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Adele breaks another record with secondweek US sales

NEW YORK - Adele’s album “25” has broken another record, selling more than one million albums in the United States in its second week after a massive debut, a tracking service said Sunday.

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By sustaining huge success for a second week, the British singer becomes the first artist to sell more than one million albums in two separate weeks since at least 1991, when Nielsen Music began systematic data.

“25” sold 1.1 million albums in the week through Thursday, bringing to 4.49 million copies the total US sales since it came out on November 20, Nielsen Music said.

Sales could still go much higher,

considering the holiday shopping season and Adele’s past performance.

Her previous album, “21,” has sold more than 11 million copies in the United States since its release in 2011, topping year-end charts for two consecutive years.

“25” has also broken records in Adele’s native Britain, selling more than one million copies in 10 days -- the fastest album to reach that feat.

The album, led by the blockbuster single “Hello,” is like much of Adele’s earlier work a collection of emotionally intense ballads with themes of heartache and childhood nostalgia.

Her success is all the more striking as album sales as a whole have dropped markedly since the rise of online music two decades ago.

Unusually for a pop star in the current era, Adele has not made “25” available on streaming services such as Spotify and invests less time than many of her peers in social media interaction.

With the record sales, Adele alone is helping boost sales for the recorded music industry.

Offering a more detailed glance at her first week, Nielsen Music said that “25” accounted for 37.7 percent of all album sales in the United States, in a month that saw new releases from other big pop names including Justin Bieber and One Direction.

The sales were nearly evenly divided between physical and digital, with Adele putting “25” for purchase on iTunes despite her boycott of streaming. (afp)

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Ministry of Tourism and Ministry of Forestry joining forces

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Tourism has teams up with the Ministry of Forestry and Environment to work on creating tourist destinations in forests and other nature areas. Minister of Tourism, Arief Yahya said that the three points that the two institutions agreed to cooperate on are: the improvement of tourism management, improvements to the quality of tourism development, and the improvement of tourism in national parks and nature parks. added that UNESCO has named 6 of Indonesia’s national parks as world heritage sites two of which, Mount Leuser National Park and Komodo National Park have been designated as biosphere reserves.

Fathoni added that international recognition along with the specific attributes of Indonesia’s wilderness, can be used to help with the branding of nature tourism in Indonesia and help to make it a leading sector.

Visitors visited Pine Forest at Dlingo, Bantul, Yogyakarta. The pine forest which is located on the east side of Bantul became one of the ecotourism destinations in Yogyakarta. The Ministry of Tourism has teams up with the Ministry of Forestry and Environment to work on creating tourist destinations in forests and other nature areas.

Natural tourist destination will be jointly developed in 14 locations; 13 national parks and one eco-tourism park. “These include Ijen National Park, Semeru National Park, Rinjani, Tambora and Alas Purwo,” said Arief.

Arief added that Indonesia’s natural environment has the largest potential in terms of tourism development, followed closely by culture and made made made attractions.

Indonesia’s forests said Arief, hold a great bio-diversity, with a variety of unique and beautiful phenomena that can attract visitors.

Director General of the Natural Resources Conservation and Ecosystem at the Ministry of Forestry and Environment, Tachir Fathoni, said that this cooperation is a way of working on the potential of existing natural resources to become a draw for tourism. He

BALI’S tourism sector could be providing substantial benefits to Balinese people and could also serve as a vehicle for environmental and cultural preservation. Yet when we look at the way tourism is being run in Bali today, we see that it has instead become a threat the island and its people because of the way that investment in the tourism sector

in Bali causing problems for the industry itself. The natural environment is being exploited without any regard for the values of Bali’s local wisdom. “On that account, developments in tourism need to be refocused back on paying attention to the environment and the local culture,” said Prana.

And thirdly, the issue of rampant land conversion that has become a very serious threat to Bali, also needs to be addressed both in terms of educating people about the dangers of land conversion and also

by strengthening the enforcement of laws that are in place to protect agricultural land from being built on. Actually we all know that agriculture is the foundation of Balinese culture. Therefore the development of tourism in Bali should be done using a approach that is based on cultural and spiritual norms. “The right way to develop tourism is to adopt local values,” added the owner of Taman Sari.

One Direction leads the way on Twitter’s list of 2015 tweets

SAN FRANCISCO — Messages of love and gratitude shared by the boy band One Direction topped Twitter’s charts this year, eclipsing President Barack Obama’s celebration of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision legalizing gay marriage.

One Direction members accounted for half of the 10 most recirculated tweets, including the three most popular.

All the One Direction tweets were either directed at bandmates or the group’s fans. None are likely to be remembered for heralding pivotal moments in history.

“All the love as always. H,” One Direction’s Harry Styles tweeted in March after Zayn Malik an-

nounced plans to leave the group.

Styles boasts 26.3 million Twitter followers. The band’s other current and former members have amassed between 16.6 million and 23.7 million followers apiece.

Obama nabbed the fourth spot in the Twitter rankings released Monday with a June 26 tweet that hailed the Supreme Court’s ruling on gay marriage as “a big step in our march toward equality.”

Other tweets in Twitter’s Top 10 came from Saudi Arabia King Salman after his crowning, hip hop personality Kayne West calling for people to do everything they can, actor Leonard Nimoy philosophizing five days before his death and

Caitlyn Jenner introducing herself after her transition from one-time Olympic decathlon champion Bruce Jenner.

Twitter also released some of the most popular topics, denoted by hashtags, that resonated with the more than 300 million users of its short-messaging service. The list included (hashtag)JeSuisParis after last month’s terrorist attack in France, (hashtag) BlackLivesMatter after police shootings of African-Americans in several U.S. cities, (hashtag) LoveWins after the Supreme Court’s ruling on gay marriage and (hashtag) RefugeesWelcome as people fled the Middle East for Europe. (ap)

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are made. Greed and lack of understanding about Balinese cultural practices have become the norm.

During a discussion about tourism in Bali that was held as part of Bali Travel News’ seventeenth anniversary celebrations on December 4th, these issues were discussed and solutions were shared amongst tourism experts, industry players, government officials and eco-friendly educators.

Tourism figure head, A.A. Prana, outlined three aspects of Bali’s tourism management that need to be

addressed. The First of all, he said, investments in and management of tourism in Bali need to be spread out throughout the island, instead of being solely focused on South Bali. “Tourism in South Bali is overdeveloped and is overloading the carrying capacity of this part of the island. The management of the tourism sector has not be done in accord with palemahan (utilization of space) and has thus become unbalanced,” he said.

Secondly, he said, greed has taken over the tourism industry

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During the discussion, Chairman of the Bali Public Relations Forum, A.A. Raka Yuda, highlighted the importance of community-based tourism as a key to maintaining Balinese tourism.

Yuda, who also serves as Spokesperson for the government of Badung said that community based tourism management is a viable way to spread the wealth generated through tourism. “Local people should not just be spectators but should be involved economically. The most important thing is to apply the concept of community empowerment,” he stated emphatically.

The government of Badung has in fact been working on developing village tourism, with the understanding that rural communities play a crucial role in maintaining the culture. However, the larger tourism industry should be more involved in supporting the efforts of villagers to create a space for tourism, for the benefit of all concerned.

By working together, Balinese tourism will remain distinct, and Balinese villagers can make a living -thus allowing them to preserve their culture.

Similar opinions were expressed by representative of the Association of Indonesia Tours and Travel Agencies (ASITA) Bali, Putu Winastra. By having hoteliers become ‘foster parents’ for tourism villages, he said, these communities would be able to prosper as well. By providing information and training to villagers about things like sanitation and hygiene, hotels could then offer stay-overs in villages where Balinese cultural activities could be experienced first hand. “Community-based tourism can be developed today, thus allowing local people to be directly involved in tourism,” he said.

‘Foster parenting’, continued Putu Winastra, could also have the responsibility of training villagers about maintaining Bali’s environment using a ‘clean and green’ system. Tourism industry players could also share a piece of the tourism pie: “for example, hotel guests could be given the option of staying at the hotel for three nights and spending one night in the village, thus allowing the tourism villagers to prosper too,” he said.

Manager of the Pandawa Beach tourist destination, I Wayan Duarta, and Manager of Monkey Forest Ubud, I Komang Bhuana, both exposed about community-based management of tourist destinations. Managing tourist destinations not only brings in dollars, they said, but also helps to preserve the environment. “Tourist attraction can also serves as a medium for preserving rural environments as set forth in pararem or customary rules,” said Duarta.

Tirka Widanti, one of the founders of Green School, talked about educational systems that feature traditional Balinese activities, such as utilizing organic waste as fertilizer and using banana leaves as disposable plates or food wrappings. Widanti also said that by creating eco-friendly learning spaces set in or near gardens also fosters children’s love for the natural environment.

Spokesperson of the government of Tabanan, Putu Dian, and I Made Suparta from Public Relations of the government of Bangli both highlighted the need for adequate sanitation as a way to maintain tourism in Bali. Dian in particular mentioned that creating ways of allowing people to turn plastic waste into a source of income was one solution to the growing problem of plastic waste. (kmb)

Archipelago International will ring in the New Year at Aston Hotels across Indonesia JAKARTA - Archipelago International, Indonesia’s leading hotel management group, is inviting its guests to revel in the joy of New Year’s Eve celebrations at Aston Hotels across Indonesia. Set to bring guests the best of each Aston Hotel, the celebrations will offer a wide array of celebrity performances, waterfront shows, fireworks, posh sky view parties, prizes and much more. For more information, check out some of our feature events below.

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Tourists visited Jatiluwih, Tabanan. Despite certain setbacks in the development of tourism in Tabanan, the government of this district, is still working on improving a number of its tourists attractions.

Tabanan prioritizes community-based tourism

DESPITE certain setbacks in the development of tourism in Tabanan, the government of this district, is still working on improving a number of its tourists attractions. The first stage of development will remain focused on developing communitybased tourism specifically in Tanah Lot, Jatiluwih and Ulun Danu Beratan, all of which seem to be consistently able to draw both foreign and domestic tourists.

Head of the Tabanan Culture and Tourism Agency, I Wayan Adnyana, confirmed that these three tourist attractions have been significantly contributing to the regionally generated revenue (PAD) of Tabanan.

“The development of community-based tourism is aimed at allowing local communities to enjoy the benefits of the growth of tourism in the area, thus allowing a more equal distribution of wealth to happen relatively quickly,” he said.

Adnyana went on to say that at Tanah

Lot, nearly 100 percent of informal businesses -such as souvenir vendors, roving photographers and klepon cake and fruit salad sellers, are all run by local villagers. Tanah Lot, famous for its beautiful panorama has provided large contributions to the regionally generated revenue of Tabanan: 58 percent of which goes to the government of Tabanan, 24 percent of which goes to Beraban customary village, 7.5 percent to Pura Tanah Lot, 6.5 percent to customary villages throughout the subdistrict of Kediri and 4 percent to the area of Tanah Lot. In order to sustain the tourism, cultural and agricultural sectors, the government of Tabanan has initiated a program to help villages become community-based tourist attractions in their own right. In 2015, the government of Tabanan sought to develop a Gerbang Wisata (tourism development movement) aimed at developing tourism villages. Presently said Adnyana they are looking to create 40 tourism villages in Tabanan. “So far, only Pinge village in Marga has met the standards set forth, and the management of tourism there has been

handled professionally,” he said.

Headman of Beraban, Made Sumawa, admitted that the influence of land development investors wanting to get a piece of the action of the Tanah Lot tourist attraction is very strongly felt. However, the onslaught of mass tourism projects can be prevented with good synergy between village administrations and the district government.

“Obviously, the district has to have spatial planning guidelines that are adapted to local villages. Any investors wanting to build tourism facilities have to comply with spatial plan regulations,” he explained.

According to Sumawa, he does not have the authority to prevent mass tourism investors from coming into the area. “What is most important, is that investments in tourism are of benefit to the welfare of local people and that local communities are directly involved,” he said, while stressing that local customs and cultural practices also need to be strengthened as a way to prevent negative impacts. “Negative external influences, that do not comply with our cultural values must be rejected,” he concluded. (bit)

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Balinese Temple Ceremony 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 “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple.

Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

New Year’s Eve at Aston Bogor Hotel & Resort at Rain City will be offering a 2-night room package for two, including the Colorful Night Gala Dinner with a special performance from Indonesia’s Diva Reza Artamevia, followed by a beautiful fireworks show.

Located in Kalimantan’s cosmopolitan city, Aston Balikpapan will celebrate New Year’s Eve with a special White Party. Guests will be entertained by special performances from a live band, a DJ, dancers, a fashion show, a magician, games, fireworks, and more. In collaboration with one of Indonesia’s banks, a draw will also award one lucky winner a holiday to Universal Studios Singapore. The celebration is also joined by special 1 or 2 night stay offers.

At the Sapphire Ballroom of Aston Jember Hotel & Conference Center, Frozen Land

will welcome in the the New Year with an incredible dining experience of Chinese, Indonesian, and Western cuisines. Special guest performances and a spectacular firework show will light up the sky, whilst the lobby will be decked out with a FUNtastic Game Zone to keep kids entertained.

To create a lively carnival atmosphere, Aston Makassar in Sulawesi will be putting on live music, a fortune teller, DJ, dancers, face painting, game booths and a food & costume parade for its Uptown Carnival New Year’s Eve celebration.

Featuring Top Indonesian DJs, Aston Marina will be welcoming New Year with BOOM BASH TIQUE party from night to dawn at 33 Sky Bridge which has 360 degrees view. DJ Alice Norin one of the Indonesia’s famous DJs, together with DJ Lola Alicia and DJ Gabriela will be representing R&B, Hip Hop, and EDM genres. The celebration will be also sparked by special Live PA performance by Agatha, MC Revi, and sexy dancers.

“To ring in the New Year, here at Archipelago International we are hosting celebratory events at our Aston Hotels across Indonesia.

We are looking forward to welcoming you at our Aston Hotels for New Year’s Eve, and we wish you all a joyful and prosperous New Year in 2016!” said Tenaiya Brookfield, Vice President Sales & Marketing of Archipelago International.

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Battling climate change -- with worms

PIACE, France - Nicolas Denieul plants his spade in the ground and turns over a clod of soil to reveal a mass of earthworms seething around plant roots -- fat ones and thin ones, delicate translucent violet and dark brown.

“That is magnificent. Ten years ago, I never thought I’d see anything like that!” said Denieul, a cheerful French farmer, his hands full of earth in the biting wind.

For 10 years ago, there were no worms roaming about his land, near the western city of Le Mans, where he grows wheat, corn and rapeseed to feed the 350 pigs he and his brothers keep.

Back then his spade met smooth

earth, empty of worms, insects and the other small organisms that signify a healthy soil.

Like forests and oceans, soils also capture carbon, through the vegetable matter that decomposes in them. Instead of being released in the form of gases that contribute to global warming, carbon stocked in soil nourishes plants.

An increase of 0.4 percent a year in the level of carbon in soils would

make it possible to stop the current growth of carbon dioxide -- a major greenhouse gas -- in the atmosphere, according to the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (Inra).

“We have massacred the soil” with bigger combine harvesters, deeper ploughing and chemical fertilisers and pesticides, Denieul said.

These factors have had a devastating effect on the topsoil -- the most important layer, where worms absorb and digest dead plant matter, transforming it into natural fertiliser that they spread through the earth.

For Denieul, the eureka moment came in the mid-2000s, after he heard a Canadian expert explain that in just a small quantity of soil there were more living organisms than people on the whole planet.

After this, Denieul radically changed the way he worked. With some colleagues he decided to stop ploughing. A huge step, taken with the help of Base, a network that promotes farming based on soil conservation.

“The plough turns the soil to a depth of 25 centimetres. We had to find seed drills that disturbed the earth as little as possible” by bed-

ding seeds under a thin layer of soil, he explained.

He also takes care never to leave the fields bare. After the wheat harvest, for example, he plants beans and alfalfa, which improve the soil’s fertility.

After a decade of working like this, the level of organic matter in his fields has risen from 1.5 percent to three percent. Some farmers using these methods -- there are around 5,000 in France -- have achieved levels approaching five percent, compared with just two percent in some intensive wheatfarming areas. (afp)

to inform future decisions.

Even geoengineering’s most ardent research supporters aren’t proposing it instead of cutting back heat-trapping emissions from burning fossil fuels. But they say someday it may be needed. However, it doesn’t solve all climate change problems, just the temperature part.

Stanford University climate scientist Ken Caldeira isn’t advocating seeding clouds with sulfur particles any time soon, but he does fear a failure in climate talks and believes that at some point in the future, drastic options will look more palatable. He thinks scientists need to prepare now.

“The emissions and the climate change that we’re causing with that is already a massive experiment on our world that we don’t really know the outcome of,” said U.N. Assistant Secretary-General Janos Pasztor. “So I don’t think we should start another set of experiments and go into geoengineering. I think we should get our act together and reduce our emissions.”

Joe Ware, a spokesman for the faith group Christian Aid, was even more blunt. “It’s probably playing God a bit too much for the faith community,” Ware said Friday. He said the world needs more wind farms and solar power instead.

Harvard scientist David Keith has been working on plans to test what he calls solar geoengineering in the atmosphere at a very small scale. Year one would involve balloons putting small amounts of sulfate in the air and tracking changes and side effects.

Although he has received interest from private individuals, he has been unable to get the federal government to pay attention, he said.

One problem, Keith and others said, is that there are no rules, nationally or internationally, that tell people what they can or cannot do. Pasztor said there are no plans for any international bans of the idea. (ap)

An unspoken option if climate talks fail: Geoengineering

PARIS — It’s the option climate negotiators here are loath to talk about. What if they fail to curb global warming and the environment gets so dangerous that someone decides to do something drastic and play mad scientist?

Should nations purposely pollute the planet to try to counteract manmade warming and cool the world?

Scientists are pretty sure they can do it, but should they?

The issue is called geoengineering — purposely tinkering with the planet as opposed to the unintentional warming that’s happening now. The most talked about and advanced method involves putting heat-reflecting par-

ticles high in the air, but there also have been proposals to seed clouds other ways, put mirrors in space and seed the oceans with iron.

Scientists noticed a temporary but pronounced cooling after the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines. What’s in mind would be, essentially, an artificial and constant man-made volcano with material released by aircraft or cannons.

No one is talking about doing it — yet. But some scientists want to study it to find about side effects and other issues. And earlier this year, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences said small-scale and controlled experiments could be helpful

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In this Dec. 1, 2015 file photo, a man visits the Climate Generations Areas, part of the COP21, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Le Bourget, north of Paris.

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As world debates climate, Czechs embrace heavy pollutant

Tanah Lot

CSA MINE — While world leaders try to reach a deal to limit climate change, one of the most polluting fossil fuels, brown coal, is enjoying a revival in the Czech Republic, where entire villages are threatened by new plans for mining.

Tanah Lot glanced by other province to promote industrial and cultural products

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TABANAN - As a tourist destination visited by many domestic and foreign travelers, Tanah Lot becomes a strategic venue to promote various products such as goods, services as well as the arts and culture. This potential is realized by the Province of South Sumatra; precisely the Lubuklinggau city that organized promotional activities in the form of expo entitled “Visit South Sumatra Tourism” on Friday (Dec. 4).

The Head of the Lubuklinggau Tourism and Culture Agency, H. Ansori Naib, said that his agency is

intensively carrying out promotional activities to outside the region, and Tanah Lot was selected as the partner

because it has been famous throughout the country and even around the globe. “Tanah Lot is the magnet of Tabanan. Other than being famous for its religious tourism, the most interesting, of course, is the beauty of its sunset view. Thus, we are excited to hold an expo here,” he said.

Since it is the first expo held in Bali and in Tabanan in particular, Ansori Naib hoped this can become the be-

ginning of good cooperation between Lubuklinggau with the management of the Tanah Lot tourist attraction.

Operations Manager of the Tanah Lot tourist attraction, Ketut Toya Adnyana, exposed that the activity has become a good moment to introduce and promote the respective customs and culture.

The exhibition taking place in the area of the temple prop-

erty displayed various products of Lubuklinggau small industry like typical cuisine of Palembang namely the famous Empek-empek fishcake as well as various typical fabrics of Palembang. In addition, this event also displayed the unique art of the Lubuklinggau city consisting of the Besukat Bubu Dance, Glass Plate Dance and Beladas Dance. (kmb24)

Tanjung Benoa, a hub of water sports in Bali

Tanjung Benoa a Hub of Water Sports in Bali-1Spending holidays in Bali seems incomplete

before trying some marine attractions at Tanjung Benoa. Aside from serving as accommodation

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Flying fish, one fo the water sports that can be done in Tanjung Benoa

center, the tourist resort sitting in South Kuta subdistrict has a fairly long stretch of beach and retains beautiful coastal nature. As tourism supporting facilities, various water attractions are on offer at Tanjung Benoa and these make the area better known as a hub of marine tourism in Bali.

Perching close to BTDC Nusa Dua area makes it a strategic and ideal location for five-star hotels.

Along the beach, dozens of water sport businesses offer a wide selection of attractions. They are ranging from parasailing, diving, banana boat, flying fish and some other challenging attractions. Regarding the price, they are still affordable with foreign tourists and local tourists, especially the lineups of students.

The most favorite attraction for foreign tourists is parasailing where

they can fly happily and circle in the air over the sea. Unlike banana boat, tourists have been very familiar with this attraction. Participants can ride on it while using a life jacket.

Afterward, the parachute is pulled by a boat moving at medium speed.

Participants may also be dropped into water and this makes the attraction more exciting.

Tanjung Benoa a Hub of Water Sports in Bali-2For local and foreign tourists, another more exciting attraction that should not be missed is flying fish. When taking this attraction, every participant will get amazing experience to fill in holidays in Bali. By facing upward while an instructor standing at the back, everything will go safe and amazing. This flying fish is pulled by a boat at a high-speed counterdownwind.

More interestingly, you can also take a diving adventure to enjoy the undersea enchantment. The waters of Tanjung Benoa offer a stunning variety of charms along with its unique marine biota. For professional divers, diving into particular depth will not be a problem, while beginners wishing to learn should be accompanied by an instructor.

If you do not want to miss this intriguing moment, it should be immortalized by video or photograph camera. While bringing along with bread to feed fish, divers will usually encounter beautiful underwater sceneries and coral reefs filled with colorful fish. During the diving takes place, you can pose to be showed off to some friends. By all means, this underwater experience will give you unlimited stories to tell.(kmb)

The Czech Republic is one of a group of countries that is turning to coal, a cheap but dirty energy source, as its economy slows. Neighboring Poland, which has big deposits, is doing so, as is China, the world’s biggest energy consumer. The Czech variety of the coal, called brown coal or lignite, is a particularly bad source of greenhouse gases and pollutants.

With support from the president, labor unions and regional leaders and against the protests of environmentalists and local citizens, the Czech government approved in October an increase to mining limits of brown coal in the northwest of the country.

The government is eager to access up to 120 million metric tons of brown coal, which it says is needed to secure the country’s energy supply. Last year, the Czech Republic mined 38.8 million metric tons, down 5.5 percent from the previous year.

“We will need this coal for the heating industry, power plants and households,” Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said.

It is the first time the country has eased the limits on brown coal mining that it put in place in 1991, two years after the collapse of the communist regime, which relied heavily on industry and mining.

The limits were meant to prevent environmental damage and protect

local communities. Under communism, dozens of towns and villages had been eradicated to make space for coal mining.

Although the government’s latest decision still prohibits mining that might affect populated areas, it has the option of lifting those limits, too. The government said it will reassess the country’s need of brown coal every year until 2020.

The majority of the deposits, which contain about 750 million metric tons more coal than the mining limits allow to be extracted, are located right under the towns of Horni Jiretin and Cernice and go as far as the city of Litvinov about 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) away.

A part of those deposits are tapped by the open pit mine called CSA, a giant hole in the ground just next to the villages.

“Open-pit mining is devastating.

It destroys everything,” said Vladimir Burt, the mayor of Horni Jiretin, a 750-year old town with more than 2,200 residents. He noted that even if tapping the deposits does not require the relocation of the village, the mine’s proximity had “very negative health and psychological effects on people.”

Because it is close to the villages, the CSA mine is not allowed to increase production. Some, however, say it is only a matter of time.

“It’s likely that we will face

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In this picture taken on Friday, Nov. 6, 2015 near the town of Most, Czech Republic, a huge excavator digs inside a giant open pit lignite mine. Ahead of the U.N. climate conference in Paris, the Czech government approved a plan to expand the mining of lignite, a fossil fuel known as brown coal, a major source of greenhouse gases. further efforts (to expand mining).

The miners have a strong ally in the president,” Burt said.

President Milos Zeman said through his spokesman that he believes mining will increase at the CSA mine “sooner or later.”

Severni Energeticka, the company that operates CSA, estimates that

without an increase in production, the CSA mine will be phased out by 2022-’25, said spokeswoman Gabriela Sarickova Benesova.

She notes the mining company is the biggest taxpayer in a region that suffers from higher than average unemployment, provides 1,400 jobs and is ready to invest $1.2 billion

in the mine’s potential expansion.

Environmental activists say the ecological damage would outweigh any economic benefits.

“To lift the limits makes no sense,” said Jan Rovensky of Greenpeace. “What is really at stake is the profit of mining companies.” (ap)

Australia threatens legal action against Japanese whaling

AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon

South Korean environmentalists beat whale-shaped balloons during a rally against Japan’s whaling activities in the name of research near the Japanese embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Dec. 7, 2015.

TOKYO — Australia, one of most vocal opponents of Japanese whaling hunts in the Antarctic, threatened Monday to take legal action against the lethal expeditions, about a week after Tokyo began its latest hunt.

Australia’s foreign and environmental ministers said in a statement that the country had joined 32 others to oppose the Japanese expedition that left last Tuesday to catch up to 333 minke whales in the Antarctic. The International Whaling Commission banned commercial whaling in 1986, but Japan has continued killing whales under an exemption for research.

“There is no scientific basis to include lethal methods in Japan’s

whaling program,” Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop and Environment Minister Greg Hunt said in a statement issued in Canberra, Australia’s capital. They said information needed for the management and conservation of whales should not involve lethal methods. “We are also exploring options for further legal action,” the statement said.

Australia filed a lawsuit with the International Court of Justice in 2010 over Japanese whaling in the Antarctic. The ICJ responded to the lawsuit, which New Zealand later joined, by ruling last year that the hunts were not scientific, forcing Tokyo to revise its Antarctic whaling program.

Australia also said last week that it might send a boat to shadow the current Japanese fleet.

Joji Morishita, Japan’s commissioner to the International Whaling Commission, told reporters in Tokyo on Monday that Japan had met the ICJ’s new requirements. He said that Japan only wants to make whaling sustainable and promote healthy whale populations.

Japan’s whale catch has fallen in recent years in part because of declining domestic demand for whale meat. Protests by the antiwhaling group Sea Shepherd have also contributed to the decline.

Japan’s government has spent large amounts of tax money to sustain the whaling operations. (ap)

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BUSINESS Economists trim forecast on economy, but expect higher pay

NEW YORK — Business economists are slightly less bullish about prospects for economic growth next year, according to a survey published Monday.

The National Association for Business Economics says the average forecast is for growth of 2.6 percent next year, down slightly from 2.7 percent in its previous survey conducted in September.

But they expect the jobs market to continue strengthening, with the unemployment rate dropping to 4.7 percent by the end of 2016. The rate now stands at 5 percent.

The survey conducted Nov.

6-18 among a panel of 49 business economists struck a slightly downbeat note as experts lowered earlier forecasts on a variety of measures of economic health, including housing starts and industrial production.

Further out, two-thirds of those surveyed expect potential economic growth between 2 and 2.5 percent over the next five years. (ap)

Highlights of the survey: l Lower growth: In addition to the lowered forecast for gross domestic product next year, economists cut their expectation for this year. GDP is now expected to grow 2.4 percent in 2015. A year ago, economists expected robust growth of 3.1 percent this year, which would have been the strongest since 2005. l More hiring: Employers are expected to continue hiring more than 200,000 workers each month through next year. Pay for workers is expected to pick up, too. The average forecast is for hourly compensation to rise 2.8 percent next year, up from 2.2 percent expected this year. l Fed hike: Most of the economists in the survey believe the Federal Reserve will begin raising short-term rates from record lows at its next two-day meeting starting Dec. 15. They expect steady, but modest increases next year. l Higher borrowing rates: The yield on a key government bond that impacts rates on car loans, mortgages and other types of loans is expected to rise sharply, but not as fast as earlier forecasts. Economists expect the yield on the 10-year Treasury note to rise to 2.88 percent by the end of next year versus 2.27 percent on Friday. They had earlier forecast the yield to rise to 3 percent.

Oil stays below $40 after OPEC decides against output cut

SINGAPORE - Oil stayed below $40 a barrel in Asia Monday after the OPEC cartel decided against slashing high output levels and traders turned their attention on a US central bank meeting next week.

US benchmark West Texas Intermediate for delivery in January was down 33 cents at $39.64 and Brent crude for January was trading 22 cents lower at $42.78 a barrel at around 0655 GMT. At a meeting in Vienna on Friday, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries decided against cutting output to raise prices.

OPEC, whose members together pump out more than one third of world oil, is currently producing above its official target of 30 million barrels per day despite a global crude supply glut that has battered prices for more than a year.

“Crude oil prices were no doubt compressed by the lack of an agreement at the OPEC, signalling that the supply glut will persist longer,” said Bernard Aw, market strategist at IG Markets in Singapore.

“WTI is trading below the key $40 (mark) and it looks set to remain there.”

Sanjeev Gupta, who heads the Asia-Pacific oil and gas practice at professional services firm EY, said market attention had now turned to an upcoming meeting of Federal Reserve policymakers and to the latest economic data from China, the world’s top energy consumer.

Traders are watching whether the Fed will raise interest rates this month, a move that will boost the dollar. A stronger US currency will make dollar-priced oil more expensive to holders of weaker currencies, denting demand and prices.

“While all eyes are now on the Federal Reserve as it meets next week for the last policy meeting this year to decide whether to raise its benchmark rate, economic data from China will set the tone of prices in the coming weeks,” Gupta said.

He said the dollar also got a boost from a strong US jobs report on Friday. The report strengthens the case for a Fed rate rise, analysts said. (afp)

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Government grants stagnate, Bali’s customary villages threatened

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MANGUPURA - Development projects, especially in customary villages, have come to a halt after the grant money that they depend on was cut off. The grant problem in Badung emerged after the issuance of Law No.23/2014 on Regional Government, in particular article 298 paragraph (5) which states that the grant expenditure referred to in paragraph (4) may be given to the central government, other local governments, state-owned enterprises or regional enterprises; and or entities, institutions, and community organizations with legal entity of Indonesia. To date most of the grants are directed to customary village institutions, however with this new law, the existence of these institutions is under threat, as the meaming of ‘legal status’ remains unclear.

According to Deputy Chairman of the Badung House of Representatives, I Made Sunarta the negative impacts of the grant termination is most certainly felt by the public.

“A lot of development activities, especially in customary villages, have been stalled because most of the funds they used to run these activities and projects are sourced from the grant,” said Sunarta, recently.

The termination of the grant grant disbursement to non-legal entities also has an impact on the regional budget, he said. The halting of the grant worth IDR 251 billion will mean that the remaining budget absorption (SILPA) will be very high. Sunarta argues that provisions of Article 298 of the Law No.23/2014 should be examined in depth. According to him, the meaning of “can be given to”, can be interpreted as opening a space for and giving an opportunity to obtain the grants, rather than be interpreted as a restriction or prohibition. Also, the meaning of a body, institution and organization that holds

the status as a legal entity in Indonesia can have multiple interpretations, for example whether they need to be partially or entirely incorporated in Indonesia is not clear.

Member of the Budgetary Agency of the Badung House of Representatives, I Nyoman Karyana, also recognizes that, based on the instructions of the provincial government, the grant cannot be disbursed as usual. According to this Golkar Party politician, this is also true of Bali’s Provincial government.

“In the verification of the budget amendment, the provincial government explained that the grants cannot be received because there has been no legal basis from central government,” said Karyana, adding that the grant is meant to go entirely to the benefit of society.

In the parent regional budget for 2015, the grant is set at IDR 265.4 billion, with IDR 145.2 billion allocated for institution or organization and IDR 120,0 billion allocated for special for community groups. (kmb27)

penelokan, One of the village developed into tourism destination

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Goa Gajah and Tirta Empul

Local government to provide facilities for the difabled

AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File

In this June 12, 2014 file photo, a pair of tanker trucks parked next to pumps at an oil-producing well in McKenzie County, N.D. Oil stayed below $40 a barrel in Asia Monday after the OPEC cartel decided against slashing high output levels and traders turned their attention on a US central bank meeting next week.

Goa Gajah

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GIANYAR - The re-structuring of tourist attractions has become one of the concerns of the government of Gianyar who plan to provide facility of access for people with reduced mobility at two attractions in the area: Goa Gajah and Tirta Empul.

Head of the Gianyar Tourism Office, A.A. Ari Brahmanta, said on Sunday (Dec. 6) that the provision of international standard facilities for persons with physical limitations, is based on the consideration that many people are interested in visiting these attractions and they should not be prevented from doing so simply because they cannot get around as easily as other people.

Brahmanta added that so far, only recreational parks managed by private companies have provided facility of access for people with reduced mobility but that in 2016 government-run attractions will follow suite. “We need to provide a space for people with different abilities to enjoy the beauty of Gianyar’s attractions. Presently only privately run attractions such as museums and safari parks have provided ease of access,” he said.

Brahmanta did not specify how much of their budget will be allocated to this endeavour but did say that they are planning to created special pathways for people to be able to more easily access local tourist attractions.

Goa Gajah and Tirta Empul have been chosen as the first locations to be equipped with special facility of access because both of this attractions hold a special charm that attracts all kinds of visitors every year. Once the these two attractions have been outfitted with special pathways, Gianyar will let the public know so that: “travelers will not hesitate to visit,” he said.

The plan to provide facilities for differently-abled people at government run tourist attractions will be carried out gradually. “We will be looking into which tourist attractions are appropriate,” he said.

The government of Gianyar is also planning to make other improvements to local attractions, including providing more toilets in general and Goa Gajah in particular will have a gazebo built from which visitors can sit and enjoy the panoramic view. (kmb25)

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Pistorius to apply for bail in South African court

JOHANNESBURG — A South African official says Oscar Pistorius will appear in court Tuesday to apply for bail following the Olympian’s conviction for murdering girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

Lusanda Ntuli, a judicial spokeswoman, said Monday that the issue of a sentencing date for the doubleamputee runner might be addressed during the hearing in the North

Gauteng High Court in Pretoria.

On Thursday, South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal overturned a lower court’s manslaughter conviction of the runner for shooting Steenkamp to death in his home in 2013. Pistorius spent one year of a five-year sentence in jail for the lesser offense and then was put under house arrest at his uncle’s mansion in Pretoria in October. (ap)

AP Photo/Andy Wong

A woman wearing a mask to protect herself from pollutants walks past office buildings shrouded with pollution haze in Beijing, Monday, Dec. 7, 2015. Smog shrouded the capital city Monday after authorities in Beijing issued an orange alert on Saturday.

The red alert — the most serious warning on a four-tier system adopted a little over two years ago — means authorities have forecast more than three consecutive days of severe smog.

An online notice from the Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau said it issued the alert to “protect public health and reduce levels of heavy air pollution.”

Readings of PM2.5 particles climbed toward 300 micrograms per cubic meter on Monday and are expected to continue rising before the air begins to improve with the arrival of a cold front on Thursday.

The World Health Organization designates the safe level for PM2.5 particles at 25.

Along with school closures and limiting cars to driving every other day depending on the last number of their license plate, a raft of other restrictions will seek to reduce the amount of dust and other particulate

matter in the city of 22.5 million people. Officials said extra subway trains and buses would be added to handle the additional strain on public transport.

It’s the second time this month that notoriously polluted Beijing has experienced a prolonged bout of smog, sending PM2.5 levels in the suburbs as high as 976 micrograms. Beijing was also shrouded in persistent smog for most of November, when power demand soared due to unusually cold weather.

While pollution in the capital improved slightly in the first 10 months of the year, heavy smog that can be seen from outer space regularly forces Beijing schools to suspend outdoor activities and can even prompt highway closures because of reduced visibility.

There previously have been stretches of severe smog that lasted more than three straight days.

However, those had originally

been forecast to last three days or less, so they did not trigger the red alert. The alerts require forecasts of at least three consecutive days with PM2.5 levels of 200 micrograms per cubic meter or more.

Polluted air throughout broad swaths of China has had severe health effects. A study led by atmospheric chemist Jos Lelieveld of Germany’s Max Planck Institute and published this year in Nature magazine estimated that 1.4 million people die prematurely because of pollution in China each year.

Most of the pollution is blamed on coal-fired power plants, along with vehicle emissions and construction and factory work. China, the world’s biggest carbon emitter, plans to upgrade coal power plants over the next five years to tackle the problem, and says its emissions will peak by around 2030 before starting to decline.

While emissions standards have been tightened and heavy investments made in solar, wind and other renewable energy, China still depends on coal for more than 60 percent of its power. (ap)

Egypt destroys 20 newly found tunnels along border with Gaza CAIRO — The Egyptian military says it’s destroyed 20 recently discovered underground tunnels along the border with the Gaza Strip.

The army says the tunnels were found and destroyed in November.

The announcement came on its official Facebook page on Monday.

There were no further details.

Israel and Egypt have maintained a blockade of the Palestinian coastal territory since the Islamic militant group Hamas seized Gaza in 2007.

For years, Egypt tolerated a smuggling industry that allowed hundreds of tunnels to bring in goods like

cigarettes and spare parts, as well as weapons, into the strip.

After a major attack last year, the military began clearing a buffer zone along the border in an attempt to stamp out the cross-border network of tunnels that Hamas considers a lifeline. (ap)

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Today, thousand of workers to stage rally

JAKARTA - Thousands of workers will stage a rally outside House of Representatives (DPR) the parliament building on Tuesday (Dec 8) to demand the re- to form a special committee to reject the regulation, President vocation of government regulation on wage system.

At the rally, the workers who claim to be members of the

Anti-Debt Coalition-Indonesia Labor Movement will urge the

of the Confederation of Labor Union (KSPI) Said Iqbal said in a short text message on Sun-

day.

He alleged that foreign parties including the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) intervened in the new wage system.

Under the new policy, the minimum wage will be decided based on the existing wage plus the inflation and economic growth rates as of next year. (ant)

terminate the contract before that year.

The U.S. mining company which has large copper and gold mines in Papua is seeking to renew its contract which will expire in 2021.

Call for the termination of the contract is growing after the company exploited almost at will the abundant mineral reserves in Papua since 1967.

Observers have said not wanting to get mired in international dispute

the government had allowed itself to be dictated by Freeport in contract negotiations.

President Director of PT Freeport Indonesia Maroef Sjamsuddin was quoted as saying the U.S. company might file a lawsuit against Indonesia with an international court of arbitration if extension of its contract was rejected.

Ma’roef made the statement in a transcript of conversation with

House Speaker Setya Novanto, who is facing charge of violation of ethical code.

Novanto, according to the transcript, allegedly asked for a share in Freeport Indonesia in exchange of support to secure approval for its bid for contract extension.

He allegedly used the name of President Joko Widodo and Vice President Jusuf Kalla to convince Freeport. (ant)

Indonesia too big to get scared by Freeport’s threat: Observer

Beijing issues 1st smog red alert, urging schools to close

BEIJING — Beijing issued its first-ever red alert for smog on Monday, urging schools to close and invoking restrictions on factories and traffic that will keep half of the city’s vehicles off the roads.

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JAKARTA - Indonesia is just too big to be bluffed by U.S. mining company PT Freeport Indonesia with threat of international arbitration, an observer said.

“What is to be afraid of. It is not a big thing. A mere company would not shake a nation. We are a big nation and we are not fools,” political communication expert Hendri Satrio from the University of Paramadina said.

Indonesia and the United States would not going to war only because of Freeport, he said on Sunday.

“That possibility is too remote.

The United States would not attack Indonesia if the contract of Freeport is not extended. That is a foolish thinking,” he said.

He said the government could reject extension of the contract in 2021 if the contract is considered not fair for the country, but don’t

Self-reliance in marine and fisheries sector to be developed

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries will develop self-reliance in a bid to improve the performance of the marine and fisheries sector in various regions in Indonesia.

“We will develop self-reliance in the region, production facilities, fisheries cultivator group, and business to improve performance in the marine and fisheries sector,” Marine Affairs and Fisheries Aquaculture

Director General Slamet Soebjakto noted on Monday.

He remarked that specifically, selfreliance in the production of fish feed, as part of the efforts to boost production facilities, are currently being intensified through the Independent Fish Feed Movement (Gerpari).

Soebjakto stated that feed production facilities are on top of the list of priorities as they constitute the largest cost component in fish

farming in various regions.

“The cost of fish feed could reach 80 percent. Therefore, Marine Affairs and Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti has instructed that the cost of fish feed should go down by 60 percent, so that the welfare of fish farmers can be increased and be at par with small and medium entrepreneurs,” he noted.

Soebjakto expressed hope that through the Gerpari, new groups,

such as the feed producer group, feed ingredient provider group, and feed marketing group can be formed in order to absorb more manpower in the field of aquaculture.

Earlier, Secretary General of the People’s Coalition for Fishery Justice (Kiara) Abdul Halim had reiterated that the government’s commitment should be realized in order to develop small-scale fisheries.

“The real fact today is that seafood market players still have a half-hearted approach towards the small-scale fisheries sector,” Halim said recently.

He pointed out that the governments of several developing countries were also not seriously committed to solving the problems faced by traditional fishermen, fisherwomen, and small-scale fish farmers. (ant)

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FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2012 file photo, South African Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius and Reeva Steenkamp arrive for an awards ceremony in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Ministry ...

From page 1 Citing the direction of President Joko Widodo, Fathoni said that Indonesia’s national parks must not be ignored, but should instead add value to the nation. In other words, he said, Jokowi wants the national parks to be developed and managed professionally so that they can contribute to tourism and become world class attractions. “This is quite possible because both the natural beauty

and culture in our national parks are remarkable,” he said.

Fathoni also expects that this cooperation between the Ministry of tourism and the Ministry of Forestry and Environment to contribute to reaching the goal of of having 20 million tourist arrivals per year by 2019. “In order to tap into a wider market - especially foreign travellers, the Minister of Forestry and Environment is continuing to encourage the development of tourism in our national parks,” said Fathoni. (010)

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The Russian team compete during the men’s down river race at the World Rafting Championship 2015 at Citarik river in Sukabumi, Indonesia’s West Java province December 7, 2015.

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Warriors beat Nets 114-98 to reach 22-0

NEW YORK — Golden State improved their NBA-record season start to 22-0 by beating Brooklyn 114-98 on Sunday, with a generally subdued Stephen Curry still proving decisive for the Warriors, scoring 16 of his 28 points in the third quarter.

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Already owners of the bestever start to a season, Golden State moved to within one win of the 2012-13 Miami Heat for the second-longest winning streak at any point of a season.

Coming off consecutive 40point games, Curry was having a

world’s most exotic underwater life. Diving in the pristine seas of Komodo, divers find themselves swimming along with huge manta rays, dolphins and dugongs, while whales can be seen passing Flores’s east coast during their migration period.

The island itself is surrounded by sparkling white beaches, where one beach even has pink sand. Mt. Kelimutu, near the town of Maumere, has three different coloured lakes that can change colour from time to time.

Besides Komodo dragons, Flores has been in the world’s limelight with the discovery of the Flores hobbit, or homo floresiensis, a new hitherto unknown prehistoric human species, whose remains were found in the caves of Liang Bua. This island is indeed ancient, having been untouched for centuries, once inhabited by prehis-

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At the easternmost tip of the island, Larantuka is famous for its Easter-week rituals that still con-

tinue the old Portuguese traditions brought here some 500 years ago.

While at adjacent Lembata, islanders hunt whales manually, harpooning precariously from small boats. (http://www.indonesia.travel)

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Brooklyn Nets center Brook Lopez (11) defends Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (30) who goes up to score in the second half of an NBA basketball game, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2015, in New York. Curry scored 28 points as the Warriors defeated the Nets 114-98.

relatively quiet and even puzzling night — he missed his first three free throws — before helping the Warriors regain control against a team that nearly beat them this season and looked capable of finishing the job this time.

Draymond Green added 22 points, nine rebounds and seven assists and Klay Thompson scored 21 for the Warriors. Memphis’ Green jammed in a dunk on an alley-oop inbound pass from Courtney Lee with 0.5 seconds left to give the Grizzlies a 95-93 victory over Phoenix.

The Suns’ last chance to tie the game came on Eric Bledsoe’s shot from the right corner. The two-point attempt was long, sending Phoenix to its fourth straight loss despite a late rally that had pulled the Suns even.

Marc Gasol led Memphis with 22 points, while Lee scored 13 of his 18 points in the fourth quar-

ter. Bledsoe led the Suns with 23 points.

Dallas’ Matthews scored 28 of his season-high 36 points in the second half to steer the Mavericks to a 116-104 win against Washington. He hit 10 3-pointers overall and eight in the second half.

Dirk Nowitzki had 19 points for Dallas, which took the lead early in the third quarter and pulled away in the fourth.

John Wall led Washington with 28 points but injured his right leg in a collision and was helped off the court with 1:14 left. The injuryplagued Wizards had just 10 players available.

Oklahoma City’s Russell Westbrook had his third triple-double of the season with 19 points, 10 assists and 11 rebounds as the Thunder left it late to overrun Sacramento and win 98-95.

Los Angeles’ Kobe Bryant was cheered by Detroit fans in his last game at the Pistons, but came out on the losing side as the hosts won 111-91 to extend their winning trot to four games.(ap)

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Ducati will ultimately regard the 2015 MotoGP season as a disappointment even though it was its most successful in five years, says general manager Gigi Dall’Igna. The Italian team has not won in MotoGP since Casey Stoner’s 2010 Australian Grand Prix triumph, and claimed just seven podium finishes from 201114 combined.

A major design overhaul for 2015 paid off with a return to form and eight podium finishes between Andrea Iannone and Andrea Dovizioso this year, but Dall’Igna said the failure to maintain early momentum left Ducati dissatisfied on reflection, “I’m not so happy because the last part of the season was for sure not like we would like to be,” he said.

“I can divide the season in three parts. “The first one, where we were quite competitive and fought all the time for the podium and sometimes for the victory. “The second part of the season where we lost something in comparison to our competitors.

“And the final part where we came back with really good results.

“We could not reach our target of the season -to win races. “We fought for it sometimes and we

nearly caught it twice during the year, but we didn’t catch it and so we’re not so happy.”

Both Dovizioso, whose form declined in the latter part of the season, and Iannone complained of specific problems with the Ducati’s behaviour for their riding styles.

While acknowledging these were areas where Ducati had to improve, Dall’Igna said the need to adapt to the control electronics and new Michelin tyres that will become standard in 2017 meant rider preferences would be on the backburner for now.

“Frankly speaking, the main problem in the braking area comes from Dovi,” he said. “He is very aggressive, very strong in that area, so he needs a bike like this.

“Iannone complained all the time about the rear grip, above all in the final part of acceleration. “So we still have these two problems.

“But it’s normal to have a problem in a racing bike. You have to develop step by step all the areas of the bike and try to win.

“We have some ideas to solve these problems but at the moment we have to manage the biggest steps of the new rules: the new tyres and software. “After that we will come back to the issues that we still have.”(rtr)

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Sp rt Manchester United could go out of Champions League

FRANKFURT, Germany — Bastian Schweinsteiger’s return to Germany could be a tricky affair. Three-time winner Manchester United could be eliminated from the Champions League with a loss in Wolfsburg on Tuesday. After a distinguished career in Bayern Munich, Schweinsteiger is now with Manchester United.

Wolfsburg leads Group B by a point over Manchester United and only needs a draw to advance to the knockout stage. But Dieter Hecking’s team has to rebound quickly after a stunning loss in the Bundesliga to Borussia Dortmund.

Wolfsburg’s 29-game unbeaten run at home came to an end in dramatic fashion when Shinji Kagawa scored Borussia Dortmund’s winner in the 93rd minute, two minutes after Ricardo Rodriguez had equalized on Saturday.

“It’s very annoying,” said Hecking, whose team is seeking to progress beyond the group stage for the first time. “We just have to shake it off really quickly,” goalkeeper and captain Diego Benaglio said.

A win would secure first place in the group for Wolfsburg. “We are playing to win,” Hecking said, dismissing suggestions of a trying to go for a draw.

United would also win the group with a victory and will advance if both group matches are drawn.

PSV Eindhoven hosts CSKA Moscow in the other match. The Dutch team is a point behind United and will go through if it does better than Louis van Gaal’s side thanks to its superior headto-head record. If PSV wins and the other game is drawn, PSV and Wolfsburg will be split for first place on overall goal difference as their head-to-head is equal.

CSKA will finish third with a win in Eindhoven, ahead of PSV on head-to-head.

GOAL-SHY UNITED

Captain and star striker Wayne Rooney is set to be missing for Man United because of injury, a major blow to a team badly struggling for goals this season. United has

drawn 0-0 in five of its last nine games in all competitions, leading to widespread criticism of the pedestrian style of attacking play under Van Gaal.

Rooney has been far from his best this season, but United fans would surely prefer to be with the England captain than without him for a game the team probably has to score in — and win.

“We have to score, so we must score,” said Van Gaal, who is blam-

ing United’s missing cutting edge on a lack of both composure and luck. “We have to play against a very good team, but still we can do that.” United will rely heavily on Anthony Martial, the only fit outand-out striker in the squad.

GOOD START NEEDED FOR PSV

PSV Eindhoven will be hoping for a much better start at home against CSKA Moscow than in

their match in the Russian capital, when it conceded three goals and a penalty in a disastrous first half before scoring twice after the break and almost snatching a draw.

Maxime Lestienne, the Belgian striker who scored both goals for PSV in Moscow, is back in training after being given compassionate leave following the death of his father, just weeks after his mother also died.

Lestienne is hoping he could get some playing time as PSV attempts to secure a place in the knock-out round of the Champions League. “It depends on the trainer, of course,” he said. “But, who knows, maybe I could play some minutes against CSKA Moscow. I’ll have to wait and see.”

CSKA READY TO TAKE A BREAK

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Manchester United’s Anthony Martial, right, and Juan Mata react after a missed opportunity during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester United and West Ham United at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, England, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2015.

After Tuesday’s game at PSV Eindhoven, CSKA’s players will be off on a lengthy mid-season break.

They’re probably wishing it had come sooner. CSKA started the season well, even going unbeaten for the first 14 games in the Russian league, but a dramatic downturn has seen CSKA fail to win a game in any competition since Oct. 31.

That run has ended its hopes of qualifying from the Champions League group stage. Any hope of a consolation trip to the Europa League rests on beating PSV. Much could depend on the form of forward Seydou Doumbia, who is usually CSKA’s main threat but has not scored in any of his last seven club games amid fitness concerns and poor form.

There are also fitness concerns around veteran center-back Vasily Berezutsky and full-back Georgy Shchennikov, while midfielder Roman Eremenko is a long-term injury absentee.(ap)

Marseille fights back for 2-2 draw against Montpellier Marseille twice came back to secure a 2-2 draw at home to relegation-threatened Montpellier in Ligue 1 on Sunday, while Bordeaux earned a crucial 1-0 win against fellow struggler Guingamp.

Montpellier top scorer Casimir Ninga notched his second double in three matches to twice put his side ahead. The 22-year-old scored his first following a one-two with Ryad Boudebouz and doubled his

tally with an effort that went in off the left post.

Remy Cabella, who progressed through the ranks at Montpellier and spent five years in the first team, starred against his old side and netted the first equalizer, although the ball appeared to come off his arm in the buildup.

Bouna Sarr fired in Marseille’s second after the officials did not spot that the ball had gone out of

play before Georges-Kevin Nkoudou’s cross.

“Unfortunately if I was in their (the referees’) place, I would have made the same mistakes, because it is impossible with the means that we have to see if the ball has gone out,” Montpellier coach Rolland Courbis said. “On the other hand I don’t see why they don’t extend the goal-line technology. There was a handball on Cabella’s goal but

that’s impossible to see.”

It was Marseille’s sixth home match without a win and left it ninth, above Rennes on goal difference after Philippe Montanier’s side held Saint-Etienne to a 1-1 draw.

Montpellier moved a point above the bottom three, above Guingamp on goal difference, but was leapfrogged by Bordeaux which is up to 12th, three points above the

drop zone in a tight bottom half of the table.

“What is most important tonight is to have got three points and prove that this season is difficult, long and strange,” Bordeaux coach Willy Sagnol said. “Winning in difficult times is always significant, it does a lot of good for the morale. We are relieved to have three points because the situation before the match was difficult and it still is.”(ap)

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Bologna’s Mattia Destro celebrates after scoring during a Serie A soccer match between Bologna and Napoli, at the Bologna Dall’Ara stadium, Italy, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2015.

Fiorentina moves 2nd after Napoli loses 3-2 at Bologna

MILAN — Napoli missed the chance to reclaim top spot in Serie A as it fell to a surprise 3-2 defeat at relegation-threatened Bologna on Sunday and slipped to third after Fiorentina beat Udinese 3-0. Fiorentina moved second, a point behind Inter Milan and one ahead of Napoli.

Bologna has been a transformed side since Roberto Donadoni replaced Delio Rossi as coach. One of the players who has flourished the most is Mattia Destro and he struck twice to take his tally to four goals in as many matches under the former Italy boss.

“My aim, like all forwards, is to get back into the national team,” Destro said. “It’s one of my targets and I’ll give everything to achieve it, I have to do well with this shirt and then we’ll see.” Luca Rossettini also scored as Bologna went 3-0 up on the hour mark.

Serie A top scorer Gonzalo Higuain struck twice in three minutes but it was too late for Napoli to complete a remarkable comeback.

“The lads were extraordinary,” Donadoni said. “At the end we suffered more than necessary but if we play like this we will create the conditions to get the result. I am very proud.” Bologna moved four points above the relegation zone, while winless Verona stayed at the bottom of the table after a 1-0 loss to Empoli. It remained nine points behind 17th-placed Palermo, which lost 3-0 at 10-man Atalanta.

Frosinone lost 2-0 at home to Chievo Verona and remained in the relegation zone, along with Carpi which held inconsistent AC Milan to a 0-0 draw. Roma and Juventus round out the top five with Sassuolo sixth in its third season in Serie A after a 3-1 win at Sampdoria, which lost its fourth straight game — three of them under new coach Vincenzo Montella.

All three of Sassuolo’s goals came in the first half from Francesco Acerbi, Sergio Floccari and teenager Lorenzo Pellegrini. Home team goalkeeper

Emiliano Viviano prevented an even worse result for Sampdoria and Ervin Zukanovic grabbed a last-minute consolation.

Napoli was looking to move back top following Inter’s 1-0 win against Genoa on Saturday. It had only lost one game in all competition, winning 14 and drawing four since the seasonopening defeat, while scoring 42 goals and conceding eight.

But Bologna had won two and drawn one after Donadoni took over and was eager to bounce back from last week’s defeat at Torino and took a shock lead in the 14th minute when Destro pounced on a long ball over the top from Amadou Diawara, shrugged off Raul Albiol and slotted past Pepe Reina.

It was the first time since Sep. 13 that Napoli had been behind in a league match and it found itself 2-0 down seven minutes later when Rossettini headed in a corner. Napoli laid siege to the Bologna goal but went further behind on the counter as Destro fired past an uncertain Reina.

Higuain reduced the deficit in the 87th following a cross from Lorenzo Insigne and scored his 14th league goal of the season in the final minute to set up a nervy finale but Bologna held on in stoppage time.

Fiorentina knew it could leapfrog Napoli with a win but it took a moment of fortune to get the lead in the 26th minute when Udinese defender Edenilson’s clearance fell to Milan Badelj, whose shot took a decisive deflection off Nikola Kalinic to wrongfoot the goalkeeper. The goal was awarded to Badelj. Udinese almost immediately leveled but Cyril Thereau’s attempt crashed off the post.

Fiorentina doubled its advantage just after the hour when Josip Ilicic converted his fifth penalty of the season after Emmanuel Badu fouled Kalinic. Gonzalo Rodriguez headed in a corner four minutes from time as the scoreline flattered Fiorentina. (ap)

HONOLULU — The U.S. women’s soccer team abruptly canceled a victory tour exhibition game Sunday against Trinidad and Tobago because of poor field conditions at Aloha Stadium.

U.S. Soccer said in a statement less than 24 hours before the game that “the artificial turf surface is not suitable to hold an international soccer match.”

The game was part of a 10-city tour following the team’s victory in the Women’s World Cup this past summer.

The Aloha Stadium surface was tested during training Saturday, “and after all possible options available were considered to get the field in a playable condition, the decision was made by U.S. Soccer to cancel the match.”

All tickets will be refunded, U.S. Soccer said.

“There were sharp rocks ingrained all over the field. They were everywhere,” the U.S. players said in a posting on The Players’ Tribune. “The artificial turf was actually pulling up out of the ground, and the turf itself was both low-grade and aging.

This was a playing surface that looked like it hadn’t been replaced in years.

“There is a larger, more vital conversation about turf — as it concerns women’s soccer — that continues to make progress.

But turf is our reality right now; we play on it all the time. This decision wasn’t about “turf vs. grass.” This was about field conditions and player safety.

“It’s as simple as that. Soccer is our job. Our bodies are our jobs. And nothing should ever be put in competition with our pro-

tection and safety as players.”

The move came two days after midfielder Megan Rapinoe tore a ligament in her right knee during training in Honolulu. The non-contact injury occurred on a grass training field.

“Megan’s injury took place while playing on a subpar training field,” the U.S. players said in the posting on The Players’ Tribune. “The grass on the training pitch itself was in bad shape.

All along the pitch, sewer plates and plastic coverings were laying on the sidelines.”

The 30-year-old Rapinoe, who plays for the NWSL’s Seattle Reign, will need surgery.

She twice tore the ACL in her left knee twice during her college career at the University of Portland. A timeline for her return is not known. (ap)

World Cup winner Luca Toni plans to retire at end of season

VERONA, Italy — World Cup winner Luca Toni says he plans to retire at the end of the season. Toni, who plays for relegationthreatened Hellas Verona, turn 39 next May. Verona lost 1-0 at home to Empoli on Sunday to leave it bottom of Serie A, nine points from safety, and Toni says “I think maybe the time has come to stop, hopefully celebrating Verona’s survival.”

Toni previously played for Fiorentina, Bayern Munich, Roma and Juventus.

He was the joint top scorer in Serie A last season along with Mauro Icardi, becoming the oldest player to earn the accolade. He was the top scorer in Europe in 2006, the same year he helped Italy win the World Cup. Toni scored 16 goals in 47 international appearances.

Hellas Verona’s Luca Toni walks off the pitch at the end of the Serie A soccer match between Hellas Verona and Empoli at the Bentegodi stadium in Verona, Italy, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2015.

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Sp rt Manchester United could go out of Champions League

FRANKFURT, Germany — Bastian Schweinsteiger’s return to Germany could be a tricky affair. Three-time winner Manchester United could be eliminated from the Champions League with a loss in Wolfsburg on Tuesday. After a distinguished career in Bayern Munich, Schweinsteiger is now with Manchester United.

Wolfsburg leads Group B by a point over Manchester United and only needs a draw to advance to the knockout stage. But Dieter Hecking’s team has to rebound quickly after a stunning loss in the Bundesliga to Borussia Dortmund.

Wolfsburg’s 29-game unbeaten run at home came to an end in dramatic fashion when Shinji Kagawa scored Borussia Dortmund’s winner in the 93rd minute, two minutes after Ricardo Rodriguez had equalized on Saturday.

“It’s very annoying,” said Hecking, whose team is seeking to progress beyond the group stage for the first time. “We just have to shake it off really quickly,” goalkeeper and captain Diego Benaglio said.

A win would secure first place in the group for Wolfsburg. “We are playing to win,” Hecking said, dismissing suggestions of a trying to go for a draw.

United would also win the group with a victory and will advance if both group matches are drawn.

PSV Eindhoven hosts CSKA Moscow in the other match. The Dutch team is a point behind United and will go through if it does better than Louis van Gaal’s side thanks to its superior headto-head record. If PSV wins and the other game is drawn, PSV and Wolfsburg will be split for first place on overall goal difference as their head-to-head is equal.

CSKA will finish third with a win in Eindhoven, ahead of PSV on head-to-head.

GOAL-SHY UNITED

Captain and star striker Wayne Rooney is set to be missing for Man United because of injury, a major blow to a team badly struggling for goals this season. United has

drawn 0-0 in five of its last nine games in all competitions, leading to widespread criticism of the pedestrian style of attacking play under Van Gaal.

Rooney has been far from his best this season, but United fans would surely prefer to be with the England captain than without him for a game the team probably has to score in — and win.

“We have to score, so we must score,” said Van Gaal, who is blam-

ing United’s missing cutting edge on a lack of both composure and luck. “We have to play against a very good team, but still we can do that.” United will rely heavily on Anthony Martial, the only fit outand-out striker in the squad.

GOOD START NEEDED FOR PSV

PSV Eindhoven will be hoping for a much better start at home against CSKA Moscow than in

their match in the Russian capital, when it conceded three goals and a penalty in a disastrous first half before scoring twice after the break and almost snatching a draw.

Maxime Lestienne, the Belgian striker who scored both goals for PSV in Moscow, is back in training after being given compassionate leave following the death of his father, just weeks after his mother also died.

Lestienne is hoping he could get some playing time as PSV attempts to secure a place in the knock-out round of the Champions League. “It depends on the trainer, of course,” he said. “But, who knows, maybe I could play some minutes against CSKA Moscow. I’ll have to wait and see.”

CSKA READY TO TAKE A BREAK

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Manchester United’s Anthony Martial, right, and Juan Mata react after a missed opportunity during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester United and West Ham United at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, England, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2015.

After Tuesday’s game at PSV Eindhoven, CSKA’s players will be off on a lengthy mid-season break.

They’re probably wishing it had come sooner. CSKA started the season well, even going unbeaten for the first 14 games in the Russian league, but a dramatic downturn has seen CSKA fail to win a game in any competition since Oct. 31.

That run has ended its hopes of qualifying from the Champions League group stage. Any hope of a consolation trip to the Europa League rests on beating PSV. Much could depend on the form of forward Seydou Doumbia, who is usually CSKA’s main threat but has not scored in any of his last seven club games amid fitness concerns and poor form.

There are also fitness concerns around veteran center-back Vasily Berezutsky and full-back Georgy Shchennikov, while midfielder Roman Eremenko is a long-term injury absentee.(ap)

Marseille fights back for 2-2 draw against Montpellier Marseille twice came back to secure a 2-2 draw at home to relegation-threatened Montpellier in Ligue 1 on Sunday, while Bordeaux earned a crucial 1-0 win against fellow struggler Guingamp.

Montpellier top scorer Casimir Ninga notched his second double in three matches to twice put his side ahead. The 22-year-old scored his first following a one-two with Ryad Boudebouz and doubled his

tally with an effort that went in off the left post.

Remy Cabella, who progressed through the ranks at Montpellier and spent five years in the first team, starred against his old side and netted the first equalizer, although the ball appeared to come off his arm in the buildup.

Bouna Sarr fired in Marseille’s second after the officials did not spot that the ball had gone out of

play before Georges-Kevin Nkoudou’s cross.

“Unfortunately if I was in their (the referees’) place, I would have made the same mistakes, because it is impossible with the means that we have to see if the ball has gone out,” Montpellier coach Rolland Courbis said. “On the other hand I don’t see why they don’t extend the goal-line technology. There was a handball on Cabella’s goal but

that’s impossible to see.”

It was Marseille’s sixth home match without a win and left it ninth, above Rennes on goal difference after Philippe Montanier’s side held Saint-Etienne to a 1-1 draw.

Montpellier moved a point above the bottom three, above Guingamp on goal difference, but was leapfrogged by Bordeaux which is up to 12th, three points above the

drop zone in a tight bottom half of the table.

“What is most important tonight is to have got three points and prove that this season is difficult, long and strange,” Bordeaux coach Willy Sagnol said. “Winning in difficult times is always significant, it does a lot of good for the morale. We are relieved to have three points because the situation before the match was difficult and it still is.”(ap)

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Bologna’s Mattia Destro celebrates after scoring during a Serie A soccer match between Bologna and Napoli, at the Bologna Dall’Ara stadium, Italy, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2015.

Fiorentina moves 2nd after Napoli loses 3-2 at Bologna

MILAN — Napoli missed the chance to reclaim top spot in Serie A as it fell to a surprise 3-2 defeat at relegation-threatened Bologna on Sunday and slipped to third after Fiorentina beat Udinese 3-0. Fiorentina moved second, a point behind Inter Milan and one ahead of Napoli.

Bologna has been a transformed side since Roberto Donadoni replaced Delio Rossi as coach. One of the players who has flourished the most is Mattia Destro and he struck twice to take his tally to four goals in as many matches under the former Italy boss.

“My aim, like all forwards, is to get back into the national team,” Destro said. “It’s one of my targets and I’ll give everything to achieve it, I have to do well with this shirt and then we’ll see.” Luca Rossettini also scored as Bologna went 3-0 up on the hour mark.

Serie A top scorer Gonzalo Higuain struck twice in three minutes but it was too late for Napoli to complete a remarkable comeback.

“The lads were extraordinary,” Donadoni said. “At the end we suffered more than necessary but if we play like this we will create the conditions to get the result. I am very proud.” Bologna moved four points above the relegation zone, while winless Verona stayed at the bottom of the table after a 1-0 loss to Empoli. It remained nine points behind 17th-placed Palermo, which lost 3-0 at 10-man Atalanta.

Frosinone lost 2-0 at home to Chievo Verona and remained in the relegation zone, along with Carpi which held inconsistent AC Milan to a 0-0 draw. Roma and Juventus round out the top five with Sassuolo sixth in its third season in Serie A after a 3-1 win at Sampdoria, which lost its fourth straight game — three of them under new coach Vincenzo Montella.

All three of Sassuolo’s goals came in the first half from Francesco Acerbi, Sergio Floccari and teenager Lorenzo Pellegrini. Home team goalkeeper

Emiliano Viviano prevented an even worse result for Sampdoria and Ervin Zukanovic grabbed a last-minute consolation.

Napoli was looking to move back top following Inter’s 1-0 win against Genoa on Saturday. It had only lost one game in all competition, winning 14 and drawing four since the seasonopening defeat, while scoring 42 goals and conceding eight.

But Bologna had won two and drawn one after Donadoni took over and was eager to bounce back from last week’s defeat at Torino and took a shock lead in the 14th minute when Destro pounced on a long ball over the top from Amadou Diawara, shrugged off Raul Albiol and slotted past Pepe Reina.

It was the first time since Sep. 13 that Napoli had been behind in a league match and it found itself 2-0 down seven minutes later when Rossettini headed in a corner. Napoli laid siege to the Bologna goal but went further behind on the counter as Destro fired past an uncertain Reina.

Higuain reduced the deficit in the 87th following a cross from Lorenzo Insigne and scored his 14th league goal of the season in the final minute to set up a nervy finale but Bologna held on in stoppage time.

Fiorentina knew it could leapfrog Napoli with a win but it took a moment of fortune to get the lead in the 26th minute when Udinese defender Edenilson’s clearance fell to Milan Badelj, whose shot took a decisive deflection off Nikola Kalinic to wrongfoot the goalkeeper. The goal was awarded to Badelj. Udinese almost immediately leveled but Cyril Thereau’s attempt crashed off the post.

Fiorentina doubled its advantage just after the hour when Josip Ilicic converted his fifth penalty of the season after Emmanuel Badu fouled Kalinic. Gonzalo Rodriguez headed in a corner four minutes from time as the scoreline flattered Fiorentina. (ap)

HONOLULU — The U.S. women’s soccer team abruptly canceled a victory tour exhibition game Sunday against Trinidad and Tobago because of poor field conditions at Aloha Stadium.

U.S. Soccer said in a statement less than 24 hours before the game that “the artificial turf surface is not suitable to hold an international soccer match.”

The game was part of a 10-city tour following the team’s victory in the Women’s World Cup this past summer.

The Aloha Stadium surface was tested during training Saturday, “and after all possible options available were considered to get the field in a playable condition, the decision was made by U.S. Soccer to cancel the match.”

All tickets will be refunded, U.S. Soccer said.

“There were sharp rocks ingrained all over the field. They were everywhere,” the U.S. players said in a posting on The Players’ Tribune. “The artificial turf was actually pulling up out of the ground, and the turf itself was both low-grade and aging.

This was a playing surface that looked like it hadn’t been replaced in years.

“There is a larger, more vital conversation about turf — as it concerns women’s soccer — that continues to make progress.

But turf is our reality right now; we play on it all the time. This decision wasn’t about “turf vs. grass.” This was about field conditions and player safety.

“It’s as simple as that. Soccer is our job. Our bodies are our jobs. And nothing should ever be put in competition with our pro-

tection and safety as players.”

The move came two days after midfielder Megan Rapinoe tore a ligament in her right knee during training in Honolulu. The non-contact injury occurred on a grass training field.

“Megan’s injury took place while playing on a subpar training field,” the U.S. players said in the posting on The Players’ Tribune. “The grass on the training pitch itself was in bad shape.

All along the pitch, sewer plates and plastic coverings were laying on the sidelines.”

The 30-year-old Rapinoe, who plays for the NWSL’s Seattle Reign, will need surgery.

She twice tore the ACL in her left knee twice during her college career at the University of Portland. A timeline for her return is not known. (ap)

World Cup winner Luca Toni plans to retire at end of season

VERONA, Italy — World Cup winner Luca Toni says he plans to retire at the end of the season. Toni, who plays for relegationthreatened Hellas Verona, turn 39 next May. Verona lost 1-0 at home to Empoli on Sunday to leave it bottom of Serie A, nine points from safety, and Toni says “I think maybe the time has come to stop, hopefully celebrating Verona’s survival.”

Toni previously played for Fiorentina, Bayern Munich, Roma and Juventus.

He was the joint top scorer in Serie A last season along with Mauro Icardi, becoming the oldest player to earn the accolade. He was the top scorer in Europe in 2006, the same year he helped Italy win the World Cup. Toni scored 16 goals in 47 international appearances.

Hellas Verona’s Luca Toni walks off the pitch at the end of the Serie A soccer match between Hellas Verona and Empoli at the Bentegodi stadium in Verona, Italy, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2015.

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International

Warriors beat Nets 114-98 to reach 22-0

NEW YORK — Golden State improved their NBA-record season start to 22-0 by beating Brooklyn 114-98 on Sunday, with a generally subdued Stephen Curry still proving decisive for the Warriors, scoring 16 of his 28 points in the third quarter.

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Brooklyn Nets center Brook Lopez (11) defends Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (30) who goes up to score in the second half of an NBA basketball game, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2015, in New York. Curry scored 28 points as the Warriors defeated the Nets 114-98.

relatively quiet and even puzzling night — he missed his first three free throws — before helping the Warriors regain control against a team that nearly beat them this season and looked capable of finishing the job this time.

Draymond Green added 22 points, nine rebounds and seven assists and Klay Thompson scored 21 for the Warriors. Memphis’ Green jammed in a dunk on an alley-oop inbound pass from Courtney Lee with 0.5 seconds left to give the Grizzlies a 95-93 victory over Phoenix.

The Suns’ last chance to tie the game came on Eric Bledsoe’s shot from the right corner. The two-point attempt was long, sending Phoenix to its fourth straight loss despite a late rally that had pulled the Suns even.

Marc Gasol led Memphis with 22 points, while Lee scored 13 of his 18 points in the fourth quar-

ter. Bledsoe led the Suns with 23 points.

Dallas’ Matthews scored 28 of his season-high 36 points in the second half to steer the Mavericks to a 116-104 win against Washington. He hit 10 3-pointers overall and eight in the second half.

Dirk Nowitzki had 19 points for Dallas, which took the lead early in the third quarter and pulled away in the fourth.

John Wall led Washington with 28 points but injured his right leg in a collision and was helped off the court with 1:14 left. The injuryplagued Wizards had just 10 players available.

Oklahoma City’s Russell Westbrook had his third triple-double of the season with 19 points, 10 assists and 11 rebounds as the Thunder left it late to overrun Sacramento and win 98-95.

Los Angeles’ Kobe Bryant was cheered by Detroit fans in his last game at the Pistons, but came out on the losing side as the hosts won 111-91 to extend their winning trot to four games.(ap)

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Ducati will ultimately regard the 2015 MotoGP season as a disappointment even though it was its most successful in five years, says general manager Gigi Dall’Igna. The Italian team has not won in MotoGP since Casey Stoner’s 2010 Australian Grand Prix triumph, and claimed just seven podium finishes from 201114 combined.

A major design overhaul for 2015 paid off with a return to form and eight podium finishes between Andrea Iannone and Andrea Dovizioso this year, but Dall’Igna said the failure to maintain early momentum left Ducati dissatisfied on reflection, “I’m not so happy because the last part of the season was for sure not like we would like to be,” he said.

“I can divide the season in three parts. “The first one, where we were quite competitive and fought all the time for the podium and sometimes for the victory. “The second part of the season where we lost something in comparison to our competitors.

“And the final part where we came back with really good results.

“We could not reach our target of the season -to win races. “We fought for it sometimes and we

nearly caught it twice during the year, but we didn’t catch it and so we’re not so happy.”

Both Dovizioso, whose form declined in the latter part of the season, and Iannone complained of specific problems with the Ducati’s behaviour for their riding styles.

While acknowledging these were areas where Ducati had to improve, Dall’Igna said the need to adapt to the control electronics and new Michelin tyres that will become standard in 2017 meant rider preferences would be on the backburner for now.

“Frankly speaking, the main problem in the braking area comes from Dovi,” he said. “He is very aggressive, very strong in that area, so he needs a bike like this.

“Iannone complained all the time about the rear grip, above all in the final part of acceleration. “So we still have these two problems.

“But it’s normal to have a problem in a racing bike. You have to develop step by step all the areas of the bike and try to win.

“We have some ideas to solve these problems but at the moment we have to manage the biggest steps of the new rules: the new tyres and software. “After that we will come back to the issues that we still have.”(rtr)

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Pistorius to apply for bail in South African court

JOHANNESBURG — A South African official says Oscar Pistorius will appear in court Tuesday to apply for bail following the Olympian’s conviction for murdering girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

Lusanda Ntuli, a judicial spokeswoman, said Monday that the issue of a sentencing date for the doubleamputee runner might be addressed during the hearing in the North

Gauteng High Court in Pretoria.

On Thursday, South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal overturned a lower court’s manslaughter conviction of the runner for shooting Steenkamp to death in his home in 2013. Pistorius spent one year of a five-year sentence in jail for the lesser offense and then was put under house arrest at his uncle’s mansion in Pretoria in October. (ap)

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A woman wearing a mask to protect herself from pollutants walks past office buildings shrouded with pollution haze in Beijing, Monday, Dec. 7, 2015. Smog shrouded the capital city Monday after authorities in Beijing issued an orange alert on Saturday.

The red alert — the most serious warning on a four-tier system adopted a little over two years ago — means authorities have forecast more than three consecutive days of severe smog.

An online notice from the Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau said it issued the alert to “protect public health and reduce levels of heavy air pollution.”

Readings of PM2.5 particles climbed toward 300 micrograms per cubic meter on Monday and are expected to continue rising before the air begins to improve with the arrival of a cold front on Thursday.

The World Health Organization designates the safe level for PM2.5 particles at 25.

Along with school closures and limiting cars to driving every other day depending on the last number of their license plate, a raft of other restrictions will seek to reduce the amount of dust and other particulate

matter in the city of 22.5 million people. Officials said extra subway trains and buses would be added to handle the additional strain on public transport.

It’s the second time this month that notoriously polluted Beijing has experienced a prolonged bout of smog, sending PM2.5 levels in the suburbs as high as 976 micrograms. Beijing was also shrouded in persistent smog for most of November, when power demand soared due to unusually cold weather.

While pollution in the capital improved slightly in the first 10 months of the year, heavy smog that can be seen from outer space regularly forces Beijing schools to suspend outdoor activities and can even prompt highway closures because of reduced visibility.

There previously have been stretches of severe smog that lasted more than three straight days.

However, those had originally

been forecast to last three days or less, so they did not trigger the red alert. The alerts require forecasts of at least three consecutive days with PM2.5 levels of 200 micrograms per cubic meter or more.

Polluted air throughout broad swaths of China has had severe health effects. A study led by atmospheric chemist Jos Lelieveld of Germany’s Max Planck Institute and published this year in Nature magazine estimated that 1.4 million people die prematurely because of pollution in China each year.

Most of the pollution is blamed on coal-fired power plants, along with vehicle emissions and construction and factory work. China, the world’s biggest carbon emitter, plans to upgrade coal power plants over the next five years to tackle the problem, and says its emissions will peak by around 2030 before starting to decline.

While emissions standards have been tightened and heavy investments made in solar, wind and other renewable energy, China still depends on coal for more than 60 percent of its power. (ap)

Egypt destroys 20 newly found tunnels along border with Gaza CAIRO — The Egyptian military says it’s destroyed 20 recently discovered underground tunnels along the border with the Gaza Strip.

The army says the tunnels were found and destroyed in November.

The announcement came on its official Facebook page on Monday.

There were no further details.

Israel and Egypt have maintained a blockade of the Palestinian coastal territory since the Islamic militant group Hamas seized Gaza in 2007.

For years, Egypt tolerated a smuggling industry that allowed hundreds of tunnels to bring in goods like

cigarettes and spare parts, as well as weapons, into the strip.

After a major attack last year, the military began clearing a buffer zone along the border in an attempt to stamp out the cross-border network of tunnels that Hamas considers a lifeline. (ap)

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Today, thousand of workers to stage rally

JAKARTA - Thousands of workers will stage a rally outside House of Representatives (DPR) the parliament building on Tuesday (Dec 8) to demand the re- to form a special committee to reject the regulation, President vocation of government regulation on wage system.

At the rally, the workers who claim to be members of the

Anti-Debt Coalition-Indonesia Labor Movement will urge the

of the Confederation of Labor Union (KSPI) Said Iqbal said in a short text message on Sun-

day.

He alleged that foreign parties including the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) intervened in the new wage system.

Under the new policy, the minimum wage will be decided based on the existing wage plus the inflation and economic growth rates as of next year. (ant)

terminate the contract before that year.

The U.S. mining company which has large copper and gold mines in Papua is seeking to renew its contract which will expire in 2021.

Call for the termination of the contract is growing after the company exploited almost at will the abundant mineral reserves in Papua since 1967.

Observers have said not wanting to get mired in international dispute

the government had allowed itself to be dictated by Freeport in contract negotiations.

President Director of PT Freeport Indonesia Maroef Sjamsuddin was quoted as saying the U.S. company might file a lawsuit against Indonesia with an international court of arbitration if extension of its contract was rejected.

Ma’roef made the statement in a transcript of conversation with

House Speaker Setya Novanto, who is facing charge of violation of ethical code.

Novanto, according to the transcript, allegedly asked for a share in Freeport Indonesia in exchange of support to secure approval for its bid for contract extension.

He allegedly used the name of President Joko Widodo and Vice President Jusuf Kalla to convince Freeport. (ant)

Indonesia too big to get scared by Freeport’s threat: Observer

Beijing issues 1st smog red alert, urging schools to close

BEIJING — Beijing issued its first-ever red alert for smog on Monday, urging schools to close and invoking restrictions on factories and traffic that will keep half of the city’s vehicles off the roads.

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JAKARTA - Indonesia is just too big to be bluffed by U.S. mining company PT Freeport Indonesia with threat of international arbitration, an observer said.

“What is to be afraid of. It is not a big thing. A mere company would not shake a nation. We are a big nation and we are not fools,” political communication expert Hendri Satrio from the University of Paramadina said.

Indonesia and the United States would not going to war only because of Freeport, he said on Sunday.

“That possibility is too remote.

The United States would not attack Indonesia if the contract of Freeport is not extended. That is a foolish thinking,” he said.

He said the government could reject extension of the contract in 2021 if the contract is considered not fair for the country, but don’t

Self-reliance in marine and fisheries sector to be developed

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries will develop self-reliance in a bid to improve the performance of the marine and fisheries sector in various regions in Indonesia.

“We will develop self-reliance in the region, production facilities, fisheries cultivator group, and business to improve performance in the marine and fisheries sector,” Marine Affairs and Fisheries Aquaculture

Director General Slamet Soebjakto noted on Monday.

He remarked that specifically, selfreliance in the production of fish feed, as part of the efforts to boost production facilities, are currently being intensified through the Independent Fish Feed Movement (Gerpari).

Soebjakto stated that feed production facilities are on top of the list of priorities as they constitute the largest cost component in fish

farming in various regions.

“The cost of fish feed could reach 80 percent. Therefore, Marine Affairs and Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti has instructed that the cost of fish feed should go down by 60 percent, so that the welfare of fish farmers can be increased and be at par with small and medium entrepreneurs,” he noted.

Soebjakto expressed hope that through the Gerpari, new groups,

such as the feed producer group, feed ingredient provider group, and feed marketing group can be formed in order to absorb more manpower in the field of aquaculture.

Earlier, Secretary General of the People’s Coalition for Fishery Justice (Kiara) Abdul Halim had reiterated that the government’s commitment should be realized in order to develop small-scale fisheries.

“The real fact today is that seafood market players still have a half-hearted approach towards the small-scale fisheries sector,” Halim said recently.

He pointed out that the governments of several developing countries were also not seriously committed to solving the problems faced by traditional fishermen, fisherwomen, and small-scale fish farmers. (ant)

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FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2012 file photo, South African Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius and Reeva Steenkamp arrive for an awards ceremony in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Ministry ...

From page 1 Citing the direction of President Joko Widodo, Fathoni said that Indonesia’s national parks must not be ignored, but should instead add value to the nation. In other words, he said, Jokowi wants the national parks to be developed and managed professionally so that they can contribute to tourism and become world class attractions. “This is quite possible because both the natural beauty

and culture in our national parks are remarkable,” he said.

Fathoni also expects that this cooperation between the Ministry of tourism and the Ministry of Forestry and Environment to contribute to reaching the goal of of having 20 million tourist arrivals per year by 2019. “In order to tap into a wider market - especially foreign travellers, the Minister of Forestry and Environment is continuing to encourage the development of tourism in our national parks,” said Fathoni. (010)

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The Russian team compete during the men’s down river race at the World Rafting Championship 2015 at Citarik river in Sukabumi, Indonesia’s West Java province December 7, 2015.

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BUSINESS Economists trim forecast on economy, but expect higher pay

NEW YORK — Business economists are slightly less bullish about prospects for economic growth next year, according to a survey published Monday.

The National Association for Business Economics says the average forecast is for growth of 2.6 percent next year, down slightly from 2.7 percent in its previous survey conducted in September.

But they expect the jobs market to continue strengthening, with the unemployment rate dropping to 4.7 percent by the end of 2016. The rate now stands at 5 percent.

The survey conducted Nov.

6-18 among a panel of 49 business economists struck a slightly downbeat note as experts lowered earlier forecasts on a variety of measures of economic health, including housing starts and industrial production.

Further out, two-thirds of those surveyed expect potential economic growth between 2 and 2.5 percent over the next five years. (ap)

Highlights of the survey: l Lower growth: In addition to the lowered forecast for gross domestic product next year, economists cut their expectation for this year. GDP is now expected to grow 2.4 percent in 2015. A year ago, economists expected robust growth of 3.1 percent this year, which would have been the strongest since 2005. l More hiring: Employers are expected to continue hiring more than 200,000 workers each month through next year. Pay for workers is expected to pick up, too. The average forecast is for hourly compensation to rise 2.8 percent next year, up from 2.2 percent expected this year. l Fed hike: Most of the economists in the survey believe the Federal Reserve will begin raising short-term rates from record lows at its next two-day meeting starting Dec. 15. They expect steady, but modest increases next year. l Higher borrowing rates: The yield on a key government bond that impacts rates on car loans, mortgages and other types of loans is expected to rise sharply, but not as fast as earlier forecasts. Economists expect the yield on the 10-year Treasury note to rise to 2.88 percent by the end of next year versus 2.27 percent on Friday. They had earlier forecast the yield to rise to 3 percent.

Oil stays below $40 after OPEC decides against output cut

SINGAPORE - Oil stayed below $40 a barrel in Asia Monday after the OPEC cartel decided against slashing high output levels and traders turned their attention on a US central bank meeting next week.

US benchmark West Texas Intermediate for delivery in January was down 33 cents at $39.64 and Brent crude for January was trading 22 cents lower at $42.78 a barrel at around 0655 GMT. At a meeting in Vienna on Friday, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries decided against cutting output to raise prices.

OPEC, whose members together pump out more than one third of world oil, is currently producing above its official target of 30 million barrels per day despite a global crude supply glut that has battered prices for more than a year.

“Crude oil prices were no doubt compressed by the lack of an agreement at the OPEC, signalling that the supply glut will persist longer,” said Bernard Aw, market strategist at IG Markets in Singapore.

“WTI is trading below the key $40 (mark) and it looks set to remain there.”

Sanjeev Gupta, who heads the Asia-Pacific oil and gas practice at professional services firm EY, said market attention had now turned to an upcoming meeting of Federal Reserve policymakers and to the latest economic data from China, the world’s top energy consumer.

Traders are watching whether the Fed will raise interest rates this month, a move that will boost the dollar. A stronger US currency will make dollar-priced oil more expensive to holders of weaker currencies, denting demand and prices.

“While all eyes are now on the Federal Reserve as it meets next week for the last policy meeting this year to decide whether to raise its benchmark rate, economic data from China will set the tone of prices in the coming weeks,” Gupta said.

He said the dollar also got a boost from a strong US jobs report on Friday. The report strengthens the case for a Fed rate rise, analysts said. (afp)

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Government grants stagnate, Bali’s customary villages threatened

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MANGUPURA - Development projects, especially in customary villages, have come to a halt after the grant money that they depend on was cut off. The grant problem in Badung emerged after the issuance of Law No.23/2014 on Regional Government, in particular article 298 paragraph (5) which states that the grant expenditure referred to in paragraph (4) may be given to the central government, other local governments, state-owned enterprises or regional enterprises; and or entities, institutions, and community organizations with legal entity of Indonesia. To date most of the grants are directed to customary village institutions, however with this new law, the existence of these institutions is under threat, as the meaming of ‘legal status’ remains unclear.

According to Deputy Chairman of the Badung House of Representatives, I Made Sunarta the negative impacts of the grant termination is most certainly felt by the public.

“A lot of development activities, especially in customary villages, have been stalled because most of the funds they used to run these activities and projects are sourced from the grant,” said Sunarta, recently.

The termination of the grant grant disbursement to non-legal entities also has an impact on the regional budget, he said. The halting of the grant worth IDR 251 billion will mean that the remaining budget absorption (SILPA) will be very high. Sunarta argues that provisions of Article 298 of the Law No.23/2014 should be examined in depth. According to him, the meaning of “can be given to”, can be interpreted as opening a space for and giving an opportunity to obtain the grants, rather than be interpreted as a restriction or prohibition. Also, the meaning of a body, institution and organization that holds

the status as a legal entity in Indonesia can have multiple interpretations, for example whether they need to be partially or entirely incorporated in Indonesia is not clear.

Member of the Budgetary Agency of the Badung House of Representatives, I Nyoman Karyana, also recognizes that, based on the instructions of the provincial government, the grant cannot be disbursed as usual. According to this Golkar Party politician, this is also true of Bali’s Provincial government.

“In the verification of the budget amendment, the provincial government explained that the grants cannot be received because there has been no legal basis from central government,” said Karyana, adding that the grant is meant to go entirely to the benefit of society.

In the parent regional budget for 2015, the grant is set at IDR 265.4 billion, with IDR 145.2 billion allocated for institution or organization and IDR 120,0 billion allocated for special for community groups. (kmb27)

penelokan, One of the village developed into tourism destination

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Goa Gajah and Tirta Empul

Local government to provide facilities for the difabled

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In this June 12, 2014 file photo, a pair of tanker trucks parked next to pumps at an oil-producing well in McKenzie County, N.D. Oil stayed below $40 a barrel in Asia Monday after the OPEC cartel decided against slashing high output levels and traders turned their attention on a US central bank meeting next week.

Goa Gajah

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GIANYAR - The re-structuring of tourist attractions has become one of the concerns of the government of Gianyar who plan to provide facility of access for people with reduced mobility at two attractions in the area: Goa Gajah and Tirta Empul.

Head of the Gianyar Tourism Office, A.A. Ari Brahmanta, said on Sunday (Dec. 6) that the provision of international standard facilities for persons with physical limitations, is based on the consideration that many people are interested in visiting these attractions and they should not be prevented from doing so simply because they cannot get around as easily as other people.

Brahmanta added that so far, only recreational parks managed by private companies have provided facility of access for people with reduced mobility but that in 2016 government-run attractions will follow suite. “We need to provide a space for people with different abilities to enjoy the beauty of Gianyar’s attractions. Presently only privately run attractions such as museums and safari parks have provided ease of access,” he said.

Brahmanta did not specify how much of their budget will be allocated to this endeavour but did say that they are planning to created special pathways for people to be able to more easily access local tourist attractions.

Goa Gajah and Tirta Empul have been chosen as the first locations to be equipped with special facility of access because both of this attractions hold a special charm that attracts all kinds of visitors every year. Once the these two attractions have been outfitted with special pathways, Gianyar will let the public know so that: “travelers will not hesitate to visit,” he said.

The plan to provide facilities for differently-abled people at government run tourist attractions will be carried out gradually. “We will be looking into which tourist attractions are appropriate,” he said.

The government of Gianyar is also planning to make other improvements to local attractions, including providing more toilets in general and Goa Gajah in particular will have a gazebo built from which visitors can sit and enjoy the panoramic view. (kmb25)

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As world debates climate, Czechs embrace heavy pollutant

Tanah Lot

CSA MINE — While world leaders try to reach a deal to limit climate change, one of the most polluting fossil fuels, brown coal, is enjoying a revival in the Czech Republic, where entire villages are threatened by new plans for mining.

Tanah Lot glanced by other province to promote industrial and cultural products

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TABANAN - As a tourist destination visited by many domestic and foreign travelers, Tanah Lot becomes a strategic venue to promote various products such as goods, services as well as the arts and culture. This potential is realized by the Province of South Sumatra; precisely the Lubuklinggau city that organized promotional activities in the form of expo entitled “Visit South Sumatra Tourism” on Friday (Dec. 4).

The Head of the Lubuklinggau Tourism and Culture Agency, H. Ansori Naib, said that his agency is

intensively carrying out promotional activities to outside the region, and Tanah Lot was selected as the partner

because it has been famous throughout the country and even around the globe. “Tanah Lot is the magnet of Tabanan. Other than being famous for its religious tourism, the most interesting, of course, is the beauty of its sunset view. Thus, we are excited to hold an expo here,” he said.

Since it is the first expo held in Bali and in Tabanan in particular, Ansori Naib hoped this can become the be-

ginning of good cooperation between Lubuklinggau with the management of the Tanah Lot tourist attraction.

Operations Manager of the Tanah Lot tourist attraction, Ketut Toya Adnyana, exposed that the activity has become a good moment to introduce and promote the respective customs and culture.

The exhibition taking place in the area of the temple prop-

erty displayed various products of Lubuklinggau small industry like typical cuisine of Palembang namely the famous Empek-empek fishcake as well as various typical fabrics of Palembang. In addition, this event also displayed the unique art of the Lubuklinggau city consisting of the Besukat Bubu Dance, Glass Plate Dance and Beladas Dance. (kmb24)

Tanjung Benoa, a hub of water sports in Bali

Tanjung Benoa a Hub of Water Sports in Bali-1Spending holidays in Bali seems incomplete

before trying some marine attractions at Tanjung Benoa. Aside from serving as accommodation

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Flying fish, one fo the water sports that can be done in Tanjung Benoa

center, the tourist resort sitting in South Kuta subdistrict has a fairly long stretch of beach and retains beautiful coastal nature. As tourism supporting facilities, various water attractions are on offer at Tanjung Benoa and these make the area better known as a hub of marine tourism in Bali.

Perching close to BTDC Nusa Dua area makes it a strategic and ideal location for five-star hotels.

Along the beach, dozens of water sport businesses offer a wide selection of attractions. They are ranging from parasailing, diving, banana boat, flying fish and some other challenging attractions. Regarding the price, they are still affordable with foreign tourists and local tourists, especially the lineups of students.

The most favorite attraction for foreign tourists is parasailing where

they can fly happily and circle in the air over the sea. Unlike banana boat, tourists have been very familiar with this attraction. Participants can ride on it while using a life jacket.

Afterward, the parachute is pulled by a boat moving at medium speed.

Participants may also be dropped into water and this makes the attraction more exciting.

Tanjung Benoa a Hub of Water Sports in Bali-2For local and foreign tourists, another more exciting attraction that should not be missed is flying fish. When taking this attraction, every participant will get amazing experience to fill in holidays in Bali. By facing upward while an instructor standing at the back, everything will go safe and amazing. This flying fish is pulled by a boat at a high-speed counterdownwind.

More interestingly, you can also take a diving adventure to enjoy the undersea enchantment. The waters of Tanjung Benoa offer a stunning variety of charms along with its unique marine biota. For professional divers, diving into particular depth will not be a problem, while beginners wishing to learn should be accompanied by an instructor.

If you do not want to miss this intriguing moment, it should be immortalized by video or photograph camera. While bringing along with bread to feed fish, divers will usually encounter beautiful underwater sceneries and coral reefs filled with colorful fish. During the diving takes place, you can pose to be showed off to some friends. By all means, this underwater experience will give you unlimited stories to tell.(kmb)

The Czech Republic is one of a group of countries that is turning to coal, a cheap but dirty energy source, as its economy slows. Neighboring Poland, which has big deposits, is doing so, as is China, the world’s biggest energy consumer. The Czech variety of the coal, called brown coal or lignite, is a particularly bad source of greenhouse gases and pollutants.

With support from the president, labor unions and regional leaders and against the protests of environmentalists and local citizens, the Czech government approved in October an increase to mining limits of brown coal in the northwest of the country.

The government is eager to access up to 120 million metric tons of brown coal, which it says is needed to secure the country’s energy supply. Last year, the Czech Republic mined 38.8 million metric tons, down 5.5 percent from the previous year.

“We will need this coal for the heating industry, power plants and households,” Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said.

It is the first time the country has eased the limits on brown coal mining that it put in place in 1991, two years after the collapse of the communist regime, which relied heavily on industry and mining.

The limits were meant to prevent environmental damage and protect

local communities. Under communism, dozens of towns and villages had been eradicated to make space for coal mining.

Although the government’s latest decision still prohibits mining that might affect populated areas, it has the option of lifting those limits, too. The government said it will reassess the country’s need of brown coal every year until 2020.

The majority of the deposits, which contain about 750 million metric tons more coal than the mining limits allow to be extracted, are located right under the towns of Horni Jiretin and Cernice and go as far as the city of Litvinov about 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) away.

A part of those deposits are tapped by the open pit mine called CSA, a giant hole in the ground just next to the villages.

“Open-pit mining is devastating.

It destroys everything,” said Vladimir Burt, the mayor of Horni Jiretin, a 750-year old town with more than 2,200 residents. He noted that even if tapping the deposits does not require the relocation of the village, the mine’s proximity had “very negative health and psychological effects on people.”

Because it is close to the villages, the CSA mine is not allowed to increase production. Some, however, say it is only a matter of time.

“It’s likely that we will face

AP Photo/Petr David Josek

In this picture taken on Friday, Nov. 6, 2015 near the town of Most, Czech Republic, a huge excavator digs inside a giant open pit lignite mine. Ahead of the U.N. climate conference in Paris, the Czech government approved a plan to expand the mining of lignite, a fossil fuel known as brown coal, a major source of greenhouse gases. further efforts (to expand mining).

The miners have a strong ally in the president,” Burt said.

President Milos Zeman said through his spokesman that he believes mining will increase at the CSA mine “sooner or later.”

Severni Energeticka, the company that operates CSA, estimates that

without an increase in production, the CSA mine will be phased out by 2022-’25, said spokeswoman Gabriela Sarickova Benesova.

She notes the mining company is the biggest taxpayer in a region that suffers from higher than average unemployment, provides 1,400 jobs and is ready to invest $1.2 billion

in the mine’s potential expansion.

Environmental activists say the ecological damage would outweigh any economic benefits.

“To lift the limits makes no sense,” said Jan Rovensky of Greenpeace. “What is really at stake is the profit of mining companies.” (ap)

Australia threatens legal action against Japanese whaling

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South Korean environmentalists beat whale-shaped balloons during a rally against Japan’s whaling activities in the name of research near the Japanese embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Dec. 7, 2015.

TOKYO — Australia, one of most vocal opponents of Japanese whaling hunts in the Antarctic, threatened Monday to take legal action against the lethal expeditions, about a week after Tokyo began its latest hunt.

Australia’s foreign and environmental ministers said in a statement that the country had joined 32 others to oppose the Japanese expedition that left last Tuesday to catch up to 333 minke whales in the Antarctic. The International Whaling Commission banned commercial whaling in 1986, but Japan has continued killing whales under an exemption for research.

“There is no scientific basis to include lethal methods in Japan’s

whaling program,” Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop and Environment Minister Greg Hunt said in a statement issued in Canberra, Australia’s capital. They said information needed for the management and conservation of whales should not involve lethal methods. “We are also exploring options for further legal action,” the statement said.

Australia filed a lawsuit with the International Court of Justice in 2010 over Japanese whaling in the Antarctic. The ICJ responded to the lawsuit, which New Zealand later joined, by ruling last year that the hunts were not scientific, forcing Tokyo to revise its Antarctic whaling program.

Australia also said last week that it might send a boat to shadow the current Japanese fleet.

Joji Morishita, Japan’s commissioner to the International Whaling Commission, told reporters in Tokyo on Monday that Japan had met the ICJ’s new requirements. He said that Japan only wants to make whaling sustainable and promote healthy whale populations.

Japan’s whale catch has fallen in recent years in part because of declining domestic demand for whale meat. Protests by the antiwhaling group Sea Shepherd have also contributed to the decline.

Japan’s government has spent large amounts of tax money to sustain the whaling operations. (ap)

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Battling climate change -- with worms

PIACE, France - Nicolas Denieul plants his spade in the ground and turns over a clod of soil to reveal a mass of earthworms seething around plant roots -- fat ones and thin ones, delicate translucent violet and dark brown.

“That is magnificent. Ten years ago, I never thought I’d see anything like that!” said Denieul, a cheerful French farmer, his hands full of earth in the biting wind.

For 10 years ago, there were no worms roaming about his land, near the western city of Le Mans, where he grows wheat, corn and rapeseed to feed the 350 pigs he and his brothers keep.

Back then his spade met smooth

earth, empty of worms, insects and the other small organisms that signify a healthy soil.

Like forests and oceans, soils also capture carbon, through the vegetable matter that decomposes in them. Instead of being released in the form of gases that contribute to global warming, carbon stocked in soil nourishes plants.

An increase of 0.4 percent a year in the level of carbon in soils would

make it possible to stop the current growth of carbon dioxide -- a major greenhouse gas -- in the atmosphere, according to the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (Inra).

“We have massacred the soil” with bigger combine harvesters, deeper ploughing and chemical fertilisers and pesticides, Denieul said.

These factors have had a devastating effect on the topsoil -- the most important layer, where worms absorb and digest dead plant matter, transforming it into natural fertiliser that they spread through the earth.

For Denieul, the eureka moment came in the mid-2000s, after he heard a Canadian expert explain that in just a small quantity of soil there were more living organisms than people on the whole planet.

After this, Denieul radically changed the way he worked. With some colleagues he decided to stop ploughing. A huge step, taken with the help of Base, a network that promotes farming based on soil conservation.

“The plough turns the soil to a depth of 25 centimetres. We had to find seed drills that disturbed the earth as little as possible” by bed-

ding seeds under a thin layer of soil, he explained.

He also takes care never to leave the fields bare. After the wheat harvest, for example, he plants beans and alfalfa, which improve the soil’s fertility.

After a decade of working like this, the level of organic matter in his fields has risen from 1.5 percent to three percent. Some farmers using these methods -- there are around 5,000 in France -- have achieved levels approaching five percent, compared with just two percent in some intensive wheatfarming areas. (afp)

to inform future decisions.

Even geoengineering’s most ardent research supporters aren’t proposing it instead of cutting back heat-trapping emissions from burning fossil fuels. But they say someday it may be needed. However, it doesn’t solve all climate change problems, just the temperature part.

Stanford University climate scientist Ken Caldeira isn’t advocating seeding clouds with sulfur particles any time soon, but he does fear a failure in climate talks and believes that at some point in the future, drastic options will look more palatable. He thinks scientists need to prepare now.

“The emissions and the climate change that we’re causing with that is already a massive experiment on our world that we don’t really know the outcome of,” said U.N. Assistant Secretary-General Janos Pasztor. “So I don’t think we should start another set of experiments and go into geoengineering. I think we should get our act together and reduce our emissions.”

Joe Ware, a spokesman for the faith group Christian Aid, was even more blunt. “It’s probably playing God a bit too much for the faith community,” Ware said Friday. He said the world needs more wind farms and solar power instead.

Harvard scientist David Keith has been working on plans to test what he calls solar geoengineering in the atmosphere at a very small scale. Year one would involve balloons putting small amounts of sulfate in the air and tracking changes and side effects.

Although he has received interest from private individuals, he has been unable to get the federal government to pay attention, he said.

One problem, Keith and others said, is that there are no rules, nationally or internationally, that tell people what they can or cannot do. Pasztor said there are no plans for any international bans of the idea. (ap)

An unspoken option if climate talks fail: Geoengineering

PARIS — It’s the option climate negotiators here are loath to talk about. What if they fail to curb global warming and the environment gets so dangerous that someone decides to do something drastic and play mad scientist?

Should nations purposely pollute the planet to try to counteract manmade warming and cool the world?

Scientists are pretty sure they can do it, but should they?

The issue is called geoengineering — purposely tinkering with the planet as opposed to the unintentional warming that’s happening now. The most talked about and advanced method involves putting heat-reflecting par-

ticles high in the air, but there also have been proposals to seed clouds other ways, put mirrors in space and seed the oceans with iron.

Scientists noticed a temporary but pronounced cooling after the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines. What’s in mind would be, essentially, an artificial and constant man-made volcano with material released by aircraft or cannons.

No one is talking about doing it — yet. But some scientists want to study it to find about side effects and other issues. And earlier this year, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences said small-scale and controlled experiments could be helpful

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In this Dec. 1, 2015 file photo, a man visits the Climate Generations Areas, part of the COP21, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Le Bourget, north of Paris.

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During the discussion, Chairman of the Bali Public Relations Forum, A.A. Raka Yuda, highlighted the importance of community-based tourism as a key to maintaining Balinese tourism.

Yuda, who also serves as Spokesperson for the government of Badung said that community based tourism management is a viable way to spread the wealth generated through tourism. “Local people should not just be spectators but should be involved economically. The most important thing is to apply the concept of community empowerment,” he stated emphatically.

The government of Badung has in fact been working on developing village tourism, with the understanding that rural communities play a crucial role in maintaining the culture. However, the larger tourism industry should be more involved in supporting the efforts of villagers to create a space for tourism, for the benefit of all concerned.

By working together, Balinese tourism will remain distinct, and Balinese villagers can make a living -thus allowing them to preserve their culture.

Similar opinions were expressed by representative of the Association of Indonesia Tours and Travel Agencies (ASITA) Bali, Putu Winastra. By having hoteliers become ‘foster parents’ for tourism villages, he said, these communities would be able to prosper as well. By providing information and training to villagers about things like sanitation and hygiene, hotels could then offer stay-overs in villages where Balinese cultural activities could be experienced first hand. “Community-based tourism can be developed today, thus allowing local people to be directly involved in tourism,” he said.

‘Foster parenting’, continued Putu Winastra, could also have the responsibility of training villagers about maintaining Bali’s environment using a ‘clean and green’ system. Tourism industry players could also share a piece of the tourism pie: “for example, hotel guests could be given the option of staying at the hotel for three nights and spending one night in the village, thus allowing the tourism villagers to prosper too,” he said.

Manager of the Pandawa Beach tourist destination, I Wayan Duarta, and Manager of Monkey Forest Ubud, I Komang Bhuana, both exposed about community-based management of tourist destinations. Managing tourist destinations not only brings in dollars, they said, but also helps to preserve the environment. “Tourist attraction can also serves as a medium for preserving rural environments as set forth in pararem or customary rules,” said Duarta.

Tirka Widanti, one of the founders of Green School, talked about educational systems that feature traditional Balinese activities, such as utilizing organic waste as fertilizer and using banana leaves as disposable plates or food wrappings. Widanti also said that by creating eco-friendly learning spaces set in or near gardens also fosters children’s love for the natural environment.

Spokesperson of the government of Tabanan, Putu Dian, and I Made Suparta from Public Relations of the government of Bangli both highlighted the need for adequate sanitation as a way to maintain tourism in Bali. Dian in particular mentioned that creating ways of allowing people to turn plastic waste into a source of income was one solution to the growing problem of plastic waste. (kmb)

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Tourists visited Jatiluwih, Tabanan. Despite certain setbacks in the development of tourism in Tabanan, the government of this district, is still working on improving a number of its tourists attractions.

Tabanan prioritizes community-based tourism

DESPITE certain setbacks in the development of tourism in Tabanan, the government of this district, is still working on improving a number of its tourists attractions. The first stage of development will remain focused on developing communitybased tourism specifically in Tanah Lot, Jatiluwih and Ulun Danu Beratan, all of which seem to be consistently able to draw both foreign and domestic tourists.

Head of the Tabanan Culture and Tourism Agency, I Wayan Adnyana, confirmed that these three tourist attractions have been significantly contributing to the regionally generated revenue (PAD) of Tabanan.

“The development of community-based tourism is aimed at allowing local communities to enjoy the benefits of the growth of tourism in the area, thus allowing a more equal distribution of wealth to happen relatively quickly,” he said.

Adnyana went on to say that at Tanah

Lot, nearly 100 percent of informal businesses -such as souvenir vendors, roving photographers and klepon cake and fruit salad sellers, are all run by local villagers. Tanah Lot, famous for its beautiful panorama has provided large contributions to the regionally generated revenue of Tabanan: 58 percent of which goes to the government of Tabanan, 24 percent of which goes to Beraban customary village, 7.5 percent to Pura Tanah Lot, 6.5 percent to customary villages throughout the subdistrict of Kediri and 4 percent to the area of Tanah Lot. In order to sustain the tourism, cultural and agricultural sectors, the government of Tabanan has initiated a program to help villages become community-based tourist attractions in their own right. In 2015, the government of Tabanan sought to develop a Gerbang Wisata (tourism development movement) aimed at developing tourism villages. Presently said Adnyana they are looking to create 40 tourism villages in Tabanan. “So far, only Pinge village in Marga has met the standards set forth, and the management of tourism there has been

handled professionally,” he said.

Headman of Beraban, Made Sumawa, admitted that the influence of land development investors wanting to get a piece of the action of the Tanah Lot tourist attraction is very strongly felt. However, the onslaught of mass tourism projects can be prevented with good synergy between village administrations and the district government.

“Obviously, the district has to have spatial planning guidelines that are adapted to local villages. Any investors wanting to build tourism facilities have to comply with spatial plan regulations,” he explained.

According to Sumawa, he does not have the authority to prevent mass tourism investors from coming into the area. “What is most important, is that investments in tourism are of benefit to the welfare of local people and that local communities are directly involved,” he said, while stressing that local customs and cultural practices also need to be strengthened as a way to prevent negative impacts. “Negative external influences, that do not comply with our cultural values must be rejected,” he concluded. (bit)

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Balinese Temple Ceremony 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 “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple.

Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

New Year’s Eve at Aston Bogor Hotel & Resort at Rain City will be offering a 2-night room package for two, including the Colorful Night Gala Dinner with a special performance from Indonesia’s Diva Reza Artamevia, followed by a beautiful fireworks show.

Located in Kalimantan’s cosmopolitan city, Aston Balikpapan will celebrate New Year’s Eve with a special White Party. Guests will be entertained by special performances from a live band, a DJ, dancers, a fashion show, a magician, games, fireworks, and more. In collaboration with one of Indonesia’s banks, a draw will also award one lucky winner a holiday to Universal Studios Singapore. The celebration is also joined by special 1 or 2 night stay offers.

At the Sapphire Ballroom of Aston Jember Hotel & Conference Center, Frozen Land

will welcome in the the New Year with an incredible dining experience of Chinese, Indonesian, and Western cuisines. Special guest performances and a spectacular firework show will light up the sky, whilst the lobby will be decked out with a FUNtastic Game Zone to keep kids entertained.

To create a lively carnival atmosphere, Aston Makassar in Sulawesi will be putting on live music, a fortune teller, DJ, dancers, face painting, game booths and a food & costume parade for its Uptown Carnival New Year’s Eve celebration.

Featuring Top Indonesian DJs, Aston Marina will be welcoming New Year with BOOM BASH TIQUE party from night to dawn at 33 Sky Bridge which has 360 degrees view. DJ Alice Norin one of the Indonesia’s famous DJs, together with DJ Lola Alicia and DJ Gabriela will be representing R&B, Hip Hop, and EDM genres. The celebration will be also sparked by special Live PA performance by Agatha, MC Revi, and sexy dancers.

“To ring in the New Year, here at Archipelago International we are hosting celebratory events at our Aston Hotels across Indonesia.

We are looking forward to welcoming you at our Aston Hotels for New Year’s Eve, and we wish you all a joyful and prosperous New Year in 2016!” said Tenaiya Brookfield, Vice President Sales & Marketing of Archipelago International.

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Adele breaks another record with secondweek US sales

NEW YORK - Adele’s album “25” has broken another record, selling more than one million albums in the United States in its second week after a massive debut, a tracking service said Sunday.

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By sustaining huge success for a second week, the British singer becomes the first artist to sell more than one million albums in two separate weeks since at least 1991, when Nielsen Music began systematic data.

“25” sold 1.1 million albums in the week through Thursday, bringing to 4.49 million copies the total US sales since it came out on November 20, Nielsen Music said.

Sales could still go much higher,

considering the holiday shopping season and Adele’s past performance.

Her previous album, “21,” has sold more than 11 million copies in the United States since its release in 2011, topping year-end charts for two consecutive years.

“25” has also broken records in Adele’s native Britain, selling more than one million copies in 10 days -- the fastest album to reach that feat.

The album, led by the blockbuster single “Hello,” is like much of Adele’s earlier work a collection of emotionally intense ballads with themes of heartache and childhood nostalgia.

Her success is all the more striking as album sales as a whole have dropped markedly since the rise of online music two decades ago.

Unusually for a pop star in the current era, Adele has not made “25” available on streaming services such as Spotify and invests less time than many of her peers in social media interaction.

With the record sales, Adele alone is helping boost sales for the recorded music industry.

Offering a more detailed glance at her first week, Nielsen Music said that “25” accounted for 37.7 percent of all album sales in the United States, in a month that saw new releases from other big pop names including Justin Bieber and One Direction.

The sales were nearly evenly divided between physical and digital, with Adele putting “25” for purchase on iTunes despite her boycott of streaming. (afp)

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Ministry of Tourism and Ministry of Forestry joining forces

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Tourism has teams up with the Ministry of Forestry and Environment to work on creating tourist destinations in forests and other nature areas. Minister of Tourism, Arief Yahya said that the three points that the two institutions agreed to cooperate on are: the improvement of tourism management, improvements to the quality of tourism development, and the improvement of tourism in national parks and nature parks. added that UNESCO has named 6 of Indonesia’s national parks as world heritage sites two of which, Mount Leuser National Park and Komodo National Park have been designated as biosphere reserves.

Fathoni added that international recognition along with the specific attributes of Indonesia’s wilderness, can be used to help with the branding of nature tourism in Indonesia and help to make it a leading sector.

Visitors visited Pine Forest at Dlingo, Bantul, Yogyakarta. The pine forest which is located on the east side of Bantul became one of the ecotourism destinations in Yogyakarta. The Ministry of Tourism has teams up with the Ministry of Forestry and Environment to work on creating tourist destinations in forests and other nature areas.

Natural tourist destination will be jointly developed in 14 locations; 13 national parks and one eco-tourism park. “These include Ijen National Park, Semeru National Park, Rinjani, Tambora and Alas Purwo,” said Arief.

Arief added that Indonesia’s natural environment has the largest potential in terms of tourism development, followed closely by culture and made made made attractions.

Indonesia’s forests said Arief, hold a great bio-diversity, with a variety of unique and beautiful phenomena that can attract visitors.

Director General of the Natural Resources Conservation and Ecosystem at the Ministry of Forestry and Environment, Tachir Fathoni, said that this cooperation is a way of working on the potential of existing natural resources to become a draw for tourism. He

BALI’S tourism sector could be providing substantial benefits to Balinese people and could also serve as a vehicle for environmental and cultural preservation. Yet when we look at the way tourism is being run in Bali today, we see that it has instead become a threat the island and its people because of the way that investment in the tourism sector

in Bali causing problems for the industry itself. The natural environment is being exploited without any regard for the values of Bali’s local wisdom. “On that account, developments in tourism need to be refocused back on paying attention to the environment and the local culture,” said Prana.

And thirdly, the issue of rampant land conversion that has become a very serious threat to Bali, also needs to be addressed both in terms of educating people about the dangers of land conversion and also

by strengthening the enforcement of laws that are in place to protect agricultural land from being built on. Actually we all know that agriculture is the foundation of Balinese culture. Therefore the development of tourism in Bali should be done using a approach that is based on cultural and spiritual norms. “The right way to develop tourism is to adopt local values,” added the owner of Taman Sari.

One Direction leads the way on Twitter’s list of 2015 tweets

SAN FRANCISCO — Messages of love and gratitude shared by the boy band One Direction topped Twitter’s charts this year, eclipsing President Barack Obama’s celebration of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision legalizing gay marriage.

One Direction members accounted for half of the 10 most recirculated tweets, including the three most popular.

All the One Direction tweets were either directed at bandmates or the group’s fans. None are likely to be remembered for heralding pivotal moments in history.

“All the love as always. H,” One Direction’s Harry Styles tweeted in March after Zayn Malik an-

nounced plans to leave the group.

Styles boasts 26.3 million Twitter followers. The band’s other current and former members have amassed between 16.6 million and 23.7 million followers apiece.

Obama nabbed the fourth spot in the Twitter rankings released Monday with a June 26 tweet that hailed the Supreme Court’s ruling on gay marriage as “a big step in our march toward equality.”

Other tweets in Twitter’s Top 10 came from Saudi Arabia King Salman after his crowning, hip hop personality Kayne West calling for people to do everything they can, actor Leonard Nimoy philosophizing five days before his death and

Caitlyn Jenner introducing herself after her transition from one-time Olympic decathlon champion Bruce Jenner.

Twitter also released some of the most popular topics, denoted by hashtags, that resonated with the more than 300 million users of its short-messaging service. The list included (hashtag)JeSuisParis after last month’s terrorist attack in France, (hashtag) BlackLivesMatter after police shootings of African-Americans in several U.S. cities, (hashtag) LoveWins after the Supreme Court’s ruling on gay marriage and (hashtag) RefugeesWelcome as people fled the Middle East for Europe. (ap)

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are made. Greed and lack of understanding about Balinese cultural practices have become the norm.

During a discussion about tourism in Bali that was held as part of Bali Travel News’ seventeenth anniversary celebrations on December 4th, these issues were discussed and solutions were shared amongst tourism experts, industry players, government officials and eco-friendly educators.

Tourism figure head, A.A. Prana, outlined three aspects of Bali’s tourism management that need to be

addressed. The First of all, he said, investments in and management of tourism in Bali need to be spread out throughout the island, instead of being solely focused on South Bali. “Tourism in South Bali is overdeveloped and is overloading the carrying capacity of this part of the island. The management of the tourism sector has not be done in accord with palemahan (utilization of space) and has thus become unbalanced,” he said.

Secondly, he said, greed has taken over the tourism industry

News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.

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