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‘Boyhood,’ ‘Birdman’ to vie for Golden Globe noms

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has often made for a livelier mix.

The 72nd annual Golden Globe Awards will be announced Thursday morning the approximately 8:20 a.m. EST. The nominations will be streamed live from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on GoldenGlobes.com, with top categories also carried live by NBC’s “Today.” Kate Beckinsale, Jeremy Piven, Paula Patton and Peter Krause will be on hand to read the nominees.

For the third time in a row, the Globes telecast will be hosted by Fey and Poehler. The show will air live from the Beverly Hilton on Sunday, Jan. 11. Last year’s awards drew 20.9 million viewers, marking it the most-

watched Globes since 2004.

The Hollywood Foreign Press, a collection of about 85 largely freelance journalists, is known for their occasionally curious picks and their penchant for finding reason to honor big-name celebrities. So some curveballs will likely be tossed Thursday, though their influence on the larger Oscar race will be less certain.

Thus far, Richard Linklater’s long-in-the-making coming-of-age drama “Boyhood” has emerged as the awards season favorite, taking top honors from the New York Film Critics Circle and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. But sup-

Joan Rivers’ will leaves money for charities

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NEW YORK — Joan Rivers’ left her daughter, Melissa, in charge of her fortune and left money for some of her favorite charities, including Guide Dogs for the Blind, Jewish Guild Healthcare and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. According to Rivers’ 2014 will, which was filed in New York State Surrogate’s Court, the late comedian made Melissa Rivers her will’s executor with “the broadest and most absolute permissible direction” over a fortune that has been estimated as high as $150 million.

Other charities she singled out were the New York-based food pantry God’s Love We Deliver, the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Jewish Home and Hospital Foundation in Manhattan. Rivers died Sept. 4 at 81 of brain damage due to lack of oxygen. She’d stopped breathing during an endoscopy days earlier.

The late comedian asked that her business manager Michael D. Karlin and interior designer Robert Higdon be named co-executors of the living trust.

Specifics of her assets and how they will be divided haven’t been disclosed.

Bequests were made to her assistants, Sabrina Lott and Jocelyn Pickett, her friend Scott Currie, and Rivers’ niece and nephew, Caroline Waxler and Andrew Waxler.

AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File

FILE - This Oct. 5, 2009 file photo shows Joan Rivers during the 25th International Film and Programme Market for TV, Video, Cable and Satellite, in Cannes, southeastern France.

Man City, Schalke advance; Messi scores again Page 8

Dam projects risk re-igniting Myanmar’s civil war Page 13

Investment challenge in Bali tourism sector 2015

NEW YORK — Revelers in Hollywood’s quickening awards season will be pushed to two sides of the dance floor in Thursday’s Golden Globes nominations: drama and comedy.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s way of dividing the movie world in half should result in some extra love for funnier films often edged out by their more serious brethren.

Expect the likes of Wes Anderson’s “Grand Budapest Hotel,” the Disney musical “Into the Woods” and Bill Murray’s “St. Vincent” to find room among this season’s favorites such as “Boyhood,” ‘’Birdman,” ‘’Selma” and “The Imitation Game.”

The drama-comedy separation isn’t always clean (the black-andwhite yuckfest “Nebraska” somehow squeaked into comedy last year), but the Globes’ embrace of comedy (along with hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler)

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Large capital with high risk

economy as well as grew a business climate with global competitiveDENPASAR - Investment in tourism sector on the Island of the Gods in 2015 is believed by ness and firmness in cultural toursome circles to remain a mainstay. However, there will be challenges due to overlapping imple- ism identity. Besides, it was also mentation of government policies as well as incompatible environmental and safety issues, so capable of developing renewable resources, richness in creativity and that the relatively large investment will be accompanied with higher risk. innovation and giving positive imIt was expressed by the Chair- investment.

Tourism competitiveness will in- pact on all stakeholders and public man of the Indonesian Employ“This causes the fund spent is rela- crease to the position number 70 welfare in Bali with balanced and ers Association (Apindo) of Bali tively high and has a high risk as well. of the 140 countries, where it was equitable manner.

According to Prof. Dr. I Wayan Chapter, Panudiana Kuhn, in the Moreover, the issue of the environ- previously ranked 74th,” he said. seminar on the Prospect of Eco- mental security that does not support He admitted that tourism was Ramantha, a lecturer at the Facnomic Outlook 2015 in Denpasar, can have an impact on the investments one of the sectors that made an ulty of Economics and Business, Bali, Wednesday (Dec 10). in tourism sector,” he said. important contribution to national Udayana University doubling as According to him, the tourism He said the other challenges and regional economic growth RCE BNI, the economic recovery development in the region would faced in investments in the leading of Bali. Even, the contribution of towards a better, healthier and result in growing prices, including sector was the presence of more and tourism service sector occupied the balanced condition was expected the price of land so that the cost of more budget hotels as well as more highest position, namely 53.32 per- to continue in 2015 supported by infrastructure development could be and more competitors from the cent (2013) compared to the other the US economic recovery. Bali’s high. Meanwhile, on the other hand countries equally becoming tourist sectors, such as manufacturing, economy was largely generated by there were overlapping govern- destinations in the region such as agriculture and others. “To improve service sector especially by trading, ment regulation, unsynchronized Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam. performance, it is necessary to de- hotel and restaurant (PHR) sector that gave contribution as much as policies and weak coordination “Nevertheless, the sector still velop creative tourism,” he said. between stakeholders who did not provides an opportunity with the The development model, ex- 30.16 percent. On the other hand as fully support the ease of investment support of the government through plained Kuhn, gave positive con- an agrarian region, the agricultural process, both foreign and domestic the Law No.10/2009 on Tourism. tribution in the macro and micro sector still gave substantial contriBali Post

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This image released by IFC Films shows Ellar Coltrane at age six in a scene from the film,”Boyhood.” port is also strong for the Michael Keaton-led “Birdman” (which topped the Gotham Independent Awards), the civil rights drama

“Selma,” the World War II codebreaker tale “The Imitation Game” and the Stephen Hawking biopic “The Theory of Everything.”

Wahlberg acknowledges varied opinions about pardon Associated Press

NEW YORK — Since it was revealed Mark Wahlberg is seeking a pardon in Massachusetts for assaults he committed as a teen, the actor is well aware that the court of public opinion has weighed in on why he wants one and whether he deserves it. “Everyone has an opinion and has a reason why they think I’m doing it,” said the actor Wednesday at the New York premiere of his new movie “The Gambler,” opening Dec. 25.

“I’ve been working very hard to correct a lot of mistakes that I made since the day that I woke up and realized, ‘You know what? I need to be a leader instead of a follower,’” he said.

A document was filed Nov. 26 requesting the pardon. It states in 1988, when Wahlberg was 16, he hit a man in the head with a wooden stick while

trying to steal two cases of alcohol in front of a convenience store near his family’s home in the Dorchester section of Boston. He punched another man in the face while trying to avoid police.

Wahlberg admits in the application that he was high on marijuana and narcotics at the time.

He ended up being convicted as an adult of assault and other charges, and he was sentenced to three months in jail. He said he was released after serving about 45 days.

Wahlberg, 43, who went on to be a rapper and then A-list actor who’s been nominated for an Oscar, said he isn’t trying to use his public persona to sway the decision.

“In no way shape or form was I trying to use my celebrity or success to say, ‘Well, I feel entitled to get this because of the fame and fortune.’”

bution reaching 16.17 percent.

“Projection on the Bali’s economic growth is from 6 to 6.25 percent with 4.25 -5.25 percent inflation.

Banking services remain tight with high interest rates,” he said.

Representative Office Chief of Bank Indonesia for Region III BaliNusra, Benny Siswanto, also said that BI of Bali-Nusra Representative in 2015 believed that economic growth would be in the range of 6.0 to 6.5 percent (yoy). The strong growth was driven by strong consumption and investment climate in line with the implementation of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) and improved transport.

Estimation on the strengthening consumption was in line with the survey results of Bank Indonesia that showed the improvement in the expectations of revenue and economic growth in 2015.

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IBP/Yudi Karnaedi

The view of Benoa Toll project during sunset. Investment in tourism sector on the Island of the Gods in 2015 is believed by some circles to remain a mainstay.

However, there will be challenges due to overlapping implementation of government policies as well as incompatible environmental and safety issues, so that the relatively large investment will be accompanied with higher risk.

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Galungan holiday

Employees of banking in Bali protest BI’s policy

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Russian Magnaeva Aleksandra, center, is escorted by Indonesian custom officers to a press conference in Bali, Indonesia, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014. Indonesian customs officers detained the Russian on Sunday for allegedly smuggling methamphetamine onto the tourist island of Bali.

Russian woman arrested for drugs smuggling Agence France-Presse

DENPASAR - A young Russian woman may face the death penalty for allegedly attempting to smuggle crystal methamphetamine into the resort island of Bali, an Indonesian customs official said Thursday.

Aleksandra Magnaeva, 26, was detained Sunday after arriving in Bali on a flight from Hong Kong with 2.1 kilograms (4.6 pounds) of the drug stashed in her two bags.

“The maximum penalty is death,” said Budi Harjanto, the Bali airport customs chief. He did not give an estimated street value for the drugs.

Magnaeva said during questioning that her boyfriend, with whom she had been living in China, had told her to pass the drugs on to someone on Bali, the official said.

The Russian said she had brought

the drugs via land from mainland China to Hong Kong, and that it was her first time smuggling drugs into Bali, Harjanto said.

However she told officials that she had trafficked drugs throughout Asia, including to Thailand, numerous times, he added.

Customs officials detected similarities in her case and that of a New Zealand man caught attempting to smuggle crystal methamphetamine into Bali last week, but said authorities were yet to conclude whether the two were linked.

Indonesia enforces some of the stiffest penalties for drug trafficking in the world, including life imprisonment and death.

Foreigners are frequently arrested for attempting to smuggle narcotics into hard-partying Bali, and some have been handed the death sentence.

New Indonesian President Joko Widodo said this week that there will be no pardons for drug traffickers on death row, dashing hopes he might take a softer stance on capital punishment.

DENPASAR - The policy of Bank Indonesia (BI) to impose optional holiday (extra leave) in the celebration of Galungan reaped a protest from many bank employees. Such policy made a number of banks choose to remain in operation, so that Hindu employees could not perform the celebration of victory.

According to them, the Decree of the Governor of Bank Indonesia No.16/13 /KEP.GBI/INTERN/2014 stipulated that on the Galungan Feast on Wednesday (Dec 17) the banking employees in Bali Province practicing Hinduism were given optional holiday to carry out Galungan worship. But in the letter, the Representative Office of Bank Indonesia for Region III Bali-Nusra ascertained if the operations of public service continued to run well.

Related to this issue, BI left it completely to the bankers whether the operational activities of bank would refer to the decree. BI expected the bankers to inform it as early as possible via letter if the bank operation would impose a holiday on the feast of the Sacred Galungan.

“Of course, the banks headquartered in Jakarta will choose to open because there (Jakarta—Ed) the Galungan celebration is unlike in Bali. Thus, we celebrating the Galungan Feast are automatically forced to join the headquarters’ decision,” complained Bagus Sena, one of the private bank employees in Denpasar, Wednesday (Dec 10).

According to him, the policy of BI that did not impose a joint holiday on the celebration of Galungan was the first time applied.

“Previously, BI always imposed a joint holiday, so that we the Hindus can focus on celebrating Galungan,” he said.

He hoped the decree on optional holiday signed off by Representative Office of Bank Indonesia for Region III Bali-Nusa Tenggara, Benny Siswanto, could be revised, and enforced joint holiday. “Hopefully, this policy could be discussed with relevant parties so that the Hindus could perform worship solemnly,” he said.

Nyoman Suci and other bank employees also hoped that BI could review the decision, so that the Hindus who worked in banking sector could celebrate Galungan. “If the decision is handed over to central office, it will certainly apply the operation as usual. Then, we are mostly the Hindus must follow the policy of central office, so that we cannot celebrate,” she said.

She also said that her professional colleagues who worked in banks also complained about the policy. Similar public complaints were also submitted to the editor of Bali Post. “My colleagues working in other private banks also complained about the same matter, except for the BPD where I’ve got information if the employees got holiday,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Representative Office Chief of Bank Indonesia for Region III Bali-Nusa Tenggara, Benny Siswanto, when asked for his confirmation stated if the policy issued by Bank Indonesia was the result of consultation with the Governor of Bali on October 22, 2014. The policy applied to bank employees practicing Hinduism.

“At the BI we will remain open restrictively and operate to serve banks and the public. This is to ensure if the operation of public services continues to run well,” he said.

He asserted that his party have authorized for bankers to determine their respective bank operations. “We leave it entirely to the bankers if their bank operations are referring to the Decree of the Governor of Bali,” he said. (kmb27)

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Favehotels arrives in Rembang IBP

JAKARTA – Bringing a breath of fresh air to Central Java and the City of Rembang, Archipelago International launched its newest favehotel on December 10, 2014 in Rembang.

A simple yet stylish hotel, favehotel Rembang enjoys a central and easily accessible location overlooking the Java Sea and Rembang’s glittering black sandy beaches, setting itself up to become one of the most popular budget hotels in the area.

Rembang sits in the northeastern part of Indonesia’s province of Central Java, about 160km northwest of Surabaya. With a large multi ethnic mostly Javanese, Madurese and Chinese population, the City is both

bustling and full of multicultural customs. For business and leisure travelers, there is also a beach, a busy port and a number of government buildings, all within easy reach of the hotel.

Consisting of 102 modern guests rooms, favehotel Rembang will deliver a smart and stylish stay without the overpriced frills. This chic-butcheap favehotel concept allows the hotel to offer good rates on its spacious and stylish rooms, without sac-

rificing on the quality of its facilities.

High-end amenities include top of the line beds and cotton linen, LCD TVs and complimentary WiFi throughout the entire hotel. And, with a team of professionally trained staff on hand, each stay is topped off with a pleasant and attentive service.

In addition to the in-room facilities, the hotel also offers a signature Lime Coffee Shop, several functional meeting rooms including Ballroom with capacity up to 700 pax, a swim-

Calendar Event for November 26 through December 22, 2014 26 Nov Buda Cemeng Warigadean Pura KapisahSumerta Denpasar Pura Pasek GelgelGerih Abian Semal Denpasar Pura Puncak SariPenarukan Peninjoan Bangli Pura Anteg Sari Dangin Pangkung Kediri Tabanan Pura Bangun SaktiBesakih Pura Pesimpangan Batur Pande Kediri Tabanan 27 Nov Kajeng Kliwon Enyitan

28 Nov Hari Bhatara Sri Ida Ratu Geng Penataran Agung Besakih Ida Ratu Raja Puraus Merajan Sloding Besakih 2 Des Anggara Kasih Juluwangi Pura Thirta Harum Tegal Wangi Bangli Pura Beratan Baturiti Pura Batu Klotok Klungkung Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Wanasari Tabanan Pura Pasek Tangguntiti Tabanan Pura Pasek Bendesa Sangsit Sawan Buleleng Pura Dalem Waturenggong Tarokaja Tegallalang Pura Ibu Wanagiri Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Dukuh Sidemen 3 Des

Pura Penataran Gana Bebalang Bangli Pura Dalem Gede Banjar Pande Bangli Pura Puncak Sari Sangeh Abiansemal Pura Dadia Agung Pasek Sanak Sapta Resi

Sidan Gianyar Pura Puseh Penengil Darma Kubu Tambahan Singaraja Pura Dalem Maya Blah Batuh Gianyar Linggih Bhatara Kayu Selem Penataran Agung Besakih 6 Des Purnama Sasih Kenam Aci-aci Penyeheb Brahman dipura Kiduling Kleteb Besakih Pura Lingsar Lombok Pura Bebengan Tanjung Lombok Pura Dalem Putra Benawah Gianyar 11 Des Sugihan Jawa Pura Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Tangkas Klungkung Pura Siang Kangin Tampuagan Peninjoan Tembuku Bangli Odalan Ida Ratu Mas Di Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Odalan Ida Bhatara Bang Tulus dewa Besakih 12 Des Sugihan Bali dan Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan

14 Des Penyekeban 15 Des Penyajaan Galungan

16 Des Penampahan Galungan

17 Des Hari Raya Galungan Pura Wawika Kupang NTT Pura Agung Giri Nhata Sumbawa Besar NTB

Pura Dukuh Sakti Dukuh Kediri Tabanan Pura Atambuananta Kutamba NTT Pura Webananta Kupang NTT Pura Giripati Mulawarman Pontianak Kalimantan Pura Mustika Dharma Cijantung Jakarta Timur 18 Des Umanis Galungan Pura Watukaru Tabanan Pura Lempuyang Luhur Karangasem Pura Kentel Gumi Klungkung Pura Pasek Gaduh Kediri Tabanan 19 Des Pura Ulun Suwi Jimbaran Kuta Pura Luhur Kawitan Cameng Cemenggaon Sukawati 20 Des Pemaridan Guru Pura Segara Jembrana Pura Dalem Gede Losan Klungkung 21 Des Ulihan dan Tilem Sasih Kenam Pura Dalem Tegal Tamu Sekar Mukti Batubulan Pura Kubayan Umagunung Sempidi Badung 22 Des Pemacekan Agung Pura Dasar Gelgel Klungkung Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Sawah Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Pemerajan Agung Benawah Kangin Gianyar Pura Kahyangan Tulus Apuan Kintamani

ming pool, gym and spa blending functionality with affordability.

“Rembang is unlike like most cities in Indonesia. It is a city that is yet to be discovered by many tourists, but it is bustling with business opportunities, cultural sites and impressive beaches for that all-important downtime. Just like our other favehotel properties, the chic-but-cheap concept of favehotel Rembang will be a new breed of hotel for Rembang, and we are confident it will aid in enticing more business and leisure travelers to this up and coming area.” Said John Flood, Archipelago International’s President & CEO.

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

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

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

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbulumbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land.

Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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John Galliano comeback couture collection to get London debut

Potential of Bali fishery not yet worked on maximally

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PARIS - John Galliano, the British designer whose return to fashion was to be the highlight of the Paris couture shows in January, will debut his first collection for the French fashion house Maison Margiela in London instead of Paris, a spokesperson said Wednesday.

Galliano, 54, widely regarded as one of the most brilliant fashion minds of his generation, was sacked by Dior in March 2011 over a drunken antiSemitic tirade in a Paris bar.

“John Galliano’s first ‘Artisanal’ haute couture collection for Maison Margiela will be exceptionally presented in London on January 12, around tea time,” the house told AFP without elaborating.

“The choice of this location for John’s first show is both personal -- going back to his formative years and his beginnings in the industry -- and it is intrinsically related to the city’s traditional tailoring history and heritage,” it added.

The flamboyant designer has kept a low profile since his sacking and subsequent conviction by a French

court for anti-Semitism following his outburst in which he hurled abuse at customers in a bar in Paris’s historic Jewish quarter.

The rant, captured in a mobile phone recording, cause outrage but the designer was spared jail after the court accepted that he was sorry for his actions, which he blamed on drink and drugs.

Galliano, who spent nearly 15 years at Dior, was seen as the driving force behind Dior’s 700 million euro ($880 million) annual profits at the height of his time there.

Announcing his appointment in October as Maison Margiela creative director, Renzo Rosso, whose OTB group controls Margiela, described him as “one of the greatest undisputed talents of all time”.

Galliano underwent treatment for drug and alcohol abuse at an Arizona rehabilitation centre following the scandal.

He later told a magazine he had been sickened to see the video evidence against him, insisting he was baffled by the drunken rant.

“It’s the worst thing I have said in my life, but I didn’t mean it... I have been trying to find out why that anger was directed at this race (the Jewish people),” he told Vanity Fair magazine.

“I now realise I was so... angry and so discontent with myself that I just said the most spiteful thing I could.”

Maison Margiela said Galliano’s collection would also be presented by appointment during the Paris couture shows from January 25 to 31.

Study proves high heels do have power over men Associated Press

PARIS — The well-heeled Marilyn Monroe reportedly once said if you give a girl the right shoes, she can conquer the world.

The allure of high-heeled shoes is no secret among women, who have used them to entice men from the streets of Ancient Rome to the New York City sidewalks of Carrie Bradshaw. Heels have also been a controversial symbol in the battleground of sexual politics.

Now a scientific study in France has measured their power.

Scientists from the Universite de Bretagne-Sud conducted experiments that showed that men behave very differently toward high-heeled women.

The results, published online in the journal “Archives of Sexual Behaviour,” may please the purveyors of Christian Louboutin or Jimmy Choo shoes — yet frustrate those who think stilettos encourage sexism.

The study found if a woman drops a glove on the street while wearing heels, she’s almost 50 percent more likely to have a man fetch it for her than if she’s wearing flats.

Another finding: A woman wearing heels is twice as likely to persuade men to stop and answer survey questions on the street. And a high-heeled woman in a bar waits half the time to get picked up

by a man, compared to when her heel is nearer to the ground.

“Women’s shoe heel size exerts a powerful effect on men’s behavior,” says the study’s author, Nicolas Gueguen, a behavioral science researcher.

“Simply put, they make women more beautiful.”

Raised shoes have an unglamorous beginning: worn first by Egyptian butchers, who donned platforms to avoid treading in bloody offal.

But on women as “signifiers of femininity,” raised shoes initially appeared in Ancient Greece and Rome, according to Elizabeth Semmelhack of The Bata Shoe Museum. In Rome, where the sex trade was legal, high heels helped clients identify prostitutes in crowds.

Although high heels were worn for centuries in the Ottoman Empire and in Persia for horseback riding, they only minced into the West in the 1500s, when they were associated with imperial power and popularized as erotic in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Such was the allure that a person with status or wealth became referred to as “well-heeled.”

This study shows this allure is very much alive.

“Though it’s a relatively small cross-section, this study is very significant since the results are clear and

consistent,” said Paris-based sociologist Jean-Claude Kaufmann, who was not involved in the study. “In a relation of seduction, men are very attracted by a woman in heels as she looks taller, more sexually confident, sure of herself, with a lengthened silhouette and sensual jutting buttocks.”

Gueguen’s study had 19-year-old female volunteers wearing black shoes with heels that were 0.5cm (0.2 inches) or 5cm (2 inches) or 9cm (3 1/2 inches) high. Then they asked men between the ages of 25-50 for help in various circumstances.

One situation involved a woman asking passers-by: “Excuse me, sir.

We are currently conducting a survey on gender equality. Would you agree to answer our questionnaire?” Flat heels got a 46.7% answer rate, medium heels a 63% rate and the highest heels a whopping 83% success rate from the men.

Nowadays, the most fashionable heels on the runways and in nightclubs are higher still — with spiked heels commonly measuring 10 cm (4 inches) and extreme heels, dangerously, above 13 cm (5 inches).

Medically, high heels can cause back pain and increase the risk of ankle injuries. Prolonged heel wearing can even permanently shorten calf tendons.

Sneaker Trend The list of designers sending sneakers down the fashion runways is growing as men find their fashion comfort zone, mixing formal with informal.

AP Photo/Salvatore Ferragamo

Salvatore Ferragamo ostrich high-top sneaker.

DENPASAR - So far, the fishery potential of Bali has not been worked on maximally. Of the 147 tons of sustainable potential per year, the utilized fishery production just amounts to 102,000 tons per year. Similarly, the marine culture area reaching 1,500 hectares can only be utilized as much as 60 percent to date.

“Now, the problem lies in our resources, namely the facilities and human resources. Well, our human resources have not been able to use technology, whereas we have equipment to forecast where the fish is. Our fishermen have not been able to access it,” said the Head of Bali Maritime and Fisheries Affairs, I Made Gunaja.

Another problem, added Gunaja, was that our fishermen in Bali were generally accustomed to fishing within a day or two days. As a result, the cost incurred for fishing was high, especially when they did not catch any fish, so that they often suffered losses. Actually his party expected the fishermen could catch fish with a distance of over 12 miles, with fishing time surpassing the usual ones.

“Potential in the water of more than 12 miles away is very high.

In the future, we expect they could catch fish farther than 12 miles.

The area has greater potential,” he explained. Currently, said Gunaja, tuna remained to dominate the whole fishery potential in Bali with the catch nearly reached 48,000 tons per year. Tuna fishery with long line system was widely available at Benoa. Meanwhile, the other potential consisted of red snapper and little tuna.

“Our eastern regions have the potential of little tuna used as ingredient of boiled fish in Klungkung, and we have a great potential in Karangasem. Meanwhile, marine aquaculture like grouper is carried out in Buleleng, but now it has prominent product like white snapper,” he concluded. (kmb32)

IBP/Yudi Karnaedi

So far, the fishery potential of Bali has not been worked on maximally. Of the 147 tons of sustainable potential per year, the utilized fishery production just amounts to 102,000 tons per year.

Similarly, the marine culture area reaching 1,500 hectares can only be utilized as much as 60 percent to date.

Carving of Batuan

Teak root craft exported throughout the world

Bali Post

AP Photo/Salvatore Ferragamo

Salvatore Ferragamo leather high-top sneaker.

AP Photo/Salvatore Ferragamo

Salvatore Ferragamo crocodile high-top sneaker.

GIANYAR - Various works of art produced by Batuan village, Sukawati, have been well-known as prominent products for travelers because they have a peculiarity either at painting, webbing or carving. Yet another case happens to teak root crafts which are less desirable when collaborated with distinctive touches of Batuan village.

Nevertheless, the craft depicting root naturalization in the form of furniture is still loved by travelers from all over the world.

“At first I pursued this profession, I embellished with typical carving of Batuan learned since my childhood, such as the atmosphere of farming or other Balinese motif. However, travelers were reluctant to pay more.

They even prefer the root furniture with a natural shape,” said Nyoman Legiawan, the owner of root furniture, Wednesday (Des 10).

The man from Dentis hamlet, Batuan village, recounted that he originally wanted to give a new touch to the typical carving style of Batuan village by using teak root media brought in from Java. “Approximately 10 years

ago, I saw this craft in Java. At that time, I imagined to use the motif of Balinese carving on teak root media,” he said.

However, after made with a fairly complicated process, in fact, travelers paid the same price as the teak root furniture without carving. “At that time, I have already convinced the travelers, but they were more interested in the natural design of the roots,” he said.

Legiawan who followed the consumer demand finally managed to penetrate international market, especially Europe. Now, the export of his root furniture such as desks, chairs and disc table has continuously spread to Asia, Europe and Australia. “In Europe and Australia, more buyers like natural shape without finishing because it was commonly used for outdoor need in cold temperatures. However, the Asian market still needs a finishing touch to make it more beautiful,” he explained.

Special secret in shaping the root furniture, added Legiawan, was the ability to make innovation and find design in the groove of teak root without damaging the original indentation.

“Indeed this requires special skills

because not everyone can innovate and capture the interesting shapes of the random teak root,” he said.

Nevertheless, he admitted to often create the artworks by using teak root materials with the motif of Balinese carving. It was carried out to channel his architectural art as a legacy

from his parents. This craft was also often sold such as Balinese carved doors made from teak root. “Aside from furniture, I still like to carve as previously taught by my father because basically we are an undagi (traditional architecture) family,” he said. (nik)

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Various works of art produced by Batuan village, Sukawati, have been well-known as prominent products for travelers because they have a peculiarity either at painting, webbing or carving. Yet another case happens to teak root crafts which are less desirable when collaborated with distinctive touches of Batuan village.

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Dam projects risk re-igniting Myanmar’s civil war

Crystal meth smuggler from New Zealand

Target of national police HQ Bali Post

DENPASAR - Results of the development regarding the crystal meth smuggling case by De Malmanche Antony Glen, 52, from New Zealand, revealed that the suspect posed an operation target of Directorate IV of the National Police Headquarters. According to Spokesperson of Bali Police, Hery Wiyanto, the suspect was alleged to get involved in an international drug syndicate.

“Actually the suspect was the operation target of the National Police Headquarters. We knew three days after arrested at Ngurah Rai Airport. Possibly the suspect was not only a courier,” he said.

Besides, results of the investigation indicated that when bringing the crystal meth weighing 1,709 grams, the suspect communicated to a woman with the initial Js and

two men in Africa, namely Jm and Le. “Before asked to carry a bag containing the drugs from Hong Kong, the suspect actively communicated to Js through website and e-mail. When carrying the goods, they communicated via mobile phone,” he said.

On arrival in Bali, the suspect had communicated to Js. Js stated that she would ask her secretary with the

initial Ap to pick up the suspect at the airport. Ap flew from Jakarta and met the suspect at the airport.

“We’ve been waiting, but no one came up. As planned, the package would be brought to Jakarta. Probably the arrest of the suspect has already been known by his syndicate,” said the former Spokesperson of Bengkulu Police.

Bali Police also received a letter

from the police authority and the New Zealand Consulate. The letter stated if the suspect had psychiatric or mental problems. In addition, he also tried to commit suicide for a dozen times. On that account, Bali Police was asked to conduct special surveillance for the suspect in prison. “Yesterday (Tuesday—Ed), we already brought the suspect to Trijata Hospital, but no psychiatric problems were diagnosed. The suspect only got depression as being arrested. From police records in his home country (New Zealand—Ed), since the past 13 years the suspect has threatened to commit suicide,” he said.

So far, the suspect had not been

accompanied by a lawyer. According to Heri, the investigator had appointed lawyer but was rejected by the suspect. The suspect quibbled to still contact his family. “It always happened like that, when foreigners were arrested they reasoned to still wait for the family,” said Hery.

Earlier, on Monday (Dec 1), the Customs and Excise officers of Ngurah Rai Airport, Kuta, Badung, arrested the courier from New Zealand, De Malmanche Antony Glen, 52, in the international arrival terminal. The evidence included 1.709 grams of crystal meth. The suspect flew Hong Kong Airlines with flight number HX 709 from Hong Kong to Denpasar. (kmb36)

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EI TU HTA REFUGEE CAMP, Myanmar — Myanmar’s government calls them signposts of modernity: a string of huge dam projects along the mighty Salween River, one of Asia’s last untamed waterways, needed to meet economic goals and energy demands as the country opens its doors to the outside world.

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right, waves as he poses with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a photo opportunity before a meeting New Delhi, India, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014.

Putin turns to India with energy, defense offers

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On Monday (Dec 1), the Customs and Excise officers of Ngurah Rai Airport, Kuta, Badung, arrested the courier from New Zealand, De Malmanche Antony Glen, 52, in the international arrival terminal.

Singaraja Immigration ready to deport 282 foreigners Bali Post

DENPASAR - Increasing foreign tourist arrivals to Bali, especially to Buleleng, are often abused by foreigners to take a job activity in a project or particular company.

This condition drew the attention of the Immigration Office Class II Singaraja throughout the year 2014.

A total of 282 foreigners were ensnared and ready to be deported.

It was revealed by the Head

of Immigration Office Class II Singaraja that foreign workers amounting to hundreds of people were from three counties such as Buleleng, Jembrana and Karangasem. The case of each individual varied, ranging from the breach of documents to violation of visiting passport taken advantage to earn a fortune in Indonesia. Thus, deportation would be done and the largest number came from Buleleng because many industrial plants in

Buleleng employed illegal foreign workers. “The illegal foreigners are dominantly from different countries,” he said, Wednesday (Dec 10).

He explained that foreigners from China were the most dominant working at the steamed-fueled power plant of Celukan Bawang.

His party did not mention in detail about the percentage of foreigners from China and other countries.

“Most foreigners are indeed from

China. They mostly worked at the industry in Gerokgak such as Celukan Bawang power plant,” he explained.

The foreigners violating immigration rules were alleged to have often committed similar offenses.

Aditya added that hundreds of the foreigners were alleged to violate because misinterpreted the immigration regulations in Indonesia.

They often worked in accordance with the company regulations, but

did not understand about relevant rules applicable in Indonesia. This year, a total of 675 foreigners worked in Buleleng. Approximately 225 people were newcomers and just started working this year. “It is related to misunderstanding on the laws in Indonesia. They think it does not violate. They make documents for tourist and business talks but instead they work there. We often encounter this kind of case,” he added. (kmb34)

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NEW DELHI — Russian President Vladimir Putin was holding talks with Indian leaders Thursday to strengthen trade and energy cooperation with Asia’s third-largest economy as Western sanctions threaten to push his country’s economy to the brink of a recession. Putin’s discussions with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi are expected to focus us on deepening ties at a time when New Delhi is perceived to be drawing closer to the United States, especially in areas such as defense and investment.

Indian officials said nearly two dozen agreements on space, defense cooperation and energy were likely to be signed. “Looking forward to a productive visit that will take India-Russia ties to newer heights,” Modi tweeted.

Putin’s visit comes as Russia is faced with plunging global oil prices and a depreciating rouble that has battered its economy.

Russia’s relations with the

Western nations have plummeted since it annexed Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula in March.

The United States and Europe have imposed sanctions for what it says is Moscow’s role in providing Ukrainian militants with personnel and arms, something Moscow denies.

The annual summit meeting would provide an opportunity for the two nations to take stock of the “special and strategic partnership” that the two countries enjoy, said Ajay Bisaria, the top official in India’s Ministry of External Affairs. “This is a very significant visit,” said Bisaria. “Russia is a long-standing and a steadfast partner for India.”

During the Cold War decades, India and the Soviet Union shared a close relationship, while the United States tilted toward India’s neighbor and rival, Pakistan, especially in the dispute over the Himalayan region of Kashmir.

India bought billions of dollars with of military hardware from Moscow during the Soviet era.

Yet to the Shan, Karen, Karenni and other ethnic minorities living in the river’s basin, the six proposed hydro-power dams symbolize violence, anxiety about the future and a tool used by authorities to secure a greater grip over their lives. Some minority leaders say tensions over the dams could even re-ignite civil war in Myanmar, or Burma.

Fighting has erupted in recent months as government troops have moved into areas around proposed dam sites, including the $2.6 billion Hut Gyi dam in Karen State in eastern Myanmar, and clashed with ethnic minority fighters in violation of cease-fires. The military also has forcibly removed thousands of residents close to dam sites, according to refugees and aid groups.

“It is clear that Hut Gyi dam and similar projects are obstructing the peace process in Burma,” said Gen. Baw Kyaw Hei, second in command of the Karen National Liberation Army, which has been fighting the government for greater autonomy since the 1940s. He

spoke while sitting in a meeting hall overlooking the river at the Ei Tu Hta camp, home to 4,000 refugees from earlier fighting that could be submerged if the dam is built.

Preliminary work on this and other dams has already begun.

Economic and environmental issues also are at stake in harnessing the power of the Salween, which seeps out of a Tibetan glacier and winds 2,800 kilometers (1,750 miles) through China’s rugged Yunnan province, Myanmar’s jungles and along the Thai border before flowing into the Indian Ocean.

The dam projects — all joint ventures with Chinese and Thai companies — include no provisions for wealth-sharing of resources between the ethnic groups and a regime dominated by the Burman majority and the powerful military despite the advent of a civilian government in 2011. Nor are there provisions for many residents whose land, villages and livelihoods might be wiped out by flooding from the

dams.

Contracts have been awarded to foreign and local investors, many of them closely tied to government or military leaders. Authorities say the dams will expand access to electricity, which the World Bank says reaches only 29 percent of households in the country. But the bulk of power generated will be sold to Thailand and China.

“Local people will get nothing in return for the destruction of the river,” said David Tharckabaw, former vice president of the Karen insurgency and one of its veteran leaders. “For development to work there must be good government, transparency, rule of law, reliable administration and institutions, and no corruption. If they come in now, it will just enrich the generals and their cronies.”

Ethnic minority leaders say the government is wrong to forge ahead with such mega-projects before reaching an equitable political resolution to the longstanding conflict.

AP Photo/David Longstreath

n this Nov. 17, 2014 photo, bamboo huts dot the landscape near the IDP camp of Ei Tu Hta, Myanmar. Myanmar’s government calls them signposts of modernity: a string of huge dam projects along the mighty Salween River, one of Asia’s last untamed waterways, needed to meet economic goals and energy demands as the country opens its doors to the outside world.

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MILAN — Ferrari’s sleek sports cars and souped-up Formula 1 racing machines have made the prancing horse logo among the world’s most powerful brands. Now, as the company prepares for a public listing, it wants to cash in on the cachet. The aim: position Ferrari not just as a car-maker, but as a luxury goods company. Think Armani, Hermes ... Ferrari. up to the French conglomerates like LVMH, while financial analysts are crunching numbers on the brand’s potential value.

“I actually think cars are almost incidental to Ferrari,” Marchionne said last month when announcing plans to spin off Ferrari from its mass-market parent Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV. “It sounds sacrilegious. But it is truly a luxury brand.”

Persuading the investing community of that distinction could significantly multiply Ferrari’s

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In Pacung Village

Ferrari looks to burnish brand value ahead of IPO

Analysts say that could mean refining its line of merchandise or creating a chain of exclusive clubs and hotels catering to Ferrari owners and the wealthy.

Chairman Sergio Marchionne will present his vision to investors in the coming weeks, but the potential already has the two worlds spinning in anticipation.

The Made-in-Italy luxury goods sector is abuzz over whether Marchionne’s ambition could facilitate the creation of an alliance of highend producers, one that might stand

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market value by putting it among a category of companies that squeeze value not just out of the quality of the materials and product, but also out of their allure. Marchionne has room to leverage.

Although Ferrari’s brand has been named the world’s most recognizable for two straight years in a survey by London-based consultants Brand Finance, it is only 350th in value, around $4 billion.

Lifting that figure is Marchionne’s goal between now and the IPO, due in the second or third quarter

next year.

A 30 percent surge in Fiat’s share price since the Ferrari spinoff was announced indicates the potential of the deal, although most analysts aren’t buying Marchionne’s estimate that Ferrari is worth 10 billion euros ($12.5 billion). Max Warburton of Bernstein Research puts the figure around 5- 6 billion euros.

Getting a higher valuation is a tricky balance between finding new sources of sales to increase revenues and protecting the brand’s exclusivity.

“If you think of the capacity of the Ferrari brand in the luxury space, there are many avenues you can take from a product perspective,” said Anil Valsan, an EY automotive analyst. “But at the same

time you have to be very careful about not damaging the brand. It is absolutely critical that the brand’s value is not lost by diversifying into too many products.”

Currently, its revenue stream is limited by the fact that it keeps car sales to just 7,000 a year to retain an aura of exclusivity.

Also, manufacturing high-performance engines and race cars is more capital intensive than, say, fashion.

Ferrari could take a gamble and expand its range of car offerings to include SUVs, a well-performing segment globally. That would bring its automotive portfolio closer in line with competitors Porsche or Bentley. Lamborghini, another Italian sports car maker, has previewed a concept SUV.

Stocks slump as oil price drop sinks energy sector

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NEW YORK — Stocks are closing sharply slower as another plunge in the price of oil dragged down the energy sector. Exxon Mobil and Chevron were among the biggest decliners in the Dow Jones industrial average Wednesday.

The Dow lost 268 points, or 1.5 percent, to 17,533. That was its worst drop in two months. The

Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 33 points, or 1.6 percent, to 2,026. The Nasdaq composite fell 82 points, or 1.7 percent, to 4,684. The price of crude oil sank $2.88, or 4.5 percent, to $60.94 a barrel in New York.

That’s a five-year low. Oil fell after the U.S. Energy Department reported an increase in domestic inventories and OPEC projected that demand would sink next year to levels not seen in more than a decade.

42.9 million Americans have unpaid medical bills

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FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2014 file photo, Fiat-Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne, left, and then Ferrari President Luca Di Montezemolo attend a news conference in at the Ferrari headquarters in Maranello.

WASHINGTON — A new government report shows that nearly 20 percent of U.S. consumers — nearly 43 million people — have unpaid medical debts.

The findings from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau suggest that many Americans are being trapped by debt because they are confused by the notices they get from hospitals and insurance companies

about the cost of treatment.

As a result, millions of Americans may be surprised to find they are stuck with lower credit scores, making it harder for them to borrow to buy a home or an automobile.

The report by the federal regulator indicates that much of this trouble could be avoided. About half of consumers who only carry medical debt have no other signs of being under financial distress.

Government to resolve clean water crisis in 2015 Bali Post

SINGARAJA - Difficulty to get clean water annually experienced by residents of Pacung hamlet, Tejakula subdistrict, begins to get a serious attention from local government along with Bali government and central government. As targeted, it can start to be resolved from 2015. At the moment, the village authority already started to prepare a reservoir. So far, a total of four units of reservoir have been built where each has the capacity of 250 cubic meter of clean water.

Headman of Pacung, Tejakula subdistrict, I Made Yasa, when met at Alassari hamlet hall on Wednesday afternoon (Dec 10) said that to resolve the water crisis at the village, the government had allocated a budget worth IDR 4.8 billion. In details, the state budget allocated was IDR 3.1 billion, Bali government (IDR 1.1 billion) and Buleleng County (IDR 600 million).

This amount excluded the independent funding issued by local residents. “We are very grateful because the central, provincial and county government has given their attention to our difficulty to get water every year.

We have confidence that with all the funds the water issue can be resolved next year,” he said.

According to Yasa, the drought at Pacung village had already become a classical problem every year.

Most local residents took water from seaside springs at Pacung village. On entering dry season, they were difficult to get clean water in the water tank because it could only last for three months. The cisterns at Pacung village were used to supply the water needs for 700 households (families). “From the previous dry seasons, the most severe water crisis was undergone by 363 families or approximately 1,043 people. The residents categorized into poor households come to 233 families,” he said.

After ascertained the help of the government, added Yasa, starting this year (2014) his party had built a reservoir to hold water with the capacity of 100 cubic meters. The water sourced from Subak Mesahan, Melulung village, Kintamani, Bangli. From the main reservoir would be built a pipeline to channel water

to three reservoirs, respectively with a capacity of 50 cubic meters. The water from the three reservoirs was then distributed through pipelines located closer to people’s homes and installed tap at the edge of highway.

“We have started doing the work since 2010. After installing the pipelines from this reservoir, hopefully it could overcome the clean water crisis for 700 families at two villages,” he said.

After resolving the clean water crisis at Pacung village, the agricultural sector at local village would be more motivated. One of the potentials worth developing was chili cultivation. With the support of adequate clean water supply, the chili plants in the arid areas would still be able to run and did not rely on rainy season only. Transplantation of chili seedlings could be done throughout the season, while in dry season farmers could still cultivate their garden with the help of watering of clean water having been built by the government. As the support of local government, farmers were promised to be given superior chili seedlings and fertilizers to boost chili production at Pacung village. (kmb38) At the moment, the village authority already started to prepare a reservoir. So far, a total of four units of reservoir have been built where each has the capacity of 250 cubic meter of clean water.

The Renowned Legong of Peliatan, Ubud IBP

Popularity of the Legong Dance of Peliatan village, Ubud subdistrict, Gianyar, occurred in the 1920s remains to last to date. The community of Peliatan village becoming the main supporter persistently maintains the distinctiveness of the art. So, it is natural if endless flows of foreign travelers come to the international village just to witness the unique dance.

Peliatan village has become the center for the performance of Legong art. Even, almost every night the art is presented to entertain travelers with different kind of dances, venues and supporting art troupes. Peliatan customary village, Ubud, has about six Legong troupes that almost all of them compete to maintain its uniqueness.

One of them is the classical Legong of Gunung Sari troupe of Peliatan. Supported by around 52 dancers and gamelan players, it has been accustomed to doing regular performances every Sat-

urday at 7:30 p.m. at Ancak Saji Stage, Peliatan Palace Ubud. The performance includes the Pendet, Legong Kraton, Baris, Kebyar Terompong and Oleg Tamulilingan Dance. Meanwhile, at the end of the show emerge the Rangda and Barong Dance.

Jero Mangku Alit Pande Made Nesa, the secretary of the art troupe, said that performance of all the dances remained to preserve the original style of Peliatan village.

The type of presentation was always equal to the one presented at temple in devotional works. “We

did not dare to reduce, cut or add the parts of the dance. What just show the authenticity inherited from the past,” he said.

Specialty of the Legong Peliatan, explained Jero Mangku Pande, seemed a means to introduce more about the Peliatan village, Ubud.

The Legong was trained by Gusti Niang Sengog and then continued by her pupil, Gusti Ayu Raka. “She has taught tirelessly the peculiarities of Legong Peliatan,” said the Ubud-born man in 1955.

According to Jero Mangku Pande, the story related to the founding of Gunung Sari Classical Legong troupe originated from mebarong-barongan or barong dance activities. The barong troupe made a street show at local villages. Not only that, his party had also established a troupe of male arja operetta with the support from sympathizers. In the long run, the classical art continued to grow, so

that it was almost never empty of getting show requests.

After that, in 1926 the barong troupe supported by 25 artists then established the Gong Kebyar Gunung Sari gamelan troupe of Peliatan at Kajanan Palace of Peliatan. Serving as the initiator was AA Mandera, Gusti Kompyang Pangkung, Made Bees, Pande Made Gerondong, Pande Made Ganut and friends.

To be able to exercise regularly, the troupe still borrowed gamelan instrument at the palace. Due to their seriousness, in 1930 the gamelan troupe was often believed to participate in a competition involving some counties. Since it could won the first place, then in 1931 it was appointed an ambassador to Europe by presenting Legong, Janger and Cak Dance. It was said the voyage took for six months by vessel.

Furthermore, the troupe purchased its own gamelan set where

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each member should set aside their money from their show fee. “A farmer who was cutting grass at the Gunung Sari Temple discovered a cymbal. This gamelan instrument was then used as jejaton (capital) to create a gamelan in Pande Asem, Tiyingan village, Klungkung,” told a former employee of the Gianyar Education Agency.

After that, popularity of the Gong Kebyar Gunung Sari gamelan troupe was heard to various countries. So, it was entrusted to be the ambassador of the art to London (1932); France (1952); and won the first place at the British Embassy (1953) so that it had the honor to raise red-and-white flag at the UN Building. In 1962, it made a performance in Situbondo, East Java; performance in four cities of Australia (1971); autobiographical performance in BBC London (1968); Mexico (1981); Los Angeles (1996); and returned to Europe (1998).

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Workers clear barricades at an occupied area outside government headquarters in Hong Kong Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014. Hong Kong authorities started clearing barricades Thursday from a prodemocracy protest camp spread across a busy highway as part of a final push to retake streets occupied by activists for two and a half months.

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HONG KONG — Lines of Hong Kong police tore down tents Thursday as they closed in on the heart of a pro-democracy protest camp spread across a highway, in a final push to retake streets occupied by activists for two and a half months.

Workers acting on a court order earlier cleared barricades from the edges of the site. The students and other activists have been protesting Beijing’s restrictions on the first election for Hong Kong’s leader, though the movement’s momentum has been fading in recent weeks.

Many of the hundreds of protesters still remaining Thursday departed as officers worked their way down the sixlane road, kicking trash to the side and pushing over red, beige and blue tents.

There was no immediate sign of anyone inside the tents or any resistance from pro-democracy demonstrators.

“I think the spirit of the movement still lives, but the idea of occupying streets is over,” said student Andrew Chan, 20. “We can’t even get a big crowd to come out today to fight the police clearing the site.”

A group of student leaders and prodemocratic lawmakers sat on the street, ready to peacefully resist police, who repeatedly warned that anyone refusing

to leave would be arrested. One of the student leaders, Alex Chow, rallied the crowds as the police approached, saying their fight was not over and they would find other ways to press forward in the days to come.

The protesters reject Beijing’s restrictions on the first election for the city’s top leader, scheduled for 2017, but have failed to win any concessions from Hong Kong’s government. The sprawling encampment in Hong Kong’s Admiralty section, on the edge of the financial district, has been the focal point for the protesters, who have occupied the site for 75 days.

As the clear-out neared, protesters chanted “I want universal suffrage” and tossed pieces of paper that read “We will be back.” In addition to hundreds of journalists at the scene, a group of about 30 academics was monitoring the police operation, as were the Independent Police Complaints Council and human rights groups.

On Sept. 28 police fired dozens of

tear gas rounds at thousands of protesters gathering in the area angry over the prolonged detention of student leaders.

The move infuriated protesters and the wider public and kick-started the student-led protest movement, which came to include two other protest sites in Hong Kong.

Police say 655 people have been arrested over the past 2 ½ months, and that 129 officers were injured. They have given no overall injury toll.

A separate court order led to the clearing of the Mong Kok protest site in late November. That operation and ensuing nighttime clashes in the gritty neighborhood’s surrounding streets resulted in about 160 arrests.

On the eve of Thursday’s action to clear the Admiralty area, thousands of protesters and supporters streamed into the site for one last night of what’s come to be known as the “Umbrella Movement,” named for the protesters’ preferred method of deflecting police pepper spray.

WASHINGTON — Top spies past and present campaigned Wednesday to discredit the Senate’s investigation into the CIA’s harrowing torture practices after 9/11, battling to define the historical record and deter potential legal action around the world.

The Senate intelligence committee’s report doesn’t urge prosecution for wrongdoing, and the Justice Department has no interest in reopening a criminal probe. But the threat to former interrogators and their superiors was underlined as a U.N. special investigator demanded those responsible for “systematic crimes” be brought to justice, and human rights groups pushed for the arrest of key CIA and Bush administration figures if they travel overseas.

Current and former CIA officials pushed back, determined to paint the Senate report as a political stunt by Senate Democrats tarnishing a program that saved American lives. It is a “one-sided study marred by errors of fact and interpretation — essentially a poorly done and partisan attack on the agency that has done the most to protect America,” former CIA directors George Tenet, Porter Goss and Michael Hayden wrote in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece.

Hayden was singled out by Senate investigators for what they said was a string of misleading or outright false statements he gave in 2007 about the importance of the CIA’s brutal treatment of detainees in thwarting terrorist attacks. He described the focus on him as “ironic on so many levels” as any wrongdoing predated his arrival at the CIA. “They were far too interested in yelling at me,” Hayden said in an email to The Associated Press.

The intelligence committee’s 500-page release concluded that the CIA inflicted suffering on al-Qaida prisoners beyond its legal authority and that none of the agency’s “enhanced interrogations” provided critical, life-saving intelligence. It cited the CIA’s own records, documenting in detail how waterboarding and lesser-known techniques such as “rectal feeding” were actually employed.

The CIA is now in the uncomfortable position of defending itself publicly, given its basic mission to protect the country secretly. Its 136-page rebuttal suggests Senate Democrats searched through millions of documents to pull out only the evidence backing up pre-determined conclusions. “That’s like doing a crossword puzzle on Tuesday with Wednesday’s answer’s key,” the CIA said in an emailed statement.

Challenging one of the report’s most explosive arguments — that harsh interrogation techniques didn’t lead to Osama bin Laden — the CIA pointed to questioning of Ammar al-Baluchi, who revealed how an al-Qaida operative relayed messages to and from bin Laden after he departed Afghanistan. Before then, the CIA said, it only knew that courier Abu Ahmad al-Kuwaiti interacted with bin Laden in 2001 when the al-Qaida leader was accessible to many of his followers. Al-Kuwaiti eventually led the U.S. to bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan.

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From page 1 Strengthening consumption was also supported by the increased provincial and county/municipal budget in 2015. The increase in export was supported by the improvement in the US economy posing the main export destination country (furniture and apparel), while in terms of investment the increase was supported by development investment such as the construction of shortcuts at strategic points of goods distribution in Bali, the toll road construction plan to Singaraja and Gilimanuk as well as irrigation improvement.

“The growth estimation is under the economic growth target of 2015 where in the regional mid-term development plan (RPJMD) is set forth in the range of 6.44 percent—7.14 percent (yoy),” he said. Meanwhile, he also added that to reach the target in the regional mid-term development plan, the local government needed to mitigate the economic risks and make an effort related to structural reforms. (kmb27)

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South Korean President Park Geun-hye, right, shakes hands with Indonesia President Joko Widodo during the ASEAN-Republic of Korea Commemorative Summit in Busan, South Korea, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014.

President Jokowi visits shipyard in Busan Antara

BUSAN - Indonesian President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) conducted an inspection of the activities at the Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) shipyard in Busan, South Korea, on Thursday. The president inspected the ship replica exhibition room and received information from the DSME officers.

“The ships are good,” Jokowi remarked here. During the visit, Jokowi was accompanied by several officials such as Economic Coordinating Minister Sofyan Djalil, Foreign Affairs Minister Retno L.P. Marsudi, Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Minister Yuddy Chrisnandi, and Chief of State Intelligence Agency Marciano Norman.

Jokowi lauded the ship-building

technology implemented in DSME. “It is an amazing technology,” wrote Jokowi in the DSME guest list. The DSME is collaborating with PAL Ltd. Co. for developing three submarines, which were ordered by Indonesia, at a total investment of US$250 million.

“Two submarines will be built in South Korea, while another one will be built in Indonesia,” Marciano Norman remarked. The Chang Bogo-class sub-

marines are expected to be delivered to Indonesia in 2017 and 2018, which will help to increase Indonesias naval fleet to five submarines. Currently, Indonesia is operating two submarines that were made in Germany in 1981.

“We need balanced military power,” Marciano stated. Jokowi visited the country to attend the South KoreaASEAN Summit, which had been established 25 years ago.

JAKARTA - Indonesia recently established four schools in Myanmars Rakhine County in a bid to solve the communal conflict there, according to a press release from the Indonesian Foreign Affairs Ministry received here on Thursday.

“The construction of the four schools proves that Indonesia is actively supporting the resolution of conflict in Rakhine County through humanitarian approach,” Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia A.M. Fachir stated while inaugurating the operations of the four schools on Monday (Dec. 8) in Mawrawaddy village, Rakhine County.

The four schools were built in Thaykan, Sanbalay, Mawrawaddy, and Buthidaung villages in Rakhine County. The inauguration ceremony was held in Mawrawaddy village and was attended by Indonesian Ambassador to Myanmar Ito Sumardi, Myanmars Minister of Border Affairs Lieutenant General Thet Naing Win, and Chief Minister of Rakhine County U. Maung Maung Ohn, and several representatives from the UN bodies operating in Myanmar.

During the inauguration ceremony, Chief Minister of Rakhine County U. Maung Maung Ohn lauded Indonesias involvement in the peace process between conflicting parties in Rakhine.

Rakhine is one of the seven states in Myanmar, with its population comprising various ethnic backgrounds. Majority of the population is Rakhine, while the Rohingyas are a minority.

The Rohingya is one of the ethnic groups, which has not been recognized by the Myanmarese government as citizen. Communal conflicts have been ongoing in Rakhine for years. Earlier, in late 2012, sectarian violence between Rohingya and Rakhine ethnic communities claimed about 200 lives and left at least 110 thousand displaced in Rakhine State

Jakarta index opens lower

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JAKARTA - The Jakarta composite index (JCI) opened lower on Thursday to follow the regional trend, analysts said.

The index of the Indonesian Stock Exchange (BEI) fell 26.12 points or 0.51 percent to 5,139.28 points with index of 45 most liquid stocks down 0.74 percent to 883.48.

Head of Research of Valbury Asia Securities Alfiansyah said the JCI fall was on negative regional sentiment with a number of major Asian market suffering a correction in the morning trade on Thursday. “The domestic sentiment is positive but not enough to offset the impact of the shrinking global market indices,” Alfiasyah said.

The governments statement to maintain a 5.8 percent growth target for the economy in 2015 showed the governments optimism that serves positively to the domestic market.

The government is set to rely on development of infrastructure to boost manufacturing industry and attract investment to meet the target, he added.

Meanwhile, the market players are awaiting the result of the meeting of the central bank leaders mainly on its benchmark interest rate. The prediction that the inflation in December would exceeded 2 percent and weakening rupiah against the US dollar might keep the JCI in a negative territory.

Regional markets such as Hang Seng , Nikkei and Straits Times recorded a decline in indices.

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LOS ANGELES — Magic Johnson wants the Los Angeles Lakers to lose every game this season for their own good.

Coach Byron Scott thinks they’re better off learning how to win, and that’s just what they did several hours after Magic’s latest pointed comments.

Johnson discussed the struggling Lakers on Tuesday at a promotional appearance in New York, and the Hall of Famer dished out some blunt thoughts on the 16-time NBA champion franchise’s future.

“I hope the Lakers lose every game,” the former Lakers point guard said. “Because if you’re going to lose, lose. And I’m serious. If you’re going to lose, you’ve got to lose, because you can’t be in the middle of the pack. You either have to be great, or you’ve got to be bad to get a good pick.”

A few hours later, Scott responded to his former Lakers backcourt mate by stressing the importance of establishing a winning climate surrounding Kobe Bryant. Scott says tanking wouldn’t be entertained by the Lakers, whose 6-16 record is tied for the second-worst in the Western Conference.

“That’s easy to say, but when you’re behind the scenes and you’re in the trenches and you’re coaching, that’s not something that you want to do,” Scott said. “We’ve got to go out here and win every game possible. I mean, if you lose games, that’s one thing. But to go out and try to lose, that’s a different story. I think that sends a message to those guys in there that it’s going back to that losing mentality. We don’t we want to create that here.”

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That’s speaking from an owner’s perspective. ... the fans — hopefully some of them — are smart enough to understand his perspective as an owner. I certainly am. Magic is one of the most competitive players of all time. He doesn’t want to lose.”

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FILE - In this May 27, 2014, file photo, Magic Johnson watches before a baseball game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Cincinnati Reds in Los Angeles.

The Spaniard has not won a title since 2006, but he reckons he performed better during his five seasons at Maranello than at any other time in F1.

When asked to rate his time at Ferrari following his final race for the Italian team in Abu Dhabi, Alonso replied: “From one to 10 I think in those five years I will put nine. “I know it seems high, but I have enjoyed it so much - I grew up as a driver, as a person.

“I have worked with some amazing people here, and I raced with my heart, I raced at the best level of my career.” Alonso said trouncing his world champion team-mate Kimi Raikkonen in 2014 gave him particular satisfaction.

“Even this year, I have a world champion on the other side of the garage and I had some doubts, but I was curious to see the performance and what I could learn, what I could improve,” Alonso added.

Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen, F1 2014 “I got only two podiums, but [versus Raikkonen] I was 16-3 in qualifying, 17-2 in the races.

“I never imagined to have this beautiful performance over these five years, fighting for the championship, racing with everything I have inside, never giving up.

“I am proud of the team and of the things we did together.

“We missed the title, but we raced against a very dominant era

of F1 with Red Bull, and this year with Mercedes - no one could get closer to them.

“This is what I missed to get to 10 [out of 10] for these five years, but any driver should drive for Ferrari for one year because it is a unique spirit.”

Alonso at Ferrari in numbers Races : 96 Wins : 11 Poles :4 Podiums : 44 Points : 1190 Fastest laps : 8 Best championship finish : 2nd (2010, 2012, 2013)

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Man City, Schalke advance; Messi scores again Associated Press

MANCHESTER, England — Manchester City and Schalke grabbed the final spots on offer in the knockout stage of the Champions League on Wednesday, while Lionel Messi helped Barcelona secure first place in its group with a record-extending 75th goal in the competition. City started the final round of group play in last place in Group E but finished second by beating Roma 2-0 away, with second-half goals

by Samir Nasri and Pablo Zabaleta lifting the English champions above their Italian opponents and CSKA Moscow. CSKA lost 3-0 at Bayern Munich.

Schalke ensured a clean sweep of four German representatives in the last 16 for the second straight season after its 1-0 win at Maribor sealed the runner-up spot in Group H. Sporting Lisbon needed a draw at Chelsea to finish second but lost 3-1.

Barcelona came from behind to beat Paris Saint-Germain 3-1 and leapfrog the French team to the top of Group F, with Messi leading the Spanish side’s recovery before goals by the remainder of its all-star attacking trio — Neymar and Luis Suarez.

Ajax and Athletic Bilbao won to clinch Europa League berths for finishing third in their groups, joining Sporting and Roma in the knockout stage of the continent’s secondary competition that starts in February.

The draw for the last 16 of the Champions League is made on Monday, with teams from Germany (4), Spain (3) and England (3) making up 10 of the qualifiers.

City, along with PSG and Juventus, arguably will be the sides most

group winners want to avoid after advancing for the second straight season thanks to wins over Bayern and Roma in its last two games.

Without four of its top players in the injured Sergio Aguero and Vincent Kompany, the suspended Yaya Toure and playmaker David Silva, who was on the bench, the Premier League champions qualified the hard way in the Italian capital.

Nasri smashed a rising shot in off the post from outside the area in the 60th minute before setting up right back Zabaleta for the second goal in the 88th minute. City also required a string of great saves from goalkeeper Joe Hart either side of halftime, while Martin Demichelis cleared a shot off the line when the score was 1-0.

“We had a bit of a slow start (in the group) but you don’t win the Premier League easily,” Hart said. “We’ve got resolve, we’ve got character and we’ve got great players. Add that all together and you have a chance.” City needed

to better the result of CSKA and Bayern ensured that was the case as goals by Thomas Mueller — from the penalty spot — Sebastian Rode and Mario Goetze saw the German champions finish on 15 points.

For his side to advance, Schalke coach Roberto Di Matteo required a win in Slovenia and for Chelsea, the team he led to the Champions League title in 2012, to beat Sporting at Stamford Bridge. Schalke did its part thanks to Max Meyer’s 62nd-minute winner following a goalkeeper error, and a makeshift Chelsea side that was already assured of top spot in the group was too strong for Sporting.

Cesc Fabregas and Andre Schuerrle scored in the opening 16 minutes for Chelsea, Jonathan Silva replied before John Obi Mikel clinched victory.

Top spot — and a likely easier last-16 match — was up for grabs at Camp Nou and Zlatan Ibrahimovic put PSG ahead against his old club Barcelona in the 15th.

Messi equalized four minutes

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BRASILIA — The United States women’s soccer team conceded a second-half equalizer to draw 1-1 against China in the opening match of the International Tournament of Brasilia on Wednesday. Carli Lloyd put the U.S. ahead in the 22nd minute, but Hang Peng equalized in the 66th to close the scoring in the first game of the four-team competition.

Host Brazil defeated Argentina 4-0 in the late match at the Mane Garrincha Stadium.

Lloyd redirected the ball into the net from close range after a perfect low cross from the right side by Megan Rapinoe, scoring her 57th goal with the national team. China equalized thanks to its midfielder’s remarkable right-footed shot from the right side of the box, finding the upper left corner over goalkeeper

Hope Solo.

The Americans struggled to control possession and China had most of the dangerous scoring opportunities throughout the match in the Brazilian capital. Neither team had many significant chances to break the deadlock, although the Americans complained of a hand ball by a Chinese defender inside the penalty area near the end of the game.

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AMSTERDAM - Ajax Amsterdam secured a spot in the Europa League after a convincing 4-0 Champions League victory over APOEL Nicosia on Wednesday ensured they finished ahead of the Cypriot side in Group F. Lasse Schoene converted a

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penalty just before halftime, after Arkadiusz Milik was brought down in the area by Marios Antoniades, and the Dane netted his second with a simple finish five minutes after the interval.

APOEL needed to win in order to overtake third place Ajax but apart from a few isolated attacks, most of the match was played in

the visitors’ half.

Ajax extended their lead through Davy Klaassen’s header on 53 minutes and Milik’s strike rounded off the scoring with 16 minutes to play. Ajax finished with five points, four clear of APOEL and a long way adrift of group winners Barcelona (15) and runners-up Paris St Germain

header after more good work from Robben. Midfielder Rode doubled the lead in the 84th after connecting with a cross from Bastian Schweinsteiger at the far post. “It is something special to score my first Champions League goal but all I had to do was knock the ball in, the cross was perfect,” Rode said. “Our goal was to win the group and now we can relax and wait for Monday’s draw.”

Schweinsteiger is making his

comeback after ankle and knee injuries and was pleased just to be playing again, completing his first full game since the World Cup in Brazil. “When the team functions, it is easy to play well,” Schweinsteiger said.

Lewandowski, also a secondhalf substitute, combined well with Robben to provide Goetze with the ball for the final goal in the 90th minute.

Bayern cruises to 3-0 victory over CSKA Moscow

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Manchester City’s Samir Nasri celebrates after scoring during a Group E Champions League soccer match between Roma and Manchester City at the Olympic stadium in Rome, Italy, Wednesday Dec.10, 2014.

Abby Wambach, nominated for the world’s best player award, entered the match after halftime. Only 300 people attended the game at the Mane Garrincha Stadium, which hosted seven World Cup matches.

The top two teams after roundrobin play will meet for the title on Dec. 21. The other two nations will play for third place. The U.S. will face Brazil on Sunday and

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later, Neymar gave Barca the lead with a spectacular long-range shot in the 42nd and Suarez tapped in the third in the 77th. Barcelona has won its group for eight consecutive years, while PSG went down to a first defeat in its 23rd game of the season.

Belarussian club BATE Borisov bowed out of the Champions League with a 2-0 loss to Bilbao in Group H and a record number of goals conceded in group play — 24.

Porto, which had already won the group, drew 1-1 at home to Shakhtar Donetsk.

Atletico Madrid, Juventus, Real Madrid, Basel, Monaco, Bayer Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund and Arsenal qualified from the groups that finished playing on Tuesday.

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tournament Argentina on Dec. 17. All matches will be played in Brasilia.

Brazil made its debut with an easy win over Argentina. Debinha opened the scoring with a header in the 13th, veteran midfielder Formiga added to the lead in the 41st and Raquel got on the board in the 78th before Formiga netted again in the 82nd. Five-time world player of the year Marta had a goal ruled offside near the end of the game.

MUNICH — Bayern Munich cruised past CSKA Moscow with a 3-0 victory in the Champions League on Wednesday that knocked the Russian side out of European competition.

Bayern, which had already qualified for the knockout stage as group winners, took the lead when Thomas Mueller converted a penalty in the first half. Sebastian Rode and Mario Goetze added goals late in the match that left CSKA bottom of Group E. Bayern finished with 15 points, while Manchester City joined Bayern in the knockout stage with eight points after beating Roma 2-0 away.

Rome finished third and will play in the Europa League when the competition resumes after the winter break.

“I am very proud of the entire squad,” Bayern coach Pep Guardiola said. “We lost only one match and we were the better team in every game. We played very seriously today.” Bayern easily dominated the match, especially in the second half, when it missed several chances to win by a bigger margin.

Guardiola left several regulars on the bench at the start and Bayern did not create much despite having much of the possession. The opening goal came after Bebras Natcho needlessly downed Franck Ribery just inside the box. Mueller took the spot kick and sent Igor Akinfeev the wrong way in the 12th minute for his club-record 24th goal in the Champions League.

Moscow nearly equalized shortly afterward but goalkeeper Manuel Neuer foiled Seydou Doumbia by coming off his line. Bayern’s game picked up speed in the second half, after Arjen Robben came on and Akinfeev did well to stop the winger’s effort.

Sergei Ignashevich then made an incredible clearance on the line to kick away Robert Lewandowski’s

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Manchester United’s Robin van Persie, celebrates after scoring during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester United and Hull City at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, England, Saturday Nov. 29, 2014.

Resurgent United keen to add to Liverpool’s woes

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Bayern’s Bastian Schweinsteiger, rear, and scorer Sebastian Rode, front, celebrate their side’s 2nd goal during the Champions League group E soccer match between FC Bayern Munich and CSKA Moscow in Munich, Germany, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014.

LONDON - Manchester United will bid for a sixth straight Premier League victory to heap more misery on Brendan Rodgers and his beleaguered Liverpool side when the bitter rivals meet at Old Trafford on Sunday.

United, who finished seventh last season, continued to recover from their poor start to the campaign with a fortunate 2-1 win at high-flying Southampton on Monday that lifted them into third place for the first time since August 2013.

By contrast, last term’s runners-up Liverpool are ninth and suffered an early Champions League exit with a 1-1 home draw in their final group game against FC Basel on Tuesday.

The Anfield club have struggled to recapture the form that took them to the brink of the title and, after two wins in their last six league matches -- including a 0-0 home draw with Sunderland on Saturday -- they have 21 points.

United striker Robin van Persie scored both goals in the victory at Southampton and three strikes in as many games have helped silence the critics following his poor early form.

The Netherlands captain said he and his team mates, who are eight points adrift of leaders Chelsea with 28 after 15 games, are finding their top form. “The next game is Liverpool, so

we’re looking forward to that,” Van Persie said. “We are really happy that we are on the way up now. We have to keep the momentum going.”

Table-topping Chelsea will look to bounce back when third-bottom Hull City visit Stamford Bridge on Saturday after Jose Mourinho’s side suffered their first defeat of the season in a 2-1 loss at Newcastle United last weekend.

Chelsea had already qualified for the Champions League last-16 with a game to spare before easing past Sporting Lisbon 3-1 in their final group game on Wednesday.

Second-placed Manchester City took full advantage of Chelsea’s slip by moving within three points of the leaders with a battling 1-0 home win against Everton.

However, they will have to do without their top scorer Sergio Aguero, who could miss up to six weeks with a knee injury, for Saturday’s trip to bottom club Leicester City. City reached the Champions League knockout stage with a gritty 2-0 victory at AS Roma on Wednesday.

West Ham United, exceeding all expectations in fourth, visit Sunderland while Southampton, who have slipped to fifth, will look to halt a run of three straight defeats when they travel to second-bottom Burnley on Saturday.

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Man City, Schalke advance; Messi scores again Associated Press

MANCHESTER, England — Manchester City and Schalke grabbed the final spots on offer in the knockout stage of the Champions League on Wednesday, while Lionel Messi helped Barcelona secure first place in its group with a record-extending 75th goal in the competition. City started the final round of group play in last place in Group E but finished second by beating Roma 2-0 away, with second-half goals

by Samir Nasri and Pablo Zabaleta lifting the English champions above their Italian opponents and CSKA Moscow. CSKA lost 3-0 at Bayern Munich.

Schalke ensured a clean sweep of four German representatives in the last 16 for the second straight season after its 1-0 win at Maribor sealed the runner-up spot in Group H. Sporting Lisbon needed a draw at Chelsea to finish second but lost 3-1.

Barcelona came from behind to beat Paris Saint-Germain 3-1 and leapfrog the French team to the top of Group F, with Messi leading the Spanish side’s recovery before goals by the remainder of its all-star attacking trio — Neymar and Luis Suarez.

Ajax and Athletic Bilbao won to clinch Europa League berths for finishing third in their groups, joining Sporting and Roma in the knockout stage of the continent’s secondary competition that starts in February.

The draw for the last 16 of the Champions League is made on Monday, with teams from Germany (4), Spain (3) and England (3) making up 10 of the qualifiers.

City, along with PSG and Juventus, arguably will be the sides most

group winners want to avoid after advancing for the second straight season thanks to wins over Bayern and Roma in its last two games.

Without four of its top players in the injured Sergio Aguero and Vincent Kompany, the suspended Yaya Toure and playmaker David Silva, who was on the bench, the Premier League champions qualified the hard way in the Italian capital.

Nasri smashed a rising shot in off the post from outside the area in the 60th minute before setting up right back Zabaleta for the second goal in the 88th minute. City also required a string of great saves from goalkeeper Joe Hart either side of halftime, while Martin Demichelis cleared a shot off the line when the score was 1-0.

“We had a bit of a slow start (in the group) but you don’t win the Premier League easily,” Hart said. “We’ve got resolve, we’ve got character and we’ve got great players. Add that all together and you have a chance.” City needed

to better the result of CSKA and Bayern ensured that was the case as goals by Thomas Mueller — from the penalty spot — Sebastian Rode and Mario Goetze saw the German champions finish on 15 points.

For his side to advance, Schalke coach Roberto Di Matteo required a win in Slovenia and for Chelsea, the team he led to the Champions League title in 2012, to beat Sporting at Stamford Bridge. Schalke did its part thanks to Max Meyer’s 62nd-minute winner following a goalkeeper error, and a makeshift Chelsea side that was already assured of top spot in the group was too strong for Sporting.

Cesc Fabregas and Andre Schuerrle scored in the opening 16 minutes for Chelsea, Jonathan Silva replied before John Obi Mikel clinched victory.

Top spot — and a likely easier last-16 match — was up for grabs at Camp Nou and Zlatan Ibrahimovic put PSG ahead against his old club Barcelona in the 15th.

Messi equalized four minutes

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BRASILIA — The United States women’s soccer team conceded a second-half equalizer to draw 1-1 against China in the opening match of the International Tournament of Brasilia on Wednesday. Carli Lloyd put the U.S. ahead in the 22nd minute, but Hang Peng equalized in the 66th to close the scoring in the first game of the four-team competition.

Host Brazil defeated Argentina 4-0 in the late match at the Mane Garrincha Stadium.

Lloyd redirected the ball into the net from close range after a perfect low cross from the right side by Megan Rapinoe, scoring her 57th goal with the national team. China equalized thanks to its midfielder’s remarkable right-footed shot from the right side of the box, finding the upper left corner over goalkeeper

Hope Solo.

The Americans struggled to control possession and China had most of the dangerous scoring opportunities throughout the match in the Brazilian capital. Neither team had many significant chances to break the deadlock, although the Americans complained of a hand ball by a Chinese defender inside the penalty area near the end of the game.

Reuters

AMSTERDAM - Ajax Amsterdam secured a spot in the Europa League after a convincing 4-0 Champions League victory over APOEL Nicosia on Wednesday ensured they finished ahead of the Cypriot side in Group F. Lasse Schoene converted a

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penalty just before halftime, after Arkadiusz Milik was brought down in the area by Marios Antoniades, and the Dane netted his second with a simple finish five minutes after the interval.

APOEL needed to win in order to overtake third place Ajax but apart from a few isolated attacks, most of the match was played in

the visitors’ half.

Ajax extended their lead through Davy Klaassen’s header on 53 minutes and Milik’s strike rounded off the scoring with 16 minutes to play. Ajax finished with five points, four clear of APOEL and a long way adrift of group winners Barcelona (15) and runners-up Paris St Germain

header after more good work from Robben. Midfielder Rode doubled the lead in the 84th after connecting with a cross from Bastian Schweinsteiger at the far post. “It is something special to score my first Champions League goal but all I had to do was knock the ball in, the cross was perfect,” Rode said. “Our goal was to win the group and now we can relax and wait for Monday’s draw.”

Schweinsteiger is making his

comeback after ankle and knee injuries and was pleased just to be playing again, completing his first full game since the World Cup in Brazil. “When the team functions, it is easy to play well,” Schweinsteiger said.

Lewandowski, also a secondhalf substitute, combined well with Robben to provide Goetze with the ball for the final goal in the 90th minute.

Bayern cruises to 3-0 victory over CSKA Moscow

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AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca

Manchester City’s Samir Nasri celebrates after scoring during a Group E Champions League soccer match between Roma and Manchester City at the Olympic stadium in Rome, Italy, Wednesday Dec.10, 2014.

Abby Wambach, nominated for the world’s best player award, entered the match after halftime. Only 300 people attended the game at the Mane Garrincha Stadium, which hosted seven World Cup matches.

The top two teams after roundrobin play will meet for the title on Dec. 21. The other two nations will play for third place. The U.S. will face Brazil on Sunday and

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later, Neymar gave Barca the lead with a spectacular long-range shot in the 42nd and Suarez tapped in the third in the 77th. Barcelona has won its group for eight consecutive years, while PSG went down to a first defeat in its 23rd game of the season.

Belarussian club BATE Borisov bowed out of the Champions League with a 2-0 loss to Bilbao in Group H and a record number of goals conceded in group play — 24.

Porto, which had already won the group, drew 1-1 at home to Shakhtar Donetsk.

Atletico Madrid, Juventus, Real Madrid, Basel, Monaco, Bayer Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund and Arsenal qualified from the groups that finished playing on Tuesday.

US women draw 1-1 with China in Brazil

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tournament Argentina on Dec. 17. All matches will be played in Brasilia.

Brazil made its debut with an easy win over Argentina. Debinha opened the scoring with a header in the 13th, veteran midfielder Formiga added to the lead in the 41st and Raquel got on the board in the 78th before Formiga netted again in the 82nd. Five-time world player of the year Marta had a goal ruled offside near the end of the game.

MUNICH — Bayern Munich cruised past CSKA Moscow with a 3-0 victory in the Champions League on Wednesday that knocked the Russian side out of European competition.

Bayern, which had already qualified for the knockout stage as group winners, took the lead when Thomas Mueller converted a penalty in the first half. Sebastian Rode and Mario Goetze added goals late in the match that left CSKA bottom of Group E. Bayern finished with 15 points, while Manchester City joined Bayern in the knockout stage with eight points after beating Roma 2-0 away.

Rome finished third and will play in the Europa League when the competition resumes after the winter break.

“I am very proud of the entire squad,” Bayern coach Pep Guardiola said. “We lost only one match and we were the better team in every game. We played very seriously today.” Bayern easily dominated the match, especially in the second half, when it missed several chances to win by a bigger margin.

Guardiola left several regulars on the bench at the start and Bayern did not create much despite having much of the possession. The opening goal came after Bebras Natcho needlessly downed Franck Ribery just inside the box. Mueller took the spot kick and sent Igor Akinfeev the wrong way in the 12th minute for his club-record 24th goal in the Champions League.

Moscow nearly equalized shortly afterward but goalkeeper Manuel Neuer foiled Seydou Doumbia by coming off his line. Bayern’s game picked up speed in the second half, after Arjen Robben came on and Akinfeev did well to stop the winger’s effort.

Sergei Ignashevich then made an incredible clearance on the line to kick away Robert Lewandowski’s

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Manchester United’s Robin van Persie, celebrates after scoring during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester United and Hull City at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, England, Saturday Nov. 29, 2014.

Resurgent United keen to add to Liverpool’s woes

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Bayern’s Bastian Schweinsteiger, rear, and scorer Sebastian Rode, front, celebrate their side’s 2nd goal during the Champions League group E soccer match between FC Bayern Munich and CSKA Moscow in Munich, Germany, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014.

LONDON - Manchester United will bid for a sixth straight Premier League victory to heap more misery on Brendan Rodgers and his beleaguered Liverpool side when the bitter rivals meet at Old Trafford on Sunday.

United, who finished seventh last season, continued to recover from their poor start to the campaign with a fortunate 2-1 win at high-flying Southampton on Monday that lifted them into third place for the first time since August 2013.

By contrast, last term’s runners-up Liverpool are ninth and suffered an early Champions League exit with a 1-1 home draw in their final group game against FC Basel on Tuesday.

The Anfield club have struggled to recapture the form that took them to the brink of the title and, after two wins in their last six league matches -- including a 0-0 home draw with Sunderland on Saturday -- they have 21 points.

United striker Robin van Persie scored both goals in the victory at Southampton and three strikes in as many games have helped silence the critics following his poor early form.

The Netherlands captain said he and his team mates, who are eight points adrift of leaders Chelsea with 28 after 15 games, are finding their top form. “The next game is Liverpool, so

we’re looking forward to that,” Van Persie said. “We are really happy that we are on the way up now. We have to keep the momentum going.”

Table-topping Chelsea will look to bounce back when third-bottom Hull City visit Stamford Bridge on Saturday after Jose Mourinho’s side suffered their first defeat of the season in a 2-1 loss at Newcastle United last weekend.

Chelsea had already qualified for the Champions League last-16 with a game to spare before easing past Sporting Lisbon 3-1 in their final group game on Wednesday.

Second-placed Manchester City took full advantage of Chelsea’s slip by moving within three points of the leaders with a battling 1-0 home win against Everton.

However, they will have to do without their top scorer Sergio Aguero, who could miss up to six weeks with a knee injury, for Saturday’s trip to bottom club Leicester City. City reached the Champions League knockout stage with a gritty 2-0 victory at AS Roma on Wednesday.

West Ham United, exceeding all expectations in fourth, visit Sunderland while Southampton, who have slipped to fifth, will look to halt a run of three straight defeats when they travel to second-bottom Burnley on Saturday.

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LOS ANGELES — Magic Johnson wants the Los Angeles Lakers to lose every game this season for their own good.

Coach Byron Scott thinks they’re better off learning how to win, and that’s just what they did several hours after Magic’s latest pointed comments.

Johnson discussed the struggling Lakers on Tuesday at a promotional appearance in New York, and the Hall of Famer dished out some blunt thoughts on the 16-time NBA champion franchise’s future.

“I hope the Lakers lose every game,” the former Lakers point guard said. “Because if you’re going to lose, lose. And I’m serious. If you’re going to lose, you’ve got to lose, because you can’t be in the middle of the pack. You either have to be great, or you’ve got to be bad to get a good pick.”

A few hours later, Scott responded to his former Lakers backcourt mate by stressing the importance of establishing a winning climate surrounding Kobe Bryant. Scott says tanking wouldn’t be entertained by the Lakers, whose 6-16 record is tied for the second-worst in the Western Conference.

“That’s easy to say, but when you’re behind the scenes and you’re in the trenches and you’re coaching, that’s not something that you want to do,” Scott said. “We’ve got to go out here and win every game possible. I mean, if you lose games, that’s one thing. But to go out and try to lose, that’s a different story. I think that sends a message to those guys in there that it’s going back to that losing mentality. We don’t we want to create that here.”

Bryant scored 32 points in the Lakers’ 98-95 win over Sacramento on Tuesday, ending a three-game losing run. Kobe also wants no part of Magic’s plan.

“He’s used to being an owner,” Bryant said with a laugh.

“He’s the owner of the Dodgers. He was an owner of the Lakers.

That’s speaking from an owner’s perspective. ... the fans — hopefully some of them — are smart enough to understand his perspective as an owner. I certainly am. Magic is one of the most competitive players of all time. He doesn’t want to lose.”

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Alonso says Ferrari years were his best in Formula 1

Fernando Alonso believes that his five years with Ferrari were the best of his Formula 1 career, despite failing to add to his collection of two world titles. Alonso has departed the Scuderia and is set to rejoin McLaren for the 2015 F1 season.

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FILE - In this May 27, 2014, file photo, Magic Johnson watches before a baseball game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Cincinnati Reds in Los Angeles.

The Spaniard has not won a title since 2006, but he reckons he performed better during his five seasons at Maranello than at any other time in F1.

When asked to rate his time at Ferrari following his final race for the Italian team in Abu Dhabi, Alonso replied: “From one to 10 I think in those five years I will put nine. “I know it seems high, but I have enjoyed it so much - I grew up as a driver, as a person.

“I have worked with some amazing people here, and I raced with my heart, I raced at the best level of my career.” Alonso said trouncing his world champion team-mate Kimi Raikkonen in 2014 gave him particular satisfaction.

“Even this year, I have a world champion on the other side of the garage and I had some doubts, but I was curious to see the performance and what I could learn, what I could improve,” Alonso added.

Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen, F1 2014 “I got only two podiums, but [versus Raikkonen] I was 16-3 in qualifying, 17-2 in the races.

“I never imagined to have this beautiful performance over these five years, fighting for the championship, racing with everything I have inside, never giving up.

“I am proud of the team and of the things we did together.

“We missed the title, but we raced against a very dominant era

of F1 with Red Bull, and this year with Mercedes - no one could get closer to them.

“This is what I missed to get to 10 [out of 10] for these five years, but any driver should drive for Ferrari for one year because it is a unique spirit.”

Alonso at Ferrari in numbers Races : 96 Wins : 11 Poles :4 Podiums : 44 Points : 1190 Fastest laps : 8 Best championship finish : 2nd (2010, 2012, 2013)

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INDONESIA Indonesia establishes four schools in Myanmar`s Rakhine county

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Workers clear barricades at an occupied area outside government headquarters in Hong Kong Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014. Hong Kong authorities started clearing barricades Thursday from a prodemocracy protest camp spread across a busy highway as part of a final push to retake streets occupied by activists for two and a half months.

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HONG KONG — Lines of Hong Kong police tore down tents Thursday as they closed in on the heart of a pro-democracy protest camp spread across a highway, in a final push to retake streets occupied by activists for two and a half months.

Workers acting on a court order earlier cleared barricades from the edges of the site. The students and other activists have been protesting Beijing’s restrictions on the first election for Hong Kong’s leader, though the movement’s momentum has been fading in recent weeks.

Many of the hundreds of protesters still remaining Thursday departed as officers worked their way down the sixlane road, kicking trash to the side and pushing over red, beige and blue tents.

There was no immediate sign of anyone inside the tents or any resistance from pro-democracy demonstrators.

“I think the spirit of the movement still lives, but the idea of occupying streets is over,” said student Andrew Chan, 20. “We can’t even get a big crowd to come out today to fight the police clearing the site.”

A group of student leaders and prodemocratic lawmakers sat on the street, ready to peacefully resist police, who repeatedly warned that anyone refusing

to leave would be arrested. One of the student leaders, Alex Chow, rallied the crowds as the police approached, saying their fight was not over and they would find other ways to press forward in the days to come.

The protesters reject Beijing’s restrictions on the first election for the city’s top leader, scheduled for 2017, but have failed to win any concessions from Hong Kong’s government. The sprawling encampment in Hong Kong’s Admiralty section, on the edge of the financial district, has been the focal point for the protesters, who have occupied the site for 75 days.

As the clear-out neared, protesters chanted “I want universal suffrage” and tossed pieces of paper that read “We will be back.” In addition to hundreds of journalists at the scene, a group of about 30 academics was monitoring the police operation, as were the Independent Police Complaints Council and human rights groups.

On Sept. 28 police fired dozens of

tear gas rounds at thousands of protesters gathering in the area angry over the prolonged detention of student leaders.

The move infuriated protesters and the wider public and kick-started the student-led protest movement, which came to include two other protest sites in Hong Kong.

Police say 655 people have been arrested over the past 2 ½ months, and that 129 officers were injured. They have given no overall injury toll.

A separate court order led to the clearing of the Mong Kok protest site in late November. That operation and ensuing nighttime clashes in the gritty neighborhood’s surrounding streets resulted in about 160 arrests.

On the eve of Thursday’s action to clear the Admiralty area, thousands of protesters and supporters streamed into the site for one last night of what’s come to be known as the “Umbrella Movement,” named for the protesters’ preferred method of deflecting police pepper spray.

WASHINGTON — Top spies past and present campaigned Wednesday to discredit the Senate’s investigation into the CIA’s harrowing torture practices after 9/11, battling to define the historical record and deter potential legal action around the world.

The Senate intelligence committee’s report doesn’t urge prosecution for wrongdoing, and the Justice Department has no interest in reopening a criminal probe. But the threat to former interrogators and their superiors was underlined as a U.N. special investigator demanded those responsible for “systematic crimes” be brought to justice, and human rights groups pushed for the arrest of key CIA and Bush administration figures if they travel overseas.

Current and former CIA officials pushed back, determined to paint the Senate report as a political stunt by Senate Democrats tarnishing a program that saved American lives. It is a “one-sided study marred by errors of fact and interpretation — essentially a poorly done and partisan attack on the agency that has done the most to protect America,” former CIA directors George Tenet, Porter Goss and Michael Hayden wrote in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece.

Hayden was singled out by Senate investigators for what they said was a string of misleading or outright false statements he gave in 2007 about the importance of the CIA’s brutal treatment of detainees in thwarting terrorist attacks. He described the focus on him as “ironic on so many levels” as any wrongdoing predated his arrival at the CIA. “They were far too interested in yelling at me,” Hayden said in an email to The Associated Press.

The intelligence committee’s 500-page release concluded that the CIA inflicted suffering on al-Qaida prisoners beyond its legal authority and that none of the agency’s “enhanced interrogations” provided critical, life-saving intelligence. It cited the CIA’s own records, documenting in detail how waterboarding and lesser-known techniques such as “rectal feeding” were actually employed.

The CIA is now in the uncomfortable position of defending itself publicly, given its basic mission to protect the country secretly. Its 136-page rebuttal suggests Senate Democrats searched through millions of documents to pull out only the evidence backing up pre-determined conclusions. “That’s like doing a crossword puzzle on Tuesday with Wednesday’s answer’s key,” the CIA said in an emailed statement.

Challenging one of the report’s most explosive arguments — that harsh interrogation techniques didn’t lead to Osama bin Laden — the CIA pointed to questioning of Ammar al-Baluchi, who revealed how an al-Qaida operative relayed messages to and from bin Laden after he departed Afghanistan. Before then, the CIA said, it only knew that courier Abu Ahmad al-Kuwaiti interacted with bin Laden in 2001 when the al-Qaida leader was accessible to many of his followers. Al-Kuwaiti eventually led the U.S. to bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan.

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From page 1 Strengthening consumption was also supported by the increased provincial and county/municipal budget in 2015. The increase in export was supported by the improvement in the US economy posing the main export destination country (furniture and apparel), while in terms of investment the increase was supported by development investment such as the construction of shortcuts at strategic points of goods distribution in Bali, the toll road construction plan to Singaraja and Gilimanuk as well as irrigation improvement.

“The growth estimation is under the economic growth target of 2015 where in the regional mid-term development plan (RPJMD) is set forth in the range of 6.44 percent—7.14 percent (yoy),” he said. Meanwhile, he also added that to reach the target in the regional mid-term development plan, the local government needed to mitigate the economic risks and make an effort related to structural reforms. (kmb27)

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South Korean President Park Geun-hye, right, shakes hands with Indonesia President Joko Widodo during the ASEAN-Republic of Korea Commemorative Summit in Busan, South Korea, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014.

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BUSAN - Indonesian President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) conducted an inspection of the activities at the Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) shipyard in Busan, South Korea, on Thursday. The president inspected the ship replica exhibition room and received information from the DSME officers.

“The ships are good,” Jokowi remarked here. During the visit, Jokowi was accompanied by several officials such as Economic Coordinating Minister Sofyan Djalil, Foreign Affairs Minister Retno L.P. Marsudi, Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Minister Yuddy Chrisnandi, and Chief of State Intelligence Agency Marciano Norman.

Jokowi lauded the ship-building

technology implemented in DSME. “It is an amazing technology,” wrote Jokowi in the DSME guest list. The DSME is collaborating with PAL Ltd. Co. for developing three submarines, which were ordered by Indonesia, at a total investment of US$250 million.

“Two submarines will be built in South Korea, while another one will be built in Indonesia,” Marciano Norman remarked. The Chang Bogo-class sub-

marines are expected to be delivered to Indonesia in 2017 and 2018, which will help to increase Indonesias naval fleet to five submarines. Currently, Indonesia is operating two submarines that were made in Germany in 1981.

“We need balanced military power,” Marciano stated. Jokowi visited the country to attend the South KoreaASEAN Summit, which had been established 25 years ago.

JAKARTA - Indonesia recently established four schools in Myanmars Rakhine County in a bid to solve the communal conflict there, according to a press release from the Indonesian Foreign Affairs Ministry received here on Thursday.

“The construction of the four schools proves that Indonesia is actively supporting the resolution of conflict in Rakhine County through humanitarian approach,” Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia A.M. Fachir stated while inaugurating the operations of the four schools on Monday (Dec. 8) in Mawrawaddy village, Rakhine County.

The four schools were built in Thaykan, Sanbalay, Mawrawaddy, and Buthidaung villages in Rakhine County. The inauguration ceremony was held in Mawrawaddy village and was attended by Indonesian Ambassador to Myanmar Ito Sumardi, Myanmars Minister of Border Affairs Lieutenant General Thet Naing Win, and Chief Minister of Rakhine County U. Maung Maung Ohn, and several representatives from the UN bodies operating in Myanmar.

During the inauguration ceremony, Chief Minister of Rakhine County U. Maung Maung Ohn lauded Indonesias involvement in the peace process between conflicting parties in Rakhine.

Rakhine is one of the seven states in Myanmar, with its population comprising various ethnic backgrounds. Majority of the population is Rakhine, while the Rohingyas are a minority.

The Rohingya is one of the ethnic groups, which has not been recognized by the Myanmarese government as citizen. Communal conflicts have been ongoing in Rakhine for years. Earlier, in late 2012, sectarian violence between Rohingya and Rakhine ethnic communities claimed about 200 lives and left at least 110 thousand displaced in Rakhine State

Jakarta index opens lower

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JAKARTA - The Jakarta composite index (JCI) opened lower on Thursday to follow the regional trend, analysts said.

The index of the Indonesian Stock Exchange (BEI) fell 26.12 points or 0.51 percent to 5,139.28 points with index of 45 most liquid stocks down 0.74 percent to 883.48.

Head of Research of Valbury Asia Securities Alfiansyah said the JCI fall was on negative regional sentiment with a number of major Asian market suffering a correction in the morning trade on Thursday. “The domestic sentiment is positive but not enough to offset the impact of the shrinking global market indices,” Alfiasyah said.

The governments statement to maintain a 5.8 percent growth target for the economy in 2015 showed the governments optimism that serves positively to the domestic market.

The government is set to rely on development of infrastructure to boost manufacturing industry and attract investment to meet the target, he added.

Meanwhile, the market players are awaiting the result of the meeting of the central bank leaders mainly on its benchmark interest rate. The prediction that the inflation in December would exceeded 2 percent and weakening rupiah against the US dollar might keep the JCI in a negative territory.

Regional markets such as Hang Seng , Nikkei and Straits Times recorded a decline in indices.

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MILAN — Ferrari’s sleek sports cars and souped-up Formula 1 racing machines have made the prancing horse logo among the world’s most powerful brands. Now, as the company prepares for a public listing, it wants to cash in on the cachet. The aim: position Ferrari not just as a car-maker, but as a luxury goods company. Think Armani, Hermes ... Ferrari. up to the French conglomerates like LVMH, while financial analysts are crunching numbers on the brand’s potential value.

“I actually think cars are almost incidental to Ferrari,” Marchionne said last month when announcing plans to spin off Ferrari from its mass-market parent Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV. “It sounds sacrilegious. But it is truly a luxury brand.”

Persuading the investing community of that distinction could significantly multiply Ferrari’s

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Ferrari looks to burnish brand value ahead of IPO

Analysts say that could mean refining its line of merchandise or creating a chain of exclusive clubs and hotels catering to Ferrari owners and the wealthy.

Chairman Sergio Marchionne will present his vision to investors in the coming weeks, but the potential already has the two worlds spinning in anticipation.

The Made-in-Italy luxury goods sector is abuzz over whether Marchionne’s ambition could facilitate the creation of an alliance of highend producers, one that might stand

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market value by putting it among a category of companies that squeeze value not just out of the quality of the materials and product, but also out of their allure. Marchionne has room to leverage.

Although Ferrari’s brand has been named the world’s most recognizable for two straight years in a survey by London-based consultants Brand Finance, it is only 350th in value, around $4 billion.

Lifting that figure is Marchionne’s goal between now and the IPO, due in the second or third quarter

next year.

A 30 percent surge in Fiat’s share price since the Ferrari spinoff was announced indicates the potential of the deal, although most analysts aren’t buying Marchionne’s estimate that Ferrari is worth 10 billion euros ($12.5 billion). Max Warburton of Bernstein Research puts the figure around 5- 6 billion euros.

Getting a higher valuation is a tricky balance between finding new sources of sales to increase revenues and protecting the brand’s exclusivity.

“If you think of the capacity of the Ferrari brand in the luxury space, there are many avenues you can take from a product perspective,” said Anil Valsan, an EY automotive analyst. “But at the same

time you have to be very careful about not damaging the brand. It is absolutely critical that the brand’s value is not lost by diversifying into too many products.”

Currently, its revenue stream is limited by the fact that it keeps car sales to just 7,000 a year to retain an aura of exclusivity.

Also, manufacturing high-performance engines and race cars is more capital intensive than, say, fashion.

Ferrari could take a gamble and expand its range of car offerings to include SUVs, a well-performing segment globally. That would bring its automotive portfolio closer in line with competitors Porsche or Bentley. Lamborghini, another Italian sports car maker, has previewed a concept SUV.

Stocks slump as oil price drop sinks energy sector

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NEW YORK — Stocks are closing sharply slower as another plunge in the price of oil dragged down the energy sector. Exxon Mobil and Chevron were among the biggest decliners in the Dow Jones industrial average Wednesday.

The Dow lost 268 points, or 1.5 percent, to 17,533. That was its worst drop in two months. The

Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 33 points, or 1.6 percent, to 2,026. The Nasdaq composite fell 82 points, or 1.7 percent, to 4,684. The price of crude oil sank $2.88, or 4.5 percent, to $60.94 a barrel in New York.

That’s a five-year low. Oil fell after the U.S. Energy Department reported an increase in domestic inventories and OPEC projected that demand would sink next year to levels not seen in more than a decade.

42.9 million Americans have unpaid medical bills

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FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2014 file photo, Fiat-Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne, left, and then Ferrari President Luca Di Montezemolo attend a news conference in at the Ferrari headquarters in Maranello.

WASHINGTON — A new government report shows that nearly 20 percent of U.S. consumers — nearly 43 million people — have unpaid medical debts.

The findings from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau suggest that many Americans are being trapped by debt because they are confused by the notices they get from hospitals and insurance companies

about the cost of treatment.

As a result, millions of Americans may be surprised to find they are stuck with lower credit scores, making it harder for them to borrow to buy a home or an automobile.

The report by the federal regulator indicates that much of this trouble could be avoided. About half of consumers who only carry medical debt have no other signs of being under financial distress.

Government to resolve clean water crisis in 2015 Bali Post

SINGARAJA - Difficulty to get clean water annually experienced by residents of Pacung hamlet, Tejakula subdistrict, begins to get a serious attention from local government along with Bali government and central government. As targeted, it can start to be resolved from 2015. At the moment, the village authority already started to prepare a reservoir. So far, a total of four units of reservoir have been built where each has the capacity of 250 cubic meter of clean water.

Headman of Pacung, Tejakula subdistrict, I Made Yasa, when met at Alassari hamlet hall on Wednesday afternoon (Dec 10) said that to resolve the water crisis at the village, the government had allocated a budget worth IDR 4.8 billion. In details, the state budget allocated was IDR 3.1 billion, Bali government (IDR 1.1 billion) and Buleleng County (IDR 600 million).

This amount excluded the independent funding issued by local residents. “We are very grateful because the central, provincial and county government has given their attention to our difficulty to get water every year.

We have confidence that with all the funds the water issue can be resolved next year,” he said.

According to Yasa, the drought at Pacung village had already become a classical problem every year.

Most local residents took water from seaside springs at Pacung village. On entering dry season, they were difficult to get clean water in the water tank because it could only last for three months. The cisterns at Pacung village were used to supply the water needs for 700 households (families). “From the previous dry seasons, the most severe water crisis was undergone by 363 families or approximately 1,043 people. The residents categorized into poor households come to 233 families,” he said.

After ascertained the help of the government, added Yasa, starting this year (2014) his party had built a reservoir to hold water with the capacity of 100 cubic meters. The water sourced from Subak Mesahan, Melulung village, Kintamani, Bangli. From the main reservoir would be built a pipeline to channel water

to three reservoirs, respectively with a capacity of 50 cubic meters. The water from the three reservoirs was then distributed through pipelines located closer to people’s homes and installed tap at the edge of highway.

“We have started doing the work since 2010. After installing the pipelines from this reservoir, hopefully it could overcome the clean water crisis for 700 families at two villages,” he said.

After resolving the clean water crisis at Pacung village, the agricultural sector at local village would be more motivated. One of the potentials worth developing was chili cultivation. With the support of adequate clean water supply, the chili plants in the arid areas would still be able to run and did not rely on rainy season only. Transplantation of chili seedlings could be done throughout the season, while in dry season farmers could still cultivate their garden with the help of watering of clean water having been built by the government. As the support of local government, farmers were promised to be given superior chili seedlings and fertilizers to boost chili production at Pacung village. (kmb38) At the moment, the village authority already started to prepare a reservoir. So far, a total of four units of reservoir have been built where each has the capacity of 250 cubic meter of clean water.

The Renowned Legong of Peliatan, Ubud IBP

Popularity of the Legong Dance of Peliatan village, Ubud subdistrict, Gianyar, occurred in the 1920s remains to last to date. The community of Peliatan village becoming the main supporter persistently maintains the distinctiveness of the art. So, it is natural if endless flows of foreign travelers come to the international village just to witness the unique dance.

Peliatan village has become the center for the performance of Legong art. Even, almost every night the art is presented to entertain travelers with different kind of dances, venues and supporting art troupes. Peliatan customary village, Ubud, has about six Legong troupes that almost all of them compete to maintain its uniqueness.

One of them is the classical Legong of Gunung Sari troupe of Peliatan. Supported by around 52 dancers and gamelan players, it has been accustomed to doing regular performances every Sat-

urday at 7:30 p.m. at Ancak Saji Stage, Peliatan Palace Ubud. The performance includes the Pendet, Legong Kraton, Baris, Kebyar Terompong and Oleg Tamulilingan Dance. Meanwhile, at the end of the show emerge the Rangda and Barong Dance.

Jero Mangku Alit Pande Made Nesa, the secretary of the art troupe, said that performance of all the dances remained to preserve the original style of Peliatan village.

The type of presentation was always equal to the one presented at temple in devotional works. “We

did not dare to reduce, cut or add the parts of the dance. What just show the authenticity inherited from the past,” he said.

Specialty of the Legong Peliatan, explained Jero Mangku Pande, seemed a means to introduce more about the Peliatan village, Ubud.

The Legong was trained by Gusti Niang Sengog and then continued by her pupil, Gusti Ayu Raka. “She has taught tirelessly the peculiarities of Legong Peliatan,” said the Ubud-born man in 1955.

According to Jero Mangku Pande, the story related to the founding of Gunung Sari Classical Legong troupe originated from mebarong-barongan or barong dance activities. The barong troupe made a street show at local villages. Not only that, his party had also established a troupe of male arja operetta with the support from sympathizers. In the long run, the classical art continued to grow, so

that it was almost never empty of getting show requests.

After that, in 1926 the barong troupe supported by 25 artists then established the Gong Kebyar Gunung Sari gamelan troupe of Peliatan at Kajanan Palace of Peliatan. Serving as the initiator was AA Mandera, Gusti Kompyang Pangkung, Made Bees, Pande Made Gerondong, Pande Made Ganut and friends.

To be able to exercise regularly, the troupe still borrowed gamelan instrument at the palace. Due to their seriousness, in 1930 the gamelan troupe was often believed to participate in a competition involving some counties. Since it could won the first place, then in 1931 it was appointed an ambassador to Europe by presenting Legong, Janger and Cak Dance. It was said the voyage took for six months by vessel.

Furthermore, the troupe purchased its own gamelan set where

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each member should set aside their money from their show fee. “A farmer who was cutting grass at the Gunung Sari Temple discovered a cymbal. This gamelan instrument was then used as jejaton (capital) to create a gamelan in Pande Asem, Tiyingan village, Klungkung,” told a former employee of the Gianyar Education Agency.

After that, popularity of the Gong Kebyar Gunung Sari gamelan troupe was heard to various countries. So, it was entrusted to be the ambassador of the art to London (1932); France (1952); and won the first place at the British Embassy (1953) so that it had the honor to raise red-and-white flag at the UN Building. In 1962, it made a performance in Situbondo, East Java; performance in four cities of Australia (1971); autobiographical performance in BBC London (1968); Mexico (1981); Los Angeles (1996); and returned to Europe (1998).

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Dam projects risk re-igniting Myanmar’s civil war

Crystal meth smuggler from New Zealand

Target of national police HQ Bali Post

DENPASAR - Results of the development regarding the crystal meth smuggling case by De Malmanche Antony Glen, 52, from New Zealand, revealed that the suspect posed an operation target of Directorate IV of the National Police Headquarters. According to Spokesperson of Bali Police, Hery Wiyanto, the suspect was alleged to get involved in an international drug syndicate.

“Actually the suspect was the operation target of the National Police Headquarters. We knew three days after arrested at Ngurah Rai Airport. Possibly the suspect was not only a courier,” he said.

Besides, results of the investigation indicated that when bringing the crystal meth weighing 1,709 grams, the suspect communicated to a woman with the initial Js and

two men in Africa, namely Jm and Le. “Before asked to carry a bag containing the drugs from Hong Kong, the suspect actively communicated to Js through website and e-mail. When carrying the goods, they communicated via mobile phone,” he said.

On arrival in Bali, the suspect had communicated to Js. Js stated that she would ask her secretary with the

initial Ap to pick up the suspect at the airport. Ap flew from Jakarta and met the suspect at the airport.

“We’ve been waiting, but no one came up. As planned, the package would be brought to Jakarta. Probably the arrest of the suspect has already been known by his syndicate,” said the former Spokesperson of Bengkulu Police.

Bali Police also received a letter

from the police authority and the New Zealand Consulate. The letter stated if the suspect had psychiatric or mental problems. In addition, he also tried to commit suicide for a dozen times. On that account, Bali Police was asked to conduct special surveillance for the suspect in prison. “Yesterday (Tuesday—Ed), we already brought the suspect to Trijata Hospital, but no psychiatric problems were diagnosed. The suspect only got depression as being arrested. From police records in his home country (New Zealand—Ed), since the past 13 years the suspect has threatened to commit suicide,” he said.

So far, the suspect had not been

accompanied by a lawyer. According to Heri, the investigator had appointed lawyer but was rejected by the suspect. The suspect quibbled to still contact his family. “It always happened like that, when foreigners were arrested they reasoned to still wait for the family,” said Hery.

Earlier, on Monday (Dec 1), the Customs and Excise officers of Ngurah Rai Airport, Kuta, Badung, arrested the courier from New Zealand, De Malmanche Antony Glen, 52, in the international arrival terminal. The evidence included 1.709 grams of crystal meth. The suspect flew Hong Kong Airlines with flight number HX 709 from Hong Kong to Denpasar. (kmb36)

Associated Press

EI TU HTA REFUGEE CAMP, Myanmar — Myanmar’s government calls them signposts of modernity: a string of huge dam projects along the mighty Salween River, one of Asia’s last untamed waterways, needed to meet economic goals and energy demands as the country opens its doors to the outside world.

AP Photo/Press Trust of India

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right, waves as he poses with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a photo opportunity before a meeting New Delhi, India, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014.

Putin turns to India with energy, defense offers

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IBP/Eka Adhiyasa

On Monday (Dec 1), the Customs and Excise officers of Ngurah Rai Airport, Kuta, Badung, arrested the courier from New Zealand, De Malmanche Antony Glen, 52, in the international arrival terminal.

Singaraja Immigration ready to deport 282 foreigners Bali Post

DENPASAR - Increasing foreign tourist arrivals to Bali, especially to Buleleng, are often abused by foreigners to take a job activity in a project or particular company.

This condition drew the attention of the Immigration Office Class II Singaraja throughout the year 2014.

A total of 282 foreigners were ensnared and ready to be deported.

It was revealed by the Head

of Immigration Office Class II Singaraja that foreign workers amounting to hundreds of people were from three counties such as Buleleng, Jembrana and Karangasem. The case of each individual varied, ranging from the breach of documents to violation of visiting passport taken advantage to earn a fortune in Indonesia. Thus, deportation would be done and the largest number came from Buleleng because many industrial plants in

Buleleng employed illegal foreign workers. “The illegal foreigners are dominantly from different countries,” he said, Wednesday (Dec 10).

He explained that foreigners from China were the most dominant working at the steamed-fueled power plant of Celukan Bawang.

His party did not mention in detail about the percentage of foreigners from China and other countries.

“Most foreigners are indeed from

China. They mostly worked at the industry in Gerokgak such as Celukan Bawang power plant,” he explained.

The foreigners violating immigration rules were alleged to have often committed similar offenses.

Aditya added that hundreds of the foreigners were alleged to violate because misinterpreted the immigration regulations in Indonesia.

They often worked in accordance with the company regulations, but

did not understand about relevant rules applicable in Indonesia. This year, a total of 675 foreigners worked in Buleleng. Approximately 225 people were newcomers and just started working this year. “It is related to misunderstanding on the laws in Indonesia. They think it does not violate. They make documents for tourist and business talks but instead they work there. We often encounter this kind of case,” he added. (kmb34)

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NEW DELHI — Russian President Vladimir Putin was holding talks with Indian leaders Thursday to strengthen trade and energy cooperation with Asia’s third-largest economy as Western sanctions threaten to push his country’s economy to the brink of a recession. Putin’s discussions with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi are expected to focus us on deepening ties at a time when New Delhi is perceived to be drawing closer to the United States, especially in areas such as defense and investment.

Indian officials said nearly two dozen agreements on space, defense cooperation and energy were likely to be signed. “Looking forward to a productive visit that will take India-Russia ties to newer heights,” Modi tweeted.

Putin’s visit comes as Russia is faced with plunging global oil prices and a depreciating rouble that has battered its economy.

Russia’s relations with the

Western nations have plummeted since it annexed Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula in March.

The United States and Europe have imposed sanctions for what it says is Moscow’s role in providing Ukrainian militants with personnel and arms, something Moscow denies.

The annual summit meeting would provide an opportunity for the two nations to take stock of the “special and strategic partnership” that the two countries enjoy, said Ajay Bisaria, the top official in India’s Ministry of External Affairs. “This is a very significant visit,” said Bisaria. “Russia is a long-standing and a steadfast partner for India.”

During the Cold War decades, India and the Soviet Union shared a close relationship, while the United States tilted toward India’s neighbor and rival, Pakistan, especially in the dispute over the Himalayan region of Kashmir.

India bought billions of dollars with of military hardware from Moscow during the Soviet era.

Yet to the Shan, Karen, Karenni and other ethnic minorities living in the river’s basin, the six proposed hydro-power dams symbolize violence, anxiety about the future and a tool used by authorities to secure a greater grip over their lives. Some minority leaders say tensions over the dams could even re-ignite civil war in Myanmar, or Burma.

Fighting has erupted in recent months as government troops have moved into areas around proposed dam sites, including the $2.6 billion Hut Gyi dam in Karen State in eastern Myanmar, and clashed with ethnic minority fighters in violation of cease-fires. The military also has forcibly removed thousands of residents close to dam sites, according to refugees and aid groups.

“It is clear that Hut Gyi dam and similar projects are obstructing the peace process in Burma,” said Gen. Baw Kyaw Hei, second in command of the Karen National Liberation Army, which has been fighting the government for greater autonomy since the 1940s. He

spoke while sitting in a meeting hall overlooking the river at the Ei Tu Hta camp, home to 4,000 refugees from earlier fighting that could be submerged if the dam is built.

Preliminary work on this and other dams has already begun.

Economic and environmental issues also are at stake in harnessing the power of the Salween, which seeps out of a Tibetan glacier and winds 2,800 kilometers (1,750 miles) through China’s rugged Yunnan province, Myanmar’s jungles and along the Thai border before flowing into the Indian Ocean.

The dam projects — all joint ventures with Chinese and Thai companies — include no provisions for wealth-sharing of resources between the ethnic groups and a regime dominated by the Burman majority and the powerful military despite the advent of a civilian government in 2011. Nor are there provisions for many residents whose land, villages and livelihoods might be wiped out by flooding from the

dams.

Contracts have been awarded to foreign and local investors, many of them closely tied to government or military leaders. Authorities say the dams will expand access to electricity, which the World Bank says reaches only 29 percent of households in the country. But the bulk of power generated will be sold to Thailand and China.

“Local people will get nothing in return for the destruction of the river,” said David Tharckabaw, former vice president of the Karen insurgency and one of its veteran leaders. “For development to work there must be good government, transparency, rule of law, reliable administration and institutions, and no corruption. If they come in now, it will just enrich the generals and their cronies.”

Ethnic minority leaders say the government is wrong to forge ahead with such mega-projects before reaching an equitable political resolution to the longstanding conflict.

AP Photo/David Longstreath

n this Nov. 17, 2014 photo, bamboo huts dot the landscape near the IDP camp of Ei Tu Hta, Myanmar. Myanmar’s government calls them signposts of modernity: a string of huge dam projects along the mighty Salween River, one of Asia’s last untamed waterways, needed to meet economic goals and energy demands as the country opens its doors to the outside world.

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John Galliano comeback couture collection to get London debut

Potential of Bali fishery not yet worked on maximally

Agence France-Presse

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PARIS - John Galliano, the British designer whose return to fashion was to be the highlight of the Paris couture shows in January, will debut his first collection for the French fashion house Maison Margiela in London instead of Paris, a spokesperson said Wednesday.

Galliano, 54, widely regarded as one of the most brilliant fashion minds of his generation, was sacked by Dior in March 2011 over a drunken antiSemitic tirade in a Paris bar.

“John Galliano’s first ‘Artisanal’ haute couture collection for Maison Margiela will be exceptionally presented in London on January 12, around tea time,” the house told AFP without elaborating.

“The choice of this location for John’s first show is both personal -- going back to his formative years and his beginnings in the industry -- and it is intrinsically related to the city’s traditional tailoring history and heritage,” it added.

The flamboyant designer has kept a low profile since his sacking and subsequent conviction by a French

court for anti-Semitism following his outburst in which he hurled abuse at customers in a bar in Paris’s historic Jewish quarter.

The rant, captured in a mobile phone recording, cause outrage but the designer was spared jail after the court accepted that he was sorry for his actions, which he blamed on drink and drugs.

Galliano, who spent nearly 15 years at Dior, was seen as the driving force behind Dior’s 700 million euro ($880 million) annual profits at the height of his time there.

Announcing his appointment in October as Maison Margiela creative director, Renzo Rosso, whose OTB group controls Margiela, described him as “one of the greatest undisputed talents of all time”.

Galliano underwent treatment for drug and alcohol abuse at an Arizona rehabilitation centre following the scandal.

He later told a magazine he had been sickened to see the video evidence against him, insisting he was baffled by the drunken rant.

“It’s the worst thing I have said in my life, but I didn’t mean it... I have been trying to find out why that anger was directed at this race (the Jewish people),” he told Vanity Fair magazine.

“I now realise I was so... angry and so discontent with myself that I just said the most spiteful thing I could.”

Maison Margiela said Galliano’s collection would also be presented by appointment during the Paris couture shows from January 25 to 31.

Study proves high heels do have power over men Associated Press

PARIS — The well-heeled Marilyn Monroe reportedly once said if you give a girl the right shoes, she can conquer the world.

The allure of high-heeled shoes is no secret among women, who have used them to entice men from the streets of Ancient Rome to the New York City sidewalks of Carrie Bradshaw. Heels have also been a controversial symbol in the battleground of sexual politics.

Now a scientific study in France has measured their power.

Scientists from the Universite de Bretagne-Sud conducted experiments that showed that men behave very differently toward high-heeled women.

The results, published online in the journal “Archives of Sexual Behaviour,” may please the purveyors of Christian Louboutin or Jimmy Choo shoes — yet frustrate those who think stilettos encourage sexism.

The study found if a woman drops a glove on the street while wearing heels, she’s almost 50 percent more likely to have a man fetch it for her than if she’s wearing flats.

Another finding: A woman wearing heels is twice as likely to persuade men to stop and answer survey questions on the street. And a high-heeled woman in a bar waits half the time to get picked up

by a man, compared to when her heel is nearer to the ground.

“Women’s shoe heel size exerts a powerful effect on men’s behavior,” says the study’s author, Nicolas Gueguen, a behavioral science researcher.

“Simply put, they make women more beautiful.”

Raised shoes have an unglamorous beginning: worn first by Egyptian butchers, who donned platforms to avoid treading in bloody offal.

But on women as “signifiers of femininity,” raised shoes initially appeared in Ancient Greece and Rome, according to Elizabeth Semmelhack of The Bata Shoe Museum. In Rome, where the sex trade was legal, high heels helped clients identify prostitutes in crowds.

Although high heels were worn for centuries in the Ottoman Empire and in Persia for horseback riding, they only minced into the West in the 1500s, when they were associated with imperial power and popularized as erotic in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Such was the allure that a person with status or wealth became referred to as “well-heeled.”

This study shows this allure is very much alive.

“Though it’s a relatively small cross-section, this study is very significant since the results are clear and

consistent,” said Paris-based sociologist Jean-Claude Kaufmann, who was not involved in the study. “In a relation of seduction, men are very attracted by a woman in heels as she looks taller, more sexually confident, sure of herself, with a lengthened silhouette and sensual jutting buttocks.”

Gueguen’s study had 19-year-old female volunteers wearing black shoes with heels that were 0.5cm (0.2 inches) or 5cm (2 inches) or 9cm (3 1/2 inches) high. Then they asked men between the ages of 25-50 for help in various circumstances.

One situation involved a woman asking passers-by: “Excuse me, sir.

We are currently conducting a survey on gender equality. Would you agree to answer our questionnaire?” Flat heels got a 46.7% answer rate, medium heels a 63% rate and the highest heels a whopping 83% success rate from the men.

Nowadays, the most fashionable heels on the runways and in nightclubs are higher still — with spiked heels commonly measuring 10 cm (4 inches) and extreme heels, dangerously, above 13 cm (5 inches).

Medically, high heels can cause back pain and increase the risk of ankle injuries. Prolonged heel wearing can even permanently shorten calf tendons.

Sneaker Trend The list of designers sending sneakers down the fashion runways is growing as men find their fashion comfort zone, mixing formal with informal.

AP Photo/Salvatore Ferragamo

Salvatore Ferragamo ostrich high-top sneaker.

DENPASAR - So far, the fishery potential of Bali has not been worked on maximally. Of the 147 tons of sustainable potential per year, the utilized fishery production just amounts to 102,000 tons per year. Similarly, the marine culture area reaching 1,500 hectares can only be utilized as much as 60 percent to date.

“Now, the problem lies in our resources, namely the facilities and human resources. Well, our human resources have not been able to use technology, whereas we have equipment to forecast where the fish is. Our fishermen have not been able to access it,” said the Head of Bali Maritime and Fisheries Affairs, I Made Gunaja.

Another problem, added Gunaja, was that our fishermen in Bali were generally accustomed to fishing within a day or two days. As a result, the cost incurred for fishing was high, especially when they did not catch any fish, so that they often suffered losses. Actually his party expected the fishermen could catch fish with a distance of over 12 miles, with fishing time surpassing the usual ones.

“Potential in the water of more than 12 miles away is very high.

In the future, we expect they could catch fish farther than 12 miles.

The area has greater potential,” he explained. Currently, said Gunaja, tuna remained to dominate the whole fishery potential in Bali with the catch nearly reached 48,000 tons per year. Tuna fishery with long line system was widely available at Benoa. Meanwhile, the other potential consisted of red snapper and little tuna.

“Our eastern regions have the potential of little tuna used as ingredient of boiled fish in Klungkung, and we have a great potential in Karangasem. Meanwhile, marine aquaculture like grouper is carried out in Buleleng, but now it has prominent product like white snapper,” he concluded. (kmb32)

IBP/Yudi Karnaedi

So far, the fishery potential of Bali has not been worked on maximally. Of the 147 tons of sustainable potential per year, the utilized fishery production just amounts to 102,000 tons per year.

Similarly, the marine culture area reaching 1,500 hectares can only be utilized as much as 60 percent to date.

Carving of Batuan

Teak root craft exported throughout the world

Bali Post

AP Photo/Salvatore Ferragamo

Salvatore Ferragamo leather high-top sneaker.

AP Photo/Salvatore Ferragamo

Salvatore Ferragamo crocodile high-top sneaker.

GIANYAR - Various works of art produced by Batuan village, Sukawati, have been well-known as prominent products for travelers because they have a peculiarity either at painting, webbing or carving. Yet another case happens to teak root crafts which are less desirable when collaborated with distinctive touches of Batuan village.

Nevertheless, the craft depicting root naturalization in the form of furniture is still loved by travelers from all over the world.

“At first I pursued this profession, I embellished with typical carving of Batuan learned since my childhood, such as the atmosphere of farming or other Balinese motif. However, travelers were reluctant to pay more.

They even prefer the root furniture with a natural shape,” said Nyoman Legiawan, the owner of root furniture, Wednesday (Des 10).

The man from Dentis hamlet, Batuan village, recounted that he originally wanted to give a new touch to the typical carving style of Batuan village by using teak root media brought in from Java. “Approximately 10 years

ago, I saw this craft in Java. At that time, I imagined to use the motif of Balinese carving on teak root media,” he said.

However, after made with a fairly complicated process, in fact, travelers paid the same price as the teak root furniture without carving. “At that time, I have already convinced the travelers, but they were more interested in the natural design of the roots,” he said.

Legiawan who followed the consumer demand finally managed to penetrate international market, especially Europe. Now, the export of his root furniture such as desks, chairs and disc table has continuously spread to Asia, Europe and Australia. “In Europe and Australia, more buyers like natural shape without finishing because it was commonly used for outdoor need in cold temperatures. However, the Asian market still needs a finishing touch to make it more beautiful,” he explained.

Special secret in shaping the root furniture, added Legiawan, was the ability to make innovation and find design in the groove of teak root without damaging the original indentation.

“Indeed this requires special skills

because not everyone can innovate and capture the interesting shapes of the random teak root,” he said.

Nevertheless, he admitted to often create the artworks by using teak root materials with the motif of Balinese carving. It was carried out to channel his architectural art as a legacy

from his parents. This craft was also often sold such as Balinese carved doors made from teak root. “Aside from furniture, I still like to carve as previously taught by my father because basically we are an undagi (traditional architecture) family,” he said. (nik)

IBP/Manik

Various works of art produced by Batuan village, Sukawati, have been well-known as prominent products for travelers because they have a peculiarity either at painting, webbing or carving. Yet another case happens to teak root crafts which are less desirable when collaborated with distinctive touches of Batuan village.

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Galungan holiday

Employees of banking in Bali protest BI’s policy

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AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati

Russian Magnaeva Aleksandra, center, is escorted by Indonesian custom officers to a press conference in Bali, Indonesia, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014. Indonesian customs officers detained the Russian on Sunday for allegedly smuggling methamphetamine onto the tourist island of Bali.

Russian woman arrested for drugs smuggling Agence France-Presse

DENPASAR - A young Russian woman may face the death penalty for allegedly attempting to smuggle crystal methamphetamine into the resort island of Bali, an Indonesian customs official said Thursday.

Aleksandra Magnaeva, 26, was detained Sunday after arriving in Bali on a flight from Hong Kong with 2.1 kilograms (4.6 pounds) of the drug stashed in her two bags.

“The maximum penalty is death,” said Budi Harjanto, the Bali airport customs chief. He did not give an estimated street value for the drugs.

Magnaeva said during questioning that her boyfriend, with whom she had been living in China, had told her to pass the drugs on to someone on Bali, the official said.

The Russian said she had brought

the drugs via land from mainland China to Hong Kong, and that it was her first time smuggling drugs into Bali, Harjanto said.

However she told officials that she had trafficked drugs throughout Asia, including to Thailand, numerous times, he added.

Customs officials detected similarities in her case and that of a New Zealand man caught attempting to smuggle crystal methamphetamine into Bali last week, but said authorities were yet to conclude whether the two were linked.

Indonesia enforces some of the stiffest penalties for drug trafficking in the world, including life imprisonment and death.

Foreigners are frequently arrested for attempting to smuggle narcotics into hard-partying Bali, and some have been handed the death sentence.

New Indonesian President Joko Widodo said this week that there will be no pardons for drug traffickers on death row, dashing hopes he might take a softer stance on capital punishment.

DENPASAR - The policy of Bank Indonesia (BI) to impose optional holiday (extra leave) in the celebration of Galungan reaped a protest from many bank employees. Such policy made a number of banks choose to remain in operation, so that Hindu employees could not perform the celebration of victory.

According to them, the Decree of the Governor of Bank Indonesia No.16/13 /KEP.GBI/INTERN/2014 stipulated that on the Galungan Feast on Wednesday (Dec 17) the banking employees in Bali Province practicing Hinduism were given optional holiday to carry out Galungan worship. But in the letter, the Representative Office of Bank Indonesia for Region III Bali-Nusra ascertained if the operations of public service continued to run well.

Related to this issue, BI left it completely to the bankers whether the operational activities of bank would refer to the decree. BI expected the bankers to inform it as early as possible via letter if the bank operation would impose a holiday on the feast of the Sacred Galungan.

“Of course, the banks headquartered in Jakarta will choose to open because there (Jakarta—Ed) the Galungan celebration is unlike in Bali. Thus, we celebrating the Galungan Feast are automatically forced to join the headquarters’ decision,” complained Bagus Sena, one of the private bank employees in Denpasar, Wednesday (Dec 10).

According to him, the policy of BI that did not impose a joint holiday on the celebration of Galungan was the first time applied.

“Previously, BI always imposed a joint holiday, so that we the Hindus can focus on celebrating Galungan,” he said.

He hoped the decree on optional holiday signed off by Representative Office of Bank Indonesia for Region III Bali-Nusa Tenggara, Benny Siswanto, could be revised, and enforced joint holiday. “Hopefully, this policy could be discussed with relevant parties so that the Hindus could perform worship solemnly,” he said.

Nyoman Suci and other bank employees also hoped that BI could review the decision, so that the Hindus who worked in banking sector could celebrate Galungan. “If the decision is handed over to central office, it will certainly apply the operation as usual. Then, we are mostly the Hindus must follow the policy of central office, so that we cannot celebrate,” she said.

She also said that her professional colleagues who worked in banks also complained about the policy. Similar public complaints were also submitted to the editor of Bali Post. “My colleagues working in other private banks also complained about the same matter, except for the BPD where I’ve got information if the employees got holiday,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Representative Office Chief of Bank Indonesia for Region III Bali-Nusa Tenggara, Benny Siswanto, when asked for his confirmation stated if the policy issued by Bank Indonesia was the result of consultation with the Governor of Bali on October 22, 2014. The policy applied to bank employees practicing Hinduism.

“At the BI we will remain open restrictively and operate to serve banks and the public. This is to ensure if the operation of public services continues to run well,” he said.

He asserted that his party have authorized for bankers to determine their respective bank operations. “We leave it entirely to the bankers if their bank operations are referring to the Decree of the Governor of Bali,” he said. (kmb27)

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Favehotels arrives in Rembang IBP

JAKARTA – Bringing a breath of fresh air to Central Java and the City of Rembang, Archipelago International launched its newest favehotel on December 10, 2014 in Rembang.

A simple yet stylish hotel, favehotel Rembang enjoys a central and easily accessible location overlooking the Java Sea and Rembang’s glittering black sandy beaches, setting itself up to become one of the most popular budget hotels in the area.

Rembang sits in the northeastern part of Indonesia’s province of Central Java, about 160km northwest of Surabaya. With a large multi ethnic mostly Javanese, Madurese and Chinese population, the City is both

bustling and full of multicultural customs. For business and leisure travelers, there is also a beach, a busy port and a number of government buildings, all within easy reach of the hotel.

Consisting of 102 modern guests rooms, favehotel Rembang will deliver a smart and stylish stay without the overpriced frills. This chic-butcheap favehotel concept allows the hotel to offer good rates on its spacious and stylish rooms, without sac-

rificing on the quality of its facilities.

High-end amenities include top of the line beds and cotton linen, LCD TVs and complimentary WiFi throughout the entire hotel. And, with a team of professionally trained staff on hand, each stay is topped off with a pleasant and attentive service.

In addition to the in-room facilities, the hotel also offers a signature Lime Coffee Shop, several functional meeting rooms including Ballroom with capacity up to 700 pax, a swim-

Calendar Event for November 26 through December 22, 2014 26 Nov Buda Cemeng Warigadean Pura KapisahSumerta Denpasar Pura Pasek GelgelGerih Abian Semal Denpasar Pura Puncak SariPenarukan Peninjoan Bangli Pura Anteg Sari Dangin Pangkung Kediri Tabanan Pura Bangun SaktiBesakih Pura Pesimpangan Batur Pande Kediri Tabanan 27 Nov Kajeng Kliwon Enyitan

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Sidan Gianyar Pura Puseh Penengil Darma Kubu Tambahan Singaraja Pura Dalem Maya Blah Batuh Gianyar Linggih Bhatara Kayu Selem Penataran Agung Besakih 6 Des Purnama Sasih Kenam Aci-aci Penyeheb Brahman dipura Kiduling Kleteb Besakih Pura Lingsar Lombok Pura Bebengan Tanjung Lombok Pura Dalem Putra Benawah Gianyar 11 Des Sugihan Jawa Pura Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Tangkas Klungkung Pura Siang Kangin Tampuagan Peninjoan Tembuku Bangli Odalan Ida Ratu Mas Di Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Odalan Ida Bhatara Bang Tulus dewa Besakih 12 Des Sugihan Bali dan Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan

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ming pool, gym and spa blending functionality with affordability.

“Rembang is unlike like most cities in Indonesia. It is a city that is yet to be discovered by many tourists, but it is bustling with business opportunities, cultural sites and impressive beaches for that all-important downtime. Just like our other favehotel properties, the chic-but-cheap concept of favehotel Rembang will be a new breed of hotel for Rembang, and we are confident it will aid in enticing more business and leisure travelers to this up and coming area.” Said John Flood, Archipelago International’s President & CEO.

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

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

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

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbulumbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land.

Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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has often made for a livelier mix.

The 72nd annual Golden Globe Awards will be announced Thursday morning the approximately 8:20 a.m. EST. The nominations will be streamed live from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on GoldenGlobes.com, with top categories also carried live by NBC’s “Today.” Kate Beckinsale, Jeremy Piven, Paula Patton and Peter Krause will be on hand to read the nominees.

For the third time in a row, the Globes telecast will be hosted by Fey and Poehler. The show will air live from the Beverly Hilton on Sunday, Jan. 11. Last year’s awards drew 20.9 million viewers, marking it the most-

watched Globes since 2004.

The Hollywood Foreign Press, a collection of about 85 largely freelance journalists, is known for their occasionally curious picks and their penchant for finding reason to honor big-name celebrities. So some curveballs will likely be tossed Thursday, though their influence on the larger Oscar race will be less certain.

Thus far, Richard Linklater’s long-in-the-making coming-of-age drama “Boyhood” has emerged as the awards season favorite, taking top honors from the New York Film Critics Circle and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. But sup-

Joan Rivers’ will leaves money for charities

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NEW YORK — Joan Rivers’ left her daughter, Melissa, in charge of her fortune and left money for some of her favorite charities, including Guide Dogs for the Blind, Jewish Guild Healthcare and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. According to Rivers’ 2014 will, which was filed in New York State Surrogate’s Court, the late comedian made Melissa Rivers her will’s executor with “the broadest and most absolute permissible direction” over a fortune that has been estimated as high as $150 million.

Other charities she singled out were the New York-based food pantry God’s Love We Deliver, the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Jewish Home and Hospital Foundation in Manhattan. Rivers died Sept. 4 at 81 of brain damage due to lack of oxygen. She’d stopped breathing during an endoscopy days earlier.

The late comedian asked that her business manager Michael D. Karlin and interior designer Robert Higdon be named co-executors of the living trust.

Specifics of her assets and how they will be divided haven’t been disclosed.

Bequests were made to her assistants, Sabrina Lott and Jocelyn Pickett, her friend Scott Currie, and Rivers’ niece and nephew, Caroline Waxler and Andrew Waxler.

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Investment challenge in Bali tourism sector 2015

NEW YORK — Revelers in Hollywood’s quickening awards season will be pushed to two sides of the dance floor in Thursday’s Golden Globes nominations: drama and comedy.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s way of dividing the movie world in half should result in some extra love for funnier films often edged out by their more serious brethren.

Expect the likes of Wes Anderson’s “Grand Budapest Hotel,” the Disney musical “Into the Woods” and Bill Murray’s “St. Vincent” to find room among this season’s favorites such as “Boyhood,” ‘’Birdman,” ‘’Selma” and “The Imitation Game.”

The drama-comedy separation isn’t always clean (the black-andwhite yuckfest “Nebraska” somehow squeaked into comedy last year), but the Globes’ embrace of comedy (along with hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler)

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economy as well as grew a business climate with global competitiveDENPASAR - Investment in tourism sector on the Island of the Gods in 2015 is believed by ness and firmness in cultural toursome circles to remain a mainstay. However, there will be challenges due to overlapping imple- ism identity. Besides, it was also mentation of government policies as well as incompatible environmental and safety issues, so capable of developing renewable resources, richness in creativity and that the relatively large investment will be accompanied with higher risk. innovation and giving positive imIt was expressed by the Chair- investment.

Tourism competitiveness will in- pact on all stakeholders and public man of the Indonesian Employ“This causes the fund spent is rela- crease to the position number 70 welfare in Bali with balanced and ers Association (Apindo) of Bali tively high and has a high risk as well. of the 140 countries, where it was equitable manner.

According to Prof. Dr. I Wayan Chapter, Panudiana Kuhn, in the Moreover, the issue of the environ- previously ranked 74th,” he said. seminar on the Prospect of Eco- mental security that does not support He admitted that tourism was Ramantha, a lecturer at the Facnomic Outlook 2015 in Denpasar, can have an impact on the investments one of the sectors that made an ulty of Economics and Business, Bali, Wednesday (Dec 10). in tourism sector,” he said. important contribution to national Udayana University doubling as According to him, the tourism He said the other challenges and regional economic growth RCE BNI, the economic recovery development in the region would faced in investments in the leading of Bali. Even, the contribution of towards a better, healthier and result in growing prices, including sector was the presence of more and tourism service sector occupied the balanced condition was expected the price of land so that the cost of more budget hotels as well as more highest position, namely 53.32 per- to continue in 2015 supported by infrastructure development could be and more competitors from the cent (2013) compared to the other the US economic recovery. Bali’s high. Meanwhile, on the other hand countries equally becoming tourist sectors, such as manufacturing, economy was largely generated by there were overlapping govern- destinations in the region such as agriculture and others. “To improve service sector especially by trading, ment regulation, unsynchronized Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam. performance, it is necessary to de- hotel and restaurant (PHR) sector that gave contribution as much as policies and weak coordination “Nevertheless, the sector still velop creative tourism,” he said. between stakeholders who did not provides an opportunity with the The development model, ex- 30.16 percent. On the other hand as fully support the ease of investment support of the government through plained Kuhn, gave positive con- an agrarian region, the agricultural process, both foreign and domestic the Law No.10/2009 on Tourism. tribution in the macro and micro sector still gave substantial contriBali Post

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This image released by IFC Films shows Ellar Coltrane at age six in a scene from the film,”Boyhood.” port is also strong for the Michael Keaton-led “Birdman” (which topped the Gotham Independent Awards), the civil rights drama

“Selma,” the World War II codebreaker tale “The Imitation Game” and the Stephen Hawking biopic “The Theory of Everything.”

Wahlberg acknowledges varied opinions about pardon Associated Press

NEW YORK — Since it was revealed Mark Wahlberg is seeking a pardon in Massachusetts for assaults he committed as a teen, the actor is well aware that the court of public opinion has weighed in on why he wants one and whether he deserves it. “Everyone has an opinion and has a reason why they think I’m doing it,” said the actor Wednesday at the New York premiere of his new movie “The Gambler,” opening Dec. 25.

“I’ve been working very hard to correct a lot of mistakes that I made since the day that I woke up and realized, ‘You know what? I need to be a leader instead of a follower,’” he said.

A document was filed Nov. 26 requesting the pardon. It states in 1988, when Wahlberg was 16, he hit a man in the head with a wooden stick while

trying to steal two cases of alcohol in front of a convenience store near his family’s home in the Dorchester section of Boston. He punched another man in the face while trying to avoid police.

Wahlberg admits in the application that he was high on marijuana and narcotics at the time.

He ended up being convicted as an adult of assault and other charges, and he was sentenced to three months in jail. He said he was released after serving about 45 days.

Wahlberg, 43, who went on to be a rapper and then A-list actor who’s been nominated for an Oscar, said he isn’t trying to use his public persona to sway the decision.

“In no way shape or form was I trying to use my celebrity or success to say, ‘Well, I feel entitled to get this because of the fame and fortune.’”

bution reaching 16.17 percent.

“Projection on the Bali’s economic growth is from 6 to 6.25 percent with 4.25 -5.25 percent inflation.

Banking services remain tight with high interest rates,” he said.

Representative Office Chief of Bank Indonesia for Region III BaliNusra, Benny Siswanto, also said that BI of Bali-Nusra Representative in 2015 believed that economic growth would be in the range of 6.0 to 6.5 percent (yoy). The strong growth was driven by strong consumption and investment climate in line with the implementation of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) and improved transport.

Estimation on the strengthening consumption was in line with the survey results of Bank Indonesia that showed the improvement in the expectations of revenue and economic growth in 2015.

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The view of Benoa Toll project during sunset. Investment in tourism sector on the Island of the Gods in 2015 is believed by some circles to remain a mainstay.

However, there will be challenges due to overlapping implementation of government policies as well as incompatible environmental and safety issues, so that the relatively large investment will be accompanied with higher risk.