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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

‘Boyhood’ wins big at Globes

LOS ANGELES - Coming-of-age drama “Boyhood” emerged triumphant Sunday at the Golden Globes, Hollywood’s biggest awards show before the all-important Oscars, as celebrities vowed solidarity with France after the Paris attacks.

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“Boyhood” cast players pose in the press room with the award for best motion picture at the 72nd annual Golden Globe Awardsz on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015, in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Clooney wins DeMille Award at Globes

George Clooney accepted a lifetime achievement award from the Golden Globes Sunday by honoring others — his Hollywood colleagues, his new wife and millions who marched in the wake of attacks in France last week.

The veteran actor who moved from “ER” into movies was given the Cecil B. DeMille Award, an honor that has gone to the likes of Walt Disney, Bob Hope, Alfred Hitchcock and, in recent years, to Jodie Foster, Morgan Freeman and Robert DeNiro. He was introduced by two former co-workers, Julianne Margulies and Don Cheadle.

“You’ve always been very kind to me,” he said, addressing the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which has nominated Clooney in more Golden Globe categories than any person. “I thank you for keeping small films alive.

Big ones do fine. It’s the little ones that need an audience.”

The newlywed actor’s wife, Amal Alamuddin, watched from the audience.

“It’s a humbling thing when you find someone to love,” Clooney said, looking out at her. “Even better when you’ve been waiting your whole life.”

He recalled how actors who are nominated but don’t win awards can go home

feeling like losers and reminded those in the audience that they aren’t.

“If you are in this room, you’ve caught the brass ring,” he said.

“You’ve gotten to do what you’ve always dreamed of doing. That isn’t losing.”

Clooney wore a “Je Suis Charlie” button on his tuxedo lapel in support of the French satirical magazine that was targeted by gunmen in France last week. He saluted the millions of people who honored the victims by marching in the street this weekend.

“They didn’t march in protest,” Clooney said. “They marched in support of the idea that we will not walk in fear.” (ap)

The film won three Globes including the coveted best drama prize and best director honors for Richard Linklater at the starstudded ceremony at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles.

The pioneering movie -- made over 12 years with the same cast of actors portraying a child’s growth to adulthood -- also won a best supporting actress trophy for Patricia Arquette.

“This was a very personal film for me ... and it means so much to us that people have seen it and responded to it in that personal way,” Linklater said.

Dark comedy “Birdman” -- which had started the evening with the most nominations at seven -- and “The Theory of Everything,” about world-famous scientist Stephen Hawking, each took home two awards.

The Globes give the winning films vital momentum just days before nominations are announced Thursday for next month’s Oscars, the climax of Tin-

seltown’s annual awards season.

Voting for the Oscar nominations is over, but Globe winners can use their trophies to fuel their Academy Award campaigns. All three leading Globes winners -- “Boyhood,” “Birdman” and “The Theory of Everything” -- are relatively low budget films, confirming a trend among the frontrunners in this year’s awards race.

“Birdman,” about a washed-up film actor trying to revive his career on stage, took best musical/comedy actor prize for Michael Keaton, and best screenplay for director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.

“The Theory of Everything,” the moving story of Hawking’s descent into disability as a young man, won best drama actor honors for Britain’s Eddie Redmayne, as well as best original score.

The prize for best comedy/musical film went to “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” a stylish caper starring Ralph Fiennes, while Amy Adams won best actress in a musical/comedy for art fraud film “Big Eyes.” (afp)

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Balinese should become subject on development DENPASAR - If Bali is analogized into a hook, then culture is the bait used to attract travelers to the Island of the Gods.

On that account, the bait should be well maintained so that not all people will think of how to make an aquarium or make fish cage without ever keeping and paying attention to the bait, in this case the culture itself.

It was revealed by Chairman of the Indonesia Hotels and Restaurants Association (PHRI) of Bali Chapter, Tjokorda Artha Ardana Sukawati, in the dialogue entitled “Mental Revolution from Bali to

Save Mother Earth” in the series of the K. Nadha Nugraha Press Award, Saturday (Jan 10).

“Balinese people as the actor of Balinese culture are not only positioned as an object of the

tourism development but also as the subject of tourism development itself. Limitation existing in Balinese society, access to capital and access to knowledge are still relatively lacking in the era of globalization compared to the other countries. Therefore, this will stay to require government intervention and its participation in caring for, not only the humans, but also the nature including their belief,”

said the man familiarly called Cok Ace. Meanwhile, Executive Director of the Friends of the Earth Indonesia (WALHI) Abetnego Tarigan saw there was anxiety that Bali would go the same as Hawaii that relied on buildings and the aquarium. Then, there were so many imitations to be built. According to him, they were actually not natural.

“Even, we do not have such

kind of objects because what we fear of the exploitative and imitative buildings is that Balinese people are simply referred to as a factor of production. It is more hazardous than more than just an object but only becomes a factor of production like labor, money and tools. They can only eat so that it simply moves in imitative development,” he said in the same dialogue.

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Golden Globes Winner Motion Pictures - Picture, Drama: “Boyhood.”

- Picture, Musical or Comedy: “The Grand Budapest Hotel.”

- Actor, Drama: Eddie Redmayne, “The Theory of Everything” - Actress, Drama: Julianne Moore, “Still Alice.”

- Director: Richard Linklater, “Boyhood.

- Actor, Musical or Comedy: Michael Keaton, “Birdman.”

- Actress, Musical or Comedy: Amy Adams, “Big Eyes.”

- Supporting Actor: J.K. Simmons, “Whiplash.”

- Supporting Actress: Patricia Arquette, “Boyhood.”

- Foreign Language: “Leviathan.”

- Animated Film: “How to Train Your Dragon 2.”

Television - Series, Drama: “The Affair.”

- Actor, Drama: Kevin Spacey, “House of Cards.”

- Actress, Drama: Ruth Wilson, “The Affair.”

- Series, Musical or Comedy: “Transparent.”

- Actress, Musical or Comedy: Gina Rodriguez, “Jane the Virgin.”

- Actor, Musical or Comedy: Jeffrey Tambor, “Transparent.”

- Miniseries or Movie: “Fargo.”

- Actress, Miniseries or Movie: Maggie Gyllenhaal, “The Honorable Woman.”

- Actor, Miniseries or Movie: Billy Bob Thornton, “Fargo.”

- Supporting Actress, Series, Miniseries or Movie: Joanne Froggatt, “Downton Abbey.”

- Supporting Actor, Series, Miniseries or Movie: Matt Bomer, “The Normal Heart.”

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Traditional boats belong to fishermen parked at Sanur Beach, Bali Island. Balinese people as the actor of Balinese culture are not only positioned as an object of the tourism development but also as the subject of tourism development itself.

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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Bali News Admission fee hike plan

Tanah Lot management asks for time to educate

TABANAN - The admission fee to the Tanah Lot tourist attraction is considered much cheaper than that of other tourist attractions outside Bali. For this reason, the Tabanan government along with the Tanah Lot customary village heads, plan to increase the admission fee. Management is ready to implement the fee hike anytime but acknowledges that travel agencies and tour guides need some time to integrate the change “Hopefully, the admission fee increase will not be implemented the news has been dissemination to travel agencies, travelers and tour guides” said Operations Manager of Tanah Lot tourist attraction, Toya Adnyana, some time ago.

According to Toya, the new admission fee could be increased to USD 5 or about IDR 50,000 per person for foreign travelers from the 15,000-IDR 30,000 per person for foreign travelers that it is now. While domestic travelers would pay between IDR 15,000 and IDR 20,000 per person instead of IDR 7,500-IDR 10,000 per person. If the

proposed fee hike is approved, it could be applied as early as 2015 or 2016.

Aside from the plan to the increase the admission fee, Tanah Lot plans to improve its facilites in 2015, including adding more CCTVs in the Southern and Western area of the site. “Right now, we have 16 CCTVs placed at a number of critical points but the south and west remain without cameras,” said Toya. The reserved and VIP parking areas are two other vulnerable points in need of cameras, according to Toya who hopes the governing bodies with respond favorably to this proposal. (kmb24)

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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

NUSA DUA - The Mulia, Mulia Resort & Villas - Nusa Dua, Bali closed 2014 with an exclusive performance by the Earth, Wind & Fire Experience feat. Al McKay Allstars at The Mulia, Mulia Resort & Villas. The band closed the year with hundreds of Mulia guest in the glamorous setting of the Grand Ballroom of Mulia Resort on 31 December 2014.

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The buses are parked on the parking area of Tanah Lot.

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GIANYAR – Famers in Gianyar region, continue to face various challenges, ranging from drought to flooding and now trouble getting their hands on urea fertililzer.

Made Lonto expressed some of the difficulties faced by farmers in the “voice of Gianyar” section of the Bali Post daily newspaper, Saturday (Jan 10). This farmer from Payangan explained: “I have difficulty in obtaining the scarce urea, plus, the terms and conditions for aquiring it are very troublesome,” he said. Presumably he is referring to the trouble faced by farmers that do not belong to a Group Need Definitive Plan (RDKK).

Head of Gianyar Agriculture Agency, Dewi Hariani, on Sunday (Jan11), denied the scarcity of urea in Gianyar region. In 2014, her party actually experienced overstock of urea. However, to gain access to the distribution of the fertilizer, farmers are obliged

to create a Group Need Definitive Plan. “Such a document cannot be created by an individual -only by a subak group, and it must be submitted a month in advance of need”, she explained.

According to her, the problem frequently faced in the field is delay in delivery due to late document submission. “As a matter of practice, each company has to follow procedure for urea distribution. The Group Need Definitive Plan must be submitted from retailers to the distributors and then to manufacturers. Only after the plan has been approved, can the fertilizer be distributed to farmers.

This flow of information is very confidential so we cannot allow fertilizer to be sold to individuals,” she said.

Another phenomenon frequently encountered, said Dewi, was the delay in planting during the recent dry season due to shortages of water. This late planting

and lack of water means that they will need fertilizer this year. “We therefor allocated extra fertilizer to deal with the need which in the end caused an overstock of urea in 2014. “ she said. Data regarding the exact amounts were apparently not available at the office.

When asked about the amount of fertilizer allocated to farmers, she said would depend on the proposal of the Group Need Definitive Plan of each subak organization. Regardless, her party nonetheless prepares the amount of fertilizer by referring to the area of agricultural land, say for 14,706 hectares harvesting twice, multiplied by 200 kg of fertilizer for each farmer for example. “Although we have such calculations, the order for fertilizers is sometimes uncertain, especially when farmers delay their planting,” she said, adding that the price of RPK fertilizer is IDR 2,300, and urea costs IDR 1,800 per kg. (kmb35)

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Mulia Bali celebrates NYE with exclusive performance Earth, Wind & Fire sang a number of songs as well as all time favourite hits, such as September, Can’t Let Go, In The Stone, Fantasy and many more in an exclusive show that rocked the Grand Ballroom.

Meanwhile, with another special treat Color Me Badd, famous R&B vocal group in the 1990s performed at Living Room, The Lounge and ZJ’s Bar & Lounge. They performed to entertain Mulia’s guests during dinner at Living Room and The Lounge for a countdown party as well as after the countdown at ZJ’s Bar & Lounge. They sang many hits including I Adore Mi Amor, I Wanna Sex You Up and All 4 Love.

The Mulia, Mulia Resort & Villas, is home to three ultraluxurious properties that offer breathtaking views of the Indian Ocean to create a relaxing haven with lavish amenities and incredible service. (r)

Farmers of Payangan difficult to get urea

The farmer are drying his paddy.

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Reza Sunardi:

Must be ready to become a leader

Many roads lead to Rome, many roads lead to success despite having to be snaky and facing obstacles. Probably it is a maxim describing exactly how a success can be achieved. It must be accompanied with great effort and struggle. Related to this matter, not long ago, the Executive Assistant Manager of the Padma Resort Bali at Legian, Reza Sunardi, successfully attended a General Manager Program (GMP). It was organized at the Cornell School of Hotel Administration, New York, providing him with new knowledge about leadership. “By chance, I was the only participant from Bali where I should pass a pre-qualification test before participating in the GMP,” he said at the beginning of the conversation.

When attending the two-week session, Reza, thus his nickname, met with many general managers in the hospitality industry. Among them, 25 people were from Europe, 10 from America, 5 people from Africa and the rest from Asia, including Bali. “Coming home from attending the program, we have more global mindset toward a phenomenon,” said the figure also filling the position as the

Director of Education and Training Program in the Bali Hotels Association (BHA).

Regarding the leadership, this Brand Specialist and Facilitator of the Markplus Institute of Marketing was interesting to opine. According to him, a leader was advised to implement the Sustainable Business Enterprise.

In this case, the leader should improve the conceptual and analytical thinking in order to bring in profits to companies and organizations.

In addition, said Reza, in the tourism industry in particular was highly needed the achievement oriented leaders. On that account, it was required qualified leaders or human resources. “At least, they can make changes in the economic, business and workforce behavior aspect,” said the man who had a wealth of experience in the tourism industry for 24 years.

“Unready human resources to be a leader will result in less optimal quality of performance.

So, they will be better to get training from the institutions with high competency. By all means, it is intended to improve the skills of management,” he concluded. (ocha)

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

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

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

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “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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Science

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Leave coal, oil in ground for climate’s sake

PARIS - The Middle East must leave 40 percent of its oil reserves in the ground, and China, the US and Russia most of their coal if global warming is to be curbed, researchers said Wednesday.

Globally, a third of oil, half of gas and over 80 percent of coal reserves must be left untouched until 2050, according to a novel breakdown of “unburnable” fossil-fuel stocks published in the journal Nature.

This is the sole way to meet the UN target of limiting warming to 2.0 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-Industrial Revolution levels, said co-author Christophe McGlade of University College London.

“Policymakers must realise

that their instincts to completely use the fossil fuels within their countries are wholly incompatible with their commitments to the 2 C goal,” he warned.

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates that for a good chance of meeting the target, further emissions of Earth-warming greenhouse gases must be limited to about 1,000 billion tonnes (gigatonnes).

But global fossil fuel reserves, on current estimates, would emit three times this total if used, said

the study.

UN members are negotiating a global carbon-cutting climate pact to be signed in Paris in December.

At current rates, emissions are steering the world towards potentially catastrophic warming of 4 C or more, scientists say.

“Companies spent over $670 billion (565 billion euros) last year searching for and developing new fossil fuel resources,” said McGlade’s colleague and co-author Paul Ekins.

“They will need to rethink such substantial budgets if policies are implemented to support the 2 C limit, especially as new discoveries cannot lead to increased aggregate production.”

For their project, McGlade and Ekins made a best estimate of quantities and locations of oil, gas and coal resources, and then assessed how much could be safely used, per region, up to 2050.

They used two scenarios -- one with “widespread deployment” of carbon capture and storage (CCS) facilities, a technology in its infancy, and one with no CCS. Even if CCS is widely implemented, over 430 billion barrels of oil must be left unburned, the

pair said.

Under this scenario, the Middle East has over half the world’s “unburnable” oil -- more than 260 billion barrels or 38 percent of its stock -- equal to about eight years of global production calculated at 2013 levels of 87 million barrels per day.

Central and South America must leave 58 billion barrels alone, Canada 39 billion and the former Soviet states 27 billion.

About 95 trillion cubic metres (3,354 trillion cubic feet) of gas should remain unburned, the study found -- again the bulk (46 trillion cubic metres) is held in the Middle East and 31 trillion by former Soviet states. (afp)

NASA finds more Earth-like planets outside solar system WASHINGTON — Earth has a few more near-twin planets outside our solar system, tantalizing possibilities in the search for extraterrestrial life.

Astronomers announced Tuesday that depending on definitions, they have confirmed three or four more planets that are about the same size as Earth and are in the not-too-hot, not-too-cold “Goldilocks Zone” for liquid water to form.

These planets are likely to be rocky like Earth, and not gas giants or ice worlds. They get about the same heat from their star as we get from the sun, according to the latest results from NASA’s planet hunting Kepler telescope.

But don’t book your flights yet.

They may be close to Earth in size and likely temperature in the gargantuan scale of the universe, but they aren’t quite close enough for comfort.

Consider two of the new planets, the nearest to Earth discovered to date. If they have atmospheres similar to Earth’s — a big if — one would be a toasty 140 some degrees and the other would hover around zero, said study lead author Guillermo Torres, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Life conceivably could evolve and adapt to those temperatures, he said.

Oh, and they aren’t actually within commuting distance of Earth. Those two are 500 and 1,100 light years away; a light year is 5.9 trillion miles.

What’s important, said SETI Institute astronomer Douglas Caldwell, a study coauthor who presented the findings at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle, is that astronomers are a bit closer to finding twins of Earth and answering the age-old question: Are we alone?

“These planets do exist; we didn’t know that before,” Torres said in a phone interview from Cambridge, Massachusetts. “What

we’re really looking for is signs of life eventually. We’re not there yet. It will take many years but this is the first step.”

Torres’ team confirmed earlier discoveries and added new ones, bringing the total known number of planets that are no bigger than twice Earth’s size and in the habitable temperature zone to eight or nine. But that’s only from a short search of a small part of our galaxy, so Torres believes that Earth-like planets are common throughout the cosmos, though he cannot prove it yet.

Torres likes to include one planet that would bump the new findings from three to four, but Caldwell said that planet may or may not be habitable.

It doesn’t matter much. “We do not need to talk about the one or two exoplanets that could be like Earth, we are finding so many,” said Lisa Kaltenegger, director of Cornell University’s Pale Blue Dot Institute. She wasn’t part of the study.

Torres and Caldwell highlighted the two new planets that are closest in size to Earth. The closest, called Kepler 438-b, is only 12 percent larger than Earth and gets about 40 percent more energy from its star than we do from the sun, so it would probably be warmer, Torres said.

It tightly circles a small cooler red star with its year lasting only 35 Earth days and the sun in its sky would be red, not yellow.

It may hot, but “there are bacteria on Earth that live very comfortably in those temperatures, no problem,” Torres said.

The other, Kepler 442-b, is about 34 percent bigger than Earth but gets only two-thirds of the energy from its sun as we do, Torres said.

NASA also announced that its planet-hunter telescope confirmed its 1,000th planet outside the solar system, most quite unlike Earth and not in the habitable zone. Added to those discovered by other telescopes, astronomers have now discovered more than 1,800 planets that are outside the solar system. (ap)

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Bali police ensures safety foreign tourists DENPASAR - Bali is safe despite the Australian government’s recent policy of issuing a travel advisory to its citizens intending to visit Bali, according to the Bali provincial police.

“We have intensified security measures in several vital tourist attractions in Bali. We call on the foreign tourists to not be afraid to visit Bali,” spokesman to the Bali Police Senior Commissioner Hery Wiyanto remarked.

Apart from deploying police officers, the Bali police have also deployed intelligence officers at several tourist attractions, Hery revealed.

With regard to offering security to the offices of foreign representatives in Bali, Hery said the security measures adopted are still on normal mode. On January 5, the Australian government issued a travel advisory to its citizens keen on visiting Indonesia. In the advisory, the Australian government has urged its citizens to remain on high alert for potential terror attacks in Indonesia.

The warning was issued after the United States announced a travel advisory on January 3 for its citizens traveling to Indonesia. (ant)

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Tourists eat lunch while listening to the live music at Kelan Beach, Badung Regency of Bali Island, recently. Bali is safe despite the Australian government’s recent policy of issuing a travel advisory to its citizens intending to visit Bali, according to the Bali provincial police.

Price of property predicted to rise 10 percent

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This artist’s conception provided by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics depicts an Earth-like planet orbiting an evolved star that has formed a stunning “planetary nebula.” Earlier in its life, this planet may have been like one of the eight newly discovered worlds orbiting in the habitable zones of their stars.

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DENPASAR - Bank Indonesia (BI) predicts the prospect of property business in 2015 remains good. This condition is in line with the expectation at a reasonable price increase in the range of 5 percent to 10 percent.

“This year, the prospect of property, particularly the primary home, in our prediction is still good. So, it is in line with the estimated increase in property prices lying in reasonable range of 5 percent to 10 percent,” said Chief Representative of BI for Bali Region, Dewi Setyowati.

Such condition occurred because this year some government policies were assessed to positively support business and labor sector, such as the revision of fuel prices, including the fixed fuel subsidy policy despite the fuel price fluctuated with the market price as well as the moderate increase in the minimum wage or a slight increase in the level of 5.09 percent (yoy).

“Business condition in 2014 was relatively good. It was predicted to show off good prospects for this year,” she said.

Under these conditions, Dewi Setyowati recognized to be in line with high level of demand, especial-

ly for small type (= 36) and medium type (> 36-70). The indicator was the constant high consumer demand for properties with nominal of less than IDR 1 billion.

“The figure of IDR 1 billion is considered to have psychological effect for consumers to the middle class. The regions remaining to consider prospective to be developed with the selling price in the range of IDR 1 billion to lower price are the buffer zones such as Tabanan to the West, namely Negara, central region such as Klungkung and Bangli while the eastward such as Karangasem,” he explained.

It was mentioned that some developers had also expanded their business to eastern region of Bali, such as Nusa Tenggara Timur (Kupang, Tambolaka). “Generally, a property with a nominal price of IDR 1 billion or above is used for investment and re-leasing, not for self-residential,” he said.

A survey to businesspeople coalesced into the members of the Real Estate of Indonesia (REI) of Bali Chapter and Indonesia Real Estate and Broker (AREBI) of Bali Chapter indicated that developers were more selective in marketing their property.

“Other than to consumers who are able to pay the down payment, it is also marketed to potential prospective customers who have clear track record in the BI Checking,” he said.

It was explained the credit growth slowed down during 2014 compared to the previous year. The annual credit growth slowed from 25.67

percent (yoy in November 2013) to 16.73 percent (yoy November 2014).

The slowdown was indicated by the performance of investment loan distribution showing a slowdown respectively of 43.77 percent and 24.38 percent (yoy November 2013) to 17.67 percent and 12.78 percent (yoy November 2014). (kmb27)

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Bank Indonesia (BI) predicts the prospect of property business in 2015 remains good. This condition is in line with the expectation at a reasonable price increase in the range of 5 percent to 10 percent.

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BKSDA cracks down on thieves of volcanic rock at Batur caldera

BANGLI - Burglaries of volcanic rocks in the area of Batur caldera, Kintamani, have been quite rampant. Evidently in 2014, four thieves were prosecuted after being caught digging up and hauling away volcanic rocks in the conservation area. The Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) needs to be decisive in taking legal action against such acts because it appears that efforts to dissuade people from stealing based on education does not work.

The Conservation Section Head for Region II, Natural Resources Conservation Agency, Ketut Catur Marbawa, explained on Sunday (Jan 11) that the ongoing stealing of volcanic rock by local residents (usually commited at night), could potentially be quite damaging to the geopark region.

He said that since the conservation forest had begun to be managed by the Natural Resources Conservation Agency in 2010 his party had in fact conducted education events quite frequently. However, the coaching of residents seems not to have worked, as unscrupulous people are still stealing the black rock. “Starting in 2014, we decided to crack down on thieves of the volcanic rock. We thought that coaching residents on the im-

portance of the rock was enough -but apparently no,” he explained.

So far 4 residents have been caught carrying the rock away in trucks.

The case is still benign processed by the police.

One of the constraints that the Natural Resources Conservation Agency faces, to adequately maintain the 2,075 hectares of protected land, is lack of personel, with only four officers patrolling the entire area.

Ketut Catur Marbawa hopes that people living around the Batur caldera will actively participate in maintaining the conservation area.

One was to do so is by reporting thieves to Natural Resources Conservation Agency.if need be.

Aside from volcanic rock burglary, another problem faced by the Natural Resources Conservation Agency is the use of semipermanent buildings in the area of Jati Temple. For this reason Catur hopes to make the area into a religious block. “We’ve have already approached the community leaders a few times encouraging them to not allow any more semi-permanent structures to be added to the area.”

Yet another issue that the Natural Resources Conservation Agency faces is the conversion of forested land into plantations. (ina)

3 cases of sexual violence against children occured in 2014 TABANAN - At the beginning of January 2015, several cases of sexual violence against minors were reported. An 11-year-old victim was sexually assaulted 8 times by a perpetrator claiming to be victim’s boyfriend. Although it was claimed to be consensual, the case remains under process of investigation because the status of the victim as a minor. Similar cases also occurred in 2014. The Chief of Women and Children Protection (PPA) of the Tabanan Police, Olandina De Jesus, said that three cases involving sexual violence were handled by the PPA in 2014.

The three victims were 13, 15 and 16 years old, respectively.

Olan continued to say that the perpetrators were usually people closest to the victim: family, neighbors or a boyfriend. In the three cases handled in 2014, two of the perpetrators were the victim’s elder neighbors, and one of the perpetrators was the victim’s boyfriend.

The parents of the victims were the ones to report the crimes to the Tabanan Police.

In dealing with the victims,

the PPA of Tabanan Police in cooperation with relevant NGOs were obliged to provide guidance and counseling for the victim’s psychological condition, helping to restore their self confidence as well as preparing the victims to be questioned. This is done to help the victims avoid developing psychiatric problems such as depression or inferiority complexes. Mentoring and counseling are not only provided to the victims but also to their parents so that parents can give support to their children so that they do not fall into similar cases and also so that their self-confidence can be restored.

Meanwhile Olan explained that the legal proceedings were still being processed even though the perpertrators are also minors. “Under the prevailing Law, if the victims are still minors, their cases will still be processed,” he said. In case of sexual violence, the perpetrator is defined as those who seduce or want something from the victim.

Most perpetrators of sexual abuse on minors, are committed by men. (kmb24)

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FILE - This is a Friday Jan. 9, 2015 file photo of police officers as they storm the kosher market where a gunman held several hostages, in Paris.

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The fisherman shows one of the trees which was cut down. The tree is used to place the rope of their boat.

Boat mooring land annexed

Air Kuning Fishermen Restless

NEGARA - Fishermen at Anyar hamlet, Air Kuning village, Jembrana, expressed their dismay regarding the annexing of place where their moor their boats. The land on the edge of the beach includes the actual shoreline where fishermen have moored their boats for decades.

The tipping point came when a shade giving tree on the beach was cut down by the landowner who also moved one of the fishermen’s boats from the spot. Boat owner, Mispandi, 45, says that he has reported the case to village authorities but has yet to receive a response. He was especially indignant because the tree was planted many years ago and has become the shelter and mooring spot for several different traditional boats and outriggers.

After the tree-cutting incident, fishermen became restless “This sort of thing has happened time and time again, from installing the boundary peg to cutting down the tree whereas this land is seashore,” said Mispandi. The land conflict was reported to Negara Police, but Mispandi was asked to resolve the

issue at the village level. “Until now, there has been no response from the village. We don’t know if this is because the spot in question belongs to the BPD,” he complained.

Similar complaints were also expressed by Solihin; the chief of neighborhood unit (RT) 09. He has repeatedly asked the landowner not to commit any acts that might disturb residents, let alone kindle conflict with fishermen. However, these warnings have been completely ignored, “In case the boat is hit by waves, who will be responsible for that? At other locations, landowners understand and allow fishing boats to moor on their land,” said Solihin.

According to the neighborhood chief, the local community had been very troubled by the landowner

arbitrarily taking action. Fishermen also expressed some fear because the landowner often reports to the authorities.

On the other hand, headman of Air Kuning, Samanhuri, confirmed that there was conflict amongst residents under his jurisdiction. He had already agreed to bring together both parties at village office for mediation so that the matter could be resolve peacefully. Unfortunately, the problem escalated with the tree- cutting incident before mediation could take place. Previously Mispandi had himself been reported to the police by the landowner for damaging a pandanus with his fishing boat. At that time, the landowner H. Solihin and Mispandi had reconciled and agreed to replant the pandanus. Solihin had also stated to build a revetment exceeding the boundaries of his land, that made it difficult for fishermen to moor their boats. “As planned, we will arrange for mediation again,” concluded Samhuri. (kmb26)

Kosher market attack deepens fears among European Jews MILAN — The killing of four French Jews in last week’s hostage standoff at a Paris kosher market has deepened the fears among European Jewish communities shaken by rising anti-Semitism and feeling vulnerable due to poor security and a large number of potential soft targets.

In the wake of the attacks, which follow deadly strikes on a Belgian Jewish Museum and a Jewish school in southwestern France, Israeli leaders have called on European Jews to immigrate to the Jewish state. But European Jews are deeply ambivalent about leaving, and their community leaders, along with top politicians, have urged people to stay in their homelands.

“The European Jewry is the oldest European minority and we have our experience of surviving under all possible circumstances,” Moshe Kantor, president of the European Jewish Congress, told The Associated Press. “We will not give up our motherland, which is called Europe.

We will not stop the history of European Jewry, that is for sure.”

Kantor called for increased security at Jewish sites, concerted action against anti-Semitism across the continent and better coordination of intelligence forces against religious

extremism. But he acknowledged that if any Jewish European does not feel safe, “I say you should leave in this case.”

Many French Jews already are.

Last year, 7,000 emigrated to Israel as anti-Semitism spiked across France, fed by tensions with the country’s large Arab population after the outbreak of Israel’s war against Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip. That was double the previous year, making France, for the first time, the No. 1 source of immigration to Israel, according to the Jewish Agency, a nonprofit group that helps Jews move to Israel.

Officials in Israel are expecting — and encouraging — a new influx following the Paris standoff. Since last week’s attacks, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has encouraged European Jews to move to the Jewish state.

In an interview with Israel’s Channel 10 TV Saturday, Yohan

Cohen, one of the hostages who hid inside a freezer at the kosher market for five hours during the hostage-taking, said he would now move his family of four children to Israel.

“On Monday I am going to make Aliyah,” he said, using the Hebrew term for immigration to Israel. “We are not going to wait around here to die.”

Overall, immigration was up 88 percent from Western Europe in 2014, with the arrival of 8,640 immigrants compared with some 4,600 in 2013, with surges also from Italy, Belgium and Britain, according to the Jewish Agency.

Experts say European Jews have not felt this threatened since World War II, when some 6 million Jews were murdered in the Nazi Holocaust. Researchers at Tel Aviv University monitoring anti-Semitism have reported a chilling increase in attacks in Europe over the past decade, including deadly shootings in Toulouse, France, in 2012 and Brussels last year. In recent years, France has had the highest number of incidents of any single country. (ap)

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Egypt acquits 26 men in trial over police raid on gays

CAIRO — An Egyptian court on Monday acquitted 26 men arrested in a televised raid last month by police looking for gays at a Cairo public bathhouse, a ruling that set off deafening cheers and jubilation inside the courtroom as some of the defendants uncovered their faces and cried with relief.

The trial, which had caused an uproar among activists and rights groups, captured public attention after a pro-government TV network aired scenes of half-naked men being pulled from the bathhouse by police. Same-sex relations are not explicitly prohibited in Egyptian law but homosexuality is a social taboo in the conservative, Muslimmajority country. Same-sex marriage is unheard of. Only in recent years have movies and fiction included gay characters.

The men in the bathhouse raid faced various charges, including debauchery and performing indecent public acts. Monday’s verdict came after only three hearings, during which families quarreled with journalists who tried to photograph their relatives in the dock.

The courtroom erupted into a frenzy after the word “acquittal” was heard from the judge and women ululated. Scott Long, an American researcher who had followed the case said he was both “shocked and delighted.” “I hope this is a sign that these raids will come to an end,” Long told The Associated Press amid the cheering. “Finally there was a judge who listened to the evidence.”

Rights activists say 2014 was the worst year in a decade for Egypt’s gay community, with at least 150 men arrested or put on trial. “They destroyed our lives. God rescued us,” said one of the defendants, who did not give his name to protect his privacy. The trial opened only two weeks after the Dec. 7 raid on the bathhouse, or hammam, and usually quick referral by the general prosecutor.

There are no laws in Egypt criminalizing homosexuality but a decades’ old law criminalizing prostitution is often used in penalizing the gay community. Five of the defendants in Monday’s trial — the owner of the bathhouse and four staff members — were tried for facilitating debauchery in exchange for money. (ap)

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Some of 26 men, who were arrested in a televised raid last month by police looking for gays at a Cairo public bathhouse, react after an Egyptian court acquitted them in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Jan. 12, 2015.

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Kerry urges rapid growth in US-India trade, commercial ties

tank, the Peterson Institute.

“The falling oil price is a huge shot in the arm. Nonetheless, it is clear that the ECB will have to do something. There is no growth and the debt burden is too high. The world will be flying on one engine, the U.S., for quite some time.”

Oil’s second-biggest collapse on record has taken the price of a barrel of benchmark Brent crude to around $50 from $115 in the middle of last year.

That is a mixed blessing for the stuttering global economy.

While it is good news for a slowing China and should put more money in the pocket of motorists around the world, cheap oil has put price inflation into reverse in the euro zone, increasing the burden on countries with heavy debts.

It has also compounded an economic and currency crisis in neighbouring Russia, one of the world’s biggest oil exporters. Russia is already locked in conflict with neighbouring Ukraine.

Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has said it will conclude a review of Russia’s credit status by mid January. Any downgrade would badge Russian bonds as “junk” for the first time in more than a decade. (rtr)

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GIANYAR - Located on the land owned by I Wayan Wirta at Sareseda hamlet, Tampaksiring, Gianyar, Friday (Jan 9), was found two sandstone statues alleged to be archaeological objects.

Now, relevant agencies are still investigating the discovery of statues with the carving of elephant’s head.

have jumped in recent years, growing nearly five-fold since 2000 with bilateral direct investment at almost $30 billion. But it still faces obstacles dues to restrictive Indian laws and regulations and concerns about intellectual property rights and protection. In addition, talks on liability issues that have kept American nuclear power operators from doing business in India have been inconclusive to date.

U.S. officials said they were working on agreements that could include a solar energy deal, a plan to improve rural electrification and potentially a carbon reduction pact that they hoped could be signed when Obama visits India to participate in India’s annual Republic Day ceremonies on Jan. 26. Modi has invited Obama to be the “chief guest” at the celebration, the first sitting American president to be so honored. (ap)

Legal challenge shows rocky path to ECB money-printing FRANKFURT - A landmark legal opinion this week will remind the European Central Bank of the limits it faces as it advances towards money printing, while a tumbling oil price saps inflation in debt-strained Europe.

With expectations high that the ECB is on the verge of buying government bonds with new money to shore up the economy, an influential adviser to Europe’s top court will give his view on Jan. 14 about an earlier unused bond-buying scheme.

It is the latest chapter in a long-running and increasingly bitter dispute about quantitative easing (QE) between the ECB and Germany, the largest member of the 19-country bloc, that is likely to limit the size or scope of such a programme.

As the debate continues, the euro zone economy is all but grinding to a halt. Germany is expected to announce modest growth on Jan. 15 for last year.

In the United States, fresh data on rising employment as well as retail sales is set to show just how much its recovery has overtaken Europe.

“The global economy is at a precarious point,” said Jacob Kirkegaard of Washington think

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Two archeological objects found in Tampaksiring

BUSINESS AHMEDABAD, India — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday called for a rapid expansion of U.S.-India trade and commercial ties as he attended an international investment conference ahead of visit by President Barack Obama later this month.

Kerry led the U.S. delegation to the investment summit in Ahmedabad, the main financial city in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat.

Kerry said it was imperative that economic ties between the two countries grow for the sake of Indian development, reducing poverty and fighting climate change.

“We can do more together, and we must do more together, and we have to do it faster,” Kerry told the conference, which Modi opened.

Commerce and investment between the United States and India

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Pedestrians using their mobile phones walk past a display window of a luxury brand shop outside a department store in Tokyo December 25, 2014. Japan’s government will propose a record budget for next fiscal year of more than $800 billion but cut borrowing for a third year, government officials said on Sunday, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe seeks to maintain growth while curbing the heaviest debt burden in the industrial world.

Japan readies record $800 billion 2015 TOKYO - Japan’s government will propose a record budget for next fiscal year of more than $800 billion but cut borrowing for a third year, government officials said on Sunday, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe seeks to maintain growth while curbing the heaviest debt burden in the industrial world.

The third annual budget since Abe swept to power in late 2012 also highlights his struggle to contain bulging welfare costs for the fast-ageing society while increasing discretionary spending in areas such as the military.

Abe’s 96.3 trillion yen ($813 billion) draft budget for the year from April, to be approved by the Cabinet on Wednesday and submitted to an upcoming session of Parliament, is up from this fiscal year’s initial 95.9 trillion, the two officials told Reuters.

But spending restraint and a surge in tax revenues as the economy recovers allows the government to cut bond issuance by 4.4 trillion yen to 36.9 trillion, the third decrease in a row

and the lowest level in six years, the officials said.

The improved fiscal picture helps Abe trim Japan’s public debt, which is well over twice the country’s GDP after years of sluggish growth and huge stimulus spending. The budget for the coming year follows an extra budget of 3.1 trillion yen for this fiscal year, approved last week.

With the budget deficit - excluding new bond sales and debt servicing - projected at roughly 3 percent of gross domestic product for the 2015-16 fiscal year, Abe will meet the government’s promise of halving the debt ratio from 2010-11 levels.

But Finance Ministry calculations show that the goal of balancing the

budget by 2020-21 remains ambitious.

Abe raised the national sales tax in April to 8 percent from 5 percent, sending the world’s third-biggest economy into recession. He postponed a second increase, to 10 percent, by 18 months to April 2017, but the economy’s upturn under the premier’s easy-money policies is set to boost tax revenues in the coming year.

The draft budget projects tax revenues rising 4.5 trillion yen to 54.5 trillion yen, the officials said, easing somewhat the need to issue more bonds. Debt will finance about 38 percent of the coming year’s budget, down from this year’s 43 percent.

But as the government continues to run a deficit, debt servicing, interest payments and redemptions, are set to rise about 200 billion yen to 23.5 trillion yen. Social-welfare spending, such as medical care, is set to rise 1 trillion yen to 31.5 trillion yen. (rtr)

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Located on the land owned by I Wayan Wirta at Sareseda hamlet, Tampaksiring, Gianyar, Friday (Jan 9), was found two sandstone statues alleged to be archaeological objects.

As information gathered, the discovery of the object originated from the cliff land owned by I Wayan Wirta that was flattened with heavy equipment, namely excavator. When the dredging process was carried out by Suparman, the equipment suddenly hit a hard rock which hampered the movement of the equipment.

This man from Banyuwangi excavated it carefully and slowly. Ultimately, he found a long object of approximately one meter. With the help of local community, the two objects looking like elephant’s head were taken out. It looked like a fountain because there was a hole from the back to front side and a hole in the front was like a fountain with an ornament of elephant’s head. For security reason of the two mysterious objects, they were placed at the outermost courtyard of Penataran Sarwasidi Temple.

The Head of Gianyar Culture

Agency, I Gusti Ngurah Wijana, when asked for his confirmation said that his party with the Assistant 1 of the Gianyar Regional Secretary, Cok Rai Widiarsa, already checked them to Sareseda hamlet, Tampaksiring, Saturday afternoon (Jan 10). Allegedly the objects were former fountains at the royal bathing place. However, his party could not ensure when the objects were still used.

“Seeing from the shape, they look like the fountain of Tirta Empul. Possibly, they were the fountains during the period of royal kingdom,” he said.

Now, the two historic objects known as the Jala Duara are still kept at Penataran Sarwasidi Temple, Tampaksiring. Further in-depth research will be carried

by Cultural Heritage Agency (BPCB). “We have not been able to verify the age of this object.

Later on, the research process will be submitted to the agency,” he said. (nik/dar)

Delicious salad of Balinese Pomelo

Balinese community has a special fruit salad or what the socalled rujak. It is made of fresh fruits mixed with a selection of spices to produce a distinctive flavor. At least, there are three flavors used in the sauce namely spicy, sweet and sour. There are many different types of fruit salad whose name adapted to the fruit used as the main ingredient. One of them is Balinese pomelo salad or rujak juwuk Bali. This ingredient or usually called jerungga in Balinese is liked best by many people. In the heat of the sun, this fruit salad is in demand because it produces water tasting sweet mixed with sour.

Its lovers are very diverse as well such as children, teenagers, parents to toothless grandparents. When squeezed, it will produce water tasting fresh. The salad is prepared by adding sauces onto the ingredient. Salad of this type is usually sold in roadside modest stalls characterized by the presence of a pestle and mortar on the table. To prepare it, the outer skin of the pomelo should be peeled out. Then, the flesh is removed from the inner skin.

Prepare appropriate sauces according to taste. By and large, the sauces in use consist of tamarind paste, shrimp paste, salt and chili to taste. Then, it is added with sweetener like palm sugar.

Having mixed, stir them well to produce good flavor.

Formerly, people prepared mixed salads with young banana tree, belonging to stony banana variety. Its sauce was also very simple, so that it helped digestion in the stomach smoother.

Unfortunately, the Balinese pomelo is increasingly rare today so that it is very difficult to find the bigger ones. Now, it is brought in from Java and other regions in the archipelago. As information, Balinese pomelo has a dark green skin and red flesh. When being unripe, it will taste sour, but after turning perfectly ripe it will taste sweet. (kmb)

Balinese Pomelo Salad

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Foreign ministers gather in Berlin to seek Ukraine progress BERLIN — Germany’s foreign minister is hosting his counterparts from Russia, Ukraine and France in an attempt to move forward efforts to calm the Ukrainian crisis and perhaps clear the way for a summit of the countries’ leaders.

The meeting planned Monday evening in Berlin follows a flurry of diplomacy including a brief weekend encounter in Paris between the German, French and Ukrainian leaders.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel also has spoken by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin and met the president of Kazakhstan, the possible host of a four-way summit on Ukraine.

Merkel and Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier are pushing for progress on implementing a much-violated peace deal that was drawn up in Minsk in September. Berlin says a substantial narrowing of differences is needed for a summit to take place. (ap)

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In this Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015 photo, school attack survivor Ahmed Nawaz, 15, shows a picture of his younger brother Harris Nawaz, who was killed in the Taliban attack, during an interview with The Associated Press in Peshawar, Pakistan.

Pakistani school reopens after Taliban massacre of students

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistani children returned on Monday to the school where Taliban gunmen killed 150 of their classmates and teachers last month, clutching their parents’ hands tightly in a poignant symbol of perseverance despite the horrors they had endured.

It was the first time the school had reopened since the assault and security was tight. The nation has been reeling from the Dec. 16 terrorist attack in Peshawar — one of the worst Pakistan has experienced.

The violence carried out by seven Taliban militants put a spotlight on whether the authorities can end the stubborn insurgency that kills and maims thousands every year.

The massacre also horrified parents across the nation and prompted officials to implement tighter security at schools. For Peshawar parents like Abid Ali Shah, Monday morning was especially painful as he struggled to get his sons ready for school, something his wife used to do. She was a teacher at the school and was killed in the violence. Both of his sons attended the school. The youngest was shot in the head but

survived after the militants thought he was dead.

“A hollowness in my life is getting greater. I am missing my wife,” Shah said. He said he had wanted to shift his children to a different school or city but decided not to because they still have to take exams this spring: “Everything is ruined here, everything.”

His older son, Sitwat Ali Shah, 17, said it wasn’t until he saw his brother break down in tears as they prepared to go to school that he did as well. Sitwat said both he and his brother have trouble sleeping and often wake up, crying for their mother.

“Those who have done all this to all of us cannot be called humans,” Sitwat said, adding he still wanted to go back to school and become an air force officer.

A ceremony was held at the school to mark its reopening, but classes were to restart on Tuesday.

Security was tight, part of a countrywide effort to boost safety measures at schools in the wake of the attack.

Schools around Pakistan have raised their boundary walls, added armed guards and installed metal detectors, although many have questioned why it took such a horrible attack to focus attention on school safety.

The government has stepped up military operations in the tribal areas, reinstated the death penalty and allowed military courts to try civilians — all attempts to crack down on terrorism. But in an attack on Monday, gunmen killed seven paramilitary soldiers in the southwestern Baluchistan province, underscoring the dangers the country still faces.(ap)

69 people die after drinking contaminated beer in Mozambique MAPUTO, Mozambique — Authorities in Mozambique say the number of people who died after drinking contaminated traditional beer has risen to 69.

Provincial health director, Paula Bernardo, told Radio Mozambique on Monday that 196 people have been admitted to hospitals in the northeastern Tete province. On Sunday evening district health officials said 56 people had died and 49 were hospitalized after drinking the beer at a funeral on Saturday.

Pombe, a traditional Mozambican beer, is made from millet or corn flour. The exact source of the contamination is still unknown, but authorities believe the drink was poisoned with crocodile bile during the course of the funeral.

Blood and traditional beer samples were sent to the capital Maputo to be tested, said provincial health director Carle Mosse. (ap)

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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

INDONESIA Divers retrieve crashed AirAsia jet’s FDR

PANGKALAN BUN - Indonesian divers Monday retrieved the flight data recorder of the AirAsia plane that went down in the Java Sea with 162 people on board, a potential breakthrough in efforts to discover what caused the crash.

The recorder, one of two black boxes containing vital information, was brought to the surface early in the morning, said national search and rescue chief Bambang Soelistyo, after a fortnight-long frustrating search often hampered by bad weather.

“We succeeded in bringing up part of the black box that we call the flight data recorder,” Soelistyo told reporters in Jakarta.

He said it was found under the wreckage of a wing and added that divers were still hunting for the second black box, the cockpit voice recorder.

Officials said Sunday that strong ping signals from the black boxes had been detected near an object believed to be the plane’s main body. On Monday improved weather helped divers to retrieve the flight data recorder.

It monitors data such as airspeed and heading, while the cockpit voice recorder stores radio transmissions and sounds in the cockpit. Both are located near the rear of the plane and designed to survive underwater.

Indonesia’s National Transport Safety Committee said the recovered black box would be sent to Jakarta for

a lengthy analysis, to be carried out with French experts and Airbus.

It would later be transferred for further analysis to France, where the aircraft manufacturer is headquartered.

Flight QZ8501 crashed on December 28 on a short flight from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore.

Indonesia’s meteorological agency has said stormy weather likely caused the Airbus A320-200 to go down but a definitive answer is impossible without the data recorders.

Forty-eight bodies have been recovered so far, but the weather has hampered efforts to locate all the victims and the wreckage.

S.B. Supriyadi, a director with the national search and rescue agency, said initial analysis of the wreckage so far recovered indicated that the plane broke apart on impact with the water.

“It exploded because of the pressure,” he told reporters in the town of Pangkalan Bun on Borneo island, the search headquarters.

“The cabin was pressurised and before the pressure of the cabin could be adjusted, it went down -- boom. That

AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim

Parts of AirAsia Flight 8501 is seen on the deck of rescue ship Crest Onyx at Kumai port in Pangkalan Bun, Indonesia, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015. Indonesian divers Monday retrieved the flight data recorder of the AirAsia plane that went down in the Java Sea with 162 people on board, a potential breakthrough in efforts to discover what caused the crash. explosion was heard in the area.”

The search has involved US, Chinese and other international naval ships. Supriyadi said many bodies were believed trapped in the cabin, so reaching that part of the wreckage was also a top priority.

The tail of the plane, with its red

AirAsia logo, was lifted out of the water on Saturday using giant balloons and a crane.

It was brought by tugboat on Sunday to a port near Pangkalan Bun. All but seven of those on board the flight were Indonesian.

The bodies of a South Korean

couple were identified on Sunday, but their 11-month-old baby remains unaccounted for.

The other foreigners were one Singaporean, one Malaysian, one Briton and a Frenchman -- co-pilot Remi Plesel. Their bodies have not been recovered. (afp)

Arief Hidayat elected as MK Chief

Balinese...

From page 1 Abetnego added that tourism to be built was supposedly capable of relying on the strength at local level. In this case, it consisted of nature, culture, religious and social life of local community itself. But what happening was greed practice, such as corruption or exploitation for the benefit of specific groups.

“During previous administration, there were so many issues that seemed to be answered with solution, but rather exploit the solution for the interest of specific groups. Benoa Bay reclamation, for example, is not answered with the rehabilitation in the region, but was answered with a mega-project approach that is not necessarily suitable for the people of Bali,” he said.

A national figure, IGK Manila, argued that it was time for Bali to be returned to its previous condition. Similarly, he did not agree if Bali was made into the one resembling Hawaii with abundant building trees everywhere. On that account, the mental revolution should continue to be encouraged.

“Bali may not be destroyed and through mental revolution we keep Bali so that our grandchildren can enjoy nice, natural and good beaches,” he said. (kmb32)

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Miss Indonesia, Elvira Devinamirea, left, poses for photos with Chris Gay after she painted on a wall in Miami’s Wynwood area, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015. Miss Universe contestants visited pop artist Romero Britto’s studio for an interactive painting event.

JAKARTA - Constitutional Judge Arief Hidayat has been chosen as Constitutional Court (MK) chief for the period between 2015 and 2017.

Hidayat, who served as a constitutional judge since 2013, was elected as chief of the MK after acclamation. He was elected to replace Hamdan Zoelva whose term as constitutional judge ended on Wednesday (Jan. 7).

Moreover, the three names nominated to serve as vice chief are Patrialis Akbar, Aswanto, and Anwar Usman.

In accordance with Article 4 of Law Number 8/2011 on the amendment to Law Number 24/2003 of the MK, the election of the court chief is discussed behind closed doors by nine constitutional judges, who each have the right to nominate and be nominated as chairman of the MK. The nine constitutional judges are Anwar Usman, Arief Hidayat, Aswanto, Maria Farida Indrati, Muhammad Alim, Patrialis Akbar, Waiduddin Adams, I. Dewa Gede Palguna, and Suhartoyo.

If the meeting failed to reach a unanimous agreement or acclamation, the decision would have been made through a majority vote during an open plenary meeting. (ant)

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Want to stay at countryside? Simply come to Nyuh Kuning, one of the villages in the Ubud subdistrict remaining to offer a real Balinese life. Its location is very strategic as standing directly behind the Monkey Forest tourist attraction. Precisely, it is located at Nyuh Kuning customary village, Mas, or about 25 km from Denpasar and 15 km from the town of Gianyar.

When compared to other villages, the village of Nyuh Kuning is superior. Other than offering clean and beautiful environment, open and friendly community, sustainable culture, it is also supported by tourism facilities such as hotels and restaurants. Existing hotels have been designed in such a way so as not to disrupt the uniqueness of the village.

Even, they seem to perfectly blend into the surrounding environment.

Community of Nyuh Kuning understands very well in maintaining the sustainable environment, so it has special team engaged in environmental matters. With the encouragement of this team, the community is aware of maintaining the plants and always does re-greening. For instance, they make a movement by planting 5,000 frangipani trees at roadside or house courtyard.

Aside from being the typical plant of Bali, frangipani can also be used for ritual parephernalia and even has economic value. Dried flowers

can be sold at a good price. People can purchase rice from selling the frangipani.

Frangipani trees indeed make the village leafy. People’s housefront space is very clean and every angkul-angkul (entrance) to house compound is embellished with a pair of statues on the right and left side.

Uniquely, every sculpture set on each angkul-angkul is not the same.

The design and appearance resemble the residents both in terms of the face and profession.

For example, the sculpture will be in the form of pecalang if the resident serves as the security guard of the village, a tiger describes a king that means the home of kelian and bendesa (chief of village) as well as elephant sculpture means the house of kelian. Village road also looks clean and comfortable because people sweep it simultaneously in the morning.

When entering the village, people will perceive a positive aura. So, do not make a mistake if this village becomes the center of spiritual activities. At least, there are about 5 locations for meditation applying different methods such as laughing meditation, silent meditation throughout the day and there is also smiling meditation from heart to heart. All kinds of these meditations are in great demand by foreign travelers.

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Gasol, Randolph lead Grizzlies to double overtime win

MEMPHIS, Tennessee — Marc Gasol scored the first seven points in the second overtime and Zach Randolph had 27 points and 17 rebounds as the Memphis Grizzlies outlasted the Phoenix Suns 122-110 in the NBA on Sunday. Gasol finished with 12 points to help Memphis end a two-game losing streak. Mike Conley added 25 points and eight assists and Courtney Lee had 18 points.

Isaiah Thomas led Phoenix with 20 points, but had a costly turnover trying to get the ball into the front court with the Suns leading late in the first overtime.

Bledsoe’s 3-pointer with 33.3 seconds left in the first overtime gave the Suns a 108-106 lead. The Suns stopped the Grizzlies on the next possession, but Thomas gave away the ball and Lee — fouled by Dragic — made two free throws with 16.2 left. Bledsoe then missed at the buzzer, forcing the second extra period.

In other games, Portland defeated the Los Angeles Lakers 106-94 to move to a season-best 22 games over .500, Sacramento sent LeBron James-less Cleveland to its seventh loss in eight games with a 103-84 victory, and Atlanta extended its winning streak to eight games with a 120-89 rout of Washington.

Damian Lillard scored 34 points, LaMarcus Aldridge had 15 points and nine rebounds and Chris Kaman added 12 rebounds and nine assists for the Blazers, who have won 27 of their last 32 games and are 30-8 overall.

Kobe Bryant was rested by Lakers coach Byron Scott for the sixth time in 11 games and second game in a row. The NBA’s third-leading career scorer, playing in his 19th season at age 36, played in only six games last season due to a torn Achilles and a fracture in his left knee.

Sacramento’s DeMarcus Cous-

ins had 26 points and 13 rebounds and Rudy Gay added 23 points to beat the Cavaliers, who were missing James for the eighth straight game with a strained back and sore left knee.

Kevin Love had 25 points and 10 rebounds and Kyrie Irving added 21 points — 14 in the first quarter — and seven assists for Cleveland, which dropped to 19-19 overall. (ap) Memphis Grizzlies center Marc Gasol (33) looks to drive to the basket against Phoenix Suns center Alex Len (21) in the first half of an NBA basketball game Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015, in Memphis, Tenn.

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Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark reacts while playing Barbora Zahlavova Strycova of the Czech Republic during their match at the Sydney International tennis tournament in Sydney, Monday, Jan. 12, 2015. Wozniacki retired from the match with a wrist injury.

AP Photo/Rick Rycroft

Wozniacki retires in Sydney due to wrist injury

SYDNEY - World number eight Caroline Wozniacki pulled out of her first-round match at the Sydney International with a wrist injury on Monday, just a week before the start of the Australian Open. The 24year-old Dane, who lost the final of the Auckland Classic on Saturday, had already had her left wrist strapped when she was forced to retire at 6-4 1-1 down to Czech Barbora Zahlavova Strycova.

“I didn’t want to do it worse before Melbourne, so I’m just going to try and get some treatment on it and try and get ready for next week,” Wozniacki told reporters. “I still have a week to go, so hopefully it’ll be fine... I’m confident that I’ll be fine to play in Melbourne.”

Zahlavova Strycova went through to a second round tie against local hope Sam Stosur, who had earlier progressed with a rain-disrupted 7-6(3) 5-7 6-3 victory over another Czech in Lucie Safarova.

Former U.S. Open champion Stosur had already had her firstround contest put back a day after wet weather in Sydney on Sunday. She held her nerve throughout a three-hour contest peppered with rain interruptions and polished off the victory over the world number 16 with a thumping ace down the middle. It was a welcome return to winning ways for Stosur, who blew a 5-1 lead in the third set last week to lose to American Varvara Lepchenko in Brisbane.

“I was pleased with the way I served for the match,” she said. “After what happened last week, to step up and serve the way I did, I’m obviously very happy.” Third seeded Pole Agnieszka Radwanska enjoyed the more clement later conditions to beat France’s Alize Cornet 6-3 6-2 and reach the second round of a tournament she won in 2013.

The world number five made it clear, however, that her focus over the next few weeks under new coach Martina Navratilova was on improving on a single semi-final appearance at Melbourne Park.

“Martina’s going to be here tomorrow,” Radwanska said. “She’s really helping me on and off court. The goal is the grand slams so we’ll see how it goes.”

In the men’s draw, fifth-seeded Argentine Leonardo Mayer downed Benjamin Becker 7-6(3) 6-2 to set up a meeting with young Australian Nick Kyrgios or Pole Jerzy Janowicz in the second round.

Local top seed Casey Dellacqua overcame a second-set glitch to beat American Lauren Davis 6-4 1-6 6-4 and reach the second round of the Hobart International. (rtr)

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Japan opens Asian Cup with 4-0 win over Palestine in Group D

Japan’s Keisuke Honda, right, and Palestine goalkeeper Ramzi Saleh clash during the AFC Asia Cup soccer match between Japan and Palestine in Newcastle, Australia, Monday, January 12, 2014.

AP Photo/Gennaro Giorgio

Juventus beats Napoli 3-1 to move 3 points clear

NEWCASTLE, Australia — Defending champion Japan won its first match of this year’s Asian Cup, beating newcomer Palestine 4-0 Monday in its opening Group D match. Yasuhito Endo, Shinji Okazaki and Keisuke Honda scored in the first half to give Japan a big lead against the tournament debutants in wet and windy conditions at Hunter Stadium. Maya Yoshida scored after the break from Shinji Kagawa’s cross to complete the rout.

Ahmed Mahajna was sent off in the 73rd minute to make it a tough first tournament start for the Palestinians, who qualified by winning the 2014 AFC Challenge Cup in the Maldives. Japan has won four Asian Cup titles in the past six editions and is seeking a record fifth continental crown in Australia. The Japanese needed only eight minutes to score their first goal as Endo’s long-range strike beat Palestine captain and goalkeeper Ramzi Saleh’s dive.

The Palestinians then sat deep in defense to negate Japan’s intricate passing and movement but had no answer for Takashi Inui’s strong run and cross that found Kagawa, who sent a shot from the edge of the box.

Okazaki stooped low with his head to deflect the ball past Saleh in the 25th minute.

It wasn’t until the 40th minute that the Palestinians managed a scoring chance with Ismail Alamour’s shot

sliding wide of Eiji Kawashima’s goal. But then the defending champions scored again when Honda stroked home a penalty after Musab Battat pushed Inui in the box in the 44th minute.

Yoshida scored from a powerful header from Kagawa’s cross just after halftime. The best chance for the Palestinians came in the 81st but Abdallatif Albahdari sent his strong header narrowly wide.

Despite the lack of chances, a small contingent of Palestinian fans in the crowd of 15,497 waved flags, beat drums and sang for the duration of the match. (rtr)

Van Gaal no closer to title challenge than Moyes was LONDON - Louis Van Gaal said it would take him three years to transform Manchester United into a potential title-winning team when he became manager last summer, but judged by Sunday’s loss to Southampton, he might have to wait a lot longer than that. United, who spent 150 million pounds ($226.76 million) on new players in the summer, failed to get a shot on target at home for the first time in more than five years as they went down to a 1-0 defeat to the Saints who had not won at Old

Trafford since 1988.

The defeat leaves United with 37 points from 21 matches, exactly the same total they had this time last year when David Moyes was manager, and they have scored one goal less. Moyes was sacked in April after less than a season in charge.

Van Gaal, who left Colombian striker Radamel Falcao out of the squad raising doubts about his future at the club, still had Angel Di Maria, Robin van Persie and Wayne Rooney in attack and Juan Mata went close

twice to scoring late in the game. An additional thorn in Van Gaal’s side on Sunday was that Southampton are coached by fellow Dutchman Ronald Koeman and the one-time Ajax Amsterdam colleagues have not been friends since Van Gaal was forced out of the club by Koeman in 2004.

The two gave each other a cursory handshake after the game which Van Gaal said Southampton were lucky to win. “We didn’t create so much but we dominated the game. They came for

Messi dismisses Luis Enrique rift, Barca exit rumours

Napoli’s Gonzalo Higuaín and Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon, left, vie for the ball during a Serie A soccer match between Napoli and Juventus, at the San Paolo stadium in Naples, Italy, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015.

a draw and they go away with a victory, that is disappointing,” he added.

“We played a much better game than Southampton. They were lucky to score out of nothing.”

United slipped to fourth, one place behind Southampton, and while there are still questions over how much progress they have made since Moyes left, there are also questions over the future of Falcao at United.

United must pay 46.0 million pounds ($69.51 million) to AS Monaco if the striker is to remain at United

permanently when his loan deal ends in the summer.

Van Gaal said he opted to include teenager James Wilson on the bench rather than Falcao because of the England Under-20 international’s pace. “Falcao wasn’t injured, he was just not selected in the squad,” Van Gaal said. However, when Van Persie came off injured after 61 minutes, Ander Herrera replaced him, not Wilson. Eight minutes later United went behind with the goal that sealed Saints victory. (rtr)

MILAN — Serie A leader Juventus won 3-1 at Napoli to move three points clear of Roma, which fought back from two goals down to draw 2-2 against Lazio in the capital derby earlier on Sunday.

Miguel Britos leveled for Napoli, canceling out a stunning Paul Pogba volley, but Juventus restored its advantage five minutes later through Martin Caceres, who was making his first appearance in more than three months.

There was a suspicion of offside on that goal and Napoli was further infuriated after having a late equalizer ruled out for a foul on Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon before Arturo Vidal sealed the match in stoppage time.

“We are tired of this!” Napoli President Aurelio De Laurentiis wrote on Twitter. “Juve is a strong team, if it is then also helped by referees then it becomes unbeatable. “It is unacceptable that with six officials they cannot see two players who are offside. Either it’s bad faith or incompetence. These six officials have to be frozen out

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for a long time.”

Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri shrugged off the comments after steering the Bianconeri to a first win at the San Paolo since 2000. “It makes me smile, if we start protesting at refereeing decisions then it’ll be chaos,” he said.

“Mistakes happen and everyone makes them, from presidents to referees, it’s normal.”

Napoli remained fourth, a point behind Lazio after the latter’s derby disappointment. Francesco Totti scored both Roma’s goals in the second period. Roma’s talismanic captain celebrated his second in unusual fashion by taking a selfie of himself on the pitch.

Sampdoria moved level on points with Napoli after beating Empoli 1-0. But Genoa slipped up in the race for third as it lost 3-1 at Inter Milan and is level with Fiorentina, which won a thrilling encounter with Palermo 4-3. Elsewhere, it was: Cagliari 2-1 Cesena; Atalanta 1-1 Chievo Verona 1; and Hellas Verona beat Parma 3-1. (ap)

BARCELONA - Barcelona forward Lionel Messi has denied he asked for coach Luis Enrique to be replaced or that he is seeking an exit from his boyhood club and a move to England. The Argentina and Barca captain was responding for the first time to widespread reports of a falling out with Luis Enrique, who took over from Messi’s compatriot Tata Martino at the end of last season.

Messi’s apparent dissatisfaction with the coach’s management style and tactics was said to have prompted talks with Chelsea and Manchester City on a possible move to the English Premier League, while Catalan television claimed Messi had demanded Luis Enrique be sacked.

“I haven’t asked for anything to stay here because I have never wanted to go anywhere else,” Messi

told Barca’s TV channel after Sunday’s 3-1 La Liga win over champions Atletico Madrid. “I have also heard that my father has spoken to Chelsea and City but it’s all lies,” added the 27-year-old.

“There have been stories that I had bad relationships with (Pep) Guardiola, (Samuel) Eto’o, (Zlatan) Ibrahimovic and Bojan (Krkic), that I have got rid of people. “That is in no way true. I never asked for them to get rid of the coach or anyone else. There is no rivalry between Luis Enrique and me.”

Messi’s status as a hero to Barca fans for his key role in their most successful era makes him a powerful figure at the club but he dismissed claims that he has influence over important decisions.

“I am tired of hearing things about me,” Messi said. “They say that I run the club when I am

just another player. I don’t make those decisions, nor have I asked them to be made. “It hurts because (the stories) have come from the Barcelona-based media and not from Madrid.

“There are people who want to damage the club and it’s important that now more than ever we are united because there are important things ahead.”

Messi had a busy night against Atletico, netting one goal, setting up Neymar and Luis Suarez to score and conceding a penalty for the first time in his professional career. He also picked up a rare booking for a high-footed challenge on Atletico goalkeeper Miguel Angel Moya.

The win lifted Barca to within a point of leaders Real Madrid, who have a game in hand, with Atletico are three points further back in third. (rtr)

AP Photo/Siu Wu

FC Barcelona’s Lionel Messi, from Argentine, right, Neymar, from Brazil, center, and Luis Suarez, from Uruguay, celebrate after scoring against Atletico Madrid during a Spanish La Liga soccer match at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015.

Relying on its homegrown stars, Lyon goes top of the league PARIS — Led by striker Alexandre Lacazette, one of eight homegrown players in its starting lineup, Lyon moved to the top of the French league on Sunday after Lacazette scored twice in a 3-0 win against Toulouse to take his season’s tally to 19 in 20 games.

The win moved Lyon one point clear of second-place Marseille, and an impressive four clear of two-time

defending champion Paris SaintGermain, which continues to struggle despite having five players in its squad costing more than €40 million ($47 million) while the nucleus of Lyon’s side cost nothing.

“We’ll see where we are five or six matches from the end, but the best is yet to come,” Lyon coach Hubert Fournier said. While fourthplace PSG’s star striker Zlatan

Ibrahimovic looks short of his best since returning from a heel injury, with only one goal in his past four games, the 23-year-old Lacazette has scored eight in four to attract the attentions of clubs such as defending Premier League champion Manchester City.

“Alexandre was almost disappointed at the end,” Fournier said.

“He wanted to score again.” Laca-

zette scored twice inside the first 30 minutes and 21-year-old midfielder Nabil Fekir added the other just after the break to make it eight league goals in 16 games.

“The team is young but we have a lot of talent,” Fekir said. “We’re happy but we’re just starting the second half of the season. There’s still work to be done.”

The rise of Lyon, which won

seven straight titles until Bordeaux ended its reign in the 2008-09 campaign, is even more remarkable given that it lost three of its opening four league games. “I measure how far we’ve come,” Fournier said. “The club sticks together in difficult moments and there’s a real collective strength. Maybe we had to experience these tough times to get where we are.” (ap)

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Japan opens Asian Cup with 4-0 win over Palestine in Group D

Japan’s Keisuke Honda, right, and Palestine goalkeeper Ramzi Saleh clash during the AFC Asia Cup soccer match between Japan and Palestine in Newcastle, Australia, Monday, January 12, 2014.

AP Photo/Gennaro Giorgio

Juventus beats Napoli 3-1 to move 3 points clear

NEWCASTLE, Australia — Defending champion Japan won its first match of this year’s Asian Cup, beating newcomer Palestine 4-0 Monday in its opening Group D match. Yasuhito Endo, Shinji Okazaki and Keisuke Honda scored in the first half to give Japan a big lead against the tournament debutants in wet and windy conditions at Hunter Stadium. Maya Yoshida scored after the break from Shinji Kagawa’s cross to complete the rout.

Ahmed Mahajna was sent off in the 73rd minute to make it a tough first tournament start for the Palestinians, who qualified by winning the 2014 AFC Challenge Cup in the Maldives. Japan has won four Asian Cup titles in the past six editions and is seeking a record fifth continental crown in Australia. The Japanese needed only eight minutes to score their first goal as Endo’s long-range strike beat Palestine captain and goalkeeper Ramzi Saleh’s dive.

The Palestinians then sat deep in defense to negate Japan’s intricate passing and movement but had no answer for Takashi Inui’s strong run and cross that found Kagawa, who sent a shot from the edge of the box.

Okazaki stooped low with his head to deflect the ball past Saleh in the 25th minute.

It wasn’t until the 40th minute that the Palestinians managed a scoring chance with Ismail Alamour’s shot

sliding wide of Eiji Kawashima’s goal. But then the defending champions scored again when Honda stroked home a penalty after Musab Battat pushed Inui in the box in the 44th minute.

Yoshida scored from a powerful header from Kagawa’s cross just after halftime. The best chance for the Palestinians came in the 81st but Abdallatif Albahdari sent his strong header narrowly wide.

Despite the lack of chances, a small contingent of Palestinian fans in the crowd of 15,497 waved flags, beat drums and sang for the duration of the match. (rtr)

Van Gaal no closer to title challenge than Moyes was LONDON - Louis Van Gaal said it would take him three years to transform Manchester United into a potential title-winning team when he became manager last summer, but judged by Sunday’s loss to Southampton, he might have to wait a lot longer than that. United, who spent 150 million pounds ($226.76 million) on new players in the summer, failed to get a shot on target at home for the first time in more than five years as they went down to a 1-0 defeat to the Saints who had not won at Old

Trafford since 1988.

The defeat leaves United with 37 points from 21 matches, exactly the same total they had this time last year when David Moyes was manager, and they have scored one goal less. Moyes was sacked in April after less than a season in charge.

Van Gaal, who left Colombian striker Radamel Falcao out of the squad raising doubts about his future at the club, still had Angel Di Maria, Robin van Persie and Wayne Rooney in attack and Juan Mata went close

twice to scoring late in the game. An additional thorn in Van Gaal’s side on Sunday was that Southampton are coached by fellow Dutchman Ronald Koeman and the one-time Ajax Amsterdam colleagues have not been friends since Van Gaal was forced out of the club by Koeman in 2004.

The two gave each other a cursory handshake after the game which Van Gaal said Southampton were lucky to win. “We didn’t create so much but we dominated the game. They came for

Messi dismisses Luis Enrique rift, Barca exit rumours

Napoli’s Gonzalo Higuaín and Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon, left, vie for the ball during a Serie A soccer match between Napoli and Juventus, at the San Paolo stadium in Naples, Italy, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015.

a draw and they go away with a victory, that is disappointing,” he added.

“We played a much better game than Southampton. They were lucky to score out of nothing.”

United slipped to fourth, one place behind Southampton, and while there are still questions over how much progress they have made since Moyes left, there are also questions over the future of Falcao at United.

United must pay 46.0 million pounds ($69.51 million) to AS Monaco if the striker is to remain at United

permanently when his loan deal ends in the summer.

Van Gaal said he opted to include teenager James Wilson on the bench rather than Falcao because of the England Under-20 international’s pace. “Falcao wasn’t injured, he was just not selected in the squad,” Van Gaal said. However, when Van Persie came off injured after 61 minutes, Ander Herrera replaced him, not Wilson. Eight minutes later United went behind with the goal that sealed Saints victory. (rtr)

MILAN — Serie A leader Juventus won 3-1 at Napoli to move three points clear of Roma, which fought back from two goals down to draw 2-2 against Lazio in the capital derby earlier on Sunday.

Miguel Britos leveled for Napoli, canceling out a stunning Paul Pogba volley, but Juventus restored its advantage five minutes later through Martin Caceres, who was making his first appearance in more than three months.

There was a suspicion of offside on that goal and Napoli was further infuriated after having a late equalizer ruled out for a foul on Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon before Arturo Vidal sealed the match in stoppage time.

“We are tired of this!” Napoli President Aurelio De Laurentiis wrote on Twitter. “Juve is a strong team, if it is then also helped by referees then it becomes unbeatable. “It is unacceptable that with six officials they cannot see two players who are offside. Either it’s bad faith or incompetence. These six officials have to be frozen out

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for a long time.”

Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri shrugged off the comments after steering the Bianconeri to a first win at the San Paolo since 2000. “It makes me smile, if we start protesting at refereeing decisions then it’ll be chaos,” he said.

“Mistakes happen and everyone makes them, from presidents to referees, it’s normal.”

Napoli remained fourth, a point behind Lazio after the latter’s derby disappointment. Francesco Totti scored both Roma’s goals in the second period. Roma’s talismanic captain celebrated his second in unusual fashion by taking a selfie of himself on the pitch.

Sampdoria moved level on points with Napoli after beating Empoli 1-0. But Genoa slipped up in the race for third as it lost 3-1 at Inter Milan and is level with Fiorentina, which won a thrilling encounter with Palermo 4-3. Elsewhere, it was: Cagliari 2-1 Cesena; Atalanta 1-1 Chievo Verona 1; and Hellas Verona beat Parma 3-1. (ap)

BARCELONA - Barcelona forward Lionel Messi has denied he asked for coach Luis Enrique to be replaced or that he is seeking an exit from his boyhood club and a move to England. The Argentina and Barca captain was responding for the first time to widespread reports of a falling out with Luis Enrique, who took over from Messi’s compatriot Tata Martino at the end of last season.

Messi’s apparent dissatisfaction with the coach’s management style and tactics was said to have prompted talks with Chelsea and Manchester City on a possible move to the English Premier League, while Catalan television claimed Messi had demanded Luis Enrique be sacked.

“I haven’t asked for anything to stay here because I have never wanted to go anywhere else,” Messi

told Barca’s TV channel after Sunday’s 3-1 La Liga win over champions Atletico Madrid. “I have also heard that my father has spoken to Chelsea and City but it’s all lies,” added the 27-year-old.

“There have been stories that I had bad relationships with (Pep) Guardiola, (Samuel) Eto’o, (Zlatan) Ibrahimovic and Bojan (Krkic), that I have got rid of people. “That is in no way true. I never asked for them to get rid of the coach or anyone else. There is no rivalry between Luis Enrique and me.”

Messi’s status as a hero to Barca fans for his key role in their most successful era makes him a powerful figure at the club but he dismissed claims that he has influence over important decisions.

“I am tired of hearing things about me,” Messi said. “They say that I run the club when I am

just another player. I don’t make those decisions, nor have I asked them to be made. “It hurts because (the stories) have come from the Barcelona-based media and not from Madrid.

“There are people who want to damage the club and it’s important that now more than ever we are united because there are important things ahead.”

Messi had a busy night against Atletico, netting one goal, setting up Neymar and Luis Suarez to score and conceding a penalty for the first time in his professional career. He also picked up a rare booking for a high-footed challenge on Atletico goalkeeper Miguel Angel Moya.

The win lifted Barca to within a point of leaders Real Madrid, who have a game in hand, with Atletico are three points further back in third. (rtr)

AP Photo/Siu Wu

FC Barcelona’s Lionel Messi, from Argentine, right, Neymar, from Brazil, center, and Luis Suarez, from Uruguay, celebrate after scoring against Atletico Madrid during a Spanish La Liga soccer match at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015.

Relying on its homegrown stars, Lyon goes top of the league PARIS — Led by striker Alexandre Lacazette, one of eight homegrown players in its starting lineup, Lyon moved to the top of the French league on Sunday after Lacazette scored twice in a 3-0 win against Toulouse to take his season’s tally to 19 in 20 games.

The win moved Lyon one point clear of second-place Marseille, and an impressive four clear of two-time

defending champion Paris SaintGermain, which continues to struggle despite having five players in its squad costing more than €40 million ($47 million) while the nucleus of Lyon’s side cost nothing.

“We’ll see where we are five or six matches from the end, but the best is yet to come,” Lyon coach Hubert Fournier said. While fourthplace PSG’s star striker Zlatan

Ibrahimovic looks short of his best since returning from a heel injury, with only one goal in his past four games, the 23-year-old Lacazette has scored eight in four to attract the attentions of clubs such as defending Premier League champion Manchester City.

“Alexandre was almost disappointed at the end,” Fournier said.

“He wanted to score again.” Laca-

zette scored twice inside the first 30 minutes and 21-year-old midfielder Nabil Fekir added the other just after the break to make it eight league goals in 16 games.

“The team is young but we have a lot of talent,” Fekir said. “We’re happy but we’re just starting the second half of the season. There’s still work to be done.”

The rise of Lyon, which won

seven straight titles until Bordeaux ended its reign in the 2008-09 campaign, is even more remarkable given that it lost three of its opening four league games. “I measure how far we’ve come,” Fournier said. “The club sticks together in difficult moments and there’s a real collective strength. Maybe we had to experience these tough times to get where we are.” (ap)

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Want to stay at countryside? Simply come to Nyuh Kuning, one of the villages in the Ubud subdistrict remaining to offer a real Balinese life. Its location is very strategic as standing directly behind the Monkey Forest tourist attraction. Precisely, it is located at Nyuh Kuning customary village, Mas, or about 25 km from Denpasar and 15 km from the town of Gianyar.

When compared to other villages, the village of Nyuh Kuning is superior. Other than offering clean and beautiful environment, open and friendly community, sustainable culture, it is also supported by tourism facilities such as hotels and restaurants. Existing hotels have been designed in such a way so as not to disrupt the uniqueness of the village.

Even, they seem to perfectly blend into the surrounding environment.

Community of Nyuh Kuning understands very well in maintaining the sustainable environment, so it has special team engaged in environmental matters. With the encouragement of this team, the community is aware of maintaining the plants and always does re-greening. For instance, they make a movement by planting 5,000 frangipani trees at roadside or house courtyard.

Aside from being the typical plant of Bali, frangipani can also be used for ritual parephernalia and even has economic value. Dried flowers

can be sold at a good price. People can purchase rice from selling the frangipani.

Frangipani trees indeed make the village leafy. People’s housefront space is very clean and every angkul-angkul (entrance) to house compound is embellished with a pair of statues on the right and left side.

Uniquely, every sculpture set on each angkul-angkul is not the same.

The design and appearance resemble the residents both in terms of the face and profession.

For example, the sculpture will be in the form of pecalang if the resident serves as the security guard of the village, a tiger describes a king that means the home of kelian and bendesa (chief of village) as well as elephant sculpture means the house of kelian. Village road also looks clean and comfortable because people sweep it simultaneously in the morning.

When entering the village, people will perceive a positive aura. So, do not make a mistake if this village becomes the center of spiritual activities. At least, there are about 5 locations for meditation applying different methods such as laughing meditation, silent meditation throughout the day and there is also smiling meditation from heart to heart. All kinds of these meditations are in great demand by foreign travelers.

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Gasol, Randolph lead Grizzlies to double overtime win

MEMPHIS, Tennessee — Marc Gasol scored the first seven points in the second overtime and Zach Randolph had 27 points and 17 rebounds as the Memphis Grizzlies outlasted the Phoenix Suns 122-110 in the NBA on Sunday. Gasol finished with 12 points to help Memphis end a two-game losing streak. Mike Conley added 25 points and eight assists and Courtney Lee had 18 points.

Isaiah Thomas led Phoenix with 20 points, but had a costly turnover trying to get the ball into the front court with the Suns leading late in the first overtime.

Bledsoe’s 3-pointer with 33.3 seconds left in the first overtime gave the Suns a 108-106 lead. The Suns stopped the Grizzlies on the next possession, but Thomas gave away the ball and Lee — fouled by Dragic — made two free throws with 16.2 left. Bledsoe then missed at the buzzer, forcing the second extra period.

In other games, Portland defeated the Los Angeles Lakers 106-94 to move to a season-best 22 games over .500, Sacramento sent LeBron James-less Cleveland to its seventh loss in eight games with a 103-84 victory, and Atlanta extended its winning streak to eight games with a 120-89 rout of Washington.

Damian Lillard scored 34 points, LaMarcus Aldridge had 15 points and nine rebounds and Chris Kaman added 12 rebounds and nine assists for the Blazers, who have won 27 of their last 32 games and are 30-8 overall.

Kobe Bryant was rested by Lakers coach Byron Scott for the sixth time in 11 games and second game in a row. The NBA’s third-leading career scorer, playing in his 19th season at age 36, played in only six games last season due to a torn Achilles and a fracture in his left knee.

Sacramento’s DeMarcus Cous-

ins had 26 points and 13 rebounds and Rudy Gay added 23 points to beat the Cavaliers, who were missing James for the eighth straight game with a strained back and sore left knee.

Kevin Love had 25 points and 10 rebounds and Kyrie Irving added 21 points — 14 in the first quarter — and seven assists for Cleveland, which dropped to 19-19 overall. (ap) Memphis Grizzlies center Marc Gasol (33) looks to drive to the basket against Phoenix Suns center Alex Len (21) in the first half of an NBA basketball game Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015, in Memphis, Tenn.

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Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark reacts while playing Barbora Zahlavova Strycova of the Czech Republic during their match at the Sydney International tennis tournament in Sydney, Monday, Jan. 12, 2015. Wozniacki retired from the match with a wrist injury.

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Wozniacki retires in Sydney due to wrist injury

SYDNEY - World number eight Caroline Wozniacki pulled out of her first-round match at the Sydney International with a wrist injury on Monday, just a week before the start of the Australian Open. The 24year-old Dane, who lost the final of the Auckland Classic on Saturday, had already had her left wrist strapped when she was forced to retire at 6-4 1-1 down to Czech Barbora Zahlavova Strycova.

“I didn’t want to do it worse before Melbourne, so I’m just going to try and get some treatment on it and try and get ready for next week,” Wozniacki told reporters. “I still have a week to go, so hopefully it’ll be fine... I’m confident that I’ll be fine to play in Melbourne.”

Zahlavova Strycova went through to a second round tie against local hope Sam Stosur, who had earlier progressed with a rain-disrupted 7-6(3) 5-7 6-3 victory over another Czech in Lucie Safarova.

Former U.S. Open champion Stosur had already had her firstround contest put back a day after wet weather in Sydney on Sunday. She held her nerve throughout a three-hour contest peppered with rain interruptions and polished off the victory over the world number 16 with a thumping ace down the middle. It was a welcome return to winning ways for Stosur, who blew a 5-1 lead in the third set last week to lose to American Varvara Lepchenko in Brisbane.

“I was pleased with the way I served for the match,” she said. “After what happened last week, to step up and serve the way I did, I’m obviously very happy.” Third seeded Pole Agnieszka Radwanska enjoyed the more clement later conditions to beat France’s Alize Cornet 6-3 6-2 and reach the second round of a tournament she won in 2013.

The world number five made it clear, however, that her focus over the next few weeks under new coach Martina Navratilova was on improving on a single semi-final appearance at Melbourne Park.

“Martina’s going to be here tomorrow,” Radwanska said. “She’s really helping me on and off court. The goal is the grand slams so we’ll see how it goes.”

In the men’s draw, fifth-seeded Argentine Leonardo Mayer downed Benjamin Becker 7-6(3) 6-2 to set up a meeting with young Australian Nick Kyrgios or Pole Jerzy Janowicz in the second round.

Local top seed Casey Dellacqua overcame a second-set glitch to beat American Lauren Davis 6-4 1-6 6-4 and reach the second round of the Hobart International. (rtr)

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Foreign ministers gather in Berlin to seek Ukraine progress BERLIN — Germany’s foreign minister is hosting his counterparts from Russia, Ukraine and France in an attempt to move forward efforts to calm the Ukrainian crisis and perhaps clear the way for a summit of the countries’ leaders.

The meeting planned Monday evening in Berlin follows a flurry of diplomacy including a brief weekend encounter in Paris between the German, French and Ukrainian leaders.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel also has spoken by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin and met the president of Kazakhstan, the possible host of a four-way summit on Ukraine.

Merkel and Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier are pushing for progress on implementing a much-violated peace deal that was drawn up in Minsk in September. Berlin says a substantial narrowing of differences is needed for a summit to take place. (ap)

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In this Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015 photo, school attack survivor Ahmed Nawaz, 15, shows a picture of his younger brother Harris Nawaz, who was killed in the Taliban attack, during an interview with The Associated Press in Peshawar, Pakistan.

Pakistani school reopens after Taliban massacre of students

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistani children returned on Monday to the school where Taliban gunmen killed 150 of their classmates and teachers last month, clutching their parents’ hands tightly in a poignant symbol of perseverance despite the horrors they had endured.

It was the first time the school had reopened since the assault and security was tight. The nation has been reeling from the Dec. 16 terrorist attack in Peshawar — one of the worst Pakistan has experienced.

The violence carried out by seven Taliban militants put a spotlight on whether the authorities can end the stubborn insurgency that kills and maims thousands every year.

The massacre also horrified parents across the nation and prompted officials to implement tighter security at schools. For Peshawar parents like Abid Ali Shah, Monday morning was especially painful as he struggled to get his sons ready for school, something his wife used to do. She was a teacher at the school and was killed in the violence. Both of his sons attended the school. The youngest was shot in the head but

survived after the militants thought he was dead.

“A hollowness in my life is getting greater. I am missing my wife,” Shah said. He said he had wanted to shift his children to a different school or city but decided not to because they still have to take exams this spring: “Everything is ruined here, everything.”

His older son, Sitwat Ali Shah, 17, said it wasn’t until he saw his brother break down in tears as they prepared to go to school that he did as well. Sitwat said both he and his brother have trouble sleeping and often wake up, crying for their mother.

“Those who have done all this to all of us cannot be called humans,” Sitwat said, adding he still wanted to go back to school and become an air force officer.

A ceremony was held at the school to mark its reopening, but classes were to restart on Tuesday.

Security was tight, part of a countrywide effort to boost safety measures at schools in the wake of the attack.

Schools around Pakistan have raised their boundary walls, added armed guards and installed metal detectors, although many have questioned why it took such a horrible attack to focus attention on school safety.

The government has stepped up military operations in the tribal areas, reinstated the death penalty and allowed military courts to try civilians — all attempts to crack down on terrorism. But in an attack on Monday, gunmen killed seven paramilitary soldiers in the southwestern Baluchistan province, underscoring the dangers the country still faces.(ap)

69 people die after drinking contaminated beer in Mozambique MAPUTO, Mozambique — Authorities in Mozambique say the number of people who died after drinking contaminated traditional beer has risen to 69.

Provincial health director, Paula Bernardo, told Radio Mozambique on Monday that 196 people have been admitted to hospitals in the northeastern Tete province. On Sunday evening district health officials said 56 people had died and 49 were hospitalized after drinking the beer at a funeral on Saturday.

Pombe, a traditional Mozambican beer, is made from millet or corn flour. The exact source of the contamination is still unknown, but authorities believe the drink was poisoned with crocodile bile during the course of the funeral.

Blood and traditional beer samples were sent to the capital Maputo to be tested, said provincial health director Carle Mosse. (ap)

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INDONESIA Divers retrieve crashed AirAsia jet’s FDR

PANGKALAN BUN - Indonesian divers Monday retrieved the flight data recorder of the AirAsia plane that went down in the Java Sea with 162 people on board, a potential breakthrough in efforts to discover what caused the crash.

The recorder, one of two black boxes containing vital information, was brought to the surface early in the morning, said national search and rescue chief Bambang Soelistyo, after a fortnight-long frustrating search often hampered by bad weather.

“We succeeded in bringing up part of the black box that we call the flight data recorder,” Soelistyo told reporters in Jakarta.

He said it was found under the wreckage of a wing and added that divers were still hunting for the second black box, the cockpit voice recorder.

Officials said Sunday that strong ping signals from the black boxes had been detected near an object believed to be the plane’s main body. On Monday improved weather helped divers to retrieve the flight data recorder.

It monitors data such as airspeed and heading, while the cockpit voice recorder stores radio transmissions and sounds in the cockpit. Both are located near the rear of the plane and designed to survive underwater.

Indonesia’s National Transport Safety Committee said the recovered black box would be sent to Jakarta for

a lengthy analysis, to be carried out with French experts and Airbus.

It would later be transferred for further analysis to France, where the aircraft manufacturer is headquartered.

Flight QZ8501 crashed on December 28 on a short flight from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore.

Indonesia’s meteorological agency has said stormy weather likely caused the Airbus A320-200 to go down but a definitive answer is impossible without the data recorders.

Forty-eight bodies have been recovered so far, but the weather has hampered efforts to locate all the victims and the wreckage.

S.B. Supriyadi, a director with the national search and rescue agency, said initial analysis of the wreckage so far recovered indicated that the plane broke apart on impact with the water.

“It exploded because of the pressure,” he told reporters in the town of Pangkalan Bun on Borneo island, the search headquarters.

“The cabin was pressurised and before the pressure of the cabin could be adjusted, it went down -- boom. That

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Parts of AirAsia Flight 8501 is seen on the deck of rescue ship Crest Onyx at Kumai port in Pangkalan Bun, Indonesia, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015. Indonesian divers Monday retrieved the flight data recorder of the AirAsia plane that went down in the Java Sea with 162 people on board, a potential breakthrough in efforts to discover what caused the crash. explosion was heard in the area.”

The search has involved US, Chinese and other international naval ships. Supriyadi said many bodies were believed trapped in the cabin, so reaching that part of the wreckage was also a top priority.

The tail of the plane, with its red

AirAsia logo, was lifted out of the water on Saturday using giant balloons and a crane.

It was brought by tugboat on Sunday to a port near Pangkalan Bun. All but seven of those on board the flight were Indonesian.

The bodies of a South Korean

couple were identified on Sunday, but their 11-month-old baby remains unaccounted for.

The other foreigners were one Singaporean, one Malaysian, one Briton and a Frenchman -- co-pilot Remi Plesel. Their bodies have not been recovered. (afp)

Arief Hidayat elected as MK Chief

Balinese...

From page 1 Abetnego added that tourism to be built was supposedly capable of relying on the strength at local level. In this case, it consisted of nature, culture, religious and social life of local community itself. But what happening was greed practice, such as corruption or exploitation for the benefit of specific groups.

“During previous administration, there were so many issues that seemed to be answered with solution, but rather exploit the solution for the interest of specific groups. Benoa Bay reclamation, for example, is not answered with the rehabilitation in the region, but was answered with a mega-project approach that is not necessarily suitable for the people of Bali,” he said.

A national figure, IGK Manila, argued that it was time for Bali to be returned to its previous condition. Similarly, he did not agree if Bali was made into the one resembling Hawaii with abundant building trees everywhere. On that account, the mental revolution should continue to be encouraged.

“Bali may not be destroyed and through mental revolution we keep Bali so that our grandchildren can enjoy nice, natural and good beaches,” he said. (kmb32)

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Miss Indonesia, Elvira Devinamirea, left, poses for photos with Chris Gay after she painted on a wall in Miami’s Wynwood area, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015. Miss Universe contestants visited pop artist Romero Britto’s studio for an interactive painting event.

JAKARTA - Constitutional Judge Arief Hidayat has been chosen as Constitutional Court (MK) chief for the period between 2015 and 2017.

Hidayat, who served as a constitutional judge since 2013, was elected as chief of the MK after acclamation. He was elected to replace Hamdan Zoelva whose term as constitutional judge ended on Wednesday (Jan. 7).

Moreover, the three names nominated to serve as vice chief are Patrialis Akbar, Aswanto, and Anwar Usman.

In accordance with Article 4 of Law Number 8/2011 on the amendment to Law Number 24/2003 of the MK, the election of the court chief is discussed behind closed doors by nine constitutional judges, who each have the right to nominate and be nominated as chairman of the MK. The nine constitutional judges are Anwar Usman, Arief Hidayat, Aswanto, Maria Farida Indrati, Muhammad Alim, Patrialis Akbar, Waiduddin Adams, I. Dewa Gede Palguna, and Suhartoyo.

If the meeting failed to reach a unanimous agreement or acclamation, the decision would have been made through a majority vote during an open plenary meeting. (ant)

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Kerry urges rapid growth in US-India trade, commercial ties

tank, the Peterson Institute.

“The falling oil price is a huge shot in the arm. Nonetheless, it is clear that the ECB will have to do something. There is no growth and the debt burden is too high. The world will be flying on one engine, the U.S., for quite some time.”

Oil’s second-biggest collapse on record has taken the price of a barrel of benchmark Brent crude to around $50 from $115 in the middle of last year.

That is a mixed blessing for the stuttering global economy.

While it is good news for a slowing China and should put more money in the pocket of motorists around the world, cheap oil has put price inflation into reverse in the euro zone, increasing the burden on countries with heavy debts.

It has also compounded an economic and currency crisis in neighbouring Russia, one of the world’s biggest oil exporters. Russia is already locked in conflict with neighbouring Ukraine.

Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has said it will conclude a review of Russia’s credit status by mid January. Any downgrade would badge Russian bonds as “junk” for the first time in more than a decade. (rtr)

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GIANYAR - Located on the land owned by I Wayan Wirta at Sareseda hamlet, Tampaksiring, Gianyar, Friday (Jan 9), was found two sandstone statues alleged to be archaeological objects.

Now, relevant agencies are still investigating the discovery of statues with the carving of elephant’s head.

have jumped in recent years, growing nearly five-fold since 2000 with bilateral direct investment at almost $30 billion. But it still faces obstacles dues to restrictive Indian laws and regulations and concerns about intellectual property rights and protection. In addition, talks on liability issues that have kept American nuclear power operators from doing business in India have been inconclusive to date.

U.S. officials said they were working on agreements that could include a solar energy deal, a plan to improve rural electrification and potentially a carbon reduction pact that they hoped could be signed when Obama visits India to participate in India’s annual Republic Day ceremonies on Jan. 26. Modi has invited Obama to be the “chief guest” at the celebration, the first sitting American president to be so honored. (ap)

Legal challenge shows rocky path to ECB money-printing FRANKFURT - A landmark legal opinion this week will remind the European Central Bank of the limits it faces as it advances towards money printing, while a tumbling oil price saps inflation in debt-strained Europe.

With expectations high that the ECB is on the verge of buying government bonds with new money to shore up the economy, an influential adviser to Europe’s top court will give his view on Jan. 14 about an earlier unused bond-buying scheme.

It is the latest chapter in a long-running and increasingly bitter dispute about quantitative easing (QE) between the ECB and Germany, the largest member of the 19-country bloc, that is likely to limit the size or scope of such a programme.

As the debate continues, the euro zone economy is all but grinding to a halt. Germany is expected to announce modest growth on Jan. 15 for last year.

In the United States, fresh data on rising employment as well as retail sales is set to show just how much its recovery has overtaken Europe.

“The global economy is at a precarious point,” said Jacob Kirkegaard of Washington think

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Two archeological objects found in Tampaksiring

BUSINESS AHMEDABAD, India — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday called for a rapid expansion of U.S.-India trade and commercial ties as he attended an international investment conference ahead of visit by President Barack Obama later this month.

Kerry led the U.S. delegation to the investment summit in Ahmedabad, the main financial city in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat.

Kerry said it was imperative that economic ties between the two countries grow for the sake of Indian development, reducing poverty and fighting climate change.

“We can do more together, and we must do more together, and we have to do it faster,” Kerry told the conference, which Modi opened.

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Pedestrians using their mobile phones walk past a display window of a luxury brand shop outside a department store in Tokyo December 25, 2014. Japan’s government will propose a record budget for next fiscal year of more than $800 billion but cut borrowing for a third year, government officials said on Sunday, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe seeks to maintain growth while curbing the heaviest debt burden in the industrial world.

Japan readies record $800 billion 2015 TOKYO - Japan’s government will propose a record budget for next fiscal year of more than $800 billion but cut borrowing for a third year, government officials said on Sunday, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe seeks to maintain growth while curbing the heaviest debt burden in the industrial world.

The third annual budget since Abe swept to power in late 2012 also highlights his struggle to contain bulging welfare costs for the fast-ageing society while increasing discretionary spending in areas such as the military.

Abe’s 96.3 trillion yen ($813 billion) draft budget for the year from April, to be approved by the Cabinet on Wednesday and submitted to an upcoming session of Parliament, is up from this fiscal year’s initial 95.9 trillion, the two officials told Reuters.

But spending restraint and a surge in tax revenues as the economy recovers allows the government to cut bond issuance by 4.4 trillion yen to 36.9 trillion, the third decrease in a row

and the lowest level in six years, the officials said.

The improved fiscal picture helps Abe trim Japan’s public debt, which is well over twice the country’s GDP after years of sluggish growth and huge stimulus spending. The budget for the coming year follows an extra budget of 3.1 trillion yen for this fiscal year, approved last week.

With the budget deficit - excluding new bond sales and debt servicing - projected at roughly 3 percent of gross domestic product for the 2015-16 fiscal year, Abe will meet the government’s promise of halving the debt ratio from 2010-11 levels.

But Finance Ministry calculations show that the goal of balancing the

budget by 2020-21 remains ambitious.

Abe raised the national sales tax in April to 8 percent from 5 percent, sending the world’s third-biggest economy into recession. He postponed a second increase, to 10 percent, by 18 months to April 2017, but the economy’s upturn under the premier’s easy-money policies is set to boost tax revenues in the coming year.

The draft budget projects tax revenues rising 4.5 trillion yen to 54.5 trillion yen, the officials said, easing somewhat the need to issue more bonds. Debt will finance about 38 percent of the coming year’s budget, down from this year’s 43 percent.

But as the government continues to run a deficit, debt servicing, interest payments and redemptions, are set to rise about 200 billion yen to 23.5 trillion yen. Social-welfare spending, such as medical care, is set to rise 1 trillion yen to 31.5 trillion yen. (rtr)

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Located on the land owned by I Wayan Wirta at Sareseda hamlet, Tampaksiring, Gianyar, Friday (Jan 9), was found two sandstone statues alleged to be archaeological objects.

As information gathered, the discovery of the object originated from the cliff land owned by I Wayan Wirta that was flattened with heavy equipment, namely excavator. When the dredging process was carried out by Suparman, the equipment suddenly hit a hard rock which hampered the movement of the equipment.

This man from Banyuwangi excavated it carefully and slowly. Ultimately, he found a long object of approximately one meter. With the help of local community, the two objects looking like elephant’s head were taken out. It looked like a fountain because there was a hole from the back to front side and a hole in the front was like a fountain with an ornament of elephant’s head. For security reason of the two mysterious objects, they were placed at the outermost courtyard of Penataran Sarwasidi Temple.

The Head of Gianyar Culture

Agency, I Gusti Ngurah Wijana, when asked for his confirmation said that his party with the Assistant 1 of the Gianyar Regional Secretary, Cok Rai Widiarsa, already checked them to Sareseda hamlet, Tampaksiring, Saturday afternoon (Jan 10). Allegedly the objects were former fountains at the royal bathing place. However, his party could not ensure when the objects were still used.

“Seeing from the shape, they look like the fountain of Tirta Empul. Possibly, they were the fountains during the period of royal kingdom,” he said.

Now, the two historic objects known as the Jala Duara are still kept at Penataran Sarwasidi Temple, Tampaksiring. Further in-depth research will be carried

by Cultural Heritage Agency (BPCB). “We have not been able to verify the age of this object.

Later on, the research process will be submitted to the agency,” he said. (nik/dar)

Delicious salad of Balinese Pomelo

Balinese community has a special fruit salad or what the socalled rujak. It is made of fresh fruits mixed with a selection of spices to produce a distinctive flavor. At least, there are three flavors used in the sauce namely spicy, sweet and sour. There are many different types of fruit salad whose name adapted to the fruit used as the main ingredient. One of them is Balinese pomelo salad or rujak juwuk Bali. This ingredient or usually called jerungga in Balinese is liked best by many people. In the heat of the sun, this fruit salad is in demand because it produces water tasting sweet mixed with sour.

Its lovers are very diverse as well such as children, teenagers, parents to toothless grandparents. When squeezed, it will produce water tasting fresh. The salad is prepared by adding sauces onto the ingredient. Salad of this type is usually sold in roadside modest stalls characterized by the presence of a pestle and mortar on the table. To prepare it, the outer skin of the pomelo should be peeled out. Then, the flesh is removed from the inner skin.

Prepare appropriate sauces according to taste. By and large, the sauces in use consist of tamarind paste, shrimp paste, salt and chili to taste. Then, it is added with sweetener like palm sugar.

Having mixed, stir them well to produce good flavor.

Formerly, people prepared mixed salads with young banana tree, belonging to stony banana variety. Its sauce was also very simple, so that it helped digestion in the stomach smoother.

Unfortunately, the Balinese pomelo is increasingly rare today so that it is very difficult to find the bigger ones. Now, it is brought in from Java and other regions in the archipelago. As information, Balinese pomelo has a dark green skin and red flesh. When being unripe, it will taste sour, but after turning perfectly ripe it will taste sweet. (kmb)

Balinese Pomelo Salad

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BKSDA cracks down on thieves of volcanic rock at Batur caldera

BANGLI - Burglaries of volcanic rocks in the area of Batur caldera, Kintamani, have been quite rampant. Evidently in 2014, four thieves were prosecuted after being caught digging up and hauling away volcanic rocks in the conservation area. The Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) needs to be decisive in taking legal action against such acts because it appears that efforts to dissuade people from stealing based on education does not work.

The Conservation Section Head for Region II, Natural Resources Conservation Agency, Ketut Catur Marbawa, explained on Sunday (Jan 11) that the ongoing stealing of volcanic rock by local residents (usually commited at night), could potentially be quite damaging to the geopark region.

He said that since the conservation forest had begun to be managed by the Natural Resources Conservation Agency in 2010 his party had in fact conducted education events quite frequently. However, the coaching of residents seems not to have worked, as unscrupulous people are still stealing the black rock. “Starting in 2014, we decided to crack down on thieves of the volcanic rock. We thought that coaching residents on the im-

portance of the rock was enough -but apparently no,” he explained.

So far 4 residents have been caught carrying the rock away in trucks.

The case is still benign processed by the police.

One of the constraints that the Natural Resources Conservation Agency faces, to adequately maintain the 2,075 hectares of protected land, is lack of personel, with only four officers patrolling the entire area.

Ketut Catur Marbawa hopes that people living around the Batur caldera will actively participate in maintaining the conservation area.

One was to do so is by reporting thieves to Natural Resources Conservation Agency.if need be.

Aside from volcanic rock burglary, another problem faced by the Natural Resources Conservation Agency is the use of semipermanent buildings in the area of Jati Temple. For this reason Catur hopes to make the area into a religious block. “We’ve have already approached the community leaders a few times encouraging them to not allow any more semi-permanent structures to be added to the area.”

Yet another issue that the Natural Resources Conservation Agency faces is the conversion of forested land into plantations. (ina)

3 cases of sexual violence against children occured in 2014 TABANAN - At the beginning of January 2015, several cases of sexual violence against minors were reported. An 11-year-old victim was sexually assaulted 8 times by a perpetrator claiming to be victim’s boyfriend. Although it was claimed to be consensual, the case remains under process of investigation because the status of the victim as a minor. Similar cases also occurred in 2014. The Chief of Women and Children Protection (PPA) of the Tabanan Police, Olandina De Jesus, said that three cases involving sexual violence were handled by the PPA in 2014.

The three victims were 13, 15 and 16 years old, respectively.

Olan continued to say that the perpetrators were usually people closest to the victim: family, neighbors or a boyfriend. In the three cases handled in 2014, two of the perpetrators were the victim’s elder neighbors, and one of the perpetrators was the victim’s boyfriend.

The parents of the victims were the ones to report the crimes to the Tabanan Police.

In dealing with the victims,

the PPA of Tabanan Police in cooperation with relevant NGOs were obliged to provide guidance and counseling for the victim’s psychological condition, helping to restore their self confidence as well as preparing the victims to be questioned. This is done to help the victims avoid developing psychiatric problems such as depression or inferiority complexes. Mentoring and counseling are not only provided to the victims but also to their parents so that parents can give support to their children so that they do not fall into similar cases and also so that their self-confidence can be restored.

Meanwhile Olan explained that the legal proceedings were still being processed even though the perpertrators are also minors. “Under the prevailing Law, if the victims are still minors, their cases will still be processed,” he said. In case of sexual violence, the perpetrator is defined as those who seduce or want something from the victim.

Most perpetrators of sexual abuse on minors, are committed by men. (kmb24)

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FILE - This is a Friday Jan. 9, 2015 file photo of police officers as they storm the kosher market where a gunman held several hostages, in Paris.

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The fisherman shows one of the trees which was cut down. The tree is used to place the rope of their boat.

Boat mooring land annexed

Air Kuning Fishermen Restless

NEGARA - Fishermen at Anyar hamlet, Air Kuning village, Jembrana, expressed their dismay regarding the annexing of place where their moor their boats. The land on the edge of the beach includes the actual shoreline where fishermen have moored their boats for decades.

The tipping point came when a shade giving tree on the beach was cut down by the landowner who also moved one of the fishermen’s boats from the spot. Boat owner, Mispandi, 45, says that he has reported the case to village authorities but has yet to receive a response. He was especially indignant because the tree was planted many years ago and has become the shelter and mooring spot for several different traditional boats and outriggers.

After the tree-cutting incident, fishermen became restless “This sort of thing has happened time and time again, from installing the boundary peg to cutting down the tree whereas this land is seashore,” said Mispandi. The land conflict was reported to Negara Police, but Mispandi was asked to resolve the

issue at the village level. “Until now, there has been no response from the village. We don’t know if this is because the spot in question belongs to the BPD,” he complained.

Similar complaints were also expressed by Solihin; the chief of neighborhood unit (RT) 09. He has repeatedly asked the landowner not to commit any acts that might disturb residents, let alone kindle conflict with fishermen. However, these warnings have been completely ignored, “In case the boat is hit by waves, who will be responsible for that? At other locations, landowners understand and allow fishing boats to moor on their land,” said Solihin.

According to the neighborhood chief, the local community had been very troubled by the landowner

arbitrarily taking action. Fishermen also expressed some fear because the landowner often reports to the authorities.

On the other hand, headman of Air Kuning, Samanhuri, confirmed that there was conflict amongst residents under his jurisdiction. He had already agreed to bring together both parties at village office for mediation so that the matter could be resolve peacefully. Unfortunately, the problem escalated with the tree- cutting incident before mediation could take place. Previously Mispandi had himself been reported to the police by the landowner for damaging a pandanus with his fishing boat. At that time, the landowner H. Solihin and Mispandi had reconciled and agreed to replant the pandanus. Solihin had also stated to build a revetment exceeding the boundaries of his land, that made it difficult for fishermen to moor their boats. “As planned, we will arrange for mediation again,” concluded Samhuri. (kmb26)

Kosher market attack deepens fears among European Jews MILAN — The killing of four French Jews in last week’s hostage standoff at a Paris kosher market has deepened the fears among European Jewish communities shaken by rising anti-Semitism and feeling vulnerable due to poor security and a large number of potential soft targets.

In the wake of the attacks, which follow deadly strikes on a Belgian Jewish Museum and a Jewish school in southwestern France, Israeli leaders have called on European Jews to immigrate to the Jewish state. But European Jews are deeply ambivalent about leaving, and their community leaders, along with top politicians, have urged people to stay in their homelands.

“The European Jewry is the oldest European minority and we have our experience of surviving under all possible circumstances,” Moshe Kantor, president of the European Jewish Congress, told The Associated Press. “We will not give up our motherland, which is called Europe.

We will not stop the history of European Jewry, that is for sure.”

Kantor called for increased security at Jewish sites, concerted action against anti-Semitism across the continent and better coordination of intelligence forces against religious

extremism. But he acknowledged that if any Jewish European does not feel safe, “I say you should leave in this case.”

Many French Jews already are.

Last year, 7,000 emigrated to Israel as anti-Semitism spiked across France, fed by tensions with the country’s large Arab population after the outbreak of Israel’s war against Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip. That was double the previous year, making France, for the first time, the No. 1 source of immigration to Israel, according to the Jewish Agency, a nonprofit group that helps Jews move to Israel.

Officials in Israel are expecting — and encouraging — a new influx following the Paris standoff. Since last week’s attacks, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has encouraged European Jews to move to the Jewish state.

In an interview with Israel’s Channel 10 TV Saturday, Yohan

Cohen, one of the hostages who hid inside a freezer at the kosher market for five hours during the hostage-taking, said he would now move his family of four children to Israel.

“On Monday I am going to make Aliyah,” he said, using the Hebrew term for immigration to Israel. “We are not going to wait around here to die.”

Overall, immigration was up 88 percent from Western Europe in 2014, with the arrival of 8,640 immigrants compared with some 4,600 in 2013, with surges also from Italy, Belgium and Britain, according to the Jewish Agency.

Experts say European Jews have not felt this threatened since World War II, when some 6 million Jews were murdered in the Nazi Holocaust. Researchers at Tel Aviv University monitoring anti-Semitism have reported a chilling increase in attacks in Europe over the past decade, including deadly shootings in Toulouse, France, in 2012 and Brussels last year. In recent years, France has had the highest number of incidents of any single country. (ap)

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Egypt acquits 26 men in trial over police raid on gays

CAIRO — An Egyptian court on Monday acquitted 26 men arrested in a televised raid last month by police looking for gays at a Cairo public bathhouse, a ruling that set off deafening cheers and jubilation inside the courtroom as some of the defendants uncovered their faces and cried with relief.

The trial, which had caused an uproar among activists and rights groups, captured public attention after a pro-government TV network aired scenes of half-naked men being pulled from the bathhouse by police. Same-sex relations are not explicitly prohibited in Egyptian law but homosexuality is a social taboo in the conservative, Muslimmajority country. Same-sex marriage is unheard of. Only in recent years have movies and fiction included gay characters.

The men in the bathhouse raid faced various charges, including debauchery and performing indecent public acts. Monday’s verdict came after only three hearings, during which families quarreled with journalists who tried to photograph their relatives in the dock.

The courtroom erupted into a frenzy after the word “acquittal” was heard from the judge and women ululated. Scott Long, an American researcher who had followed the case said he was both “shocked and delighted.” “I hope this is a sign that these raids will come to an end,” Long told The Associated Press amid the cheering. “Finally there was a judge who listened to the evidence.”

Rights activists say 2014 was the worst year in a decade for Egypt’s gay community, with at least 150 men arrested or put on trial. “They destroyed our lives. God rescued us,” said one of the defendants, who did not give his name to protect his privacy. The trial opened only two weeks after the Dec. 7 raid on the bathhouse, or hammam, and usually quick referral by the general prosecutor.

There are no laws in Egypt criminalizing homosexuality but a decades’ old law criminalizing prostitution is often used in penalizing the gay community. Five of the defendants in Monday’s trial — the owner of the bathhouse and four staff members — were tried for facilitating debauchery in exchange for money. (ap)

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Some of 26 men, who were arrested in a televised raid last month by police looking for gays at a Cairo public bathhouse, react after an Egyptian court acquitted them in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Jan. 12, 2015.

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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Leave coal, oil in ground for climate’s sake

PARIS - The Middle East must leave 40 percent of its oil reserves in the ground, and China, the US and Russia most of their coal if global warming is to be curbed, researchers said Wednesday.

Globally, a third of oil, half of gas and over 80 percent of coal reserves must be left untouched until 2050, according to a novel breakdown of “unburnable” fossil-fuel stocks published in the journal Nature.

This is the sole way to meet the UN target of limiting warming to 2.0 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-Industrial Revolution levels, said co-author Christophe McGlade of University College London.

“Policymakers must realise

that their instincts to completely use the fossil fuels within their countries are wholly incompatible with their commitments to the 2 C goal,” he warned.

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates that for a good chance of meeting the target, further emissions of Earth-warming greenhouse gases must be limited to about 1,000 billion tonnes (gigatonnes).

But global fossil fuel reserves, on current estimates, would emit three times this total if used, said

the study.

UN members are negotiating a global carbon-cutting climate pact to be signed in Paris in December.

At current rates, emissions are steering the world towards potentially catastrophic warming of 4 C or more, scientists say.

“Companies spent over $670 billion (565 billion euros) last year searching for and developing new fossil fuel resources,” said McGlade’s colleague and co-author Paul Ekins.

“They will need to rethink such substantial budgets if policies are implemented to support the 2 C limit, especially as new discoveries cannot lead to increased aggregate production.”

For their project, McGlade and Ekins made a best estimate of quantities and locations of oil, gas and coal resources, and then assessed how much could be safely used, per region, up to 2050.

They used two scenarios -- one with “widespread deployment” of carbon capture and storage (CCS) facilities, a technology in its infancy, and one with no CCS. Even if CCS is widely implemented, over 430 billion barrels of oil must be left unburned, the

pair said.

Under this scenario, the Middle East has over half the world’s “unburnable” oil -- more than 260 billion barrels or 38 percent of its stock -- equal to about eight years of global production calculated at 2013 levels of 87 million barrels per day.

Central and South America must leave 58 billion barrels alone, Canada 39 billion and the former Soviet states 27 billion.

About 95 trillion cubic metres (3,354 trillion cubic feet) of gas should remain unburned, the study found -- again the bulk (46 trillion cubic metres) is held in the Middle East and 31 trillion by former Soviet states. (afp)

NASA finds more Earth-like planets outside solar system WASHINGTON — Earth has a few more near-twin planets outside our solar system, tantalizing possibilities in the search for extraterrestrial life.

Astronomers announced Tuesday that depending on definitions, they have confirmed three or four more planets that are about the same size as Earth and are in the not-too-hot, not-too-cold “Goldilocks Zone” for liquid water to form.

These planets are likely to be rocky like Earth, and not gas giants or ice worlds. They get about the same heat from their star as we get from the sun, according to the latest results from NASA’s planet hunting Kepler telescope.

But don’t book your flights yet.

They may be close to Earth in size and likely temperature in the gargantuan scale of the universe, but they aren’t quite close enough for comfort.

Consider two of the new planets, the nearest to Earth discovered to date. If they have atmospheres similar to Earth’s — a big if — one would be a toasty 140 some degrees and the other would hover around zero, said study lead author Guillermo Torres, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Life conceivably could evolve and adapt to those temperatures, he said.

Oh, and they aren’t actually within commuting distance of Earth. Those two are 500 and 1,100 light years away; a light year is 5.9 trillion miles.

What’s important, said SETI Institute astronomer Douglas Caldwell, a study coauthor who presented the findings at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle, is that astronomers are a bit closer to finding twins of Earth and answering the age-old question: Are we alone?

“These planets do exist; we didn’t know that before,” Torres said in a phone interview from Cambridge, Massachusetts. “What

we’re really looking for is signs of life eventually. We’re not there yet. It will take many years but this is the first step.”

Torres’ team confirmed earlier discoveries and added new ones, bringing the total known number of planets that are no bigger than twice Earth’s size and in the habitable temperature zone to eight or nine. But that’s only from a short search of a small part of our galaxy, so Torres believes that Earth-like planets are common throughout the cosmos, though he cannot prove it yet.

Torres likes to include one planet that would bump the new findings from three to four, but Caldwell said that planet may or may not be habitable.

It doesn’t matter much. “We do not need to talk about the one or two exoplanets that could be like Earth, we are finding so many,” said Lisa Kaltenegger, director of Cornell University’s Pale Blue Dot Institute. She wasn’t part of the study.

Torres and Caldwell highlighted the two new planets that are closest in size to Earth. The closest, called Kepler 438-b, is only 12 percent larger than Earth and gets about 40 percent more energy from its star than we do from the sun, so it would probably be warmer, Torres said.

It tightly circles a small cooler red star with its year lasting only 35 Earth days and the sun in its sky would be red, not yellow.

It may hot, but “there are bacteria on Earth that live very comfortably in those temperatures, no problem,” Torres said.

The other, Kepler 442-b, is about 34 percent bigger than Earth but gets only two-thirds of the energy from its sun as we do, Torres said.

NASA also announced that its planet-hunter telescope confirmed its 1,000th planet outside the solar system, most quite unlike Earth and not in the habitable zone. Added to those discovered by other telescopes, astronomers have now discovered more than 1,800 planets that are outside the solar system. (ap)

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Bali police ensures safety foreign tourists DENPASAR - Bali is safe despite the Australian government’s recent policy of issuing a travel advisory to its citizens intending to visit Bali, according to the Bali provincial police.

“We have intensified security measures in several vital tourist attractions in Bali. We call on the foreign tourists to not be afraid to visit Bali,” spokesman to the Bali Police Senior Commissioner Hery Wiyanto remarked.

Apart from deploying police officers, the Bali police have also deployed intelligence officers at several tourist attractions, Hery revealed.

With regard to offering security to the offices of foreign representatives in Bali, Hery said the security measures adopted are still on normal mode. On January 5, the Australian government issued a travel advisory to its citizens keen on visiting Indonesia. In the advisory, the Australian government has urged its citizens to remain on high alert for potential terror attacks in Indonesia.

The warning was issued after the United States announced a travel advisory on January 3 for its citizens traveling to Indonesia. (ant)

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Tourists eat lunch while listening to the live music at Kelan Beach, Badung Regency of Bali Island, recently. Bali is safe despite the Australian government’s recent policy of issuing a travel advisory to its citizens intending to visit Bali, according to the Bali provincial police.

Price of property predicted to rise 10 percent

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This artist’s conception provided by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics depicts an Earth-like planet orbiting an evolved star that has formed a stunning “planetary nebula.” Earlier in its life, this planet may have been like one of the eight newly discovered worlds orbiting in the habitable zones of their stars.

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DENPASAR - Bank Indonesia (BI) predicts the prospect of property business in 2015 remains good. This condition is in line with the expectation at a reasonable price increase in the range of 5 percent to 10 percent.

“This year, the prospect of property, particularly the primary home, in our prediction is still good. So, it is in line with the estimated increase in property prices lying in reasonable range of 5 percent to 10 percent,” said Chief Representative of BI for Bali Region, Dewi Setyowati.

Such condition occurred because this year some government policies were assessed to positively support business and labor sector, such as the revision of fuel prices, including the fixed fuel subsidy policy despite the fuel price fluctuated with the market price as well as the moderate increase in the minimum wage or a slight increase in the level of 5.09 percent (yoy).

“Business condition in 2014 was relatively good. It was predicted to show off good prospects for this year,” she said.

Under these conditions, Dewi Setyowati recognized to be in line with high level of demand, especial-

ly for small type (= 36) and medium type (> 36-70). The indicator was the constant high consumer demand for properties with nominal of less than IDR 1 billion.

“The figure of IDR 1 billion is considered to have psychological effect for consumers to the middle class. The regions remaining to consider prospective to be developed with the selling price in the range of IDR 1 billion to lower price are the buffer zones such as Tabanan to the West, namely Negara, central region such as Klungkung and Bangli while the eastward such as Karangasem,” he explained.

It was mentioned that some developers had also expanded their business to eastern region of Bali, such as Nusa Tenggara Timur (Kupang, Tambolaka). “Generally, a property with a nominal price of IDR 1 billion or above is used for investment and re-leasing, not for self-residential,” he said.

A survey to businesspeople coalesced into the members of the Real Estate of Indonesia (REI) of Bali Chapter and Indonesia Real Estate and Broker (AREBI) of Bali Chapter indicated that developers were more selective in marketing their property.

“Other than to consumers who are able to pay the down payment, it is also marketed to potential prospective customers who have clear track record in the BI Checking,” he said.

It was explained the credit growth slowed down during 2014 compared to the previous year. The annual credit growth slowed from 25.67

percent (yoy in November 2013) to 16.73 percent (yoy November 2014).

The slowdown was indicated by the performance of investment loan distribution showing a slowdown respectively of 43.77 percent and 24.38 percent (yoy November 2013) to 17.67 percent and 12.78 percent (yoy November 2014). (kmb27)

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Bank Indonesia (BI) predicts the prospect of property business in 2015 remains good. This condition is in line with the expectation at a reasonable price increase in the range of 5 percent to 10 percent.

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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Bali News Admission fee hike plan

Tanah Lot management asks for time to educate

TABANAN - The admission fee to the Tanah Lot tourist attraction is considered much cheaper than that of other tourist attractions outside Bali. For this reason, the Tabanan government along with the Tanah Lot customary village heads, plan to increase the admission fee. Management is ready to implement the fee hike anytime but acknowledges that travel agencies and tour guides need some time to integrate the change “Hopefully, the admission fee increase will not be implemented the news has been dissemination to travel agencies, travelers and tour guides” said Operations Manager of Tanah Lot tourist attraction, Toya Adnyana, some time ago.

According to Toya, the new admission fee could be increased to USD 5 or about IDR 50,000 per person for foreign travelers from the 15,000-IDR 30,000 per person for foreign travelers that it is now. While domestic travelers would pay between IDR 15,000 and IDR 20,000 per person instead of IDR 7,500-IDR 10,000 per person. If the

proposed fee hike is approved, it could be applied as early as 2015 or 2016.

Aside from the plan to the increase the admission fee, Tanah Lot plans to improve its facilites in 2015, including adding more CCTVs in the Southern and Western area of the site. “Right now, we have 16 CCTVs placed at a number of critical points but the south and west remain without cameras,” said Toya. The reserved and VIP parking areas are two other vulnerable points in need of cameras, according to Toya who hopes the governing bodies with respond favorably to this proposal. (kmb24)

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NUSA DUA - The Mulia, Mulia Resort & Villas - Nusa Dua, Bali closed 2014 with an exclusive performance by the Earth, Wind & Fire Experience feat. Al McKay Allstars at The Mulia, Mulia Resort & Villas. The band closed the year with hundreds of Mulia guest in the glamorous setting of the Grand Ballroom of Mulia Resort on 31 December 2014.

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The buses are parked on the parking area of Tanah Lot.

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GIANYAR – Famers in Gianyar region, continue to face various challenges, ranging from drought to flooding and now trouble getting their hands on urea fertililzer.

Made Lonto expressed some of the difficulties faced by farmers in the “voice of Gianyar” section of the Bali Post daily newspaper, Saturday (Jan 10). This farmer from Payangan explained: “I have difficulty in obtaining the scarce urea, plus, the terms and conditions for aquiring it are very troublesome,” he said. Presumably he is referring to the trouble faced by farmers that do not belong to a Group Need Definitive Plan (RDKK).

Head of Gianyar Agriculture Agency, Dewi Hariani, on Sunday (Jan11), denied the scarcity of urea in Gianyar region. In 2014, her party actually experienced overstock of urea. However, to gain access to the distribution of the fertilizer, farmers are obliged

to create a Group Need Definitive Plan. “Such a document cannot be created by an individual -only by a subak group, and it must be submitted a month in advance of need”, she explained.

According to her, the problem frequently faced in the field is delay in delivery due to late document submission. “As a matter of practice, each company has to follow procedure for urea distribution. The Group Need Definitive Plan must be submitted from retailers to the distributors and then to manufacturers. Only after the plan has been approved, can the fertilizer be distributed to farmers.

This flow of information is very confidential so we cannot allow fertilizer to be sold to individuals,” she said.

Another phenomenon frequently encountered, said Dewi, was the delay in planting during the recent dry season due to shortages of water. This late planting

and lack of water means that they will need fertilizer this year. “We therefor allocated extra fertilizer to deal with the need which in the end caused an overstock of urea in 2014. “ she said. Data regarding the exact amounts were apparently not available at the office.

When asked about the amount of fertilizer allocated to farmers, she said would depend on the proposal of the Group Need Definitive Plan of each subak organization. Regardless, her party nonetheless prepares the amount of fertilizer by referring to the area of agricultural land, say for 14,706 hectares harvesting twice, multiplied by 200 kg of fertilizer for each farmer for example. “Although we have such calculations, the order for fertilizers is sometimes uncertain, especially when farmers delay their planting,” she said, adding that the price of RPK fertilizer is IDR 2,300, and urea costs IDR 1,800 per kg. (kmb35)

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Mulia Bali celebrates NYE with exclusive performance Earth, Wind & Fire sang a number of songs as well as all time favourite hits, such as September, Can’t Let Go, In The Stone, Fantasy and many more in an exclusive show that rocked the Grand Ballroom.

Meanwhile, with another special treat Color Me Badd, famous R&B vocal group in the 1990s performed at Living Room, The Lounge and ZJ’s Bar & Lounge. They performed to entertain Mulia’s guests during dinner at Living Room and The Lounge for a countdown party as well as after the countdown at ZJ’s Bar & Lounge. They sang many hits including I Adore Mi Amor, I Wanna Sex You Up and All 4 Love.

The Mulia, Mulia Resort & Villas, is home to three ultraluxurious properties that offer breathtaking views of the Indian Ocean to create a relaxing haven with lavish amenities and incredible service. (r)

Farmers of Payangan difficult to get urea

The farmer are drying his paddy.

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Reza Sunardi:

Must be ready to become a leader

Many roads lead to Rome, many roads lead to success despite having to be snaky and facing obstacles. Probably it is a maxim describing exactly how a success can be achieved. It must be accompanied with great effort and struggle. Related to this matter, not long ago, the Executive Assistant Manager of the Padma Resort Bali at Legian, Reza Sunardi, successfully attended a General Manager Program (GMP). It was organized at the Cornell School of Hotel Administration, New York, providing him with new knowledge about leadership. “By chance, I was the only participant from Bali where I should pass a pre-qualification test before participating in the GMP,” he said at the beginning of the conversation.

When attending the two-week session, Reza, thus his nickname, met with many general managers in the hospitality industry. Among them, 25 people were from Europe, 10 from America, 5 people from Africa and the rest from Asia, including Bali. “Coming home from attending the program, we have more global mindset toward a phenomenon,” said the figure also filling the position as the

Director of Education and Training Program in the Bali Hotels Association (BHA).

Regarding the leadership, this Brand Specialist and Facilitator of the Markplus Institute of Marketing was interesting to opine. According to him, a leader was advised to implement the Sustainable Business Enterprise.

In this case, the leader should improve the conceptual and analytical thinking in order to bring in profits to companies and organizations.

In addition, said Reza, in the tourism industry in particular was highly needed the achievement oriented leaders. On that account, it was required qualified leaders or human resources. “At least, they can make changes in the economic, business and workforce behavior aspect,” said the man who had a wealth of experience in the tourism industry for 24 years.

“Unready human resources to be a leader will result in less optimal quality of performance.

So, they will be better to get training from the institutions with high competency. By all means, it is intended to improve the skills of management,” he concluded. (ocha)

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

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

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

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “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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‘Boyhood’ wins big at Globes

LOS ANGELES - Coming-of-age drama “Boyhood” emerged triumphant Sunday at the Golden Globes, Hollywood’s biggest awards show before the all-important Oscars, as celebrities vowed solidarity with France after the Paris attacks.

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“Boyhood” cast players pose in the press room with the award for best motion picture at the 72nd annual Golden Globe Awardsz on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015, in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Clooney wins DeMille Award at Globes

George Clooney accepted a lifetime achievement award from the Golden Globes Sunday by honoring others — his Hollywood colleagues, his new wife and millions who marched in the wake of attacks in France last week.

The veteran actor who moved from “ER” into movies was given the Cecil B. DeMille Award, an honor that has gone to the likes of Walt Disney, Bob Hope, Alfred Hitchcock and, in recent years, to Jodie Foster, Morgan Freeman and Robert DeNiro. He was introduced by two former co-workers, Julianne Margulies and Don Cheadle.

“You’ve always been very kind to me,” he said, addressing the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which has nominated Clooney in more Golden Globe categories than any person. “I thank you for keeping small films alive.

Big ones do fine. It’s the little ones that need an audience.”

The newlywed actor’s wife, Amal Alamuddin, watched from the audience.

“It’s a humbling thing when you find someone to love,” Clooney said, looking out at her. “Even better when you’ve been waiting your whole life.”

He recalled how actors who are nominated but don’t win awards can go home

feeling like losers and reminded those in the audience that they aren’t.

“If you are in this room, you’ve caught the brass ring,” he said.

“You’ve gotten to do what you’ve always dreamed of doing. That isn’t losing.”

Clooney wore a “Je Suis Charlie” button on his tuxedo lapel in support of the French satirical magazine that was targeted by gunmen in France last week. He saluted the millions of people who honored the victims by marching in the street this weekend.

“They didn’t march in protest,” Clooney said. “They marched in support of the idea that we will not walk in fear.” (ap)

The film won three Globes including the coveted best drama prize and best director honors for Richard Linklater at the starstudded ceremony at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles.

The pioneering movie -- made over 12 years with the same cast of actors portraying a child’s growth to adulthood -- also won a best supporting actress trophy for Patricia Arquette.

“This was a very personal film for me ... and it means so much to us that people have seen it and responded to it in that personal way,” Linklater said.

Dark comedy “Birdman” -- which had started the evening with the most nominations at seven -- and “The Theory of Everything,” about world-famous scientist Stephen Hawking, each took home two awards.

The Globes give the winning films vital momentum just days before nominations are announced Thursday for next month’s Oscars, the climax of Tin-

seltown’s annual awards season.

Voting for the Oscar nominations is over, but Globe winners can use their trophies to fuel their Academy Award campaigns. All three leading Globes winners -- “Boyhood,” “Birdman” and “The Theory of Everything” -- are relatively low budget films, confirming a trend among the frontrunners in this year’s awards race.

“Birdman,” about a washed-up film actor trying to revive his career on stage, took best musical/comedy actor prize for Michael Keaton, and best screenplay for director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.

“The Theory of Everything,” the moving story of Hawking’s descent into disability as a young man, won best drama actor honors for Britain’s Eddie Redmayne, as well as best original score.

The prize for best comedy/musical film went to “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” a stylish caper starring Ralph Fiennes, while Amy Adams won best actress in a musical/comedy for art fraud film “Big Eyes.” (afp)

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Balinese should become subject on development DENPASAR - If Bali is analogized into a hook, then culture is the bait used to attract travelers to the Island of the Gods.

On that account, the bait should be well maintained so that not all people will think of how to make an aquarium or make fish cage without ever keeping and paying attention to the bait, in this case the culture itself.

It was revealed by Chairman of the Indonesia Hotels and Restaurants Association (PHRI) of Bali Chapter, Tjokorda Artha Ardana Sukawati, in the dialogue entitled “Mental Revolution from Bali to

Save Mother Earth” in the series of the K. Nadha Nugraha Press Award, Saturday (Jan 10).

“Balinese people as the actor of Balinese culture are not only positioned as an object of the

tourism development but also as the subject of tourism development itself. Limitation existing in Balinese society, access to capital and access to knowledge are still relatively lacking in the era of globalization compared to the other countries. Therefore, this will stay to require government intervention and its participation in caring for, not only the humans, but also the nature including their belief,”

said the man familiarly called Cok Ace. Meanwhile, Executive Director of the Friends of the Earth Indonesia (WALHI) Abetnego Tarigan saw there was anxiety that Bali would go the same as Hawaii that relied on buildings and the aquarium. Then, there were so many imitations to be built. According to him, they were actually not natural.

“Even, we do not have such

kind of objects because what we fear of the exploitative and imitative buildings is that Balinese people are simply referred to as a factor of production. It is more hazardous than more than just an object but only becomes a factor of production like labor, money and tools. They can only eat so that it simply moves in imitative development,” he said in the same dialogue.

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Golden Globes Winner Motion Pictures - Picture, Drama: “Boyhood.”

- Picture, Musical or Comedy: “The Grand Budapest Hotel.”

- Actor, Drama: Eddie Redmayne, “The Theory of Everything” - Actress, Drama: Julianne Moore, “Still Alice.”

- Director: Richard Linklater, “Boyhood.

- Actor, Musical or Comedy: Michael Keaton, “Birdman.”

- Actress, Musical or Comedy: Amy Adams, “Big Eyes.”

- Supporting Actor: J.K. Simmons, “Whiplash.”

- Supporting Actress: Patricia Arquette, “Boyhood.”

- Foreign Language: “Leviathan.”

- Animated Film: “How to Train Your Dragon 2.”

Television - Series, Drama: “The Affair.”

- Actor, Drama: Kevin Spacey, “House of Cards.”

- Actress, Drama: Ruth Wilson, “The Affair.”

- Series, Musical or Comedy: “Transparent.”

- Actress, Musical or Comedy: Gina Rodriguez, “Jane the Virgin.”

- Actor, Musical or Comedy: Jeffrey Tambor, “Transparent.”

- Miniseries or Movie: “Fargo.”

- Actress, Miniseries or Movie: Maggie Gyllenhaal, “The Honorable Woman.”

- Actor, Miniseries or Movie: Billy Bob Thornton, “Fargo.”

- Supporting Actress, Series, Miniseries or Movie: Joanne Froggatt, “Downton Abbey.”

- Supporting Actor, Series, Miniseries or Movie: Matt Bomer, “The Normal Heart.”

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Traditional boats belong to fishermen parked at Sanur Beach, Bali Island. Balinese people as the actor of Balinese culture are not only positioned as an object of the tourism development but also as the subject of tourism development itself.