Tuesday, December 17, 2013 16 Pages Number 4 6 th Year e-mail: [email protected]online: http://www.internationalbalipost.com. http://epaper.internationalbalipost.com. Price: Rp 3.000,- Page 6 Page 8 I N T E R N A T I O N A L DPS 23 - 32 WEATHER FORECAST Page 13 Enigmatic Turkish cleric poses challenge to Erdogan’s might NKorea explodes myth of unchallenged Kim dynasty Liverpool routs Tottenham; Man United halts slump “The economic growth of Bali is slightly above the national growth. When reaching six percent, it’s already better” he said. According to him, the eco- nomic growth rate of Bali was driven by a number of interna- tional and national events during 2013 whose implementation was fairly successful such as the Asia- Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit and Miss World. Besides, the development of ad- equate infrastructure such as toll road and airport expansion also encouraged the economic growth of Bali. “Just look at the flight traffic where it tends to increase and so does the direct flight to Bali at this time. Assuredly, it will have an impact on tourist arrival,” he explained. Such statement was reinforced by the flight movement at the Ngu- rah Rai Airport reaching 335 air- crafts per day. The condition made the international airport occupy the busiest airport in Indonesia, where the number of passengers in 2013 reached 15 million people. “Like- wise, do not ignore the growing domestic tourist arrival in Bali. It will certainly support the economic growth of Bali as well,” he said. He also said that so far the tour- ism sector remained to become a promising mainstay of Bali Prov- ince. He acknowledged the craft products as well as other art prod- ucts would slightly decrease due to slowing economic recovery in the European countries. “Tourism potential remains to grow. Market share like China, Russia, Korea and Malaysia should be worked on better. Australian market is still good. Though we politically have a problem, it does not interfere with the Australian travelers coming to Bali,” he said. Meanwhile, the Central Statis- tics Agency (BPS Bali) reported the number of foreign travelers visit- ing Bali in October 2013 reached 266,562 people. The figure had increased by 4.53 percent compared to the same month in the previous year. By nationality, most foreign travelers coming to Bali were those from Australia, PRC, Malaysia, Japan and the UK. (kmb28) In 2014 Economic growth predicted to grow 6.2 percent Bali Post DENPASAR - An economic observer from Undiknas Uni- versity, Prof. Dr. IB Raka Suardana, estimated the economic growth of Bali Province in 2014 would range from 5.9 percent to 6.2 percent, above the national growth prediction. IBP/File Photo Foreign tourists surfed at Kuta Beach, Bali Island. Economic growth of Bali Province in 2014 would range from 5.9 percent to 6.2 per- cent, above the national growth prediction.
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Enigmatic Turkish cleric poses challenge to Erdogan’s might
NKorea explodes myth of unchallenged Kim dynasty
Liverpool routs Tottenham; Man United halts slump
“The economic growth of Bali is slightly above the national growth. When reaching six percent, it’s already better” he said.
According to him, the eco-nomic growth rate of Bali was driven by a number of interna-tional and national events during
2013 whose implementation was fairly successful such as the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit and Miss World. Besides, the development of ad-equate infrastructure such as toll road and airport expansion also encouraged the economic growth
of Bali. “Just look at the flight traffic where it tends to increase and so does the direct flight to Bali at this time. Assuredly, it will have an impact on tourist arrival,” he explained.
Such statement was reinforced by the flight movement at the Ngu-rah Rai Airport reaching 335 air-crafts per day. The condition made the international airport occupy the busiest airport in Indonesia, where the number of passengers in 2013 reached 15 million people. “Like-wise, do not ignore the growing
domestic tourist arrival in Bali. It will certainly support the economic growth of Bali as well,” he said.
He also said that so far the tour-ism sector remained to become a promising mainstay of Bali Prov-ince. He acknowledged the craft products as well as other art prod-ucts would slightly decrease due to slowing economic recovery in the European countries. “Tourism potential remains to grow. Market share like China, Russia, Korea and Malaysia should be worked on better. Australian market is still
good. Though we politically have a problem, it does not interfere with the Australian travelers coming to Bali,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Central Statis-tics Agency (BPS Bali) reported the number of foreign travelers visit-ing Bali in October 2013 reached 266,562 people. The figure had increased by 4.53 percent compared to the same month in the previous year. By nationality, most foreign travelers coming to Bali were those from Australia, PRC, Malaysia, Japan and the UK. (kmb28)
“Avatar,” which was shot and made in New Zea-land, won three Academy Awards and is the highest-grossing film in history, with an international box of-fice take of nearly $2.8 billion. Cameron said he plans to complete principal shooting on the three movies at one time, perhaps over a period of about nine months and beginning in 2015. He said the aim is to release the first sequel in time for Christmas 2016 and the following sequels in late 2017 and late 2018.
“It’s quite a thrill to be officially saying that we’re bringing the Avatar films to New Zealand,” he told a press conference. “We had such a wonderful ex-perience here making the first film.” Cameron said work has already begun on the writing and design of the movies.
New Zealand’s government has agreed to a 25
percent rebate for the films, meaning it will pick up one-quarter of the tab. The agreement states that Lightstorm and Twentieth Century Fox will spend at least $413 million in New Zealand on the movies. As is typical with blockbusters, Cameron declined to disclose a budget. But he did say he expects that economies of scale will help the three movies together cost less than $1 billion.
He said that he intends to make the movies in 3D and to shoot at least some sequences at 48 frames per second. Films are typically shot in 24 frames per second. New Zealand director Peter Jackson shot his trilogy of “The Hobbit” at double that speed in an attempt to make the movies look more realistic and impressive. But the results of the technology have attracted mixed reviews from critics.
Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES — In his storied career, stage and screen actor Peter O’Toole, who died Saturday at age 81 following a long bout of illness, dynamically pronounced countless memorable characters, from the daring T.E. Lawrence in “Lawrence of Arabia” to amorous Maurice in “Venus.” He
earned four Golden Globes and an Emmy for his work, and holds the record for the most acting Oscar nominations without a win — eight.
However, in 2002 O’Toole was presented the Academy Honorary Award for his entire body of work. In his accep-tance speech he joked, “Always a bridesmaid, never a bride, my foot!”
AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian
FILE - In this Feb 25, 2007 file photo, Actor Peter O’Toole, left, nominated for an Oscar for best actor in a leading role for his work in “Venus,” arrives with his daughter Kate for the 79th Academy Awards in Los Angeles.
O’Toole scored 8 Oscar nods, but won none
Here are the late actor’s eight nominations and who he lost to each year:
T.E. Lawrence in “Lawrence of Arabia,” 1962. Lost to Gregory Peck, who starred as lawyer Atticus Finch in “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
King Henry II in “Becket,” 1964. Rex Harrison, who starred as Professor Henry Higgins, opposite Audrey Hepburn, in “My Fair Lady,” took home the Oscar.
King Henry II in “The Lion in Winter,” 1968. Cliff Robertson won the award for his touching performance in “Charly.”
Arthur Chipping in “Goodbye, Mr. Chips,” 1969. Bested by John Wayne, the star of the western “True Grit.”
Jack Arnold Alexander Tancred Gurney, the 14th Earl of Gurney in “The Ruling Class,” 1972. Lost to Marlon Brando, who won for his lead role as mafia patriarch Don Vito Corleone in “The Godfather.”
Eli Cross in “The Stunt Man,” 1980. Lost to Robert De Niro, who starred as a self-destructive boxer in “Raging Bull.”
Alan Swann in “My Favorite Year,” 1982. Ben Kingsley won the Oscar for playing the famed Indian freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi in “Gandhi.”
Maurice in “Venus,” 2006. Forest Whitaker took the top honor that year for his portrayal of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in “The Last King of Scotland.”
Cameron to shoot 3 ‘Avatar’ sequels in New ZealandAssociated Press Writer
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Director James Cameron announced Monday he will make three sequels to his 2009 sci-fi blockbuster movie “Avatar” in New Zealand. Cameron made the announcement in the capital Wellington with producer Jon Landau and Prime Minister John Key. The films will be made by Lightstorm Entertainment and Twentieth Century Fox.
AP Photo/20th Century Fox, File
In 2014
Economic growth predicted to grow 6.2 percent Bali Post
DENPASAR - An economic observer from Undiknas Uni-versity, Prof. Dr. IB Raka Suardana, estimated the economic growth of Bali Province in 2014 would range from 5.9 percent to 6.2 percent, above the national growth prediction.
IBP/File Photo
Foreign tourists surfed at Kuta Beach, Bali Island. Economic growth of Bali Province in
2014 would range from 5.9 percent to 6.2 per-cent, above the national growth prediction.
FILE - In this undated file film publicity image
originally released by 20th Century
Fox, the character Neytiri and the
character Jake, from, “Avatar.”
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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 con-sidered 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 “umbul-umbul”, 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.
Balinese Temple Ceremony
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Calendar Event for November 2 through December 11, 20132 Nov Saniscara Keliwon Kuningan.Pura Taman Pule di Mas-Ubud.Pura Ularan di Takmung-Klungkung.Pura Bukitjati di Gulingan-Kawan Bangli.
6 Nov Buda Wage Langkir.Pura Tanah Lot Kediri Tabanan.Pura Bucabe Mas Ubud.Pura Puseh Desa Ganggang-Canggi Batuan.Pura Pasek Pertukangan Kediri-Tabanan.Pura Pasek Bendesa Gulingan Mengwi.Pura Masceti Desa Sanding-Tampak Siring.Puru Luwur Batur Pucangan Buahan-Tabanan.Odalan Alit di Pura Dalem Takuran di Cemeng-goan Sukawati.Odalan Ida Ratu Sundaring Jagat Penataran Agung Besakih.Mr. Pasek Gelgel Silakarang.Pura Dalem Bangun Sakti Kapal.Pura Dalem Bias Muntig Ped-Nusa Penida.
10 Nov redite Pon Medangsia.Pura Agung Pentilan Kesiman-Denpasar.Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kerambitan Tabanan.
11 Nov Soma Wage Medangsia.Pura Nataran Desa Getas Blahbatuh.Merajan Pasek Gelgel Aan-Klungkung.Pura Pasek Bakbakan Gianyar.
17 Nov redite Keliwon Pujut.Merajan Pasek Tohjiwa Kekeran-Mengwi.
17 Nov Purnama Kelima.Aci-aci Penaung Bayu di Pura Batumadeg di Besakih.Pura Kentel Gumi di Batur Baangli.Pura Pedarman Agung, Satria Denpasar.Pura Pemerajan Agung - Pemecutan Denpasar.Ngusaba di Pura Kehen Bangli.Pura Desa Pemenang di Lombok.Pura Agung Pasek Gelgel di Sumerta Denpasar.Pura Pasek Gobleg di Kekeran Mengwi.Pura Suranadi di Lombok.Pura Puncak Bukit Tampak Siring.Pura Dalem Puri Agung Kintamani.Pura Dalem Agung Nongan Karangasem.Pura Dalem Ubung-Kupang Dukuh Penebel-Tabanan.Pura Dalem Balingkang Kintamani.Pr. Tampurhyang Pusat Kawitan Mahagota Catur Sanak di Songan Kintamani.Pura Dalem Pulasari Desa Bantas Sudaji Buleleng.Merajan Pasek Gelgel di Lebih.Merajan Pasek Gelgel di Tulamben.Pura Penyusungan Pasek Tohjiwa Selemadeg Tabanan.Pura Pasar Agung Besakih Sebudi Karangasem.Merajan Pasek Gelgel Tengkulak Kaja.Pura Suci Desa Tianyar Kubu Karangasem.Pura Bukit Mentik ring Gunung Lebah Desa Batur Kintamani.Pura Narmada di Lombok.Pura Segara di Ampenan Lombok.Pura Ularan di Seririt Buleleng.
7 Dec Tumpek Krurut.Pura Pasek Gelgel Br Tengah Buleleng.Pura Dalem Pemuteran di Desa Jelantik Tojan - Klungkung.Pura Pedarmaan Bhujangga Waisnawa di Besakih.Pura Taman Sari Desa Gunungsari Penebel - Tabanan.Pura Dalem Tarukan di Bebalang Bangli.Pura Benua Kangin Besakih.Pura Merajan Kanginan (Ida Betara Empu Beradah) di Besakih.
8 Dec redite Umanis Merakih.Pura Parangan Tengah Banjar Ceningan Kangin - Lembongan Nusa Penida.Pura Dalem Celuk Sukawati - Gianyar.
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Facing the Indian Ocean is the time-honored cata-lyst of the resort, the Hard Rock Cafe. With nightly live bands, one is assured of a VIP welcome with the hotel Q jumping backstage pass.
Chill out at the Shack bar, half submerged in Bali’s
largest free form pool. Relax in a poolside Cabana for the day and enjoy Aqua Rockercise, water polo and Beach Party. Spanning 252-square-metre, TABU offers a nightclub equipped with multi-purpose DJ Booth, Internet and Gaming Lounge with WII, Xbox Kinetic and PS3 facilities, private cinema area, bar and lounge with chill out area and pool table. Become a TABU member and be the first to feel the new Hard Rock experience.
If you feel like stretching your vocal cords, the “Boom Box” has Karaoke Rooms as well as Re-cording Studio, with a Resident Sound Engineer just incase you feel like cutting a few tracks.
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KUTA - Nestling against the shores of Kuta’s famed surf beach, lies a holiday resort that lays testament to the glories of the past fifty years of rock culture. Covering a prime 3-hectare site in the heart of Bali’s entertainment and shopping district, featuring 418 tribute rooms, luxury and deluxe suites, alongside six cutting edge food and beverage outlets. A paradise for couples, families and singles.
Recidivist arrested again
KUTA - North Kuta Police arrested the ex-convict named I Gusti Putu Subawa, 40. The culprit was arrested as he attempted to break in a villa belonging to Belgian tourist named Jorgen Coppens, 49, located on Jalan Pantai Brawa Gang Kelapa, Tibu Beneng, North Kuta, Badung, Saturday (Dec 7).
Chief of North Kuta Police Criminal De-tective, I Dewa Putu Anom D, explained that it originated from Jorgen and his wife Ana Maria Duran Loaoiza, 42, who came from shopping. When arriving at their villa No.308, Ana Maria was surprised to see the villa’s door open. Ana Maria who rushed to get in immediately shouted at Jorgan as seeing the culprit was searching her room. “At first, the action of Subawa was encountered by Jor-gen’s wife around 4:30 p.m.,” he said.
Hearing the shout of his wife, he rushed to come in and tried to apprehend the culprit. Unluckily, being agile the culprit managed to escape. Even, it threatened the Belgian couple with a knife taken from the villa’s gazebo. “The recidivist having dwelt in jail for three times due to the same case had also threatened the victim with a knife. Afterward, the culprit fled as Ana Maria continued to call
out for help,” he said while adding that the culprit was panic so he left his Honda Vario motorcycle with license plate DK 7598 HA along with helmet and jacket.
After the incident, the victim immediately reported the case to North Kuta Police. In response to the report, the Criminal Detective Section immediately tracked the whereabouts of the culprit by checking the identity of Vario motorcycle left. “Based on the results of checking, it was known the motorcycle belonged to I Gusti Putu Subawa from Du-kuh Belong hamlet, Baturiti municipality, Kerambitan, Tabanan,” added the friendly Chief Dewa.
Knowing this information, said Dewa, Gusti Putu Subawa was directly arrested without resistance in his rented stall at Pe-siapan Terminal, Tabanan, Monday (Dec 9). From this incident, police secured a white Vario CBS with license plate DK 7598 HA, Nokia hand phone, a brown jean jacket, KYT helmet, a pair of shoes and a wooden-handled knife. “Now, the culprit had already been secured in the North Kuta Police,” he said while adding the culprit was charged with Article 363 of the Criminal Code for the attempt of theft with penalty of 5 years in prison. (nik)
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Budiman in his speech read by Chief of the IX Udayana Regional Military Staff, Danu Nawawi, conveyed many happy returns of the day to all soldiers and army civil servants and their families wherever they were and on duty along with profound gratitude and sincere ap-preciation for their service over the years.
Long passage of devotion of the National Army (TNI AD), he said, was inseparable from the hard work and dedication of the predecessors and seniors who had laid the foundations of coaching and development of the National Army, so as to achieve such progress today. To that end, on this occasion, the Chief Staff of Army also conveyed his respect, pride and gratitude as well as said prayers in order the predecessors and seniors always received divine protection from God along with the determination to continue their ideal struggles.
Chief Staff of Army hoped the moment of Infantry Day celebration should be used as a means to do introspection in executing the tasks performed within the past one year and affirmed the determination and renewed the patriotism to continuously improve the performance and quality of service for the development of the National Army and na-tional prosperity.
Although in entering the year 2013, both in a global and national level, the world faced the situation of uncertainty and likelihood on the slowdown economic growth, the growth of Indonesia’s economy was still able to keep pace with developed countries.
Related to the matter, various programs and activities of the territorial development of the National Army such as the improvement of food security, infrastructure development for the region, acceleration in the field of health and education and other fields would be very useful to assist and relieve local government and residents in its entirety when facing the slowing economic growth and a variety of other issues faced by society.
As part of the components of the nation, the National Army would continue to be responsive and concerned about the living conditions of
the people and nation as well as participate and contribute maximally in the face of factual issues of the nation.
Related to development policy for the strength of the National Army towards the realization of minimum essential force (MEF), the National Army was committed to continu-ously conduct a compliance and modernization of the defense equipment. National Army was also committed to building a professional, modern, disciplined and loving soldier as well as loved the people based on modern science and technology.
It was very much in line with the theme of this year’s Infantry Day namely “based on the spirit of the Infantry Day, the National Army was determined to become a professional, dis-ciplined, militant, modern and people-beloved soldier and it was ready to keep the integrity of the Republic of Indonesia.’ The theme reflected the commitment and determination of the army to become professional, modern and militant as well as to continuously strengthen the synergy with all other components of the nation.
“Hopefully, the theme could be completely understood, internalized and implemented through appropriate measures and action in accordance with the respective field of duty and responsibility,” he hoped.
Meanwhile, the selection of Penglipuran Memorial Park in Bangli to organize the rally of the Infantry Day this time was to recall one of the great heroes posing the companion of I Gusti Ngurah Rai namely Captain Anak Agung Anom Mudita killed in the struggle against the invaders. “Location of this celebration was the battlefield of the predecessors where the Cap-tain Anak Agung Anom Mudita was killed. So, here is the location and directly to target. We do hope the patriotism of our predecessors could be directly implanted by soldiers of our younger generation,” said Danu Nawawi.
After the implementation of rally, the Chief of Regional Military Staff along with his ranks and other invitees then did flower sowing. All participants spread out and sowed flowers at the entire tombs. Aside from doing flower sowing, the event was also filled with a number of performances and entertainment. (ina)
IBP/File
The ceremony held in the Penglipuran Memorial Park, Bangli by the Indone-sian army
Chief of Regional Military Staff leads Infantry Day at Penglipuran
Bali PostBANGLI - Peak of the Infantry Day 2013 was conducted by holding a rally
and sowing flowers in the Penglipuran Memorial Park, Bangli, Sunday (Dec 15). Serving as the inspector of ceremony was the Chief of IX Udayana regional Military Staff, Danu Nawawi. Celebration of the Infantry Day started at 09:00 a.m. was also attended by the high officials and Military Regional Command and 163 Wirasatya Military resort Command including the chief, Bali Police officials, provincial and county leadership council, community leaders as well as a number of students in Bangli.
A villa owned by Belgian couple broken in by thief
3Tuesday, December 17, 201314 InternationalInternational Bali NewsScience Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Reported mass strandings of cer-tain whale species have increased worldwide since the military started using sonar half a century ago. Sci-entists think the sounds scare ani-mals into shallow waters where they can become disoriented and wash ashore, but technology capable of close monitoring has emerged only in about the last decade. Aside from strandings, biologists are concerned marine mammals could suffer pro-longed stress from changes in div-ing, feeding and communication.
Two recent studies off the South-ern California coast found certain endangered blue whales and beaked whales stopped feeding and fled from recordings of sounds similar to military sonar.
Beaked whales are highly sensi-tive to sound and account for the
majority of beachings near military exercises. Scientists, however, were surprised by the reaction of blue whales — the world’s largest animal — long thought to be immune to the high-pitched sounds. It’s unclear how the change in behavior would affect the overall population, estimated at between 5,000 and 12,000 animals.
The studies involved only a small group of tagged whales and noise levels were less intense than what’s used by the Navy. Shy spe-cies, such as the Cuvier’s beaked whale that can dive 3,000 feet (900 meters) below the surface, have taken years to find and monitor.
“This is a warning flag and deserves more research,” said Stan-ford University biologist Jeremy Goldbogen, who led the blue whale study published this summer in the
journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Both studies were done by a team of independent scientists as part of a Navy-funded, five-year project launched in 2010 to un-derstand how sonar affects marine mammals. Navy officials say it’s vital to national security that sailors receive sonar training in real-life conditions.
Environmentalists have long claimed that sonar harms marine mammals, which use acoustics to mate and forage. They want more protections and accuse the Navy of rushing to obtain five-year permits under the Marine Mammal Protec-tion Act from the National Marine Fisheries Service to increase its sonar testing in U.S. waters without considering the latest science.
AP Photo/Cascadia Research, John Calambokidis
This undated image provided by Cascadia Research shows researchers tagging a blue whale off the coast of Southern California. Two recent studies off Southern California found certain endangered blue whales and beaked whales stopped feeding and fled from recordings of noise similar to military sonar.
Navy expands sonar testing despite troubling signs Associated Press Writer
SAN DIEGO — The U.S. Navy plans to increase sonar testing over the next five years, even as research it funded reveals worrying signs that the loud underwater noise could disturb whales and dolphins.
Associated Press Writer
BEIJING — China hailed its lunar probe mission a success after the country’s first moon rover and the landing vehicle that carried it there took photos of each other on the surface, state media reported.
The six-wheeled rover moved to a spot about 9 meters (10 yards) north of the landing vehicle on Sunday night China time and the pair took photos for about a minute, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. The color images transmitted back to Earth showed the Chinese flag on the Yutu, or “Jade Rabbit” rover, named after a mythological creature.
President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang were at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center to hear lunar program chief commander Ma Xingrui declare the Chang’e 3 mission a success, Xinhua re-ported.
In a congratulatory message, the Communist Party’s central com-mittee, State Council or China’s Cabinet, and the Central Military Commission hailed the mission as a “milestone” in the development of China’s space programs, a “new glory” in Chinese explorations and the “outstanding contribution” of China in mankind’s peaceful use of space, Xinhua said.
The Chang’e 3 landed on a relatively flat part of the moon known as Sinus Iridum, or the Bay of Rainbows, on Saturday evening, marking the world’s first soft landing of a space probe on the moon in nearly four decades. China is the third country to do that after the former Soviet Union and United States.
The lander and rover have now embarked on separate scientific explorations. The 140-kilogram (300-pound) rover will survey the moon’s geological structure and surface and look for natural resources for three months at a speed of 200 meters (200 yards) per hour. The landing vehicle will conduct scientific examinations for one year at the landing site.
Xinhua said the two will have more chances in the coming days to take photos of each other at different angles. The Chang’e 3 mis-sion is named after a mythical Chinese goddess of the moon and the Yutu rover, or “Jade Rabbit” in English, is the goddess’ pet.
AP Photo/Xinhua, Ding Lin
This image taken by the on-board camera of the “Yutu” or “Jade Rabbit” rover, and made off the screen of the Beijing Aerospace Control Center in Beijing on Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013, shows a photo of the Chang’e-3 lander during the mutual-photograph process. The rover and the lander took photos of each other Sunday night, marking the success of the Chang’e-3 lunar probe mission.
China’s flag-bearing rover photographed on moon
Bali PostDENPASAR - Bali Usada Festi-
val was held for the first time in Bali. The event was a kind of apprecia-tion and a means of consultation on meditation for every people wishing to explore and learn more about the Balinese healing meditation. It was held in the Ksiraarnawa Hall of the Art Center Denpasar, Saturday (Dec 14).
Various activities took place in the one-day event at the exhibition area such as one-on-one consulta-tion, vegetarian culinary bazaar, crystal exhibition, meditation tools, book bazaar, traditional medicine, alpha-sphere engine sound healing, short meditation class and ballet performance. Meanwhile, in the area of the seminar, the committee invited five prominent speakers including Merta Ada, Adi W. Gunawan, Reza Gunawan, Made Suambara and Made Robert.
The Event Coordinator, Ely Su-santi, said the Bali Usada Festival was made one day because it was ‘the baby’ where it was the first healing event in Bali. In the imple-mentation, the Bali Usada Festival featured more indigenous wisdom of Balinese people. “We are trying
to invite friends in Bali to see various types of booths showing off the Bali-nese healing products,” she said.
Susanti explained that it was the first event held in a series of the twentieth anniversary of the Bali Usada Health Meditation. Visitors looked so enthusiastic to join the event, where it was also graced with wariga (Balinese almanac) expert consultation, exhibition of traditional medicine and various exhibition booths of typical Bali-nese people. She added the whole event of Bali Usada Festival event included several activities such as book bazaar, culinary booth and a short meditation class, meditation consultation and seminar.
She hoped that pursuant to the theme of Bali Usada Festival 2013 namely ‘Do Good, Think Harmoni-ously’ her party could do goodness and the fellow human beings could be more harmonious through the Bali Usada health meditation. The festival was a tribute to Balinese people. The event was targeted to Balinese people in particular as well as the students of Merta Ada in general originating from various regions.
In 1993, Merta Ada established
an organization named the Bali Usada, an association of health meditation that taught meditation for self-healing. Based in Sanur area, the Bali Usada health meditation had now reached Jakarta, Medan, Lom-bok, Palembang, Central Java and West Java, even down to Singapore and some European countries.
Merta Ada said the Bali Usada health meditation had been running for 20 years. It was the basic knowl-edge of Balinese culture. He said that thousands of years ago our ancestors already had a healing technique, having been influenced by Indian culture, mainly Hinduism. Addition-ally, it was also taking advantage of the chakra healing system, Chinese method and Shiva-Buddhism as the concept of meditation.
When the influence of Buddhism came in, the awareness was getting stronger supported by the develop-ment of modern times and it was summarized from various palm-leaf manuscripts and knowledge into the Bali Usada meditation. He had prac-ticed the meditation since 20 years ago. As a result, there had been more than 98,000 people having learned the meditation from around the world, said Merta Ada. He wanted to
summarize the meditation belonging to Balinese people. “We organize the Bali Usada Festival 2013. Besides, we also hold an exhibition to make sure that people in Bali have confi-dence that meditation taught by our ancestors can be accepted by the world community,” he said.
We in Bali had a very good
knowledge called Wariga or almanac system. According to Merta Ada, it was the science based on certain days calculated with reference to position of the earth, moon, sun and the universe. Based on the Wariga, it could be known the tendency of people in terms of their tendency, advantages and drawbacks. (dgk)
Director of Bali Police Traffic Af-fairs, Beno Louhenapessy, revealed on Friday (Dec 13) that 3,003 cases of traffic accident were recorded in 2011 and 2,730 cases in 2012.
As of November 2013, it had been recorded 1,996 cases of traffic accident occurred in the Bali Police jurisdiction, with 522 deaths, 602 serious injuries and 2,529 minor injuries. The traffic accident took place in general was caused by sev-eral factors, including human error, road condition and the increase in the vehicle. Aside from the causes, the traffic accidents were also kin-dled by negligence of motorcyclists and vehicle riders, driver’s fatigue and drowsiness, under the influence of alcoholic drink and speeding. “The victims are still dominated by productive-aged people. To that end, we still continue to pursue various programs and operations by providing education to obey traffic
regulations,” he said. Further, he confirmed that to reduce
the number of traffic accident, Direc-torate of Traffic Affairs of Bali Police made various efforts where one of which was to hold a Zebra Operation for 14 days on December 9-22, 2013. In addition, a total of 20 units of CCTV were operated for 24 hours to antici-pate security vulnerabilities. “Mean-while, the RTMC of Bali Police has 20 active CCTVs operating for 24 hours. The CCTVs are connected to the Area Traffic Control System (ATCS) owned by Transportation Agency operating for 24 hours,” he said.
Beno explained that Directorate of Traffic Affairs of Bali Police had area control monitored via CCTV at his headquarters. Additional CCTV units of the operation rooms of Bali Police and the Transporta-tion Agency amounted to 24 units. “The officers at the RTMC will help control through CCTV monitoring
owned by Directorate of Traffic Affairs, while we can also monitor the 24 CCTVs owned by the Trans-portation Agency,” he added.
He suggested people that before
driving should ensure their health so as not to be under influence of alcohol and completeness of papers such as driver’s license, vehicle registration and ID cards
had to be prepared as well. “Most importantly, make sure the rate of vehicle speed must be constant and not in a hurry when traveling,” he suggested. (nik)
IBP/Yudi Karnaedi
Traffic accident rate in Bali reaches an average of 2,000 cases each year with the death toll reaches 522 people. This figure shows that almost two people die each day due to traffic accident.
In Bali
2,000 traffic accidents occur every year Bali Post
DENPASAR - Traffic accident rate in Bali reaches an average of 2,000 cases each year with the death toll reaches 522 people. This figure shows that almost two people die each day due to traffic accident. In Indonesia, there are at least 109,038 cases of accident with fatalities of 25,131 people and material losses reaching IDR 222,185,078,333.
IBP/Yudi Karnaedi
Bali Usada Festival was held for the first time in Bali. The event was a kind of appreciation and a means of consultation on meditation for every people wishing to explore and learn more about the Balinese healing meditation.
Bali Usada Festival
People vivaciously join in meditation
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The powerful network of Fethul-lah Gulen, who leads a worldwide Islamic movement from a forested compound in the United States, had helped Erdogan’s Islamist-rooted AK Party win a growing share of the vote in three successive elections. “This is a nasty and bloody divorce,” wrote Kadri Gursel, a columnist critical of the government but who writes for the broadly pro-Erdogan Milliyet daily.
Summer protests and riots in central Istanbul underlined growing concern especially among secularists about Erdogan’s increasingly authori-tarian style of government. Recent months have also brought into the open conflicts with Gulen’s “Hizmet” (Service) movement. Chief focus in recent weeks has been a government plan to abolish private “prep” schools,
many financed and run by Gulen, on the grounds they give unfair advan-tage to wealthy parents.
Gulen has set up schools across Africa, the Middle East, the United States and Asia. They are a key source of income but also a powerful instrument of influence, especially in Turkey, creating a network of elite contacts and personal loyalties. The Hizmet movement is widely seen as having helped break the grip of the army, self-appointed guardians of secularism, over Turkish politics, arguably Erdogan’s greatest achieve-ment, through its influence in the judiciary, with hundreds of officers convicted on coup plot charges.
Erdogan has built his own body of wealthy loyalists since he came to power in 2002, largely from the same
religiously-minded professional class that revere Gulen, but a rift between the two risks fracturing that support base as polls approach. When Erdogan visited Washington this year he sent an ally to Pennsylvania to sound out the plans of Gulen, who left Turkey in 1999 after being charged with plotting to establish Islamic law. But the power of Gulen, who was acquitted but has remained in America, lies partly in his enigmatic style. There have long been ideological differences, many of Gulen’s followers seeing him as a more progressive and pro-Western influence on Turkey than Erdogan, whose views on issues from abortion to alcohol consumption have triggered accusations of interference in Turkish private life.
Those tensions have spilled into the open in a power struggle at the heart of the ruling party that could shape Turkey’s political landscape for the next decade. Hizmet’s power lies more in its influence within the AK Party bureaucracy than any ability to sway voters at the ballot box. With most of the electoral map AK Party orange, there is little sense it could unseat Erdogan even if it wanted.
Agence France Presse
Gaza City - Gaza’s lone power station rumbled to life Sunday for the first time in more than seven weeks after receiving a long-awaited delivery of diesel, the electricity company said. The Hamas-ruled enclave has struggled with massive flooding caused by winter downpours that began Wednesday, when a huge storm struck the Middle East, pummelling Israel and the Pales-tinian territories.
“The power station started re-working gradually after stopping for 50 days,” said Jamal Dirsawi, spokesman for the Gaza Electric-ity Distribution Co (GEDCO). The plant, which supplies some 30 percent of Gaza’s electricity needs, fell silent on November 1 as stocks of diesel ran out.
“The first generator has started working, the second one will follow, and by this evening, the company should be able to generate around 60 megawatts of electricity,” Dirsawi told AFP. Gaza has been suffering the most serious fuel crisis in its history, causing daily power outages of up to 16 hours, which hit homes, schools, hospitals, businesses, and water and sanitation plants.
The power station returned to life after receiving a delivery of fuel purchased from Israel by the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority using funds donated by Qatar.
The PA helped facilitate the delivery via Israel, which the militant Hamas does not recogn-ise. Following a request from the United Nations, Israel on Friday allowed the transfer of gas for domestic heating and fuel pumps
for draining floodwater. In ad-dition to the fuel for the power plant, Gaza would also receive “800,000 litres of diesel fuel for transportation... and another 200 tonnes of household gas,” the Israeli army said.
Raed Fatuh, the PA official in charge of the transfer of goods into Gaza, said deliveries of diesel and gas would continue on Mon-day and Tuesday.
caused heavy flooding in Gaza, with thousands of residents evacu-ated from their homes and seek-ing refuge in schools. An AFP correspondent said on Sunday the water level was dropping, but many residents were still stranded. A UN statement said “approximately 10,000 persons had been evacuated from their homes as a result of flooding.”
Israel and the Palestinian ter-ritories have been pummelled by the fiercest storm in decades, with many areas cut off by heavy snowfall, leaving hundreds of thousands without power.
Although the snowstorm had ended by Sunday, streets re-mained icy, causing schools to stay shut in Jerusalem and sur-rounding areas. “It’s not over yet; there is a problem of road safety,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Sunday’s weekly cabinet meeting, which was post-poned for five hours due to traffic conditions.
“We have to tell motorists to drive carefully.” Major roads to the Holy City reopened in the afternoon, and public transport re-sumed, albeit on a limited basis.
Enigmatic Turkish cleric poses challenge to Erdogan’s mightReuters
ANKARA - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has won three gen-eral elections, weathered summer riots, subdued a meddling army and changed Turkey like few leaders before him in a decade in power. But a rift with an enigmatic U.S.-based Islamic preacher, whose quiet influence in the police, secret services and judiciary looms large over the Turkish state, threatens to shake his hold on power ahead of elections next year.
REUTERS/Umit BektasTurkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan addresses the audience during Turkey-EU Readmission Agree-ment Signing Ceremony in Ankara December 16, 2013. Turkey and the European Union signed an agree-ment on Monday allowing EU governments to send back illegal immigrants crossing into Europe from Turkey in a move highlighting a thaw in relations between Ankara and the 28-member bloc.
Gaza power plant stirs to life as violent storm passes
AP Photo/Adel HanaA general view of buildings surrounded with flood from rain water in Gaza City, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013. Rescue workers evacuated more than 5,000 Gaza Strip residents from homes flooded by four days of heavy rain, using fishing boats and heavy construction equipment to pluck some of those trapped from upper floors, an official said on Saturday.
Bali Post
SEMARAPURA - Hundreds of truck drivers of Denpasar – Karangasem road section fretted. They admitted to have been frequently blackmailed when passed Klungkung region. Even, since it frequently happened, the amount of money asked every day was getting more and more. However, since the alleged individuals were traffic cops, the truck drivers mostly from Java were frightened and submitted some amount of money requested by the traffic cops.
One of the truck drivers transporting quarry materials in Karangasem, Rianto, revealed on Sunday (Dec 15) the action of the individual traffic cop had long happened. Even, he was often threatened when he did not give the money requested. Together with friends, Rianto conveyed the blackmailing traffic cop was more than one individual. However, he only knew two of them. “When passing at the location, he only meets the two cops. Prob-ably, other friends meet the other cops,” he said.
Another truck driver, Ahmad Sardi, said the individual traf-fic cops most frequently blackmailed the drivers when passing at night or dawn. From the narrative of his fellow drivers, the individuals most frequently targeted the drivers of truck convey-ing sand material.
There was also a truck driver who was just coming from Lombok and about to go to Denpasar. However, the truck driver from Lombok was said to be braver to refuse because he did no violation. Once passing, Ahmad claimed to be blackmail at IDR 50,000 to IDR 100,000. By and large, the individual cops took action at the Lepang 4-way intersection. Sometimes, they also took action around the Gelgel area, at the Tihingadi 4-way inter-section in Kusamba and the Klotok 4-way intersection. “When I was blackmailed at Lepang, I saw the official motorcycle was parked in the garage with special number 02 and 09,” he said.
He considered the act of the cops was very egregious to truck drivers. Although they did no violations, they claimed to be un-able to do much. They should arrive on time at the destination to deliver sand material transported from the location of quarry in Karangasem. Both Ahmad and Rianto expected the leadership in Klungkung Traffic Police to discipline the individual traffic cops. They considered such an act was very disturbing and did not reflect a good protector for the society. Unfortunately, they did not know exactly what the name of both individuals was. Nevertheless, his party still asked the police authority in Klungkung to check and impose heavy penalties if they were proved to have blackmailed. Actually, when they passed through Karangasem, Gianyar to Den-pasar, no blackmail action happened as found in Klungkung.
Chief of Klungkung Police Traffic Affairs, Slamet, denied if his colleagues on duty on the highway were doing such shameful action. Even, his party asked to reveal which individuals did it, so it would be clear and did not accuse haphazardly. Actually, the cop on duty on the highway was pretty much. “No, it is not true. Probably, it might happen before I serve here,” he said. Since the traffic section was under his leadership he affirmed that no individuals committing such a blackmail action. (kmb31)
As observation on Sunday (Dec 15), the long swing and hanging swing were broken and without main-tenance. Likewise, the bottom part of both slide facilities was broken. Although they were damaged and hazardous, the child playground did not get attention from the government. As a small example, the damaged chil-dren playroom was just waiting for the victim and had not been posted with ban sign by the government.
Based on the data collected from
local people, the damage to public facilities, especially the children’s playground, had been almost a year. Similarly, the existing sand at the playing area was unkempt. In terms of fund, the repair or the making of new facilities for children’s play-ground did not require a large fund, said Gede, a resident from Serongga who accompanied his son to play.
With such severe damaged condi-tion, parents who came with their chil-dren were then anxious. They could
only complain about the condition in which the attention of government to public space for children stayed far away, whereas on the one side, the Gianyar government wished to get the award as a child-friendly town. Even, the Gianyar government through the Woman Empowerment and Family Planning (PP & KB) Agency had con-ducted a comparative study to lead a child-friendly town to Surabaya.
As a breakthrough, the provision of playground in the southeast part of the Astina Square could become one of child development locations, as an effort to fulfill the rights of children such as the right to grow and develop, right to get protection and right to participate. Unfortunately, the playground provided was in ap-prehensive condition, badly damaged and unkempt. (kmb16)
Bali Post
NEGARA - Revetment of Ye-hembang Kauh River at Mendoyo collapsed after hit by flood. Such incident was the umpteenth time within the past year. Such condi-tion led to disappointment of the surrounding residents because the revetment was just completed recently.
The safeguarding concrete at
the riverbank was alleged to col-lapse due to lack of good quality, whereas the water brunt was small unlike in the previous flood. As seen on Sunday (Dec 15), the revetment in the southern part of the river collapsed again last week, precisely on Sunday (Dec 8). Actually the revetment had just been repaired after the previous collapse during the construction stage. At that time, the collapse
occurred along some 40 meters and the contractor was willing to fix. Then, the length of collapsed revetment increased along about 70 meters. Its stones looked to scatter as swept away by flood in the river.
One of the local residents, Dewa Suparsa, 43, said the re-vetment collapsed last week and several people including him were in the river then. At that time, it
flooded as before and the revet-ment directly collapsed. Suparsa admitted to be disappointed as the revetment quickly collapsed even two times a year.
Actually the revetment was safeguarding concrete of the coun-ty road on the riverbank. Without immediate repair, he believed the road would disconnect as the im-pact of erosion. He cautioned in order the repair could really pay
attention to the aspect of qual-ity so similar collapse would not repeat again. Headman of Yehe-mbang Kauh, I Nyoman Mustika, confirmed to reporters about the collapse of the river revetment and the incident had been reported to Jembrana Public Works Agency. The day after the revetment col-lapsed, his party immediately reported the incident to relevant authority. (kmb26)
Truck drivers admit to be blackmailed by individual traffic cops
Residents disappointed Revetment of Yehembang Kauh River collapses again
IBP/File
Playground at Astina Square
Getting no attention, facilities in severe damage
The damage facilities at Astina
Square, Gianyar.
Bali Post
GIANYAR - Public facilities in Gianyar reaped a highlight again. At this time, it came from the residents who delivered their children to play in the Urban Park, nestled at the southeast corner of the Astina Square. Existence of the playground facilities for children was very hazardous. In addition, the condition was seriously apprehensive. Two swings and two slides were not feasible as a place to play.
Bali News Tuesday, December 17, 2013 5InternationalTuesday, December 17, 201312 International
Desperation is weighing not just on Greece, but on countries across Europe facing the same paradox: despite the end of the Great Recession, people continue to struggle with the daily real-ity of unemployment and poverty.
Greece, Italy and Portugal are forecast to return to growth next year, while Spain has already emerged from recession and Ireland has ended its bailout programme.
But the disconnect between eco-nomic data and quality of life is fuel-ling populism, rightwing extremism and anti-European sentiment -- and is likely to play a big part in European Parliament elections in May.
“An improvement? We see no improvement, and will not for quite some time,” said Manuel Moreno, a 34-year-old who just lost his job at a humanitarian organisation in Madrid.
“It took 15 years for things to im-prove after the 1990 economic crisis. This time round, the situation is much worse. We could see no recovery for 20 to 25 years,” he said.Yet according to the figures, Spain is already doing better.
In 2012, its banks needed 41.3 billion euros ($56 billion) from the
European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund -- the so-called “troika” -- to save them after the collapse of a real-estate bubble. Last November, the govern-ment announced it would exit the rescue programme at the beginning of the year. The Spanish economy came out of recession in the third quarter of 2013, and the government is predicting 0.7-percent growth in 2014.
It’s a similar story in Ireland, another of Europe’s ailing children in 2010, which entered an 85-billion-euro ($115-billion) bailout that year but announced last November it would exit the programme in December.
Many Irish workers are still moving abroad in search of work. Like fellow bailout recipients Greece and Portugal, the country had more emigrants than immigrants last year. Alan Cawley, 26, moved to England from the Irish town of Sligo in April 2012 to take a job at construction firm Murphy.
“I did a degree in construction management and a master’s in envi-ronmental systems. When I finished I was quite well-qualified, but there was no work in Ireland,” he told AFP.
In Portugal, where the troika im-
posed massive austerity cuts, the figures no longer seem to add up. The economy is forecast to grow 0.8 percent in 2014 and official unemploy-ment is expected to drop -- but analysts say actual unemployment is far worse, as many Portuguese have given up looking for work.
Fatigue has also hit Greece and Spain. After turning out to protest in huge numbers in 2011 and 2012, the Spanish seem to have lost the energy or the wherewithal to go on strike.
And Greece’s largest union, GSEE,
cancelled a street protest on November 6 because of weak turnout.
“People feel let down by unions who only think of their own interests,” said Vangelis Floras, an electricity company pensioner.
Greece’s embattled coalition gov-ernment insists that after six years of recession, the economy will register a sliver of growth in 2014.
“Greeks are adapting, better even than other people, but there are risks of explosion,” said journalist Polydefkis Papadopoulos.
In Italy, which is also expected to exit recession in 2014, the threat to the established order comes from popu-lism -- in particular, from comedian Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Movement.
Across the continent, there is grow-ing dissatisfaction with the European Union’s perceived impotence against immigration and unemployment.
“A great battle is in progress, be-tween the Europe of the people and the Europe of the populists,” Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta said in November.
“I believe we could look to a stronger set of initiatives between Canada, the United States, Mexico particularly, and the rest of Latin America. We could do more within the hemisphere,” Kerry told CNN Espanol.
He told the network’s Andres
Oppenheimer and the Miami Herald newspaper that he could foresee a wider pact beyond the North Ameri-can Free Trade Agreement, which groups the United States, Canada and Mexico.
The United States already also has economic ties with 12 nations
in Latin America, he said, adding “we’re very strongly connected. We have six different trade agreements that constitute those 12 countries including the Caribbean.”
The top US diplomat said he had instructed his staff to explore the possibility of deepening the trade links with the region, and that he had already had “encouraging” talks with a number of experts.
“We’re going to try to do our due diligence on this, and I’m really hopeful... I would like to see us try
to get something in place.”But Kerry warned some nations
were not yet ready for such a move.“We need to move some coun-
tries in Latin America along in order to try to really make that meaning-ful, because some of them don’t want it today,” he said.
“It’s not that we wouldn’t try to move in that direction, but we still need to try to improve relationships.”
The top US diplomat was speak-ing before he left for a visit to Vietnam and the Philippines seen
as part of US moves to strengthen plans for a Trans-Pacific Partner-ship (TPP).
Washington is also negotiating what is billed as the world’s largest free trade accord with the European Union, known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
Kerry said both deals were “criti-cal,” adding that “for all of us, our future economy, economic growth and development is going to rely on moving both to Europe and to the Pacific.”
US mulls wider trade pact with Latin AmericaAgence France-Presse
WASHINGTON - The United States is exploring the idea of setting up a wider regional trade pact with Latin America, Secretary of State John Kerry revealed on Sunday.
Yearender
Europe poses uncertainty in 2014Agence France-Presse
ATHENS - Is Europe on the verge of a popular uprising? The question was asked by one of Greece’s most respected newspa-
pers as another year of painful austerity drew to a close. If public anger does explode on the streets, wrote Kathimerini, it will not be provoked by politicians or labour unions, but come from ordinary
people who “never imagined themselves doing such a thing”.
A couple check out piggy banks next to house-shaped cardboard boxes for sale in a store in Madrid, Spain, Friday, Dec. 13, 2013. Desperation is weighing not just on Greece, but on countries across Europe facing the same paradox: despite the end of the Great Recession, people continue to struggle with the daily reality of unemployment and poverty.
According to Chief of Jasri cus-tomary village, I Nyoman Sutirtaya-sa, the Rejang, Abuang and Legong dance symbolized the sacrifice and an expression of gratitude for the abundance of worldly endowment to deities who would return to Java Island. “These dances are meant to entertain and please the deities be-cause it is believed when returning to Java they will bestow graces of prosperity. On that account, it will give the source of life for Balinese people,” he said.
Local people believed, explained Sutirtayasa, the series of dharma victory day (Galungan-Kuningan) was initiated since the deities came down from Java to Bali namely on Sugian Jawa and they were ready to receive devotee’s worship. Fur-thermore, they were presented with oblation on Galungan and Kunin-gan. Three days after Kuningan, the deities were presented with aci prani accompanied with the per-formance of Rejang, Abuang and Legong dance.
The dances were performed by
daa (virgin girls) from 33 customary hamlets existing in the area. They danced hand in hand clockwise on the courtyard of Bale Agung temple accompanied with gamelan music. They danced with graceful movement in attires with typical teterek accessories on the back and headdress embellished with young banana leaf ornament.
More interestingly, the Rejang dance with distinctive movement was never taught or learned by the daa. However, when it was time to perform the dance they would be able to do it. At the end of the Meprani ritual it was marked with the disposal of used ritual para-phernalia of Kuningan celebration to the sea.
A senior figure of local cus-tomary village, I Nyoman Putra Adnyana, said that presentation of such sacred dances like the Rejang, Abuang and Legong was originated from the stage of Rejang dance in Puseh temple. However, it was then also presented to deity abiding in the Bale Agung temple. “Theologi-
cally, the ishta devata (venerated gods) abiding in Bale Agung is the
Tri Murti symbolizing the omnipo-tence of God in his manifestation
as the Generator, Operator and Destroyer,” he said.
He said the ban on the sale and use of fireworks and firecrackers was made for the convenience of people in celebrating the New Year. “The rule enforced as last year remains applicable. Later, we’ll disseminate the brochures,” said Hariadi last Saturday.
Hariadi explained the previous rule stated that it was not allowed to sell and use firecrackers and fireworks that emitted a blast. So, the rule for this year was the same. It was in accordance with the Emergency Law No.12/1951 and Article 187 of the Criminal Code on explosives. “In this legislation is set about the explosives causing explosion and disturbing society,” he explained. Meanwhile, the fire-works causing no explosion were still allowed.
Further, the former police chief
of Central Sulawesi said if later on any people were discovered to sell and use (explosive) firecrack-ers and fireworks would be firmly dealt with the applicable rules. “Bali Police will not issue any permit. Anyway, what the policy enforced last year, yes ... it remains applicable this year,” he said when met at the Bali Police, Sunday. He added that by enforcing the ban people would be able to celebrate the New Year comfortably.
Keep in mind, when the Bali Police led by Budi Gunawan last year he suddenly revoked the permit of selling all kinds of fire-works and firecrackers throughout Bali. Although his term expired before the turn of the New Year and replaced by Arif Wachyunadi, the policies remained in place. (kmb21)
Ahead of Christmas and New Year
Police prohibit sale of fireworksBali Post
DENPASAR - Bali Police still enforced policies as imposed last year (2012) related to the prohibition of the sale and use of fireworks and firecrackers ahead of the Christmas and New Year celebration. It was affirmed by the Spokesman of Bali Police, Hariadi.
ANTARA FOTO/Rivan Awal LinggaFireworks explode during the christmas celebration at Jakarta. Bali Police still enforced policies as im-posed last year (2012) related to the prohibition of the sale and use of fireworks and firecrackers ahead of the Christmas and New Year celebration.
Rejang Legong:
A Dance presentation of angels to GodsIt has become a tradition for Jasri customary villagers of Karan-
gasem to present various dances like the Rejang, Abuang and Legong in Bale Agung temple. These sacred dances are part of a
ritual series known as Meprani in conjunction with the celebration of Galungan and Kuningan feast day. All villagers present pekenak
to Ulun Busali deity as venerated gods in Bale Agung temple.
IBP/File PhotoIt has become a tradition for Jasri customary villagers of Karangasem to present various dances like the Rejang, Abuang and Legong in Bale Agung temple.
BUSINESS
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AntaraJAKARTA - Indonesia and
China’s Navy personnel will hold a joint exercise in the South China Sea area in an effort to boost mili-tary cooperation between the two countries, Indonesian Defense Minister Purnomo Ysgiantoro said on Monday.
“The location for the joint ex-ercise will be in Indonesia’s terri-tory of the South China Sea,” said Purnomo after meeting with his visiting Chinese counterpart Gen-eral Chang Wanquan.
Purnomo added that Indonesia had planned to send its air force
pilots to Beijing to attend an avia-tion course there. “Beijing has an air base with simulator for planes, such as the Sukhoi 27 and 30. We plan to send our pilots to attend the aviation course using a simulator in Beijing because it is more economi-cal, compared with funding the actual exercise with actual planes,” Purnomo pointed out.
In July, Indonesian and Chinese armed forces staged the “Knife Sharp 2012” anti-terror joint mili-tary exercise in an effort to strength-en the two countries’ military rela-tions and improve the efficiency of their anti-terror forces.
The exercise of the Indonesian Army Special Force (Kopasus) and the People’s Liberation Army of China (PLA) was held in Jinan in the Shandong Province of China.
Indonesian National Defence Forces (TNI) Chief Admiral Agus Suhartono stated that the military of Indonesia and China were commit-ted to maintaining regional stability and world peace.
“Indonesia and China, including the military of the two countries, are committed towards building cooperation and maintaining re-gional stability and world peace,” Agus stated.
“Polri (Indonesian police) will conduct “Operasi Lilin 2013’ (Candle Light Operation 2013) ahead of the Christmas and New
Year celebrations,” National Police Chief General Sutarman said at a meeting with House of Representatives’ Commission III
on Monday.He further revealed that at least
944 personnel from the National Police Headquarters and more than 86,000 personnel from the regional and resort police com-mands from across the country would be deployed to ensure the security of the celebrations and
public order, as well as prevent any eventuality.
Sutaraman noted that police officers would be stationed at certain locations, such as houses of prayer, shopping centers, rec-reation areas, gas stations and others.
Polri will also set up posts in
several locations for the opera-tions “and would not hesitate to act against anyone threatening na-tional security and public order.”
He added that Polri would also adopt anticipatory and early detection measures and act against any individual seeking to disrupt public security and order.
AntaraJAKARTA - The World Bank predicted Indonesia would suffer
an economic slowdown, growing only 5.3 percent in 2014 from an estimated 5.6 percent in 2013.
Falling interest in investment is one of the factor slowing down the country’s economic growth, World Bank chief representative in Indonesia Rodrigo Chaves said in the bank’s quarterly report issued here on Monday.
Rodrigo said the country’s investment grew only 4.5 percent in the third quarter of 2013, adding there was less interest especially in heavy equipment and machinery industry.
In addition the Fed’s plan to trim its financial stimulus could cause instability in capital market hampering Indonesia’s access to external funding, he said.
“Domestic consumption, which has been the main driver of the country’s economic growth, is feared to weaken. The financial projection also looks volatile as a result of oil fuel subsidy bur-den,” he said.
He said the Indonesian government has taken a series of steps to strengthen short term macro economic stability notably through adjustments of monetary policy and rupiah exchange value.
However, what the country needs in order to promoted trade and to boost long term growth is wider structural reform, he said.
“Indonesia has gone through years full of challenges marked with shrinking exports and falling commodity prices as well as turbulence in capital market and difficulty in securing external funds. However, monetary policy has supported economic adjust-ments,” he said.
He said Indonesia would gain if the government focuses more on long tern investment as the country needs more investment to be not entirely dependent on monetary policy.
“Steps toward improving business climate is very important to draw investment. Simplification in logistics and trade regulations would also contribute to boosting exports,” he added.
In the latest quarterly report the World Bank predicted the coun-try’s current account deficit would be narrowed from an estimated 3.5 percent of the country’s GDP of around US$31 billion in 2013 to 2.6 percent of the GDP of US$23 billion in 2014 on shrinking growth of imports and moderate growth of exports.
However, Rodrigo said in long term, what is needed in order to deal with current account deficit is not by slashing imports.
“What the country needs is to boost export and secure the avail-ability of external funds mainly through foreign direct investment (FDI),” he added.
Police to deploy 86,000 personnel to secure ChristmasAntara
JAKARTA - The Indonesian police plans to deploy more than 86,000 security personnel to ensure public safety and order dur-ing the Christmas and New Year celebrations in the country.
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Indonesian Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro, left, walks with Chinese Defense Minister Chang Wanquan, right, prior their meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Dec. 16, 2013.
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It is not a pretty sight, and many analysts believe Pyongyang’s eager-ness to pillory Jang Song Thaek not only destroys the image of unity projected by state-run media but also acknowledges dissension and a dan-gerous instability. That’s an alarming prospect as Kim Jong Un tries to revive a moribund economy even as he pushes development of nuclear-armed missiles.
The subtext to the over-the-top de-monizing of Jang — he was accused of drug use, gambling, a planned military coup and massive corruption — was a shocking admission: the Kim family wasn’t in total control. Contradicting past assertions of unity and strength, North Korea has acknowledged that the leadership had indeed been roiled because of the challenge by Kim’s mentor and uncle after the 2011 death of Kim’s father, the late dictator Kim Jong Il.
As nervous officials and apparat-chiks gather Tuesday in Pyongyang for the second anniversary of the death of Kim Jong Il, the as-yet unanswerable question now is, what comes next?
The charges against Jang must be taken with a large dose of skepti-cism; as always, the world only gets to see what the North Koreans want seen, and there’s no way to prove what’s true and what’s not. But the fact that the claims are being aired in public, and in such detail, opens up a new view of a struggling leader-
ship in Pyongyang, one that outside government officials and analysts are scrambling to figure out.
Kim Jong Un “has managed to tarnish his own image, look like a modern Caligula and give the lie to 90 percent of the bombast emanating from Pyongyang,” said Bruce Cum-ings, a Korea specialist and history professor at the University of Chicago, adding that the move indicates high-level and deep divisions. “Whatever one thinks of this regime, from the standpoint of the top leadership this was a politically stupid, self-defeating move,” he said.
The closest historical parallel to Jang’s fall may be in North Korean show trials during the 1950s, which eliminated opponents of Kim Il Sung, the country’s founder and the current leader’s grandfather.
For many years, outside interpre-tations of internecine struggles were at best educated guesses. Analysts tried to determine who had fallen from favor by the physical distance between an official and the leader in pictures or from a void in state media or an announcement of sudden illness. Assumptions were also linked to the sometimes questionable assertions of North Korean defectors, many of whom had been out of the country for years and had axes to grind. All the while, Pyongyang usually insisted that all was well domestically and, without fail, the Kims were firmly in control.
Now, astonishingly, state media say
someone tried to usurp the leadership. And not just anybody, but a man clos-est to the leader because of family ties and shared history. Jang was once also seen as the closest thing the country had to a reformer and a darling of Beijing, which is North Korea’s only major ally.
“We now know for sure that the Kim regime is afraid of the emer-gence of a renegade insider who may attempt to take advantage of the North’s economic problems and the people’s yearning for a better life to seize power with military backing,” Alexandre Mansourov, a North Ko-rea specialist, wrote on the website 38 North. “This prospect keeps Kim Jong Un awake at night.”
The portrayal of the Jang epi-sode in North Korea’s propagandist media, which had always tried to cloak Kim Jong Un in greatness, also opens up the leader to sug-gestions that he was a bad judge of character.
“What is remarkable here is that Kim clearly trusted Jang,” Adam Cathcart, a history lecturer at the Uni-versity of Leeds and editor of SinoNK.com, wrote in a recent analysis of the state media reporting about Jang’s fall. “Why would Kim be so naive as to install a man so dangerous in his inner circle? It’s a question that’s implicit in the article — but one that must not be asked.” There will be little public questioning in Pyongyang of what’s actually happening, of course.
Associated Press Writer
DES MOINES, Iowa — Strong weekend Mega Millions ticket sales easily could push Tuesday’s jackpot above last year’s record $656 million prize, a lottery official said Sunday. No ticket matched the six number needed to win Friday’s $425 million prize. It was raised Saturday to $550 million for Tuesday’s drawing — the fourth largest in U.S. history.
Paula Otto, executive director of the Virginia Lottery and Mega Millions’ lead director, told the Associated Press that sales were up by as much as 20 percent in states that reported their weekend numbers. Sales were expected to spike on Tuesday, the day of the drawing.
“I think we’ll be very close to the record, and maybe even sur-pass it,” Otto said. “The challenging part in predicting is that so many of the sales happening on the day of the drawing.
“But lotto players are procrastinators. They tend to buy on the day of the draw.” As of Friday, players had bought enough tickets to cover roughly half of the 259 million possible number combi-nations, Otto said.
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LAgos - January 1, 2014 marks the centenary of the amalgamation of southern and northern Nigeria but the anni-versary looks set to be muted, amid lingering questions about whether the union can hold. In the run-up to the landmark, opinion is split between those who think amalgamation has been a boon and others who consider it the first step in the creation of a still-failing state.
Writer Adewale Maja-Pearce described Africa’s most popu-lous nation as one “imposed by the colonialists who dreamt up the fiction which has now become the nightmare we are all struggling to escape”. The most pressing question now is whether to continue trying to “make it work”, the International New York Times columnist told AFP.
Nigeria’s first step towards independence in 1960 was taken on New Year’s Day 1914 at a ceremony outside a courthouse in the southern city of Lagos. The British rulers hoped that trade would be boosted by uniting the economically faltering north with the more prosperous south. But the primarily com-mercial move, as with others in Britain’s then-global empire, also fused an array of people divided by custom, language and, perhaps most importantly, faith.
By the start of the 19th century, northern Nigeria, where the Fulani-Hausa ethnic group was dominant, had become a caliphate, controlled by a structured network of Islamic theocrats. The south meanwhile consisted of scores of ethnic groups and a loosely-structured maze of leaders and tribal chiefs.
That made it a far tougher territory for the British to man-age, said Ed Keazor, a historian consulting the Nigerian gov-ernment on the centennial celebrations. For Frederick Lugard, Britain’s high commissioner of northern Nigeria and later the first governor-general of the amalgamated colony, the north “worked better”, added Keazor.
Lugard “was an autocrat”, Keazor said. “The emirs’ (Mus-lim rulers) style suited his own style.” But lacking cash crops, the north by 1912 needed subsidies from London to meet its administrative costs. Lugard hoped his amalgamation project would raise profits by streamlining the management of the colonies with him at the top.
With war in Europe brewing, London decided to give the idea a try. “Today, Nigeria enters on a new stage of progress,” Lugard said outside the Lagos supreme court building on the first day of 1914, according to a text provided by Keazor.
FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012 file photo, New North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center,
and senior political and military leaders, includ-ing his aunt, Kim Kyong Hui, third right, stand
at attention at Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang while reviewing a parade of thou-
sands of soldiers and commemorating the 70th birthday of the late Kim Jong Il, picture in the
background.
NKorea explodes myth of unchallenged Kim dynasty
Associated Press Writer
sEoUL, south Korea — North Korea’s propaganda machine has long kept alive the myth of a serene, all-powerful ruling dynasty that enjoyed universal love and support at home. In a single stroke last week, that came crashing down. In attempting to justify the execution of his uncle, who was also considered North Korea’s No. 2 official, young leader Kim Jong Un has given the world a rare look behind the scenes of a notoriously hard-to-read government.
AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File
Mega Millions jackpot climbs toward a new record
Nigeria marks 100 years of amalgamation
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BULELENG - Ser Hill area at Pemuteran village, Gerokgak, is now prepared to become a spiritual tourist resort. Aside from offering a beautiful natural panorama, the seaside hill in the region is indeed known as a sacred area being suitable for performing meditation, yoga and other similar activities.
In terms of scenery, the beach in the area of Ser Hill had been already very well known to foreign tourists. Other than having calm ocean waves and white sand, the beach area also had a very beautiful coral reef and no less attractive than the coral reed at Nusa
Lembongan and Karangasem tourist area. “To that end, the area of Ser Hill is worth to be made into spiritual tourist area,” said a resident living at Pemuteran village.
Buleleng government had a plan to develop the Ser Hill area into a spiritual tourist destination with a beautiful nature exuding magical impres-sion and strong spiritual vibration. Moreover, the area had a number of temples venerated by the Hindus from some villages. Around the area also sat large temples like the Pulaki, Melanting and Kerta Kawat Temple. For the development of such spiritual tourism, Buleleng government planned to propose the management of the state land located around the Ser Hill.
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Ser Hill at Gerokgak
Next year’s regulations are built around a 1.6-litre tur-bocharged V6 engine, a rule change that will also have a significant effect on the car.
“I’m pleased with the way the day on the simulator went,” Alonso told Ferrari’s official website. “We managed to get through everything on the pro-gramme that we had in the pipe-line. It was nice to be driving again, even if only in a virtual way.
“We went through a lot of ideas with the engineers. We are only at the start of a learn-ing process, which is moving forward all the time, and it’s nice to be able to contribute to it.” Alonso also issued a rallying cry to Ferrari’s staff ahead of 2014 in the wake of a difficult
2013 season.Speaking to Ferrari’s sport-
ing division at Ferrari’s Christ-mas lunch, he stressed that he will ensure he is fully prepared to get the best out of the car next year.
“It’s never easy coming sec-ond, but we must look ahead,” said Alonso. “Everyone always expects a lot from us. Next year, we will try to do better and I know you are working very hard.
“There are new rules and ex-tra work for all of you, but you can count on maximum effort from us in terms of our physical and mental preparation to be in 100 per cent shape in March for the opening race. “We race an important time ahead and so, forza Ferrari.”
Reuters LONDON - Wimbledon champion Andy Mur-
ray, the first British winner of the men’s title for 77 years, was named BBC Sports Personality of the Year on Sunday. The 26-year-old Scot, who was not at the awards ceremony in Leeds because he is training in Florida following a back injury, edged out Wales and British & Irish Lions rugby union fullback Leigh Halfpenny and jockey A.P. McCoy to win the award.
Murray was presented with the trophy by nine-times Wimbledon champion Martina Navratilova. “Thanks to Martina Navratilova for giving this to me,” Murray said. “She’s possibly the greatest tennis player of all time.
“I’ve got a few people to thank - my family first. A lot are there in the crowd. They’ve supported me since I was a kid, making a lot of sacrifices for me. I couldn’t have done it without you.”
Murray beat Serbian Novak Djokovic in straight sets in the Wimbledon final in July to become the first home winner of the men’s singles at the grasscourt grand slam tournament since Fred Perry in 1936.
The British & Irish Lions rugby union side were named team of the year following their vic-tory in Australia, the Lions’ first series win since 1997. Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel of Germany claimed the overseas personal-ity of the year prize.
2014 MotoGP calendar:
23 March Losail, Qatar13 April Austin, USA27 April Rio Hondo, Argentina04 May Jerez, Spain18 May Le Mans, France01 June Mugello, Italy15 June Barcelona, Spain28 June Assen, Netherlands13 July Sachsenring, Germany10 August Indianapolis, USA17 August Brno, Czech Republic31 August Silverstone, Great Britain14 September Misano, San Marino21 September Aragon, Spain28 September Brasilia, Brazil*12 October Motegi, Japan19 October Phillip Island, Australia26 October Sepang, Malaysia09 November Valencia, Spain
Alonso pleased with Ferrari progress Fernando Alonso was pleased with the progress made dur-
ing his first experience of the 2014 Ferrari after trying it in the simulator. Although departing team-mate Felipe Massa previ-ously tried the car in the simulator, this was the first time the Spaniard had sampled it.
REUTERS/Nelson Almeida/PooFerrari Formula One driver Fernando Alonso of Spain drives during the Brazilian F1 Grand Prix at the Interlagos circuit in Sao Paulo November 24, 2013.
MotoGP has reshuffled the run-in to its 2014 calendar, switching the order of its Malaysia-Japan-Australia-triple header. Japan will now kick off the back-to-backs rounds on October 12, the sport’s governing body the FIM has confirmed.
The Motegi event will be followed by Aus-tralia and then Malaysia on October 19 and 26 respectively. As revealed in October, 19 rounds are planned for the 2014 season, with FIM con-firming Spanish Grand Prix organisers have now finalised a deal to have the Jerez race on May 4. The race in Brazil remains subject to confirma-tion however.
MotoGP reshuffles 2014 Calendar
Murray wins BBC Sports Personality of the Year
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In this photo made available by the BBC, British Broadcasting Corporation,
British tennis player Andy Murray poses with his award, in Miami, Florida, Sun-
day, Dec. 15, 2013. Wimbledon Champi-on Andy Murray was named as the BBC
Sports Personality of the Year 2013.
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SAO PAULO — A labor court on Sunday halted construction in part of the World Cup stadium where a man fell 115 feet (35 meters) to his death while working on a roofing structure in the jungle city of Manaus, further delaying the venue that will host England vs. Italy and three other matches next June.
The decision was announced after public prosecutors requested the im-mediate interruption of work in all areas where laborers need to be high above the ground. Work will only restart after constructors show that all safety measures are in place at the Arena Amazonia, which will also
Associated Press Writer
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — San Lorenzo won the first half of the Argentine first-division season Sunday after a 0-0 draw with Velez Sarsfield, thanks to previous champion Newell’s Old Boys earning only one point in a 2-2 draw against Lanus. San Lorenzo finished with 33 points after 19 matches, two ahead of Lanus, Velez and Newell’s Old Boys, any one of which could’ve taken the title with a victory on the last day of the season.
Like many Latin American countries, Argentina divides its season into two halves and crowns cham-pions for each.
Goalkeeper Sebastian Torrico was the hero for San Lorenzo after he tipped over a fierce volley from Agustin Allione in the last minute of the game, with Velez searching for a title-winning goal.
Velez made a bright start and had the greater pos-session but San Lorenzo had more opportunities, coming close in the 10th minute when Ignacio Piatti
weaved through the midfield and was brought down on the edge of the box, but the resulting free kick was deflected over the crossbar. TV replays showed San Lorenzo should’ve had a penalty when Fernando Tobio clearly tugged at Santiago Gentiletti’s shirt three minutes before half time.
Velez pushed forward in the last 30 minutes of the game and almost scored when Allione’s curled shot from the edge of the area struck the left post, with Torrico beaten.
San Lorenzo - one of Argentina’s “big five” teams - won its 12th title of the professional era, with the start of the game suspended for 30 minutes due to legal problems in opening the stadium, which were re-solved 90 minutes before the game was due to start.
Newell’s opened the scoring in the 53th minute through Pablo Perez, before Paolo Goltz headed in to level the scores two minutes later.
Lanus’ Carlos Izquierdoz conceded an own goal to put Newell’s back into the lead, but Jorge Pereyra equalized for Copa Sudamericana holders Lanus in the 74th.
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ROME - Napoli kept their hopes of a first Serie A title since 1990 alive with an epic 4-2 win over 10-man Inter Milan after a Carlos Tevez hat-trick had put leaders Juventus six points clear with a 4-0 rout of Sassuolo on Sunday. Goals from Gonzalo Higuain, Dries Mertens, Blerim Dzemaili and Jose Callejon saw Rafael Benitez beat his old club in a hugely entertaining contest and go eight points behind Juventus in third place after falling 11 behind earlier in the day.
Goran Pandev missed an added time penalty after winning the spot kick himself just after com-ing on as a substitute, but it made no difference to the result, and Inter stay fifth on 28 points, seven away from Champions League football. Fiorentina took fourth spot with a comfortable 3-0 defeat of Bologna in which Giuseppe Rossi scored his 13th goal of the season.
Tevez, overlooked by Argentina since 2011, struck for Juve with simple finishes in the 15th, 45th and 68th minutes to move Antonio Conte’s side up to 43 points, six ahead of AS Roma.
The 29-year-old also set up Federico Peluso’s first Juventus goal in the 28th minute, sending in a
beautiful free kick that the midfielder headed home with the help of Sassuolo defender Luca Antei and was given a standard ovation when substituted shortly after netting his third.
“Clearly there is disappointment at going out of the Champions League, but this has to give us more determination and motivation, because we were eliminated and did not deserve it,” Conte said. Inter’s task was made harder in the 71st minute when Ricky Alvarez was sent off following a second booking for handball, enraging Mazzari and allowing Napoli respite from the visitors’ enterprising attacking play.
Napoli’s win put them two points behind un-beaten Roma, who travel to struggling AC Milan on Monday (1945 GMT) looking to close the gap between themselves and Juve back to three points.
Walter Mazzari was met with a mixed recep-tion from the San Paolo crowd on his return since leaving for Inter in the summer, with whistles as well as a supportive banner.
But Esteban Cambiasso and Yuto Nagatomo struck for an Inter side that despite losing will be happy with the grit and class shown in such a hostile environment.
Defending champion Man-chester United trails Arsenal by 10 points after winning 3-0 at Aston Villa to avoid a third successive league loss. After Danny Welbeck’s double for United, Suarez netted twice for Liverpool and played a part in the other three goals at White Hart Lane.
After another demoralizing collapse, Tottenham, which see it-self as a Champions League team, is five points from fourth place but above United. It is Liverpool exceeding expectations this sea-son, sitting in second place. The gulf between Liverpool and Tot-tenham, although only six points, seemed far wider on the basis of Sunday’s lopsided encounter.
The contrast between the strike forces in the league is glaring. Suarez has 17 goals in
a season that only began in late September as he completed a 10-game biting ban.
Tottenham has scored only 15 times in 16 league games and couldn’t even muster a shot on target against the visitors who were without the injured striker Daniel Sturridge and captain Ste-ven Gerrard on Sunday. Instead Suarez captained Liverpool for the first time, an unthinkable proposition when he was banned for racist abuse, then biting be-fore agitating for a transfer in the summer window.
Suarez took just 18 minutes to open the scoring. Defender Mi-chael Dawson blocked a through ball from Suarez, but Jordan Henderson recovered possession and fed the Uruguay striker to nip in and score. Henderson volleyed in the second five minutes before
halftime, seizing the ball after Suarez was denied by goalkeeper Hugo Lloris.
Any hopes of a Tottenham comeback were thwarted by Pau-linho being sent off in the 63rd for sinking his boot into Suarez’s ribs. With a man advantage, Liv-erpool was even more dangerous up front. And Suarez then crossed for Flanagan to score Liverpool’s third in the 75th, found the net again himself in the 84th by chip-ping Lloris, and fed the ball for Sterling to complete the rout five minutes later.
“I loved our arrogance today,” Liverpool manager Brendan Rod-gers said. “The arrogance with the ball was very good — lots of angles, lots of people moving and interchanging positions.
“We looked a real threat whilst retaining that solidity in
defensive shapes.” At Villa Park, Welbeck seized on Robin van Persie’s injury absence to score his first goal since the opening day of the season in August. Wel-beck buried the rebound in the 15th minute after Adnan Januzaj headed against a post, and netted again three minutes later from Antonio Valencia’s cross.
“It is really important for Danny,” United manager David Moyes said. “He is a forward and he needs to get himself goals. He got two poacher types today and he could have had had another.
“With Robin out he stepped up to the mark. When you get oppor-tunities, you show what you can do. Danny certainly did that.” Another goal drought ended, with Tom Cleverley, scoring his first goal in a year from Wayne Rooney’s lay-off in the 52nd.
Liverpool’s Luis Suarez, celebrates after scoring a goal during their English Premier League soccer match between Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool at the White Hart Lane stadium in London Sunday, Dec 15 2013.
Liverpool routs Tottenham; Man United halts slumpAssociated Press Writer
LONDON — Liverpool delivered a potent attacking master class on Sunday, with Luis Suarez at his devastating best in a 5-0 rout of Tottenham that signals the team can sustain a Premier League title challenge. The 18-time champions, who haven’t won the title since 1990, moved two points behind Arsenal after the leaders were stunned 6-3 at Manchester City on Saturday.
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In this Dec. 10, 2013 photo, an aerial view of the Arena da Amazonia stadium in Manaus, Brazil. The con-struction firm building the Arena da Amazonia stadium which will host World Cup games in the jungle city of Manaus says a worker fell to his death Saturday from the stadium’s roof structure.
Labor court halts work at Brazil World Cup stadium
host United States vs. Portugal.The Manaus court said construc-
tors will be fined a daily amount if they don’t abide to the decision. The press office for constructor Andrade Gutierrez said the company would not comment until Monday. Labor officials are expected at the con-struction site on Monday to evalu-ate safety conditions, but a local union has already said workers are expected to go on strike to complain about inadequate measures.
Prosecutors said there have been several reports of irregularities re-lated to worker safety at the Arena Amazonia in the past. Marcleudo de Melo Ferreira, 22, died Saturday after falling while helping install
diamond shaped panels to the lat-ticework of steel girders that form part of the stadium roof. Dozens of laborers were balanced on the gird-ers as they worked. When complete, the panels on the roof are meant to resemble snake scales.
“There is a need for a detailed report attesting that the minimum safety requirements for laborers working in heights are in place,” prosecutors said in a statement.
Andrade Gutierrez said the causes of the accident would be investigated but reiterated its com-mitment to worker safety. It was the second death at the Arena Amazo-nia this year and the third at a World Cup venue in less than a month.
San Lorenzo’s Leandro Romagnoli, left, holds up Argentina’s soccer league trophy as he celebrates with Juan Mercier at the end of the Argentina league soccer match against Velez Sarsfield in Bue-nos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013.. San Lorenzo won the Argentine first division championship. AP Photo/Eduardo Di Baia
San Lorenzo wins Argentine title after 0-0 draw
Juve go six clear, Napoli keep in touch with Inter win
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SAO PAULO — A labor court on Sunday halted construction in part of the World Cup stadium where a man fell 115 feet (35 meters) to his death while working on a roofing structure in the jungle city of Manaus, further delaying the venue that will host England vs. Italy and three other matches next June.
The decision was announced after public prosecutors requested the im-mediate interruption of work in all areas where laborers need to be high above the ground. Work will only restart after constructors show that all safety measures are in place at the Arena Amazonia, which will also
Associated Press Writer
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — San Lorenzo won the first half of the Argentine first-division season Sunday after a 0-0 draw with Velez Sarsfield, thanks to previous champion Newell’s Old Boys earning only one point in a 2-2 draw against Lanus. San Lorenzo finished with 33 points after 19 matches, two ahead of Lanus, Velez and Newell’s Old Boys, any one of which could’ve taken the title with a victory on the last day of the season.
Like many Latin American countries, Argentina divides its season into two halves and crowns cham-pions for each.
Goalkeeper Sebastian Torrico was the hero for San Lorenzo after he tipped over a fierce volley from Agustin Allione in the last minute of the game, with Velez searching for a title-winning goal.
Velez made a bright start and had the greater pos-session but San Lorenzo had more opportunities, coming close in the 10th minute when Ignacio Piatti
weaved through the midfield and was brought down on the edge of the box, but the resulting free kick was deflected over the crossbar. TV replays showed San Lorenzo should’ve had a penalty when Fernando Tobio clearly tugged at Santiago Gentiletti’s shirt three minutes before half time.
Velez pushed forward in the last 30 minutes of the game and almost scored when Allione’s curled shot from the edge of the area struck the left post, with Torrico beaten.
San Lorenzo - one of Argentina’s “big five” teams - won its 12th title of the professional era, with the start of the game suspended for 30 minutes due to legal problems in opening the stadium, which were re-solved 90 minutes before the game was due to start.
Newell’s opened the scoring in the 53th minute through Pablo Perez, before Paolo Goltz headed in to level the scores two minutes later.
Lanus’ Carlos Izquierdoz conceded an own goal to put Newell’s back into the lead, but Jorge Pereyra equalized for Copa Sudamericana holders Lanus in the 74th.
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ROME - Napoli kept their hopes of a first Serie A title since 1990 alive with an epic 4-2 win over 10-man Inter Milan after a Carlos Tevez hat-trick had put leaders Juventus six points clear with a 4-0 rout of Sassuolo on Sunday. Goals from Gonzalo Higuain, Dries Mertens, Blerim Dzemaili and Jose Callejon saw Rafael Benitez beat his old club in a hugely entertaining contest and go eight points behind Juventus in third place after falling 11 behind earlier in the day.
Goran Pandev missed an added time penalty after winning the spot kick himself just after com-ing on as a substitute, but it made no difference to the result, and Inter stay fifth on 28 points, seven away from Champions League football. Fiorentina took fourth spot with a comfortable 3-0 defeat of Bologna in which Giuseppe Rossi scored his 13th goal of the season.
Tevez, overlooked by Argentina since 2011, struck for Juve with simple finishes in the 15th, 45th and 68th minutes to move Antonio Conte’s side up to 43 points, six ahead of AS Roma.
The 29-year-old also set up Federico Peluso’s first Juventus goal in the 28th minute, sending in a
beautiful free kick that the midfielder headed home with the help of Sassuolo defender Luca Antei and was given a standard ovation when substituted shortly after netting his third.
“Clearly there is disappointment at going out of the Champions League, but this has to give us more determination and motivation, because we were eliminated and did not deserve it,” Conte said. Inter’s task was made harder in the 71st minute when Ricky Alvarez was sent off following a second booking for handball, enraging Mazzari and allowing Napoli respite from the visitors’ enterprising attacking play.
Napoli’s win put them two points behind un-beaten Roma, who travel to struggling AC Milan on Monday (1945 GMT) looking to close the gap between themselves and Juve back to three points.
Walter Mazzari was met with a mixed recep-tion from the San Paolo crowd on his return since leaving for Inter in the summer, with whistles as well as a supportive banner.
But Esteban Cambiasso and Yuto Nagatomo struck for an Inter side that despite losing will be happy with the grit and class shown in such a hostile environment.
Defending champion Man-chester United trails Arsenal by 10 points after winning 3-0 at Aston Villa to avoid a third successive league loss. After Danny Welbeck’s double for United, Suarez netted twice for Liverpool and played a part in the other three goals at White Hart Lane.
After another demoralizing collapse, Tottenham, which see it-self as a Champions League team, is five points from fourth place but above United. It is Liverpool exceeding expectations this sea-son, sitting in second place. The gulf between Liverpool and Tot-tenham, although only six points, seemed far wider on the basis of Sunday’s lopsided encounter.
The contrast between the strike forces in the league is glaring. Suarez has 17 goals in
a season that only began in late September as he completed a 10-game biting ban.
Tottenham has scored only 15 times in 16 league games and couldn’t even muster a shot on target against the visitors who were without the injured striker Daniel Sturridge and captain Ste-ven Gerrard on Sunday. Instead Suarez captained Liverpool for the first time, an unthinkable proposition when he was banned for racist abuse, then biting be-fore agitating for a transfer in the summer window.
Suarez took just 18 minutes to open the scoring. Defender Mi-chael Dawson blocked a through ball from Suarez, but Jordan Henderson recovered possession and fed the Uruguay striker to nip in and score. Henderson volleyed in the second five minutes before
halftime, seizing the ball after Suarez was denied by goalkeeper Hugo Lloris.
Any hopes of a Tottenham comeback were thwarted by Pau-linho being sent off in the 63rd for sinking his boot into Suarez’s ribs. With a man advantage, Liv-erpool was even more dangerous up front. And Suarez then crossed for Flanagan to score Liverpool’s third in the 75th, found the net again himself in the 84th by chip-ping Lloris, and fed the ball for Sterling to complete the rout five minutes later.
“I loved our arrogance today,” Liverpool manager Brendan Rod-gers said. “The arrogance with the ball was very good — lots of angles, lots of people moving and interchanging positions.
“We looked a real threat whilst retaining that solidity in
defensive shapes.” At Villa Park, Welbeck seized on Robin van Persie’s injury absence to score his first goal since the opening day of the season in August. Wel-beck buried the rebound in the 15th minute after Adnan Januzaj headed against a post, and netted again three minutes later from Antonio Valencia’s cross.
“It is really important for Danny,” United manager David Moyes said. “He is a forward and he needs to get himself goals. He got two poacher types today and he could have had had another.
“With Robin out he stepped up to the mark. When you get oppor-tunities, you show what you can do. Danny certainly did that.” Another goal drought ended, with Tom Cleverley, scoring his first goal in a year from Wayne Rooney’s lay-off in the 52nd.
Liverpool’s Luis Suarez, celebrates after scoring a goal during their English Premier League soccer match between Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool at the White Hart Lane stadium in London Sunday, Dec 15 2013.
Liverpool routs Tottenham; Man United halts slumpAssociated Press Writer
LONDON — Liverpool delivered a potent attacking master class on Sunday, with Luis Suarez at his devastating best in a 5-0 rout of Tottenham that signals the team can sustain a Premier League title challenge. The 18-time champions, who haven’t won the title since 1990, moved two points behind Arsenal after the leaders were stunned 6-3 at Manchester City on Saturday.
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AP Photo/Renata Brito
In this Dec. 10, 2013 photo, an aerial view of the Arena da Amazonia stadium in Manaus, Brazil. The con-struction firm building the Arena da Amazonia stadium which will host World Cup games in the jungle city of Manaus says a worker fell to his death Saturday from the stadium’s roof structure.
Labor court halts work at Brazil World Cup stadium
host United States vs. Portugal.The Manaus court said construc-
tors will be fined a daily amount if they don’t abide to the decision. The press office for constructor Andrade Gutierrez said the company would not comment until Monday. Labor officials are expected at the con-struction site on Monday to evalu-ate safety conditions, but a local union has already said workers are expected to go on strike to complain about inadequate measures.
Prosecutors said there have been several reports of irregularities re-lated to worker safety at the Arena Amazonia in the past. Marcleudo de Melo Ferreira, 22, died Saturday after falling while helping install
diamond shaped panels to the lat-ticework of steel girders that form part of the stadium roof. Dozens of laborers were balanced on the gird-ers as they worked. When complete, the panels on the roof are meant to resemble snake scales.
“There is a need for a detailed report attesting that the minimum safety requirements for laborers working in heights are in place,” prosecutors said in a statement.
Andrade Gutierrez said the causes of the accident would be investigated but reiterated its com-mitment to worker safety. It was the second death at the Arena Amazo-nia this year and the third at a World Cup venue in less than a month.
San Lorenzo’s Leandro Romagnoli, left, holds up Argentina’s soccer league trophy as he celebrates with Juan Mercier at the end of the Argentina league soccer match against Velez Sarsfield in Bue-nos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013.. San Lorenzo won the Argentine first division championship. AP Photo/Eduardo Di Baia
San Lorenzo wins Argentine title after 0-0 draw
Juve go six clear, Napoli keep in touch with Inter win
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BULELENG - Ser Hill area at Pemuteran village, Gerokgak, is now prepared to become a spiritual tourist resort. Aside from offering a beautiful natural panorama, the seaside hill in the region is indeed known as a sacred area being suitable for performing meditation, yoga and other similar activities.
In terms of scenery, the beach in the area of Ser Hill had been already very well known to foreign tourists. Other than having calm ocean waves and white sand, the beach area also had a very beautiful coral reef and no less attractive than the coral reed at Nusa
Lembongan and Karangasem tourist area. “To that end, the area of Ser Hill is worth to be made into spiritual tourist area,” said a resident living at Pemuteran village.
Buleleng government had a plan to develop the Ser Hill area into a spiritual tourist destination with a beautiful nature exuding magical impres-sion and strong spiritual vibration. Moreover, the area had a number of temples venerated by the Hindus from some villages. Around the area also sat large temples like the Pulaki, Melanting and Kerta Kawat Temple. For the development of such spiritual tourism, Buleleng government planned to propose the management of the state land located around the Ser Hill.
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Ser Hill at Gerokgak
Next year’s regulations are built around a 1.6-litre tur-bocharged V6 engine, a rule change that will also have a significant effect on the car.
“I’m pleased with the way the day on the simulator went,” Alonso told Ferrari’s official website. “We managed to get through everything on the pro-gramme that we had in the pipe-line. It was nice to be driving again, even if only in a virtual way.
“We went through a lot of ideas with the engineers. We are only at the start of a learn-ing process, which is moving forward all the time, and it’s nice to be able to contribute to it.” Alonso also issued a rallying cry to Ferrari’s staff ahead of 2014 in the wake of a difficult
2013 season.Speaking to Ferrari’s sport-
ing division at Ferrari’s Christ-mas lunch, he stressed that he will ensure he is fully prepared to get the best out of the car next year.
“It’s never easy coming sec-ond, but we must look ahead,” said Alonso. “Everyone always expects a lot from us. Next year, we will try to do better and I know you are working very hard.
“There are new rules and ex-tra work for all of you, but you can count on maximum effort from us in terms of our physical and mental preparation to be in 100 per cent shape in March for the opening race. “We race an important time ahead and so, forza Ferrari.”
Reuters LONDON - Wimbledon champion Andy Mur-
ray, the first British winner of the men’s title for 77 years, was named BBC Sports Personality of the Year on Sunday. The 26-year-old Scot, who was not at the awards ceremony in Leeds because he is training in Florida following a back injury, edged out Wales and British & Irish Lions rugby union fullback Leigh Halfpenny and jockey A.P. McCoy to win the award.
Murray was presented with the trophy by nine-times Wimbledon champion Martina Navratilova. “Thanks to Martina Navratilova for giving this to me,” Murray said. “She’s possibly the greatest tennis player of all time.
“I’ve got a few people to thank - my family first. A lot are there in the crowd. They’ve supported me since I was a kid, making a lot of sacrifices for me. I couldn’t have done it without you.”
Murray beat Serbian Novak Djokovic in straight sets in the Wimbledon final in July to become the first home winner of the men’s singles at the grasscourt grand slam tournament since Fred Perry in 1936.
The British & Irish Lions rugby union side were named team of the year following their vic-tory in Australia, the Lions’ first series win since 1997. Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel of Germany claimed the overseas personal-ity of the year prize.
2014 MotoGP calendar:
23 March Losail, Qatar13 April Austin, USA27 April Rio Hondo, Argentina04 May Jerez, Spain18 May Le Mans, France01 June Mugello, Italy15 June Barcelona, Spain28 June Assen, Netherlands13 July Sachsenring, Germany10 August Indianapolis, USA17 August Brno, Czech Republic31 August Silverstone, Great Britain14 September Misano, San Marino21 September Aragon, Spain28 September Brasilia, Brazil*12 October Motegi, Japan19 October Phillip Island, Australia26 October Sepang, Malaysia09 November Valencia, Spain
Alonso pleased with Ferrari progress Fernando Alonso was pleased with the progress made dur-
ing his first experience of the 2014 Ferrari after trying it in the simulator. Although departing team-mate Felipe Massa previ-ously tried the car in the simulator, this was the first time the Spaniard had sampled it.
REUTERS/Nelson Almeida/PooFerrari Formula One driver Fernando Alonso of Spain drives during the Brazilian F1 Grand Prix at the Interlagos circuit in Sao Paulo November 24, 2013.
MotoGP has reshuffled the run-in to its 2014 calendar, switching the order of its Malaysia-Japan-Australia-triple header. Japan will now kick off the back-to-backs rounds on October 12, the sport’s governing body the FIM has confirmed.
The Motegi event will be followed by Aus-tralia and then Malaysia on October 19 and 26 respectively. As revealed in October, 19 rounds are planned for the 2014 season, with FIM con-firming Spanish Grand Prix organisers have now finalised a deal to have the Jerez race on May 4. The race in Brazil remains subject to confirma-tion however.
MotoGP reshuffles 2014 Calendar
Murray wins BBC Sports Personality of the Year
AP Photo/BBC, Josh Ritchie
In this photo made available by the BBC, British Broadcasting Corporation,
British tennis player Andy Murray poses with his award, in Miami, Florida, Sun-
day, Dec. 15, 2013. Wimbledon Champi-on Andy Murray was named as the BBC
Sports Personality of the Year 2013.
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AntaraJAKARTA - Indonesia and
China’s Navy personnel will hold a joint exercise in the South China Sea area in an effort to boost mili-tary cooperation between the two countries, Indonesian Defense Minister Purnomo Ysgiantoro said on Monday.
“The location for the joint ex-ercise will be in Indonesia’s terri-tory of the South China Sea,” said Purnomo after meeting with his visiting Chinese counterpart Gen-eral Chang Wanquan.
Purnomo added that Indonesia had planned to send its air force
pilots to Beijing to attend an avia-tion course there. “Beijing has an air base with simulator for planes, such as the Sukhoi 27 and 30. We plan to send our pilots to attend the aviation course using a simulator in Beijing because it is more economi-cal, compared with funding the actual exercise with actual planes,” Purnomo pointed out.
In July, Indonesian and Chinese armed forces staged the “Knife Sharp 2012” anti-terror joint mili-tary exercise in an effort to strength-en the two countries’ military rela-tions and improve the efficiency of their anti-terror forces.
The exercise of the Indonesian Army Special Force (Kopasus) and the People’s Liberation Army of China (PLA) was held in Jinan in the Shandong Province of China.
Indonesian National Defence Forces (TNI) Chief Admiral Agus Suhartono stated that the military of Indonesia and China were commit-ted to maintaining regional stability and world peace.
“Indonesia and China, including the military of the two countries, are committed towards building cooperation and maintaining re-gional stability and world peace,” Agus stated.
“Polri (Indonesian police) will conduct “Operasi Lilin 2013’ (Candle Light Operation 2013) ahead of the Christmas and New
Year celebrations,” National Police Chief General Sutarman said at a meeting with House of Representatives’ Commission III
on Monday.He further revealed that at least
944 personnel from the National Police Headquarters and more than 86,000 personnel from the regional and resort police com-mands from across the country would be deployed to ensure the security of the celebrations and
public order, as well as prevent any eventuality.
Sutaraman noted that police officers would be stationed at certain locations, such as houses of prayer, shopping centers, rec-reation areas, gas stations and others.
Polri will also set up posts in
several locations for the opera-tions “and would not hesitate to act against anyone threatening na-tional security and public order.”
He added that Polri would also adopt anticipatory and early detection measures and act against any individual seeking to disrupt public security and order.
AntaraJAKARTA - The World Bank predicted Indonesia would suffer
an economic slowdown, growing only 5.3 percent in 2014 from an estimated 5.6 percent in 2013.
Falling interest in investment is one of the factor slowing down the country’s economic growth, World Bank chief representative in Indonesia Rodrigo Chaves said in the bank’s quarterly report issued here on Monday.
Rodrigo said the country’s investment grew only 4.5 percent in the third quarter of 2013, adding there was less interest especially in heavy equipment and machinery industry.
In addition the Fed’s plan to trim its financial stimulus could cause instability in capital market hampering Indonesia’s access to external funding, he said.
“Domestic consumption, which has been the main driver of the country’s economic growth, is feared to weaken. The financial projection also looks volatile as a result of oil fuel subsidy bur-den,” he said.
He said the Indonesian government has taken a series of steps to strengthen short term macro economic stability notably through adjustments of monetary policy and rupiah exchange value.
However, what the country needs in order to promoted trade and to boost long term growth is wider structural reform, he said.
“Indonesia has gone through years full of challenges marked with shrinking exports and falling commodity prices as well as turbulence in capital market and difficulty in securing external funds. However, monetary policy has supported economic adjust-ments,” he said.
He said Indonesia would gain if the government focuses more on long tern investment as the country needs more investment to be not entirely dependent on monetary policy.
“Steps toward improving business climate is very important to draw investment. Simplification in logistics and trade regulations would also contribute to boosting exports,” he added.
In the latest quarterly report the World Bank predicted the coun-try’s current account deficit would be narrowed from an estimated 3.5 percent of the country’s GDP of around US$31 billion in 2013 to 2.6 percent of the GDP of US$23 billion in 2014 on shrinking growth of imports and moderate growth of exports.
However, Rodrigo said in long term, what is needed in order to deal with current account deficit is not by slashing imports.
“What the country needs is to boost export and secure the avail-ability of external funds mainly through foreign direct investment (FDI),” he added.
Police to deploy 86,000 personnel to secure ChristmasAntara
JAKARTA - The Indonesian police plans to deploy more than 86,000 security personnel to ensure public safety and order dur-ing the Christmas and New Year celebrations in the country.
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Indonesian Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro, left, walks with Chinese Defense Minister Chang Wanquan, right, prior their meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Dec. 16, 2013.
RI, China’s to hold joint military exercise
WB: Indonesia’s economy to grow slower
It is not a pretty sight, and many analysts believe Pyongyang’s eager-ness to pillory Jang Song Thaek not only destroys the image of unity projected by state-run media but also acknowledges dissension and a dan-gerous instability. That’s an alarming prospect as Kim Jong Un tries to revive a moribund economy even as he pushes development of nuclear-armed missiles.
The subtext to the over-the-top de-monizing of Jang — he was accused of drug use, gambling, a planned military coup and massive corruption — was a shocking admission: the Kim family wasn’t in total control. Contradicting past assertions of unity and strength, North Korea has acknowledged that the leadership had indeed been roiled because of the challenge by Kim’s mentor and uncle after the 2011 death of Kim’s father, the late dictator Kim Jong Il.
As nervous officials and apparat-chiks gather Tuesday in Pyongyang for the second anniversary of the death of Kim Jong Il, the as-yet unanswerable question now is, what comes next?
The charges against Jang must be taken with a large dose of skepti-cism; as always, the world only gets to see what the North Koreans want seen, and there’s no way to prove what’s true and what’s not. But the fact that the claims are being aired in public, and in such detail, opens up a new view of a struggling leader-
ship in Pyongyang, one that outside government officials and analysts are scrambling to figure out.
Kim Jong Un “has managed to tarnish his own image, look like a modern Caligula and give the lie to 90 percent of the bombast emanating from Pyongyang,” said Bruce Cum-ings, a Korea specialist and history professor at the University of Chicago, adding that the move indicates high-level and deep divisions. “Whatever one thinks of this regime, from the standpoint of the top leadership this was a politically stupid, self-defeating move,” he said.
The closest historical parallel to Jang’s fall may be in North Korean show trials during the 1950s, which eliminated opponents of Kim Il Sung, the country’s founder and the current leader’s grandfather.
For many years, outside interpre-tations of internecine struggles were at best educated guesses. Analysts tried to determine who had fallen from favor by the physical distance between an official and the leader in pictures or from a void in state media or an announcement of sudden illness. Assumptions were also linked to the sometimes questionable assertions of North Korean defectors, many of whom had been out of the country for years and had axes to grind. All the while, Pyongyang usually insisted that all was well domestically and, without fail, the Kims were firmly in control.
Now, astonishingly, state media say
someone tried to usurp the leadership. And not just anybody, but a man clos-est to the leader because of family ties and shared history. Jang was once also seen as the closest thing the country had to a reformer and a darling of Beijing, which is North Korea’s only major ally.
“We now know for sure that the Kim regime is afraid of the emer-gence of a renegade insider who may attempt to take advantage of the North’s economic problems and the people’s yearning for a better life to seize power with military backing,” Alexandre Mansourov, a North Ko-rea specialist, wrote on the website 38 North. “This prospect keeps Kim Jong Un awake at night.”
The portrayal of the Jang epi-sode in North Korea’s propagandist media, which had always tried to cloak Kim Jong Un in greatness, also opens up the leader to sug-gestions that he was a bad judge of character.
“What is remarkable here is that Kim clearly trusted Jang,” Adam Cathcart, a history lecturer at the Uni-versity of Leeds and editor of SinoNK.com, wrote in a recent analysis of the state media reporting about Jang’s fall. “Why would Kim be so naive as to install a man so dangerous in his inner circle? It’s a question that’s implicit in the article — but one that must not be asked.” There will be little public questioning in Pyongyang of what’s actually happening, of course.
Associated Press Writer
DES MOINES, Iowa — Strong weekend Mega Millions ticket sales easily could push Tuesday’s jackpot above last year’s record $656 million prize, a lottery official said Sunday. No ticket matched the six number needed to win Friday’s $425 million prize. It was raised Saturday to $550 million for Tuesday’s drawing — the fourth largest in U.S. history.
Paula Otto, executive director of the Virginia Lottery and Mega Millions’ lead director, told the Associated Press that sales were up by as much as 20 percent in states that reported their weekend numbers. Sales were expected to spike on Tuesday, the day of the drawing.
“I think we’ll be very close to the record, and maybe even sur-pass it,” Otto said. “The challenging part in predicting is that so many of the sales happening on the day of the drawing.
“But lotto players are procrastinators. They tend to buy on the day of the draw.” As of Friday, players had bought enough tickets to cover roughly half of the 259 million possible number combi-nations, Otto said.
Agence France Presse
LAgos - January 1, 2014 marks the centenary of the amalgamation of southern and northern Nigeria but the anni-versary looks set to be muted, amid lingering questions about whether the union can hold. In the run-up to the landmark, opinion is split between those who think amalgamation has been a boon and others who consider it the first step in the creation of a still-failing state.
Writer Adewale Maja-Pearce described Africa’s most popu-lous nation as one “imposed by the colonialists who dreamt up the fiction which has now become the nightmare we are all struggling to escape”. The most pressing question now is whether to continue trying to “make it work”, the International New York Times columnist told AFP.
Nigeria’s first step towards independence in 1960 was taken on New Year’s Day 1914 at a ceremony outside a courthouse in the southern city of Lagos. The British rulers hoped that trade would be boosted by uniting the economically faltering north with the more prosperous south. But the primarily com-mercial move, as with others in Britain’s then-global empire, also fused an array of people divided by custom, language and, perhaps most importantly, faith.
By the start of the 19th century, northern Nigeria, where the Fulani-Hausa ethnic group was dominant, had become a caliphate, controlled by a structured network of Islamic theocrats. The south meanwhile consisted of scores of ethnic groups and a loosely-structured maze of leaders and tribal chiefs.
That made it a far tougher territory for the British to man-age, said Ed Keazor, a historian consulting the Nigerian gov-ernment on the centennial celebrations. For Frederick Lugard, Britain’s high commissioner of northern Nigeria and later the first governor-general of the amalgamated colony, the north “worked better”, added Keazor.
Lugard “was an autocrat”, Keazor said. “The emirs’ (Mus-lim rulers) style suited his own style.” But lacking cash crops, the north by 1912 needed subsidies from London to meet its administrative costs. Lugard hoped his amalgamation project would raise profits by streamlining the management of the colonies with him at the top.
With war in Europe brewing, London decided to give the idea a try. “Today, Nigeria enters on a new stage of progress,” Lugard said outside the Lagos supreme court building on the first day of 1914, according to a text provided by Keazor.
FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012 file photo, New North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center,
and senior political and military leaders, includ-ing his aunt, Kim Kyong Hui, third right, stand
at attention at Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang while reviewing a parade of thou-
sands of soldiers and commemorating the 70th birthday of the late Kim Jong Il, picture in the
background.
NKorea explodes myth of unchallenged Kim dynasty
Associated Press Writer
sEoUL, south Korea — North Korea’s propaganda machine has long kept alive the myth of a serene, all-powerful ruling dynasty that enjoyed universal love and support at home. In a single stroke last week, that came crashing down. In attempting to justify the execution of his uncle, who was also considered North Korea’s No. 2 official, young leader Kim Jong Un has given the world a rare look behind the scenes of a notoriously hard-to-read government.
AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File
Mega Millions jackpot climbs toward a new record
Nigeria marks 100 years of amalgamation
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Desperation is weighing not just on Greece, but on countries across Europe facing the same paradox: despite the end of the Great Recession, people continue to struggle with the daily real-ity of unemployment and poverty.
Greece, Italy and Portugal are forecast to return to growth next year, while Spain has already emerged from recession and Ireland has ended its bailout programme.
But the disconnect between eco-nomic data and quality of life is fuel-ling populism, rightwing extremism and anti-European sentiment -- and is likely to play a big part in European Parliament elections in May.
“An improvement? We see no improvement, and will not for quite some time,” said Manuel Moreno, a 34-year-old who just lost his job at a humanitarian organisation in Madrid.
“It took 15 years for things to im-prove after the 1990 economic crisis. This time round, the situation is much worse. We could see no recovery for 20 to 25 years,” he said.Yet according to the figures, Spain is already doing better.
In 2012, its banks needed 41.3 billion euros ($56 billion) from the
European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund -- the so-called “troika” -- to save them after the collapse of a real-estate bubble. Last November, the govern-ment announced it would exit the rescue programme at the beginning of the year. The Spanish economy came out of recession in the third quarter of 2013, and the government is predicting 0.7-percent growth in 2014.
It’s a similar story in Ireland, another of Europe’s ailing children in 2010, which entered an 85-billion-euro ($115-billion) bailout that year but announced last November it would exit the programme in December.
Many Irish workers are still moving abroad in search of work. Like fellow bailout recipients Greece and Portugal, the country had more emigrants than immigrants last year. Alan Cawley, 26, moved to England from the Irish town of Sligo in April 2012 to take a job at construction firm Murphy.
“I did a degree in construction management and a master’s in envi-ronmental systems. When I finished I was quite well-qualified, but there was no work in Ireland,” he told AFP.
In Portugal, where the troika im-
posed massive austerity cuts, the figures no longer seem to add up. The economy is forecast to grow 0.8 percent in 2014 and official unemploy-ment is expected to drop -- but analysts say actual unemployment is far worse, as many Portuguese have given up looking for work.
Fatigue has also hit Greece and Spain. After turning out to protest in huge numbers in 2011 and 2012, the Spanish seem to have lost the energy or the wherewithal to go on strike.
And Greece’s largest union, GSEE,
cancelled a street protest on November 6 because of weak turnout.
“People feel let down by unions who only think of their own interests,” said Vangelis Floras, an electricity company pensioner.
Greece’s embattled coalition gov-ernment insists that after six years of recession, the economy will register a sliver of growth in 2014.
“Greeks are adapting, better even than other people, but there are risks of explosion,” said journalist Polydefkis Papadopoulos.
In Italy, which is also expected to exit recession in 2014, the threat to the established order comes from popu-lism -- in particular, from comedian Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Movement.
Across the continent, there is grow-ing dissatisfaction with the European Union’s perceived impotence against immigration and unemployment.
“A great battle is in progress, be-tween the Europe of the people and the Europe of the populists,” Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta said in November.
“I believe we could look to a stronger set of initiatives between Canada, the United States, Mexico particularly, and the rest of Latin America. We could do more within the hemisphere,” Kerry told CNN Espanol.
He told the network’s Andres
Oppenheimer and the Miami Herald newspaper that he could foresee a wider pact beyond the North Ameri-can Free Trade Agreement, which groups the United States, Canada and Mexico.
The United States already also has economic ties with 12 nations
in Latin America, he said, adding “we’re very strongly connected. We have six different trade agreements that constitute those 12 countries including the Caribbean.”
The top US diplomat said he had instructed his staff to explore the possibility of deepening the trade links with the region, and that he had already had “encouraging” talks with a number of experts.
“We’re going to try to do our due diligence on this, and I’m really hopeful... I would like to see us try
to get something in place.”But Kerry warned some nations
were not yet ready for such a move.“We need to move some coun-
tries in Latin America along in order to try to really make that meaning-ful, because some of them don’t want it today,” he said.
“It’s not that we wouldn’t try to move in that direction, but we still need to try to improve relationships.”
The top US diplomat was speak-ing before he left for a visit to Vietnam and the Philippines seen
as part of US moves to strengthen plans for a Trans-Pacific Partner-ship (TPP).
Washington is also negotiating what is billed as the world’s largest free trade accord with the European Union, known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
Kerry said both deals were “criti-cal,” adding that “for all of us, our future economy, economic growth and development is going to rely on moving both to Europe and to the Pacific.”
US mulls wider trade pact with Latin AmericaAgence France-Presse
WASHINGTON - The United States is exploring the idea of setting up a wider regional trade pact with Latin America, Secretary of State John Kerry revealed on Sunday.
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Europe poses uncertainty in 2014Agence France-Presse
ATHENS - Is Europe on the verge of a popular uprising? The question was asked by one of Greece’s most respected newspa-
pers as another year of painful austerity drew to a close. If public anger does explode on the streets, wrote Kathimerini, it will not be provoked by politicians or labour unions, but come from ordinary
people who “never imagined themselves doing such a thing”.
A couple check out piggy banks next to house-shaped cardboard boxes for sale in a store in Madrid, Spain, Friday, Dec. 13, 2013. Desperation is weighing not just on Greece, but on countries across Europe facing the same paradox: despite the end of the Great Recession, people continue to struggle with the daily reality of unemployment and poverty.
According to Chief of Jasri cus-tomary village, I Nyoman Sutirtaya-sa, the Rejang, Abuang and Legong dance symbolized the sacrifice and an expression of gratitude for the abundance of worldly endowment to deities who would return to Java Island. “These dances are meant to entertain and please the deities be-cause it is believed when returning to Java they will bestow graces of prosperity. On that account, it will give the source of life for Balinese people,” he said.
Local people believed, explained Sutirtayasa, the series of dharma victory day (Galungan-Kuningan) was initiated since the deities came down from Java to Bali namely on Sugian Jawa and they were ready to receive devotee’s worship. Fur-thermore, they were presented with oblation on Galungan and Kunin-gan. Three days after Kuningan, the deities were presented with aci prani accompanied with the per-formance of Rejang, Abuang and Legong dance.
The dances were performed by
daa (virgin girls) from 33 customary hamlets existing in the area. They danced hand in hand clockwise on the courtyard of Bale Agung temple accompanied with gamelan music. They danced with graceful movement in attires with typical teterek accessories on the back and headdress embellished with young banana leaf ornament.
More interestingly, the Rejang dance with distinctive movement was never taught or learned by the daa. However, when it was time to perform the dance they would be able to do it. At the end of the Meprani ritual it was marked with the disposal of used ritual para-phernalia of Kuningan celebration to the sea.
A senior figure of local cus-tomary village, I Nyoman Putra Adnyana, said that presentation of such sacred dances like the Rejang, Abuang and Legong was originated from the stage of Rejang dance in Puseh temple. However, it was then also presented to deity abiding in the Bale Agung temple. “Theologi-
cally, the ishta devata (venerated gods) abiding in Bale Agung is the
Tri Murti symbolizing the omnipo-tence of God in his manifestation
as the Generator, Operator and Destroyer,” he said.
He said the ban on the sale and use of fireworks and firecrackers was made for the convenience of people in celebrating the New Year. “The rule enforced as last year remains applicable. Later, we’ll disseminate the brochures,” said Hariadi last Saturday.
Hariadi explained the previous rule stated that it was not allowed to sell and use firecrackers and fireworks that emitted a blast. So, the rule for this year was the same. It was in accordance with the Emergency Law No.12/1951 and Article 187 of the Criminal Code on explosives. “In this legislation is set about the explosives causing explosion and disturbing society,” he explained. Meanwhile, the fire-works causing no explosion were still allowed.
Further, the former police chief
of Central Sulawesi said if later on any people were discovered to sell and use (explosive) firecrack-ers and fireworks would be firmly dealt with the applicable rules. “Bali Police will not issue any permit. Anyway, what the policy enforced last year, yes ... it remains applicable this year,” he said when met at the Bali Police, Sunday. He added that by enforcing the ban people would be able to celebrate the New Year comfortably.
Keep in mind, when the Bali Police led by Budi Gunawan last year he suddenly revoked the permit of selling all kinds of fire-works and firecrackers throughout Bali. Although his term expired before the turn of the New Year and replaced by Arif Wachyunadi, the policies remained in place. (kmb21)
Ahead of Christmas and New Year
Police prohibit sale of fireworksBali Post
DENPASAR - Bali Police still enforced policies as imposed last year (2012) related to the prohibition of the sale and use of fireworks and firecrackers ahead of the Christmas and New Year celebration. It was affirmed by the Spokesman of Bali Police, Hariadi.
ANTARA FOTO/Rivan Awal LinggaFireworks explode during the christmas celebration at Jakarta. Bali Police still enforced policies as im-posed last year (2012) related to the prohibition of the sale and use of fireworks and firecrackers ahead of the Christmas and New Year celebration.
Rejang Legong:
A Dance presentation of angels to GodsIt has become a tradition for Jasri customary villagers of Karan-
gasem to present various dances like the Rejang, Abuang and Legong in Bale Agung temple. These sacred dances are part of a
ritual series known as Meprani in conjunction with the celebration of Galungan and Kuningan feast day. All villagers present pekenak
to Ulun Busali deity as venerated gods in Bale Agung temple.
IBP/File PhotoIt has become a tradition for Jasri customary villagers of Karangasem to present various dances like the Rejang, Abuang and Legong in Bale Agung temple.
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The powerful network of Fethul-lah Gulen, who leads a worldwide Islamic movement from a forested compound in the United States, had helped Erdogan’s Islamist-rooted AK Party win a growing share of the vote in three successive elections. “This is a nasty and bloody divorce,” wrote Kadri Gursel, a columnist critical of the government but who writes for the broadly pro-Erdogan Milliyet daily.
Summer protests and riots in central Istanbul underlined growing concern especially among secularists about Erdogan’s increasingly authori-tarian style of government. Recent months have also brought into the open conflicts with Gulen’s “Hizmet” (Service) movement. Chief focus in recent weeks has been a government plan to abolish private “prep” schools,
many financed and run by Gulen, on the grounds they give unfair advan-tage to wealthy parents.
Gulen has set up schools across Africa, the Middle East, the United States and Asia. They are a key source of income but also a powerful instrument of influence, especially in Turkey, creating a network of elite contacts and personal loyalties. The Hizmet movement is widely seen as having helped break the grip of the army, self-appointed guardians of secularism, over Turkish politics, arguably Erdogan’s greatest achieve-ment, through its influence in the judiciary, with hundreds of officers convicted on coup plot charges.
Erdogan has built his own body of wealthy loyalists since he came to power in 2002, largely from the same
religiously-minded professional class that revere Gulen, but a rift between the two risks fracturing that support base as polls approach. When Erdogan visited Washington this year he sent an ally to Pennsylvania to sound out the plans of Gulen, who left Turkey in 1999 after being charged with plotting to establish Islamic law. But the power of Gulen, who was acquitted but has remained in America, lies partly in his enigmatic style. There have long been ideological differences, many of Gulen’s followers seeing him as a more progressive and pro-Western influence on Turkey than Erdogan, whose views on issues from abortion to alcohol consumption have triggered accusations of interference in Turkish private life.
Those tensions have spilled into the open in a power struggle at the heart of the ruling party that could shape Turkey’s political landscape for the next decade. Hizmet’s power lies more in its influence within the AK Party bureaucracy than any ability to sway voters at the ballot box. With most of the electoral map AK Party orange, there is little sense it could unseat Erdogan even if it wanted.
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Gaza City - Gaza’s lone power station rumbled to life Sunday for the first time in more than seven weeks after receiving a long-awaited delivery of diesel, the electricity company said. The Hamas-ruled enclave has struggled with massive flooding caused by winter downpours that began Wednesday, when a huge storm struck the Middle East, pummelling Israel and the Pales-tinian territories.
“The power station started re-working gradually after stopping for 50 days,” said Jamal Dirsawi, spokesman for the Gaza Electric-ity Distribution Co (GEDCO). The plant, which supplies some 30 percent of Gaza’s electricity needs, fell silent on November 1 as stocks of diesel ran out.
“The first generator has started working, the second one will follow, and by this evening, the company should be able to generate around 60 megawatts of electricity,” Dirsawi told AFP. Gaza has been suffering the most serious fuel crisis in its history, causing daily power outages of up to 16 hours, which hit homes, schools, hospitals, businesses, and water and sanitation plants.
The power station returned to life after receiving a delivery of fuel purchased from Israel by the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority using funds donated by Qatar.
The PA helped facilitate the delivery via Israel, which the militant Hamas does not recogn-ise. Following a request from the United Nations, Israel on Friday allowed the transfer of gas for domestic heating and fuel pumps
for draining floodwater. In ad-dition to the fuel for the power plant, Gaza would also receive “800,000 litres of diesel fuel for transportation... and another 200 tonnes of household gas,” the Israeli army said.
Raed Fatuh, the PA official in charge of the transfer of goods into Gaza, said deliveries of diesel and gas would continue on Mon-day and Tuesday.
caused heavy flooding in Gaza, with thousands of residents evacu-ated from their homes and seek-ing refuge in schools. An AFP correspondent said on Sunday the water level was dropping, but many residents were still stranded. A UN statement said “approximately 10,000 persons had been evacuated from their homes as a result of flooding.”
Israel and the Palestinian ter-ritories have been pummelled by the fiercest storm in decades, with many areas cut off by heavy snowfall, leaving hundreds of thousands without power.
Although the snowstorm had ended by Sunday, streets re-mained icy, causing schools to stay shut in Jerusalem and sur-rounding areas. “It’s not over yet; there is a problem of road safety,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Sunday’s weekly cabinet meeting, which was post-poned for five hours due to traffic conditions.
“We have to tell motorists to drive carefully.” Major roads to the Holy City reopened in the afternoon, and public transport re-sumed, albeit on a limited basis.
Enigmatic Turkish cleric poses challenge to Erdogan’s mightReuters
ANKARA - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has won three gen-eral elections, weathered summer riots, subdued a meddling army and changed Turkey like few leaders before him in a decade in power. But a rift with an enigmatic U.S.-based Islamic preacher, whose quiet influence in the police, secret services and judiciary looms large over the Turkish state, threatens to shake his hold on power ahead of elections next year.
REUTERS/Umit BektasTurkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan addresses the audience during Turkey-EU Readmission Agree-ment Signing Ceremony in Ankara December 16, 2013. Turkey and the European Union signed an agree-ment on Monday allowing EU governments to send back illegal immigrants crossing into Europe from Turkey in a move highlighting a thaw in relations between Ankara and the 28-member bloc.
Gaza power plant stirs to life as violent storm passes
AP Photo/Adel HanaA general view of buildings surrounded with flood from rain water in Gaza City, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013. Rescue workers evacuated more than 5,000 Gaza Strip residents from homes flooded by four days of heavy rain, using fishing boats and heavy construction equipment to pluck some of those trapped from upper floors, an official said on Saturday.
Bali Post
SEMARAPURA - Hundreds of truck drivers of Denpasar – Karangasem road section fretted. They admitted to have been frequently blackmailed when passed Klungkung region. Even, since it frequently happened, the amount of money asked every day was getting more and more. However, since the alleged individuals were traffic cops, the truck drivers mostly from Java were frightened and submitted some amount of money requested by the traffic cops.
One of the truck drivers transporting quarry materials in Karangasem, Rianto, revealed on Sunday (Dec 15) the action of the individual traffic cop had long happened. Even, he was often threatened when he did not give the money requested. Together with friends, Rianto conveyed the blackmailing traffic cop was more than one individual. However, he only knew two of them. “When passing at the location, he only meets the two cops. Prob-ably, other friends meet the other cops,” he said.
Another truck driver, Ahmad Sardi, said the individual traf-fic cops most frequently blackmailed the drivers when passing at night or dawn. From the narrative of his fellow drivers, the individuals most frequently targeted the drivers of truck convey-ing sand material.
There was also a truck driver who was just coming from Lombok and about to go to Denpasar. However, the truck driver from Lombok was said to be braver to refuse because he did no violation. Once passing, Ahmad claimed to be blackmail at IDR 50,000 to IDR 100,000. By and large, the individual cops took action at the Lepang 4-way intersection. Sometimes, they also took action around the Gelgel area, at the Tihingadi 4-way inter-section in Kusamba and the Klotok 4-way intersection. “When I was blackmailed at Lepang, I saw the official motorcycle was parked in the garage with special number 02 and 09,” he said.
He considered the act of the cops was very egregious to truck drivers. Although they did no violations, they claimed to be un-able to do much. They should arrive on time at the destination to deliver sand material transported from the location of quarry in Karangasem. Both Ahmad and Rianto expected the leadership in Klungkung Traffic Police to discipline the individual traffic cops. They considered such an act was very disturbing and did not reflect a good protector for the society. Unfortunately, they did not know exactly what the name of both individuals was. Nevertheless, his party still asked the police authority in Klungkung to check and impose heavy penalties if they were proved to have blackmailed. Actually, when they passed through Karangasem, Gianyar to Den-pasar, no blackmail action happened as found in Klungkung.
Chief of Klungkung Police Traffic Affairs, Slamet, denied if his colleagues on duty on the highway were doing such shameful action. Even, his party asked to reveal which individuals did it, so it would be clear and did not accuse haphazardly. Actually, the cop on duty on the highway was pretty much. “No, it is not true. Probably, it might happen before I serve here,” he said. Since the traffic section was under his leadership he affirmed that no individuals committing such a blackmail action. (kmb31)
As observation on Sunday (Dec 15), the long swing and hanging swing were broken and without main-tenance. Likewise, the bottom part of both slide facilities was broken. Although they were damaged and hazardous, the child playground did not get attention from the government. As a small example, the damaged chil-dren playroom was just waiting for the victim and had not been posted with ban sign by the government.
Based on the data collected from
local people, the damage to public facilities, especially the children’s playground, had been almost a year. Similarly, the existing sand at the playing area was unkempt. In terms of fund, the repair or the making of new facilities for children’s play-ground did not require a large fund, said Gede, a resident from Serongga who accompanied his son to play.
With such severe damaged condi-tion, parents who came with their chil-dren were then anxious. They could
only complain about the condition in which the attention of government to public space for children stayed far away, whereas on the one side, the Gianyar government wished to get the award as a child-friendly town. Even, the Gianyar government through the Woman Empowerment and Family Planning (PP & KB) Agency had con-ducted a comparative study to lead a child-friendly town to Surabaya.
As a breakthrough, the provision of playground in the southeast part of the Astina Square could become one of child development locations, as an effort to fulfill the rights of children such as the right to grow and develop, right to get protection and right to participate. Unfortunately, the playground provided was in ap-prehensive condition, badly damaged and unkempt. (kmb16)
Bali Post
NEGARA - Revetment of Ye-hembang Kauh River at Mendoyo collapsed after hit by flood. Such incident was the umpteenth time within the past year. Such condi-tion led to disappointment of the surrounding residents because the revetment was just completed recently.
The safeguarding concrete at
the riverbank was alleged to col-lapse due to lack of good quality, whereas the water brunt was small unlike in the previous flood. As seen on Sunday (Dec 15), the revetment in the southern part of the river collapsed again last week, precisely on Sunday (Dec 8). Actually the revetment had just been repaired after the previous collapse during the construction stage. At that time, the collapse
occurred along some 40 meters and the contractor was willing to fix. Then, the length of collapsed revetment increased along about 70 meters. Its stones looked to scatter as swept away by flood in the river.
One of the local residents, Dewa Suparsa, 43, said the re-vetment collapsed last week and several people including him were in the river then. At that time, it
flooded as before and the revet-ment directly collapsed. Suparsa admitted to be disappointed as the revetment quickly collapsed even two times a year.
Actually the revetment was safeguarding concrete of the coun-ty road on the riverbank. Without immediate repair, he believed the road would disconnect as the im-pact of erosion. He cautioned in order the repair could really pay
attention to the aspect of qual-ity so similar collapse would not repeat again. Headman of Yehe-mbang Kauh, I Nyoman Mustika, confirmed to reporters about the collapse of the river revetment and the incident had been reported to Jembrana Public Works Agency. The day after the revetment col-lapsed, his party immediately reported the incident to relevant authority. (kmb26)
Truck drivers admit to be blackmailed by individual traffic cops
Residents disappointed Revetment of Yehembang Kauh River collapses again
IBP/File
Playground at Astina Square
Getting no attention, facilities in severe damage
The damage facilities at Astina
Square, Gianyar.
Bali Post
GIANYAR - Public facilities in Gianyar reaped a highlight again. At this time, it came from the residents who delivered their children to play in the Urban Park, nestled at the southeast corner of the Astina Square. Existence of the playground facilities for children was very hazardous. In addition, the condition was seriously apprehensive. Two swings and two slides were not feasible as a place to play.
3Tuesday, December 17, 201314 InternationalInternational Bali NewsScience Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Reported mass strandings of cer-tain whale species have increased worldwide since the military started using sonar half a century ago. Sci-entists think the sounds scare ani-mals into shallow waters where they can become disoriented and wash ashore, but technology capable of close monitoring has emerged only in about the last decade. Aside from strandings, biologists are concerned marine mammals could suffer pro-longed stress from changes in div-ing, feeding and communication.
Two recent studies off the South-ern California coast found certain endangered blue whales and beaked whales stopped feeding and fled from recordings of sounds similar to military sonar.
Beaked whales are highly sensi-tive to sound and account for the
majority of beachings near military exercises. Scientists, however, were surprised by the reaction of blue whales — the world’s largest animal — long thought to be immune to the high-pitched sounds. It’s unclear how the change in behavior would affect the overall population, estimated at between 5,000 and 12,000 animals.
The studies involved only a small group of tagged whales and noise levels were less intense than what’s used by the Navy. Shy spe-cies, such as the Cuvier’s beaked whale that can dive 3,000 feet (900 meters) below the surface, have taken years to find and monitor.
“This is a warning flag and deserves more research,” said Stan-ford University biologist Jeremy Goldbogen, who led the blue whale study published this summer in the
journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Both studies were done by a team of independent scientists as part of a Navy-funded, five-year project launched in 2010 to un-derstand how sonar affects marine mammals. Navy officials say it’s vital to national security that sailors receive sonar training in real-life conditions.
Environmentalists have long claimed that sonar harms marine mammals, which use acoustics to mate and forage. They want more protections and accuse the Navy of rushing to obtain five-year permits under the Marine Mammal Protec-tion Act from the National Marine Fisheries Service to increase its sonar testing in U.S. waters without considering the latest science.
AP Photo/Cascadia Research, John Calambokidis
This undated image provided by Cascadia Research shows researchers tagging a blue whale off the coast of Southern California. Two recent studies off Southern California found certain endangered blue whales and beaked whales stopped feeding and fled from recordings of noise similar to military sonar.
Navy expands sonar testing despite troubling signs Associated Press Writer
SAN DIEGO — The U.S. Navy plans to increase sonar testing over the next five years, even as research it funded reveals worrying signs that the loud underwater noise could disturb whales and dolphins.
Associated Press Writer
BEIJING — China hailed its lunar probe mission a success after the country’s first moon rover and the landing vehicle that carried it there took photos of each other on the surface, state media reported.
The six-wheeled rover moved to a spot about 9 meters (10 yards) north of the landing vehicle on Sunday night China time and the pair took photos for about a minute, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. The color images transmitted back to Earth showed the Chinese flag on the Yutu, or “Jade Rabbit” rover, named after a mythological creature.
President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang were at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center to hear lunar program chief commander Ma Xingrui declare the Chang’e 3 mission a success, Xinhua re-ported.
In a congratulatory message, the Communist Party’s central com-mittee, State Council or China’s Cabinet, and the Central Military Commission hailed the mission as a “milestone” in the development of China’s space programs, a “new glory” in Chinese explorations and the “outstanding contribution” of China in mankind’s peaceful use of space, Xinhua said.
The Chang’e 3 landed on a relatively flat part of the moon known as Sinus Iridum, or the Bay of Rainbows, on Saturday evening, marking the world’s first soft landing of a space probe on the moon in nearly four decades. China is the third country to do that after the former Soviet Union and United States.
The lander and rover have now embarked on separate scientific explorations. The 140-kilogram (300-pound) rover will survey the moon’s geological structure and surface and look for natural resources for three months at a speed of 200 meters (200 yards) per hour. The landing vehicle will conduct scientific examinations for one year at the landing site.
Xinhua said the two will have more chances in the coming days to take photos of each other at different angles. The Chang’e 3 mis-sion is named after a mythical Chinese goddess of the moon and the Yutu rover, or “Jade Rabbit” in English, is the goddess’ pet.
AP Photo/Xinhua, Ding Lin
This image taken by the on-board camera of the “Yutu” or “Jade Rabbit” rover, and made off the screen of the Beijing Aerospace Control Center in Beijing on Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013, shows a photo of the Chang’e-3 lander during the mutual-photograph process. The rover and the lander took photos of each other Sunday night, marking the success of the Chang’e-3 lunar probe mission.
China’s flag-bearing rover photographed on moon
Bali PostDENPASAR - Bali Usada Festi-
val was held for the first time in Bali. The event was a kind of apprecia-tion and a means of consultation on meditation for every people wishing to explore and learn more about the Balinese healing meditation. It was held in the Ksiraarnawa Hall of the Art Center Denpasar, Saturday (Dec 14).
Various activities took place in the one-day event at the exhibition area such as one-on-one consulta-tion, vegetarian culinary bazaar, crystal exhibition, meditation tools, book bazaar, traditional medicine, alpha-sphere engine sound healing, short meditation class and ballet performance. Meanwhile, in the area of the seminar, the committee invited five prominent speakers including Merta Ada, Adi W. Gunawan, Reza Gunawan, Made Suambara and Made Robert.
The Event Coordinator, Ely Su-santi, said the Bali Usada Festival was made one day because it was ‘the baby’ where it was the first healing event in Bali. In the imple-mentation, the Bali Usada Festival featured more indigenous wisdom of Balinese people. “We are trying
to invite friends in Bali to see various types of booths showing off the Bali-nese healing products,” she said.
Susanti explained that it was the first event held in a series of the twentieth anniversary of the Bali Usada Health Meditation. Visitors looked so enthusiastic to join the event, where it was also graced with wariga (Balinese almanac) expert consultation, exhibition of traditional medicine and various exhibition booths of typical Bali-nese people. She added the whole event of Bali Usada Festival event included several activities such as book bazaar, culinary booth and a short meditation class, meditation consultation and seminar.
She hoped that pursuant to the theme of Bali Usada Festival 2013 namely ‘Do Good, Think Harmoni-ously’ her party could do goodness and the fellow human beings could be more harmonious through the Bali Usada health meditation. The festival was a tribute to Balinese people. The event was targeted to Balinese people in particular as well as the students of Merta Ada in general originating from various regions.
In 1993, Merta Ada established
an organization named the Bali Usada, an association of health meditation that taught meditation for self-healing. Based in Sanur area, the Bali Usada health meditation had now reached Jakarta, Medan, Lom-bok, Palembang, Central Java and West Java, even down to Singapore and some European countries.
Merta Ada said the Bali Usada health meditation had been running for 20 years. It was the basic knowl-edge of Balinese culture. He said that thousands of years ago our ancestors already had a healing technique, having been influenced by Indian culture, mainly Hinduism. Addition-ally, it was also taking advantage of the chakra healing system, Chinese method and Shiva-Buddhism as the concept of meditation.
When the influence of Buddhism came in, the awareness was getting stronger supported by the develop-ment of modern times and it was summarized from various palm-leaf manuscripts and knowledge into the Bali Usada meditation. He had prac-ticed the meditation since 20 years ago. As a result, there had been more than 98,000 people having learned the meditation from around the world, said Merta Ada. He wanted to
summarize the meditation belonging to Balinese people. “We organize the Bali Usada Festival 2013. Besides, we also hold an exhibition to make sure that people in Bali have confi-dence that meditation taught by our ancestors can be accepted by the world community,” he said.
We in Bali had a very good
knowledge called Wariga or almanac system. According to Merta Ada, it was the science based on certain days calculated with reference to position of the earth, moon, sun and the universe. Based on the Wariga, it could be known the tendency of people in terms of their tendency, advantages and drawbacks. (dgk)
Director of Bali Police Traffic Af-fairs, Beno Louhenapessy, revealed on Friday (Dec 13) that 3,003 cases of traffic accident were recorded in 2011 and 2,730 cases in 2012.
As of November 2013, it had been recorded 1,996 cases of traffic accident occurred in the Bali Police jurisdiction, with 522 deaths, 602 serious injuries and 2,529 minor injuries. The traffic accident took place in general was caused by sev-eral factors, including human error, road condition and the increase in the vehicle. Aside from the causes, the traffic accidents were also kin-dled by negligence of motorcyclists and vehicle riders, driver’s fatigue and drowsiness, under the influence of alcoholic drink and speeding. “The victims are still dominated by productive-aged people. To that end, we still continue to pursue various programs and operations by providing education to obey traffic
regulations,” he said. Further, he confirmed that to reduce
the number of traffic accident, Direc-torate of Traffic Affairs of Bali Police made various efforts where one of which was to hold a Zebra Operation for 14 days on December 9-22, 2013. In addition, a total of 20 units of CCTV were operated for 24 hours to antici-pate security vulnerabilities. “Mean-while, the RTMC of Bali Police has 20 active CCTVs operating for 24 hours. The CCTVs are connected to the Area Traffic Control System (ATCS) owned by Transportation Agency operating for 24 hours,” he said.
Beno explained that Directorate of Traffic Affairs of Bali Police had area control monitored via CCTV at his headquarters. Additional CCTV units of the operation rooms of Bali Police and the Transporta-tion Agency amounted to 24 units. “The officers at the RTMC will help control through CCTV monitoring
owned by Directorate of Traffic Affairs, while we can also monitor the 24 CCTVs owned by the Trans-portation Agency,” he added.
He suggested people that before
driving should ensure their health so as not to be under influence of alcohol and completeness of papers such as driver’s license, vehicle registration and ID cards
had to be prepared as well. “Most importantly, make sure the rate of vehicle speed must be constant and not in a hurry when traveling,” he suggested. (nik)
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Traffic accident rate in Bali reaches an average of 2,000 cases each year with the death toll reaches 522 people. This figure shows that almost two people die each day due to traffic accident.
In Bali
2,000 traffic accidents occur every year Bali Post
DENPASAR - Traffic accident rate in Bali reaches an average of 2,000 cases each year with the death toll reaches 522 people. This figure shows that almost two people die each day due to traffic accident. In Indonesia, there are at least 109,038 cases of accident with fatalities of 25,131 people and material losses reaching IDR 222,185,078,333.
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Bali Usada Festival was held for the first time in Bali. The event was a kind of appreciation and a means of consultation on meditation for every people wishing to explore and learn more about the Balinese healing meditation.
Bali Usada Festival
People vivaciously join in meditation
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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 con-sidered 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 “umbul-umbul”, 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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Calendar Event for November 2 through December 11, 20132 Nov Saniscara Keliwon Kuningan.Pura Taman Pule di Mas-Ubud.Pura Ularan di Takmung-Klungkung.Pura Bukitjati di Gulingan-Kawan Bangli.
6 Nov Buda Wage Langkir.Pura Tanah Lot Kediri Tabanan.Pura Bucabe Mas Ubud.Pura Puseh Desa Ganggang-Canggi Batuan.Pura Pasek Pertukangan Kediri-Tabanan.Pura Pasek Bendesa Gulingan Mengwi.Pura Masceti Desa Sanding-Tampak Siring.Puru Luwur Batur Pucangan Buahan-Tabanan.Odalan Alit di Pura Dalem Takuran di Cemeng-goan Sukawati.Odalan Ida Ratu Sundaring Jagat Penataran Agung Besakih.Mr. Pasek Gelgel Silakarang.Pura Dalem Bangun Sakti Kapal.Pura Dalem Bias Muntig Ped-Nusa Penida.
10 Nov redite Pon Medangsia.Pura Agung Pentilan Kesiman-Denpasar.Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kerambitan Tabanan.
11 Nov Soma Wage Medangsia.Pura Nataran Desa Getas Blahbatuh.Merajan Pasek Gelgel Aan-Klungkung.Pura Pasek Bakbakan Gianyar.
17 Nov redite Keliwon Pujut.Merajan Pasek Tohjiwa Kekeran-Mengwi.
17 Nov Purnama Kelima.Aci-aci Penaung Bayu di Pura Batumadeg di Besakih.Pura Kentel Gumi di Batur Baangli.Pura Pedarman Agung, Satria Denpasar.Pura Pemerajan Agung - Pemecutan Denpasar.Ngusaba di Pura Kehen Bangli.Pura Desa Pemenang di Lombok.Pura Agung Pasek Gelgel di Sumerta Denpasar.Pura Pasek Gobleg di Kekeran Mengwi.Pura Suranadi di Lombok.Pura Puncak Bukit Tampak Siring.Pura Dalem Puri Agung Kintamani.Pura Dalem Agung Nongan Karangasem.Pura Dalem Ubung-Kupang Dukuh Penebel-Tabanan.Pura Dalem Balingkang Kintamani.Pr. Tampurhyang Pusat Kawitan Mahagota Catur Sanak di Songan Kintamani.Pura Dalem Pulasari Desa Bantas Sudaji Buleleng.Merajan Pasek Gelgel di Lebih.Merajan Pasek Gelgel di Tulamben.Pura Penyusungan Pasek Tohjiwa Selemadeg Tabanan.Pura Pasar Agung Besakih Sebudi Karangasem.Merajan Pasek Gelgel Tengkulak Kaja.Pura Suci Desa Tianyar Kubu Karangasem.Pura Bukit Mentik ring Gunung Lebah Desa Batur Kintamani.Pura Narmada di Lombok.Pura Segara di Ampenan Lombok.Pura Ularan di Seririt Buleleng.
7 Dec Tumpek Krurut.Pura Pasek Gelgel Br Tengah Buleleng.Pura Dalem Pemuteran di Desa Jelantik Tojan - Klungkung.Pura Pedarmaan Bhujangga Waisnawa di Besakih.Pura Taman Sari Desa Gunungsari Penebel - Tabanan.Pura Dalem Tarukan di Bebalang Bangli.Pura Benua Kangin Besakih.Pura Merajan Kanginan (Ida Betara Empu Beradah) di Besakih.
8 Dec redite Umanis Merakih.Pura Parangan Tengah Banjar Ceningan Kangin - Lembongan Nusa Penida.Pura Dalem Celuk Sukawati - Gianyar.
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KUTA - Nestling against the shores of Kuta’s famed surf beach, lies a holiday resort that lays testament to the glories of the past fifty years of rock culture. Covering a prime 3-hectare site in the heart of Bali’s entertainment and shopping district, featuring 418 tribute rooms, luxury and deluxe suites, alongside six cutting edge food and beverage outlets. A paradise for couples, families and singles.
Recidivist arrested again
KUTA - North Kuta Police arrested the ex-convict named I Gusti Putu Subawa, 40. The culprit was arrested as he attempted to break in a villa belonging to Belgian tourist named Jorgen Coppens, 49, located on Jalan Pantai Brawa Gang Kelapa, Tibu Beneng, North Kuta, Badung, Saturday (Dec 7).
Chief of North Kuta Police Criminal De-tective, I Dewa Putu Anom D, explained that it originated from Jorgen and his wife Ana Maria Duran Loaoiza, 42, who came from shopping. When arriving at their villa No.308, Ana Maria was surprised to see the villa’s door open. Ana Maria who rushed to get in immediately shouted at Jorgan as seeing the culprit was searching her room. “At first, the action of Subawa was encountered by Jor-gen’s wife around 4:30 p.m.,” he said.
Hearing the shout of his wife, he rushed to come in and tried to apprehend the culprit. Unluckily, being agile the culprit managed to escape. Even, it threatened the Belgian couple with a knife taken from the villa’s gazebo. “The recidivist having dwelt in jail for three times due to the same case had also threatened the victim with a knife. Afterward, the culprit fled as Ana Maria continued to call
out for help,” he said while adding that the culprit was panic so he left his Honda Vario motorcycle with license plate DK 7598 HA along with helmet and jacket.
After the incident, the victim immediately reported the case to North Kuta Police. In response to the report, the Criminal Detective Section immediately tracked the whereabouts of the culprit by checking the identity of Vario motorcycle left. “Based on the results of checking, it was known the motorcycle belonged to I Gusti Putu Subawa from Du-kuh Belong hamlet, Baturiti municipality, Kerambitan, Tabanan,” added the friendly Chief Dewa.
Knowing this information, said Dewa, Gusti Putu Subawa was directly arrested without resistance in his rented stall at Pe-siapan Terminal, Tabanan, Monday (Dec 9). From this incident, police secured a white Vario CBS with license plate DK 7598 HA, Nokia hand phone, a brown jean jacket, KYT helmet, a pair of shoes and a wooden-handled knife. “Now, the culprit had already been secured in the North Kuta Police,” he said while adding the culprit was charged with Article 363 of the Criminal Code for the attempt of theft with penalty of 5 years in prison. (nik)
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Budiman in his speech read by Chief of the IX Udayana Regional Military Staff, Danu Nawawi, conveyed many happy returns of the day to all soldiers and army civil servants and their families wherever they were and on duty along with profound gratitude and sincere ap-preciation for their service over the years.
Long passage of devotion of the National Army (TNI AD), he said, was inseparable from the hard work and dedication of the predecessors and seniors who had laid the foundations of coaching and development of the National Army, so as to achieve such progress today. To that end, on this occasion, the Chief Staff of Army also conveyed his respect, pride and gratitude as well as said prayers in order the predecessors and seniors always received divine protection from God along with the determination to continue their ideal struggles.
Chief Staff of Army hoped the moment of Infantry Day celebration should be used as a means to do introspection in executing the tasks performed within the past one year and affirmed the determination and renewed the patriotism to continuously improve the performance and quality of service for the development of the National Army and na-tional prosperity.
Although in entering the year 2013, both in a global and national level, the world faced the situation of uncertainty and likelihood on the slowdown economic growth, the growth of Indonesia’s economy was still able to keep pace with developed countries.
Related to the matter, various programs and activities of the territorial development of the National Army such as the improvement of food security, infrastructure development for the region, acceleration in the field of health and education and other fields would be very useful to assist and relieve local government and residents in its entirety when facing the slowing economic growth and a variety of other issues faced by society.
As part of the components of the nation, the National Army would continue to be responsive and concerned about the living conditions of
the people and nation as well as participate and contribute maximally in the face of factual issues of the nation.
Related to development policy for the strength of the National Army towards the realization of minimum essential force (MEF), the National Army was committed to continu-ously conduct a compliance and modernization of the defense equipment. National Army was also committed to building a professional, modern, disciplined and loving soldier as well as loved the people based on modern science and technology.
It was very much in line with the theme of this year’s Infantry Day namely “based on the spirit of the Infantry Day, the National Army was determined to become a professional, dis-ciplined, militant, modern and people-beloved soldier and it was ready to keep the integrity of the Republic of Indonesia.’ The theme reflected the commitment and determination of the army to become professional, modern and militant as well as to continuously strengthen the synergy with all other components of the nation.
“Hopefully, the theme could be completely understood, internalized and implemented through appropriate measures and action in accordance with the respective field of duty and responsibility,” he hoped.
Meanwhile, the selection of Penglipuran Memorial Park in Bangli to organize the rally of the Infantry Day this time was to recall one of the great heroes posing the companion of I Gusti Ngurah Rai namely Captain Anak Agung Anom Mudita killed in the struggle against the invaders. “Location of this celebration was the battlefield of the predecessors where the Cap-tain Anak Agung Anom Mudita was killed. So, here is the location and directly to target. We do hope the patriotism of our predecessors could be directly implanted by soldiers of our younger generation,” said Danu Nawawi.
After the implementation of rally, the Chief of Regional Military Staff along with his ranks and other invitees then did flower sowing. All participants spread out and sowed flowers at the entire tombs. Aside from doing flower sowing, the event was also filled with a number of performances and entertainment. (ina)
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The ceremony held in the Penglipuran Memorial Park, Bangli by the Indone-sian army
Chief of Regional Military Staff leads Infantry Day at Penglipuran
Bali PostBANGLI - Peak of the Infantry Day 2013 was conducted by holding a rally
and sowing flowers in the Penglipuran Memorial Park, Bangli, Sunday (Dec 15). Serving as the inspector of ceremony was the Chief of IX Udayana regional Military Staff, Danu Nawawi. Celebration of the Infantry Day started at 09:00 a.m. was also attended by the high officials and Military Regional Command and 163 Wirasatya Military resort Command including the chief, Bali Police officials, provincial and county leadership council, community leaders as well as a number of students in Bangli.
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“The economic growth of Bali is slightly above the national growth. When reaching six percent, it’s already better” he said.
According to him, the eco-nomic growth rate of Bali was driven by a number of interna-tional and national events during
2013 whose implementation was fairly successful such as the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit and Miss World. Besides, the development of ad-equate infrastructure such as toll road and airport expansion also encouraged the economic growth
of Bali. “Just look at the flight traffic where it tends to increase and so does the direct flight to Bali at this time. Assuredly, it will have an impact on tourist arrival,” he explained.
Such statement was reinforced by the flight movement at the Ngu-rah Rai Airport reaching 335 air-crafts per day. The condition made the international airport occupy the busiest airport in Indonesia, where the number of passengers in 2013 reached 15 million people. “Like-wise, do not ignore the growing
domestic tourist arrival in Bali. It will certainly support the economic growth of Bali as well,” he said.
He also said that so far the tour-ism sector remained to become a promising mainstay of Bali Prov-ince. He acknowledged the craft products as well as other art prod-ucts would slightly decrease due to slowing economic recovery in the European countries. “Tourism potential remains to grow. Market share like China, Russia, Korea and Malaysia should be worked on better. Australian market is still
good. Though we politically have a problem, it does not interfere with the Australian travelers coming to Bali,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Central Statis-tics Agency (BPS Bali) reported the number of foreign travelers visit-ing Bali in October 2013 reached 266,562 people. The figure had increased by 4.53 percent compared to the same month in the previous year. By nationality, most foreign travelers coming to Bali were those from Australia, PRC, Malaysia, Japan and the UK. (kmb28)
“Avatar,” which was shot and made in New Zea-land, won three Academy Awards and is the highest-grossing film in history, with an international box of-fice take of nearly $2.8 billion. Cameron said he plans to complete principal shooting on the three movies at one time, perhaps over a period of about nine months and beginning in 2015. He said the aim is to release the first sequel in time for Christmas 2016 and the following sequels in late 2017 and late 2018.
“It’s quite a thrill to be officially saying that we’re bringing the Avatar films to New Zealand,” he told a press conference. “We had such a wonderful ex-perience here making the first film.” Cameron said work has already begun on the writing and design of the movies.
New Zealand’s government has agreed to a 25
percent rebate for the films, meaning it will pick up one-quarter of the tab. The agreement states that Lightstorm and Twentieth Century Fox will spend at least $413 million in New Zealand on the movies. As is typical with blockbusters, Cameron declined to disclose a budget. But he did say he expects that economies of scale will help the three movies together cost less than $1 billion.
He said that he intends to make the movies in 3D and to shoot at least some sequences at 48 frames per second. Films are typically shot in 24 frames per second. New Zealand director Peter Jackson shot his trilogy of “The Hobbit” at double that speed in an attempt to make the movies look more realistic and impressive. But the results of the technology have attracted mixed reviews from critics.
Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES — In his storied career, stage and screen actor Peter O’Toole, who died Saturday at age 81 following a long bout of illness, dynamically pronounced countless memorable characters, from the daring T.E. Lawrence in “Lawrence of Arabia” to amorous Maurice in “Venus.” He
earned four Golden Globes and an Emmy for his work, and holds the record for the most acting Oscar nominations without a win — eight.
However, in 2002 O’Toole was presented the Academy Honorary Award for his entire body of work. In his accep-tance speech he joked, “Always a bridesmaid, never a bride, my foot!”
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FILE - In this Feb 25, 2007 file photo, Actor Peter O’Toole, left, nominated for an Oscar for best actor in a leading role for his work in “Venus,” arrives with his daughter Kate for the 79th Academy Awards in Los Angeles.
O’Toole scored 8 Oscar nods, but won none
Here are the late actor’s eight nominations and who he lost to each year:
T.E. Lawrence in “Lawrence of Arabia,” 1962. Lost to Gregory Peck, who starred as lawyer Atticus Finch in “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
King Henry II in “Becket,” 1964. Rex Harrison, who starred as Professor Henry Higgins, opposite Audrey Hepburn, in “My Fair Lady,” took home the Oscar.
King Henry II in “The Lion in Winter,” 1968. Cliff Robertson won the award for his touching performance in “Charly.”
Arthur Chipping in “Goodbye, Mr. Chips,” 1969. Bested by John Wayne, the star of the western “True Grit.”
Jack Arnold Alexander Tancred Gurney, the 14th Earl of Gurney in “The Ruling Class,” 1972. Lost to Marlon Brando, who won for his lead role as mafia patriarch Don Vito Corleone in “The Godfather.”
Eli Cross in “The Stunt Man,” 1980. Lost to Robert De Niro, who starred as a self-destructive boxer in “Raging Bull.”
Alan Swann in “My Favorite Year,” 1982. Ben Kingsley won the Oscar for playing the famed Indian freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi in “Gandhi.”
Maurice in “Venus,” 2006. Forest Whitaker took the top honor that year for his portrayal of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in “The Last King of Scotland.”
Cameron to shoot 3 ‘Avatar’ sequels in New ZealandAssociated Press Writer
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Director James Cameron announced Monday he will make three sequels to his 2009 sci-fi blockbuster movie “Avatar” in New Zealand. Cameron made the announcement in the capital Wellington with producer Jon Landau and Prime Minister John Key. The films will be made by Lightstorm Entertainment and Twentieth Century Fox.
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In 2014
Economic growth predicted to grow 6.2 percent Bali Post
DENPASAR - An economic observer from Undiknas Uni-versity, Prof. Dr. IB Raka Suardana, estimated the economic growth of Bali Province in 2014 would range from 5.9 percent to 6.2 percent, above the national growth prediction.
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Foreign tourists surfed at Kuta Beach, Bali Island. Economic growth of Bali Province in
2014 would range from 5.9 percent to 6.2 per-cent, above the national growth prediction.
