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Andrew Chan and Myuran Su-kumaran, the ringleaders of the so-called “Bali Nine” drug smuggling gang, were woken and given a few minutes to get ready before leaving Bali’s Kerobokan jail in the early hours, said local justice ministry

official Nyoman Putra Surya.The men, sentenced to death in

2006 for trying to smuggle heroin out of Indonesia, said “thank you” before leaving, and “we handcuffed them and they were quiet”, he added.

Michael Chan attempted to see his brother Andrew before the transfer but prison officials denied him entry, with Surya saying the decision was taken because “today is not visiting day”.

More than 200 police and sol-

diers as well as water cannon were stationed outside the Bali prison as the men, in their early 30s, were driven out through a scrum of journalists.

The pair were flown to Cilacap, on Java island, on a chartered flight accompanied by military aircraft.

Two armoured vehicles escorted by elite police then boarded a boat at the local port which crossed to

Nusakambangan island, home to several high security prisons and where the pair will be executed, an AFP reporter at the scene said.

Australians on death row arrive on execution island

CILACAP - Two Australian drug smugglers were transferred Wednesday to an Indonesian island where they will be executed, as Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Australia was “revolted” by their looming deaths after frantic diplomatic efforts to save them.

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One of Indonesian police armored vehicles carrying two Australian prisoners arrives at Wijaya Pura port in Cilacap, Central Java, Indonesia, Wednesday, March 4, 2015. Indonesia began transferring the two Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran early Wednesday in preparation for the execution by firing squad of nine foreigners and an Indonesian condemned for drug smuggling, as diplomatic squabbles persist over the executions.

News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http://globalfmbali.listen2my-

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Underwood released on Twitter a photograph of the hand of their son -- Isaiah Michael Fisher -- and said he was born on Friday.

“God has blessed us with an amazing gift!” Underwood wrote.

Underwood in 2010 married Fisher, a Canadian hockey player now with the Nashville Predators.

Last month, a heavily pregnant Underwood was unable to travel to Los Angeles to accept the Grammy Award for Best Country Solo Per-formance for her gospel-tinged “Something in the Water.”

Underwood, 31, is known for her healthy lifestyle and is a longtime vegetarian.

She became a vegan a couple of years ago but said that she reverted a bit during her pregnancy.

“Now I’m pregnant, it’s like, I can’t just order steamed broccoli. That’s not going to cut it,” she told CBS television’s Entertainment Tonight in December. (afp)

NEW YORK — The 14th-annu-al Tribeca Film Festival will feature documentaries on Cuban muscle cars, New Yorker cartoonists and police stun guns. The downtown New York festival announced half its slate Tuesday, previewing the films that will play in competition.

The festival will feature docu-mentaries across a wide spectrum of subjects, including “Indian Point,” on the New York state nuclear facility; “Havana Motor Club,” on muscle cars in Cuba; “Tom Swift and his Electric Rifle,” on police use of stun guns; and “Very Semi-Serious,” about New Yorker cartoons.

Among the dramatic entries are “The Adderall Diaries,” an adap-tion of Stephen Elliott’s memoir starring James Franco; “Franny,” a drama about an eccentric older

man (Richard Gere) drawn to the daughter (Dakota Fanning) of a dead friend; and “Meadowland,” a relationship drama with Olivia Wilde and Luke Wilson.

But documentaries have become known as Tribeca’s strongest offer-ings and are increasingly occupying some of the festival’s top showcase slots. This year’s festival, which runs April 15-26, will open with the “Saturday Night Live” documen-tary “Live From New York!”

Other documentaries coming to Tribeca this year focus on the Japanese drink sake (“The Birth of Sake”), romance among the autistic (“Autism in Love”) and the most-gored bullfighter in history (“Gored”). Albert Maysles will also present “In Transit,” a documentary he co-directed about the longest train route in America. (ap)

CHICAGO — Oprah Winfrey will close Harpo Stu-dios in Chicago, where she filmed “The Oprah Winfrey Show” for more than 20 years, this December, and will transition production for her cable network to a studio in California.

Harpo Studios and the Oprah Winfrey Network made the announcement Tuesday. OWN recently moved into a new studio in West Hollywood, California, and work currently done at Harpo Studios in Chicago will now be done there.

Winfrey sold the Harpo Studios property in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood to a developer last year for about $32 million. She said in a statement Tuesday that Harpo Studios has been a “blessing” in her life and she’s now “looking ahead” to inhabiting her California studio.

The city named the street outside Harpo Studios “Oprah Winfrey Way” in 2011. (ap)

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Country star Underwood announces first child

NEW YORK - Country superstar Carrie Underwood on Tuesday announced the birth of her first child with her husband, the hockey player Mike Fisher.

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Winfrey’s Harpo Studios in Chicago to close in December

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In this May 24, 2011 file photo, Kimberly Adams holds a poster outside Harpo Studios before the final taping of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in Chicago.

Franco, Gere movies among entries at

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

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

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

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

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and for the soul. The Library Cafe is a chance to sit and relax in the company of literature and coffee. Finally, The Pool Pavilion is Bisma Eight’s take on the poolside Tiki Bar – a place of ultimate and total relaxation.

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For those of you who make a visit to Santika Siligita Hotel Nusa Dua, this fig-ure is definitely familiar. Her friendly and smiley personality easily makes anyone feel familiar. Fera Leonidya is known as a creative, beautiful and attractive Public Relations (PR) officer. This woman of Jogja-born on August 9, 1985 has started her career since one year ago at Santika Siligita. Previously, she has also been running the same profession at the Santika Premiere Jogja for 4 years. “It’s nice to stay in Bali, let alone to provide the best for Hotel Santika Indonesia Group,” stated the public relations doubling as secretary to general manager.

Although having many duties and responsibilities, she said, all the plans and ideas had to run as much as possible. “Becoming a PR officer is really multi-functional, it does not only prepare a press release, but also creatively invents new things,” she said while showing off the What’s On magazine as her own creation. Fera assumed that all the staff at her hotel were already like family members. It was the reason why she felt comfortable and at

ease as well as always wanted to give the best contribution. “What’s On magazine is one of my modest contributions,” she explained.

In addition to carrying the explanation and promotion of the hotel, she happily explained several attractions, culture, tra-dition and the arts of Bali. For example, it featured the tradition of omed-omedan, Blue Point Beach tourist attraction, Water Blow, Pandava, Tirta Gangga, Goa Lawah, Blanco Museum, Rafting and Nusa Dua Map. She said to continuously build a good image of the company and minimize any existing constraints. “Location of our hotel is indeed private and we do not di-rectly overlook the beach. Nevertheless, it does not matter because we provide a free shuttle service to the beach in Nusa Dua daily at 12:00 a.m., 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. This location can even be covered within a few minutes,” she explained. “My commitment to work is to provide the best services for both corporate management and guests. Most importantly, I want to continuously learn and explore my own potential. So I cannot just become a pro-

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fessional PR but also an entrepreneur PR,” she added. (ocha)

A number of fishermen at Medewi were deeply disappointed with the restriction rules. Their income dropped dramatically because the price of lobster also downed. “Formerly, they sold for IDR 450,000 per kg, but now the price only reaches IDR 250,000 provided that the lobster weighs two ounces,” complained Sahrawan, 35, a traditional fishermen from Medewi.

Before the rule was applied, the whole lobster catches of various sizes could be sold. After that, the price of lobster weighing less than two ounces dropped and was only stocked and sold for local markets. “Even, lobster collectors rarely want to buy. If they do, the price is very cheap,” he added.

Some lobster collectors usually selling for export market also started to restrict their purchase. It happened because the lobster caught by fishermen were mostly of substandard size namely between half to one ounce.

A member of the Indonesian Fishermen Association (HNSI) of Jembrana Chapter, Misadi, said that in the past week’s meet-ing there had been a revision allowing the

lobster of less than two ounces to be sold for export. However, it would only be valid until 2016. “Previously fishermen could really do nothing because the largest catches weighed two ounces. Meanwhile, the allowed size for export must be more than two ounces,” he said.

However, what complained by fishermen was the drastically dropped selling price. For instance, the price of lobster weighing two ounces was purchased at IDR 250,000 from IDR 450,000. Similarly, the size of one ounce was purchased by collector at IDR 50,000 per kg and a half ounce at IDR 30,000 per kg. His party hoped there was a solution to keep the price unchanged compared to before the enforcement of the new rule.

In the meantime, some lobster collectors met around the fish auction base at Medewi claimed to also be afflicted by the impact of the restriction. Due to limitation to lobster size, the lobster for export market was also limited. “We sell the small lobsters to local market, while collectors do not accept it for export market,” said Sri, one of the lobster collectors. (kmb26)

TABANAN - A hallway in a narrow lane leading to one of the houses at Meranggi hamlet, Pandak Bandung village, Kediri, becomes a silent witness to the hard work carried out by Made Purnawan, 48. Physical disability without two hands experienced by Purnawan does not discourage this father of two children to continue the struggle in order to support his family.

Armed with makeshift tool de-signed in such a way by him and assisted by his son of junior high school student, he moved hundreds of bricks every day from the pro-duction site to the main street with

a distance of about 50 meters. He has a principle to always be held, ‘if feeling ashamed, we cannot eat.’

“I am just able to do this work. This is a challenge of life for me despite not having hands,” he said when met on the sidelines of his hard work, Tuesday (Mar. 3).

He also told a melancholic story why his hands should be amputated. While moving the bricks from the shouldering tool to the piles of bricks on display at roadside, Pur-nawan told that fifteen years ago he worked as a welder. Assisted by his wife, he opened a welding service business. His business ran quite smoothly and one day he got an or-

der of making a stair. It was the time when the tragic story began. When welding the stairs, he suddenly got high voltage electric shock. He was then rushed to Tabanan Hospital. However, since he required serious treatment, he was then referred to Sanglah Hospital. Sadly, as a result of the high-voltage electric shock, the two hands should be amputated. “When regaining consciousness, I just knew if both hands have been amputated because long after the electric shock I was unconscious,” he said.

Knowing he no longer had two hands, he locked himself in a room without activity for three months. “I

was shocked with the condition at that time. I was too embarrassed to leave the house,” he said.

After calming down period for nearly three months, in the long run he could regain the spirit to work. It was also due to the encouragement and spirit of relatives and fam-ily that always gave him support to continue his life. “Initially all people are afraid to see me working, for fear of anything occurred. Even, I went out secretly to leave home for working, but now have been accustomed to,” he concluded.

By only working as brick porter, at least he was able to earn IDR 75,000 each day. Not infrequently,

he did not work. Besides, he was also often asked for help to look for water at local springs with the payment of IDR 5,000 per gallon. “Everything I do to support my family, even though my wife has already been working in one of the motorcycle repair shops since the incident,” he said.

Vivacity to work was driven by the fact that his two children still needed much money, especially for education. “Anyway, the most im-portant for me is to gather with fam-ily. I will do my best and positive things so that I can see my children always healthy and they can still go to school,” he said. (kmb28)

A true story on a disable man struggle to support his family

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A fisherman shows the lobster that he catch from the sea of Jembrana

Price downs drastically, lobster fishermen frustrated

NEGArA - The rules on the lobster catch according to its size by the Minister of Maritime and Fisheries are harmful to traditional fishermen in Bali. It kindles the dramatic decline in the price of lobster compared to before the rule was applied. Fishermen at Medewi, Pekutatan subdistrict, that relying on their livelihood to the catch of sand lobster were frustrated.

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Chronic users of the drug -- people who typi-cally take large, daily doses over several years -- may increase their risk of death, or kidney, intestinal and heart problems, they found.

Led by Philip Conaghan at the Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine in northern England, the team analysed data from eight previously-published studies into long-term paracetamol use.

The data came only from people who had paracetamol prescribed by a doctor, as opposed to over-the-counter purchases.

Two of the eight studies had found an increased risk of mortality, up to 63 percent, among long-term paracetamol users, compared to those who had not been prescribed the drug during the study period.

Four found a heightened risk, ranging from 19 to 68 percent, of cardiovascular problems. The risk of gastro-intestinal bleeding and other intes-tinal side-effects was up to 49 percent as high.

Three studies found an adverse effect on kid-neys.

In all cases, the risk was dose-dependent -- in other words, the higher the dose, the greater the risk, said the analysis published in the British journal Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.

Even though the risk in absolute terms was small, doctors should think carefully when pre-scribing the drug, it warned.

“We believe the true risk of paracetamol pre-scription to be higher than that currently perceived in the clinical community,” said the report.

“(...) A systemic review of paracetamol’s ef-ficacy and tolerability in individual conditions is warranted.”

Other experts cautioned against over-reac-tion.

They pointed out the analysis was unable to tell whether early death and health problems were caused by an underlying illness rather than from the paracetamol.

Nor did it take into account over-the-counter purchases of the drug, a picture that could be far more complex.

“Paracetamol remains the safest analgesic (painkiller) available, and this study should not stop people taking it,” said Nick Bateman, a pro-fessor of clinical toxicology at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.

“Based on these results, the lowest effective dose for the shortest necessary period is advised,” he told Britain’s Science Media Centre. “This is common sense for all medicines.”

Seif Shaheen, a respiratory epidemiology professor at London’s Queen Mary University, said the review, given its limitations, did noth-ing to strengthen the evidence for paracetamol’s harmful effects.

“However, further rigorous research into pos-sible detrimental effects of this commonly used drug would be prudent.”

Widely recommended as the first rung on the painkilling ladder, paracetamol is considered by many to be safer than aspirin and ibuprofen.

The new study pointed to other research find-ings that paracetamol may have no painkilling advantage over rivals when it comes to treating osteoarthritis, joint pain or acute lower-back pain.

In this light, “more careful consideration of its usage is required,” the paper said.

“Prescribers need to be aware of patients’ individual responses to paracetamol and the ob-served increased toxicity with regular and higher dosing.” (afp)

MONTREAL - Video game developer Ubisoft and a partner firm announced Tuesday the first therapeutic use of a video game to treat amblyo-pia, also known as “lazy eye,” which afflicts mostly children.

Ubisoft and Amblyotech Inc. used inventions patented by researchers at McGill University in Montreal and subsequently licensed to Amblyo-tech to come up with the breakthrough treatment, which it said is also “entertaining.”

Amblyopia afflicts an estimated three percent of children worldwide and if left untreated is a leading cause of blindness in adults.

The ocular disorder involves decreased vision in one eye as the result of a turned eye or because one eye is more powerful than the other.

Traditional treatments, including patching

of the sighted eye, often fail because of social stigmas and long treatment times leading to poor compliance and a high relapse.

The video game, called “Dig Rush,” uses both eyes binocularly to train the brain in order to improve visual acuity, instead of training just the weak eye.

A physican simply adjusts the game’s settings, using different contrast levels of red and blue that can be seen through stereoscopic glasses, to allow both eyes to see the gameplay unfolding.

Amblyotech chief executive Joseph Koziak said the electronic therapy has been tested clini-cally to “significantly increase the visual acuity” in patients.

The game is awaiting regulatory approval. (afp)

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration is warn-ing doctors against over-prescribing testosterone-boosting drugs for men, saying the popular treatments have not been established as safe or effective for common age-related issues like low libido and fatigue. The agency says drugmakers must clearly state in their labeling and promotions that the drugs, currently taken by millions of U.S. men, are only approved to treat low testos-terone levels caused by disease or injury, not normal aging.

Additionally, the FDA cautioned that the drugs may increase the risk of heart attack, stroke and other cardiovascular problems. Drugmak-ers must add information about that potential risk to their prescribing labels and conduct a long-term study to further examine the issue, the FDA said.

Health officials in Canada issued a similar warning about testosterone risks last July. The FDA action fol-lows years of industry marketing for new gels, patches and injections that promise relief from low tes-tosterone or “Low-T.” Promotions from AbbVie, Eli Lilly & Co. and others link the condition to a variety of common ailments in aging men, including sexual problems and low mood.

“There’s been a very successful advertising campaign to make men feel that whatever their problem is, the answer is to buy more tes-tosterone,” said Dr. Sidney Wolfe of Public Citizen. The consumer advocacy group petitioned the FDA last February to add a boxed warn-

ing — the most serious type— to testosterone drugs about heart risks. But the FDA rejected the petition in July, saying there was “insufficient evidence” for such a warning.

The advertising blitz for drugs like AbbVie’s Androgel and Lilly’s Axiron has pushed sales of testos-terone drugs to over $2 billion. Roughly 2.3 million U.S. patients filled a prescription for testosterone in 2013, up 77 percent from 2010, according to FDA figures. The head-ing on Abbvie’s Androgel website reads: “You are a man. You want the facts. You get down to business. You might have low testosterone.”

North Chicago-based Abbvie said in a statement that the company “is committed to our patients and we continue to work with the FDA.”

Testosterone injections were first approved in the 1950s for men who had been diagnosed with hypogo-nadism, a form of abnormally low testosterone caused by disorders of the testicles, brain and other hormone-related organs.

But current labeling on the drugs is vague enough that companies have been able to promote them to millions of otherwise healthy men who simply have lower-than-normal levels of testosterone.

While men’s testosterone levels naturally decline after age 40, ex-perts disagree on whether that drop actually leads to the issues like decreased energy and lower bone density. Additionally, testosterone levels change by the hour and are affected by a range of environmen-tal factors, such as stress and sexual arousal. (ap)

Long-term paracetamol use poses risk

PARIS - Doctors may be under-estimating the risks to patients from long-term use of paracetamol, the world’s most popular painkiller, researchers said Tuesday.

Video game offers entertaining new treatment for ‘lazy eye’

Men’s testosterone drugs overused

AP Photo

This Sept. 11 2009 file photo shows a packet of AndroGel testos-terone in Hygiene, Colo.

In response to this, the Chair-man of Commission III of the Bali Legislature, I Nengah Tamba, asked the Sarbagita regions and Bali gov-ernment to take immediate action to address the waste problem. The piles of garbage at Suwung landfill not only pollute the environment, but also polluted underground water endangering the health of surround-ing communities and disrupting the image of Bali tourism.

“The government should imme-diately look into this and cancel the contract with the investor that has been running for 10 years who cannot en-tirely resolve the problem of the piles of rubbish,” he said. Tamba added that Bali should imitate China’s successful waste management practices used throughout big cities such as Shanghai, Beijing and Guang Zhou. As the result of efficient handling of waste, these cities were then growing as tourist destinations. He also proposed that the government build a modern waste processing plant with a capacity of 5,000 tons per day. This would allow the elimination of the piles of rubbish at Suwung landfill in 5 to 7 years.

“If local government is not ready to invest in the waste management, it is necessary for the government to invite participation from investors who have waste processing technology adapted to the conditions of mixed garbage in Bali. Rubbish here must be sorted, and currently processing of 2,500 tons of new rubbish cannot be done in one day, let alone the piles of 10 meters high,” he said.

This legislator from Democrat Party also proposed that the govern-ment draw up a contract with the right to cancel if the investor failed to manage waste within 5 to 10 years. The government, said Tamba, should allocate funds for dealing with the waste problem at Suwung and could do so through an increased waste levy for the benefit of the environment. “If all we do is talk about rubbish without any action, so it will be use-less,” he said.

The Executive Director of the Friends of the Earth Indonesia (WALHI) of Bali Chapter, Suriadi Darmoko, agreed that the govern-ment should immediately act to re-solve the waste problem, especially at Suwung landfill. He also mentioned that it was also a factor affecting the image of Bali tourism. “A good im-age for tourism must be built from waste management. The regional Bylaw (Perda) on waste mandates the government to take over the waste management. Before becom-ing waste, the rubbish was a taxed product. Since the tax was collected by government, the government may not ignore it,” he said.

Suriadi added that long term coop-eration with the investor should also be terminated immediately without taking on another investor. On the contrary, the government should seek cooperation with communities or traditional villages, and involve university experts who that could provide technical input.

“Just take advantage of local

potential. Actually Balinese people have the ability to manage it, or perhaps the government does not want to make cooperation with its own people. The failure (of waste management—Ed.) always lies in building partnership with local part-ners. It’s where the failure always occurs,” he affirmed. (kmb32)

DENPASAR - Bali will remain among the favorite tourist destinations for Australians because Bali and Australia have had an emotional bond for long, a local tourism observer said.

“Australia’s appeal to its citizens to boycott Bali is an emotional call that will only have a temporary effect. It (the emotion) will return to normal again in stages,” tourism observer Ketut Sudiarta of the Denpasar Warmadewa University (Unwar) stated on Wednesday.

He added that Bali’s tourism market will not be disturbed significantly with the Australian government’s call to boycott it. Australian tourists will not be influenced by the plan to execute two drug convicts on death row from their country.

The two convicts have been moved from Bali to Nusakambangan Island in Cilacap district, Central Java.

Sudiarta further noted that Bali’s tourism market will continue to attract Australian tourists as they would enjoy the resort island’s natural beauty, especially its exotic beaches.

“We can see that a majority of foreign tourists visiting Bali continue to be Australians,” he remarked.

Although Australia has urged its citizens to boycott traveling to Bali, its citizens continue to visit the famous Indonesian resort island.

Sudiarta also pointed out that Bali should increase its tourism promo-tional activities to restore the sector not because of the upcoming execution of the Australian drug convicts on death row, but because of the need for such promotions consistently.

“Bali could also take advantage of the problems arising in Thailand, China and Malaysia following the flight accident,” he said.

Furthermore, three convicts sentenced to death over drug cases arrived on Wednesday morning at the execution island of Nusakambangan in Cilacap, Central Java, where they will face a firing squad soon.

They include the two Australian Bali Nine members, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, and Nigerian national Raheem Agbaje Salami.

Chan and Sukumaran were moved from Krobokan Prison in Denpasar to Ngurah Rai Airport, from where they were flown by a chartered Wings Air flight with registration number ATR-72-600 PK-WGO at 6:50 a.m. local time amid heavy rain to Cilacap.

Escorted by two Sukhois and two F-16 fighter planes, the Wings Air plane that Chan and Sukumaran boarded arrived at Cilacap’s Tunggul Wulung Airport at 8:14 a.m. local time.

They were then transferred from the airport, and arrived at Nusakam-bangan Island under tight security at 8:50 a.m. on Wednesday morning.

Salami was also transferred from Madiun Prison in East Java to Nu-sakambangan Island early on Wednesday.

Chan, Sukumarang, and Salami are among the 11 convicts on death row who will be executed soon.

The two Australians were members of the ‘Bali Nine’ drug ring, a group of drug traffickers, who were nabbed on April 17, 2005, in Bali while they were trying to smuggle out 8.3 kilograms of heroin worth Rp40 billion to Australia. (ant)

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Piles of rubbish at Suwung landfill increase day after day. Indeed, the height has reached about 10 meters with

a very pungent stench Up to a radius of 3 km. Without doubt, the volume of rubbish coming to Suwung landfill

from Denpasar, Badung, Gianyar and Tabanan (Sarbagita) can reach 2,500-3,000 tons each day.

Rubbish at Suwung landfill mounts

Government urged to take decisive measures

DENPASAR - Piles of rubbish at Suwung landfill increase day after day. Indeed, the height has reached about 10 meters with a very pungent stench Up to a radius of 3 km. Without doubt, the volume of rubbish coming to Suwung landfill from Denpasar, Badung, Gianyar and Tabanan (Sarbagita) can reach 2,500-3,000 tons each day.

ANTARA FOTO/Fikri Yusuf

Foreign tourists played sand at Legian Beach, Badung Regen-cy, Bali Island. Bali will remain among the favorite tourist des-tinations for Australians because Bali and Australia have had an emotional bond for long, a local tourism observer said.

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The government, which owned most of the airline, took 100 percent ownership and removed it from the Malaysian stock exchange last year. The airline is now aiming to return to profitability by 2017 with a drastic $1.7 billion overhaul that includes cutting nearly a third of its staff.

Key to the plan is a new CEO, Christoph Mueller, a turnaround specialist who led a successful re-vival of Ireland’s Aer Lingus. His new bosses hope he’ll be able to pull off a similar feat at Malaysia Airlines though analysts say suc-cess is far from guaranteed because of the political baggage of being a state-owned company. At least four other major restructurings of Malaysia Airlines since 2001 have failed.

“There’s no doubt that it’s got more challenges than many, be-cause you’re dealing with a com-pany that’s in a poor financial state, you’ve got the political interfer-ence, the backlash of the incidents,” said John Strickland, director of JLS, an airline industry consulting company.

The challenge of the restruc-

turing is compounded by rapid changes in the aviation industry in Asia, where low cost carriers are proliferating to serve the growing ranks of middle class consumers.

The disasters that brought Ma-laysia Airlines to the brink of finan-cial collapse served to underline the weakness of it and other full-service carriers in the region. They face stiff competition from a wave of budget upstarts including Malaysia’s AirA-sia, Indonesia’s Lion Air, Tigerair and Scoot from Singapore, and Qantas offshoot Jetstar.

Even Malaysia Airlines has its own low-cost offshoot, Firefly. Mueller may be keen to use it as a testing ground for new ideas, given his track record at Aer Lingus, where he responded to competition from no-frills airline Ryanair by mimicking as many of its practices as possible.

The changes, which blurred the distinction between Lingus and Ryanair, include shortened airplane turnaround times at the gate and charging for seat selec-tion, checked bags and food and drinks. Aer Lingus’ net profit since its 2006 stock flotation has wobbled

between modest profits and losses as the company took financial hits for strikes, shutdowns, mass cancel-lations and pension gap payoffs in order to avoid more strikes.

The result is that he’s turned an airline that was near death into an attractive takeover target for Ryanair and British Airways parent IAG simply by getting it through a period of massive upheaval.

A similar outcome might be in store at Malaysia Airlines. Khaza-nah Nasional, the Malaysia sover-eign investment fund that owns the airline, said it may consider selling some or all of its stake to private investors after relisting shares within a planned three to five years. Aer Lingus and Khazanah Nasional declined interview requests for Mueller, who started his new job on Sunday.

In a quarterly update released Monday, Khazanah said the over-haul of Malaysia Airlines is on track. The airline is preparing to cut 6,000 of its 20,000 employees. It’s also planning to expand seats on Asian routes by 5 percent but is reviewing European and Mideast routes with a view to ending some.(ap)

NEW DELHI — When a con-demned killer said the woman he and others brutally gang-raped on a New Delhi bus was responsible for what had happened to her, his comments were shocking in their callousness and lack of re-morse. But the underlying view has wide acceptance in India. Blaming women for rape is what hundreds of millions of men here are taught to believe.

And the code for women in this country is simple: Dress modestly, don’t go out at night, don’t go to bars and clubs, don’t go out alone. If you break the code, you will be blamed for the consequences.

When one of the four men sen-tenced to death for the high-profile gang rape of the woman in 2012 was quoted in a new documentary as saying “a girl is far more respon-sible for rape than a boy,” he was repeating something community and religious leaders in this nation of 1.2 billion routinely say.

“A decent girl won’t roam around at 9 o’clock at night. ... Housework and housekeeping is for girls, not roaming in discos and bars at night doing wrong things, wearing wrong clothes,” Mukesh Singh said in the documentary, “India’s Daughter,” meant to be shown on Sunday, In-ternational Women’s Day, in India and several other countries.

But how different were the convicted rapist’s words from com-

ments that Manohar Lal Khattar, the top elected official of Haryana state made last year? “If a girl is dressed decently, a boy will not look at her in the wrong way,” Khattar told re-porters, “Freedom has to be limited. These short clothes are Western influences. Our country’s tradition asks girls to dress decently.”

The convicted rapist learned only what he has heard leaders in his community say, said Jagmati Sangwan, a women’s rights activist who heads the All India Democratic Women’s Association. “This man is just following the example our leaders are setting for our young men,” she said.

In 2009 when a rightwing Hindu group attacked women in a pub in the southern state of Karna-taka, then-Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa said that he wanted to “end the culture of boys and girls roaming around in malls holding hands.” Women leaders are not immune.

When a female journalist was shot dead in 2008 while driving home from work well past mid-night, New Delhi’s top official at the time, Sheila Dixit, make clear she partly blamed the victim. “All by herself till 3 a.m. at night in a city where people believe...you know...you should not be so ad-venturous,” she told reporters. It’s a view that Sangwan hears all too often. (ap)

A murderer and rapist’s views reflect those of many in India

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FILE - In this Dec. 22, 2012 file photo, protesters gather out-side the Indian Presidential Palace during a protest against the brutal gang rape of a 23-year-old woman on a moving bus in New Delhi, India.

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In this Friday, Feb. 27, 2015 photos, visitors look out from a viewing gallery as a Malaysia Airlines plane sits in the tarmac at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Sepang, Malaysia. After a year of unprecedented calamity for the Southeast Asian carrier, Malaysia Airlines is aiming to return to profitability by 2017 with a drastic $1.7 billion overhaul that includes cutting nearly a third of its staff.

Ailing Malaysia Airlines readies for

drastic overhaulKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — After a year of calamity, Malaysia Airlines is shrinking to

survive. The disappearance of Flight 370 one year ago, combined with the downing of Flight 17 over a rebel held area of eastern Ukraine four months later, brought the already financially struggling flag carrier to its knees.

According to the legislator Ketut Sukma Sucita, the tourism concept currently drafted by local govern-ment was unclear. Local government did not want to learn from the current tourism development in Bali. He said the tour package should be packed seriously by local government. “Tour package can be integrated with vil-lage tourism. We really have the potential, and now we need a serious measure,” said Sukma.

Tourism village completely packed with tour package should be started as a new era of the Klungkung tourism in favor of the community empowerment and optimized to get more regionally generated revenues from tourism sector. He wanted the tourism sector could become a new alternative as an effort to empower and support the fulfillment of revenue target from tourism sector. “We want to have a leading tourism design worth enjoying by travelers and gives benefit to public and local govern-ment,” said the community leader of Kamasan village.

The salable tour package to trav-elers was in accordance with the potential of the region such as the culture-based attraction, traditional fishing as well as nature and sea condi-tion. Kamasan village could be one of the potentials designed into an alluring culture-based tour package. He point-ed out the use of river at local village as location of whitewater rafting, scenic rice fields for trekking and walking tour. Alternatively, the other potential attractions could be joining harvest or plowing rice fields and offering typical culinary delights such as laklak snack, serombotan and lawar delicacies along the path. Furthermore, it could be re-sumed with visiting cultural attraction such as the classic puppet painting of Kamasan, goldsmith, silversmith and blacksmiths and the visit to pristine

sanctum.The Head of Klungkung Cul-

ture and Tourism Agency, Wayan Sujana, admitted on Tuesday (Mar. 3) that Klungkung currently did not have a tour package. However, he said such idea was being planned and finalized. The tour package drafted by the Culture and Tour-ism Agency was more general, not specific to a certain potential as expected by Ketut Sukma Sucita. As in the draft made by the agency, the trip would start from the inter-section at Jumpai village to Gelgel. At the location, visitors would be introduced to a wide range of poten-tial Klungkung craft products such as the endek and songket clothes.

The Dasar Buana Gelgel Temple could also become a tourist attraction. From Gelgel, it would be resumed to Kamasan village. There, visitors would be invited to have a closer look at the potential of Kamasan village such as paintings as well as silver and bronze crafts. After that, the tour continued to Agung Palace of Klung-kung, Kertha Gosa and Semarapura art market. “From the palace, visitors can ride buggy around the center of Semarapura town prior to visiting Ker-tha Gosa,” said Sujana. To support the tour package, as planned the former BPD building would be demolished to make a shortcut to the Semarapura art market. Thus, the parking lot would be concentrated in the Klungkung night market area that was deserted in the morning until noon.

So far, his party just made a plan, while there had been no follow up to certain travel agencies. However, as commitment of the Regent Suwirta, the tour package was being seriously prepared this year in order to build a new era of tourism in the region being famous for its serombotan or assorted hot spiced vegetables. (kmb31)

BANGLI - A resident of Antu-gan hamlet, Jehem village, living at Belok hamlet, Yangapi village, Tembuku subditrict, died after be-ing bitten by a stray dog around his house two months ago. The victim named Nengah Merta, 32, died with clinical symptoms of rabies while undergoing treatment for a few hours at Sanglah Hospital, Monday (Mar. 2).

According to the victim’s uncle, Nyoman Kajar, before dying the victim admitted to have been bitten by stray dogs near his home about two months ago. He claimed to be bitten by the stray dog on right calf.

However, since it did not cause serious injuries, the victim ignored it. Approximately since the past four days, the victim had begun to complain of pain. He suffered cystitis and was often restless. Not only that, the victim was also fear of light. A paramedic had been called for treating the victim.

“He was injected by the para-medic at that time,” said Kajar when met at his home on Tuesday (Mar. 3). However, such an effort did not bring in any change to the health of the victim.

On Monday morning, the family was panic due to seeing the victim

suffered convulsions. Around 10 o’clock, the victim was rushed to Bangli Hospital. At Bangli Hos-pital, condition of the victim was restless. Even, the paramedic got difficulty to inject the infusion needle. Around 12 o’clock noon, the Bangli Hospital then referred the victim to Sanglah Hospital. “He had been treated for a few hours at Sanglah Hospital, but about five o’clock late afternoon he was de-clared dead,” said Kajar.

Based on medical examina-tion, the victim was stated a rabies suspect. The victim’s body was already taken to funeral home in

the morning. The victim posing the backbone of his family left a wife and a five-year old daughter.

Meanwhile, after the victim’s death due to rabies suspect, a number of officers from the Health Agency, Bali Livestock Agency with Bangli Livestock and Mari-time Affairs immediately came down to location. In addition to asking about the victim’s medical history, the officers also tried to hunt down the suspected dog that had bitten the victim. However, the officers got difficulties because none of the victim’s families knew about the characteristics of the

stray dog.In addition to making investigation,

the officials of Livestock Agency also conducted sample taking of the dog around the victim’s home. “Initial results of the investigation indicated if the existence of the dog biting him is not known. On that account, we take alternative by taking the sample of some of dogs roamed around here,” said the Head of the Bali Livestock Agency, I Putu Sumantra.

To anticipate the spread of ra-bies, as planned on Wednesday, the officers would provide free vaccination for dogs existing in the local area. (ina)

Rabies suspect, a resident of Yangapi village diesIBP/Bagiarta

One of the domestic tourists is checking the panting in Kamasan, Klungkung

Klungkung still lacks of tour packageSEMARAPURA - Klungkung County has many tourism

potentials. However, there is very little effort to make a tour package integrated with the others. Actually, the concept of tour package can encourage tourism potential to grow and develop so that it has an impact on job opportunity creation and the economic growth.

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SYDNEY - Australia’s economy expanded slower than forecast in the last three months of 2014, data showed Wednesday, fuelling expec-tations the central bank will further cut interest rates to record lows. The Australian Bureaus of Statistics said growth came in at 0.5 percent quar-ter on quarter in the three months to December, and 2.5 percent over the previous year.

That was below analysts’ ex-pectations of 0.7 percent quarterly growth and 2.6 percent over the year. However, it beat the revised 0.4 percent quarterly expansion in July-September.

Wednesday’s figures are the lat-est to highlight Australia’s struggle to transition from an unprecedented mining-investment boom with non-resources industries struggling to fill the gap.

Treasurer Joe Hockey told re-porters “2.5 percent for the year in the face of the massive transition in the Australian economy is a good outcome. It’s right on track with around about where we were expect-ing to be”.

He added: “Australia is still performing well by international comparisons. Our economy over the past year has grown faster than the United States, Germany and obvi-ously Japan and other key trading partners such as Hong Kong and Singapore.”

The Reserve Bank of Australia cut interest rates to a new record low of 2.25 percent in February in a bid to support growth in the non-mining

sectors. And while it kept them on hold Tuesday it has adopted an eas-ing bias, cautioning that “growth is continuing at a below-trend pace, with domestic demand growth over-all quite weak”.

Despite growing talk of another rate cut the Australian dollar rose to 78.31 US cents after the figures were released from 78.15 cents before.

While overall growth was sub-dued in the fourth-quarter, “some of the detail was encouraging”, Bar-clays’ chief economist for Australia Kieran Davies told AFP.

“We had the strongest increase in consumer spending in a few years and non-mining business invest-ment looks to be doing a bit better,” he added.

Net exports continued to support growth, expanding 0.7 percentage points for the quarter while con-sumer spending rose 0.6 percentage points. Business inventories weak-ened, falling 0.6 percentage points.

The central bank last month cut its growth forecast for this year to 2.25-3.25 percent, from a November estimate of 2.50-3.50 percent, as it warned that unemployment was likely to rise.

The jobless rate has steadily risen over the past year, jumping to a 12-year high of 6.4 percent in January, while consumer and public spending has mostly remained soft.

Economists tipped the central bank to slash the cash rate again by May, pointing to the subdued growth rates and weak consumer and busi-ness confidence. (afp)

That’s the strikingly upbeat view of economists surveyed by The Associated Press, who no longer see Europe’s financial crisis, the U.S. housing market or congres-sional gridlock as the threats they appeared to be last year.

“The U.S. is doing well, you’re getting a lot of good news in Eu-rope,” said Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at IHS Global Insight. “The global economy is gaining traction.”

U.S. consumers are feeling

flusher, thanks to lower gas prices, a burst of hiring and long-awaited if still-modest pay raises for many. Their spending is expected to boost growth this year in the United States and overseas.

The brighter outlook marks a turnaround from last fall, when a looming war in Ukraine, the rise of the Islamic State terror group and a reluctance by the European Central Bank to expand its stimulus efforts led analysts to downgrade their view of the global economy.

Weaker growth in China has also hurt exporting countries from Latin America to Australia that had long benefited from China’s appetite for farm products, copper, iron ore and other commodities. China’s growth decelerated last year to its slowest pace in a quarter-century.

Still, most economists expect China to avoid a further slow-down. Its central bank cut rates last weekend for the second time in three months to try to accelerate growth.

The AP surveyed nearly three dozen corporate, Wall Street and academic economists from Feb. 19 to 25. A majority said they thought struggling economies in Europe and Japan would benefit from lower-priced energy and ultra-low loan rates engineered by central banks.

Behravesh predicted that freer-spending U.S. consumers would pro-vide help. He noted that their collec-tive spending represents a bigger force than any other nation’s economy.

American consumers have ben-efited from the 1 million-plus jobs U.S. employers have added in the past three months. More than 3.2 million more Americans are

earning paychecks than were 12 months ago.

In January, U.S. gas prices reached a five-year low, though they’ve since rebounded. A gallon cost an average of $2.44 nationwide Tuesday, more than a dollar cheaper than it did 12 months ago, accord-ing to AAA.

So far, many Americans have saved the extra cash from lower gas prices. But even that’s a hopeful sign: It means consumers — who fuel about 70 percent of the U.S. economy — have more money to spend in coming months. The U.S. savings rate reached a two-year high in January. (ap)

Outlook for global economy has brightened

WASHINGTON — From the United States to Asia to Europe, a global economy that many had feared was faltering appears poised for a resurgence on the strength of cheap oil and fall-ing interest rates.

Slow Australian economic growth fuels rate cut expectations

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A man and a woman walk past the Reserve Bank of Australia in Sydney, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015. Australia’s economy expanded slower than forecast in the last three months of 2014, data showed Wednesday, fuelling expectations the central bank will further cut interest rates to record lows.

Chief of the Bali Logistics Agen-cy, Wayan Budita, explained that his office would take quick action to follow up with the allocation of 6 tons of rice. Of that number, 2 tons of rice would be distributed at Mambal market, 2 tons at Mengwi market and 2 tons at Kuta II market with the price of only IDR 7,500 per kg. Sugar would be provided at IDR 9,100 per kg.

“Bulog warehouse in Badung and the ranks of Bulog Bali will start the marketing operation around 7 a.m. at three markets in Badung

County namely the Mambal, Meng-wi and Kuta II market,” explained Budita.

Meanwhile, the regent of Ba-dung expressed his deep appre-ciation for the quick response and commitment of the Bulog Bali in an effort to help Badung govern-ment especially in distributing rice to the poor (Raskin) as well as for the marketing operation in Badung.

According to Gde Agung, the market operation carried out im-mediately by Bulog was not only

associated with rice but also other needs, such as sugar. Surely benefits would be really enjoyed by the Ba-dung community.

The market operation by Bulog was expected to create a balance between supplies and demand, so that price stability of the basic com-modities, especially rice and sugar, could be maintained. “I do hope the price of basic necessities can immediately decline. I appeal to the people in need to come to Mambal, Mengwi and Kuta market,” he said. (kmb27)

TABANAN - When compared to other hamlet, Denuma is not too special. However, the population of the hamlet located at Kukuh village, Marga subdistrict, Tabanan, about 18 km from Denpasar, is entirely getting involved in the art sphere. Such condition makes Denuma known to many people. The hamlet inhabited by about 97 families is very close to Alas Kedaton tour-ist attraction. Local people have a tradition of making woven bamboo wall. It is not only performed by men, local women are also busy helping. Even, children of primary and secondary school as well as teenagers participate as well.

When making a visit into peo-ple’s home, the activity of weaving bamboo wall becomes a unique spectacle. It is performed together amicably and untiringly. Their product is also varied in terms of motif such as star, frizzy and unusual motif. On average, they size 2x3 meters, but people can also book a tailor-made size. Ni Wayan Arini, 32, one of the female craftsmen said the activity of weaving bamboo wall was inherited from her ancestors. Although other family members had other jobs, she was not willing to leave the job having become a tradition. “Weaving bamboo wall has become our livelihood inherited from our ancestors,” she said.

An interesting spectacle oc-curred every Sunday where each crafter submitted their product to group leader to be marketed. Craft-ers could submit 2-4 rolls. Each roll usually contained 5 sheets of woven bamboo wall. Although lining up, their face looked happy after going out from the cooperative. Then, when asked about the income ob-taining from the sale of each woven

bamboo wall to her group, this crafter did not want to reveal. They just admitted it was only enough to support the family. “The amount is uncertain and it corresponds to the amount of product submitted. The price is also in accordance with the increasing order,” said Ariani.

For them, it is a commonplace atmosphere. But for tourists, it is a fascinating spectacle. When all family members do the same job simultaneously, they will look very nice. “Travelers who are having a promenade at our hamlet often drop by to see the activity of weaving bamboo wall,” said hamlet chief of Denuma, Wayan Sukantra. The travelers, added Sukantra, were very pleased to see craftsmen work-ing full of solidarity and laughter. Within a week, there were always some foreign travelers strolling at the road of this beautiful hamlet. Moreover, tourist visit is made 2-3 times a week during high season. “Art activity of our community is often made a spectacle by them,” he said.

Unlike the case of people who work as sculptor and carver, though they make the work of art together, their products are then marketed independently. Other than making sculpture, there are some other crafters making carvings for the or-nament of Balinese style building. Design of the sculptures made from rock stone comprises the figure of puppet, gods and goddesses as well as animals. Meanwhile, their wooden carving has some motifs like the ringring and others. Aside from Denuma hamlet, Tegal hamlet located side by side also produces the art crafts. Even, these two ham-lets support Kukuh village as the village of the art in Bali. (kmb)

Craftsmen Community at Denuma Hamlet

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A woman lights a candle before praying in front of Kerobokan prison, before the transfer of the two Australian death row prisoners, Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, to the airport in Denpasar, on the Indonesian island of Bali March 4, 2015. The two convicted Australian drug smugglers were being transferred on Wednesday from a Bali prison to an island for execution along with other foreigners, underlining Indonesia’s determination to use the death penalty despite international criticism. The planned executions of Myuran Sukumaran, 33, and Andrew Chan, 31, have ratcheted up diplomatic tensions between Australia and Indonesia following repeated pleas of mercy for the pair, who are among 11 death row convicts scheduled to go before a firing squad.

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Badung government has finally responded to the insistence of the House and the Indonesia Farmers Association (HKTI). It organized market operation oversight in the light of rising rice prices.

Stabilizing rice prices, Badung held market operation

MANGUPURA – The Badung government has finally responded to the insistence of the Legis-lature and the Indonesia Farmers Association (HKTI). It organized market operation oversight in the light of rising rice prices. Badung Regent, A.A. Gde Agung, immediately acted through the local Logistics Agency (Bulog) to stabilizing the price of staples, such as rice and sugar in the region starting on Tuesday (Mar. 3).

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He pointed out that the country re-corded a deflation of 0.24 percent in January 2015 while in February 2015, it stood at 0.43 percent.

With regard to the increasing prices of several basic necessities such as rice, the president emphasized the need to monitor the developments in commodity prices on a daily basis.

“I want the developments in prices to be monitored on a day-to-day basis because the fluctuations in inflation will start from here,” he noted.

He cited as an example the increase in the rice prices, which had begun in December last year. It could have actu-ally been tackled by taking anticipatory measures.

“Actually, anticipatory steps could have been taken in January, apart from the delay in the planting and harvesting sea-sons, so that the increase in prices could have been handled,” Jokowi remarked.

However, he expressed confidence that the distribution of rice for the poor (Raskin) and the rice market opera-

tions now being launched would drive down the rice prices again in one or two weeks.

“So, if the price of rice has begun to go down, please follow it up, so that it will no longer increase beyond control again,” the president stressed.

In the meantime, the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) stated that the 0.36-percent deflation recorded in February 2015 was the second-highest for the same month in the past 50 years.

The highest deflation was recorded at 0.5 percent in February 1985, BPS Deputy Chief for Distribution and Service Statistics Sasmito Hadi Wibowo noted here on Monday.

He pointed out that deflation rarely oc-curs in February, adding that the country saw deflation in the same month only five times in the past five decades. “From 1966 to 2015, or in the past 50 years, we have recorded deflation only four or five times (in February). That is very rare,” he explained.

Earlier in the day, the BPS stated that

the 0.36-percent deflation in February 2015 was fueled by a decline in the prices of food and fuel oils.

Deflation over the past couple of months added up to 0.61 percent in Febru-ary 2015; the country had recorded 0.24 percent deflation in January 2015.

“This was rare as the country usually recorded inflation in January and Febru-ary,” he observed.

Among the commodities that triggered the deflation were red chili, gasoline, bird’s eye chili, intercity public transport tariff, purebred chicken, egg, cement, diesel, tomato, green chili, and onion, he revealed.

“The price of red chili fell due to abundant supplies and smooth distribu-tion, while the price of gasoline declined due to a fall in the global oil prices and the government’s fuel policy,” he remarked.

However, an increase in electricity tariffs, flight tickets, house rents, gold jewelry, filtered clove cigarettes, cars, and construction workers’ wages had contrib-uted to the inflation, he noted. (ant)

BONE BOLANGO - The Bone Bolango District in Goron-talo Province on the island of Sulawesi has a world-class marine park, the Olele Marine Park, according to District Head Hamim Pou. I want the Olele Marine Park to be equally renowned as the other maritime destinations in Indonesia such as the Bunaken Marine Park in Manado (North Sulawesi), Raja Ampat in Papua, and the other destinations in Bali and Lombok,” Pou noted on Wednesday.

To achieve its goal, the Bone Bolango District Administra-tion has been promoting the marine park and improving the infrastructure at the location, including inviting investors to invest in Olele’s tourism sector.

“We also laud the local residents at the Olele National Marine Park for their efforts in preserving the marine beauty, especially its beautiful coral reefs,” Pou remarked.

Allain Guillard, a French tourist, stated that he was mes-merized by the beauty of Olele’s underwater world. It has a huge potential in the tourism industry, he emphasized.

“Gorontalo is the best place to dive in Sulawesi Island, especially in Olele,” Guillard added.

The French man accidentally discovered the “hidden para-dise” while in transit at Olele before continuing his journey to Togean Islands, Central Sulawesi Province.

During his first visit to Olele, Guillard dived 40 times in several spots. However, he was yet not satisfied, and during the second visit, he undertook 30 more dives.

“It is his third visit here. He (Guillard) has been here for five days and dived 16 times. I do not know how many more he will do,” noted Yunis Amu (36), a local diving guide of Miguels Diving.

Olele Marine Park is located in the Olele Village, Kabila Bone Sub-district, Bone Bolango District, around 20 kilo-meters from the heart of Gorontalo city. (ant)

BANDUNG - Indonesia’s world-class sniper Tatang Koswara passed away at the age of 68 on Tuesday evening while attending a popular talk show program of Trans 7 in Jakarta.

Tatang’s cadaver was transported from Jakarta to the mourning house at Sayuran Street of Dayeuhkolot Sub-district, Bandung District, West Java, on early Wednesday, stated Tubagus Abdiyuda, late Tatang’s third child.

“My father suddenly felt uneasiness while breathing during a break after finishing the first segment of the private TV station’s Black-White talk show,” he revealed.

His father was then moved to the Medistra Hospital in South Jakarta, but the medics could not save his life.

He was buried in a graveyard near his house, Tubagus noted.

Born in Medan, the capital of North Sumatra Province, on December 16, 1946, Tatang is survived by his wife Tati Hayati and four children. During his military career in the Indonesian Defense Forces, he was involved in the Seroja Mission in East Timor in the 1970s.

His commendable performance as a sniper was recognized internationally as revealed in a book titled, “Sniper Training, Techniques and Weapons” published in 2000. (ant)

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The Jenahara collection is modeled during Indonesia Fashion Week 2015 in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Gorontalo offers world-class marine park

Indonesia’s world-class sniper passes away

Deflation has positive impact on people

JAKARTA - The deflation that had occurred in the past two months had a positive impact on the people, stated President Joko Widodo (Jokowi). “We were successful in curbing the inflation rate to a significant level. It even led to deflation, which will have a good impact on economic development. It has a good impact on the people because they can maintain their purchasing power and their burden to buy goods can be alleviated,” President Jokowi noted while opening a plenary cabinet meeting at the Presidential Office on Wednesday.

The men recently lost their ap-peals for presidential clemency, typically a death row convict’s last chance to avoid the firing squad. Of-ficials have yet to announce a date for their executions, but the transfer indicates it is imminent.

Attorney-General Muhammad Prasetyo said Wednesday that final preparations, such as training the firing squads, were still being made before a date could be set for execu-tion of the Australians and several other drugs offenders.

Authorities must give convicts 72 hours notice before they are executed. Convicts from France, Brazil, the Philippines, Nigeria and Ghana also recently lost appeals for clemency, and speculation is mount-ing that they will be included in the next round of executions.

Abbott, who has repeatedly called for Jakarta not to proceed with the executions, said Australians were sickened by the developments.

“We frankly are revolted by the prospect of these executions,” he said, adding that “right now mil-lions of Australians are feeling sick in their guts”.

Abbott said he hoped there might be a “change of heart in Indonesia”, but added: “What I don’t want, though, is to hold out false hope.”

However, he added: “I hope that even at this late hour, the better angels of the Indonesian peoples’ nature will reassert themselves.”

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told parliament she had spoken to the families of Chan and Sukumaran and they were “devastated”. Attorney-General George Brandis said the government had made at least 22 representations to Indonesian of-ficials since January.

President Joko Widodo has been unswayed by the barrage of in-ternational appeals, insisting that Indonesia is facing an “emergency” due to rising narcotics use, and Prasetyo reiterated the government’s tough line.

“We want to... send a message to all parties and to the international community that Indonesia is work-ing hard to battle drug crimes,” he said.

Indonesia executed six people, including five foreigners, in Janu-ary, sparking a diplomatic storm as Brazil and the Netherlands -- whose citizens were among those put to death -- recalled their ambas-sadors.

Officials have said that gathering convicts on Nusakambangan is the final stage before the executions. Some are already on the island.

The Australians’ lawyers have launched a series of last-ditch legal bids to stop the executions, urging authorities not to put the men to death while the legal process is still ongoing.

Brazil and France have also ramped up pressure, with Paris summoning Indonesia’s envoy and the Brazilian president refusing to accept the credentials of the new Indonesian ambassador.

The Filipina facing execution, Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso, has lodged an application for a judicial review of her case, a move previously attempted unsuccessfully by the Australians.

On Wednesday a district court near Yogyakarta, on Java, decided that the Supreme Court should make a ruling on whether to go forward with the appeal, as it did not have the authority. (afp)

Allen and the team aboard his superyacht M/Y Octopus found the ship on Sunday, more than eight years after their search began, Al-len’s publicity agency Edelman said in a statement.

Detailed images captured by a high-definition camera mounted on the underwater probe confirmed the wreckage as that of the Musashi, it said. Japanese experts said they were eager to study the images to try to confirm the ship’s identity.

The Musashi, commissioned in 1942, sank in October 1944 in the Sibuyan Sea during the battle of Leyte, losing half of its 2,400 crew

members.Allen’s team found the battleship

in the Sibuyan Sea, using an au-tonomous underwater vehicle in its third dive after narrowing down the search area using detailed undersea topographical data and other locator devices, the statement said.

“The Musashi is truly an engi-neering marvel and as an engineer at heart, I have a deep appreciation for the technology and effort that went into its construction,” Allen said.

He said he’s fascinated with World War II history, inspired by his father’s service in the U.S.

Army, and that he was “honored” to play a part in finding a key ves-sel in naval history and honoring the memory of those who served aboard the ship.

Allen said he respects the sunken area as a war grave and plans to work with Japan’s government to make sure the site is treated respectfully in line with Japanese traditions.

An organization that supports Japanese navy veterans and con-ducts research on maritime defense said that if the discovery is con-firmed, a memorial service could be held at the site. (ap)

SYDNEY — Australia’s high-est court on Wednesday cleared the way for a radio station to face penalties over a 2012 prank call to a London hospital that was caring for the Duchess of Cambridge. A nurse who transferred the call com-mitted suicide after the broadcast. Two Australian DJs from radio station 2DayFM impersonated Queen Elizabeth II and her son, Prince Charles, when they phoned a London hospital in 2012 to ask about the condition of the Duch-ess of Cambridge, who had been hospitalized for severe morning sickness.

Nurse Jacintha Saldanha took the call and passed it on to a colleague who described Kate’s condition. Three days after the call was broad-

cast worldwide, Saldanha, 46, was found dead in her room.

Australia’s High Court ruled that the country’s broadcasting watch-dog, the Australian Communica-tions and Media Authority, has the power to find that the radio station broke the law, overturning a lower court decision.

In its judgment, the High Court said the station did not obtain the consent of the hospital’s staffers to air the recording. The ruling means the watchdog can pursue penalties against the station.

ACMA chairman Chris Chap-man said his agency will now consider what sanctions may be applied, which could include sus-pending the station’s broadcasting license. (ap)

AP Photo/Aaron Favila

In this Feb. 3, 2015 photo, British Roderick Hall speaks during a commemorative event for the 70th year of the Battle for Manila at the Ayala Museum in suburban Makati, south of Manila, Philippines.

Microsoft co-founder says he found sunken Japan WWII warship

TOKYO — Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul Allen and his research team have found a massive Japanese World War II battleship off the Philippines near where it sank more than 70 years ago, his representatives said Wednesday. The apparent discovery of the wreck-age of the Musashi, one of the largest battleships in history, comes as the world marks the 70th anniversary of the war’s end.

Australian radio station may face penalties for royal hoax

Australians...

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Atlanta’s Al Horford scored 18 points as the Hawks capitalized on the absence of Houston’s James Harden, the league’s leading scorer, due to a one-game suspension. Even in his absence, the Rockets led for the most of the game until Teague’s 3-pointer with 4:24 remaining put Atlanta up 91-90.

Houston forced a couple of ties in the closing minutes, but never regained the lead. Jason Terry fin-ished with 21 points in a reserve role for the Hawks, who had won their previous five games. Chicago beat Washington 97-92 to stay half a game ahead of Cleveland in the Central.

Nikola Mirotic scored 23 points for the Bulls, who were without former MVP Derrick Rose (knee),

All-Star Jimmy Butler (elbow), and trusted reserve Taj Gibson (ankle), but still managed to win by shar-ing the load among five players in double figures. Chicago’s starting five was the 20th different starting lineup it has used this season. That’s their most for seven years.

Washington was led by John Wall’s 21 points and 11 assists. Memphis failed to capitalize on Houston’s loss and stayed only 1-1/2 games clear atop the South-west after losing 93-82 at home against Utah.

Gordon Hayward and Derrick Favors scored 21 points each to lead the Jazz to a third straight win. Courtney Lee’s 18 points led the Grizzlies, who were without start-ing forward Zach Randolph and

reserve guard Beno Udrih out with illness, and defensive stalwart Tony Allen suspended for the game due to a violation of team policy.

Cleveland’s LeBron James scored 27 points to move into 21st place on the NBA’s career list and help the Cavaliers cruise to a 110-79 victory over Boston.

James, who has 24,508 career points, moved past Ray Allen with a layup in the third quarter. He was only required for 26 minutes, so comfortable was the victory.

Kyrie Irving scored 18 points in his return after missing two games with a shoulder injury, while Boston’s Brandon Boss scored 15 points as the Celtics suffered their heaviest defeat of the season. (ap)

FeRNANdo AloNso has pulled out of the Australian Grand Prix after doctors advised him against getting back in a Formula 1 car just yet. The Spaniard suffered concussion in a testing accident at Barcelona last month and, after spending three days in hospital, he has been recovering at home in Spain.

Although doctors are happy with the progress he has made, with medical tests having been completed last night, the risk of another injury setting him back has prompted them to advise he steers clear of racing in the F1 season-opener.

A statement issued by McLaren said: “Fernando’s doctors have recommended to him that, follow-ing the concussion he sustained in a testing accident on February 22nd, for the time being he should seek to limit as far as is possible any environmental risk factors that could potentially result in his sustaining another concussion so soon after his previous one. “[This is] to minimise the chances of sec-ond impact syndrome, as is normal

medical procedure when treating athletes after concussions.

“In order to limit those environ-mental risk factors, specifically, his doctors have advised that he should not compete in the imminent Australian Grand Prix.” McLaren has already decided that Kevin Magnussen will drive alongside Jenson Button at Albert Park. The team added that Alonso believes he will be ready to resume racing at the second round of the championship in Malaysia on March 28.

The statement added: “Fer-nando’s doctors acknowledge that he feels fit and well, and that he regards himself as ready to race. “And, that being the case, they are comfortable with the fact that he has already recommenced physical training, with a view to preparing for a return to the cockpit of his McLaren-Honda car for the Malay-sian Grand Prix.

“Indeed, his doctors are sup-portive of that ambition, satis-fied as they are that he sustained no damage whatsoever during his testing accident on February 22nd.” (net)

AP Photo/Manu Fernandez

Fernando Alonso of Spain and McLaren Honda smiles dur-ing the 2015 Formula One testing at the Barcelona Catalunya racetrack in Montmelo, Spain, Friday, Feb. 20, 2015.

Alonso pulls out of Australian Grand Prix

AP Photo/John Bazemore

Atlanta Hawks guard Jeff Teague (0) has his shot blocked by Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green (23) in the second half of an NBA basketball game Friday, Feb. 6, 2015, in Atlanta. Atlanta won 124-116.

Hawks storm over top of

Harden-less RocketsATlANTA — Atlanta showed why it is top of the NBA standings by coming from 18 points

down to beat Houston 104-96 on Tuesday, with Jeff Teague’s 25 points leading the Hawks to a fifth-straight win. The Hawks moved a game ahead of idle Golden State for overall top spot, while other key results saw an undermanned Chicago beat Washington to stay top of the Central Division, and Southwest leader Memphis beaten comfortably at home by a revitalized Utah.

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Southampton revived its un-likely tilt at Champions League qualification thanks to Sadio Mane’s 83rd-minute goal in a 1-0 home victory over Crystal Palace. The south-coast club, which has been the surprise team of the season in England, ended a three-match winless run to jump provisionally to fifth — a point behind Manchester United.

“I hope (the players) will get total confidence back and play like we did before,” said Southampton manager Ronald Koeman, whose team was in third place six weeks ago.

Villa climbed out of the rel-egation zone — at least until the midweek round of fixtures is completed on Wednesday — thanks to a 2-1 win over West Bromwich Albion that was se-cured by a penalty converted by Christian Benteke in the fourth minute of injury time. It was Villa’s first win since Dec. 7 and ended a seven-match los-ing streak that has jeopardized the club’s unbroken stay in the Premier League.

“We are still alive and kick-ing,” said Villa manager Tim Sherwood, who was hired last

FRANKFURT, Germany — Bayer Leverkusen needed extra-time goals from Hakan Calhano-glu and Stefan Kiessling to beat

second-division Kaiserslautern 2-0 on Tuesday for a place in the quar-terfinals of the German Cup. Ciro Immobile scored twice for Borus-sia Dortmund to advance 2-0 over

third-division Dynamo Dresden.Elsewhere, Hoffenheim won

2-0 at second-division Aalen and Freiburg edged Cologne 2-1 in the only match between two Bundes-liga clubs.

Leverkusen was eliminated by Kaiserslautern last season and only sealed victory when Kiessling

pounced on a huge mistake by Kai-serslautern’s defense.

Immobile notched two despite suffering a cut under his right eye in the first half, scoring in the 50th and 90th. Dortmund’s star forward Marco Reus left the match early after taking a knock to his knee. (ap)

ROME — With three kids at home, Mia Hamm already had plenty on her plate when two profes-sional clubs called over the space of just a few days in October. They weren’t asking her to play — the 42-year-old soccer star has been retired for more than a decade — rather they wanted her to join their management teams.

Hamm, who won the women’s FIFA world player of the year award in 2001 and 2002 — the first two times that honor was given — quickly said yes to both the MLS ex-pansion squad Los Angeles Football Club and Roma, the three-time Ital-ian champion controlled by Boston

executive James Pallotta.“It all kind of happened

in one week,” H a m m

t o l d

T h e Associated Press during an

interview before Roma’s 1-1 draw with Juventus on Monday. “It was kind of crazy.” Hamm and her husband, ex-baseball star Nomar Garciaparra, joined an ownership group for LAFC, while Hamm alone was asked by Pallotta to join Roma’s board of directors in a purely advisory role.

While Garciaparra had been working on the LAFC project, the Roma call was completely unex-pected. “I thought he was invit-ing me to a game,” Hamm said, recounting Pallotta’s surprise call. “But I’m very humbled and excited about the opportunity to help in any way I can.”

On Monday, Hamm attended her first Roma board meeting. “She understands football, which maybe I don’t,” Pallotta said. “She’s done a lot with our academy, some of our philanthropy stuff, some of our train-ing stuff. She’s been great.”

Boston Bruins president Cam Neely and American investor Stan-ley Gold are also on Roma’s 13-person board, where members serve

three-year terms.“Jim has done a great job with

assembling a really diverse group, members with a lot of experience in their own right,” Hamm said. “Just to see everyone’s energy in the room was a lot of fun.” A hedge-fund manager, Pallotta is also a minority owner of the Boston Celtics.

“Jim has used his success and his relationships and experiences to think, ‘What is going to make a successful team?’” Hamm said. “Whether it’s marketing, whether it’s technology, whether it’s real estate, it’s bringing all those people’s minds together and trying to make this the best club in the world.” For Hamm, the opportunity also gives her a chance to reminisce about her childhood in Italy.

When she was a toddler she spent about two years in Florence while her father, who was in the Air Force, studied foreign affairs. Then after she graduated high school, her family moved back to Italy — Rome this time — where her father worked

as an Air Force attache for six years.

While Hamm went on to star at the University o f N o r t h

Carolina and led the United S ta t e s t o t w o Wo r l d Cup titles, she spent holidays and some summers in Rome.

“Roma was the colors that I would see when I walked around the city. It was the team that I watched on television, so I knew of the team,” said Hamm, wearing a scarf featuring the red of Roma’s jerseys. “It’s been kind of special for me personally. When I think about Roma I think about my par-ents, and sharing those experiences with them.” While applying herself to Roma, Hamm is also keeping tabs on the preparations for this year’s women’s World Cup. (ap)

ASUNCION, Paraguay — The countries which make up the South American football confederation have decided to support Sepp Blatter in FIFA’s presidential elections, a person familiar with the decision told The As-sociated Press on Tuesday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity be-cause an official announcement by the

executive committee of CONMEBOL had not been made. The decision was reached after the 10-nation governing body in South America heard propos-als from Blatter and other candidates on Tuesday.

Blatter is bidding for a fifth four-year term in an election by FIFA’s 209 member countries in May. The other

candidates are FIFA Vice President Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jor-dan, Dutch federation head Michael van Praag and Portugal great Luis Figo, who was expected to arrive in Paraguay later Tuesday ahead of CONMEBOL’s general congress on Wednesday.

The decision to support Blatter was

not surprising as some CONMEBOL members had hinted after meeting during last year’s World Cup that they expected to back him.

Blatter reportedly has already secured the support of confederation heads of Asia, Africa and Oceania. They don’t have votes themselves but can influence their member as-

sociations.During its congress, CONMEBOL

is expected to confirm Paraguayan Juan Angel Napout as its new president. He was appointed by the body’s executive board after the resignation of Uru-guayan Eugenio Figueredo last year. Napout is also expected to become a FIFA vice president in May. (ap)

Mia Hamm ‘humbled’ to join Roma’s board

FILE -- In this file photo tak-en on Aug. 26, 2007, Mia Hamm, playing for the Wash-ington Freedom, takes a pass while playing against the SoccerPlus

Connecticut Reds during the Hall of

Fame Game at the National

Soccer Hall of Fame in One-onta, N.Y.

AP Photo/H

ans Pennink, file

Leverkusen, Dortmund, Freiburg advance in German Cup

Dortmund’s Hen-rikh Mkhitaryan from Armenia, center, is chal-lenged by Dres-den’s Quirin Moll, left, and Dresden’s Jannik Mueller during the German soccer cup round of sixteen match between third divi-sion team Dynamo Dresden and first division team Bo-russia Dortmund in Dresden, Ger-many, Tuesday, March 3, 2015.

South American confederation to support Blatter

PARIS — First division Saint-Etienne squeezed through to the French Cup semifinals after beat-ing third-tier Boulogne-sur-Mer 4-3 on penalties in a shootout on Tuesday after the match finished 1-1. Boulogne took the lead in the 80th minute through center half Anthony Soubervie’s penalty, but Saint-Etienne hit back four minutes later through winger Benjamin Corgnet’s first goal of the season.

Following extra time, goal-keeper Stephane Ruffier made the decisive save from midfielder Xavier Mercier to send Saint-Etienne, which is in fifth place in the top flight, through to the last four. Forward Baidy Dia also his missed kick for Boulogne during the shootout. In Wednesday’s quarterfinal, Paris Saint-Germain hosts Monaco. The sides played out a scrappy 0-0 draw in the league on Sunday.

In an entertaining Cup tie, Boulogne took the lead after winger Julien Begue fell under the slightest of contact from Ruffier, and referee Freddy Fau-

trel pointed to the spot.Ruffier anticipated correctly

from Soubervie’s penalty, diving to his left, but the France No. 3 could only get his fingertips to the ball. Moments earlier, Ruffier had made an excellent stop to deny Mercier as he broke through. Home goalkeeper Jody Viviani — who spent four seasons with Saint-Etienne — denied his former team with a smart save from winger Romain Hamouma as the visitors pressured early on.

In the first period of extra time, Ruffier had to be alert to deny striker Guy Niangbo. Saint-Etienne captain Loic Perrin, who missed his spot kick early into the shootout, gave full credit to Boulogne.

“We didn’t necessarily deserve to win, it’s cruel for Boulogne. Congratulations to them,” he said. “They were far more daring than us and we rode our luck a bit. I hope we carry this luck all the way until the end.” Saint-Etienne has won the trophy six times, but not since 1977. (ap)

Saint-Etienne reaches French Cup semifinals on penalty kicks

Southampton’s Sadio Mane celebrates after scoring the

opening goal of the game during the English Premier

League soccer match between Southampton and Crystal

Palace, at St Mary’s stadium in Southampton, England,

Tuesday, March 3, 2015.

Southampton, Villa grab late winners in Premier League

Southampton and Aston Villa scored late winners in matches affecting op-posite ends of the Premier League on Tuesday, while a touchline spat between the managers marred Sunderland’s 1-1 draw at Hull.

month after the team dropped into the bottom three. “When I left home, my missus said to me she had done the Euro lottery — a 54-million jackpot — but I said I’d take three points all day.”

S u n d e r l a n d manager Gus P o y e t a n d Hull coun-t e r p a r t S t e v e B r u c e squared up to each other in t h e technical area in a first-half inci-dent that was provoked by visit-ing midfielder Jack Rodwell’s yellow card for diving. Poyet reacted to the booking by kick-ing over a bucket containing bottles of drink and was sent to the stands by the referee. As Poyet left the technical area, he confronted Bruce and the pair had to be separated by the fourth official.

“These things happen in the heat of the moment — grown men acting like a couple of children,” Bruce said. Rodwell ended up scoring Sunderland’s equalizer in the 77th minute, canceling

out a third goal in four games by Dame N’Doye — a deadline-day signing in the winter transfer window.

The point pushed the two teams further clear of relegation trouble, which Villa has also es-caped thanks to Benteke’s coolly-taken penalty. In what could prove to be a turning point in Villa’s season, West Brom goal-keeper Ben Foster rashly brought down Matthew Lowton in the area and was sent the wrong way by Benteke from the spot.

Sherwood sprinted along the

touchline in joy after the goal that secured his first league win since taking over from the fired Paul Lambert. “We kept at it ,” Sherwood said, “and someone was looking down on us today.”

Benteke had provided the flick-on that Gabriel Agbon-lahor ran onto before shooting through the legs of Foster to put Villa ahead in the 22nd. Saido Berahino equalized in the 66th minute from West Brom’s first shot on target. Villa jumped above Queens Park Rangers to

17th place.Southampton’s form has dipped

since back-to-back wins in mid-January — at Man United and Newcastle — pushed the team into third place. Koeman’s men had only won once in five matches, and were without a goal in more than six hours, before Mane pounced from close range to chip the goalkeeper. Southampton leapfrogged Liverpool and is only two points behind third-place Arsenal, which plays Wednesday along with Liverpool and United. (ap)

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Southampton revived its un-likely tilt at Champions League qualification thanks to Sadio Mane’s 83rd-minute goal in a 1-0 home victory over Crystal Palace. The south-coast club, which has been the surprise team of the season in England, ended a three-match winless run to jump provisionally to fifth — a point behind Manchester United.

“I hope (the players) will get total confidence back and play like we did before,” said Southampton manager Ronald Koeman, whose team was in third place six weeks ago.

Villa climbed out of the rel-egation zone — at least until the midweek round of fixtures is completed on Wednesday — thanks to a 2-1 win over West Bromwich Albion that was se-cured by a penalty converted by Christian Benteke in the fourth minute of injury time. It was Villa’s first win since Dec. 7 and ended a seven-match los-ing streak that has jeopardized the club’s unbroken stay in the Premier League.

“We are still alive and kick-ing,” said Villa manager Tim Sherwood, who was hired last

FRANKFURT, Germany — Bayer Leverkusen needed extra-time goals from Hakan Calhano-glu and Stefan Kiessling to beat

second-division Kaiserslautern 2-0 on Tuesday for a place in the quar-terfinals of the German Cup. Ciro Immobile scored twice for Borus-sia Dortmund to advance 2-0 over

third-division Dynamo Dresden.Elsewhere, Hoffenheim won

2-0 at second-division Aalen and Freiburg edged Cologne 2-1 in the only match between two Bundes-liga clubs.

Leverkusen was eliminated by Kaiserslautern last season and only sealed victory when Kiessling

pounced on a huge mistake by Kai-serslautern’s defense.

Immobile notched two despite suffering a cut under his right eye in the first half, scoring in the 50th and 90th. Dortmund’s star forward Marco Reus left the match early after taking a knock to his knee. (ap)

ROME — With three kids at home, Mia Hamm already had plenty on her plate when two profes-sional clubs called over the space of just a few days in October. They weren’t asking her to play — the 42-year-old soccer star has been retired for more than a decade — rather they wanted her to join their management teams.

Hamm, who won the women’s FIFA world player of the year award in 2001 and 2002 — the first two times that honor was given — quickly said yes to both the MLS ex-pansion squad Los Angeles Football Club and Roma, the three-time Ital-ian champion controlled by Boston

executive James Pallotta.“It all kind of happened

in one week,” H a m m

t o l d

T h e Associated Press during an

interview before Roma’s 1-1 draw with Juventus on Monday. “It was kind of crazy.” Hamm and her husband, ex-baseball star Nomar Garciaparra, joined an ownership group for LAFC, while Hamm alone was asked by Pallotta to join Roma’s board of directors in a purely advisory role.

While Garciaparra had been working on the LAFC project, the Roma call was completely unex-pected. “I thought he was invit-ing me to a game,” Hamm said, recounting Pallotta’s surprise call. “But I’m very humbled and excited about the opportunity to help in any way I can.”

On Monday, Hamm attended her first Roma board meeting. “She understands football, which maybe I don’t,” Pallotta said. “She’s done a lot with our academy, some of our philanthropy stuff, some of our train-ing stuff. She’s been great.”

Boston Bruins president Cam Neely and American investor Stan-ley Gold are also on Roma’s 13-person board, where members serve

three-year terms.“Jim has done a great job with

assembling a really diverse group, members with a lot of experience in their own right,” Hamm said. “Just to see everyone’s energy in the room was a lot of fun.” A hedge-fund manager, Pallotta is also a minority owner of the Boston Celtics.

“Jim has used his success and his relationships and experiences to think, ‘What is going to make a successful team?’” Hamm said. “Whether it’s marketing, whether it’s technology, whether it’s real estate, it’s bringing all those people’s minds together and trying to make this the best club in the world.” For Hamm, the opportunity also gives her a chance to reminisce about her childhood in Italy.

When she was a toddler she spent about two years in Florence while her father, who was in the Air Force, studied foreign affairs. Then after she graduated high school, her family moved back to Italy — Rome this time — where her father worked

as an Air Force attache for six years.

While Hamm went on to star at the University o f N o r t h

Carolina and led the United S ta t e s t o t w o Wo r l d Cup titles, she spent holidays and some summers in Rome.

“Roma was the colors that I would see when I walked around the city. It was the team that I watched on television, so I knew of the team,” said Hamm, wearing a scarf featuring the red of Roma’s jerseys. “It’s been kind of special for me personally. When I think about Roma I think about my par-ents, and sharing those experiences with them.” While applying herself to Roma, Hamm is also keeping tabs on the preparations for this year’s women’s World Cup. (ap)

ASUNCION, Paraguay — The countries which make up the South American football confederation have decided to support Sepp Blatter in FIFA’s presidential elections, a person familiar with the decision told The As-sociated Press on Tuesday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity be-cause an official announcement by the

executive committee of CONMEBOL had not been made. The decision was reached after the 10-nation governing body in South America heard propos-als from Blatter and other candidates on Tuesday.

Blatter is bidding for a fifth four-year term in an election by FIFA’s 209 member countries in May. The other

candidates are FIFA Vice President Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jor-dan, Dutch federation head Michael van Praag and Portugal great Luis Figo, who was expected to arrive in Paraguay later Tuesday ahead of CONMEBOL’s general congress on Wednesday.

The decision to support Blatter was

not surprising as some CONMEBOL members had hinted after meeting during last year’s World Cup that they expected to back him.

Blatter reportedly has already secured the support of confederation heads of Asia, Africa and Oceania. They don’t have votes themselves but can influence their member as-

sociations.During its congress, CONMEBOL

is expected to confirm Paraguayan Juan Angel Napout as its new president. He was appointed by the body’s executive board after the resignation of Uru-guayan Eugenio Figueredo last year. Napout is also expected to become a FIFA vice president in May. (ap)

Mia Hamm ‘humbled’ to join Roma’s board

FILE -- In this file photo tak-en on Aug. 26, 2007, Mia Hamm, playing for the Wash-ington Freedom, takes a pass while playing against the SoccerPlus

Connecticut Reds during the Hall of

Fame Game at the National

Soccer Hall of Fame in One-onta, N.Y.

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ans Pennink, file

Leverkusen, Dortmund, Freiburg advance in German Cup

Dortmund’s Hen-rikh Mkhitaryan from Armenia, center, is chal-lenged by Dres-den’s Quirin Moll, left, and Dresden’s Jannik Mueller during the German soccer cup round of sixteen match between third divi-sion team Dynamo Dresden and first division team Bo-russia Dortmund in Dresden, Ger-many, Tuesday, March 3, 2015.

South American confederation to support Blatter

PARIS — First division Saint-Etienne squeezed through to the French Cup semifinals after beat-ing third-tier Boulogne-sur-Mer 4-3 on penalties in a shootout on Tuesday after the match finished 1-1. Boulogne took the lead in the 80th minute through center half Anthony Soubervie’s penalty, but Saint-Etienne hit back four minutes later through winger Benjamin Corgnet’s first goal of the season.

Following extra time, goal-keeper Stephane Ruffier made the decisive save from midfielder Xavier Mercier to send Saint-Etienne, which is in fifth place in the top flight, through to the last four. Forward Baidy Dia also his missed kick for Boulogne during the shootout. In Wednesday’s quarterfinal, Paris Saint-Germain hosts Monaco. The sides played out a scrappy 0-0 draw in the league on Sunday.

In an entertaining Cup tie, Boulogne took the lead after winger Julien Begue fell under the slightest of contact from Ruffier, and referee Freddy Fau-

trel pointed to the spot.Ruffier anticipated correctly

from Soubervie’s penalty, diving to his left, but the France No. 3 could only get his fingertips to the ball. Moments earlier, Ruffier had made an excellent stop to deny Mercier as he broke through. Home goalkeeper Jody Viviani — who spent four seasons with Saint-Etienne — denied his former team with a smart save from winger Romain Hamouma as the visitors pressured early on.

In the first period of extra time, Ruffier had to be alert to deny striker Guy Niangbo. Saint-Etienne captain Loic Perrin, who missed his spot kick early into the shootout, gave full credit to Boulogne.

“We didn’t necessarily deserve to win, it’s cruel for Boulogne. Congratulations to them,” he said. “They were far more daring than us and we rode our luck a bit. I hope we carry this luck all the way until the end.” Saint-Etienne has won the trophy six times, but not since 1977. (ap)

Saint-Etienne reaches French Cup semifinals on penalty kicks

Southampton’s Sadio Mane celebrates after scoring the

opening goal of the game during the English Premier

League soccer match between Southampton and Crystal

Palace, at St Mary’s stadium in Southampton, England,

Tuesday, March 3, 2015.

Southampton, Villa grab late winners in Premier League

Southampton and Aston Villa scored late winners in matches affecting op-posite ends of the Premier League on Tuesday, while a touchline spat between the managers marred Sunderland’s 1-1 draw at Hull.

month after the team dropped into the bottom three. “When I left home, my missus said to me she had done the Euro lottery — a 54-million jackpot — but I said I’d take three points all day.”

S u n d e r l a n d manager Gus P o y e t a n d Hull coun-t e r p a r t S t e v e B r u c e squared up to each other in t h e technical area in a first-half inci-dent that was provoked by visit-ing midfielder Jack Rodwell’s yellow card for diving. Poyet reacted to the booking by kick-ing over a bucket containing bottles of drink and was sent to the stands by the referee. As Poyet left the technical area, he confronted Bruce and the pair had to be separated by the fourth official.

“These things happen in the heat of the moment — grown men acting like a couple of children,” Bruce said. Rodwell ended up scoring Sunderland’s equalizer in the 77th minute, canceling

out a third goal in four games by Dame N’Doye — a deadline-day signing in the winter transfer window.

The point pushed the two teams further clear of relegation trouble, which Villa has also es-caped thanks to Benteke’s coolly-taken penalty. In what could prove to be a turning point in Villa’s season, West Brom goal-keeper Ben Foster rashly brought down Matthew Lowton in the area and was sent the wrong way by Benteke from the spot.

Sherwood sprinted along the

touchline in joy after the goal that secured his first league win since taking over from the fired Paul Lambert. “We kept at it ,” Sherwood said, “and someone was looking down on us today.”

Benteke had provided the flick-on that Gabriel Agbon-lahor ran onto before shooting through the legs of Foster to put Villa ahead in the 22nd. Saido Berahino equalized in the 66th minute from West Brom’s first shot on target. Villa jumped above Queens Park Rangers to

17th place.Southampton’s form has dipped

since back-to-back wins in mid-January — at Man United and Newcastle — pushed the team into third place. Koeman’s men had only won once in five matches, and were without a goal in more than six hours, before Mane pounced from close range to chip the goalkeeper. Southampton leapfrogged Liverpool and is only two points behind third-place Arsenal, which plays Wednesday along with Liverpool and United. (ap)

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people, the Beji Waringin Pitu is believed by Hindu society as a holy place for purifying all human mis-eries. As the ritual means, people must offer pejati oblation and unfleshed-young coconut (green and ivory coconut), after which they can perform the pelukatan or purifi-catory rite at the Beji spring.

The Beji spring is hidden in the lush banyan tree and becomes the place of worship of Lord Vishnu and Goddess Ganges. In this tem-ple, Goddess Ganges is called the Goddess Manik Galih when show-ing off her mystical powers in the healing field. On that account, the Beji spring is famous as a healing spring which is good for health and disease.

The name Beji Waringin Pitu is derived from Balinese word. Beji means bathing place usually located near a source of water and sanctified. Waringin is a banyan tree that lives in the bathing place area. Meanwhile, pitu means seven (Balinese) indicating the amount of the showers. So, the Beji Waringin Pitu is bathing place having 7 sa-cred showers of spring under the

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Atlanta’s Al Horford scored 18 points as the Hawks capitalized on the absence of Houston’s James Harden, the league’s leading scorer, due to a one-game suspension. Even in his absence, the Rockets led for the most of the game until Teague’s 3-pointer with 4:24 remaining put Atlanta up 91-90.

Houston forced a couple of ties in the closing minutes, but never regained the lead. Jason Terry fin-ished with 21 points in a reserve role for the Hawks, who had won their previous five games. Chicago beat Washington 97-92 to stay half a game ahead of Cleveland in the Central.

Nikola Mirotic scored 23 points for the Bulls, who were without former MVP Derrick Rose (knee),

All-Star Jimmy Butler (elbow), and trusted reserve Taj Gibson (ankle), but still managed to win by shar-ing the load among five players in double figures. Chicago’s starting five was the 20th different starting lineup it has used this season. That’s their most for seven years.

Washington was led by John Wall’s 21 points and 11 assists. Memphis failed to capitalize on Houston’s loss and stayed only 1-1/2 games clear atop the South-west after losing 93-82 at home against Utah.

Gordon Hayward and Derrick Favors scored 21 points each to lead the Jazz to a third straight win. Courtney Lee’s 18 points led the Grizzlies, who were without start-ing forward Zach Randolph and

reserve guard Beno Udrih out with illness, and defensive stalwart Tony Allen suspended for the game due to a violation of team policy.

Cleveland’s LeBron James scored 27 points to move into 21st place on the NBA’s career list and help the Cavaliers cruise to a 110-79 victory over Boston.

James, who has 24,508 career points, moved past Ray Allen with a layup in the third quarter. He was only required for 26 minutes, so comfortable was the victory.

Kyrie Irving scored 18 points in his return after missing two games with a shoulder injury, while Boston’s Brandon Boss scored 15 points as the Celtics suffered their heaviest defeat of the season. (ap)

FeRNANdo AloNso has pulled out of the Australian Grand Prix after doctors advised him against getting back in a Formula 1 car just yet. The Spaniard suffered concussion in a testing accident at Barcelona last month and, after spending three days in hospital, he has been recovering at home in Spain.

Although doctors are happy with the progress he has made, with medical tests having been completed last night, the risk of another injury setting him back has prompted them to advise he steers clear of racing in the F1 season-opener.

A statement issued by McLaren said: “Fernando’s doctors have recommended to him that, follow-ing the concussion he sustained in a testing accident on February 22nd, for the time being he should seek to limit as far as is possible any environmental risk factors that could potentially result in his sustaining another concussion so soon after his previous one. “[This is] to minimise the chances of sec-ond impact syndrome, as is normal

medical procedure when treating athletes after concussions.

“In order to limit those environ-mental risk factors, specifically, his doctors have advised that he should not compete in the imminent Australian Grand Prix.” McLaren has already decided that Kevin Magnussen will drive alongside Jenson Button at Albert Park. The team added that Alonso believes he will be ready to resume racing at the second round of the championship in Malaysia on March 28.

The statement added: “Fer-nando’s doctors acknowledge that he feels fit and well, and that he regards himself as ready to race. “And, that being the case, they are comfortable with the fact that he has already recommenced physical training, with a view to preparing for a return to the cockpit of his McLaren-Honda car for the Malay-sian Grand Prix.

“Indeed, his doctors are sup-portive of that ambition, satis-fied as they are that he sustained no damage whatsoever during his testing accident on February 22nd.” (net)

AP Photo/Manu Fernandez

Fernando Alonso of Spain and McLaren Honda smiles dur-ing the 2015 Formula One testing at the Barcelona Catalunya racetrack in Montmelo, Spain, Friday, Feb. 20, 2015.

Alonso pulls out of Australian Grand Prix

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Atlanta Hawks guard Jeff Teague (0) has his shot blocked by Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green (23) in the second half of an NBA basketball game Friday, Feb. 6, 2015, in Atlanta. Atlanta won 124-116.

Hawks storm over top of

Harden-less RocketsATlANTA — Atlanta showed why it is top of the NBA standings by coming from 18 points

down to beat Houston 104-96 on Tuesday, with Jeff Teague’s 25 points leading the Hawks to a fifth-straight win. The Hawks moved a game ahead of idle Golden State for overall top spot, while other key results saw an undermanned Chicago beat Washington to stay top of the Central Division, and Southwest leader Memphis beaten comfortably at home by a revitalized Utah.

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He pointed out that the country re-corded a deflation of 0.24 percent in January 2015 while in February 2015, it stood at 0.43 percent.

With regard to the increasing prices of several basic necessities such as rice, the president emphasized the need to monitor the developments in commodity prices on a daily basis.

“I want the developments in prices to be monitored on a day-to-day basis because the fluctuations in inflation will start from here,” he noted.

He cited as an example the increase in the rice prices, which had begun in December last year. It could have actu-ally been tackled by taking anticipatory measures.

“Actually, anticipatory steps could have been taken in January, apart from the delay in the planting and harvesting sea-sons, so that the increase in prices could have been handled,” Jokowi remarked.

However, he expressed confidence that the distribution of rice for the poor (Raskin) and the rice market opera-

tions now being launched would drive down the rice prices again in one or two weeks.

“So, if the price of rice has begun to go down, please follow it up, so that it will no longer increase beyond control again,” the president stressed.

In the meantime, the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) stated that the 0.36-percent deflation recorded in February 2015 was the second-highest for the same month in the past 50 years.

The highest deflation was recorded at 0.5 percent in February 1985, BPS Deputy Chief for Distribution and Service Statistics Sasmito Hadi Wibowo noted here on Monday.

He pointed out that deflation rarely oc-curs in February, adding that the country saw deflation in the same month only five times in the past five decades. “From 1966 to 2015, or in the past 50 years, we have recorded deflation only four or five times (in February). That is very rare,” he explained.

Earlier in the day, the BPS stated that

the 0.36-percent deflation in February 2015 was fueled by a decline in the prices of food and fuel oils.

Deflation over the past couple of months added up to 0.61 percent in Febru-ary 2015; the country had recorded 0.24 percent deflation in January 2015.

“This was rare as the country usually recorded inflation in January and Febru-ary,” he observed.

Among the commodities that triggered the deflation were red chili, gasoline, bird’s eye chili, intercity public transport tariff, purebred chicken, egg, cement, diesel, tomato, green chili, and onion, he revealed.

“The price of red chili fell due to abundant supplies and smooth distribu-tion, while the price of gasoline declined due to a fall in the global oil prices and the government’s fuel policy,” he remarked.

However, an increase in electricity tariffs, flight tickets, house rents, gold jewelry, filtered clove cigarettes, cars, and construction workers’ wages had contrib-uted to the inflation, he noted. (ant)

BONE BOLANGO - The Bone Bolango District in Goron-talo Province on the island of Sulawesi has a world-class marine park, the Olele Marine Park, according to District Head Hamim Pou. I want the Olele Marine Park to be equally renowned as the other maritime destinations in Indonesia such as the Bunaken Marine Park in Manado (North Sulawesi), Raja Ampat in Papua, and the other destinations in Bali and Lombok,” Pou noted on Wednesday.

To achieve its goal, the Bone Bolango District Administra-tion has been promoting the marine park and improving the infrastructure at the location, including inviting investors to invest in Olele’s tourism sector.

“We also laud the local residents at the Olele National Marine Park for their efforts in preserving the marine beauty, especially its beautiful coral reefs,” Pou remarked.

Allain Guillard, a French tourist, stated that he was mes-merized by the beauty of Olele’s underwater world. It has a huge potential in the tourism industry, he emphasized.

“Gorontalo is the best place to dive in Sulawesi Island, especially in Olele,” Guillard added.

The French man accidentally discovered the “hidden para-dise” while in transit at Olele before continuing his journey to Togean Islands, Central Sulawesi Province.

During his first visit to Olele, Guillard dived 40 times in several spots. However, he was yet not satisfied, and during the second visit, he undertook 30 more dives.

“It is his third visit here. He (Guillard) has been here for five days and dived 16 times. I do not know how many more he will do,” noted Yunis Amu (36), a local diving guide of Miguels Diving.

Olele Marine Park is located in the Olele Village, Kabila Bone Sub-district, Bone Bolango District, around 20 kilo-meters from the heart of Gorontalo city. (ant)

BANDUNG - Indonesia’s world-class sniper Tatang Koswara passed away at the age of 68 on Tuesday evening while attending a popular talk show program of Trans 7 in Jakarta.

Tatang’s cadaver was transported from Jakarta to the mourning house at Sayuran Street of Dayeuhkolot Sub-district, Bandung District, West Java, on early Wednesday, stated Tubagus Abdiyuda, late Tatang’s third child.

“My father suddenly felt uneasiness while breathing during a break after finishing the first segment of the private TV station’s Black-White talk show,” he revealed.

His father was then moved to the Medistra Hospital in South Jakarta, but the medics could not save his life.

He was buried in a graveyard near his house, Tubagus noted.

Born in Medan, the capital of North Sumatra Province, on December 16, 1946, Tatang is survived by his wife Tati Hayati and four children. During his military career in the Indonesian Defense Forces, he was involved in the Seroja Mission in East Timor in the 1970s.

His commendable performance as a sniper was recognized internationally as revealed in a book titled, “Sniper Training, Techniques and Weapons” published in 2000. (ant)

AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim

The Jenahara collection is modeled during Indonesia Fashion Week 2015 in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Gorontalo offers world-class marine park

Indonesia’s world-class sniper passes away

Deflation has positive impact on people

JAKARTA - The deflation that had occurred in the past two months had a positive impact on the people, stated President Joko Widodo (Jokowi). “We were successful in curbing the inflation rate to a significant level. It even led to deflation, which will have a good impact on economic development. It has a good impact on the people because they can maintain their purchasing power and their burden to buy goods can be alleviated,” President Jokowi noted while opening a plenary cabinet meeting at the Presidential Office on Wednesday.

The men recently lost their ap-peals for presidential clemency, typically a death row convict’s last chance to avoid the firing squad. Of-ficials have yet to announce a date for their executions, but the transfer indicates it is imminent.

Attorney-General Muhammad Prasetyo said Wednesday that final preparations, such as training the firing squads, were still being made before a date could be set for execu-tion of the Australians and several other drugs offenders.

Authorities must give convicts 72 hours notice before they are executed. Convicts from France, Brazil, the Philippines, Nigeria and Ghana also recently lost appeals for clemency, and speculation is mount-ing that they will be included in the next round of executions.

Abbott, who has repeatedly called for Jakarta not to proceed with the executions, said Australians were sickened by the developments.

“We frankly are revolted by the prospect of these executions,” he said, adding that “right now mil-lions of Australians are feeling sick in their guts”.

Abbott said he hoped there might be a “change of heart in Indonesia”, but added: “What I don’t want, though, is to hold out false hope.”

However, he added: “I hope that even at this late hour, the better angels of the Indonesian peoples’ nature will reassert themselves.”

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told parliament she had spoken to the families of Chan and Sukumaran and they were “devastated”. Attorney-General George Brandis said the government had made at least 22 representations to Indonesian of-ficials since January.

President Joko Widodo has been unswayed by the barrage of in-ternational appeals, insisting that Indonesia is facing an “emergency” due to rising narcotics use, and Prasetyo reiterated the government’s tough line.

“We want to... send a message to all parties and to the international community that Indonesia is work-ing hard to battle drug crimes,” he said.

Indonesia executed six people, including five foreigners, in Janu-ary, sparking a diplomatic storm as Brazil and the Netherlands -- whose citizens were among those put to death -- recalled their ambas-sadors.

Officials have said that gathering convicts on Nusakambangan is the final stage before the executions. Some are already on the island.

The Australians’ lawyers have launched a series of last-ditch legal bids to stop the executions, urging authorities not to put the men to death while the legal process is still ongoing.

Brazil and France have also ramped up pressure, with Paris summoning Indonesia’s envoy and the Brazilian president refusing to accept the credentials of the new Indonesian ambassador.

The Filipina facing execution, Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso, has lodged an application for a judicial review of her case, a move previously attempted unsuccessfully by the Australians.

On Wednesday a district court near Yogyakarta, on Java, decided that the Supreme Court should make a ruling on whether to go forward with the appeal, as it did not have the authority. (afp)

Allen and the team aboard his superyacht M/Y Octopus found the ship on Sunday, more than eight years after their search began, Al-len’s publicity agency Edelman said in a statement.

Detailed images captured by a high-definition camera mounted on the underwater probe confirmed the wreckage as that of the Musashi, it said. Japanese experts said they were eager to study the images to try to confirm the ship’s identity.

The Musashi, commissioned in 1942, sank in October 1944 in the Sibuyan Sea during the battle of Leyte, losing half of its 2,400 crew

members.Allen’s team found the battleship

in the Sibuyan Sea, using an au-tonomous underwater vehicle in its third dive after narrowing down the search area using detailed undersea topographical data and other locator devices, the statement said.

“The Musashi is truly an engi-neering marvel and as an engineer at heart, I have a deep appreciation for the technology and effort that went into its construction,” Allen said.

He said he’s fascinated with World War II history, inspired by his father’s service in the U.S.

Army, and that he was “honored” to play a part in finding a key ves-sel in naval history and honoring the memory of those who served aboard the ship.

Allen said he respects the sunken area as a war grave and plans to work with Japan’s government to make sure the site is treated respectfully in line with Japanese traditions.

An organization that supports Japanese navy veterans and con-ducts research on maritime defense said that if the discovery is con-firmed, a memorial service could be held at the site. (ap)

SYDNEY — Australia’s high-est court on Wednesday cleared the way for a radio station to face penalties over a 2012 prank call to a London hospital that was caring for the Duchess of Cambridge. A nurse who transferred the call com-mitted suicide after the broadcast. Two Australian DJs from radio station 2DayFM impersonated Queen Elizabeth II and her son, Prince Charles, when they phoned a London hospital in 2012 to ask about the condition of the Duch-ess of Cambridge, who had been hospitalized for severe morning sickness.

Nurse Jacintha Saldanha took the call and passed it on to a colleague who described Kate’s condition. Three days after the call was broad-

cast worldwide, Saldanha, 46, was found dead in her room.

Australia’s High Court ruled that the country’s broadcasting watch-dog, the Australian Communica-tions and Media Authority, has the power to find that the radio station broke the law, overturning a lower court decision.

In its judgment, the High Court said the station did not obtain the consent of the hospital’s staffers to air the recording. The ruling means the watchdog can pursue penalties against the station.

ACMA chairman Chris Chap-man said his agency will now consider what sanctions may be applied, which could include sus-pending the station’s broadcasting license. (ap)

AP Photo/Aaron Favila

In this Feb. 3, 2015 photo, British Roderick Hall speaks during a commemorative event for the 70th year of the Battle for Manila at the Ayala Museum in suburban Makati, south of Manila, Philippines.

Microsoft co-founder says he found sunken Japan WWII warship

TOKYO — Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul Allen and his research team have found a massive Japanese World War II battleship off the Philippines near where it sank more than 70 years ago, his representatives said Wednesday. The apparent discovery of the wreck-age of the Musashi, one of the largest battleships in history, comes as the world marks the 70th anniversary of the war’s end.

Australian radio station may face penalties for royal hoax

Australians...

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SYDNEY - Australia’s economy expanded slower than forecast in the last three months of 2014, data showed Wednesday, fuelling expec-tations the central bank will further cut interest rates to record lows. The Australian Bureaus of Statistics said growth came in at 0.5 percent quar-ter on quarter in the three months to December, and 2.5 percent over the previous year.

That was below analysts’ ex-pectations of 0.7 percent quarterly growth and 2.6 percent over the year. However, it beat the revised 0.4 percent quarterly expansion in July-September.

Wednesday’s figures are the lat-est to highlight Australia’s struggle to transition from an unprecedented mining-investment boom with non-resources industries struggling to fill the gap.

Treasurer Joe Hockey told re-porters “2.5 percent for the year in the face of the massive transition in the Australian economy is a good outcome. It’s right on track with around about where we were expect-ing to be”.

He added: “Australia is still performing well by international comparisons. Our economy over the past year has grown faster than the United States, Germany and obvi-ously Japan and other key trading partners such as Hong Kong and Singapore.”

The Reserve Bank of Australia cut interest rates to a new record low of 2.25 percent in February in a bid to support growth in the non-mining

sectors. And while it kept them on hold Tuesday it has adopted an eas-ing bias, cautioning that “growth is continuing at a below-trend pace, with domestic demand growth over-all quite weak”.

Despite growing talk of another rate cut the Australian dollar rose to 78.31 US cents after the figures were released from 78.15 cents before.

While overall growth was sub-dued in the fourth-quarter, “some of the detail was encouraging”, Bar-clays’ chief economist for Australia Kieran Davies told AFP.

“We had the strongest increase in consumer spending in a few years and non-mining business invest-ment looks to be doing a bit better,” he added.

Net exports continued to support growth, expanding 0.7 percentage points for the quarter while con-sumer spending rose 0.6 percentage points. Business inventories weak-ened, falling 0.6 percentage points.

The central bank last month cut its growth forecast for this year to 2.25-3.25 percent, from a November estimate of 2.50-3.50 percent, as it warned that unemployment was likely to rise.

The jobless rate has steadily risen over the past year, jumping to a 12-year high of 6.4 percent in January, while consumer and public spending has mostly remained soft.

Economists tipped the central bank to slash the cash rate again by May, pointing to the subdued growth rates and weak consumer and busi-ness confidence. (afp)

That’s the strikingly upbeat view of economists surveyed by The Associated Press, who no longer see Europe’s financial crisis, the U.S. housing market or congres-sional gridlock as the threats they appeared to be last year.

“The U.S. is doing well, you’re getting a lot of good news in Eu-rope,” said Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at IHS Global Insight. “The global economy is gaining traction.”

U.S. consumers are feeling

flusher, thanks to lower gas prices, a burst of hiring and long-awaited if still-modest pay raises for many. Their spending is expected to boost growth this year in the United States and overseas.

The brighter outlook marks a turnaround from last fall, when a looming war in Ukraine, the rise of the Islamic State terror group and a reluctance by the European Central Bank to expand its stimulus efforts led analysts to downgrade their view of the global economy.

Weaker growth in China has also hurt exporting countries from Latin America to Australia that had long benefited from China’s appetite for farm products, copper, iron ore and other commodities. China’s growth decelerated last year to its slowest pace in a quarter-century.

Still, most economists expect China to avoid a further slow-down. Its central bank cut rates last weekend for the second time in three months to try to accelerate growth.

The AP surveyed nearly three dozen corporate, Wall Street and academic economists from Feb. 19 to 25. A majority said they thought struggling economies in Europe and Japan would benefit from lower-priced energy and ultra-low loan rates engineered by central banks.

Behravesh predicted that freer-spending U.S. consumers would pro-vide help. He noted that their collec-tive spending represents a bigger force than any other nation’s economy.

American consumers have ben-efited from the 1 million-plus jobs U.S. employers have added in the past three months. More than 3.2 million more Americans are

earning paychecks than were 12 months ago.

In January, U.S. gas prices reached a five-year low, though they’ve since rebounded. A gallon cost an average of $2.44 nationwide Tuesday, more than a dollar cheaper than it did 12 months ago, accord-ing to AAA.

So far, many Americans have saved the extra cash from lower gas prices. But even that’s a hopeful sign: It means consumers — who fuel about 70 percent of the U.S. economy — have more money to spend in coming months. The U.S. savings rate reached a two-year high in January. (ap)

Outlook for global economy has brightened

WASHINGTON — From the United States to Asia to Europe, a global economy that many had feared was faltering appears poised for a resurgence on the strength of cheap oil and fall-ing interest rates.

Slow Australian economic growth fuels rate cut expectations

AP Photo/Rick Rycroft

A man and a woman walk past the Reserve Bank of Australia in Sydney, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015. Australia’s economy expanded slower than forecast in the last three months of 2014, data showed Wednesday, fuelling expectations the central bank will further cut interest rates to record lows.

Chief of the Bali Logistics Agen-cy, Wayan Budita, explained that his office would take quick action to follow up with the allocation of 6 tons of rice. Of that number, 2 tons of rice would be distributed at Mambal market, 2 tons at Mengwi market and 2 tons at Kuta II market with the price of only IDR 7,500 per kg. Sugar would be provided at IDR 9,100 per kg.

“Bulog warehouse in Badung and the ranks of Bulog Bali will start the marketing operation around 7 a.m. at three markets in Badung

County namely the Mambal, Meng-wi and Kuta II market,” explained Budita.

Meanwhile, the regent of Ba-dung expressed his deep appre-ciation for the quick response and commitment of the Bulog Bali in an effort to help Badung govern-ment especially in distributing rice to the poor (Raskin) as well as for the marketing operation in Badung.

According to Gde Agung, the market operation carried out im-mediately by Bulog was not only

associated with rice but also other needs, such as sugar. Surely benefits would be really enjoyed by the Ba-dung community.

The market operation by Bulog was expected to create a balance between supplies and demand, so that price stability of the basic com-modities, especially rice and sugar, could be maintained. “I do hope the price of basic necessities can immediately decline. I appeal to the people in need to come to Mambal, Mengwi and Kuta market,” he said. (kmb27)

TABANAN - When compared to other hamlet, Denuma is not too special. However, the population of the hamlet located at Kukuh village, Marga subdistrict, Tabanan, about 18 km from Denpasar, is entirely getting involved in the art sphere. Such condition makes Denuma known to many people. The hamlet inhabited by about 97 families is very close to Alas Kedaton tour-ist attraction. Local people have a tradition of making woven bamboo wall. It is not only performed by men, local women are also busy helping. Even, children of primary and secondary school as well as teenagers participate as well.

When making a visit into peo-ple’s home, the activity of weaving bamboo wall becomes a unique spectacle. It is performed together amicably and untiringly. Their product is also varied in terms of motif such as star, frizzy and unusual motif. On average, they size 2x3 meters, but people can also book a tailor-made size. Ni Wayan Arini, 32, one of the female craftsmen said the activity of weaving bamboo wall was inherited from her ancestors. Although other family members had other jobs, she was not willing to leave the job having become a tradition. “Weaving bamboo wall has become our livelihood inherited from our ancestors,” she said.

An interesting spectacle oc-curred every Sunday where each crafter submitted their product to group leader to be marketed. Craft-ers could submit 2-4 rolls. Each roll usually contained 5 sheets of woven bamboo wall. Although lining up, their face looked happy after going out from the cooperative. Then, when asked about the income ob-taining from the sale of each woven

bamboo wall to her group, this crafter did not want to reveal. They just admitted it was only enough to support the family. “The amount is uncertain and it corresponds to the amount of product submitted. The price is also in accordance with the increasing order,” said Ariani.

For them, it is a commonplace atmosphere. But for tourists, it is a fascinating spectacle. When all family members do the same job simultaneously, they will look very nice. “Travelers who are having a promenade at our hamlet often drop by to see the activity of weaving bamboo wall,” said hamlet chief of Denuma, Wayan Sukantra. The travelers, added Sukantra, were very pleased to see craftsmen work-ing full of solidarity and laughter. Within a week, there were always some foreign travelers strolling at the road of this beautiful hamlet. Moreover, tourist visit is made 2-3 times a week during high season. “Art activity of our community is often made a spectacle by them,” he said.

Unlike the case of people who work as sculptor and carver, though they make the work of art together, their products are then marketed independently. Other than making sculpture, there are some other crafters making carvings for the or-nament of Balinese style building. Design of the sculptures made from rock stone comprises the figure of puppet, gods and goddesses as well as animals. Meanwhile, their wooden carving has some motifs like the ringring and others. Aside from Denuma hamlet, Tegal hamlet located side by side also produces the art crafts. Even, these two ham-lets support Kukuh village as the village of the art in Bali. (kmb)

Craftsmen Community at Denuma Hamlet

REUTERS/Zul Edoardo

A woman lights a candle before praying in front of Kerobokan prison, before the transfer of the two Australian death row prisoners, Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, to the airport in Denpasar, on the Indonesian island of Bali March 4, 2015. The two convicted Australian drug smugglers were being transferred on Wednesday from a Bali prison to an island for execution along with other foreigners, underlining Indonesia’s determination to use the death penalty despite international criticism. The planned executions of Myuran Sukumaran, 33, and Andrew Chan, 31, have ratcheted up diplomatic tensions between Australia and Indonesia following repeated pleas of mercy for the pair, who are among 11 death row convicts scheduled to go before a firing squad.

IBP/kmb

Badung government has finally responded to the insistence of the House and the Indonesia Farmers Association (HKTI). It organized market operation oversight in the light of rising rice prices.

Stabilizing rice prices, Badung held market operation

MANGUPURA – The Badung government has finally responded to the insistence of the Legis-lature and the Indonesia Farmers Association (HKTI). It organized market operation oversight in the light of rising rice prices. Badung Regent, A.A. Gde Agung, immediately acted through the local Logistics Agency (Bulog) to stabilizing the price of staples, such as rice and sugar in the region starting on Tuesday (Mar. 3).

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The government, which owned most of the airline, took 100 percent ownership and removed it from the Malaysian stock exchange last year. The airline is now aiming to return to profitability by 2017 with a drastic $1.7 billion overhaul that includes cutting nearly a third of its staff.

Key to the plan is a new CEO, Christoph Mueller, a turnaround specialist who led a successful re-vival of Ireland’s Aer Lingus. His new bosses hope he’ll be able to pull off a similar feat at Malaysia Airlines though analysts say suc-cess is far from guaranteed because of the political baggage of being a state-owned company. At least four other major restructurings of Malaysia Airlines since 2001 have failed.

“There’s no doubt that it’s got more challenges than many, be-cause you’re dealing with a com-pany that’s in a poor financial state, you’ve got the political interfer-ence, the backlash of the incidents,” said John Strickland, director of JLS, an airline industry consulting company.

The challenge of the restruc-

turing is compounded by rapid changes in the aviation industry in Asia, where low cost carriers are proliferating to serve the growing ranks of middle class consumers.

The disasters that brought Ma-laysia Airlines to the brink of finan-cial collapse served to underline the weakness of it and other full-service carriers in the region. They face stiff competition from a wave of budget upstarts including Malaysia’s AirA-sia, Indonesia’s Lion Air, Tigerair and Scoot from Singapore, and Qantas offshoot Jetstar.

Even Malaysia Airlines has its own low-cost offshoot, Firefly. Mueller may be keen to use it as a testing ground for new ideas, given his track record at Aer Lingus, where he responded to competition from no-frills airline Ryanair by mimicking as many of its practices as possible.

The changes, which blurred the distinction between Lingus and Ryanair, include shortened airplane turnaround times at the gate and charging for seat selec-tion, checked bags and food and drinks. Aer Lingus’ net profit since its 2006 stock flotation has wobbled

between modest profits and losses as the company took financial hits for strikes, shutdowns, mass cancel-lations and pension gap payoffs in order to avoid more strikes.

The result is that he’s turned an airline that was near death into an attractive takeover target for Ryanair and British Airways parent IAG simply by getting it through a period of massive upheaval.

A similar outcome might be in store at Malaysia Airlines. Khaza-nah Nasional, the Malaysia sover-eign investment fund that owns the airline, said it may consider selling some or all of its stake to private investors after relisting shares within a planned three to five years. Aer Lingus and Khazanah Nasional declined interview requests for Mueller, who started his new job on Sunday.

In a quarterly update released Monday, Khazanah said the over-haul of Malaysia Airlines is on track. The airline is preparing to cut 6,000 of its 20,000 employees. It’s also planning to expand seats on Asian routes by 5 percent but is reviewing European and Mideast routes with a view to ending some.(ap)

NEW DELHI — When a con-demned killer said the woman he and others brutally gang-raped on a New Delhi bus was responsible for what had happened to her, his comments were shocking in their callousness and lack of re-morse. But the underlying view has wide acceptance in India. Blaming women for rape is what hundreds of millions of men here are taught to believe.

And the code for women in this country is simple: Dress modestly, don’t go out at night, don’t go to bars and clubs, don’t go out alone. If you break the code, you will be blamed for the consequences.

When one of the four men sen-tenced to death for the high-profile gang rape of the woman in 2012 was quoted in a new documentary as saying “a girl is far more respon-sible for rape than a boy,” he was repeating something community and religious leaders in this nation of 1.2 billion routinely say.

“A decent girl won’t roam around at 9 o’clock at night. ... Housework and housekeeping is for girls, not roaming in discos and bars at night doing wrong things, wearing wrong clothes,” Mukesh Singh said in the documentary, “India’s Daughter,” meant to be shown on Sunday, In-ternational Women’s Day, in India and several other countries.

But how different were the convicted rapist’s words from com-

ments that Manohar Lal Khattar, the top elected official of Haryana state made last year? “If a girl is dressed decently, a boy will not look at her in the wrong way,” Khattar told re-porters, “Freedom has to be limited. These short clothes are Western influences. Our country’s tradition asks girls to dress decently.”

The convicted rapist learned only what he has heard leaders in his community say, said Jagmati Sangwan, a women’s rights activist who heads the All India Democratic Women’s Association. “This man is just following the example our leaders are setting for our young men,” she said.

In 2009 when a rightwing Hindu group attacked women in a pub in the southern state of Karna-taka, then-Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa said that he wanted to “end the culture of boys and girls roaming around in malls holding hands.” Women leaders are not immune.

When a female journalist was shot dead in 2008 while driving home from work well past mid-night, New Delhi’s top official at the time, Sheila Dixit, make clear she partly blamed the victim. “All by herself till 3 a.m. at night in a city where people believe...you know...you should not be so ad-venturous,” she told reporters. It’s a view that Sangwan hears all too often. (ap)

A murderer and rapist’s views reflect those of many in India

AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal, File

FILE - In this Dec. 22, 2012 file photo, protesters gather out-side the Indian Presidential Palace during a protest against the brutal gang rape of a 23-year-old woman on a moving bus in New Delhi, India.

AP Photo/Vincent Thian

In this Friday, Feb. 27, 2015 photos, visitors look out from a viewing gallery as a Malaysia Airlines plane sits in the tarmac at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Sepang, Malaysia. After a year of unprecedented calamity for the Southeast Asian carrier, Malaysia Airlines is aiming to return to profitability by 2017 with a drastic $1.7 billion overhaul that includes cutting nearly a third of its staff.

Ailing Malaysia Airlines readies for

drastic overhaulKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — After a year of calamity, Malaysia Airlines is shrinking to

survive. The disappearance of Flight 370 one year ago, combined with the downing of Flight 17 over a rebel held area of eastern Ukraine four months later, brought the already financially struggling flag carrier to its knees.

According to the legislator Ketut Sukma Sucita, the tourism concept currently drafted by local govern-ment was unclear. Local government did not want to learn from the current tourism development in Bali. He said the tour package should be packed seriously by local government. “Tour package can be integrated with vil-lage tourism. We really have the potential, and now we need a serious measure,” said Sukma.

Tourism village completely packed with tour package should be started as a new era of the Klungkung tourism in favor of the community empowerment and optimized to get more regionally generated revenues from tourism sector. He wanted the tourism sector could become a new alternative as an effort to empower and support the fulfillment of revenue target from tourism sector. “We want to have a leading tourism design worth enjoying by travelers and gives benefit to public and local govern-ment,” said the community leader of Kamasan village.

The salable tour package to trav-elers was in accordance with the potential of the region such as the culture-based attraction, traditional fishing as well as nature and sea condi-tion. Kamasan village could be one of the potentials designed into an alluring culture-based tour package. He point-ed out the use of river at local village as location of whitewater rafting, scenic rice fields for trekking and walking tour. Alternatively, the other potential attractions could be joining harvest or plowing rice fields and offering typical culinary delights such as laklak snack, serombotan and lawar delicacies along the path. Furthermore, it could be re-sumed with visiting cultural attraction such as the classic puppet painting of Kamasan, goldsmith, silversmith and blacksmiths and the visit to pristine

sanctum.The Head of Klungkung Cul-

ture and Tourism Agency, Wayan Sujana, admitted on Tuesday (Mar. 3) that Klungkung currently did not have a tour package. However, he said such idea was being planned and finalized. The tour package drafted by the Culture and Tour-ism Agency was more general, not specific to a certain potential as expected by Ketut Sukma Sucita. As in the draft made by the agency, the trip would start from the inter-section at Jumpai village to Gelgel. At the location, visitors would be introduced to a wide range of poten-tial Klungkung craft products such as the endek and songket clothes.

The Dasar Buana Gelgel Temple could also become a tourist attraction. From Gelgel, it would be resumed to Kamasan village. There, visitors would be invited to have a closer look at the potential of Kamasan village such as paintings as well as silver and bronze crafts. After that, the tour continued to Agung Palace of Klung-kung, Kertha Gosa and Semarapura art market. “From the palace, visitors can ride buggy around the center of Semarapura town prior to visiting Ker-tha Gosa,” said Sujana. To support the tour package, as planned the former BPD building would be demolished to make a shortcut to the Semarapura art market. Thus, the parking lot would be concentrated in the Klungkung night market area that was deserted in the morning until noon.

So far, his party just made a plan, while there had been no follow up to certain travel agencies. However, as commitment of the Regent Suwirta, the tour package was being seriously prepared this year in order to build a new era of tourism in the region being famous for its serombotan or assorted hot spiced vegetables. (kmb31)

BANGLI - A resident of Antu-gan hamlet, Jehem village, living at Belok hamlet, Yangapi village, Tembuku subditrict, died after be-ing bitten by a stray dog around his house two months ago. The victim named Nengah Merta, 32, died with clinical symptoms of rabies while undergoing treatment for a few hours at Sanglah Hospital, Monday (Mar. 2).

According to the victim’s uncle, Nyoman Kajar, before dying the victim admitted to have been bitten by stray dogs near his home about two months ago. He claimed to be bitten by the stray dog on right calf.

However, since it did not cause serious injuries, the victim ignored it. Approximately since the past four days, the victim had begun to complain of pain. He suffered cystitis and was often restless. Not only that, the victim was also fear of light. A paramedic had been called for treating the victim.

“He was injected by the para-medic at that time,” said Kajar when met at his home on Tuesday (Mar. 3). However, such an effort did not bring in any change to the health of the victim.

On Monday morning, the family was panic due to seeing the victim

suffered convulsions. Around 10 o’clock, the victim was rushed to Bangli Hospital. At Bangli Hos-pital, condition of the victim was restless. Even, the paramedic got difficulty to inject the infusion needle. Around 12 o’clock noon, the Bangli Hospital then referred the victim to Sanglah Hospital. “He had been treated for a few hours at Sanglah Hospital, but about five o’clock late afternoon he was de-clared dead,” said Kajar.

Based on medical examina-tion, the victim was stated a rabies suspect. The victim’s body was already taken to funeral home in

the morning. The victim posing the backbone of his family left a wife and a five-year old daughter.

Meanwhile, after the victim’s death due to rabies suspect, a number of officers from the Health Agency, Bali Livestock Agency with Bangli Livestock and Mari-time Affairs immediately came down to location. In addition to asking about the victim’s medical history, the officers also tried to hunt down the suspected dog that had bitten the victim. However, the officers got difficulties because none of the victim’s families knew about the characteristics of the

stray dog.In addition to making investigation,

the officials of Livestock Agency also conducted sample taking of the dog around the victim’s home. “Initial results of the investigation indicated if the existence of the dog biting him is not known. On that account, we take alternative by taking the sample of some of dogs roamed around here,” said the Head of the Bali Livestock Agency, I Putu Sumantra.

To anticipate the spread of ra-bies, as planned on Wednesday, the officers would provide free vaccination for dogs existing in the local area. (ina)

Rabies suspect, a resident of Yangapi village diesIBP/Bagiarta

One of the domestic tourists is checking the panting in Kamasan, Klungkung

Klungkung still lacks of tour packageSEMARAPURA - Klungkung County has many tourism

potentials. However, there is very little effort to make a tour package integrated with the others. Actually, the concept of tour package can encourage tourism potential to grow and develop so that it has an impact on job opportunity creation and the economic growth.

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Chronic users of the drug -- people who typi-cally take large, daily doses over several years -- may increase their risk of death, or kidney, intestinal and heart problems, they found.

Led by Philip Conaghan at the Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine in northern England, the team analysed data from eight previously-published studies into long-term paracetamol use.

The data came only from people who had paracetamol prescribed by a doctor, as opposed to over-the-counter purchases.

Two of the eight studies had found an increased risk of mortality, up to 63 percent, among long-term paracetamol users, compared to those who had not been prescribed the drug during the study period.

Four found a heightened risk, ranging from 19 to 68 percent, of cardiovascular problems. The risk of gastro-intestinal bleeding and other intes-tinal side-effects was up to 49 percent as high.

Three studies found an adverse effect on kid-neys.

In all cases, the risk was dose-dependent -- in other words, the higher the dose, the greater the risk, said the analysis published in the British journal Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.

Even though the risk in absolute terms was small, doctors should think carefully when pre-scribing the drug, it warned.

“We believe the true risk of paracetamol pre-scription to be higher than that currently perceived in the clinical community,” said the report.

“(...) A systemic review of paracetamol’s ef-ficacy and tolerability in individual conditions is warranted.”

Other experts cautioned against over-reac-tion.

They pointed out the analysis was unable to tell whether early death and health problems were caused by an underlying illness rather than from the paracetamol.

Nor did it take into account over-the-counter purchases of the drug, a picture that could be far more complex.

“Paracetamol remains the safest analgesic (painkiller) available, and this study should not stop people taking it,” said Nick Bateman, a pro-fessor of clinical toxicology at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.

“Based on these results, the lowest effective dose for the shortest necessary period is advised,” he told Britain’s Science Media Centre. “This is common sense for all medicines.”

Seif Shaheen, a respiratory epidemiology professor at London’s Queen Mary University, said the review, given its limitations, did noth-ing to strengthen the evidence for paracetamol’s harmful effects.

“However, further rigorous research into pos-sible detrimental effects of this commonly used drug would be prudent.”

Widely recommended as the first rung on the painkilling ladder, paracetamol is considered by many to be safer than aspirin and ibuprofen.

The new study pointed to other research find-ings that paracetamol may have no painkilling advantage over rivals when it comes to treating osteoarthritis, joint pain or acute lower-back pain.

In this light, “more careful consideration of its usage is required,” the paper said.

“Prescribers need to be aware of patients’ individual responses to paracetamol and the ob-served increased toxicity with regular and higher dosing.” (afp)

MONTREAL - Video game developer Ubisoft and a partner firm announced Tuesday the first therapeutic use of a video game to treat amblyo-pia, also known as “lazy eye,” which afflicts mostly children.

Ubisoft and Amblyotech Inc. used inventions patented by researchers at McGill University in Montreal and subsequently licensed to Amblyo-tech to come up with the breakthrough treatment, which it said is also “entertaining.”

Amblyopia afflicts an estimated three percent of children worldwide and if left untreated is a leading cause of blindness in adults.

The ocular disorder involves decreased vision in one eye as the result of a turned eye or because one eye is more powerful than the other.

Traditional treatments, including patching

of the sighted eye, often fail because of social stigmas and long treatment times leading to poor compliance and a high relapse.

The video game, called “Dig Rush,” uses both eyes binocularly to train the brain in order to improve visual acuity, instead of training just the weak eye.

A physican simply adjusts the game’s settings, using different contrast levels of red and blue that can be seen through stereoscopic glasses, to allow both eyes to see the gameplay unfolding.

Amblyotech chief executive Joseph Koziak said the electronic therapy has been tested clini-cally to “significantly increase the visual acuity” in patients.

The game is awaiting regulatory approval. (afp)

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration is warn-ing doctors against over-prescribing testosterone-boosting drugs for men, saying the popular treatments have not been established as safe or effective for common age-related issues like low libido and fatigue. The agency says drugmakers must clearly state in their labeling and promotions that the drugs, currently taken by millions of U.S. men, are only approved to treat low testos-terone levels caused by disease or injury, not normal aging.

Additionally, the FDA cautioned that the drugs may increase the risk of heart attack, stroke and other cardiovascular problems. Drugmak-ers must add information about that potential risk to their prescribing labels and conduct a long-term study to further examine the issue, the FDA said.

Health officials in Canada issued a similar warning about testosterone risks last July. The FDA action fol-lows years of industry marketing for new gels, patches and injections that promise relief from low tes-tosterone or “Low-T.” Promotions from AbbVie, Eli Lilly & Co. and others link the condition to a variety of common ailments in aging men, including sexual problems and low mood.

“There’s been a very successful advertising campaign to make men feel that whatever their problem is, the answer is to buy more tes-tosterone,” said Dr. Sidney Wolfe of Public Citizen. The consumer advocacy group petitioned the FDA last February to add a boxed warn-

ing — the most serious type— to testosterone drugs about heart risks. But the FDA rejected the petition in July, saying there was “insufficient evidence” for such a warning.

The advertising blitz for drugs like AbbVie’s Androgel and Lilly’s Axiron has pushed sales of testos-terone drugs to over $2 billion. Roughly 2.3 million U.S. patients filled a prescription for testosterone in 2013, up 77 percent from 2010, according to FDA figures. The head-ing on Abbvie’s Androgel website reads: “You are a man. You want the facts. You get down to business. You might have low testosterone.”

North Chicago-based Abbvie said in a statement that the company “is committed to our patients and we continue to work with the FDA.”

Testosterone injections were first approved in the 1950s for men who had been diagnosed with hypogo-nadism, a form of abnormally low testosterone caused by disorders of the testicles, brain and other hormone-related organs.

But current labeling on the drugs is vague enough that companies have been able to promote them to millions of otherwise healthy men who simply have lower-than-normal levels of testosterone.

While men’s testosterone levels naturally decline after age 40, ex-perts disagree on whether that drop actually leads to the issues like decreased energy and lower bone density. Additionally, testosterone levels change by the hour and are affected by a range of environmen-tal factors, such as stress and sexual arousal. (ap)

Long-term paracetamol use poses risk

PARIS - Doctors may be under-estimating the risks to patients from long-term use of paracetamol, the world’s most popular painkiller, researchers said Tuesday.

Video game offers entertaining new treatment for ‘lazy eye’

Men’s testosterone drugs overused

AP Photo

This Sept. 11 2009 file photo shows a packet of AndroGel testos-terone in Hygiene, Colo.

In response to this, the Chair-man of Commission III of the Bali Legislature, I Nengah Tamba, asked the Sarbagita regions and Bali gov-ernment to take immediate action to address the waste problem. The piles of garbage at Suwung landfill not only pollute the environment, but also polluted underground water endangering the health of surround-ing communities and disrupting the image of Bali tourism.

“The government should imme-diately look into this and cancel the contract with the investor that has been running for 10 years who cannot en-tirely resolve the problem of the piles of rubbish,” he said. Tamba added that Bali should imitate China’s successful waste management practices used throughout big cities such as Shanghai, Beijing and Guang Zhou. As the result of efficient handling of waste, these cities were then growing as tourist destinations. He also proposed that the government build a modern waste processing plant with a capacity of 5,000 tons per day. This would allow the elimination of the piles of rubbish at Suwung landfill in 5 to 7 years.

“If local government is not ready to invest in the waste management, it is necessary for the government to invite participation from investors who have waste processing technology adapted to the conditions of mixed garbage in Bali. Rubbish here must be sorted, and currently processing of 2,500 tons of new rubbish cannot be done in one day, let alone the piles of 10 meters high,” he said.

This legislator from Democrat Party also proposed that the govern-ment draw up a contract with the right to cancel if the investor failed to manage waste within 5 to 10 years. The government, said Tamba, should allocate funds for dealing with the waste problem at Suwung and could do so through an increased waste levy for the benefit of the environment. “If all we do is talk about rubbish without any action, so it will be use-less,” he said.

The Executive Director of the Friends of the Earth Indonesia (WALHI) of Bali Chapter, Suriadi Darmoko, agreed that the govern-ment should immediately act to re-solve the waste problem, especially at Suwung landfill. He also mentioned that it was also a factor affecting the image of Bali tourism. “A good im-age for tourism must be built from waste management. The regional Bylaw (Perda) on waste mandates the government to take over the waste management. Before becom-ing waste, the rubbish was a taxed product. Since the tax was collected by government, the government may not ignore it,” he said.

Suriadi added that long term coop-eration with the investor should also be terminated immediately without taking on another investor. On the contrary, the government should seek cooperation with communities or traditional villages, and involve university experts who that could provide technical input.

“Just take advantage of local

potential. Actually Balinese people have the ability to manage it, or perhaps the government does not want to make cooperation with its own people. The failure (of waste management—Ed.) always lies in building partnership with local part-ners. It’s where the failure always occurs,” he affirmed. (kmb32)

DENPASAR - Bali will remain among the favorite tourist destinations for Australians because Bali and Australia have had an emotional bond for long, a local tourism observer said.

“Australia’s appeal to its citizens to boycott Bali is an emotional call that will only have a temporary effect. It (the emotion) will return to normal again in stages,” tourism observer Ketut Sudiarta of the Denpasar Warmadewa University (Unwar) stated on Wednesday.

He added that Bali’s tourism market will not be disturbed significantly with the Australian government’s call to boycott it. Australian tourists will not be influenced by the plan to execute two drug convicts on death row from their country.

The two convicts have been moved from Bali to Nusakambangan Island in Cilacap district, Central Java.

Sudiarta further noted that Bali’s tourism market will continue to attract Australian tourists as they would enjoy the resort island’s natural beauty, especially its exotic beaches.

“We can see that a majority of foreign tourists visiting Bali continue to be Australians,” he remarked.

Although Australia has urged its citizens to boycott traveling to Bali, its citizens continue to visit the famous Indonesian resort island.

Sudiarta also pointed out that Bali should increase its tourism promo-tional activities to restore the sector not because of the upcoming execution of the Australian drug convicts on death row, but because of the need for such promotions consistently.

“Bali could also take advantage of the problems arising in Thailand, China and Malaysia following the flight accident,” he said.

Furthermore, three convicts sentenced to death over drug cases arrived on Wednesday morning at the execution island of Nusakambangan in Cilacap, Central Java, where they will face a firing squad soon.

They include the two Australian Bali Nine members, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, and Nigerian national Raheem Agbaje Salami.

Chan and Sukumaran were moved from Krobokan Prison in Denpasar to Ngurah Rai Airport, from where they were flown by a chartered Wings Air flight with registration number ATR-72-600 PK-WGO at 6:50 a.m. local time amid heavy rain to Cilacap.

Escorted by two Sukhois and two F-16 fighter planes, the Wings Air plane that Chan and Sukumaran boarded arrived at Cilacap’s Tunggul Wulung Airport at 8:14 a.m. local time.

They were then transferred from the airport, and arrived at Nusakam-bangan Island under tight security at 8:50 a.m. on Wednesday morning.

Salami was also transferred from Madiun Prison in East Java to Nu-sakambangan Island early on Wednesday.

Chan, Sukumarang, and Salami are among the 11 convicts on death row who will be executed soon.

The two Australians were members of the ‘Bali Nine’ drug ring, a group of drug traffickers, who were nabbed on April 17, 2005, in Bali while they were trying to smuggle out 8.3 kilograms of heroin worth Rp40 billion to Australia. (ant)

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Piles of rubbish at Suwung landfill increase day after day. Indeed, the height has reached about 10 meters with

a very pungent stench Up to a radius of 3 km. Without doubt, the volume of rubbish coming to Suwung landfill

from Denpasar, Badung, Gianyar and Tabanan (Sarbagita) can reach 2,500-3,000 tons each day.

Rubbish at Suwung landfill mounts

Government urged to take decisive measures

DENPASAR - Piles of rubbish at Suwung landfill increase day after day. Indeed, the height has reached about 10 meters with a very pungent stench Up to a radius of 3 km. Without doubt, the volume of rubbish coming to Suwung landfill from Denpasar, Badung, Gianyar and Tabanan (Sarbagita) can reach 2,500-3,000 tons each day.

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Foreign tourists played sand at Legian Beach, Badung Regen-cy, Bali Island. Bali will remain among the favorite tourist des-tinations for Australians because Bali and Australia have had an emotional bond for long, a local tourism observer said.

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

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

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

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

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Influenced by both local and in-ternational aesthetics, Bisma Eight’s spacious suites invoke a sense of place and a feeling of home. Touches like handcrafted Japanese onsen soaking tubs, a large living area, and nods to Balinese art and architecture make a stay at Bisma Eight feel indulgent yet effortlessly comfort-able. Amenities include a heated

pool delicately balanced over lush Balinese jungle, a fully equipped gymnasium, an organic farm, and a rooftop garden.

Every Bisma Eight dining experi-ence begins at Bisma Gardens, an onsite organic farm. Bisma Gardens’ organic produce is the secret to The Copper Kitchen and Bar’s fresh take on modern Asian cuisine; food from

and for the soul. The Library Cafe is a chance to sit and relax in the company of literature and coffee. Finally, The Pool Pavilion is Bisma Eight’s take on the poolside Tiki Bar – a place of ultimate and total relaxation.

Authenticity is integral to Bisma Eight. The elements that make Ubud what it is – culture and heritage, cre-

For those of you who make a visit to Santika Siligita Hotel Nusa Dua, this fig-ure is definitely familiar. Her friendly and smiley personality easily makes anyone feel familiar. Fera Leonidya is known as a creative, beautiful and attractive Public Relations (PR) officer. This woman of Jogja-born on August 9, 1985 has started her career since one year ago at Santika Siligita. Previously, she has also been running the same profession at the Santika Premiere Jogja for 4 years. “It’s nice to stay in Bali, let alone to provide the best for Hotel Santika Indonesia Group,” stated the public relations doubling as secretary to general manager.

Although having many duties and responsibilities, she said, all the plans and ideas had to run as much as possible. “Becoming a PR officer is really multi-functional, it does not only prepare a press release, but also creatively invents new things,” she said while showing off the What’s On magazine as her own creation. Fera assumed that all the staff at her hotel were already like family members. It was the reason why she felt comfortable and at

ease as well as always wanted to give the best contribution. “What’s On magazine is one of my modest contributions,” she explained.

In addition to carrying the explanation and promotion of the hotel, she happily explained several attractions, culture, tra-dition and the arts of Bali. For example, it featured the tradition of omed-omedan, Blue Point Beach tourist attraction, Water Blow, Pandava, Tirta Gangga, Goa Lawah, Blanco Museum, Rafting and Nusa Dua Map. She said to continuously build a good image of the company and minimize any existing constraints. “Location of our hotel is indeed private and we do not di-rectly overlook the beach. Nevertheless, it does not matter because we provide a free shuttle service to the beach in Nusa Dua daily at 12:00 a.m., 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. This location can even be covered within a few minutes,” she explained. “My commitment to work is to provide the best services for both corporate management and guests. Most importantly, I want to continuously learn and explore my own potential. So I cannot just become a pro-

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Bisma Eight UbudUBUD - Bisma Eight is a boutique hotel experience set within the natural and cultural heart of Ubud.

Opening in early 2015, Bisma Eight is rooted in the artisan heritage of central Bali. With 38 suites, each a mix of modern design and traditional Balinese craftsmanship, Bisma Eight adds something new to the landscape of central Bali by revisiting what it is that defines Ubud.

ativity and reinvention – are woven throughout the core of the Bisma Eight experience. Bisma Eight guests are invited to rediscover a place that they thought they already knew. When people visit Bisma Eight, they know Ubud.

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fessional PR but also an entrepreneur PR,” she added. (ocha)

A number of fishermen at Medewi were deeply disappointed with the restriction rules. Their income dropped dramatically because the price of lobster also downed. “Formerly, they sold for IDR 450,000 per kg, but now the price only reaches IDR 250,000 provided that the lobster weighs two ounces,” complained Sahrawan, 35, a traditional fishermen from Medewi.

Before the rule was applied, the whole lobster catches of various sizes could be sold. After that, the price of lobster weighing less than two ounces dropped and was only stocked and sold for local markets. “Even, lobster collectors rarely want to buy. If they do, the price is very cheap,” he added.

Some lobster collectors usually selling for export market also started to restrict their purchase. It happened because the lobster caught by fishermen were mostly of substandard size namely between half to one ounce.

A member of the Indonesian Fishermen Association (HNSI) of Jembrana Chapter, Misadi, said that in the past week’s meet-ing there had been a revision allowing the

lobster of less than two ounces to be sold for export. However, it would only be valid until 2016. “Previously fishermen could really do nothing because the largest catches weighed two ounces. Meanwhile, the allowed size for export must be more than two ounces,” he said.

However, what complained by fishermen was the drastically dropped selling price. For instance, the price of lobster weighing two ounces was purchased at IDR 250,000 from IDR 450,000. Similarly, the size of one ounce was purchased by collector at IDR 50,000 per kg and a half ounce at IDR 30,000 per kg. His party hoped there was a solution to keep the price unchanged compared to before the enforcement of the new rule.

In the meantime, some lobster collectors met around the fish auction base at Medewi claimed to also be afflicted by the impact of the restriction. Due to limitation to lobster size, the lobster for export market was also limited. “We sell the small lobsters to local market, while collectors do not accept it for export market,” said Sri, one of the lobster collectors. (kmb26)

TABANAN - A hallway in a narrow lane leading to one of the houses at Meranggi hamlet, Pandak Bandung village, Kediri, becomes a silent witness to the hard work carried out by Made Purnawan, 48. Physical disability without two hands experienced by Purnawan does not discourage this father of two children to continue the struggle in order to support his family.

Armed with makeshift tool de-signed in such a way by him and assisted by his son of junior high school student, he moved hundreds of bricks every day from the pro-duction site to the main street with

a distance of about 50 meters. He has a principle to always be held, ‘if feeling ashamed, we cannot eat.’

“I am just able to do this work. This is a challenge of life for me despite not having hands,” he said when met on the sidelines of his hard work, Tuesday (Mar. 3).

He also told a melancholic story why his hands should be amputated. While moving the bricks from the shouldering tool to the piles of bricks on display at roadside, Pur-nawan told that fifteen years ago he worked as a welder. Assisted by his wife, he opened a welding service business. His business ran quite smoothly and one day he got an or-

der of making a stair. It was the time when the tragic story began. When welding the stairs, he suddenly got high voltage electric shock. He was then rushed to Tabanan Hospital. However, since he required serious treatment, he was then referred to Sanglah Hospital. Sadly, as a result of the high-voltage electric shock, the two hands should be amputated. “When regaining consciousness, I just knew if both hands have been amputated because long after the electric shock I was unconscious,” he said.

Knowing he no longer had two hands, he locked himself in a room without activity for three months. “I

was shocked with the condition at that time. I was too embarrassed to leave the house,” he said.

After calming down period for nearly three months, in the long run he could regain the spirit to work. It was also due to the encouragement and spirit of relatives and fam-ily that always gave him support to continue his life. “Initially all people are afraid to see me working, for fear of anything occurred. Even, I went out secretly to leave home for working, but now have been accustomed to,” he concluded.

By only working as brick porter, at least he was able to earn IDR 75,000 each day. Not infrequently,

he did not work. Besides, he was also often asked for help to look for water at local springs with the payment of IDR 5,000 per gallon. “Everything I do to support my family, even though my wife has already been working in one of the motorcycle repair shops since the incident,” he said.

Vivacity to work was driven by the fact that his two children still needed much money, especially for education. “Anyway, the most im-portant for me is to gather with fam-ily. I will do my best and positive things so that I can see my children always healthy and they can still go to school,” he said. (kmb28)

A true story on a disable man struggle to support his family

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A fisherman shows the lobster that he catch from the sea of Jembrana

Price downs drastically, lobster fishermen frustrated

NEGArA - The rules on the lobster catch according to its size by the Minister of Maritime and Fisheries are harmful to traditional fishermen in Bali. It kindles the dramatic decline in the price of lobster compared to before the rule was applied. Fishermen at Medewi, Pekutatan subdistrict, that relying on their livelihood to the catch of sand lobster were frustrated.

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Andrew Chan and Myuran Su-kumaran, the ringleaders of the so-called “Bali Nine” drug smuggling gang, were woken and given a few minutes to get ready before leaving Bali’s Kerobokan jail in the early hours, said local justice ministry

official Nyoman Putra Surya.The men, sentenced to death in

2006 for trying to smuggle heroin out of Indonesia, said “thank you” before leaving, and “we handcuffed them and they were quiet”, he added.

Michael Chan attempted to see his brother Andrew before the transfer but prison officials denied him entry, with Surya saying the decision was taken because “today is not visiting day”.

More than 200 police and sol-

diers as well as water cannon were stationed outside the Bali prison as the men, in their early 30s, were driven out through a scrum of journalists.

The pair were flown to Cilacap, on Java island, on a chartered flight accompanied by military aircraft.

Two armoured vehicles escorted by elite police then boarded a boat at the local port which crossed to

Nusakambangan island, home to several high security prisons and where the pair will be executed, an AFP reporter at the scene said.

Australians on death row arrive on execution island

CILACAP - Two Australian drug smugglers were transferred Wednesday to an Indonesian island where they will be executed, as Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Australia was “revolted” by their looming deaths after frantic diplomatic efforts to save them.

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One of Indonesian police armored vehicles carrying two Australian prisoners arrives at Wijaya Pura port in Cilacap, Central Java, Indonesia, Wednesday, March 4, 2015. Indonesia began transferring the two Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran early Wednesday in preparation for the execution by firing squad of nine foreigners and an Indonesian condemned for drug smuggling, as diplomatic squabbles persist over the executions.

News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http://globalfmbali.listen2my-

radio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http://ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.

Underwood released on Twitter a photograph of the hand of their son -- Isaiah Michael Fisher -- and said he was born on Friday.

“God has blessed us with an amazing gift!” Underwood wrote.

Underwood in 2010 married Fisher, a Canadian hockey player now with the Nashville Predators.

Last month, a heavily pregnant Underwood was unable to travel to Los Angeles to accept the Grammy Award for Best Country Solo Per-formance for her gospel-tinged “Something in the Water.”

Underwood, 31, is known for her healthy lifestyle and is a longtime vegetarian.

She became a vegan a couple of years ago but said that she reverted a bit during her pregnancy.

“Now I’m pregnant, it’s like, I can’t just order steamed broccoli. That’s not going to cut it,” she told CBS television’s Entertainment Tonight in December. (afp)

NEW YORK — The 14th-annu-al Tribeca Film Festival will feature documentaries on Cuban muscle cars, New Yorker cartoonists and police stun guns. The downtown New York festival announced half its slate Tuesday, previewing the films that will play in competition.

The festival will feature docu-mentaries across a wide spectrum of subjects, including “Indian Point,” on the New York state nuclear facility; “Havana Motor Club,” on muscle cars in Cuba; “Tom Swift and his Electric Rifle,” on police use of stun guns; and “Very Semi-Serious,” about New Yorker cartoons.

Among the dramatic entries are “The Adderall Diaries,” an adap-tion of Stephen Elliott’s memoir starring James Franco; “Franny,” a drama about an eccentric older

man (Richard Gere) drawn to the daughter (Dakota Fanning) of a dead friend; and “Meadowland,” a relationship drama with Olivia Wilde and Luke Wilson.

But documentaries have become known as Tribeca’s strongest offer-ings and are increasingly occupying some of the festival’s top showcase slots. This year’s festival, which runs April 15-26, will open with the “Saturday Night Live” documen-tary “Live From New York!”

Other documentaries coming to Tribeca this year focus on the Japanese drink sake (“The Birth of Sake”), romance among the autistic (“Autism in Love”) and the most-gored bullfighter in history (“Gored”). Albert Maysles will also present “In Transit,” a documentary he co-directed about the longest train route in America. (ap)

CHICAGO — Oprah Winfrey will close Harpo Stu-dios in Chicago, where she filmed “The Oprah Winfrey Show” for more than 20 years, this December, and will transition production for her cable network to a studio in California.

Harpo Studios and the Oprah Winfrey Network made the announcement Tuesday. OWN recently moved into a new studio in West Hollywood, California, and work currently done at Harpo Studios in Chicago will now be done there.

Winfrey sold the Harpo Studios property in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood to a developer last year for about $32 million. She said in a statement Tuesday that Harpo Studios has been a “blessing” in her life and she’s now “looking ahead” to inhabiting her California studio.

The city named the street outside Harpo Studios “Oprah Winfrey Way” in 2011. (ap)

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Country star Underwood announces first child

NEW YORK - Country superstar Carrie Underwood on Tuesday announced the birth of her first child with her husband, the hockey player Mike Fisher.

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Winfrey’s Harpo Studios in Chicago to close in December

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In this May 24, 2011 file photo, Kimberly Adams holds a poster outside Harpo Studios before the final taping of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in Chicago.

Franco, Gere movies among entries at

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