve’s cuts to its stimulus program for sending US dollar interest rates high and provoking a strong, sustained out-flow from stocks and currencies in those countries.

Speaking on Bloomberg TV, on Thursday India’s central bank chief Raghuram Rajan assailed the Fed and central banks at other leading economies for not weighing the impact of monetary tightening on developing economies.

IMF warns over impact of global market turmoilAgence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - The International Monetary Fund on Friday warned emerging economies to shore up their defenses amid chal-lenging global turmoil that has sparked a broad-based sell-off in financial markets.

Most Japanese firms set for sales, profit growth

AP Photo/Shizuo KambayashiIn this Jan. 28, 2014 photo, a man walks by a shopping mall pillars decorated with bargain sale advertisements, offering further price reduction, in Tokyo. Nearly 70 percent of listed Japanese companies are likely to post sales and profit growth this business year, a sign they are gaining traction after years of deflation, a report said Saturday.

IBP

DENPASAR - Organizers of the Bali International Triathlon scheduled for June 22, 2014, have received formal notification from the Bali Police asking that the 8th edition of the Bali International Triathlon be postponed until the Indonesian Presidential Elections 2014 are concluded.

With the presidential election process only coming to a formal end with the swearing in of Indo-

nesia’s next president on October 20, 2014, the organizers of the Bali International Triathlon have been compelled to reluctantly postpone the next race until a new date in early June 2015.

Run every year since 2007, the Bali International Triathlon has grown with each successive event over the past seven years, attracting more in 2013 more than 1,000 participants.

The Bali event - based in Jimbaran Bay - comprised a 1.5-

kilometer swim, a 40-kilomter bike race through South Bali, and a 10 kilometer foot race. A sprint distance division cover-ing half the longer distance and a 5-kilometer fun run also form part of the Bali triathlon event.

Commenting on the decision to postpone, Arie Sukirno, Man-aging Director of Bali Discovery Tours and co-founder of the Bali event with Generic Events (USA) and Robb Strom, said: “The letter from the police came as

a complete surprise, especially after a series of meetings with the regency and police officials held to discuss preparations and operational plans for the coming race.”

Sukirno added having to post-pone the race for security reasons was “both bittersweet and ironic” given that the motivation for creating the first Bali Race in 2007 was to demonstrate to the world that Bali was safe follow the second Bali terror bombing

of 2005.Refunds are being arranged for

all those already registered and paid for the 2014 race.

Sukirno, demonstrating the same grit and determination that has made the Bali International Triathlon an award-winner event on the international sporting calendar, said: “We have every intention of returning with the 8th edition of the Bali International Triathlon in June of 2015 - bigger and better.

8th BIT postponed until June 2015

Grand celebrations marked the Republic Day of IndiaIBP

NUSA DUA - A grand National Day Reception was hosted by the Consulate General of India, Bali on 29 January 2014 at Westin Hotel in Nusa Dua to mark the 64th anniversary of the Republic Day of India. The event was attended by over 300 guests, including representatives of political parties, Members of Regional Parliament, officials from the provincial & Regency governments, Bali Police, academia, art & cultural personalities, spiritual leaders, ashrams, alumni of Indian universities, media, Consul Generals & Honorary Consuls and Indi-ans/PIOs resident in Bali.

IBP/Courtesy of Indian ConsulateA grand National Day Reception was hosted by the Consulate General of India, Bali on 29 January 2014 at Westin Hotel in Nusa Dua to mark the 64th anniversary of the Republic Day of India.

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The national focus was riveted to the capital where 488 of the capital’s 6,600 polling stations were shut and several skirmishes broke out between protesters intent on disrupting the vote and frustrated would-be voters. The Election Commission said the closure of polls affected more than 6 million registered voters.

In some cases, protesters formed blockades to prevent voters from entering polling stations. Elsewhere, protesters blocked the delivery of ballots and other election materi-als, preventing voting stations from opening. The Election Commission said that hundreds of polling stations in the south, an opposition strong-hold, faced similar problems. Angry voters at one Bangkok district stood outside of closed voting stations waving their identification cards and shouting “Election! Election!”

“We have the right to vote. You don’t have the right to take

that away from us,” said Sasikarn Wannachokechai, a 51-year-old Bangkok resident who said she had never missed a chance to vote.

The outcome of the vote will almost certainly be inconclusive. Because protesters blocked candidate registrations in some districts, parlia-ment will not have enough members to convene. That means beleaguered Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra will be unable to form a government or even pass a budget, and Thailand will be stuck in political limbo for months as by-elections are run in constituen-cies that were unable to vote.

Official results were not expected for weeks, with final counting de-layed until all districts have voted. Advance voting that was scheduled for last Sunday but thwarted in many districts has now been re-scheduled for late February.

The conflict pits demonstrators who say they want to suspend the country’s fragile democracy to

institute anti-corruption reforms against Yingluck’s supporters who know the election will not solve the nation’s crisis but insist the right to vote should not be taken away.

The protesters, a minority that cannot win power at the polls, are demanding the government be re-placed by an unelected council that would rewrite political and elec-toral laws to combat deep-seated problems of corruption and money politics. Yingluck has refused to step down, arguing she is open to reform and that such a council would be unconstitutional.

“This is not a fair election,” said Ampai Pittajit, 65, a retired civil servant helping to block bal-lot boxes in the Bangkok district of Ratchathewi. “I’m doing this because I want reforms before an election. I understand those who are saying this is violating their rights. But what about our rights to be heard?”


ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The African Union urged its members to “speak with one voice” to prevent criminal proceedings at the International Criminal court against sitting presidents, according to a state-ment Saturday.

The 54-nation organization said it was disappointed that a request to the U.N. Security Council to defer the trials of Kenya’s leaders “has not yielded the positive result expected.” The African Union also has sought the deferral of criminal proceedings against Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir, who has been charged with genocide in Darfur.

Only Botswana has opposed the stand taken by the African Union, made in a statement re-ceived Saturday after a summit in Ethiopia attended by 34 leaders. “African states parties should comply with African Union deci-sions on the ICC and continue to speak with one voice,” the state-ment said, adding “There is an imperative need for all member states to ensure that they adhere to and articulate commonly agreed positions ...”

Kenya’s President Uhuru Ke-nyatta and his deputy William Ruto face charges of crimes against humanity at the inter-

national court at The Hague for allegedly orchestrating post-election violence that killed more than 1,000 people following a disputed presidential election in late 2007. Both men deny the charges.

The International Criminal Court has recently come under strong criticism from African leaders who accuse it of racism in indicting only Africans. Coun-tries such as Uganda have sug-gested they may decide to sever ties with the court in solidarity with Kenya. Some Africans also argue that the Kenyan leaders need to concentrate on governing their countries to ensure stability as the region faces unprecedented terrorist challenges.

Ruto’s trial continues at The Hague but the case against Ke-nyatta may collapse. Kenyatta’s trial was to start in November but was postponed to February after the prosecution and defense teams said they needed more time to prepare. The prosecutor in December asked for an ad-ditional three-month adjourn-ment after one witness withdrew and another said they gave false evidence.

A Kenyan court on Friday re-fused to stop the arrest of a jour-nalist wanted by the international court for allegedly interfering with prosecution witnesses in the case against Ruto.

AP Photo/Apichart WeerawongThai policemen guard at a polling station during the general election in Bangkok Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014.

Tense Thai elections go ahead despite protestsAssociated Press Writer

BANGKOK — Protesters trying to derail Thailand’s national elections Sunday forced the closure of hundreds of polling stations in a highly contentious vote that has become the latest flash point in the country’s deepening political crisis. Around the country, the vast majority of voting stations were open and polling proceeded relatively peacefully. Polling stations closed for the day with no reports of violent clashes, easing fears of bloodshed a day after gun battles in Bangkok left seven people wounded.

AP Photo/Kenya PresidencyIn this photo released by the Kenya Presidency, Kenyan Presi-dent Uhuru Kenyatta, center, and Deputy President William Ruto, center-left, are welcomed back by Chief of the Defence Forces Staff Gen. Julius Karangi, center-right, after attending the Afri-can Union (AU) summit in Addis Ababa, at the airport in Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014.

Africa Union urges united stand against ICC trials

Bali Post

GIANYAR - Four foreign guests from various countries who stayed at Yogi House (YH) at Katik Lan-tang hamlet, Singakerta village, Ubud, experienced a theft, Thurs-day (Jan 30). Such incident was just known around 08:00 a.m. and then reported to police station.

Based on the data collected on

Friday (Jan 31), the four guests consisted of Yvette Jong, 34, from the USA who lost one Mac Book Air, while Vincent Michael Sales Math, 21, lost a laptop, an iPhone 5, hard drive, backpack, leather bag, computer charger, USB Flash Stick, wallet containing ID Card, Driving License and cash worth IDR 2,000,000.

Similar unlucky fate was also

suffered by Maria Farrugia, 26, a European nationality, lost an iPhone 4, hard drive, laptop case, leather handbag, head phone, Can-on camera and cash worth USD 800,000, EUR 150 and USD 100. Meanwhile, Matthew Nelson Bell, 29, lost green bag, Mac Book Pro laptop, Go Pro camera, two hard drives, sunglasses, head phone, iPhone and a wallet containing IDR

5,000,000.The theft incident occurred due

to weak security system in the YH. At the time of the incident, the gates of YH were not closed. In ad-dition, the compound wall around the YH was not too high or about 1.20 meters. More ironically, room of the victim was not locked and no security guards were in charge. Therefore, such condition provided

convenience for the culprit to take away the belongings.

Currently police were mak-ing elaborate investigation on the theft case by collecting more data. However, Chief of Ubud Police Wayan Sumara so far could not provide information. Confirmation of media via short message did not receive any answer related to the case. (kmb16)

As stated by Made Sudarta, a tile craftsman from Pangkung hamlet, Pejaten village, Kediri, Saturday (Jan 31), the long rainy season was considered to absolutely hamper the production process. If forced, it was feared the quality of tile produc-tion which so far had already been

well known by the public would be tarnished.

According to him, heat of the sun became an important part of tile dry-ing process. Since wet clay posed the main material of tile, it required the storing phase by placing it in the home yard under sun light before

the burning process.”Therefore, the current rainy season make us difficult to dry the tiles because it lacks of sunlight.

In normal weather, the tile man-ufacturing process can produce 9,000 pieces within a week, while if the weather is like this time the process even reaches up to 3 weeks,” he explained. Quite often, he added, when drying tiles in the yard and it suddenly rained many tiles would be exposed to rainwater and caused them to be damaged. Pejaten posed a village where

almost the entire community was getting involved in the industry of tile, ceramic, iron crafts, candles and various other crafts. Such busi-ness had become the backbone of local economies.

Similarly, most population of the neighboring village, Nyitdah, also had livelihood as a tile craftsman. Rainy season as today was a bar-rier in itself because their drying process remained to rely on nature and highly depended on the weather such as the drying of tiles under the sunlight.

Such condition was also expe-rienced by a brick maker, Nyoman Darsa, 45. According to him, his brick production would be faltered in rainy season due to lack of sunlight. In order to dry, he had to wait until a few days. “Both brick and tile equally need the heat of sunlight because when stored in the furnace can also speed up the drying process of brick. But when rainy season arrives we can do nothing and have to wait for a few days in order the brick can dry,” he concluded. (kmb28)

Four foreign guests suffer theft when staying at lodging

IBP/FileOne of the tile producers in Tabanan Regency

Rainy season hampers tile productionBali Post

TABANAN - Rainy season turns out to be a bad omen for tile artisans in Tabanan. It happens because the quality of product yielded highly depends on the weather. When the production is forced in the current unpredictable weather, it is worried to kindle the loss of quality.

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If the agriculture of Bali col-lapsed, the tourism would collapse as well. On that account, there should be a continuous effort to syn-ergize the agriculture and tourism where one of the ways was through the development of agrotourism. “Unfortunately, the development of agro-tourism in Bali stays to get less serious attention from the govern-ment whereas the potential is huge,” said Jelantik Sanjaya.

This politician from Karangasem confirmed that the discovery and development of the agrotourism potential in the regions across Bali

Bali Post

SINGARAJA - Celebration of Chinese New Year 2565 by Chinese descendant community took place with splendor. Some Chinese New Year ornaments like lanterns, banners and trinkets were dominated by red and yellow to make the atmosphere more festive. As observation at the Tri Dharma Chinese temple at TITD Seng Hong Bio, the pilgrims thronged the temple with their children and families.

One of the pilgrims named Kadek Darsana, 35, said that ahead of the Chinese New Year celebration at this time he prepared an offering to the ancestors. “In this year’s celebration, I offer lunar fruits such as grapes, rambutan, dragon fruit and typical pastries of Chinese New Year,” he said on Friday (Jan 31).

In line with the other pilgrims in the TITD Seng Hong Bio, Jenny S., 50, from Seririt, said she came with her family to the temple to invoke blessings. “Our family along with children hopes that we can be bestowed with the mercy of luck and health without lacking of nothing,” she said.

At different location in the TITD Ling Gwan Kiong were seen hundreds of pilgrims to flock the place of worship alternately. According to Harmini, more Chinese-descendant pilgrims came to pay homage in this Chinese New Year than previous years. “Atmosphere of the Chinese New Year this year seems more festive and crowded. My grandchildren come together to pray in order to be blessed and given a safety this year,” she said.

Most pilgrims come from the Pupuan, Busungbiu and Banyuatis area. Lien Wiek, 63, the temple guardian explained the weather this year was very bright and the pilgrims were very happy to come to temple. “Last year’s celebration was flushed by rain, but now the weather is very sunny in Singaraja. The TITD Ling Gwan Kiong is fairly old established in 1873 and it has significant meaning to Chinese-descendant people in Singaraja and surrounding areas,” he explained.

Meanwhile, Ceng Eng Sing, 78, added that he would continue to pre-serve the temple with young people and communities. This Lunar year was expected to be a source of fortune and strengthen the Chinese-descendant people from various parts of Indonesia. “We are concerned to preserve this temple. The atmosphere each year is also getting crowded, so we are more encouraged when Chinese New Year comes. The Chinese New Year 2565 this time is graced with the arts and cultural acculturation by featuring the art of Gong Kebyar from the hamlet nearby. It is intended to make the atmosphere of the Chinese New Year celebration more festive and crowded,” he said. (dgk)

Agrotourism development not worked on seriouslyBali Post

DENPASAR - Many circles assess that tourism development in Bali has gone too far and sacrificed the agriculture in Bali as indicated by farmland conversion for the benefit of prop-erty or tourism supporting facilities. Actually, said a member of the House of Representative, Commission IV, in charge of the agriculture, livestock, fisheries and forestry, AA Good Jelantik Sanjaya, the agriculture of Bali with the socio-cultural life in it had become one of the important elements or factors that supported tourism.

pursuant to the characteristics and their agricultural potential posed the appropriate development models to support the cultural tourism devel-opment model echoed all this time and could alleviate the gap between the tourism and agricultural sector.

He said the agrotourism posed the farm-based tourism develop-ment involving the agricultural activities ranging from planting to post-harvest or processing of the agricultural products to the socio-cultural activities in it. In that con-text, the farming in Bali was very closely related to cultural or ritual

activities believed to become an attraction to tourists when it was packaged better in the frame of the agrotourism development.

“Now, a lot of regions have been developing the agrotourism such as Karangasem and Kintamani in Bangli. However, they have not yet been fully completed. At least, they only showed off how to plant coffee and then process it into civet coffee and other agricultural practices. In the future, this agrotourism should be expanded and integrated with social and cultural life of our farm-ers,” he said.

Jelantik Sanjaya pointed out the development of ecotourism in the context of organic farming. For example, travelers could be invited to see the processing of cow dung into compost or the packag-ing of organic vegetables or fruits. In the context of subak as part of the agrotourism, for example, he said, travelers could be invited to see how the awig-awig or bylaw of the subak was applied and how the Tri Hita Karana concept was implemented in the farming life, especially concerning with the religious ceremony.

“Agrotourism must be made into a single package or attraction to travelers so as to give the im-pression if the organic farming has been populistic and involved in the region such as in the Jatiluwih re-gion. There will be no longer com-pany that is only looking for their own benefits but how the profits of

this agrotourism can be earned by people at the village concerned,” he said.

He added if the government was serious about building the agriculture and had a good will to synergize the agriculture and tour-ism it should give attention and a great support to the development of agrotourism. For example, it could fix or set up a good road infrastructure to the agrotourism destination, help educate and as-sist farmers in the agrotourism management, promotion and mar-keting. “The institution of farmer also plays a major role here so there will be no post-harvest losses due to middlemen tricks. Here, the government should facilitate the processing of the agricultural products to enhance the economic value as well as guarantee the marketing and other aspects,” he said. (kmb29)

Celebration of Chinese New Year 2565 lasts vibrantly in Singaraja

IBP/Dewa Kusuma

Celebration of Chinese New Year 2565 by Chinese descendant community took place with splendor. Some Chinese New Year ornaments like lanterns, banners and trinkets were domi-nated by red and yellow to make the atmosphere more festive.

The festival at Mohenjodaro aims to publicize the cultural heritage of the country’s south. But it drew controversy when some archaeologists said the event posed a threat to the site’s unbaked brick ruins dating to the 3rd millennium BC. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the son of assas-sinated Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, organized the event at Mohenjodaro, associ-ated with one of the world’s first urban societies, the Indus Valley civilization.

Benazir Bhutto was killed in a 2007 gun and bomb attack widely blamed on Pakistani Taliban and Bilawal has made opposi-tion to militancy a pillar of his platform.

Saturday night’s event was inaugurated by the 25-year-old politician, who now heads the

Pakistan People’s Party. His fa-ther served one term as the coun-try’s president but it has been the younger Zardari who has become the public face of the party. It is especially strong in Sindh prov-ince, the family’s homeland and the location of Mohenjodaro.

The festival has been seen as part of efforts to raise the younger Zardari’s profile on the national political stage. Zardari selected Mohenjodaro “to promote local culture, peace and tolerance,” government official Saqib Ahmed Soomro said. About 500 guests were in attendance — many flown in from the port city of Ka-rachi. Roughly 2,000 police of-ficers provided security although militant attacks are relatively rare in that part of Sindh province.

The festival drew controversy when archaeologists said they

fear the stage and other event infrastructure could damage the delicate mud ruins. “It is nothing but insanity” says archaeologist Asma Ibrahim, who is a member of the Management Board for Antiquities and Physical Heritage of the Sindh government. She says the stage and sound and light show could damage walls.

But organizers say there is no risk to the ruins. “There is no risk to Mohenjodaro because of the festival. Rather, it was never decorated the way we have done now,” Soomro said. He said he supervised arrangements for the festival to make sure no harm was caused to the site.

Zardari visited the site Thurs-day and said every step was being taken to protect it, and people would not be allowed to roam freely over the ruins.


MECHANICSBURG, Ohio — A motorcycle-loving man’s fam-ily has fulfilled his dying wish — to be buried astride his beloved Harley-Davidson encased in a see-through casket. But it wasn’t easy. The project required an extra-large cemetery plot to accommodate a Plexiglas casket for Billy Standley and his hulking custom-painted 1967 Electra Glide cruiser. Five embalmers worked to prepare his body with a metal back brace and straps to ensure he’ll never lose his seat.

Standley’s family said he’d been talking about it for years and liked to take people to the garage to show off the unusual casket his two sons had built for him. He told people he didn’t just want to ride off to heaven, he wanted the world to see him do it in the big see-through box. “He was a quirky man,” daughter Dorothy Brown said. “But when it comes to us kids, he loved us, he raised us well and, of course, we wanted to help him.”

The Dayton Daily News (http://bit.ly/1dS4hsq ) reported that Standley, of Mechanicsburg, west of Columbus, died of lung cancer Sunday at age 82. He was buried Friday.

Newspaper photos of the prepared casket showed Standley with his eyes closed astride the big bike. He was dressed in black leathers, a white helmet and glasses, his gloved hands grasping the handle-bars.

Standley told his family his motorcycle helped him retain his sense of adventure after he settled down to raise four children, which was quite a compromise for the man who made his start at 13 as ranch hand and rodeo rider.

AP Photo/Shakil Adil

Spotlights are installed at the ruins of Mohenjodaro, listed on UNESCO’s list of world heritage sites, in preparation of a grand cultural festival, near Larkana, some 400 kilometers (248 miles) north of the Pakistani port city of Karachi, Pakistan, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014.

Culture festival opens in ancient Pakistani ruinsAssociated Press Writer

MOHENJODARO, Pakistan — Folk dancers and singers wearing traditional multicolored dresses took the stage Saturday at one of the world’s most ancient archaeological sites in southern Pakistan for a festival that organizers say aspires to promote peace in a nation where political violence has left some 40,000 dead in recent years.

US man buried astride beloved

Harley motorcycle

AP Photo/The News-Sun, Marshall Gorby

The family of Billy Standley, of Mechanicsburg, Ohio, carried out his wish to be buried on his 1967 Harley Davidson motor-cycle Friday, Jan. 31, 2014, burying him in a large Plexiglas casket at Fairview Cemetery in Crawford County, Ohio.

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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 January 1 through February 26, 2014

1 Jan Buda Kliwon Matal, Kajeng Kliwon And Tilem Sasih Kenam Pura Desa Sukawati SukawatiPura Pasek Gelgel Gelgel BebetinPura Maspahit SesetanPura Padharman Arya Kanuruhan Besakih

11 Jan Tumpek Kandang Pura Desa GianyarPura Luhur Dalem Sagening Kediri TabananPura Sang Hyang Tegal Tegalalang

15 Jan Purnama Sasih Kapitu Pura Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Kaja GianyarPura Puseh Manakaji Peninjauan BangliPura Taman Limut Pengosekan Mas UbudPura Benua BesakihPura Gunung Rena Sidemen KarangasemPura Pasek Gelgel Abadi KarangasemPura Pucak Gunung Mangun Kubu Karangasem

16 Jan Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan 17 Jan Hari Bhatara Sri 21 Jan Anggara Kasih Prangbakat Pura Bukit Buluh Gunaksa KlungkungPura Tirtha Sidamala Bebalang BangliPura Gunung Pangsong LombokPura Dalem Benawah GianyarPura Dalem Bitra GianyarPura Pura Hyang Haluh/Jenggala Besakih

Pura Tengkulak Tulikup GianyarPura Taman Sari UbudPura Penataran Badung

29 Jan Hari Siwaratri

30 Jan Tilem Sasih Kepitu Pura Buana Kawan BesakihPura Ulun Kulkul Besakih

31 Jan Kajeng Kliwon Enyitan

5 Feb Buda Kliwon Ugu Pura Dalem Tarukan Peninjauan Tem-buku BangliPura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah Bule-lengPura Kayangan Tiga Seririt BulelengPura Agung Gunung Raung Taro Tegalalang

6 Feb Pura Dalem Puri Besakih

14 Feb Purnama Sasih Kawulu Pura Dalem Batur BangliPura Ida Ratu Pasek BesakihPura Dalem Suci Sidemen KarangasemPura Buana Kawan Besakih

15 Feb Tumpek Wayang & Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan Pura Majapahit JembranaPura Panti Gelgel Pengembungan SesetanPura Pedarman Dalem Sukawati BesakihPura Pedarman Mengwi BesakihPura Pedarman Kaba-kaba BesakihPura Pedarman Dalem Bakas BesakihPura Pedarman Dinasti Dalem Besakih

Pura Penataran Giri Purwo Tegal Delimo BanyuwangiPura jala Sidhi amerta Juanda Surabaya

19 Feb Buda Cemeng Kelawu Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang KarangasemPura Melanting Camenggaon SukawatiPura Penataran ped Nusa PenidaPura Gaduhan Jagat Singakerta UbudPura Masceti Sanding Tampak SiringPura Penataran Batu Lepang Kamasan KelungkungPura Paibon Pasek Gelgel Kedonganan KutaPura Guwa BesakihPura Basukian BesakihPura Jati UbudPura Melanting UbudPura Dalem Peed Nusa PenidaPura Sad Kayangan Nusa PenidaPura Penataran Agung Gunung Karangasem

21 Feb Hari Bhatara Sri 25 Feb Anggara Kasih Dukut Pura Dalem Batuyang BatubulanPura Pasek Gelgel Mengening Kediri TabananPura Pasek Undagi Krambitan TabananPura Pucak Taman bedulu GianyarPura Puser Jagat Nusa PenidaPura Dalem Purwa Kawan BangliPura Desa Ketewel Gianyar

26 Feb Pura Agung Pasek gelgel Sibang Kaja Abian SemalPura Dalem Samprangan Gianyar

The Aston Bojonegoro City Hotel is situated in the centre of Bojonegoro; a flourishing regency of North Java’s inland plain, about 110km west of Surabaya. Fringing the banks of the largest river in Java – the Bengawan Solo River – Bojonegoro is attracting nationwide attention due to a recent oil field discovery, bringing with it a wealth of savvy business travelers.

Responding to this rapid economic development, the Aston Bojonegoro City Hotel has been conceptualized to become the leading international 3-star hotel in the region, catering to the increasing domestic demand for contemporary, quality, and business-friendly hotels in Indonesia. Conveniently so, the hotel is located in the heart of the city, close to a number of business and government offices.

The hotel will be an international standard 3 star+ hotel, boasting 134 stylishly bedecked rooms and suites. Savvy business travel-ers will be well catered for with innovative meeting rooms and a grand pillar-less ballroom that can accommodate up to 600 guests. Leisure travelers will enjoy the luxurious outdoor swimming pool, fully kitted out fitness center and an indulgent day spa. Sumptuous food and beverage outlets will include an all-day dining café and Bojonegoros’s first and only upscale hotel bar & lounge. IBP/Courtesy of Archipelago International

Aston Bojonegoro opensIBP

JAKArTA - The 3rd week of January Archipelago Inter-national’s opens Aston Bojonegoro City Hotel. Just 5 minutes from the city center, train station, government offices and the banking district, this new build will be both convenient and business-friendly.

A resident who lives near the tourist information board said on Friday (Jan 31) that it was built at roadside by local authority a few years ago. It was usually used for placing tourist activi-ties announcement at Lovina and as a promotional tool for the management of hotels and restaurants. Surprisingly, the facil-ity was left in poor condition. Even, the poles looked oblique and almost collapsed. The roof collapsed and the board ragged after being stuck with brochures and posters. No wonder such condition was often complained by travelers. They were dis-appointed because the tourist information board was vile and rundown. “It’s been long not repaired whereas travelers often complained about the condition of the tourist information board almost collapsing,” he said.

Other than tourist information board looking in apprehensive condition, the signpost name of Kalibukbuk village right at the entrance into Lovina Beach had also been left in damaged condition since few years ago. Building of the village name signpost made of concrete has long collapsed. No one knows why it collapses. Chunks of the concrete are now left strewn over the pavement. Again, the debris harms the beauty of Lovina having been well known as an international village.

Residents who saw such condition admitted to be dis-appointed as the government deliberately ignored the de-struction of the supporting facilities at the Lovina tourist attraction. They hoped that technical agencies in charge could pay attention to such condition and provide relief fund to repair the damage. (mud)

Bali PostSEMARAPURA - The damage

of embankment along the coastline of Nusa Penida has been getting severer. After destroyed, a serious abrasion now starts to erode the highway. For instance, the ring road leading to Mentigi Market, Mentigi hamlet, Batununggul village, has already been damaged as hit by tidal waves. Moreover, the road composed of land and limestone is very easily destroyed by the wave brunt.

The ring road is very busy with daily activities. Its location near the Mentigi Public Market is frequently complained by residents. It has been going on since the past two years. Lately, the damage is getting

severer because the row of levees previously protecting the road has also collapsed and even destroyed. Asphalt layer looks to have come off and has lots of big gaping hole. Almost along the shoreline at this village, the levees built of limestone have been destroyed and need to be fixed immediately.

Last week, a number of regional working units (SKPD) checked the condition directly. Location being not far from the Mentigi Harbor also made the relevant agencies to imme-diately address the issue seriously. Chief of Dalem Setra Batununggul customary village, I Dewa Nyoman Yusa, had also complained about the damage to the embankment at Batununggul village. It was one of

the road accesses and alternative for residents to perform activities crossing the villages. “I worry if it is not immediately repaired the road access can be broken and the activities of people will also get disturbed,” he said.

Since long time ago the Nusa Penida subdistrict has been besieged by abrasion. The district is the most seriously affected. Based on the data of Public Works, among the 13 existing beaches, a total of 13,550 meters had been affected by abrasion and had not been handled yet. Most shoreline damages occurred to Sen-tal Beach and Suana Beach. Of the length of the Sental Beach reaching 18,000 meters, along 4,500 meters had not been handled. Similar condi-

tion also happened to Suana Beach. The damaged happened to 4,000 meters of the total length of 15,000 meters and the area was also prone to abrasion. Overall, along 18,850 meters of the beach in Nusa Penida were very prone to abrasion. Mean-while, the handled area only reached 9,129.96 meters.

The Head of Klungkung Public Works, A.A. Ngurah Agung, said on Friday (Jan 31) the damage to the road of Batununggul village would be fixed soon through the routine maintenance budget worth IDR 400 million. In addition to Batununggul village, the other road damage also occurred in Nusa Penida. Mean-while, physical activity of road improvement for road improvement

in Nusa Penida as a whole had been allocated as much as IDR 3.5 billion. However, his party could not give more details related to the location of the physical activity budget. In addition, levee repair this year was also budgeted at IDR 300 million for damages at two locations.

However, when asked about the location of the levees he claimed to have forgotten it. AA Ngurah Agung added that the River Region Agency for Bali - Penida also allo-cated a fund for repair of the levees in Nusa Penida at IDR 1 billion. “We will immediately coordinate with the agency again. The dam-aged embankment in Nusa Penida is quite long and must be repaired immediately,” he said. (kmb31)

Embankment collapses, ring road at risk of being disconnected

IBP/File

The damage information board is seen on Lovina Beach, Buleleng

Tourist information board rundownBali Post

SINGArAJA - Supporting tourism facilities at Lovina seems to get less maximal touch of maintenance by local government. As proof, the tourist information board established at roadside of Singaraja-Seririt, precisely at Kalibukbuk village, Lovina, looks in apprehensive condition. Even, the pole of the board almost collapses and the roof is leaking. Not surpris-ingly, such condition is often complained by travelers visiting Lovina.


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The Head of Buleleng Public Works, Putu Yasa, when contacted confirmed that the coastal territory of Northern Bali continued to be beset by abrasion and getting worse. Yasa said the most severe abrasion occurred on Hepi Beach, Tukadmungga village, Buleleng.

The beach taken advantage for tourist area abraded along about one kilometer from the end of the breakwater of Hotel Baruna towards the west to coastal area

of Anturan village, Buleleng. The beach was abraded due to tidal wave disasters occurred a few years ago. When enter-ing the season of bad weather lately, the condition of abraded area was getting worsened. “The Hepi Beach indeed has been abraded and it is getting worsened in this bad weather condition. We still continue to make data collection while monitoring, so the data of the abraded area will become clear,” he said.

In addition to Hepi Beach at Tukad-mungga, the Penimbangan Beach is also in severe enough abrasion. However, the affected beach is only 50 meters long.

The most severe damaged beach oc-curred just north of the Penimbangan Temple. The breakwater having been installed since a few years ago are now destroyed after being hit by tidal waves.

48 kilometers of beach in Buleleng hit by abrasion

Bali Post

SINGARAJA - Coastal territory of Bule-leng has continued to be besieged by abrasion

recently. Even, when entering the season of bad weather lately, condition of the abraded

coastal area worsened. So far, the abraded area occurred approximately along 48,262 ki-

lometers of the total length of coastal territory in North Bali reaching 157 kilometers.

Coastal territory of Buleleng has continued to be besieged by abrasion recently. Even, when entering the season of bad weather lately, con-dition of the abraded coastal area worsened. IBP/File Photo


NEW YORK — Seth Meyers has departed “Saturday Night Live,” just

weeks before he begins his new job as host of “Late Night.” Meyers co-anchored

“Weekend Update” on the NBC sketch-comedy series for eight seasons and

was joined for his farewell newscast by “SNL” alumni Amy Poehler, Andy Sam-

berg, Bill Hader and Fred Armisen.They told Meyers they had come to

take him “to the other side.” Meyers called his “SNL” tenure “the job I always wanted.” He joined the cast in 2001. He’ll

take over at NBC’s “Late Night” on Feb. 24. “SNL” head writer Colin Jost will

replace Meyers at the “Weekend Update” anchor desk alongside Cecily Strong. He

signs on March 1.

Blige opened the show and had many in the crowd ignoring their din-ner by the end of her energetic set, which included hits like “I’m Goin’ Down,” ‘’Good Woman Down” and an impassioned rendition of “No More Drama” that brought the crowd to its feet. Serenading a swanky Manhattan crowd, Legend said he never thought he’d see the day a Super Bowl came to New York City.

Then he corrected himself: “More

accurately, New Jersey.” With that, he launched into a song by one of New Jersey’s favorite sons Bruce Springsteen: “Dancing in the Dark.”

Guests — who included supermodel Petra Nemcova, TV hosts Stephen Col-bert, Katie Couric and Gayle King, and film producer Harvey Weinstein — were served lobster, strip loin and branzino. The theme being fitness, dinner also included offerings of kale smoothies and nonalcoholic shots made with lemon

and ginger.A charity auction during the dinner

brought in hefty sums, including $8,000 for a dinner for six at Rao’s, a New York restaurant that’s notoriously difficult to get into, and $4,000 for a Movado sports watch.

Beneficiaries included the Happy Hearts Fund, which Nemcova intro-duced and which rebuilds schools and helps children after natural disasters.

The three performers each chose a charity to receive funds: Legend chose the Show Me Campaign, which works to give children access to quality education; Blige chose the Mary J. Blige Founda-tion for the Advancement of Women Now Inc.; and Anthony chose Maestro Cares, which works with orphaned chil-dren in Latin America.

Blige, Legend, Anthony head-

line NY Super Bowl bash

This image released by Starpix shows John Legend

performing at the Shape Magazine and Men’s Fitness Super Bowl Party at Cipriani

42nd Street on Friday, Jan. 31, 2014, in New York.

AP Photo/Starpix, Dave Allocca


NEW YORK — Mary J. Blige, John Legend and Marc Anthony kicked off the American football championship Super Bowl weekend in style by serenading a celebrity-filled crowd in Manhattan. Hundreds of New Yorkers and visitors packed into Cipriani’s 42nd Street on Friday night for a party sponsored by Shape and Men’s Fitness magazines. Tickets cost $2,500 per person.

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