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Monday, January 28, 2013

‘Fruitvale,’ ‘Blood Brother’ win Sundance Awards

The dramatic film “Fruitvale” and the documentary “Blood Brother” won over audiences and Sundance Film Festival judges. Both American films won audience awards and grand jury prizes Saturday at the Sundance Awards.

“Fruitvale” is based on the true story of Oscar Grant, who was 22 years old when he was shot and killed in a public transit station in Oakland, California. First-time filmmaker Ryan Coogler wrote and directed the dramatic narrative.

“This project was about humanity, about human beings and how we treat each other; how we treat the people that we love the most, and how we treat the people that we don’t know,” the 26-year-old said as he accepted the final prize of the night. “To get this award means that it had a profound impact on the audience that saw it, on the people that were responsible for picking it up.

And this goes back to my home, to the Bay Area, where Oscar Grant lived, breathed, slept, loved, fought, had fun, and survived for 22 years.”

Fox Searchlight founder and Sundance juror

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Tom Rothman said “Fruitvale” was recognized for “its skillful realization, its devastating emotional impact and its moral and social urgency — and for anyone out there who thinks for one second that movies don’t matter and can’t make a difference in the world.

“This will not be the last time you guys walk to a podium,” he added. The U.S. documentary winner, “Blood Brother” follows a young American, Rocky Braat, who moved to India to work with orphans infected with HIV. “This means so much to so many kids,” director Steve Hoover said as he accepted the award. The Cambodian film “A River Changes Course” won the grand jury prize for international documentary, and a narrative film from South Korea, “Jiseul,” claimed the grand jury prize for dramatic world cinema.

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Five cruise ship stop in Bali Antara

DENPASAR - PT Pelabuhan Indonesia III, a state-owned harbor regulator, has stated that five cruise ships have stopped by in Benoa Harbour, Bali, so far this month.

“Those ships brought thousands of tourists to Bali. The latest one was Costa Neo Romantica Cruise, which stopped by here on Wednesday (January 23),” PT Pelabuhan Indonesia III Benoa Harbour general manager Iwan Sabatini said.

“About 800 tourists aboard the Costa

Neo Romantica Cruise, who were travelling from Australia to Singapore, stopped by at Bali,” he continued.

“During their one-night stay in Bali, they visited some popular tourist spots, such as Kuta Beach. They also also enjoyed a Kecak Dance performance before moving

on to Singapore,” Sabatini noted.

Several days before the arrival of Costa Neo Romantica, he said, the Azamara Journey Cruise brought 350 foreign tourists to Bali. “They visited Buleleng, Bali and Komodo Island in East Nusa Tenggara,” Sabatini added.

Host Joseph Gordon-Levitt speaks during the 2013 Sundance Film Festival Awards Ceremony on Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013 in Park City, Utah.

Celebs now fashionable targets in hoax 911 calls

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Celebrities have long contended with the occasional downsides of stardom — tabloid scandals, stalkers, box office bombs, the paparazzi. Now, add “swatting” to the list — a prank that sends police charging to the gates of stars’ homes on false reports of gunmen, hostages or other crimes in progress.

Instead of bad guys, responding officers, police dogs, helicopters and sometimes SWAT teams have found only stunned domestic and security staff unaware of any trouble — because there wasn’t any.

The recent hoax 911 calls to the homes of Tom Cruise, Justin Bieber, Ashton Kutcher, Chris Brown and other stars are leading authorities to eye some 911 calls with extra suspicion and lawmakers to call for stiffer penalties for the pranksters.

“This is a very vexing problem that needs to be fixed at the early stages,” said California State Sen. Ted Lieu, who is proposing tough consequences, including hefty fines, for those caught swatting.

“If this isn’t resolved, this will result in a tragic situation.”

Swatting is the rare trend that actually didn’t start in Hollywood. Authorities in Dallas, Washington state, Alabama and elsewhere have arrested teens and young men for bogus 911 calls that have drawn large police responses and in some

cases, resulted in innocent people being detained by police.

The term comes from the pranksters’ desire to have heavily armed special weapons teams dispatched to their calls.

That doesn’t always happen, but the calls tie up resources ranging from dispatchers, patrol officers, helicopters, detectives and cyber-crime specialists.

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FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2013 file photo, US actor Tom Cruise poses for photographers during a news conference of his film “Jack Reacher” in Tokyo.

The Beverly Hills Police Department estimated more than half of its emergency resources were occupied with the Cruise swatting call on Jan. 17. It was just one of a rash of calls aimed at celebrities over the next several days, including a false claim there was a domestic violence incident at Brown’s home.

“We’re getting much better at deciphering what is real and what is not,” said Steve Whitmore, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. The agency has handled calls at Bieber’s home and a former Kardashian family home. Patrol units will check out every call but will hold off calling in the big guns until signs of an actual crime emerge, he said.

Authorities in the Los Angeles area are concerned that the high-profile calls against stars are inspiring copycats who perhaps notice the immediate attention swatting incidents command on tabloid news sites.

Los Angeles police Cmdr. Andrew Smith said the department has seen an increase in the number of swatting calls since last year, when stars such as Kutcher, Bieber and Cyrus were targeted.

“People are jumping on the bandwagon thinking it’s funny or a clever or interesting,” Smith said. The calls aren’t just tying up patrol officers, but also investigators probing the pranks who could be assigned to larger crimes.

About 800 tourists aboard the Costa Neo Romantica Cruise, who were travelling from Australia to Singapore, stopped by at Bali.

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Monday, January 28, 2013

Bali News Power tariff goes up

Bali silversmiths increasingly wedged

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Balinese people praying during Tumpek Landep celebration that falled on Saturday, January 26, 2013.

Tumpek Landep, weapons consecrated Bali Post

TABANAN - A series of Tumpek Landep celebration on Saturday (Jan 26), all the weapons and vehicles belonging to Tabanan Police were consecrated. They ranged from pistols, rifles to official vehicles and patrol. The ceremony was officiated over by local priest. A number of weapons were taken out from warehouse and then put in a row neatly near the offerings.

The ceremony was concluded with a joint worship followed by police personnel. They said prayers right in front of the row of weapons and vehicles consecrated. Most of them put on prayer clothes, while some others were still in uniform. They mingled to say pray together.

Deputy Chief of Tabanan Police, IGA Sasih, explained that Tumpek Landep was still in the series of Pagerwesi day. She said the weapon exorcism rite was an expression of gratitude and prayers to Lord Pasupati. Hopefully, all the members could be endowed with safety when using weapons or the official vehicles.

“This ceremony is to invoke safety to Lord Pasupati. In essence, the equipment of Tabanan Police can be used properly,” he said.

Meanwhile, in Semarapura, dozens of weapons in Semarajaya Museum, Klungkung, denoting a heritage object of the Klungkung kingdom were given ritual. The Head of Klungkung Culture and Tourism Agency, Wayan Sujana, said that dozens of weapons belonging to Klungkung kingdom in the Semarajaya Museum like spear, dagger and chisel were first consecrated in the celebration of Tumpek Landep as a purificatory measure to the heritage objects in the museum. “As planned, we will organize similar ceremony every Tumpek Landep in the Semarajaya Museum,” said Wayan Sujana.

Semarajaya Museum was inaugurated by the Minister of Home Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia on April 28, 1992 in conjunction with the inauguration of the

Puputan Klungkung Monument.

Semarajaya Museum located in the west of Kertha Gosa tourist attraction was frequently visited by foreign tourists. It had five rooms, including the art space featuring a variety of paintings, traditional tools such as sugar molds, looms, traditional salt maker and others.

Then, there is historic and prehistoric room storing the royal relics such palanquin, furniture used in the customary judicial proceedings, spear, dagger, chisel and stone parapet of royal throne. The three rooms also feature photographs of the royal relatives and descendants at the time of Ida I Dewa Agung Jambe, the founder of the Klungkung kingdom in 1686. Meanwhile, two other rooms are painting room created by an Italian painter, Emilio Ambron. (kmb30/31)

DENPASAR - Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) as well as silversmiths in Bali are at risk of going into a slump as a result of the increase in power tariff (TDL). The increase in price of raw materials is the most feared by crafters.

With the rising price of raw materials, the production cost of silverworks also increasingly shoots up, while crafters cannot raise the price to customers.

Chairman of the Bali Silver Association, Nyoman Mudita, doubling as the owner of I Nyoman Mudita Gold & Silver Jewelry, said that prior to the increase in power tariff, conditions of the Bali silversmiths began to be marginalized with the advent of silver entrepreneurs from other countries. He admitted such condition was triggered by the weakness in capital owned by crafters.

Even, 70 percent of silversmiths in Bali were predicted to face this problem.

“It must be recognized that silversmiths begin to get shifted by foreign businessmen and automatically the value of silverwork export also declines because many are taken over by them. Now, the entrepreneurs and silversmiths are faced again with the rising power tariff. Of course, it makes local craftsmen increasingly powerless,” he explained.

To that end, he appealed to all employers and silversmiths in Bali to jointly figure out how to make the silver business survive in the international market. “The Bali silverworks have been known inter-

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nationally. But in terms of skills, it still requires accuracy and innovation in order to compete against foreign businessmen due to tighter competition,” he said.

He affirmed that Bali crafters had great potential to develop. It occurred because Bali crafters had the artistic power that could be expressed in the form of unique design as well as high value. The paradigm that Bali silverworks determined their competitiveness in the world market should increasingly be brought to surface. Therefore, no crafters would feel self-minded.

“Buyers and lovers of silverwork around the globe commonly making transaction in billions of dollars will no longer see how many grams of contained therein. However, they will consider the artistic elements. So, crafters should have self-confidence in what they have been realized through incomparable designs and motif in any country. Such motivation should further strengthen them to exist in the silver business,” he said.

According to him, the Bali silverworks had been well known since the 1980s in international scene, both in terms of quality and design. However, it underwent sluggishness due to financial constraint, the development of information technology and transport (congestion) in Bali. “Currently, only about 300 silversmiths remain to survive in Bali, while some others have switched professions,” he said. (kmb28)

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Award-winning Balinese Chef appointed at Courtyard

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Born and raised in North Bali and praised internationally, a chef who has prepared meals on land, sea and air and won one of the culinary world’s most prestigious honors, Wayan Wicaya has been named Executive Chef at the Courtyard by Marriott Bali Nusa Dua. He comes to the up-market tourism enclave with more than two decades in Bali’s finest kitchens and aboard America’s premier family cruise line as well as one of Indonesia’s finest in-flight catering services, before winning the Global Chefs Challenge, a competition between chefs from 88 countries, sponsored by the World Association of Chefs.

“Chef Wayan is quite literally a ‘winner,’” said Courtyard by Marriott General Manager, Jeffrey Tyler. “Here’s a fellow who not only brings Balinese grace to the role but also real international cooking accolades. We are absolutely fortunate to have a chef of this calibre heading our kitchens.” Before accepting the role, Chef Wayan worked with fellow chef, Andrew Skinner at Bvlgari Bali, a 59villa resort located in the Bukit Peninsula. Bvlgari Hotels & Resorts is developed in partnership with jeweler and luxury goods designer Bvlgari Spa and currently features two properties located in Milan and Bali with demanding food and service standards.

“To win the Global Chef Challenge is amazing and a confirmation of how far Indonesia has come in develop-

ing local chefs to international standards,” said Darren Lauder, the Vice-President of Bali Culinary Professionals, at the time of the chef’s victory in January 2010. Six months later he was named “Chef of the Year” by The Yak, Bali’s acclaimed, trend-setting magazine showcasing the colorful personalities behind Bali’s design, fashion and culinary industries. “Here’s a guy who deserves every morsel of recognition,” said Editor Nigel Simmonds. A master of multiple cuisines, Chef Wayan rode a wave of popularity taking on the position as Sous Chef at Ku De Ta, lauded as the island’s most successful independent restaurants located beachside in the fashionable district of Seminyak and Chef de Partie at the luxury boutique The Balé resort.

Calendar Event for January 27 through February 27, 2013 27 Jan Redite Umanis Ukir Sanggah Gede Dukuh Segening Tegal Tugu Gianyar 30 Jan Buda Cameng Ukir Pura Pejenengan Kawitan Arya Tauman Banjar Jelantik Kuri Batu Desa Tojan Gelgel Klungkung Pura Pasar Agung Besakih (Alit) Besakih Pura Pasek bendesa Pasar Badung Legian Kuta Pura Gede Gunugn Agung Dukuh Munggu Badung Hyang Agung Pura Ibuwanasari Tegal Pura Puseh, Desa di Bebablang Bangli Pura Dalem Peruncak Badung Pura Pasek Bendesa Hyang Selat Kerobokan Badung Pura Kereban Langit Desa Sading Mengwi Badung Pemerajan Sareng Kangin Baleran Ubud

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Chairman of the Bali Silver Association, Nyoman Mudita, doubling as the owner of I Nyoman Mudita Gold & Silver Jewelry, said that prior to the increase in power tariff, conditions of the Bali silversmiths began to be marginalized with the advent of silver entrepreneurs from other countries.

Monday, January 28, 2013

5 Feb Anggara Sasih Kulantir Pura Penataran Tangkas Sukawati Pura Dalem Lagan Babalang Bangli Pura Puseh Lembeng Ketewel Sukawati Pura Pasek Gelgel Penulisan Kerambitan Tabanan

Pura Gaduh Sanding Pura Dalem Gandamayu Klungkung Pura Sang Hyang Tegal Banjar TarokajaTegalalang 6 Feb Buda Umanis Kulantir Pura Pasek Tangkas Pasekan Kaler Tabanan Pura Gaduh - Benoh Ubung Denpasar 10 Feb Tilem Kawulu Pura Dalem Alas Harum - Tegal Kepuh kabe - kabe Kediri Tabanan Pura Ulun Kulkul Besakih Pura Dalem Yang Taluh Sidemen Karangasem Pura Dalem kangin Dusun Dukuh Sidemen Karangasem 11 Feb Soma Umanis Tulu Pura Puseh/Balai Agung Ubung Kupang Penebel Tabanan Pura Kawitan Sakula Gotra Pasung Grigih Banjar Tegal Kepuh Kaba-kaba Kediri Tabanan Pura Bhujangga Rsi Tumbak Bayuh Pura Paibon Tangkas Kori Agung Ceningan Kangin lembongan Pura Batu Madeg Besakih Pura Penataran Agung penatih Banjar Saba Penatih

13 Feb B uda Pon Tolu Pura Catur Buana Sanding Tampak Siring 14 Feb W arespati Wage Tolu Pura Peninjoan Besakih 20 Feb B uda Kliwon Gumbreg Pura Pasek Gelgel Kukuh Marga Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Dukuh Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Mambang Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Puseh, Pura Desa Desa Guwang Sukawati Merajan Pangeran Tangkas Kori Agung Jeroan Sanding Pura Dalem Setra Batu Nunggul Desa Swana Nusa Penida Pura Dadia Agung Pasek Gelgel Ketewel 25 Feb P urnama Sasih Kesanga Pura Nataran Sasih Pejeng Gianyar Pura Bukit Mentik - Gunung Lebah Batur Kintamani 27 Feb B uda Paing Wariga Merajan Pasek Gaduh Kayubihi Bangli

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

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

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

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

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

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Pope on social networking: the virtual is real

Associated Press

VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI put church leaders on notice Thursday, saying social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter aren’t a virtual world they can ignore, but rather a very real world they must engage if they want to spread the faith to the next generation.

The 85-year-old Benedict, who tweets in nine languages, used his annual message on social communications to stress the potential of social media for the church as it struggles to keep followers and attract new ones amid religious apathy, competition from other churches and scandals that

have driven the faithful away.

Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, head of the Vatican’s communications office, cited a 2012 study commissioned by U.S. bishops that found that 53 percent of Americans were unaware of any significant presence of the Catholic Church online.

AP Photo/Andrew Medichini

Pope Benedict XVI is helped walk down steps by his aides as he presides a New Year’s Eve vespers service in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Monday, Dec. 31, 2012.

Other studies, Celli said, made clear that the “millennial generation” of people born after 1982 use Facebook, Twitter and YouTube far more than their parents as primary sources of information, entertainment and sharing political views and community issues.

“The digital environment is not a parallel or purely virtual world, but is part of the daily experience of many people, especially the young,” Benedict said in his message. “Social networks are the result of human interaction, but for their part they also reshape the dynamics of communication which builds relationships: a considered understanding of this environment is therefore the prerequisite for a significant presence there.”

Benedict himself still writes longhand, but he is a superstar online, with 2.5 million Twitter followers, nearly 11,000 of them following his Latin tweets alone.

And under his pontificate, the Holy See has greatly increased its presence online, with YouTube channels, papal apps and an online news portal www.news.va that gathers all Vatican information in one place.

But the digital exposure hasn’t come without risk or criticism: In the days after the Vatican announced that Benedict would respond to questions about faith on his first tweets from his (at)Pontifex handle last month, the Vatican was bombarded with threats of “Twitter bombs” from critics trying to scare the pope away from the online social forum.

“Leaving would’ve been a mistake,” said Monsignor Paul Tighe, the No. 2 in the Vatican’s social communications office. “It wouldn’t have been fair to abandon all the people who joyfully welcomed the pope’s message.”

Celli acknowledged that much of the pope’s message this year repeated exhortations from previous years about the need for respectful dialogue online, for users to present themselves authentically and to listen, not just preach.

“At first look it could look like reheated soup,” Celli conceded. But he said that sometimes messages need repeating, particularly in the 2,000-year-old Catholic Church. “I don’t want to make any particular revelations here, but don’t believe that everything that is said is absorbed at the ecclesial level.”

Celli noted, for example, that at a recent Vatican meeting of the world’s bishops on spreading the faith, the recommendations for the church’s social communications strategy “could have been written 30 years ago.”

“That means that he who is intervening doesn’t have the perception of what is happening today, in the sphere of social networking,” Celli said. “That’s a problem for us.”

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Bird flu at Ringdikit

Dozens of ducks suddenly die Bali Post

BULELENG - After thousands of ducks found dead at Kuwum, Banyuatis village, Banjar subdistrict, similar case was then found at Kelodan hamlet, Ringdikit village in Seririt subdistrict. Dozens of ducks of more than twomonth-old were found suddenly dead and suspected to have been infected by bird flu virus.

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This January 2013 photo provided by MGM Resorts International shows the Chinese New Year floral display at the Bellagio Conservatory & Botanical Gardens in Las Vegas welcoming the year of the snake.

Feasts and flowers for Lunar New Year Associated Press

LAS VEGAS — Las Vegas is getting ready for the year of the snake. The casino capital celebrates Chinese New Year — also known as lunar new year — in a big way, with feasts, exhibits, performances and other events at outdoor festivals and at casino-resorts like Bellagio and The Venetian.

While the new year holiday falls on Feb. 10, some of the offerings are under way already and will continue through much of February. Las Vegas also hosts a three-day Chinese New Year in the Desert festival downtown, Feb. 8-10, and a one-day event in the city’s Chinatown neighborhood on Feb. 17.

Asians and Asian-Americans are an important and growing demographic in Las Vegas, in terms of both residential population and tourism. More than 6 percent of the 589,000 people who live in Las Vegas are Asian, according U.S. Census estimates. About 3 percent of the city’s 39 million annual visitors — totaling over a million people a year — are Asian or Asian-American, according to the 2011 Las Vegas Visitor Profile Study. International tourists include 188,000 annual airport arrivals from China, 132,000 from Korea and 107,000 from Japan, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, with even more flying into California airports and heading to Las Vegas by bus or car.

While Asian tourists visit Las Vegas throughout the year, the period surrounding the lunar new year holiday is a particularly popular time for leisure travel, especially among China’s growing middle class. “They want to leave their homes and go travel during holidays,” said Jan-Ie Low, who is helping to organize the Chinese New Year in the Desert festival in partnership with the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Fremont Street Experience. She said that according to tradition, if you travel during the new year holiday, “it’s a sign that you’re going to be doing this the whole year.”

This is the second year for the Chinese New Year in the Desert festival.

Cultural performances are scheduled for the Third Street Stage on Feb. 8 from 5 p.m.-10 p.m., and on Feb. 9 and 10, noon to 9 p.m. A dragon dance Feb. 8 at 6 p.m. will kick off with virtual fireworks on the 90-foot-high (27- meter) LED display canopy at Fremont Street Experience, the downtown pedestrian mall and entertainment area. A parade with floats steps off at 8 a.m. on Feb. 10. The festival also includes food vendors and other activities and events.

Las Vegas’ Chinatown is not a historically ethnic residential neighborhood like Chinatowns in New York or San Francisco. But it is a commercial area worth visiting for Asian restaurants and businesses, located along Spring Mountain Road west of the Las Vegas Strip. The Chinatown Year of the Snake festival takes place Feb. 17, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., with cuisine from around Asia, arts and crafts, and performances drawing on a variety of traditions, including Chinese lion and dragon dances, martial arts, Japanese taiko drummers and Polynesian dance.

Bellagio’s Conservatory & Botanical Gardens annual floral display welcoming the lunar new year is up through March 3. The display, incorporating principles of the Asian design philosophy feng shui, includes large hanging red lanterns, an 18-foot-tall (5.5-meter) money tree decorated with gold coins, a 9-foot (3-meter) blue-and-yellow snake, a waterfall, incense pots, and a wooden boat with a 38-foot (11.5-meter) mast in a pond of koi fish inspired by 15th century Chinese fishing vessels. Also on display are figures of six children wearing outfits made from hundreds of colorful carnations and chrysanthemums.

Bellagio will host a dragon and lion dance on Feb. 12 at 6:30 p.m., and a $500 per person new year dinner is being offered at Bellagio’s Tuscany Kitchen, prepared by the culinary team from Beijing’s Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, recreating dishes that have been served there to visiting dignitaries.

Information compiled on Friday (Jan 25) mentioned if the duck death case at Kelodan hamlet had been found since a few weeks ago. Chronologically, the death of ducks at Ringdikit was similar to that found at Kuwum hamlet, Banyuatis village.

The adult ducks were found suddenly dead in their cage. It happened successively so the breeders were restless. They worried if the live ducks would also die. The Head of Buleleng Agriculture and Livestock Agency, Nyoman Swatantra, when asked for his confirmation in his office on Friday justified if his party had received a report on the death of those ducks at Kelodan hamlet.

The report was then followed up by assigning a team of Field Extension Officer (PPL) to conduct on-site monitoring. After the death of those ducks, the field officers had taken some samples of the duck carcass for a laboratory test in the Bali Livestock Agency.

From the test of the sample, the dead duck was declared positive to bird flu virus

(H5N1). According to Swatantra, his party still observed and made socialization to farmers to prevent the spread of bird flu to the other live ducks. In addition, the effort to spray duck cage by disinfectant continued to be done.

Regarding the extermination to live ducks suspected of having been infected by bird flu, the Livestock Agency was still awaiting the results of monitoring by field officers. If the other death of ducks was still found, the extermination would be immediately carried out. By all means, before the extermination, the Livestock Agency would approach the breeders because they were small-scale farm business, so that it was required a measure to provide a compensation fund for their loss.

“We still continue to make observation, while the extermination is still attempted by making an approach first. It has something to do with small business and if the extermination is conducted, we must consider a compensation fund,” he explained. (kmb)

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After thousands of ducks found dead at Kuwum, Banyuatis village, Banjar subdistrict, similar case was then found at Kelodan hamlet, Ringdikit village in Seririt subdistrict. Dozens of ducks of more than two-month-old were found suddenly dead and suspected to have been infected by bird flu virus.

Kertha Gosa renovation

Regent of Klungkung denies request of Hanacaraka Bali Post

SEMARAPURA - The intention of Wahana Cipta Warisan Kebudayaan (Hanacaraka) Klungkung to renovate the Kertha Gosa by raising funds from the public was rejected by the Regent of Klungkung, Wayan Candra. It was revealed by the regent through a letter addressed to Chairman of the Hanacaraka Klungkung, Tjokorda Bagus Oka. In a letter No.100/13/Pem, the regent claimed that local government had allocated a fund through Regional Budget for the maintenance cost of Taman Gili Kertha Gosa. It was based on consideration that the land and building had been controlled and managed since the establishment of the autonomous government based on the Regional Bylaw of Klungkung autonomous government that had been amended for six times.

The regent also revealed if the revenue obtained from Kertha Gosa should entirely go to local treasury pursuant to Bylaw of Klungkung County No.6/2000. In response to permission to renovate by taking advantage of the levy of Kertha Gosa, it was said to violate the law,

where the reception of regional working unit (SKPD) was not allowed to finance any expenditure in accordance with Law No.1/2004 on State Treasury. Ultimately, the permission of Hanacaraka to renovate the Kertha Gosa was rejected

by Klungkung Regent.

On the other hand, Chairman of the Hanacaraka Klungkung, Tjokorda Bagus Oka, said last Friday if the regent’s response to Hanacaraka was very contradictory, in which the regent recognized the maintenance of Kertha Gosa as the responsibility of Klungkung County, but was reluctant to make improvement by reason of questioning about the ownership status.

If the county government admitted that maintenance of Kertha Gosa belonged to its responsibility pursuant to the reply of the regent on point 4, Tjok Bagus said the county government should not hesitate to allocate a budget so that Kertha Gosa (Hall of Justice) would not collapse earlier. Moreover, the leaked roof of Kertha Gosa and Floating Pavilion was risky for the existence of Kamasan painting under the roof in rainy season.

“The attitude of the county gov-

ernment is very contradictory. It is just like goods where they cannot be repaired, but the results are even taken entirely, whereas in point 4 in the regent’s letter I received, the county government recognized that maintenance of Kertha Gosa has become the responsibility of Klungkung County,” said Tjok Bagus.

Kertha Gosa had been a symbol of the struggle of Klungkung kingdom with its subject in the Puputan War exploding on April 29, 1908 against the Dutch colonialist.

Without immediate repair, the symbol of struggle would disappear. Thus, the coming generation would not inherit the epitome of struggle.

Tjok Bagus hoped the county government did not hesitate to make improvement. Moreover, the improvement of Kertha Gosa had not been budgeted in 2013. “Supposedly, the regent thinks that it is the matter of legacy that must be promptly fixed, not be forgotten because of the status of ownership,” he said. (kmb31)

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The intention of Wahana Cipta Warisan Kebudayaan (Hanacaraka) Klungkung to renovate the Kertha Gosa by raising funds from the public was rejected by the Regent of Klungkung, Wayan Candra.

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FILE - In this Dec. 21, 2012 file image made from video, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks at a banquet for rocket scientists in Pyongyang, North Korea.

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DENPASAR - A Bali entrepreneur, Siantoro Triono, 61, a resident living at Jalan Intan LC No. 62/1 Gatot Subroto Timur, Denpasar, admitted to have undergone a criminal fraud. Claiming as a policeman, the culprit called and asked for money to the victim. Later on, the culprit was known as one of the inmates in Medan Jail, North Sumatra. As a result of the fraud, the victim suffered material losses reaching over IDR 30 million.

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Ceking tourist attraction at Tegallalang is one of the natural attractions drawing the interest of many tourists. Its daily visit is quite crowded.

Unfortunately, it has not had a parking area, so that visitors should make use of road body to park their vehicle.

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Having no parking space, village to lease a land Bali Post

GIANYAR - Ceking tourist attraction at Tegallalang is one of the natural attractions drawing the interest of many tourists. Its daily visit is quite crowded. Unfortunately, it has not had a parking area, so that visitors should make use of road body to park their vehicle.

Along the road body at the area was still used as parking space for tourist vehicles dropping by to see the beauty of rice terraces. Along the line on west roadside, a number of vehicles seemed to drop off their guests. The road was small and winding, so that such condition made it crowded. It had occurred since long ago without any solution from the government.

Since the past few years, the Ceking tourist attraction has been managed by Tegallalang customary village through a body established by customary village. Parking levy collection is now carried out by the officers of customary village, including the management of traffic flow passing through the area so as not to cause traffic congestion considering the road body is taken advantage for

parking space in half.

Chief of Tegallalang customary village, Pande Wayan Karsa, when asked for his confirmation justified that so far his party had not owned a parking area for vehicles carrying tourists to Ceking area. The constraints faced so far to build parking facility were budget and land. However, Karsa acknowledged that based on arrangement plan of Ceking tourist attraction, especially the parking area, the local tourism development agency had a plan to build a parking area in the north and south of Ceking tourist attraction.

There was a plan to build a parking space on privately owned land, namely the land of Ketut Suweta and Mustika. Both residents had approved to lease their land to customary village for parking. The area was estimated to reach 2,000 square meters.

The parking space required a fund reaching IDR 300 million more. In addition, the parking space development also needed heavy equipment to flatten the land. “Hopefully, the land used for parking space could be budgeted in this February,” he explained. (kmb16)

The fraud was revealed after a report from a student in Medan, Elka Faril, to North Sumatra Police.

Incidentally the student had a brother that served in the North Sumatra Police and said the saving in her account suddenly increased. Once checked, the sender was Siantoro Triono. Having been investigated, in fact the student account was used by the inmate to deceive.

Victim Siantoro Triono asked to send money to an account belonging to the student. “The student account was known by the prisoner from his friend outside the jail. Well, his friend was asked to withdraw the money from the account,” said the victim when met in the Bali Police, Friday (Jan 25).

According to the victim, the fraud took place on January 2, 2013. He was called by the culprit at dawn to his home number. The culprit claimed as a policeman serving in Bali Police and told if the victim’s child was arrested in a drug operation with three friends. On hearing this, the victim panicked. Such condition was taken advantage by the culprit to commit blackmail by asking for money to the victim. “My son is in Surabaya.

Hearing the information, I panicked. Moreover, in the rear there was a crying person that resembled to the voice of my son,” he explained.

As believing in it, the victim transferred money to the culprit in the hope his son could be freed.

Strangely, the culprit also asked the mobile phone number of victim. It was intended to make transaction. Initially, the victim was willing to send IDR 10 million, but the culprit refused. Finally, they agreed to IDR 20 million. Having been sent, the culprit was apparently not satisfied. The culprit requested

additional IDR 10 million and was sent to another account number. “I sent the money to two account numbers. Later, the culprit asked for mobile phone credit for three times. I sent IDR 300,000 and IDR 150,000,” he explained.

Not only that, few moments later, another person called the victim and claimed as a reporter. He asked for IDR 200 million. Without being fulfilled, he threatened to expose the arrest of the victim’s son. Automatically, reputation of the victim’s family as an entrepreneur would be harmed. To avoid unwanted things, the victim and the unclear individual journalist made a transaction ranging from IDR 100 million to IDR 200 million. As the victim was suspicious, the culprit hung up.

Suspicion of the victim was finally proved when he was called by the Unit Chief I of Sub Directorate IV Special Criminal Investigation of Bali Police, Ketut Soma Adnyana, on the following day. He said to have received a report from an officer of the North Sumatra Police related to the fraud afflicting the victim. Once explained, in fact the fraud was committed by an inmate of Medan Jail, North Sumatra. The victim also reported the fraud case to the Bali Police on Friday (Jan 25). Later, the case would be handed over to North Sumatra Police for further processing.

Spokesperson of Bali Police, Hariadi, claimed the report of victim had been received by the investigator of Bali Police. The case was still under development.

He hoped the people to be alert against any fraud case with similar mode because people still believed in such a thing. “To be more secure, please make coordination first with police before taking action (sending money—Ed),” he said. (kmb21)

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Residents asked to avoid doing beach activities Bali Post

SINGARAJA - The potential for tidal waves in the waters of Buleleng was predicted to occur again until late January or early February. To that end, all the people living on the beach were hoped to alert in case of heavy rain and gale.

It was announced by Deputy Regent of Buleleng, Nyoman Sutjidra, when meeting hundreds of fishermen and coastal residents at Ponjok hamlet, Kubutambahan village, Friday (Jan 25). According to Sutjidra, the waters area of Buleleng was prone to tidal wave disaster. On the other hand, there were still many Buleleng residents living on the coast.

For this reason, he asked the residents to always alert as the potential of tidal waves remained possible. “Avoid doing any activities during heavy rain or gale on shoreline,” he said. In addition, Sutjidra also instructed the Regional Disaster Management

Agency (BPBD), Public Works Agency and Social Services to continuously perform a monitoring and always be prepared around the clock.

“We instruct the officials of the agencies to monitor the condition of the area for 24 hours,” he said.

Deputy Regent visited the coast with the Head of Social Services Komang Gede and a legislator Gede Supriyatna. On that occasion, the Deputy Regent delivered basic food aid respectively consisting of 10 kg of rice, instant noodles and sardines to 638 families becoming the disaster victims at seven locations in the coastal hamlet of Buleleng namely Ponjok hamlet, Bungkulan coastal village, Kampong Anyar village, Kampong Bugis village, Dencarik village and Banjar village, Banjar subdistrict.

The Head of Buleleng Social Services, Komang Gede, said the rice aid was obtained from the national rice reserve destined for disaster beneficiaries. “Our stock remains about ten tons,” he said. (kmb15)

North Korean Leader Vows Strong Action AP Photo/KRT via AP Video, File

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PYONGYANG - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un convened top security and foreign affairs officials and ordered them to take “substantial and high-profile important state measures,” state media said Sunday, indicating that he plans to push forward with a threat to explode a nuclear device in defiance of the United Nations.

The meeting of top officials led

by Kim makes clear that he backs Pyongyang’s defiant stance in protest of U.N. Security Council punishment for a December rocket launch.

The dispatch in the official Korean Central News Agency did not say when the meeting took place.

Last week, the Security Council condemned North Korea’s Dec. 12 launch of a long-range rocket as a violation of a ban against nuclear

and missile activity. The council, including North Korea ally China, punished Pyongyang with more sanctions and ordered the regime to refrain from a nuclear test — or face “significant action.”

North Korea responded by rejecting the resolution and maintaining its right to launch a satellite into orbit as part of a peaceful civilian space program.

It also warned that it would keep

developing rockets and testing nuclear devices to counter what it sees as U.S. hostility. A rare statement was issued Thursday by the powerful National Defense Commission, the top governing body led by Kim. North Korea cites a U.S. military threat in the region as a key reason behind its drive to build nuclear weapons. The two countries fought on opposite sides of the Korean War, which ended after three years in 1953 with an armistice, not a peace treaty. The U.S.-led U.N. Command mans the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Koreas, and Washington stations more than 28,000 troops in South Korea to protect its ally.

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Riots over Egyptian death sentences kill at least 32 Reuters

PORT SAID, Egypt/CAIRO - At least 32 people were killed on Saturday when Egyptians rampaged in protest at the sentencing of 21 people to death over a soccer stadium disaster, violence that compounds a political crisis facing Islamist President Mohamed Mursi.

Armored vehicles and military police fanned through the streets of Port Said, where gunshots rang out and protesters burned tires in anger that people from their city had been blamed for the deaths of 74 people at a match last year.

The rioting in Port Said, one of the most deadly spasms of violence since Hosni Mubarak’s ouster two years ago, followed a day of anti-Mursi demonstrations on Friday, when nine people were killed. The toll over the past two days stands at 41. The flareups make it even tougher for Mursi, who drew fire last year for expand-

ing his powers and pushing through an Islamist-tinged constitution, to fix the creaking economy and cool tempers enough to ensure a smooth parliamentary election.

That vote is expected in the next few months and is meant to cement a democratic transition that has been blighted from the outset by political rows and street clashes.

The National Defense Council, which is led by Mursi and includes the defense minister who commands the army, called for “a broad national dialogue that would be attended by independent national characters” to discuss political differences and ensure a “fair and transparent” parliamentary poll. The National Salvation Front of liberal-minded groups and other Mursi opponents cautiously welcomed the call.

Clashes in Port Said erupted after a judge sentenced 21 men to die for involvement in the deaths at the soccer match on February 1, 2012.

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Al Ahly fans, also known as “Ultras”, celebrate and shout slogans inside Al Ahly club’s training stadium after hearing the final verdict of the 2012 Port Said massacre, in Cairo January 26, 2013.

French, Malian forces capture Gao rebel stronghold Reuters

KONNA, Mali/PARIS - French and Malian forces fighting Islamist rebels took control on Saturday of the rebel bastion of Gao, the biggest military success so far in an offensive against al Qaedaallied insurgents occupying the country’s north. The United States and Europe back the U.N.-mandated Mali operation as a counterstrike against the threat of Islamist jihadists using the West African state’s inhospitable Sahara desert as a launching pad for international attacks.

In an overnight assault on Gao backed by French warplanes and helicopters, French special forces seized the town’s airport and a key bridge over the River Niger, killing an estiREUTERS/Joe Penney mated dozen Islamist fighters without Malian soldiers ride in a Malian army pickup truck in Diabaly suffering any losses or injuries, the French army said.

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“The Malian army and the French control Gao today,” Malian army spokesman Lieutenant Diaran Kone told Reuters. The speed of the French action in a two-week-old campaign suggested French and Malian government troops intended to drive aggressively into the north of Mali in the next few days against other Islamist rebel strongholds, such as Timbuktu and Kidal.

There have been 30 French air strikes on militant targets around Gao and Timbuktu in the past 36 hours.

News that the French and Malian troops were at Gao, the largest northern town held by the Islamists, came as African states struggled to deploy their intervention force in Mali, known as AFISMA, under a U.N. mandate.

Regional army chiefs said on Saturday that a total of 7,700 African

soldiers would be dispatched, up from 5,700. Liberia, Guinea-Bissau, Burundi, Guinea and Uganda are due to join the mission, but it was not clear if progress had been made at meetings in Abidjan or Addis Ababa to overcome gaps in transport, equipment and financing.

French army spokesman Colonel Thierry Burkhard said French forces had come under fire from rebel fighters inside Gao, but that both the bridge and airport runway were undamaged.

In Paris, the French Defense Ministry said Malian and French troop reinforcements were brought in and that soldiers from Chad and Niger, who have experience in desert warfare, were also flown in. Those Malian and regional troops would have the task of securing Gao and its surrounding area, the ministry said.

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DENPASAR - Coinciding with the feast of Tumpek Landep and full moon in the eight month based on Balinese calendar, Saturday (Jan 26), the family of Bali Post Media Group (KMB) held a piodalan or anniversary of the Kretti Bhuvana temple expected to provide safety and health to pilgrims and to sustain Bali. The ceremony belonged to the pedudusan alit nyatur rebah officiated over by a high priest from Griya Tegal Sari, Denpasar.

DAVOS — The crisis mood is gone, but that doesn’t mean you can slip back into your old ways — that’s the message from top international finance officials wrapping up the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

The developed world is still recovering from the shock of the financial crisis, which began in 2007 when U.S. banks revealed heavy losses related to mortgages handed out to people with shaky credit. With banks around the world teetering, the world economy slid into deepest recession since World War II and the recovery since has been unspectacular.

Angel Gurria, the secretary general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, echoed Lagarde, saying “let’s fight complacency with everything we’ve got, let’s continue with the reform process so we can consolidate this hesitant recovery.”

U.S. new home sales rise to 3-year high in 2012 Reuters

WASHINGTON - Sales of new U.S. single-family homes rose last year to the highest level since 2009, a sign the troubled U.S. housing market has turned a corner.

Americans bought 367,000 new single-family homes in 2012, up 19.9 percent from the prior year, the Commerce Department said on Friday.

Sales hit a nearly three-year high in November, before pulling back somewhat in December, it said.

The housing sector has been a point of strength in the economy over the last year, and Friday’s data reinforced expectations it will help offset the economic damage from tax hikes enacted this year.

“Overall the stage is set for more home building,” said Michelle Meyer, an economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch

in New York.

Momentum appeared to be growing in the U.S. economy at the close of 2012, helped by consumer spending. A measure of future U.S. economic growth from the Economic Cycle Research Institute picked up last week to its highest level since April 2011.

Still, a government report next week is expected to show economic growth slowed in the fourth quarter as businesses worked off inventories and the trade deficit widened.

The economic data appeared to have little impact on financial markets. U.S. stocks rose, buoyed by sturdy corporate earnings from Procter & Gamble and Honeywell, with the S&P 500 poised for its longest winning streak in more than eight years.

Economists think home building added to economic growth last year for the first time in seven

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took place in a more upbeat atmosphere than last year.

Fears over the breakup the euro currency union have abated, while the U.S. has avoided the so-called “fiscal cliff” of automatic tax increases and spending cuts that threatened to push the world’s largest economy back into recession.

The IMF estimates that the world economy will grow about 3.5 percent this year, modestly better than last year’s 3.2 percent. Yet the improvement is uneven. The eurozone and Japan are in recession, but the U.S. is growing, and emerging economies such as China are expanding much more quickly.

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Davos summit ends with warnings on global economy

They warned governments Saturday against letting their relief over an improved economic climate turn into complacency over reforms many want to see in order to sustain a still-uncertain recovery.

“Do not relax,” International Monetary Fund head Christine Lagarde urged at a closing panel on the economic outlook.

She said the IMF outlook for a “fragile and timid” recovery depended on officials in the powerhouse economies of Europe, the U.S. and Japan making “the right decisions.”

Her comments came at the end of the gathering of 2,500 business, financial and political leaders that

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years. That boost was likely quite modest because housing is a much smaller part of the economy than it was before the 2007-2009 recession.

The number of sales in 2012 was still only about a third of the record number sold in 2005, before a housing collapse that helped trigger a financial crisis.

In December, sales dropped 7.3 percent to a seasonally adjusted 369,000-unit annual rate. That was below analysts’ forecasts of a 385,000-unit annual pace.

However, the department raised its estimate for sales in November by 22,000 to a 398,000-unit rate, making the pace of sales that month the fastest since April 2010.

Also adding some luster to the report, the median price for a new home rose to $248,900 in December from $245,600 in November, according to figures that are not adjusted for seasonal swings.

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Japan’s Economic Revival Minister Akira Amari attends the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos January 26, 2013.

Japan defends stimulus, yen policy under fire Reuters

DAVOS - Japan’s economy minister rejected criticism on Saturday that his country’s extraordinary fiscal and monetary stimulus programme was aimed at weakening the yen and undermined central bank independence.

Akira Amari told the World Economic Forum in Davos it was up to the market to determine the currency’s exchange rate, and the Bank of Japan had chosen independently to sign a joint statement with the government on actions to fight deflation and revive economic growth.

“You might think there’s a deliberate policy to drive down the value of the yen but we in government refrain from commenting on the exchange rate of the yen,” Amari said in response to criticism of Japanese action.

South Korea’s central bank governor questioned the efficacy of Japan’s easing of monetary policy and said the BOJ’s decision to start buying unlimited amounts of assets in 2014 could have unintended long-term consequences.

“What they did created a couple of problems,” Bank of Korea Gov-

ernor Kim Chong-soo told Reuters in an interview in Davos. “One is that the level (of the currency) is affected, and the pace of change is also a problem. They did it too hastily.”

A stable exchange rate is key for the Bank of Korea, Kim added.

The yen has come under pressure since reports on Thursday quoted deputy economy minister Yasutoshi Nishimura as saying the yen’s decline was not over, and that a dollar/yen level of 100 would not be a concern.

The Japanese currency is now trading around a 2-1/2 year low against the dollar at around 90 yen, as the market remained focused on Japan’s pursuit of a reflationary economic policy.

Appearing on the same panel, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde refrained from direct criticism but urged Japan to put forward a medium-term plan to reduce its public debt after this week’s measures.

“Japan has made very important decisions. We are very interested in these policies. We would like them to complement it with a mid-term plan on how the debt would be reduced,” Lagarde said.

The padudusan alit nyatur rebah used panca sata exorcism rite. The temple anniversary on Tumpek Landep was also expected to sharpen the mind and behavior of the Hindus. Balinese pilgrims looked to worship solemnly to Supreme God. The event was also graced with the presentation of religious arts as devotional works by gamelan troupe, Rejang dancer, Sidakarya mask dancer and screenless shadow puppet (wayang lemah) from Tunjuk village, Tabanan.

The screenless shadow puppet told about the churning of Mount Mandara Giri to get Tirtha Amerta (elixir of life) for salvation of mankind. Besides, a different nuance was also exuded in the temple anniversary of this time. A magical atmosphere, solemnity, positive vibration and divine inspiration were felt with the presentation of the sanctified effigy of Goddess Durga in the form of Rangda by Gung Bagus Supartama from Jero Lumintang, Denpasar.

Philosophically, the dance depicted the transformation of the Shakti (feminine aspect) of Lord Shiva, namely the beautiful Goddess Uma into Goddess Durga in a horrific figure of rangda with gaping mouth, protruding fangs, curly hairs and the spread of shawl. According to Gung Bagus Supartama, the transformation of Goddess Uma to Goddess Durga was called Durga Murti signifying the process of self-purification or ngranasika.

Presentation of the dance in conjunction with the Tumpek Landep celebration in the Dalem Bhuwana Kretti temple was intended as purification for the existence of parhyangan (spiritual aspect), pawongan (social aspect) and palemahan (environmental aspect) so that it could engender a vibration of purity, divine inspiration and harmonization between the three aspects. “The dance is meant to neutralize the negative aura or influence in the context of parhyangan, pawongan and palemahan,” explained the man nicknamed as Gung Gus. Gung Gus becoming the carrier of the sanctified effigy in the Dalem Manik Nataran Agung of Lumintang said that he had danced the effigy of Goddess Durga since 1996.

It was not intended for black magic or negative purposes but to neutralize negative vibrations and create positive ones. Unfortunately, there was misperception among the Balinese community. “When the dancer spells the nine directions was misinterpreted as a challenge against leak (mystical figure) whereas it is not a challenge, but purification,” he said.

When asked if there were obstacles when presenting the sanctified effigy, the man who was attending graduate studies in religion and culture in the Hindu University of Indonesia (Unhi) said there were usually people having black magic power disturbing him when making a presentation.

However, due to his faith and devotion to the goddess venerated, he had confidence the disturbance would disappear and the goddess would provide the guidance. “Many powers are usually disturbing, but I surrender my fate to her. I remain to believe in goddess so that when dancing there was no disturbing negative aura,” said the father of two children from his wife AA Sagung Oka Indra Parwati. (wid)

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A magical atmosphere, solemnity, positive vibration and divine inspiration were felt with the presentation of the sanctified effigy of Goddess Durga in the form of Rangda by Gung Bagus Supartama from Jero Lumintang, Denpasar.

Crossing in Bali Strait closed for an hour

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NEGARA - Due to heavy rain flushing the waters of Banyuwangi on Friday afternoon (Jan 25), the crossing in the Strait of Bali was closed temporarily.

The harbor authority of Ketapang closed the voyage at 4:30 p.m.

Heavy rain resulted in limited visibility and hazardous voyage. As a result, the harbormaster of Ketapang requested in order the voyage was closed

temporarily until the weather returned to normal. The harbor was just re-opened an hour later after the rain stopped. A number of ships sailing amidst the strait were forced to sail aside to the nearest harbor.

Operations Manager of Gilimanuk Harbor, Wahyudi Susianto, said the closure was made due to heavy rain in the waters of Ketapang. Such condition made the ship difficult to sail or berth. With

restricted visibility, the skipper was hard to see the situation when sailing so that it was feared to cause collision. On that account, the harbor was closed temporarily until the rain stopped.

According to him, the closure could be made at any time when the weather was considered hazardous for the crossing. He said the priority was the safety of passengers during the crossing. (kmb26)

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Due to heavy rain flushing the waters of Banyuwangi on Friday afternoon (Jan 25), the crossing in the Strait of Bali was closed temporarily. The harbor authority of Ketapang closed the voyage at 4:30 p.m.

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Leftist ex-PM Zeman wins Czech presidential election Reuters

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People’s Action Party candidate Koh Poh Koon arrives at the poll counting center during the Punggol East by-election in Singapore January 26, 2013.

Singapore ruling party rebuked in by-election as disquiet rises Reuters

SINGAPORE - Singapore’s long-dominant People’s Action Party (PAP) lost heavily in a singleseat by-election on Saturday, a barometer of how the government is dealing with discontent in the wealthy Asian country over immigration and the high cost of living.

The result in the Punggol East ward - 54.5 percent of the vote for the Workers Party and 43.7 percent for the PAP, with the rest split by two others - does not alter the balance of power in parliament, where the ruling party will still hold 80 of 87 elected seats. But the rebuke in the relatively young and affluent constituency sends a signal to the PAP about the level of dissatisfaction in the city-state of 5.3 million people that is a hub for banks and multinational companies.

“I want a difference,” said Nita, a woman in her 30s. “If the Workers Party can do well in Punggol East, the other constituencies are also watching.”

Some analysts had expected the PAP to eke out a victory, especially if the three opposition candidates diluted the anti-government vote.

The next general election is due in 2016.

The seat in Punggol East, won

by the PAP in 2011 with 54 percent of the vote, was vacant after the speaker of parliament quit in December over an extramarital affair.

Other recent scandals include last year’s arrest of the civil defense chief and head of the police antidrug unit on corruption charges.

“I respect the choice of Punggol East voters,” Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in a statement.

He called on people to refocus on national issues including the 2013 budget and a new population and immigration plan the government is preparing to deliver.

“The PAP will continue to improve the lives of Singaporeans, and present our report card for voters to judge in the next general elections,” he said.

The PAP - founded by Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s first leader for three decades and father of the current prime minister - has won every national election since

independence in 1965, transforming the post-colonial port into a major financial center by keeping the economy open and society regimented.

But the 2011 election was its worst showing ever, prompting the government to engage more openly with increasingly vocal citizens over their concerns about property prices, public transport and immigration. Foreigners now make up about 38 percent of the population, up from about 25 percent in 2000.

Rolling out measures to help Singaporeans, it has raised the levy on foreigners buying property and boosted spending on housing grants, subsidized childcare and cash gifts for babies to try to raise one of the world’s lowest fertility rates.

But as Saturday’s by-election shows, many people expect more from the government, or at least a bigger say for the opposition.

PRAGUE - Leftist former prime minister Milos Zeman won the Czech Republic’s first direct presidential election on Saturday, beating a conservative opponent he had accused of favoring foreign interests in a bitter campaign. Zeman, a 68-year-old who favors more integration within the European Union, won by 54.8 to 45.2 percent over Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg, results from 99.9 percent of voting districts showed.

Economic forecaster Zeman, a Communist Party member before the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, will steer Czechs closer to Europe’s mainstream.

Zeman said he wants to overcome divisions provoked by the election in the central European country of 10.5 million people. The final stage of the campaign was marked by doubts cast on the national loyalties of Schwarzenberg, a prince from a centuries-old aristocratic family who lived much of his life in Austria.

Zeman promised to tackle graft, an issue which has dominated political debate for years. “I want to be president of the bottom 10 million. These include voters of Milos Zeman as well as Karel Schwarzenberg. I do not want to be president of mafias that act as parasites on this society,” Zeman said.

Zeman served as Social Democrat prime minister in 1998-2002 under a power-sharing deal with Klaus’s right-wing party that critics saw as a breeding ground for corruption.

Schwarzenberg conceded defeat and congratulated Zeman, but relations between the centre-right cabinet and new president may be strained.

Zeman, who has a folksy manner and a well-advertised appetite for sausages and alcohol, appeals to poorer and rural voters, unlike the government, which has raised taxes, cut social benefits and suffered several corruption scandals.

Prison riot in Venezuela, 61 killed Associated Press

CARACAS — The death toll has risen to 61 following fierce gunbattles between inmates and National Guard troops at a Venezuelan prison, a hospital director said Saturday. About 120 more people were wounded in one of the deadliest prison riots in the nation’s history.

Penitentiary Service Minister Iris Varela said Saturday that officials had begun evacuating inmates from the Uribana prison in Barquisimeto and transferring them to other facilities, but she did not provide an official death toll.

However, Dr. Ruy Medina, director of Central Hospital in the city of Barquisimeto, told The Associated Press that the number of dead had risen to 61. He initially told Venezuelan news media after the Friday uprising that about 50 were killed. Medina said that nearly all of the injuries were from gunshots and that 45 of the estimated 120 people who were wounded remained hospitalized. Some underwent surgeries for their wounds.

Relatives wept outside the prison during the violence, and cried at the morgue Saturday as they waited to identify bodies. The riot was the latest in a series of deadly clashes in Venezuela’s overcrowded and often anarchical prisons, where inmates typically obtain weapons and drugs with the help of corrupt guards. Critics called it proof that the government is failing to get a grip on a worsening national crisis in its penitentiaries.

The gunbattles seized attention amid uncertainty about President Hugo Chavez’s future, while he remained in Cuba recovering and undergoing treatment more than six weeks after his latest cancer surgery.

Government officials pledged a thorough investigation, while some critics said there should have been ways for the authorities to prevent such bloodshed. Nayibe Mendez, the mother of a 22-year-old inmate in the prison, told the AP that she was able to talk by phone with her son and he was uninjured.

“What they say is that there were shots all over the place, and they don’t know where they came from,” Mendez said. “It was a massacre. A full list hasn’t come out of the dead and injured.” Mendez spoke by telephone from the morgue, where she said she went out of solidarity. “We’re all hurt. No matter what, a prisoner has a right to live,” she said, demanding that the authorities fully investigate what happened.

Varela said during a news conference that officials decided to evacuate all inmates from the prison in order to “close this chapter of violence.” She said victims had wounds from guns, explosives and knives or other sharp weapons made by the inmates.

Varela did not provide any estimates of the numbers killed and injured, and instead criticized Venezuelan news media at length for their coverage of the violence.

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INDONESIA Landslides leaves 9 dead, 17 missing in Indonesia Associated Press

JAKARTA — Two separate landslides triggered by torrential rain in western Indonesia have killed at least nine people, including four geothermal workers, and left 17 others missing, officials said Sunday.

Disaster official Ade Edward said 20 houses were buried by mud and rocks that fell from surrounding hills at dawn Sunday in Tanjung Sani village in West Sumatra province’s Agam district.

Rescuers recovered five bodies and were searching for 17 people who reportedly were buried under the mud, he said. Three injured villagers were being treated at a

hospital.

Heavy rain also triggered a landslide late Saturday in a drilling field owned by PT. Pertamina Geothermal Energy, killing four workers on Sumatra island, company official Adiatma Sardjito said.

“The workers were having dinner when the landslide suddenly occurred,” Sardjito said, adding

that five others were injured and one was missing.

He said the company had sent heavy equipment to assist efforts to retrieve the bodies.

Seasonal downpours cause frequent landslides and flashfloods each year in Indonesia, a chain of 17,000 islands where millions of people live in mountainous areas or near fertile flood plains.

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pact. “Trade facilitation becomes a key driver for economic recovery, so this is now even ever more important to what it was before.”

Trade ministers from 24 nations met Saturday on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos in an unofficial gathering hosted by the Swiss government.

Afterward, Swiss Economic M i n i s t e r J o h a n n S c h n e i d e rAmmann said the group agreed they could reach a tentative agreement on some of the key elements of a global trade deal this summer, in preparation for the ministerial talks in December at Bali.

Schneider-Ammann said he sensed some “optimism” that efforts to streamline customs procedures and other rules to reduce the costs of trade “will be successful.”

The ministers agreed to resist protectionism, focus on elements such as trade facilitation and agriculture, and to “take stock” around Easter of the progress being made, Schneider-Ammann said.

“Serious attempts to deliver results in Bali have already started,” he added.

The Doha negotiations have been billed as a way of boosting economic development among

the poorest countries, by reducing barriers on their exports to wealthier markets.

The WTO’s director general, Pascal Lamy, has been telling the Davos gathering of political, business and academic elites that an international trade deal would provide a $1 trillion boost to the global economy. He estimates world trade is worth about $22 trillion.

Flanked by Schneider-Ammann, Lamy told reporters that he believes it is technically “doable” to craft draft agreements on some of the key elements of a deal by next summer.

U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk said he had to “temper” his enthusiasm for a deal since it has eluded the world for a decade.

Areas of dispute include tariffs on manufactured good, agricultural subsidies, market access and intellectual property rules. Brazil, China and India have resisted U.S. demands to lower taxes on imports of manufactured goods.

“But, at least of the 24 countries represented today, it felt like we had made more substantive progress,” Kirk said in an AP interview. “The good news is we’ve spent a lot of work on a smaller, more realistic package

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A participant dressed as zombies perform during the annual Zombie Walk in Jakarta, Indonesia, Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013. Hundreds of participants marched in the capital to collect donations for recent flood victims and campaign against the disposal of waste to public places.

Indonesia readies for a$1 trillion trade talks DAVOS — Indonesia may hold the key to a $1 trillion injection into the global economy.

That’s how much the World Trade Organization believes is riding on talks later this year in Bali, when trade ministers hope to cut through some of the red tape that slows global commerce.

Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa told The Associated Press that failure is not an option and that a strong effort is being put in to ensure that the WTO meeting in Bali is “crowned with success.”

The current trade talks, known as the Doha Round, began in 2001, and after a decade of little progress for a range of reasons, many had pronounced the negotiations to reduce global trade barriers as dead.

There are hopes that the current fragile state of the world economy, including the debt crisis afflicting the 17 European Union countries that use the euro and unspectacular U.S. growth, may add impetus to the discussions.

“It’s very critical now, especially with the difficulties in the global economy, especially in the eurozone,” he said of efforts to reach a new global free trade

centered around trade facilitation, which can be a huge benefit to developing economies. And it feels like that is starting to bear fruit.”

Kirk, who leaves his job

next month, said the ministers renewed their commitment “to double down, do what we need to do” to reach a deal in Bali.

“I’m as hopeful as I’ve been in a long time.”

Police name 33 suspects in Sumbawa riot Antara

JAKARTA - The police have named 33 suspects in a recent riot in Sumbawa, West Nusa Tenggara province.

“Up till now the police have named 33 suspects. They are among 90 people who have been questioned,” head of the public relations division at the National Police Headquarters Insp. Gen. Suhardi Alius said here on Friday.

The suspects are undergoing in-depth questioning to see their role in the riot, he said.

Some 200 people were believed to have been involved in the attack on and the destruction and burning of property on Jalan Yos Sudarso at Seketeng village in Sumbawa district, West Nusa Tenggara province, on Tuesday.

The anarchic act led to the destruction of 13 houses, 2 minimarkets, a hotel and traditional market.

The riot was reportedly triggered by the death of Arniati who was allegedly raped and abused by her boyfriend who is also a police office, Brig. I Gede Eka Swarjana.

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Gelang Agung Temple

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Dang Kahyangan Gelang Agung Temple is situated at Buangga hamlet, Getasan village,

Petang subdistrict. Various kinds of cultural heritages are found in the temple. It is estimated, the cultural heritages existing in the temple originates from the

thirteenth century. The name of temple standing on ten ares of land is associated with various stories so that it is called Gelang Agung Temple. One of them is

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the discovery of bracelet-shaped objects made from bronze. Size of the bracelets is quite large with a slightly yellowish color.

This bracelet and a number of small bronze bracelets were found around the temple area.

But unfortunately, none of those heritages are still left. Priest of the Gelang Agung Temple, Jro Mangku I Made Terum and priest of the Dalem Buangga Temple, Jro Mangku I Ketut Malen, said that formerly the local senior figures often showed those objects.

However, it was not known where they were now. Until now, existence of the objects in the form of bracelets was not known including the preliminary evidence of the temple establishment. Surrounding communities only referred to the ancient stories. Approximately in 1997, when the excavation was carried out in the temple, it was found some objects such as perforated coins. They were still wrapped in leaves.

Surprisingly, the erythrina leaf used to wrap the perforated coins was still fresh. When the temple was first discovered, it was found a temple mound measuring one square meter. When excavated, there were various kinds of statues.

It was estimated that under the temple was still kept many relics.

Some of the relics are now stored in Gedong Arca. There are statue of Lord Vishnu riding a Garuda

mythical bird, phallus and statue resembling a lotus flower that consists of three parts, namely the octagonal lower part, three-tiered rectangular central frame and the topmost part is circular sculpture surrounded by carvings that resemble lotus leaves.

When seeing the existing phallus building next to it, the building is possibly a symbol of yoni. If both symbols are combined, then they form a symbol of fertility. There are also Padmasana relic where at the upper end is found the figure of the year written in Balinese script and some stone fragments whose the upper part are made from rock stone and rectangular-shaped building.

Various magical stories accompany the presence of the Gelang Agung Temple.

Jro Mangku Terum explained the structure of the Gelang Agung Temple was not much different from the other sanctums in Bali.

There was a two-tiered meru shrine used to venerate Goddess Sri. Besides, the temple also had Grand Chamber shrine as the abode of Danghyang Dwijendra. In certain seasons, especially when the rice plant of Buangga residents was attacked by pests and diseases, farmers would come to worship to the temple and invoke blessing to save the rice plant. Meanwhile, piodalan or anniversary of the temple fell on Buda Umanis Julungwangi.

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Emotional Azarenka emerges a champion again Reuters

MELBOURNE - Victoria Azarenka took everything the Australian Open could throw at her and emerged a champion. The Belarussian won her second successive title at Melbourne Park on Saturday with a 4-6 6-4 6-3 victory over China’s Li Na, bursting into tears as the emotion and stress of a fortnight came pouring out.

“You have to go through rough patches to achieve great things,” Azarenka told Channel 7, the host broadcaster. “It’s been tough but I am happy here right now. There were new experiences for me in the last couple of days. I have to say thanks to my team for being so supportive.

It was a victory that ensures she will stay at the top of the world rankings for at least a few more weeks but winning a second grand slam title will be of even more satisfaction. When Li turned her left ankle early in

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Victoria Azarenka of Belarus poses with the Australian Open trophy in the Royal Botanical Gardens following her win over China’s Li Na in the women’s final, in Melbourne, Australia, Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013.

Waiting game for Snedeker in Torrey Pines fog Reuters

SAN DIEGO - Defending champion Brandt Snedeker had to endure a marathon day of putting practice and waiting around at the Farmers Insurance Open on Saturday before play was finally abandoned because of thick fog.

The fast-talking American, who trails tournament leader Tiger Woods by seven shots, arrived at the course at 5:30 a.m. local (1330 GMT) for a scheduled tee time at 7:40 a.m., and left at around 4 p.m. without hitting a single competitive stroke after only five minutes of third-round action was possible.

Weather permitting, play will resume on Sunday at the picturesque Torrey Pines venue where the $6.1 million PGA Tour event is heading for a rare Monday finish. “It’s frustrating,” Snedeker told Reuters after spending a couple of hours chatting with his fellow players, caddies and officials on the practice putting green. “Everyone’s wants to play. “I feel like on this golf course it would have been a lot of fun today. There’s a great leaderboard lined up and a lot of action could have happened today. It’s really frustrating when it doesn’t happen.

“It has turned into a long day. I’ve been here since early this morning so you’re a little tired and you want to get out there and play as much as you can.”

Asked how he had managed to while away the time as a blanket of thick fog lingered at the coastal venue, Snedeker replied with a broad grin: “You tell a lot of stories. I’ve been catching up with some guys I haven’t seen in a while.

“You eat four or five times and you try to pass the time as best as possible. You don’t want to think too much about the golf course. You want to keep your mind fresh.”

the second set, the match swung in Azarenka’s favour. When the Chinese fell again in the third and banged her head, it was getting surreal.

But the way the top seed dug herself out of a hole to clinch victory showed immense mental strength. In her semi-final against American teenager Sloane Stephens, Azarenka had incurred the wrath of everyone watching when she took a 10-minute double injury timeout just as Stephens was serving to stay in the match.

Her attempts to explain it fell flat and when she was introduced to the Rod Laver Arena on Saturday, a number of jeers rang out.

“I was expecting way worse, actually,” she told reporters. “But what can you do? You just have to go out and play your tennis. “It was definitely not easy with all the attention, with all the press around. But it was definitely a new experience for me that I think I handled quite well.

“I can only learn from this experience and move forward and try to improve as a player and as a person, as well.” During the match,

one fan called out “quiet please Azarenka”, in reference to her high-pitched grunting and the crowd was firmly behind Li. On the court, Azarenka could not cope with the former French Open champion’s aggressive returns, at times a little slow to react after her serve.

The first set went to the Chinese but slowly and surely, Azarenka began to work Li around the court, extending the rallies and making her opponent work harder for her points.

Azarenka took a 3-1 lead in the second set and then watched as Li fell in pain after turning her left ankle.

Considering the drama of her semi-final, Azarenka must have wondered what was going on but she kept her cool and stuck to her gameplan, levelling the match.

The drama moved up a level when Li slipped and hit her head on the court at 2-1 in the third set and when they resumed, Azarenka saved a break point to square the decider at 2-2. After breaking in the next game, she came through a long service game to stay ahead at 5-3 and then broke Li again to clinch victory.

Her celebrations were subdued but when she sat down in her chair, the tears flowed uncontrollably. “This one is way more emotional (than last year),” she said. “It’s going to be extra special for me, for sure.”

Okafor sparks big win for Wizards over Bulls

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Washington’s Emeka Okafor dominated inside as the improving Wizards stunned the Chicago Bulls 86-73 to record their fifth straight home win on Saturday. At 11-31 Washington have the second worst record in the NBA, ahead of only Charlotte (11-32), but turned the tables on joint Central Division leaders Chicago (26-17) behind Okafor’s 15 points and 16 rebounds.

It was the seventh win in 10 games for the Wizards, who started the season 0-12 and lost 28 of their first 32 games. “We have just gotten better at our new recent style of play,” Okafor told reporters. “These last few past games we have been playing extremely good basketball both on the offensive end moving the ball and the defensive end moving around. ...

“We are the team that we thought we were supposed to be.” Nene added 16 points and John Wall 15 for Washington. Only reserve Nate Robinson finished in double figures for Chicago, collecting a game high 19 points. The Wizards went on an 11-0 run late in the second quarter to establish a six-point halftime lead, before a 10-2 spurt to start the third put them firmly in command.

Chicago scored only 11 points in third, their lowest output in any quarter this season, and had more turnovers (six) than field goals (three) in the quarter. Bulls center Joakim Noah narrowly missed a triple-double, collecting 17 rebounds and 10 assists and nine points.

“We got beat by a team that played harder than us,” Noah said. “They played really well and we played tired basketball. Our offense wasn’t as fluid.”

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Washington Wizards center Emeka Okafor (50) takes a shot against Chicago Bulls center Joakim Noah, right, during the second half of an NBA basketball game, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013, in Washington. The Wizards won 86-73.

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Sp rt Valencia and Levante snatch late wins in Spain Associated Press

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Juventus’ Fabio Quagliarella celebrates after he scored during a Serie A soccer match between Juventus and Genoa at the Juventus Stadium in Turin, Italy, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013.

Juventus frustrated

by Borriello, Lazio shocked Reuters

ROME - A second-half equaliser by Marco Borriello earned struggling Genoa a 1-1 draw at Serie A leaders Juventus on Saturday, denting the champions’ hopes of a second successive title.6. Former Juve forward Borriello struck in the 68th minute to leave Antonio Conte’s side on 49 points at the top, six clear of Napoli and Lazio who earlier suffered a shock 1-0 home defeat by Chievo Verona.

Genoa, playing for the first time under new manager Davide Ballardini, moved up to 18 points but remained third bottom as Chievo climbed to 11th place on 28 points.

The Juve match was marred by controversy over two penalties not given to the champions in the second half and Juventus striker Mirko Vucinic went unpunished for what appeared to be a clear handball in the area.

Luca Antonelli looked to have pulled Vucinic’s shirt as the forward stretched for Emanuele Giaccherini’s 80th-minute cross, while Andreas Granqvist sparked furious protests from Juventus when he kicked the ball on to his hand in stoppage time but referee Marco Guida failed to award a spot-kick.

“I don’t think there’s much to explain, I think everyone saw the match. We saw various incidents and it’s not the first time,” a livid Conte told reporters. “I accept being told that ‘we made a mistake and we’re sorry’ but I can’t accept being told ‘I don’t feel like I could give it’.

“If the assistant and the fourth

official both say it was a penalty then the referee can’t say ‘I wasn’t able to give it’. That isn’t football.

“We’ll all human beings and we can all make mistakes, but you have to take responsibility for what you do. That is a stonewall penalty and that’s all there is to it.”

Juventus protest

The protests from the Juventus staff carried on in the tunnel, with Sky Sport Italia reporting that Conte, Leonardo Bonucci and injured Giorgio Chiellini harangued Guida. Genoa president Enrico Preziosi was equally angry, saying: “There’s arrogance from Conte, he assaulted the referee, I hope something is done about it.

“We didn’t complain about the Vucinic’s handball... Milan lost a title to the (Sulley) Muntari ghost goal (scored against Juventus last season but not given because officials failed to see it had crossed the line).”

Fabio Quagliarella was on hand to put Juve ahead from

Stephan Lichtsteiner’s low cross on 54 minutes after the Swiss was expertly found by Vucinic. Genoa struck 14 minutes later on a rare foray forward, Juraj Kucka’s great work on the right ending with a superb cross from which Borriello gleefully headed home his sixth goal of the season.

Alberto Paloschi’s seventh goal of the season 61 minutes into an uneventful match for Chievo with second-placed Lazio inflicted Vladimir Petkovic’s side’s first loss since early November.

Lazio were dominant but could not break down a resilient Chievo side and Paloschi tapped home his seventh goal of the season from their only chance of the game after Bojan Jokic’s shot crashed against the bar and fell at the striker’s feet. “We didn’t deserve to lose today, Chievo took advantage of the only chance they had,” Petkovic said. “We struggled because they always had nine men behind the ball. We have to think positively and start over again.

BARCELONA, Spain — Valencia and Levante won in dramatic fashion from late goals in the Spanish league on Saturday, lifting the pair of crosstown rivals into Europa League positions.

Defender Ricardo Costa headed in Valencia’s injury-time winner to cap its 3-2 fightback victory at nine-man Deportivo La Coruna, while Levante edged out Valladolid 2-1 thanks to Antonio Rukavina’s own goal in the 90th minute.

Valencia rebounded from its 5-0 thrashing in the league and its subsequent elimination from the Copa del Rey this week by Real Madrid to move into fifth place. Levante is level on points with Valencia in sixth.

Elsewhere, Real Sociedad was held to 1-1 at 10-man Celta Vigo, while Espanyol drew 0-0 at Real Zaragoza in a rough-and-tumble contest that both teams ended with 10 men. Valencia forward Jonas stunned the crowd at Riazor Stadium with a headed goal just 30 seconds into the game.

Valencia proceeded to squander various looks on goal before Ivan “Riki” Sanchez made it 1-1 with a header in the 32nd against the flow of play. The striker then grabbed his brace with a strike from the edge of the box in first-half stoppage time. Deportivo’s Silvio Azevedo was dismissed for a second bad tackle in the 52nd, and Valencia forward Nelson Valdez evened the score by stabbing in substitute Juan Bernat’s cross in the 63rd.

Deportivo’s Daniel Aranzubia kept his team alive until Andres Guardado picked out Costa at the far post to beat the ‘keeper for a third and decisive time, keeping Deportivo at the bottom of the table. Deportivo’s Assuncao saw a direct red card for elbowing Valdez before the final whistle.

“We knew it was going to be complicated,” said Valencia coach Ernesto Valverde. “Deportivo is in last place and yet has been playing with a lot of fight, so we knew the difference in the standings wouldn’t be seen on the pitch.” Earlier, Levante forward Jose Barkero curled a free kick over the barrier and just inside the post a minute before halftime to level for the hosts after Javier Baraja struck first for Valladolid in the eighth with a long-range volley.

Levante carried the initiative the rest of the way, and its effort paid off when Rukavina inadvertently sent the ball into his own net while trying to stop the progress of Obafemi Martins into the area.

Levante coach Juan Ignacio Martinez said he was most pleased with his team’s capacity to come from behind to get the win.

“They scored a great goal that weighed heavily on us,” said Martinez. “But the important thing is that we knew how to regain our composure.” Levante defender Sergio Ballesteros left the game in the first half holding the back of his left thigh. Martinez said his captain had a muscle pull and would undergo tests to determine its severity.

Valladolid, which had won two straight, remained in 10th place, just five points behind Valencia at the tail end of a pack of teams challenging for a top-six finish and a place in European competitions next season. The top four finishers go to the Champions League.

In Vigo, Celta forward Michael Krohn-Dehli netted after working a one-two combination with Iago Aspas to take the lead in the 32nd minute.

Celta’s Augusto Fernandez was sent off with his second yellow card in the 50th, and 10 minutes later defender Gorka Elustondo headed in Sociedad’s equalizer from a corner kick.

Celta’s draw left it two points above the drop zone, while Sociedad stayed in ninth place with just one loss in the last 12 rounds.

“Celta defended well with 10 players, but I think we wasted a good occasion to win here,” said Sociedad coach Philippe Montanier.

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Manchester United hungry for overdue FA Cup win

Adebayor goal puts Togo on way to salvation

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LONDON - Manchester United are targeting a first FA Cup triumph for nine years after breezing into the last 16 with a 4-1 thrashing of Fulham on Saturday. The competition has often been shunted down manager Alex Ferguson’s priority list over the past decade with the Premier League and Champions League taking preference.

“The FA Cup is an important trophy for us this season. We haven’t won it for 10 years,” Ferguson told ESPN. “Rio Ferdinand has never won an FA Cup medal, so we need to do something about that.”

Of the side that started at Old Trafford on Saturday only Ryan Giggs has an FA Cup winners’ medal and it was the veteran Welsh winger who put United on their way to a comfortable victory after converting a third-minute penalty. Giggs, who played in the 2004 FA Cup final win over Millwall but tasted defeat in finals against Arsenal in 2005 and Chelsea in 2007, said the club’s recent performances in the competition had not been up to scratch.

“We have not done as well as we should have in the FA Cup over the last eight or nine years,” he said. “There are a lot of players that are desperate to win it. The history that we’ve got in the competition, we should be there getting to finals, so hopefully this will be the year.”

Ferguson left the country’s leading goalscorer Robin van Persie on the bench against Fulham but sent out an experienced side with Wayne Rooney on target and Javier Hernandez netting twice. “We picked a very strong team because we didn’t want to make any slip-ups,” Ferguson said. Premier League leaders United have won the FA Cup a record 11 times.

RUSTENBURG, South Africa Emmanuel Adebayor, for so long the central figure in Togo’s footballing fortunes, put his pre-tournament troubles behind him when he scored the opening goal in their 2-0 victory over Algeria in the African Nations Cup on Saturday.

Adebayor’s 32nd minute strike not only helped seal Algeria’s fate as the first side to be eliminated after two defeats, it also sent Ivory Coast into the quarter-finals as Group D winners.

Togo’s second goal in the second minute of stoppage time from substitute Dove Wome clinched the victory late into the night after the match was halted for 13 minutes while a phalanx of men battled to straighten a leaning goalpost.

They had to remove the whole goal frame from its supports and re-erect it after Algeria’s Adlene Guedioura pulled the goal out of position when he clung on to the net for support after another failed attempt in the 86th minute.

The win was only Togo’s third in 19 matches in the finals and their first since the trauma of the Cabinda incident in Angola in 2010 when two members of their entourage were killed when gunmen attacked their bus.

Togo withdrew from those finals and did not qualify for last year’s tournament in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. They opened this tournament with a 2-1 defeat to Ivory Coast, but this victory puts them within touching distance of the last eight. After two matches Ivory Coast lead the standings with six points, Togo and Tunisia have three and Algeria have none. Togo and Tunisia meet on Wednesday to decide who goes through with the Ivorians, who face Algeria.

While the 2-0 win was a triumph for Togo, it was a personal success too for Adebayor as he was left out of Didier Six’s original squad but was brought in after the French coach was overruled by the FA

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Togo’s Emmanuel Adebayor, left, is challenged by Algeria’s Yassine Bezzaz during their African Cup of Nations Group D soccer match at the Royal Bafokeng Stadium in Rustenburg, South Africa, Saturday Jan. 26, 2013. president who ordered him to include the talismanic striker.

He made up for missing what should have been a certain goal in the second minute of their opening match against Ivory Coast, with an emphatic finish against Algeria after breaking free of the defence and firing low past keeper Rais Mbolhi.

The goal came against the run of play as Algeria had dominated the opening half-an-hour with the clever Sofiane Feghouli pulling

the strings.

However none of their attempts produced a goal and with time running out Wome ran on to a loose ball and fired home the second to bring a long, emotional and at times farcical night to a close.

Algeria, despite having the second-best FIFA ranking (22) of all 16 teams in the tournament behind favourite Ivory Coast (14), flattered to decive in both games they played.

for a medical next week, the BBC reported on Saturday. The deal for Coutinho, 20, is reported to be worth around 8.5 million pounds ($13.4 million).

The former Brazil youth international moved on loan from Inter to

La Liga’s Espanyol last year having joined the Italian giants from Vasco de Gama in 2010.

Coutinho has scored twice in the Europa League this season for Inter and has made 47 appearances for the three-times European champions.

Liverpool agree fee for Inter’s Coutinho Reuters

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Manchester United’s Javier Hernandez, right, celebrates with teammate Wayne Rooney after scoring against Fulham during their English FA Cup fourth round soccer match at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, England, Saturday Jan. 26, 2013.

LONDON - Liverpool have agreed a deal to sign Inter Milan’s Brazilian attacking midfielder Philippe Coutinho who is poised to travel to the Premier League club

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Sp rt Valencia and Levante snatch late wins in Spain Associated Press

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Juventus’ Fabio Quagliarella celebrates after he scored during a Serie A soccer match between Juventus and Genoa at the Juventus Stadium in Turin, Italy, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013.

Juventus frustrated

by Borriello, Lazio shocked Reuters

ROME - A second-half equaliser by Marco Borriello earned struggling Genoa a 1-1 draw at Serie A leaders Juventus on Saturday, denting the champions’ hopes of a second successive title.6. Former Juve forward Borriello struck in the 68th minute to leave Antonio Conte’s side on 49 points at the top, six clear of Napoli and Lazio who earlier suffered a shock 1-0 home defeat by Chievo Verona.

Genoa, playing for the first time under new manager Davide Ballardini, moved up to 18 points but remained third bottom as Chievo climbed to 11th place on 28 points.

The Juve match was marred by controversy over two penalties not given to the champions in the second half and Juventus striker Mirko Vucinic went unpunished for what appeared to be a clear handball in the area.

Luca Antonelli looked to have pulled Vucinic’s shirt as the forward stretched for Emanuele Giaccherini’s 80th-minute cross, while Andreas Granqvist sparked furious protests from Juventus when he kicked the ball on to his hand in stoppage time but referee Marco Guida failed to award a spot-kick.

“I don’t think there’s much to explain, I think everyone saw the match. We saw various incidents and it’s not the first time,” a livid Conte told reporters. “I accept being told that ‘we made a mistake and we’re sorry’ but I can’t accept being told ‘I don’t feel like I could give it’.

“If the assistant and the fourth

official both say it was a penalty then the referee can’t say ‘I wasn’t able to give it’. That isn’t football.

“We’ll all human beings and we can all make mistakes, but you have to take responsibility for what you do. That is a stonewall penalty and that’s all there is to it.”

Juventus protest

The protests from the Juventus staff carried on in the tunnel, with Sky Sport Italia reporting that Conte, Leonardo Bonucci and injured Giorgio Chiellini harangued Guida. Genoa president Enrico Preziosi was equally angry, saying: “There’s arrogance from Conte, he assaulted the referee, I hope something is done about it.

“We didn’t complain about the Vucinic’s handball... Milan lost a title to the (Sulley) Muntari ghost goal (scored against Juventus last season but not given because officials failed to see it had crossed the line).”

Fabio Quagliarella was on hand to put Juve ahead from

Stephan Lichtsteiner’s low cross on 54 minutes after the Swiss was expertly found by Vucinic. Genoa struck 14 minutes later on a rare foray forward, Juraj Kucka’s great work on the right ending with a superb cross from which Borriello gleefully headed home his sixth goal of the season.

Alberto Paloschi’s seventh goal of the season 61 minutes into an uneventful match for Chievo with second-placed Lazio inflicted Vladimir Petkovic’s side’s first loss since early November.

Lazio were dominant but could not break down a resilient Chievo side and Paloschi tapped home his seventh goal of the season from their only chance of the game after Bojan Jokic’s shot crashed against the bar and fell at the striker’s feet. “We didn’t deserve to lose today, Chievo took advantage of the only chance they had,” Petkovic said. “We struggled because they always had nine men behind the ball. We have to think positively and start over again.

BARCELONA, Spain — Valencia and Levante won in dramatic fashion from late goals in the Spanish league on Saturday, lifting the pair of crosstown rivals into Europa League positions.

Defender Ricardo Costa headed in Valencia’s injury-time winner to cap its 3-2 fightback victory at nine-man Deportivo La Coruna, while Levante edged out Valladolid 2-1 thanks to Antonio Rukavina’s own goal in the 90th minute.

Valencia rebounded from its 5-0 thrashing in the league and its subsequent elimination from the Copa del Rey this week by Real Madrid to move into fifth place. Levante is level on points with Valencia in sixth.

Elsewhere, Real Sociedad was held to 1-1 at 10-man Celta Vigo, while Espanyol drew 0-0 at Real Zaragoza in a rough-and-tumble contest that both teams ended with 10 men. Valencia forward Jonas stunned the crowd at Riazor Stadium with a headed goal just 30 seconds into the game.

Valencia proceeded to squander various looks on goal before Ivan “Riki” Sanchez made it 1-1 with a header in the 32nd against the flow of play. The striker then grabbed his brace with a strike from the edge of the box in first-half stoppage time. Deportivo’s Silvio Azevedo was dismissed for a second bad tackle in the 52nd, and Valencia forward Nelson Valdez evened the score by stabbing in substitute Juan Bernat’s cross in the 63rd.

Deportivo’s Daniel Aranzubia kept his team alive until Andres Guardado picked out Costa at the far post to beat the ‘keeper for a third and decisive time, keeping Deportivo at the bottom of the table. Deportivo’s Assuncao saw a direct red card for elbowing Valdez before the final whistle.

“We knew it was going to be complicated,” said Valencia coach Ernesto Valverde. “Deportivo is in last place and yet has been playing with a lot of fight, so we knew the difference in the standings wouldn’t be seen on the pitch.” Earlier, Levante forward Jose Barkero curled a free kick over the barrier and just inside the post a minute before halftime to level for the hosts after Javier Baraja struck first for Valladolid in the eighth with a long-range volley.

Levante carried the initiative the rest of the way, and its effort paid off when Rukavina inadvertently sent the ball into his own net while trying to stop the progress of Obafemi Martins into the area.

Levante coach Juan Ignacio Martinez said he was most pleased with his team’s capacity to come from behind to get the win.

“They scored a great goal that weighed heavily on us,” said Martinez. “But the important thing is that we knew how to regain our composure.” Levante defender Sergio Ballesteros left the game in the first half holding the back of his left thigh. Martinez said his captain had a muscle pull and would undergo tests to determine its severity.

Valladolid, which had won two straight, remained in 10th place, just five points behind Valencia at the tail end of a pack of teams challenging for a top-six finish and a place in European competitions next season. The top four finishers go to the Champions League.

In Vigo, Celta forward Michael Krohn-Dehli netted after working a one-two combination with Iago Aspas to take the lead in the 32nd minute.

Celta’s Augusto Fernandez was sent off with his second yellow card in the 50th, and 10 minutes later defender Gorka Elustondo headed in Sociedad’s equalizer from a corner kick.

Celta’s draw left it two points above the drop zone, while Sociedad stayed in ninth place with just one loss in the last 12 rounds.

“Celta defended well with 10 players, but I think we wasted a good occasion to win here,” said Sociedad coach Philippe Montanier.

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Manchester United hungry for overdue FA Cup win

Adebayor goal puts Togo on way to salvation

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LONDON - Manchester United are targeting a first FA Cup triumph for nine years after breezing into the last 16 with a 4-1 thrashing of Fulham on Saturday. The competition has often been shunted down manager Alex Ferguson’s priority list over the past decade with the Premier League and Champions League taking preference.

“The FA Cup is an important trophy for us this season. We haven’t won it for 10 years,” Ferguson told ESPN. “Rio Ferdinand has never won an FA Cup medal, so we need to do something about that.”

Of the side that started at Old Trafford on Saturday only Ryan Giggs has an FA Cup winners’ medal and it was the veteran Welsh winger who put United on their way to a comfortable victory after converting a third-minute penalty. Giggs, who played in the 2004 FA Cup final win over Millwall but tasted defeat in finals against Arsenal in 2005 and Chelsea in 2007, said the club’s recent performances in the competition had not been up to scratch.

“We have not done as well as we should have in the FA Cup over the last eight or nine years,” he said. “There are a lot of players that are desperate to win it. The history that we’ve got in the competition, we should be there getting to finals, so hopefully this will be the year.”

Ferguson left the country’s leading goalscorer Robin van Persie on the bench against Fulham but sent out an experienced side with Wayne Rooney on target and Javier Hernandez netting twice. “We picked a very strong team because we didn’t want to make any slip-ups,” Ferguson said. Premier League leaders United have won the FA Cup a record 11 times.

RUSTENBURG, South Africa Emmanuel Adebayor, for so long the central figure in Togo’s footballing fortunes, put his pre-tournament troubles behind him when he scored the opening goal in their 2-0 victory over Algeria in the African Nations Cup on Saturday.

Adebayor’s 32nd minute strike not only helped seal Algeria’s fate as the first side to be eliminated after two defeats, it also sent Ivory Coast into the quarter-finals as Group D winners.

Togo’s second goal in the second minute of stoppage time from substitute Dove Wome clinched the victory late into the night after the match was halted for 13 minutes while a phalanx of men battled to straighten a leaning goalpost.

They had to remove the whole goal frame from its supports and re-erect it after Algeria’s Adlene Guedioura pulled the goal out of position when he clung on to the net for support after another failed attempt in the 86th minute.

The win was only Togo’s third in 19 matches in the finals and their first since the trauma of the Cabinda incident in Angola in 2010 when two members of their entourage were killed when gunmen attacked their bus.

Togo withdrew from those finals and did not qualify for last year’s tournament in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. They opened this tournament with a 2-1 defeat to Ivory Coast, but this victory puts them within touching distance of the last eight. After two matches Ivory Coast lead the standings with six points, Togo and Tunisia have three and Algeria have none. Togo and Tunisia meet on Wednesday to decide who goes through with the Ivorians, who face Algeria.

While the 2-0 win was a triumph for Togo, it was a personal success too for Adebayor as he was left out of Didier Six’s original squad but was brought in after the French coach was overruled by the FA

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Togo’s Emmanuel Adebayor, left, is challenged by Algeria’s Yassine Bezzaz during their African Cup of Nations Group D soccer match at the Royal Bafokeng Stadium in Rustenburg, South Africa, Saturday Jan. 26, 2013. president who ordered him to include the talismanic striker.

He made up for missing what should have been a certain goal in the second minute of their opening match against Ivory Coast, with an emphatic finish against Algeria after breaking free of the defence and firing low past keeper Rais Mbolhi.

The goal came against the run of play as Algeria had dominated the opening half-an-hour with the clever Sofiane Feghouli pulling

the strings.

However none of their attempts produced a goal and with time running out Wome ran on to a loose ball and fired home the second to bring a long, emotional and at times farcical night to a close.

Algeria, despite having the second-best FIFA ranking (22) of all 16 teams in the tournament behind favourite Ivory Coast (14), flattered to decive in both games they played.

for a medical next week, the BBC reported on Saturday. The deal for Coutinho, 20, is reported to be worth around 8.5 million pounds ($13.4 million).

The former Brazil youth international moved on loan from Inter to

La Liga’s Espanyol last year having joined the Italian giants from Vasco de Gama in 2010.

Coutinho has scored twice in the Europa League this season for Inter and has made 47 appearances for the three-times European champions.

Liverpool agree fee for Inter’s Coutinho Reuters

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Manchester United’s Javier Hernandez, right, celebrates with teammate Wayne Rooney after scoring against Fulham during their English FA Cup fourth round soccer match at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, England, Saturday Jan. 26, 2013.

LONDON - Liverpool have agreed a deal to sign Inter Milan’s Brazilian attacking midfielder Philippe Coutinho who is poised to travel to the Premier League club

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Gelang Agung Temple

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Dang Kahyangan Gelang Agung Temple is situated at Buangga hamlet, Getasan village,

Petang subdistrict. Various kinds of cultural heritages are found in the temple. It is estimated, the cultural heritages existing in the temple originates from the

thirteenth century. The name of temple standing on ten ares of land is associated with various stories so that it is called Gelang Agung Temple. One of them is

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the discovery of bracelet-shaped objects made from bronze. Size of the bracelets is quite large with a slightly yellowish color.

This bracelet and a number of small bronze bracelets were found around the temple area.

But unfortunately, none of those heritages are still left. Priest of the Gelang Agung Temple, Jro Mangku I Made Terum and priest of the Dalem Buangga Temple, Jro Mangku I Ketut Malen, said that formerly the local senior figures often showed those objects.

However, it was not known where they were now. Until now, existence of the objects in the form of bracelets was not known including the preliminary evidence of the temple establishment. Surrounding communities only referred to the ancient stories. Approximately in 1997, when the excavation was carried out in the temple, it was found some objects such as perforated coins. They were still wrapped in leaves.

Surprisingly, the erythrina leaf used to wrap the perforated coins was still fresh. When the temple was first discovered, it was found a temple mound measuring one square meter. When excavated, there were various kinds of statues.

It was estimated that under the temple was still kept many relics.

Some of the relics are now stored in Gedong Arca. There are statue of Lord Vishnu riding a Garuda

mythical bird, phallus and statue resembling a lotus flower that consists of three parts, namely the octagonal lower part, three-tiered rectangular central frame and the topmost part is circular sculpture surrounded by carvings that resemble lotus leaves.

When seeing the existing phallus building next to it, the building is possibly a symbol of yoni. If both symbols are combined, then they form a symbol of fertility. There are also Padmasana relic where at the upper end is found the figure of the year written in Balinese script and some stone fragments whose the upper part are made from rock stone and rectangular-shaped building.

Various magical stories accompany the presence of the Gelang Agung Temple.

Jro Mangku Terum explained the structure of the Gelang Agung Temple was not much different from the other sanctums in Bali.

There was a two-tiered meru shrine used to venerate Goddess Sri. Besides, the temple also had Grand Chamber shrine as the abode of Danghyang Dwijendra. In certain seasons, especially when the rice plant of Buangga residents was attacked by pests and diseases, farmers would come to worship to the temple and invoke blessing to save the rice plant. Meanwhile, piodalan or anniversary of the temple fell on Buda Umanis Julungwangi.

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Emotional Azarenka emerges a champion again Reuters

MELBOURNE - Victoria Azarenka took everything the Australian Open could throw at her and emerged a champion. The Belarussian won her second successive title at Melbourne Park on Saturday with a 4-6 6-4 6-3 victory over China’s Li Na, bursting into tears as the emotion and stress of a fortnight came pouring out.

“You have to go through rough patches to achieve great things,” Azarenka told Channel 7, the host broadcaster. “It’s been tough but I am happy here right now. There were new experiences for me in the last couple of days. I have to say thanks to my team for being so supportive.

It was a victory that ensures she will stay at the top of the world rankings for at least a few more weeks but winning a second grand slam title will be of even more satisfaction. When Li turned her left ankle early in

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Victoria Azarenka of Belarus poses with the Australian Open trophy in the Royal Botanical Gardens following her win over China’s Li Na in the women’s final, in Melbourne, Australia, Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013.

Waiting game for Snedeker in Torrey Pines fog Reuters

SAN DIEGO - Defending champion Brandt Snedeker had to endure a marathon day of putting practice and waiting around at the Farmers Insurance Open on Saturday before play was finally abandoned because of thick fog.

The fast-talking American, who trails tournament leader Tiger Woods by seven shots, arrived at the course at 5:30 a.m. local (1330 GMT) for a scheduled tee time at 7:40 a.m., and left at around 4 p.m. without hitting a single competitive stroke after only five minutes of third-round action was possible.

Weather permitting, play will resume on Sunday at the picturesque Torrey Pines venue where the $6.1 million PGA Tour event is heading for a rare Monday finish. “It’s frustrating,” Snedeker told Reuters after spending a couple of hours chatting with his fellow players, caddies and officials on the practice putting green. “Everyone’s wants to play. “I feel like on this golf course it would have been a lot of fun today. There’s a great leaderboard lined up and a lot of action could have happened today. It’s really frustrating when it doesn’t happen.

“It has turned into a long day. I’ve been here since early this morning so you’re a little tired and you want to get out there and play as much as you can.”

Asked how he had managed to while away the time as a blanket of thick fog lingered at the coastal venue, Snedeker replied with a broad grin: “You tell a lot of stories. I’ve been catching up with some guys I haven’t seen in a while.

“You eat four or five times and you try to pass the time as best as possible. You don’t want to think too much about the golf course. You want to keep your mind fresh.”

the second set, the match swung in Azarenka’s favour. When the Chinese fell again in the third and banged her head, it was getting surreal.

But the way the top seed dug herself out of a hole to clinch victory showed immense mental strength. In her semi-final against American teenager Sloane Stephens, Azarenka had incurred the wrath of everyone watching when she took a 10-minute double injury timeout just as Stephens was serving to stay in the match.

Her attempts to explain it fell flat and when she was introduced to the Rod Laver Arena on Saturday, a number of jeers rang out.

“I was expecting way worse, actually,” she told reporters. “But what can you do? You just have to go out and play your tennis. “It was definitely not easy with all the attention, with all the press around. But it was definitely a new experience for me that I think I handled quite well.

“I can only learn from this experience and move forward and try to improve as a player and as a person, as well.” During the match,

one fan called out “quiet please Azarenka”, in reference to her high-pitched grunting and the crowd was firmly behind Li. On the court, Azarenka could not cope with the former French Open champion’s aggressive returns, at times a little slow to react after her serve.

The first set went to the Chinese but slowly and surely, Azarenka began to work Li around the court, extending the rallies and making her opponent work harder for her points.

Azarenka took a 3-1 lead in the second set and then watched as Li fell in pain after turning her left ankle.

Considering the drama of her semi-final, Azarenka must have wondered what was going on but she kept her cool and stuck to her gameplan, levelling the match.

The drama moved up a level when Li slipped and hit her head on the court at 2-1 in the third set and when they resumed, Azarenka saved a break point to square the decider at 2-2. After breaking in the next game, she came through a long service game to stay ahead at 5-3 and then broke Li again to clinch victory.

Her celebrations were subdued but when she sat down in her chair, the tears flowed uncontrollably. “This one is way more emotional (than last year),” she said. “It’s going to be extra special for me, for sure.”

Okafor sparks big win for Wizards over Bulls

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Washington’s Emeka Okafor dominated inside as the improving Wizards stunned the Chicago Bulls 86-73 to record their fifth straight home win on Saturday. At 11-31 Washington have the second worst record in the NBA, ahead of only Charlotte (11-32), but turned the tables on joint Central Division leaders Chicago (26-17) behind Okafor’s 15 points and 16 rebounds.

It was the seventh win in 10 games for the Wizards, who started the season 0-12 and lost 28 of their first 32 games. “We have just gotten better at our new recent style of play,” Okafor told reporters. “These last few past games we have been playing extremely good basketball both on the offensive end moving the ball and the defensive end moving around. ...

“We are the team that we thought we were supposed to be.” Nene added 16 points and John Wall 15 for Washington. Only reserve Nate Robinson finished in double figures for Chicago, collecting a game high 19 points. The Wizards went on an 11-0 run late in the second quarter to establish a six-point halftime lead, before a 10-2 spurt to start the third put them firmly in command.

Chicago scored only 11 points in third, their lowest output in any quarter this season, and had more turnovers (six) than field goals (three) in the quarter. Bulls center Joakim Noah narrowly missed a triple-double, collecting 17 rebounds and 10 assists and nine points.

“We got beat by a team that played harder than us,” Noah said. “They played really well and we played tired basketball. Our offense wasn’t as fluid.”

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Washington Wizards center Emeka Okafor (50) takes a shot against Chicago Bulls center Joakim Noah, right, during the second half of an NBA basketball game, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013, in Washington. The Wizards won 86-73.

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Leftist ex-PM Zeman wins Czech presidential election Reuters

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People’s Action Party candidate Koh Poh Koon arrives at the poll counting center during the Punggol East by-election in Singapore January 26, 2013.

Singapore ruling party rebuked in by-election as disquiet rises Reuters

SINGAPORE - Singapore’s long-dominant People’s Action Party (PAP) lost heavily in a singleseat by-election on Saturday, a barometer of how the government is dealing with discontent in the wealthy Asian country over immigration and the high cost of living.

The result in the Punggol East ward - 54.5 percent of the vote for the Workers Party and 43.7 percent for the PAP, with the rest split by two others - does not alter the balance of power in parliament, where the ruling party will still hold 80 of 87 elected seats. But the rebuke in the relatively young and affluent constituency sends a signal to the PAP about the level of dissatisfaction in the city-state of 5.3 million people that is a hub for banks and multinational companies.

“I want a difference,” said Nita, a woman in her 30s. “If the Workers Party can do well in Punggol East, the other constituencies are also watching.”

Some analysts had expected the PAP to eke out a victory, especially if the three opposition candidates diluted the anti-government vote.

The next general election is due in 2016.

The seat in Punggol East, won

by the PAP in 2011 with 54 percent of the vote, was vacant after the speaker of parliament quit in December over an extramarital affair.

Other recent scandals include last year’s arrest of the civil defense chief and head of the police antidrug unit on corruption charges.

“I respect the choice of Punggol East voters,” Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in a statement.

He called on people to refocus on national issues including the 2013 budget and a new population and immigration plan the government is preparing to deliver.

“The PAP will continue to improve the lives of Singaporeans, and present our report card for voters to judge in the next general elections,” he said.

The PAP - founded by Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s first leader for three decades and father of the current prime minister - has won every national election since

independence in 1965, transforming the post-colonial port into a major financial center by keeping the economy open and society regimented.

But the 2011 election was its worst showing ever, prompting the government to engage more openly with increasingly vocal citizens over their concerns about property prices, public transport and immigration. Foreigners now make up about 38 percent of the population, up from about 25 percent in 2000.

Rolling out measures to help Singaporeans, it has raised the levy on foreigners buying property and boosted spending on housing grants, subsidized childcare and cash gifts for babies to try to raise one of the world’s lowest fertility rates.

But as Saturday’s by-election shows, many people expect more from the government, or at least a bigger say for the opposition.

PRAGUE - Leftist former prime minister Milos Zeman won the Czech Republic’s first direct presidential election on Saturday, beating a conservative opponent he had accused of favoring foreign interests in a bitter campaign. Zeman, a 68-year-old who favors more integration within the European Union, won by 54.8 to 45.2 percent over Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg, results from 99.9 percent of voting districts showed.

Economic forecaster Zeman, a Communist Party member before the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, will steer Czechs closer to Europe’s mainstream.

Zeman said he wants to overcome divisions provoked by the election in the central European country of 10.5 million people. The final stage of the campaign was marked by doubts cast on the national loyalties of Schwarzenberg, a prince from a centuries-old aristocratic family who lived much of his life in Austria.

Zeman promised to tackle graft, an issue which has dominated political debate for years. “I want to be president of the bottom 10 million. These include voters of Milos Zeman as well as Karel Schwarzenberg. I do not want to be president of mafias that act as parasites on this society,” Zeman said.

Zeman served as Social Democrat prime minister in 1998-2002 under a power-sharing deal with Klaus’s right-wing party that critics saw as a breeding ground for corruption.

Schwarzenberg conceded defeat and congratulated Zeman, but relations between the centre-right cabinet and new president may be strained.

Zeman, who has a folksy manner and a well-advertised appetite for sausages and alcohol, appeals to poorer and rural voters, unlike the government, which has raised taxes, cut social benefits and suffered several corruption scandals.

Prison riot in Venezuela, 61 killed Associated Press

CARACAS — The death toll has risen to 61 following fierce gunbattles between inmates and National Guard troops at a Venezuelan prison, a hospital director said Saturday. About 120 more people were wounded in one of the deadliest prison riots in the nation’s history.

Penitentiary Service Minister Iris Varela said Saturday that officials had begun evacuating inmates from the Uribana prison in Barquisimeto and transferring them to other facilities, but she did not provide an official death toll.

However, Dr. Ruy Medina, director of Central Hospital in the city of Barquisimeto, told The Associated Press that the number of dead had risen to 61. He initially told Venezuelan news media after the Friday uprising that about 50 were killed. Medina said that nearly all of the injuries were from gunshots and that 45 of the estimated 120 people who were wounded remained hospitalized. Some underwent surgeries for their wounds.

Relatives wept outside the prison during the violence, and cried at the morgue Saturday as they waited to identify bodies. The riot was the latest in a series of deadly clashes in Venezuela’s overcrowded and often anarchical prisons, where inmates typically obtain weapons and drugs with the help of corrupt guards. Critics called it proof that the government is failing to get a grip on a worsening national crisis in its penitentiaries.

The gunbattles seized attention amid uncertainty about President Hugo Chavez’s future, while he remained in Cuba recovering and undergoing treatment more than six weeks after his latest cancer surgery.

Government officials pledged a thorough investigation, while some critics said there should have been ways for the authorities to prevent such bloodshed. Nayibe Mendez, the mother of a 22-year-old inmate in the prison, told the AP that she was able to talk by phone with her son and he was uninjured.

“What they say is that there were shots all over the place, and they don’t know where they came from,” Mendez said. “It was a massacre. A full list hasn’t come out of the dead and injured.” Mendez spoke by telephone from the morgue, where she said she went out of solidarity. “We’re all hurt. No matter what, a prisoner has a right to live,” she said, demanding that the authorities fully investigate what happened.

Varela said during a news conference that officials decided to evacuate all inmates from the prison in order to “close this chapter of violence.” She said victims had wounds from guns, explosives and knives or other sharp weapons made by the inmates.

Varela did not provide any estimates of the numbers killed and injured, and instead criticized Venezuelan news media at length for their coverage of the violence.

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INDONESIA Landslides leaves 9 dead, 17 missing in Indonesia Associated Press

JAKARTA — Two separate landslides triggered by torrential rain in western Indonesia have killed at least nine people, including four geothermal workers, and left 17 others missing, officials said Sunday.

Disaster official Ade Edward said 20 houses were buried by mud and rocks that fell from surrounding hills at dawn Sunday in Tanjung Sani village in West Sumatra province’s Agam district.

Rescuers recovered five bodies and were searching for 17 people who reportedly were buried under the mud, he said. Three injured villagers were being treated at a

hospital.

Heavy rain also triggered a landslide late Saturday in a drilling field owned by PT. Pertamina Geothermal Energy, killing four workers on Sumatra island, company official Adiatma Sardjito said.

“The workers were having dinner when the landslide suddenly occurred,” Sardjito said, adding

that five others were injured and one was missing.

He said the company had sent heavy equipment to assist efforts to retrieve the bodies.

Seasonal downpours cause frequent landslides and flashfloods each year in Indonesia, a chain of 17,000 islands where millions of people live in mountainous areas or near fertile flood plains.

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pact. “Trade facilitation becomes a key driver for economic recovery, so this is now even ever more important to what it was before.”

Trade ministers from 24 nations met Saturday on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos in an unofficial gathering hosted by the Swiss government.

Afterward, Swiss Economic M i n i s t e r J o h a n n S c h n e i d e rAmmann said the group agreed they could reach a tentative agreement on some of the key elements of a global trade deal this summer, in preparation for the ministerial talks in December at Bali.

Schneider-Ammann said he sensed some “optimism” that efforts to streamline customs procedures and other rules to reduce the costs of trade “will be successful.”

The ministers agreed to resist protectionism, focus on elements such as trade facilitation and agriculture, and to “take stock” around Easter of the progress being made, Schneider-Ammann said.

“Serious attempts to deliver results in Bali have already started,” he added.

The Doha negotiations have been billed as a way of boosting economic development among

the poorest countries, by reducing barriers on their exports to wealthier markets.

The WTO’s director general, Pascal Lamy, has been telling the Davos gathering of political, business and academic elites that an international trade deal would provide a $1 trillion boost to the global economy. He estimates world trade is worth about $22 trillion.

Flanked by Schneider-Ammann, Lamy told reporters that he believes it is technically “doable” to craft draft agreements on some of the key elements of a deal by next summer.

U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk said he had to “temper” his enthusiasm for a deal since it has eluded the world for a decade.

Areas of dispute include tariffs on manufactured good, agricultural subsidies, market access and intellectual property rules. Brazil, China and India have resisted U.S. demands to lower taxes on imports of manufactured goods.

“But, at least of the 24 countries represented today, it felt like we had made more substantive progress,” Kirk said in an AP interview. “The good news is we’ve spent a lot of work on a smaller, more realistic package

AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim

A participant dressed as zombies perform during the annual Zombie Walk in Jakarta, Indonesia, Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013. Hundreds of participants marched in the capital to collect donations for recent flood victims and campaign against the disposal of waste to public places.

Indonesia readies for a$1 trillion trade talks DAVOS — Indonesia may hold the key to a $1 trillion injection into the global economy.

That’s how much the World Trade Organization believes is riding on talks later this year in Bali, when trade ministers hope to cut through some of the red tape that slows global commerce.

Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa told The Associated Press that failure is not an option and that a strong effort is being put in to ensure that the WTO meeting in Bali is “crowned with success.”

The current trade talks, known as the Doha Round, began in 2001, and after a decade of little progress for a range of reasons, many had pronounced the negotiations to reduce global trade barriers as dead.

There are hopes that the current fragile state of the world economy, including the debt crisis afflicting the 17 European Union countries that use the euro and unspectacular U.S. growth, may add impetus to the discussions.

“It’s very critical now, especially with the difficulties in the global economy, especially in the eurozone,” he said of efforts to reach a new global free trade

centered around trade facilitation, which can be a huge benefit to developing economies. And it feels like that is starting to bear fruit.”

Kirk, who leaves his job

next month, said the ministers renewed their commitment “to double down, do what we need to do” to reach a deal in Bali.

“I’m as hopeful as I’ve been in a long time.”

Police name 33 suspects in Sumbawa riot Antara

JAKARTA - The police have named 33 suspects in a recent riot in Sumbawa, West Nusa Tenggara province.

“Up till now the police have named 33 suspects. They are among 90 people who have been questioned,” head of the public relations division at the National Police Headquarters Insp. Gen. Suhardi Alius said here on Friday.

The suspects are undergoing in-depth questioning to see their role in the riot, he said.

Some 200 people were believed to have been involved in the attack on and the destruction and burning of property on Jalan Yos Sudarso at Seketeng village in Sumbawa district, West Nusa Tenggara province, on Tuesday.

The anarchic act led to the destruction of 13 houses, 2 minimarkets, a hotel and traditional market.

The riot was reportedly triggered by the death of Arniati who was allegedly raped and abused by her boyfriend who is also a police office, Brig. I Gede Eka Swarjana.

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Bali Post

DENPASAR - Coinciding with the feast of Tumpek Landep and full moon in the eight month based on Balinese calendar, Saturday (Jan 26), the family of Bali Post Media Group (KMB) held a piodalan or anniversary of the Kretti Bhuvana temple expected to provide safety and health to pilgrims and to sustain Bali. The ceremony belonged to the pedudusan alit nyatur rebah officiated over by a high priest from Griya Tegal Sari, Denpasar.

DAVOS — The crisis mood is gone, but that doesn’t mean you can slip back into your old ways — that’s the message from top international finance officials wrapping up the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

The developed world is still recovering from the shock of the financial crisis, which began in 2007 when U.S. banks revealed heavy losses related to mortgages handed out to people with shaky credit. With banks around the world teetering, the world economy slid into deepest recession since World War II and the recovery since has been unspectacular.

Angel Gurria, the secretary general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, echoed Lagarde, saying “let’s fight complacency with everything we’ve got, let’s continue with the reform process so we can consolidate this hesitant recovery.”

U.S. new home sales rise to 3-year high in 2012 Reuters

WASHINGTON - Sales of new U.S. single-family homes rose last year to the highest level since 2009, a sign the troubled U.S. housing market has turned a corner.

Americans bought 367,000 new single-family homes in 2012, up 19.9 percent from the prior year, the Commerce Department said on Friday.

Sales hit a nearly three-year high in November, before pulling back somewhat in December, it said.

The housing sector has been a point of strength in the economy over the last year, and Friday’s data reinforced expectations it will help offset the economic damage from tax hikes enacted this year.

“Overall the stage is set for more home building,” said Michelle Meyer, an economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch

in New York.

Momentum appeared to be growing in the U.S. economy at the close of 2012, helped by consumer spending. A measure of future U.S. economic growth from the Economic Cycle Research Institute picked up last week to its highest level since April 2011.

Still, a government report next week is expected to show economic growth slowed in the fourth quarter as businesses worked off inventories and the trade deficit widened.

The economic data appeared to have little impact on financial markets. U.S. stocks rose, buoyed by sturdy corporate earnings from Procter & Gamble and Honeywell, with the S&P 500 poised for its longest winning streak in more than eight years.

Economists think home building added to economic growth last year for the first time in seven

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Graced with presentation of Durga sanctified effigy

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took place in a more upbeat atmosphere than last year.

Fears over the breakup the euro currency union have abated, while the U.S. has avoided the so-called “fiscal cliff” of automatic tax increases and spending cuts that threatened to push the world’s largest economy back into recession.

The IMF estimates that the world economy will grow about 3.5 percent this year, modestly better than last year’s 3.2 percent. Yet the improvement is uneven. The eurozone and Japan are in recession, but the U.S. is growing, and emerging economies such as China are expanding much more quickly.

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Anniversary of Kretti Bhuvana temple

Davos summit ends with warnings on global economy

They warned governments Saturday against letting their relief over an improved economic climate turn into complacency over reforms many want to see in order to sustain a still-uncertain recovery.

“Do not relax,” International Monetary Fund head Christine Lagarde urged at a closing panel on the economic outlook.

She said the IMF outlook for a “fragile and timid” recovery depended on officials in the powerhouse economies of Europe, the U.S. and Japan making “the right decisions.”

Her comments came at the end of the gathering of 2,500 business, financial and political leaders that

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years. That boost was likely quite modest because housing is a much smaller part of the economy than it was before the 2007-2009 recession.

The number of sales in 2012 was still only about a third of the record number sold in 2005, before a housing collapse that helped trigger a financial crisis.

In December, sales dropped 7.3 percent to a seasonally adjusted 369,000-unit annual rate. That was below analysts’ forecasts of a 385,000-unit annual pace.

However, the department raised its estimate for sales in November by 22,000 to a 398,000-unit rate, making the pace of sales that month the fastest since April 2010.

Also adding some luster to the report, the median price for a new home rose to $248,900 in December from $245,600 in November, according to figures that are not adjusted for seasonal swings.

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Japan’s Economic Revival Minister Akira Amari attends the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos January 26, 2013.

Japan defends stimulus, yen policy under fire Reuters

DAVOS - Japan’s economy minister rejected criticism on Saturday that his country’s extraordinary fiscal and monetary stimulus programme was aimed at weakening the yen and undermined central bank independence.

Akira Amari told the World Economic Forum in Davos it was up to the market to determine the currency’s exchange rate, and the Bank of Japan had chosen independently to sign a joint statement with the government on actions to fight deflation and revive economic growth.

“You might think there’s a deliberate policy to drive down the value of the yen but we in government refrain from commenting on the exchange rate of the yen,” Amari said in response to criticism of Japanese action.

South Korea’s central bank governor questioned the efficacy of Japan’s easing of monetary policy and said the BOJ’s decision to start buying unlimited amounts of assets in 2014 could have unintended long-term consequences.

“What they did created a couple of problems,” Bank of Korea Gov-

ernor Kim Chong-soo told Reuters in an interview in Davos. “One is that the level (of the currency) is affected, and the pace of change is also a problem. They did it too hastily.”

A stable exchange rate is key for the Bank of Korea, Kim added.

The yen has come under pressure since reports on Thursday quoted deputy economy minister Yasutoshi Nishimura as saying the yen’s decline was not over, and that a dollar/yen level of 100 would not be a concern.

The Japanese currency is now trading around a 2-1/2 year low against the dollar at around 90 yen, as the market remained focused on Japan’s pursuit of a reflationary economic policy.

Appearing on the same panel, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde refrained from direct criticism but urged Japan to put forward a medium-term plan to reduce its public debt after this week’s measures.

“Japan has made very important decisions. We are very interested in these policies. We would like them to complement it with a mid-term plan on how the debt would be reduced,” Lagarde said.

The padudusan alit nyatur rebah used panca sata exorcism rite. The temple anniversary on Tumpek Landep was also expected to sharpen the mind and behavior of the Hindus. Balinese pilgrims looked to worship solemnly to Supreme God. The event was also graced with the presentation of religious arts as devotional works by gamelan troupe, Rejang dancer, Sidakarya mask dancer and screenless shadow puppet (wayang lemah) from Tunjuk village, Tabanan.

The screenless shadow puppet told about the churning of Mount Mandara Giri to get Tirtha Amerta (elixir of life) for salvation of mankind. Besides, a different nuance was also exuded in the temple anniversary of this time. A magical atmosphere, solemnity, positive vibration and divine inspiration were felt with the presentation of the sanctified effigy of Goddess Durga in the form of Rangda by Gung Bagus Supartama from Jero Lumintang, Denpasar.

Philosophically, the dance depicted the transformation of the Shakti (feminine aspect) of Lord Shiva, namely the beautiful Goddess Uma into Goddess Durga in a horrific figure of rangda with gaping mouth, protruding fangs, curly hairs and the spread of shawl. According to Gung Bagus Supartama, the transformation of Goddess Uma to Goddess Durga was called Durga Murti signifying the process of self-purification or ngranasika.

Presentation of the dance in conjunction with the Tumpek Landep celebration in the Dalem Bhuwana Kretti temple was intended as purification for the existence of parhyangan (spiritual aspect), pawongan (social aspect) and palemahan (environmental aspect) so that it could engender a vibration of purity, divine inspiration and harmonization between the three aspects. “The dance is meant to neutralize the negative aura or influence in the context of parhyangan, pawongan and palemahan,” explained the man nicknamed as Gung Gus. Gung Gus becoming the carrier of the sanctified effigy in the Dalem Manik Nataran Agung of Lumintang said that he had danced the effigy of Goddess Durga since 1996.

It was not intended for black magic or negative purposes but to neutralize negative vibrations and create positive ones. Unfortunately, there was misperception among the Balinese community. “When the dancer spells the nine directions was misinterpreted as a challenge against leak (mystical figure) whereas it is not a challenge, but purification,” he said.

When asked if there were obstacles when presenting the sanctified effigy, the man who was attending graduate studies in religion and culture in the Hindu University of Indonesia (Unhi) said there were usually people having black magic power disturbing him when making a presentation.

However, due to his faith and devotion to the goddess venerated, he had confidence the disturbance would disappear and the goddess would provide the guidance. “Many powers are usually disturbing, but I surrender my fate to her. I remain to believe in goddess so that when dancing there was no disturbing negative aura,” said the father of two children from his wife AA Sagung Oka Indra Parwati. (wid)

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A magical atmosphere, solemnity, positive vibration and divine inspiration were felt with the presentation of the sanctified effigy of Goddess Durga in the form of Rangda by Gung Bagus Supartama from Jero Lumintang, Denpasar.

Crossing in Bali Strait closed for an hour

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NEGARA - Due to heavy rain flushing the waters of Banyuwangi on Friday afternoon (Jan 25), the crossing in the Strait of Bali was closed temporarily.

The harbor authority of Ketapang closed the voyage at 4:30 p.m.

Heavy rain resulted in limited visibility and hazardous voyage. As a result, the harbormaster of Ketapang requested in order the voyage was closed

temporarily until the weather returned to normal. The harbor was just re-opened an hour later after the rain stopped. A number of ships sailing amidst the strait were forced to sail aside to the nearest harbor.

Operations Manager of Gilimanuk Harbor, Wahyudi Susianto, said the closure was made due to heavy rain in the waters of Ketapang. Such condition made the ship difficult to sail or berth. With

restricted visibility, the skipper was hard to see the situation when sailing so that it was feared to cause collision. On that account, the harbor was closed temporarily until the rain stopped.

According to him, the closure could be made at any time when the weather was considered hazardous for the crossing. He said the priority was the safety of passengers during the crossing. (kmb26)

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Due to heavy rain flushing the waters of Banyuwangi on Friday afternoon (Jan 25), the crossing in the Strait of Bali was closed temporarily. The harbor authority of Ketapang closed the voyage at 4:30 p.m.

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Inmates fools a Bali entrepreneur

FILE - In this Dec. 21, 2012 file image made from video, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks at a banquet for rocket scientists in Pyongyang, North Korea.

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DENPASAR - A Bali entrepreneur, Siantoro Triono, 61, a resident living at Jalan Intan LC No. 62/1 Gatot Subroto Timur, Denpasar, admitted to have undergone a criminal fraud. Claiming as a policeman, the culprit called and asked for money to the victim. Later on, the culprit was known as one of the inmates in Medan Jail, North Sumatra. As a result of the fraud, the victim suffered material losses reaching over IDR 30 million.

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Ceking tourist attraction at Tegallalang is one of the natural attractions drawing the interest of many tourists. Its daily visit is quite crowded.

Unfortunately, it has not had a parking area, so that visitors should make use of road body to park their vehicle.

Ceking tourist attraction

Having no parking space, village to lease a land Bali Post

GIANYAR - Ceking tourist attraction at Tegallalang is one of the natural attractions drawing the interest of many tourists. Its daily visit is quite crowded. Unfortunately, it has not had a parking area, so that visitors should make use of road body to park their vehicle.

Along the road body at the area was still used as parking space for tourist vehicles dropping by to see the beauty of rice terraces. Along the line on west roadside, a number of vehicles seemed to drop off their guests. The road was small and winding, so that such condition made it crowded. It had occurred since long ago without any solution from the government.

Since the past few years, the Ceking tourist attraction has been managed by Tegallalang customary village through a body established by customary village. Parking levy collection is now carried out by the officers of customary village, including the management of traffic flow passing through the area so as not to cause traffic congestion considering the road body is taken advantage for

parking space in half.

Chief of Tegallalang customary village, Pande Wayan Karsa, when asked for his confirmation justified that so far his party had not owned a parking area for vehicles carrying tourists to Ceking area. The constraints faced so far to build parking facility were budget and land. However, Karsa acknowledged that based on arrangement plan of Ceking tourist attraction, especially the parking area, the local tourism development agency had a plan to build a parking area in the north and south of Ceking tourist attraction.

There was a plan to build a parking space on privately owned land, namely the land of Ketut Suweta and Mustika. Both residents had approved to lease their land to customary village for parking. The area was estimated to reach 2,000 square meters.

The parking space required a fund reaching IDR 300 million more. In addition, the parking space development also needed heavy equipment to flatten the land. “Hopefully, the land used for parking space could be budgeted in this February,” he explained. (kmb16)

The fraud was revealed after a report from a student in Medan, Elka Faril, to North Sumatra Police.

Incidentally the student had a brother that served in the North Sumatra Police and said the saving in her account suddenly increased. Once checked, the sender was Siantoro Triono. Having been investigated, in fact the student account was used by the inmate to deceive.

Victim Siantoro Triono asked to send money to an account belonging to the student. “The student account was known by the prisoner from his friend outside the jail. Well, his friend was asked to withdraw the money from the account,” said the victim when met in the Bali Police, Friday (Jan 25).

According to the victim, the fraud took place on January 2, 2013. He was called by the culprit at dawn to his home number. The culprit claimed as a policeman serving in Bali Police and told if the victim’s child was arrested in a drug operation with three friends. On hearing this, the victim panicked. Such condition was taken advantage by the culprit to commit blackmail by asking for money to the victim. “My son is in Surabaya.

Hearing the information, I panicked. Moreover, in the rear there was a crying person that resembled to the voice of my son,” he explained.

As believing in it, the victim transferred money to the culprit in the hope his son could be freed.

Strangely, the culprit also asked the mobile phone number of victim. It was intended to make transaction. Initially, the victim was willing to send IDR 10 million, but the culprit refused. Finally, they agreed to IDR 20 million. Having been sent, the culprit was apparently not satisfied. The culprit requested

additional IDR 10 million and was sent to another account number. “I sent the money to two account numbers. Later, the culprit asked for mobile phone credit for three times. I sent IDR 300,000 and IDR 150,000,” he explained.

Not only that, few moments later, another person called the victim and claimed as a reporter. He asked for IDR 200 million. Without being fulfilled, he threatened to expose the arrest of the victim’s son. Automatically, reputation of the victim’s family as an entrepreneur would be harmed. To avoid unwanted things, the victim and the unclear individual journalist made a transaction ranging from IDR 100 million to IDR 200 million. As the victim was suspicious, the culprit hung up.

Suspicion of the victim was finally proved when he was called by the Unit Chief I of Sub Directorate IV Special Criminal Investigation of Bali Police, Ketut Soma Adnyana, on the following day. He said to have received a report from an officer of the North Sumatra Police related to the fraud afflicting the victim. Once explained, in fact the fraud was committed by an inmate of Medan Jail, North Sumatra. The victim also reported the fraud case to the Bali Police on Friday (Jan 25). Later, the case would be handed over to North Sumatra Police for further processing.

Spokesperson of Bali Police, Hariadi, claimed the report of victim had been received by the investigator of Bali Police. The case was still under development.

He hoped the people to be alert against any fraud case with similar mode because people still believed in such a thing. “To be more secure, please make coordination first with police before taking action (sending money—Ed),” he said. (kmb21)

Prone to tidal waves

Residents asked to avoid doing beach activities Bali Post

SINGARAJA - The potential for tidal waves in the waters of Buleleng was predicted to occur again until late January or early February. To that end, all the people living on the beach were hoped to alert in case of heavy rain and gale.

It was announced by Deputy Regent of Buleleng, Nyoman Sutjidra, when meeting hundreds of fishermen and coastal residents at Ponjok hamlet, Kubutambahan village, Friday (Jan 25). According to Sutjidra, the waters area of Buleleng was prone to tidal wave disaster. On the other hand, there were still many Buleleng residents living on the coast.

For this reason, he asked the residents to always alert as the potential of tidal waves remained possible. “Avoid doing any activities during heavy rain or gale on shoreline,” he said. In addition, Sutjidra also instructed the Regional Disaster Management

Agency (BPBD), Public Works Agency and Social Services to continuously perform a monitoring and always be prepared around the clock.

“We instruct the officials of the agencies to monitor the condition of the area for 24 hours,” he said.

Deputy Regent visited the coast with the Head of Social Services Komang Gede and a legislator Gede Supriyatna. On that occasion, the Deputy Regent delivered basic food aid respectively consisting of 10 kg of rice, instant noodles and sardines to 638 families becoming the disaster victims at seven locations in the coastal hamlet of Buleleng namely Ponjok hamlet, Bungkulan coastal village, Kampong Anyar village, Kampong Bugis village, Dencarik village and Banjar village, Banjar subdistrict.

The Head of Buleleng Social Services, Komang Gede, said the rice aid was obtained from the national rice reserve destined for disaster beneficiaries. “Our stock remains about ten tons,” he said. (kmb15)

North Korean Leader Vows Strong Action AP Photo/KRT via AP Video, File

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PYONGYANG - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un convened top security and foreign affairs officials and ordered them to take “substantial and high-profile important state measures,” state media said Sunday, indicating that he plans to push forward with a threat to explode a nuclear device in defiance of the United Nations.

The meeting of top officials led

by Kim makes clear that he backs Pyongyang’s defiant stance in protest of U.N. Security Council punishment for a December rocket launch.

The dispatch in the official Korean Central News Agency did not say when the meeting took place.

Last week, the Security Council condemned North Korea’s Dec. 12 launch of a long-range rocket as a violation of a ban against nuclear

and missile activity. The council, including North Korea ally China, punished Pyongyang with more sanctions and ordered the regime to refrain from a nuclear test — or face “significant action.”

North Korea responded by rejecting the resolution and maintaining its right to launch a satellite into orbit as part of a peaceful civilian space program.

It also warned that it would keep

developing rockets and testing nuclear devices to counter what it sees as U.S. hostility. A rare statement was issued Thursday by the powerful National Defense Commission, the top governing body led by Kim. North Korea cites a U.S. military threat in the region as a key reason behind its drive to build nuclear weapons. The two countries fought on opposite sides of the Korean War, which ended after three years in 1953 with an armistice, not a peace treaty. The U.S.-led U.N. Command mans the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Koreas, and Washington stations more than 28,000 troops in South Korea to protect its ally.

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Riots over Egyptian death sentences kill at least 32 Reuters

PORT SAID, Egypt/CAIRO - At least 32 people were killed on Saturday when Egyptians rampaged in protest at the sentencing of 21 people to death over a soccer stadium disaster, violence that compounds a political crisis facing Islamist President Mohamed Mursi.

Armored vehicles and military police fanned through the streets of Port Said, where gunshots rang out and protesters burned tires in anger that people from their city had been blamed for the deaths of 74 people at a match last year.

The rioting in Port Said, one of the most deadly spasms of violence since Hosni Mubarak’s ouster two years ago, followed a day of anti-Mursi demonstrations on Friday, when nine people were killed. The toll over the past two days stands at 41. The flareups make it even tougher for Mursi, who drew fire last year for expand-

ing his powers and pushing through an Islamist-tinged constitution, to fix the creaking economy and cool tempers enough to ensure a smooth parliamentary election.

That vote is expected in the next few months and is meant to cement a democratic transition that has been blighted from the outset by political rows and street clashes.

The National Defense Council, which is led by Mursi and includes the defense minister who commands the army, called for “a broad national dialogue that would be attended by independent national characters” to discuss political differences and ensure a “fair and transparent” parliamentary poll. The National Salvation Front of liberal-minded groups and other Mursi opponents cautiously welcomed the call.

Clashes in Port Said erupted after a judge sentenced 21 men to die for involvement in the deaths at the soccer match on February 1, 2012.

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Al Ahly fans, also known as “Ultras”, celebrate and shout slogans inside Al Ahly club’s training stadium after hearing the final verdict of the 2012 Port Said massacre, in Cairo January 26, 2013.

French, Malian forces capture Gao rebel stronghold Reuters

KONNA, Mali/PARIS - French and Malian forces fighting Islamist rebels took control on Saturday of the rebel bastion of Gao, the biggest military success so far in an offensive against al Qaedaallied insurgents occupying the country’s north. The United States and Europe back the U.N.-mandated Mali operation as a counterstrike against the threat of Islamist jihadists using the West African state’s inhospitable Sahara desert as a launching pad for international attacks.

In an overnight assault on Gao backed by French warplanes and helicopters, French special forces seized the town’s airport and a key bridge over the River Niger, killing an estiREUTERS/Joe Penney mated dozen Islamist fighters without Malian soldiers ride in a Malian army pickup truck in Diabaly suffering any losses or injuries, the French army said.

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“The Malian army and the French control Gao today,” Malian army spokesman Lieutenant Diaran Kone told Reuters. The speed of the French action in a two-week-old campaign suggested French and Malian government troops intended to drive aggressively into the north of Mali in the next few days against other Islamist rebel strongholds, such as Timbuktu and Kidal.

There have been 30 French air strikes on militant targets around Gao and Timbuktu in the past 36 hours.

News that the French and Malian troops were at Gao, the largest northern town held by the Islamists, came as African states struggled to deploy their intervention force in Mali, known as AFISMA, under a U.N. mandate.

Regional army chiefs said on Saturday that a total of 7,700 African

soldiers would be dispatched, up from 5,700. Liberia, Guinea-Bissau, Burundi, Guinea and Uganda are due to join the mission, but it was not clear if progress had been made at meetings in Abidjan or Addis Ababa to overcome gaps in transport, equipment and financing.

French army spokesman Colonel Thierry Burkhard said French forces had come under fire from rebel fighters inside Gao, but that both the bridge and airport runway were undamaged.

In Paris, the French Defense Ministry said Malian and French troop reinforcements were brought in and that soldiers from Chad and Niger, who have experience in desert warfare, were also flown in. Those Malian and regional troops would have the task of securing Gao and its surrounding area, the ministry said.

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Pope on social networking: the virtual is real

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VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI put church leaders on notice Thursday, saying social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter aren’t a virtual world they can ignore, but rather a very real world they must engage if they want to spread the faith to the next generation.

The 85-year-old Benedict, who tweets in nine languages, used his annual message on social communications to stress the potential of social media for the church as it struggles to keep followers and attract new ones amid religious apathy, competition from other churches and scandals that

have driven the faithful away.

Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, head of the Vatican’s communications office, cited a 2012 study commissioned by U.S. bishops that found that 53 percent of Americans were unaware of any significant presence of the Catholic Church online.

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Pope Benedict XVI is helped walk down steps by his aides as he presides a New Year’s Eve vespers service in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Monday, Dec. 31, 2012.

Other studies, Celli said, made clear that the “millennial generation” of people born after 1982 use Facebook, Twitter and YouTube far more than their parents as primary sources of information, entertainment and sharing political views and community issues.

“The digital environment is not a parallel or purely virtual world, but is part of the daily experience of many people, especially the young,” Benedict said in his message. “Social networks are the result of human interaction, but for their part they also reshape the dynamics of communication which builds relationships: a considered understanding of this environment is therefore the prerequisite for a significant presence there.”

Benedict himself still writes longhand, but he is a superstar online, with 2.5 million Twitter followers, nearly 11,000 of them following his Latin tweets alone.

And under his pontificate, the Holy See has greatly increased its presence online, with YouTube channels, papal apps and an online news portal www.news.va that gathers all Vatican information in one place.

But the digital exposure hasn’t come without risk or criticism: In the days after the Vatican announced that Benedict would respond to questions about faith on his first tweets from his (at)Pontifex handle last month, the Vatican was bombarded with threats of “Twitter bombs” from critics trying to scare the pope away from the online social forum.

“Leaving would’ve been a mistake,” said Monsignor Paul Tighe, the No. 2 in the Vatican’s social communications office. “It wouldn’t have been fair to abandon all the people who joyfully welcomed the pope’s message.”

Celli acknowledged that much of the pope’s message this year repeated exhortations from previous years about the need for respectful dialogue online, for users to present themselves authentically and to listen, not just preach.

“At first look it could look like reheated soup,” Celli conceded. But he said that sometimes messages need repeating, particularly in the 2,000-year-old Catholic Church. “I don’t want to make any particular revelations here, but don’t believe that everything that is said is absorbed at the ecclesial level.”

Celli noted, for example, that at a recent Vatican meeting of the world’s bishops on spreading the faith, the recommendations for the church’s social communications strategy “could have been written 30 years ago.”

“That means that he who is intervening doesn’t have the perception of what is happening today, in the sphere of social networking,” Celli said. “That’s a problem for us.”

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Dozens of ducks suddenly die Bali Post

BULELENG - After thousands of ducks found dead at Kuwum, Banyuatis village, Banjar subdistrict, similar case was then found at Kelodan hamlet, Ringdikit village in Seririt subdistrict. Dozens of ducks of more than twomonth-old were found suddenly dead and suspected to have been infected by bird flu virus.

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This January 2013 photo provided by MGM Resorts International shows the Chinese New Year floral display at the Bellagio Conservatory & Botanical Gardens in Las Vegas welcoming the year of the snake.

Feasts and flowers for Lunar New Year Associated Press

LAS VEGAS — Las Vegas is getting ready for the year of the snake. The casino capital celebrates Chinese New Year — also known as lunar new year — in a big way, with feasts, exhibits, performances and other events at outdoor festivals and at casino-resorts like Bellagio and The Venetian.

While the new year holiday falls on Feb. 10, some of the offerings are under way already and will continue through much of February. Las Vegas also hosts a three-day Chinese New Year in the Desert festival downtown, Feb. 8-10, and a one-day event in the city’s Chinatown neighborhood on Feb. 17.

Asians and Asian-Americans are an important and growing demographic in Las Vegas, in terms of both residential population and tourism. More than 6 percent of the 589,000 people who live in Las Vegas are Asian, according U.S. Census estimates. About 3 percent of the city’s 39 million annual visitors — totaling over a million people a year — are Asian or Asian-American, according to the 2011 Las Vegas Visitor Profile Study. International tourists include 188,000 annual airport arrivals from China, 132,000 from Korea and 107,000 from Japan, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, with even more flying into California airports and heading to Las Vegas by bus or car.

While Asian tourists visit Las Vegas throughout the year, the period surrounding the lunar new year holiday is a particularly popular time for leisure travel, especially among China’s growing middle class. “They want to leave their homes and go travel during holidays,” said Jan-Ie Low, who is helping to organize the Chinese New Year in the Desert festival in partnership with the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Fremont Street Experience. She said that according to tradition, if you travel during the new year holiday, “it’s a sign that you’re going to be doing this the whole year.”

This is the second year for the Chinese New Year in the Desert festival.

Cultural performances are scheduled for the Third Street Stage on Feb. 8 from 5 p.m.-10 p.m., and on Feb. 9 and 10, noon to 9 p.m. A dragon dance Feb. 8 at 6 p.m. will kick off with virtual fireworks on the 90-foot-high (27- meter) LED display canopy at Fremont Street Experience, the downtown pedestrian mall and entertainment area. A parade with floats steps off at 8 a.m. on Feb. 10. The festival also includes food vendors and other activities and events.

Las Vegas’ Chinatown is not a historically ethnic residential neighborhood like Chinatowns in New York or San Francisco. But it is a commercial area worth visiting for Asian restaurants and businesses, located along Spring Mountain Road west of the Las Vegas Strip. The Chinatown Year of the Snake festival takes place Feb. 17, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., with cuisine from around Asia, arts and crafts, and performances drawing on a variety of traditions, including Chinese lion and dragon dances, martial arts, Japanese taiko drummers and Polynesian dance.

Bellagio’s Conservatory & Botanical Gardens annual floral display welcoming the lunar new year is up through March 3. The display, incorporating principles of the Asian design philosophy feng shui, includes large hanging red lanterns, an 18-foot-tall (5.5-meter) money tree decorated with gold coins, a 9-foot (3-meter) blue-and-yellow snake, a waterfall, incense pots, and a wooden boat with a 38-foot (11.5-meter) mast in a pond of koi fish inspired by 15th century Chinese fishing vessels. Also on display are figures of six children wearing outfits made from hundreds of colorful carnations and chrysanthemums.

Bellagio will host a dragon and lion dance on Feb. 12 at 6:30 p.m., and a $500 per person new year dinner is being offered at Bellagio’s Tuscany Kitchen, prepared by the culinary team from Beijing’s Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, recreating dishes that have been served there to visiting dignitaries.

Information compiled on Friday (Jan 25) mentioned if the duck death case at Kelodan hamlet had been found since a few weeks ago. Chronologically, the death of ducks at Ringdikit was similar to that found at Kuwum hamlet, Banyuatis village.

The adult ducks were found suddenly dead in their cage. It happened successively so the breeders were restless. They worried if the live ducks would also die. The Head of Buleleng Agriculture and Livestock Agency, Nyoman Swatantra, when asked for his confirmation in his office on Friday justified if his party had received a report on the death of those ducks at Kelodan hamlet.

The report was then followed up by assigning a team of Field Extension Officer (PPL) to conduct on-site monitoring. After the death of those ducks, the field officers had taken some samples of the duck carcass for a laboratory test in the Bali Livestock Agency.

From the test of the sample, the dead duck was declared positive to bird flu virus

(H5N1). According to Swatantra, his party still observed and made socialization to farmers to prevent the spread of bird flu to the other live ducks. In addition, the effort to spray duck cage by disinfectant continued to be done.

Regarding the extermination to live ducks suspected of having been infected by bird flu, the Livestock Agency was still awaiting the results of monitoring by field officers. If the other death of ducks was still found, the extermination would be immediately carried out. By all means, before the extermination, the Livestock Agency would approach the breeders because they were small-scale farm business, so that it was required a measure to provide a compensation fund for their loss.

“We still continue to make observation, while the extermination is still attempted by making an approach first. It has something to do with small business and if the extermination is conducted, we must consider a compensation fund,” he explained. (kmb)

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After thousands of ducks found dead at Kuwum, Banyuatis village, Banjar subdistrict, similar case was then found at Kelodan hamlet, Ringdikit village in Seririt subdistrict. Dozens of ducks of more than two-month-old were found suddenly dead and suspected to have been infected by bird flu virus.

Kertha Gosa renovation

Regent of Klungkung denies request of Hanacaraka Bali Post

SEMARAPURA - The intention of Wahana Cipta Warisan Kebudayaan (Hanacaraka) Klungkung to renovate the Kertha Gosa by raising funds from the public was rejected by the Regent of Klungkung, Wayan Candra. It was revealed by the regent through a letter addressed to Chairman of the Hanacaraka Klungkung, Tjokorda Bagus Oka. In a letter No.100/13/Pem, the regent claimed that local government had allocated a fund through Regional Budget for the maintenance cost of Taman Gili Kertha Gosa. It was based on consideration that the land and building had been controlled and managed since the establishment of the autonomous government based on the Regional Bylaw of Klungkung autonomous government that had been amended for six times.

The regent also revealed if the revenue obtained from Kertha Gosa should entirely go to local treasury pursuant to Bylaw of Klungkung County No.6/2000. In response to permission to renovate by taking advantage of the levy of Kertha Gosa, it was said to violate the law,

where the reception of regional working unit (SKPD) was not allowed to finance any expenditure in accordance with Law No.1/2004 on State Treasury. Ultimately, the permission of Hanacaraka to renovate the Kertha Gosa was rejected

by Klungkung Regent.

On the other hand, Chairman of the Hanacaraka Klungkung, Tjokorda Bagus Oka, said last Friday if the regent’s response to Hanacaraka was very contradictory, in which the regent recognized the maintenance of Kertha Gosa as the responsibility of Klungkung County, but was reluctant to make improvement by reason of questioning about the ownership status.

If the county government admitted that maintenance of Kertha Gosa belonged to its responsibility pursuant to the reply of the regent on point 4, Tjok Bagus said the county government should not hesitate to allocate a budget so that Kertha Gosa (Hall of Justice) would not collapse earlier. Moreover, the leaked roof of Kertha Gosa and Floating Pavilion was risky for the existence of Kamasan painting under the roof in rainy season.

“The attitude of the county gov-

ernment is very contradictory. It is just like goods where they cannot be repaired, but the results are even taken entirely, whereas in point 4 in the regent’s letter I received, the county government recognized that maintenance of Kertha Gosa has become the responsibility of Klungkung County,” said Tjok Bagus.

Kertha Gosa had been a symbol of the struggle of Klungkung kingdom with its subject in the Puputan War exploding on April 29, 1908 against the Dutch colonialist.

Without immediate repair, the symbol of struggle would disappear. Thus, the coming generation would not inherit the epitome of struggle.

Tjok Bagus hoped the county government did not hesitate to make improvement. Moreover, the improvement of Kertha Gosa had not been budgeted in 2013. “Supposedly, the regent thinks that it is the matter of legacy that must be promptly fixed, not be forgotten because of the status of ownership,” he said. (kmb31)

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The intention of Wahana Cipta Warisan Kebudayaan (Hanacaraka) Klungkung to renovate the Kertha Gosa by raising funds from the public was rejected by the Regent of Klungkung, Wayan Candra.

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Bali News Power tariff goes up

Bali silversmiths increasingly wedged

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Balinese people praying during Tumpek Landep celebration that falled on Saturday, January 26, 2013.

Tumpek Landep, weapons consecrated Bali Post

TABANAN - A series of Tumpek Landep celebration on Saturday (Jan 26), all the weapons and vehicles belonging to Tabanan Police were consecrated. They ranged from pistols, rifles to official vehicles and patrol. The ceremony was officiated over by local priest. A number of weapons were taken out from warehouse and then put in a row neatly near the offerings.

The ceremony was concluded with a joint worship followed by police personnel. They said prayers right in front of the row of weapons and vehicles consecrated. Most of them put on prayer clothes, while some others were still in uniform. They mingled to say pray together.

Deputy Chief of Tabanan Police, IGA Sasih, explained that Tumpek Landep was still in the series of Pagerwesi day. She said the weapon exorcism rite was an expression of gratitude and prayers to Lord Pasupati. Hopefully, all the members could be endowed with safety when using weapons or the official vehicles.

“This ceremony is to invoke safety to Lord Pasupati. In essence, the equipment of Tabanan Police can be used properly,” he said.

Meanwhile, in Semarapura, dozens of weapons in Semarajaya Museum, Klungkung, denoting a heritage object of the Klungkung kingdom were given ritual. The Head of Klungkung Culture and Tourism Agency, Wayan Sujana, said that dozens of weapons belonging to Klungkung kingdom in the Semarajaya Museum like spear, dagger and chisel were first consecrated in the celebration of Tumpek Landep as a purificatory measure to the heritage objects in the museum. “As planned, we will organize similar ceremony every Tumpek Landep in the Semarajaya Museum,” said Wayan Sujana.

Semarajaya Museum was inaugurated by the Minister of Home Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia on April 28, 1992 in conjunction with the inauguration of the

Puputan Klungkung Monument.

Semarajaya Museum located in the west of Kertha Gosa tourist attraction was frequently visited by foreign tourists. It had five rooms, including the art space featuring a variety of paintings, traditional tools such as sugar molds, looms, traditional salt maker and others.

Then, there is historic and prehistoric room storing the royal relics such palanquin, furniture used in the customary judicial proceedings, spear, dagger, chisel and stone parapet of royal throne. The three rooms also feature photographs of the royal relatives and descendants at the time of Ida I Dewa Agung Jambe, the founder of the Klungkung kingdom in 1686. Meanwhile, two other rooms are painting room created by an Italian painter, Emilio Ambron. (kmb30/31)

DENPASAR - Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) as well as silversmiths in Bali are at risk of going into a slump as a result of the increase in power tariff (TDL). The increase in price of raw materials is the most feared by crafters.

With the rising price of raw materials, the production cost of silverworks also increasingly shoots up, while crafters cannot raise the price to customers.

Chairman of the Bali Silver Association, Nyoman Mudita, doubling as the owner of I Nyoman Mudita Gold & Silver Jewelry, said that prior to the increase in power tariff, conditions of the Bali silversmiths began to be marginalized with the advent of silver entrepreneurs from other countries. He admitted such condition was triggered by the weakness in capital owned by crafters.

Even, 70 percent of silversmiths in Bali were predicted to face this problem.

“It must be recognized that silversmiths begin to get shifted by foreign businessmen and automatically the value of silverwork export also declines because many are taken over by them. Now, the entrepreneurs and silversmiths are faced again with the rising power tariff. Of course, it makes local craftsmen increasingly powerless,” he explained.

To that end, he appealed to all employers and silversmiths in Bali to jointly figure out how to make the silver business survive in the international market. “The Bali silverworks have been known inter-

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nationally. But in terms of skills, it still requires accuracy and innovation in order to compete against foreign businessmen due to tighter competition,” he said.

He affirmed that Bali crafters had great potential to develop. It occurred because Bali crafters had the artistic power that could be expressed in the form of unique design as well as high value. The paradigm that Bali silverworks determined their competitiveness in the world market should increasingly be brought to surface. Therefore, no crafters would feel self-minded.

“Buyers and lovers of silverwork around the globe commonly making transaction in billions of dollars will no longer see how many grams of contained therein. However, they will consider the artistic elements. So, crafters should have self-confidence in what they have been realized through incomparable designs and motif in any country. Such motivation should further strengthen them to exist in the silver business,” he said.

According to him, the Bali silverworks had been well known since the 1980s in international scene, both in terms of quality and design. However, it underwent sluggishness due to financial constraint, the development of information technology and transport (congestion) in Bali. “Currently, only about 300 silversmiths remain to survive in Bali, while some others have switched professions,” he said. (kmb28)

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Award-winning Balinese Chef appointed at Courtyard

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Born and raised in North Bali and praised internationally, a chef who has prepared meals on land, sea and air and won one of the culinary world’s most prestigious honors, Wayan Wicaya has been named Executive Chef at the Courtyard by Marriott Bali Nusa Dua. He comes to the up-market tourism enclave with more than two decades in Bali’s finest kitchens and aboard America’s premier family cruise line as well as one of Indonesia’s finest in-flight catering services, before winning the Global Chefs Challenge, a competition between chefs from 88 countries, sponsored by the World Association of Chefs.

“Chef Wayan is quite literally a ‘winner,’” said Courtyard by Marriott General Manager, Jeffrey Tyler. “Here’s a fellow who not only brings Balinese grace to the role but also real international cooking accolades. We are absolutely fortunate to have a chef of this calibre heading our kitchens.” Before accepting the role, Chef Wayan worked with fellow chef, Andrew Skinner at Bvlgari Bali, a 59villa resort located in the Bukit Peninsula. Bvlgari Hotels & Resorts is developed in partnership with jeweler and luxury goods designer Bvlgari Spa and currently features two properties located in Milan and Bali with demanding food and service standards.

“To win the Global Chef Challenge is amazing and a confirmation of how far Indonesia has come in develop-

ing local chefs to international standards,” said Darren Lauder, the Vice-President of Bali Culinary Professionals, at the time of the chef’s victory in January 2010. Six months later he was named “Chef of the Year” by The Yak, Bali’s acclaimed, trend-setting magazine showcasing the colorful personalities behind Bali’s design, fashion and culinary industries. “Here’s a guy who deserves every morsel of recognition,” said Editor Nigel Simmonds. A master of multiple cuisines, Chef Wayan rode a wave of popularity taking on the position as Sous Chef at Ku De Ta, lauded as the island’s most successful independent restaurants located beachside in the fashionable district of Seminyak and Chef de Partie at the luxury boutique The Balé resort.

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Chairman of the Bali Silver Association, Nyoman Mudita, doubling as the owner of I Nyoman Mudita Gold & Silver Jewelry, said that prior to the increase in power tariff, conditions of the Bali silversmiths began to be marginalized with the advent of silver entrepreneurs from other countries.

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5 Feb Anggara Sasih Kulantir Pura Penataran Tangkas Sukawati Pura Dalem Lagan Babalang Bangli Pura Puseh Lembeng Ketewel Sukawati Pura Pasek Gelgel Penulisan Kerambitan Tabanan

Pura Gaduh Sanding Pura Dalem Gandamayu Klungkung Pura Sang Hyang Tegal Banjar TarokajaTegalalang 6 Feb Buda Umanis Kulantir Pura Pasek Tangkas Pasekan Kaler Tabanan Pura Gaduh - Benoh Ubung Denpasar 10 Feb Tilem Kawulu Pura Dalem Alas Harum - Tegal Kepuh kabe - kabe Kediri Tabanan Pura Ulun Kulkul Besakih Pura Dalem Yang Taluh Sidemen Karangasem Pura Dalem kangin Dusun Dukuh Sidemen Karangasem 11 Feb Soma Umanis Tulu Pura Puseh/Balai Agung Ubung Kupang Penebel Tabanan Pura Kawitan Sakula Gotra Pasung Grigih Banjar Tegal Kepuh Kaba-kaba Kediri Tabanan Pura Bhujangga Rsi Tumbak Bayuh Pura Paibon Tangkas Kori Agung Ceningan Kangin lembongan Pura Batu Madeg Besakih Pura Penataran Agung penatih Banjar Saba Penatih

13 Feb B uda Pon Tolu Pura Catur Buana Sanding Tampak Siring 14 Feb W arespati Wage Tolu Pura Peninjoan Besakih 20 Feb B uda Kliwon Gumbreg Pura Pasek Gelgel Kukuh Marga Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Dukuh Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Mambang Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Puseh, Pura Desa Desa Guwang Sukawati Merajan Pangeran Tangkas Kori Agung Jeroan Sanding Pura Dalem Setra Batu Nunggul Desa Swana Nusa Penida Pura Dadia Agung Pasek Gelgel Ketewel 25 Feb P urnama Sasih Kesanga Pura Nataran Sasih Pejeng Gianyar Pura Bukit Mentik - Gunung Lebah Batur Kintamani 27 Feb B uda Paing Wariga Merajan Pasek Gaduh Kayubihi Bangli

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

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

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

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

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

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‘Fruitvale,’ ‘Blood Brother’ win Sundance Awards

The dramatic film “Fruitvale” and the documentary “Blood Brother” won over audiences and Sundance Film Festival judges. Both American films won audience awards and grand jury prizes Saturday at the Sundance Awards.

“Fruitvale” is based on the true story of Oscar Grant, who was 22 years old when he was shot and killed in a public transit station in Oakland, California. First-time filmmaker Ryan Coogler wrote and directed the dramatic narrative.

“This project was about humanity, about human beings and how we treat each other; how we treat the people that we love the most, and how we treat the people that we don’t know,” the 26-year-old said as he accepted the final prize of the night. “To get this award means that it had a profound impact on the audience that saw it, on the people that were responsible for picking it up.

And this goes back to my home, to the Bay Area, where Oscar Grant lived, breathed, slept, loved, fought, had fun, and survived for 22 years.”

Fox Searchlight founder and Sundance juror

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Tom Rothman said “Fruitvale” was recognized for “its skillful realization, its devastating emotional impact and its moral and social urgency — and for anyone out there who thinks for one second that movies don’t matter and can’t make a difference in the world.

“This will not be the last time you guys walk to a podium,” he added. The U.S. documentary winner, “Blood Brother” follows a young American, Rocky Braat, who moved to India to work with orphans infected with HIV. “This means so much to so many kids,” director Steve Hoover said as he accepted the award. The Cambodian film “A River Changes Course” won the grand jury prize for international documentary, and a narrative film from South Korea, “Jiseul,” claimed the grand jury prize for dramatic world cinema.

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Five cruise ship stop in Bali Antara

DENPASAR - PT Pelabuhan Indonesia III, a state-owned harbor regulator, has stated that five cruise ships have stopped by in Benoa Harbour, Bali, so far this month.

“Those ships brought thousands of tourists to Bali. The latest one was Costa Neo Romantica Cruise, which stopped by here on Wednesday (January 23),” PT Pelabuhan Indonesia III Benoa Harbour general manager Iwan Sabatini said.

“About 800 tourists aboard the Costa

Neo Romantica Cruise, who were travelling from Australia to Singapore, stopped by at Bali,” he continued.

“During their one-night stay in Bali, they visited some popular tourist spots, such as Kuta Beach. They also also enjoyed a Kecak Dance performance before moving

on to Singapore,” Sabatini noted.

Several days before the arrival of Costa Neo Romantica, he said, the Azamara Journey Cruise brought 350 foreign tourists to Bali. “They visited Buleleng, Bali and Komodo Island in East Nusa Tenggara,” Sabatini added.

Host Joseph Gordon-Levitt speaks during the 2013 Sundance Film Festival Awards Ceremony on Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013 in Park City, Utah.

Celebs now fashionable targets in hoax 911 calls

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LOS ANGELES — Celebrities have long contended with the occasional downsides of stardom — tabloid scandals, stalkers, box office bombs, the paparazzi. Now, add “swatting” to the list — a prank that sends police charging to the gates of stars’ homes on false reports of gunmen, hostages or other crimes in progress.

Instead of bad guys, responding officers, police dogs, helicopters and sometimes SWAT teams have found only stunned domestic and security staff unaware of any trouble — because there wasn’t any.

The recent hoax 911 calls to the homes of Tom Cruise, Justin Bieber, Ashton Kutcher, Chris Brown and other stars are leading authorities to eye some 911 calls with extra suspicion and lawmakers to call for stiffer penalties for the pranksters.

“This is a very vexing problem that needs to be fixed at the early stages,” said California State Sen. Ted Lieu, who is proposing tough consequences, including hefty fines, for those caught swatting.

“If this isn’t resolved, this will result in a tragic situation.”

Swatting is the rare trend that actually didn’t start in Hollywood. Authorities in Dallas, Washington state, Alabama and elsewhere have arrested teens and young men for bogus 911 calls that have drawn large police responses and in some

cases, resulted in innocent people being detained by police.

The term comes from the pranksters’ desire to have heavily armed special weapons teams dispatched to their calls.

That doesn’t always happen, but the calls tie up resources ranging from dispatchers, patrol officers, helicopters, detectives and cyber-crime specialists.

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FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2013 file photo, US actor Tom Cruise poses for photographers during a news conference of his film “Jack Reacher” in Tokyo.

The Beverly Hills Police Department estimated more than half of its emergency resources were occupied with the Cruise swatting call on Jan. 17. It was just one of a rash of calls aimed at celebrities over the next several days, including a false claim there was a domestic violence incident at Brown’s home.

“We’re getting much better at deciphering what is real and what is not,” said Steve Whitmore, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. The agency has handled calls at Bieber’s home and a former Kardashian family home. Patrol units will check out every call but will hold off calling in the big guns until signs of an actual crime emerge, he said.

Authorities in the Los Angeles area are concerned that the high-profile calls against stars are inspiring copycats who perhaps notice the immediate attention swatting incidents command on tabloid news sites.

Los Angeles police Cmdr. Andrew Smith said the department has seen an increase in the number of swatting calls since last year, when stars such as Kutcher, Bieber and Cyrus were targeted.

“People are jumping on the bandwagon thinking it’s funny or a clever or interesting,” Smith said. The calls aren’t just tying up patrol officers, but also investigators probing the pranks who could be assigned to larger crimes.

About 800 tourists aboard the Costa Neo Romantica Cruise, who were travelling from Australia to Singapore, stopped by at Bali.

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