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According to Chairman of the Indonesian Tourism Intellectuals Association (ICPI) of Bali Chapter, Putu Anom, the Law No.10/2009 on tourism did not recognize the

term of budget hotel or low-cost ho-tels, but only star hotel and non-star hotels. However, the fact was that many new hotels offered room rates below the standard, such as IDR

200,000 to IDR 300,000. Looking at the facts and phenomena, many hoteliers screamed in order the permit of cheap hotel should be stopped.

“Nowadays, a number of budget hotels are even established side by side with star hotels that can trig-ger unfair competition,” said Putu Anom.

According to him, the travelers staying at budget hotel were mostly domestic travelers, such as group, students, domestic groups, families, individual with low purchasing

power or the employees of compa-ny such as sales staff and company driver having low budget.

“Such accommodation actually belongs to the category of budget hotel with relatively cheap room rates. Its market share is lower-middle class travelers. However, the services offered are similar to that of star hotels,” he said.

It was said that a large number of budget hotels in Bali had disrupted the market that finally kindled tariff war and made the image of Bali tourism cheap in the eyes of foreign

travelers. “When hotels with cheap room rates are established in an elite or resort area, they will surely grab the market share of star hotels. Star hotels offer more expensive room rates because they have complete facilities intended for upper-middle travelers,” he said.

This former Dean of the Faculty of Tourism, Udayana University, mentioned that many accommoda-tions whose permit belonged to budget hotel, but had the quality of star hotels.

Two years, dozens budget hotels established

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Within the past two years there have been dozens of budget hotels established to receive guests ranging from backpackers to business travelers. Along the Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai, for example, was formerly sterile from tourist accommodation.

Bali Post

DENPASAR - Budget hotel starts filling up the Island of the Gods. Even, within the past two years there have been dozens of budget hotels established to receive guests ranging from backpackers to business travelers. Along the Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai, for example, was formerly sterile from tourist accommodation. Now, it has been filled up by accommodations offering room facilities at low room rates.

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Before Hugh Jackman could appear in his current Broadway play, “The River,” he had to learn his lines, dig deep into his character and do something he’s never done before: gut a fish. His character is a fisherman who in one scene pulls out a real 3-pound sea trout, cuts it open with a fearsome-looking knife, removes the inter-nal organs, chops a fennel bulb, slips lemon slices into the skin and seasons the flesh before popping the dish in a fake oven.

It’s a mesmerizing scene and Jackman — a man who plays a sharp-clawed Wol-verine in the movies — seems completely at ease as he unhurriedly prepares the fish like a Food Network veteran. He wasn’t always so calm.

“I was originally a little nervous about it,” said Jackman over lunch in Manhat-tan. “I’d never done it before and I knew it had to look like he’d been doing it his whole life.”

So Jackman did what any actor worth his salt does: He consulted chefs and prac-ticed. He originally planned to gut a fish every day for months until it became sec-ond nature, but he was told the better route was to gut 40 in a single, fishy session.

He got out his knives and made fish fil-

lets and fish sticks and fish soup. “There are fish cakes still frozen in my freezer,” he said, laughing. “No one’s having fish at my house for a long time.”

The scene comes in the middle of Jez Butterworth’s enigmatic play about love and repetition. Various women from the fisherman’s past enter and leave his remote fishing cabin, warping time and space.

“I think the more poetically you take the piece, and less literally you take the piece, the deeper you go with it,” Jackman said. “Ultimately, I think it’s a play that just spoke to me and my heart. I read it and I was like, ‘Wow. There’s something very true and real and honest about connection, about loss, about the search in life.’ That’s something that I’ve always had.”

Jackman, who plays the pirate Black-beard in next year’s “Pan” and said he’s close to starring in an original movie musical about P.T. Barnum, threw himself into the new play. He spoke to memory experts and read works by psychotherapist Carl Jung.

“The River,” at Circle in the Square Theatre, has been a sellout, in part to Jack-man’s star power. But even with his com-fort in front of an audience, the fish-gutting scene didn’t go too smoothly when he first performed it, despite all the practice.

YouTube said Tuesday the top trending videos for 2014 were based on views, shares, com-ments, likes and more. Perry’s “Dark Horse” has galloped away

with over 715 million views, and Polish prankster Sylwester Wardega’s spider-dog video has caught more than 113 million views.

Other top trending video sub-jects included soccer stars Cris-tiano Ronaldo and Neymar in a Nike commercial, a singing nun on the Italian edition of “The Voice,” a group of strangers kissing for the first time and the comic book characters Superman and Goku engaging in a fictional rap battle.

Enrique Iglesias, Shakira, Ja-son Derulo and Sia were among other artists with music videos on YouTube’s list.

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — To prepare for his role as Moses in “Exo-dus: Gods and Kings,” Christian Bale watched Monty Python’s “The Life of Brian” and Mel Brooks’ “History of the World, Part One.”

The Oscar-winning actor found Moses a complicated man, and didn’t want his version of the biblical hero to be too haughty.

“It’s a very fine line between getting it right and doing an unwished for ‘Life of Brian,’” Bale said, adding that the Monty Python classic’s chipper tune, “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life,” played in his mind often on set.

Bale stars opposite Joel Edgerton in the Ridley Scott epic opening Friday. Other stars include Sigourney Weaver and John Turturro. The film has been criticized for casting white actors as Egyptians, and some have called for

a boycott. Scott has said those people need to “get a life.”

Bale became interest-ed in the role after learn-ing more about Moses, he said: “A man of abso-lutely ridiculously strong conviction who also is capable of debilitating self-doubt just makes for a really fascinating character.”

The actor also sug-gests the religious icon could be considered a terrorist. “If you’re not religious, you can look at it as one man’s free-dom fighter is another man’s terrorist,” he said. “You look at empire and the attitudes of empire, and perhaps the neces-

sity that for empires to exist... they (must) have actually a hierarchy among people, whether that’s spoken or unspoken. It’s fascinating. And it’s for our times because it’s very human, and Moses was a far more human and fallible character than I had imag-ined before.”

Hugh Jackman talks fish, blood and his new show

Bale says Moses could be considered a ‘terrorist’

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Katy Perry, spider-dog top popular online videos

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Katy Perry and a dog dressed like a spider are among 2014’s top online video subjects. Perry’s “Dark Horse” reigned supreme on YouTube’s top 10 most popular music videos, while a prank featuring a dog done up as a spider chasing unsuspecting pedestrians led the site’s top 10 trending videos.

Matt Sayles/Invision/AP, File

Sierra Leonean docs strike again over Ebola care

Nut rage spat latest stumble for Korean Air family

Liverpool exits Champs League, Juve advances

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Bali News

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

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26 Nov Buda Cemeng Warigadean Pura KapisahSumerta DenpasarPura Pasek GelgelGerih Abian Semal DenpasarPura Puncak SariPenarukan Peninjoan BangliPura Anteg Sari Dangin Pangkung Kediri TabananPura Bangun SaktiBesakihPura Pesimpangan Batur Pande Kediri Tabanan

27 Nov Kajeng Kliwon Enyitan 28 Nov Hari Bhatara Sri Ida Ratu Geng Penataran Agung BesakihIda Ratu Raja Puraus Merajan Sloding Besakih

2 Des Anggara Kasih Juluwangi Pura Thirta Harum Tegal Wangi BangliPura Beratan BaturitiPura Batu Klotok KlungkungPura Pasek Tohjiwa Wanasari TabananPura Pasek Tangguntiti TabananPura Pasek Bendesa Sangsit Sawan BulelengPura Dalem Waturenggong Tarokaja TegallalangPura Ibu Wanagiri Selemadeg TabananPura Pasek Gelgel Dukuh Sidemen

3 Des Pura Penataran Gana Bebalang BangliPura Dalem Gede Banjar Pande BangliPura Puncak Sari Sangeh AbiansemalPura Dadia Agung Pasek Sanak Sapta Resi

Sidan GianyarPura Puseh Penengil Darma Kubu Tam-bahan SingarajaPura Dalem Maya Blah Batuh GianyarLinggih Bhatara Kayu Selem Penataran Agung Besakih

6 Des Purnama Sasih Kenam Aci-aci Penyeheb Brahman dipura Kiduling Kleteb BesakihPura Lingsar LombokPura Bebengan Tanjung LombokPura Dalem Putra Benawah Gianyar

11 Des Sugihan Jawa Pura Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Tangkas KlungkungPura Siang Kangin Tampuagan Peninjoan Tembuku BangliOdalan Ida Ratu Mas Di Penataran Agung BesakihPura Odalan Ida Bhatara Bang Tulus dewa Besakih

12 Des Sugihan Bali dan Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan 14 Des Penyekeban 15 Des Penyajaan Galungan 16 Des Penampahan Galungan 17 Des Hari raya Galungan Pura Wawika Kupang NTTPura Agung Giri Nhata Sumbawa Besar NTB

Pura Dukuh Sakti Dukuh Kediri TabananPura Atambuananta Kutamba NTTPura Webananta Kupang NTTPura Giripati Mulawarman Pontianak KalimantanPura Mustika Dharma Cijantung Jakarta Timur

18 Des Umanis Galungan Pura Watukaru TabananPura Lempuyang Luhur KarangasemPura Kentel Gumi KlungkungPura Pasek Gaduh Kediri Tabanan

19 Des Pura Ulun Suwi Jimbaran KutaPura Luhur Kawitan Cameng Cemenggaon Sukawati

20 Des Pemaridan Guru Pura Segara JembranaPura Dalem Gede Losan Klungkung

21 Des Ulihan dan Tilem Sasih Kenam Pura Dalem Tegal Tamu Sekar Mukti BatubulanPura Kubayan Umagunung Sempidi Badung

22 Des Pemacekan Agung Pura Dasar Gelgel KlungkungPura Pasek Tohjiwa Sawah Selemadeg TabananPura Pemerajan Agung Benawah Kangin GianyarPura Kahyangan Tulus Apuan Kintamani

The newly renovated Boombox Recording Studio has a Karaoke room as well as a state-of-the-art recording studio, with a resident sound engineer on hand just in case you feel like cut-ting a few tracks. Wired for sound from 10AM – 7 PM daily, the newly renovated Boombox will be one of the leading recording studios in Kuta, Bali.

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To optimize the handling of the scattered ‘marine debri’, the support and participation of residents and en-vironmental care groups is very much required to help clean up the waste on beaches, and other public places.

The Head of the Buleleng Sanita-tion and Landscaping Agency (DKP), Nyoman Genep, said on Tuesday (Dec 9), that the lack of sanitation workers is still unresolved, hindering effective operations. Currently, the entire daily workforce of the DKP, amounts to 456 people. With 206 street-sweepers, 174 people in charge of transporting waste, 51 gardeners and 15 foremen, it is hard to tackle the volume of coastal waste.

According to an official from Kelod Kauh hamlet, Panji village, Sukasada, these numbers are simply inadequate, especially during the rainy season, when so many watersheds (DAS) in Buleleng are filled with trash forcing workers to deal with the mountains of coastal garbage. “The lack of work-ers makes it impossible to deal with all the marine debri collecting on the beaches and other public places. For the time being we are doing our best

to clean the watersheds and beaches of Buleleng” he said.

The head of Buleleng Santaion went on to say that, the support of residents and environmental activists was absolutely necessary to handle the added burden of garbage on the beaches brought on by the rainy sea-son. Some riverside villages have already performed cleanups, which were far more effective than if the sanitation department had been work-ing alone. “Our own workers help to transport the garbage collected from such cleanups, but frequently we have the help of mass cleanup groups to move the trash too. We consistently encourage awareness and ask people to participate in such activities, given our own lack of manpower.” he said.

Genep performs awareness cam-paigns in upstream villages, appealing for them not to dump their garbage in the river. The target of such campaigns include the villages of Wanagiri, Git-git and Padangbulia in the Sukasada subdistrict, Kampong Kajanan, Bugis village, and Kampong Tinggi in Bule-leng subdistrict who were reminded not to throw garbage into the river. Vil-

Bali PostNEGARA - A joint operation

involving the Jembrana Mu-nicipal Police, Jembrana Police, the Indonesian Military and the Transportation Agency was held on Monday (Dec 9) in front of the office of the Jembrana Regentas part of the Great Zebra Opera-tion of 2014 and ahead of Christ-mas and New Years 2015.

Chief of Jembrana Municipal Police, IGN Rai Budhi, accom-panied by Chief of Jembrana Police Traffic Affairs, Gede Su-madra Kerthiawan, said that the joint operation was organized in anticipation of the arrival of il-legal migrants from Gilimanuk ahead of Christmas and New Year 2015. In addition, police authori-ties were also looking for people

comiting traffic violations and other trafficking illegal goods, while the Transportation Agency wanted to anticipate trucks with freight exceeding the allowed tonnage as well as those having expired vehicle test document and other violations.

Thee joint operation did not find any illegal weapons. How-ever, other violations were fined

and migrant was repatriated be-cause he did not have an identity card.

The migrant in question, 19 year old, M. Arif Billa, from Bulakan, Pemalang, was look-ing for his friend in Kuta. He was able to cross from over from Gilimanuk by hiding in a truck where he was not asked for his identity card. “Since he did not

have an ID card, we repatriated him,” explained the officer.

There were also 12 traffic violations: six people were rid-ing without a driver’s licenses and /or without vehicle registra-tions including an illegal and modified Vespa. Meanwhile, the Transportation Agency found five violations related to vehicle test document. (kmb)

Pass at Gilimanuk, a migrant repatriated in a joint operation

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The debris wash ashore on Penimbangan Beach, Buleleng

Lack of personnel to handle marine garbageBali Post

SINGArAJA - Under siege by marine debris at a number of coastal areas in Buleleng, the government is having trouble handling the volume effectively. Despite the lack of human re-sources employed at the Buleleng Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (DKP), they continue their efforts by deploying existing personnel to transport the garbage that is scattered throughout the coastal area.

lages located on the Saba River bank in Serit, received similar reminders by the sanitation agency.

A pilot project is being launched in 2015, wherein two janitors will

be assigned to handle rubbish in the Buleleng River, by installing nets in the coastal estuaries before the water reaches the beach.

Marine debris pollutes coastal areas

such as Penimbangan Beach and the former Buleleng Harbor Beach where the piles up rotting rubbish causes en-vironmental pollution and disturbs the comfort of visitors. (kmb38)

3Thursday, December 11, 201414 InternationalInternational Bali NewsHealth Thursday, December 11, 2014

The study in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, a journal of the Ameri-can Medical Association, also found that the more severe the pre-eclampsia, the higher the like-lihood of autism.

The research involved more than 1,000 children aged two to three in northern California. All of their mothers had confirmed di-agnoses of pre-eclampsia, and sci-entists compared data about those developing normally to those with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or other developmental delays.

“We found significant associa-tions between pre-eclampsia and ASD that increased with severity,” said senior author Cheryl Walker, assistant professor in the depart-ment of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of California, Davis.

“We also observed a signifi-cant association between severe pre-eclampsia and developmental

delay.” Autism spectrum disorder af-

fects as many as one in 88 children in the United States.

The exact causes of the devel-opmental disorder are unknown, with research pointing to genes, the environmental, or both.

Autism leads to difficulties in social, emotional and communi-cation skills, and has no known cure.

Some past research has sug-gested that pre-eclampsia -- which causes high blood pressure late in pregnancy and high levels of pro-tein in the urine, as well as seizures in severe cases -- could be linked to autism, perhaps by depriving the fetus of nutrients and oxygen.

“While single studies cannot establish causality, the cumula-tive evidence supports efforts to reduce pre-eclampsia and dimin-ish severity, to improve neonatal outcomes,” Walker said.

IBP/Net

Children born to women who suffered a high-blood pressure condition called pre-eclampsia during pregnancy are twice as likely to have autism or other developmental delays, US re-searchers said Monday.

‘Significant’ link between pre-eclampsia, autism: study

Agence France-Presse

MIAMI - Children born to women who suffered a high-blood pressure condition called pre-eclampsia during pregnancy are twice as likely to have autism or other developmental delays, US researchers said Monday.

Obesity clips up to 8 years off your life, says studyAgence France-Presse

PARIS - Obesity and extreme obesity can reduce life expectancy by up to eight years and deprive people of as much as 19 years of good health, according to a study published on Friday.

The research -- a mathemati-cal model based on US health data -- should be a useful tool for doctors advising patients who are worryingly overweight, its authors said.

The biggest area of concern is for people who become obese while they are young.

“The pattern is clear,” said Steven Grover, a professor of epi-demiology at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

“The more an individual weighs and the younger their age, the greater the effect on their health.

“(...) They have many years ahead of them, during which the increased health risks associated with obesity can negatively impact their lives.”

Grover’s team used data from a big US project, the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey,

which monitored thousands of people over years, to analyse the risk of early death and ill health among adults of different body weight.

They compared overweight and obese people against people of normal weight in terms of life expectancy.

They also calculated the number of years of good health that each individual could -- statistically -- expect.

This was defined as being free of cardiovascular disease or diabe-tes -- two diseases that are closely linked with excessive weight.

The estimates applied to people aged between 20 and 79.

The outcome was dramatic, ac-cording to the paper, which appears in the journal Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology.

Individuals who were in the overweight category -- who had a body mass index (BMI) of 25 to 29.9 -- were estimated to lose between zero and three years of expected life.

Between 0.8 and 5.9 years of life were lost for obese people, with a BMI of 30 to 34.9.

The extremely obese, with a BMI of 35 or more, lost between 0.9 and 8.4 years of life expec-tancy.

The greatest loss in expected lifespan was found among those aged 20-39.

On the other hand, the loss was smaller and sometimes negligible among those who were only over-weight.

“Healthy life-years” lost to dia-betes and cardiovascular problems ranged from 0.5 years to 19.1.

The biggest loss was among women who were extremely obese in the 20-39 age bracket.

The least loss was among men who were overweight and aged between 60 and 79.

The data came from a subset of 4,000 people in the 2003-2010 US survey, all of them white, for whom more details about their health and blood sugar were known.

The warning should be treated as conservative, as the study only factored in two obesity-related diseases, said the study.

Cancer, respiratory disease, liver and kidney disease have also been linked to chronic overweight.

IBP/Net

Obesity and extreme obesity can reduce life expectancy by up to eight years and deprive people of as much as 19 years of good health, according to a study published on Friday.

“We in the prosecutor’s office must make introspection when han-dling of corruption. In other words, we examine what we have done in the handling of corruption and we empower all the resources in the prosecutor’s office. We also review what we have made. If there are any drawbacks, we’ll improve them,” said Adityawarman.

For the handling of corruption in Bali, all the prosecutor’s offices in Bali had ‘submitted’ their cor-ruption case, except for Denpasar Prosecutor’s Office. “But, there are three corruption cases targeted at Denpasar Prosecutor’s Office,” he said. Even though not detailing the 39 corruption cases being targeted, he explained that 33 corruption cases were under process of prosecution in the Denpasar Corruption Court. Of the 33 cases, 22 of which posed the results of investigation by prosecu-tor’s office across Bali and 11 other cases were the target of police.

Meanwhile, the Spokesperson of Bali Prosecutor’s Office, Ashari Kurniawan, added that this year his party had been able to send back or secure the state’s money as much as IDR 2.979 billion.

On the other hand, in the com-memoration of the World Anti-Corruption Day last Tuesday, the Bali Prosecutor’s Office distributed flowers. Judicial authorities in black and white uniform approached rid-ers at Catur Muka or in front of the office of Denpasar Mayor. They also distributed anti-corruption sticker saying “Save our children from the threat of corruption.”

Ashari Kurniawan who also at-tended the event of giving away flowers revealed that his party invit-ed the community to combat against corruption starting from one’s own self. “Before sweeping the floor of others, we must clean up our floors first,” he said.

Separately, Spokesperson of Denpasar District Court, Hasoloan

Sianturi, explained that up to this De-cember a total of 33 corruption cases had come into the Denpasar Cor-ruption Court. The last case was the corruption allegation in the greening program at the Karangasem Forestry and Plantation Agency. “Until now, there have been 33 corruption cases going to us,” said the man of Batak descent. He added that of the 33 cases, some had been convicted, while oth-ers were still in the process of trial and just in the trial plan.

Has the handling of corrup-tion in Bali been maximal? When asked about this, Sianturi said the matter of being maximal in terms of sentencing highly depended on relevant parties. “Maybe, in terms of defendants it has been appropriate, or not, but we just leave it to the parties concerned,” he said.

Have the 33 cases been already maximized? He explained there was no a benchmark indicating if it had been maximal or not. Similarly, the judge mentioned there was no research saying if a handling had been ideal or not ideal. Obviously, the judges here dealt with two to three corruption cases. “The judges here also handle common criminal,” he said.

Of the 33 corruption cases, most of them undermined the regional budget. Then, what about the state’s money corrupted and the budget spent for the case handling?

He said the matter of large and small case was very relative. How-ever, the issue of corruption had two motives, namely combating corruption and or taking back the state’s financial losses. If the mo-tive of combating corruption, no matter how small the state’s money encroached, it was still defined as corruption. As a judge of corruption crime, he hoped the holes of misuse could be avoided or minimized. “Hopefully, court’s decision could be used as a reference and evaluated to prevent corruption,” he hoped. (kmb37)

Bali Post

BANGLI - Government at-tention to the development of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Bangli is considered still minimal. It is perceived dif-ferent from previous years where the government provided a lot of opportunities for the artisans to be included in local and national product exhibition. This condi-tion causes the SMEs in Bangli to be unable to develop properly. “Amidst the rising fuel price, the attention of government to improve the SMEs stays low, at least until today,” said I Nengah Toya, one of the goldsmiths and silversmith focused on accessory products from Bangli.

Furthermore, Toya revealed that less maximal government at-tention to the SMEs caused many artisans confused. Thankfully, the current price of raw materials like gold and silver did not increase. “Perhaps due to lack of consumer demand, so the price of silver and gold is still stable,” said Toya.

According to Toya, despite the attention of the government to improve the SMEs was not

maximal, the artisans indeed did not lose any sense. Various breakthroughs were made by the artisans chiefly those having had a business network. “One of the strategies we take is by diversify-ing the market share,” said Toya, while adding that previously his gold and silver products only targeted general consumers.

Today, many artisans targeted other areas such as making coop-eration with the owners of beauty salon offering bridal services. “This strategy adequately helps us,” he said.

Monitoring at a number of gold and silver craft production centers in Bangli and Tembuku indicated that many artisans shifted their profession by open-ing other business or at least they waited until the market could get excited again. They were hoping the new policy of the government like organizing exhibition that could be followed by craftsmen. “Apparently the budgetary ef-ficiency by the government has made it more and more difficult for artisans to participate in exhibition. In the past, the most potential customers buying our

Prosecutor aims for 39 corruption cases

Claim securing state’s money IDR 2.9 billionBali Post

DENPASAR - Bali Prosecutor’s Office under the command of Adityawarman with field ‘commander’ Putu Gde Sudharma is currently aiming for 39 cases related to corruption allegation in Bali. However, with the pretext if the cases were still in the process, the prosecutor was reluctant to reveal further what cases included in the 39 cases.

IBP/kmb

Accesories made by Bangli’s silversmiths displayed recently. Government attention to the development of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Bangli is considered still minimal

Lack attention from government, SMEs products declined

products are the officials,” said one of the crafters. (kmb)

Bali News International4 Thursday, December 11, 2014 Thursday, December 11, 2014 13International RLDW

Hundreds of health workers have become sick, but the problem in Sierra Leone has been getting special attention. On Tuesday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a study that found the rate of lab-confirmed Ebola infections this year has been 100 times higher in medical work-ers in Sierra Leone than in other adults.

The study cited a broad range of breaches in infection control and prevention practices. But it said that in recent months more training and availability of protective equip-

ment may be helping. Sierra Leone lost three doctors in the past week, prompting a strike of the junior doctors’ association that started Monday.

In a statement Tuesday, the doc-tors demanded a facility dedicated to the treatment of medical workers. They had previously demanded ac-cess to life-saving equipment, like dialysis machines.

The deaths of doctors “might have been as a result of the absence of a specialized unit,” the statement said. It didn’t use the word strike but said the junior doctors would

“re-strategize” while awaiting the special treatment unit.

“This strategy can be compared to the ‘tactical retreat’ of soldiers in the warfront ... in order to pro-tect the lives of other soldiers,” it said.

Just such a facility opened in Sierra Leone last month — as part of a British-built treatment center at Kerry Townv, but that treatment center has come under criticism lately, including confusion over who the clinic for health workers is open to. Officials clarified Mon-day that any infected front-line health worker could be admitted there.

Still, Dr. Jeredine George, presi-dent of the junior doctors’ associa-tion, said Tuesday that the govern-ment has also promised that beds will be set aside for health workers at another treatment unit.

Associated Press

AUSTIN, Texas — Republican Texas Gov. Rick Perry said he won’t make up his mind about running for president until the middle of next year, but he doesn’t feel pressure to announce sooner because most people expect that he will. “People think we’re going to run, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing,” Perry said in an interview Tuesday with The As-sociated Press as he prepares to leave office next month after 14 years as governor.

While a formal announcement may be a ways off, the longest-serving chief executive in Texas history sounded ike a candidate preparing for his next campaign.

Perry cited his state’s low taxes, restrained regulatory cli-mate and caps on civil lawsuit damages as the reasons behind Texas’ economic success. He argued the state’s record in creat-ing jobs during his time in office can convince potentially skepti-cal supporters that he’s worth a second look after his short-lived 2012 presidential bid.

Another Perry campaign will undoubtedly include numerous re-countings of his “Oops” moment in a debate among Republican candidates in 2011, when that

word was all he could muster after he forgot the name of the third of three federal departments he’d promised to shutter if elected.

Asked if those who supported him in 2012 might shy away this time given the results, Perry said: “I think people are going to make a decision based on what they see over the next couple of years, not what they saw four years ago. “There’s not going to be a lot of hope in this country,” Perry said, if people don’t have the ability to recover from their past mistakes.

Perry also departs the gover-nor’s mansion facing charges of felony abuse of power and the prospect that a court case could drag on for months and land him in prison. Yet Perry said he’s con-fident voters are willing to give him a second chance.

Perry’s failed presidential cam-paign remains the only loss of his political career. He was the state’s powerful lieutenant governor when then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush was elected president, and he went on to win three terms. He has spent much of his final year as governor meeting privately with policy experts and traveling in the U.S. and abroad — an ef-fort viewed by most as aimed at improving his credentials for a White House bid.Sierra Leonean

docs strike again over Ebola careAssociated Press

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — Sierra Leone’s junior doctors went on strike for a second day Tuesday, a move they dubbed a “tactical retreat” to demand better care for medical workers who catch Ebola after a spate of deaths. The Ebola outbreak has infected more than 17,800 people, most in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.

AP Photo/Michael Duff, FileFILE-In this file photo taken on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2014, health workers wear protective gear before enter-ing the house of a person suspected to have died of the Ebola virus in Port Loko Community situated on the outskirts of Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Perry: Most people expect me to run for president

AP Photo/Eric GayTexas Gov. Rick Perry answers questions during an interview with The Associated Press at the historic Texas Governor’s Mansion, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014, in Austin, Texas.

Bali Post

SINGARAJA – Leading up to the Galungan and Kuningan feasts, the Singaraja Town Police have been taking more vigorous action against the dis-tribution of traditional liquors such as arrack and other illegal beverages. They police have asserted their authority so as

to prevent any acts of violence, fights and other crimes fre-quently triggered by liquor.

“To create secure circum-stances before the Galungan and Kuningan feasts, we per-form liquor-seizing operations which sometimes trigger dis-putes among the young genera-tion,” said Chief of Singaraja Town Police, I Gusti Agung Purnama, under the authority of the Chief of Buleleng Po-lice, Kurniadi.

He explained that they had successfully raided a number

of stalls alleged to be selling Balinese liquor in the area of Penarukan, seizing a half jerry can and nine medium-size bottles of arrack.

In Banyuning his ranks seized four medium-size bot-tles and two large-size bottles. “We act decisively and are not stopping here. The liquor stalls tend to be found on road-sides in town.. So far we have seized 20 liters consisting of 15 bottles of wine and half a jerry can of Balinese arrack,” he explained. (kmb34)

Apparently the provincial government, who is responsible for road repairs, did a shoddy patchwork job, only filling in the potholes instead of actually repairing the road. Chairman of the Bangli House, Komang Carles, expressed his disapoint-ment with the repeated patchwork repairs that have been done to this road time and

again. According to Carles, the severely

damamed road needs to be repaved using the far more durable “hot mix pavement” such as was done in Kayubihi, Bangli, “Repeatedly patching holes in the road is a waste of money” he said.

Ideally, road repairs using “hot mix

asphalt” should be started in Penelokan where the damage is more severe, and then continue moving southward. “Be-cause this section of road, falls under the category of tourist route, it should be given priority, so as not to have a nega-tive impact on tourism in Kintamani” he added. (ina)

Repaired six months ago

Penelokan road section damaged again

IBP/FileThe Bangli - Penelokan road is damaged once again even though it was repaired just six months ago.

Bali Post

BANGLI - After been repaired just six months ago, the section of road between

Bangli – and Penelokan tourist attractions in Kintamani is damaged again. The top layer

of asphalt has flaked off leaving a dangerous bmpy road.

Liquor operation intensified ahead of Galungan and Kuningan

The police officers are showing the evidences confiscated from the storeIBP/Dewa Kusuma

Indonesia Today Thursday, December 11, 2014 5InternationalThursday, December 11, 201412 International

Before, I regarded the downtown traffic — I ply the route between Ma-hendradatta and P.B. Sudirman twice a day, five days a week — as some-thing to be battled with, an enemy.

A mortal enemy in fact because I really did feel in those first few green weeks that I was risking my life every time I took my scooter on the roads. I come from a country with a fairly observant road rules culture. It makes for a rather predictable but rather boring driving experience. The traffic in Denpasar is neither predictable nor boring (you know it is bad when your visiting Indonesian friends from Jakarta complain). There are vehicles going in all direc-tions: vehicles on the right side of the street, vehicles on the wrong side of the street, vehicles coming head-on toward you, vehicles in gutters, ve-

hicles on footpaths. And they come in all shapes and sizes: pushbikes, motorbikes, scooters, pushcarts, mikrolet, sedans, big trucks, small trucks, articulated trucks, buses and gerobak.

I’ve seen scooters no bigger than my own laden with a peep of chickens, cartons of eggs stacked pile high, and ladders or poles poking straight forward like some medieval jousting weapon. Some scooters carry two, three or four family members (I swear I saw five once). Yet somehow, miraculously, it all works. Everyone seems to know what is going on; everyone

except me. At least in those early weeks. But not anymore. Not since I’ve seen the traffic through the prism of spirituality. I now look upon the Denpasar peak-hour traf-fic as a preternatural force with its own immutable laws. Like all belief systems it pays not to question it too much; instead one must close one’s mind (and often one’s eyes) and simply yield. You cannot fight it, you can only submit to it, surrender to it, go with the flow.

There is a natural rhythm, an organic flow that can be neither conquered noravoided; it can only be succumbed to. Whereas once I saw the simpang enam on Jl. Teuku Umur as Bali’s greatest snafu I now see it as a convergence of pilgrims circumambulating a sacred shrine.

These days I glide into and out of this sublime stream of souls as if on some cosmic carpet. In fact, the only time I’ve seen even a slight disturbance of the Denpasar traf-fic’s metaphysical forces is when the police get involved. I saw one the other day hopelessly trying to direct traffic at a crossroad on Petitenget. He stemmed the tide a little, but he was trying to hold back an ocean. I wanted to reach out to him and say, “Brother, it’s OK. It’s all good. Don’t fight it. Let it go. Yield.” This is what I have done. For I have seen the light. This small drop has rejoined the ocean, from whence it originated and where it was always meant to be. The traffic and I are now one. I have become the traffic.

In recent years, the fabric craft having developed since hundreds of years ago is like a pearl that is always sought after by its enthusi-asts so that it revives the production centers of rangrang woven cloth.

According to Group Head of Winangun Asri weaving industry, Wayan Sukerta, the rangrang cloth was originally used as parapher-nalia when preparing a gebogan (arrangement of fruit and snacks presented to God as gratitude for the blessings) in religious ceremonies held at Karang customary village, Pejukutan village.

However, in keeping with the passage of time, one of these indigenous heritages and tradi-tions now largely produced by non-mechanical loom was used as a shrine paraphernalia and daily fashion. “Originally, the making of rangrang cloth first used a cagcag loom, so that it could take a long time because of the long process. We are lucky to get the assistance of non-mechanical loom (ATBM) from Bank Indonesia, so that it can speed up the production process,” he said.

According to him, the long pro-cess of making rangrang cloth lay in the yarn dyeing process, which spent nearly a week. It happened because the colors used were from natural substances such as morinda roots,

indigo leaves, teak leaves, mango tree barks, kepundung, pomegranate bark and flame bush flowers.

“This is what makes the price of rangrang cloth expensive, but there are also inexpensive clothes because they apply synthetic colors. For ex-ample, a shawl with chemical colors is sold in the range of IDR 200,000, while those made from natural col-ors is sold in the price range of IDR 400,000,” he explained.

Although it got a place in the society, Wayan Sukerta admitted that it was difficult to preserve the existence of the rangrang cloth as their ancestral heritage, especially with the presence of similar prod-ucts at lower prices. “Finally, no one wants to continue weaving as it is hard to make and the price is not comparable,” he complained.

Headman of Pajukutan, Nyoman Yudi Adnyanawan, also recognized if the rangrang woven cloth was initially centered at two hamlets namely the Karang and Ampel, Pejukutan village. However, within the past few years, along with the coming of many requests, it had expanded to some other villages. “Even, it has been claimed by other villages as their typical handicraft products,” he said.

The presence of Bank Indonesia for Region III Bali-Nusa Tenggara at Pajukutan village was recognized

by Yudi Adnyanawan to provide a hope for craftsmen so that they could continue working. Since the presence of Bank Indonesia in 2010, the number of people get-ting involved in weaving activities began to grow, even it had reached 40 people who joined the Winangun Asri group. This group composed a weaving kampong under the as-sistance of Bank Indonesia.

The Division Head of Financial Access and SME of Bank Indonesia, Teguh Setiadi, said that Bank Indone-sia wanted to promote creative econ-omy sector and move local economy,

where one of which was through the program of guided village. This pro-gram aimed to strengthen the value chain of each weaving production included in technical, production, and marketing assistance.

“We do hope the presence of Bank Indonesia here (Pajukutan village—Ed) could advance and even improve the typical woven clothes owned by Pajukutan to foreign countries,” he said.

In the future, he also took the initiative to develop Pejukutan village into a tourist destination by presenting the making process of

rangrang woven cloth as a supe-rior product. “It could be used as a tourism village to attract travelers to Nusa Penida, of course, while maintaining the distinctive appear-ance of the rangrang woven cloth made traditionally with natural materials,” he said.

It was mentioned that Bank Indonesia had helped rangrang weavers by providing 29 units of non-mechanical looms where each village got a single unit along with a thread spool as well as yarn dyeing technique training to develop their skills in creating a new motif. (par)

I have become the trafficBy JFK Miller

Bali is above all a spiritual place so as a resident foreign-

er of some four months here I’ve learned to adopt a spiri-tual approach to life. And in

no area of my life has this approach paid off more than

with the Denpasar traffic.

Rangrang woven cloth of Pajukutan, a pearl of Nusa PenidaBali Post

SEMARAPURA - Aside from songket and endek cloth, the ran-grang woven cloth also becomes a hot topic among the lovers of Bali-nese handicrafts within the past two years. As the name implies, the rangrang woven cloth produced by the artisans at Pajukutan village, Nusa Penida subdistrict, Klungkung, has a distinctive motif, namely thin weaving pattern so that it looks transparent. Another distinctive feature is the combination of bright colors with two types of coloring, the natural and chemical coloring substance.

IBP/ParwataOne of the craftsmen is absorbed in weaving with non-mechanical loom provided by Bank Indonesia for Region III Bali-Nusa Tenggara as one of the guided villages.

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators are proposing that the eight biggest U.S. banks be required to further increase the amount of capital they set aside to cushion against unexpected losses.

The Federal Reserve’s proposal is aimed at reducing the potential for future taxpayer bailouts of troubled banks. The proposed requirements also are designed to encourage the behemoths to shrink so they pose less risk to the financial system. The banks include JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Bank of America.

The Fed governors voted 5-0 at a meeting Tuesday to advance the so-called “capital surcharges,” opening them to public comment through Feb. 28. The extra capital requirements would increase in proportion to how risky the regulators deem a bank to be. A key risk factor would be how much a bank relies on short-term funding markets to borrow from other banks. Those markets seized up dur-ing the financial crisis.

The requirements would give the banks an incentive to shed businesses and downsize to avoid having to set aside more capital.

The requirements would be phased in from 2016 through 2018. Fed offi-cials said nearly all eight banks already meet the stricter capital requirements, and that all of them are “on their way” to meeting them by the Jan. 1, 2019 deadline for full implementation.

Fed Vice Chair Stanley Fischer said at the meeting that JPMorgan, the biggest U.S. bank by assets,

is the only one of the group that doesn’t already meet the proposed requirements. The bank would have to raise about $21 billion in capital by the 2019 deadline, he noted. JPMorgan has previously said it wouldn’t increase its capital to lev-els exceeding current requirements until regulators had made their new plans clear.

“While we’re still reviewing the Fed’s proposal, we are well capitalized and intend to meet their requirements and timeframes while continuing to deliver strong returns for our shareholders,” JPMorgan spokesman Andrew Gray said.

The eight banks, considered so big and interconnected that each could threaten the financial system if they collapsed, also include Gold-man Sachs, Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley, Bank of New York Mellon and State Street Bank.

The stricter requirements “would encourage such firms to reduce their systemic footprint and lessen the threat that their failure could pose to overall financial stability,” Fed Chair Janet Yellen said at the meeting.

The importance of banks’ reliance on short-term funding markets as a risk factor could mean larger required capital increases for investment banks in the group like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Investment banks tend to use the wholesale funding markets more than commercial banks, which tend to rely more on deposits.

Stricter capital requirements for banks were mandated by Congress after the financial crisis, which struck in 2008 and ignited the worst eco-

nomic downturn since the Great Depression. Hundreds of U.S. banks received taxpayer bailouts during the crisis, including the eight Wall Street mega-banks that would be subject to the additional layer of capital require-ments under the Fed’s proposal.

In recent years, the Fed and other regulators have put into effect a series of rules for banks to increase their capital buffers, as required by the 2010 financial overhaul law. The new additional layer of require-ments for the biggest banks would also exceed the levels mandated by

international regulators.“There is a fair amount of ap-

prehension” among the banks as to how steep the new requirements will be in the proposal, Nancy Bush, a banking analyst at NAB Research, said Tuesday morning before the Fed governors’ meeting. She said the banks can probably “live with” the requirements so long as they are the last of “this endless fiddling with capital” by the regulators.

Banking industry groups say the Fed requirements could limit access to loans for businesses and consum-

ers, by reducing the amounts that banks would have available to lend. “Today’s proposal could affect the American financial industry’s ability to remain competitive in interna-tional markets,” said an official of the Financial Services Roundtable, whose members include the largest banks. “Holding U.S. banks to a more stringent capital framework than our global competitors could be a misguided economic decision,” Richard Foster, the group’s senior counsel for regulatory and legal af-fairs, said in a statement.

The Paris-based think tank wrote in a report that high income inequal-ity had a “negative and statistically significant impact” on growth as a widening gap between rich and poor often concealed falling income for all but the richest groups.

“The single biggest impact on growth is the widening gap

between the lower middle class and poor households compared to the rest of society,” it wrote in a report based on 30 years of harmonised data from de-veloped and highly developed countries.

“It follows that policies to reduce income inequalities should not

only be pursued to improve social outcomes but also to sustain long-term growth.”

To reduce inequality, countries should invest in education and redistribute wealth through taxes and other transfers, it added. It said it found no evidence that redis-tributive policies harmed growth if they were well designed and implemented.

The economic impact of inequal-ity has been in the spotlight this year after a best-selling book by French economist Thomas Piketty which argued that the gap between rich

and poor has been widening for decades in the West.

The OECD said that, over the past two decades up to the global slowdown of 2009, the cumula-tive growth rate would have been 6-9 percentage points higher in Italy, Britain and the United States had income disparities there not widened.

Conversely, greater levels of equality were helping boost Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita in Spain, France and Ireland before the crisis.

In most developed nations the

gap between rich and poor reached its highest level in 30 years in 2014, with the top 10 percent of the popu-lation earning 9.5 times the income of the poorest 10 percent, the OECD wrote.

The gap had been widening since the 1980s, when the richest segment earned seven times as much as the poorest.

However, the biggest negative impact on growth was not from ris-ing top incomes but a widening gap between low income households and the rest of the population, it said.

Reducing inequality would boost economic growthReuters

PARIS - Moves by national governments to reduce inequality be-

tween their rich and poor citizens would help to lift economic growth, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said on Tuesday.

Fed proposing big US banks boost capital buffers

AP Photo/David Goldman, FileIn this Tuesday, July 16, 2013, file photo, a customer uses an ATM at a Bank of America branch on Peachtree Street, in Atlanta. Federal regulators are proposing that the eight biggest U.S. banks be required to further increase the amount of capital they set aside to cushion against unexpected losses.

BUSINESS

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Two Australian drug smugglers, part of the “Bali Nine” group caught trying to smuggle heroin, are on death row as well as a British grandmother arrested for attempting to traffick cocaine into the country.

The Australians, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, lodged an appeal for clemency with Indonesia’s previous president, their last chance to avoid the firing squad after their final court appeals were rejected.

British grandmother Lindsay Sandi-ford, sentenced to death last year, has lost her final appeal in court. It is not clear whether she has yet lodged a request for a presidential pardon.

However Widodo, who took office in

October, insisted that the 64 people on death row in Indonesia for trafficking drugs would face the firing squad, dash-ing hopes he would take a softer line on capital punishment.

“There is no pardon for this matter,” he told an audience of students late Tuesday in Yogyakarta in central Java. “I think we are aware that Indonesia is in a state of emergency due to drugs.”

Widodo said that up to 50 young In-donesians die every day from drug use and there were 4.5 million drug users in the country.

Indonesia enforces some of the world’s toughest punishments for narcotics of-fences and there is strong public support for putting drug traffickers to death.

But Roichatul Aswidah, from the National Commission on Human Rights, criticised Widodo’s statement as “unex-pected”.

“The right to life is a non-negotiable right that must not be limited for any reason,” she was quoted as saying by the Jakarta Post newspaper.

The speech came just a week after Widodo faced criticism after his gov-ernment indicated that it would execute five people sentenced to death for drugs offences before the end of the year. No foreigners are believed to be among the five.

Indonesia halted executions for five years from 2008 but resumed them again last year.

AntaraJAKARTA - The Japanese Government supports

the stance of Indonesian President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) on handling various maritime issues, according to Japanese Ambassador to Indonesia Yasuaki Tanizaki.

“As a maritime country like Indonesia, Japan supports President Jokowi’s proactive stance on handling various maritime issues in Indonesia,” Tanizaki noted on Tuesday.

He pointed out that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had, for the first time, held a summit with President Joko Widodo in November 2014.

“At the time, Abe expressed Japan’s willingness to work closely with President Jokowi, in order to contribute to peace and prosperity in this region,” Tanizaki affirmed.

He noted that Japan and Indonesia will cooperate to develop seaports, to improve maritime safety and security, and to improve the fisheries industry.

“So far, Japan continues to deepen mutually beneficial economic ties with Indonesia, and I believe that this relationship will continue to be strengthened and developed in various fields,” he added.

AntaraJAKARTA - Indonesian workers

have threatened to go on a nation-wide strike if the government fails to meet their demands raised jointly in the capital city of Jakarta on Wednesday, a worker stated.

“We will see how the govern-ment reacts to our demands we raised in today’s rally,” Federation of Indonesian Metal Workers Union (FSPMI) spokesman Rusli remarked on Wednesday.

He noted that the workers would stage a nationwide strike if the gov-ernment failed to respond to their demands.

On Wednesday, thousands of workers in Jakarta staged a rally to reject the government’s decision to hike the prices of subsidized fuels, to demand a rise in their minimum wage, and to urge the government to optimize health insurance services.

The FSPMI, Federation of In-dependent Labor Union (GSBI), Indonesian Workers Union Con-federation (KSPI), and National Workers Union (SPN) participated in the rally.

President vows no pardons for death row traffickersAgence France-Presse

JAKARTA - New Indonesian President Joko Widodo has pledged there will be no pardons for drug traf-fickers on death row, including several foreigners, drawing criticism Wednesday from rights groups.

Japan supports Jokowi’s stance on handling maritime issues

Workers threaten to go on nationwide strikeAP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim

Workers gather during a rally against cheap wages in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday,

Dec. 10, 2014. Thousands of factory workers took to the streets in the capital to protest

against outsourcing and low wages.In the headline hogging in-

cident now dubbed “nut rage,” Cho Hyun-ah, the airline’s head of cabin service and daughter of its chairman, ordered a senior crew member off the plane, forcing it to return to the gate at John F. Kennedy airport in New York City.

Cho had quarreled with flight attendants in first class after one of them offered her bagged nuts instead of nuts served on a plate. Amid the storm of criticism, Cho resigned Tuesday as head of cabin service but remained an executive at the airline. That sparked another furor and Cho on Wednesday submitted a letter of resignation quitting all her roles.

Korean Air had defended her actions as a “natural” attempt to improve customer service.

Yet for a public that has lost pa-tience with impunity and double standards, it was an ugly display of entitlement. The local media labeled her “princess.” The Cho family has a history of making headlines in South Korea.

Cho, 40, who is also known as Heather Cho, is married to a prominent plastic surgeon who performed his nips and tucks in Gangnam, a tony district of Seoul famous for its plastic surgery clinics and hip shops.

In 2013, she gave birth to twin boys in Hawaii, entitling them to U.S. citizenship. Korean Air had sent Cho to work in the U.S. two months before her expected delivery date. But within South Korea there was anger that U.S. citizenship meant her sons would be able to avoid South Korea’s two years of compulsory military

service for able-bodied males.Cho’s brother, Won-tae, 38,

was investigated by police in 2005 for pushing an elderly woman who confronted him about his reckless driving, the Yonhap news agency reported.

The family patriarch, Cho Yang-ho, 65, was convicted of tax evasion in 2000, facing charges with his father and brother. The Chos were charged with receiv-ing millions in rebates when they purchased airplanes from Boeing and Airbus and evading taxes on the money.

The nut rage incident, how-ever, struck a particular chord as it comes at a time when growing inequality and safety issues are on the minds of South Koreans. There are also growing calls to better treat service industry workers.

Associated Press

VILLACOUBLAY, France — President Francois Hollande, wel-coming a freed hostage home, urged French citizens not to travel to areas where they risk being kidnapped. Serge Lazarevic, held captive for three years by al-Qaida’s North Africa branch, arrived Wednesday at the Villacoublay airport outside Paris after being released in what some suspect was a prisoner exchange.

His release revived questions about whether governments should negotiate with hostage-takers in hopes of saving captives’ lives — and at the risk of encouraging terrorists to continue kidnapping.

Lazarevic repeatedly thanked Hollande and the government “for having done everything to free me” — but neither he nor the president detailed what led to the liberation.

The liberation came days after the release of two al-Qaida fight-ers imprisoned in Mali for Lazarevic’s kidnapping, according to a security official in Mali.

Hollande expressed “extraordinary joy” at Lazarevic’s return, then added: “I want to send a clear, simple message to all our fellow citizens who can be in so-called zones at risk. Make sure not to go where you can get abducted.”

The French military is fighting extremists in Africa and the Mid-east, and the Islamic State group and al-Qaida branches in North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula have identified France and French citizens as potential targets.

AP Photo/Lee Jin-man

A Korean Air logo is seen at its ticketing counter at Gimpo Airport in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014. Korean Air Lines apologized Tuesday for inconveniencing passengers after the daughter of its chairman ordered a crew member off a flight for serving bagged nuts in the first class cabin.

Nut rage spat latest stumble for Korean Air familyAssociated Press

SEOUL — When South Koreans heard that a Korean Air Lines executive delayed a flight be-cause she was angry at being served macadamia nuts in a bag there was outrage but no surprise. For many it was only the latest example of the high and mighty behavior they’d come to expect from the families who make up Korea’s dynastic business elite and dominate the economy.

French hostage held by al-Qaida returns home

This condition should be observed by the government. It would still happen if there was no firmness of the government and the solution was by providing role and authority to tourism associations, such as the Indonesia Hotels and Restaurants Association (PHRI) in the provision of accommodation license together with the government.

“Here, it is required the rigor and precision of the government in issuing the accommodation license, where it is necessary to ascertain the location of zones in appropriate with the classification of hotel accommodation,” he said.

Advisory Council to the Association of Indonesia Tours and Travel Agencies (ASITA) of Bali Chapter, Bagus Sudibya, also said that Bali tourism was enlivened by the growth of budget hotels. Prolif-eration of budget hotel development in Bali had caused the fall of the hotel occupancy rates. “Budget hotel continues to proliferate, have a look at later on. Without being immediately addressed, it will become a boarding house. Finally people will be boarding at hotel,” he affirmed.

He argued that in developing tourism the government should consider the carrying capacity. Thus, the growing tourism would not disturb the people themselves. “Do not let traveler reach 20 million, the society will be wedged. What we want is the dollar, not many travelers. Well, what will we do with the dollar? Of course, it’s for the people as subject, not an object. So, please do not sell the community,” he affirmed while advising the government to develop community-based tourism so that tourism growth could be enjoyed by people.

Meanwhile, according to the Center for Culture and Tourism, Udayana University, up to 2009 the total hotel rooms in Bali reached 46,000 and in 2011 already increased about 16,000 units or totally reached 62,000. By region, Badung County occupied the highest position reaching 77 percent. However, the growth of star hotel room in Badung showed a decrease to 74 percent.

Nevertheless, in terms of the growth in non-star hotel room in 2011 a tremendous surge occurred in Badung to 54 percent from 2009 where Badung had 41 percent. The room of star hotel and non-star hotel in 2000 was almost equal, but it suddenly jumped where the non-star hotel was much higher than the number of star hotels. It was an attempt to get around the rules of hotel establishment moratorium. (kmb27)

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Memphis’ Gasol, who was limited to only two points on Sunday against Miami, was 9 of 14 from the field and 12 of 13 from the line, while Mike Conley added 22 points. Chandler Parsons led the Mavericks with 30 points, going 10 of 18 from the field and 6 of 10 from 3-point range.

Cleveland came from behind to beat Toronto 105-101, with LeBron James scoring 35 points, including a tiebreak-ing 3-pointer with 48 seconds remaining. James’ jumper from the top of the key gave Cleveland a 102-99 lead and tied him with Mark Price for the franchise record for 3-pointers at 802.

Dion Waiters scored 18 points for Cleveland, which trailed by 10 points early in the fourth quarter. Jonas Valan-ciunas and Terrence Ross each scored 18 for Toronto, which shot 14 of 21 in the first quarter but was overrun. Miami’s Chris Bosh scored 10 of his 34 points in the fourth quarter, including seven straight at one point, to guide the Heat to a 103-97 win over Phoenix.

Luol Deng scored 23 points for the Heat, which has won nine straight against the Suns, and eight straight in Phoenix. Marcus Morris scored a career-

high 25 points for Phoenix on 10-of-13 shooting. Utah ended a nine-game los-ing slump by defeating San Antonio 100-96, with Derrick Favors scoring 21 points, Gordon Hayward adding 20.

Tim Duncan had 23 points and 13 rebounds for San Antonio, which was without starting point guard Tony Parker. Utah profited outside, winning despite being outscored 62-50 in the key. Port-land’s LaMarcus Aldridge had 23 points and 11 rebounds to lead the Trail Blazers to a fifth-straight win, defeating Detroit 98-86. Oklahoma City’s Kevin Durant scored 23 points in his first home game of the season, helping the Thunder defeat Milwaukee 114-101.

Los Angeles’ Kobe Bryant scored nine of his 32 points in the final 3:14, leading the Lakers’ fourth-quarter comeback over Sacramento, winning 98-95.

Reuters LONDON - Poland’s Ag-

nieszka Radwanska hopes to win the first grand slam title of her career after appointing 18-times grand slam cham-pion Martina Navratilova as her new “supercoach”. The 58-year-old Navratilova, one of the game’s all-time greats with 59 grand slam singles, doubles and mixed doubles titles to her name, will work alongside Radwanska’s full-time coach Tomasz Wik-torowski.

“I did not sleep very well

last night (Monday), thinking about getting back into match mode and the competitions,” Czech-born American Navra-tilova told the WTA website. “I was delighted when Ag-nieszka asked me if I would collaborate with Tomasz and I can’t wait to get started.”

The 25-year-old Radwan-ska, who lost to Serena Wil-liams in the 2012 Wimbledon final, claimed one tour title in 2014 before reaching the semis of the WTA Tour finals in Singapore, where she lost 6-2 6-2 to Simona Halep.

By following the trend set

by players such as Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer, who work with former greats Boris Becker and Stefan Ed-berg respectively, world num-ber six Radwanska hopes the appointment of Navratilova will have a positive impact. “Her achievements speak for themselves and I hope that I can learn from all her experi-ence,” Radwanska said.

“My goal is to win a grand slam, so to have someone with Martina’s accomplishments in my corner is going to be hugely advantageous and give me a big boost.”

Grizzlies beat Mavericks to go top of SW DivisionAssociated Press

MEMPHIS, Tennessee — Memphis withstood 18 3-pointers by Dallas to beat the Mavericks 114-105 on Tuesday, with Marc Gasol’s 30 points helping the Grizzlies to a victory that moved them back to the top of the NBA’s Southwest Division. The Grizzlies moved above idle Houston, while elsewhere, LeBron James led Cleveland to an eighth-straight win, his former team Miami ended a four-game skid by beating Phoenix and Utah ended a longer run of defeats.

Dallas Mavericks guard Monta Ellis (11) shoots over Memphis Grizzlies

center Marc Gasol (33) and guard Mike Conley (11) in the first half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday,

Dec. 9, 2014, in Memphis, Tenn.

Radwanska dreams of grand slam glory with Navratilova

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Liverpool twice failed to beat Basel and was outclassed by Group B winner Real Madrid on returning from a five-year absence in a competi-tion it once dominated, and twice reached the final when its inspirational captain was at his peak. “You always qualify over the six games and unfortunately we haven’t been good enough,” Gerrard said. Madrid completed the only perfect group-stage record of six wins after Cristiano Ronaldo’s penalty started a 4-0 rout of Ludog-orets Razgrad. It also set a Spanish record of 19 straight wins in all competitions.

“I know I’ve got an extraordinary team, I don’t tire from saying this,” Madrid coach Carlo Ance-lotti said. Juventus advanced with typical Italian caution, drawing 0-0 at home to Atletico Madrid which topped Group A. Olympiakos beat Malmo 4-2, and is rewarded for a third-place finish by joining the last 32 of the Europa League.

Monaco beat Zenit St. Petersburg 2-0 to win Group C, rising above Bayer Leverkusen which drew 0-0 at last-place Benfica. Borussia Dort-mund won Group D by drawing 1-1 at home to Anderlecht. Runner-up Arsenal won 4-1 at Galatasaray. Arsenal is a near-permanent fixture in the last 16 but will once again be unseeded in the draw next Monday where Madrid and Bayern Munich are potential opponents.

Liverpool is heading to the Europa League

draw, also Monday, after completing its group program with just a single win — and that due to a stoppage-time penalty against Ludogorets. An-other stoppage-time winner Tuesday would have sent Anfield into raptures but defender Martin Skrtel, playing as an emergency forward, poked a shot just wide of Basel’s right-hand post.

Switzerland’s champion extended its impres-sive record against English clubs, three years after it beat Manchester United in a decisive group match and 12 years after getting a last-day draw it needed to oust Liverpool. Basel deservedly led through Frei’s neat, left-foot shot from the edge of the penalty area and was helped in the second half when Markovic’s raised right-arm was judged have struck chasing defender Behrang Safari in the face.

Defending champion Madrid took advantage of Ludogorets forward Marcelinho being sent off for handball which allowed Ronaldo to score from the penalty spot in the 20th minute. His 72nd career Champions League goal trails Lionel Messi by two. Gareth Bale headed a second in the 38th, and a mismatch ended with late goals from Alvaro Arbeloa and Alvaro Medran.

Juventus could be Italy’s only representative in the last 16 while Monaco gave resurgent France a second, joining Paris Saint-Germain

which plays Barcelona on Wednesday. “In August, Monaco was considered the weakest team of the group by everybody, even in France,” Monaco coach Leonardo Jardim said.

Needing a draw to ad-vance, a Monaco team which let superstar Colombia for-wards Radamel Falcao and James Rodriguez leave in the offseason doubled its goal tally in the competition.

Defenders got both goals in Monte Carlo, with center-back Aymen Abdennour scoring in the 63rd and full-back Fabinho in the 89th as Zenit pressed for goals. The Russian club now switches to the Europa League.

Olympiakos was twice pegged back by visiting Malmo before Kostas Mitroglou and Ibrahim Afellay scored in the closing minutes to se-cure a 4-2 win.

Reuters

MADRID - Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti hailed his “ex-traordinary” players after they set a Spanish record for consecutive victories of 19 thanks to a 4-0 success at home to Ludogorets in Champions League Group B on Tuesday. Real surpassed the previous record they jointly held with Barcelona, who won 18 matches in a row in all competi-tions between October 2005 and January 2006.

European champions Real last failed to win when they were humbled 2-1 at home by city rivals Atletico Madrid in a La Liga game in September.

“I have an extraordinary group (of players) and I never tire of

saying it,” Ancelotti told a news conference after the match at a festive Bernabeu stadium.

“I could not imagine winning 19 games in a row after the defeat to Atletico,” added the Italian, who led Real to a record-extending 10th European crown in 2013-14 in his first season in charge. “I knew we would fix what had not gone well but not in this way.”

OVERALL RECORD

Brazilian side Coritiba hold the overall record for most consecutive wins in all competitions, according to Guinness World Records. The South Americans won 24 straight games between February and May 2011 spread between the Para-naense state championship and the

Brazilian Cup.Real’s 19 wins have come in La

Liga (11), the Champions League (six) and the King’s Cup (two). Their latest exploits will fuel ex-pectations the club is set to extend and improve Ancelotti’s contract, which runs until the end of next season.

“I have felt a lot of affection from the club and everything is going well and we have to fight to prolong the moment,” Ancelotti said. “I have a lot of affection for the players and I thank them whenever I can,” added the 55-year-old, a Champions League winners with AC Milan as both player and coach. Barca hold the record for the most La Liga wins in a row of 16 set under Pep Guar-diola in the 2010-11 season.

Associated Press

ROME — Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini says striker Sergio Aguero could be out for up to six weeks because of ligament damage in his left knee. Aguero was hurt in the second minute of City’s 1-0 win over Everton in the Premier League on Saturday.

Speaking before City’s Champions League match against Roma, Pellegrini says Tuesday that Aguero has undergone a scan and could miss “four, five or six weeks.”

However, Pellegrini said that he could not be precise with the tim-escale of Aguero’s absence. Four weeks out would see Aguero miss seven games, including five in the league, in which City is second behind Chelsea.

Aguero is the Premier League’s top scorer with 14 goals, and has scored 19 times in all competitions.

Reuters

HANOI - Vietnamese authorities have promised to beef up security and protect visiting Malaysian fans at Thursday’s AFF Suzuki Cup semi-final. Officials said they would deploy thousands of police and sepa-rate rival supporters to avoid a repeat of the violent clashes that marred

Sunday’s first leg in Malaysia.“Even though the number of

Malaysia fans is not too many, they will get seats in designated areas,” Can Van Nghia, the director of the national stadium, told state-run Thanh Nien Online. “Malaysian fans will be very safe at My Dinh stadium.”

The move to increase security fol-

lowed ugly scenes at last weekend’s first leg, win 2-1 by Vietnam, with five people arrested after fighting broke out in the stands.

The Malaysian sports minister Khairy Jamaluddin issued an apol-ogy to Vietnam’s supporters and spoke with Vietnam’s ambassador to Malaysia about security measures for the return leg.

Associated Press

MARRAKECH, Morocco — FIFA secretary gen-eral Jerome Valcke says President Sepp Blatter will op-pose a January kickoff for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, despite it being a key option under consideration.

Valcke tried to narrow the choice to January-Feb-ruary or November-December after FIFA last month hosted leaders of confederations, leagues, clubs and players’ unions.

They meet against on Feb. 23, Valcke says, but the first option is dismissed by IOC member Blat-

ter. January-February “will potentially impact the (2022) Olympic Winter Games so that’s definitely not for him a real option,” Valcke says. Valcke says winter sports think it is “unfair from football” to try to occupy January.

European c lubs and leagues still propose a May tournament to avoid Qatar’s hottest summer months. Valcke says FIFA’s executive committee will decide in March.

Vietnam officials to beef up security for Suzuki Cup

REUTERS/Susana Vera

Real Madrid’s Gareth Bale (R) celebrates scoring against Ludogorets with team mate Toni Kroos during their Champions League Group B soccer match at Santiago

Bernabeu stadium in Madrid December 9, 2014.

Real set Spanish record of 19 consecutive wins

AP Photo/Jon Super

Manchester City’s Sergio Aguero, left, walks off injured during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester City and Everton at the Etihad Stadium, Manchester, England, Saturday Dec. 6, 2014.

Man City: Injured Aguero could miss up to 6 weeks

Liverpool’s Steven Gerrard leaves the field at the end of the Champions League Group B soccer match between Liv-erpool and FC Basel at Anfield Stadium in Liverpool, Eng-land, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014. The match ended 1-1.

Liverpool exits Champs League, Juve advancesAssociated Press

GENEVA — Liverpool’s decline and fall from the European elite was confirmed on Tuesday, as Basel held the hosts to a 1-1 draw at Anfield to reach the last 16 of the Champions League. The five-time Euro-pean champion trailed Fabian Frei’s 25th-minute strike, and had substitute Lazar Markovic sent off in the 60th, before captain Steven Gerrard’s 81st-minute free kick sparked a frantic finish.

January ‘not real option’ for Blatter at 2022 WCup

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Liverpool twice failed to beat Basel and was outclassed by Group B winner Real Madrid on returning from a five-year absence in a competi-tion it once dominated, and twice reached the final when its inspirational captain was at his peak. “You always qualify over the six games and unfortunately we haven’t been good enough,” Gerrard said. Madrid completed the only perfect group-stage record of six wins after Cristiano Ronaldo’s penalty started a 4-0 rout of Ludog-orets Razgrad. It also set a Spanish record of 19 straight wins in all competitions.

“I know I’ve got an extraordinary team, I don’t tire from saying this,” Madrid coach Carlo Ance-lotti said. Juventus advanced with typical Italian caution, drawing 0-0 at home to Atletico Madrid which topped Group A. Olympiakos beat Malmo 4-2, and is rewarded for a third-place finish by joining the last 32 of the Europa League.

Monaco beat Zenit St. Petersburg 2-0 to win Group C, rising above Bayer Leverkusen which drew 0-0 at last-place Benfica. Borussia Dort-mund won Group D by drawing 1-1 at home to Anderlecht. Runner-up Arsenal won 4-1 at Galatasaray. Arsenal is a near-permanent fixture in the last 16 but will once again be unseeded in the draw next Monday where Madrid and Bayern Munich are potential opponents.

Liverpool is heading to the Europa League

draw, also Monday, after completing its group program with just a single win — and that due to a stoppage-time penalty against Ludogorets. An-other stoppage-time winner Tuesday would have sent Anfield into raptures but defender Martin Skrtel, playing as an emergency forward, poked a shot just wide of Basel’s right-hand post.

Switzerland’s champion extended its impres-sive record against English clubs, three years after it beat Manchester United in a decisive group match and 12 years after getting a last-day draw it needed to oust Liverpool. Basel deservedly led through Frei’s neat, left-foot shot from the edge of the penalty area and was helped in the second half when Markovic’s raised right-arm was judged have struck chasing defender Behrang Safari in the face.

Defending champion Madrid took advantage of Ludogorets forward Marcelinho being sent off for handball which allowed Ronaldo to score from the penalty spot in the 20th minute. His 72nd career Champions League goal trails Lionel Messi by two. Gareth Bale headed a second in the 38th, and a mismatch ended with late goals from Alvaro Arbeloa and Alvaro Medran.

Juventus could be Italy’s only representative in the last 16 while Monaco gave resurgent France a second, joining Paris Saint-Germain

which plays Barcelona on Wednesday. “In August, Monaco was considered the weakest team of the group by everybody, even in France,” Monaco coach Leonardo Jardim said.

Needing a draw to ad-vance, a Monaco team which let superstar Colombia for-wards Radamel Falcao and James Rodriguez leave in the offseason doubled its goal tally in the competition.

Defenders got both goals in Monte Carlo, with center-back Aymen Abdennour scoring in the 63rd and full-back Fabinho in the 89th as Zenit pressed for goals. The Russian club now switches to the Europa League.

Olympiakos was twice pegged back by visiting Malmo before Kostas Mitroglou and Ibrahim Afellay scored in the closing minutes to se-cure a 4-2 win.

Reuters

MADRID - Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti hailed his “ex-traordinary” players after they set a Spanish record for consecutive victories of 19 thanks to a 4-0 success at home to Ludogorets in Champions League Group B on Tuesday. Real surpassed the previous record they jointly held with Barcelona, who won 18 matches in a row in all competi-tions between October 2005 and January 2006.

European champions Real last failed to win when they were humbled 2-1 at home by city rivals Atletico Madrid in a La Liga game in September.

“I have an extraordinary group (of players) and I never tire of

saying it,” Ancelotti told a news conference after the match at a festive Bernabeu stadium.

“I could not imagine winning 19 games in a row after the defeat to Atletico,” added the Italian, who led Real to a record-extending 10th European crown in 2013-14 in his first season in charge. “I knew we would fix what had not gone well but not in this way.”

OVERALL RECORD

Brazilian side Coritiba hold the overall record for most consecutive wins in all competitions, according to Guinness World Records. The South Americans won 24 straight games between February and May 2011 spread between the Para-naense state championship and the

Brazilian Cup.Real’s 19 wins have come in La

Liga (11), the Champions League (six) and the King’s Cup (two). Their latest exploits will fuel ex-pectations the club is set to extend and improve Ancelotti’s contract, which runs until the end of next season.

“I have felt a lot of affection from the club and everything is going well and we have to fight to prolong the moment,” Ancelotti said. “I have a lot of affection for the players and I thank them whenever I can,” added the 55-year-old, a Champions League winners with AC Milan as both player and coach. Barca hold the record for the most La Liga wins in a row of 16 set under Pep Guar-diola in the 2010-11 season.

Associated Press

ROME — Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini says striker Sergio Aguero could be out for up to six weeks because of ligament damage in his left knee. Aguero was hurt in the second minute of City’s 1-0 win over Everton in the Premier League on Saturday.

Speaking before City’s Champions League match against Roma, Pellegrini says Tuesday that Aguero has undergone a scan and could miss “four, five or six weeks.”

However, Pellegrini said that he could not be precise with the tim-escale of Aguero’s absence. Four weeks out would see Aguero miss seven games, including five in the league, in which City is second behind Chelsea.

Aguero is the Premier League’s top scorer with 14 goals, and has scored 19 times in all competitions.

Reuters

HANOI - Vietnamese authorities have promised to beef up security and protect visiting Malaysian fans at Thursday’s AFF Suzuki Cup semi-final. Officials said they would deploy thousands of police and sepa-rate rival supporters to avoid a repeat of the violent clashes that marred

Sunday’s first leg in Malaysia.“Even though the number of

Malaysia fans is not too many, they will get seats in designated areas,” Can Van Nghia, the director of the national stadium, told state-run Thanh Nien Online. “Malaysian fans will be very safe at My Dinh stadium.”

The move to increase security fol-

lowed ugly scenes at last weekend’s first leg, win 2-1 by Vietnam, with five people arrested after fighting broke out in the stands.

The Malaysian sports minister Khairy Jamaluddin issued an apol-ogy to Vietnam’s supporters and spoke with Vietnam’s ambassador to Malaysia about security measures for the return leg.

Associated Press

MARRAKECH, Morocco — FIFA secretary gen-eral Jerome Valcke says President Sepp Blatter will op-pose a January kickoff for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, despite it being a key option under consideration.

Valcke tried to narrow the choice to January-Feb-ruary or November-December after FIFA last month hosted leaders of confederations, leagues, clubs and players’ unions.

They meet against on Feb. 23, Valcke says, but the first option is dismissed by IOC member Blat-

ter. January-February “will potentially impact the (2022) Olympic Winter Games so that’s definitely not for him a real option,” Valcke says. Valcke says winter sports think it is “unfair from football” to try to occupy January.

European c lubs and leagues still propose a May tournament to avoid Qatar’s hottest summer months. Valcke says FIFA’s executive committee will decide in March.

Vietnam officials to beef up security for Suzuki Cup

REUTERS/Susana Vera

Real Madrid’s Gareth Bale (R) celebrates scoring against Ludogorets with team mate Toni Kroos during their Champions League Group B soccer match at Santiago

Bernabeu stadium in Madrid December 9, 2014.

Real set Spanish record of 19 consecutive wins

AP Photo/Jon Super

Manchester City’s Sergio Aguero, left, walks off injured during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester City and Everton at the Etihad Stadium, Manchester, England, Saturday Dec. 6, 2014.

Man City: Injured Aguero could miss up to 6 weeks

Liverpool’s Steven Gerrard leaves the field at the end of the Champions League Group B soccer match between Liv-erpool and FC Basel at Anfield Stadium in Liverpool, Eng-land, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014. The match ended 1-1.

Liverpool exits Champs League, Juve advancesAssociated Press

GENEVA — Liverpool’s decline and fall from the European elite was confirmed on Tuesday, as Basel held the hosts to a 1-1 draw at Anfield to reach the last 16 of the Champions League. The five-time Euro-pean champion trailed Fabian Frei’s 25th-minute strike, and had substitute Lazar Markovic sent off in the 60th, before captain Steven Gerrard’s 81st-minute free kick sparked a frantic finish.

January ‘not real option’ for Blatter at 2022 WCup

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Memphis’ Gasol, who was limited to only two points on Sunday against Miami, was 9 of 14 from the field and 12 of 13 from the line, while Mike Conley added 22 points. Chandler Parsons led the Mavericks with 30 points, going 10 of 18 from the field and 6 of 10 from 3-point range.

Cleveland came from behind to beat Toronto 105-101, with LeBron James scoring 35 points, including a tiebreak-ing 3-pointer with 48 seconds remaining. James’ jumper from the top of the key gave Cleveland a 102-99 lead and tied him with Mark Price for the franchise record for 3-pointers at 802.

Dion Waiters scored 18 points for Cleveland, which trailed by 10 points early in the fourth quarter. Jonas Valan-ciunas and Terrence Ross each scored 18 for Toronto, which shot 14 of 21 in the first quarter but was overrun. Miami’s Chris Bosh scored 10 of his 34 points in the fourth quarter, including seven straight at one point, to guide the Heat to a 103-97 win over Phoenix.

Luol Deng scored 23 points for the Heat, which has won nine straight against the Suns, and eight straight in Phoenix. Marcus Morris scored a career-

high 25 points for Phoenix on 10-of-13 shooting. Utah ended a nine-game los-ing slump by defeating San Antonio 100-96, with Derrick Favors scoring 21 points, Gordon Hayward adding 20.

Tim Duncan had 23 points and 13 rebounds for San Antonio, which was without starting point guard Tony Parker. Utah profited outside, winning despite being outscored 62-50 in the key. Port-land’s LaMarcus Aldridge had 23 points and 11 rebounds to lead the Trail Blazers to a fifth-straight win, defeating Detroit 98-86. Oklahoma City’s Kevin Durant scored 23 points in his first home game of the season, helping the Thunder defeat Milwaukee 114-101.

Los Angeles’ Kobe Bryant scored nine of his 32 points in the final 3:14, leading the Lakers’ fourth-quarter comeback over Sacramento, winning 98-95.

Reuters LONDON - Poland’s Ag-

nieszka Radwanska hopes to win the first grand slam title of her career after appointing 18-times grand slam cham-pion Martina Navratilova as her new “supercoach”. The 58-year-old Navratilova, one of the game’s all-time greats with 59 grand slam singles, doubles and mixed doubles titles to her name, will work alongside Radwanska’s full-time coach Tomasz Wik-torowski.

“I did not sleep very well

last night (Monday), thinking about getting back into match mode and the competitions,” Czech-born American Navra-tilova told the WTA website. “I was delighted when Ag-nieszka asked me if I would collaborate with Tomasz and I can’t wait to get started.”

The 25-year-old Radwan-ska, who lost to Serena Wil-liams in the 2012 Wimbledon final, claimed one tour title in 2014 before reaching the semis of the WTA Tour finals in Singapore, where she lost 6-2 6-2 to Simona Halep.

By following the trend set

by players such as Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer, who work with former greats Boris Becker and Stefan Ed-berg respectively, world num-ber six Radwanska hopes the appointment of Navratilova will have a positive impact. “Her achievements speak for themselves and I hope that I can learn from all her experi-ence,” Radwanska said.

“My goal is to win a grand slam, so to have someone with Martina’s accomplishments in my corner is going to be hugely advantageous and give me a big boost.”

Grizzlies beat Mavericks to go top of SW DivisionAssociated Press

MEMPHIS, Tennessee — Memphis withstood 18 3-pointers by Dallas to beat the Mavericks 114-105 on Tuesday, with Marc Gasol’s 30 points helping the Grizzlies to a victory that moved them back to the top of the NBA’s Southwest Division. The Grizzlies moved above idle Houston, while elsewhere, LeBron James led Cleveland to an eighth-straight win, his former team Miami ended a four-game skid by beating Phoenix and Utah ended a longer run of defeats.

Dallas Mavericks guard Monta Ellis (11) shoots over Memphis Grizzlies

center Marc Gasol (33) and guard Mike Conley (11) in the first half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday,

Dec. 9, 2014, in Memphis, Tenn.

Radwanska dreams of grand slam glory with Navratilova

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to a natural rustic atmosphere. Near the parking area located at road side, a wooden stage is provided for visitors to enjoy a stretch of paddy fields while unwinding.

Rice Terrace of BusungbiuIBP/File Photo

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Two Australian drug smugglers, part of the “Bali Nine” group caught trying to smuggle heroin, are on death row as well as a British grandmother arrested for attempting to traffick cocaine into the country.

The Australians, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, lodged an appeal for clemency with Indonesia’s previous president, their last chance to avoid the firing squad after their final court appeals were rejected.

British grandmother Lindsay Sandi-ford, sentenced to death last year, has lost her final appeal in court. It is not clear whether she has yet lodged a request for a presidential pardon.

However Widodo, who took office in

October, insisted that the 64 people on death row in Indonesia for trafficking drugs would face the firing squad, dash-ing hopes he would take a softer line on capital punishment.

“There is no pardon for this matter,” he told an audience of students late Tuesday in Yogyakarta in central Java. “I think we are aware that Indonesia is in a state of emergency due to drugs.”

Widodo said that up to 50 young In-donesians die every day from drug use and there were 4.5 million drug users in the country.

Indonesia enforces some of the world’s toughest punishments for narcotics of-fences and there is strong public support for putting drug traffickers to death.

But Roichatul Aswidah, from the National Commission on Human Rights, criticised Widodo’s statement as “unex-pected”.

“The right to life is a non-negotiable right that must not be limited for any reason,” she was quoted as saying by the Jakarta Post newspaper.

The speech came just a week after Widodo faced criticism after his gov-ernment indicated that it would execute five people sentenced to death for drugs offences before the end of the year. No foreigners are believed to be among the five.

Indonesia halted executions for five years from 2008 but resumed them again last year.

AntaraJAKARTA - The Japanese Government supports

the stance of Indonesian President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) on handling various maritime issues, according to Japanese Ambassador to Indonesia Yasuaki Tanizaki.

“As a maritime country like Indonesia, Japan supports President Jokowi’s proactive stance on handling various maritime issues in Indonesia,” Tanizaki noted on Tuesday.

He pointed out that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had, for the first time, held a summit with President Joko Widodo in November 2014.

“At the time, Abe expressed Japan’s willingness to work closely with President Jokowi, in order to contribute to peace and prosperity in this region,” Tanizaki affirmed.

He noted that Japan and Indonesia will cooperate to develop seaports, to improve maritime safety and security, and to improve the fisheries industry.

“So far, Japan continues to deepen mutually beneficial economic ties with Indonesia, and I believe that this relationship will continue to be strengthened and developed in various fields,” he added.

AntaraJAKARTA - Indonesian workers

have threatened to go on a nation-wide strike if the government fails to meet their demands raised jointly in the capital city of Jakarta on Wednesday, a worker stated.

“We will see how the govern-ment reacts to our demands we raised in today’s rally,” Federation of Indonesian Metal Workers Union (FSPMI) spokesman Rusli remarked on Wednesday.

He noted that the workers would stage a nationwide strike if the gov-ernment failed to respond to their demands.

On Wednesday, thousands of workers in Jakarta staged a rally to reject the government’s decision to hike the prices of subsidized fuels, to demand a rise in their minimum wage, and to urge the government to optimize health insurance services.

The FSPMI, Federation of In-dependent Labor Union (GSBI), Indonesian Workers Union Con-federation (KSPI), and National Workers Union (SPN) participated in the rally.

President vows no pardons for death row traffickersAgence France-Presse

JAKARTA - New Indonesian President Joko Widodo has pledged there will be no pardons for drug traf-fickers on death row, including several foreigners, drawing criticism Wednesday from rights groups.

Japan supports Jokowi’s stance on handling maritime issues

Workers threaten to go on nationwide strikeAP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim

Workers gather during a rally against cheap wages in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday,

Dec. 10, 2014. Thousands of factory workers took to the streets in the capital to protest

against outsourcing and low wages.In the headline hogging in-

cident now dubbed “nut rage,” Cho Hyun-ah, the airline’s head of cabin service and daughter of its chairman, ordered a senior crew member off the plane, forcing it to return to the gate at John F. Kennedy airport in New York City.

Cho had quarreled with flight attendants in first class after one of them offered her bagged nuts instead of nuts served on a plate. Amid the storm of criticism, Cho resigned Tuesday as head of cabin service but remained an executive at the airline. That sparked another furor and Cho on Wednesday submitted a letter of resignation quitting all her roles.

Korean Air had defended her actions as a “natural” attempt to improve customer service.

Yet for a public that has lost pa-tience with impunity and double standards, it was an ugly display of entitlement. The local media labeled her “princess.” The Cho family has a history of making headlines in South Korea.

Cho, 40, who is also known as Heather Cho, is married to a prominent plastic surgeon who performed his nips and tucks in Gangnam, a tony district of Seoul famous for its plastic surgery clinics and hip shops.

In 2013, she gave birth to twin boys in Hawaii, entitling them to U.S. citizenship. Korean Air had sent Cho to work in the U.S. two months before her expected delivery date. But within South Korea there was anger that U.S. citizenship meant her sons would be able to avoid South Korea’s two years of compulsory military

service for able-bodied males.Cho’s brother, Won-tae, 38,

was investigated by police in 2005 for pushing an elderly woman who confronted him about his reckless driving, the Yonhap news agency reported.

The family patriarch, Cho Yang-ho, 65, was convicted of tax evasion in 2000, facing charges with his father and brother. The Chos were charged with receiv-ing millions in rebates when they purchased airplanes from Boeing and Airbus and evading taxes on the money.

The nut rage incident, how-ever, struck a particular chord as it comes at a time when growing inequality and safety issues are on the minds of South Koreans. There are also growing calls to better treat service industry workers.

Associated Press

VILLACOUBLAY, France — President Francois Hollande, wel-coming a freed hostage home, urged French citizens not to travel to areas where they risk being kidnapped. Serge Lazarevic, held captive for three years by al-Qaida’s North Africa branch, arrived Wednesday at the Villacoublay airport outside Paris after being released in what some suspect was a prisoner exchange.

His release revived questions about whether governments should negotiate with hostage-takers in hopes of saving captives’ lives — and at the risk of encouraging terrorists to continue kidnapping.

Lazarevic repeatedly thanked Hollande and the government “for having done everything to free me” — but neither he nor the president detailed what led to the liberation.

The liberation came days after the release of two al-Qaida fight-ers imprisoned in Mali for Lazarevic’s kidnapping, according to a security official in Mali.

Hollande expressed “extraordinary joy” at Lazarevic’s return, then added: “I want to send a clear, simple message to all our fellow citizens who can be in so-called zones at risk. Make sure not to go where you can get abducted.”

The French military is fighting extremists in Africa and the Mid-east, and the Islamic State group and al-Qaida branches in North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula have identified France and French citizens as potential targets.

AP Photo/Lee Jin-man

A Korean Air logo is seen at its ticketing counter at Gimpo Airport in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014. Korean Air Lines apologized Tuesday for inconveniencing passengers after the daughter of its chairman ordered a crew member off a flight for serving bagged nuts in the first class cabin.

Nut rage spat latest stumble for Korean Air familyAssociated Press

SEOUL — When South Koreans heard that a Korean Air Lines executive delayed a flight be-cause she was angry at being served macadamia nuts in a bag there was outrage but no surprise. For many it was only the latest example of the high and mighty behavior they’d come to expect from the families who make up Korea’s dynastic business elite and dominate the economy.

French hostage held by al-Qaida returns home

This condition should be observed by the government. It would still happen if there was no firmness of the government and the solution was by providing role and authority to tourism associations, such as the Indonesia Hotels and Restaurants Association (PHRI) in the provision of accommodation license together with the government.

“Here, it is required the rigor and precision of the government in issuing the accommodation license, where it is necessary to ascertain the location of zones in appropriate with the classification of hotel accommodation,” he said.

Advisory Council to the Association of Indonesia Tours and Travel Agencies (ASITA) of Bali Chapter, Bagus Sudibya, also said that Bali tourism was enlivened by the growth of budget hotels. Prolif-eration of budget hotel development in Bali had caused the fall of the hotel occupancy rates. “Budget hotel continues to proliferate, have a look at later on. Without being immediately addressed, it will become a boarding house. Finally people will be boarding at hotel,” he affirmed.

He argued that in developing tourism the government should consider the carrying capacity. Thus, the growing tourism would not disturb the people themselves. “Do not let traveler reach 20 million, the society will be wedged. What we want is the dollar, not many travelers. Well, what will we do with the dollar? Of course, it’s for the people as subject, not an object. So, please do not sell the community,” he affirmed while advising the government to develop community-based tourism so that tourism growth could be enjoyed by people.

Meanwhile, according to the Center for Culture and Tourism, Udayana University, up to 2009 the total hotel rooms in Bali reached 46,000 and in 2011 already increased about 16,000 units or totally reached 62,000. By region, Badung County occupied the highest position reaching 77 percent. However, the growth of star hotel room in Badung showed a decrease to 74 percent.

Nevertheless, in terms of the growth in non-star hotel room in 2011 a tremendous surge occurred in Badung to 54 percent from 2009 where Badung had 41 percent. The room of star hotel and non-star hotel in 2000 was almost equal, but it suddenly jumped where the non-star hotel was much higher than the number of star hotels. It was an attempt to get around the rules of hotel establishment moratorium. (kmb27)

Two years...

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Before, I regarded the downtown traffic — I ply the route between Ma-hendradatta and P.B. Sudirman twice a day, five days a week — as some-thing to be battled with, an enemy.

A mortal enemy in fact because I really did feel in those first few green weeks that I was risking my life every time I took my scooter on the roads. I come from a country with a fairly observant road rules culture. It makes for a rather predictable but rather boring driving experience. The traffic in Denpasar is neither predictable nor boring (you know it is bad when your visiting Indonesian friends from Jakarta complain). There are vehicles going in all direc-tions: vehicles on the right side of the street, vehicles on the wrong side of the street, vehicles coming head-on toward you, vehicles in gutters, ve-

hicles on footpaths. And they come in all shapes and sizes: pushbikes, motorbikes, scooters, pushcarts, mikrolet, sedans, big trucks, small trucks, articulated trucks, buses and gerobak.

I’ve seen scooters no bigger than my own laden with a peep of chickens, cartons of eggs stacked pile high, and ladders or poles poking straight forward like some medieval jousting weapon. Some scooters carry two, three or four family members (I swear I saw five once). Yet somehow, miraculously, it all works. Everyone seems to know what is going on; everyone

except me. At least in those early weeks. But not anymore. Not since I’ve seen the traffic through the prism of spirituality. I now look upon the Denpasar peak-hour traf-fic as a preternatural force with its own immutable laws. Like all belief systems it pays not to question it too much; instead one must close one’s mind (and often one’s eyes) and simply yield. You cannot fight it, you can only submit to it, surrender to it, go with the flow.

There is a natural rhythm, an organic flow that can be neither conquered noravoided; it can only be succumbed to. Whereas once I saw the simpang enam on Jl. Teuku Umur as Bali’s greatest snafu I now see it as a convergence of pilgrims circumambulating a sacred shrine.

These days I glide into and out of this sublime stream of souls as if on some cosmic carpet. In fact, the only time I’ve seen even a slight disturbance of the Denpasar traf-fic’s metaphysical forces is when the police get involved. I saw one the other day hopelessly trying to direct traffic at a crossroad on Petitenget. He stemmed the tide a little, but he was trying to hold back an ocean. I wanted to reach out to him and say, “Brother, it’s OK. It’s all good. Don’t fight it. Let it go. Yield.” This is what I have done. For I have seen the light. This small drop has rejoined the ocean, from whence it originated and where it was always meant to be. The traffic and I are now one. I have become the traffic.

In recent years, the fabric craft having developed since hundreds of years ago is like a pearl that is always sought after by its enthusi-asts so that it revives the production centers of rangrang woven cloth.

According to Group Head of Winangun Asri weaving industry, Wayan Sukerta, the rangrang cloth was originally used as parapher-nalia when preparing a gebogan (arrangement of fruit and snacks presented to God as gratitude for the blessings) in religious ceremonies held at Karang customary village, Pejukutan village.

However, in keeping with the passage of time, one of these indigenous heritages and tradi-tions now largely produced by non-mechanical loom was used as a shrine paraphernalia and daily fashion. “Originally, the making of rangrang cloth first used a cagcag loom, so that it could take a long time because of the long process. We are lucky to get the assistance of non-mechanical loom (ATBM) from Bank Indonesia, so that it can speed up the production process,” he said.

According to him, the long pro-cess of making rangrang cloth lay in the yarn dyeing process, which spent nearly a week. It happened because the colors used were from natural substances such as morinda roots,

indigo leaves, teak leaves, mango tree barks, kepundung, pomegranate bark and flame bush flowers.

“This is what makes the price of rangrang cloth expensive, but there are also inexpensive clothes because they apply synthetic colors. For ex-ample, a shawl with chemical colors is sold in the range of IDR 200,000, while those made from natural col-ors is sold in the price range of IDR 400,000,” he explained.

Although it got a place in the society, Wayan Sukerta admitted that it was difficult to preserve the existence of the rangrang cloth as their ancestral heritage, especially with the presence of similar prod-ucts at lower prices. “Finally, no one wants to continue weaving as it is hard to make and the price is not comparable,” he complained.

Headman of Pajukutan, Nyoman Yudi Adnyanawan, also recognized if the rangrang woven cloth was initially centered at two hamlets namely the Karang and Ampel, Pejukutan village. However, within the past few years, along with the coming of many requests, it had expanded to some other villages. “Even, it has been claimed by other villages as their typical handicraft products,” he said.

The presence of Bank Indonesia for Region III Bali-Nusa Tenggara at Pajukutan village was recognized

by Yudi Adnyanawan to provide a hope for craftsmen so that they could continue working. Since the presence of Bank Indonesia in 2010, the number of people get-ting involved in weaving activities began to grow, even it had reached 40 people who joined the Winangun Asri group. This group composed a weaving kampong under the as-sistance of Bank Indonesia.

The Division Head of Financial Access and SME of Bank Indonesia, Teguh Setiadi, said that Bank Indone-sia wanted to promote creative econ-omy sector and move local economy,

where one of which was through the program of guided village. This pro-gram aimed to strengthen the value chain of each weaving production included in technical, production, and marketing assistance.

“We do hope the presence of Bank Indonesia here (Pajukutan village—Ed) could advance and even improve the typical woven clothes owned by Pajukutan to foreign countries,” he said.

In the future, he also took the initiative to develop Pejukutan village into a tourist destination by presenting the making process of

rangrang woven cloth as a supe-rior product. “It could be used as a tourism village to attract travelers to Nusa Penida, of course, while maintaining the distinctive appear-ance of the rangrang woven cloth made traditionally with natural materials,” he said.

It was mentioned that Bank Indonesia had helped rangrang weavers by providing 29 units of non-mechanical looms where each village got a single unit along with a thread spool as well as yarn dyeing technique training to develop their skills in creating a new motif. (par)

I have become the trafficBy JFK Miller

Bali is above all a spiritual place so as a resident foreign-

er of some four months here I’ve learned to adopt a spiri-tual approach to life. And in

no area of my life has this approach paid off more than

with the Denpasar traffic.

Rangrang woven cloth of Pajukutan, a pearl of Nusa PenidaBali Post

SEMARAPURA - Aside from songket and endek cloth, the ran-grang woven cloth also becomes a hot topic among the lovers of Bali-nese handicrafts within the past two years. As the name implies, the rangrang woven cloth produced by the artisans at Pajukutan village, Nusa Penida subdistrict, Klungkung, has a distinctive motif, namely thin weaving pattern so that it looks transparent. Another distinctive feature is the combination of bright colors with two types of coloring, the natural and chemical coloring substance.

IBP/ParwataOne of the craftsmen is absorbed in weaving with non-mechanical loom provided by Bank Indonesia for Region III Bali-Nusa Tenggara as one of the guided villages.

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators are proposing that the eight biggest U.S. banks be required to further increase the amount of capital they set aside to cushion against unexpected losses.

The Federal Reserve’s proposal is aimed at reducing the potential for future taxpayer bailouts of troubled banks. The proposed requirements also are designed to encourage the behemoths to shrink so they pose less risk to the financial system. The banks include JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Bank of America.

The Fed governors voted 5-0 at a meeting Tuesday to advance the so-called “capital surcharges,” opening them to public comment through Feb. 28. The extra capital requirements would increase in proportion to how risky the regulators deem a bank to be. A key risk factor would be how much a bank relies on short-term funding markets to borrow from other banks. Those markets seized up dur-ing the financial crisis.

The requirements would give the banks an incentive to shed businesses and downsize to avoid having to set aside more capital.

The requirements would be phased in from 2016 through 2018. Fed offi-cials said nearly all eight banks already meet the stricter capital requirements, and that all of them are “on their way” to meeting them by the Jan. 1, 2019 deadline for full implementation.

Fed Vice Chair Stanley Fischer said at the meeting that JPMorgan, the biggest U.S. bank by assets,

is the only one of the group that doesn’t already meet the proposed requirements. The bank would have to raise about $21 billion in capital by the 2019 deadline, he noted. JPMorgan has previously said it wouldn’t increase its capital to lev-els exceeding current requirements until regulators had made their new plans clear.

“While we’re still reviewing the Fed’s proposal, we are well capitalized and intend to meet their requirements and timeframes while continuing to deliver strong returns for our shareholders,” JPMorgan spokesman Andrew Gray said.

The eight banks, considered so big and interconnected that each could threaten the financial system if they collapsed, also include Gold-man Sachs, Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley, Bank of New York Mellon and State Street Bank.

The stricter requirements “would encourage such firms to reduce their systemic footprint and lessen the threat that their failure could pose to overall financial stability,” Fed Chair Janet Yellen said at the meeting.

The importance of banks’ reliance on short-term funding markets as a risk factor could mean larger required capital increases for investment banks in the group like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Investment banks tend to use the wholesale funding markets more than commercial banks, which tend to rely more on deposits.

Stricter capital requirements for banks were mandated by Congress after the financial crisis, which struck in 2008 and ignited the worst eco-

nomic downturn since the Great Depression. Hundreds of U.S. banks received taxpayer bailouts during the crisis, including the eight Wall Street mega-banks that would be subject to the additional layer of capital require-ments under the Fed’s proposal.

In recent years, the Fed and other regulators have put into effect a series of rules for banks to increase their capital buffers, as required by the 2010 financial overhaul law. The new additional layer of require-ments for the biggest banks would also exceed the levels mandated by

international regulators.“There is a fair amount of ap-

prehension” among the banks as to how steep the new requirements will be in the proposal, Nancy Bush, a banking analyst at NAB Research, said Tuesday morning before the Fed governors’ meeting. She said the banks can probably “live with” the requirements so long as they are the last of “this endless fiddling with capital” by the regulators.

Banking industry groups say the Fed requirements could limit access to loans for businesses and consum-

ers, by reducing the amounts that banks would have available to lend. “Today’s proposal could affect the American financial industry’s ability to remain competitive in interna-tional markets,” said an official of the Financial Services Roundtable, whose members include the largest banks. “Holding U.S. banks to a more stringent capital framework than our global competitors could be a misguided economic decision,” Richard Foster, the group’s senior counsel for regulatory and legal af-fairs, said in a statement.

The Paris-based think tank wrote in a report that high income inequal-ity had a “negative and statistically significant impact” on growth as a widening gap between rich and poor often concealed falling income for all but the richest groups.

“The single biggest impact on growth is the widening gap

between the lower middle class and poor households compared to the rest of society,” it wrote in a report based on 30 years of harmonised data from de-veloped and highly developed countries.

“It follows that policies to reduce income inequalities should not

only be pursued to improve social outcomes but also to sustain long-term growth.”

To reduce inequality, countries should invest in education and redistribute wealth through taxes and other transfers, it added. It said it found no evidence that redis-tributive policies harmed growth if they were well designed and implemented.

The economic impact of inequal-ity has been in the spotlight this year after a best-selling book by French economist Thomas Piketty which argued that the gap between rich

and poor has been widening for decades in the West.

The OECD said that, over the past two decades up to the global slowdown of 2009, the cumula-tive growth rate would have been 6-9 percentage points higher in Italy, Britain and the United States had income disparities there not widened.

Conversely, greater levels of equality were helping boost Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita in Spain, France and Ireland before the crisis.

In most developed nations the

gap between rich and poor reached its highest level in 30 years in 2014, with the top 10 percent of the popu-lation earning 9.5 times the income of the poorest 10 percent, the OECD wrote.

The gap had been widening since the 1980s, when the richest segment earned seven times as much as the poorest.

However, the biggest negative impact on growth was not from ris-ing top incomes but a widening gap between low income households and the rest of the population, it said.

Reducing inequality would boost economic growthReuters

PARIS - Moves by national governments to reduce inequality be-

tween their rich and poor citizens would help to lift economic growth, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said on Tuesday.

Fed proposing big US banks boost capital buffers

AP Photo/David Goldman, FileIn this Tuesday, July 16, 2013, file photo, a customer uses an ATM at a Bank of America branch on Peachtree Street, in Atlanta. Federal regulators are proposing that the eight biggest U.S. banks be required to further increase the amount of capital they set aside to cushion against unexpected losses.

BUSINESS

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Hundreds of health workers have become sick, but the problem in Sierra Leone has been getting special attention. On Tuesday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a study that found the rate of lab-confirmed Ebola infections this year has been 100 times higher in medical work-ers in Sierra Leone than in other adults.

The study cited a broad range of breaches in infection control and prevention practices. But it said that in recent months more training and availability of protective equip-

ment may be helping. Sierra Leone lost three doctors in the past week, prompting a strike of the junior doctors’ association that started Monday.

In a statement Tuesday, the doc-tors demanded a facility dedicated to the treatment of medical workers. They had previously demanded ac-cess to life-saving equipment, like dialysis machines.

The deaths of doctors “might have been as a result of the absence of a specialized unit,” the statement said. It didn’t use the word strike but said the junior doctors would

“re-strategize” while awaiting the special treatment unit.

“This strategy can be compared to the ‘tactical retreat’ of soldiers in the warfront ... in order to pro-tect the lives of other soldiers,” it said.

Just such a facility opened in Sierra Leone last month — as part of a British-built treatment center at Kerry Townv, but that treatment center has come under criticism lately, including confusion over who the clinic for health workers is open to. Officials clarified Mon-day that any infected front-line health worker could be admitted there.

Still, Dr. Jeredine George, presi-dent of the junior doctors’ associa-tion, said Tuesday that the govern-ment has also promised that beds will be set aside for health workers at another treatment unit.

Associated Press

AUSTIN, Texas — Republican Texas Gov. Rick Perry said he won’t make up his mind about running for president until the middle of next year, but he doesn’t feel pressure to announce sooner because most people expect that he will. “People think we’re going to run, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing,” Perry said in an interview Tuesday with The As-sociated Press as he prepares to leave office next month after 14 years as governor.

While a formal announcement may be a ways off, the longest-serving chief executive in Texas history sounded ike a candidate preparing for his next campaign.

Perry cited his state’s low taxes, restrained regulatory cli-mate and caps on civil lawsuit damages as the reasons behind Texas’ economic success. He argued the state’s record in creat-ing jobs during his time in office can convince potentially skepti-cal supporters that he’s worth a second look after his short-lived 2012 presidential bid.

Another Perry campaign will undoubtedly include numerous re-countings of his “Oops” moment in a debate among Republican candidates in 2011, when that

word was all he could muster after he forgot the name of the third of three federal departments he’d promised to shutter if elected.

Asked if those who supported him in 2012 might shy away this time given the results, Perry said: “I think people are going to make a decision based on what they see over the next couple of years, not what they saw four years ago. “There’s not going to be a lot of hope in this country,” Perry said, if people don’t have the ability to recover from their past mistakes.

Perry also departs the gover-nor’s mansion facing charges of felony abuse of power and the prospect that a court case could drag on for months and land him in prison. Yet Perry said he’s con-fident voters are willing to give him a second chance.

Perry’s failed presidential cam-paign remains the only loss of his political career. He was the state’s powerful lieutenant governor when then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush was elected president, and he went on to win three terms. He has spent much of his final year as governor meeting privately with policy experts and traveling in the U.S. and abroad — an ef-fort viewed by most as aimed at improving his credentials for a White House bid.Sierra Leonean

docs strike again over Ebola careAssociated Press

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — Sierra Leone’s junior doctors went on strike for a second day Tuesday, a move they dubbed a “tactical retreat” to demand better care for medical workers who catch Ebola after a spate of deaths. The Ebola outbreak has infected more than 17,800 people, most in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.

AP Photo/Michael Duff, FileFILE-In this file photo taken on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2014, health workers wear protective gear before enter-ing the house of a person suspected to have died of the Ebola virus in Port Loko Community situated on the outskirts of Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Perry: Most people expect me to run for president

AP Photo/Eric GayTexas Gov. Rick Perry answers questions during an interview with The Associated Press at the historic Texas Governor’s Mansion, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014, in Austin, Texas.

Bali Post

SINGARAJA – Leading up to the Galungan and Kuningan feasts, the Singaraja Town Police have been taking more vigorous action against the dis-tribution of traditional liquors such as arrack and other illegal beverages. They police have asserted their authority so as

to prevent any acts of violence, fights and other crimes fre-quently triggered by liquor.

“To create secure circum-stances before the Galungan and Kuningan feasts, we per-form liquor-seizing operations which sometimes trigger dis-putes among the young genera-tion,” said Chief of Singaraja Town Police, I Gusti Agung Purnama, under the authority of the Chief of Buleleng Po-lice, Kurniadi.

He explained that they had successfully raided a number

of stalls alleged to be selling Balinese liquor in the area of Penarukan, seizing a half jerry can and nine medium-size bottles of arrack.

In Banyuning his ranks seized four medium-size bot-tles and two large-size bottles. “We act decisively and are not stopping here. The liquor stalls tend to be found on road-sides in town.. So far we have seized 20 liters consisting of 15 bottles of wine and half a jerry can of Balinese arrack,” he explained. (kmb34)

Apparently the provincial government, who is responsible for road repairs, did a shoddy patchwork job, only filling in the potholes instead of actually repairing the road. Chairman of the Bangli House, Komang Carles, expressed his disapoint-ment with the repeated patchwork repairs that have been done to this road time and

again. According to Carles, the severely

damamed road needs to be repaved using the far more durable “hot mix pavement” such as was done in Kayubihi, Bangli, “Repeatedly patching holes in the road is a waste of money” he said.

Ideally, road repairs using “hot mix

asphalt” should be started in Penelokan where the damage is more severe, and then continue moving southward. “Be-cause this section of road, falls under the category of tourist route, it should be given priority, so as not to have a nega-tive impact on tourism in Kintamani” he added. (ina)

Repaired six months ago

Penelokan road section damaged again

IBP/FileThe Bangli - Penelokan road is damaged once again even though it was repaired just six months ago.

Bali Post

BANGLI - After been repaired just six months ago, the section of road between

Bangli – and Penelokan tourist attractions in Kintamani is damaged again. The top layer

of asphalt has flaked off leaving a dangerous bmpy road.

Liquor operation intensified ahead of Galungan and Kuningan

The police officers are showing the evidences confiscated from the storeIBP/Dewa Kusuma

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The study in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, a journal of the Ameri-can Medical Association, also found that the more severe the pre-eclampsia, the higher the like-lihood of autism.

The research involved more than 1,000 children aged two to three in northern California. All of their mothers had confirmed di-agnoses of pre-eclampsia, and sci-entists compared data about those developing normally to those with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or other developmental delays.

“We found significant associa-tions between pre-eclampsia and ASD that increased with severity,” said senior author Cheryl Walker, assistant professor in the depart-ment of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of California, Davis.

“We also observed a signifi-cant association between severe pre-eclampsia and developmental

delay.” Autism spectrum disorder af-

fects as many as one in 88 children in the United States.

The exact causes of the devel-opmental disorder are unknown, with research pointing to genes, the environmental, or both.

Autism leads to difficulties in social, emotional and communi-cation skills, and has no known cure.

Some past research has sug-gested that pre-eclampsia -- which causes high blood pressure late in pregnancy and high levels of pro-tein in the urine, as well as seizures in severe cases -- could be linked to autism, perhaps by depriving the fetus of nutrients and oxygen.

“While single studies cannot establish causality, the cumula-tive evidence supports efforts to reduce pre-eclampsia and dimin-ish severity, to improve neonatal outcomes,” Walker said.

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Children born to women who suffered a high-blood pressure condition called pre-eclampsia during pregnancy are twice as likely to have autism or other developmental delays, US re-searchers said Monday.

‘Significant’ link between pre-eclampsia, autism: study

Agence France-Presse

MIAMI - Children born to women who suffered a high-blood pressure condition called pre-eclampsia during pregnancy are twice as likely to have autism or other developmental delays, US researchers said Monday.

Obesity clips up to 8 years off your life, says studyAgence France-Presse

PARIS - Obesity and extreme obesity can reduce life expectancy by up to eight years and deprive people of as much as 19 years of good health, according to a study published on Friday.

The research -- a mathemati-cal model based on US health data -- should be a useful tool for doctors advising patients who are worryingly overweight, its authors said.

The biggest area of concern is for people who become obese while they are young.

“The pattern is clear,” said Steven Grover, a professor of epi-demiology at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

“The more an individual weighs and the younger their age, the greater the effect on their health.

“(...) They have many years ahead of them, during which the increased health risks associated with obesity can negatively impact their lives.”

Grover’s team used data from a big US project, the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey,

which monitored thousands of people over years, to analyse the risk of early death and ill health among adults of different body weight.

They compared overweight and obese people against people of normal weight in terms of life expectancy.

They also calculated the number of years of good health that each individual could -- statistically -- expect.

This was defined as being free of cardiovascular disease or diabe-tes -- two diseases that are closely linked with excessive weight.

The estimates applied to people aged between 20 and 79.

The outcome was dramatic, ac-cording to the paper, which appears in the journal Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology.

Individuals who were in the overweight category -- who had a body mass index (BMI) of 25 to 29.9 -- were estimated to lose between zero and three years of expected life.

Between 0.8 and 5.9 years of life were lost for obese people, with a BMI of 30 to 34.9.

The extremely obese, with a BMI of 35 or more, lost between 0.9 and 8.4 years of life expec-tancy.

The greatest loss in expected lifespan was found among those aged 20-39.

On the other hand, the loss was smaller and sometimes negligible among those who were only over-weight.

“Healthy life-years” lost to dia-betes and cardiovascular problems ranged from 0.5 years to 19.1.

The biggest loss was among women who were extremely obese in the 20-39 age bracket.

The least loss was among men who were overweight and aged between 60 and 79.

The data came from a subset of 4,000 people in the 2003-2010 US survey, all of them white, for whom more details about their health and blood sugar were known.

The warning should be treated as conservative, as the study only factored in two obesity-related diseases, said the study.

Cancer, respiratory disease, liver and kidney disease have also been linked to chronic overweight.

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Obesity and extreme obesity can reduce life expectancy by up to eight years and deprive people of as much as 19 years of good health, according to a study published on Friday.

“We in the prosecutor’s office must make introspection when han-dling of corruption. In other words, we examine what we have done in the handling of corruption and we empower all the resources in the prosecutor’s office. We also review what we have made. If there are any drawbacks, we’ll improve them,” said Adityawarman.

For the handling of corruption in Bali, all the prosecutor’s offices in Bali had ‘submitted’ their cor-ruption case, except for Denpasar Prosecutor’s Office. “But, there are three corruption cases targeted at Denpasar Prosecutor’s Office,” he said. Even though not detailing the 39 corruption cases being targeted, he explained that 33 corruption cases were under process of prosecution in the Denpasar Corruption Court. Of the 33 cases, 22 of which posed the results of investigation by prosecu-tor’s office across Bali and 11 other cases were the target of police.

Meanwhile, the Spokesperson of Bali Prosecutor’s Office, Ashari Kurniawan, added that this year his party had been able to send back or secure the state’s money as much as IDR 2.979 billion.

On the other hand, in the com-memoration of the World Anti-Corruption Day last Tuesday, the Bali Prosecutor’s Office distributed flowers. Judicial authorities in black and white uniform approached rid-ers at Catur Muka or in front of the office of Denpasar Mayor. They also distributed anti-corruption sticker saying “Save our children from the threat of corruption.”

Ashari Kurniawan who also at-tended the event of giving away flowers revealed that his party invit-ed the community to combat against corruption starting from one’s own self. “Before sweeping the floor of others, we must clean up our floors first,” he said.

Separately, Spokesperson of Denpasar District Court, Hasoloan

Sianturi, explained that up to this De-cember a total of 33 corruption cases had come into the Denpasar Cor-ruption Court. The last case was the corruption allegation in the greening program at the Karangasem Forestry and Plantation Agency. “Until now, there have been 33 corruption cases going to us,” said the man of Batak descent. He added that of the 33 cases, some had been convicted, while oth-ers were still in the process of trial and just in the trial plan.

Has the handling of corrup-tion in Bali been maximal? When asked about this, Sianturi said the matter of being maximal in terms of sentencing highly depended on relevant parties. “Maybe, in terms of defendants it has been appropriate, or not, but we just leave it to the parties concerned,” he said.

Have the 33 cases been already maximized? He explained there was no a benchmark indicating if it had been maximal or not. Similarly, the judge mentioned there was no research saying if a handling had been ideal or not ideal. Obviously, the judges here dealt with two to three corruption cases. “The judges here also handle common criminal,” he said.

Of the 33 corruption cases, most of them undermined the regional budget. Then, what about the state’s money corrupted and the budget spent for the case handling?

He said the matter of large and small case was very relative. How-ever, the issue of corruption had two motives, namely combating corruption and or taking back the state’s financial losses. If the mo-tive of combating corruption, no matter how small the state’s money encroached, it was still defined as corruption. As a judge of corruption crime, he hoped the holes of misuse could be avoided or minimized. “Hopefully, court’s decision could be used as a reference and evaluated to prevent corruption,” he hoped. (kmb37)

Bali Post

BANGLI - Government at-tention to the development of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Bangli is considered still minimal. It is perceived dif-ferent from previous years where the government provided a lot of opportunities for the artisans to be included in local and national product exhibition. This condi-tion causes the SMEs in Bangli to be unable to develop properly. “Amidst the rising fuel price, the attention of government to improve the SMEs stays low, at least until today,” said I Nengah Toya, one of the goldsmiths and silversmith focused on accessory products from Bangli.

Furthermore, Toya revealed that less maximal government at-tention to the SMEs caused many artisans confused. Thankfully, the current price of raw materials like gold and silver did not increase. “Perhaps due to lack of consumer demand, so the price of silver and gold is still stable,” said Toya.

According to Toya, despite the attention of the government to improve the SMEs was not

maximal, the artisans indeed did not lose any sense. Various breakthroughs were made by the artisans chiefly those having had a business network. “One of the strategies we take is by diversify-ing the market share,” said Toya, while adding that previously his gold and silver products only targeted general consumers.

Today, many artisans targeted other areas such as making coop-eration with the owners of beauty salon offering bridal services. “This strategy adequately helps us,” he said.

Monitoring at a number of gold and silver craft production centers in Bangli and Tembuku indicated that many artisans shifted their profession by open-ing other business or at least they waited until the market could get excited again. They were hoping the new policy of the government like organizing exhibition that could be followed by craftsmen. “Apparently the budgetary ef-ficiency by the government has made it more and more difficult for artisans to participate in exhibition. In the past, the most potential customers buying our

Prosecutor aims for 39 corruption cases

Claim securing state’s money IDR 2.9 billionBali Post

DENPASAR - Bali Prosecutor’s Office under the command of Adityawarman with field ‘commander’ Putu Gde Sudharma is currently aiming for 39 cases related to corruption allegation in Bali. However, with the pretext if the cases were still in the process, the prosecutor was reluctant to reveal further what cases included in the 39 cases.

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Accesories made by Bangli’s silversmiths displayed recently. Government attention to the development of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Bangli is considered still minimal

Lack attention from government, SMEs products declined

products are the officials,” said one of the crafters. (kmb)

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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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The newly renovated Boombox Recording Studio has a Karaoke room as well as a state-of-the-art recording studio, with a resident sound engineer on hand just in case you feel like cut-ting a few tracks. Wired for sound from 10AM – 7 PM daily, the newly renovated Boombox will be one of the leading recording studios in Kuta, Bali.

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To optimize the handling of the scattered ‘marine debri’, the support and participation of residents and en-vironmental care groups is very much required to help clean up the waste on beaches, and other public places.

The Head of the Buleleng Sanita-tion and Landscaping Agency (DKP), Nyoman Genep, said on Tuesday (Dec 9), that the lack of sanitation workers is still unresolved, hindering effective operations. Currently, the entire daily workforce of the DKP, amounts to 456 people. With 206 street-sweepers, 174 people in charge of transporting waste, 51 gardeners and 15 foremen, it is hard to tackle the volume of coastal waste.

According to an official from Kelod Kauh hamlet, Panji village, Sukasada, these numbers are simply inadequate, especially during the rainy season, when so many watersheds (DAS) in Buleleng are filled with trash forcing workers to deal with the mountains of coastal garbage. “The lack of work-ers makes it impossible to deal with all the marine debri collecting on the beaches and other public places. For the time being we are doing our best

to clean the watersheds and beaches of Buleleng” he said.

The head of Buleleng Santaion went on to say that, the support of residents and environmental activists was absolutely necessary to handle the added burden of garbage on the beaches brought on by the rainy sea-son. Some riverside villages have already performed cleanups, which were far more effective than if the sanitation department had been work-ing alone. “Our own workers help to transport the garbage collected from such cleanups, but frequently we have the help of mass cleanup groups to move the trash too. We consistently encourage awareness and ask people to participate in such activities, given our own lack of manpower.” he said.

Genep performs awareness cam-paigns in upstream villages, appealing for them not to dump their garbage in the river. The target of such campaigns include the villages of Wanagiri, Git-git and Padangbulia in the Sukasada subdistrict, Kampong Kajanan, Bugis village, and Kampong Tinggi in Bule-leng subdistrict who were reminded not to throw garbage into the river. Vil-

Bali PostNEGARA - A joint operation

involving the Jembrana Mu-nicipal Police, Jembrana Police, the Indonesian Military and the Transportation Agency was held on Monday (Dec 9) in front of the office of the Jembrana Regentas part of the Great Zebra Opera-tion of 2014 and ahead of Christ-mas and New Years 2015.

Chief of Jembrana Municipal Police, IGN Rai Budhi, accom-panied by Chief of Jembrana Police Traffic Affairs, Gede Su-madra Kerthiawan, said that the joint operation was organized in anticipation of the arrival of il-legal migrants from Gilimanuk ahead of Christmas and New Year 2015. In addition, police authori-ties were also looking for people

comiting traffic violations and other trafficking illegal goods, while the Transportation Agency wanted to anticipate trucks with freight exceeding the allowed tonnage as well as those having expired vehicle test document and other violations.

Thee joint operation did not find any illegal weapons. How-ever, other violations were fined

and migrant was repatriated be-cause he did not have an identity card.

The migrant in question, 19 year old, M. Arif Billa, from Bulakan, Pemalang, was look-ing for his friend in Kuta. He was able to cross from over from Gilimanuk by hiding in a truck where he was not asked for his identity card. “Since he did not

have an ID card, we repatriated him,” explained the officer.

There were also 12 traffic violations: six people were rid-ing without a driver’s licenses and /or without vehicle registra-tions including an illegal and modified Vespa. Meanwhile, the Transportation Agency found five violations related to vehicle test document. (kmb)

Pass at Gilimanuk, a migrant repatriated in a joint operation

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The debris wash ashore on Penimbangan Beach, Buleleng

Lack of personnel to handle marine garbageBali Post

SINGArAJA - Under siege by marine debris at a number of coastal areas in Buleleng, the government is having trouble handling the volume effectively. Despite the lack of human re-sources employed at the Buleleng Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (DKP), they continue their efforts by deploying existing personnel to transport the garbage that is scattered throughout the coastal area.

lages located on the Saba River bank in Serit, received similar reminders by the sanitation agency.

A pilot project is being launched in 2015, wherein two janitors will

be assigned to handle rubbish in the Buleleng River, by installing nets in the coastal estuaries before the water reaches the beach.

Marine debris pollutes coastal areas

such as Penimbangan Beach and the former Buleleng Harbor Beach where the piles up rotting rubbish causes en-vironmental pollution and disturbs the comfort of visitors. (kmb38)

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According to Chairman of the Indonesian Tourism Intellectuals Association (ICPI) of Bali Chapter, Putu Anom, the Law No.10/2009 on tourism did not recognize the

term of budget hotel or low-cost ho-tels, but only star hotel and non-star hotels. However, the fact was that many new hotels offered room rates below the standard, such as IDR

200,000 to IDR 300,000. Looking at the facts and phenomena, many hoteliers screamed in order the permit of cheap hotel should be stopped.

“Nowadays, a number of budget hotels are even established side by side with star hotels that can trig-ger unfair competition,” said Putu Anom.

According to him, the travelers staying at budget hotel were mostly domestic travelers, such as group, students, domestic groups, families, individual with low purchasing

power or the employees of compa-ny such as sales staff and company driver having low budget.

“Such accommodation actually belongs to the category of budget hotel with relatively cheap room rates. Its market share is lower-middle class travelers. However, the services offered are similar to that of star hotels,” he said.

It was said that a large number of budget hotels in Bali had disrupted the market that finally kindled tariff war and made the image of Bali tourism cheap in the eyes of foreign

travelers. “When hotels with cheap room rates are established in an elite or resort area, they will surely grab the market share of star hotels. Star hotels offer more expensive room rates because they have complete facilities intended for upper-middle travelers,” he said.

This former Dean of the Faculty of Tourism, Udayana University, mentioned that many accommoda-tions whose permit belonged to budget hotel, but had the quality of star hotels.

Two years, dozens budget hotels established

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Within the past two years there have been dozens of budget hotels established to receive guests ranging from backpackers to business travelers. Along the Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai, for example, was formerly sterile from tourist accommodation.

Bali Post

DENPASAR - Budget hotel starts filling up the Island of the Gods. Even, within the past two years there have been dozens of budget hotels established to receive guests ranging from backpackers to business travelers. Along the Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai, for example, was formerly sterile from tourist accommodation. Now, it has been filled up by accommodations offering room facilities at low room rates.

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Before Hugh Jackman could appear in his current Broadway play, “The River,” he had to learn his lines, dig deep into his character and do something he’s never done before: gut a fish. His character is a fisherman who in one scene pulls out a real 3-pound sea trout, cuts it open with a fearsome-looking knife, removes the inter-nal organs, chops a fennel bulb, slips lemon slices into the skin and seasons the flesh before popping the dish in a fake oven.

It’s a mesmerizing scene and Jackman — a man who plays a sharp-clawed Wol-verine in the movies — seems completely at ease as he unhurriedly prepares the fish like a Food Network veteran. He wasn’t always so calm.

“I was originally a little nervous about it,” said Jackman over lunch in Manhat-tan. “I’d never done it before and I knew it had to look like he’d been doing it his whole life.”

So Jackman did what any actor worth his salt does: He consulted chefs and prac-ticed. He originally planned to gut a fish every day for months until it became sec-ond nature, but he was told the better route was to gut 40 in a single, fishy session.

He got out his knives and made fish fil-

lets and fish sticks and fish soup. “There are fish cakes still frozen in my freezer,” he said, laughing. “No one’s having fish at my house for a long time.”

The scene comes in the middle of Jez Butterworth’s enigmatic play about love and repetition. Various women from the fisherman’s past enter and leave his remote fishing cabin, warping time and space.

“I think the more poetically you take the piece, and less literally you take the piece, the deeper you go with it,” Jackman said. “Ultimately, I think it’s a play that just spoke to me and my heart. I read it and I was like, ‘Wow. There’s something very true and real and honest about connection, about loss, about the search in life.’ That’s something that I’ve always had.”

Jackman, who plays the pirate Black-beard in next year’s “Pan” and said he’s close to starring in an original movie musical about P.T. Barnum, threw himself into the new play. He spoke to memory experts and read works by psychotherapist Carl Jung.

“The River,” at Circle in the Square Theatre, has been a sellout, in part to Jack-man’s star power. But even with his com-fort in front of an audience, the fish-gutting scene didn’t go too smoothly when he first performed it, despite all the practice.

YouTube said Tuesday the top trending videos for 2014 were based on views, shares, com-ments, likes and more. Perry’s “Dark Horse” has galloped away

with over 715 million views, and Polish prankster Sylwester Wardega’s spider-dog video has caught more than 113 million views.

Other top trending video sub-jects included soccer stars Cris-tiano Ronaldo and Neymar in a Nike commercial, a singing nun on the Italian edition of “The Voice,” a group of strangers kissing for the first time and the comic book characters Superman and Goku engaging in a fictional rap battle.

Enrique Iglesias, Shakira, Ja-son Derulo and Sia were among other artists with music videos on YouTube’s list.

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LOS ANGELES — To prepare for his role as Moses in “Exo-dus: Gods and Kings,” Christian Bale watched Monty Python’s “The Life of Brian” and Mel Brooks’ “History of the World, Part One.”

The Oscar-winning actor found Moses a complicated man, and didn’t want his version of the biblical hero to be too haughty.

“It’s a very fine line between getting it right and doing an unwished for ‘Life of Brian,’” Bale said, adding that the Monty Python classic’s chipper tune, “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life,” played in his mind often on set.

Bale stars opposite Joel Edgerton in the Ridley Scott epic opening Friday. Other stars include Sigourney Weaver and John Turturro. The film has been criticized for casting white actors as Egyptians, and some have called for

a boycott. Scott has said those people need to “get a life.”

Bale became interest-ed in the role after learn-ing more about Moses, he said: “A man of abso-lutely ridiculously strong conviction who also is capable of debilitating self-doubt just makes for a really fascinating character.”

The actor also sug-gests the religious icon could be considered a terrorist. “If you’re not religious, you can look at it as one man’s free-dom fighter is another man’s terrorist,” he said. “You look at empire and the attitudes of empire, and perhaps the neces-

sity that for empires to exist... they (must) have actually a hierarchy among people, whether that’s spoken or unspoken. It’s fascinating. And it’s for our times because it’s very human, and Moses was a far more human and fallible character than I had imag-ined before.”

Hugh Jackman talks fish, blood and his new show

Bale says Moses could be considered a ‘terrorist’

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Katy Perry, spider-dog top popular online videos

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Katy Perry and a dog dressed like a spider are among 2014’s top online video subjects. Perry’s “Dark Horse” reigned supreme on YouTube’s top 10 most popular music videos, while a prank featuring a dog done up as a spider chasing unsuspecting pedestrians led the site’s top 10 trending videos.

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