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Emma Stone extends run in Cabaret’

NEW YORK - Actress Emma Stone will extend her run as singer Sally Bowles opposite Tony winner Alan Cumming in the Broadway musical “Cabaret” for an additional two weeks, producers said on Monday.

Stone, 26, who is nominated for a best supporting actress Golden Globe for her portrayal of an embittered daughter of a washed-up actor in the film “Birdman,” will play Bowles through Feb. 15.

The actress, known for her roles in “The Help” and the superhero action franchise “The Amazing Spider-Man,” has won rave reviews in “Cabaret,” which is set during the

rise of Nazism in Berlin.

The New York Times described Stone as “scintillating in an irresistible Broadway debut.” She replaced Michelle Williams in the role that was made famous by Liza Minnelli.

“Cabaret” is based on Christopher Isherwood’s 1939 novel “Goodbye to Berlin,” which chronicles in part the seedy caba-

ret nightlife of the German capital in the final years of the Weimar Republic.

Cumming will continue his role as Emcee in the revival of the 1998 Tony Award-winning production, which opened on April 24 at Studio 54, through March 29. Producers of the show said casting for a new Sally Bowles will be announced shortly. (rtr)

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One of New Jersey’s “Real Housewives” has gone to prison.

Teresa Giudice surrendered at the Federal Correction Institution in Connecticut at about 3 a.m. Monday to begin serving a 15-month sentence for bankruptcy fraud, her attorney said.

Giudice’s last meal before turning herself in was at a 24-hour diner near the facility, according to attorney James Leonard, who drove the “Real Housewives of New Jersey” star from her home in northern New Jersey to the prison, about 90 minutes north of New York City.

Giudice and her husband, Giuseppe “Joe” Giudice, pleaded guilty last year to hiding assets from bankruptcy creditors and submitting phony loan applications to get some $5 million in mortgages and construction loans. Joe Giudice also pleaded guilty to failing to pay taxes totaling more than $200,000.

Under terms of their plea agreements, Joe Giudice will start serving his 41-month sentence when Teresa Giudice is released, an arrangement aimed at ensuring the couple’s four daughters will have one parent at home at all times.

Joe Giudice, born in Italy, is not an American citizen and faces an immigration hearing when he completes his sentence and is expected to be deported. His attorney has said Giudice came to the U.S. as an infant and didn’t know he wasn’t an American citizen until he was an adult.

Attorneys said that under federal sentencing rules, Teresa Giudice could be eligible to be released by next December, and also could spend the last month or so of her sentence at a halfway house or under some form of home monitoring.

The Giudices also are required to pay $414,000 in restitution under their plea agreement; Teresa Giudice sent the government a check for $200,000 in early October, according to court records.

At the Giudices’ sentencing in October, U.S. District Judge Esther Salas criticized the couple for not disclosing all their assets as required under their plea agreement, calling it “the same pattern of obstruction, concealment and manipulation as they showed in the bankruptcy case.”

Still, Salas sentenced Teresa Giudice to a sentence below the range sought by the U.S. attorney’s office and staggered her sentence with her husband’s so they wouldn’t be in prison at the same time and unable to care for their four daughters.

Joe Giudice also pleaded guilty in state court in October to unlawful use of identification in a case involving a bogus driver’s license. His 18-month sentence will run concurrent with his federal sentence. (ap)

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Premium price more expensive

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‘Real Housewives’ star makes prison her new home

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Wednesday, January 7, 2015

People asked government to revise Bylaw No.1/2011

DENPASAR - Although the government has reduced the price of Premium fuel to IDR 7,600 ally going on?” he said.

Bangun asserted the regional per liter, people in Bali could not purchase it at that price. It happened because the price of fuel bylaw should be revised immediin Bali was set at IDR 7,950 per liter. Even, this price disparity already kindled a reaction from ately, no need to wait for another a number of people who wanted the same price of Premium in Bali as other regions.

“The price must be made the same as in other regions. Not all the people in Bali are rich. We also still have poor residents,” said Made, a resident of Denpasar.

Similarly, he objected to the high fuel price in Bali because the price of basic necessities had already been rising.

Calculation of the Premium price is based on basic price plus Value Added Tax (VAT), vehicle fuel tax (PBBKB) and operating

profit margin. Premium price in Bali becomes so prominent because local government in Bali sets the fuel tax by 10 percent. Even, it is the highest in Indonesia. The magnitude has been set forth in the Bali Regional Bylaw (Perda) No.1/ 2011 on Local Taxes, particularly in Article 37 Chapter V. Related to this issue, Chairman of the Bali Dwipa Care Forum, Gede Bangun Nusantara, questioned why only Bali Province set

the fuel tax by 10 percent. Meanwhile, other regions in Java and Madura set it by 5 percent.

“Is Bali still belonging to the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia or not? It is the question.

I think the governor and Bali House must address this issue by revising the Bylaw No. 1/2011 by decreasing the tax to 5 percent so as the same as other provinces in Indonesia.

Otherwise, it will burden the people with unreasonable tax. What’s re-

time as the regulation concerned the lives of many people. Government was asked not to act arbitrarily to people because of the Premium price disparity of IDR 350 was quite burdensome to Balinese life.

“If we count the 2,500 kiloliters per day multiplied by IDR 350 and multiplied by 365 days, it will result in over 300 billion. So, the difference almost reaches IDR 300 billions. Actually the fuel tax is not as much as that amount because the

other provinces are enough to set it by 5 percent. The bylaw should be soon revised. When quoting the statement of the declaration of the Independence Day, it must be done within the shortest possible time,” he explained. (kmb32) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am.

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People are queuing at petrol station to get some fuel in Denpasar, recently. Although the government has reduced the price of Premium fuel to IDR 7,600 per liter, people in Bali could not purchase it at that price. It happened because the price of fuel in Bali was set at IDR 7,950 per liter.

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Bali News

Due to bad weather, boat crossing closed

The billboard is blocking the traffic light so it must be dismantled

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Dozens of billboards dismantled by force AMLAPURA - Dozens of billboards and banners in the town of Amlapura, were dismantled by Municipal Police on Monday (Jan 5), because the permits for posting them had expired. Some of the billboards had been installed in restricted areas that could compromise people’s mobility. The dismantling of the billboards and banners was also meant to clean up the town and reduce the slum like impression that the billboards created.

Chief of the Karangasem Municipal Police, Iwan Suparta, revealed that at least 50 billboards and banners were already dismantled on the road between Amlapura and Jasri.

The general cleanup was carried out at this particular moment, given that many of the signs were holyday greetings for Galungan, Kuningan and New Years. Aside from the billboards posted by organizations, the ones posted by the regent and deputy regent of Karangasem were also dismantled.

Before dismantling, Suparta claimed to have sent a warning letter to those who had posted the billboards, asking them to take down their signs. On Monday, the police

took down any remaining signs.

“We have kept all the dismantled billboards in the office of the Karangasem Municipal Police. The owners are welcome to collect their property from the office,” he said.

To take down all the billboards, a total of 18 personnel from the Karangasem Municipal Police were deployed and divided into two teams. Iwan Suparta admitted that most of the billboards were mounted on roadside and pegged onto trees. “In accordance with the rules of billboard installation on roadsides, it is forbidden to peg signs to trees,” he explained.

In 2015, his party would further tighten the regulations on the

installation of billboards and banners in Amlapura. Poorly organized billboard installations, according to Iwan Suparta, gives a slum-like impression to the town of Karangasem. For this reason, his party has appealed to community leaders and organizations to coordinate in advance with the Municipal Police of Karangasem prior to installing such signs.

Any billboards or banners installed in restricted areas would immediately issue a letter of reprimand. “We try to persuade people to dismantle illegal signs themselves, but failing this officers demolish the signs by force,” he concluded. (dwa)

AMLAPURA - For the safety of passengers, the boat crossing from Padangbai Harbor to Gili Trawangan tourist attraction, Lombok, NTB, was closed. Strong winds in the Straits of Lombok were followed by high waves reaching 1 to 3 meters caused the boat crossing to be crossing be unsafe.

When the weather returns to normal, the crossing will be opened again.

Harbor administrator of Padangbai, Ketut Aryadana, revealed that a number of boats that usually serve the PadangbaiLombok crossing had to be postponed due to unfavorable weather condition. “The crossing was postponed today (Monday) due to bad weather” he said. Moreover, the possibility of high waves occurs due to erratic weather conditions.

Bad weather would not affect large-sized vessels because the wave height limit was still around 1 to 3 meters. Crossing service on the Padangbai-Lembar was not disturbed and could still be in operation. “The crossing remains normal and is going well. We do not need to apply the open-close system here,” he explained.

Ketut Aryadana ensured that the boat crossing services would be reopend when the weather was back to normal.

However, his party could not ascertain when the weather would go back to normal. “If tomorrow (Tuesday) the weather is fine, we will be in operation. But if the waves unexpectedly go higher, we will have to delay the crossing by applying the open-close system,” he concluded. (kmb)

Landslide in Pupuan, traffic hampered by materials

TABANAN - Landslides occurred again in Tabanan County.

After having previously occurred in Penebel subdistrict, on Sunday night (Jan 4) another landslide occurred in Pupuan subdistrict, on the highway at Batungsel Kelod hamlet, Pupuan. Fortunately, the incident did not claim any casualties.

However, the 30 meter high landslide with a diameter of 50 meters, caused the traffic of Pupuan-Antosari-Singaraja to be disrupted by landslide debri that covered half the road.

Subdistrict head of Pupuan, Putu Arya Suta, said that landslide occurred around 8:15 p.m. That night the Pupuan area was flushed out by heavy rain all day. “Fortunately the road was quite, whereas usually many vehicles pass through the area where the landslide occurred,” he said, Monday (Jan 5).

Upon receiving the report of a landslide, his party promptly contacted relevant parties, namely the Tabanan Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) and the officials of the province to deal with the materials covering the provincial road. “That night officers removed the landslide debris with heavy equipment from the Bali Public Works Agency,” he explained.

As the evacuation process took place, the road connecting Pupuan to Singaraja only had one lane open, large enough for small vehicles. Heavy trucks had to stop temporarily as the road could not handle such loads.

“This morning (Monday) the road is back to normal.

Meanwhile, the remaining landslide materials continue to be cleaned up so that they will not spread to road again when it rains.” he concluded. (kmb28)

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PHM awarded Indonesia Leading Local Chain Award JAKARTA - PHM Hospitality announced that the company has been awarded as Indonesia Leading Local Chain 2014/2015 from Indonesia Travel & Tourism Award Foundation on last 15 December 2014.

Previously, PHM Hospitality has been named as Indonesia Leading Local Chain for 2012/2013.

More, 2 of 6 unit hotels which managed by PHM Hospitality were also recognized with some categories such as THE 1O1 Bali Legian won Indonesia Leading Lifestyle Hotel Bali 2014/2015, and THE BnB Jakarta Kelapa Gading has been awarded as Indonesia Leading City Hotel – Jakarta 2014/2015.

THE 1O1 Bali Legian is a MidScale Premium Hotel located in Legian Bali, an urban legendary destination in Bali. The hotel is pioneering a Chic & Trendy lifestyle in the Legian area and offers 5 Unique Selling Points such as Smart Stylish Design, Smart Stylish Hospitality, Smart Stylish Destination, 1O1 Smart Living, and Smart Stylish Booking, which is suitable for both business

and leisure traveler. THE 1O1 Bali Legian is featuring 300 Chic & Trendy Room, Rooftop Dine & Music Lounge, Meeting Rooms, 2 Swimming Pools, Alfresco Restaurant, Atma Spa & Mini Gym. THE BnB Jakarta Kelapa Gading is an Urban Smart Hotel under THE BnB Hotels Brand which has been repositioning from Budget Hotels into Economical Hotels. It is located in Kelapa Gading area which offers 6 Unique Selling Points as an economical hotel such as Sleep Well, Good Location, Urban Services, Planning Events & Meetings, free Wi-Fi, and Value for Money. It is a Hub for Urban Personality who is modern, open minded yet value-conscious, and loves to explore all the greatness with

simple mind, either for their short business trip or leisure purpose. The hotel is featuring 171 Urban Rooms, 6 medium meeting rooms, and Kaffein the coffee shop.

Kristian Kuntadi, Managing Director of PHM Hospitality says: “it was a great honor for PHM Hospitality and our unit hotels to receive the awards as recognition of our mission to deliver unique and pleasant experiences for our customers through innovative & excellent services. In this regards, please let us extend sincere gratitude to our stakeholders, particularly our employees for their dedication to implement our mission. We promise to continuously seek for innovation and new ways in delivering unique services and values.” (r)

Balinese Temple Ceremony

Profile

Shane Coates

Be Reactive and Proactive

The leading entertainment hotel in Bali, Hard Rock Hotel Bali happily announces its new General Manager, Shane Coates. Before assuming the position at Hard Rock Hotel Bali, the man who familiar called Shane, has had the experience in hospitality over 20 years. So, there is no doubt for Shane in managing Hard Rock Hotel as the one of the best hotel around Kuta area.

Previously, Shane was an Executive Assistant Manager at the Hard Rock Hotel Penang. It is assisted by HPL Hotels & Resorts Group to lead some properties. A New Zealand Australian, Shane brings his international hospitality experience in Malaysia and Australia. He was also the GM at Vibe Savoy Hotel Melbourne and various other TFE Hotels in Perth and Sydney.

Shane runs his position effectively on 13 October 2014.

In his new position, Shane will provide strategic leadership expertise and ensure the effective and efficient operation of the hotel. Moreover, Hard Rock Bali that is built on 3.5 hectare with 418 tribute rooms and suites on prime site, known as the heart of Bali’s entertainment and shopping center. The best point, it has great location, exactly in front of Kuta Beach.

“I really enjoy working here. I love Balinese people with its custom and friendliness. Besides that, hospitality in Bali is very strong and different with the others. I really respect, Bali is a very spiritual place. I find good balance and good impression,” he said.

There is a unique thing that Shane always wants to develop.

Those are services, qualities and facilities. “I believe Hard Rock has good brand. We will never tire in giving experience by rock at center stage, Hard Rock,” he revealed.

Keep in touch with the staff is also important, he said, as long as the staff can continue to develop themselves, they will be success. According to him, staff is number one. That is why he is providing the good tool and facilities to create sustainable success. “Human resource is a big part of hospitality. So, we

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make an effort to work in transparent management, maintaining policy with the staff, make good communication and work together,” he delivered.

Hard Rock Hotel is one of routine hotel in running corporate social responsibility (SCR). “We do commit in helping less fortune community. We want to be reactive and proactive, not only to treat our guest but also environment and community around us,” he closed. (ocha)

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 considered 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 “umbulumbul”, 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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Technology

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Smart gadgets take center stage at CES LAS VEGAS — Imagine a world in which your garage door opens automatically as you pull into the driveway. The living room lights and heater turn on — perhaps the oven starts warming up, too. In the so-called “smart home,” cars, appliances and other devices all have sensors and Internet connectivity to think and act for themselves, and make your life easier.

We’re not there just yet, but we’re getting closer.

The smart-home concept is known in tech circles as the Internet of Things.

Current iterations primarily include our ability to control gadgets such as lights and security alarms or view data remotely through a smartphone app.

At the International CES gadget show in Las Vegas this week, manufacturers will promote more devices and functionality. Some gadgets will be able to talk directly with one another, not just to an app. The four-day show opens to the public Tuesday.

The Internet of Things could mean big business for gadget makers. The Consumer Electronics Association projects U.S. sales of smart energy and security systems alone will total $574 million this year, a 23 percent increase from 2014. Although that pales by comparison to the $18 billion spent on TVs and displays, growth has been swift. In terms of people smartening up their homes in earnest, though, it will probably be another two years before devices are cheap and widespread enough for the typical consumer, says Eduardo Pinheiro, CEO of Muzzley, which makes a hub that allows devices to talk to each other.

For now, the smart home is more about possibilities than practice.

Many companies exhibiting at CES are laying the foundation for what a smart-home system will eventually do, hoping to entice consumers to start thinking about upgrading to smart gadgets. It’s not always an easy sell.

Consider wearable devices that track fitness and other activities. In many cases, the novelty wears off quickly, and devices end up in drawers. But what if a wearable device that tracks sleep could tell the coffeemaker to start brewing as soon as you awoke? When the coffee’s done, what if the sprinklers on the front lawn automatically turned off so you didn’t get wet walking out the front door to work?

“It’s these great benefits that we need to explain,” says BK Yoon, Samsung’s CEO and chief of consumer electronics. “We can’t just talk about the Internet of Things because it’s so impersonal like a bedtime story for robots. We have to show what’s in it for them.”

That includes freeing people from chores to spend more time with family, pursue more hobbies and, in his case, spend “quality time on the putting

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

In Denpasar, consumers shift to 3-kg LPG

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DENPASAR - The government through Pertamina has raised the price of non-subsidized Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) of 12-kg canister. After the price hike, the average selling price of blue canister LPG at sales agency became IDR 11,225 per kg or IDR 134,700 per canister from the previous price of an average of IDR 125,000 per canister. As a result of the increase, the communities especially in urban areas preferred to use the subsidized 3-kg LPG canister.

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The Alarm.com smart thermostat and application are on display at CES Unveiled, a media preview event for CES International, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2015, in Las Vegas. green,” he says.

Some examples: Lucis Technologies will soon ship a smart-lighting device called NuBryte that can learn your behavior, such as what time you tend to come home. Sensors can turn on the night light if you wake up to use the bathroom but switch on brighter lights during the day. A coffeemaker from

Smarter will soon use data from fitness trackers such as Fitbit. If you had a bad night of sleep, the coffeemaker will know to make the java stronger that morning. Other products focus on better notifications: a battery for a smoke detector to alert you on your phone when the alarm goes off, or a bracelet that vibrates when the baby cries in

its crib. (Moms rejoice: the bracelet is even smart enough to alternate which parent it alerts to get up.)

“It’s got to be something people are seeing it can do and want it to do,” says Chris Penrose, AT&T’s senior vice president for the Internet of Things.

“It’s got to make their lives better and be incredibly easy to use.” (ap)

Highlight on CES app with recipes and other content. The three chefs will share some of their favorites.

Samsung will also make a Chef Collection edition of its tablet.

Meanwhile, Samsung is trying to make its new Gear VR virtual-reality headset more appealing by developing more content.

The new Milk VR service AP Photo/John Locher will include updates of John Herrington, senior vice president 360-degree free content of Samsung Electronics America, talks five days a week. David about new appliances during a Sam- Alpert, a producer for the hit AMC show “The Walksung news conference at the ing Dead,” will create a mystery-suspense episodic - Virtual Reality, Real Eating Samsung has traditionally been thriller exclusively for the service. Virknown for its hardware — from TVs and tual reality “allows us as storytellers to appliances to phones and smartwatches. really push the boundaries and explore It’s now making a bigger push into con- new ways of engaging the audience,” tent. The company paraded three leading says Alpert. Content will also come chefs on stage — Michel Troisgros of from the National Basketball AssoMaison Troisgros in Roanne, France, ciation and brands such as Mountain Christopher Kostow of The Restaurant Dew. The Gear VR device sells for at Meadowood in California’s Napa $199 and requires a Galaxy Note 4 Valley and Daniel Boulud of New phone, excluding the Edge version.

York City’s Daniel — to launch an International CES Monday, Jan. 5, 2015, in Las Vegas.

Bali News

International

- Write Me

Sometimes, it’s easier to write or draw something than to type. Some tablets including Microsoft’s Surface and Samsung’s Note series come with styluses to do just that, but that means having an extra item to carry around and potentially lose.

Now you can write on a tablet screen with just an ordinary pen or pencil. Lenovo is introducing a technology called AnyPen in its new 8-inch (20-centimeter) Yoga Tablet 2. Lenovo says the pen or pencil will even make touchscreen navigation easier than using a finger.

The tablet is built to withstand normal pressure, but don’t press too hard, or you might scratch the surface.

- All in the Screens

LG’s new G Flex 2 has a slightly curved screen, as the name implies.

LG says that makes phones easier to hold and the display easier to read.

Even more notable is the fact that LG is also making the Flex 2 smaller than its predecessor, countering a trend toward bigger and bigger phones.

LG says it got complaints that the previous, 6-inch (15-centimeter) ver-

sion felt too big. The new one will be product, and LG doesn’t expect to just 5.5 inches (14 centimeters), which ship as many Flex 2 phones as its flat LG considers the “sweet spot” for G3 smartphone. A price hasn’t been smartphones. That’s the same screen determined, but it’s expected to be size as Apple’s new iPhone 6 Plus, more than the G3 and other high-end though it’s actually slightly shorter phones, which typically cost $600 to when placed side by side. $700 without a two-year contract.

LG is also making the back of its Meanwhile, Sharp plans to release new phone “scratch-proof” by adding a 5-inch (12.5-centimeter) frameless self-healing properties. Scratch or nick phone — the screen goes right to the it under normal use, and the mark dis- edge. It actually uses an optical-lens appears in seconds. The screen itself trick to make the front panel appear isn’t scratchproof, but LG says it’s to extend to the edge. Magic or not, more durable than usual with a special the trick keeps the overall phone chemical layer applied to Corning’s smaller.

Gorilla Glass.

The Flex 2 has improved screen resolution over the original Flex, at 1080p high definition, though that’s still behind LG’s G3 in sharpness. The Flex 2 also introduces some selfie features and a way to quickly check the time and notificaAP Photo/John Locher tions without turning The LG G Flex 2 during a media preview the entire screen on.

C u r v e d - s c r e e n before CES International Sunday, Jan. 4, phones remain a niche 2015, in Las Vegas.

“Now, more buyers are looking for the 3-kg LPG, although it is sold for IDR 20,000 per canister. They are persistently looking for the 3-kg instead of the 12-kg canister,” said Nengah Nasih, an LPG retailer in Denpasar, Monday (Jan 5).

According to her, in addition to unaffordable price, some few consumers switched to the 3-kg LPG because they gave up as the content of the 12-kg canister was not appropriate. “They argued to give up of using the 12-kg canister.

After being used for few days the gas has run out and it is said the content was not appropriate. I do not know why it happens because as a retailer I was just given in such condition by agent,” she said.

Since the past few months, she had to exchange her 12-kg LPG canisters with the 3-kg ones. “I was overwhelmed to meet the demand

of 3-kg LPG, while the 12-kg canister is not salable. Therefore, I decided to exchange them. It’s quite reasonable as a 12-kg canister can be exchanged with three 3-kg canisters,” he said.

Meanwhile, Director of the Consumer Protection Foundation (YLPK) of Bali, Putu Armaya, also admitted the wide price disparities of LPG did not only kindle the lower middle class, but also the upper middle class to switch to 3-kg LPG remaining to be subsidized and the price was not increased.

“Certainly it will trigger migration from the use of 3-kg to 12-kg LPG canister. The upper middle class will also use 3-kg LPG that should become the right of the lower middle class because the price disparity is wide,” he said.

He also said if the price of the 12-kg LPG was increased it would

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As a result of the increase of non-subsidized LPG, the communities especially in urban areas preferred to use the subsidized 3-kg LPG canister. trigger illegal mixing action of the 3-kg LPG to 12-kg LPG canister. It happened because the price disparity between the 12-kg LPG and the 3-kg LPG would be

increasingly wider.

“Price hike of the 12-kg LPG will also potentially trigger a fraud and smuggling. In other words, the right of the lower middle class

people will be robbed by the upper middle class. Although the price of the 3-kg LPG is increased, the wide price disparity will persist,” he concluded. (kmb27)

Celukan Bawang favorite port for skippers SINGARAJA - Existence of the freight stevedoring pier at Celukan Bawang Harbor, Gerokgak, becomes a featured icon for the Northern Bali community. As a natural and convenient harbor for skippers, this largest harbor in Buleleng has become favorite sojourn for barges which often transport goods to various towns in Bali.

The Head of Buleleng Development Planning Board (Bappeda), Gede Suyasa, said that designation of Celukan Bawang Harbor was very appropriate for barges and cruise ships to anchor in Bali. It was enabled because the construction of Celukan Bawang Harbor was natural without too big ocean waves. “According to provincial Spatial Plan, it should become the center of all stevedoring activities in Bali. Based on the experience of skippers, Celukan Bawang Harbor is the most convenient harbor for cruise ship to berth. As a natural harbor, the waves are not high and surrounding condition is very good as well,” he said, Monday (Jan 5).

When the freight was unloaded at Celukan Bawang Harbor, the condition of road construction would become a

constraint for trucks transporting the freight. “Regent of Buleleng has often delivered the issue to provincial government if the Celukan Bawang Harbor is indeed used as stevedoring harbor it must be focused on stevedoring activity. However, there was complaint of employers where if the freight is unloaded in Buleleng, when it is transported to southern Bali, the road access is even not good as it can kindle congestion at Gitgit,” he said.

Cooperation between Bali and Buleleng government to maximize the role of Celukan Bawang Harbor remained to be done as well as in the matter of road access posing the main supporting infrastructure for smooth distribution of freight. “When freight is just unloaded at the harbor, there should be an access to distribute the freight. Unlike when stevedoring activities are done at Benoa Harbor Denpasar, the access of distribution can be smoother. Thus, the road access becomes a very important part,” said Suyasa.

Meanwhile, according to Dewa Gede Adi Kumarajaya, General Manager of PT Pelindo III of Celukan Bawang Branch, if the Benoa Harbor

was merely intended for tourism vessel, the entire container ships would be directed to Celukan Bawang as set forth in the master plan of Celukan Bawang Harbor. “The role of Celukan Bawang Harbor will be developed in the future into a cargo harbor. It will depend on the status of Benoa Harbor whether it has become a special tourism harbor. As a result, cargo ships will certainly be directed to the North,” he said. Stevedoring activities at Celukan Bawang covered the

commodities such as iron, timber and cement, including the locally made cement of Indonesia to Vietnam. Distribution of cement was mostly sent to Denpasar. Furthermore, the Bali provincial government plan related to the development of Soka – Seririt Toll Road as road infrastructure was expected to facilitate the distribution access from North Bali to South Bali.

“Hopefully, the distribution of freight in the future can become more fluent,” he added. (kmb34)

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Existence of the freight stevedoring pier at Celukan Bawang Harbor, Gerokgak, becomes a featured icon for the Northern Bali community. As a natural and convenient harbor for skippers, this largest harbor in Buleleng has become favorite sojourn for barges which often transport goods to various towns in Bali.

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2 more women join defamation lawsuit against Bill Cosby

Plastic waste management

Government needs to form communication forum on waste banks

Wangaya Hospital

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After holidays, visitors to hospital on the rise

BANGLI – The high volume of plastic waste generated by Bangli County and managed by waste bank groups is not coalesced into a waste bank communication forum.

It is very much the hope of group head of the Dywik Waste Bank at Taman Bali village of Bangli, I Wayan Sutirka, that such a forum will be created. According to Sutirka, the creation of a forum, would allow people who care about plastic waste to share their knowledge with each other, including those aspects related to waste management. “We hope to get the attention of the government in order to establish a communication forum for waste banks,” he said on Monday (Jan 5).

So far, there is only one waste bank in Bangli County, which can nowhere near handle to volume of waste produced. According to Sutirka, the amount of plastic waste generated in the area and which, could be collected by his waste bank, comes out to about 55,588 kg. This figure includes waste from all subdistricts in Bangli. Every month, the plastic waste generated amounts to some 4,000 to 7,000 kg.

Such a high volume of plastic waste has urged him to think creatively about how to resolve the existing problems both regarding the selling price and product marketing.

For this reason the presence of a communication forum is necessary.

The government should not only focus in terms of waste collection,

but should also encourage the emergence of creative ideas from other waste banks that could be gathered in the context of a forum.

He added that creation of such a communication forum was more important than the addition of more waste banks. According to him, existing waste banks already cover many sub-units so this is not a problem in itself. “The number of waste banks is not the problem, rather communication between the different counties is what is still less than optimal, thus the importance of creating a communication forum” he added.

So far, communication related to plastic waste management is only taking place amongst the housewife organization (PKK) and schools in Bangli.

Regarding the amount of plastic waste, the Control Subdivision Head of the Bangli Environment Agency, Gusti Laksana said “Exisitng junk banks have been handling the plastic waste”.

Laksana, added that “before the presence of waste banks, the Environment Agency used to collect the waste and transport it to landfills. Now it is different, the Environment Agency just coordinates with the waste banks in terms of waste collection. “In the past, we went directly to schools to collect plastic waste. Now, we just need to coordinate with waste banks where people bring their plastic” said Laksana. (sos)

DENPASAR – After New Years, the holyday feast for the birth of the Prophet Muhammad occured, which happened to coincide with crowding in the admission room of to Sanglah Hospital.

People faced long queues, all waiting room chairs were occupied leaving many people forced to stand as they waited for their name to be called.

Nengah Desi, one of the patients waiting for service at Sanglah Hospital, had to wait two hours just to check in. Many people were hoping to be served quickly but instead faced long queues.” she explained.

Meanwhile, Subdivision Head

of the Public Relations of Sanglah Hospital, Kadek Naryantha, said the increasing number of visitors after the holidays is quite commonplace, especially when holidays fall on a weekend. “Because many people have time off on the weekend they only come into the hospital on Monday” he said.

In anticipation of long queues, the hospital attempted to provide maximal services by deploying existing human resources. “Even

though the number of visitors is increased, we still strive to provide maximal services by assigning more staff and working to the best of our abilities,” he explained.

Similar scenes also occurred at Wangaya Hospital. Based on observations by Bali Post, many patients were already queued at the policlinic as well as in front of the ticket counter of the Wangaya Hospital. (kmb42)

The plastic waste is filling the coast

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BOSTON — Two women accusing Bill Cosby of sexual offenses decades ago have joined a defamation lawsuit, contending the comedian publicly branded them as liars through statements by his representatives. The amended complaint was filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Springfield, in western Massachusetts, where Cosby has a home in Shelburne Falls.

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Central Intelligence Director (CIA) Director John Brennan speaks during a news conference at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Va., Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014.

US senator urges changes to avoid repeat of CIA torture WASHINGTON — The outgoing chairman of the Senate intelligence committee is urging a series of policy and legislative changes to ensure that the U.S. government never again tortures detainees, even as polls show that a majority of Americans believe harsh CIA interrogations after Sept. 1, 2001 attacks against the U.S. were justified.

Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein presided over a five-year investigation that resulted in last month’s release of parts of a report that harshly described the CIA practice of torture against terror detainees after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

The 525-page executive summary cited the CIA’s own documents in finding that the agency’s interrogation program was more brutal than previously understood and failed to produce unique intelligence that couldn’t have been obtained through traditional methods.

President Barack Obama has called the practices torture, something former CIA officials dispute.

The executive summary of the Senate report, written by Feinstein staff members, documents CIA mismanagement and misrepresentations, some of which the agency has acknowledged.

In a letter to Obama released Monday, Feinstein outlined a series of recommendations “intended to make sure that the United States

never again engages in actions that you have acknowledged were torture.” The documented shortcomings in the CIA’s decade-old interrogation program “should prompt additional oversight and better sharing of information for all covert action and significant intelligence collection programs,” she said.

Feinstein said she will introduce legislation in the upcoming Congress to codify Obama’s executive order banning torture and prohibiting the CIA from detaining prisoners.

Her office said she introduced similar legislation in 2009, but then began to focus on the investigation and wanted to wait for its outcome before pressing for changes.

“We didn’t know then that the study would not be completed until the end of 2014, so we went down the track of the investigation with the idea that recommendations would follow from what we found,” her top intelligence aide, David Grannis, said in an email.

Feinstein also called for a series of policy changes designed to force the CIA to better manage its covert actions and more fully inform Congress about them. And she urged new rules to ensure better accountability at the CIA, an agency where managerial and operational negligence has often gone unpunished. (ap)

Cosby is the only defendant in the lawsuit, originally filed last month by Tamara Green, who said he drugged and assaulted her in the 1970s. The two new plaintiffs are Therese Serignese, who said he drugged and raped her in 1976, and Linda Traitz, who alleges he tried to drug her and then sexually groped her in 1970.

Attorney Joseph Cammarata, who represents the three women, said the civil action allows them to have their allegations heard since criminal statutes of limitation have expired. “The lawsuit provides an opportunity for women who claim to have been harmed to have their day in court in a forum where the truth can be tried,” he said.

Cosby’s publicist David Brokaw and lawyer Martin Singer did not immediately respond to requests

for comment Monday. Singer has said he expected to prevail in the original lawsuit.

Green first spoke publicly about her allegations in 2005. She said in the lawsuit that after she did media interviews Brokaw and Cosby’s lawyer Walter M. Phillips Jr. made statements intended to expose her to public contempt and ridicule. Phillips said last month he represented Cosby in 2005 but no longer does, and he declined to comment further.

Brokaw did not return messages then seeking comment on Green’s allegations.

Serignese and Traitz, who are from Florida, allege in the amended complaint that when they came forward separately last November, Singer issued responses for Cosby that said they and other accusers were lying.

Since November, at least 15

women have come forward with claims Cosby sexually assaulted them decades ago. Most of the women say he drugged them before he assaulted them.

Cosby, who starred as Dr. Cliff Huxtable on “The Cosby Show” from 1984 to 1992, has never been charged in connection with any of the allegations, and through his representatives he has denied them.

A 2005 lawsuit by a Pennsylvania woman was settled before it went to trial.

Cosby’s career unraveled after his accusers came forward, with a TV project halted and nearly a dozen standup comedy tour performances canceled or indefinitely postponed. He’s scheduled to appear Wednesday in Canada, at a Kitchener, Ontario, theater, his first concert since a Nov. 21 show in Melbourne, Florida. (ap)

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FILE - This Oct. 26, 2009 file photo, comedian Bill Cosby, left, and his wife Camille appear at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts before Bill Cosby received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in Washington.

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BUSINESS Oil prices rebound in Asian trade

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Dodge Ram pickup trucks are on display on the lot at Landmark Dodge Chrysler Jeep RAM Monday, Jan. 5, 2015, in Morrow, Ga. Buoyed by a resurgent economy, holiday sales, cheap gasoline and a love affair with pickup trucks, Americans headed to car dealers in droves last month, pushing full-year sales to what’s likely to be the highest level since 2006.

Carmakers finish strong in 2014

DETROIT — Confident in the economy and cheered by cheap gas, Americans are likely to push new car sales to their highest level in a decade this year.

Analysts expect sales to reach 17 million for the first time since 2005. That’s close to the record of 17.3 million set in 2000.

Low gas prices are giving buyers more confidence, whether they’re buying their first subcompact or upgrading to a larger SUV. Gas prices started this year at an average of $2.23 per gallon, down 33 percent from the beginning of 2014, according to AAA. The Energy Department estimates that lower gasoline prices will save U.S. households $550 this year — about four months of lease payments on a 2014 Honda Civic.

Popular new vehicles, like the Jeep Cherokee and Subaru Outback, are also drawing buyers.

Sales have now grown for five consecutive years — a rarity in the volatile auto industry.

While sales are growing, the pace has slowed from double-digit

increases in 2011 and 2012. That’s good news for buyers, who can expect to see bigger discounts in competitive segments like midsize cars as automakers fight to steal sales from each other.

Alec Gutierrez, an analyst with the car buying site Kelley Blue Book, thinks sales could stay in the 17-million range for the next two or three years if interest rates stay low and the U.S. economy remains healthy.

December, with its holiday discounts and warmer-than-usual weather, brought buyers out in droves, with sales up 11 percent over the previous year. Automakers reported December and full-year sales Monday.

For all of 2014, sales were up 6 percent to 16.5 million vehicles, according to Autodata Corp. That was the biggest year for the industry since 2006.

Back then — as now — the Ford F-Series was the country’s best-selling vehicle and the midsize Toyota Camry was the best-selling car. The top-selling SUV was the Ford Explorer, but it was only No. 14 among all vehicles sold, according to Ward’s AutoInfoBank.

In 2014 two smaller SUVs — the Honda CR-V and the Ford Escape — cracked the top 10 in sales as customers turned away from small and midsize cars as car-like handling and low gas prices made such vehicles more appealing.

Toyota, Fiat Chrysler and General Motors all reported 2014 sales increases, and Nissan, Subaru, Hyundai and Honda reported record numbers for the year.

Ford’s sales were flat, but the Ford brand remained the top-selling brand in the U.S. Among major automakers, only Volkswagen’s sales fell. (ap)

SINGAPORE - Oil prices recovered slightly in Asia Tuesday after the US contract fell below the psychological $50 mark in New York on demand worries, a strong dollar and a global supply glut.

West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for February, the US benchmark, rose nine cents to $50.13 in afternoon trade. Brent crude rose for February rose 22 cents to $53.33.

WTI fell as low as $49.95 -- a level not seen since May 2009 -Monday before closing at $50.04, down $2.65 from Friday. Brent fell $3.31 to $53.11.

“The price rebound (in Asia) is likely to be provisional as traders anticipate short-term moves in the oil market in this blow-off phase,” Michael McCarthy, chief market strategist at CMC Markets in Sydney, told AFP. Monday’s slide followed indications of rising output from key producers Russia and Iraq at a time when forecasters have trimmed their demand projections due to weak global economic growth.

A long rally in the greenback, which gained 11 percent last year against a

basket of major currencies, has also weighed on the dollar-priced oil market by making crude more expensive for buyers using weaker units.

Analysts are warning of further losses to come for the black gold.

Oil has dropped about 50 percent since June on worries about weak demand and a decision by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries not to cut output in response to lower prices and higher supplies.

Monday’s heavy losses are a reminder to the market “that oil fundamentals have not changed just because we entered into the New Year,” said Daniel Ang, investment analyst at Phillip Futures in Singapore.

“To further exacerbate the problem, a New Year means a new slate for oil bears and with them coming back to the market, this pushes the prices down further,” he said.

CMC’s McCarthy said prices could stabilise if global production is reduced following plummeting prices, and “the likes of China and the European Union revise their demand outlook this quarter.” (afp)

TOKYO - Toyota will give away thousands of patents for its fuel-cell cars, it said Tuesday, in an effort to encourage other automakers into the new industry.

The world’s largest vehicle maker said it will allow royalty-free use of about 5,680 patent licences, including 1,970 related to fuel-cell stacks and 3,350 concerning fuel-cell system control technology.

The firm also said the free patent licences will include about 290 items related to high-pressure hydrogen tanks.

The cost-free licences will be allowed “through the initial market introduction period” of fuel cell vehicles (FCV), which the company expects to last until about 2020.

Toyota will also open about 70 patent licences related to hydrogen stations -- the equivalent of gas stands for internal combustion vehicles, and a vital link in the chain for drivers -- indefinitely for manufacturers and operators.

“By allowing royalty-free use of FCV-related patent licences, Toyota is going one step further as it aims to promote the widespread use of FCVs and actively contribute to the realisation of a hydrogen-based society,” the

automaker said in a statement.

The announcement came after Toyota last month rolled out the world’s first mass market fuel-cell car -- the four-door Mirai sedan -- in Japan.

The car -- whose name means “future” in Japanese -- will hit the US and some European countries, including Britain, Germany and Denmark, in 2015, Toyota has said.

It hopes to sell more than 3,000 units of the car by the end of 2017 in the United States, and up to 100 annually in Europe.

Fuel-cell cars are seen as the Holy Grail of green cars as they are powered by a chemical reaction of hydrogen and oxygen, which produces nothing more harmful than water at the point of use.

But a limited driving range and lack of refuelling stations have hampered development of fuel-cell and their cousin, all-electric cars, which environmentalists say could play a vital role in cutting greenhouse gas emissions and slowing global warming.

The Mirai can travel about 650 kilometres (400 miles) without refuelling, some three times further than an electric car, and its tank can be filled in a few minutes like gasoline engine vehicles, according to Toyota. (afp)

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DENPASAR - Get accustomed to strolling to Serangan Island? Serangan Island or Turtle Island strategically located in the South of Sanur Beach, in fact, has a unique mystery.

Precisely, it sits around the Pat Payung Temple, Pesalakan Temple, Dalem Ped and Dalem Beji located in the southern part of the island.

Reputedly, the region is inhabited by supernatural beings. The atmosphere resembles a forest overgrown by mangrove trees and other local trees. It is guarded by officers and no people’s home occurs around the location, so

that its beauty remains to be well maintained. The road nearby is still unpaved and sometimes muddy in rainy season.

Atmosphere of the road is deserted, so that sometimes it makes people misguided. Once entering

this area, visitors will feel thick aura.

Talking about supernatural beings, our body will instantly feel cold and the chilling creeps. However, such a nuance will sometimes vanish when hearing the entertaining bird songs on the trees around us. (kmb)

Kapal village. However, once upon a time the Kapal village was found in famine condition, where people had no food and it led to chaos and pathetic condition.

Ki Kebo Iwa eventually invoked an instruction to the Creator by meditation at the Purusadha Temple.

In his meditation, he got a revelation from Hyang Pasupati instructing the local residents to implement the Aci Rah Pengangon or Aci Rare Angon by presenting tipat-bantal. Both offerings served as the symbol of the source of life because the cause of the famine was in the absence of the source of life.

Since then, the ritual was routinely implemented where people gathered in front of the Desa Temple of Kapal village. Local people then divided themselves into two groups, each of which held tipat and bantal as weapon. Baleganjur gamelan music and the sound of kulkul or wooden split drum accompanied the war. After an instruction from local village apparatus, both groups then attacked each other by throwing the

tipat-bantal.

At the beginning, the war took place in the middle courtyard of the temple and then it was resumed to outer courtyard, highway of Kapal village. The tipat or bantal was just like a bullet dashing so quickly.

People who became throwers were trance-like and striking blindly.

Even, many of them were topless, but still put on customary clothing such as headband, fabrics and selempot.

Although having to throw in one direction, namely northward and southward, some ignorantly threw towards people who witnessed the war tradition. However, they were all excited and happy. Interestingly, despite attacking and throwing each other with tipat and bantal, none would get wound or injury. Even, they vivaciously expressed more laughter.

The war lasted for about 30 minutes and then ended with a mutually shaking hands and forgiving. All the residents then cleared the path from the remnants of the tipat and bantal.

Residents were also advised to take some pieces of the tipat and bantal to take home, and then spread in the moors and paddy fields.

Chief of Kapal customary village, Anak Agung Gede Dharmayasa, said that taking some pieces of tipat and bantal to the home symbolized a request that all residents could still be bestowed with the abundance of fertility, food and welfare. “This is a form of respect for the universal energy creating the life and a procession to preserve the life survival with the concept of keeping the motherland, as the land is a tangible manifestation of the giver and sustainer of life for every creature on this earth,” he said.

Kapal village, he explained, had a total of 2,247 families spreading across 18 customary hamlets. For this event, each family was required to submit 1 kg of rice or sticky rice.

From this submission, the village could collect at least 1,800 kg or 1.8 tons of tipat and bantal. “It is also in part because some are not coming,” he added. (kmb)

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Mystical charms of temples on Serangan Island

Tipat-Bantal War

MANGUPURA - When thrown at something, one will be definitely upset. Even, not a few are offended to result in revenge. However, this one is different where the local community throws tipat-bantal at each other while dancing merrily. Those exposed to the toss will dance following the music without any ambition or revenge. It is a brief description on the tipat-bantal carried out by Kapal village, Mengwi subdistrict, Badung.

This tradition is regularly held every year in Sasih Kapat, around September to October. This tradition is closely related to farming life of Kapal village implemented as an expression of gratitude to God for the abundant harvest at the village.

The implementation is centered at Desa and Puseh Temple.

Tipat (diamond-shaped rice bag) is interpreted as a symbol of feminine energy (pradhana) and bantal

(Balinese long glutinous cake) as a symbol of masculine energy (purusha) represented by the presence of mother earth or the earth in physical form as the soil. The resulted food is the main weapon to defend the life itself.

The tipat-bantal war tradition this year became more unique since it was collaborated with the art composition. A dance drama composition choreographed by Anak Agung Gede Rahma Putra was presented with the storyline about the origin of the war. The composition presented Baris Bantal and Rejang Tipat Dance by teen artists. Its musical accompaniment used selonding gamelan set so that it gave a regal and classical impression.

The composition told about the arrival of Ki Kebo Iwa on the assignment of the King of Bali, Asta Sura Ratna Bhumi Banten to repair the Purusadha Temple at

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This one is different war where the local community throws tipat-bantal at each other while dancing merrily. Those exposed to the toss will dance following the music without any ambition or revenge.

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Thailand nabs fugitive convicted in 1995 India bombing BANGKOK — Thai police said Tuesday that they have arrested a fugitive convicted in India for his involvement in a 1995 bomb attack that killed a chief minister of a northern Indian state and 15 other people. Gurmeet Singh, one of six Sikh militants convicted for the blast outside government headquarters in Punjab state, fled a high-security Indian prison in 2004 before receiving a life sentence in 2007.

The bomb, planted in then-Chief Minister Beant Singh’s bulletproof car, exploded and immediately killed the state’s highest elected official and 12 of his staff and armed guards. Three others who were wounded died later. The Babbar Khalsa International, a Sikh separatist group, claimed responsibility for the assassination.

Singh, also known as Jagtar Singh Tara, entered Thailand in October and was arrested Monday in the eastern province of Chonburi, Thai National police spokesman Lt. Gen. Prawut Thawornsiri said.

“It took quite some time to arrest him. We had been following him for a while, but at one point he slipped off the radar,” he said.

Prawut said Singh, 37, faces extradition to India. An Indian government official said the government was aware of the arrest and was in touch with Thai authorities.

“All those who have committed heinous crimes in India will be pursued wherever they are,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.

Beant Singh, the target of the bomb attack, came to power as Punjab’s chief minister in 1992 and began crushing the Sikh militancy, leaving hundreds dead in encounters with police. (ap)

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A few flames remain after a wildfire destroyed a building in the Adelaide Hills, near Adelaide, Australia, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2015. Cooler conditions on Sunday were helping hundreds of firefighters working to contain a massive wildfire that had forced thousands of people to flee their homes in southern Australia.

Australian firefighters containing sprawling wildfire

ADELAIDE, Australia — Firefighters in southern Australia were winning the battle on Tuesday to contain a sprawling wildfire raging on a 240-kilometer (150-mile) perimeter that has razed 38 homes and left two people in hospitals, officials said. Hundreds of firefighters have struggled since Friday last week to control the blaze that has razed 12,500 hectares (31,000 acres) of farms and woodland in hills northwest of the South Australia state capital Adelaide.

“I’m happy to report we’ve made some significant progress on securing the outer perimeter during the course of the day and our crews will continue working into the night to secure the rest of the perimeter,” Country Fire Service chief officer Greg Nettleton told reporters.

Firefighters were also close to securing the safety of 1,000 houses in unburnt pockets inside the fire zone and were managing to reopen some roads into scorched area, Nettleton said.

State Premier Jay Weatherill

said assessment teams searching the destruction zone had found that 163 buildings including 38 homes had been destroyed or badly damaged by the blaze.

While 23 people had been admitted to hospitals due to the fire-related medical conditions and injuries, only two had yet to be discharged. A farmer was seriously injured when a tree fell on him and a second patient was being treated in hospital for fatigue, he said. Destructive wildfires are common across much of Austra-

lia during the summer months. In 2009, wildfires killed 173 people and destroyed more than 2,000 homes in Victoria state.

The southern spring from September through November last year was Australia’s hottest on record, the government’s Bureau of Meteorology said in its annual climate statement on Tuesday. The hot spring, including Australia’s hottest November on record, set the stage for the current summer wildfire season to start early.(ap)

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Indian fugitive, Gurmeet Singh, also known as Jagtar Singh Tara walks near a prison cell at the criminal court in Bangkok January 6, 2015.

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A Malaysian Navy’s rubber boat is seen from Indonesian Air Force NAS 332 Super Puma helicopter during a search operation for the victims of AirAsia Flight 8501, off Pangkalan Bun, Central Borneo, Indonesia, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015.

Budget deficit set to be less than 2 percent

PANGKALAN BUN/JAKARTA - Search teams including divers took advantage of a let-up in bad weather on Tuesday to try to reach the wreckage of an AirAsia jet, but nine days after the plane crashed officials said there was still no sign of the crucial black box flight recorders.

JAKARTA - Finance Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro said the deficit in the revised 2015 state budget would be pressed to less than 2 percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) or lower than the deficit in 2014.

“The deficit in the 2015 state budget would not be higher than 2 percent. Therefore, the effect would be not only on state bonds to be issued but also on government debt structure,” Bambang said on Monday.

He said evaluation would be made on debt management especially related to plan to issue bonds and loans from multinational financial agencies and the possibility of domestic loans.

The mending of financing structure is to follow the US economic recovery with the FED expected to raise its benchmark interest rate not later than the end of 2015.

“The interest rate is expected to rise 100 basis points by the end of 20156. As a consequence

I want cut the deficit to cope with the uncertainty. Big financing is normally by domestic not foreign investors to forestall sudden reversal,” he said.

By utilizing domestic finance through issuance of instrument that could contribute to increase in number of investors in financial market, the domestic market would not be vulnerable to external pressures, he said.

Data at the finance ministry showed real deficit in 2014 budget was Rp227.4 trillion or 2.26 percent of the GDP or slightly below the target set in the revised state budget that year.

The lower than target deficit was attributable to excess in budget financing through the issuance of sovereign bonds.

Altogether the budget deficit in 2014 included real state revenue of Rp1,537.2 trillion or 94 percent of the target of Rp1,635.4 trillion and state spending of Rp1,764.6 trillion or 94 percent of the ceiling of Rp1,876.9 trillion.

Indonesian officials believe they may have located the tail and parts of the fuselage of the Airbus A320-200 at the bottom of the Java Sea, but strong currents, high winds and big waves have hindered attempts to investigate the debris.

Flight QZ8501 plunged into the water off Borneo island on Dec. 28, about 40 minutes into a two-hour flight from Indonesia’s second-biggest city of Surabaya to Singapore. There were no survivors among the 162 people on board.

Jakarta has launched a crackdown on its fast-growing aviation sector since the crash, reassigning some officials and tightening rules on pre-flight procedures in a country with a patchy reputation for air safety.

“Today’s weather is friendly, the team can work,” the head of Indonesia’s search and rescue agency, Fransiskus Bambang Soelistyo, told a news conference in Jakarta.

Soelistyo said the multinational air and sea operation had two objectives: to recover bodies and wreckage floating in an ever-widening search area in the northern Java Sea, and to find wreckage and the plane’s black box on the ocean floor.

The latter effort is focused on an area about 90 nautical miles off Borneo, where ships using sonar have

JAKARTA - The Indonesian Hotel and Restaurant Entrepreneurs Association (PHRI) proposes a moratorium on the issuance of permits for new hotel constructions in several areas in the country, Chairman Wiryanti Sukamdani stated here on Tuesday.

“Some areas such as Bali, Makassar, and West Java have more hotels than their normal capacity,” noted Wiryanti after meeting Vice President Jusuf Kalla on Tuesday.

She explained that the government’s recent policy to reduce official meetings at hotels indeed had impacted their revenues. However, the entrepreneurs were aware of the importance of implementing the policy. Hence, she affirmed that the entrepreneurs were proposing a moratorium on issuing permits for new hotel constructions in the future.

Hotel and restaurant entrepreneurs also proposed to the gov-

ernment to improve connectivity and infrastructure in Indonesia to make it easier for tourists to travel within the country, Wiryanti emphasized.

According to her, the dismal condition of airports and other infrastructure in some areas in Indonesia had made it difficult for tourists to travel within the country.

In the meantime, spokesman to Vice President Husain Abdullah stated that as a compensation for the government’s policy to reduce the number of official meetings at hotels, the government will increase the budget for tourism promotion from Rp250 billion to Rp1.2 trillion in order to attract more visitors to Indonesia.

Husain emphasized that the funds derived from the government’s policy can be used to improve the infrastructure in tourism sites across Indonesia. (ant)

Divers join AirAsia wreck hunt, but no sign of black box located five large objects believed to be parts of the plane - the largest about 18 metres (59 feet) long - in shallow water.

Search and rescue agency official Supriyadi, who is coordinating the operation from the southern Borneo town of Pangkalan Bun, said there had been no “pings” detected from the black box’s emergency locator beacon, possibly because it was buried in the seabed or the muddy water was impeding its signal.

“They haven’t found anything, maybe because the water is turbid and there is zero visibility,” he said.

“There’s a possibility it is buried in mud.”

The captain of an Indonesian navy patrol vessel said on Monday his ship had found what was believed to be the tail - a key find since that section of the aircraft houses the cockpit voice and flight data recorders - but Soelistyo said that could not be confirmed.

Only 37 bodies of the mostly Indonesian passengers and crew have been recovered. Many more could still be trapped in the fuselage of the aircraft.

The crash was the first fatal accident suffered by the AirAsia budget group, whose Indonesian affiliate has come under criticism from the authorities in Jakarta since the disaster.

The transport ministry has sus-

pended Indonesia AirAsia’s SurabayaSingapore licence, saying the carrier only had permission to fly the route on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Flight QZ8501 took off on a Sunday.

Indonesia AirAsia, 49 percent owned by Malaysia-based AirAsia, has made little comment, but said it would fully cooperate with investigations.

Indonesia’s financial regulator said it did not believe the issue of whether the airline had the correct flight permits would affect insurers paying out on claims.

“AirAsia didn’t fall because it was a Sunday,” Firdaus Djaelani, non-bank financial institutions supervisor at the financial services authority, told reporters in Jakarta.

While the cause of the crash is not known, the national weather bureau has said the seasonal tropical storms common in the area were likely to be a factor. Last week, the authorities questioned whether the pilot had followed proper weather procedures.

On Monday, the transport ministry said officials at the airport operator in Surabaya and air traffic control agency who had allowed the flight to take off had been moved to other duties while the accident investigation is completed. (rtr)

PHRI recommends moratorium on new hotel permits

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Destination

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

International

Kaleran Palace, Peliatan

UBUD - For foreign tourists wishing to see Barong Dance, just come to the Balerung Stage of Kaleran Palace. It is situated at Teruna hamlet, Peliatan village, Ubud, Gianyar. To reach this location, travelers will take approximately 45 minutes by car or motorcycle.

The performance presented by the Semara Pegulingan Tirta Sari gamelan troupe is known as the Barong Taru Pramana Dance. Tirta Sari is one of the popular dancer and musician groups at Peliatan. It was founded by the famous dancer

and choreographer (the late) AA Gede Mandera at Kaleran Palace in 1978. It has made many recordings and traveled over the world such as Japan, the United States, Russia and many more.

The works of AA Gede Mandera have long been renowned for its excellent artists and musicians. Now, the next generation of this group is continued by two of his sons.

They are AA Gede Bagus Mandera Erawan as the Artistic Director and AA Gd Oka Dalem as the Group Leader. Since it was built, Tirta Sari

is always trusted to make performance in front of important persons such as the Indonesian president and state officials.

Actually the art performance of Tirta Sari does not only present Barong Dance. Previously, it also made some other art performances such as the gamelan music composition at the opening session called Sekar Gendot.

Then, it is continued with Puspa Mekar Dance as the welcome dance.

After that, it is resumed with single Baris Dance, Kebyar Duduk by Oka Dalem and Legong Kraton Dance. At

the closing session, it is presented the Barong Taru Pramana Dance.

Here is the story behind the art performance of Barong Taru Pramana Dance. It begins with Lord Shiva in charge of heaven when he is sick.

He needs treating by special remedy made from herbal plants called Taru Pramana or literally means ‘the soul of trees.’ He asks his consort Goddess Uma to look for the remedy to the earth where she is assisted by her servants. Prior to coming down to earth, she transforms herself into Rangda (demon).

Goddess Uma then comes into a jungle and cuts down many kinds of trees. When she and her servants cut the last tree, suddenly it changes into Barong, where the Barong is actually the manifestation of Lord Shiva. He is angry because he just asks his consort and her servants to search remedy, not to cut down all the trees. After that, a fight breaks between the Barong and Rangda with her servants. However, all the servants instead stab themselves or better known as ngunying in Balinese language.

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Knicks sending JR Smith, Shumpert to Cavs

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NEW YORK — The New York Knicks are trading J.R. Smith and Iman Shumpert to the disappointing Cavaliers, who have struggled in superstar LeBron James’ first season back in Cleveland. The Knicks agreed to trade Smith and Shumpert, a person with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press on Monday night.

New York will get a second-round pick in 2019 from the Cavaliers, the person said on condition of anonymity because the trade was not yet official. New York, off to one of the worst starts in franchise history, plans to waive whatever players it acquires in the deal that also includes the Oklahoma City Thunder, according to reports.

The Cavs, who dropped to 19-16 on Monday with a 95-92 loss in Philadelphia, pulled guard Dion Waiters from the starting lineup before the game amid speculation he’s on the move.

Cleveland also sat reserves Lou Amundson and Alex Kirk.

Following the loss, Cavs first-year coach David Blatt said team management requested the players be pulled due to discussions on a “possible trade.” Blatt said he did not have any other details.

Cleveland has struggled to fill the shooting guard role, part of the reason for its sluggish start, which has also included a rash of key injuries. Both James and All-Star point guard Kyrie Irving sat out as the Cavs were beaten by the lowly Sixers, who got their first home win this season.

Waiters, the No. 4 overall NBA draft pick in 2010, has been the subject of trade speculation for two seasons. He’s a proven scorer and his defense has improved this season under Blatt, but he hasn’t been able to nail down the spot and the Cavs also have tried Shawn Marion and Mike Miller next to Irving.

Waiters has started three games this season and is averaging 10.5 points. He averaged 15.9 points last season, the highest average for any reserve in the Eastern Conference. James has missed the past five games with a strained knee and back and could be sidelined for another week, and the Cavs have already lost starting center Anderson Varejao for the season following an Achilles injury. It’s only going to get tougher for the Cavs, who face Houston at home on Wednesday and then go on a five-game West Coast trip.

“We have to get as many players as we can get back,” center Kevin Love said. “We’re about to hit murderer’s row now on the West Coast. We need to keep fighting. We’re down but not out.”

Smith was the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year in 2013, but has battled injuries to his heel this season, along with his usual struggles with his shot selection and focus off the court. (ap)

AP Photo/Winslow Townson

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Canada - Canadian teenager Eugenie Bouchard swatted aside an out-of-sorts Serena Williams 6-2 6-1 at the Hopman Cup in Perth on Tuesday. The American world number one’s body language throughout the contest suggested she would rather have been anywhere else than on the blue hardcourts in Western Australia.

An on-court espresso helped spark her into life as she overcame a first set bagel to beat Italy’s Flavia Pennetta 0-6 6-3 6-0 on Monday in the round robin mixed team event but nothing could help bring her out of Tuesday’s malaise.

Sluggish footwork and unchar-

acteristically slow serves allowed Bouchard to break the 33-year-old with ease as the Canadian bounced back from a 6-0 6-4 thrashing by Czech Lucie Safarova in her opener.

Williams had complained of jet-lag following her previous day’s efforts against Pennetta but she looked in good spirits as she teamed up with John Isner to win their mixed doubles against the Italians for a 3-0 whitewash later on Monday evening.

Williams, who did not call the trainer to court on Tuesday, showed flashes of her usual brilliance against Bouchard as she went for her shots but never had the con-

sistency, or the fight, to beat the Canadian.

Whether it was jet-lag, illness or something else, Bouchard did not care as she notched a first win over the 18-times grand slam singles champion in the warm-up event for the year’s first major, the Australian Open, later this month in Melbourne.

“I think I played pretty solid, I’m happy I came out and put on a better show than last time, the 19-year-old world number six said in a courtside interview. Isner was next up against Vasek Pospisil before the quartet meet in the mixed doubles later on Tuesday. (rtr)

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International

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Sp rt

Gerrard gives Liverpool 2-1 FA Cup win at Wimbledon LONDON — Steven Gerrard gave Liverpool fans an instant reminder of what they’ll be missing next season.

Playing in his first game since announcing he will leave the club this summer, Gerrard scored twice to give Liverpool a surprisingly hard-fought 2-1 win over fourth-tier Wimbledon on Monday in the third round of the FA Cup. Liverpool’s longtime captain curled in a trademark free kick in the 62nd minute to secure the win against a tenacious and ambitious Wimbledon side.

Gerrard had put his team ahead with a header in the 12th minute, but Adebayo Akinfenwa gave the hosts a deserved equalizer in the 36th by tapping in after goalkeeper Simon Mignolet failed to clear a corner.

“I always enjoy the FA Cup,” said Gerrard, who announced last week that he’ll be leaving Liverpool after a 17-year career to join Major League Soccer. “I grew up loving the competition and as it’s going to be my last time, I want to make the most of it and try and go all the way.”

In Monday’s other game, Burnley held Tottenham to a 1-1 draw to force a replay between the Premier League sides. Sam Vokes scored his first goal since last March following a knee injury to equalize for the host in the 73rd minute after Nacer Chadli had put Tottenham ahead in the 56th.

The game was a repeat of the 1962 FA Cup final, won 3-1 by Tottenham, while the other game

International

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Man United faces Cambridge in 4th round of FA Cup LONDON — Manchester United will play fourth-tier Cambridge United in the fourth round of the FA Cup after being drawn against the lowest-ranked team left in the competition on Monday.

It’s another friendly draw for

Louis van Gaal’s team, which beat Yeovil on Sunday to advance.

Most top Premier League teams were drawn against lower-tier opposition, with Manchester City hosting Middlesbrough and defending champion Arsenal traveling to Brighton.

Chelsea will play the winner between Millwall and Bradford, who face a replay.

Liverpool faces Bolton after beating Wimbledon 2-1 on Monday.

The fourth round is played over the weekend of Jan. 24-25. (ap)

Ibrahimovic lifts PSG to 3-0 win at Montpellier MONTPELLIER — Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored one goal and created another to take Paris Saint-Germain past Montpellier into the round of 32 of the French Cup on Monday. The Sweden international was instrumental as PSG struggled to string passes together on a very poor pitch before securing a 3-0 win in the last half hour.

Clement Chantome put PSG ahead in the 63rd minute with a tap-in from Ibrahimovic’s clever cut-back pass in the box. Montpellier dominated the first half but ran out of gas after the interval and Ibrahimovic headed the ball in from close range from Javier

Pastore’s cross to extend PSG’s lead.

Brazilian forward Lucas Moura completed the French champions’ victory in added time with a powerful and precise low shot at the far post. “It was very difficult to play our game on such a difficult surface, but we carried on as a team,” Lucas said. “We ran a lot, worked hard, and it paid off.”

In its first official match since the winter break, PSG fielded a depleted team. Laurent Blanc’s side was hampered by the absences of Edinson Cavani and Ezequiel Lavezzi, who were left out for a breach of discipline, while goalkeeper Salvatore Sirigu

and Thiago Motta were sidelined by injuries.

PSG did not create a single chance before the 58th minute, when Adrien Rabiot’s shot from the edge of the box forced Montpellier keeper Jonathan Ligali to a save. Chantome headed inches wide from the resulting corner minutes before giving PSG the lead.

PSG will next take on Bordeaux in one of the four all-topflight matches of the next round.

Fourth-division side Grenoble, which upsets Ligue 1 leader Marseille with a 5-4 win on penalties, will travel to third-tier club Boulogne. (ap)

AP Photo/Alastair Grant

Liverpool’s Steven Gerrard, centre, is challenged by AFC Wimbledon’s Sammy Moore, right, and Jon Goodman, left, during their English FA Cup third round soccer match between AFC Wimbledon and Liverpool in Kingston, London, Monday, Jan. 5, 2015 . conjured up memories of the 1988 final when Wimbledon FC beat thendominant Liverpool 1-0. The result is widely considered one of the great

shocks in FA Cup history.

Monday’s opponent, AFC Wimbledon, was formed in 2002 after a committee appointed by England’s

Football Association granted permission to Wimbledon FC to relocate to the town of Milton Keynes about 100 kilometers away. Liv-

erpool will play Bolton at home in the fourth round later this month, while Leicester awaits the winner of Tottenham-Burnley.(ap)

Japan squad complete after Shibasaki comes in from the cold

Japan midfielder Gaku Shibasaki joined up with his team mates in Australia on Tuesday after recovering from a bout of flu to complete the holders’ 23-man Asian Cup squad. The 22-year-old Kashima Antlers midfielder had been left behind in Japan to avoid

passing on the bug to his team mates, who continued preparing for their Group D opener against Palestine on Monday.

“I’ve been ill but that is the way it goes sometimes,” the midfielder was quoted as saying by Kyodo News. “Hopefully I will be able

to acclimatise and get in the right condition and ready to play.

“These are going to be my first competitive matches and so it will be special. Hopefully the team can perform well and get good results.” Shibasaki scored on his debut in September’s 2-2 draw

with Venezuela and has appeared in three other friendly matches for Javier Aguirre’s side.

While the rest of the squad were given Tuesday off, Sagan Tosu striker Yohei Toyoda was scheduled for a short work out after also recovering from illness

which he picked up en route to Australia.

“We have got these two back with us now and they are back on track. The mood is great in the team,” Japan Football Association technical director Masahiro Shimoda said.

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AP Photo/Manu Fernandez

PSG’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic prepares to shoot during the Group F Champions League soccer match between FC Barcelona and PSG at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday Dec. 10, 2014.

AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin, File

FILE - In this Wednesday, March 21, 2012 file photo, FIFA Vice President Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

FIFA VP Prince Ali launches presidential bid against Blatter GENEVA — FIFA vice president Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan will stand for election in a bid to oust Sepp Blatter as leader of football’s scandal-hit world governing body. The 39-year-old Prince Ali declared his intention Tuesday to run as a candidate in the FIFA presidential election on May 29 in Zurich, where Blatter has pledged to seek a fifth mandate at age 79.

“This was not an easy decision,” the prince said in a single-page statement in which he pledged to run a positive campaign and did not specifically mention Blatter. “It came after careful consideration and many discussions with respected FIFA colleagues over the last few months.”

“The message I heard, over and over, was that it is time for a change,” said Prince Ali, who has been encouraged to run by European football governing body UEFA and its President Michel Platini. During Blatter’s 17-year leadership, FIFA has been rocked by bribery allegations in presidential and World Cup hosting elections, kickbacks paid to senior officials and World Cup ticket scams.

FIFA’s image sank further last month when ethics prosecutor Michael Garcia resigned with a parting shot at Blatter’s leadership style and the organization’s seeming unwillingness to reform

itself. Prince Ali said in his statement Tuesday that “it is time to shift the focus away from administrative controversy and back to sport.”

“The world’s game deserves a world-class governing body — an international federation that is a service organization and a model of ethics, transparency and good governance,” said Prince Ali, who joined FIFA’s executive committee on the day of Blatter’s most recent re-election in June 2011.

Blatter has survived by avoiding personal scandal and deft political mastery of an often secretive organization he joined in 1975. The veteran Swiss official has said his mission to lead world football is unfinished.

FIFA member federations — which elect the president in a secret ballot — have also shown little desire to remove Blatter as they receive increasing shares of billion-dollar annual income from commercial deals tied to the world’s most-watched sports event.

Prince Ali did not specify which five of FIFA’s 209 members will nominate him for the presidency, as required before a Jan. 29 deadline. He was expected to travel to Australia for the Asian Cup, which kicks off Friday, and an Asian Football Confederation congress in Melbourne.(ap)

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International

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Sp rt

Gerrard gives Liverpool 2-1 FA Cup win at Wimbledon LONDON — Steven Gerrard gave Liverpool fans an instant reminder of what they’ll be missing next season.

Playing in his first game since announcing he will leave the club this summer, Gerrard scored twice to give Liverpool a surprisingly hard-fought 2-1 win over fourth-tier Wimbledon on Monday in the third round of the FA Cup. Liverpool’s longtime captain curled in a trademark free kick in the 62nd minute to secure the win against a tenacious and ambitious Wimbledon side.

Gerrard had put his team ahead with a header in the 12th minute, but Adebayo Akinfenwa gave the hosts a deserved equalizer in the 36th by tapping in after goalkeeper Simon Mignolet failed to clear a corner.

“I always enjoy the FA Cup,” said Gerrard, who announced last week that he’ll be leaving Liverpool after a 17-year career to join Major League Soccer. “I grew up loving the competition and as it’s going to be my last time, I want to make the most of it and try and go all the way.”

In Monday’s other game, Burnley held Tottenham to a 1-1 draw to force a replay between the Premier League sides. Sam Vokes scored his first goal since last March following a knee injury to equalize for the host in the 73rd minute after Nacer Chadli had put Tottenham ahead in the 56th.

The game was a repeat of the 1962 FA Cup final, won 3-1 by Tottenham, while the other game

International

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Man United faces Cambridge in 4th round of FA Cup LONDON — Manchester United will play fourth-tier Cambridge United in the fourth round of the FA Cup after being drawn against the lowest-ranked team left in the competition on Monday.

It’s another friendly draw for

Louis van Gaal’s team, which beat Yeovil on Sunday to advance.

Most top Premier League teams were drawn against lower-tier opposition, with Manchester City hosting Middlesbrough and defending champion Arsenal traveling to Brighton.

Chelsea will play the winner between Millwall and Bradford, who face a replay.

Liverpool faces Bolton after beating Wimbledon 2-1 on Monday.

The fourth round is played over the weekend of Jan. 24-25. (ap)

Ibrahimovic lifts PSG to 3-0 win at Montpellier MONTPELLIER — Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored one goal and created another to take Paris Saint-Germain past Montpellier into the round of 32 of the French Cup on Monday. The Sweden international was instrumental as PSG struggled to string passes together on a very poor pitch before securing a 3-0 win in the last half hour.

Clement Chantome put PSG ahead in the 63rd minute with a tap-in from Ibrahimovic’s clever cut-back pass in the box. Montpellier dominated the first half but ran out of gas after the interval and Ibrahimovic headed the ball in from close range from Javier

Pastore’s cross to extend PSG’s lead.

Brazilian forward Lucas Moura completed the French champions’ victory in added time with a powerful and precise low shot at the far post. “It was very difficult to play our game on such a difficult surface, but we carried on as a team,” Lucas said. “We ran a lot, worked hard, and it paid off.”

In its first official match since the winter break, PSG fielded a depleted team. Laurent Blanc’s side was hampered by the absences of Edinson Cavani and Ezequiel Lavezzi, who were left out for a breach of discipline, while goalkeeper Salvatore Sirigu

and Thiago Motta were sidelined by injuries.

PSG did not create a single chance before the 58th minute, when Adrien Rabiot’s shot from the edge of the box forced Montpellier keeper Jonathan Ligali to a save. Chantome headed inches wide from the resulting corner minutes before giving PSG the lead.

PSG will next take on Bordeaux in one of the four all-topflight matches of the next round.

Fourth-division side Grenoble, which upsets Ligue 1 leader Marseille with a 5-4 win on penalties, will travel to third-tier club Boulogne. (ap)

AP Photo/Alastair Grant

Liverpool’s Steven Gerrard, centre, is challenged by AFC Wimbledon’s Sammy Moore, right, and Jon Goodman, left, during their English FA Cup third round soccer match between AFC Wimbledon and Liverpool in Kingston, London, Monday, Jan. 5, 2015 . conjured up memories of the 1988 final when Wimbledon FC beat thendominant Liverpool 1-0. The result is widely considered one of the great

shocks in FA Cup history.

Monday’s opponent, AFC Wimbledon, was formed in 2002 after a committee appointed by England’s

Football Association granted permission to Wimbledon FC to relocate to the town of Milton Keynes about 100 kilometers away. Liv-

erpool will play Bolton at home in the fourth round later this month, while Leicester awaits the winner of Tottenham-Burnley.(ap)

Japan squad complete after Shibasaki comes in from the cold

Japan midfielder Gaku Shibasaki joined up with his team mates in Australia on Tuesday after recovering from a bout of flu to complete the holders’ 23-man Asian Cup squad. The 22-year-old Kashima Antlers midfielder had been left behind in Japan to avoid

passing on the bug to his team mates, who continued preparing for their Group D opener against Palestine on Monday.

“I’ve been ill but that is the way it goes sometimes,” the midfielder was quoted as saying by Kyodo News. “Hopefully I will be able

to acclimatise and get in the right condition and ready to play.

“These are going to be my first competitive matches and so it will be special. Hopefully the team can perform well and get good results.” Shibasaki scored on his debut in September’s 2-2 draw

with Venezuela and has appeared in three other friendly matches for Javier Aguirre’s side.

While the rest of the squad were given Tuesday off, Sagan Tosu striker Yohei Toyoda was scheduled for a short work out after also recovering from illness

which he picked up en route to Australia.

“We have got these two back with us now and they are back on track. The mood is great in the team,” Japan Football Association technical director Masahiro Shimoda said.

9

AP Photo/Manu Fernandez

PSG’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic prepares to shoot during the Group F Champions League soccer match between FC Barcelona and PSG at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday Dec. 10, 2014.

AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin, File

FILE - In this Wednesday, March 21, 2012 file photo, FIFA Vice President Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

FIFA VP Prince Ali launches presidential bid against Blatter GENEVA — FIFA vice president Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan will stand for election in a bid to oust Sepp Blatter as leader of football’s scandal-hit world governing body. The 39-year-old Prince Ali declared his intention Tuesday to run as a candidate in the FIFA presidential election on May 29 in Zurich, where Blatter has pledged to seek a fifth mandate at age 79.

“This was not an easy decision,” the prince said in a single-page statement in which he pledged to run a positive campaign and did not specifically mention Blatter. “It came after careful consideration and many discussions with respected FIFA colleagues over the last few months.”

“The message I heard, over and over, was that it is time for a change,” said Prince Ali, who has been encouraged to run by European football governing body UEFA and its President Michel Platini. During Blatter’s 17-year leadership, FIFA has been rocked by bribery allegations in presidential and World Cup hosting elections, kickbacks paid to senior officials and World Cup ticket scams.

FIFA’s image sank further last month when ethics prosecutor Michael Garcia resigned with a parting shot at Blatter’s leadership style and the organization’s seeming unwillingness to reform

itself. Prince Ali said in his statement Tuesday that “it is time to shift the focus away from administrative controversy and back to sport.”

“The world’s game deserves a world-class governing body — an international federation that is a service organization and a model of ethics, transparency and good governance,” said Prince Ali, who joined FIFA’s executive committee on the day of Blatter’s most recent re-election in June 2011.

Blatter has survived by avoiding personal scandal and deft political mastery of an often secretive organization he joined in 1975. The veteran Swiss official has said his mission to lead world football is unfinished.

FIFA member federations — which elect the president in a secret ballot — have also shown little desire to remove Blatter as they receive increasing shares of billion-dollar annual income from commercial deals tied to the world’s most-watched sports event.

Prince Ali did not specify which five of FIFA’s 209 members will nominate him for the presidency, as required before a Jan. 29 deadline. He was expected to travel to Australia for the Asian Cup, which kicks off Friday, and an Asian Football Confederation congress in Melbourne.(ap)

10

Destination

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

International

Kaleran Palace, Peliatan

UBUD - For foreign tourists wishing to see Barong Dance, just come to the Balerung Stage of Kaleran Palace. It is situated at Teruna hamlet, Peliatan village, Ubud, Gianyar. To reach this location, travelers will take approximately 45 minutes by car or motorcycle.

The performance presented by the Semara Pegulingan Tirta Sari gamelan troupe is known as the Barong Taru Pramana Dance. Tirta Sari is one of the popular dancer and musician groups at Peliatan. It was founded by the famous dancer

and choreographer (the late) AA Gede Mandera at Kaleran Palace in 1978. It has made many recordings and traveled over the world such as Japan, the United States, Russia and many more.

The works of AA Gede Mandera have long been renowned for its excellent artists and musicians. Now, the next generation of this group is continued by two of his sons.

They are AA Gede Bagus Mandera Erawan as the Artistic Director and AA Gd Oka Dalem as the Group Leader. Since it was built, Tirta Sari

is always trusted to make performance in front of important persons such as the Indonesian president and state officials.

Actually the art performance of Tirta Sari does not only present Barong Dance. Previously, it also made some other art performances such as the gamelan music composition at the opening session called Sekar Gendot.

Then, it is continued with Puspa Mekar Dance as the welcome dance.

After that, it is resumed with single Baris Dance, Kebyar Duduk by Oka Dalem and Legong Kraton Dance. At

the closing session, it is presented the Barong Taru Pramana Dance.

Here is the story behind the art performance of Barong Taru Pramana Dance. It begins with Lord Shiva in charge of heaven when he is sick.

He needs treating by special remedy made from herbal plants called Taru Pramana or literally means ‘the soul of trees.’ He asks his consort Goddess Uma to look for the remedy to the earth where she is assisted by her servants. Prior to coming down to earth, she transforms herself into Rangda (demon).

Goddess Uma then comes into a jungle and cuts down many kinds of trees. When she and her servants cut the last tree, suddenly it changes into Barong, where the Barong is actually the manifestation of Lord Shiva. He is angry because he just asks his consort and her servants to search remedy, not to cut down all the trees. After that, a fight breaks between the Barong and Rangda with her servants. However, all the servants instead stab themselves or better known as ngunying in Balinese language.

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Knicks sending JR Smith, Shumpert to Cavs

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NEW YORK — The New York Knicks are trading J.R. Smith and Iman Shumpert to the disappointing Cavaliers, who have struggled in superstar LeBron James’ first season back in Cleveland. The Knicks agreed to trade Smith and Shumpert, a person with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press on Monday night.

New York will get a second-round pick in 2019 from the Cavaliers, the person said on condition of anonymity because the trade was not yet official. New York, off to one of the worst starts in franchise history, plans to waive whatever players it acquires in the deal that also includes the Oklahoma City Thunder, according to reports.

The Cavs, who dropped to 19-16 on Monday with a 95-92 loss in Philadelphia, pulled guard Dion Waiters from the starting lineup before the game amid speculation he’s on the move.

Cleveland also sat reserves Lou Amundson and Alex Kirk.

Following the loss, Cavs first-year coach David Blatt said team management requested the players be pulled due to discussions on a “possible trade.” Blatt said he did not have any other details.

Cleveland has struggled to fill the shooting guard role, part of the reason for its sluggish start, which has also included a rash of key injuries. Both James and All-Star point guard Kyrie Irving sat out as the Cavs were beaten by the lowly Sixers, who got their first home win this season.

Waiters, the No. 4 overall NBA draft pick in 2010, has been the subject of trade speculation for two seasons. He’s a proven scorer and his defense has improved this season under Blatt, but he hasn’t been able to nail down the spot and the Cavs also have tried Shawn Marion and Mike Miller next to Irving.

Waiters has started three games this season and is averaging 10.5 points. He averaged 15.9 points last season, the highest average for any reserve in the Eastern Conference. James has missed the past five games with a strained knee and back and could be sidelined for another week, and the Cavs have already lost starting center Anderson Varejao for the season following an Achilles injury. It’s only going to get tougher for the Cavs, who face Houston at home on Wednesday and then go on a five-game West Coast trip.

“We have to get as many players as we can get back,” center Kevin Love said. “We’re about to hit murderer’s row now on the West Coast. We need to keep fighting. We’re down but not out.”

Smith was the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year in 2013, but has battled injuries to his heel this season, along with his usual struggles with his shot selection and focus off the court. (ap)

AP Photo/Winslow Townson

New York Knicks’ Iman Shumpert is helped off the court after being injured against the Boston Celtics during the second quarter of an NBA basketball game in Boston Friday, Dec. 12, 2014.

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Canada - Canadian teenager Eugenie Bouchard swatted aside an out-of-sorts Serena Williams 6-2 6-1 at the Hopman Cup in Perth on Tuesday. The American world number one’s body language throughout the contest suggested she would rather have been anywhere else than on the blue hardcourts in Western Australia.

An on-court espresso helped spark her into life as she overcame a first set bagel to beat Italy’s Flavia Pennetta 0-6 6-3 6-0 on Monday in the round robin mixed team event but nothing could help bring her out of Tuesday’s malaise.

Sluggish footwork and unchar-

acteristically slow serves allowed Bouchard to break the 33-year-old with ease as the Canadian bounced back from a 6-0 6-4 thrashing by Czech Lucie Safarova in her opener.

Williams had complained of jet-lag following her previous day’s efforts against Pennetta but she looked in good spirits as she teamed up with John Isner to win their mixed doubles against the Italians for a 3-0 whitewash later on Monday evening.

Williams, who did not call the trainer to court on Tuesday, showed flashes of her usual brilliance against Bouchard as she went for her shots but never had the con-

sistency, or the fight, to beat the Canadian.

Whether it was jet-lag, illness or something else, Bouchard did not care as she notched a first win over the 18-times grand slam singles champion in the warm-up event for the year’s first major, the Australian Open, later this month in Melbourne.

“I think I played pretty solid, I’m happy I came out and put on a better show than last time, the 19-year-old world number six said in a courtside interview. Isner was next up against Vasek Pospisil before the quartet meet in the mixed doubles later on Tuesday. (rtr)

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Thailand nabs fugitive convicted in 1995 India bombing BANGKOK — Thai police said Tuesday that they have arrested a fugitive convicted in India for his involvement in a 1995 bomb attack that killed a chief minister of a northern Indian state and 15 other people. Gurmeet Singh, one of six Sikh militants convicted for the blast outside government headquarters in Punjab state, fled a high-security Indian prison in 2004 before receiving a life sentence in 2007.

The bomb, planted in then-Chief Minister Beant Singh’s bulletproof car, exploded and immediately killed the state’s highest elected official and 12 of his staff and armed guards. Three others who were wounded died later. The Babbar Khalsa International, a Sikh separatist group, claimed responsibility for the assassination.

Singh, also known as Jagtar Singh Tara, entered Thailand in October and was arrested Monday in the eastern province of Chonburi, Thai National police spokesman Lt. Gen. Prawut Thawornsiri said.

“It took quite some time to arrest him. We had been following him for a while, but at one point he slipped off the radar,” he said.

Prawut said Singh, 37, faces extradition to India. An Indian government official said the government was aware of the arrest and was in touch with Thai authorities.

“All those who have committed heinous crimes in India will be pursued wherever they are,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.

Beant Singh, the target of the bomb attack, came to power as Punjab’s chief minister in 1992 and began crushing the Sikh militancy, leaving hundreds dead in encounters with police. (ap)

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A few flames remain after a wildfire destroyed a building in the Adelaide Hills, near Adelaide, Australia, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2015. Cooler conditions on Sunday were helping hundreds of firefighters working to contain a massive wildfire that had forced thousands of people to flee their homes in southern Australia.

Australian firefighters containing sprawling wildfire

ADELAIDE, Australia — Firefighters in southern Australia were winning the battle on Tuesday to contain a sprawling wildfire raging on a 240-kilometer (150-mile) perimeter that has razed 38 homes and left two people in hospitals, officials said. Hundreds of firefighters have struggled since Friday last week to control the blaze that has razed 12,500 hectares (31,000 acres) of farms and woodland in hills northwest of the South Australia state capital Adelaide.

“I’m happy to report we’ve made some significant progress on securing the outer perimeter during the course of the day and our crews will continue working into the night to secure the rest of the perimeter,” Country Fire Service chief officer Greg Nettleton told reporters.

Firefighters were also close to securing the safety of 1,000 houses in unburnt pockets inside the fire zone and were managing to reopen some roads into scorched area, Nettleton said.

State Premier Jay Weatherill

said assessment teams searching the destruction zone had found that 163 buildings including 38 homes had been destroyed or badly damaged by the blaze.

While 23 people had been admitted to hospitals due to the fire-related medical conditions and injuries, only two had yet to be discharged. A farmer was seriously injured when a tree fell on him and a second patient was being treated in hospital for fatigue, he said. Destructive wildfires are common across much of Austra-

lia during the summer months. In 2009, wildfires killed 173 people and destroyed more than 2,000 homes in Victoria state.

The southern spring from September through November last year was Australia’s hottest on record, the government’s Bureau of Meteorology said in its annual climate statement on Tuesday. The hot spring, including Australia’s hottest November on record, set the stage for the current summer wildfire season to start early.(ap)

REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom

Indian fugitive, Gurmeet Singh, also known as Jagtar Singh Tara walks near a prison cell at the criminal court in Bangkok January 6, 2015.

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INDONESIA AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim, Pool

A Malaysian Navy’s rubber boat is seen from Indonesian Air Force NAS 332 Super Puma helicopter during a search operation for the victims of AirAsia Flight 8501, off Pangkalan Bun, Central Borneo, Indonesia, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015.

Budget deficit set to be less than 2 percent

PANGKALAN BUN/JAKARTA - Search teams including divers took advantage of a let-up in bad weather on Tuesday to try to reach the wreckage of an AirAsia jet, but nine days after the plane crashed officials said there was still no sign of the crucial black box flight recorders.

JAKARTA - Finance Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro said the deficit in the revised 2015 state budget would be pressed to less than 2 percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) or lower than the deficit in 2014.

“The deficit in the 2015 state budget would not be higher than 2 percent. Therefore, the effect would be not only on state bonds to be issued but also on government debt structure,” Bambang said on Monday.

He said evaluation would be made on debt management especially related to plan to issue bonds and loans from multinational financial agencies and the possibility of domestic loans.

The mending of financing structure is to follow the US economic recovery with the FED expected to raise its benchmark interest rate not later than the end of 2015.

“The interest rate is expected to rise 100 basis points by the end of 20156. As a consequence

I want cut the deficit to cope with the uncertainty. Big financing is normally by domestic not foreign investors to forestall sudden reversal,” he said.

By utilizing domestic finance through issuance of instrument that could contribute to increase in number of investors in financial market, the domestic market would not be vulnerable to external pressures, he said.

Data at the finance ministry showed real deficit in 2014 budget was Rp227.4 trillion or 2.26 percent of the GDP or slightly below the target set in the revised state budget that year.

The lower than target deficit was attributable to excess in budget financing through the issuance of sovereign bonds.

Altogether the budget deficit in 2014 included real state revenue of Rp1,537.2 trillion or 94 percent of the target of Rp1,635.4 trillion and state spending of Rp1,764.6 trillion or 94 percent of the ceiling of Rp1,876.9 trillion.

Indonesian officials believe they may have located the tail and parts of the fuselage of the Airbus A320-200 at the bottom of the Java Sea, but strong currents, high winds and big waves have hindered attempts to investigate the debris.

Flight QZ8501 plunged into the water off Borneo island on Dec. 28, about 40 minutes into a two-hour flight from Indonesia’s second-biggest city of Surabaya to Singapore. There were no survivors among the 162 people on board.

Jakarta has launched a crackdown on its fast-growing aviation sector since the crash, reassigning some officials and tightening rules on pre-flight procedures in a country with a patchy reputation for air safety.

“Today’s weather is friendly, the team can work,” the head of Indonesia’s search and rescue agency, Fransiskus Bambang Soelistyo, told a news conference in Jakarta.

Soelistyo said the multinational air and sea operation had two objectives: to recover bodies and wreckage floating in an ever-widening search area in the northern Java Sea, and to find wreckage and the plane’s black box on the ocean floor.

The latter effort is focused on an area about 90 nautical miles off Borneo, where ships using sonar have

JAKARTA - The Indonesian Hotel and Restaurant Entrepreneurs Association (PHRI) proposes a moratorium on the issuance of permits for new hotel constructions in several areas in the country, Chairman Wiryanti Sukamdani stated here on Tuesday.

“Some areas such as Bali, Makassar, and West Java have more hotels than their normal capacity,” noted Wiryanti after meeting Vice President Jusuf Kalla on Tuesday.

She explained that the government’s recent policy to reduce official meetings at hotels indeed had impacted their revenues. However, the entrepreneurs were aware of the importance of implementing the policy. Hence, she affirmed that the entrepreneurs were proposing a moratorium on issuing permits for new hotel constructions in the future.

Hotel and restaurant entrepreneurs also proposed to the gov-

ernment to improve connectivity and infrastructure in Indonesia to make it easier for tourists to travel within the country, Wiryanti emphasized.

According to her, the dismal condition of airports and other infrastructure in some areas in Indonesia had made it difficult for tourists to travel within the country.

In the meantime, spokesman to Vice President Husain Abdullah stated that as a compensation for the government’s policy to reduce the number of official meetings at hotels, the government will increase the budget for tourism promotion from Rp250 billion to Rp1.2 trillion in order to attract more visitors to Indonesia.

Husain emphasized that the funds derived from the government’s policy can be used to improve the infrastructure in tourism sites across Indonesia. (ant)

Divers join AirAsia wreck hunt, but no sign of black box located five large objects believed to be parts of the plane - the largest about 18 metres (59 feet) long - in shallow water.

Search and rescue agency official Supriyadi, who is coordinating the operation from the southern Borneo town of Pangkalan Bun, said there had been no “pings” detected from the black box’s emergency locator beacon, possibly because it was buried in the seabed or the muddy water was impeding its signal.

“They haven’t found anything, maybe because the water is turbid and there is zero visibility,” he said.

“There’s a possibility it is buried in mud.”

The captain of an Indonesian navy patrol vessel said on Monday his ship had found what was believed to be the tail - a key find since that section of the aircraft houses the cockpit voice and flight data recorders - but Soelistyo said that could not be confirmed.

Only 37 bodies of the mostly Indonesian passengers and crew have been recovered. Many more could still be trapped in the fuselage of the aircraft.

The crash was the first fatal accident suffered by the AirAsia budget group, whose Indonesian affiliate has come under criticism from the authorities in Jakarta since the disaster.

The transport ministry has sus-

pended Indonesia AirAsia’s SurabayaSingapore licence, saying the carrier only had permission to fly the route on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Flight QZ8501 took off on a Sunday.

Indonesia AirAsia, 49 percent owned by Malaysia-based AirAsia, has made little comment, but said it would fully cooperate with investigations.

Indonesia’s financial regulator said it did not believe the issue of whether the airline had the correct flight permits would affect insurers paying out on claims.

“AirAsia didn’t fall because it was a Sunday,” Firdaus Djaelani, non-bank financial institutions supervisor at the financial services authority, told reporters in Jakarta.

While the cause of the crash is not known, the national weather bureau has said the seasonal tropical storms common in the area were likely to be a factor. Last week, the authorities questioned whether the pilot had followed proper weather procedures.

On Monday, the transport ministry said officials at the airport operator in Surabaya and air traffic control agency who had allowed the flight to take off had been moved to other duties while the accident investigation is completed. (rtr)

PHRI recommends moratorium on new hotel permits

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BUSINESS Oil prices rebound in Asian trade

AP Photo/John Bazemore

Dodge Ram pickup trucks are on display on the lot at Landmark Dodge Chrysler Jeep RAM Monday, Jan. 5, 2015, in Morrow, Ga. Buoyed by a resurgent economy, holiday sales, cheap gasoline and a love affair with pickup trucks, Americans headed to car dealers in droves last month, pushing full-year sales to what’s likely to be the highest level since 2006.

Carmakers finish strong in 2014

DETROIT — Confident in the economy and cheered by cheap gas, Americans are likely to push new car sales to their highest level in a decade this year.

Analysts expect sales to reach 17 million for the first time since 2005. That’s close to the record of 17.3 million set in 2000.

Low gas prices are giving buyers more confidence, whether they’re buying their first subcompact or upgrading to a larger SUV. Gas prices started this year at an average of $2.23 per gallon, down 33 percent from the beginning of 2014, according to AAA. The Energy Department estimates that lower gasoline prices will save U.S. households $550 this year — about four months of lease payments on a 2014 Honda Civic.

Popular new vehicles, like the Jeep Cherokee and Subaru Outback, are also drawing buyers.

Sales have now grown for five consecutive years — a rarity in the volatile auto industry.

While sales are growing, the pace has slowed from double-digit

increases in 2011 and 2012. That’s good news for buyers, who can expect to see bigger discounts in competitive segments like midsize cars as automakers fight to steal sales from each other.

Alec Gutierrez, an analyst with the car buying site Kelley Blue Book, thinks sales could stay in the 17-million range for the next two or three years if interest rates stay low and the U.S. economy remains healthy.

December, with its holiday discounts and warmer-than-usual weather, brought buyers out in droves, with sales up 11 percent over the previous year. Automakers reported December and full-year sales Monday.

For all of 2014, sales were up 6 percent to 16.5 million vehicles, according to Autodata Corp. That was the biggest year for the industry since 2006.

Back then — as now — the Ford F-Series was the country’s best-selling vehicle and the midsize Toyota Camry was the best-selling car. The top-selling SUV was the Ford Explorer, but it was only No. 14 among all vehicles sold, according to Ward’s AutoInfoBank.

In 2014 two smaller SUVs — the Honda CR-V and the Ford Escape — cracked the top 10 in sales as customers turned away from small and midsize cars as car-like handling and low gas prices made such vehicles more appealing.

Toyota, Fiat Chrysler and General Motors all reported 2014 sales increases, and Nissan, Subaru, Hyundai and Honda reported record numbers for the year.

Ford’s sales were flat, but the Ford brand remained the top-selling brand in the U.S. Among major automakers, only Volkswagen’s sales fell. (ap)

SINGAPORE - Oil prices recovered slightly in Asia Tuesday after the US contract fell below the psychological $50 mark in New York on demand worries, a strong dollar and a global supply glut.

West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for February, the US benchmark, rose nine cents to $50.13 in afternoon trade. Brent crude rose for February rose 22 cents to $53.33.

WTI fell as low as $49.95 -- a level not seen since May 2009 -Monday before closing at $50.04, down $2.65 from Friday. Brent fell $3.31 to $53.11.

“The price rebound (in Asia) is likely to be provisional as traders anticipate short-term moves in the oil market in this blow-off phase,” Michael McCarthy, chief market strategist at CMC Markets in Sydney, told AFP. Monday’s slide followed indications of rising output from key producers Russia and Iraq at a time when forecasters have trimmed their demand projections due to weak global economic growth.

A long rally in the greenback, which gained 11 percent last year against a

basket of major currencies, has also weighed on the dollar-priced oil market by making crude more expensive for buyers using weaker units.

Analysts are warning of further losses to come for the black gold.

Oil has dropped about 50 percent since June on worries about weak demand and a decision by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries not to cut output in response to lower prices and higher supplies.

Monday’s heavy losses are a reminder to the market “that oil fundamentals have not changed just because we entered into the New Year,” said Daniel Ang, investment analyst at Phillip Futures in Singapore.

“To further exacerbate the problem, a New Year means a new slate for oil bears and with them coming back to the market, this pushes the prices down further,” he said.

CMC’s McCarthy said prices could stabilise if global production is reduced following plummeting prices, and “the likes of China and the European Union revise their demand outlook this quarter.” (afp)

TOKYO - Toyota will give away thousands of patents for its fuel-cell cars, it said Tuesday, in an effort to encourage other automakers into the new industry.

The world’s largest vehicle maker said it will allow royalty-free use of about 5,680 patent licences, including 1,970 related to fuel-cell stacks and 3,350 concerning fuel-cell system control technology.

The firm also said the free patent licences will include about 290 items related to high-pressure hydrogen tanks.

The cost-free licences will be allowed “through the initial market introduction period” of fuel cell vehicles (FCV), which the company expects to last until about 2020.

Toyota will also open about 70 patent licences related to hydrogen stations -- the equivalent of gas stands for internal combustion vehicles, and a vital link in the chain for drivers -- indefinitely for manufacturers and operators.

“By allowing royalty-free use of FCV-related patent licences, Toyota is going one step further as it aims to promote the widespread use of FCVs and actively contribute to the realisation of a hydrogen-based society,” the

automaker said in a statement.

The announcement came after Toyota last month rolled out the world’s first mass market fuel-cell car -- the four-door Mirai sedan -- in Japan.

The car -- whose name means “future” in Japanese -- will hit the US and some European countries, including Britain, Germany and Denmark, in 2015, Toyota has said.

It hopes to sell more than 3,000 units of the car by the end of 2017 in the United States, and up to 100 annually in Europe.

Fuel-cell cars are seen as the Holy Grail of green cars as they are powered by a chemical reaction of hydrogen and oxygen, which produces nothing more harmful than water at the point of use.

But a limited driving range and lack of refuelling stations have hampered development of fuel-cell and their cousin, all-electric cars, which environmentalists say could play a vital role in cutting greenhouse gas emissions and slowing global warming.

The Mirai can travel about 650 kilometres (400 miles) without refuelling, some three times further than an electric car, and its tank can be filled in a few minutes like gasoline engine vehicles, according to Toyota. (afp)

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DENPASAR - Get accustomed to strolling to Serangan Island? Serangan Island or Turtle Island strategically located in the South of Sanur Beach, in fact, has a unique mystery.

Precisely, it sits around the Pat Payung Temple, Pesalakan Temple, Dalem Ped and Dalem Beji located in the southern part of the island.

Reputedly, the region is inhabited by supernatural beings. The atmosphere resembles a forest overgrown by mangrove trees and other local trees. It is guarded by officers and no people’s home occurs around the location, so

that its beauty remains to be well maintained. The road nearby is still unpaved and sometimes muddy in rainy season.

Atmosphere of the road is deserted, so that sometimes it makes people misguided. Once entering

this area, visitors will feel thick aura.

Talking about supernatural beings, our body will instantly feel cold and the chilling creeps. However, such a nuance will sometimes vanish when hearing the entertaining bird songs on the trees around us. (kmb)

Kapal village. However, once upon a time the Kapal village was found in famine condition, where people had no food and it led to chaos and pathetic condition.

Ki Kebo Iwa eventually invoked an instruction to the Creator by meditation at the Purusadha Temple.

In his meditation, he got a revelation from Hyang Pasupati instructing the local residents to implement the Aci Rah Pengangon or Aci Rare Angon by presenting tipat-bantal. Both offerings served as the symbol of the source of life because the cause of the famine was in the absence of the source of life.

Since then, the ritual was routinely implemented where people gathered in front of the Desa Temple of Kapal village. Local people then divided themselves into two groups, each of which held tipat and bantal as weapon. Baleganjur gamelan music and the sound of kulkul or wooden split drum accompanied the war. After an instruction from local village apparatus, both groups then attacked each other by throwing the

tipat-bantal.

At the beginning, the war took place in the middle courtyard of the temple and then it was resumed to outer courtyard, highway of Kapal village. The tipat or bantal was just like a bullet dashing so quickly.

People who became throwers were trance-like and striking blindly.

Even, many of them were topless, but still put on customary clothing such as headband, fabrics and selempot.

Although having to throw in one direction, namely northward and southward, some ignorantly threw towards people who witnessed the war tradition. However, they were all excited and happy. Interestingly, despite attacking and throwing each other with tipat and bantal, none would get wound or injury. Even, they vivaciously expressed more laughter.

The war lasted for about 30 minutes and then ended with a mutually shaking hands and forgiving. All the residents then cleared the path from the remnants of the tipat and bantal.

Residents were also advised to take some pieces of the tipat and bantal to take home, and then spread in the moors and paddy fields.

Chief of Kapal customary village, Anak Agung Gede Dharmayasa, said that taking some pieces of tipat and bantal to the home symbolized a request that all residents could still be bestowed with the abundance of fertility, food and welfare. “This is a form of respect for the universal energy creating the life and a procession to preserve the life survival with the concept of keeping the motherland, as the land is a tangible manifestation of the giver and sustainer of life for every creature on this earth,” he said.

Kapal village, he explained, had a total of 2,247 families spreading across 18 customary hamlets. For this event, each family was required to submit 1 kg of rice or sticky rice.

From this submission, the village could collect at least 1,800 kg or 1.8 tons of tipat and bantal. “It is also in part because some are not coming,” he added. (kmb)

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Mystical charms of temples on Serangan Island

Tipat-Bantal War

MANGUPURA - When thrown at something, one will be definitely upset. Even, not a few are offended to result in revenge. However, this one is different where the local community throws tipat-bantal at each other while dancing merrily. Those exposed to the toss will dance following the music without any ambition or revenge. It is a brief description on the tipat-bantal carried out by Kapal village, Mengwi subdistrict, Badung.

This tradition is regularly held every year in Sasih Kapat, around September to October. This tradition is closely related to farming life of Kapal village implemented as an expression of gratitude to God for the abundant harvest at the village.

The implementation is centered at Desa and Puseh Temple.

Tipat (diamond-shaped rice bag) is interpreted as a symbol of feminine energy (pradhana) and bantal

(Balinese long glutinous cake) as a symbol of masculine energy (purusha) represented by the presence of mother earth or the earth in physical form as the soil. The resulted food is the main weapon to defend the life itself.

The tipat-bantal war tradition this year became more unique since it was collaborated with the art composition. A dance drama composition choreographed by Anak Agung Gede Rahma Putra was presented with the storyline about the origin of the war. The composition presented Baris Bantal and Rejang Tipat Dance by teen artists. Its musical accompaniment used selonding gamelan set so that it gave a regal and classical impression.

The composition told about the arrival of Ki Kebo Iwa on the assignment of the King of Bali, Asta Sura Ratna Bhumi Banten to repair the Purusadha Temple at

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This one is different war where the local community throws tipat-bantal at each other while dancing merrily. Those exposed to the toss will dance following the music without any ambition or revenge.

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2 more women join defamation lawsuit against Bill Cosby

Plastic waste management

Government needs to form communication forum on waste banks

Wangaya Hospital

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After holidays, visitors to hospital on the rise

BANGLI – The high volume of plastic waste generated by Bangli County and managed by waste bank groups is not coalesced into a waste bank communication forum.

It is very much the hope of group head of the Dywik Waste Bank at Taman Bali village of Bangli, I Wayan Sutirka, that such a forum will be created. According to Sutirka, the creation of a forum, would allow people who care about plastic waste to share their knowledge with each other, including those aspects related to waste management. “We hope to get the attention of the government in order to establish a communication forum for waste banks,” he said on Monday (Jan 5).

So far, there is only one waste bank in Bangli County, which can nowhere near handle to volume of waste produced. According to Sutirka, the amount of plastic waste generated in the area and which, could be collected by his waste bank, comes out to about 55,588 kg. This figure includes waste from all subdistricts in Bangli. Every month, the plastic waste generated amounts to some 4,000 to 7,000 kg.

Such a high volume of plastic waste has urged him to think creatively about how to resolve the existing problems both regarding the selling price and product marketing.

For this reason the presence of a communication forum is necessary.

The government should not only focus in terms of waste collection,

but should also encourage the emergence of creative ideas from other waste banks that could be gathered in the context of a forum.

He added that creation of such a communication forum was more important than the addition of more waste banks. According to him, existing waste banks already cover many sub-units so this is not a problem in itself. “The number of waste banks is not the problem, rather communication between the different counties is what is still less than optimal, thus the importance of creating a communication forum” he added.

So far, communication related to plastic waste management is only taking place amongst the housewife organization (PKK) and schools in Bangli.

Regarding the amount of plastic waste, the Control Subdivision Head of the Bangli Environment Agency, Gusti Laksana said “Exisitng junk banks have been handling the plastic waste”.

Laksana, added that “before the presence of waste banks, the Environment Agency used to collect the waste and transport it to landfills. Now it is different, the Environment Agency just coordinates with the waste banks in terms of waste collection. “In the past, we went directly to schools to collect plastic waste. Now, we just need to coordinate with waste banks where people bring their plastic” said Laksana. (sos)

DENPASAR – After New Years, the holyday feast for the birth of the Prophet Muhammad occured, which happened to coincide with crowding in the admission room of to Sanglah Hospital.

People faced long queues, all waiting room chairs were occupied leaving many people forced to stand as they waited for their name to be called.

Nengah Desi, one of the patients waiting for service at Sanglah Hospital, had to wait two hours just to check in. Many people were hoping to be served quickly but instead faced long queues.” she explained.

Meanwhile, Subdivision Head

of the Public Relations of Sanglah Hospital, Kadek Naryantha, said the increasing number of visitors after the holidays is quite commonplace, especially when holidays fall on a weekend. “Because many people have time off on the weekend they only come into the hospital on Monday” he said.

In anticipation of long queues, the hospital attempted to provide maximal services by deploying existing human resources. “Even

though the number of visitors is increased, we still strive to provide maximal services by assigning more staff and working to the best of our abilities,” he explained.

Similar scenes also occurred at Wangaya Hospital. Based on observations by Bali Post, many patients were already queued at the policlinic as well as in front of the ticket counter of the Wangaya Hospital. (kmb42)

The plastic waste is filling the coast

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BOSTON — Two women accusing Bill Cosby of sexual offenses decades ago have joined a defamation lawsuit, contending the comedian publicly branded them as liars through statements by his representatives. The amended complaint was filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Springfield, in western Massachusetts, where Cosby has a home in Shelburne Falls.

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Central Intelligence Director (CIA) Director John Brennan speaks during a news conference at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Va., Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014.

US senator urges changes to avoid repeat of CIA torture WASHINGTON — The outgoing chairman of the Senate intelligence committee is urging a series of policy and legislative changes to ensure that the U.S. government never again tortures detainees, even as polls show that a majority of Americans believe harsh CIA interrogations after Sept. 1, 2001 attacks against the U.S. were justified.

Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein presided over a five-year investigation that resulted in last month’s release of parts of a report that harshly described the CIA practice of torture against terror detainees after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

The 525-page executive summary cited the CIA’s own documents in finding that the agency’s interrogation program was more brutal than previously understood and failed to produce unique intelligence that couldn’t have been obtained through traditional methods.

President Barack Obama has called the practices torture, something former CIA officials dispute.

The executive summary of the Senate report, written by Feinstein staff members, documents CIA mismanagement and misrepresentations, some of which the agency has acknowledged.

In a letter to Obama released Monday, Feinstein outlined a series of recommendations “intended to make sure that the United States

never again engages in actions that you have acknowledged were torture.” The documented shortcomings in the CIA’s decade-old interrogation program “should prompt additional oversight and better sharing of information for all covert action and significant intelligence collection programs,” she said.

Feinstein said she will introduce legislation in the upcoming Congress to codify Obama’s executive order banning torture and prohibiting the CIA from detaining prisoners.

Her office said she introduced similar legislation in 2009, but then began to focus on the investigation and wanted to wait for its outcome before pressing for changes.

“We didn’t know then that the study would not be completed until the end of 2014, so we went down the track of the investigation with the idea that recommendations would follow from what we found,” her top intelligence aide, David Grannis, said in an email.

Feinstein also called for a series of policy changes designed to force the CIA to better manage its covert actions and more fully inform Congress about them. And she urged new rules to ensure better accountability at the CIA, an agency where managerial and operational negligence has often gone unpunished. (ap)

Cosby is the only defendant in the lawsuit, originally filed last month by Tamara Green, who said he drugged and assaulted her in the 1970s. The two new plaintiffs are Therese Serignese, who said he drugged and raped her in 1976, and Linda Traitz, who alleges he tried to drug her and then sexually groped her in 1970.

Attorney Joseph Cammarata, who represents the three women, said the civil action allows them to have their allegations heard since criminal statutes of limitation have expired. “The lawsuit provides an opportunity for women who claim to have been harmed to have their day in court in a forum where the truth can be tried,” he said.

Cosby’s publicist David Brokaw and lawyer Martin Singer did not immediately respond to requests

for comment Monday. Singer has said he expected to prevail in the original lawsuit.

Green first spoke publicly about her allegations in 2005. She said in the lawsuit that after she did media interviews Brokaw and Cosby’s lawyer Walter M. Phillips Jr. made statements intended to expose her to public contempt and ridicule. Phillips said last month he represented Cosby in 2005 but no longer does, and he declined to comment further.

Brokaw did not return messages then seeking comment on Green’s allegations.

Serignese and Traitz, who are from Florida, allege in the amended complaint that when they came forward separately last November, Singer issued responses for Cosby that said they and other accusers were lying.

Since November, at least 15

women have come forward with claims Cosby sexually assaulted them decades ago. Most of the women say he drugged them before he assaulted them.

Cosby, who starred as Dr. Cliff Huxtable on “The Cosby Show” from 1984 to 1992, has never been charged in connection with any of the allegations, and through his representatives he has denied them.

A 2005 lawsuit by a Pennsylvania woman was settled before it went to trial.

Cosby’s career unraveled after his accusers came forward, with a TV project halted and nearly a dozen standup comedy tour performances canceled or indefinitely postponed. He’s scheduled to appear Wednesday in Canada, at a Kitchener, Ontario, theater, his first concert since a Nov. 21 show in Melbourne, Florida. (ap)

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FILE - This Oct. 26, 2009 file photo, comedian Bill Cosby, left, and his wife Camille appear at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts before Bill Cosby received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in Washington.

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Smart gadgets take center stage at CES LAS VEGAS — Imagine a world in which your garage door opens automatically as you pull into the driveway. The living room lights and heater turn on — perhaps the oven starts warming up, too. In the so-called “smart home,” cars, appliances and other devices all have sensors and Internet connectivity to think and act for themselves, and make your life easier.

We’re not there just yet, but we’re getting closer.

The smart-home concept is known in tech circles as the Internet of Things.

Current iterations primarily include our ability to control gadgets such as lights and security alarms or view data remotely through a smartphone app.

At the International CES gadget show in Las Vegas this week, manufacturers will promote more devices and functionality. Some gadgets will be able to talk directly with one another, not just to an app. The four-day show opens to the public Tuesday.

The Internet of Things could mean big business for gadget makers. The Consumer Electronics Association projects U.S. sales of smart energy and security systems alone will total $574 million this year, a 23 percent increase from 2014. Although that pales by comparison to the $18 billion spent on TVs and displays, growth has been swift. In terms of people smartening up their homes in earnest, though, it will probably be another two years before devices are cheap and widespread enough for the typical consumer, says Eduardo Pinheiro, CEO of Muzzley, which makes a hub that allows devices to talk to each other.

For now, the smart home is more about possibilities than practice.

Many companies exhibiting at CES are laying the foundation for what a smart-home system will eventually do, hoping to entice consumers to start thinking about upgrading to smart gadgets. It’s not always an easy sell.

Consider wearable devices that track fitness and other activities. In many cases, the novelty wears off quickly, and devices end up in drawers. But what if a wearable device that tracks sleep could tell the coffeemaker to start brewing as soon as you awoke? When the coffee’s done, what if the sprinklers on the front lawn automatically turned off so you didn’t get wet walking out the front door to work?

“It’s these great benefits that we need to explain,” says BK Yoon, Samsung’s CEO and chief of consumer electronics. “We can’t just talk about the Internet of Things because it’s so impersonal like a bedtime story for robots. We have to show what’s in it for them.”

That includes freeing people from chores to spend more time with family, pursue more hobbies and, in his case, spend “quality time on the putting

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In Denpasar, consumers shift to 3-kg LPG

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DENPASAR - The government through Pertamina has raised the price of non-subsidized Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) of 12-kg canister. After the price hike, the average selling price of blue canister LPG at sales agency became IDR 11,225 per kg or IDR 134,700 per canister from the previous price of an average of IDR 125,000 per canister. As a result of the increase, the communities especially in urban areas preferred to use the subsidized 3-kg LPG canister.

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The Alarm.com smart thermostat and application are on display at CES Unveiled, a media preview event for CES International, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2015, in Las Vegas. green,” he says.

Some examples: Lucis Technologies will soon ship a smart-lighting device called NuBryte that can learn your behavior, such as what time you tend to come home. Sensors can turn on the night light if you wake up to use the bathroom but switch on brighter lights during the day. A coffeemaker from

Smarter will soon use data from fitness trackers such as Fitbit. If you had a bad night of sleep, the coffeemaker will know to make the java stronger that morning. Other products focus on better notifications: a battery for a smoke detector to alert you on your phone when the alarm goes off, or a bracelet that vibrates when the baby cries in

its crib. (Moms rejoice: the bracelet is even smart enough to alternate which parent it alerts to get up.)

“It’s got to be something people are seeing it can do and want it to do,” says Chris Penrose, AT&T’s senior vice president for the Internet of Things.

“It’s got to make their lives better and be incredibly easy to use.” (ap)

Highlight on CES app with recipes and other content. The three chefs will share some of their favorites.

Samsung will also make a Chef Collection edition of its tablet.

Meanwhile, Samsung is trying to make its new Gear VR virtual-reality headset more appealing by developing more content.

The new Milk VR service AP Photo/John Locher will include updates of John Herrington, senior vice president 360-degree free content of Samsung Electronics America, talks five days a week. David about new appliances during a Sam- Alpert, a producer for the hit AMC show “The Walksung news conference at the ing Dead,” will create a mystery-suspense episodic - Virtual Reality, Real Eating Samsung has traditionally been thriller exclusively for the service. Virknown for its hardware — from TVs and tual reality “allows us as storytellers to appliances to phones and smartwatches. really push the boundaries and explore It’s now making a bigger push into con- new ways of engaging the audience,” tent. The company paraded three leading says Alpert. Content will also come chefs on stage — Michel Troisgros of from the National Basketball AssoMaison Troisgros in Roanne, France, ciation and brands such as Mountain Christopher Kostow of The Restaurant Dew. The Gear VR device sells for at Meadowood in California’s Napa $199 and requires a Galaxy Note 4 Valley and Daniel Boulud of New phone, excluding the Edge version.

York City’s Daniel — to launch an International CES Monday, Jan. 5, 2015, in Las Vegas.

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- Write Me

Sometimes, it’s easier to write or draw something than to type. Some tablets including Microsoft’s Surface and Samsung’s Note series come with styluses to do just that, but that means having an extra item to carry around and potentially lose.

Now you can write on a tablet screen with just an ordinary pen or pencil. Lenovo is introducing a technology called AnyPen in its new 8-inch (20-centimeter) Yoga Tablet 2. Lenovo says the pen or pencil will even make touchscreen navigation easier than using a finger.

The tablet is built to withstand normal pressure, but don’t press too hard, or you might scratch the surface.

- All in the Screens

LG’s new G Flex 2 has a slightly curved screen, as the name implies.

LG says that makes phones easier to hold and the display easier to read.

Even more notable is the fact that LG is also making the Flex 2 smaller than its predecessor, countering a trend toward bigger and bigger phones.

LG says it got complaints that the previous, 6-inch (15-centimeter) ver-

sion felt too big. The new one will be product, and LG doesn’t expect to just 5.5 inches (14 centimeters), which ship as many Flex 2 phones as its flat LG considers the “sweet spot” for G3 smartphone. A price hasn’t been smartphones. That’s the same screen determined, but it’s expected to be size as Apple’s new iPhone 6 Plus, more than the G3 and other high-end though it’s actually slightly shorter phones, which typically cost $600 to when placed side by side. $700 without a two-year contract.

LG is also making the back of its Meanwhile, Sharp plans to release new phone “scratch-proof” by adding a 5-inch (12.5-centimeter) frameless self-healing properties. Scratch or nick phone — the screen goes right to the it under normal use, and the mark dis- edge. It actually uses an optical-lens appears in seconds. The screen itself trick to make the front panel appear isn’t scratchproof, but LG says it’s to extend to the edge. Magic or not, more durable than usual with a special the trick keeps the overall phone chemical layer applied to Corning’s smaller.

Gorilla Glass.

The Flex 2 has improved screen resolution over the original Flex, at 1080p high definition, though that’s still behind LG’s G3 in sharpness. The Flex 2 also introduces some selfie features and a way to quickly check the time and notificaAP Photo/John Locher tions without turning The LG G Flex 2 during a media preview the entire screen on.

C u r v e d - s c r e e n before CES International Sunday, Jan. 4, phones remain a niche 2015, in Las Vegas.

“Now, more buyers are looking for the 3-kg LPG, although it is sold for IDR 20,000 per canister. They are persistently looking for the 3-kg instead of the 12-kg canister,” said Nengah Nasih, an LPG retailer in Denpasar, Monday (Jan 5).

According to her, in addition to unaffordable price, some few consumers switched to the 3-kg LPG because they gave up as the content of the 12-kg canister was not appropriate. “They argued to give up of using the 12-kg canister.

After being used for few days the gas has run out and it is said the content was not appropriate. I do not know why it happens because as a retailer I was just given in such condition by agent,” she said.

Since the past few months, she had to exchange her 12-kg LPG canisters with the 3-kg ones. “I was overwhelmed to meet the demand

of 3-kg LPG, while the 12-kg canister is not salable. Therefore, I decided to exchange them. It’s quite reasonable as a 12-kg canister can be exchanged with three 3-kg canisters,” he said.

Meanwhile, Director of the Consumer Protection Foundation (YLPK) of Bali, Putu Armaya, also admitted the wide price disparities of LPG did not only kindle the lower middle class, but also the upper middle class to switch to 3-kg LPG remaining to be subsidized and the price was not increased.

“Certainly it will trigger migration from the use of 3-kg to 12-kg LPG canister. The upper middle class will also use 3-kg LPG that should become the right of the lower middle class because the price disparity is wide,” he said.

He also said if the price of the 12-kg LPG was increased it would

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As a result of the increase of non-subsidized LPG, the communities especially in urban areas preferred to use the subsidized 3-kg LPG canister. trigger illegal mixing action of the 3-kg LPG to 12-kg LPG canister. It happened because the price disparity between the 12-kg LPG and the 3-kg LPG would be

increasingly wider.

“Price hike of the 12-kg LPG will also potentially trigger a fraud and smuggling. In other words, the right of the lower middle class

people will be robbed by the upper middle class. Although the price of the 3-kg LPG is increased, the wide price disparity will persist,” he concluded. (kmb27)

Celukan Bawang favorite port for skippers SINGARAJA - Existence of the freight stevedoring pier at Celukan Bawang Harbor, Gerokgak, becomes a featured icon for the Northern Bali community. As a natural and convenient harbor for skippers, this largest harbor in Buleleng has become favorite sojourn for barges which often transport goods to various towns in Bali.

The Head of Buleleng Development Planning Board (Bappeda), Gede Suyasa, said that designation of Celukan Bawang Harbor was very appropriate for barges and cruise ships to anchor in Bali. It was enabled because the construction of Celukan Bawang Harbor was natural without too big ocean waves. “According to provincial Spatial Plan, it should become the center of all stevedoring activities in Bali. Based on the experience of skippers, Celukan Bawang Harbor is the most convenient harbor for cruise ship to berth. As a natural harbor, the waves are not high and surrounding condition is very good as well,” he said, Monday (Jan 5).

When the freight was unloaded at Celukan Bawang Harbor, the condition of road construction would become a

constraint for trucks transporting the freight. “Regent of Buleleng has often delivered the issue to provincial government if the Celukan Bawang Harbor is indeed used as stevedoring harbor it must be focused on stevedoring activity. However, there was complaint of employers where if the freight is unloaded in Buleleng, when it is transported to southern Bali, the road access is even not good as it can kindle congestion at Gitgit,” he said.

Cooperation between Bali and Buleleng government to maximize the role of Celukan Bawang Harbor remained to be done as well as in the matter of road access posing the main supporting infrastructure for smooth distribution of freight. “When freight is just unloaded at the harbor, there should be an access to distribute the freight. Unlike when stevedoring activities are done at Benoa Harbor Denpasar, the access of distribution can be smoother. Thus, the road access becomes a very important part,” said Suyasa.

Meanwhile, according to Dewa Gede Adi Kumarajaya, General Manager of PT Pelindo III of Celukan Bawang Branch, if the Benoa Harbor

was merely intended for tourism vessel, the entire container ships would be directed to Celukan Bawang as set forth in the master plan of Celukan Bawang Harbor. “The role of Celukan Bawang Harbor will be developed in the future into a cargo harbor. It will depend on the status of Benoa Harbor whether it has become a special tourism harbor. As a result, cargo ships will certainly be directed to the North,” he said. Stevedoring activities at Celukan Bawang covered the

commodities such as iron, timber and cement, including the locally made cement of Indonesia to Vietnam. Distribution of cement was mostly sent to Denpasar. Furthermore, the Bali provincial government plan related to the development of Soka – Seririt Toll Road as road infrastructure was expected to facilitate the distribution access from North Bali to South Bali.

“Hopefully, the distribution of freight in the future can become more fluent,” he added. (kmb34)

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Existence of the freight stevedoring pier at Celukan Bawang Harbor, Gerokgak, becomes a featured icon for the Northern Bali community. As a natural and convenient harbor for skippers, this largest harbor in Buleleng has become favorite sojourn for barges which often transport goods to various towns in Bali.

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Due to bad weather, boat crossing closed

The billboard is blocking the traffic light so it must be dismantled

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Dozens of billboards dismantled by force AMLAPURA - Dozens of billboards and banners in the town of Amlapura, were dismantled by Municipal Police on Monday (Jan 5), because the permits for posting them had expired. Some of the billboards had been installed in restricted areas that could compromise people’s mobility. The dismantling of the billboards and banners was also meant to clean up the town and reduce the slum like impression that the billboards created.

Chief of the Karangasem Municipal Police, Iwan Suparta, revealed that at least 50 billboards and banners were already dismantled on the road between Amlapura and Jasri.

The general cleanup was carried out at this particular moment, given that many of the signs were holyday greetings for Galungan, Kuningan and New Years. Aside from the billboards posted by organizations, the ones posted by the regent and deputy regent of Karangasem were also dismantled.

Before dismantling, Suparta claimed to have sent a warning letter to those who had posted the billboards, asking them to take down their signs. On Monday, the police

took down any remaining signs.

“We have kept all the dismantled billboards in the office of the Karangasem Municipal Police. The owners are welcome to collect their property from the office,” he said.

To take down all the billboards, a total of 18 personnel from the Karangasem Municipal Police were deployed and divided into two teams. Iwan Suparta admitted that most of the billboards were mounted on roadside and pegged onto trees. “In accordance with the rules of billboard installation on roadsides, it is forbidden to peg signs to trees,” he explained.

In 2015, his party would further tighten the regulations on the

installation of billboards and banners in Amlapura. Poorly organized billboard installations, according to Iwan Suparta, gives a slum-like impression to the town of Karangasem. For this reason, his party has appealed to community leaders and organizations to coordinate in advance with the Municipal Police of Karangasem prior to installing such signs.

Any billboards or banners installed in restricted areas would immediately issue a letter of reprimand. “We try to persuade people to dismantle illegal signs themselves, but failing this officers demolish the signs by force,” he concluded. (dwa)

AMLAPURA - For the safety of passengers, the boat crossing from Padangbai Harbor to Gili Trawangan tourist attraction, Lombok, NTB, was closed. Strong winds in the Straits of Lombok were followed by high waves reaching 1 to 3 meters caused the boat crossing to be crossing be unsafe.

When the weather returns to normal, the crossing will be opened again.

Harbor administrator of Padangbai, Ketut Aryadana, revealed that a number of boats that usually serve the PadangbaiLombok crossing had to be postponed due to unfavorable weather condition. “The crossing was postponed today (Monday) due to bad weather” he said. Moreover, the possibility of high waves occurs due to erratic weather conditions.

Bad weather would not affect large-sized vessels because the wave height limit was still around 1 to 3 meters. Crossing service on the Padangbai-Lembar was not disturbed and could still be in operation. “The crossing remains normal and is going well. We do not need to apply the open-close system here,” he explained.

Ketut Aryadana ensured that the boat crossing services would be reopend when the weather was back to normal.

However, his party could not ascertain when the weather would go back to normal. “If tomorrow (Tuesday) the weather is fine, we will be in operation. But if the waves unexpectedly go higher, we will have to delay the crossing by applying the open-close system,” he concluded. (kmb)

Landslide in Pupuan, traffic hampered by materials

TABANAN - Landslides occurred again in Tabanan County.

After having previously occurred in Penebel subdistrict, on Sunday night (Jan 4) another landslide occurred in Pupuan subdistrict, on the highway at Batungsel Kelod hamlet, Pupuan. Fortunately, the incident did not claim any casualties.

However, the 30 meter high landslide with a diameter of 50 meters, caused the traffic of Pupuan-Antosari-Singaraja to be disrupted by landslide debri that covered half the road.

Subdistrict head of Pupuan, Putu Arya Suta, said that landslide occurred around 8:15 p.m. That night the Pupuan area was flushed out by heavy rain all day. “Fortunately the road was quite, whereas usually many vehicles pass through the area where the landslide occurred,” he said, Monday (Jan 5).

Upon receiving the report of a landslide, his party promptly contacted relevant parties, namely the Tabanan Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) and the officials of the province to deal with the materials covering the provincial road. “That night officers removed the landslide debris with heavy equipment from the Bali Public Works Agency,” he explained.

As the evacuation process took place, the road connecting Pupuan to Singaraja only had one lane open, large enough for small vehicles. Heavy trucks had to stop temporarily as the road could not handle such loads.

“This morning (Monday) the road is back to normal.

Meanwhile, the remaining landslide materials continue to be cleaned up so that they will not spread to road again when it rains.” he concluded. (kmb28)

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PHM awarded Indonesia Leading Local Chain Award JAKARTA - PHM Hospitality announced that the company has been awarded as Indonesia Leading Local Chain 2014/2015 from Indonesia Travel & Tourism Award Foundation on last 15 December 2014.

Previously, PHM Hospitality has been named as Indonesia Leading Local Chain for 2012/2013.

More, 2 of 6 unit hotels which managed by PHM Hospitality were also recognized with some categories such as THE 1O1 Bali Legian won Indonesia Leading Lifestyle Hotel Bali 2014/2015, and THE BnB Jakarta Kelapa Gading has been awarded as Indonesia Leading City Hotel – Jakarta 2014/2015.

THE 1O1 Bali Legian is a MidScale Premium Hotel located in Legian Bali, an urban legendary destination in Bali. The hotel is pioneering a Chic & Trendy lifestyle in the Legian area and offers 5 Unique Selling Points such as Smart Stylish Design, Smart Stylish Hospitality, Smart Stylish Destination, 1O1 Smart Living, and Smart Stylish Booking, which is suitable for both business

and leisure traveler. THE 1O1 Bali Legian is featuring 300 Chic & Trendy Room, Rooftop Dine & Music Lounge, Meeting Rooms, 2 Swimming Pools, Alfresco Restaurant, Atma Spa & Mini Gym. THE BnB Jakarta Kelapa Gading is an Urban Smart Hotel under THE BnB Hotels Brand which has been repositioning from Budget Hotels into Economical Hotels. It is located in Kelapa Gading area which offers 6 Unique Selling Points as an economical hotel such as Sleep Well, Good Location, Urban Services, Planning Events & Meetings, free Wi-Fi, and Value for Money. It is a Hub for Urban Personality who is modern, open minded yet value-conscious, and loves to explore all the greatness with

simple mind, either for their short business trip or leisure purpose. The hotel is featuring 171 Urban Rooms, 6 medium meeting rooms, and Kaffein the coffee shop.

Kristian Kuntadi, Managing Director of PHM Hospitality says: “it was a great honor for PHM Hospitality and our unit hotels to receive the awards as recognition of our mission to deliver unique and pleasant experiences for our customers through innovative & excellent services. In this regards, please let us extend sincere gratitude to our stakeholders, particularly our employees for their dedication to implement our mission. We promise to continuously seek for innovation and new ways in delivering unique services and values.” (r)

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The leading entertainment hotel in Bali, Hard Rock Hotel Bali happily announces its new General Manager, Shane Coates. Before assuming the position at Hard Rock Hotel Bali, the man who familiar called Shane, has had the experience in hospitality over 20 years. So, there is no doubt for Shane in managing Hard Rock Hotel as the one of the best hotel around Kuta area.

Previously, Shane was an Executive Assistant Manager at the Hard Rock Hotel Penang. It is assisted by HPL Hotels & Resorts Group to lead some properties. A New Zealand Australian, Shane brings his international hospitality experience in Malaysia and Australia. He was also the GM at Vibe Savoy Hotel Melbourne and various other TFE Hotels in Perth and Sydney.

Shane runs his position effectively on 13 October 2014.

In his new position, Shane will provide strategic leadership expertise and ensure the effective and efficient operation of the hotel. Moreover, Hard Rock Bali that is built on 3.5 hectare with 418 tribute rooms and suites on prime site, known as the heart of Bali’s entertainment and shopping center. The best point, it has great location, exactly in front of Kuta Beach.

“I really enjoy working here. I love Balinese people with its custom and friendliness. Besides that, hospitality in Bali is very strong and different with the others. I really respect, Bali is a very spiritual place. I find good balance and good impression,” he said.

There is a unique thing that Shane always wants to develop.

Those are services, qualities and facilities. “I believe Hard Rock has good brand. We will never tire in giving experience by rock at center stage, Hard Rock,” he revealed.

Keep in touch with the staff is also important, he said, as long as the staff can continue to develop themselves, they will be success. According to him, staff is number one. That is why he is providing the good tool and facilities to create sustainable success. “Human resource is a big part of hospitality. So, we

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make an effort to work in transparent management, maintaining policy with the staff, make good communication and work together,” he delivered.

Hard Rock Hotel is one of routine hotel in running corporate social responsibility (SCR). “We do commit in helping less fortune community. We want to be reactive and proactive, not only to treat our guest but also environment and community around us,” he closed. (ocha)

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 considered 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 “umbulumbul”, 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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Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Emma Stone extends run in Cabaret’

NEW YORK - Actress Emma Stone will extend her run as singer Sally Bowles opposite Tony winner Alan Cumming in the Broadway musical “Cabaret” for an additional two weeks, producers said on Monday.

Stone, 26, who is nominated for a best supporting actress Golden Globe for her portrayal of an embittered daughter of a washed-up actor in the film “Birdman,” will play Bowles through Feb. 15.

The actress, known for her roles in “The Help” and the superhero action franchise “The Amazing Spider-Man,” has won rave reviews in “Cabaret,” which is set during the

rise of Nazism in Berlin.

The New York Times described Stone as “scintillating in an irresistible Broadway debut.” She replaced Michelle Williams in the role that was made famous by Liza Minnelli.

“Cabaret” is based on Christopher Isherwood’s 1939 novel “Goodbye to Berlin,” which chronicles in part the seedy caba-

ret nightlife of the German capital in the final years of the Weimar Republic.

Cumming will continue his role as Emcee in the revival of the 1998 Tony Award-winning production, which opened on April 24 at Studio 54, through March 29. Producers of the show said casting for a new Sally Bowles will be announced shortly. (rtr)

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One of New Jersey’s “Real Housewives” has gone to prison.

Teresa Giudice surrendered at the Federal Correction Institution in Connecticut at about 3 a.m. Monday to begin serving a 15-month sentence for bankruptcy fraud, her attorney said.

Giudice’s last meal before turning herself in was at a 24-hour diner near the facility, according to attorney James Leonard, who drove the “Real Housewives of New Jersey” star from her home in northern New Jersey to the prison, about 90 minutes north of New York City.

Giudice and her husband, Giuseppe “Joe” Giudice, pleaded guilty last year to hiding assets from bankruptcy creditors and submitting phony loan applications to get some $5 million in mortgages and construction loans. Joe Giudice also pleaded guilty to failing to pay taxes totaling more than $200,000.

Under terms of their plea agreements, Joe Giudice will start serving his 41-month sentence when Teresa Giudice is released, an arrangement aimed at ensuring the couple’s four daughters will have one parent at home at all times.

Joe Giudice, born in Italy, is not an American citizen and faces an immigration hearing when he completes his sentence and is expected to be deported. His attorney has said Giudice came to the U.S. as an infant and didn’t know he wasn’t an American citizen until he was an adult.

Attorneys said that under federal sentencing rules, Teresa Giudice could be eligible to be released by next December, and also could spend the last month or so of her sentence at a halfway house or under some form of home monitoring.

The Giudices also are required to pay $414,000 in restitution under their plea agreement; Teresa Giudice sent the government a check for $200,000 in early October, according to court records.

At the Giudices’ sentencing in October, U.S. District Judge Esther Salas criticized the couple for not disclosing all their assets as required under their plea agreement, calling it “the same pattern of obstruction, concealment and manipulation as they showed in the bankruptcy case.”

Still, Salas sentenced Teresa Giudice to a sentence below the range sought by the U.S. attorney’s office and staggered her sentence with her husband’s so they wouldn’t be in prison at the same time and unable to care for their four daughters.

Joe Giudice also pleaded guilty in state court in October to unlawful use of identification in a case involving a bogus driver’s license. His 18-month sentence will run concurrent with his federal sentence. (ap)

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Wednesday, January 7, 2015

People asked government to revise Bylaw No.1/2011

DENPASAR - Although the government has reduced the price of Premium fuel to IDR 7,600 ally going on?” he said.

Bangun asserted the regional per liter, people in Bali could not purchase it at that price. It happened because the price of fuel bylaw should be revised immediin Bali was set at IDR 7,950 per liter. Even, this price disparity already kindled a reaction from ately, no need to wait for another a number of people who wanted the same price of Premium in Bali as other regions.

“The price must be made the same as in other regions. Not all the people in Bali are rich. We also still have poor residents,” said Made, a resident of Denpasar.

Similarly, he objected to the high fuel price in Bali because the price of basic necessities had already been rising.

Calculation of the Premium price is based on basic price plus Value Added Tax (VAT), vehicle fuel tax (PBBKB) and operating

profit margin. Premium price in Bali becomes so prominent because local government in Bali sets the fuel tax by 10 percent. Even, it is the highest in Indonesia. The magnitude has been set forth in the Bali Regional Bylaw (Perda) No.1/ 2011 on Local Taxes, particularly in Article 37 Chapter V. Related to this issue, Chairman of the Bali Dwipa Care Forum, Gede Bangun Nusantara, questioned why only Bali Province set

the fuel tax by 10 percent. Meanwhile, other regions in Java and Madura set it by 5 percent.

“Is Bali still belonging to the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia or not? It is the question.

I think the governor and Bali House must address this issue by revising the Bylaw No. 1/2011 by decreasing the tax to 5 percent so as the same as other provinces in Indonesia.

Otherwise, it will burden the people with unreasonable tax. What’s re-

time as the regulation concerned the lives of many people. Government was asked not to act arbitrarily to people because of the Premium price disparity of IDR 350 was quite burdensome to Balinese life.

“If we count the 2,500 kiloliters per day multiplied by IDR 350 and multiplied by 365 days, it will result in over 300 billion. So, the difference almost reaches IDR 300 billions. Actually the fuel tax is not as much as that amount because the

other provinces are enough to set it by 5 percent. The bylaw should be soon revised. When quoting the statement of the declaration of the Independence Day, it must be done within the shortest possible time,” he explained. (kmb32) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am.

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People are queuing at petrol station to get some fuel in Denpasar, recently. Although the government has reduced the price of Premium fuel to IDR 7,600 per liter, people in Bali could not purchase it at that price. It happened because the price of fuel in Bali was set at IDR 7,950 per liter.