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LOS ANGELES - “The Sponge-Bob Movie: Sponge Out of Water” cleaned up at the North American box office this weekend, dethron-ing “American Sniper” in its first week of release, estimates showed Sunday.

The animated 3-D movie, in which the title character attempts to recover a stolen burger recipe, debuted with an estimated $56 mil-lion in ticket sales, said box office tracker Exhibitor Relations.

“American Sniper,” relegated to second place, had $24.2 million in ticket sales as it finally fell from top spot.

Since its release, the highly ac-claimed “Sniper” has raked in $282 million and a half-dozen Oscar nominations, including a best ac-tor nod for Bradley Cooper in the title role.

“Jupiter Ascending” sold the third most tickets this week, with estimated box office receipts of $19 million in its opening weekend.

The fantasy flick pairs Mila Kunis and Channing Tatum and is a first foray into the genre for sibling directors Lana and Andy Wachowski since their work on

“The Matrix” series.“Seventh Son,” a 3-D fantasy-

action film starring Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore, debuted in fourth spot, earning $7.1 million.

“Paddington,” a big-screen adap-tation of the family classic about a bear lost in the big city, took fifth with $5.4 million in ticket sales.

Another science-fiction tale, “Project Almanac,” earned $5.3 million for sixth place.

“The Imitation Game,” which stars Benedict Cumberbatch as codebreaking genius Alan Turing, took $4.9 million for seventh place, followed by “Black or White,” a ra-cially charged drama starring Kevin Costner as a widowed grandfather battling to retain custody of his mixed-race granddaughter.

It grossed an estimated $4.52 million.

In ninth was comedy “The Wed-ding Ringer” with $4.5 million in receipts.

Jennifer Lopez’s steamy “The Boy Next Door,” in which the pop diva plays a divorcee who has an ill-advised affair with a very young male neighbor, came in 10th with $4.1 million. (afp)

Smith, along with Beyonce, Phar-rell and Ed Sheeran, lost album of the year to Beck’s “Morning Phase,” which also won best rock album Sun-day night.

“I want to thank the man who this record is about ... Thank you so much for breaking my heart because I have four Grammys,” said Smith, who also won best pop vocal album for “In the Lonely Hour.”

Kanye West, who famously inter-rupted Taylor Swift when she beat Beyonce at the MTV Video Music Awards, almost walked onstage when Prince announced Beck’s name. Some in the audience seemed shocked, from Pharrell to Questlove.

Beck’s album debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and sold about 300,000 units.

Pharrell and Rosanne Cash walked away with three awards each. Pharrell won best pop solo performance for a live version of “Happy,” released in 2013. He also won best music video for the song and best urban contem-porary album for “G I R L,” beating Beyonce.

“I am going to moonwalk my way off the stage right now,” said Pharrell, wearing a blazer and shorts.

Pharrell’s performance of “Happy” was dramatic with background danc-ers in black, musicians in yellow and a choir in white.

When the chorus was supposed to come in, Lang Lang played the piano skillfully. Hans Zimmer also played the guitar.

“Thank you, God,” Pharrell, in a bell-boy hat, said at the end of the performance.

Rihanna gave an impressive vocal performance of “FourFiveSeconds” with Paul McCartney to her right and Kanye West to her left. Her hair was slicked back, and she rocked a black suit like her co-stars

Katy Perry, in all white, sang the ballad “By the Grace of God” after a woman who had been abused talked about getting help and moving on with her life. A video of President Barack

Obama appeared before she spoke, and he encouraged artists to help out.

“It’s on us, all of us, to create a culture where violence isn’t tolerated,” he said.

Another serious moment came with Prince, who earned a standing ovation when he walked onstage to introduce album of the year.

“Albums — you remember those? They still matter. Like books and black lives, they still matter.”

Madonna, dressed as a matador, performed “Living for Love” atop a platform surrounded by a plethora of background dancers wearing bull masks. A choir did most of the sing-ing, while Madonna danced and the audience at the Staples Center clapped in unison. She ascended into the air as the performance finished.

West performed on a nearly pitch-black stage, with a light glowing from under his feet (he also sported the new sneakers he designed). He sang the new song about his late mother, “Only One.”

Annie Lennox was a powerhouse when she sang “I Put A Spell On You” and joined Hozier for “Take Me to Church,” nominated for song off the year.

Beyonce won best R&B song and R&B performance for “Drunk In Love” and surround sound album for “ B e -

yonce.”“This has been such an incredible

year,” she said, thanking her “beloved husband” and “my daughter who is watching.”

In one of 23 performances, AC/DC kicked off the show with a per-formance of their latest single, “Rock or Bust,” and then transitioned into the classic “Highway to Hell.” It earned a rousing applause from Pharrell, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry, who wore devil horns.

Ariana Grande gave a stripped, piano-led performance of “Just a Little Bit of Your Heart,” a song co-written by One Direction’s Harry Styles, while Miranda Lambert brought a rock-heavy vibe to “Little Red Wagon.” She won best country album for “Platinum.”

“I put my heart and soul in this record,” she said. “Thank you so much for this amazing night. I love y’all!”

Cash led the pre-show with three Grammys, while Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Chick Corea and the “Fro-zen” soundtrack earned two awards apiece.

“Reagan was president last time I won a Grammy,” said Cash, who won best American roots performance, American roots song and Americana album. “I just showed up for work for 35 years and this is what happened.”

Lamar, who lost in seven cat-egories last year, marked a re-demption by winning best rap performance and rap song for “i.”

Eminem won best rap album, beating Common and Iggy Azalea. He also won best rap/sung collaboration for “The Monster” with Rihanna.

The late Joan Rivers won best spoken word album for “Diary of a Mad Diva,” and her daughter, Melissa Riv-ers, was on hand to ac-cept the award. (ap)

Andrew Chan and Myuran Suku-maran, ringleaders of the so-called “Bali Nine” drug smuggling gang, lost a legal bid in the Balinese capital Denpasar to have their cases reviewed last week.

It effectively dashed their final hope of avoiding the firing squad, and their executions are expected to be carried out this month.

But their lawyer Todung Mulya Lubis told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation he planned one last at-tempt to save their lives by challenging

Indonesian President Joko Widodo’s decision not to pardon them in an administrative court.

The legal move has been rarely attempted before, but Mulya said he did not believe Widodo could simply reject the men’s clemency pleas on the basis of a drug emergency.

Widodo has been a vocal supporter of capital punishment and warned Indonesia was in a state of emergency due to drugs, with dozens of people dying every day.

“Well we have done almost every-

thing and now we are planning to file another claim to the administrative court in Jakarta,” Mulya said.

“We will challenge the rejection of the clemency issued by the president, or made by the president.

“Why? Because we don’t think the president can reject all the clemency petitions based only on a drug emer-gency situation.”

Mulya said that instead Widodo should consider each case on its mer-its, pointing to Chan and Sukumaran’s reformation during their almost 10

years in Bali’s Kerobokan prison.“The president should go into it

one by one. You cannot just read that on papers and then make a rejection or refusal,” he said.

“That’s not the way to do it because we are talking about human life, so we should not treat people, petitioners, as numbers -- treat them as human beings.”

The ABC said such an administra-tive appeal was thought to have been attempted only once before, in 2008, and failed.

Chan and Sukumaran were arrested in 2005 on the holiday island of Bali and sentenced to death the following year for attempting to smuggle heroin

out of Indonesia.On Sunday, senior religious leaders

in Australia called on Jakarta to show mercy, but Indonesia’s top diplomat in the country insisted their executions would go ahead.

Jakarta last month executed six drug offenders, including five foreign-ers. (afp)

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Raji, left, and Chintu Sukumaran, second left, the mother and brother of condemned Australian Myuran Sukumaran, are mobbed by the press upon arrival at the National Commission For Human Rights in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Feb. 9, 2015. Lawyers for two Australians facing imminent execution in Bali said Monday they plan to launch a rare challenge against the Indonesian president’s refusal to grant them a pardon.

Bali Nine lawyer plans last-minute bid to halt firing squad

SYDNEY - Lawyers for two Australians facing imminent execution in Bali said Monday they plan to launch a rare challenge against the Indonesian president’s refusal to grant them a pardon.

Sam Smith wins 4 GrammysLOS ANGELES — Sam Smith was the king of the Grammys, taking home three of the top

four awards, including song and record of the year for “Stay With Me,” and best new artist, while Beck won album of the year.

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Antonio Banderas attends the world premiere of “The Sponge-bob Movie: Sponge Out of Water” at AMC Lincoln Square on Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015, in New York.

‘SpongeBob’ cleans up at box office

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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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Completely refurbished to create an iconic new drinks and dining des-tination, MoonLite will be open every day from 4:30 pm to 11:00 pm to offer Anantara’s discerning guests and lo-cal residents a striking modern Asian concept.

Eye catching contemporary design features Balinese wooden walls ac-cented by huge jars of colourful Asian spices. Reinvented for an evolving mood, MoonLite guests will be able to relax at the trendy bar lounge and

savour stylish meals in the comfortable dining room and on the open air deck with panoramic Indian Ocean views.

A lustful menu to tantalise the pal-ate is characterised by the enchanting flavours of contemporary Asian cuisine, given a vibrant, interactive element by chefs cooking to impress in the open kitchen. Bar pleasures abound with an extensive selection of traditional, clas-sic and modern beverages, including seductive cocktails and a well-stocked wine cellar.

To match the intriguing design, al-luring views and inspiring tastes, a stun-ning atmosphere is assured with live chill out music performed on the stage every night from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm, setting a sultry tone for sunset cocktails and elegant dining.

With flawless execution extending to Anantara’s passionate and heartfelt service, MoonLite will raise the bar for Seminyak’s bar and dining experiences. Broadening the appeals, valet parking and a lift in front of the hotel provides

Probably, the concern with the sur-rounding community is one of the keys to unlock and develop the community-based tourism. Such concern then develops a mutual interdependence so that it further evolves into a mutual understanding and harmony.

“After that, it will continue to evolve into a more positive direction,” said I Wayan Sumandia, Resort Manager of Furama Villas & Spa. With this basis, he added, it resulted in togetherness that well nurtured as he did at Bindu village, the location where the Furama Hotel was situated. “We keep in touch with the village community. It can be done by maintaining social relations, giving assistance and educating the public with tourism-related matters,” explained Sumandia.

Some of the activities carried out were the education about waste man-

agement, especially plastic waste, and the way to preserve the environment in order to remain beautiful, healthy and comfortable. Besides, his party also provided English language training for school children at the surroundings for free. It was one of the ways to maintain the good communications.

“We do this sustainably. Thus, there is a kind of binding process between the company and the surrounding com-munity,” he added. He also criticized the relationship established instantly that tended to be done for one time by taking advantage of some particular moments. In the context of maintaining good relations with the surrounding community, in accordance with the Tri Hita Karana concept, the process was one of the important factors. The as-sessment is based on a process occurred and nurtured sustainably, did not occur

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MoonLite Kitchen and Bar opens February 2015

SEMINyAK - Anantara Seminyak resort & Spa, Bali along sought after Seminyak Beach in Bali is relaunching its rooftop culinary experiences, with the brand new MoonLite Kitchen and Bar to open in February 2015, replacing the former SOS Supper Club.

direct access for outside guests. While the generous space, ingenious design and tailored culinary options make MoonLite Kitchen and Bar a superb venue for all kinds of corporate and social functions, including cocktail gatherings, celebratory dinner parties and weddings.

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I Wayan SumandiaMaintaining communication with

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in a sudden.“Moreover, we are in the path of

cultural tourism. Maintaining good relations with the supporters of the culture itself is very important,” he added. (pal)

DENPASAR - The expedition team of the fifth NKRI Koridor Kepulauan Nusra 2015 consisting of 60 people led by Taufik Shobri arrived in Bali, Sun-day (Feb 8). The expedition team from Jakarta would join the team of Bali and carried out various activities in the re-gion of Karangasem. The activity was meant to learn more about the wealth of this country as well as understand the potential threats undermining the nation.

“The team departs from Jakarta to Bali by Air Force Hercules aircraft. Upon arrival at the Ngurah Rai Airport, Tuban, it was welcomed by the Com-mander of the 163/Wira Satya Military Resort, Heri Wiranto,” said Spokesper-son Adi Santoso.

On arriving at the office of the Gov-ernor of Bali, Taufik Shobri and the entourage were received by Governor Made Pastika accompanied by Chief of Udayana Regional Military Staff, Ruslian Hariadi, and other officials.

In his speech, Taufik Shobri revealed that his team was mixed members of the military, police and students. “Our reception was really festive, remark-able and giving pride as well as very soothing us. Once again, we’d like to salute and give high appreciation. On behalf of the Special Forces Com-mander Major General Doni Monardo as Commander of the Expedition, once again we thank you,” he said.

He added this expedition had the privilege because it was the first event involving a joint team, performed to-gether and spread across wide enough area. Various activities would be implemented, namely exploration, cross-scientific research and commu-nity services. The current government’s

vision was to achieve the sovereign and independent Indonesia as well as have personality based on mutual assistance. This vision was realized through seven missions and nine strategic agendas called Nawa Cita.

“This expedition activity is related to the vision and mission and strategic agenda of Mr. Jokowi-JK government. One of the explanations is capable of realizing the national security that can safeguard territorial sovereignty lead-ing to the high quality of human life, progress and prosperity. The mission is to realize Indonesia as a maritime, independent, developed and strong country based on the principle of na-tional interest,” he said.

The Nawa Cita had four priority agendas in the Homeland (NKRI) Ex-pedition, firstly, to bring back the state to protect the people and provide secu-rity to all citizens. Secondly, continued Taufik, was to build Indonesia from the periphery by strengthening the regions and villages. Thirdly, it was to revolu-tionize the national character, and the ultimately to reinforce and strengthen social diversity of Indonesia.

Why must involve students? Ac-cording to Taufik, students and young people were candidates that would lead the nation in the future. In ad-dition, they were also the agents of change for the environment and society. So, they were expected to eventually be able to bring the nation towards better future.

Through the expedition, his party expected the public to be more famil-iar with the wealth of the country. In addition, they should understand the potential threats that would undermine the nation in the future. (kmb36)

These questions were raised in a working meeting that was held with Commission I and Commission III of the Denpasar House with the Transportation Agency, Spatial Planning and Housing Agency (DTRP), As-set Division, Legal Division as well as the Cooperation Divi-sion of the Denpasar Munici-pality, on Friday (Feb 6). The meeting, that was opened by Deputy Chairman of the Den-pasar House, Wayan Mariyana Wandhira, was guided by Chair-man of Commission III, Eko Supriadi. “Many activities have been carried out by the authori-ties of Benoa Harbor without permission or recommenda-tions from the Municipality of Denpasar. Activities that were carried out without permission include; the process of marine backfilling and the construction of a helipad in the mangrove forest. We want to know why these activities were allowed to

be carried out and to what extent measures have been taken by the municipal government to reprimand these actions”, said Eko Supriadi.

Meanwhile, member of Com-mission III, A.A. Susruta Ngu-rah Putra, also questioned to what extent authorities from the Municipality of Denpasar were involved in a number of issues arising in relation to Benoa Har-bor. Supposedly, the municipal government is in charge of tak-ing assertive action against any violations that may have been committed in Benoa Harbour. “Such violations should not only be “Such violations should not only be reprimanded but, if need be assertive action such as sealing off the area needs to take place”, said Susruta.

In response to such questions, the Head of the Denpasar Spatial Planning and Housing Agency, I Kadek Kusuma Diputra, claimed that the backfill carried out by

Benoa Harbor authorities, was the result of the dredging of a pier groove intended for large vessels. The head of the Transporta-tion Division for the Denpasar Transportation Agency, Heriadi, stated that the Denpasar Trans-portation Agency had not given permission for construction in the mangrove forest and had in fact reprimanded the construc-tion of the helipad, which falls within their jurisdiction over the area of Denpasar.

Other than issues related to Benoa Harbor, the meeting also revealed some of the assets owned by the City of Denpasar. The existence of assets belonging to the Municipality should be managed appropriately so that they can be of benefit to govern-ment services and public welfare. So far, Benoa Harbor (Pelindo) authorities have not confirmed or denied any details related to the questions raised in the working meeting. (kmb12)

Marine backfilling activities in the area

of Benoa Harbor, South Denpasar,

drew the attention of the ranks of Com-mission I and Com-

mission III of the Denpasar House. The people’s rep-resentatives thus

questioned the en-vironmental impact

assessment (Amdal) of the project.

Helipad, marine backfilling at Benoa Harbor questioned

DENPASAR - Marine backfilling activities in the area of Benoa Harbor, South Denpasar, drew the attention of the ranks of Commission I and Commission III of the Denpasar House. The people’s representatives thus questioned the environmental impact assessment (Amdal) of the project. Apart from the backfilling, the discovery of a helipad in the area was also highlighted by the people’s representatives.

Fifth homeland expedition team arrives in Bali

The expedition team of the fifth NKRI Koridor Kepulauan Nusra 2015 consisting of 60 people led by Taufik Shobri arrived in Bali, Sunday (Feb 8). The expedition team from Jakarta would join the team of Bali and carried out various activities in the region of Karangasem.

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RIO DE JANEIRO — The world’s mightiest waterway, the Amazon River, is threatened by the most diminutive of foes — a tiny mussel invading from China.

Since hitching its way to South America in the early 1990s, the golden mussel has claimed new territory at alarming speeds, plowing through indigenous flora and fauna as it has spread to waters in five countries. Now, scientists fear the invasive spe-cies could make a jump into the Ama-zon, threatening one of the world’s unique ecological systems.

“There’s no doubt the environmen-tal effect would be dramatic,” said Marcia Divina de Olivieira, a scientist with the Brazilian government’s Em-brapa research agency.

The golden mussel, which com-monly grows to no more than an inch in length, is a hardy breeder, reproduc-ing nine months a year by releasing clouds of microscopic larvae that float with the current to new territories. They attach to hard surfaces like river bedrock, stones, man-made structures and even each other, forming large reef-like structures.

They have devastated native clam species by attaching themselves onto the local mollusks, sealing them shut. Their ability to clog pipes has forced operators of hydroelectric and water treatment plants in Sao Paulo state, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and else-where to spend millions of dollars an-nually to clear them out with chemical

The unmanned Deep Space Climate Observatory had been scheduled to blast off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 6:10 pm (2310 GMT) from Cape Canaveral, Florida but a range-tracking issue scuttled it with about two-and-a-half minutes left in the countdown.

DSCOVR’s goal is to help space weather forecasters by collecting data on solar wind and geomagnetic storms that can cause damage to electrical systems on Earth.

“Air Force tracking radar went down. Launch postponed to same time tomorrow,” tweeted Elon Musk, the billionaire SpaceX founder.

He added: “Prob good though. Will give

us time to replace 1st stage video trans-mitter (not needed for launch, but nice to have).”

SpaceX was expected to try again at 6:07 pm on Monday.

After the launch, SpaceX will make another attempt to guide the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket back to a controlled landing on an ocean platform, as part of the California-based company’s goal of making rockets one day as reusable as airplanes.

In January, the rocket attempted a con-trolled maneuver to land on a powered-barge in the Atlantic, but collided with it instead and broke into pieces. (afp)

WASHINGTON - Termites, the pesky in-sects whose fondness for wood makes them the bane of homeowners, help halt desertification in semi-arid areas and protect against the effects of climate change, a study said Thursday.

In grasslands, savannahs and arid areas of Africa, Latin America and Asia, termite mounds, which store moisture and nutrients and contain multiple tunnels, allow water to better penetrate the ground, said the authors of the study in the journal Science.

Vegetation thrives on termite mounds in ecosystems vulnerable to desertification.

“The rain is the same everywhere, but be-cause termites allow water to penetrate the soil better, the plants grow on or near the mounds as if there were more rain,” said lead study author Corina Tarnita of Princeton University.

“Even when you get to such harsh condi-tions where vegetation disappears from the mounds, revegetation is still easier. As long as the mounds are there, the ecosystem has a better chance to recover.”

Jef Huisman, an aquatic microbiology professor and theoretical ecologist at the Uni-versity of Amsterdam who did not participate in the research, said the research shows that early warning signals for desertification were

too simple in the past, and failed to take into account nature’s complexities. According to current models, there are five stages in the transition to desert, each with specific char-acteristics in terms of vegetation growth, and scientists can use satellite images to determine an area’s desertification stage.

But semi-arid ecosystems with termite mounds and those in the fifth and last stage appeared very similar, the researchers said.

The scientists thus showed that what had appeared to be the final stage before desertifica-tion was sometimes the total opposite, thanks to termite mounds. Climate models, Huisman added, should better take into account the im-pact of organisms such as termites and mussels that “engineer their own environment.”

Ants, prairie dogs, gophers and other mound-building creatures could play an im-portant role in the ecosystem, said co-author Robert Pringle, assistant professor in ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton.

“I like to think of termites as linchpins of the ecosystem in more than one way,” Pringle said.

“They increase the productivity of the sys-tem, but they also make it more stable, more resilient.” (afp)

Brazil scientists fear golden mussel threat to Amazon River

AP Photo/Leo Correa

In this Jan. 29, 2015 photo, Brazilian researcher Marcela Uliano da Silva shows samples of the golden mussel at the Carlos Chagas Filho Biophysics Institute in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The golden mussel, which commonly grows to no more than an inch in length, is a hardy breeder, reproducing nine months a year by releasing clouds of microscopic larvae that float with the current to new territories. They attach to hard surfaces like river bedrock, stones, man-made structures and even each other, forming large reef-like structures.

drips or shut down turbines to scrape out giant mussel formations.

Golden mussels are filter-feeders, sucking in water and filtering out plankton and other microscopic bits of plant and animal life. Their pro-liferation can alter phosphorous and nitrogen levels in the water, produc-ing blooms of toxic algae that can be deadly to aquatic creatures and humans.

While the thriving mussel colonies can mean more food for local fish and ducks, the disruption of the food chain can upset local systems, said Hugh MacIsaac, a professor at the University of Windsor, in Ontario, Canada, who studies invasive aquatic species.

“You clearly want to keep these out of the Amazon because if they were to get in, the potential consequences are very significant,” said MacIsaac. “The key right now is you have to shut the door to make sure they can’t spread further.”

Researchers compare the golden mussel to the zebra mussel, a small bivalve originally from the Cauca-sus that colonized the Great Lakes in North America in the late 1980s before spreading down the Missis-sippi River.

The advance of the golden mussels appears to have stalled at the sweeping Pantanal wetlands system in western Brazil, where natural cycles of rising and falling oxygen levels have kept the population in check so far.

But, the Pantanal is just 1,200 miles

(2,000 kilometers) away from waters linked to the Amazon, and scientists fear that a boat towed overland could carry the invasive species clinging to a hull or that the ballast water used to stabilize a vessel could be contami-nated by mussel larvae.

“If you just have a liter (of water) down in the bottom of a boat and put it on a trailer and travel over land to a new river system, you could be injecting potentially hundreds or even thousands of microscopic larvae into a new water body,” said Steve Hamilton, an ecology professor at Michigan State University.

Brazil’s government has been working to stop the golden mussel’s progress for a decade, requiring ships headed to Brazilian ports to stop at least 200 miles off the coast and empty the ballast waters while far at sea. But experts complain the measure is spot-tily enforced.

One of Brazil’s top experts on the mussel, a 27-year-old doctoral student at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, believes she may have another solution: mapping the mussel’s genome and engineering a virus or other “bio bullet” that could render the species infertile. The idea is similar to efforts to combat dengue-transmitting mosquitoes by making them sterile.

“If we manage it, it would be huge obviously from an economic point of view but also to protect biodiversity,” said researcher Marcela Uliano da

Silva. “The Amazon is under so many threats.”

She’s hopeful she’ll succeed, but said it could take at least four years to carry out the plan.

Olivieira, the scientist with the Em-brapa research agency, hailed Silva’s work as a “perhaps one of the few paths that could actually help solve the problem.”

While the threat from the golden mussel might appear minor compared to hydroelectric dams, deforestation and sewage runoff from cities, Silva says if the creature were to reach the Amazon, it could wreak havoc on one of the world’s most biologically di-verse regions. The Amazon has more freshwater fish species than any river in the world. (ap)

Termite mounds can halt desert’s advance

SpaceX calls off launch of space-weather satellite

MIAMI - SpaceX’s launch of a $340 million sun-observing spacecraft that was initially dreamed up by former US vice president Al Gore was postponed Sunday for at least 24 hours after a late problem.

“We are investigating the truth of the letter,” he said here Monday in response to the letters directed by the Kerobokan prison’s in-mates to Indonesian President Joko Widodo.

One of the letters was written by an inmate named Martin Ja-manuna. Jamanuna who claimed to have known Andrew Chan for four years in jail said he was ready to take over the execution

of Australian inmate if he was allowed to do so.

Sudjonggo said he would ask the prison’s church council about Andrew Chan’s activity and ques-tion the motive of the person who wrote the letter because Andrew Chan’s request for reviewing his case had been rejected a week ago.

He said he did not regard an inmate’s offering of sympathy to

another prisoner as a problem but the inmate is not allowed to take over the prisoner’s sentence.

Along with Myuran Sukumaran (33), another Australian drug con-vict on death row, Andrew Chan is threatened to be executed after their requests for a review of their cases were rejected by the Bali District Court.

According to the Denpasar Dis-trict Court’s spokesman, Hasoloan

AMLAPURA - The location for the construction of the new airport needs to be officially determined by the government of Bali. Up until this very day, the airport construction has remained limited to discussions without any distinct decisions being made. It was revealed by The Regent of Karangasem, I Wayan Geredeg, accompanied by spokesperson for the government of Karangasem, Made Supartha, brought up the issue a few days ago during a press conference in Karangasem. Regent Geredeg emphasized the need for the loca-tion of the new airport to be clearly determined.

The Regent added that the exact location for the construction of the new airport is not so important. What is important is that the location be clearly stated.“Whether the location for the new airport is in Buleleng or Karangasem, does not matter. The important thing is that it will not be in South Bali” he said.

According to Geredeg from the snake-fruit producing village of Sibetan, if the airport is to be built in Karangasem, the Regency has a location in mind. He suggested that the airport be built over the sea on pile foundations. “In Karangasem, we only allow flying over the sea” he said.

Why over the sea? By building pilons for an over sea airport, would mean that extensive agricultural land would not need to be converted to run ways. Besides, such a system would not displace the settlements of the local population. Moreover, on the mainland there are many temples that should not be disturbed. “I’ve landed at the airport over the sea in Nagoya, Japan. It was a very nice airport. There are only two airports in

Letters defending Australian drug convict investigated

DENPASAR - Warden of Kerobokan Penitentiary Sudjonggo said he would investigate the truth of letters written by a dozen of inmates defending Andrew Chan (31), an Australian drug convicts on death row.

Sianturi, the two drug convicts’ requests could not be sent to the Supreme Court as they did not meet all formal requirements.

The two were arrested along with seven other Australians in 2005, when they were attempt-ing to smuggle 8.3 kilograms of heroin from Bali to Sydney, Australia. Earlier, Sukumaran’s clemency petition was rejected by President Joko Widodo.

Indonesia had recently execut-ed five drug convicts as part of its serious efforts to combat drug trafficking in the country.

The five convicts were Nama-ona Denis of Malawi, Marco Ar-cher Cardoso Moreira of Brazil, Daniel Enemuo alias Diarrassouba Mamadou of Nigeria, Ang Kiem Soei, alias Kim Ho, alias Ance Tahir, of the Netherlands, Rani Andriani, alias Melisa Aprilia, of Indonesia, and Tran Thi Bich Hanh of Vietnam.

Vice-President Jusuf Kalla said that the execution of foreign inmates for drug offenses will not affect Indonesia’s bilateral ties with their respective countries. (ant)

Airport development planClarity on determination of location required

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The location for the construction of the new airport needs to be officially determined by the government of Bali. Up until this very day, the airport construction has remained limited to discussions without any distinct decisions being made.

the world that have been constructed over the ocean: one in Nagoya and one in France”, he explained.

He acknowledged that there was talk of locating the airport in the sub-district of Kubu. But based on various considerations and research, Kubu has been determined to be unsuitable be-cause it is too close to Mount Agung and the volcano is suspected of still

being active. A volcanic earthquake could too easily destroy the runways. In addition, winds in the area are also considered unstable.

According to Geredeg, the build-ing of a new airport is an important way in which the development of Bali can be more evenly distributed. The travel time from Ngurah Rai Interna-tional Airport to North or East Bali is

approximately three hours. Foreign travellers are still reluctant to venture beyond the hotel rich areas of Badung or Kuta. Very few travellers visit Karangasem for example because it takes a few hours overland and longer when there is a lot of traffic. Because both the harbour and the airport are located in the South , tourism has been very slow to develop in other

regions of Bali. Geredeg deplored the fact Jalan

Bypass Ida Bagus Mantra, that leads to Klunkung, does not continue on to Karangasem and Buleleng. Ac-cording to the Regent, if the road was continued, many new areas would quickly become centres of economic growth and not be left behind in the development process occurring in Southern Bali. “If the road infrastruc-ture is not improved, it is useless for us to build a cruise ship harbor and ferry port in Karangasem”, he con-cluded. (013)

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TAIPEI — TransAsia Airways representatives met Sunday with relatives of the victims of last week’s plane crash in Taiwan to discuss compensation after it began distributing money to families of the deceased for funeral costs.

At the river crash site, divers tried to find the bodies of the three people still missing by using metal detectors to locate their watches or seat belts.

At least 40 people died after

the propeller-jet crashed into the muddy Keelung River minutes after takeoff Wednesday from Taipei’s airport. Fifteen of the 58 people aboard the plane were rescued.

Preliminary investigations in-dicate the pilots of the TransAsia Airways ATR 72 shut off a running engine after its other engine went idle, a move that aviation experts said was an error.

A spokesman for France-based plane maker ATR said Sunday that

their aircraft were equipped and de-signed to fly on a single engine. The spokesman spoke on condition of ano-nymity in line with company rules.

The bulk of the passengers were from the Chinese mainland.

A TransAsia spokeswoman, Fang Chia-wen, said a second meeting would be held Wednesday to discuss compensation matters further. She said the airline had al-ready begun distributing 1.2 million Taiwan dollars ($38,000) per victim

to families for funeral expenses.Premier Mao Chi-kuo told Tai-

wan’s private Formosa TV on Sun-day that the priority was to find the three missing people. Longer-term, he said the country needs to work on improving “our civil aviation in terms of its management and training.”

Huang Han-chung, a member of the underwater search team, also told the station that rescuers were using metal detectors, which had

already been used to locate pieces of wreckage.

“Some bodies might have some metal on them, like necklaces, watches and coins, which will be detected,” said Wu Jun-hung, a Taipei city fire department official. “There are still four seats missing, so it’s possible that the victims are still fastened in their seats by seat belt, that they sunk together with the seats to the bottom of the bank.” (ap)

Officials said the victims were crushed as thousands of fans tried to force their way into a Cairo football stadium to watch a game.

“Nineteen people died,” interior ministry spokesman Hani Abdel Latif

told AFP, revising an earlier death toll of 22 given by prosecutors.

Thousands of fans without tick-ets scaled stadium walls in bid to catch Sunday’s match, with clashes erupting as police fired tear gas and

birdshot at the crowd.Abdel Latif said 22 policemen

were injured in the clashes and 18 people were arrested.

Khaled al-Khatib, the head of Egypt’s emergency services, con-

firmed the death toll.“The deaths were caused due to

a stampede. There are no signs of gunshot or birdshot,” Khatib said.

“The victims had lots of bruises, while some had broken necks... People were trampling each other.”

The interior ministry had re-stricted to 10,000 the number of

spectators allowed into the stadium and tickets quickly ran out.

The match between Zamalek and Enppi was open to the public, unlike most other games between Egyptian clubs since stadium riots in Port Said in 2012 left more than 70 people dead in the country’s worst-ever sport disaster. (ap)

MONROEVILLE, Pennsylva-nia — A teenager who police say opened fire at a Pittsburgh-area mall, shooting his intended target as well as two bystanders, was ar-rested early Sunday, and the three victims remain hospitalized.

Gunfire erupted inside the Macy’s department store at the Monroeville Mall about 7:30 p.m. Saturday, sending panicked shoppers running. The gunman fled but police say they were able to identify him by match-ing surveillance video with images on social media. A preliminary hear-ing was scheduled for Feb. 18, ac-cording to court documents.

Tarod Thornhill, 17, was arrest-ed at a home in Brackenridge about 3:15 a.m. Sunday. He was being held at the Allegheny County Jail pending arraignment on charges as an adult of aggravated assault, attempted homicide and recklessly endangering other people.

Police Chief Douglas Cole said two men and a woman were shot, including the man who was target-ed. Cole said the two men were in critical condition, while the woman was in stable condition.

“This was not random,” Cole told reporters. “We have evidence that leads to that.” He declined to elaborate.

A 20-year-old man and 53-year-old man were both in critical condition, and a 47-year-old woman was in fair condi-tion Sunday afternoon, Forbes Hospital spokesman Jesse Miller said.

In late December, hundreds of teenagers gathered at the mall and several fights broke out. The fights caused local officials and mall ad-ministration to agree on a plan to increase security there.

Shoppers described chaos as shots rang out.

“All of the sudden we heard people screaming,” Athena Coffey of Churchill told KDKA-TV, “and the next thing you see is a bunch of people, teenagers, scared to death, just exodus en masse in a way you could not believe. I grabbed my children, husband, we started screaming ‘go, go, go!’”

Yvette Jackson of North Brad-dock was attending a birthday party at Giggles and Smiles, a fitness and fun center for children.

“We saw a lot of running, a lot of chaos,” she told the Pittsburgh-Tribune Review. She said she and other patrons were locked in the store for about 45 minutes until police came and let them out.

Four on-duty police officers have been stationed in the mall on Friday and Saturday evenings at the mall’s request, Monroeville Mayor Gregory Erosenko said.

“I would have thought that having four officers there would have deterred any incident like we saw (Saturday),” he told the newspaper.

Weapons are banned at the mall except for those carried by on-duty law enforcement officers.

The mall, which is owned and managed by CBL & Associates Properties Inc., of Chattanooga, Tennessee, says on its website it features more than 125 stores and eateries, anchored by JCPenney, Macy’s and Barnes & Noble.

No one answered the phone at CBL offices after business hours Saturday. A mall security offi-cer reached by telephone said he couldn’t talk. (ap)

TransAsia gives money to victims’ families for funeral costs

19 dead in crush at Cairo stadiumCAIRO - Egyptian authorities said Monday that 19 people had been killed in a crush at a Cairo

stadium, lowering an earlier toll and saying none of the victims had been killed by police.

Teen arrested in US mall shooting

AP Photo/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Bill Wade

Police leave a secured Monroeville (Pa) Mall Saturday, Feb. 7, 2015, after a shooting in the mall. As many as three people were injured in the incident. It was unclear whether the shooter was captured or had escaped, said Monroeville Mayor Gregory Erosenko, who had only sketchy details shortly after the 7:45 p.m. shooting. He said his police chief was at the scene.

As observation, the marine debris had begun to emerge since rainy season. In addition to the rubbish taken by streams flowing to the beach, the rubbish also came from the housing area that was de-liberately dumped onto the beach. The rubbish mostly consisted of rags, plastic, bottles and twigs. When transported, the volume was

estimated to reach 10 trucks. It was ascertained to increase as the bad weather season had not ended yet. As a result, when high waves accompanied with rain, the marine debris would continue to multiply.

A local fisherman, Kadek Wisata, when met last Sunday said the ma-rine debris emerged after the last full moon. At that time, the ocean

waves were huge and accompanied by heavy rain. After the incident, marine debris blasted by the waves ultimately piled up and covered up coastal sand. Large volumes com-plicated him to clean up the marine debris. It was further aggravated because so far there had been no dust bins to accommodate the mounting rubbish on the edge of the sea.

Besides, the cleanup effort had also been carried out by the officers of the Buleleng Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (DKP) some time ago but it failed. The piling up rubbish on the east of Segara Temple on Penimban-gan Beach failed to be transported. At that time, dozens of DKP officers reasoned they were unable to transport the rubbish due to limited personnel to raise it onto truck. “The rubbish increased and peaked after tidal waves of the full moon. DKP officers indeed came here but due to lacking for per-sonnel, the piling up rubbish was not transported and left to perish at the

edge of the sea,” he said.For this condition, added Wisata,

the village officials of Baktiseraga, Buleleng subdistrict, owning the territory of Penimbangan Beach, would send a letter of DKP Bule-leng and related agencies in Bule-leng County. The letter was in-tended to ask for help transport the rubbish and adequate janitors. Such an effort was necessary because if the situation was left unchecked, the volume of rubbish would continue to increase because marine debris would be brought in by rain and huge ocean waves. (kmb38)

SINGARAJA - Residents around the Celukan Bawang steamed-fueled power plant (PLTU) showed firm protest against the investor related to building permit (IMB) of the Celukan Bawang power plant suspected of being unlicensed. The action led to the blocking of the entrances to Celukan Bawang power plant. Together with com-munity leaders of Celukan Bawang, a number of residents revealed again the issues concerning with the existence of the power plant project with a capacity of 380 MW worth trillions of rupiahs.

Headman of Celukan Bawang, H. Mujahir, said that in the acquisi-tion process of the land owned by residents, they refused to sign a rec-ommendation due to discrepancy between the application and the fact in the field. According to him, the land acquisition process had not been entirely accomplished. But in the application was mentioned if the border of the land specified still belonged to local residents. As a result, residents were restless again

and questioning about the building permit to the Celukan Bawang power plant. “Previously the in-vestor came to offer something to me, but I refused. So far, a lot of lands owned by residents are still in trouble with the Celukan Bawang power plant,” he said.

Other than regarding the build-ing permit, the Celukan Bawang power plant was also previously had a problem of high voltage transmission line (SUTT) above the residence of Kampung Barokah. Then, it reaped the problem related to building permit.

In a meeting forum, Jro Mangku Teken also questioned about the existence of Padmasana shrine in the area of Celukan Bawang power plant, where the support-ing devotees of the temple did not involve local customary village. His party already sent a letter to relevant agencies such as headman of Celukan Bawang and Gerokgak subdistrict head, but everything failed. “There is no response to our existence,” he said. (kmb34)

Marine debris pollutes Penimbangan BeachSINGARAJA - Condition of Penimbangan Beach area, Singaraja is now completely rundown.

It happened because of slow handling against the marine debris and it gave impression if it had been ignored. Having been cleaned up, the rubbish was left to mount on the sand. As a result, visitors began to feel uncomfortable and the visit of domestic travelers to this location was also deserted.

IBP/Mudiarta

Condition of Penimbangan Beach area, Singaraja is now completely rundown. It happened because of slow handling against the marine debris and it gave impression if it had been ignored.

IBP/Dewa Kusuma

Residents around the Celukan Bawang steamed-fueled power plant (PLTU) showed firm pro-test against the investor related to building permit (IMB) of the Celukan Bawang power plant suspected of being unlicensed.

Entrance to Celukan Bawang power plant blocked

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The files, analysed by report-ers in the International Consor-tium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), showed that British bank-ing giant HSBC provided ac-counts to international criminals, corrupt businessmen, politicians and celebrities.

“HSBC profited from doing business with arms dealers who channelled mortar bombs to child soldiers in Africa, bag men for Third World dictators, traf-fickers in blood diamonds and other international outlaws,” ICIJ reported.

The files list a range of for-mer and current politicians from Britain, Russia, India and a range of African countries, Saudi, Bah-raini, Jordanian and Moroccan royalty, and the late Australian press magnate Kerry Packer.

The revelations are likely to stoke calls for a crackdown on sophisticated tax avoidance by the wealthy and by multinational companies, a key political issue in Britain and Europe.

Notes in the files indicate HSBC workers were aware of clients’ intentions to keep money hidden from national authori-ties.

Of one Danish account holder collecting cash bundles of kroner, an employee wrote:

“All contacts through one of her 3 daughters living in Lon-don. Account holder living in Denmark, i.e. critical as it is a criminal act having an account abroad non declared.”

In another memo, an HSBC manager discusses how a Lon-don-based financier codenamed “Painter” and his partner could

avoid Italian tax.“The risk for the couple is, of

course, that when they return to Italy the UK tax authorities will pass on information on them to the Italian tax authorities. My own view on this was that ... there clearly was a risk,” the employee wrote.

HSBC did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but told the ICIJ: “We acknowl-edge that the compliance culture and standards of due diligence in HSBC’s Swiss private bank, as well as the industry in general, were significantly lower than they are today.”

Richard Brooks, a former tax inspector, told the BBC: “I think they were a tax avoidance and tax evasion service. I think that’s what they were offering.”

The investigation was done by the ICIJ, linked to the US-based Center for Public Integrity, who enlisted more than 140 journalists from 45 countries in cooperation with France’s Le Monde, Brit-ain’s BBC and The Guardian, US programme 60 Minutes, German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung and more than 45 other media organisations.

Names in the files include people sanctioned by the United States, including Turkish busi-nessman Selim Alguadis and Gennady Timchenko, an associ-ate of Russian President Vladimir Putin targeted by sanctions over Ukraine.

Alguadis told the ICIJ it was prudent to keep savings off-shore, while a spokesman for Timchenko said he was fully compliant with tax matters.

Former Egyptian trade min-ister Rachid Mohamed Rachid, who fled Cairo during the 2011 uprising against former president Hosni Mubarak, is listed as hav-ing power of attorney over an account worth $31 million, ac-cording to the files. He did not respond to requests for comment from the ICIJ.

Other individuals named in-clude the late Frantz Merceron, an associate of former Haitian presi-dent Jean Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, and Rami Makhlouf, cousin of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Makhlouf did not re-spond to a request for comment from the ICIJ.

Also named were designer Di-ane von Furstenberg, who told the ICIJ the accounts were inherited from her parents, and model Elle Macpherson, whose lawyers told the ICIJ she was fully in compli-ance with UK tax law.

Motorcycle racer Valentino Rossi, listed as having $23.9 mil-lion in two accounts, said he had regularised his tax situation with Italian authorities.

Formula One businessman Flavio Briatore is connected to 38 bank accounts that held as much as $73 million between 2006-2007, according to the ICIJ. His lawyer told the ICIJ Briatore’s accounts were legal and complied with tax laws.

The files are a version of a set obtained by former HSBC employee-turned-whistleblower Herve Falciani , who copied thousands of bank documents be-fore fleeing from Switzerland to France, where they were obtained by tax authorities in 2009. (afp)

SHANGHAI - China’s Alibaba has agreed to pay $590 million for a minority stake in domestic smartphone maker Meizu, a joint statement said Monday, as the e-commerce giant seeks to expand its mobile offerings.

Last year, Meizu used an operat-ing system developed by Alibaba’s cloud computing unit YunOS on its flagship smartphone.

Alibaba will integrate its mobile operating system with Meizu’s hardware and provide support in e-commerce, mobile Internet and data analysis, the statement said.

“The investment in Meizu rep-resents... an important step in our overall mobile strategy as we strive to bring users a wider array of mobile offerings and experiences,”

Alibaba’s chief technology officer Wang Jian said in the statement.

Meizu, set up in 2003 and based in the southern city of Zhuhai, is one of China’s smaller smartphone makers, ranking below the likes of Xiaomi, Huawei and Lenovo.

China’s fractured smartphone market includes several companies selling cheaper models than the likes of Samsung, which uses the Android operating system, and Apple.

Alibaba, founded by Jack Ma in 1999, is China’s biggest e-commerce company. It listed on the New York Stock Exchange last year in the world’s largest public offering.

Its flagship platform Taobao is es-timated to hold more than 90 percent of the Chinese market for consumer-to-consumer transactions. (ap)

TOKYO — Nissan raised its earnings forecast for the fiscal year after reporting a nearly 21 percent jump in quarterly profit. The Japa-nese automaker said Monday that sales were strong in the U.S. and Europe and the cheap yen boosted overseas revenue.

Nissan Motor Co. reported a better-than-expected 101.8 billion yen ($856 million) net profit for October-December. Quarterly sales surged about 17 percent to 2.94 tril-

lion yen ($24.7 billion).The automaker said improved

sales in the U.S. and Europe offset a decline at home in Japan.

Yokohama-based Nissan, which makes the Leaf electric car, the Altima sedan and Infiniti luxury models, expects a 420 billion yen ($3.5 billion) profit for the fiscal year through March, marking an 8 percent rise year-on-year.

Previously, it had projected a 405 billion yen ($3.4 billion) profit. (ap)

Leaked bank files show HSBC ‘helped clients dodge taxes’

LONDON - A cache of secret bank files shows that HSBC’s Swiss banking arm helped wealthy customers avoid taxes and hide millions of dollars, according to a report by a network of inves-tigative journalists released Sunday.

Nissan raises profit forecast after sales grow in US, Europe

Alibaba takes $590m stake in China

smartphone maker

AP Photo/Kin Cheung

Alibaba Group Executive Chairman Jack Ma

Local tourism stakeholder, Abdul Karim Abraham, says that he has visited Menjangan Island five times, simply to take a leisurely stroll while enjoy the natural surroundings. According to Abdul, this is the first time that he has seen Menjangan Island covered with plastic waste and dry twigs. He worries that the beauty of white sanded Menjan-gan Island Beach is being destroyed by plastic debris from the high seas.

“Most foreign travelers prefer to visit the area of Post II on Menjan-gan Island. Surely it is because Post II is sanitary and well-maintained compared to the beach area at the Post I. For this reason, garbage cans and serious clean-ups are required to restore the beauty of all the beaches on Menjangan Island” he said.

Abdul Karim added that the man-agement of West Bali National Park (TNBB) apparently performs beach cleanups once a month by involving tourism stakeholders and visitors who come to post I of Menjangan Island. He admitted that the intensity of these monthly cleanups was still inadequate in collecting the considerable amount of marine debris from the beach and that such efforts require special handling. “Indeed there is a cleanup activity, but it’s only done once a month. Obviously these monthly actions are not enough to tackle the massive problem of marine debris. I am quite disturbed by the presence of this refuse from the sea. If possible, a large and extensive clean-up should be performed immediately”, he said. (kmb34)

DENPASAR - Shankara Resto Bale Banjar Bali Global held a kids creativity contest, on Sunday (Feb 8). The event was participated by 80 contestants from kindergarten to elementary school compete in different contests.

For kindergarteners, the ac-tivities included competitions for counting, coloring and a solo Baris Dance. Meanwhile, for elementary school level, there were contests for Balinese script writing, coloring, drawing, solo Baris Dance, Pendet Dance and a fashion show for wor-ship dress.

Manager of Shankara Resto Bale Banjar Bali Global, Ni Nyoman Ra-mayanti, said that the event was cre-

ated to provide a space for children to express their artistic creativity.

Shankara plans to hold this event every six months during school holidays. In addition, Shankara also wanted include students from higher levels of education. “We are trying to create an event that can give a space for children to express their creativity”, she said.

Meanwhile, Adrika Radnyana-mastri, a jury member for several of the competitions at Shankara, said that some points of assessment were demanded of the children. For instance, the assessment for the Pendet Dance or welcome dance was that it be danced smil-ing. While, the assessment for the

fashion was focused on the hair, applying the pusung gonjer for children. The most important was the attire, where the kebaya should be a neat and closed model. As for color, it was judged better to use white or yellow and its cut should be the right height. (kmb42)Shankara Resto Bale Banjar

Bali Global held a kid creativ-ity contest, Sunday (Feb 8). The event was followed by

80 contestants from kinder-garten to elementary school. For kindergarten, the activi-

ties included the competition of counting, coloring and a

single Baris Dance.

Shankara Resto holds kid creativity contest

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Marine debris litters Menjangan Island Beach

IBP/Dewa Kusuma

Apparently the enchanting beauty of Menjangan Island is not supported by sanitation along the coast. As evidence, the area along the beach looks to be filled with plastic waste and twigs of trees.

SINGARAJA - Apparently the enchanting beauty of Men-jangan Island does not have the support of adequate coastal sanitation. Plastic waste and or-ganic debris covers the beaches of this beautiful island. Allegedly this waste comes from Java and elsewhere.

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He pointed out that many countries, in-cluding China, have revised their economic growth target for 2015 from seven percent to six percent.

“We have raised ours from 5.1 percent to 5.8 percent. We target to reach over seven percent subsequently,” the President noted.

The Indonesian head of state affirmed that this year and for the next several years to come, the government will cooperate with other parties to build the country’s infrastruc-ture such as the Trans Sumatra road, airports, and others.

“It will encourage the growth of our economy, and I believe the growth will reach over seven percent,” Jokowi remarked while inviting Indonesian students in the Philip-pines to return home soon after completing their studies.

When asked about the ongoing conflict between the Corruption Eradication Com-mission (KPK) and National Police (Polri),

the President stated it will end soon.“I am not a hostage to the past. I’m hopeful

that a solution can be reached,” the President stressed.

However, he admitted, it will take time to solve the KPK-Polri conflict as it is related to politics and law. It will be too risky to make a decision without much deliberation, he added.

“There are many things that must be addressed. But, God willing, the conflict between the KPK and Polri will end this week; my calculation is this week,” President Jokowi affirmed.

The KPK is currently handling an alleged corruption case involving Commissioner General Budi Gunawan, whom the anti-graft body has named a suspect.

The commission named him suspect after President Jokowi nominated him as the sole candidate for the post of national police chief. (ant)

JAKARTA - Indonesian Minister of Coop-eratives and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Puspayoga expressed discontent to the influx of Malaysian culinary products in souvenir stores in border areas and other tour-ism sites.

“I am disappointed as many Malaysian food products have flooded the souvenir culinary stores in Batam city. The Malaysian products have good packaging material and are decorated with Indonesian specific icons such as the Bare-lang Bridge of Batam,” the minister noted.

According to the minister, the foreign food products have also made inroads into Padang City in West Sumatra Province and bear the im-age of Gadang House for Padang foods and Pen-det Dancer icon for Balinese food products.

Puspayoga cautioned that the increasing presence of foreign food products in Indonesia can adversely affect the local SMEs.

In order to handle the issue, the ministry will promote Indonesian SMEs by creating better packaged products for specific food items.

The ministry will encourage the local SMEs to master better production techniques, particu-larly for food packaging.

“I have received information that the packag-ing companies do not want to create less than one thousand food packets. However, the SME businesses can only order 500 to 700 packets. Thus, the SME businesses only choose simple packaging products,” Puspayoga pointed out.

As a result, SME products are facing stiff competition from foreign products, which have attractive packaging.

Puspayoga emphasized that his ministry will coordinate with other related institutions to hold training and tutorial sessions for the people working in SMEs to handle product packaging issues.

Minister Puspayoga hopes that the local SMEs can compete with other foreign products in the local and international markets in the fu-ture. “We have also planned to build a packaging house in each province that has leading SME business persons,” the minister added. (ant)

JAKARTA - Capital Investment Coordinat-ing Board (BKPM) Chairman Franky Siba-rani revealed that his board will provide online monitoring facilities to investors to assist them in checking the progress of their investment permit applications.

Investors can monitor the progress of their investment permit applications and compare it with the deadline as arranged in the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), he stated.

“BKPM tries to facilitate the investors through fast, simple, transparent, and integrated issuance of investment licenses,” the BKPM chief said here on Monday.

Franky made the statement during the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the information security system to support the BKPM and its central and regional integrated one-roof service system (PTSP).

The MoU was inked with Djoko Setiadi, the head of the State Code institute (Lemsaneg), at the BKPM building in Jakarta.

He said the central PTSP at the BKPM now serves 138 business licensing groups and five business sectors that have been integrated. Five business sectors that can now avail services from the central PTSP are electricity, industry, indus-trial zones, tourism and agricultural sectors.

According to Franky, the licensing issuance process is being handled by 77 officials in 22 ministries and institutions.

“We will try to speed up the service time, simplify licensing procedures, and study the permits that could be handled under one roof,” he emphasized.

He noted that the central PTSP has been formed as an initial step to boost competitive-ness, particularly as compared to other ASEAN member countries.

In the meantime, the MoU is being inked be-tween the BKPM and the Lemsaneg to increase the use of codes and information technology and communication in the implementation of the central and regional PTSP, he explained.

Franky had earlier expressed hope to create a synergy with Indonesian envoys to lure foreign direct investments to Indonesia.

Indonesian envoys overseas can disseminate information about the government’s efforts to improve the country’s investment climate, Siba-rani remarked last week. He is optimistic that the country’s foreign investment target for 2015 can be achieved if there is a synergy between his office and the Indonesian ambassadors.

“BKPM has set the target of attracting foreign investments worth Rp343.7 trillion, out of the total investment target of Rp519.5 trillion,” he stated.

He hopes that the foreign investment funds will come from Singapore and other ASEAN member nations such as China, South Korea, Japan, the United States, and the European nations.

“The government has adopted a new para-digm for investments by launching the PTSP, which was recently officiated by President Jokowi,” he remarked during a coordinating meeting of the foreign affairs ministry’s leader-ship last Tuesday.

The BPKM has noted that foreign investors often complain about poor infrastructure, poor logistics, complicated licensing procedures, overlapping regulations, and poor industrial relations.

So, the government has been addressing poor infrastructure and logistics problems by constructing sea tolls, railway network, and power plants. (ant)

AP Photo/Aaron Favila

President Joko Widodo arrives at the Villamor Air Base in suburban Pasay, south of Manila, Philippines on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2015. Widodo has called on his countrymen to be optimistic about the nation’s economic condition in 2015 and for the coming years.

Minister dissapointed with influx of Malaysian products

BKPM simplifies online monitoring for investors

President asked people to be optimistic on economic condition

MANILA - President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has called on his countrymen to be optimistic about the nation’s economic condition in 2015 and for the coming years. “No one should be pessimistic. Everyone should be optimistic that we can make it happen,” President Jokowi told a gathering of Indonesian community members at the country’s Embassy building on Monday.

Light snow was falling Sunday af-ternoon but the “long duration” storm was expected to intensify on Sunday night. The National Weather Service issued winter storm warnings for parts of New York state and much of the northeastern New England states through early Tuesday.

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh said all of the city’s public schools would be closed Monday and Tuesday. He urged people to stay off roadways until the storm passes.

Courts also announced they would close Monday due to the forecast, delaying jury selection in the Boston Marathon bombing case and in the ongoing murder trial of former Boston Patriots football star Aaron Hernandez in Fall River, Massachusetts.

The snow is likely to cause prob-lems for commuters on Monday, though it’s not expected to accumulate as rapidly as in some of the earlier storms, including a record-busting late January blizzard. There also is little risk seen of significant coastal flood-ing, a problem during last month’s

winter blasts.Boston’s transit system, the na-

tion’s oldest, has been particularly hard hit. The buildup of snow and ice on trolley tracks combined with aging equipment has stalled trains in recent days, delaying and angering commut-ers. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority general manager Beverly Scott said Saturday that crews were doing everything they could, includ-ing deploying massive jet-powered snow blowers, to clear tracks before the next storm.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker acknowledged on Friday that the MBTA was handed an extraordinary situation with old equipment but said the system’s overall performance was unacceptable.

In many New England communi-ties, the obvious problem is where to put the next batch of snow.

David Lombari, public works director for West Warwick, Rhode Island, told the Providence Journal his town was already clogged with snow piles several feet high and school

buses were parked in the usual snow storage lot.

Adding injury to insult perhaps, the Massachusetts Emergency Manage-ment Agency warned that potentially record cold temperatures and wind chills are expected to move into the region later in the week after the storm.

Not everyone was dreading the blast of winter.

Business has been brisk at Charles Street Supply hardware in Boston, where owner Jack Gurnon sells shovels, salt and sleds. He drove to Portland, Maine, to stock up so he’d be able to meet demand when the next storm came.

“We actually have a lot of supply right now, and we’re lucky because the big box stores, they’re scrambling around, and I’m sitting on a whole bunch right now,” Gurnon said.

But an increase in sales isn’t all he is looking forward to. “I also love to ski, so as soon as this next mess is over with, I’m taking off and going north,” he said. (ap)

SINGAPORE - Two young Ger-man men will plead guilty to vandal-ism, an offence punishable by caning, after spray-painting a metro train in Singapore, their lawyer said Monday.

Lawyer Christopher Bridges said his clients Andreas Von Knorre and Elton Hinz, both 21, would also enter a guilty plea to two counts of trespassing at a hearing on March 5. They will be sentenced the same day.

Vandalism carries a penalty of up to three years in jail or a fine of up to Sg$2,000 ($1,478), and between three and eight strokes of a rattan cane -- a punishment dating back to British colonial rule in the city-state.

Bridges told reporters after a closed-door pre-trial hearing with prosecu-tors and the judge that the number of charges against his clients had been reduced from four to three.

“They will plead guilty and face sentencing next month to the three charges,” Bridges said.

“I cannot confirm ... the likelihood

of caning. That is up to the discretion of the judge.”

Under the law first-time offenders can be spared caning for vandalism if the “writing, drawing, mark or in-scription” can be erased, but not when indelible substances such as paint or tar are used.

For trespassing, the Germans face up to two years in jail, a fine of up to Sg$1,000, or both for each count.

The two were accused of breaking into a suburban depot and spray-paint-ing graffiti on the exterior of a metro train cabin last November. The depot is a restricted zone surrounded by fences topped with barbed wire.

They were extradited to Singapore by neighbouring Malaysia after being arrested at Kuala Lumpur Interna-tional Airport as they were leaving for Australia.

Both remain in remand at Changi Prison. Singapore, a leading Asian financial hub, is known for its tough stance on crime. (afp)

DILI - East Timor’s president ac-cepted the resignation of independence hero Xanana Gusmao as prime minister on Monday, paving the way for a major government overhaul and a new chap-ter in the nation’s short history.

Gusmao, who has served as either president or premier since East Timor became independent in 2002 follow-ing a long struggle against Indonesian occupation, submitted his resignation last week.

The departure of the former guer-rilla fighter deprives Asia’s youngest nation of a unifying figure who has helped resolve numerous crises, but analysts say it is time for Gusmao to step aside to enable a transition to a new generation of leaders.

At a Cabinet meeting, President Taur Matan Ruak announced “that he accepted the request for resignation”, said the government in a statement.

It said the president would now start the process of forming a new govern-ment, and “it is expected that the con-stitution of the new government will be concluded at the end of this week”.

A successor for 68-year-old Gus-mao has not yet been announced but the frontrunner is seen as former health minister Rui Araujo. Gusmao may remain in government but in a lesser role, observers predict.

Gusmao, who spent years living in the jungle during Indonesian occupa-tion, had signalled over the past year that he would be stepping down. But he delayed the move repeatedly as he sought to ensure everything was in place for a smooth transition.

Analysts say the cabinet reshuffle

is likely aimed at getting rid of several ministers from Gusmao’s coalition who have been accused of corruption. It is also expected that the opposition Fretilin party will be brought into government, a move aimed at easing the half-island nation’s often fraught politics.

Gusmao last week urged people “not to panic” during the transition to a new government, and called on everyone to “contribute towards stability”.

East Timor has suffered bouts of unrest in the past, although recent years have been largely peaceful, allowing UN peacekeepers finally to leave the country in 2012.

Gusmao led the military wing of the Revolutionary Front for an In-dependent East Timor, which fought against Indonesian occupation. Before Indonesia invaded in 1975, Portugal had ruled East Timor for centuries.

He was captured by the Indonesians and imprisoned in Jakarta during the final years of the occupation, but kept up the independence struggle from behind bars. After the Timorese voted overwhelmingly for independence in a UN-backed referendum in 1999, Gusmao returned to his homeland a hero and was elected the country’s first president in 2002. He has been prime minister since 2007.

He is credited with resolving nu-merous crises in the chaotic early years of independence. He urged reconcilia-tion, persuading pro-Indonesian mili-tiamen who had gone on a murderous rampage following the referendum to return home. (afp)

AP Photo/Charles Krupa

A driver cleans snow off school buses in Derry, N.H., Monday, Feb. 2, 2015. Southern New Hampshire, which was hit with over two feet of snow last week, is expected to receive as much as another foot and a half in a winter storm that stretches from Michigan to Maine.

Another big storm bears down on US Northeast, may last days

BOSTON — Winter-weary residents of the Northeast U.S., which has been battered recently by a series of major snowstorms, braced Sunday for even more, as schools and courts announced closures and drivers were warned to stay off roadways.

East Timor accepts resistance hero PM’s resignation

Two Germans to plead guilty in Singapore vandalism case

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to enjoy delicious food and drinks served along the coast. Activities that can be carried out on this beach include swimming, fishing, sunbathing and relaxing.

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PARADISE ISLAND, Ba-hamas — South Korean rookie Sei Young Kim won the Pure Silk-Bahamas LPGA Classic on Sunday for her first LPGA Tour title, holing an 8-foot birdie putt on the first hole of a playoff with countrywoman Sun Young Yoo and Thailand’s Ariya Jutanugarn.

“Just before the last putt I was super nervous, but I was fine,” Kim said.

The 22-year-old Kim shot a 1-under 72 in the completion of the delayed third round and closed with a 68 to match Yoo and Jutanugarn at 14-under 278 on Atlantis Resort’s Ocean Club course.

“It’s definitely a dream,” Kim said. “I’m really happy. Since 10 years ago, it’s what I’ve dreamed of.”

Kim birdied the par-5 18th in regulation, chipping from the front greenside rough to 3 feet — to earn the last spot in the playoff. She won on the hole a few minutes later.

A five-time winner on the Korea LPGA, Kim tied for sixth at the LPGA Tour ’s Q-school to earn a card. She played in four playoffs on the KLPGA, winning four of them.

“ I j o i n e d t h e LPGA in hopes

of making the Korean Olym-pics team,” Kim said. “This is one step toward that. So, this means a lot to me.”

She’s projected to move from No. 40 to No. 23 in the world. Q Baek is currently the fourth and final South Korean player in the Olympic rank-ings at No. 11.

Yoo finished with rounds of 69 and 70, and Jutanugarn shot 70-69.

Brittany Lincicome was third at 13 under after rounds of 68 and 70.

Lydia Ko tied for seventh at 11 under in her first event as the No. 1 player in the world. She shot 70-68.

Second-ranked Inbee Park had a chance to take the top spot back from Ko, but closed with a 72 to tie for fifth at 12 under.

“I saw the news or like the projections and how it would change, but I didn’t really think about it,” Ko said. “To me, it was more important trying to make a lot of good putts and a lot of good birdies.”

Play was de-layed Thursday because of rain and slowed Friday by high wind. (ap)

Sei Young Kim of South Ko-rea holds her trophy after win-ning the Pure Silk Bahamas LPGA Classic at the Ocean Club Golf Course, in Para-dise Island, Bahamas, Sunday, Feb 8, 2015.

South Korea’s Sei Young Kim wins

playoff in BahamasKarolina Pliskova defeated Ga-

briela Dabrowski 6-4, 6-2 to give the visitors an insurmountable 3-0 lead.

The Czechs booked a spot against France in April’s semi-finals, while Germany, last year’s runners-up, will face Russia.

The Czechs were without fourth-ranked Petra Kvitova and 15th-ranked Lucie Safarova while the Canadians were without seventh-ranked Eugenie Bouchard.

“We are a great team without them and we did a great job here this weekend,” Pliskova said.

Pliskova needed only 72 minutes to capture the clincher, smacking 28 winners against 27 unforced errors. She fired four aces and won five of her eight break-point chances.

The second reverse singles, by now a dead rubber, went unplayed, while in the concluding doubles, the Czech duo of Denisa Allertova and Lucie Hradecka downed Francoise Abanda and Dabrowski 6-1, 7-6

(7/2).I n S a t u r -

day’s open-ing matches, 22nd-ranked

Pliskova made her Fed Cup de-but with a 6-2, 6-4 t r iumph over Canadian teenager Fran-coise Abanda w h i l e D a b -rowski, ranked

185th, fell to Tereza Smitkova

6-1, 6-2.

The Czechs improved to 6-0 in all-time Fed Cup ties against Can-

ada, but this was their first meeting since 2002. (afp)

AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Francis Vachon

Canada’s Gabriela Dabrowski reacts to a missed shot against Czech Republic’s Karolina Pliskova, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2015, at the Fed Cup tennis tournament in Quebec City.

Czech holders blank Canada to advance in Fed Cup

QUEBEC CITY - Defending champions the Czech Republic advanced to the Fed Cup semi-finals on Sunday, defeating hosts Canada 4-0 without dropping a set.

TORONTO - James Johnson scored 20 points, including a go-ahead

three-pointer in the last minute, as Toronto edged San Antonio 87-82

on Sunday to deny Spurs coach Gregg Popovich a 1,000th NBA win.

Trailing 82-79 with 1:49 re-maining, Toronto scored the last eight

points of the game to end a run of seven straight losses to the Spurs.

DeMar DeRozan added 18 points and Jonas Valanciunas delivered eight points and 16 rebounds for the Raptors.

Tim Duncan had 12 points and 12 rebounds and Marco Belinelli scored 12 as well for the reigning NBA champion Spurs, who started a nine-game road trip with the defeat.

The Spurs, who shot just 33.3 percent from the floor, will try to get back on track on Monday when they visit Indiana.

Popovich, who has coached the Spurs to five NBA championships, remains one triumph away from becoming the ninth coach to record 1,000 NBA wins.

With his team’s next victory, he’ll join former Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan as the only coaches to notch that many wins with a single franchise.

In a see-saw battle, San Antonio went on a 9-0 scoring run early in the third quarter to take an eight-point lead.

Toronto coach Dwane Casey called for a timeout and the Raptors bore down on defense, with the Spurs connecting on just 25 percent of their shots from the field for the rest of the game.

Coming out of the timeout, Toronto reeled off 10 straight points to regain the lead and the Raptors took a 64-58 lead into the fourth quarter.

A three-pointer by San Antonio’s French point guard Tony Parker tied the game with five minutes to play.

Belinelli hit his second three-pointer of the quarter with two and a half minutes to play and a layup from Parker less than a minute later gave the Spurs an 82-79 lead.

A minute later, Kyle Lowry was cutting into the lane when he found Johnson wide open beyond the three-point line and Johnson made the shot to put Toronto ahead for good. (afp)

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The Catalan side took full ad-vantage of Real’s 4-0 derby defeat by champions Atletico Madrid on Saturday with a dazzling display that moved them onto 53 points, three ahead of Atletico.

Earlier Valencia’s Pablo Piatti set them on the way to a 2-1 vic-tory at Espanyol as they moved up to fourth by leapfrogging Sevilla who slumped to a 2-1 defeat at Getafe.

Messi had a hand in all five goals and has been in inspired form in a nine-match winning streak in all competitions for Barca since a defeat by Real Sociedad which led to a reported bust-up between coach Luis Enrique and the Argentina forward.

“It is a privilege to play along-side two phenomenons (in Messi and Neymar) and I need to enjoy it,” Barcelona striker Luis Suarez told reporters.

“We knew that it was going to be a difficult game but we got early goals that helped, although they (Athletic) did keep fighting to the end.”

Barca took the lead from a Messi

LONDON - Netherlands mid-fielder Daley Blind smashed home an injury-time equalizer to rescue a

CAIRO - Twenty-two people were killed outside an Egyptian soccer stadium on Sunday when security forces barred fans from entering, the public prosecutor’s office said.

Most of the dead were suffo-cated when the crowd stampeded after police used tear gas to clear the fans trying to force their way into a league match between two Cairo clubs, Zamalek and Enppi, doctors and witnesses said.

A health ministry spokesman told Reuters by phone the final toll was 19 dead and 20 injured. The reason for the discrepancy in num-bers between the health ministry and the public prosecutor’s office was not immediately clear.

Soccer matches are often a flashpoint for violence in Egypt where 72 fans were killed at a match in Port Said in February 2012. Since then Egypt has curbed the number of people allowed to attend, and supporters have often tried to storm stadiums they are banned from entering.

Outside the Cairo hospital treating the injured, scores of youths wearing Zamalek T-shirts appeared shocked as families arrived to see if their relatives were safe.

One mother cried and shouted when she found the name of her son on a list of the dead posted by hospital staff.

“I’d told him: leave soccer

matches,” she said.Relations between security

forces and fan groups known as Ultras have been tense since the 2011 popular uprising that ended the rule of autocrat Hosni Muba-rak, in which the Ultras played a key role.

“Huge numbers of Zamalek club fans came to Air Defense Stadium to attend the match ... and tried to storm the stadium gates by force, which prompted the troops to prevent them from continuing the assault,” the interior ministry said.

The public prosecution ordered the arrest of the leaders of the Zamalek supporters group, Ultras White Knights, after Sunday’s in-cident, official media reported.

On their Facebook page, the Ultras White Knights described the 22 dead as “martyrs” and ac-cused security forces of a “mas-sacre”.

Despite the violence, the match went ahead and ended with a 1-1 draw.

The Egyptian Football Federa-tion said it had reversed an earlier decision to allow fans to return to the stadiums by the start of the second half of the season. The original decision had been taken only a few days ago.

Shortly after that, the Cabinet said in a statement that the na-tional league championship would be postponed indefinitely. (rtr)

REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

Ivory Coast’s captain Yaya Toure (C) celebrates with team mates after winning the African Na-tions Cup final soccer match against Ghana in Bata February 8, 2015.

Ivory Coast wins African Cup in shootout against Ghana

BATA, Equatorial Guinea — Ivory Coast goalkeeper Boubacar Barry saved the day, and then he scored the winner.

The 35-year-old veteran blocked a penalty attempt from opposing goalkeeper Razak Braimah and then stepped up to convert his own to give the Ivory Coast a 9-8 shootout win over Ghana on Sunday in the African Cup of Nations final.

The match at Bata Stadium had finished 0-0 after 120 minutes. The Ivorians, who have lost two shoot-outs in finals in the last decade, failed to convert their first two penalties, but a string of must-score shots hit the target, including goals from Yaya and Kolo Toure and Salomon Kalou.

“When sometimes you win with your club, it’s quite amazing,” said Yaya Toure, who won the Premier League with Manchester City last season. “But with your country, it’s unbelievable.”

The Ivory Coast, which won its only other title in 1992 also on penalties against Ghana, played this time without Chelsea striker Didier Drogba, who has retired from inter-national soccer. But the team still had Man City teammates Wilfried Bony and Yaya Toure, a four-time African player of the year.

Bony took the Ivory Coast’s first attempt in the shootout, but he hit the crossbar. Tallo Gadji also missed.

Ghana captain Asamoah Gyan, who started the final after sitting out the last match with an injury, was tak-en off just before the shootout. Gyan

missed a penalty in the 2010 World Cup quarterfinals and then again in the 2012 African Cup semifinals.

“I have nothing to say. The Ivo-rians are happy because they won a cup,” Gyan said. “I don’t have anything to say right now. It’s past and gone.”

Barry made a surprising start in goal for the Ivorians in Sunday’s final. He was the goalkeeper between the posts in 2012 when the team lost to Zambia in a shootout in the final, but he started this time in place of the injured Sylvain Gbohouo.

Barry also saved a shootout at-tempt from Ghana midfielder Afriyie Acquah. Substitute Frank Acheam-pong missed his attempt.

After Barry’s decisive penalty, Ivory Coast coach Herve Renard spent several minutes trying to con-sole Ghana forward Andre Ayew. Renard previously worked with Ghana’s national team and knows many of the players.

In 2012, Renard coached Zambia to the title, beating Ghana in the semi-finals and Ivory Coast in the final.

“Without the manager we would have won nothing,” Toure said. “He made things difficult for me. He told me if I didn’t run he’d kick me out. He’s fantastic.”

Four-time champion Ghana, which has not won the continental title since 1982, is coached by Avram Grant. The Israeli led Chelsea to the 2008 Champions League final, but lost on penalties to Manchester United.

Ghana twice hit the post in the first

half of regular play, but only Christian Atsu’s shot from outside the area in the 25th minute had a real chance at going in. Ayew’s attempt 10 minutes later came from a tight angle on the side and smacked the outside of the post.

Equatorial Guinea President Te-odoro Obiang Nguema, Africa’s longest serving strongman, greeted the players from both sides at the start of the match. FIFA President Sepp Blatter was by his side.

Obiang, flanked by Blatter and Af-rican football confederation president Issa Hayatou, later presented Yaya Toure with the trophy.

Equatorial Guinea took over as host at short notice in November. Morocco had been chosen to stage the tournament, but fears over the spread of Ebola caused a rift between the local organizers and the African federation.

The hosts made a surprising run to the semifinals, drawing huge crowds every time they played. The final also drew a strong crowd with more than half of Bata Stadium filled.

Outside, there was plenty of secu-rity on hand with machine gun-toting soldiers patrolling the area. Although there were no major crowd problems on Sunday, Thursday’s semifinal be-tween Ghana and Equatorial Guinea descended into chaos when the host team’s fans started hurling objects onto the field and at the opposing players and fans. Ghana ended up winning 3-0, but the match was de-layed for about 40 minutes because of the incidents. (ap)

AP Photo/Ahmed Abd El-Gwad, El Shorouk newspaper)

Firefighters try to extinguish a fire on a truck as a riot broke out outside of a major soccer match between Egyptian Premier League clubs Zamalek and ENPPI at Air Defense Stadium in a suburb east of Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2015. The riot broke out between the Egypt security forces and Zamalek fans outside of the major soccer game at the stadium, violence that killed at least 20 people, security officials said.

Twenty-two people killed outside Cairo soccer stadium

AP Photo/Alastair Grant

Manchester United’s Daley Blind celebrates after scoring during the English Premier League soccer match between West Ham United and Manchester United at the Boleyn Ground in London, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2015.

Blind rescues point for Man United against West Hampoint for Manchester United against West Ham in a pulsating Premier League game at Upton Park on

Sunday.West Ham’s Cheikhou Kouyate

opened the scoring with a stunning volley in the 49th minute, after Wayne Rooney failed to clear Mark Noble’s free kick. Kouyate turned 180 degrees in the penalty box to score after juggling the ball twice, with his volley deflecting into the net off Blind.

But Blind saved the visitors after two minutes into added time when a speculative ball from Marcos Rojo was only partially cleared by the West Ham defense, and landed at the midfielder’s feet to put past goalkeeper Adrian.

“It’s a fantastic performance, but not the result we deserved,” West Ham manager Sam Allardyce said.

United, which started the week-end third in the Premier League,

dropped to fourth, while West Ham remained in eighth position.

West Ham had most of the opportunities in the first half and United had to rely on ‘keeper David de Gea to keep out several goal-bound efforts from striker Enner Valencia and a towering header from James Tomkins.

Despite the frenetic pace to the match, United only registered its first shot on target in the 41st when a long range drive was easily held by Adrian.

United improved after going behind and bringing on Marouane Fellaini for Belgian international teammate Adnan Januzaj midway through the second half.

A more direct style of play led to chances for Fellaini and Robin van Persie, both thwarted by Adrian. Radamel Falcao, out of

sorts and on the periphery for much of the match, was guilty of a hor-rendous miss, stabbing the ball wide from close range in the 77th.

West Ham had chances to seal the win too, with Noble coming close and substitute Matt Jarvis shooting straight at De Gea.

United had Luke Shaw sent off after he picked up two yellow cards in the final 10 minutes, the second coming in the third minute of injury time.

“I cannot say I’m very happy with the point,” United manager Louis Van Gaal said. “We played a very bad first half, West Ham was much better, they won every second ball and when we had the ball, we lost it so easily, so it was very poor. But then my team showed fantastic spirit and fantastic football. We could have won this game also.” (ap)

AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos

FC Barcelona’s Lionel Messi of Argentina, center, battles for the ball with Athletic Bilbao’s Mikel Rico, left, and Mikel San Jose, right, during their La Liga soccer match at San Mames stadium in Bilbao, northern Spain, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2015.

Messi inspires Barca with five-star performance

BARCELONA - Barcelona’s Lionel Messi was at the heart of another devastating attacking show as they thumped Ath-letic Bilbao 5-2 in La Liga on Sunday to move within a point of leaders Real Madrid.

free-kick that deflected off the wall and wrong-footed keeper Gorka Iraizoz after 15 minutes.

The Argentine then played in Suarez who fired home from 20 metres to lift the pressure off the Uruguay forward who had not scored in six games and earlier had a header saved from point-blank range by Iraizoz.

“I am very self-critical and I get angry with myself but I knew that the goal was going to come,” said Suarez.

“The save that Gorka made against me was amazing. I wasn’t nervous but I do get worried when I feel I am not helping the team.”

CLINICAL FINISHMikel Rico pulled a goal back

for the hosts in the 59th minute but their celebrations had barely died down when Oscar De Marcos put the ball into his own net after Messi knocked a cross goalwards.

Messi was at the heart of most of Barca’s play and set up Neymar for a clinical finish after 65 minutes.

Athletic kept attacking with Aritz Aduriz scoring but then they

had Xabier Etxeita dismissed for a high tackle on Suarez.

Substitute Pedro Rodriguez scored Barca’s fifth from close range with Messi again playing a part in the build up.

Barcelona coach Luis Enrique

rotated his squad by bringing Ivan Rakitic and Xavi into midfield while Jeremy Mathieu played instead of Javier Mascherano at centre half.

With Athletic going out to at-tack it meant an open game where

the quality of Barca’s forward moves shone through.

They played with the rhythm and intensity to their passing game that had been missing since their golden spell under former coach Pep Guar-diola. (rtr)

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The Catalan side took full ad-vantage of Real’s 4-0 derby defeat by champions Atletico Madrid on Saturday with a dazzling display that moved them onto 53 points, three ahead of Atletico.

Earlier Valencia’s Pablo Piatti set them on the way to a 2-1 vic-tory at Espanyol as they moved up to fourth by leapfrogging Sevilla who slumped to a 2-1 defeat at Getafe.

Messi had a hand in all five goals and has been in inspired form in a nine-match winning streak in all competitions for Barca since a defeat by Real Sociedad which led to a reported bust-up between coach Luis Enrique and the Argentina forward.

“It is a privilege to play along-side two phenomenons (in Messi and Neymar) and I need to enjoy it,” Barcelona striker Luis Suarez told reporters.

“We knew that it was going to be a difficult game but we got early goals that helped, although they (Athletic) did keep fighting to the end.”

Barca took the lead from a Messi

LONDON - Netherlands mid-fielder Daley Blind smashed home an injury-time equalizer to rescue a

CAIRO - Twenty-two people were killed outside an Egyptian soccer stadium on Sunday when security forces barred fans from entering, the public prosecutor’s office said.

Most of the dead were suffo-cated when the crowd stampeded after police used tear gas to clear the fans trying to force their way into a league match between two Cairo clubs, Zamalek and Enppi, doctors and witnesses said.

A health ministry spokesman told Reuters by phone the final toll was 19 dead and 20 injured. The reason for the discrepancy in num-bers between the health ministry and the public prosecutor’s office was not immediately clear.

Soccer matches are often a flashpoint for violence in Egypt where 72 fans were killed at a match in Port Said in February 2012. Since then Egypt has curbed the number of people allowed to attend, and supporters have often tried to storm stadiums they are banned from entering.

Outside the Cairo hospital treating the injured, scores of youths wearing Zamalek T-shirts appeared shocked as families arrived to see if their relatives were safe.

One mother cried and shouted when she found the name of her son on a list of the dead posted by hospital staff.

“I’d told him: leave soccer

matches,” she said.Relations between security

forces and fan groups known as Ultras have been tense since the 2011 popular uprising that ended the rule of autocrat Hosni Muba-rak, in which the Ultras played a key role.

“Huge numbers of Zamalek club fans came to Air Defense Stadium to attend the match ... and tried to storm the stadium gates by force, which prompted the troops to prevent them from continuing the assault,” the interior ministry said.

The public prosecution ordered the arrest of the leaders of the Zamalek supporters group, Ultras White Knights, after Sunday’s in-cident, official media reported.

On their Facebook page, the Ultras White Knights described the 22 dead as “martyrs” and ac-cused security forces of a “mas-sacre”.

Despite the violence, the match went ahead and ended with a 1-1 draw.

The Egyptian Football Federa-tion said it had reversed an earlier decision to allow fans to return to the stadiums by the start of the second half of the season. The original decision had been taken only a few days ago.

Shortly after that, the Cabinet said in a statement that the na-tional league championship would be postponed indefinitely. (rtr)

REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

Ivory Coast’s captain Yaya Toure (C) celebrates with team mates after winning the African Na-tions Cup final soccer match against Ghana in Bata February 8, 2015.

Ivory Coast wins African Cup in shootout against Ghana

BATA, Equatorial Guinea — Ivory Coast goalkeeper Boubacar Barry saved the day, and then he scored the winner.

The 35-year-old veteran blocked a penalty attempt from opposing goalkeeper Razak Braimah and then stepped up to convert his own to give the Ivory Coast a 9-8 shootout win over Ghana on Sunday in the African Cup of Nations final.

The match at Bata Stadium had finished 0-0 after 120 minutes. The Ivorians, who have lost two shoot-outs in finals in the last decade, failed to convert their first two penalties, but a string of must-score shots hit the target, including goals from Yaya and Kolo Toure and Salomon Kalou.

“When sometimes you win with your club, it’s quite amazing,” said Yaya Toure, who won the Premier League with Manchester City last season. “But with your country, it’s unbelievable.”

The Ivory Coast, which won its only other title in 1992 also on penalties against Ghana, played this time without Chelsea striker Didier Drogba, who has retired from inter-national soccer. But the team still had Man City teammates Wilfried Bony and Yaya Toure, a four-time African player of the year.

Bony took the Ivory Coast’s first attempt in the shootout, but he hit the crossbar. Tallo Gadji also missed.

Ghana captain Asamoah Gyan, who started the final after sitting out the last match with an injury, was tak-en off just before the shootout. Gyan

missed a penalty in the 2010 World Cup quarterfinals and then again in the 2012 African Cup semifinals.

“I have nothing to say. The Ivo-rians are happy because they won a cup,” Gyan said. “I don’t have anything to say right now. It’s past and gone.”

Barry made a surprising start in goal for the Ivorians in Sunday’s final. He was the goalkeeper between the posts in 2012 when the team lost to Zambia in a shootout in the final, but he started this time in place of the injured Sylvain Gbohouo.

Barry also saved a shootout at-tempt from Ghana midfielder Afriyie Acquah. Substitute Frank Acheam-pong missed his attempt.

After Barry’s decisive penalty, Ivory Coast coach Herve Renard spent several minutes trying to con-sole Ghana forward Andre Ayew. Renard previously worked with Ghana’s national team and knows many of the players.

In 2012, Renard coached Zambia to the title, beating Ghana in the semi-finals and Ivory Coast in the final.

“Without the manager we would have won nothing,” Toure said. “He made things difficult for me. He told me if I didn’t run he’d kick me out. He’s fantastic.”

Four-time champion Ghana, which has not won the continental title since 1982, is coached by Avram Grant. The Israeli led Chelsea to the 2008 Champions League final, but lost on penalties to Manchester United.

Ghana twice hit the post in the first

half of regular play, but only Christian Atsu’s shot from outside the area in the 25th minute had a real chance at going in. Ayew’s attempt 10 minutes later came from a tight angle on the side and smacked the outside of the post.

Equatorial Guinea President Te-odoro Obiang Nguema, Africa’s longest serving strongman, greeted the players from both sides at the start of the match. FIFA President Sepp Blatter was by his side.

Obiang, flanked by Blatter and Af-rican football confederation president Issa Hayatou, later presented Yaya Toure with the trophy.

Equatorial Guinea took over as host at short notice in November. Morocco had been chosen to stage the tournament, but fears over the spread of Ebola caused a rift between the local organizers and the African federation.

The hosts made a surprising run to the semifinals, drawing huge crowds every time they played. The final also drew a strong crowd with more than half of Bata Stadium filled.

Outside, there was plenty of secu-rity on hand with machine gun-toting soldiers patrolling the area. Although there were no major crowd problems on Sunday, Thursday’s semifinal be-tween Ghana and Equatorial Guinea descended into chaos when the host team’s fans started hurling objects onto the field and at the opposing players and fans. Ghana ended up winning 3-0, but the match was de-layed for about 40 minutes because of the incidents. (ap)

AP Photo/Ahmed Abd El-Gwad, El Shorouk newspaper)

Firefighters try to extinguish a fire on a truck as a riot broke out outside of a major soccer match between Egyptian Premier League clubs Zamalek and ENPPI at Air Defense Stadium in a suburb east of Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2015. The riot broke out between the Egypt security forces and Zamalek fans outside of the major soccer game at the stadium, violence that killed at least 20 people, security officials said.

Twenty-two people killed outside Cairo soccer stadium

AP Photo/Alastair Grant

Manchester United’s Daley Blind celebrates after scoring during the English Premier League soccer match between West Ham United and Manchester United at the Boleyn Ground in London, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2015.

Blind rescues point for Man United against West Hampoint for Manchester United against West Ham in a pulsating Premier League game at Upton Park on

Sunday.West Ham’s Cheikhou Kouyate

opened the scoring with a stunning volley in the 49th minute, after Wayne Rooney failed to clear Mark Noble’s free kick. Kouyate turned 180 degrees in the penalty box to score after juggling the ball twice, with his volley deflecting into the net off Blind.

But Blind saved the visitors after two minutes into added time when a speculative ball from Marcos Rojo was only partially cleared by the West Ham defense, and landed at the midfielder’s feet to put past goalkeeper Adrian.

“It’s a fantastic performance, but not the result we deserved,” West Ham manager Sam Allardyce said.

United, which started the week-end third in the Premier League,

dropped to fourth, while West Ham remained in eighth position.

West Ham had most of the opportunities in the first half and United had to rely on ‘keeper David de Gea to keep out several goal-bound efforts from striker Enner Valencia and a towering header from James Tomkins.

Despite the frenetic pace to the match, United only registered its first shot on target in the 41st when a long range drive was easily held by Adrian.

United improved after going behind and bringing on Marouane Fellaini for Belgian international teammate Adnan Januzaj midway through the second half.

A more direct style of play led to chances for Fellaini and Robin van Persie, both thwarted by Adrian. Radamel Falcao, out of

sorts and on the periphery for much of the match, was guilty of a hor-rendous miss, stabbing the ball wide from close range in the 77th.

West Ham had chances to seal the win too, with Noble coming close and substitute Matt Jarvis shooting straight at De Gea.

United had Luke Shaw sent off after he picked up two yellow cards in the final 10 minutes, the second coming in the third minute of injury time.

“I cannot say I’m very happy with the point,” United manager Louis Van Gaal said. “We played a very bad first half, West Ham was much better, they won every second ball and when we had the ball, we lost it so easily, so it was very poor. But then my team showed fantastic spirit and fantastic football. We could have won this game also.” (ap)

AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos

FC Barcelona’s Lionel Messi of Argentina, center, battles for the ball with Athletic Bilbao’s Mikel Rico, left, and Mikel San Jose, right, during their La Liga soccer match at San Mames stadium in Bilbao, northern Spain, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2015.

Messi inspires Barca with five-star performance

BARCELONA - Barcelona’s Lionel Messi was at the heart of another devastating attacking show as they thumped Ath-letic Bilbao 5-2 in La Liga on Sunday to move within a point of leaders Real Madrid.

free-kick that deflected off the wall and wrong-footed keeper Gorka Iraizoz after 15 minutes.

The Argentine then played in Suarez who fired home from 20 metres to lift the pressure off the Uruguay forward who had not scored in six games and earlier had a header saved from point-blank range by Iraizoz.

“I am very self-critical and I get angry with myself but I knew that the goal was going to come,” said Suarez.

“The save that Gorka made against me was amazing. I wasn’t nervous but I do get worried when I feel I am not helping the team.”

CLINICAL FINISHMikel Rico pulled a goal back

for the hosts in the 59th minute but their celebrations had barely died down when Oscar De Marcos put the ball into his own net after Messi knocked a cross goalwards.

Messi was at the heart of most of Barca’s play and set up Neymar for a clinical finish after 65 minutes.

Athletic kept attacking with Aritz Aduriz scoring but then they

had Xabier Etxeita dismissed for a high tackle on Suarez.

Substitute Pedro Rodriguez scored Barca’s fifth from close range with Messi again playing a part in the build up.

Barcelona coach Luis Enrique

rotated his squad by bringing Ivan Rakitic and Xavi into midfield while Jeremy Mathieu played instead of Javier Mascherano at centre half.

With Athletic going out to at-tack it meant an open game where

the quality of Barca’s forward moves shone through.

They played with the rhythm and intensity to their passing game that had been missing since their golden spell under former coach Pep Guar-diola. (rtr)

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to enjoy delicious food and drinks served along the coast. Activities that can be carried out on this beach include swimming, fishing, sunbathing and relaxing.

In addition, a quite interesting activity on this beach is massage

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PARADISE ISLAND, Ba-hamas — South Korean rookie Sei Young Kim won the Pure Silk-Bahamas LPGA Classic on Sunday for her first LPGA Tour title, holing an 8-foot birdie putt on the first hole of a playoff with countrywoman Sun Young Yoo and Thailand’s Ariya Jutanugarn.

“Just before the last putt I was super nervous, but I was fine,” Kim said.

The 22-year-old Kim shot a 1-under 72 in the completion of the delayed third round and closed with a 68 to match Yoo and Jutanugarn at 14-under 278 on Atlantis Resort’s Ocean Club course.

“It’s definitely a dream,” Kim said. “I’m really happy. Since 10 years ago, it’s what I’ve dreamed of.”

Kim birdied the par-5 18th in regulation, chipping from the front greenside rough to 3 feet — to earn the last spot in the playoff. She won on the hole a few minutes later.

A five-time winner on the Korea LPGA, Kim tied for sixth at the LPGA Tour ’s Q-school to earn a card. She played in four playoffs on the KLPGA, winning four of them.

“ I j o i n e d t h e LPGA in hopes

of making the Korean Olym-pics team,” Kim said. “This is one step toward that. So, this means a lot to me.”

She’s projected to move from No. 40 to No. 23 in the world. Q Baek is currently the fourth and final South Korean player in the Olympic rank-ings at No. 11.

Yoo finished with rounds of 69 and 70, and Jutanugarn shot 70-69.

Brittany Lincicome was third at 13 under after rounds of 68 and 70.

Lydia Ko tied for seventh at 11 under in her first event as the No. 1 player in the world. She shot 70-68.

Second-ranked Inbee Park had a chance to take the top spot back from Ko, but closed with a 72 to tie for fifth at 12 under.

“I saw the news or like the projections and how it would change, but I didn’t really think about it,” Ko said. “To me, it was more important trying to make a lot of good putts and a lot of good birdies.”

Play was de-layed Thursday because of rain and slowed Friday by high wind. (ap)

Sei Young Kim of South Ko-rea holds her trophy after win-ning the Pure Silk Bahamas LPGA Classic at the Ocean Club Golf Course, in Para-dise Island, Bahamas, Sunday, Feb 8, 2015.

South Korea’s Sei Young Kim wins

playoff in BahamasKarolina Pliskova defeated Ga-

briela Dabrowski 6-4, 6-2 to give the visitors an insurmountable 3-0 lead.

The Czechs booked a spot against France in April’s semi-finals, while Germany, last year’s runners-up, will face Russia.

The Czechs were without fourth-ranked Petra Kvitova and 15th-ranked Lucie Safarova while the Canadians were without seventh-ranked Eugenie Bouchard.

“We are a great team without them and we did a great job here this weekend,” Pliskova said.

Pliskova needed only 72 minutes to capture the clincher, smacking 28 winners against 27 unforced errors. She fired four aces and won five of her eight break-point chances.

The second reverse singles, by now a dead rubber, went unplayed, while in the concluding doubles, the Czech duo of Denisa Allertova and Lucie Hradecka downed Francoise Abanda and Dabrowski 6-1, 7-6

(7/2).I n S a t u r -

day’s open-ing matches, 22nd-ranked

Pliskova made her Fed Cup de-but with a 6-2, 6-4 t r iumph over Canadian teenager Fran-coise Abanda w h i l e D a b -rowski, ranked

185th, fell to Tereza Smitkova

6-1, 6-2.

The Czechs improved to 6-0 in all-time Fed Cup ties against Can-

ada, but this was their first meeting since 2002. (afp)

AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Francis Vachon

Canada’s Gabriela Dabrowski reacts to a missed shot against Czech Republic’s Karolina Pliskova, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2015, at the Fed Cup tennis tournament in Quebec City.

Czech holders blank Canada to advance in Fed Cup

QUEBEC CITY - Defending champions the Czech Republic advanced to the Fed Cup semi-finals on Sunday, defeating hosts Canada 4-0 without dropping a set.

TORONTO - James Johnson scored 20 points, including a go-ahead

three-pointer in the last minute, as Toronto edged San Antonio 87-82

on Sunday to deny Spurs coach Gregg Popovich a 1,000th NBA win.

Trailing 82-79 with 1:49 re-maining, Toronto scored the last eight

points of the game to end a run of seven straight losses to the Spurs.

DeMar DeRozan added 18 points and Jonas Valanciunas delivered eight points and 16 rebounds for the Raptors.

Tim Duncan had 12 points and 12 rebounds and Marco Belinelli scored 12 as well for the reigning NBA champion Spurs, who started a nine-game road trip with the defeat.

The Spurs, who shot just 33.3 percent from the floor, will try to get back on track on Monday when they visit Indiana.

Popovich, who has coached the Spurs to five NBA championships, remains one triumph away from becoming the ninth coach to record 1,000 NBA wins.

With his team’s next victory, he’ll join former Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan as the only coaches to notch that many wins with a single franchise.

In a see-saw battle, San Antonio went on a 9-0 scoring run early in the third quarter to take an eight-point lead.

Toronto coach Dwane Casey called for a timeout and the Raptors bore down on defense, with the Spurs connecting on just 25 percent of their shots from the field for the rest of the game.

Coming out of the timeout, Toronto reeled off 10 straight points to regain the lead and the Raptors took a 64-58 lead into the fourth quarter.

A three-pointer by San Antonio’s French point guard Tony Parker tied the game with five minutes to play.

Belinelli hit his second three-pointer of the quarter with two and a half minutes to play and a layup from Parker less than a minute later gave the Spurs an 82-79 lead.

A minute later, Kyle Lowry was cutting into the lane when he found Johnson wide open beyond the three-point line and Johnson made the shot to put Toronto ahead for good. (afp)

Raptors top Spurs, deny ‘Pop’ milestone win

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He pointed out that many countries, in-cluding China, have revised their economic growth target for 2015 from seven percent to six percent.

“We have raised ours from 5.1 percent to 5.8 percent. We target to reach over seven percent subsequently,” the President noted.

The Indonesian head of state affirmed that this year and for the next several years to come, the government will cooperate with other parties to build the country’s infrastruc-ture such as the Trans Sumatra road, airports, and others.

“It will encourage the growth of our economy, and I believe the growth will reach over seven percent,” Jokowi remarked while inviting Indonesian students in the Philip-pines to return home soon after completing their studies.

When asked about the ongoing conflict between the Corruption Eradication Com-mission (KPK) and National Police (Polri),

the President stated it will end soon.“I am not a hostage to the past. I’m hopeful

that a solution can be reached,” the President stressed.

However, he admitted, it will take time to solve the KPK-Polri conflict as it is related to politics and law. It will be too risky to make a decision without much deliberation, he added.

“There are many things that must be addressed. But, God willing, the conflict between the KPK and Polri will end this week; my calculation is this week,” President Jokowi affirmed.

The KPK is currently handling an alleged corruption case involving Commissioner General Budi Gunawan, whom the anti-graft body has named a suspect.

The commission named him suspect after President Jokowi nominated him as the sole candidate for the post of national police chief. (ant)

JAKARTA - Indonesian Minister of Coop-eratives and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Puspayoga expressed discontent to the influx of Malaysian culinary products in souvenir stores in border areas and other tour-ism sites.

“I am disappointed as many Malaysian food products have flooded the souvenir culinary stores in Batam city. The Malaysian products have good packaging material and are decorated with Indonesian specific icons such as the Bare-lang Bridge of Batam,” the minister noted.

According to the minister, the foreign food products have also made inroads into Padang City in West Sumatra Province and bear the im-age of Gadang House for Padang foods and Pen-det Dancer icon for Balinese food products.

Puspayoga cautioned that the increasing presence of foreign food products in Indonesia can adversely affect the local SMEs.

In order to handle the issue, the ministry will promote Indonesian SMEs by creating better packaged products for specific food items.

The ministry will encourage the local SMEs to master better production techniques, particu-larly for food packaging.

“I have received information that the packag-ing companies do not want to create less than one thousand food packets. However, the SME businesses can only order 500 to 700 packets. Thus, the SME businesses only choose simple packaging products,” Puspayoga pointed out.

As a result, SME products are facing stiff competition from foreign products, which have attractive packaging.

Puspayoga emphasized that his ministry will coordinate with other related institutions to hold training and tutorial sessions for the people working in SMEs to handle product packaging issues.

Minister Puspayoga hopes that the local SMEs can compete with other foreign products in the local and international markets in the fu-ture. “We have also planned to build a packaging house in each province that has leading SME business persons,” the minister added. (ant)

JAKARTA - Capital Investment Coordinat-ing Board (BKPM) Chairman Franky Siba-rani revealed that his board will provide online monitoring facilities to investors to assist them in checking the progress of their investment permit applications.

Investors can monitor the progress of their investment permit applications and compare it with the deadline as arranged in the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), he stated.

“BKPM tries to facilitate the investors through fast, simple, transparent, and integrated issuance of investment licenses,” the BKPM chief said here on Monday.

Franky made the statement during the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the information security system to support the BKPM and its central and regional integrated one-roof service system (PTSP).

The MoU was inked with Djoko Setiadi, the head of the State Code institute (Lemsaneg), at the BKPM building in Jakarta.

He said the central PTSP at the BKPM now serves 138 business licensing groups and five business sectors that have been integrated. Five business sectors that can now avail services from the central PTSP are electricity, industry, indus-trial zones, tourism and agricultural sectors.

According to Franky, the licensing issuance process is being handled by 77 officials in 22 ministries and institutions.

“We will try to speed up the service time, simplify licensing procedures, and study the permits that could be handled under one roof,” he emphasized.

He noted that the central PTSP has been formed as an initial step to boost competitive-ness, particularly as compared to other ASEAN member countries.

In the meantime, the MoU is being inked be-tween the BKPM and the Lemsaneg to increase the use of codes and information technology and communication in the implementation of the central and regional PTSP, he explained.

Franky had earlier expressed hope to create a synergy with Indonesian envoys to lure foreign direct investments to Indonesia.

Indonesian envoys overseas can disseminate information about the government’s efforts to improve the country’s investment climate, Siba-rani remarked last week. He is optimistic that the country’s foreign investment target for 2015 can be achieved if there is a synergy between his office and the Indonesian ambassadors.

“BKPM has set the target of attracting foreign investments worth Rp343.7 trillion, out of the total investment target of Rp519.5 trillion,” he stated.

He hopes that the foreign investment funds will come from Singapore and other ASEAN member nations such as China, South Korea, Japan, the United States, and the European nations.

“The government has adopted a new para-digm for investments by launching the PTSP, which was recently officiated by President Jokowi,” he remarked during a coordinating meeting of the foreign affairs ministry’s leader-ship last Tuesday.

The BPKM has noted that foreign investors often complain about poor infrastructure, poor logistics, complicated licensing procedures, overlapping regulations, and poor industrial relations.

So, the government has been addressing poor infrastructure and logistics problems by constructing sea tolls, railway network, and power plants. (ant)

AP Photo/Aaron Favila

President Joko Widodo arrives at the Villamor Air Base in suburban Pasay, south of Manila, Philippines on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2015. Widodo has called on his countrymen to be optimistic about the nation’s economic condition in 2015 and for the coming years.

Minister dissapointed with influx of Malaysian products

BKPM simplifies online monitoring for investors

President asked people to be optimistic on economic condition

MANILA - President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has called on his countrymen to be optimistic about the nation’s economic condition in 2015 and for the coming years. “No one should be pessimistic. Everyone should be optimistic that we can make it happen,” President Jokowi told a gathering of Indonesian community members at the country’s Embassy building on Monday.

Light snow was falling Sunday af-ternoon but the “long duration” storm was expected to intensify on Sunday night. The National Weather Service issued winter storm warnings for parts of New York state and much of the northeastern New England states through early Tuesday.

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh said all of the city’s public schools would be closed Monday and Tuesday. He urged people to stay off roadways until the storm passes.

Courts also announced they would close Monday due to the forecast, delaying jury selection in the Boston Marathon bombing case and in the ongoing murder trial of former Boston Patriots football star Aaron Hernandez in Fall River, Massachusetts.

The snow is likely to cause prob-lems for commuters on Monday, though it’s not expected to accumulate as rapidly as in some of the earlier storms, including a record-busting late January blizzard. There also is little risk seen of significant coastal flood-ing, a problem during last month’s

winter blasts.Boston’s transit system, the na-

tion’s oldest, has been particularly hard hit. The buildup of snow and ice on trolley tracks combined with aging equipment has stalled trains in recent days, delaying and angering commut-ers. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority general manager Beverly Scott said Saturday that crews were doing everything they could, includ-ing deploying massive jet-powered snow blowers, to clear tracks before the next storm.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker acknowledged on Friday that the MBTA was handed an extraordinary situation with old equipment but said the system’s overall performance was unacceptable.

In many New England communi-ties, the obvious problem is where to put the next batch of snow.

David Lombari, public works director for West Warwick, Rhode Island, told the Providence Journal his town was already clogged with snow piles several feet high and school

buses were parked in the usual snow storage lot.

Adding injury to insult perhaps, the Massachusetts Emergency Manage-ment Agency warned that potentially record cold temperatures and wind chills are expected to move into the region later in the week after the storm.

Not everyone was dreading the blast of winter.

Business has been brisk at Charles Street Supply hardware in Boston, where owner Jack Gurnon sells shovels, salt and sleds. He drove to Portland, Maine, to stock up so he’d be able to meet demand when the next storm came.

“We actually have a lot of supply right now, and we’re lucky because the big box stores, they’re scrambling around, and I’m sitting on a whole bunch right now,” Gurnon said.

But an increase in sales isn’t all he is looking forward to. “I also love to ski, so as soon as this next mess is over with, I’m taking off and going north,” he said. (ap)

SINGAPORE - Two young Ger-man men will plead guilty to vandal-ism, an offence punishable by caning, after spray-painting a metro train in Singapore, their lawyer said Monday.

Lawyer Christopher Bridges said his clients Andreas Von Knorre and Elton Hinz, both 21, would also enter a guilty plea to two counts of trespassing at a hearing on March 5. They will be sentenced the same day.

Vandalism carries a penalty of up to three years in jail or a fine of up to Sg$2,000 ($1,478), and between three and eight strokes of a rattan cane -- a punishment dating back to British colonial rule in the city-state.

Bridges told reporters after a closed-door pre-trial hearing with prosecu-tors and the judge that the number of charges against his clients had been reduced from four to three.

“They will plead guilty and face sentencing next month to the three charges,” Bridges said.

“I cannot confirm ... the likelihood

of caning. That is up to the discretion of the judge.”

Under the law first-time offenders can be spared caning for vandalism if the “writing, drawing, mark or in-scription” can be erased, but not when indelible substances such as paint or tar are used.

For trespassing, the Germans face up to two years in jail, a fine of up to Sg$1,000, or both for each count.

The two were accused of breaking into a suburban depot and spray-paint-ing graffiti on the exterior of a metro train cabin last November. The depot is a restricted zone surrounded by fences topped with barbed wire.

They were extradited to Singapore by neighbouring Malaysia after being arrested at Kuala Lumpur Interna-tional Airport as they were leaving for Australia.

Both remain in remand at Changi Prison. Singapore, a leading Asian financial hub, is known for its tough stance on crime. (afp)

DILI - East Timor’s president ac-cepted the resignation of independence hero Xanana Gusmao as prime minister on Monday, paving the way for a major government overhaul and a new chap-ter in the nation’s short history.

Gusmao, who has served as either president or premier since East Timor became independent in 2002 follow-ing a long struggle against Indonesian occupation, submitted his resignation last week.

The departure of the former guer-rilla fighter deprives Asia’s youngest nation of a unifying figure who has helped resolve numerous crises, but analysts say it is time for Gusmao to step aside to enable a transition to a new generation of leaders.

At a Cabinet meeting, President Taur Matan Ruak announced “that he accepted the request for resignation”, said the government in a statement.

It said the president would now start the process of forming a new govern-ment, and “it is expected that the con-stitution of the new government will be concluded at the end of this week”.

A successor for 68-year-old Gus-mao has not yet been announced but the frontrunner is seen as former health minister Rui Araujo. Gusmao may remain in government but in a lesser role, observers predict.

Gusmao, who spent years living in the jungle during Indonesian occupa-tion, had signalled over the past year that he would be stepping down. But he delayed the move repeatedly as he sought to ensure everything was in place for a smooth transition.

Analysts say the cabinet reshuffle

is likely aimed at getting rid of several ministers from Gusmao’s coalition who have been accused of corruption. It is also expected that the opposition Fretilin party will be brought into government, a move aimed at easing the half-island nation’s often fraught politics.

Gusmao last week urged people “not to panic” during the transition to a new government, and called on everyone to “contribute towards stability”.

East Timor has suffered bouts of unrest in the past, although recent years have been largely peaceful, allowing UN peacekeepers finally to leave the country in 2012.

Gusmao led the military wing of the Revolutionary Front for an In-dependent East Timor, which fought against Indonesian occupation. Before Indonesia invaded in 1975, Portugal had ruled East Timor for centuries.

He was captured by the Indonesians and imprisoned in Jakarta during the final years of the occupation, but kept up the independence struggle from behind bars. After the Timorese voted overwhelmingly for independence in a UN-backed referendum in 1999, Gusmao returned to his homeland a hero and was elected the country’s first president in 2002. He has been prime minister since 2007.

He is credited with resolving nu-merous crises in the chaotic early years of independence. He urged reconcilia-tion, persuading pro-Indonesian mili-tiamen who had gone on a murderous rampage following the referendum to return home. (afp)

AP Photo/Charles Krupa

A driver cleans snow off school buses in Derry, N.H., Monday, Feb. 2, 2015. Southern New Hampshire, which was hit with over two feet of snow last week, is expected to receive as much as another foot and a half in a winter storm that stretches from Michigan to Maine.

Another big storm bears down on US Northeast, may last days

BOSTON — Winter-weary residents of the Northeast U.S., which has been battered recently by a series of major snowstorms, braced Sunday for even more, as schools and courts announced closures and drivers were warned to stay off roadways.

East Timor accepts resistance hero PM’s resignation

Two Germans to plead guilty in Singapore vandalism case

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BUSINESS

The files, analysed by report-ers in the International Consor-tium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), showed that British bank-ing giant HSBC provided ac-counts to international criminals, corrupt businessmen, politicians and celebrities.

“HSBC profited from doing business with arms dealers who channelled mortar bombs to child soldiers in Africa, bag men for Third World dictators, traf-fickers in blood diamonds and other international outlaws,” ICIJ reported.

The files list a range of for-mer and current politicians from Britain, Russia, India and a range of African countries, Saudi, Bah-raini, Jordanian and Moroccan royalty, and the late Australian press magnate Kerry Packer.

The revelations are likely to stoke calls for a crackdown on sophisticated tax avoidance by the wealthy and by multinational companies, a key political issue in Britain and Europe.

Notes in the files indicate HSBC workers were aware of clients’ intentions to keep money hidden from national authori-ties.

Of one Danish account holder collecting cash bundles of kroner, an employee wrote:

“All contacts through one of her 3 daughters living in Lon-don. Account holder living in Denmark, i.e. critical as it is a criminal act having an account abroad non declared.”

In another memo, an HSBC manager discusses how a Lon-don-based financier codenamed “Painter” and his partner could

avoid Italian tax.“The risk for the couple is, of

course, that when they return to Italy the UK tax authorities will pass on information on them to the Italian tax authorities. My own view on this was that ... there clearly was a risk,” the employee wrote.

HSBC did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but told the ICIJ: “We acknowl-edge that the compliance culture and standards of due diligence in HSBC’s Swiss private bank, as well as the industry in general, were significantly lower than they are today.”

Richard Brooks, a former tax inspector, told the BBC: “I think they were a tax avoidance and tax evasion service. I think that’s what they were offering.”

The investigation was done by the ICIJ, linked to the US-based Center for Public Integrity, who enlisted more than 140 journalists from 45 countries in cooperation with France’s Le Monde, Brit-ain’s BBC and The Guardian, US programme 60 Minutes, German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung and more than 45 other media organisations.

Names in the files include people sanctioned by the United States, including Turkish busi-nessman Selim Alguadis and Gennady Timchenko, an associ-ate of Russian President Vladimir Putin targeted by sanctions over Ukraine.

Alguadis told the ICIJ it was prudent to keep savings off-shore, while a spokesman for Timchenko said he was fully compliant with tax matters.

Former Egyptian trade min-ister Rachid Mohamed Rachid, who fled Cairo during the 2011 uprising against former president Hosni Mubarak, is listed as hav-ing power of attorney over an account worth $31 million, ac-cording to the files. He did not respond to requests for comment from the ICIJ.

Other individuals named in-clude the late Frantz Merceron, an associate of former Haitian presi-dent Jean Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, and Rami Makhlouf, cousin of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Makhlouf did not re-spond to a request for comment from the ICIJ.

Also named were designer Di-ane von Furstenberg, who told the ICIJ the accounts were inherited from her parents, and model Elle Macpherson, whose lawyers told the ICIJ she was fully in compli-ance with UK tax law.

Motorcycle racer Valentino Rossi, listed as having $23.9 mil-lion in two accounts, said he had regularised his tax situation with Italian authorities.

Formula One businessman Flavio Briatore is connected to 38 bank accounts that held as much as $73 million between 2006-2007, according to the ICIJ. His lawyer told the ICIJ Briatore’s accounts were legal and complied with tax laws.

The files are a version of a set obtained by former HSBC employee-turned-whistleblower Herve Falciani , who copied thousands of bank documents be-fore fleeing from Switzerland to France, where they were obtained by tax authorities in 2009. (afp)

SHANGHAI - China’s Alibaba has agreed to pay $590 million for a minority stake in domestic smartphone maker Meizu, a joint statement said Monday, as the e-commerce giant seeks to expand its mobile offerings.

Last year, Meizu used an operat-ing system developed by Alibaba’s cloud computing unit YunOS on its flagship smartphone.

Alibaba will integrate its mobile operating system with Meizu’s hardware and provide support in e-commerce, mobile Internet and data analysis, the statement said.

“The investment in Meizu rep-resents... an important step in our overall mobile strategy as we strive to bring users a wider array of mobile offerings and experiences,”

Alibaba’s chief technology officer Wang Jian said in the statement.

Meizu, set up in 2003 and based in the southern city of Zhuhai, is one of China’s smaller smartphone makers, ranking below the likes of Xiaomi, Huawei and Lenovo.

China’s fractured smartphone market includes several companies selling cheaper models than the likes of Samsung, which uses the Android operating system, and Apple.

Alibaba, founded by Jack Ma in 1999, is China’s biggest e-commerce company. It listed on the New York Stock Exchange last year in the world’s largest public offering.

Its flagship platform Taobao is es-timated to hold more than 90 percent of the Chinese market for consumer-to-consumer transactions. (ap)

TOKYO — Nissan raised its earnings forecast for the fiscal year after reporting a nearly 21 percent jump in quarterly profit. The Japa-nese automaker said Monday that sales were strong in the U.S. and Europe and the cheap yen boosted overseas revenue.

Nissan Motor Co. reported a better-than-expected 101.8 billion yen ($856 million) net profit for October-December. Quarterly sales surged about 17 percent to 2.94 tril-

lion yen ($24.7 billion).The automaker said improved

sales in the U.S. and Europe offset a decline at home in Japan.

Yokohama-based Nissan, which makes the Leaf electric car, the Altima sedan and Infiniti luxury models, expects a 420 billion yen ($3.5 billion) profit for the fiscal year through March, marking an 8 percent rise year-on-year.

Previously, it had projected a 405 billion yen ($3.4 billion) profit. (ap)

Leaked bank files show HSBC ‘helped clients dodge taxes’

LONDON - A cache of secret bank files shows that HSBC’s Swiss banking arm helped wealthy customers avoid taxes and hide millions of dollars, according to a report by a network of inves-tigative journalists released Sunday.

Nissan raises profit forecast after sales grow in US, Europe

Alibaba takes $590m stake in China

smartphone maker

AP Photo/Kin Cheung

Alibaba Group Executive Chairman Jack Ma

Local tourism stakeholder, Abdul Karim Abraham, says that he has visited Menjangan Island five times, simply to take a leisurely stroll while enjoy the natural surroundings. According to Abdul, this is the first time that he has seen Menjangan Island covered with plastic waste and dry twigs. He worries that the beauty of white sanded Menjan-gan Island Beach is being destroyed by plastic debris from the high seas.

“Most foreign travelers prefer to visit the area of Post II on Menjan-gan Island. Surely it is because Post II is sanitary and well-maintained compared to the beach area at the Post I. For this reason, garbage cans and serious clean-ups are required to restore the beauty of all the beaches on Menjangan Island” he said.

Abdul Karim added that the man-agement of West Bali National Park (TNBB) apparently performs beach cleanups once a month by involving tourism stakeholders and visitors who come to post I of Menjangan Island. He admitted that the intensity of these monthly cleanups was still inadequate in collecting the considerable amount of marine debris from the beach and that such efforts require special handling. “Indeed there is a cleanup activity, but it’s only done once a month. Obviously these monthly actions are not enough to tackle the massive problem of marine debris. I am quite disturbed by the presence of this refuse from the sea. If possible, a large and extensive clean-up should be performed immediately”, he said. (kmb34)

DENPASAR - Shankara Resto Bale Banjar Bali Global held a kids creativity contest, on Sunday (Feb 8). The event was participated by 80 contestants from kindergarten to elementary school compete in different contests.

For kindergarteners, the ac-tivities included competitions for counting, coloring and a solo Baris Dance. Meanwhile, for elementary school level, there were contests for Balinese script writing, coloring, drawing, solo Baris Dance, Pendet Dance and a fashion show for wor-ship dress.

Manager of Shankara Resto Bale Banjar Bali Global, Ni Nyoman Ra-mayanti, said that the event was cre-

ated to provide a space for children to express their artistic creativity.

Shankara plans to hold this event every six months during school holidays. In addition, Shankara also wanted include students from higher levels of education. “We are trying to create an event that can give a space for children to express their creativity”, she said.

Meanwhile, Adrika Radnyana-mastri, a jury member for several of the competitions at Shankara, said that some points of assessment were demanded of the children. For instance, the assessment for the Pendet Dance or welcome dance was that it be danced smil-ing. While, the assessment for the

fashion was focused on the hair, applying the pusung gonjer for children. The most important was the attire, where the kebaya should be a neat and closed model. As for color, it was judged better to use white or yellow and its cut should be the right height. (kmb42)Shankara Resto Bale Banjar

Bali Global held a kid creativ-ity contest, Sunday (Feb 8). The event was followed by

80 contestants from kinder-garten to elementary school. For kindergarten, the activi-

ties included the competition of counting, coloring and a

single Baris Dance.

Shankara Resto holds kid creativity contest

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Marine debris litters Menjangan Island Beach

IBP/Dewa Kusuma

Apparently the enchanting beauty of Menjangan Island is not supported by sanitation along the coast. As evidence, the area along the beach looks to be filled with plastic waste and twigs of trees.

SINGARAJA - Apparently the enchanting beauty of Men-jangan Island does not have the support of adequate coastal sanitation. Plastic waste and or-ganic debris covers the beaches of this beautiful island. Allegedly this waste comes from Java and elsewhere.

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TAIPEI — TransAsia Airways representatives met Sunday with relatives of the victims of last week’s plane crash in Taiwan to discuss compensation after it began distributing money to families of the deceased for funeral costs.

At the river crash site, divers tried to find the bodies of the three people still missing by using metal detectors to locate their watches or seat belts.

At least 40 people died after

the propeller-jet crashed into the muddy Keelung River minutes after takeoff Wednesday from Taipei’s airport. Fifteen of the 58 people aboard the plane were rescued.

Preliminary investigations in-dicate the pilots of the TransAsia Airways ATR 72 shut off a running engine after its other engine went idle, a move that aviation experts said was an error.

A spokesman for France-based plane maker ATR said Sunday that

their aircraft were equipped and de-signed to fly on a single engine. The spokesman spoke on condition of ano-nymity in line with company rules.

The bulk of the passengers were from the Chinese mainland.

A TransAsia spokeswoman, Fang Chia-wen, said a second meeting would be held Wednesday to discuss compensation matters further. She said the airline had al-ready begun distributing 1.2 million Taiwan dollars ($38,000) per victim

to families for funeral expenses.Premier Mao Chi-kuo told Tai-

wan’s private Formosa TV on Sun-day that the priority was to find the three missing people. Longer-term, he said the country needs to work on improving “our civil aviation in terms of its management and training.”

Huang Han-chung, a member of the underwater search team, also told the station that rescuers were using metal detectors, which had

already been used to locate pieces of wreckage.

“Some bodies might have some metal on them, like necklaces, watches and coins, which will be detected,” said Wu Jun-hung, a Taipei city fire department official. “There are still four seats missing, so it’s possible that the victims are still fastened in their seats by seat belt, that they sunk together with the seats to the bottom of the bank.” (ap)

Officials said the victims were crushed as thousands of fans tried to force their way into a Cairo football stadium to watch a game.

“Nineteen people died,” interior ministry spokesman Hani Abdel Latif

told AFP, revising an earlier death toll of 22 given by prosecutors.

Thousands of fans without tick-ets scaled stadium walls in bid to catch Sunday’s match, with clashes erupting as police fired tear gas and

birdshot at the crowd.Abdel Latif said 22 policemen

were injured in the clashes and 18 people were arrested.

Khaled al-Khatib, the head of Egypt’s emergency services, con-

firmed the death toll.“The deaths were caused due to

a stampede. There are no signs of gunshot or birdshot,” Khatib said.

“The victims had lots of bruises, while some had broken necks... People were trampling each other.”

The interior ministry had re-stricted to 10,000 the number of

spectators allowed into the stadium and tickets quickly ran out.

The match between Zamalek and Enppi was open to the public, unlike most other games between Egyptian clubs since stadium riots in Port Said in 2012 left more than 70 people dead in the country’s worst-ever sport disaster. (ap)

MONROEVILLE, Pennsylva-nia — A teenager who police say opened fire at a Pittsburgh-area mall, shooting his intended target as well as two bystanders, was ar-rested early Sunday, and the three victims remain hospitalized.

Gunfire erupted inside the Macy’s department store at the Monroeville Mall about 7:30 p.m. Saturday, sending panicked shoppers running. The gunman fled but police say they were able to identify him by match-ing surveillance video with images on social media. A preliminary hear-ing was scheduled for Feb. 18, ac-cording to court documents.

Tarod Thornhill, 17, was arrest-ed at a home in Brackenridge about 3:15 a.m. Sunday. He was being held at the Allegheny County Jail pending arraignment on charges as an adult of aggravated assault, attempted homicide and recklessly endangering other people.

Police Chief Douglas Cole said two men and a woman were shot, including the man who was target-ed. Cole said the two men were in critical condition, while the woman was in stable condition.

“This was not random,” Cole told reporters. “We have evidence that leads to that.” He declined to elaborate.

A 20-year-old man and 53-year-old man were both in critical condition, and a 47-year-old woman was in fair condi-tion Sunday afternoon, Forbes Hospital spokesman Jesse Miller said.

In late December, hundreds of teenagers gathered at the mall and several fights broke out. The fights caused local officials and mall ad-ministration to agree on a plan to increase security there.

Shoppers described chaos as shots rang out.

“All of the sudden we heard people screaming,” Athena Coffey of Churchill told KDKA-TV, “and the next thing you see is a bunch of people, teenagers, scared to death, just exodus en masse in a way you could not believe. I grabbed my children, husband, we started screaming ‘go, go, go!’”

Yvette Jackson of North Brad-dock was attending a birthday party at Giggles and Smiles, a fitness and fun center for children.

“We saw a lot of running, a lot of chaos,” she told the Pittsburgh-Tribune Review. She said she and other patrons were locked in the store for about 45 minutes until police came and let them out.

Four on-duty police officers have been stationed in the mall on Friday and Saturday evenings at the mall’s request, Monroeville Mayor Gregory Erosenko said.

“I would have thought that having four officers there would have deterred any incident like we saw (Saturday),” he told the newspaper.

Weapons are banned at the mall except for those carried by on-duty law enforcement officers.

The mall, which is owned and managed by CBL & Associates Properties Inc., of Chattanooga, Tennessee, says on its website it features more than 125 stores and eateries, anchored by JCPenney, Macy’s and Barnes & Noble.

No one answered the phone at CBL offices after business hours Saturday. A mall security offi-cer reached by telephone said he couldn’t talk. (ap)

TransAsia gives money to victims’ families for funeral costs

19 dead in crush at Cairo stadiumCAIRO - Egyptian authorities said Monday that 19 people had been killed in a crush at a Cairo

stadium, lowering an earlier toll and saying none of the victims had been killed by police.

Teen arrested in US mall shooting

AP Photo/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Bill Wade

Police leave a secured Monroeville (Pa) Mall Saturday, Feb. 7, 2015, after a shooting in the mall. As many as three people were injured in the incident. It was unclear whether the shooter was captured or had escaped, said Monroeville Mayor Gregory Erosenko, who had only sketchy details shortly after the 7:45 p.m. shooting. He said his police chief was at the scene.

As observation, the marine debris had begun to emerge since rainy season. In addition to the rubbish taken by streams flowing to the beach, the rubbish also came from the housing area that was de-liberately dumped onto the beach. The rubbish mostly consisted of rags, plastic, bottles and twigs. When transported, the volume was

estimated to reach 10 trucks. It was ascertained to increase as the bad weather season had not ended yet. As a result, when high waves accompanied with rain, the marine debris would continue to multiply.

A local fisherman, Kadek Wisata, when met last Sunday said the ma-rine debris emerged after the last full moon. At that time, the ocean

waves were huge and accompanied by heavy rain. After the incident, marine debris blasted by the waves ultimately piled up and covered up coastal sand. Large volumes com-plicated him to clean up the marine debris. It was further aggravated because so far there had been no dust bins to accommodate the mounting rubbish on the edge of the sea.

Besides, the cleanup effort had also been carried out by the officers of the Buleleng Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (DKP) some time ago but it failed. The piling up rubbish on the east of Segara Temple on Penimban-gan Beach failed to be transported. At that time, dozens of DKP officers reasoned they were unable to transport the rubbish due to limited personnel to raise it onto truck. “The rubbish increased and peaked after tidal waves of the full moon. DKP officers indeed came here but due to lacking for per-sonnel, the piling up rubbish was not transported and left to perish at the

edge of the sea,” he said.For this condition, added Wisata,

the village officials of Baktiseraga, Buleleng subdistrict, owning the territory of Penimbangan Beach, would send a letter of DKP Bule-leng and related agencies in Bule-leng County. The letter was in-tended to ask for help transport the rubbish and adequate janitors. Such an effort was necessary because if the situation was left unchecked, the volume of rubbish would continue to increase because marine debris would be brought in by rain and huge ocean waves. (kmb38)

SINGARAJA - Residents around the Celukan Bawang steamed-fueled power plant (PLTU) showed firm protest against the investor related to building permit (IMB) of the Celukan Bawang power plant suspected of being unlicensed. The action led to the blocking of the entrances to Celukan Bawang power plant. Together with com-munity leaders of Celukan Bawang, a number of residents revealed again the issues concerning with the existence of the power plant project with a capacity of 380 MW worth trillions of rupiahs.

Headman of Celukan Bawang, H. Mujahir, said that in the acquisi-tion process of the land owned by residents, they refused to sign a rec-ommendation due to discrepancy between the application and the fact in the field. According to him, the land acquisition process had not been entirely accomplished. But in the application was mentioned if the border of the land specified still belonged to local residents. As a result, residents were restless again

and questioning about the building permit to the Celukan Bawang power plant. “Previously the in-vestor came to offer something to me, but I refused. So far, a lot of lands owned by residents are still in trouble with the Celukan Bawang power plant,” he said.

Other than regarding the build-ing permit, the Celukan Bawang power plant was also previously had a problem of high voltage transmission line (SUTT) above the residence of Kampung Barokah. Then, it reaped the problem related to building permit.

In a meeting forum, Jro Mangku Teken also questioned about the existence of Padmasana shrine in the area of Celukan Bawang power plant, where the support-ing devotees of the temple did not involve local customary village. His party already sent a letter to relevant agencies such as headman of Celukan Bawang and Gerokgak subdistrict head, but everything failed. “There is no response to our existence,” he said. (kmb34)

Marine debris pollutes Penimbangan BeachSINGARAJA - Condition of Penimbangan Beach area, Singaraja is now completely rundown.

It happened because of slow handling against the marine debris and it gave impression if it had been ignored. Having been cleaned up, the rubbish was left to mount on the sand. As a result, visitors began to feel uncomfortable and the visit of domestic travelers to this location was also deserted.

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Condition of Penimbangan Beach area, Singaraja is now completely rundown. It happened because of slow handling against the marine debris and it gave impression if it had been ignored.

IBP/Dewa Kusuma

Residents around the Celukan Bawang steamed-fueled power plant (PLTU) showed firm pro-test against the investor related to building permit (IMB) of the Celukan Bawang power plant suspected of being unlicensed.

Entrance to Celukan Bawang power plant blocked

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RIO DE JANEIRO — The world’s mightiest waterway, the Amazon River, is threatened by the most diminutive of foes — a tiny mussel invading from China.

Since hitching its way to South America in the early 1990s, the golden mussel has claimed new territory at alarming speeds, plowing through indigenous flora and fauna as it has spread to waters in five countries. Now, scientists fear the invasive spe-cies could make a jump into the Ama-zon, threatening one of the world’s unique ecological systems.

“There’s no doubt the environmen-tal effect would be dramatic,” said Marcia Divina de Olivieira, a scientist with the Brazilian government’s Em-brapa research agency.

The golden mussel, which com-monly grows to no more than an inch in length, is a hardy breeder, reproduc-ing nine months a year by releasing clouds of microscopic larvae that float with the current to new territories. They attach to hard surfaces like river bedrock, stones, man-made structures and even each other, forming large reef-like structures.

They have devastated native clam species by attaching themselves onto the local mollusks, sealing them shut. Their ability to clog pipes has forced operators of hydroelectric and water treatment plants in Sao Paulo state, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and else-where to spend millions of dollars an-nually to clear them out with chemical

The unmanned Deep Space Climate Observatory had been scheduled to blast off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 6:10 pm (2310 GMT) from Cape Canaveral, Florida but a range-tracking issue scuttled it with about two-and-a-half minutes left in the countdown.

DSCOVR’s goal is to help space weather forecasters by collecting data on solar wind and geomagnetic storms that can cause damage to electrical systems on Earth.

“Air Force tracking radar went down. Launch postponed to same time tomorrow,” tweeted Elon Musk, the billionaire SpaceX founder.

He added: “Prob good though. Will give

us time to replace 1st stage video trans-mitter (not needed for launch, but nice to have).”

SpaceX was expected to try again at 6:07 pm on Monday.

After the launch, SpaceX will make another attempt to guide the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket back to a controlled landing on an ocean platform, as part of the California-based company’s goal of making rockets one day as reusable as airplanes.

In January, the rocket attempted a con-trolled maneuver to land on a powered-barge in the Atlantic, but collided with it instead and broke into pieces. (afp)

WASHINGTON - Termites, the pesky in-sects whose fondness for wood makes them the bane of homeowners, help halt desertification in semi-arid areas and protect against the effects of climate change, a study said Thursday.

In grasslands, savannahs and arid areas of Africa, Latin America and Asia, termite mounds, which store moisture and nutrients and contain multiple tunnels, allow water to better penetrate the ground, said the authors of the study in the journal Science.

Vegetation thrives on termite mounds in ecosystems vulnerable to desertification.

“The rain is the same everywhere, but be-cause termites allow water to penetrate the soil better, the plants grow on or near the mounds as if there were more rain,” said lead study author Corina Tarnita of Princeton University.

“Even when you get to such harsh condi-tions where vegetation disappears from the mounds, revegetation is still easier. As long as the mounds are there, the ecosystem has a better chance to recover.”

Jef Huisman, an aquatic microbiology professor and theoretical ecologist at the Uni-versity of Amsterdam who did not participate in the research, said the research shows that early warning signals for desertification were

too simple in the past, and failed to take into account nature’s complexities. According to current models, there are five stages in the transition to desert, each with specific char-acteristics in terms of vegetation growth, and scientists can use satellite images to determine an area’s desertification stage.

But semi-arid ecosystems with termite mounds and those in the fifth and last stage appeared very similar, the researchers said.

The scientists thus showed that what had appeared to be the final stage before desertifica-tion was sometimes the total opposite, thanks to termite mounds. Climate models, Huisman added, should better take into account the im-pact of organisms such as termites and mussels that “engineer their own environment.”

Ants, prairie dogs, gophers and other mound-building creatures could play an im-portant role in the ecosystem, said co-author Robert Pringle, assistant professor in ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton.

“I like to think of termites as linchpins of the ecosystem in more than one way,” Pringle said.

“They increase the productivity of the sys-tem, but they also make it more stable, more resilient.” (afp)

Brazil scientists fear golden mussel threat to Amazon River

AP Photo/Leo Correa

In this Jan. 29, 2015 photo, Brazilian researcher Marcela Uliano da Silva shows samples of the golden mussel at the Carlos Chagas Filho Biophysics Institute in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The golden mussel, which commonly grows to no more than an inch in length, is a hardy breeder, reproducing nine months a year by releasing clouds of microscopic larvae that float with the current to new territories. They attach to hard surfaces like river bedrock, stones, man-made structures and even each other, forming large reef-like structures.

drips or shut down turbines to scrape out giant mussel formations.

Golden mussels are filter-feeders, sucking in water and filtering out plankton and other microscopic bits of plant and animal life. Their pro-liferation can alter phosphorous and nitrogen levels in the water, produc-ing blooms of toxic algae that can be deadly to aquatic creatures and humans.

While the thriving mussel colonies can mean more food for local fish and ducks, the disruption of the food chain can upset local systems, said Hugh MacIsaac, a professor at the University of Windsor, in Ontario, Canada, who studies invasive aquatic species.

“You clearly want to keep these out of the Amazon because if they were to get in, the potential consequences are very significant,” said MacIsaac. “The key right now is you have to shut the door to make sure they can’t spread further.”

Researchers compare the golden mussel to the zebra mussel, a small bivalve originally from the Cauca-sus that colonized the Great Lakes in North America in the late 1980s before spreading down the Missis-sippi River.

The advance of the golden mussels appears to have stalled at the sweeping Pantanal wetlands system in western Brazil, where natural cycles of rising and falling oxygen levels have kept the population in check so far.

But, the Pantanal is just 1,200 miles

(2,000 kilometers) away from waters linked to the Amazon, and scientists fear that a boat towed overland could carry the invasive species clinging to a hull or that the ballast water used to stabilize a vessel could be contami-nated by mussel larvae.

“If you just have a liter (of water) down in the bottom of a boat and put it on a trailer and travel over land to a new river system, you could be injecting potentially hundreds or even thousands of microscopic larvae into a new water body,” said Steve Hamilton, an ecology professor at Michigan State University.

Brazil’s government has been working to stop the golden mussel’s progress for a decade, requiring ships headed to Brazilian ports to stop at least 200 miles off the coast and empty the ballast waters while far at sea. But experts complain the measure is spot-tily enforced.

One of Brazil’s top experts on the mussel, a 27-year-old doctoral student at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, believes she may have another solution: mapping the mussel’s genome and engineering a virus or other “bio bullet” that could render the species infertile. The idea is similar to efforts to combat dengue-transmitting mosquitoes by making them sterile.

“If we manage it, it would be huge obviously from an economic point of view but also to protect biodiversity,” said researcher Marcela Uliano da

Silva. “The Amazon is under so many threats.”

She’s hopeful she’ll succeed, but said it could take at least four years to carry out the plan.

Olivieira, the scientist with the Em-brapa research agency, hailed Silva’s work as a “perhaps one of the few paths that could actually help solve the problem.”

While the threat from the golden mussel might appear minor compared to hydroelectric dams, deforestation and sewage runoff from cities, Silva says if the creature were to reach the Amazon, it could wreak havoc on one of the world’s most biologically di-verse regions. The Amazon has more freshwater fish species than any river in the world. (ap)

Termite mounds can halt desert’s advance

SpaceX calls off launch of space-weather satellite

MIAMI - SpaceX’s launch of a $340 million sun-observing spacecraft that was initially dreamed up by former US vice president Al Gore was postponed Sunday for at least 24 hours after a late problem.

“We are investigating the truth of the letter,” he said here Monday in response to the letters directed by the Kerobokan prison’s in-mates to Indonesian President Joko Widodo.

One of the letters was written by an inmate named Martin Ja-manuna. Jamanuna who claimed to have known Andrew Chan for four years in jail said he was ready to take over the execution

of Australian inmate if he was allowed to do so.

Sudjonggo said he would ask the prison’s church council about Andrew Chan’s activity and ques-tion the motive of the person who wrote the letter because Andrew Chan’s request for reviewing his case had been rejected a week ago.

He said he did not regard an inmate’s offering of sympathy to

another prisoner as a problem but the inmate is not allowed to take over the prisoner’s sentence.

Along with Myuran Sukumaran (33), another Australian drug con-vict on death row, Andrew Chan is threatened to be executed after their requests for a review of their cases were rejected by the Bali District Court.

According to the Denpasar Dis-trict Court’s spokesman, Hasoloan

AMLAPURA - The location for the construction of the new airport needs to be officially determined by the government of Bali. Up until this very day, the airport construction has remained limited to discussions without any distinct decisions being made. It was revealed by The Regent of Karangasem, I Wayan Geredeg, accompanied by spokesperson for the government of Karangasem, Made Supartha, brought up the issue a few days ago during a press conference in Karangasem. Regent Geredeg emphasized the need for the loca-tion of the new airport to be clearly determined.

The Regent added that the exact location for the construction of the new airport is not so important. What is important is that the location be clearly stated.“Whether the location for the new airport is in Buleleng or Karangasem, does not matter. The important thing is that it will not be in South Bali” he said.

According to Geredeg from the snake-fruit producing village of Sibetan, if the airport is to be built in Karangasem, the Regency has a location in mind. He suggested that the airport be built over the sea on pile foundations. “In Karangasem, we only allow flying over the sea” he said.

Why over the sea? By building pilons for an over sea airport, would mean that extensive agricultural land would not need to be converted to run ways. Besides, such a system would not displace the settlements of the local population. Moreover, on the mainland there are many temples that should not be disturbed. “I’ve landed at the airport over the sea in Nagoya, Japan. It was a very nice airport. There are only two airports in

Letters defending Australian drug convict investigated

DENPASAR - Warden of Kerobokan Penitentiary Sudjonggo said he would investigate the truth of letters written by a dozen of inmates defending Andrew Chan (31), an Australian drug convicts on death row.

Sianturi, the two drug convicts’ requests could not be sent to the Supreme Court as they did not meet all formal requirements.

The two were arrested along with seven other Australians in 2005, when they were attempt-ing to smuggle 8.3 kilograms of heroin from Bali to Sydney, Australia. Earlier, Sukumaran’s clemency petition was rejected by President Joko Widodo.

Indonesia had recently execut-ed five drug convicts as part of its serious efforts to combat drug trafficking in the country.

The five convicts were Nama-ona Denis of Malawi, Marco Ar-cher Cardoso Moreira of Brazil, Daniel Enemuo alias Diarrassouba Mamadou of Nigeria, Ang Kiem Soei, alias Kim Ho, alias Ance Tahir, of the Netherlands, Rani Andriani, alias Melisa Aprilia, of Indonesia, and Tran Thi Bich Hanh of Vietnam.

Vice-President Jusuf Kalla said that the execution of foreign inmates for drug offenses will not affect Indonesia’s bilateral ties with their respective countries. (ant)

Airport development planClarity on determination of location required

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The location for the construction of the new airport needs to be officially determined by the government of Bali. Up until this very day, the airport construction has remained limited to discussions without any distinct decisions being made.

the world that have been constructed over the ocean: one in Nagoya and one in France”, he explained.

He acknowledged that there was talk of locating the airport in the sub-district of Kubu. But based on various considerations and research, Kubu has been determined to be unsuitable be-cause it is too close to Mount Agung and the volcano is suspected of still

being active. A volcanic earthquake could too easily destroy the runways. In addition, winds in the area are also considered unstable.

According to Geredeg, the build-ing of a new airport is an important way in which the development of Bali can be more evenly distributed. The travel time from Ngurah Rai Interna-tional Airport to North or East Bali is

approximately three hours. Foreign travellers are still reluctant to venture beyond the hotel rich areas of Badung or Kuta. Very few travellers visit Karangasem for example because it takes a few hours overland and longer when there is a lot of traffic. Because both the harbour and the airport are located in the South , tourism has been very slow to develop in other

regions of Bali. Geredeg deplored the fact Jalan

Bypass Ida Bagus Mantra, that leads to Klunkung, does not continue on to Karangasem and Buleleng. Ac-cording to the Regent, if the road was continued, many new areas would quickly become centres of economic growth and not be left behind in the development process occurring in Southern Bali. “If the road infrastruc-ture is not improved, it is useless for us to build a cruise ship harbor and ferry port in Karangasem”, he con-cluded. (013)

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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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Completely refurbished to create an iconic new drinks and dining des-tination, MoonLite will be open every day from 4:30 pm to 11:00 pm to offer Anantara’s discerning guests and lo-cal residents a striking modern Asian concept.

Eye catching contemporary design features Balinese wooden walls ac-cented by huge jars of colourful Asian spices. Reinvented for an evolving mood, MoonLite guests will be able to relax at the trendy bar lounge and

savour stylish meals in the comfortable dining room and on the open air deck with panoramic Indian Ocean views.

A lustful menu to tantalise the pal-ate is characterised by the enchanting flavours of contemporary Asian cuisine, given a vibrant, interactive element by chefs cooking to impress in the open kitchen. Bar pleasures abound with an extensive selection of traditional, clas-sic and modern beverages, including seductive cocktails and a well-stocked wine cellar.

To match the intriguing design, al-luring views and inspiring tastes, a stun-ning atmosphere is assured with live chill out music performed on the stage every night from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm, setting a sultry tone for sunset cocktails and elegant dining.

With flawless execution extending to Anantara’s passionate and heartfelt service, MoonLite will raise the bar for Seminyak’s bar and dining experiences. Broadening the appeals, valet parking and a lift in front of the hotel provides

Probably, the concern with the sur-rounding community is one of the keys to unlock and develop the community-based tourism. Such concern then develops a mutual interdependence so that it further evolves into a mutual understanding and harmony.

“After that, it will continue to evolve into a more positive direction,” said I Wayan Sumandia, Resort Manager of Furama Villas & Spa. With this basis, he added, it resulted in togetherness that well nurtured as he did at Bindu village, the location where the Furama Hotel was situated. “We keep in touch with the village community. It can be done by maintaining social relations, giving assistance and educating the public with tourism-related matters,” explained Sumandia.

Some of the activities carried out were the education about waste man-

agement, especially plastic waste, and the way to preserve the environment in order to remain beautiful, healthy and comfortable. Besides, his party also provided English language training for school children at the surroundings for free. It was one of the ways to maintain the good communications.

“We do this sustainably. Thus, there is a kind of binding process between the company and the surrounding com-munity,” he added. He also criticized the relationship established instantly that tended to be done for one time by taking advantage of some particular moments. In the context of maintaining good relations with the surrounding community, in accordance with the Tri Hita Karana concept, the process was one of the important factors. The as-sessment is based on a process occurred and nurtured sustainably, did not occur

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MoonLite Kitchen and Bar opens February 2015

SEMINyAK - Anantara Seminyak resort & Spa, Bali along sought after Seminyak Beach in Bali is relaunching its rooftop culinary experiences, with the brand new MoonLite Kitchen and Bar to open in February 2015, replacing the former SOS Supper Club.

direct access for outside guests. While the generous space, ingenious design and tailored culinary options make MoonLite Kitchen and Bar a superb venue for all kinds of corporate and social functions, including cocktail gatherings, celebratory dinner parties and weddings.

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in a sudden.“Moreover, we are in the path of

cultural tourism. Maintaining good relations with the supporters of the culture itself is very important,” he added. (pal)

DENPASAR - The expedition team of the fifth NKRI Koridor Kepulauan Nusra 2015 consisting of 60 people led by Taufik Shobri arrived in Bali, Sun-day (Feb 8). The expedition team from Jakarta would join the team of Bali and carried out various activities in the re-gion of Karangasem. The activity was meant to learn more about the wealth of this country as well as understand the potential threats undermining the nation.

“The team departs from Jakarta to Bali by Air Force Hercules aircraft. Upon arrival at the Ngurah Rai Airport, Tuban, it was welcomed by the Com-mander of the 163/Wira Satya Military Resort, Heri Wiranto,” said Spokesper-son Adi Santoso.

On arriving at the office of the Gov-ernor of Bali, Taufik Shobri and the entourage were received by Governor Made Pastika accompanied by Chief of Udayana Regional Military Staff, Ruslian Hariadi, and other officials.

In his speech, Taufik Shobri revealed that his team was mixed members of the military, police and students. “Our reception was really festive, remark-able and giving pride as well as very soothing us. Once again, we’d like to salute and give high appreciation. On behalf of the Special Forces Com-mander Major General Doni Monardo as Commander of the Expedition, once again we thank you,” he said.

He added this expedition had the privilege because it was the first event involving a joint team, performed to-gether and spread across wide enough area. Various activities would be implemented, namely exploration, cross-scientific research and commu-nity services. The current government’s

vision was to achieve the sovereign and independent Indonesia as well as have personality based on mutual assistance. This vision was realized through seven missions and nine strategic agendas called Nawa Cita.

“This expedition activity is related to the vision and mission and strategic agenda of Mr. Jokowi-JK government. One of the explanations is capable of realizing the national security that can safeguard territorial sovereignty lead-ing to the high quality of human life, progress and prosperity. The mission is to realize Indonesia as a maritime, independent, developed and strong country based on the principle of na-tional interest,” he said.

The Nawa Cita had four priority agendas in the Homeland (NKRI) Ex-pedition, firstly, to bring back the state to protect the people and provide secu-rity to all citizens. Secondly, continued Taufik, was to build Indonesia from the periphery by strengthening the regions and villages. Thirdly, it was to revolu-tionize the national character, and the ultimately to reinforce and strengthen social diversity of Indonesia.

Why must involve students? Ac-cording to Taufik, students and young people were candidates that would lead the nation in the future. In ad-dition, they were also the agents of change for the environment and society. So, they were expected to eventually be able to bring the nation towards better future.

Through the expedition, his party expected the public to be more famil-iar with the wealth of the country. In addition, they should understand the potential threats that would undermine the nation in the future. (kmb36)

These questions were raised in a working meeting that was held with Commission I and Commission III of the Denpasar House with the Transportation Agency, Spatial Planning and Housing Agency (DTRP), As-set Division, Legal Division as well as the Cooperation Divi-sion of the Denpasar Munici-pality, on Friday (Feb 6). The meeting, that was opened by Deputy Chairman of the Den-pasar House, Wayan Mariyana Wandhira, was guided by Chair-man of Commission III, Eko Supriadi. “Many activities have been carried out by the authori-ties of Benoa Harbor without permission or recommenda-tions from the Municipality of Denpasar. Activities that were carried out without permission include; the process of marine backfilling and the construction of a helipad in the mangrove forest. We want to know why these activities were allowed to

be carried out and to what extent measures have been taken by the municipal government to reprimand these actions”, said Eko Supriadi.

Meanwhile, member of Com-mission III, A.A. Susruta Ngu-rah Putra, also questioned to what extent authorities from the Municipality of Denpasar were involved in a number of issues arising in relation to Benoa Har-bor. Supposedly, the municipal government is in charge of tak-ing assertive action against any violations that may have been committed in Benoa Harbour. “Such violations should not only be “Such violations should not only be reprimanded but, if need be assertive action such as sealing off the area needs to take place”, said Susruta.

In response to such questions, the Head of the Denpasar Spatial Planning and Housing Agency, I Kadek Kusuma Diputra, claimed that the backfill carried out by

Benoa Harbor authorities, was the result of the dredging of a pier groove intended for large vessels. The head of the Transporta-tion Division for the Denpasar Transportation Agency, Heriadi, stated that the Denpasar Trans-portation Agency had not given permission for construction in the mangrove forest and had in fact reprimanded the construc-tion of the helipad, which falls within their jurisdiction over the area of Denpasar.

Other than issues related to Benoa Harbor, the meeting also revealed some of the assets owned by the City of Denpasar. The existence of assets belonging to the Municipality should be managed appropriately so that they can be of benefit to govern-ment services and public welfare. So far, Benoa Harbor (Pelindo) authorities have not confirmed or denied any details related to the questions raised in the working meeting. (kmb12)

Marine backfilling activities in the area

of Benoa Harbor, South Denpasar,

drew the attention of the ranks of Com-mission I and Com-

mission III of the Denpasar House. The people’s rep-resentatives thus

questioned the en-vironmental impact

assessment (Amdal) of the project.

Helipad, marine backfilling at Benoa Harbor questioned

DENPASAR - Marine backfilling activities in the area of Benoa Harbor, South Denpasar, drew the attention of the ranks of Commission I and Commission III of the Denpasar House. The people’s representatives thus questioned the environmental impact assessment (Amdal) of the project. Apart from the backfilling, the discovery of a helipad in the area was also highlighted by the people’s representatives.

Fifth homeland expedition team arrives in Bali

The expedition team of the fifth NKRI Koridor Kepulauan Nusra 2015 consisting of 60 people led by Taufik Shobri arrived in Bali, Sunday (Feb 8). The expedition team from Jakarta would join the team of Bali and carried out various activities in the region of Karangasem.

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LOS ANGELES - “The Sponge-Bob Movie: Sponge Out of Water” cleaned up at the North American box office this weekend, dethron-ing “American Sniper” in its first week of release, estimates showed Sunday.

The animated 3-D movie, in which the title character attempts to recover a stolen burger recipe, debuted with an estimated $56 mil-lion in ticket sales, said box office tracker Exhibitor Relations.

“American Sniper,” relegated to second place, had $24.2 million in ticket sales as it finally fell from top spot.

Since its release, the highly ac-claimed “Sniper” has raked in $282 million and a half-dozen Oscar nominations, including a best ac-tor nod for Bradley Cooper in the title role.

“Jupiter Ascending” sold the third most tickets this week, with estimated box office receipts of $19 million in its opening weekend.

The fantasy flick pairs Mila Kunis and Channing Tatum and is a first foray into the genre for sibling directors Lana and Andy Wachowski since their work on

“The Matrix” series.“Seventh Son,” a 3-D fantasy-

action film starring Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore, debuted in fourth spot, earning $7.1 million.

“Paddington,” a big-screen adap-tation of the family classic about a bear lost in the big city, took fifth with $5.4 million in ticket sales.

Another science-fiction tale, “Project Almanac,” earned $5.3 million for sixth place.

“The Imitation Game,” which stars Benedict Cumberbatch as codebreaking genius Alan Turing, took $4.9 million for seventh place, followed by “Black or White,” a ra-cially charged drama starring Kevin Costner as a widowed grandfather battling to retain custody of his mixed-race granddaughter.

It grossed an estimated $4.52 million.

In ninth was comedy “The Wed-ding Ringer” with $4.5 million in receipts.

Jennifer Lopez’s steamy “The Boy Next Door,” in which the pop diva plays a divorcee who has an ill-advised affair with a very young male neighbor, came in 10th with $4.1 million. (afp)

Smith, along with Beyonce, Phar-rell and Ed Sheeran, lost album of the year to Beck’s “Morning Phase,” which also won best rock album Sun-day night.

“I want to thank the man who this record is about ... Thank you so much for breaking my heart because I have four Grammys,” said Smith, who also won best pop vocal album for “In the Lonely Hour.”

Kanye West, who famously inter-rupted Taylor Swift when she beat Beyonce at the MTV Video Music Awards, almost walked onstage when Prince announced Beck’s name. Some in the audience seemed shocked, from Pharrell to Questlove.

Beck’s album debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and sold about 300,000 units.

Pharrell and Rosanne Cash walked away with three awards each. Pharrell won best pop solo performance for a live version of “Happy,” released in 2013. He also won best music video for the song and best urban contem-porary album for “G I R L,” beating Beyonce.

“I am going to moonwalk my way off the stage right now,” said Pharrell, wearing a blazer and shorts.

Pharrell’s performance of “Happy” was dramatic with background danc-ers in black, musicians in yellow and a choir in white.

When the chorus was supposed to come in, Lang Lang played the piano skillfully. Hans Zimmer also played the guitar.

“Thank you, God,” Pharrell, in a bell-boy hat, said at the end of the performance.

Rihanna gave an impressive vocal performance of “FourFiveSeconds” with Paul McCartney to her right and Kanye West to her left. Her hair was slicked back, and she rocked a black suit like her co-stars

Katy Perry, in all white, sang the ballad “By the Grace of God” after a woman who had been abused talked about getting help and moving on with her life. A video of President Barack

Obama appeared before she spoke, and he encouraged artists to help out.

“It’s on us, all of us, to create a culture where violence isn’t tolerated,” he said.

Another serious moment came with Prince, who earned a standing ovation when he walked onstage to introduce album of the year.

“Albums — you remember those? They still matter. Like books and black lives, they still matter.”

Madonna, dressed as a matador, performed “Living for Love” atop a platform surrounded by a plethora of background dancers wearing bull masks. A choir did most of the sing-ing, while Madonna danced and the audience at the Staples Center clapped in unison. She ascended into the air as the performance finished.

West performed on a nearly pitch-black stage, with a light glowing from under his feet (he also sported the new sneakers he designed). He sang the new song about his late mother, “Only One.”

Annie Lennox was a powerhouse when she sang “I Put A Spell On You” and joined Hozier for “Take Me to Church,” nominated for song off the year.

Beyonce won best R&B song and R&B performance for “Drunk In Love” and surround sound album for “ B e -

yonce.”“This has been such an incredible

year,” she said, thanking her “beloved husband” and “my daughter who is watching.”

In one of 23 performances, AC/DC kicked off the show with a per-formance of their latest single, “Rock or Bust,” and then transitioned into the classic “Highway to Hell.” It earned a rousing applause from Pharrell, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry, who wore devil horns.

Ariana Grande gave a stripped, piano-led performance of “Just a Little Bit of Your Heart,” a song co-written by One Direction’s Harry Styles, while Miranda Lambert brought a rock-heavy vibe to “Little Red Wagon.” She won best country album for “Platinum.”

“I put my heart and soul in this record,” she said. “Thank you so much for this amazing night. I love y’all!”

Cash led the pre-show with three Grammys, while Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Chick Corea and the “Fro-zen” soundtrack earned two awards apiece.

“Reagan was president last time I won a Grammy,” said Cash, who won best American roots performance, American roots song and Americana album. “I just showed up for work for 35 years and this is what happened.”

Lamar, who lost in seven cat-egories last year, marked a re-demption by winning best rap performance and rap song for “i.”

Eminem won best rap album, beating Common and Iggy Azalea. He also won best rap/sung collaboration for “The Monster” with Rihanna.

The late Joan Rivers won best spoken word album for “Diary of a Mad Diva,” and her daughter, Melissa Riv-ers, was on hand to ac-cept the award. (ap)

Andrew Chan and Myuran Suku-maran, ringleaders of the so-called “Bali Nine” drug smuggling gang, lost a legal bid in the Balinese capital Denpasar to have their cases reviewed last week.

It effectively dashed their final hope of avoiding the firing squad, and their executions are expected to be carried out this month.

But their lawyer Todung Mulya Lubis told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation he planned one last at-tempt to save their lives by challenging

Indonesian President Joko Widodo’s decision not to pardon them in an administrative court.

The legal move has been rarely attempted before, but Mulya said he did not believe Widodo could simply reject the men’s clemency pleas on the basis of a drug emergency.

Widodo has been a vocal supporter of capital punishment and warned Indonesia was in a state of emergency due to drugs, with dozens of people dying every day.

“Well we have done almost every-

thing and now we are planning to file another claim to the administrative court in Jakarta,” Mulya said.

“We will challenge the rejection of the clemency issued by the president, or made by the president.

“Why? Because we don’t think the president can reject all the clemency petitions based only on a drug emer-gency situation.”

Mulya said that instead Widodo should consider each case on its mer-its, pointing to Chan and Sukumaran’s reformation during their almost 10

years in Bali’s Kerobokan prison.“The president should go into it

one by one. You cannot just read that on papers and then make a rejection or refusal,” he said.

“That’s not the way to do it because we are talking about human life, so we should not treat people, petitioners, as numbers -- treat them as human beings.”

The ABC said such an administra-tive appeal was thought to have been attempted only once before, in 2008, and failed.

Chan and Sukumaran were arrested in 2005 on the holiday island of Bali and sentenced to death the following year for attempting to smuggle heroin

out of Indonesia.On Sunday, senior religious leaders

in Australia called on Jakarta to show mercy, but Indonesia’s top diplomat in the country insisted their executions would go ahead.

Jakarta last month executed six drug offenders, including five foreign-ers. (afp)

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Raji, left, and Chintu Sukumaran, second left, the mother and brother of condemned Australian Myuran Sukumaran, are mobbed by the press upon arrival at the National Commission For Human Rights in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Feb. 9, 2015. Lawyers for two Australians facing imminent execution in Bali said Monday they plan to launch a rare challenge against the Indonesian president’s refusal to grant them a pardon.

Bali Nine lawyer plans last-minute bid to halt firing squad

SYDNEY - Lawyers for two Australians facing imminent execution in Bali said Monday they plan to launch a rare challenge against the Indonesian president’s refusal to grant them a pardon.

Sam Smith wins 4 GrammysLOS ANGELES — Sam Smith was the king of the Grammys, taking home three of the top

four awards, including song and record of the year for “Stay With Me,” and best new artist, while Beck won album of the year.

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Antonio Banderas attends the world premiere of “The Sponge-bob Movie: Sponge Out of Water” at AMC Lincoln Square on Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015, in New York.

‘SpongeBob’ cleans up at box office