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Kardashian driver among 17 arrested in France over jewel heist

PARIS - French police investigating the theft of nearly $10 million in jewels from Kim Kardashian arrested 17 people on Monday, including a chauffeur who drove the American reality television star around Paris in the days before the robbery.

Many of those arrested in coordinated police raids in several different parts of France were known underworld figures aged around 50 and at least three were women, police and judicial sources said.

French radio and TV reports on Monday said DNA traces from the scene of the heist led police to the suspects and that they would be held for questioning, possibly for as much as four days.

A police source said one of those detained was Kardashian’s chauffeur when she was visiting Paris in October for Fashion Week and that police were trying to establish whether he had passed on information to the gang.

Kardashian, 36, was photographed frequently while on the Paris trip, attending fashion shows and parties. She also posted numerous pictures to her social media accounts.

Jean Veil, a French lawyer for Kardashian, told France 2 television: “She (Kardashian) is very happy, very satisfied and to a certain extent reassured by the ef-

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Kim Kardashian arrives at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards in New York, U.S., August 28, 2016. ficiency of the French police.”

Thieves wearing ski masks and clothes with police markings burst into the luxury property where Kardashian, who is married to U.S rap star Kanye West, was sleeping in the early hours of Oct. 3. They tied her up at gunpoint before making off with her engagement ring and other jewels, police said at the time. They fled on bicycles with jewellery worth 9 million euros ($9.5 million).

Kardashian was badly shaken but physically unharmed. She has mostly since kept a low public profile but broke her silence on the robbery in

a promotional clip for the upcoming season of her reality TV show “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” which was released on Friday.

“They’re going to shoot me in the back. There’s no way out,” a tearful Kardashian tells her family, recalling the robbery. “It makes me so upset to think about it.”

The robbery made world headlines and unwanted publicity for one of the world’s most visited cities, where hotels and the wider tourist sector have struggled to make a comeback commercially after deadly attacks by Islamic militants in 2015. (rtr)

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Ronaldo wins FIFA’s player of the year award ZURICH - Cristiano Ronaldo won FIFA’s player of the year award for the fourth time on Monday, beating his old rival Lionel Messi who was pulled out of the ceremony only a few hours earlier by his club Barcelona. Italian Claudio Ranieri won the coach of the year award for leading rank outsiders Leicester City to the English Premier League title.

Ronaldo was rewarded for his performance in 2016 when he won the Champions League with his club Real Madrid and then Euro 2016 with Portugal. Five-times winner and four-times runner-up Messi was second and Frenchman Antoine Griezmann third. Barcelona said that Wednesday’s game against Athletic Bilbao would take priority over the ceremony and that none of their invited players would travel, which disappointed Ronaldo.

“I would like Messi to have been here today but they have an important game on Wednesday and we can understand that,” he said after accepting the award from FIFA president Gianni Infantino.

“I don’t have much more to say, I think the awards

speak for themselves,” he added. “I’m very happy and I can say that 2016 was the best year of my career, the trophy shows that people aren’t blind and watch the games.”

FIFA, which organised the award jointly with France Football magazine from 2010 to 2015 when it was named the Ballon d’Or, rebranded it as “The Best” this year after splitting with the French publication. France Football continued with its own award which was also won

by Ronaldo last month.

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Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates with the trophy.

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Job market prefers to choose women

Function of the right brain is more concerned on matters relating to the functions of taste, more on visualization, intuition and ideas. “It is more on the mental endurance, so that when women are unable to do a thing they will try and try again. It’s a way to become more resilient,” she explained.

When women are faced with a lot of things, especially learning of new things, they will be more diligent and physiologically get more pressures. With the condition of the right brain related to taste, she cannot stay silent and become more aware.

In the women’s brain, the corpus callosum is thicker than that of men so that it has an impact on the female perspective that widens while the male perspective is straight but long. “So when there is a task, women can still do some aspects but if men can get one job they can only do that,” explained the owner of Pradnyagama psychology consultant.

Women are also much more flexible to new tasks, new conditions and employment pressure in a new place so that they are more resilient. It is also far more

A young lady is working in a market

permissive to understand and tolerate certain conditions. “In majority, women basically have owned provision of mental endurance as educated from childhood to gain greater responsibility than men,” he said.

With so many advantages, fewer women are unemployed because men can still be ignorant because they indeed do not use sense but logic. However, women with their intuition and visualization want something more and something better given to the family so that encourages them to be more creative, not too concerned about self-esteem when doing a job.

No matter how small the women do the job, since they are armed with perseverance, women become more resilient and the results are so much more.

“Many women, whether they are fortunate or else, have far more income than men,” she explained. Not surprisingly, the success of marketing profession that requires stronger mental toughness can be achieved by women.

Jro Puspa, Vice Chairperson of the Indonesia Business Women Association (IWAPI) of Bali, said that in working women are much harder so that the users prefer female employees Moreover, in working, women also give priority to discipline, working order and tidiness as well as have the talent and higher creativity.

“Women can also better survive in a variety of circumstances, where more women want to be seen that they have the capability not only in helping family’s economy but also in the strength or self-potential,” she explained.

In supporting women’s entrepreneurship, IWAPI Bali also has a program of creating 1,000 aspiring young entrepreneurs with the establishment of IWAPI Bali business consultation clinic. (kmb42)

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Women more resilient than men

DENPASAR - Based on the data of Central Statistics Agency (BPS), women accounted for 62.4 percent of labor absorption, while men were only absorbed 37.5 percent. Women indicate more labor absorption than men because women have more advantages. Retno IG Kesuma, a psychologist of Sanglah Hospital said that the right brain of women is much stronger than men’s left brain. “So, there is usually a section where women are far more multi-tasking than men,” she said on Monday (Jan. 9).

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Be cautious, fraudsters rove around ATM

MANGUPURA - Criminals associated with ATM continue to act, even though many of them have been arrested. Currently the fraudsters impersonating to offer help when bank customers get difficulty to withdraw money at ATM are on the rise. This was also experienced

by Alfred Nicholas Saudale, 47, on Sunday (Jan. 8) when withdrawing money from the ATM BRI in front of Harta Dewata supermarket at Dalung, North Kuta, Badung.

According to an officer of Badung Police on Monday (Jan. 9), it happened at 11:00. The victim wanted to withdraw money through ATM of Bank BRI at the scene.

After trying to insert ATM card for three times, he always failed. When the victim left the ATM booth, suddenly there was an unidentified man approaching the victim and intending to help insert the ATM card into the machine.

When the ATM card was inserted, the perpetrator directly went away and the victim did not see any further process on the display screen of the ATM machine. A moment later came another man

directed the victim to press PIN number. Since it did not succeed, the man went away, but the victim saw the card stuck in the ATM machine. He tried to pull out with a screwdriver and pliers. After successfully taken out, the victim re-entered the ATM card, but it was not his.

“The victim then contacted to BRI and got a print out. He was quite surprised because the money in the savings has been withdrawn and transferred as much as IDR 25 million,” said the officer asking for anonymity.

Chief of Badung Police, Ruddi Setiawan, confirmed the report regarding the case. “Please contact to criminal investigation unit. The case is still under investigation,” he said.

Chief of Criminal Investigation Unit, Mikael Hutabarat, said that the perpetrator changed the victim’s ATM card while pretending to help. After that, the victim’s savings were transferred. “Meanwhile, the CCTV footage is being explored by North Kuta Police,” he said. (kmb36)

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Waymo self-driving minivan will start test drives this month

DETROIT — Waymo, Google’s self-driving car division, will start testing its new fleet of minivans on public roads in California and Arizona later this month.

The minivans, built in collaboration with Fiat Chrysler, are Chrysler Pacifica hybrids outfitted with Waymo’s own suite of sensors and radar. Waymo and FCA announced their partnership in May. In a speech at the Detroit auto show Sunday, CEO John Krafcik revealed that Waymo built the sensors, radar and software for the new minivans itself.

Krafcik said the company felt the system would work better if it was developed specifically for selfdriving instead of using off-the-shelf parts.

“A single integrated system means that all the different parts of a self-driving car work together seamlessly,” Krafcik said.

Waymo also was able to significantly lower the cost of the system, Krafcik said. The rooftop lidar — which uses lasers to give the car a three-dimensional picture of the world — cost $75,000 a few years ago.

Waymo has brought that cost down by 90 percent and

has developed its own short-range and long-range lidar.

Waymo’s long-range lidar can see a football helmet two football fields away.

Krafcik didn’t say exactly how Waymo lowered the costs. But the announcement could concern suppliers like Velodyne, which makes lidar systems used by Ford Motor Co. and others, and Delphi Corp., which is developing its own autonomous driving system.

Stephanie Brinley, an auto analyst for IHS Markit, said Google won’t control the market for self-driving technology, so other suppliers with go ahead with development of their own systems. But some smaller players in the nascent industry are “going to fall away,” she said.

Waymo has repeatedly said that it doesn’t plan to build its own cars, but provide self-driving systems to established carmakers, car-sharing services or others.

In addition to FCA, Honda Motor Co. recently announced that it’s in talks with Waymo about using its technology in Honda vehicles.

Krafcik said Waymo, which has been developing self-driving cars for eight years, expects to reach 3 million miles of test-driving this May. (ap)

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Jelekungkang arrack makers increasingly rare

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In this Jan. 9, 2007, file photo, Apple CEO Steve Jobs holds up an iPhone at the MacWorld Conference in San Francisco.

Apple proved a phone can change the world in just 10 years

SAN FRANCISCO — Few people realized it at the time, but the world shifted fundamentally a decade ago when Steve Jobs pulled the first iPhone from Apple’s bag of technological tricks.

“Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything,” Jobs declared as he paced across a San Francisco stage.

It obviously wasn’t an empty boast. We all know now that Jobs’ “magical product” has reshaped culture, shaken up industries, put computers in billions of pockets and made it possible to do just about anything with a few taps on a screen. Besides its then 3.5-inch touch screen, the first iPhone featured a browser for on-the-go web surfing and built-in apps to check email and get directions.

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The Waymo driverless car is displayed during a Google event, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016, in San Francisco.

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Apple has sold more than 1 billion iPhones since its debut, spawning millions of mobile applications and prodding other technology companies to make similar smartphones that have become like phantom limbs for many of us.

We use iPhones and their copycats to instantly share video and pictures with friends and family from almost anywhere. We use them to figure out where we are going. We use them to find the best deals while shopping in stores and to pay for stuff at the checkout stand. We use the phones to a hail ride, to tune instruments, to monitor our health and help find our next jobs.

Phones have gotten so smart that they even talk back to us via helpful digital concierges such as the iPhone’s Siri and the recently introduced Assistant on Google’s Pixel phone.

“IPhone is an essential part of our customers’ lives, and today

more than ever it is redefining the way we communicate, entertain, work and live,” Apple’s current CEO, Tim Cook, boasted in a retrospective that the Cupertino, California, company posted on its website.

BANGLI - Jelekungkang hamlet, Tamanbali, Bangli, was formerly renowned as arrack producer in Bangli district. In the past, almost all citizens at the local hamlet produced arrack at their respective home. Over time, the number of arrack makers at Jelekungkang diminished. Of the hundreds of people involved in the business of arrack making, currently only two people still survive.

Gusti Ketut Ada, 64, is one of two craftsmen at Jelekungkang hamlet remaining to survive up to these days. When interviewed at his home on Monday (Jan. 9), Gusti Ketut Ada said that in the past almost residents of Jelekungkang ran the business of arrack making.

This then made the arrack produced at local hamlet labeled as Jelekungkang arrack.

“In the past, the arrack of Jelekungkang was very famous. In Bangli, it is the only hamlet remaining to produce arrack,” he said.

However, over the times the arrack making business is increasingly left by Jelekungkang resi-

dents. Various job options available offer more promising income as well as anxiety due to frequent enforcement operation against alcohol by police caused a number of arrack makers at Jelekungkang to continuously decrease. Gusti Ada said that currently there are only two arrack makers, including him.

“Arrack makers have been getting rarer now. They mostly chose to work elsewhere in construction projects and young people work in Denpasar,” he said.

This husband of Gusti Biang said that the arrack he produced all this time is made with traditional techniques. All this time, the results of homemade arrack are sold in traditional market as a complementary to ritual offerings.

Each day he just produces not more than one liter of arrack. In order to be able to produce one liter of arrack, he said, the distillation process takes up to three hours. For a liter of arrack, he cooks ten liters of wine into a saucepan. His arrack product is sold for IDR 30,000 per liter. (kmb40)

ROADKILL IN ITS WAKE

The iPhone’s revolutionary touch screen doomed the BlackBerry, another once-popular internetconnected phone. Mobile phones and their tablet cousins triggered a downturn in personal computer sales that is still unfolding.

An estimated 219 million desktop and laptop computers shipped worldwide last year, down from 264 million in 2007, according to the research firm Gartner Inc. Meanwhile, nearly 1.9 billion mobile phones shipped last year, up from 1.15 billion in 2007.

All told, Gartner estimates about 5 billion mobile phones are currently in use around the world compared to 1.3 billion PCs. The eroding popularity of PCs spurred shake-ups at powerful tech companies such as Microsoft, Intel, Hewlett-Packard and Dell, none of which adapted nimbly to the mobile world unleashed by the iPhone.

Then-Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer scoffed at Apple’s glassand-metal gadget, telling USA Today in April 2007 that “there’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share.

No chance.”

Microsoft wound up squandering the $7.6 billion that it spent to buy phone maker Nokia in a futile attempt to catch up to the iPhone.

Ballmer stepped down as CEO three years ago and was replaced

by Satya Nadella, who introduced versions of Microsoft’s popular Office programs that worked on Apple’s iPad — a tablet based on the iPhone. (ap)

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The crowded Mertasari Beach

Tourism Office drafts management of Mertasari Beach

DENPASAR - Mertasari Beach becomes a tourist attraction that continuously receives treatment from the municipal government of Denpasar. Having arranged the parking lot and some SME stalls in the region, currently the government of Denpasar through the Tourism Office will re-arrange the management.

This plan has been discussed in internal meeting with Regional Secretary of Denpasar last week.

The process of making arrack

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Head of the Denpasar Tourism Office, I Wayan Gunawan, when contacted on Monday (Jan. 9) said that his office must coordinate in advance with the Finance and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP). There are rules that need to be synchronized namely the Law No.19/2016 related to guidelines on managing assets or property owned by local government with the Law on tourism. “We have to coordinate with the BPKP so that the asset management on the beach is in accordance with the existing rules,” he said.

Gunawan said that the land under the authority of municipal government of Denpasar located on

Mertasari Beach, Sanur Kauh, spreads across about 2.3 hectares. It has been arranged for parking lot and 15 stalls have been established for merchants. In the future, he wanted the area can be managed more professionally because when only managed by the government, it will become less optimal.

He mentioned that pursuant to the existing provisions, the government can delegate management authority to the components of society. With a more competent management, it is expected to maximize the results. “Initially, we will make coordination first, so that the application of the rules will not go wrong because we will use two references. So, it needs to be synchronized first,” he explained.

As is known, the Mertasari Beach is a place of recreation for citizens of the surrounding Denpasar. Moreover, during holidays, residents throng the beach so that it is pretty crowded and good for bathing or canoeing and other water recreation. Moreover, some time ago the central government already established a building next to the area belonging to Denpasar city. Unfortunately, the building has not functioned properly because it remains under the authority of central government. (kmb12)

For years, Wanagiri villagers hard to get clean water

SINGARAJA - Difficulty to get clean water becomes the problem faced by some villagers of Wanagiri, Sukasada, for years. This condition does not only interfere with the toilet activities, but also has an impact on agriculture having become the leading sector. To prevent this condition from persisting, the government is expected to give attention.

Headman of Wanagiri, I Wayan Gumiasa, said that people who have not touched by the water service

mostly live along the village roadside. This condition has occurred for many years. Inevitably, the toilet activities are disrupted. “The difficulty of getting clean water is still a problem faced by the community.

It is especially experienced by villagers whose house is located at roadside from the east to the west,” he said on Sunday (Jan. 8).

Such condition, he said, also causes the agricultural sector becoming the main source of income

for community to be largely affected. When dry season comes, the production is disrupted due to drought. “Agriculture is also disturbed. Moreover, during the drought, it dries out. On that account, some residents have to buy water to Pancasari,” he said.

Responding to the issue, said Gumiasa, a number of villages had planned to utilize the water of Lake Buyan. However, since it is rumored to have a less good quality, it is

forced to be undone. Actually, there is a water source with large enough discharge around the village. Since it is located at lower place than settlement, the utilization cannot apply gravitational technique, but must be taken up with machine. This requires considerable expense and cannot be afforded by the village. “There are many water sources located about three kilometers from the center of the village. But it costs too expensive.

We cannot afford it,” he said.

The issue, he said, had actually been submitted to the Buleleng government through the Public Works Agency. Unfortunately, it does not get any follow up so far.

“We have submitted the proposal.

We expect this can get the attention so that this problem will not prolong,” he said while adding that the availability of clean water is also necessary to support tourism sector which recently begins to flourish. (kmb45)

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Taro satay

Unique delicacy offered by Pedawa village

ASIDE from natural beauty and spinning top art, Pedawa village in Banjar subdistrict, Buleleng, also has a unique traditional cuisine and remains to be preserved until now. The traditional cuisine is known as taro satay. It becomes a typical cuisine owned by Pedawa village because taro is commonly planted by residents in the area of coffee or clove plantations.

Certainly, local people do not know who first made the taro satay. However, the cuisine is very familiar with the local villagers.

Normally, in religious ceremonies or other activities at the village, taro satay becomes a type of cuisine that cannot be ignored as such. People who are already familiar with this cuisine recipe can expertly process raw materials into taro satay that is not easily found in other areas of Bali.

Headman of Pedawa, I Putu Sudarmaja, said recently that the taro satay has existed since ancient times. Almost all residents are familiar with this traditional cuisine.

In recent years, the recipe almost disappeared due to the influence of modern recipes. In line with the development of local potential into a tourism village, taro satay is introduced to many foreign travelers who recently visited Pedawa.

“Together with community leaders, we’d like to revive our culinary heritages. Since we develop tour-

ism village, we’d like to introduce our taro satay delicacy to all visiting travelers,” he said.

Before making taro satay, the ingredient need to be prepared is taro and seasoning (complete Balinese seasoning—Ed). Satay skewer is made from young bamboo. First of all, peeled out taro is steamed.

Once cooked, pound the taro to turn smooth. Sticky dough of the taro is then coupled with the complete seasoning and finely blended. After that, twist the satay batter on young bamboo skewer. Then, grill the satay on embers prepared from coffee trunks. Heat and smoke of the coffee trunk generate typical aroma of the taro satay of Pedawa.

When tasted, the taro satay is sticky and complete seasoning made from herbs and spices really taste good, especially the spicy flavor. On that account, when tasting the satay, our tongue will feel the sensation of spicy flavor offered by the complete seasoning of the taro satay. (mud)

The process of making satay in Banjar, Buleleng

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GIANYAR - To meet the chili needs in Gianyar, merchants are now relying on agricultural commodity production in the northern region. In southern region of Gianyar like Sukawati, chili plants begin to dry out and should be replaced with other plants such as tobacco. This was disclosed by the Head of the Gianyar Agriculture Agency, Made Raka.

Made Raka mentioned that rain in recent months indeed has a significant impact on agriculture, especially chili commodity. “Prolonged rains have significant impacts, not just on chili but also on other agricultural products such as onions where they do not grow up,” he said.

He said that to meet the chili needs at a number of markets in Gianyar, his agency is now relying on the chili production around Northern Gianyar especially Tegallalang, including from Kintamani, Bangli. “Yesterday, there was quite a lot of chili deteriorating. So far, the chili production to be relied on is from Tegallalang and surrounding areas,” he said.

In the meantime, many chili plants having been repeatedly harvested in Southern Gianyar like Sukawati, start to dry out. “I think chili plants in Sukawati has started to dry up, and they are usually replaced with tobacco plant or other plants such as corn,” he said.

As seen at a number of agricultural areas around Sukawati, hectares of chili plants seemed to no

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longer be productive because they have started to dry out. The plants began to be neglected as indicated by the high growing weeds.

This condition is also alleged to become one of the triggers of the high price of chili in the market that has reached IDR 100,000 per kilogram.

As reported previously, the skyrocketing price of chili almost happened throughout the region, without exception for Gianyar. At a number of markets in this region, it is known that the price of chili remains in the range of IDR 100,000 per kilogram. The price has dropped compared to three days ago reaching IDR 120,000 per kilogram.

It happened just after the New Year, where the price of chili suddenly increased to IDR 120,000 per kilogram, but now it has slumped to IDR 100,000,” said Nyoman Asri, a merchant at Sukawati Market, on Sunday (Jan. 8).

She said that the price of other types of chili like green chili has also started to drop to IDR 60,000 and red chili dropped to IDR 40,000. “It’s only the price of cayenne pepper having been nearly back to normal,” she said.

He also claimed to be surprised of such increase. According to her, the supply of chili is still relatively safe. The chili supply to Sukawati Market is brought in by farmers from Tegallalang and Bangli. “Previously, in Sukawati many people planted chili, but now they have shifted to plant rice,” she explained. (kmb35)

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U.S. Navy ship fired warning shots at Iranian vessels

WASHINGTON - A U.S. Navy destroyer fired three warning shots at four Iranian fastattack vessels near the Strait of Hormuz after they closed in at high speed and disregarded repeated requests to slow down, U.S. officials said on Monday.

North Gianyar relied upon to meet chili needs

The chili farmer is working in his field. The increasing price of the chili is not giving an impact to the farmer in Bali.

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The guided-missile destroyer USS Mahan (DDG 72) transits the Mediterranean Sea in this August 31, 2012 handout photo.

The incident, which occurred on Sunday and was first reported by Reuters, comes as U.S. Presidentelect Donald Trump prepares to take office on Jan. 20. In September, Trump vowed that any Iranian vessels that harassed the U.S. Navy in the Gulf would be “shot out of the water.”

“This was an unsafe and unprofessional interaction, and that is due to the fact that they were approaching at a high level of speed with weapons manned and disregarding repeated warnings,” Captain Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, said in a briefing.

The warning shots were fired at the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps boats by the USS Mahan after it established radio contact but failed to get them to slow down, Davis said, confirming earlier accounts of U.S. defense officials.

Those officials, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, said the Iranian vessels came within 900 yards (800 meters) of the Navy destroyer, which was escorting two other U.S. military ships.

The Mahan also fired flares and a U.S. Navy helicopter also dropped a smoke float before the warning shots, they said.

The IRGC and Trump transition team were not immediately avail-

able for comment.

The White House said the Iranian vessels had behaved in an unacceptable manner and that such incidents risked increasing tensions.

“At this point the United States does not know what the intentions of the Iranian vessels were, but the behavior is not acceptable given that the USS Mahan was operating in international waters,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said during a press conference on Monday.

Years of mutual animosity eased when Washington lifted sanctions on Tehran last year after a deal to curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions. But serious differences still remain over Iran’s ballistic missile program as well as conflicts in Syria and Iraq.

One of the U.S. defense officials said similar incidents occur occasionally.

Most recently in August, another U.S. Navy ship fired warning shots toward an Iranian fast-attack craft that approached two U.S. ships.

In January 2016, Iran freed 10 U.S. sailors after briefly detaining them in the Gulf.

The one official added that the warning shots fired on Sunday were just one of seven interactions the Mahan had with Iranian vessels over the weekend, but the others were judged to be safe. (rtr)

Unclear whether truck attack in Israel inspired by Islamic State

JERUSALEM - Israel’s government has been quick to suggest a Palestinian who rammed a truck into a group of Israeli soldiers at the weekend was inspired by Islamic State, raising questions over how it came to that conclusion.

Hours after the attack on Sunday, which killed four soldiers and wounded 17, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the assailant showed all the signs of being a supporter of the ultra-hardline Sunni movement.

He did not give details and on Monday, an obscure Palestinian group claimed responsibility, saying it had no outside links and had acted on political motives.

Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman had also pointed to Islamic State, citing parallels with Islamic State-inspired attacks on crowds using trucks in Germany and France last year.

“We saw it in France, we saw it in Berlin and unfortunately we saw it today in Jerusalem,” he said during a visit to the scene overlooking Jerusalem’s Old City.

The group which said it was responsible for the attack gave few details and it was not possible to verify the claim, but in Israel, multiple voices pointed out the differences between Palestinian violence and that perpetrated by Islamic State.

While Islam may inspire some Palestinian assailants, political motivations around Israel’s occupation and the long-running conflict remain the dominant factor, they said, suggesting the government was seeking to downplay politics.

“Palestinian attacks are overwhelmingly motivated by nationalism, not by religion,” said Orit Perlov, a social media expert and research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv.

“Israel is trying to generalise the phenomenon, saying everyone faces the same threat. But while the symptoms may be similar, the causes are completely different.”

In Europe there is sympathy and support for Israel and the deadly threats it faces, but also cautious-

ness about close comparisons.

Over the past 18 months, Netanyahu has repeatedly described a wave of Palestinian attacks on Israelis as part of the same violent Islamist campaign afflicting Europe, saying Israel, France and Germany are in the same boat, and that Israel’s frontline position needs to be better understood.

“They might have different names -- ISIS, Boko Haram, Hamas, Al Shabab, Al Qaeda, Hezbollah -- but all of them are driven by the same hatred and bloodthirsty fanaticism,” Netanyahu said in January last year. “We understand we are in a common battle for our values and a common battle for our future.”

Sunday’s statement was the clearest link Netanyahu had made between a Palestinian attacker and Islamic State, although he did not say the group planned it or that the assailant, who was shot dead at the scene, was an Islamic State operative.

Yossi Melman, an analyst writing in Ma’ariv newspaper, said

there was little evidence to suggest the Palestinian attacker had drawn inspiration from Islamic State,

pointing out that Palestinians carried out car-ramming attacks before ISIS. (rtr)

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) visits the scene where police said a Palestinian rammed his truck into a group of Israeli soldiers on a popular promenade in Jerusalem, killing four people and injuring about 15 others in a deliberate attack January 8, 2017.

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Egypt’s annual urban consumer price inflation jumps to 23.3 pct in December

CAIRO - Egypt’s annual urban consumer price inflation jumped for the second month since the pound was freely floated last year to reach 23.3 percent in December from 19.4 percent in November, the official CAPMAS statistics agency said on Tuesday.

Egypt abandoned its currency peg of 8.8 to the U.S. dollar on Nov. 3 in a dramatic move that has since seen the currency depreciate roughly by half. It accompanied the move with a 300 basis point interest rate hike to fight inflationary pressures.

Despite the hike, inflation is rising sharply and is expected to climb further this year as the government pushes on with economic reforms, including fuel subsidy cuts and the implementation of a value-added tax (VAT), that helped it secure a $12 billion International Monetary Fund loan programme.

In cities and towns, food and beverage inflation touched 28.3 percent in December. Healthcare inflation stood at 32.9 percent while transportation was 23.2 percent. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is under increasing pressure to revive the economy, keep prices under control and create jobs to avoid a backlash from the public.

Sisi predicted last month that the Egyptian pound would strengthen in the coming months and promised to ensure basics were available and affordable.

The government has expanded its social security network and some 70 million Egyptians have access to state subsidised bread.

Egypt’s non-oil business activity shrank for the 15th consecutive month in December as inflation caused purchase costs to rise at a near-record pace.

Economists said rising inflation would erode spending power, hit economic growth and prompt further hikes to interest rates, which are already up to 15.75 percent.

Egypt’s central bank has held interest rates steady at two monetary policy meetings following its flotation and some economists expect further rate hikes this year. The monetary policy committee is due to meet again on Feb. 16.(rtr)

French Travelers Explore Trekking of Bindu Village

If you are an adventurer, try to explore the trekking routes offered by Bindu tourism village, Mekar Bhuana, Abiansemal, Badung. This relatively new tourist object has a unique attraction. Aside from beautiful and pristine countryside, it also offers some activities of local culture. Visitors can join the cultural activities of the villagers.

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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras delivers a speech as Economy Minister Dimos Papadimitriou (R) looks on at the launching of an equity fund in cooperation with the European Investment Bank, in Athens, Greece, December 22, 2016.

Split the euro zone in two, says Germany’s far-right co-leader

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Arrangement of various world currencies including the Chinese Yuan, U.S. dollar, Euro and British pound are seen in this January 25, 2011 photo illustration.

BERLIN - The euro zone should be split into two with a strong cluster around Germany and a weak cluster including France, the co-leader of Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, Joerg Meuthen, said in a Reuters interview.

“The euro is a seed of discord in Europe that has different currency cultures and different competitiveness levels,” Meuthen said.

The AfD has climbed to 15 percent in opinion polls ahead of September’s election, but no other party in Germany is willing to form a coalition with it.

Meuthen, speaking by telephone, said the German economy could suffer for a year or two in the wake of such a euro zone split. “The euro is too strong for southern European countries while for Germany and several others it’s too weak,” he said.

“It’s conceivable that the weaker countries leave,” he said, mentioning Italy, Spain, Portugal and France. He said Greece is so weak that no country wants to share a currency with it.

Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Finland should remain in the core euro group, he said, even though a stronger currency would

hurt exports from those countries.

“That could cause an economic slump (in Germany),” he added. “It’s impossible to say how deep. But in my view the economic slump would be over in about a year or two.”

Meuthen distanced himself from a proposal from France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen. She said that France should leave the euro but shift to a new national currency accompanied by a framework similar to the pre-euro era of the ECU. “The euro exit shouldn’t be linked to a fixed exchange rate system,” he said. “The currencies need to be able to breathe.”(rtr)

Points of trekking initiated by Putra Jenggala tourism awareness group (Pokdarwis) of Bindu tourism village is indeed a new one intended for beginner adventurers.

Nevertheless, all adventure hobbyist can explore it because of the cultural attractions offered must be different. “Each route passed through will give pleasure because it has a variety of cultural attractions,” said I Gusti Nyoman Suastawa, one of the trekking initiators.

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French travelers had tested the challenges offered by the trekking route. They consist of female entrepreneurs and workers. A distance of about 3 km was covered within about four hours. “Wow, it’s very satisfying. Other than seeing the activities of rural communities, we also encounter small animals in the paddy fields. All people are very friendly and nice,” said Santrine, one of the trekking participants.

They started the trekking in front of the Bindu village hall and then visited the SDN 3 Mekar Bhuana

elementary school as a form of caring for school. They had time to introduce French language to students and learn Balinese language from them. Other than the introduction of language, they also learned about Balinese dance. It was then resumed to Subak Gaga while passing the village street.

In the paddy fields, they could watch various activities of farmers starting from hoeing, mowing to harvesting traditionally. Some of them tried to involve in harvesting rice. During the journey, they also watched the animals having been familiar with the paddy farmers such as dragonflies, lizards, snakes and birds. After that, they passed through a moor and a bridge made from coconut tree.

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Badung, bukan di Denpasar Then, they returned to paddy field area at the Subak Munduk Gebang. In the area of ??Tanah Yeng healing center, participants were introduced to the technique of growing crops traditionally.

Afterward, they were served with young coconut drink to refresh the body. They were also given the opportunity to have a bath in the river followed by prayascita (blessing) ritual to purify their mind in Hindu tradition.

At that moment, every trekking participant was given tridatu thread for safety. The area of Tanah Yeng healing center is especially intended for the introduction to spiritual self-purificatory process.

The journey then continued to visit Balinese house compound to see

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and learn mejejahitan (preparing oblation). Ultimately, the journey was ended with lunch serving traditional Balinese menus consisting of satay, raw condiment, lawar (minced meat mixed with vegetables) and others.

Suastawa said that other than trekking, guests are also introduced to culture and getting in touch with residents as the real player of local culture. This program is made on the request of travel agent management. “This Pokdarwis initiated the Bindu customary village trekking after receiving coaching from the Badung Tourism Office in the form of foreign language training. In the future, it will take advantage of the river at Bindu village for water tourist attraction,” he explained. (kmb)

Seseh Beach

Seseh beach located on Munggu Village in Badung district.

Seseh beach located about 15 Km from Denpasar and about 55 minutes from Ngurah Rai International Airport.Seseh beach have black sand and great view. This beach is not crowded like Kuta and Legian. Before we reach the beach, along the road we can see green rice field. In this beach we can do activity like surfing and kite surfing and see the sunset in the afternoon.For the people around the beach, they usually use the beach for religion activity like Melasti and Melarung Bumi.(kmb)

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Trump’s son-in-law Kushner to become senior White House adviser

WASHINGTON - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, will become a senior White House adviser working on trade and the Middle East, transition officials said on Monday, in a rare case of a close presidential family member taking a major job.

Kushner, 35, who is married to Trump’s daughter Ivanka, is taking the post after receiving legal counsel that doing so would not violate U.S. anti-nepotism law, transition officials said. The position, unlike Cabinet posts, does not require U.S. Senate confirmation, and Kushner will not be paid.

Trump, in a statement on Monday announcing the choice, said Kushner was a “tremendous asset and trusted advisor throughout the campaign and transition.”

Kushner, who like Trump is a New York real estate developer, emerged as an important voice early in his father-in-law’s presidential campaign and was involved in almost every aspect of it from personnel decisions to strategy and fundraising.

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close adviser to the president-elect, will not take on a role in her father’s White House but will focus on settling her family in Washington.

Kushner and his wife will undertake significant divestments of their wide-ranging financial portfolios as they prepare for their move to Washington from New York and face inevitable questions about a potential conflict of interest.

Senior transition officials and a lawyer for Kushner laid out the arrangement in a conference call with a small group of reporters.

Kushner is to work closely with incoming White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and senior strategist Steve Bannon in advising the new president, and the officials said he would focus at least at first on trade policy and the Middle East.

Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20, has vowed to rewrite international trade deals to make them more favorable to the United States. He has also pledged to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv, where it has been for 68 years, to Jerusalem, all but enshrining the city as Israel’s capital despite international objections. (rtr)

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Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump arrives with husband Jared Kushner at the Vanity Fair party to begin the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival in New York, U.S. on April 17, 2012.

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The ceremony, previously held at the Kongresshaus theatre in central Zurich, this year took place in the much more modest setting of a television studio on an industrial estate near the airport. Ronaldo previously won in 2008, 2013, 2014 with Messi second on each occasion. Messi won from 2009-12 and then again in 2015 with Ronaldo second on every occasion except in 2010 when Andres Iniesta was runner-up.

Ranieri said he was “crazy” after winning the coach’s award ahead of Fernando Santos, who led Portugal to the Euro 2016 title.

“I am crazy now,” he said. “What happened last season in England was

something strange. The football gods said Leicester must win.” Colombian side Atletico Nacional were given the Fair Play Award for conceding to Copa Sudamericana title to Brazilian side Chapecoense, whose team was decimated when a plane taking to the final crashed, killing 71 people.

“We did nothing more than what we had to do....handing them this trophy as a gesture of hope,” said club president Juan Carlos de La Cuesta. American Carli Lloyd won the women’s player of the year award for the second year in a row.

Mohd Faiz Subri, of Malaysian Super League side Penang, won the goal of the year award for a 35-metre free kick in which the ball dipped and swung in a bewildering fashion to leave the goalkeeper stranded. (rtr)

Hard Brexit is not inevitable, says British PM May

LONDON - A clean break with the EU’s single market is not inevitable, British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Monday, seeking to clarify comments that pushed down the pound on the possibility of a hard Brexit from the European Union.

She criticised British media for misinterpreting what she described as long-term position on EU talks but the pound failed to recover from a 10week low and was down more than 1 percent to the dollar and 1.2 percent against the euro on the day.

May, under pressure to offer more detail on her strategy before launching divorce talks with the European Union, said on Sunday in her first televised interview of the year that Britain would not be able to keep “bits” of its membership.

Some commentators saw that as a sign she was heading for a hard Brexit, which business says would damage the economy by breaking links with the single market of 500 million consumers. May shot back that the media was using terms she did not accept.

“I’m tempted to say that the people who are getting it wrong are those who print things saying I’m talking about a hard Brexit, (that) it is absolutely inevitable there’s a hard Brexit,” she told the Charity Commission, a government department that regulates charities in England and Wales.

“I don’t accept the terms hard and soft Brexit. What we’re doing is (that we are) going to get an ambitious, good, best possible deal for the United Kingdom in terms of ... trading with and operating within the single European market.”

May’s frustration was clear. The former interior minister, who was appointed as prime minister shortly after Britain voted to leave the EU at a June referendum, is increasingly concerned that Brexit will define her time in power, sources say.

In her speech on Monday, she said she wanted her government to help to heal the divisions in Britain that were

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Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May leaves after giving a speech on mental health, in central London, January 9, 2017. deepened by the EU vote, and ensure that “everyone has the chance to share in the wealth and opportunity on offer in Britain today”.

She announced measures to boost support to those suffering from mental health problems and said she would do more on housing, education and schooling, but despite applause from the audience, two out of four questioners asked about Brexit.

May has repeatedly said she will not reveal her strategy before triggering Article 50 of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty to start some of the most complicated negotiations since World War Two, but her reticence has spurred scrutiny of her every comment.

She has largely stuck to the script that she wants Britain to regain control over immigration, restore its sovereignty and also to get the best possible trading relations with the EU, but any comment that seems to stray is pored over for signs of how May sees Britain’s future relationship with the EU. Asked whether May had ruled out getting preferential access to the single market in her interview on Sunday, her spokeswoman said she had ruled nothing out or in.

On Monday, May again said she was ambitious before the talks with the EU, which are due to be launched before the end of March. (rtr)

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Flower Garden of Kerta Village Increasingly Attractive

GIANYAR - Sekar Bumi Farm & Florist (SBFF) is the name of this new tourist attraction. However, people often call it the Flower Garden. It is located at Kerta village, Payangan, Gianyar, or about 43 km from Denpasar.

Perched at the altitude of 700 meters above sea level, Sekar Bumi Farm & Florist is a lovely center.

Sekar Bumi Farm & Florist (SBFF) is the name of this new tourist attraction. However, people often call it the Flower Garden. It is located at Kerta village, Payangan, Gianyar, or about 43 km from Denpasar. Perched at the altitude of 700 meters above sea level, Sekar Bumi Farm & Florist is a lovely center for the plantation supplying a wide range of cut heliconia flowers.

There are more than 200 types of flowers, including torch bananas, lime banana, the Caribbean and yellow dancer with a variety of colors.

“Sekar Bumi supplies a wide variety of cut flowers and cut leaves demand as well as decorative plant for tourism industry,” said Ketut Subagia, the SBFF owner.

Aside from being the cultivation of flowers, this object also offers outbound and agro-tourism as a suitable destination for family. For travelers wishing to get challenge, they can take advantage of a variety of games available such as flying fox, fine ball, trekking, cycling and outdoor games that can accommodate a large number of participants.

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Teenaged Russian ousts world number one Kerber in Sydney

SYDNEY - Angelique Kerber’s build-up for next week’s Australian Open suffered a setback with the German world number one going down in straight sets to Russian teenager Daria Kasatkina in the second round of the Sydney International on Tuesday.

The flying fox here may be the longest in Bali. Length of the rope reaches 500 meters to 700 meters. Its track is also unique as passing over a cliff, hanging bridge and five points with very stressful moment. In the meantime, fine ball is gut-challenging game with a range of 10 meters. The bullets are made of organic materials so that the waste will not harm nature.

Other than being good for relaxation, this beautiful tourist spot is also a place of education for children.

Through the garden tour program, visitors can get lessons on the environment such as arranging cut flowers, learning about farming, planting, fertilizing, picking crops, visiting rare trees and making compost. (IBP/net)

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Daria Kasatkina of Russia plays a backhand return to Angelique Kerber of Germany.

On a manic day for the seeded players, the 19-year-old Kasatkina won 7-6(5) 6-2 against two-time grand slam Kerber, who also in the quarter-finals in Brisbane last week.

“It’s difficult to explain really. I beat the number one in the world and it doesn’t happen every day,” Kasatkina, ranked 26 in the world, said in a courtside interview.

“I think I will get some confidence,” she said referring to the year’s first grand slam, starting on Monday in Melbourne, where Kerber would defend her women’s title.

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova earlier won an all-Russian battle against Svetlana Kuznetsova to oust the defending champion in straight sets.

Pavlyuchenkova beat world number nine Kuznetsova 7-5 6-3 to set up a quarter-final clash against Canadian Eugenie Bouchard who caused another upset by defeating number three seed Dominika Cibulkova.

Ninth seed Italian Robert Vinci also fell to Czech Barbora Strycova 6-2 6-3 but former world number one Caroline Wozniacki bucked the trend with a 6-0 7-5 win over Kazakh Yulia Putintseva.

Pavlyuchenkova came into the match having lost five of the last six

meetings against Kuznetsova and twice fell back in the opening set.

The 31-year-old double grand slam winner was serving for the set at 5-4 before Pavlyuchenkova reeled off the last three games to bag the set.

“I’m really happy, especially because she’s not only defending champion but my fellow (countrywoman) and she’s top 10 and she’s had a really incredible year last year,” Pavlyuchenkova said.

“I think I did everything well.

I wasn’t serving as well as I did yesterday; I was a little upset with that, but I’m so happy that even with a lower first serve percentage, that I was able to win the match in two sets.”

Next up for the Russian will be former Wimbledon finalist Bouchard who completed her fourth consecutive hard-court win against world number six Cibulkova with a 6-4 6-3 victory.

It will be the first WTA quarterfinal appearance for the Canadian in 10 months since Kuala Lumpur, where she lost in the final of the Malaysian Open.

“Any time you play one of the best players in the world... it’s like a standard of where you’re at,” Bouchard said after taking her head-to-head record over Cibulkova to 4-1. (rtr)

Bekele to run London with eye on world record

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LONDON - Triple Olympic track champion Kenenisa Bekele, the secondfastest marathon runner in history, will make another attempt at claiming the world record over the classic 26.2 mile distance when he leads a stellar field for the London marathon in April.

Ethiopian Bekele, widely regarded as the greatest distance runner of all time and world record holder over 10,000 and 5,000 metres, ran two hours, three minutes and three seconds when winning Berlin last September, six seconds outside Dennis Kimetto’s world record of 2:02:57 set on the same course in 2014.

Having been left out of the Ethiopian team for the Rio Olympics a month earlier it was a clear message from Bekele that he had mastered the marathon after intially producing very good, but not world bestthreatening times in his first forays over the distance.

The 34-year-old, with five track world titles to his name over 10,000m and 5,000, finished third in London last year behind Kenyan duo Eliud Kipchoge and Stanley Biwott and Kipchoge’s course record of 2:03:05 and Kimetto’s world mark will both

be in his sights.

“London is the greatest marathon in the world and I would love to win there,” Bekele said in a statement issued by race organisers revealing the lineup on Monday.

“The field is always the best and victory means so much. After finishing third last year, I know what I need to do to win.”

Biwott, who won the 2015 New York City Marathon, is likely to be Bekele’s main rival as he leads the Kenyan challenge in the absence of two-time champion Kipchoge.

Biwott finished runner-up in 2014, fourth in 2015 and second again last year in a personal best of 2:03:51.

The leading pair are two of seven in the field who have run under 2:06, while the race will also feature two marathon world champions, three of the top five finishers from last summer’s Olympics, and the winners of the Abbott World Marathon Majors races in Tokyo, Berlin, Chicago and New York in 2016.

Abel Kirui, who won the world marathon title in 2011 and 2013, returns to London for the first time since 2012 when he was fifth, four months before winning Olympic silver in the same city.

Eritrean Ghirmay Ghebreslassie, who became the youngest world marathon

champion when he took the 2015 world title in Beijing at 19, also runs. (rtr)

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Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia crosses the finish line to win the men’s 5000m race at the IAAF Golden League Memorial Van Damme athletics meeting in Brussels September 4, 2009.

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Malaysia delights in Mohd Faiz’s goal of the year award

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A worker removes snow in front of FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, January 10, 2017.

FIFA to expand World Cup to 48 teams in 2026

ZURICH — FIFA will expand the World Cup to 48 teams, adding 16 extra nations to the 2026 tournament which is likely to be held in North America. President Gianni Infantino’s favored plan — for 16 three-team groups with the top two advancing to a round of 32 — was unanimously approved Tuesday by the FIFA Council.

It meets Infantino’s election pledge of a bigger World Cup, and should help fund promised raises for FIFA’s 211 member federations.

With 80 matches instead of 64, FIFA forecasts the equivalent of $1 billion extra income at current rates from broadcasting and sponsor deals, plus ticket sales, compared to $5.5 billion revenue forecast for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. FIFA projects an increased profit of $640 million despite some extra operating costs and prize money for teams. FIFA’s six continents should find out by May how many extra places they will each get.

UEFA wants 16 European teams at the tournament, which is strongly favored to be played in North America. The CONCACAF region has not hosted the World Cup since the 1994 tournament in the United States.

American, Canadian and Mexican soccer leaders have had informal talks about a co-hosting bid.

Africa and Asia could be winners in a bigger World Cup with up to nine places each. They had only five and four teams, respectively, at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. Still, FIFA said it expects the standard of soccer to drop compared to the 32-team format locked in for the next two World Cups in Russia and Qatar.

The “absolute quality” of play, defined by highranked teams facing each other most often, is achieved

by 32 teams, FIFA acknowledged in a research document sent to members last month. It made 10,000 tournament simulations to reach that conclusion.

Instead, Infantino wants to create fervor and months of anticipation back home in the 16 extra nations which would qualify, some probably making their World Cup debut. FIFA has pointed to Costa Rica, Wales and Iceland as examples of teams which overachieved at recent tournaments.

FIFA must break with soccer tradition to make its new format work after an original 48-team plan — with an opening playoff round sending 16 “one-and-done” teams home early — was unpopular. Instead, threeteam groups will replace the usual groups of four to create simple progress to a knockout bracket. However, it leaves one team idle for final group games and could risk collusion between the other two teams.

FIFA said it could guard against result-rigging by introducing penalty shootouts after group games that end in draws. Despite the 16 extra games, FIFA believes the current maximum of stadiums needed will stay at the 12 used by Brazil and Russia. However, the demand for more training bases and hotels means developed countries would be better equipped to win future hosting contests.

North America is the strong favorite for 2026 because European and Asian countries are blocked by a FIFA rule excluding continents which hosted either of the two previous tournaments. Russia will host the World Cup next year and Qatar in 2022.

South America has been focused on a centenary tournament including original 1930 host Uruguay, and African nations are seen as lacking existing capacity and unlikely to fund multi-billion dollar infrastructure spending. (ap)

KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysian soccer fans heaped praise on Mohd Faiz Subri on Tuesday after the Penang FA player received the Puskas Award for the best goal of 2016 at a FIFA ceremony in Zurich.

Mohd Faiz’s long-range, swerving free kick was overwhelmingly voted goal of the year and will restore some pride in Malaysian football, which has suffered a decline over the past four decades.

Mohd Faiz, the first Asian to win the annual award since it was first handed out in 2009, was a virtual unknown before his Feb. 16 wonder goal and he joins an elite club that includes Cristiano Ronaldo, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Neymar.

Social media was flooded with congratulatory messages for the Malaysian Super League player, including from Prime Minister Najib Razak and other national leaders.

“Your achievement in the #FIFAPuskasAward 2016 will inspire all Malaysian footballers and also makes the country proud!” the prime minister said in a Twitter post. Laurence Loh, deputy president of the Penang Football Association, said the award-winning goal was no fluke as the forward has scored similar goals playing in

the lower divisions.

“That means he must have trained very hard,” Loh said, adding that Mohd Faiz was inspired

by Ronaldo to hone his free kick skills.

The trophy, which was given out late on Monday in Switzerland, will give new hope to Malaysian fans, long frustrated by their country’s decline in the sport.

The national team are ranked 161st out of 209 countries, a far cry from their time as a regional powerhouse and Olympic contender in the 1970s.

Malaysia qualified for the 1972 Munich Games where they beat the United States 3-0 but lost by the same score to West Germany and 6-0 to Morocco.

The match that defined the “Golden Era” was their 2-1 victory over South Korea which earned them a spot at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. However, Malaysia eventually boycotted the Olympics over Russia’s 1979 invasion of Afghanistan. That was the last time Malaysia qualified for the Olympics.

Away from the pitch, local football is still reeling from a nationwide match-fixing scandal in the mid-1990s. (rtr)

Valencia concedes late equalizer against last-place Osasuna MADRID — Valencia was dealt another heartbreaking blow when it missed a late penalty kick then conceded in injury time to let last-place Osasuna escape with a 3-3 draw, a result that extended the club’s winless streak to eight games in the Spanish league on Monday.

Valencia seemed set for its first victory since October, but Osasuna defender Carlos Clerc scored the equalizer two minutes into stoppage time. About five minutes earlier, playmaker Dani Parejo missed a chance to seal Valencia’s win when his penalty was saved by Osasuna

goalkeeper Mario Fernandez.

“It’s a shame,” Valencia goalkeeper Diego Alves said. “We played a very good game. We had it won until the last minute.”

Osasuna’s own winless streak in the league reached nine games. The promoted club has only one win in 17 matches — at Eibar in October.

It could have left last place had it beaten Valencia, but the draw kept it one point behind Granada in the 20-team standings.

The result in Pamplona moved Valencia one point from the relegation zone. It has a game in hand,

against league leader Real Madrid at home.

“We leave disappointed because we had the three points in our hands,” Valencia coach Salvador “Voro” Gonzalez said. Forward Munir El Haddadi scored in the second minute to open the scoring for Valencia, then set up Martin Montoya’s goal in the 73rd.

Striker Oriol Riera got Osasuna on the board in the seventh minute and headed a cross into his own net for an own goal just before halftime. Osasuna’s other goal at El Sadar Stadium was scored by

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Roberto Torres in the 62nd.

Valencia’s previous league win was against Sporting Gijon in its first match under coach Cesare Prandelli. The club struggled after that under the former Italy coach, who resigned during the winter break.

Valencia lost four league matches and drew another four since the

win over Sporting. It fell 4-1 to Celta Vigo at home in a first-leg match in the last 16 of the Copa del Rey last week.

Osasuna debuted former player Petar Vasiljevic as its coach after firing Joaquin Caparros last week.

Osasuna’s next game is at Granada on Sunday, while Valencia hosts Espanyol.(ap)

Shakhtar shift Europa League match against Celta to Kharkiv KIEV - FC Shakhtar will be hosting next month’s Europa League round of 32 game against Celta in the city of Kharkiv, some 300 kilometers away from their troubled hometown of Donetsk.

“The decision is taken and it is final,” Kharkiv city governor Yuliya Svitlychna posted on Facebook.

“Europa league games will be held in our city. I hope there will be games, not just one game. We are

also doing everything we can to earn the right host Ukraine-Turkey World Cup qualifier in Khrakiv,” Svitlychna added.

Shakhtar have been holding their home international games in Lviv, in the West of Ukraine, since pro-Russian fighters raised an insurrection in eastern Ukraine, including their hometown Donetsk, in 2014. (rtr)

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A worker removes snow in front of FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, January 10, 2017.

FIFA to expand World Cup to 48 teams in 2026

ZURICH — FIFA will expand the World Cup to 48 teams, adding 16 extra nations to the 2026 tournament which is likely to be held in North America. President Gianni Infantino’s favored plan — for 16 three-team groups with the top two advancing to a round of 32 — was unanimously approved Tuesday by the FIFA Council.

It meets Infantino’s election pledge of a bigger World Cup, and should help fund promised raises for FIFA’s 211 member federations.

With 80 matches instead of 64, FIFA forecasts the equivalent of $1 billion extra income at current rates from broadcasting and sponsor deals, plus ticket sales, compared to $5.5 billion revenue forecast for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. FIFA projects an increased profit of $640 million despite some extra operating costs and prize money for teams. FIFA’s six continents should find out by May how many extra places they will each get.

UEFA wants 16 European teams at the tournament, which is strongly favored to be played in North America. The CONCACAF region has not hosted the World Cup since the 1994 tournament in the United States.

American, Canadian and Mexican soccer leaders have had informal talks about a co-hosting bid.

Africa and Asia could be winners in a bigger World Cup with up to nine places each. They had only five and four teams, respectively, at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. Still, FIFA said it expects the standard of soccer to drop compared to the 32-team format locked in for the next two World Cups in Russia and Qatar.

The “absolute quality” of play, defined by highranked teams facing each other most often, is achieved

by 32 teams, FIFA acknowledged in a research document sent to members last month. It made 10,000 tournament simulations to reach that conclusion.

Instead, Infantino wants to create fervor and months of anticipation back home in the 16 extra nations which would qualify, some probably making their World Cup debut. FIFA has pointed to Costa Rica, Wales and Iceland as examples of teams which overachieved at recent tournaments.

FIFA must break with soccer tradition to make its new format work after an original 48-team plan — with an opening playoff round sending 16 “one-and-done” teams home early — was unpopular. Instead, threeteam groups will replace the usual groups of four to create simple progress to a knockout bracket. However, it leaves one team idle for final group games and could risk collusion between the other two teams.

FIFA said it could guard against result-rigging by introducing penalty shootouts after group games that end in draws. Despite the 16 extra games, FIFA believes the current maximum of stadiums needed will stay at the 12 used by Brazil and Russia. However, the demand for more training bases and hotels means developed countries would be better equipped to win future hosting contests.

North America is the strong favorite for 2026 because European and Asian countries are blocked by a FIFA rule excluding continents which hosted either of the two previous tournaments. Russia will host the World Cup next year and Qatar in 2022.

South America has been focused on a centenary tournament including original 1930 host Uruguay, and African nations are seen as lacking existing capacity and unlikely to fund multi-billion dollar infrastructure spending. (ap)

KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysian soccer fans heaped praise on Mohd Faiz Subri on Tuesday after the Penang FA player received the Puskas Award for the best goal of 2016 at a FIFA ceremony in Zurich.

Mohd Faiz’s long-range, swerving free kick was overwhelmingly voted goal of the year and will restore some pride in Malaysian football, which has suffered a decline over the past four decades.

Mohd Faiz, the first Asian to win the annual award since it was first handed out in 2009, was a virtual unknown before his Feb. 16 wonder goal and he joins an elite club that includes Cristiano Ronaldo, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Neymar.

Social media was flooded with congratulatory messages for the Malaysian Super League player, including from Prime Minister Najib Razak and other national leaders.

“Your achievement in the #FIFAPuskasAward 2016 will inspire all Malaysian footballers and also makes the country proud!” the prime minister said in a Twitter post. Laurence Loh, deputy president of the Penang Football Association, said the award-winning goal was no fluke as the forward has scored similar goals playing in

the lower divisions.

“That means he must have trained very hard,” Loh said, adding that Mohd Faiz was inspired

by Ronaldo to hone his free kick skills.

The trophy, which was given out late on Monday in Switzerland, will give new hope to Malaysian fans, long frustrated by their country’s decline in the sport.

The national team are ranked 161st out of 209 countries, a far cry from their time as a regional powerhouse and Olympic contender in the 1970s.

Malaysia qualified for the 1972 Munich Games where they beat the United States 3-0 but lost by the same score to West Germany and 6-0 to Morocco.

The match that defined the “Golden Era” was their 2-1 victory over South Korea which earned them a spot at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. However, Malaysia eventually boycotted the Olympics over Russia’s 1979 invasion of Afghanistan. That was the last time Malaysia qualified for the Olympics.

Away from the pitch, local football is still reeling from a nationwide match-fixing scandal in the mid-1990s. (rtr)

Valencia concedes late equalizer against last-place Osasuna MADRID — Valencia was dealt another heartbreaking blow when it missed a late penalty kick then conceded in injury time to let last-place Osasuna escape with a 3-3 draw, a result that extended the club’s winless streak to eight games in the Spanish league on Monday.

Valencia seemed set for its first victory since October, but Osasuna defender Carlos Clerc scored the equalizer two minutes into stoppage time. About five minutes earlier, playmaker Dani Parejo missed a chance to seal Valencia’s win when his penalty was saved by Osasuna

goalkeeper Mario Fernandez.

“It’s a shame,” Valencia goalkeeper Diego Alves said. “We played a very good game. We had it won until the last minute.”

Osasuna’s own winless streak in the league reached nine games. The promoted club has only one win in 17 matches — at Eibar in October.

It could have left last place had it beaten Valencia, but the draw kept it one point behind Granada in the 20-team standings.

The result in Pamplona moved Valencia one point from the relegation zone. It has a game in hand,

against league leader Real Madrid at home.

“We leave disappointed because we had the three points in our hands,” Valencia coach Salvador “Voro” Gonzalez said. Forward Munir El Haddadi scored in the second minute to open the scoring for Valencia, then set up Martin Montoya’s goal in the 73rd.

Striker Oriol Riera got Osasuna on the board in the seventh minute and headed a cross into his own net for an own goal just before halftime. Osasuna’s other goal at El Sadar Stadium was scored by

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Roberto Torres in the 62nd.

Valencia’s previous league win was against Sporting Gijon in its first match under coach Cesare Prandelli. The club struggled after that under the former Italy coach, who resigned during the winter break.

Valencia lost four league matches and drew another four since the

win over Sporting. It fell 4-1 to Celta Vigo at home in a first-leg match in the last 16 of the Copa del Rey last week.

Osasuna debuted former player Petar Vasiljevic as its coach after firing Joaquin Caparros last week.

Osasuna’s next game is at Granada on Sunday, while Valencia hosts Espanyol.(ap)

Shakhtar shift Europa League match against Celta to Kharkiv KIEV - FC Shakhtar will be hosting next month’s Europa League round of 32 game against Celta in the city of Kharkiv, some 300 kilometers away from their troubled hometown of Donetsk.

“The decision is taken and it is final,” Kharkiv city governor Yuliya Svitlychna posted on Facebook.

“Europa league games will be held in our city. I hope there will be games, not just one game. We are

also doing everything we can to earn the right host Ukraine-Turkey World Cup qualifier in Khrakiv,” Svitlychna added.

Shakhtar have been holding their home international games in Lviv, in the West of Ukraine, since pro-Russian fighters raised an insurrection in eastern Ukraine, including their hometown Donetsk, in 2014. (rtr)

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Flower Garden of Kerta Village Increasingly Attractive

GIANYAR - Sekar Bumi Farm & Florist (SBFF) is the name of this new tourist attraction. However, people often call it the Flower Garden. It is located at Kerta village, Payangan, Gianyar, or about 43 km from Denpasar.

Perched at the altitude of 700 meters above sea level, Sekar Bumi Farm & Florist is a lovely center.

Sekar Bumi Farm & Florist (SBFF) is the name of this new tourist attraction. However, people often call it the Flower Garden. It is located at Kerta village, Payangan, Gianyar, or about 43 km from Denpasar. Perched at the altitude of 700 meters above sea level, Sekar Bumi Farm & Florist is a lovely center for the plantation supplying a wide range of cut heliconia flowers.

There are more than 200 types of flowers, including torch bananas, lime banana, the Caribbean and yellow dancer with a variety of colors.

“Sekar Bumi supplies a wide variety of cut flowers and cut leaves demand as well as decorative plant for tourism industry,” said Ketut Subagia, the SBFF owner.

Aside from being the cultivation of flowers, this object also offers outbound and agro-tourism as a suitable destination for family. For travelers wishing to get challenge, they can take advantage of a variety of games available such as flying fox, fine ball, trekking, cycling and outdoor games that can accommodate a large number of participants.

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Teenaged Russian ousts world number one Kerber in Sydney

SYDNEY - Angelique Kerber’s build-up for next week’s Australian Open suffered a setback with the German world number one going down in straight sets to Russian teenager Daria Kasatkina in the second round of the Sydney International on Tuesday.

The flying fox here may be the longest in Bali. Length of the rope reaches 500 meters to 700 meters. Its track is also unique as passing over a cliff, hanging bridge and five points with very stressful moment. In the meantime, fine ball is gut-challenging game with a range of 10 meters. The bullets are made of organic materials so that the waste will not harm nature.

Other than being good for relaxation, this beautiful tourist spot is also a place of education for children.

Through the garden tour program, visitors can get lessons on the environment such as arranging cut flowers, learning about farming, planting, fertilizing, picking crops, visiting rare trees and making compost. (IBP/net)

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Daria Kasatkina of Russia plays a backhand return to Angelique Kerber of Germany.

On a manic day for the seeded players, the 19-year-old Kasatkina won 7-6(5) 6-2 against two-time grand slam Kerber, who also in the quarter-finals in Brisbane last week.

“It’s difficult to explain really. I beat the number one in the world and it doesn’t happen every day,” Kasatkina, ranked 26 in the world, said in a courtside interview.

“I think I will get some confidence,” she said referring to the year’s first grand slam, starting on Monday in Melbourne, where Kerber would defend her women’s title.

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova earlier won an all-Russian battle against Svetlana Kuznetsova to oust the defending champion in straight sets.

Pavlyuchenkova beat world number nine Kuznetsova 7-5 6-3 to set up a quarter-final clash against Canadian Eugenie Bouchard who caused another upset by defeating number three seed Dominika Cibulkova.

Ninth seed Italian Robert Vinci also fell to Czech Barbora Strycova 6-2 6-3 but former world number one Caroline Wozniacki bucked the trend with a 6-0 7-5 win over Kazakh Yulia Putintseva.

Pavlyuchenkova came into the match having lost five of the last six

meetings against Kuznetsova and twice fell back in the opening set.

The 31-year-old double grand slam winner was serving for the set at 5-4 before Pavlyuchenkova reeled off the last three games to bag the set.

“I’m really happy, especially because she’s not only defending champion but my fellow (countrywoman) and she’s top 10 and she’s had a really incredible year last year,” Pavlyuchenkova said.

“I think I did everything well.

I wasn’t serving as well as I did yesterday; I was a little upset with that, but I’m so happy that even with a lower first serve percentage, that I was able to win the match in two sets.”

Next up for the Russian will be former Wimbledon finalist Bouchard who completed her fourth consecutive hard-court win against world number six Cibulkova with a 6-4 6-3 victory.

It will be the first WTA quarterfinal appearance for the Canadian in 10 months since Kuala Lumpur, where she lost in the final of the Malaysian Open.

“Any time you play one of the best players in the world... it’s like a standard of where you’re at,” Bouchard said after taking her head-to-head record over Cibulkova to 4-1. (rtr)

Bekele to run London with eye on world record

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LONDON - Triple Olympic track champion Kenenisa Bekele, the secondfastest marathon runner in history, will make another attempt at claiming the world record over the classic 26.2 mile distance when he leads a stellar field for the London marathon in April.

Ethiopian Bekele, widely regarded as the greatest distance runner of all time and world record holder over 10,000 and 5,000 metres, ran two hours, three minutes and three seconds when winning Berlin last September, six seconds outside Dennis Kimetto’s world record of 2:02:57 set on the same course in 2014.

Having been left out of the Ethiopian team for the Rio Olympics a month earlier it was a clear message from Bekele that he had mastered the marathon after intially producing very good, but not world bestthreatening times in his first forays over the distance.

The 34-year-old, with five track world titles to his name over 10,000m and 5,000, finished third in London last year behind Kenyan duo Eliud Kipchoge and Stanley Biwott and Kipchoge’s course record of 2:03:05 and Kimetto’s world mark will both

be in his sights.

“London is the greatest marathon in the world and I would love to win there,” Bekele said in a statement issued by race organisers revealing the lineup on Monday.

“The field is always the best and victory means so much. After finishing third last year, I know what I need to do to win.”

Biwott, who won the 2015 New York City Marathon, is likely to be Bekele’s main rival as he leads the Kenyan challenge in the absence of two-time champion Kipchoge.

Biwott finished runner-up in 2014, fourth in 2015 and second again last year in a personal best of 2:03:51.

The leading pair are two of seven in the field who have run under 2:06, while the race will also feature two marathon world champions, three of the top five finishers from last summer’s Olympics, and the winners of the Abbott World Marathon Majors races in Tokyo, Berlin, Chicago and New York in 2016.

Abel Kirui, who won the world marathon title in 2011 and 2013, returns to London for the first time since 2012 when he was fifth, four months before winning Olympic silver in the same city.

Eritrean Ghirmay Ghebreslassie, who became the youngest world marathon

champion when he took the 2015 world title in Beijing at 19, also runs. (rtr)

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Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia crosses the finish line to win the men’s 5000m race at the IAAF Golden League Memorial Van Damme athletics meeting in Brussels September 4, 2009.

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Trump’s son-in-law Kushner to become senior White House adviser

WASHINGTON - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, will become a senior White House adviser working on trade and the Middle East, transition officials said on Monday, in a rare case of a close presidential family member taking a major job.

Kushner, 35, who is married to Trump’s daughter Ivanka, is taking the post after receiving legal counsel that doing so would not violate U.S. anti-nepotism law, transition officials said. The position, unlike Cabinet posts, does not require U.S. Senate confirmation, and Kushner will not be paid.

Trump, in a statement on Monday announcing the choice, said Kushner was a “tremendous asset and trusted advisor throughout the campaign and transition.”

Kushner, who like Trump is a New York real estate developer, emerged as an important voice early in his father-in-law’s presidential campaign and was involved in almost every aspect of it from personnel decisions to strategy and fundraising.

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close adviser to the president-elect, will not take on a role in her father’s White House but will focus on settling her family in Washington.

Kushner and his wife will undertake significant divestments of their wide-ranging financial portfolios as they prepare for their move to Washington from New York and face inevitable questions about a potential conflict of interest.

Senior transition officials and a lawyer for Kushner laid out the arrangement in a conference call with a small group of reporters.

Kushner is to work closely with incoming White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and senior strategist Steve Bannon in advising the new president, and the officials said he would focus at least at first on trade policy and the Middle East.

Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20, has vowed to rewrite international trade deals to make them more favorable to the United States. He has also pledged to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv, where it has been for 68 years, to Jerusalem, all but enshrining the city as Israel’s capital despite international objections. (rtr)

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Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump arrives with husband Jared Kushner at the Vanity Fair party to begin the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival in New York, U.S. on April 17, 2012.

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The ceremony, previously held at the Kongresshaus theatre in central Zurich, this year took place in the much more modest setting of a television studio on an industrial estate near the airport. Ronaldo previously won in 2008, 2013, 2014 with Messi second on each occasion. Messi won from 2009-12 and then again in 2015 with Ronaldo second on every occasion except in 2010 when Andres Iniesta was runner-up.

Ranieri said he was “crazy” after winning the coach’s award ahead of Fernando Santos, who led Portugal to the Euro 2016 title.

“I am crazy now,” he said. “What happened last season in England was

something strange. The football gods said Leicester must win.” Colombian side Atletico Nacional were given the Fair Play Award for conceding to Copa Sudamericana title to Brazilian side Chapecoense, whose team was decimated when a plane taking to the final crashed, killing 71 people.

“We did nothing more than what we had to do....handing them this trophy as a gesture of hope,” said club president Juan Carlos de La Cuesta. American Carli Lloyd won the women’s player of the year award for the second year in a row.

Mohd Faiz Subri, of Malaysian Super League side Penang, won the goal of the year award for a 35-metre free kick in which the ball dipped and swung in a bewildering fashion to leave the goalkeeper stranded. (rtr)

Hard Brexit is not inevitable, says British PM May

LONDON - A clean break with the EU’s single market is not inevitable, British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Monday, seeking to clarify comments that pushed down the pound on the possibility of a hard Brexit from the European Union.

She criticised British media for misinterpreting what she described as long-term position on EU talks but the pound failed to recover from a 10week low and was down more than 1 percent to the dollar and 1.2 percent against the euro on the day.

May, under pressure to offer more detail on her strategy before launching divorce talks with the European Union, said on Sunday in her first televised interview of the year that Britain would not be able to keep “bits” of its membership.

Some commentators saw that as a sign she was heading for a hard Brexit, which business says would damage the economy by breaking links with the single market of 500 million consumers. May shot back that the media was using terms she did not accept.

“I’m tempted to say that the people who are getting it wrong are those who print things saying I’m talking about a hard Brexit, (that) it is absolutely inevitable there’s a hard Brexit,” she told the Charity Commission, a government department that regulates charities in England and Wales.

“I don’t accept the terms hard and soft Brexit. What we’re doing is (that we are) going to get an ambitious, good, best possible deal for the United Kingdom in terms of ... trading with and operating within the single European market.”

May’s frustration was clear. The former interior minister, who was appointed as prime minister shortly after Britain voted to leave the EU at a June referendum, is increasingly concerned that Brexit will define her time in power, sources say.

In her speech on Monday, she said she wanted her government to help to heal the divisions in Britain that were

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Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May leaves after giving a speech on mental health, in central London, January 9, 2017. deepened by the EU vote, and ensure that “everyone has the chance to share in the wealth and opportunity on offer in Britain today”.

She announced measures to boost support to those suffering from mental health problems and said she would do more on housing, education and schooling, but despite applause from the audience, two out of four questioners asked about Brexit.

May has repeatedly said she will not reveal her strategy before triggering Article 50 of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty to start some of the most complicated negotiations since World War Two, but her reticence has spurred scrutiny of her every comment.

She has largely stuck to the script that she wants Britain to regain control over immigration, restore its sovereignty and also to get the best possible trading relations with the EU, but any comment that seems to stray is pored over for signs of how May sees Britain’s future relationship with the EU. Asked whether May had ruled out getting preferential access to the single market in her interview on Sunday, her spokeswoman said she had ruled nothing out or in.

On Monday, May again said she was ambitious before the talks with the EU, which are due to be launched before the end of March. (rtr)

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Egypt’s annual urban consumer price inflation jumps to 23.3 pct in December

CAIRO - Egypt’s annual urban consumer price inflation jumped for the second month since the pound was freely floated last year to reach 23.3 percent in December from 19.4 percent in November, the official CAPMAS statistics agency said on Tuesday.

Egypt abandoned its currency peg of 8.8 to the U.S. dollar on Nov. 3 in a dramatic move that has since seen the currency depreciate roughly by half. It accompanied the move with a 300 basis point interest rate hike to fight inflationary pressures.

Despite the hike, inflation is rising sharply and is expected to climb further this year as the government pushes on with economic reforms, including fuel subsidy cuts and the implementation of a value-added tax (VAT), that helped it secure a $12 billion International Monetary Fund loan programme.

In cities and towns, food and beverage inflation touched 28.3 percent in December. Healthcare inflation stood at 32.9 percent while transportation was 23.2 percent. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is under increasing pressure to revive the economy, keep prices under control and create jobs to avoid a backlash from the public.

Sisi predicted last month that the Egyptian pound would strengthen in the coming months and promised to ensure basics were available and affordable.

The government has expanded its social security network and some 70 million Egyptians have access to state subsidised bread.

Egypt’s non-oil business activity shrank for the 15th consecutive month in December as inflation caused purchase costs to rise at a near-record pace.

Economists said rising inflation would erode spending power, hit economic growth and prompt further hikes to interest rates, which are already up to 15.75 percent.

Egypt’s central bank has held interest rates steady at two monetary policy meetings following its flotation and some economists expect further rate hikes this year. The monetary policy committee is due to meet again on Feb. 16.(rtr)

French Travelers Explore Trekking of Bindu Village

If you are an adventurer, try to explore the trekking routes offered by Bindu tourism village, Mekar Bhuana, Abiansemal, Badung. This relatively new tourist object has a unique attraction. Aside from beautiful and pristine countryside, it also offers some activities of local culture. Visitors can join the cultural activities of the villagers.

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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras delivers a speech as Economy Minister Dimos Papadimitriou (R) looks on at the launching of an equity fund in cooperation with the European Investment Bank, in Athens, Greece, December 22, 2016.

Split the euro zone in two, says Germany’s far-right co-leader

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Arrangement of various world currencies including the Chinese Yuan, U.S. dollar, Euro and British pound are seen in this January 25, 2011 photo illustration.

BERLIN - The euro zone should be split into two with a strong cluster around Germany and a weak cluster including France, the co-leader of Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, Joerg Meuthen, said in a Reuters interview.

“The euro is a seed of discord in Europe that has different currency cultures and different competitiveness levels,” Meuthen said.

The AfD has climbed to 15 percent in opinion polls ahead of September’s election, but no other party in Germany is willing to form a coalition with it.

Meuthen, speaking by telephone, said the German economy could suffer for a year or two in the wake of such a euro zone split. “The euro is too strong for southern European countries while for Germany and several others it’s too weak,” he said.

“It’s conceivable that the weaker countries leave,” he said, mentioning Italy, Spain, Portugal and France. He said Greece is so weak that no country wants to share a currency with it.

Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Finland should remain in the core euro group, he said, even though a stronger currency would

hurt exports from those countries.

“That could cause an economic slump (in Germany),” he added. “It’s impossible to say how deep. But in my view the economic slump would be over in about a year or two.”

Meuthen distanced himself from a proposal from France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen. She said that France should leave the euro but shift to a new national currency accompanied by a framework similar to the pre-euro era of the ECU. “The euro exit shouldn’t be linked to a fixed exchange rate system,” he said. “The currencies need to be able to breathe.”(rtr)

Points of trekking initiated by Putra Jenggala tourism awareness group (Pokdarwis) of Bindu tourism village is indeed a new one intended for beginner adventurers.

Nevertheless, all adventure hobbyist can explore it because of the cultural attractions offered must be different. “Each route passed through will give pleasure because it has a variety of cultural attractions,” said I Gusti Nyoman Suastawa, one of the trekking initiators.

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French travelers had tested the challenges offered by the trekking route. They consist of female entrepreneurs and workers. A distance of about 3 km was covered within about four hours. “Wow, it’s very satisfying. Other than seeing the activities of rural communities, we also encounter small animals in the paddy fields. All people are very friendly and nice,” said Santrine, one of the trekking participants.

They started the trekking in front of the Bindu village hall and then visited the SDN 3 Mekar Bhuana

elementary school as a form of caring for school. They had time to introduce French language to students and learn Balinese language from them. Other than the introduction of language, they also learned about Balinese dance. It was then resumed to Subak Gaga while passing the village street.

In the paddy fields, they could watch various activities of farmers starting from hoeing, mowing to harvesting traditionally. Some of them tried to involve in harvesting rice. During the journey, they also watched the animals having been familiar with the paddy farmers such as dragonflies, lizards, snakes and birds. After that, they passed through a moor and a bridge made from coconut tree.

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Badung, bukan di Denpasar Then, they returned to paddy field area at the Subak Munduk Gebang. In the area of ??Tanah Yeng healing center, participants were introduced to the technique of growing crops traditionally.

Afterward, they were served with young coconut drink to refresh the body. They were also given the opportunity to have a bath in the river followed by prayascita (blessing) ritual to purify their mind in Hindu tradition.

At that moment, every trekking participant was given tridatu thread for safety. The area of Tanah Yeng healing center is especially intended for the introduction to spiritual self-purificatory process.

The journey then continued to visit Balinese house compound to see

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and learn mejejahitan (preparing oblation). Ultimately, the journey was ended with lunch serving traditional Balinese menus consisting of satay, raw condiment, lawar (minced meat mixed with vegetables) and others.

Suastawa said that other than trekking, guests are also introduced to culture and getting in touch with residents as the real player of local culture. This program is made on the request of travel agent management. “This Pokdarwis initiated the Bindu customary village trekking after receiving coaching from the Badung Tourism Office in the form of foreign language training. In the future, it will take advantage of the river at Bindu village for water tourist attraction,” he explained. (kmb)

Seseh Beach

Seseh beach located on Munggu Village in Badung district.

Seseh beach located about 15 Km from Denpasar and about 55 minutes from Ngurah Rai International Airport.Seseh beach have black sand and great view. This beach is not crowded like Kuta and Legian. Before we reach the beach, along the road we can see green rice field. In this beach we can do activity like surfing and kite surfing and see the sunset in the afternoon.For the people around the beach, they usually use the beach for religion activity like Melasti and Melarung Bumi.(kmb)

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Taro satay

Unique delicacy offered by Pedawa village

ASIDE from natural beauty and spinning top art, Pedawa village in Banjar subdistrict, Buleleng, also has a unique traditional cuisine and remains to be preserved until now. The traditional cuisine is known as taro satay. It becomes a typical cuisine owned by Pedawa village because taro is commonly planted by residents in the area of coffee or clove plantations.

Certainly, local people do not know who first made the taro satay. However, the cuisine is very familiar with the local villagers.

Normally, in religious ceremonies or other activities at the village, taro satay becomes a type of cuisine that cannot be ignored as such. People who are already familiar with this cuisine recipe can expertly process raw materials into taro satay that is not easily found in other areas of Bali.

Headman of Pedawa, I Putu Sudarmaja, said recently that the taro satay has existed since ancient times. Almost all residents are familiar with this traditional cuisine.

In recent years, the recipe almost disappeared due to the influence of modern recipes. In line with the development of local potential into a tourism village, taro satay is introduced to many foreign travelers who recently visited Pedawa.

“Together with community leaders, we’d like to revive our culinary heritages. Since we develop tour-

ism village, we’d like to introduce our taro satay delicacy to all visiting travelers,” he said.

Before making taro satay, the ingredient need to be prepared is taro and seasoning (complete Balinese seasoning—Ed). Satay skewer is made from young bamboo. First of all, peeled out taro is steamed.

Once cooked, pound the taro to turn smooth. Sticky dough of the taro is then coupled with the complete seasoning and finely blended. After that, twist the satay batter on young bamboo skewer. Then, grill the satay on embers prepared from coffee trunks. Heat and smoke of the coffee trunk generate typical aroma of the taro satay of Pedawa.

When tasted, the taro satay is sticky and complete seasoning made from herbs and spices really taste good, especially the spicy flavor. On that account, when tasting the satay, our tongue will feel the sensation of spicy flavor offered by the complete seasoning of the taro satay. (mud)

The process of making satay in Banjar, Buleleng

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GIANYAR - To meet the chili needs in Gianyar, merchants are now relying on agricultural commodity production in the northern region. In southern region of Gianyar like Sukawati, chili plants begin to dry out and should be replaced with other plants such as tobacco. This was disclosed by the Head of the Gianyar Agriculture Agency, Made Raka.

Made Raka mentioned that rain in recent months indeed has a significant impact on agriculture, especially chili commodity. “Prolonged rains have significant impacts, not just on chili but also on other agricultural products such as onions where they do not grow up,” he said.

He said that to meet the chili needs at a number of markets in Gianyar, his agency is now relying on the chili production around Northern Gianyar especially Tegallalang, including from Kintamani, Bangli. “Yesterday, there was quite a lot of chili deteriorating. So far, the chili production to be relied on is from Tegallalang and surrounding areas,” he said.

In the meantime, many chili plants having been repeatedly harvested in Southern Gianyar like Sukawati, start to dry out. “I think chili plants in Sukawati has started to dry up, and they are usually replaced with tobacco plant or other plants such as corn,” he said.

As seen at a number of agricultural areas around Sukawati, hectares of chili plants seemed to no

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longer be productive because they have started to dry out. The plants began to be neglected as indicated by the high growing weeds.

This condition is also alleged to become one of the triggers of the high price of chili in the market that has reached IDR 100,000 per kilogram.

As reported previously, the skyrocketing price of chili almost happened throughout the region, without exception for Gianyar. At a number of markets in this region, it is known that the price of chili remains in the range of IDR 100,000 per kilogram. The price has dropped compared to three days ago reaching IDR 120,000 per kilogram.

It happened just after the New Year, where the price of chili suddenly increased to IDR 120,000 per kilogram, but now it has slumped to IDR 100,000,” said Nyoman Asri, a merchant at Sukawati Market, on Sunday (Jan. 8).

She said that the price of other types of chili like green chili has also started to drop to IDR 60,000 and red chili dropped to IDR 40,000. “It’s only the price of cayenne pepper having been nearly back to normal,” she said.

He also claimed to be surprised of such increase. According to her, the supply of chili is still relatively safe. The chili supply to Sukawati Market is brought in by farmers from Tegallalang and Bangli. “Previously, in Sukawati many people planted chili, but now they have shifted to plant rice,” she explained. (kmb35)

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U.S. Navy ship fired warning shots at Iranian vessels

WASHINGTON - A U.S. Navy destroyer fired three warning shots at four Iranian fastattack vessels near the Strait of Hormuz after they closed in at high speed and disregarded repeated requests to slow down, U.S. officials said on Monday.

North Gianyar relied upon to meet chili needs

The chili farmer is working in his field. The increasing price of the chili is not giving an impact to the farmer in Bali.

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The guided-missile destroyer USS Mahan (DDG 72) transits the Mediterranean Sea in this August 31, 2012 handout photo.

The incident, which occurred on Sunday and was first reported by Reuters, comes as U.S. Presidentelect Donald Trump prepares to take office on Jan. 20. In September, Trump vowed that any Iranian vessels that harassed the U.S. Navy in the Gulf would be “shot out of the water.”

“This was an unsafe and unprofessional interaction, and that is due to the fact that they were approaching at a high level of speed with weapons manned and disregarding repeated warnings,” Captain Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, said in a briefing.

The warning shots were fired at the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps boats by the USS Mahan after it established radio contact but failed to get them to slow down, Davis said, confirming earlier accounts of U.S. defense officials.

Those officials, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, said the Iranian vessels came within 900 yards (800 meters) of the Navy destroyer, which was escorting two other U.S. military ships.

The Mahan also fired flares and a U.S. Navy helicopter also dropped a smoke float before the warning shots, they said.

The IRGC and Trump transition team were not immediately avail-

able for comment.

The White House said the Iranian vessels had behaved in an unacceptable manner and that such incidents risked increasing tensions.

“At this point the United States does not know what the intentions of the Iranian vessels were, but the behavior is not acceptable given that the USS Mahan was operating in international waters,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said during a press conference on Monday.

Years of mutual animosity eased when Washington lifted sanctions on Tehran last year after a deal to curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions. But serious differences still remain over Iran’s ballistic missile program as well as conflicts in Syria and Iraq.

One of the U.S. defense officials said similar incidents occur occasionally.

Most recently in August, another U.S. Navy ship fired warning shots toward an Iranian fast-attack craft that approached two U.S. ships.

In January 2016, Iran freed 10 U.S. sailors after briefly detaining them in the Gulf.

The one official added that the warning shots fired on Sunday were just one of seven interactions the Mahan had with Iranian vessels over the weekend, but the others were judged to be safe. (rtr)

Unclear whether truck attack in Israel inspired by Islamic State

JERUSALEM - Israel’s government has been quick to suggest a Palestinian who rammed a truck into a group of Israeli soldiers at the weekend was inspired by Islamic State, raising questions over how it came to that conclusion.

Hours after the attack on Sunday, which killed four soldiers and wounded 17, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the assailant showed all the signs of being a supporter of the ultra-hardline Sunni movement.

He did not give details and on Monday, an obscure Palestinian group claimed responsibility, saying it had no outside links and had acted on political motives.

Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman had also pointed to Islamic State, citing parallels with Islamic State-inspired attacks on crowds using trucks in Germany and France last year.

“We saw it in France, we saw it in Berlin and unfortunately we saw it today in Jerusalem,” he said during a visit to the scene overlooking Jerusalem’s Old City.

The group which said it was responsible for the attack gave few details and it was not possible to verify the claim, but in Israel, multiple voices pointed out the differences between Palestinian violence and that perpetrated by Islamic State.

While Islam may inspire some Palestinian assailants, political motivations around Israel’s occupation and the long-running conflict remain the dominant factor, they said, suggesting the government was seeking to downplay politics.

“Palestinian attacks are overwhelmingly motivated by nationalism, not by religion,” said Orit Perlov, a social media expert and research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv.

“Israel is trying to generalise the phenomenon, saying everyone faces the same threat. But while the symptoms may be similar, the causes are completely different.”

In Europe there is sympathy and support for Israel and the deadly threats it faces, but also cautious-

ness about close comparisons.

Over the past 18 months, Netanyahu has repeatedly described a wave of Palestinian attacks on Israelis as part of the same violent Islamist campaign afflicting Europe, saying Israel, France and Germany are in the same boat, and that Israel’s frontline position needs to be better understood.

“They might have different names -- ISIS, Boko Haram, Hamas, Al Shabab, Al Qaeda, Hezbollah -- but all of them are driven by the same hatred and bloodthirsty fanaticism,” Netanyahu said in January last year. “We understand we are in a common battle for our values and a common battle for our future.”

Sunday’s statement was the clearest link Netanyahu had made between a Palestinian attacker and Islamic State, although he did not say the group planned it or that the assailant, who was shot dead at the scene, was an Islamic State operative.

Yossi Melman, an analyst writing in Ma’ariv newspaper, said

there was little evidence to suggest the Palestinian attacker had drawn inspiration from Islamic State,

pointing out that Palestinians carried out car-ramming attacks before ISIS. (rtr)

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) visits the scene where police said a Palestinian rammed his truck into a group of Israeli soldiers on a popular promenade in Jerusalem, killing four people and injuring about 15 others in a deliberate attack January 8, 2017.

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Waymo self-driving minivan will start test drives this month

DETROIT — Waymo, Google’s self-driving car division, will start testing its new fleet of minivans on public roads in California and Arizona later this month.

The minivans, built in collaboration with Fiat Chrysler, are Chrysler Pacifica hybrids outfitted with Waymo’s own suite of sensors and radar. Waymo and FCA announced their partnership in May. In a speech at the Detroit auto show Sunday, CEO John Krafcik revealed that Waymo built the sensors, radar and software for the new minivans itself.

Krafcik said the company felt the system would work better if it was developed specifically for selfdriving instead of using off-the-shelf parts.

“A single integrated system means that all the different parts of a self-driving car work together seamlessly,” Krafcik said.

Waymo also was able to significantly lower the cost of the system, Krafcik said. The rooftop lidar — which uses lasers to give the car a three-dimensional picture of the world — cost $75,000 a few years ago.

Waymo has brought that cost down by 90 percent and

has developed its own short-range and long-range lidar.

Waymo’s long-range lidar can see a football helmet two football fields away.

Krafcik didn’t say exactly how Waymo lowered the costs. But the announcement could concern suppliers like Velodyne, which makes lidar systems used by Ford Motor Co. and others, and Delphi Corp., which is developing its own autonomous driving system.

Stephanie Brinley, an auto analyst for IHS Markit, said Google won’t control the market for self-driving technology, so other suppliers with go ahead with development of their own systems. But some smaller players in the nascent industry are “going to fall away,” she said.

Waymo has repeatedly said that it doesn’t plan to build its own cars, but provide self-driving systems to established carmakers, car-sharing services or others.

In addition to FCA, Honda Motor Co. recently announced that it’s in talks with Waymo about using its technology in Honda vehicles.

Krafcik said Waymo, which has been developing self-driving cars for eight years, expects to reach 3 million miles of test-driving this May. (ap)

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Jelekungkang arrack makers increasingly rare

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In this Jan. 9, 2007, file photo, Apple CEO Steve Jobs holds up an iPhone at the MacWorld Conference in San Francisco.

Apple proved a phone can change the world in just 10 years

SAN FRANCISCO — Few people realized it at the time, but the world shifted fundamentally a decade ago when Steve Jobs pulled the first iPhone from Apple’s bag of technological tricks.

“Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything,” Jobs declared as he paced across a San Francisco stage.

It obviously wasn’t an empty boast. We all know now that Jobs’ “magical product” has reshaped culture, shaken up industries, put computers in billions of pockets and made it possible to do just about anything with a few taps on a screen. Besides its then 3.5-inch touch screen, the first iPhone featured a browser for on-the-go web surfing and built-in apps to check email and get directions.

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The Waymo driverless car is displayed during a Google event, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016, in San Francisco.

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Apple has sold more than 1 billion iPhones since its debut, spawning millions of mobile applications and prodding other technology companies to make similar smartphones that have become like phantom limbs for many of us.

We use iPhones and their copycats to instantly share video and pictures with friends and family from almost anywhere. We use them to figure out where we are going. We use them to find the best deals while shopping in stores and to pay for stuff at the checkout stand. We use the phones to a hail ride, to tune instruments, to monitor our health and help find our next jobs.

Phones have gotten so smart that they even talk back to us via helpful digital concierges such as the iPhone’s Siri and the recently introduced Assistant on Google’s Pixel phone.

“IPhone is an essential part of our customers’ lives, and today

more than ever it is redefining the way we communicate, entertain, work and live,” Apple’s current CEO, Tim Cook, boasted in a retrospective that the Cupertino, California, company posted on its website.

BANGLI - Jelekungkang hamlet, Tamanbali, Bangli, was formerly renowned as arrack producer in Bangli district. In the past, almost all citizens at the local hamlet produced arrack at their respective home. Over time, the number of arrack makers at Jelekungkang diminished. Of the hundreds of people involved in the business of arrack making, currently only two people still survive.

Gusti Ketut Ada, 64, is one of two craftsmen at Jelekungkang hamlet remaining to survive up to these days. When interviewed at his home on Monday (Jan. 9), Gusti Ketut Ada said that in the past almost residents of Jelekungkang ran the business of arrack making.

This then made the arrack produced at local hamlet labeled as Jelekungkang arrack.

“In the past, the arrack of Jelekungkang was very famous. In Bangli, it is the only hamlet remaining to produce arrack,” he said.

However, over the times the arrack making business is increasingly left by Jelekungkang resi-

dents. Various job options available offer more promising income as well as anxiety due to frequent enforcement operation against alcohol by police caused a number of arrack makers at Jelekungkang to continuously decrease. Gusti Ada said that currently there are only two arrack makers, including him.

“Arrack makers have been getting rarer now. They mostly chose to work elsewhere in construction projects and young people work in Denpasar,” he said.

This husband of Gusti Biang said that the arrack he produced all this time is made with traditional techniques. All this time, the results of homemade arrack are sold in traditional market as a complementary to ritual offerings.

Each day he just produces not more than one liter of arrack. In order to be able to produce one liter of arrack, he said, the distillation process takes up to three hours. For a liter of arrack, he cooks ten liters of wine into a saucepan. His arrack product is sold for IDR 30,000 per liter. (kmb40)

ROADKILL IN ITS WAKE

The iPhone’s revolutionary touch screen doomed the BlackBerry, another once-popular internetconnected phone. Mobile phones and their tablet cousins triggered a downturn in personal computer sales that is still unfolding.

An estimated 219 million desktop and laptop computers shipped worldwide last year, down from 264 million in 2007, according to the research firm Gartner Inc. Meanwhile, nearly 1.9 billion mobile phones shipped last year, up from 1.15 billion in 2007.

All told, Gartner estimates about 5 billion mobile phones are currently in use around the world compared to 1.3 billion PCs. The eroding popularity of PCs spurred shake-ups at powerful tech companies such as Microsoft, Intel, Hewlett-Packard and Dell, none of which adapted nimbly to the mobile world unleashed by the iPhone.

Then-Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer scoffed at Apple’s glassand-metal gadget, telling USA Today in April 2007 that “there’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share.

No chance.”

Microsoft wound up squandering the $7.6 billion that it spent to buy phone maker Nokia in a futile attempt to catch up to the iPhone.

Ballmer stepped down as CEO three years ago and was replaced

by Satya Nadella, who introduced versions of Microsoft’s popular Office programs that worked on Apple’s iPad — a tablet based on the iPhone. (ap)

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The crowded Mertasari Beach

Tourism Office drafts management of Mertasari Beach

DENPASAR - Mertasari Beach becomes a tourist attraction that continuously receives treatment from the municipal government of Denpasar. Having arranged the parking lot and some SME stalls in the region, currently the government of Denpasar through the Tourism Office will re-arrange the management.

This plan has been discussed in internal meeting with Regional Secretary of Denpasar last week.

The process of making arrack

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Head of the Denpasar Tourism Office, I Wayan Gunawan, when contacted on Monday (Jan. 9) said that his office must coordinate in advance with the Finance and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP). There are rules that need to be synchronized namely the Law No.19/2016 related to guidelines on managing assets or property owned by local government with the Law on tourism. “We have to coordinate with the BPKP so that the asset management on the beach is in accordance with the existing rules,” he said.

Gunawan said that the land under the authority of municipal government of Denpasar located on

Mertasari Beach, Sanur Kauh, spreads across about 2.3 hectares. It has been arranged for parking lot and 15 stalls have been established for merchants. In the future, he wanted the area can be managed more professionally because when only managed by the government, it will become less optimal.

He mentioned that pursuant to the existing provisions, the government can delegate management authority to the components of society. With a more competent management, it is expected to maximize the results. “Initially, we will make coordination first, so that the application of the rules will not go wrong because we will use two references. So, it needs to be synchronized first,” he explained.

As is known, the Mertasari Beach is a place of recreation for citizens of the surrounding Denpasar. Moreover, during holidays, residents throng the beach so that it is pretty crowded and good for bathing or canoeing and other water recreation. Moreover, some time ago the central government already established a building next to the area belonging to Denpasar city. Unfortunately, the building has not functioned properly because it remains under the authority of central government. (kmb12)

For years, Wanagiri villagers hard to get clean water

SINGARAJA - Difficulty to get clean water becomes the problem faced by some villagers of Wanagiri, Sukasada, for years. This condition does not only interfere with the toilet activities, but also has an impact on agriculture having become the leading sector. To prevent this condition from persisting, the government is expected to give attention.

Headman of Wanagiri, I Wayan Gumiasa, said that people who have not touched by the water service

mostly live along the village roadside. This condition has occurred for many years. Inevitably, the toilet activities are disrupted. “The difficulty of getting clean water is still a problem faced by the community.

It is especially experienced by villagers whose house is located at roadside from the east to the west,” he said on Sunday (Jan. 8).

Such condition, he said, also causes the agricultural sector becoming the main source of income

for community to be largely affected. When dry season comes, the production is disrupted due to drought. “Agriculture is also disturbed. Moreover, during the drought, it dries out. On that account, some residents have to buy water to Pancasari,” he said.

Responding to the issue, said Gumiasa, a number of villages had planned to utilize the water of Lake Buyan. However, since it is rumored to have a less good quality, it is

forced to be undone. Actually, there is a water source with large enough discharge around the village. Since it is located at lower place than settlement, the utilization cannot apply gravitational technique, but must be taken up with machine. This requires considerable expense and cannot be afforded by the village. “There are many water sources located about three kilometers from the center of the village. But it costs too expensive.

We cannot afford it,” he said.

The issue, he said, had actually been submitted to the Buleleng government through the Public Works Agency. Unfortunately, it does not get any follow up so far.

“We have submitted the proposal.

We expect this can get the attention so that this problem will not prolong,” he said while adding that the availability of clean water is also necessary to support tourism sector which recently begins to flourish. (kmb45)

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Job market prefers to choose women

Function of the right brain is more concerned on matters relating to the functions of taste, more on visualization, intuition and ideas. “It is more on the mental endurance, so that when women are unable to do a thing they will try and try again. It’s a way to become more resilient,” she explained.

When women are faced with a lot of things, especially learning of new things, they will be more diligent and physiologically get more pressures. With the condition of the right brain related to taste, she cannot stay silent and become more aware.

In the women’s brain, the corpus callosum is thicker than that of men so that it has an impact on the female perspective that widens while the male perspective is straight but long. “So when there is a task, women can still do some aspects but if men can get one job they can only do that,” explained the owner of Pradnyagama psychology consultant.

Women are also much more flexible to new tasks, new conditions and employment pressure in a new place so that they are more resilient. It is also far more

A young lady is working in a market

permissive to understand and tolerate certain conditions. “In majority, women basically have owned provision of mental endurance as educated from childhood to gain greater responsibility than men,” he said.

With so many advantages, fewer women are unemployed because men can still be ignorant because they indeed do not use sense but logic. However, women with their intuition and visualization want something more and something better given to the family so that encourages them to be more creative, not too concerned about self-esteem when doing a job.

No matter how small the women do the job, since they are armed with perseverance, women become more resilient and the results are so much more.

“Many women, whether they are fortunate or else, have far more income than men,” she explained. Not surprisingly, the success of marketing profession that requires stronger mental toughness can be achieved by women.

Jro Puspa, Vice Chairperson of the Indonesia Business Women Association (IWAPI) of Bali, said that in working women are much harder so that the users prefer female employees Moreover, in working, women also give priority to discipline, working order and tidiness as well as have the talent and higher creativity.

“Women can also better survive in a variety of circumstances, where more women want to be seen that they have the capability not only in helping family’s economy but also in the strength or self-potential,” she explained.

In supporting women’s entrepreneurship, IWAPI Bali also has a program of creating 1,000 aspiring young entrepreneurs with the establishment of IWAPI Bali business consultation clinic. (kmb42)

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DENPASAR - Based on the data of Central Statistics Agency (BPS), women accounted for 62.4 percent of labor absorption, while men were only absorbed 37.5 percent. Women indicate more labor absorption than men because women have more advantages. Retno IG Kesuma, a psychologist of Sanglah Hospital said that the right brain of women is much stronger than men’s left brain. “So, there is usually a section where women are far more multi-tasking than men,” she said on Monday (Jan. 9).

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Be cautious, fraudsters rove around ATM

MANGUPURA - Criminals associated with ATM continue to act, even though many of them have been arrested. Currently the fraudsters impersonating to offer help when bank customers get difficulty to withdraw money at ATM are on the rise. This was also experienced

by Alfred Nicholas Saudale, 47, on Sunday (Jan. 8) when withdrawing money from the ATM BRI in front of Harta Dewata supermarket at Dalung, North Kuta, Badung.

According to an officer of Badung Police on Monday (Jan. 9), it happened at 11:00. The victim wanted to withdraw money through ATM of Bank BRI at the scene.

After trying to insert ATM card for three times, he always failed. When the victim left the ATM booth, suddenly there was an unidentified man approaching the victim and intending to help insert the ATM card into the machine.

When the ATM card was inserted, the perpetrator directly went away and the victim did not see any further process on the display screen of the ATM machine. A moment later came another man

directed the victim to press PIN number. Since it did not succeed, the man went away, but the victim saw the card stuck in the ATM machine. He tried to pull out with a screwdriver and pliers. After successfully taken out, the victim re-entered the ATM card, but it was not his.

“The victim then contacted to BRI and got a print out. He was quite surprised because the money in the savings has been withdrawn and transferred as much as IDR 25 million,” said the officer asking for anonymity.

Chief of Badung Police, Ruddi Setiawan, confirmed the report regarding the case. “Please contact to criminal investigation unit. The case is still under investigation,” he said.

Chief of Criminal Investigation Unit, Mikael Hutabarat, said that the perpetrator changed the victim’s ATM card while pretending to help. After that, the victim’s savings were transferred. “Meanwhile, the CCTV footage is being explored by North Kuta Police,” he said. (kmb36)

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Kardashian driver among 17 arrested in France over jewel heist

PARIS - French police investigating the theft of nearly $10 million in jewels from Kim Kardashian arrested 17 people on Monday, including a chauffeur who drove the American reality television star around Paris in the days before the robbery.

Many of those arrested in coordinated police raids in several different parts of France were known underworld figures aged around 50 and at least three were women, police and judicial sources said.

French radio and TV reports on Monday said DNA traces from the scene of the heist led police to the suspects and that they would be held for questioning, possibly for as much as four days.

A police source said one of those detained was Kardashian’s chauffeur when she was visiting Paris in October for Fashion Week and that police were trying to establish whether he had passed on information to the gang.

Kardashian, 36, was photographed frequently while on the Paris trip, attending fashion shows and parties. She also posted numerous pictures to her social media accounts.

Jean Veil, a French lawyer for Kardashian, told France 2 television: “She (Kardashian) is very happy, very satisfied and to a certain extent reassured by the ef-

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Kim Kardashian arrives at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards in New York, U.S., August 28, 2016. ficiency of the French police.”

Thieves wearing ski masks and clothes with police markings burst into the luxury property where Kardashian, who is married to U.S rap star Kanye West, was sleeping in the early hours of Oct. 3. They tied her up at gunpoint before making off with her engagement ring and other jewels, police said at the time. They fled on bicycles with jewellery worth 9 million euros ($9.5 million).

Kardashian was badly shaken but physically unharmed. She has mostly since kept a low public profile but broke her silence on the robbery in

a promotional clip for the upcoming season of her reality TV show “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” which was released on Friday.

“They’re going to shoot me in the back. There’s no way out,” a tearful Kardashian tells her family, recalling the robbery. “It makes me so upset to think about it.”

The robbery made world headlines and unwanted publicity for one of the world’s most visited cities, where hotels and the wider tourist sector have struggled to make a comeback commercially after deadly attacks by Islamic militants in 2015. (rtr)

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Ronaldo wins FIFA’s player of the year award ZURICH - Cristiano Ronaldo won FIFA’s player of the year award for the fourth time on Monday, beating his old rival Lionel Messi who was pulled out of the ceremony only a few hours earlier by his club Barcelona. Italian Claudio Ranieri won the coach of the year award for leading rank outsiders Leicester City to the English Premier League title.

Ronaldo was rewarded for his performance in 2016 when he won the Champions League with his club Real Madrid and then Euro 2016 with Portugal. Five-times winner and four-times runner-up Messi was second and Frenchman Antoine Griezmann third. Barcelona said that Wednesday’s game against Athletic Bilbao would take priority over the ceremony and that none of their invited players would travel, which disappointed Ronaldo.

“I would like Messi to have been here today but they have an important game on Wednesday and we can understand that,” he said after accepting the award from FIFA president Gianni Infantino.

“I don’t have much more to say, I think the awards

speak for themselves,” he added. “I’m very happy and I can say that 2016 was the best year of my career, the trophy shows that people aren’t blind and watch the games.”

FIFA, which organised the award jointly with France Football magazine from 2010 to 2015 when it was named the Ballon d’Or, rebranded it as “The Best” this year after splitting with the French publication. France Football continued with its own award which was also won

by Ronaldo last month.

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Complete list of Fifa winners: p FIFA Men’s Player Award: Cristiano Ronaldo p FIFA Women’s Player Award: Carli Lloyd p FIFA FIFPro World11: Manuel Neuer; Dani Alves, Gerard Piqué, Sergio Ramos, Marcelo; Toni Kroos, Luka Modric, Andrés Iniesta; Leo Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Luis Suárez. p FIFA Men’s Coach Award: Claudio Ranieri p FIFA Women’s Coach Award: Silvia Neid p FIFA Puskas Award 2016: Mohd Faiz Subri p FIFA Fair Play Award: Atlético Nacional p FIFA Fan Award: Borussia Dortmund-Liverpool supporters p FIFA lifetime achievement award: Alessandro “Falcão” Rosa Vieira

Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates with the trophy.

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