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Robbie has been showing off a slimmer figure in the last year.
Nigella Lawson: Don’t airbrush my ‘sticking out stomach’
Lawson wrote: “I’ve had to tell American TV stations not to airbrush my sticking out stomach. “The hatred of fat, and assumption that we’d all be grateful to be airbrushed thinner is pernicious.” The British chef was applauded for her stance by social media users, with one saying: “I cannot for the life of me fathom anyone ever wanting to airbrush Nigella!” Will Paul added: “British television has real people on it. US television is fake. All the power to you Ms Lawson. You are the real deal.” Lawson was responding to a tweet by presenter and actor Jameela Jamil, who was criticising an Irish columnist for attacking her for calling for an end to airbrushing women in the public eye. Jamil, who is starring in US TV series The Good Place, said: “For the last time, airbrushing is used as a tool for ethnicity erasure, colourism, ageism, fat-phobia, ableism, racism and sexism. “It’s there to make you hate your real face and body. It made me hate my face, my body and my ethnicity for the longest time as a young woman.” Lawson has been fighting a photoshop battle against US networks for more than half a decade, after she starred alongside Anthony Bourdain in the reality cooking show, The Taste. After finding out US marketing directors in 2013 were planning to airbrush her, she said: “No, you can’t airbrush it. No. Leave it in.” (net)
NEW YORK - Robbie Williams has been revealed as a brand ambassador for WW, formerly known as Weight Watchers, alongside Oprah Winfrey and Kate Hudson. The X Factor judge will use his personal weight journey to encourage others to be healthier in 2019. He is one of several ambassadors in the Every Body Matters campaign. Weight Watchers rebranded as WW, dropping the ‘Weight’ reference, in September and now aims to focus on wellness and health. Williams will be sharing his “wellness journey” on social media, using the hashtag #MyWhy. He said: “WW is the first programme that truly feels like it fits with my life. “After my back injury last year, I definitely let my healthy habits slip and I felt as though I let myself and my family down. “I can’t keep trying the same things and hoping for a different outcome. “I trust the history of behaviour science that WW has, and I’m proud to be a new ambassador. Hopefully, others will benefit from my experience.” The campaign is “based on the insight that everyone has their own reason to get healthy and what makes the most meaningful impact along the journey is everything you gain”, WW said. Williams has previously spoken about his battle with his weight and poked fun at himself on his 2013 album with a song called No One Likes A Fat Pop Star. (net)
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LOS ANGELES - Nigella Lawson has revealed she has had to tell US TV stations to not airbush her “sticking out” stomach. The best-selling chef, 58, accused them of hating fat and said it was “pernicious” to assume everyone will be “grateful to be airbrushed thinner”.
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Elon Musk, co-founder and chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., arrives in a modified Tesla Model X electric vehicle during an unveiling event for the Boring Company Hawthorne test tunnel in Hawthorne, Calif., on Tuesday, Dec. 18,
Elon Musk unveils underground tunnel, offers rides to VIPs
LOS ANGELES - Elon Musk unveiled his underground transportation tunnel on Tuesday, allowing reporters and invited guests to take some of the first rides in the revolutionary albeit bumpy subterranean tube — the tech entrepreneur’s answer to what he calls “soul-destroying traffic.” Guests boarded Musk’s Tesla Model S and rode along Los Angeles-area surface streets about a mile away to what’s known as O’Leary Station. The station, smack dab in the middle of a residential neighborhood — “basically in someone’s backyard,” Musk says — consists of a wall-less elevator that slowly took the car down a wide shaft, roughly 30 feet (9 meters) below the surface. The sky slowly fell away and the surprisingly narrow tunnel emerged. “We’re clear,” said the driver, who sped up and zipped into the tunnel when a red track light turned green, making the tube look like something from space or a dance club.
The car jostled significantly during the ride, which was bumpy enough to give one reporter motion sickness while another yelled, “Woo!” Musk described his first ride as “epic.” “For me it was a eureka moment,” he told a room full of reporters. “I was like, ‘This thing is going to damn well work.’” He said the rides are bumpy now because “we kind of ran out of time” and there were some problems with the speed of his paving machine. “It’ll be smooth as glass,” he said of future systems. “This is just a prototype. That’s why it’s a little rough around the edges.” Later in the day, Musk emerged from the tunnel himself inside one
of his cars. He high-fived guests and pumped his fists in the air before delivering a speech in the green glow of the tunnel about the technology and why it makes sense. “Traffic is soul-destroying. It’s like acid on the soul,” he said to guests who snacked on marshmallow treats and hot dogs and hoped for a turn in the tunnel. Continued to page 6 News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http:// radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.
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The officers are cleaning the garbage on Kuta Beach
DLHK Badung cleans up hundreds of tons of marine debris
MANGUPURA - Entering the west wind season, the Kuta Beach area and its surroundings begin to be invaded by marine debris. This condition has occurred since the past two weeks. According to the Head of the Badung Environment and Sanitation Agency (LHK), Putu Eka Merthawan, for the past two weeks, a total of 50 trucks of garbage have been transported from 10 stop over (STO) points
or temporary trash shelters until Tuesday (Dec. 18), being equivalent to 110 tons. Of the whole marine debris, almost 90 percent is organic waste, namely in the form of trees and twigs, while the remaining 10 percent is plastic waste. “The total waste cleaned up reached 110 tons. Tree trunk and branch waste will be taken to laundry business as well as brick and tile companies. Meanwhile, the residue will be taken to the Suwung landfill,” he said when contacted on
Tuesday (Dec. 18). To deal with this waste problem, the DLHK Badung deployed hundreds of quick response unit (URC) personnel and provided 10 STOs. He said that a number of beaches visited by many tourists such as Kuta Beach, Legian Beach, Seminyak Beach, Berawa Beach, and others are still besieged by marine debris every day. The garbage will certainly become a spectacle disrupting the beauty of the beach. (kmb23)
JBT prepares mobile reader to anticipate X-mas and New Year holidays
MANGUPURA - Christmas and New Year holidays are estimated to have a surge in vehicles crossing the Bali Mandara toll road. The surge is estimated to reach 25 percent or as many as 50,000 vehicles per day. Public Relations Officer of Jasamarga Bali Toll (JBT), Putu Gandhi Ginatra, stated the number is more than 40,000 vehicles per day on usual days. To anticipate long queue or buildup of vehicles at the toll gates, the JBT will prepare a mobile payment device that will make easier for road users when doing toll payment. “This portable electronic money reader will be used to speed up transactions,” he said.
He said that two to three mobile readers will be prepared at each gate. Meanwhile, regarding the officers, special preparations will be made to be in charge during the holidays. His management will prepare a special taskforce during Christmas and New Year holidays. Nevertheless, road users going through the toll road are expected to always prepare toll cards to avoid queuing. In addition, road users are expected to pay attention to their toll card balances. “We urge to always pay attention to the toll card in order to avoid queues,” he hoped. As an appreciation to road users, JBT held a lottery in a series of welcoming Christmas and the
New Year. Gandhi added it is an expression of gratitude of JBT to customers because they already believe in using the toll road. This is expected to arouse the interest of road users to continuously use the toll road. He explained the process to get involved in the drawing is just by coming into the toll road through any gate after making transaction. Then, take the receipt of transaction. After writing down the name and telephone number on the receipt, submit it to the Benoa drive through. “The valid coupon is dated on December 14-30. Then, the drawing will be held on December 31,” he said. (kmb23)
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THE INDONESIAN HERITAGE ART OF BATIK
The technique of decorating cloth using wax and dye, is an ancient Indonesian art form, declared by UNESCO in 2009 as an ‘Intangible Heritage of Humanity’. The island of Java and in particular the royal court cities of Yogyakarta and Solo are renowned for batik; the name comes from an old Javanese word meaning “to dot” or “to stipple”. In fact, one of the reasons why Java became famous for this method of dyeing is because all of the raw materials for the process were always readily available – cotton and beeswax and the many plants, such as indigo, soga and morinda citrifolia, from which the natural dyes are made. Batik textiles also became a major commercial industry in Bali, with the cloth varying enormously in artistry, elaboration, quality, and cost.
Batik designs are created by covering part of the fabric with wax and dyeing it. The dye doesn’t penetrate the wax, which is then melted away, before being repeated to leave behind intricate multicoloured patterns. Motifs drawn with a ‘canting’ or wax-filled pen are called ‘batik tulis’. Using this method, the design is traced onto a prepared cloth and the pattern is then drawn with wax. The wax is kept on the areas that have already been dyed to protect them from more dye. The repetition process uses progressively darker shades of dye until the desired motifs and colours are produced. The wax can also be applied with a copper stamp, known as a ‘cap’ (pronounced chap). If a marble effect is desired, the wax is deliberately cracked before being placed in the dye bath. The dye seeps
into the tiny cracks, which create the fine lines that are characteristic of batik. Natural fabrics such as densely woven cotton or silk are selected for the cloth, so that it can absorb the wax during the dye resisting process. The wide range of motifs is handed down within families for generations, thus intertwining the symbolic meanings of the craft’s colours and designs with the cultural identity of the Indonesian people. The diversity of the patterns reflects a variety of European, Arabic, Persian, Indian, Chinese and Japanese influences. Modern motifs used in the fashion industry feature striking images of flowers, birds, lizards and fish, for example, together with numerous mottled patterns reminiscent of smoke, water, soda bubbles,
leather, snakeskin and other animal skins, such as leopard and zebra. Nowadays, batik art is no longer dependent on natural, traditional dyes, which were primarily beige, blue, dark red, brown and black, Instead, chemical dyes are used to produce the required bright colours. However, modern batik still utilises the traditional canting and cap tools to create intricate designs. At InterContinental Bali Resort, batik is the inspiration for the fullwall murals in the newly-renovated Singaraja guestrooms, each of which has been hand-painted by a Balinese artisan. Here, the muted sand-coloured wall patterns were influenced by the ‘parang’, a Javanese batik design that was once used exclusively by the royal courts of Central Java. This classic motif comprises slanting
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rows of thick knife-like segments running in parallel diagonal bands, some of which contain another design element, a line of lozengeshaped motifs called ‘mlinjon’. Parang is traditionally dyed ‘soga’ brown, a colour that ranges from pale yellow to dark chocolate, using a pigment that comes from the bark of the soga or yellow flame tree, a native of Southeast Asia. There are many variations of the basic striped pattern of the parang, with more than 40 parang designs recorded. One of the joys of visiting Bali is the opportunity to purchase some beautiful batik soft furnishings for your own home, everything from cushion covers to curtains, tablecloths to bedspreads, in customised colours ready to use in your interior decoration projects.
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A person smokes an e-cigarette in Brooklyn on July 8, 2018.
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Huge spike in teen vaping: Many think it’s ‘just flavor’
MICHIGAN - A new study released Monday confirms a giant spike in the number of high school students who are vaping, and it finds many may not realize they’re almost certainly inhaling highly addictive nicotine. The annual survey of substance use among high school students shows 37 percent of seniors have tried vaping, up from just under 28 percent in 2017. Nearly 21 percent of seniors said they had recently vaped in 2018, compared to 11 percent in 2017. The findings are similar to startling figures released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month, which found a 78 percent increase in e-cigarette use by teens in just a year. The increase was so worrying that the Food and Drug Administration announced a series of actions aimed at cutting underage access to vape products. “The most surprising news to me was how frequently teenagers are vaping,” Dr. Wilson Compton, deputy director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which commissioned the survey, told NBC News. “Right now over one-third of high school seniors report using a vaping product.” The latest survey indicates that students may not realize they’re using an addictive substance. More than 25 percent claimed they vaped “just flavoring” in the past year, up from 20.6 percent in 2017. But Compton said students may not really be checking. Most vaping products contain nicotine and Juul, by far the most popular e-cigarettes product, does not offer nicotine-free flavors. “The kids are telling us they’re just using flavorings, but they may not know,” Compton told NBC News. Other studies have shown people claim to be using nicotine-free
products when in fact they are not. “So we’re not so sure that when they say they’re just using flavorings that they really know what’s in them,” Compton said. Several studies have shown that teens who use e-cigarettes are more likely to also smoke what’s now called combustible tobacco — old-fashioned cigarettes. And there is a growing body of evidence that these are not simply kids who are vaping instead of smoking. Surveys indicate many kids move back and forth between vaping and smoking. “One of the biggest risks that we do know is that when kids start with vaping, they are more likely to make the transition to combustible, to smoked cigarettes. So that’s really what has all of us concerned. We know the dangers from smoked, combustible tobacco,” Compton said. “Anything that increases the likelihood of making that transition is of great concern.” Experts worry that the high nicotine content of vape products may be addicting a new generation of tobacco users. When the researchers added together vapers and smokers, they found nicotine use rose by 5.2 percentage points, from just under 24 percent to just under 29 percent of 12th graders “These results indicate that the policies in place as of the 2017-2018 school year were not sufficient to stop the spread of nicotine vaping among adolescents,” the team led by Richard
Miech of the University of Michigan wrote in a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, released along with the report. There’s good news in the annual Monitoring the Future survey, which the University of Michigan conducts every year on NIDA’s behalf. This year, 44,482 students from 392 public and private schools took part. Only 3.6 percent of high school seniors reported they smoke cigarettes daily, compared to 22.4 percent 20 years ago. Fewer students are using opioids, also — a direct contrast to the rest of the population. Misuse of opioids and opioid deaths have reached record numbers among adults aged 21 to 65. “Just a few years ago, we saw that over 10 percent of high school seniors reported using Vicodin in any given year. That means one in 10 high school seniors was using these dangerous prescription opioid medications,” Compton said. “Right now the number is more like 1.7 percent.” Less than half of one percent of 12th graders said they used heroin. “With illicit opioid use at generally the lowest in the history of the survey, it is possible that being in high school offers a protective effect against opioid misuse and addiction,” said NIDA director Dr. Nora Volkow. “We will be focusing much of our new prevention research on the period of time when teens transition out of school into the adult world and become exposed to the dangerous use of these drugs.” (net)
CALIFORNIA - Stanford researchers warn that the number of animal bites is likely to rise amid climate change and developmental pressures. Rising temperatures are already exposing people in temperate climates to more mosquitoes and ticks, and developmental sprawl is reducing the amount of land available exclusively to animals. “As available habitat for these animals increasingly overlaps with human development and recreational activities,” the researchers wrote in a BMJ news release, “it is expected encounters with animals may increase and could result in increased animal-related injuries.” Dr. Joseph Forrester, the lead researcher of a study published Tuesday in the online BMJ journal Trauma Surgery and Acute Care Open, added, “We’ve already seen that with tick populations and mosquito populations. We would anticipate over time more people in traditionally temperate climates will be exposed.” If this prediction holds, it will add to the enormous health care costs that already exist. Currently, U.S. health care costs for animal-related injuries exceed $1 billion every year, according to the study. This estimate excludes doctors’ fees, outpatient clinic charges, lost productivity and the costs of rehabilitation, so the actual costs may be higher. The study also found that the patients most likely to be injured by bites from venomous snakes, spiders and insects were in the lowest 25 percent of household income for their ZIP code. This poses a major public health problem in children and adults. Animal bites are most common among people living in rural, resource-poor settings, who subsist on low-cost, non-mechanical farming and other field occupations. Adult victims are often the wage earners or care providers of the family unit,
and child victims can suffer lifelong disabilities, intensifying demands on families and communities. The health impacts of animal bites depend on the type and health of the animal species, the size and health of the bitten person, and accessibility to appropriate health care. Numerous animal species have the potential to bite humans; however, the most important are those arising from snakes, dogs, cats and monkeys. “Dog and cat bites are some of the more frequent injuries we see,” said Dr. John Torres, emergency medicine doctor and NBC News health correspondent. “Dog bites tend to be on the hands, arms and face, while cat bites are mostly seen on the hands and lower arm areas. Of the two, cat bites are more worrisome because cats have very sharp teeth that can penetrate deep into the tissue. This pushes the bacteria they have in their mouth deep into the wound and can infect the tendons, which cause it to spread more rapidly.” Most animal bites, except any bite on the face, can be treated outside the hospital. In fact, the report found that of all emergency room visits reviewed, only 3 percent of patients were admitted to the hospital, with bites from insects and spiders accounting for a quarter of these admissions. “Most dog bites, if small, can be treated at home with careful attention paid to any signs of infection, like redness around the wound or pus,” said Torres. “With both cat and dog bites if the wound is large enough to need sutures and we believe there’s a chance of a bacterial infection developing, we’ll wait between 48 to 72 hours to suture the wound shut, meaning a second visit to the ER or urgent care, although facial wounds and disfiguring wounds are usually sutured immediately.” Closing a potentially infected wound too early can seal in the bacteria, causing an abscess to form. (net)
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Roof of temporary shelter leaks
Classroom activities disrupted when it rains
AMLAPURA — Classroom activities in SD Negeri 1 Tiying Tali elementary school, Abang, are hampered when it rains. It happens because the temporary shelter used as the students’ classroom after the earthquake in Lombok at some points suffered a leak and wet the classroom.
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To ensure proper consumption, pig’s health examined MANGUPURA — Supervision against pig slaughter ahead of the celebration of Galungan and Kuningan holidays in Badung district is tightened. It is meant to respond to condition that a lot of slaughter is done personally or in groups. Local government through the Agriculture and Food Agency has taken quick measure to anticipate the feasibility of meat consumed by the community by deploying special officers to conduct a health check for pigs before being slaughtered. “We establish a special team to carry out health checks on pork in abattoirs and carried out in markets and hamlets,” said Acting Head of the Badung Agriculture and Food Agency, I Putu Oka Swadiana, on Sunday (Dec. 16). According to him, health check is meant to ensure that pork is worth consuming by the public. Moreover, ahead of Galungan and Kuningan holidays, public demand for meat increases. “We involve district technical officers and independent veterinarians in Badung district, assisted by approximately 100 students from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Udayana University. Briefing for students
will be held on December 21, 2018,” he explained. Not much different from the examination of cattle during the Eid al-Adha Day, Swandiana said the inspection of pork will be carried out in two stages. Firstly, it will be examined in ante-mortem (before slaughter) and postmortem (after slaughter). This examination is to ensure the pork is appropriate for consumption. “According to a predetermined schedule, ante-mortem examination will be conducted on Sunday (Dec. 23). Meanwhile, postmortem checks will be conducted the day after. The budget for conducting this examination is IDR 20 million,” he said. He explained the number of pigs to be slaughtered before the Galungan and Kuningan has not yet been confined. However, when compared to the Galungan and Kuningan holidays six months ago, apparently it is not much different. “On Galungan and Kuningan six months ago, the number of pig slaughter reached 2,112 heads,” he said while mentioning the price of pork or the average price of pork in the market is IDR 55,000 to IDR 70,000 per kilogram. Meanwhile, the price at the level of breeders is around IDR 36,000-IDR 38,000. (kmb27)
Principal of the SDN 1 Tiying Tali, Sang Putu Swandiyasa, explained that all this time the temporary classroom leaks after being flushed by rain tending to continue lately. The most severe condition is the classroom occupied by third grade students. Much water gets into the classroom because the leakage is quite large. “For other classrooms, the roofs remain safe, only a few have leaked roofs. Teaching and learning activities before the holiday period are still ongoing, although there are obstacles. Sometimes, a number of students complain. This problem will soon be handled by the school,” he said. Swandiyasa explained that stu-
dents of SDN 1 Tiying Tali study in the temporary classroom because its original one is badly damaged after the earthquake’s strike last month. The roof collapsed, and the wall cracked. Students had learned in the tent and in open space around the school before building the temporary classroom. This man from Abang stated that from the second semester, some students will be removed to some classrooms after having been repaired like the third, fourth, fifth and sixth grade. Meanwhile, the first and second grade students are likely to still study in the temporary shelter until their classrooms have been completely repaired. “Now,
the students have entered semester holiday period. Maybe starting in the second semester, they will be moved after the room is ritually inaugurated. The repaired classrooms belong to the third, fourth, fifth and sixth grade and libraries and toilets. First and second grade students will be still studying in the temporary shelter,” he explained. For this condition, he hoped that local government of Karangasem will immediately budget for repairs to the class room of first and second grade students as well as teacher’s rooms to facilitate teaching and learning activities. “It is said to be budgeted next year. However, there is no certainty,” he said. (kmb41)
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Classroom activities in SD Negeri 1 Tiying Tali elementary school, Abang, are hampered when it rains.
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PLN returns to have disruption
Parliament proposes the Bali Crossing
DENPASAR - Deputy Manager of Communication and Community Development of PLN Bali Distribution, Nyoman Swiranata, stated there are no rotating blackouts at this time in Bali. Nevertheless, he admitted that some regions in Bali experienced blackouts on Sunday night (Dec. 16). This happened due to a disturbance that is currently being investigated.
“There was a decrease in energy supply when blackouts widely occurred yesterday (Sunday—Ed),” he confirmed on Monday (Dec. 17). According to Swiranata, there are several main substations whose supply has dropped. This caused blackouts such as in the Tabanan, Dalung, and Padangsambian areas. However, his management has tried to normalize again for 1.5 hours. “Now, the interference is still being investigated by colleagues from the transmission division,” he explained. When separately interviewed, Governor of Bali, Wayan Koster, stated the electricity capacity in Bali is actually sufficient and even more. The occurrence of blackouts is believed to happen due to technical problems, not due to lack of energy. “We have an energy capacity of 1,250 MW, while the maximum requirement is 850 MW. So, we still have a lot of reserves. There might be a disturbance, so it sparks the blackout. It is not because of the lack of energy produced by the generator,” he explained. Meanwhile, Chairman of the Commission III of the Bali House of Representatives, I Nengah Tamba, said the electricity must absolutely be available in Bali as a
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US President Donald Trump has ordered the creation of “Space Command”, a new organisational structure within the Pentagon that will have overall control of military space operations.
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Some regions in Bali experienced blackouts on Sunday night (Dec. 16). This happened due to a disturbance that is currently being investigated. world’s tourist destination. However, the existing energy must also be eco-friendly. On that account, he returned to propose the Java-Bali Crossing previously collided with Bhisama Pura or temple stipulation. Moreover, the budget for that has already been available. “We just need to define correctly about the meaning of holiness.
Regional Bylaw on Zoning has regulated and so has the bhisama, what’s more? Then, if Bali is said to be independent in the narrow sense, it means Bali must build a power plant. Where to get the money? Who builds it, it remains in rhetoric and is not even clean and green,” he said. Tamba added, the meaning of
independence is that Bali actually has adequate electricity. This can be fulfilled with the Bali Crossing project. The energy obtained is clean because there is no need to build a generator considering the plants tend to be polluting. For instance, the power plant in Celukan Bawang produces emissions from coal fuels with the impact of
environmental pollution. “This is clean electricity as only cables that pass (with Bali Crossing—Ed). We will also emphasize the revision of the Provincial Spatial Plan (RTRWP) in the Regional Bylaw,” explained the Deputy Chairman of the Special Committee for the Revision of the RTRWP Bali Regional Bylaw. (kmb32)
Governor prepares Bali Contemporary Arts Festival
China warns US against ‘weaponising’ space
BEIJING - China said Wednesday it opposed the “weaponisation” of space as it criticised US President Donald Trump’s orders to create a new command centre for controlling military space operations. “China has consistently proposed the peaceful usage of space, and opposes the weaponisation of space and a space arms race,” said Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying at a press briefing. “We oppose even further turning
space into the new battleground,” she added. On Tuesday, Trump ordered the creation of “Space Command”, a new organisational structure within the Pentagon that will have overall control of military space operations.
Governor of Bali, Wayan Koster.
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according to the age, but according to its type namely traditional art and contemporary art,” he said on the sidelines of the submission of the Budgetary Implementation List (DIPA) of State Budget at Wiswasabha Utama of the Governor of Bali’s Office on Monday (Dec. 17). However, continued Koster, each event will also compete the arts according to age. There are competitions for children, teenagers, and adults. Moreover, in one event participants can join between teenagers and adults. “The name is
not specific like the Nawanatya or Bali Mandara Mahalango. However, the substance is entirely accommodated,” he explained. Especially for the Bali Contemporary Arts Festival, continued Koster, is scheduled to be held for two weeks in October because in June has been filled with the Bali Arts Festival (BAF). Meanwhile, the BAF itself has been considered to be very good. His team only needs to develop the contents. “Thus, in addition to containing the elements of conservation, it also contains advancement,” he added. (kmb32)
In June, Trump said he wanted to create “Space Force”, an entirely new branch of the military, alongside the Navy, Marine Corps, Army, Air Force and Coast Guard. He insists such a move is necessary to tackle vulnerabilities in space and assert US dominance in orbit. But its creation is not a done deal, as it needs to be approved by Congress, and the concept has met with some scepticism from
lawmakers and defence officials wary of the cost and added bureaucracy. China has also bolstered its space capabilities in recent years. Earlier this month, the country launched a rover heading to the far side of the moon, a global first that could boost Beijing’s ambitions to become a space superpower. In 2013, China landed its first probe on the moon, Yutu or “Jade Rabbit”. (afp)
S.Korean grain silo transforms into world’s largest mural
To replace Mahalango and Nawanatya DENPASAR - The event for Balinese artistic creativities like the Mandara Mahalango and Bali Mandara Nawanatya are immediately replaced with other events. For that purpose, Governor of Bali, Wayan Koster, has designed two types of art events, namely for traditional arts accommodated through the Bali Arts Festival and contemporary art event being discussed by the governor’s team. “Regarding the name, it’s approximately the Bali Contemporary Art Festival (Festival Seni Bali Jani). So, the art is not grouped
SpaceCom, as it will inevitably come to be known, will be on equal footing with other US military commands, such as Central Command in the Middle East or IndoPacific Command in Asia, and will require a new headquarters as well as a commander and deputy commander who will need Senate approval. It is not the first military space entity proposed by the US president this year.
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A mural listed by the Guinness World Records as the largest in the world is displayed on a grain silo in Incheon port, west of Seoul on December 19, 2018.
INCHEON - A dreary grain silo that was transformed into an enormous colourful artwork in South Korea has been named by Guinness World Records as the largest outdoor mural in the world. The painting which depicts a young boy’s journey into adulthood covers the outside of giant storage containers in the port city of Incheon, west of Seoul, taking up 23,688 square meters.
The mural was commissioned by the city’s government and port authority as part of efforts to improve the negative view of aged industrial facilities, an idea which originated from the community art projects of the 1920s that swept the United States and Mexico, according to the South’s Yonhap news agency. Twenty-two artists used more than 850,000 litres of paint to tell the story which reflects the seasons
and resembles 16 individual book covers, at a cost of 550 million won (US$487,000). It topples the previous record holder by a significant margin -- the Pueblo Levee Project in Pueblo, in the US state of Colorado, at 16,554 square meters. Government and port officials also hope the mural will give a boost to tourism on Wolmi Island, one of the top tourist spots near Incheon. (afp)
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BUSINESS ‘Multiple’ offers for Engie’s stake in Glow
French energy giant Engie has received “multiple” offers to buy a stake in its subsidiary Glow, two months after Thailand’s energy regulator blocked its multi-billiondollar sale to state-owned PTT Group. Glow confirmed the offers on Tuesday in a letter to the president of the Stock Exchange of Thailand. Engie signed a deal with Thai group Global Power Synergy Public Company (GPSC) -- part of PTT -- in June to sell a 69.1 percent stake in Glow, an independent coal-powered energy producer. However, the sale -- worth an estimated $3 billion -was blocked by the Energy Regulatory Commission in October over worries the acquisition would create a monopoly within some industrial areas. An appeal by GPSC on the decision was dismissed last week. The confirmation from Glow comes after Thai business newspaper Krungthep Turakij reported that I Squared Capital, a US-based private equity firm founded by former Morgan Stanley executives, was looking to buy the stake. I Squared Capital did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The planned sale of Engie’s stake in Glow was a part of the French firm’s strategy to reduce its carbon footprint. Faced with the upheaval of the European energy sector, Engie had hoped to shift to renewable energy and energy services, which would have been regulated -- making it less susceptible to market shifts. The group has a sizeable presence in Southeast Asia via its stake in Glow, which operates in Thailand and Laos with 800 employees. (afp)
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Sun rays fall through the clouds over the banking district as a runner passes by in Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018.
Clouds grow over German economy after stocks hit bear market
BERLIN - Worries are growing about the strength of the German economy, Europe’s largest, after a key indicator suggested fears about trade wars and Brexit are hitting business activity and after the country’s main stocks index slid into a bear market. The Ifo Institute said Tuesday its business confidence index dropped to 101.0 points for December from 102.0 points in November as managers’ view of both their current circumstances and their prospects for the next six months fell. That’s the fourth drop in a row and the lowest reading in 27 months. Uncertainty over the economy is growing just as the European Central Bank last week confirmed it will end its 2.6 billion-euro ($3 billion) stimulus program conducted through bond purchases. The ECB says the economy is strong enough to halt the stimulus, but is keeping other support measures such as record low interest rates in place.
The ECB has indicated rates will not rise before fall 2019, and has indicated it could delay any first hikes in case of unexpected economic trouble. Germany’s economy shrank 0.2 percent in the third quarter and there are increasing worries about the effect of multiple issues, like Britain’s decision to leave the European Union and new tariffs from the U.S. administration of President Donald Trump. The third-quarter contraction was largely blamed on a one-time slump in car sales as Daimler and Volkswagen faced bottlenecks getting cars certified for new, tougher emissions standards. Economist Carsten Brzeski at
ING Germany said that “the German economy has entered a dangerous vicious circle of too many one-off factors, dwindling global growth and political risks finally leaving their mark.” That was despite continuing strong domestic demand from consumers, who are enjoying cheaper fuel prices and low unemployment. He wrote in an email that “that the risk of the unimaginable — a technical recession (two consecutive quarters with negative growth) — has increased.” Andrew Kenningham, chief global economist at Capital Economics, said there was “every reason” to expect growth to rebound in the last
three months of the year. “However, this survey adds to evidence that the slowdown in Germany, and the eurozone more widely, is more than just a soft patch.” Kenningham said risks were mounting to the firm’s forecast that growth would rebound to 1.8 percent next year from 1.5 percent this year. German’s DAX 30 stock index traded at 10,818 on Thursday, up 0.4 percent on the day. The index, which contains big corporate names such as Siemens, Deutsche Bank, Bayer, BASF, Adidas, ThyssenKrupp and BMW, entered bear market territory on Monday, defined as a decline of 20 percent or more from its January peak. The Ifo index is based on some 9,000 survey responses from firms in manufacturing, the service sector, trade and construction. (afp)
The Action of Bats Seduces Visitors at Tanah Lot
Apart from the beauty of sunset view, Tanah Lot also features another attraction showing off millions of fruit bats embellishing the sky over the exotic Tanah Lot. The nocturnal animals fly very beautifully, going here and there while looking for food and decorating the sky after the nightfall. This animal having the mouth like that of mouse can fly very fast while catching insects as the prey. The movement of foraging bats becomes a unique attraction favored by foreign tourists. The bats scattered in the sky after sunset become the target of camera shots of tourists.
They are even willing to postpone their time of departure from the object in order to watch the bats clustering at night. For tourists, the attraction is very attractive.
This animal becoming the identity of Batman superhero can indeed be found everywhere. However, the bats at Tanah Lot attraction indeed look beautiful. They are looking for
Keben or ritual basket craftsmen at Kukuh village, Marga, have innovation to make unique product compared to the common ones. If keben craftsmen in Bali mostly take advantage of the same raw material, those at Kukuh village should think twice to look for different things to make it look unique, and the usage of sea shells as decoration becomes the option. One of the craftsmen, Wayan Suryani, 46, stated that she has pursued the craft business with her sister since ten years ago. At that time, the craft used glass ornaments. However, since more and more craftsmen apply such glass decoration right now, she and her sister then tried new material namely sea shells.
However, to meet the shell raw material, it should be brought in from Java. The sea shell used for decoration is very difficult to find in Bali. So, she must bring in from Java. “The sea shell used for decoration is difficult to be found here in Bali,” she said. At least, there are six types of sea shells to be used as decoration. For once ordering sea shell, said Suryani, she usually requests 100 kilograms per type of the shell. The purchase of sea shell is made when receiving an order from consumers. “Our order is fluctuating. Sometimes there are a few pieces in a month and sometimes we get no order at all. So, the order of the shell is made if there are already
craft orders,” she added. Habitually, the keben crafts are ordered on average of 30 pieces. To accomplish the order, she should engage six craftsmen where one craftsman can produce two pieces of keben basket each day. The price offered for this shelldecorated craft varies based on the complexity of the design and the variety of sea shells in use. On average, the price is between IDR 200,000 and IDR 300,000. Other than fulfilling the demand of buyers in Bali, this shell-decorated handicraft also draws the interest of consumers from outside Bali. “Some buyers from Sulawesi also order my craft products,” concluded Suryani. (kmb)
fruits or flying insects. The bats live in the caves around the Tanah Lot Beach. Some others also live in the local leaves growing nearby. “The habit of foraging bats becomes a concern of tourists. Lately, their action is eagerly awaited by tourists to capture this natural moment,” said Made, a local security officer. Meanwhile, Jero Niti, Promotion Section Officer of the Tanah Lot At-
traction, said that lately the action of foraging bats looks very beautiful as natural tourist attraction. This attraction has been available from long time ago, but the number was not so much. “Lately, millions of bats appear and fly around the sky. Even though it looks vague because of approaching the night, tourists still want to wait for them,” she explained. (kmb)
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Japan to get first post-WWII aircraft carriers TOKYO - Japan will get its first aircraft carriers since World War II and buy dozens of fighter jets under a new defence plan approved Tuesday that is intended to counter China’s growing military power.
The new five-year defence plan calls for the upgrade of two existing helicopter carriers so that they can launch fighters, and is the latest in a series of steps under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to boost Japan’s military. Abe’s government argues the efforts are necessary given growing defence challenges in the region, including tensions with North Korea, and particularly “strong concerns” about the expansion of China’s military footprint. But the move is controversial, with critics arguing it shifts Tokyo further away from its commitment to strictly defensive capabilities under Japan’s post-World War II pacifist constitution. “We will secure both the quantity and quality of defence capability that is necessary... to meet the rapidly changing security environment,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a regular press briefing on Tuesday. “We believe this is within... what is allowed under the constitution.” The five-year plan approved Tuesday assumes record defence spending of 27.47 trillion yen ($244 billion) through
Elon Musk... From page 1
On Tuesday, he explained for the first time in detail how the system, which he simply calls “loop,” could work on a larger scale beneath cities across the globe. Autonomous, electric vehicles could be lowered into the system on wall-less elevators, which could be placed almost anywhere cars can go. The cars would have to be fitted with specially designed side wheels that pop out perpendicular to the car’s regular tires and run along the tunnel’s track. The cost for such wheels would be about $200 or $300 a car, Musk said. A number of autonomous cars would remain inside the tunnel system just for pedestrians and bicyclists. Once on the main arteries of the system, every car could run at top speed except when entering and exiting. “It’s much more like an underground highway than it is a subway,” Musk said.
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Lion Air to resume search for victims of Indonesia crash
Lion Air announced Monday it was funding a multi-million dollar search effort using a Dutch company for the second black box and missing victims from doomed flight JT-610. Japan will get its first aircraft carriers since World War II and buy dozens of fighter jets under a new defence plan approved Tuesday that is intended to counter China’s growing military power. IBP/net
March 2024. It calls for the defence ministry to upgrade two flat-top Izumo-class destroyers to enable them to launch fighters with short take-off and vertical landing abilities, like the F-35B stealth fighter. In a separate plan also endorsed by the cabinet Tuesday, Japan said it would buy 42 F-35s over the next decade, with the F-35B variant widely considered the likeliest candidate. It also plans over the same period to buy 105 F-35As, a variant of the advanced jet which performs conventional takeoffs and landings and cannot be used on the retrofitted destroyers. Local media have said the purchases could total more than one trillion yen ($8.8 billion). - Worries about China -
The new plans come after pledges from Japan to buy more US military equipment, under pressure from President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly complained about Washington’s huge trade deficit with Tokyo and also urged Abe to expand the country’s defensive capacity. Abe has aggressively expanded Japan’s alliance with the United States. He has campaigned for years to amend Japan’s pacifist constitution, arguing that it ties the hands of the country’s
The cars would have to be autonomous to work in the system but not Teslas specifically, and they would have to be electric because of the fumes from gas, Musk said. The demo rides were considerably slower — 40 mph (64 kph) — than what Musk says the future system will run at: 150 mph (241 kph). Still, it took only three minutes to go just over a mile from the beginning to the end of the tunnel, the same amount of time it took to accomplish a right-hand turn out of the parking lot and onto a surface street even before the height of Los Angeles’ notorious rush-hour traffic. Tuesday’s reveal comes almost two years to the day since Musk announced on Twitter that “traffic is driving me nuts” and he was “going to build a tunnel boring machine and just start digging.” “I am actually going to do this,” he added in response to initial skepticism. Soon after, he began The Boring Company, tongue in cheek intentional.
For the privately funded test tunnel, Musk acquired a tunnelboring machine that had been used in a San Francisco Bay Area project and put it down a shaft in a parking lot at the SpaceX headquarters. Musk dismissed concerns such as the noise and disruption of building the tunnels, saying that when workers bored through the end of the test tunnel the people in the home 20 feet (6 meters) away “didn’t even stop watching TV.” “The footsteps of someone walking past your house will be more noticeable than a tunnel being dug under your house,” he said, The Boring Company canceled its plans for another test tunnel on Los Angeles’ west side last month after a neighborhood coalition filed a lawsuit expressing concerns about traffic and disruptions from trucks hauling out dirt during the boring process. However, Steve Davis, head of The Boring Company, said the interest in the tunnel systems
Self-Defense Forces (SDF) even in protecting the country’s allies from attack. Government officials were at pains to make clear the policy did not represent a shift away from the country’s long-standing focus on defence. “The Izumo-class destroyers will continue to serve as multi-function, multi-purpose destroyers. This mode of operation falls within the realm of an exclusively defenceoriented policy,” Defence Minister Takeshi Iwaya told a regular briefing. The remodelled ships and new fighter jets will “increase operational flexibility” for Japan’s military as China boosts its naval footprint in southern waters that are home to several remote Japanese islands, a defence official said. “We have a very, very small SDF footprint” in the area between Okinawa and Taiwan, he added. But he said it was a “misunderstanding” to believe that the upgrades would create “full-fledged aircraft carriers” capable of staging offensive action in distant regions. And the new fighters would be stationed at existing ground facilities, not on the ships, he said. “We are not creating carrier air wings or carrier air squadrons” like the US navy, he added. “That’s not going to happen.” (afp)
has been significant — anywhere from five to 20 calls a week from various municipalities and stakeholders. One project Musk is planning on, known as the Dugout Loop, would take Los Angeles baseball fans to Dodger Stadium from one of three subway stations. Another would take travelers from downtown Chicago to O’Hare International Airport. Both projects are in the environmental review phase. Musk said he thinks the Chicago project has the most potential to open soonest and that he’s hoping an extensive network opens in Los Angeles before the city hosts the 2028 Olympics. “Wouldn’t it be incredible if you could travel around LA, New York, D.C., Chicago, Paris, London — anywhere — at 150 mph?” Musk said. “That’d be phenomenal.” Musk’s representatives also unveiled on Tuesday a new tunnelboring machine they say they hope to have online soon, one that can
bore four times faster than the one they’ve been using. Musk said it took about $10 million to build the test tunnel, a far cry from the $1 billion per mile his company says most tunnels take to build. Cost-cutting measures included improving the speed of construction with smarter tools, eliminating middlemen, building more powerful boring machines, and turning the dirt being excavated into bricks and selling them, Musk said. The tunnel will not be open to the public for the foreseeable future, Musk said, adding that regulations wouldn’t allow for it to open widely for demo rides just yet. Musk’s vision for the underground tunnels is not the same as another of his transportation concepts known as hyperloop. That would involve a network of nearly airless tubes that would speed special capsules over long distances at up to 750 mph (1,200 kph), using a thin cushion of air, magnetism and solar power. (ap)
The Boeing 737 MAX vanished from radar 13 minutes after taking off from Jakarta on October 29, crashing into waters off the north coast of Indonesia’s Java Island and killing all 189 people onboard. Authorities called off the grim task of identifying victims of the crash last month, with only 125 people officially identified after tests on human remains that filled some 200 body bags. Following requests from victims’ families, Lion said it had allocated 38 billion rupiah ($2.6 million) to hire a Dutch company to continue the search with its ship the MPV Everest. “The search operation will focus on the latest coordinates of the crash... with an operational time of 10 consecutive days in December,” the airline said in a statement. The MPV Everest, a 142-metre long vessel with stateof-the-art remotely operated vehicles, will arrive near the crash site on Wednesday. Bad weather had delayed its trip from the Malaysian port of Johor Baru. News that the hunt for the wreckage would continue with the new vessel was welcomed by Evi Syamsul Komar, whose nephew was aboard the flight. “We have heard many promises before, we don’t know who to trust anymore, but our family is still waiting,” Komar told AFP. Dozens of family members whose loved ones were killed in the crash protested in Jakarta last week, demanding the search continue. They called on authorities to help retrieve the remaining 64 bodies and pay compensation. Nearly 30 relatives of the crash victims have filed lawsuits against Boeing, alleging faults with the new model 737 MAX led to the deaths. The preliminary crash report from Indonesia’s transport safety agency suggested that pilots struggled to control the plane’s anti-stalling system immediately before the crash. Investigators also found that the Lion Air jet should have been grounded over a recurrent technical problem ADEK BERRY / AFP before its fatal journey, but did not pinpoint a cause of A man holds up an image of a victim from the crash of a Lion Air passsenger jet in late October during a for the accident. The planes cockpit voice recorder is yet to be found. A final report is not likely to be filed rally to demand that Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo continue search operations for the remains of the missing, outside the presidential palace in Jakarta on December 13, 2018. until next year.
Trial of Indonesian accused of Kim Jong Nam murder on hold
The trial of an Indonesian woman accused of assassinating the North Korean leader’s half-brother was put on hold Tuesday due to a row over witness statements, the latest delay in the case. Siti Aisyah from Indonesia and Doan Thi Huong from Vietnam have been on trial for over a year, accused of murdering Kim Jong Nam by smearing nerve agent VX on his face at Kuala Lumpur airport. The brazen assassination in February last year shocked the world but the women have denied murder, saying they believed they were taking part in a prank and were tricked by North Korean agents. The women, in their 20s, went on trial together in October 2017 but proceedings have moved slowly due to the large numbers of witnesses and the fact hearings are held
infrequently. The defence stage of Aisyah’s trial had originally been due to begin in November but was delayed to January after her main lawyer fell ill. And on Tuesday proceedings in Aisyah’s case were temporarily halted when the High Court refused to grant her lawyers access to some witness statements, and they decided to appeal. Huong’s trial is due to resume in March and the court will rule Friday whether it will go ahead, or be put on hold with Aisyah’s. The prosecution stage of the trial, during which the women appeared for hearings together, wrapped up in August. The defence parts of their trials will be held separately. Aisyah’s lawyer Gooi Soon Seng said the witness state-
ments were “essential” for the defence and he would appeal the ruling -- a process that could take months. “Without (the statements) there would be a real miscarriage of justice. It would compromise our case,” he told reporters at the court in Shah Alam, outside Kuala Lumpur. The seven statements are from witnesses including people who drove Kim Jong Nam around in Malaysia and acquaintances of Aisyah. Prosecutors have refused to hand them over, arguing they should not be made public. Under current laws, the women will be sentenced to death by hanging if convicted of murdering the estranged relative of the North’s leader, Kim Jong Un. Malaysia’s new government, which took power in May, has vowed to abolish capital punishment for all crimes, although parliament still needs to vote on the change. (afp)
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Japan’s ‘Ninja Boy’ aims to take down Mayweather
MATSUDO - Japanese kickboxer Tenshin “Ninja Boy” Nasukawa said Tuesday he wants to use the element of surprise to defeat boxing superstar Floyd Mayweather Jr in their bout later this month.
Puri Agung Karangasem Royal Palace Royal Palace in Bali
KARANGASEM - Puri Agung Karangasem or Karangasem Palace is one of palaces exist in Amlapura Town, east part of Bali owns the unique building architecture. If we see from palace iconography, Puri Agung Karangasem owns two types those are the older shares with traditional iconography and the at new building own the modern iconography even its building name use the modern name like Maskerdam from word Amsterdam, London, Betawi, Yogya and
others. The buildings are mostly decorated by Chinese architecture. The door is decorated by Barong Sai ornament and other bas-reliefs ornament at door leaf is fully patterned from china. Puri Agung Karangasem is collectively several royal palaces of the Karangasem kingdom, which are all positioned within a 100metre radius of the capital town of Amlapura. You can find these separate palaces in three main locations in the town hub: Puri Kaleran
to the north, Puri Gede on the west, and the main Puri Agung complex. Puri Agung is the main residential palace of the late Raja of Karangasem, featuring grand structures such as the Bale Pemandesan pavilion and the Maskerdam palatial main building. Aspects of the Puri Agung Karangasem Royal Palace The Puri Agung Karangasem royal palace dates to the 19th century during the reign of Anak Agung Agung Anglurah Ketut Karangasem. The palace is a silent witness to pretty much the whole span of Bali’s history. From the times of the Majapahit Empire, to the refuge from Islam, the breaking down of Bali’s realms into 9 kingdoms, the Dutch occupation and its defeat, through to formation and declaration of Independence of the Indonesian Republic. Much of the historical buildings are intact, retaining much of its past glory with hints of Balinese, Chinese, and European architectural details. There’s even a
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‘floating’ Gili pavilion surrounded by a lotus-filled moat. The different palatial clusters, particularly within the main site of the Puri Agung complex, used to house the late Raja’s royal court. Today, it’s still used for royal ceremonies and private events of the extended royal family. Throughout the inner courtyard, you may witness old walls
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covered in various reliefs, towering red brick gates, and historical black-and-white portraits of the late raja in his elegant Maskerdam building. Inside, you’ll also find antique yet fashionable Wilhelmina furniture, harking back to the Dutch times of occupation. Entrance fee is IDR 10,000 (USD 0.75) per person. (IBP/net)
Japanese kickboxer Tenshin Nasukawa works out during a training session, in front of the media, at his boxing gym in Matsuda, Chiba prefecture on December 18, 2018.
“I want to kick his ass,” the 20-year-old baby-faced southpaw told reporters after a training session in the city of Matsudo near Tokyo. The New Year’s Eve bout, first announced in early November, was abruptly scrapped by the unbeaten 41-year-old American after a “misunderstanding” over the fight’s terms, according to mixed martial arts promoter RIZIN. But it was back on as an exhibition match after RIZIN chief Nobuyuki Sakakibara flew to Los Angeles for talks with Mayweather and agreed to an orthodox boxing match without kicking, which will be a disadvantage for Nasukawa. “I want to make surprising moves,” said the Japanese fighter, who has just returned from an intensive two-week boxing training in Las Vegas. “I want to fully use the kickboxing skills I have.” Nasukawa now weighs 61 kilogrammes and is is four inches (10 centimetres) shorter than Mayweather, who has won world titles in five different weight classes. He added that he suspected Mayweather was “not taking the bout seriously”. Nasukawa is considered something of a prodigy in Japanese fighting circles and began learning karate at the age of five. Like Mayweather, he is unbeaten, boasting a 28-0 record as a professional kickboxer with 21 wins by knockout. He has four wins from four matches in mixed martial arts. (afp)
Revenge sweet for Russell as Nets sink Lakers
LOS ANGELES - D’Angelo Russell produced a double-double to lead the Brooklyn Nets to victory against his former club with a 115110 win over LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday. Russell was selected by the Lakers with the second overall pick in the 2015 draft, but was traded only two years later after an unhappy start to his NBA career. However the 22-year-old point guard reminded the Lakers of his talents with a decisive contribution to lead the Nets to victory at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. Russell finished with 22 points, 13 assists and four rebounds as the Nets improved to 14-18 in the Eastern Conference standings. Russell was one of six Brooklyn players to finish in double digits as the home side completed a sixth
straight victory. “You look at the scoreboard - it took the whole team to get it done tonight,” Russell said afterwards. “Defensively we came in and did our job. I couldn’t be more proud of our guys.” Russell said the Nets were determined to extend their winning run. “One game at a time,” Russell said. “We’re not satisfied. We want to keep it going.” Russell’s points tally included a clutch three-pointer down the stretch which put the Nets six points clear with 22 seconds remaining. “He hurt us,” Lakers head coach Luke Walton said of Russell. “He’s a talented player and we know that. Give him credit. “He had a big time game tonight but that’s why this team’s won six
in a row now -- they’ve got a lot of different guys that can hurt you.” Jared Dudley weighed in with an important 13-point came off the bench to keep Brooklyn in front during a nailbiting finale. The Lakers meanwhile looked to James to keep them in the contest. James finished with 36 points but was unable to drag the Lakers over the line, despite a spirited rally late in the fourth quarter when they ran up 10 unanswered points to get within three of Brooklyn. James also had a double-double with 13 rebounds and eight assists in the losing effort. Lonzo Ball finished with 23 points and Kyle Kuzma had 22 points. The Lakers dropped to 18-13 after the loss and remain in fourth spot in the Western Conference. (afp)
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D’Angelo Russell #1 of the Brooklyn Nets dribbles around Los Angeles Lakers defense during the third quarter of the game at Barclays Center on December 18, 2018 in New York City.
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Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was on Wednesday named as Manchester United’s caretaker manager until the end of the season following the sacking of Jose Mourinho. The former United striker will take charge of the first team with immediate effect and will remain in place while the club looks for a new full-time manager. Mourinho was axed on Tuesday after just twoand-half years in charge at Old Trafford, with the 20-times English champions languishing in sixth place in the Premier League, 19 points behind leaders Liverpool. Solskjaer, 45, will be joined by Mike Phelan as first-team coach, working alongside Michael Carrick and Kieran McKenna. “Manchester United is in my heart and it’s brilliant to be coming back in this role,” said the Norwegian. “I’m really looking forward to working with the very talented squad we have, the staff and everyone at the club,” Executive vice chairman Ed Woodward said: “Ole is a club legend with huge experience, both on the pitch and in coaching roles. “His history at Manchester United means he lives and breathes the culture here and everyone at the club is delighted to have him and Mike Phelan back. We are confident they will unite the players and the fans as we head into the second half of the season.” United appeared to accidently announce the appointment on their website on Tuesday, with a video posted on the club’s official website celebrating Solskjaer. A video of him scoring the winner for United in their 1999 Champions League final triumph against Bayern Munich was accompanied with the headline ‘The most famous night of Ole’s career’. Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg also appeared to confirm Solskjaer ’s appointment on Twitter. On Wednesday she tweeted: “FINALLY CONFIRMED! Great day for Norwegian football. Good luck keeping control of the Red Devils, @olegs26_ole.” Solskjaer joined United as a player from Molde in 1996 and was part of Alex Ferguson’s team that won the treble of the Champions League, Premier League and FA Cup in 1998/99. He scored 126 goals in 366 appearances for United between 1996 and 2007 and in 2008 he became the club’s reserve-team manager, before taking the managerial role at Molde in Norway. - Cardiff challenge -
The Norwegian’s first game in charge of Manchester United will be Saturday’s trip to former club Cardiff. Solskjaer managed the Bluebirds between January 2014 and September 2014, failing to stop
them being relegated from the Premier League, returning to Molde in 2015. Speaking moments before Solskjaer’s appointment was made official, former United first-team coach Rene Meulensteen warned it would be a huge job for the Norwegian. “It would be a good choice in terms of the fact that they want to bring back some of the spirit that was at United in the time of Sir Alex Ferguson, and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was a big part of that,” he told Sky Sports News. “In that respect I can understand they were looking for a candidate who can live up to those expectations. “If they do decide for Ole and Ole decides to accept then again it is a big ask for everybody. But I think in the short term it would be a good choice to make.” Molde have confirmed that Solskjaer will return to the club in May, with chief executive officer Oystein Neerland saying they are happy to “lend” their coach to United. Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino and former Real Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane are among the bookmakers’ favourites to take the United job on a full-time basis at the end of the season. (afp)
In this file photo taken on January 07, 2007 Manchester United’s Ole Gunnar Solskjaer celebrates scoring the winning goal against Aston Villa during their FA Cup third round football match at Old Trafford in Manchester.
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Tottenham Hotspur’s Argentinian head coach Mauricio Pochettino (R) gives instructions to substitute Tottenham Hotspur’s South Korean striker Son HeungMin (L) during the English Premier League football match between Tottenham Hotspur and Burnley at Wembley Stadium in London on December 15, 2018.
Pochettino won’t rule out United move
Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino has refused to rule out replacing Jose Mourinho at Manchester United. Pochettino is believed to be United’s top choice to succeed Mourinho following his sacking on Tuesday. The Argentine signed a new five-year contract with Tottenham in May and has spoken at length about wanting to stay with the club as they prepare to move into their new stadium. But reports following Mourinho’s exit suggested Pochettino is privately open to the possibility of moving to Old Trafford. The 46-year-old is understood to have been frustrated by the lack of backing he has received in the transfer market -- with Tottenham unable to make a single closeseason signing this year. Pochettino is also vexed by Tottenham’s tight wage structure and the failure of chairman Daniel Levy to sell players he no longer wants. Perhaps aware he may have to deal with financial restrictions at Tottenham for several more years because of their expensive and delayed stadium move, Pochettino left the door open for United when he admitted he could not predict what might happen at the end of the season. “What is going to happen in the
summer? What is going to happen tomorrow? No one knows. The most important is to enjoy the journey. I’m so happy here,” he told reporters on Tuesday. “What is going to happen is not in our hands, I mean the decision in another club, we don’t know. “That is not my business and then I will not waste time or energy because my focus and energy is in Tottenham.” Pochettino, preparing for Wednesday’s League Cup quarterfinal at Arsenal, emphasised he is happy at Tottenham, where he has earned a reputation as one of the brightest young coaches in the world. Tottenham are third in the Premier League, while United are languishing in sixth place. “It is not my business if something happens in another club, like in many, many clubs around the world,” he said. “I am happy here in Tottenham and I have four-and-a-half years left on my contract. “There are a lot of rumours but, look, I am happy here trying to give my best to the club.”
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United are set to name their former striker Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as interim manager until the end of the season, giving them
time to tempt ex-Southampton boss Pochettino away from Tottenham. “It’s not in my hands how to manage all of these rumours,” said Pochettino, who has also been linked with a move to Real Madrid when they hire a permanent coach at the end of the season. “I am not creating rumours, I am here. The players doesn’t care too much about what happened about the rumours. “We are focused and we are going to be focused on our job and then we are very professional. “We were talking a few weeks ago and I said if a chairman or president is going to support you, then it’s because you are going to be sacked the day after. “That job is so tough because nobody in football can guarantee you are going to be here tomorrow.” Meanwhile, Arsenal manager Unai Emery questioned why his close friend would want to join United. Emery has a long friendship with Pochettino, honed as both managed in La Liga and the Spaniard is unsure if United would be the right move, “I think he’s very happy at Tottenham,” the Spaniard said. “I think he’s coaching a very big team with a very big player
and now they are in the Champions League they are also in a better position in the Premier League than Manchester United. “I think his performance at Tot-
tenham is very big. I don’t know if he’s thinking to change for another club, but I am looking at him with a very big commitment to Tottenham.” (afp)
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Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was on Wednesday named as Manchester United’s caretaker manager until the end of the season following the sacking of Jose Mourinho. The former United striker will take charge of the first team with immediate effect and will remain in place while the club looks for a new full-time manager. Mourinho was axed on Tuesday after just twoand-half years in charge at Old Trafford, with the 20-times English champions languishing in sixth place in the Premier League, 19 points behind leaders Liverpool. Solskjaer, 45, will be joined by Mike Phelan as first-team coach, working alongside Michael Carrick and Kieran McKenna. “Manchester United is in my heart and it’s brilliant to be coming back in this role,” said the Norwegian. “I’m really looking forward to working with the very talented squad we have, the staff and everyone at the club,” Executive vice chairman Ed Woodward said: “Ole is a club legend with huge experience, both on the pitch and in coaching roles. “His history at Manchester United means he lives and breathes the culture here and everyone at the club is delighted to have him and Mike Phelan back. We are confident they will unite the players and the fans as we head into the second half of the season.” United appeared to accidently announce the appointment on their website on Tuesday, with a video posted on the club’s official website celebrating Solskjaer. A video of him scoring the winner for United in their 1999 Champions League final triumph against Bayern Munich was accompanied with the headline ‘The most famous night of Ole’s career’. Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg also appeared to confirm Solskjaer ’s appointment on Twitter. On Wednesday she tweeted: “FINALLY CONFIRMED! Great day for Norwegian football. Good luck keeping control of the Red Devils, @olegs26_ole.” Solskjaer joined United as a player from Molde in 1996 and was part of Alex Ferguson’s team that won the treble of the Champions League, Premier League and FA Cup in 1998/99. He scored 126 goals in 366 appearances for United between 1996 and 2007 and in 2008 he became the club’s reserve-team manager, before taking the managerial role at Molde in Norway. - Cardiff challenge -
The Norwegian’s first game in charge of Manchester United will be Saturday’s trip to former club Cardiff. Solskjaer managed the Bluebirds between January 2014 and September 2014, failing to stop
them being relegated from the Premier League, returning to Molde in 2015. Speaking moments before Solskjaer’s appointment was made official, former United first-team coach Rene Meulensteen warned it would be a huge job for the Norwegian. “It would be a good choice in terms of the fact that they want to bring back some of the spirit that was at United in the time of Sir Alex Ferguson, and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was a big part of that,” he told Sky Sports News. “In that respect I can understand they were looking for a candidate who can live up to those expectations. “If they do decide for Ole and Ole decides to accept then again it is a big ask for everybody. But I think in the short term it would be a good choice to make.” Molde have confirmed that Solskjaer will return to the club in May, with chief executive officer Oystein Neerland saying they are happy to “lend” their coach to United. Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino and former Real Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane are among the bookmakers’ favourites to take the United job on a full-time basis at the end of the season. (afp)
In this file photo taken on January 07, 2007 Manchester United’s Ole Gunnar Solskjaer celebrates scoring the winning goal against Aston Villa during their FA Cup third round football match at Old Trafford in Manchester.
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Tottenham Hotspur’s Argentinian head coach Mauricio Pochettino (R) gives instructions to substitute Tottenham Hotspur’s South Korean striker Son HeungMin (L) during the English Premier League football match between Tottenham Hotspur and Burnley at Wembley Stadium in London on December 15, 2018.
Pochettino won’t rule out United move
Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino has refused to rule out replacing Jose Mourinho at Manchester United. Pochettino is believed to be United’s top choice to succeed Mourinho following his sacking on Tuesday. The Argentine signed a new five-year contract with Tottenham in May and has spoken at length about wanting to stay with the club as they prepare to move into their new stadium. But reports following Mourinho’s exit suggested Pochettino is privately open to the possibility of moving to Old Trafford. The 46-year-old is understood to have been frustrated by the lack of backing he has received in the transfer market -- with Tottenham unable to make a single closeseason signing this year. Pochettino is also vexed by Tottenham’s tight wage structure and the failure of chairman Daniel Levy to sell players he no longer wants. Perhaps aware he may have to deal with financial restrictions at Tottenham for several more years because of their expensive and delayed stadium move, Pochettino left the door open for United when he admitted he could not predict what might happen at the end of the season. “What is going to happen in the
summer? What is going to happen tomorrow? No one knows. The most important is to enjoy the journey. I’m so happy here,” he told reporters on Tuesday. “What is going to happen is not in our hands, I mean the decision in another club, we don’t know. “That is not my business and then I will not waste time or energy because my focus and energy is in Tottenham.” Pochettino, preparing for Wednesday’s League Cup quarterfinal at Arsenal, emphasised he is happy at Tottenham, where he has earned a reputation as one of the brightest young coaches in the world. Tottenham are third in the Premier League, while United are languishing in sixth place. “It is not my business if something happens in another club, like in many, many clubs around the world,” he said. “I am happy here in Tottenham and I have four-and-a-half years left on my contract. “There are a lot of rumours but, look, I am happy here trying to give my best to the club.”
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United are set to name their former striker Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as interim manager until the end of the season, giving them
time to tempt ex-Southampton boss Pochettino away from Tottenham. “It’s not in my hands how to manage all of these rumours,” said Pochettino, who has also been linked with a move to Real Madrid when they hire a permanent coach at the end of the season. “I am not creating rumours, I am here. The players doesn’t care too much about what happened about the rumours. “We are focused and we are going to be focused on our job and then we are very professional. “We were talking a few weeks ago and I said if a chairman or president is going to support you, then it’s because you are going to be sacked the day after. “That job is so tough because nobody in football can guarantee you are going to be here tomorrow.” Meanwhile, Arsenal manager Unai Emery questioned why his close friend would want to join United. Emery has a long friendship with Pochettino, honed as both managed in La Liga and the Spaniard is unsure if United would be the right move, “I think he’s very happy at Tottenham,” the Spaniard said. “I think he’s coaching a very big team with a very big player
and now they are in the Champions League they are also in a better position in the Premier League than Manchester United. “I think his performance at Tot-
tenham is very big. I don’t know if he’s thinking to change for another club, but I am looking at him with a very big commitment to Tottenham.” (afp)
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Japan’s ‘Ninja Boy’ aims to take down Mayweather
MATSUDO - Japanese kickboxer Tenshin “Ninja Boy” Nasukawa said Tuesday he wants to use the element of surprise to defeat boxing superstar Floyd Mayweather Jr in their bout later this month.
Puri Agung Karangasem Royal Palace Royal Palace in Bali
KARANGASEM - Puri Agung Karangasem or Karangasem Palace is one of palaces exist in Amlapura Town, east part of Bali owns the unique building architecture. If we see from palace iconography, Puri Agung Karangasem owns two types those are the older shares with traditional iconography and the at new building own the modern iconography even its building name use the modern name like Maskerdam from word Amsterdam, London, Betawi, Yogya and
others. The buildings are mostly decorated by Chinese architecture. The door is decorated by Barong Sai ornament and other bas-reliefs ornament at door leaf is fully patterned from china. Puri Agung Karangasem is collectively several royal palaces of the Karangasem kingdom, which are all positioned within a 100metre radius of the capital town of Amlapura. You can find these separate palaces in three main locations in the town hub: Puri Kaleran
to the north, Puri Gede on the west, and the main Puri Agung complex. Puri Agung is the main residential palace of the late Raja of Karangasem, featuring grand structures such as the Bale Pemandesan pavilion and the Maskerdam palatial main building. Aspects of the Puri Agung Karangasem Royal Palace The Puri Agung Karangasem royal palace dates to the 19th century during the reign of Anak Agung Agung Anglurah Ketut Karangasem. The palace is a silent witness to pretty much the whole span of Bali’s history. From the times of the Majapahit Empire, to the refuge from Islam, the breaking down of Bali’s realms into 9 kingdoms, the Dutch occupation and its defeat, through to formation and declaration of Independence of the Indonesian Republic. Much of the historical buildings are intact, retaining much of its past glory with hints of Balinese, Chinese, and European architectural details. There’s even a
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‘floating’ Gili pavilion surrounded by a lotus-filled moat. The different palatial clusters, particularly within the main site of the Puri Agung complex, used to house the late Raja’s royal court. Today, it’s still used for royal ceremonies and private events of the extended royal family. Throughout the inner courtyard, you may witness old walls
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covered in various reliefs, towering red brick gates, and historical black-and-white portraits of the late raja in his elegant Maskerdam building. Inside, you’ll also find antique yet fashionable Wilhelmina furniture, harking back to the Dutch times of occupation. Entrance fee is IDR 10,000 (USD 0.75) per person. (IBP/net)
Japanese kickboxer Tenshin Nasukawa works out during a training session, in front of the media, at his boxing gym in Matsuda, Chiba prefecture on December 18, 2018.
“I want to kick his ass,” the 20-year-old baby-faced southpaw told reporters after a training session in the city of Matsudo near Tokyo. The New Year’s Eve bout, first announced in early November, was abruptly scrapped by the unbeaten 41-year-old American after a “misunderstanding” over the fight’s terms, according to mixed martial arts promoter RIZIN. But it was back on as an exhibition match after RIZIN chief Nobuyuki Sakakibara flew to Los Angeles for talks with Mayweather and agreed to an orthodox boxing match without kicking, which will be a disadvantage for Nasukawa. “I want to make surprising moves,” said the Japanese fighter, who has just returned from an intensive two-week boxing training in Las Vegas. “I want to fully use the kickboxing skills I have.” Nasukawa now weighs 61 kilogrammes and is is four inches (10 centimetres) shorter than Mayweather, who has won world titles in five different weight classes. He added that he suspected Mayweather was “not taking the bout seriously”. Nasukawa is considered something of a prodigy in Japanese fighting circles and began learning karate at the age of five. Like Mayweather, he is unbeaten, boasting a 28-0 record as a professional kickboxer with 21 wins by knockout. He has four wins from four matches in mixed martial arts. (afp)
Revenge sweet for Russell as Nets sink Lakers
LOS ANGELES - D’Angelo Russell produced a double-double to lead the Brooklyn Nets to victory against his former club with a 115110 win over LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday. Russell was selected by the Lakers with the second overall pick in the 2015 draft, but was traded only two years later after an unhappy start to his NBA career. However the 22-year-old point guard reminded the Lakers of his talents with a decisive contribution to lead the Nets to victory at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. Russell finished with 22 points, 13 assists and four rebounds as the Nets improved to 14-18 in the Eastern Conference standings. Russell was one of six Brooklyn players to finish in double digits as the home side completed a sixth
straight victory. “You look at the scoreboard - it took the whole team to get it done tonight,” Russell said afterwards. “Defensively we came in and did our job. I couldn’t be more proud of our guys.” Russell said the Nets were determined to extend their winning run. “One game at a time,” Russell said. “We’re not satisfied. We want to keep it going.” Russell’s points tally included a clutch three-pointer down the stretch which put the Nets six points clear with 22 seconds remaining. “He hurt us,” Lakers head coach Luke Walton said of Russell. “He’s a talented player and we know that. Give him credit. “He had a big time game tonight but that’s why this team’s won six
in a row now -- they’ve got a lot of different guys that can hurt you.” Jared Dudley weighed in with an important 13-point came off the bench to keep Brooklyn in front during a nailbiting finale. The Lakers meanwhile looked to James to keep them in the contest. James finished with 36 points but was unable to drag the Lakers over the line, despite a spirited rally late in the fourth quarter when they ran up 10 unanswered points to get within three of Brooklyn. James also had a double-double with 13 rebounds and eight assists in the losing effort. Lonzo Ball finished with 23 points and Kyle Kuzma had 22 points. The Lakers dropped to 18-13 after the loss and remain in fourth spot in the Western Conference. (afp)
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D’Angelo Russell #1 of the Brooklyn Nets dribbles around Los Angeles Lakers defense during the third quarter of the game at Barclays Center on December 18, 2018 in New York City.
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Japan to get first post-WWII aircraft carriers TOKYO - Japan will get its first aircraft carriers since World War II and buy dozens of fighter jets under a new defence plan approved Tuesday that is intended to counter China’s growing military power.
The new five-year defence plan calls for the upgrade of two existing helicopter carriers so that they can launch fighters, and is the latest in a series of steps under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to boost Japan’s military. Abe’s government argues the efforts are necessary given growing defence challenges in the region, including tensions with North Korea, and particularly “strong concerns” about the expansion of China’s military footprint. But the move is controversial, with critics arguing it shifts Tokyo further away from its commitment to strictly defensive capabilities under Japan’s post-World War II pacifist constitution. “We will secure both the quantity and quality of defence capability that is necessary... to meet the rapidly changing security environment,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a regular press briefing on Tuesday. “We believe this is within... what is allowed under the constitution.” The five-year plan approved Tuesday assumes record defence spending of 27.47 trillion yen ($244 billion) through
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On Tuesday, he explained for the first time in detail how the system, which he simply calls “loop,” could work on a larger scale beneath cities across the globe. Autonomous, electric vehicles could be lowered into the system on wall-less elevators, which could be placed almost anywhere cars can go. The cars would have to be fitted with specially designed side wheels that pop out perpendicular to the car’s regular tires and run along the tunnel’s track. The cost for such wheels would be about $200 or $300 a car, Musk said. A number of autonomous cars would remain inside the tunnel system just for pedestrians and bicyclists. Once on the main arteries of the system, every car could run at top speed except when entering and exiting. “It’s much more like an underground highway than it is a subway,” Musk said.
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Lion Air to resume search for victims of Indonesia crash
Lion Air announced Monday it was funding a multi-million dollar search effort using a Dutch company for the second black box and missing victims from doomed flight JT-610. Japan will get its first aircraft carriers since World War II and buy dozens of fighter jets under a new defence plan approved Tuesday that is intended to counter China’s growing military power. IBP/net
March 2024. It calls for the defence ministry to upgrade two flat-top Izumo-class destroyers to enable them to launch fighters with short take-off and vertical landing abilities, like the F-35B stealth fighter. In a separate plan also endorsed by the cabinet Tuesday, Japan said it would buy 42 F-35s over the next decade, with the F-35B variant widely considered the likeliest candidate. It also plans over the same period to buy 105 F-35As, a variant of the advanced jet which performs conventional takeoffs and landings and cannot be used on the retrofitted destroyers. Local media have said the purchases could total more than one trillion yen ($8.8 billion). - Worries about China -
The new plans come after pledges from Japan to buy more US military equipment, under pressure from President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly complained about Washington’s huge trade deficit with Tokyo and also urged Abe to expand the country’s defensive capacity. Abe has aggressively expanded Japan’s alliance with the United States. He has campaigned for years to amend Japan’s pacifist constitution, arguing that it ties the hands of the country’s
The cars would have to be autonomous to work in the system but not Teslas specifically, and they would have to be electric because of the fumes from gas, Musk said. The demo rides were considerably slower — 40 mph (64 kph) — than what Musk says the future system will run at: 150 mph (241 kph). Still, it took only three minutes to go just over a mile from the beginning to the end of the tunnel, the same amount of time it took to accomplish a right-hand turn out of the parking lot and onto a surface street even before the height of Los Angeles’ notorious rush-hour traffic. Tuesday’s reveal comes almost two years to the day since Musk announced on Twitter that “traffic is driving me nuts” and he was “going to build a tunnel boring machine and just start digging.” “I am actually going to do this,” he added in response to initial skepticism. Soon after, he began The Boring Company, tongue in cheek intentional.
For the privately funded test tunnel, Musk acquired a tunnelboring machine that had been used in a San Francisco Bay Area project and put it down a shaft in a parking lot at the SpaceX headquarters. Musk dismissed concerns such as the noise and disruption of building the tunnels, saying that when workers bored through the end of the test tunnel the people in the home 20 feet (6 meters) away “didn’t even stop watching TV.” “The footsteps of someone walking past your house will be more noticeable than a tunnel being dug under your house,” he said, The Boring Company canceled its plans for another test tunnel on Los Angeles’ west side last month after a neighborhood coalition filed a lawsuit expressing concerns about traffic and disruptions from trucks hauling out dirt during the boring process. However, Steve Davis, head of The Boring Company, said the interest in the tunnel systems
Self-Defense Forces (SDF) even in protecting the country’s allies from attack. Government officials were at pains to make clear the policy did not represent a shift away from the country’s long-standing focus on defence. “The Izumo-class destroyers will continue to serve as multi-function, multi-purpose destroyers. This mode of operation falls within the realm of an exclusively defenceoriented policy,” Defence Minister Takeshi Iwaya told a regular briefing. The remodelled ships and new fighter jets will “increase operational flexibility” for Japan’s military as China boosts its naval footprint in southern waters that are home to several remote Japanese islands, a defence official said. “We have a very, very small SDF footprint” in the area between Okinawa and Taiwan, he added. But he said it was a “misunderstanding” to believe that the upgrades would create “full-fledged aircraft carriers” capable of staging offensive action in distant regions. And the new fighters would be stationed at existing ground facilities, not on the ships, he said. “We are not creating carrier air wings or carrier air squadrons” like the US navy, he added. “That’s not going to happen.” (afp)
has been significant — anywhere from five to 20 calls a week from various municipalities and stakeholders. One project Musk is planning on, known as the Dugout Loop, would take Los Angeles baseball fans to Dodger Stadium from one of three subway stations. Another would take travelers from downtown Chicago to O’Hare International Airport. Both projects are in the environmental review phase. Musk said he thinks the Chicago project has the most potential to open soonest and that he’s hoping an extensive network opens in Los Angeles before the city hosts the 2028 Olympics. “Wouldn’t it be incredible if you could travel around LA, New York, D.C., Chicago, Paris, London — anywhere — at 150 mph?” Musk said. “That’d be phenomenal.” Musk’s representatives also unveiled on Tuesday a new tunnelboring machine they say they hope to have online soon, one that can
bore four times faster than the one they’ve been using. Musk said it took about $10 million to build the test tunnel, a far cry from the $1 billion per mile his company says most tunnels take to build. Cost-cutting measures included improving the speed of construction with smarter tools, eliminating middlemen, building more powerful boring machines, and turning the dirt being excavated into bricks and selling them, Musk said. The tunnel will not be open to the public for the foreseeable future, Musk said, adding that regulations wouldn’t allow for it to open widely for demo rides just yet. Musk’s vision for the underground tunnels is not the same as another of his transportation concepts known as hyperloop. That would involve a network of nearly airless tubes that would speed special capsules over long distances at up to 750 mph (1,200 kph), using a thin cushion of air, magnetism and solar power. (ap)
The Boeing 737 MAX vanished from radar 13 minutes after taking off from Jakarta on October 29, crashing into waters off the north coast of Indonesia’s Java Island and killing all 189 people onboard. Authorities called off the grim task of identifying victims of the crash last month, with only 125 people officially identified after tests on human remains that filled some 200 body bags. Following requests from victims’ families, Lion said it had allocated 38 billion rupiah ($2.6 million) to hire a Dutch company to continue the search with its ship the MPV Everest. “The search operation will focus on the latest coordinates of the crash... with an operational time of 10 consecutive days in December,” the airline said in a statement. The MPV Everest, a 142-metre long vessel with stateof-the-art remotely operated vehicles, will arrive near the crash site on Wednesday. Bad weather had delayed its trip from the Malaysian port of Johor Baru. News that the hunt for the wreckage would continue with the new vessel was welcomed by Evi Syamsul Komar, whose nephew was aboard the flight. “We have heard many promises before, we don’t know who to trust anymore, but our family is still waiting,” Komar told AFP. Dozens of family members whose loved ones were killed in the crash protested in Jakarta last week, demanding the search continue. They called on authorities to help retrieve the remaining 64 bodies and pay compensation. Nearly 30 relatives of the crash victims have filed lawsuits against Boeing, alleging faults with the new model 737 MAX led to the deaths. The preliminary crash report from Indonesia’s transport safety agency suggested that pilots struggled to control the plane’s anti-stalling system immediately before the crash. Investigators also found that the Lion Air jet should have been grounded over a recurrent technical problem ADEK BERRY / AFP before its fatal journey, but did not pinpoint a cause of A man holds up an image of a victim from the crash of a Lion Air passsenger jet in late October during a for the accident. The planes cockpit voice recorder is yet to be found. A final report is not likely to be filed rally to demand that Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo continue search operations for the remains of the missing, outside the presidential palace in Jakarta on December 13, 2018. until next year.
Trial of Indonesian accused of Kim Jong Nam murder on hold
The trial of an Indonesian woman accused of assassinating the North Korean leader’s half-brother was put on hold Tuesday due to a row over witness statements, the latest delay in the case. Siti Aisyah from Indonesia and Doan Thi Huong from Vietnam have been on trial for over a year, accused of murdering Kim Jong Nam by smearing nerve agent VX on his face at Kuala Lumpur airport. The brazen assassination in February last year shocked the world but the women have denied murder, saying they believed they were taking part in a prank and were tricked by North Korean agents. The women, in their 20s, went on trial together in October 2017 but proceedings have moved slowly due to the large numbers of witnesses and the fact hearings are held
infrequently. The defence stage of Aisyah’s trial had originally been due to begin in November but was delayed to January after her main lawyer fell ill. And on Tuesday proceedings in Aisyah’s case were temporarily halted when the High Court refused to grant her lawyers access to some witness statements, and they decided to appeal. Huong’s trial is due to resume in March and the court will rule Friday whether it will go ahead, or be put on hold with Aisyah’s. The prosecution stage of the trial, during which the women appeared for hearings together, wrapped up in August. The defence parts of their trials will be held separately. Aisyah’s lawyer Gooi Soon Seng said the witness state-
ments were “essential” for the defence and he would appeal the ruling -- a process that could take months. “Without (the statements) there would be a real miscarriage of justice. It would compromise our case,” he told reporters at the court in Shah Alam, outside Kuala Lumpur. The seven statements are from witnesses including people who drove Kim Jong Nam around in Malaysia and acquaintances of Aisyah. Prosecutors have refused to hand them over, arguing they should not be made public. Under current laws, the women will be sentenced to death by hanging if convicted of murdering the estranged relative of the North’s leader, Kim Jong Un. Malaysia’s new government, which took power in May, has vowed to abolish capital punishment for all crimes, although parliament still needs to vote on the change. (afp)
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BUSINESS ‘Multiple’ offers for Engie’s stake in Glow
French energy giant Engie has received “multiple” offers to buy a stake in its subsidiary Glow, two months after Thailand’s energy regulator blocked its multi-billiondollar sale to state-owned PTT Group. Glow confirmed the offers on Tuesday in a letter to the president of the Stock Exchange of Thailand. Engie signed a deal with Thai group Global Power Synergy Public Company (GPSC) -- part of PTT -- in June to sell a 69.1 percent stake in Glow, an independent coal-powered energy producer. However, the sale -- worth an estimated $3 billion -was blocked by the Energy Regulatory Commission in October over worries the acquisition would create a monopoly within some industrial areas. An appeal by GPSC on the decision was dismissed last week. The confirmation from Glow comes after Thai business newspaper Krungthep Turakij reported that I Squared Capital, a US-based private equity firm founded by former Morgan Stanley executives, was looking to buy the stake. I Squared Capital did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The planned sale of Engie’s stake in Glow was a part of the French firm’s strategy to reduce its carbon footprint. Faced with the upheaval of the European energy sector, Engie had hoped to shift to renewable energy and energy services, which would have been regulated -- making it less susceptible to market shifts. The group has a sizeable presence in Southeast Asia via its stake in Glow, which operates in Thailand and Laos with 800 employees. (afp)
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Sun rays fall through the clouds over the banking district as a runner passes by in Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018.
Clouds grow over German economy after stocks hit bear market
BERLIN - Worries are growing about the strength of the German economy, Europe’s largest, after a key indicator suggested fears about trade wars and Brexit are hitting business activity and after the country’s main stocks index slid into a bear market. The Ifo Institute said Tuesday its business confidence index dropped to 101.0 points for December from 102.0 points in November as managers’ view of both their current circumstances and their prospects for the next six months fell. That’s the fourth drop in a row and the lowest reading in 27 months. Uncertainty over the economy is growing just as the European Central Bank last week confirmed it will end its 2.6 billion-euro ($3 billion) stimulus program conducted through bond purchases. The ECB says the economy is strong enough to halt the stimulus, but is keeping other support measures such as record low interest rates in place.
The ECB has indicated rates will not rise before fall 2019, and has indicated it could delay any first hikes in case of unexpected economic trouble. Germany’s economy shrank 0.2 percent in the third quarter and there are increasing worries about the effect of multiple issues, like Britain’s decision to leave the European Union and new tariffs from the U.S. administration of President Donald Trump. The third-quarter contraction was largely blamed on a one-time slump in car sales as Daimler and Volkswagen faced bottlenecks getting cars certified for new, tougher emissions standards. Economist Carsten Brzeski at
ING Germany said that “the German economy has entered a dangerous vicious circle of too many one-off factors, dwindling global growth and political risks finally leaving their mark.” That was despite continuing strong domestic demand from consumers, who are enjoying cheaper fuel prices and low unemployment. He wrote in an email that “that the risk of the unimaginable — a technical recession (two consecutive quarters with negative growth) — has increased.” Andrew Kenningham, chief global economist at Capital Economics, said there was “every reason” to expect growth to rebound in the last
three months of the year. “However, this survey adds to evidence that the slowdown in Germany, and the eurozone more widely, is more than just a soft patch.” Kenningham said risks were mounting to the firm’s forecast that growth would rebound to 1.8 percent next year from 1.5 percent this year. German’s DAX 30 stock index traded at 10,818 on Thursday, up 0.4 percent on the day. The index, which contains big corporate names such as Siemens, Deutsche Bank, Bayer, BASF, Adidas, ThyssenKrupp and BMW, entered bear market territory on Monday, defined as a decline of 20 percent or more from its January peak. The Ifo index is based on some 9,000 survey responses from firms in manufacturing, the service sector, trade and construction. (afp)
The Action of Bats Seduces Visitors at Tanah Lot
Apart from the beauty of sunset view, Tanah Lot also features another attraction showing off millions of fruit bats embellishing the sky over the exotic Tanah Lot. The nocturnal animals fly very beautifully, going here and there while looking for food and decorating the sky after the nightfall. This animal having the mouth like that of mouse can fly very fast while catching insects as the prey. The movement of foraging bats becomes a unique attraction favored by foreign tourists. The bats scattered in the sky after sunset become the target of camera shots of tourists.
They are even willing to postpone their time of departure from the object in order to watch the bats clustering at night. For tourists, the attraction is very attractive.
This animal becoming the identity of Batman superhero can indeed be found everywhere. However, the bats at Tanah Lot attraction indeed look beautiful. They are looking for
Keben or ritual basket craftsmen at Kukuh village, Marga, have innovation to make unique product compared to the common ones. If keben craftsmen in Bali mostly take advantage of the same raw material, those at Kukuh village should think twice to look for different things to make it look unique, and the usage of sea shells as decoration becomes the option. One of the craftsmen, Wayan Suryani, 46, stated that she has pursued the craft business with her sister since ten years ago. At that time, the craft used glass ornaments. However, since more and more craftsmen apply such glass decoration right now, she and her sister then tried new material namely sea shells.
However, to meet the shell raw material, it should be brought in from Java. The sea shell used for decoration is very difficult to find in Bali. So, she must bring in from Java. “The sea shell used for decoration is difficult to be found here in Bali,” she said. At least, there are six types of sea shells to be used as decoration. For once ordering sea shell, said Suryani, she usually requests 100 kilograms per type of the shell. The purchase of sea shell is made when receiving an order from consumers. “Our order is fluctuating. Sometimes there are a few pieces in a month and sometimes we get no order at all. So, the order of the shell is made if there are already
craft orders,” she added. Habitually, the keben crafts are ordered on average of 30 pieces. To accomplish the order, she should engage six craftsmen where one craftsman can produce two pieces of keben basket each day. The price offered for this shelldecorated craft varies based on the complexity of the design and the variety of sea shells in use. On average, the price is between IDR 200,000 and IDR 300,000. Other than fulfilling the demand of buyers in Bali, this shell-decorated handicraft also draws the interest of consumers from outside Bali. “Some buyers from Sulawesi also order my craft products,” concluded Suryani. (kmb)
fruits or flying insects. The bats live in the caves around the Tanah Lot Beach. Some others also live in the local leaves growing nearby. “The habit of foraging bats becomes a concern of tourists. Lately, their action is eagerly awaited by tourists to capture this natural moment,” said Made, a local security officer. Meanwhile, Jero Niti, Promotion Section Officer of the Tanah Lot At-
traction, said that lately the action of foraging bats looks very beautiful as natural tourist attraction. This attraction has been available from long time ago, but the number was not so much. “Lately, millions of bats appear and fly around the sky. Even though it looks vague because of approaching the night, tourists still want to wait for them,” she explained. (kmb)
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PLN returns to have disruption
Parliament proposes the Bali Crossing
DENPASAR - Deputy Manager of Communication and Community Development of PLN Bali Distribution, Nyoman Swiranata, stated there are no rotating blackouts at this time in Bali. Nevertheless, he admitted that some regions in Bali experienced blackouts on Sunday night (Dec. 16). This happened due to a disturbance that is currently being investigated.
“There was a decrease in energy supply when blackouts widely occurred yesterday (Sunday—Ed),” he confirmed on Monday (Dec. 17). According to Swiranata, there are several main substations whose supply has dropped. This caused blackouts such as in the Tabanan, Dalung, and Padangsambian areas. However, his management has tried to normalize again for 1.5 hours. “Now, the interference is still being investigated by colleagues from the transmission division,” he explained. When separately interviewed, Governor of Bali, Wayan Koster, stated the electricity capacity in Bali is actually sufficient and even more. The occurrence of blackouts is believed to happen due to technical problems, not due to lack of energy. “We have an energy capacity of 1,250 MW, while the maximum requirement is 850 MW. So, we still have a lot of reserves. There might be a disturbance, so it sparks the blackout. It is not because of the lack of energy produced by the generator,” he explained. Meanwhile, Chairman of the Commission III of the Bali House of Representatives, I Nengah Tamba, said the electricity must absolutely be available in Bali as a
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US President Donald Trump has ordered the creation of “Space Command”, a new organisational structure within the Pentagon that will have overall control of military space operations.
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Some regions in Bali experienced blackouts on Sunday night (Dec. 16). This happened due to a disturbance that is currently being investigated. world’s tourist destination. However, the existing energy must also be eco-friendly. On that account, he returned to propose the Java-Bali Crossing previously collided with Bhisama Pura or temple stipulation. Moreover, the budget for that has already been available. “We just need to define correctly about the meaning of holiness.
Regional Bylaw on Zoning has regulated and so has the bhisama, what’s more? Then, if Bali is said to be independent in the narrow sense, it means Bali must build a power plant. Where to get the money? Who builds it, it remains in rhetoric and is not even clean and green,” he said. Tamba added, the meaning of
independence is that Bali actually has adequate electricity. This can be fulfilled with the Bali Crossing project. The energy obtained is clean because there is no need to build a generator considering the plants tend to be polluting. For instance, the power plant in Celukan Bawang produces emissions from coal fuels with the impact of
environmental pollution. “This is clean electricity as only cables that pass (with Bali Crossing—Ed). We will also emphasize the revision of the Provincial Spatial Plan (RTRWP) in the Regional Bylaw,” explained the Deputy Chairman of the Special Committee for the Revision of the RTRWP Bali Regional Bylaw. (kmb32)
Governor prepares Bali Contemporary Arts Festival
China warns US against ‘weaponising’ space
BEIJING - China said Wednesday it opposed the “weaponisation” of space as it criticised US President Donald Trump’s orders to create a new command centre for controlling military space operations. “China has consistently proposed the peaceful usage of space, and opposes the weaponisation of space and a space arms race,” said Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying at a press briefing. “We oppose even further turning
space into the new battleground,” she added. On Tuesday, Trump ordered the creation of “Space Command”, a new organisational structure within the Pentagon that will have overall control of military space operations.
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according to the age, but according to its type namely traditional art and contemporary art,” he said on the sidelines of the submission of the Budgetary Implementation List (DIPA) of State Budget at Wiswasabha Utama of the Governor of Bali’s Office on Monday (Dec. 17). However, continued Koster, each event will also compete the arts according to age. There are competitions for children, teenagers, and adults. Moreover, in one event participants can join between teenagers and adults. “The name is
not specific like the Nawanatya or Bali Mandara Mahalango. However, the substance is entirely accommodated,” he explained. Especially for the Bali Contemporary Arts Festival, continued Koster, is scheduled to be held for two weeks in October because in June has been filled with the Bali Arts Festival (BAF). Meanwhile, the BAF itself has been considered to be very good. His team only needs to develop the contents. “Thus, in addition to containing the elements of conservation, it also contains advancement,” he added. (kmb32)
In June, Trump said he wanted to create “Space Force”, an entirely new branch of the military, alongside the Navy, Marine Corps, Army, Air Force and Coast Guard. He insists such a move is necessary to tackle vulnerabilities in space and assert US dominance in orbit. But its creation is not a done deal, as it needs to be approved by Congress, and the concept has met with some scepticism from
lawmakers and defence officials wary of the cost and added bureaucracy. China has also bolstered its space capabilities in recent years. Earlier this month, the country launched a rover heading to the far side of the moon, a global first that could boost Beijing’s ambitions to become a space superpower. In 2013, China landed its first probe on the moon, Yutu or “Jade Rabbit”. (afp)
S.Korean grain silo transforms into world’s largest mural
To replace Mahalango and Nawanatya DENPASAR - The event for Balinese artistic creativities like the Mandara Mahalango and Bali Mandara Nawanatya are immediately replaced with other events. For that purpose, Governor of Bali, Wayan Koster, has designed two types of art events, namely for traditional arts accommodated through the Bali Arts Festival and contemporary art event being discussed by the governor’s team. “Regarding the name, it’s approximately the Bali Contemporary Art Festival (Festival Seni Bali Jani). So, the art is not grouped
SpaceCom, as it will inevitably come to be known, will be on equal footing with other US military commands, such as Central Command in the Middle East or IndoPacific Command in Asia, and will require a new headquarters as well as a commander and deputy commander who will need Senate approval. It is not the first military space entity proposed by the US president this year.
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A mural listed by the Guinness World Records as the largest in the world is displayed on a grain silo in Incheon port, west of Seoul on December 19, 2018.
INCHEON - A dreary grain silo that was transformed into an enormous colourful artwork in South Korea has been named by Guinness World Records as the largest outdoor mural in the world. The painting which depicts a young boy’s journey into adulthood covers the outside of giant storage containers in the port city of Incheon, west of Seoul, taking up 23,688 square meters.
The mural was commissioned by the city’s government and port authority as part of efforts to improve the negative view of aged industrial facilities, an idea which originated from the community art projects of the 1920s that swept the United States and Mexico, according to the South’s Yonhap news agency. Twenty-two artists used more than 850,000 litres of paint to tell the story which reflects the seasons
and resembles 16 individual book covers, at a cost of 550 million won (US$487,000). It topples the previous record holder by a significant margin -- the Pueblo Levee Project in Pueblo, in the US state of Colorado, at 16,554 square meters. Government and port officials also hope the mural will give a boost to tourism on Wolmi Island, one of the top tourist spots near Incheon. (afp)
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A person smokes an e-cigarette in Brooklyn on July 8, 2018.
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Huge spike in teen vaping: Many think it’s ‘just flavor’
MICHIGAN - A new study released Monday confirms a giant spike in the number of high school students who are vaping, and it finds many may not realize they’re almost certainly inhaling highly addictive nicotine. The annual survey of substance use among high school students shows 37 percent of seniors have tried vaping, up from just under 28 percent in 2017. Nearly 21 percent of seniors said they had recently vaped in 2018, compared to 11 percent in 2017. The findings are similar to startling figures released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month, which found a 78 percent increase in e-cigarette use by teens in just a year. The increase was so worrying that the Food and Drug Administration announced a series of actions aimed at cutting underage access to vape products. “The most surprising news to me was how frequently teenagers are vaping,” Dr. Wilson Compton, deputy director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which commissioned the survey, told NBC News. “Right now over one-third of high school seniors report using a vaping product.” The latest survey indicates that students may not realize they’re using an addictive substance. More than 25 percent claimed they vaped “just flavoring” in the past year, up from 20.6 percent in 2017. But Compton said students may not really be checking. Most vaping products contain nicotine and Juul, by far the most popular e-cigarettes product, does not offer nicotine-free flavors. “The kids are telling us they’re just using flavorings, but they may not know,” Compton told NBC News. Other studies have shown people claim to be using nicotine-free
products when in fact they are not. “So we’re not so sure that when they say they’re just using flavorings that they really know what’s in them,” Compton said. Several studies have shown that teens who use e-cigarettes are more likely to also smoke what’s now called combustible tobacco — old-fashioned cigarettes. And there is a growing body of evidence that these are not simply kids who are vaping instead of smoking. Surveys indicate many kids move back and forth between vaping and smoking. “One of the biggest risks that we do know is that when kids start with vaping, they are more likely to make the transition to combustible, to smoked cigarettes. So that’s really what has all of us concerned. We know the dangers from smoked, combustible tobacco,” Compton said. “Anything that increases the likelihood of making that transition is of great concern.” Experts worry that the high nicotine content of vape products may be addicting a new generation of tobacco users. When the researchers added together vapers and smokers, they found nicotine use rose by 5.2 percentage points, from just under 24 percent to just under 29 percent of 12th graders “These results indicate that the policies in place as of the 2017-2018 school year were not sufficient to stop the spread of nicotine vaping among adolescents,” the team led by Richard
Miech of the University of Michigan wrote in a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, released along with the report. There’s good news in the annual Monitoring the Future survey, which the University of Michigan conducts every year on NIDA’s behalf. This year, 44,482 students from 392 public and private schools took part. Only 3.6 percent of high school seniors reported they smoke cigarettes daily, compared to 22.4 percent 20 years ago. Fewer students are using opioids, also — a direct contrast to the rest of the population. Misuse of opioids and opioid deaths have reached record numbers among adults aged 21 to 65. “Just a few years ago, we saw that over 10 percent of high school seniors reported using Vicodin in any given year. That means one in 10 high school seniors was using these dangerous prescription opioid medications,” Compton said. “Right now the number is more like 1.7 percent.” Less than half of one percent of 12th graders said they used heroin. “With illicit opioid use at generally the lowest in the history of the survey, it is possible that being in high school offers a protective effect against opioid misuse and addiction,” said NIDA director Dr. Nora Volkow. “We will be focusing much of our new prevention research on the period of time when teens transition out of school into the adult world and become exposed to the dangerous use of these drugs.” (net)
CALIFORNIA - Stanford researchers warn that the number of animal bites is likely to rise amid climate change and developmental pressures. Rising temperatures are already exposing people in temperate climates to more mosquitoes and ticks, and developmental sprawl is reducing the amount of land available exclusively to animals. “As available habitat for these animals increasingly overlaps with human development and recreational activities,” the researchers wrote in a BMJ news release, “it is expected encounters with animals may increase and could result in increased animal-related injuries.” Dr. Joseph Forrester, the lead researcher of a study published Tuesday in the online BMJ journal Trauma Surgery and Acute Care Open, added, “We’ve already seen that with tick populations and mosquito populations. We would anticipate over time more people in traditionally temperate climates will be exposed.” If this prediction holds, it will add to the enormous health care costs that already exist. Currently, U.S. health care costs for animal-related injuries exceed $1 billion every year, according to the study. This estimate excludes doctors’ fees, outpatient clinic charges, lost productivity and the costs of rehabilitation, so the actual costs may be higher. The study also found that the patients most likely to be injured by bites from venomous snakes, spiders and insects were in the lowest 25 percent of household income for their ZIP code. This poses a major public health problem in children and adults. Animal bites are most common among people living in rural, resource-poor settings, who subsist on low-cost, non-mechanical farming and other field occupations. Adult victims are often the wage earners or care providers of the family unit,
and child victims can suffer lifelong disabilities, intensifying demands on families and communities. The health impacts of animal bites depend on the type and health of the animal species, the size and health of the bitten person, and accessibility to appropriate health care. Numerous animal species have the potential to bite humans; however, the most important are those arising from snakes, dogs, cats and monkeys. “Dog and cat bites are some of the more frequent injuries we see,” said Dr. John Torres, emergency medicine doctor and NBC News health correspondent. “Dog bites tend to be on the hands, arms and face, while cat bites are mostly seen on the hands and lower arm areas. Of the two, cat bites are more worrisome because cats have very sharp teeth that can penetrate deep into the tissue. This pushes the bacteria they have in their mouth deep into the wound and can infect the tendons, which cause it to spread more rapidly.” Most animal bites, except any bite on the face, can be treated outside the hospital. In fact, the report found that of all emergency room visits reviewed, only 3 percent of patients were admitted to the hospital, with bites from insects and spiders accounting for a quarter of these admissions. “Most dog bites, if small, can be treated at home with careful attention paid to any signs of infection, like redness around the wound or pus,” said Torres. “With both cat and dog bites if the wound is large enough to need sutures and we believe there’s a chance of a bacterial infection developing, we’ll wait between 48 to 72 hours to suture the wound shut, meaning a second visit to the ER or urgent care, although facial wounds and disfiguring wounds are usually sutured immediately.” Closing a potentially infected wound too early can seal in the bacteria, causing an abscess to form. (net)
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Roof of temporary shelter leaks
Classroom activities disrupted when it rains
AMLAPURA — Classroom activities in SD Negeri 1 Tiying Tali elementary school, Abang, are hampered when it rains. It happens because the temporary shelter used as the students’ classroom after the earthquake in Lombok at some points suffered a leak and wet the classroom.
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To ensure proper consumption, pig’s health examined MANGUPURA — Supervision against pig slaughter ahead of the celebration of Galungan and Kuningan holidays in Badung district is tightened. It is meant to respond to condition that a lot of slaughter is done personally or in groups. Local government through the Agriculture and Food Agency has taken quick measure to anticipate the feasibility of meat consumed by the community by deploying special officers to conduct a health check for pigs before being slaughtered. “We establish a special team to carry out health checks on pork in abattoirs and carried out in markets and hamlets,” said Acting Head of the Badung Agriculture and Food Agency, I Putu Oka Swadiana, on Sunday (Dec. 16). According to him, health check is meant to ensure that pork is worth consuming by the public. Moreover, ahead of Galungan and Kuningan holidays, public demand for meat increases. “We involve district technical officers and independent veterinarians in Badung district, assisted by approximately 100 students from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Udayana University. Briefing for students
will be held on December 21, 2018,” he explained. Not much different from the examination of cattle during the Eid al-Adha Day, Swandiana said the inspection of pork will be carried out in two stages. Firstly, it will be examined in ante-mortem (before slaughter) and postmortem (after slaughter). This examination is to ensure the pork is appropriate for consumption. “According to a predetermined schedule, ante-mortem examination will be conducted on Sunday (Dec. 23). Meanwhile, postmortem checks will be conducted the day after. The budget for conducting this examination is IDR 20 million,” he said. He explained the number of pigs to be slaughtered before the Galungan and Kuningan has not yet been confined. However, when compared to the Galungan and Kuningan holidays six months ago, apparently it is not much different. “On Galungan and Kuningan six months ago, the number of pig slaughter reached 2,112 heads,” he said while mentioning the price of pork or the average price of pork in the market is IDR 55,000 to IDR 70,000 per kilogram. Meanwhile, the price at the level of breeders is around IDR 36,000-IDR 38,000. (kmb27)
Principal of the SDN 1 Tiying Tali, Sang Putu Swandiyasa, explained that all this time the temporary classroom leaks after being flushed by rain tending to continue lately. The most severe condition is the classroom occupied by third grade students. Much water gets into the classroom because the leakage is quite large. “For other classrooms, the roofs remain safe, only a few have leaked roofs. Teaching and learning activities before the holiday period are still ongoing, although there are obstacles. Sometimes, a number of students complain. This problem will soon be handled by the school,” he said. Swandiyasa explained that stu-
dents of SDN 1 Tiying Tali study in the temporary classroom because its original one is badly damaged after the earthquake’s strike last month. The roof collapsed, and the wall cracked. Students had learned in the tent and in open space around the school before building the temporary classroom. This man from Abang stated that from the second semester, some students will be removed to some classrooms after having been repaired like the third, fourth, fifth and sixth grade. Meanwhile, the first and second grade students are likely to still study in the temporary shelter until their classrooms have been completely repaired. “Now,
the students have entered semester holiday period. Maybe starting in the second semester, they will be moved after the room is ritually inaugurated. The repaired classrooms belong to the third, fourth, fifth and sixth grade and libraries and toilets. First and second grade students will be still studying in the temporary shelter,” he explained. For this condition, he hoped that local government of Karangasem will immediately budget for repairs to the class room of first and second grade students as well as teacher’s rooms to facilitate teaching and learning activities. “It is said to be budgeted next year. However, there is no certainty,” he said. (kmb41)
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The officers are cleaning the garbage on Kuta Beach
DLHK Badung cleans up hundreds of tons of marine debris
MANGUPURA - Entering the west wind season, the Kuta Beach area and its surroundings begin to be invaded by marine debris. This condition has occurred since the past two weeks. According to the Head of the Badung Environment and Sanitation Agency (LHK), Putu Eka Merthawan, for the past two weeks, a total of 50 trucks of garbage have been transported from 10 stop over (STO) points
or temporary trash shelters until Tuesday (Dec. 18), being equivalent to 110 tons. Of the whole marine debris, almost 90 percent is organic waste, namely in the form of trees and twigs, while the remaining 10 percent is plastic waste. “The total waste cleaned up reached 110 tons. Tree trunk and branch waste will be taken to laundry business as well as brick and tile companies. Meanwhile, the residue will be taken to the Suwung landfill,” he said when contacted on
Tuesday (Dec. 18). To deal with this waste problem, the DLHK Badung deployed hundreds of quick response unit (URC) personnel and provided 10 STOs. He said that a number of beaches visited by many tourists such as Kuta Beach, Legian Beach, Seminyak Beach, Berawa Beach, and others are still besieged by marine debris every day. The garbage will certainly become a spectacle disrupting the beauty of the beach. (kmb23)
JBT prepares mobile reader to anticipate X-mas and New Year holidays
MANGUPURA - Christmas and New Year holidays are estimated to have a surge in vehicles crossing the Bali Mandara toll road. The surge is estimated to reach 25 percent or as many as 50,000 vehicles per day. Public Relations Officer of Jasamarga Bali Toll (JBT), Putu Gandhi Ginatra, stated the number is more than 40,000 vehicles per day on usual days. To anticipate long queue or buildup of vehicles at the toll gates, the JBT will prepare a mobile payment device that will make easier for road users when doing toll payment. “This portable electronic money reader will be used to speed up transactions,” he said.
He said that two to three mobile readers will be prepared at each gate. Meanwhile, regarding the officers, special preparations will be made to be in charge during the holidays. His management will prepare a special taskforce during Christmas and New Year holidays. Nevertheless, road users going through the toll road are expected to always prepare toll cards to avoid queuing. In addition, road users are expected to pay attention to their toll card balances. “We urge to always pay attention to the toll card in order to avoid queues,” he hoped. As an appreciation to road users, JBT held a lottery in a series of welcoming Christmas and the
New Year. Gandhi added it is an expression of gratitude of JBT to customers because they already believe in using the toll road. This is expected to arouse the interest of road users to continuously use the toll road. He explained the process to get involved in the drawing is just by coming into the toll road through any gate after making transaction. Then, take the receipt of transaction. After writing down the name and telephone number on the receipt, submit it to the Benoa drive through. “The valid coupon is dated on December 14-30. Then, the drawing will be held on December 31,” he said. (kmb23)
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THE INDONESIAN HERITAGE ART OF BATIK
The technique of decorating cloth using wax and dye, is an ancient Indonesian art form, declared by UNESCO in 2009 as an ‘Intangible Heritage of Humanity’. The island of Java and in particular the royal court cities of Yogyakarta and Solo are renowned for batik; the name comes from an old Javanese word meaning “to dot” or “to stipple”. In fact, one of the reasons why Java became famous for this method of dyeing is because all of the raw materials for the process were always readily available – cotton and beeswax and the many plants, such as indigo, soga and morinda citrifolia, from which the natural dyes are made. Batik textiles also became a major commercial industry in Bali, with the cloth varying enormously in artistry, elaboration, quality, and cost.
Batik designs are created by covering part of the fabric with wax and dyeing it. The dye doesn’t penetrate the wax, which is then melted away, before being repeated to leave behind intricate multicoloured patterns. Motifs drawn with a ‘canting’ or wax-filled pen are called ‘batik tulis’. Using this method, the design is traced onto a prepared cloth and the pattern is then drawn with wax. The wax is kept on the areas that have already been dyed to protect them from more dye. The repetition process uses progressively darker shades of dye until the desired motifs and colours are produced. The wax can also be applied with a copper stamp, known as a ‘cap’ (pronounced chap). If a marble effect is desired, the wax is deliberately cracked before being placed in the dye bath. The dye seeps
into the tiny cracks, which create the fine lines that are characteristic of batik. Natural fabrics such as densely woven cotton or silk are selected for the cloth, so that it can absorb the wax during the dye resisting process. The wide range of motifs is handed down within families for generations, thus intertwining the symbolic meanings of the craft’s colours and designs with the cultural identity of the Indonesian people. The diversity of the patterns reflects a variety of European, Arabic, Persian, Indian, Chinese and Japanese influences. Modern motifs used in the fashion industry feature striking images of flowers, birds, lizards and fish, for example, together with numerous mottled patterns reminiscent of smoke, water, soda bubbles,
leather, snakeskin and other animal skins, such as leopard and zebra. Nowadays, batik art is no longer dependent on natural, traditional dyes, which were primarily beige, blue, dark red, brown and black, Instead, chemical dyes are used to produce the required bright colours. However, modern batik still utilises the traditional canting and cap tools to create intricate designs. At InterContinental Bali Resort, batik is the inspiration for the fullwall murals in the newly-renovated Singaraja guestrooms, each of which has been hand-painted by a Balinese artisan. Here, the muted sand-coloured wall patterns were influenced by the ‘parang’, a Javanese batik design that was once used exclusively by the royal courts of Central Java. This classic motif comprises slanting
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rows of thick knife-like segments running in parallel diagonal bands, some of which contain another design element, a line of lozengeshaped motifs called ‘mlinjon’. Parang is traditionally dyed ‘soga’ brown, a colour that ranges from pale yellow to dark chocolate, using a pigment that comes from the bark of the soga or yellow flame tree, a native of Southeast Asia. There are many variations of the basic striped pattern of the parang, with more than 40 parang designs recorded. One of the joys of visiting Bali is the opportunity to purchase some beautiful batik soft furnishings for your own home, everything from cushion covers to curtains, tablecloths to bedspreads, in customised colours ready to use in your interior decoration projects.
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Nigella Lawson: Don’t airbrush my ‘sticking out stomach’
Lawson wrote: “I’ve had to tell American TV stations not to airbrush my sticking out stomach. “The hatred of fat, and assumption that we’d all be grateful to be airbrushed thinner is pernicious.” The British chef was applauded for her stance by social media users, with one saying: “I cannot for the life of me fathom anyone ever wanting to airbrush Nigella!” Will Paul added: “British television has real people on it. US television is fake. All the power to you Ms Lawson. You are the real deal.” Lawson was responding to a tweet by presenter and actor Jameela Jamil, who was criticising an Irish columnist for attacking her for calling for an end to airbrushing women in the public eye. Jamil, who is starring in US TV series The Good Place, said: “For the last time, airbrushing is used as a tool for ethnicity erasure, colourism, ageism, fat-phobia, ableism, racism and sexism. “It’s there to make you hate your real face and body. It made me hate my face, my body and my ethnicity for the longest time as a young woman.” Lawson has been fighting a photoshop battle against US networks for more than half a decade, after she starred alongside Anthony Bourdain in the reality cooking show, The Taste. After finding out US marketing directors in 2013 were planning to airbrush her, she said: “No, you can’t airbrush it. No. Leave it in.” (net)
NEW YORK - Robbie Williams has been revealed as a brand ambassador for WW, formerly known as Weight Watchers, alongside Oprah Winfrey and Kate Hudson. The X Factor judge will use his personal weight journey to encourage others to be healthier in 2019. He is one of several ambassadors in the Every Body Matters campaign. Weight Watchers rebranded as WW, dropping the ‘Weight’ reference, in September and now aims to focus on wellness and health. Williams will be sharing his “wellness journey” on social media, using the hashtag #MyWhy. He said: “WW is the first programme that truly feels like it fits with my life. “After my back injury last year, I definitely let my healthy habits slip and I felt as though I let myself and my family down. “I can’t keep trying the same things and hoping for a different outcome. “I trust the history of behaviour science that WW has, and I’m proud to be a new ambassador. Hopefully, others will benefit from my experience.” The campaign is “based on the insight that everyone has their own reason to get healthy and what makes the most meaningful impact along the journey is everything you gain”, WW said. Williams has previously spoken about his battle with his weight and poked fun at himself on his 2013 album with a song called No One Likes A Fat Pop Star. (net)
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LOS ANGELES - Nigella Lawson has revealed she has had to tell US TV stations to not airbush her “sticking out” stomach. The best-selling chef, 58, accused them of hating fat and said it was “pernicious” to assume everyone will be “grateful to be airbrushed thinner”.
Robbie Williams ‘proud’ to be new Weight Watchers ambassador
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Elon Musk, co-founder and chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., arrives in a modified Tesla Model X electric vehicle during an unveiling event for the Boring Company Hawthorne test tunnel in Hawthorne, Calif., on Tuesday, Dec. 18,
Elon Musk unveils underground tunnel, offers rides to VIPs
LOS ANGELES - Elon Musk unveiled his underground transportation tunnel on Tuesday, allowing reporters and invited guests to take some of the first rides in the revolutionary albeit bumpy subterranean tube — the tech entrepreneur’s answer to what he calls “soul-destroying traffic.” Guests boarded Musk’s Tesla Model S and rode along Los Angeles-area surface streets about a mile away to what’s known as O’Leary Station. The station, smack dab in the middle of a residential neighborhood — “basically in someone’s backyard,” Musk says — consists of a wall-less elevator that slowly took the car down a wide shaft, roughly 30 feet (9 meters) below the surface. The sky slowly fell away and the surprisingly narrow tunnel emerged. “We’re clear,” said the driver, who sped up and zipped into the tunnel when a red track light turned green, making the tube look like something from space or a dance club.
The car jostled significantly during the ride, which was bumpy enough to give one reporter motion sickness while another yelled, “Woo!” Musk described his first ride as “epic.” “For me it was a eureka moment,” he told a room full of reporters. “I was like, ‘This thing is going to damn well work.’” He said the rides are bumpy now because “we kind of ran out of time” and there were some problems with the speed of his paving machine. “It’ll be smooth as glass,” he said of future systems. “This is just a prototype. That’s why it’s a little rough around the edges.” Later in the day, Musk emerged from the tunnel himself inside one
of his cars. He high-fived guests and pumped his fists in the air before delivering a speech in the green glow of the tunnel about the technology and why it makes sense. “Traffic is soul-destroying. It’s like acid on the soul,” he said to guests who snacked on marshmallow treats and hot dogs and hoped for a turn in the tunnel. Continued to page 6 News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http:// radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.