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PAgE 6 PAgE 8

Big Sur fire destroys 15 homes, forces 100 to flee

Roma held to 2-2 draw at AC Milan in serie A

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Illegal fishing from outside Bali turns rampant

It was confirmed by the Head of Denpasar Public Works, I Ketut Winarta, accompanied by the Division Head of Highways, Putu Dirgayasa, in his office, Monday (Dec 16). In addition to the road under the authority of the municipality, Denpasar also had the road under the authority of provincial and central

government.He said that some of the existing roads in

Denpasar belonged to the authority of provin-cial government along 83.896 kilometers con-sisting of 17 road sections. Similarly, national roads in Denpasar reached 33.320 kilometers spreading across 17 road sections.

Related to the road under the authority of Denpasar Municipality, there were still several roads needing the attention for repairs. All this time, a total of some 100.66 kilometers of road were damaged in Denpasar. Those classified into damaged road had been scheduled for re-pair in 2014. Due to limited fund, the Denpasar Public Works would implement a priority in the handling. For the year 2014, the Denpasar Public Works had designed several quality improvement programs for road, drainage and bridge. For the programs handled by Highway Development, the Public Works had allocated a budget worth IDR 56.77 billion. Such a fund would be allocated for the improvement of road and other supporting facilities.

At least, the Denpasar Public Works had planned to carry out repairs and maintenance for the 16 roads in Denpasar. Other than roads, the drainage playing vital function in controlling floods in Denpasar also got the attention from the agency. From the empirical experience, the unavailability of good drainage would lead to a more rapid deterioration of the road. Thus, the road maintenance should be accompanied with the improvement of drainage beside it. Having been done well, the road and drainage function could be maximized, and prevented the faster damage to the road. Admittedly, the road dam-age was not only caused by the unavailability of drainage, but also by passing vehicles with excessive tonnage. (kmb12)

Motorists passed a damage road in Denpasar City, Bali Island. As an autonomous region and capital of Bali province, Denpasar still has bad roads. At least 100.66 kilometers of road section under the authority of Denpasar Municipality is still in dam-aged category.

Denpasar has 100.66 km of damaged road sectionBali Post

DENPASAR - As an autonomous region and capital of Bali province, Den-pasar still has bad roads. At least 100.66 kilometers of road section under the authority of Denpasar Municipality is still in damaged category. It ranges from minor, moderate to severe damage. The length of road under the authority of the Denpasar municipality comes to 1,591 roads with the length of 563.1 kilometers. Repair effort is carried out by degrees due to budget constraints.

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This year also marked first-time nominations for Hall and Oates, Ga-briel and Ronstadt. Kiss and Stevens, who have been nominated in the past, made the cut after being absent from the list for several years.

The Rolling Stones managers, An-drew Loog Oldham and Brian Epstein, will earn Ahmet Ertegun awards, a non-performing honor. Bruce Spring-steen’s E Street Band will earn the award for musical excellence.

N.W.A., one of the 16 nominees

announced in October, did not make the list. The iconic rap group includes Dr. Dre, who has launched successful solo albums and is the producer be-hind Eminem, 50 Cent and Kendrick Lamar.

More than 700 Rock Hall voters determined the 2014 class. The 29th annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will be open to the public. Tickets go on sale next month. The event will air on HBO in May.

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Nirvana, Kiss and Peter Gabriel will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next year. The Rock Hall announced Tuesday that Hall and Oates, Linda Ronstadt and Cat Stevens also will be inducted April 10 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Artists are eligible for induction 25 years after their first release. Nirvana won a nomination in its first year of eligibility and next year the band will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its debut, “Bleach.” The induction comes 20 years after frontman Kurt Cobain committed suicide at age 27.

AP Photo/Starpix, Amanda Schwab, FileFILE - This Oct. 11, 2012 file im-age released by Starpix shows, from left, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Eric Singer, Tommy Thayer of KISS as the band arrives at SiriusXM offices to promote their latest release “Monster,” in New York.

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — Simon Cowell is plotting changes for “The X Fac-tor,” including new judges and a new role for him. Cowell is the show’s producer. The British music industry executive told a teleconference Mon-day that he expects the singing con-test to return next season on Fox.

He says “X Factor” may be cut back to one night instead of two, and format changes are under dis-cussion to keep it fresh. Cowell says the judging panel probably will be different. Besides Cowell, the “X Factor” judges include Demi Lovato, Kelly Rowland and Paulina Rubio.

Cowell says he has recruits in mind, but he declined to identify them. He says he envisions what he called a “different kind of role” for himself, but he wouldn’t be more specific. The show’s ratings have dipped in season three. The winner will be announced on the finale Thursday.

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FILE - In this Dec. 22, 2011, file photo, television personality Simon Cowell poses on the red carpet at The X Factor Finale show in Los An-geles. Simon Cowell said Monday, Dec. 16, 2013, he is plotting changes for “The X Factor,” including new judges and a new role for him.

Cowell: New judges, more change for ‘X Factor’

Nirvana, Kiss, Peter Gabriel headed to Rock Hall

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

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

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

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

Balinese Temple Ceremony

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Calendar Event for November 2 through December 11, 20132 Nov Saniscara Keliwon Kuningan.Pura Taman Pule di Mas-Ubud.Pura Ularan di Takmung-Klungkung.Pura Bukitjati di Gulingan-Kawan Bangli.

6 Nov Buda Wage Langkir.Pura Tanah Lot Kediri Tabanan.Pura Bucabe Mas Ubud.Pura Puseh Desa Ganggang-Canggi Batuan.Pura Pasek Pertukangan Kediri-Tabanan.Pura Pasek Bendesa Gulingan Mengwi.Pura Masceti Desa Sanding-Tampak Siring.Puru Luwur Batur Pucangan Buahan-Tabanan.Odalan Alit di Pura Dalem Takuran di Cemeng-goan Sukawati.Odalan Ida Ratu Sundaring Jagat Penataran Agung Besakih.Mr. Pasek Gelgel Silakarang.Pura Dalem Bangun Sakti Kapal.Pura Dalem Bias Muntig Ped-Nusa Penida.

10 Nov redite Pon Medangsia.Pura Agung Pentilan Kesiman-Denpasar.Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kerambitan Tabanan.

11 Nov Soma Wage Medangsia.Pura Nataran Desa Getas Blahbatuh.Merajan Pasek Gelgel Aan-Klungkung.Pura Pasek Bakbakan Gianyar.

12 Nov Anggara Keliwon Medangsia.Pura Pesimpangan Geria Sakti Manuaba di Yogya-karta-Sumur Lampung Selatan.Pura Luwur Uluwatu Pecatu Kuta Selatan.Pura Penataran Agung Singakerta Ubud.Pura Andakasa Karangasem.Pura Gua Lawah Klungkung.Merajan Kawitan Arya Kubontubuh Gelgel Klungkung.Pura Taman Ayun Mengwi.Pura Suralaya Banda-Klungkung.Pura Dalem Senapati Bebalang-Bangli.Pura Gadung Blahbatuh Gianyar.Pura Pasek Lurah Tutuan.Pura Pasek Gadung Kerambitan Tabanan.Pura Dalem Tugu Gelgel Klungkung.Pura Dalem Banyuning Barat-Buleleng.Odalan Sepen di Pura Puseh.Pura Desa Cemenggaon-Sukawati.Pura Pusering Jagat Pejeng-Tampaksiring.Merajan Pasek Kubayan Mengwi.Merajan Pasek Tohjiwa Gegelang-Tabanan.Pura Geria Sakti (Dang Kahyangan) Tulikup Gianyar.Pura Dalem Dauh Ubud.

13 Nov Buda Umanis Medangsia.Pura Gede Perancak-Jembrana.Pura Dalem Dauma-Batuan Sukawati.Pura Nataran Kacangdawa-Klungkung.

Odalan Bhatara Gede Apol di Ubung Denpasar.Pura Puseh Brahmana Kamasan-Klungkung.Pura Kahyangan Jagat Dalem Purwa Denbantas Tabanan.Pura Dalem Sukehet Klungkung.Pura Dalem Muaspatih Guwang Sukawati.Pura Taman Tegalalang.Pura Desa Sanding-Tampaksiring.Merajan Pasek Tohjiwa-Batanbuah-Kesiman.Merajan Pasek Tohjiwa Basangkawan.Pura Sahab Nusa Penida.Merajan Agung Gorokgak Dalem Sukawati.

14 Nov Wraspati Paing Medangsia.Pura Ulun Swi Kediri Tabanan.Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Bitra-Gianyar.

17 Nov redite Keliwon Pujut.Merajan Pasek Tohjiwa Kekeran-Mengwi.

17 Nov Purnama Kelima.Aci-aci Penaung Bayu di Pura Batumadeg di Besakih.Pura Kentel Gumi di Batur Baangli.Pura Pedarman Agung, Satria Denpasar.Pura Pemerajan Agung - Pemecutan Denpasar.Ngusaba di Pura Kehen Bangli.Pura Desa Pemenang di Lombok.Pura Agung Pasek Gelgel di Sumerta Denpasar.Pura Pasek Gobleg di Kekeran Mengwi.Pura Suranadi di Lombok.Pura Puncak Bukit Tampak Siring.Pura Dalem Puri Agung Kintamani.Pura Dalem Agung Nongan Karangasem.Pura Dalem Ubung-Kupang Dukuh Penebel-Tabanan.Pura Dalem Balingkang Kintamani.Pr. Tampurhyang Pusat Kawitan Mahagota Catur Sanak di Songan Kintamani.Pura Dalem Pulasari Desa Bantas Sudaji Buleleng.Merajan Pasek Gelgel di Lebih.Merajan Pasek Gelgel di Tulamben.Pura Penyusungan Pasek Tohjiwa Selemadeg Tabanan.Pura Pasar Agung Besakih Sebudi Karangasem.Merajan Pasek Gelgel Tengkulak Kaja.Pura Suci Desa Tianyar Kubu Karangasem.Pura Bukit Mentik ring Gunung Lebah Desa Batur Kintamani.Pura Narmada di Lombok.Pura Segara di Ampenan Lombok.Pura Ularan di Seririt Buleleng.

24 Nov redite Paing Pahang.Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kekeran Mengwi.Pura Pasek Sandra Peguyangan Badung.

26 Nov Anggara Wage Pahang.Pura Batu Madeg (Meru Tumpang Sanga) di Besakih.Pura Hyang Tibha Batuan Sakah.

27 Nov Buda Keliwon Pahang.Pura Luhur Puncak Padang Dawa Baturiti Tabanan.Pura Silayukti Padangbai-Karangasem.Pura Aer Jeruk Sukawati.Pura Dangin Pasar Batuan-Sukawati.Pura Penataran di Batuyang-Batubulan.Pura Desa Lembeng Ketewel-Sukawati.Pura Pasek Bendesa Dukuh-Kediri-Tabanan.Pura Kawitan Dalem Sukawati Gianyar.Pura Kresek Banyuning-Buleleng.Pura Puseh di Bebandem-Karangasem.Merajan Pasek Kubayan-Gaji.Merajan pasek Gelgel Jeroan Abang-Songan.Merajan Pasek Subrata Temaga.Merajan Pasek Gelgel Bungbungan.Pura Sad Kahyangan Batu Medahu Swana Nusa Penida.Pura Buda Kliwon Penatih-Denpasar.Pura Penataran Dukuh Nagasari Bebandem Karangasem.Pura Pasek Bendesa Tagtag Paguyangan.Pura Pulasari Sibang Gede Abiansemal.Pura Batur Sari Ubud.Pura Penataran Agung Sukawati.

2 Dec Soma Keliwon Krulut.Pura Pasel Gelgel Kekeran Mengwi Badung.Merajan Pasek Subadra Kramas-Gianyar.

7 Dec Tumpek Krurut.Pura Pasek Gelgel Br Tengah Buleleng.Pura Dalem Pemuteran di Desa Jelantik Tojan - Klungkung.Pura Pedarmaan Bhujangga Waisnawa di Besakih.Pura Taman Sari Desa Gunungsari Penebel - Tabanan.Pura Dalem Tarukan di Bebalang Bangli.Pura Benua Kangin Besakih.Pura Merajan Kanginan (Ida Betara Empu Beradah) di Besakih.

8 Dec redite Umanis Merakih.Pura Parangan Tengah Banjar Ceningan Kangin - Lembongan Nusa Penida.Pura Dalem Celuk Sukawati - Gianyar.

11 Dec Buda Wage Merakih.Pura Bendesa Mas Kepisah - Pedungan - Denpasar Selatan.Pura Natih Banjar Kalah - Batubulan.Pura Desa Silakarang - Singapadu.Pura dalem Petitenget - Kerobokan - Kuta.Pura Dalem Pulasari - Samplangan - Gianyar.Pura Kubayan - Kepisah - Pedungan - Denpasar - Selatan.Pura Pasek gelgel Banjar Tanahpegat - Tabanan.Pr. Paibon Banjar Bengkel - Sumerta - Denpasar.Pura Pasek Lumintang - Denpasar.Pr. Panti Penyarikan Medahan - Sanding - Tampaksiring.Pr. Pasar Agung Banjar Dauh Peken - Kaba-kaba - Tabanan.

Offer you 100 well appointed stu-dios, there are 39 rooms available for Studio rooms double bed, 12 rooms available for Studio rooms twin bed, 22 rooms available for Deluxe rooms and 25 available for Premiere rooms. In one, two and three bed-room configurations offer pantry, a living room and private balconies complimented by amenities and ser-vices befitting an international full service hotel. Our enjoyable coffee shop offers an interesting array of local and imported delicacies where you can relax and take pleasure in the innovative cuisine and calm atmosphere.

Grand Kuta Hotel and Residence is located in the middle of tourist area Kerobokan, Seminyak, Legian and Kuta, Dewi Sri strategic location

of streets, Legian - Bali. Near from Ngurah Rai International Airport so you will not waste much time on the road and in front of Grand Kuta Hotel and Residence there is the biggest souvenir and gift shop Krisna Bali so it would be easier for you when you go to buy presents or gift for your family and colleagues. Various names of flowers destined for every place of meeting in this hotel, such as Dandelion, Amaryllis, Jasmine and Magnolia Café can be found in the area near the lobby. Carrying the concept of a modern minimalist Magnolia Café comes in shades that are able to make the visitors comfort-able, in the morning of the restaurant glass door can be opened so that guests can enjoy breakfast with the morning sunshine. IBP/File Photo

Grand Kuta Hotel and ResidenceIBP

KUTA - Grand Kuta Hotel and residence is a modern and trendy condotel conceptualized for vacationing couples, friends and families looking for good value, ideal for either short holiday breaks or long stay assignments.

In addition Grand Kuta Hotel and Residence also provides 3 swimming pools open room ideal and fun that can be used as a banquet dinner for family outings or with colleagues. With the concept of serving BBQ food and exciting entertainment treats can be prepared for companies who wish to hold private events. For the guests who stay and want to spend his time in the room can booking room service (room service) are ready to serve for 24 hours. We also provide free surf shuttle to facilitate the guests who want to visit tourist destina-tions and shopping centre.

Grand Kuta Hotel and Resi-dence each month is always pampering the guests by giv-ing attractive discounts for the use of room facilities, spa and food and beverages. WiFi and Internet Corner also greatly help the businessmen to still be able to create reports, company records on the sidelines of the vacation.

Such condition was delivered by Headman of Lembongan, Nyo-man Murta, Monday (Dec 16). He said the ice-ice disease had begun to attack the seaweed of farmers since the beginning of December. The situation made 95 percent of local residents comprising 1,616 families who worked as seaweed farmers restless. The disease at-tacked quickly to any part of the seaweed of farmers. “When it has been infected, the seaweed will surely rot. So, when having been found rotting, it should be sorted quickly so as not to invade the other parts,” he said.

Murta said the seaweed farm-ers at his village only anticipated the disease manually, namely by sorting the affected seaweeds and immediately disposed them away. Meanwhile, the ice-ice disease commonly attached to seaweed should be removed so as not grow-ing further.

Bali PostMANGUPURA - The fate of

Latu Market revitalization in Abi-ansemal is not clear. Revitalization of the market projected into the traditional art market is still not allocated in the Badung Regional Budget 2014. The dead faint of Latu Market has reaped another public criticism. A member of Commission C of the Badung House, I Putu Alit Yandinata, ques-tioned about the further details of the Latu Market revitalization into a traditional art market, Monday (Dec 16). So far, he considered the plan was unclear or obscure.

According to him, the Latu Market revitalization plan was

a good plan. However, he was disappointed because until now it had not been realized. Even, the stages towards the revitalization seemed stagnant.

Besides, he also questioned about the funding provided by PD Pasar Badung for the Latu Market worth IDR 300 million per year. The funding to assist the Latu Market was considered ineffective because the market did not contrib-ute significantly to the develop-ment. “I do not know what does it for. It is said if the assistance is intended for the employee salaries. Has the market already produced anything for the regional devel-opment? It is not clear,” said the

PDI-P politician from Abiansemal. Further, Alit Yandinata proposed the PD Pasar Badung to make a breakthrough to empower the Latu Market. For example, the location could be taken advantage for bird contest. In this case, the PD Pasar Badung as the management could team up with the bird lover com-munity.

“Reflecting from the previous experience, the bird contest in the Latu Market was quite successful. Many people are interested in following the event. Its potential can be developed. When neces-sary, it can be converted into the Latu Bird Market. Do not let it become a location of prostitu-

tion,” he said.When asked for his confirma-

tion separately, Managing Direc-tor of PD Pasar Badung, Ketut Golak, explained that revitaliza-tion of the Latu Market had not been included in the Regional Budget 2014. Nevertheless, his party remained in the original plan to realize the Latu Market revitalization into traditional art market.

“However, the revitalization plan of the Latu Market should still have to wait for the certifica-tion process of the land. The land is owned by local government, but the management is handed over to PD Pasar Badung,” he

said while adding that his party had proposed a budget worth IDR 36 billion to revitalize the entire market under the auspices of PD Pasar Badung.

Regarding the fund worth IDR 300 million for the Latu Market, Golak denied. He mentioned that in the fund management, the PD Pasar Badung applied a central-ized system. In other words, all the incomes of the market under the auspices of PD Pasar Badung were sent to the parent company of PD Pasar Badung. From the main cash, it was then taken in accordance with each market’s need including for the employee salaries. (kmb25)

IBP/File

The seaweed farmer is harvesting his crop

Production drops

Nusa Penida seaweed attacked by ice-ice diseaseBali Post

NUSA PENIDA - Bad weather happening lately made sea-weed farmers anxious. Their seaweed began to be attacked by ice-ice disease. The disease caused their seaweed to instanta-neously rot. As a result, the seaweed production of Nusa Penida, particularly Lembongan village, sharply dropped by more than 20 percent.

There was no solution to handle the disease technologically or by using certain medication. On that account, if the disease had attacked, the seaweed farmers should also pre-pare extra energy to take the disease directly and separate them from other seaweeds.

The seaweed growing at Lembon-gan village was mostly belonging to cottoni species. Murta said that farmers usually harvested seaweed every 30 days on the cultivation area spreading across less than 100 square meters. However, as frequently at-tacked by ice-ice disease, farmers then harvested their seaweed early around 20 to 25 days. For one plot, farmers could earn 400 kg of sea-weed. However, due to the disease, their production dropped up to 20 percent more. The seaweed was commonly sold by farmers for IDR 8,000 per kilogram.

The Head of Klungkung Live-stock, Fisheries and Maritime Af-

fairs (KDP), I Gusti Ngurah Badi-wangsa, said on Monday the ice-ice disease was triggered by weather factors. He also confirmed the disease could not be dealt with technologically. So, what was the appropriate traditional handling? He asked the seaweed farmers to

sort sterile seeds, so they could grow well and did not rot. “Only by that way the disease can be suppressed, other than by pulling them directly from the seaweeds,” he said. Badiwangsa added the seaweed production in Nusa Penida was quite high. Throughout the year

2012, the production reached 1,106 tons per year.

Meanwhile, the price, he said, was often fluctuating. For Spinosum species was usually sold for IDR 6,000 per kilogram, while cottoni species was sometimes sold for IDR 12,000 per kilogram. (kmb31)

In a dead faint, revitalization unclear Management of Latu Market criticized again

3Wednesday, December 18, 201314 InternationalInternational Bali NewsTechnology Wednesday, December 18, 2013

The three fishing boats were the KM God Bless II taken by captain Fiibadi having no operation seaworthy permit (SLO), KM Tawakal driven by Mukelar (no document at all) and KM Tirta Kencono without seawor-thy permit and sailing permit. The three fishing boats had anchored at the Nusantara Fishery Port (PPN) of Pengambengan for a day. The own-ers were asked to complete all the paperwork while sailing and allowed to sail again after completing those documents.

“On average, the owners of fishing boat in Jembrana have already com-plied with the rules, but now there are fishing boats from outside Jembrana that do not even bring along with document,” said the Head of Jembrana Maritime Affairs, Made Dwi Mahari-mbawa, accompanied by the Acting Division Head of Maritime Affairs, IGN Indrawan, Monday (Dec 16). The fishing boats from outside Bali were considered to have exceeded the catching zone and no the paperwork (illegal fishing).

The agency had also made coordi-nation with the province related to long process taken for submitting a fishing permit as complained by fishing boat owners. To shorten the licensing pro-cess, the authority was then handed it over to the Bali Investment and Li-censing Office. Of the 33 fishing boats proposing the new permit, all had been issued. Meanwhile, six fishing boats had not taken their permit yet.

Maharimbawa added that since this month other than controlling the waters, the team was also targeting a number of fishery businesses located in the coastal areas from Cupel to Gilimanuk. At least, the team could inspect five fishing companies such as ponds, ornamental fish business and pearl cultivation.

“All businesses have owned the permit and their levies have been paid in accordance with the Regional Bylaw No.13/2012 on Levies of Par-ticular Licensing,” he explained. This effort was to check the extent to which the regulation of maritime resources could have been applied. (kmb26)

Bali Post

DENPASAR - After vigorous raid into the night entertainment ven-ues, the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) of Denpasar is now targeting the police authority. Hundreds of cops from the Denpasar Metro Police un-derwent a sudden urine test, Monday (Dec 16). Aside from non-commis-sioned officers, all officers, including the Chief of Denpasar Metro Police, Djoko Hariutomo, and Deputy Chief I Gusti Kade Budi Harryarsana, should also take the test.

Such urine test was conducted to determine whether in each of the cops in the Denpasar Metro Police was found drug substance or not. Later on, if the urine test indicated a positive result in drug substance, the person-nel involved would be firmly taken action pursuant to prevailing rules.

Unfortunately, the test results could not be directly known on the same day. However, they should be waiting as the test involved 600 personnel.

When met amidst the urine test, Chief Djoko Hariutomo said his party deliberately did not tell the members about the urine test. It posed his ini-tiative in cooperation with the BNN Denpasar. “This (urine test) is my own initiative. If I inform this in advance, of course it is not an impromptu,” explained the highest-rank officer in the Denpasar Metro Police.

He explained there were at least 600 personnel required to undergo the urine tests. In addition to non-commissioned officers, all the officers in the Denpasar Metro Police and Subdistrict Police throughout Den-pasar were also involved.

It was carried out to find out whether there were cops using drugs.

If any indication showed a positive result, they would be surely imposed with decisive action. “We (police authority—Ed) have an ethical code of discipline. Yes, I will certainly take action pursuant to the rules,” he said.

After getting a briefing from the police chief, one by one of the cops directly underwent the urine test and gathered in the hall. They were re-spectively given a bottle to hold the urine and directly submitted to the BNN officer.

Meanwhile, Spokesperson of Denpasar Metro Police, IB Sarjana, admitted that his party had not yet received the results of the urine test of the members. “Until now (Mon-day afternoon—Ed), it has not been received. As involving too many personnel, the results will be given by the BNN,” he said. (kmb21)

IBP/Olo

There are still many fishing boats from outside Bali operating in Jembrana waters and did illegal fishing.

Illegal fishing from outside Bali turns rampantBali Post

NEGARA - When the Maritime, Fisheries and Forestry Agency is actively instilling the awareness to fishing boat owners in order to complete themselves with paperwork and permits, in fact there are still many fishing boats from outside Bali operating in Jembrana waters and did illegal fishing. Three fishing boats weighing below 30 GT from Muncar, Banyuwangi, were recently caught red-handed by the Maritime Resources Monitoring Team when they were sailing and fishing without document.

IBP/Eka Adhiyasa

After vigorous raid into the night entertainment venues, the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) of Denpasar is now targeting the police authority. Hundreds of cops from the Denpasar Metro Police underwent a sudden urine test, Monday (Dec 16).

Breakthrough of BNN Denpasar 600 cop personnel undergo urine test

In the past, I’ve simply turned off my phone’s cellular connec-tions while abroad. But nearly three weeks in Thailand and Cambodia earlier this year proved too long to stay away from email, Facebook, Instagram, Foursquare and other time sinks.

If you’re traveling internation-ally, check with your carrier on whether your phone will even work with cellular networks abroad. If it doesn’t, you can still use apps through Wi-Fi connections at hotels and malls. Your phone company might even rent or loan a compat-ible phone.

— ASSESS YOUR NEEDS:

Will you make a lot of calls or texts? Before I left, Verizon told me that calls would cost $1.99 a minute in Thailand and $2.89 a minute in Cambodia. No, thanks. I’ll just text people instead. To

Tech Tips: Using a phone abroad without huge fees

Associated press Writer

BANGKOK — If you have a trip outside the United States coming up, one thing you’ll likely want to bring is your cell-phone. You might have heard warnings about how those phones can accrue international charges quickly through your U.S. wireless carrier. It doesn’t have to be that way.

avoid text charges, I signed up for three free services, WhatsApp, Line and Viber. The catch is that you can text only with those on the same service, so your contacts will also have to join.

Where international use can get expensive is in data charges. Veri-zon was charging $20.48 per mega-byte in either country. Just opening the Facebook app uses more than half a megabyte. Five minutes of scrolling through friends’ posts can eat up more than 10 megabytes, or more than $200. That’s before shar-ing a single photo. Bills can reach thousands of dollars in no time. The solution is to get a data plan.

T-Mobile’s main plans now offer free text and data in more than 100 countries. Speeds are adequate for sending email and checking Face-book, though you’ll need to pay for faster speeds. Other U.S. carriers offer affordable packages, too, if you plan ahead.

Start by monitoring how you use your phone. On Android, look for

“Data usage” in the settings. On the iPhone, go to “General,” then “Us-age” under the settings. Check back in a few days or a week to see how much data you have used. Android also will tell you what apps have been using your data. Owners of iPhones can get a free app called Onavo Count. Your cellphone bill might also have information on past data use.

Keep in mind you might use your phone more than usual because you won’t be checking from regular computers at home or work. Check if your hotel offers Wi-Fi, as that might help reduce cellular use. If there’s a daily charge for Wi-Fi, your phone might still be cheaper.

To reduce data use further, turn off automatic syncing for as many apps as you can. I also kept my phone on airplane mode most of the time and allowed connections only periodically. I monitored my data usage to spot data hogs early.

— YOUR OPTIONS:

Your phone company can tell you about their packages. Although Ver-izon quoted a $20.48-per-megabyte charge, it offered me 100 megabytes for $25 in Thailand if I signed up in advance. That’s 99 percent cheaper than $2,048. I’d still have to pay

regular prices in Cambodia. Weekly and monthly rates are sometimes available as well. It varies by carrier and by country, so it’s best to check before you leave.

You can also ask about calling and texting packages. In Cambodia, for example, I could have saved 60 cents a minute on calls by paying a one-time fee of $4.99. Because my visit to Cambodia was short, I got by with the hotel’s free Wi-Fi for data and made no calls or texts. Whatever your needs, don’t commit until you explore other options.

It will likely be cheaper if you buy a phone package at your des-tination. Local carriers typically have shops at airports. In Thailand, the True mobile company offered 3 gigabytes for less than $35. Had I used Verizon’s plan, I likely would have needed a second or third block of data for $25 each. True gave me much more for much less. One drawback is I must use a temporary phone number, not my regular one back home.

If you go this route, turn off data roaming on your phone before you leave so you’re not inadvertently charged. Leave the phone on air-plane mode until the local plan is set up. If you forget, some carriers will warn you by text, but some-times after you’ve started accruing charges.

AP Photo/Seth Wenig, FIle

FILE - In this Mon-day, Dec. 27, 2010, file photo, Kevin Fagan, from San Francisco, talks on his phone while an airplane sits motion-less on the runway at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. Travel-ing internationally can provide chal-lenges to cell phone users.

— THE CATCH:

You need an unlocked phone to use another carrier’s SIM card. U.S. phones are typically locked, but major carriers will unlock them upon request after your contract is up or the phone is paid off. Some carriers will also unlock it before international travel — if you ask. Third-party services also offer to unlock the phone for you, but the legality is dubious, and you risk disabling your phone permanently.

If you don’t have an unlocked phone, try borrowing or renting one. Telestial and Cellular Abroad offer phone rentals and international data plans. They are sometimes more ex-pensive than what your U.S. carrier offers, though. You can also try to rent one at the airport when you arrive.

If you travel a lot, consider buying a cheap unlocked phone, such as the $179 Moto G. The advantage of that is you don’t have to configure it with your favorite apps and contacts each time.

I have an unlimited data plan in the U.S., so I rarely pay attention to my consumption. Traveling made me realize how precious data allotment can be. It also made me realize how valuable an unlocked phone is. The biggest tip I can offer: Don’t get rid of your old phone when you upgrade. Get it unlocked so that you’ll have that for future trips abroad.

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The shopping list is part of efforts by Abe to normalise the military in Ja-pan, which has been officially pacifist since defeat in World War II. Its well-equipped and highly professional ser-vices are limited to a narrowly defined self-defensive role. It comes with the establishment of a US-style National Security Council that is expected to concentrate greater power in the hands of a smaller number of senior politi-cians and bureaucrats.

Fears are growing in Japan over the rising power of China, with the two countries embroiled in a dispute over the sovereignty of a group of islands in the East China Sea, and the perennial menace posed by an unpre-dictable North Korea. New guidelines approved by the cabinet on Tuesday said Tokyo will introduce a “dynamic joint defence force”, intended to help air, land and sea forces work together more effectively.

Abe said the shift would allow Japan’s military to better shoulder its responsibilities on the global stage, through what he has promoted as “pro-active pacifism”. “We hope to make

further contributions to the peace and stability of the international commu-nity through proactive pacifism,” he said. “This shows with transparency our country’s diplomatic and defence policies.”

Spending will be raised to 24.7 trillion yen over five years from April 2014, up from the present 23.5 trillion yen over the five years to March 2014, but the figure could be trimmed by up to 700 billion yen if the defence minis-try can find savings and efficiencies.

New hardware will include three drones, 52 amphibious vehicles, 17 Osprey hybrid choppers and five submarines -- all designed to boost maritime surveillance and bolster defence of islands. The spending will also encompass two destroyers equipped with the Aegis anti-missile system and 28 new F-35 fighter jets, a stealth plane far superior to the F-15s that Japan currently has in service.

Analysts noted that much of this kit will replace obsolete equipment, but the shift in military priorities is evident. “The guidelines under-score a clear shift of Japan’s major

defence focus to the protection of its islands in the East China Sea,” said Hideshi Takesada, an expert on regional security at Takushoku University in Tokyo.

During the Cold War, Japan’s military was largely static, with the majority of resources in the north and east to guard against any invasion by Russia. But changing dynamics and in particular the rise of China -- where double-digit rises in defence spending are the annual norm -- mean that Japan’s armed forces need to be located further south and to be able to deploy to the country’s many far-flung islands.

“The guidelines show Japan’s readiness for practical defence if China’s bluff turns to be real military action,” Takesada said. Regional tensions were ratcheted up last month when China abruptly declared a new Air Defence Iden-tification Zone over the East China Sea, including over disputed Tokyo-controlled islands called Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese.

Associated Press Writer

RIO DE JANEIRO — National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden wrote in “an open letter to the Brazilian people” that he would be willing to help Brazil’s government investigate U.S. spying on its soil, but that he could do so only if granted political asylum.

In a letter obtained and published early Tuesday by the respected Folha de S. Paulo newspaper, Snowden said he’s been impressed by the Brazilian government’s strong criticism of the massive NSA spy program targeting Internet and telecommunications around the globe, including monitoring the mobile phone of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.

Brazilian senators have asked for Snowden’s help during hearings about the NSA program’s aggressive targeting of Brazil, an important transit hub for trans-Atlantic fiber optic cables that are hacked. “I’ve expressed my willingness to assist where it’s appropriate and legal, but, unfortunately, the U.S. government has been working hard to limit my ability to do so,” said the letter, translated into Portuguese by the newspaper. It didn’t make the English original available online.

“Until a country grants me permanent political asylum, the U.S. government will continue to interfere with my ability to speak out,” the letter added. Early morning calls to Brazil’s presidential office and to the Foreign Ministry rang unanswered.

Britain’s Guardian newspaper first published accounts of the NSA’s spy programs in June, based on some of the thousands of documents Snowden handed over to the Brazil-based American journalist Glenn Greenwald and his reporting partner Laura Poitras, a U.S. filmmaker.

Rousseff canceled an October visit to Washington that was to include a state dinner. She has joined Germany in pushing for the United Na-tions to adopt a symbolic resolution which seeks to extend personal privacy rights to all people.

Rousseff has also ordered her government to take several measures, including laying fiber optic lines directly to Europe and South American nations, in an effort to “divorce” Brazil from the U.S.-centric backbone of the Internet that experts say has facilitated NSA spying.

The Snowden letter was published one day after a U.S. district judge ruled that the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of millions of Americans’ telephone records likely violates the U.S. Constitution’s ban on unreasonable search. The case is likely to go all the way the Supreme Court for a final decision.

AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, FileFILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012 file photo, members of Japan Ground Self-Defense Force rappell down from a UH-60JA helicopter during the annual live-fire drill at the Higashi Fuji training range in Gotemba, southwest of Tokyo.

Japan invests in new military kit as China row simmers

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Tokyo - Japan announced Tuesday it will buy stealth fighters, drones and submarines as part of a splurge on military hardware that will beef up defence of far-flung islands amid a simmering territorial row with China. The cabinet of hawkish Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed to spend 24.7 trillion yen ($240 billion) between 2014 and 2019 in a strategic shift towards the south and west of the country -- a five percent boost to the military budget over five years.

AP Photo/The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, FileFILE - This June 9, 2013 file photo provided by The Guardian News-paper in London shows National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, in Hong Kong. Snowden wrote in “an open letter to the Brazilian people” published early Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013 by the respected Folha de S.

Snowden would help Brazil if given asylum

Bali PostDENPASAR - Legal action against people violating the smoke-free zone

(KTR) has begun to be implemented. A total of 35 smoking people were net-ted. They were netted at Sanglah Hospital (25 people) and Kapal Hospital (3 people). The smokers netted were directly undergoing a trial on Monday (Dec 16). However, of the 35 smokers successfully netted, only 25 people attended the trial while the remaining people did not.

The trial was held in the Polyclinic of Sanglah Hospital in cooperation with the Bali Municipal Police (Satpol PP), Bali Health Agency, Child Protection Institute and Tobacco Control Network. Action Division Head of the Municipal Police, I Ketut Gede Arnawa, explained that in accordance with the applicable law anyone found smoking in the smoke-free zone could be charged with three-month imprisonment or a fine of IDR 50,000. However, in the trial led by the judge on Monday, the 25 violators were sentenced to a two-month trial.

“When rediscovered smoking in the free-smoke zone, the violators can be sent directly to jail,” said Arnawa. With the inspection and instant trial, it was expected to direct more people to adhere to the rules and never smoke haphaz-ardly in the smoke-free zone. Meanwhile, an activist from the Tobacco Control Network, Titik Suariati, said that people were still not aware of the regulation regarding the ban of smoking in the smoke-free zone.

“It can be seen from the presence of many smokers netted in the hospital, whereas the hospital is one of the smoke-free zones,” she said. She suggested in order the inspection and trial could be increasingly disseminated so that people were progressively aware of the information on the Regional Bylaw regarding the Smoke-free Zone. One of the smokers undergoing the trial, Wayan Sudiana, claimed to know about the smoke-free zone but he did not know for sure wherever it was applicable. “As far as I know, the smoke-free zone is the area which is free from cigarette butts. I saw the cigarette butts and no notice mentioned the ban of smoking, so then I smoked,” said Sudiana who was caught smoking at Sanglah Hospital.

The Division Head of Legal and Public Relations of Sanglah Hospital, Putu Putra Widasa, explained that Sanglah Hospital had socialized the smoke-free zone by distributing flyers and billboards at some points at the hospital. “We have no authority to arrest the violating smokers. So, if people are caught smoking, we just reprimanded them,” he said. (san)

On Monday (Dec 16), the officers of the Quick Response Unit of the Gianyar Regional Mitigation Agency (BPBD) were seen to evacuate the avalanche and the fallen banyan tree of 30 meters high. At the location of the Beji Temple under the Gunung Merta grew a banyan tree and sat a spring usually used as the venue for melasti or purificatory rite for temple paraphernalia and effigies in every piodalan or anniversary of the Gunung Merta Temple. The banyan tree of some decades old had lush foliage. Due to the rain, the soil around the tree was estimated to turn unstable, so it then caused the

landslide and fallen banyan tree that toppled over the temple shrines.

Chief of Subak Gede, Wayan Pageh, said the damaged shrines were the guardian and chamber shrines. It had not been calculated about the losses caused by the natural disasters. “We will soon call the residents for a meeting to discuss about the matter,” he explained.

Avalanche and the collapse of banyan tree in the Beji Temple also resulted in the collapse of the irrigation channel. All this time, the channel was used by two subak groups. They were Subak Roras with the area of 6.5 hectares and

Subak Bunu Saba with the area of 4.5 hectares. Currently, the paddy plants at the two subak areas were 1-2 weeks old.

Secretary of the BPBD Gian-yar, Pande Supartha, when met at the location said the rain falling for a few days had made the soil condition unstable. The avalanche and fallen banyan tree incident as reported by local resident was esti-mated to happen around 4:30 p.m. The evacuation could have just been completed in the following day. Meanwhile, the calculation on the losses would be carried out by a survey team which would go down to location. (kmb16)

Bali PostGIANYAR - Existence of a number of villas whose location was difficult to

reach did not close the possibility to be taken advantage for the venue of drug party. This was confirmed by Chief of Narcotics Section of Gianyar Police, Eko Kurniawan, with permission from the Chief of Gianyar Police, Monday (Dec 16), on the press conference related to the arrest of the culprit known to keep drugs, Komang W. He was arrested due to possession of crystal meth weigh-ing 1.15 grams divided into six packs, last Friday. Komang W was a recidivist released in 2011 with a sentence of 4 years and 3 months.

Accompanied by the Spokesperson of Gianyar Police, Ketut Alit Sudarsana, Eko Kurniawan said the potential of drug trafficking in Gianyar during the New Year was a phenomenon. Moreover, the media mentioned that Bali was a paradise and target for the distribution of drugs. There was possibility if the New Year’s Eve would be taken advantage by people having less understanding to hold a drug party. “It is based on testimonies from a number of suspects,” he said. For prevention, his party had mapped and placed a number of personnel to take precautions as early as possible coupled with some operations such as the Social Disease Operation as well as Situation and Condition Operation. “We are preventing so that ahead of the New Year and the day of celebration can also be monitored intensively,” he said.

The obstacles faced in the preventive measures were related to geographical condition, information and location. Terrain obstacle, for instance, was related to remote location that could possibly be taken advantage for drug party by the owner or the lessor. Most villas alleged to have been used for the venue of drug party were located far away from the community. So, there was possibility of becoming the target of drug users to organize the party. “This condition makes the ranks of Gianyar Police Narcotics Section to improve their oversight,” he said.

Meanwhile, a total of 13 cases of crystal meth from 14 suspects could be revealed in 2013. And, within the past three months, five cases could be re-vealed. From the existing cases, they mostly involved the people from outside Gianyar. In the transaction, the culprits applied a cross system. For instance, people from outside Gianyar made transaction in Gianyar, and conversely, the Gianyar residents made transaction in Denpasar. (kmb16)

IBP/FileThe officers are cutting the tree that collapse and blocked the irigation channel in Gianyar

Avalanche and fallen tree

Topples over Beji Temple and collapses irrigation channelBali Post

GIANYAR - An avalanche and fallen banyan tree occurred after consecutive rains since Sunday after-noon. Both incidents afflicted the Beji Temple as sacred bathing place of Lord Gunung Merta and broke down the irrigation channel of Subak Sumita, Sumita village, Gianyar subdistrict. Two shrines, namely the guardian and chamber shrine existing in the Beji Temple complex, were badly damaged.

Villa turns vulnerable for venue of drug party

Smoke-free zone raided at Sanglah Hospital

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BEIJING — Apple Inc. might have a chance to pep up cooling iPhone sales in China if it finally can reach a deal with the world’s biggest phone carrier.

Once China’s must-have gadget, the iPhone has seen its explosive popularity squeezed as the market filled with lower-priced rivals from Samsung to am-bitious local brands. Some analysts say anybody who wants an iPhone and can afford it already has one.

That might change if Apple can gain access to China Mobile Ltd.’s network and a new pool of potential customers.

After a yearslong courtship, there are signs the two corporate giants might finally be edging toward a deal. The Wall Street Journal said it could be an-nounced as early as this week, though China Mobile spokespeople have said the companies were still talking.

On Monday, China Mobile’s website was taking orders for a mystery phone called “Ming Xing,” or Bright Star. It showed a handset silhouette like that of an iPhone but gave no brand name.

The timing looks right. Just as Apple’s sales growth in China cools, China Mobile received ap-proval Dec. 5 to start operating the world’s fourth-generation network and needs to market it.

State-owned China Mobile has more than 750 mil-lion mobile accounts. But its new 4G system — based on China’s homegrown TD-LTTE standard — is unfamiliar to demanding Chinese customers.

The iPhone’s glamor might help to win them over.

Forecasts of additional iPhone sales in China vary widely, from 10 million to as many as 40 mil-lion units. That would be on top of the 50 million iPhones analysts estimate have been sold in China in the past 2½ years.

Apple already has agreements with China’s two smaller state-owned carriers, China Telecom Ltd. and China Unicom Ltd. They have 180 million and 275 million mobile accounts, respectively. Almost anywhere else, that would make them the biggest national carrier. But together they are barely half of China Mobile’s total.

Customers who already own iPhones might switch to China Mobile for data as well as voice service, Bernstein said. That would mean a surge in business for China Mobile but little payoff for Apple.

“We could see an initial surge in iPhones follow-ing availability at China Mobile, but weaker sales going forward,” Bernstein said in a report.

Apple could use the boost. Two years ago, ea-ger buyers in Beijing waited overnight in freezing weather for the iPhone 4S. But that excitement had dissipated by this year’s September release of the latest update, the 5S. Customers who bought earlier iPhones said it offered too few improvements.

That is especially problematic because China is a key part of Apple’s growth plans. CEO Tim Cook told the official Xinhua News Agency in January he expects China will surpass the United States as its biggest market.

One quirky asset in China Mobile’s favor: Classic phone numbers.

In China, mobile numbers with the prefix “139” were the first issued in the 1990s. Today, they suggest the user is well-established enough to have been a customer back when a mobile handset cost several months of a laborer’s wages.

Mobile numbers are assigned in blocks to car-riers. Only China Mobile, the first carrier, has the “139” group.

Buyers who want both an iPhone and a classic number would have only one place to go: China Mobile.

US and EU trade officials re-turned to the US capital, where the talks began in July, to ham-mer out the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, an ambitious agreement to expand trade, investment and regulatory cooperation.

Announced by President Ba-rack Obama and EU leaders last February, the drive aims to further enhance the current trade relation-ship, which already averages low tariffs and is the world’s largest, accounting for nearly half of global economic output.

Both sides see opportunities to reduce non-tariff trade barriers in a bid to stimulate new businesses and job growth.

Transatlantic trade and in-vestment currently supports 13 million jobs on both sides of the Atlantic, and the US and the EU are continuing to suffer high un-employment in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis.

After last month’s second round of TTIP talks in Brussels, officials reported progress in discussions on services and investment.

The new five-day round should set the ground for a political stock-taking by EU Trade Com-missioner Karel De Gucht and US Trade Representative Michael Froman in early 2014, the EU said.

At stake are a range of issues, from food and aviation safety, to electric car standards and

energy.Among the major challenges

facing the working-level teams -- headed by EU chief negotiator Ignacio Garcia Bercero and his US counterpart, Dan Mullaney -- is market access for financial services, with the Europeans in particular pushing for greater har-monization on regulations.

The EU wants “a better frame-work for regulators to cooper-ate,” said an EU official who spoke recently on condition of anonymity.

The official said that nego-tiators have discussed energy, particularly gas imports, and the impact of hydraulic fracturing at every round so far, with the EU looking to ensure legal certainty with no restrictions on exports from the US to the EU.

The United States currently has a licensing regime for energy exports. The gas produced by the fracking revolution gives the US a potentially huge economic competitive advantage, the of-ficial said, insisting there was no reason for it to be reserved for US users.

The EU estimates a TTIP deal would bring annual benefits of 119 billion euros ($164 billion) for the bloc’s 28 member states and 500 million people, and only slightly less for the United States.

US and EU leaders have set their sights on completing an agreement by late 2014.

US, EU hold third round of free-trade trade talksAgence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - The United States and the European Union entered a third round of trade negotiations Monday in Washing-ton aimed at creating a powerful free-trade bloc to boost their economies and jobs.

AP Photo/Ng Han GuanA woman talks to a salesperson in front of an advertisement for iPhones at Apple’s retail store in Beijing Monday, Dec. 16, 2013.

Possible China deal could pep up iPhone sales

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A unique attraction is held during the proces-sion on the piodalan or anniversary of Samuan-tiga Temple, Bedulu, Gianyar. Local devotees perform a mass sacred cultural show called Siat Sampian or Sampian War. This attraction is a war performed in a playing atmosphere. The weapon used by participants is called sampian, a young leaf arrangement used in the ritual.

This war was carried out by women and men who have been in a trance designated by local deities or God Almighty through an initiation ceremony. Participants of the war will attack one another regardless of the opponents and friends. Such an attraction is held once a year, right three days after the ritual pinnacle falling on full moon of the eleventh month in Balinese calendar (around May).

Local people divide this attraction into two kinds, namely the one performed by women’s group is called Jro Permas, while the men’s group is called Parekan. Jro Permas has ap-proximately 35 members, while Parekan group has hundreds of people.

It is begun by Jero Permas and takes place from sunrise until midday. These women play-ers will dance or nampiog around the temple for 11 times clockwise. This activity is conducted in the middle courtyard by imitating the wave motion. All the players line up by holding the other’s hands, moving back and forth in front of the shrines.

Their movement looks like a fish catcher us-ing conical nets (juru pencar) and it is repeated again and again as well as followed by flying movement like birds while taking a sampian (arrangement of young coconut leaf) at certain shrine. Each player then takes a sampian and then holds a war. In the war, all the players do not distinguish which ones are friends or enemies. They will chase each other, hit each other or pull to one side. Such an attraction is accompanied by gamelan orchestra in a very dynamic rhythm.

If each Jro Premas has managed to beat an-other player up to three times, then the attraction can be ended. All the sampian weapons used will be returned to its original place.

The next battle is the turn of men’s group involving huge number of participants. At first, they move by imitating the movement of wave as practiced by Jro Permas. Afterward, they run around the temple for three times clockwise and then say prayers together.

Although the players already get possessed by the spirit of struggle, the Siat Sampian may not yet begin. This Parekan group should get around the temple for three times while holding sampian. Having done this, the atmosphere of war begins where participants no longer dis-tinguish the opponents, friends, uncle or other relatives. They wave the sampian like mace and spear. Happiness and excitement expression can be clearly seen on the participants. Every par-ticipant looks satisfied and pleased as they can devote something to their deities sincerely.

A lecturer at the State Institute of Hindu Dharma (IHDN) Denpasar, Dr. I Gusti Ngurah Sudiana, said that water in this life did not only exist in the universe, but also within the human body called toya or yeh. Function of water within the body had a close connection to the water in universe. Water in human body supported the entire body with a different name. Water as the source of life existing in human body was called amniotic fluid, tear, sweat, blood, mucus and other fluids. All the liquids were called apah where each had its own strength and god. “The entire water sub-stance in the universe and within human body can give life,” he said.

Universe without water would dry and die. Similarly, without water, the human body would heat up, tension rose and the body seemed aflame. In essence, if there was no water in the life, the universe would not exist.In the universe, there were five kinds of water substance always used by the Hindu community in any ceremony called Panca Tirtha. They consisted of honey, clear water, rice wine, palm wine and arrack, while the one within the body was called Pancha Toya.

Hindu community in Bali recognized 33 kinds of holy water. Therefore, people were required to maintain the presence of water by spiritual path. For example, sea water was maintained in a spiritual way through ceremony called segara kertih, lake (danu kertih) and forest (wana kertih). Water sources were purified because they were taken advantage to carry out the Melasti ceremony. The ceremony to usher in the divine effigies into the water sources was believed to become Tirtha Amrita (water of life) from the ocean. “On that account, the water sources are main-tained and made ceremonies and shrines (abode) of Lord Vishnu called bedugul,” he explained.

Well, to maintain the existing water in human body was also through spiritual path. For example, melukat or purifica-tory rite was carried out by holy water or bathing in the springs having been equipped with the offerings. Sudiana admitted that Hindu society had various types of ceremonies associated with the maintenance of water. It was clearly dis-cernible in various ceremonial activities undertaken by farmers through social organization known as subak. This ir-rigation system in Bali had the rules and respected the water.

One of the activities was welcom-ing water for irrigating their fields. Such sacred ritual made the paddy field sacred. Anyone should not be doing obscene things, disposing feces and doing other activities. “The philosophy

of water in the field is closely related to Goddess Sri denoting the shakti (con-sort) of Lord Vishnu,” he explained. Farmers also maintained the sanctity of water resources by holding ceremonies such as pakelem, melasti and nangluk merana. These ceremonies would not only purify the water, but also the place and surrounding areas. On that account, the Hindus dared not disturb the water source.“People that do not love water, they will lack of water and even it can cause death and disease. Therefore, water should be rigorously maintained. Where there is a water source or water flow, it is strictly prohibited to discard carcasses, urine, feces, toxins and waste,” he said.

Farmers in Bali believed that Lord Vishnu as the symbol of purusha (male) was associated with water and Goddess Sri as a symbol of pradhana (female) as-sociated with seeds/seedlings. “It is the element of water with the seeds creating the life,” he explained. Balinese people had the ways to maintain the sanctity and beauty of water resources. One of them was by providing mythology so that no one bothered the water. For example, people were not allowed to use water carelessly and rudely, but there were steps for people to take water and should not take it directly to the source. “When violated, they believe that they will get reprimand from God,” he said.

Hindu society did not dare to blas-pheme and uttered impolite words to water that had been sanctified. Otherwise, the efficacy of water would turn bad. Es-pecially, in Bali the clean and pure water were different. Clean water that had not got spells (mantra) was called toya ning, while holy water that had got spells or had been purified with mantra had different sacredness from the water that had not. “So, the water is really extraordinary and humans can survive for months only with water, but humans will overheat without drinking water during the day,” he said.

Another mythology was mention-ing that large trees located near water sources could not be cut down because it was very sacred. It was one of the reasons why many large trees could be found at water sources. Even, some were given the identity of sanctity as bound with checkered clothes, completed with shrines and consecrated. “Philosophi-cally, a tree symbolizes prosperity that holds the groundwater. Tree serves to supply water, so that it should be pre-served physically and spiritually. By spiritual manner, the tree is given ritual on Tumpek (Saturday Kliwon) Wariga,” added Sudiana. (kmb)

Preserving water from the eyes of HindusIBP

DENPASAR - Water is the most important element of universe, either for

supporting life in microcosm or macrocosm. In the concept of Hindu com-munity in Bali, water is highly purified because it belongs to the part in what the so-called apah in the Panca Mahabhuta or five great elements of nature. Water lies in the control of Lord Vishnu, serving as the operator. Balinese people believe the presence of water is not just for cooking, bathing and wash-ing clothes. Water is also a part of spiritual ceremonies to make tirtha (holy water). As mentioned in Old Javanese that tirtha or spiritually purified water is good for people who are still alive, the dead and the universe.

Cultural Attraction

Siat Sampian: A sacred attraction at Samuantiga Temple

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Agence France-PresseSURABAYA - An Indonesian prosecutor on

Monday sought a 16-year jail term for a Brit-ish woman who has admitted trafficking crystal methamphetamine into the country from China.

Andrea Waldeck, aged in her early 40s, was arrested in late April at a hotel in the city of Sura-baya with about 1.5 kilograms (three pounds) of the drugs.

Waldeck, who used to work with the British police, could receive the death penalty for traf-ficking that quantity of drugs into Indonesia under its tough anti-narcotics laws.

But on Monday prosecutor Deddy Agus rec-ommended a 16-year jail term, saying the judge should find Waldeck “convincingly and legiti-mately guilty of conspiracy to traffic drugs”.

Other than the 16 years in jail, Agus also said Waldeck should pay a two-billion-rupiah ($165,000) fine.

Waldeck, dressed in a white shirt, appeared calm after hearing the sentence recommendation but her lawyer said it was too severe since she was not a dealer and the drugs were not hers.

According to her indictment, Waldeck claimed

her boyfriend in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou asked her to traffic the drugs in ex-change for $5,000.

Despite the recommendation, she could still face the death penalty.

In the case of British grandmother Lindsay Sandiford, prosecutors sought 15 years in jail after she was caught trying to bring $2.4 million worth of cocaine into Bali, only for the judge to impose a death sentence.

Sandiford was sentenced to death in January and has lost two appeals against the decision.

Waldeck managed to get past security at Surabaya airport on Java island with the drugs concealed in four plastic packages inside her underwear, according to her indictment.

Two members of a drugs gang had been en route to the hotel to pick up the narcotics. But police knew about the plan and managed to get there first and arrest Waldeck, it said.

She had previously worked in southwestern Eng-land as a police community support officer, a part-time member of the force with limited powers.

The next hearing in her case will be on Janu-ary 6.

“I am optimistic about the economic growth next year, but we need to maintain a balance between economic stability and growth,” Boediono told several journalists and foreign diplomats at the Jakarta Foreign Correspon-dence Club on Monday.

The vice president forecast that the rupiah will become stable in 2014, amidst a stronger and tighter monetary situation.

Boediono noted that by the end of 2013, the inflation rate is predicted to reach eight percent

or more, as compared to the national average figure of four to five percent noted in the last few years.

“The eight percent inflation rate is triggered by several factors, including hikes in fuel oil prices and the rise in prices of non-rice food products,” he added.

Laying focus on economic growth and stability, the vice president stated that Indonesia is perceived by the international community as a country with good economic growth.

AntaraJAKARTA - Floods triggered

by incessant rains have hit the Cilacap district in the Central Java province, inundating 855 houses in six villages since Sunday.

The Ciberem River in Cila-cap had overflowed and caused the flooding, with water levels rising up to one meter, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, a spokesman for the National Disaster Miti-gation Agency (BNPB), said on Tuesday.

The flood-affected villages are Sidareja, Tegalsari, Sidamu-lya, Margasari, Tinggarjaya and Gunungreja in the Sidareja sub-district of Cilacap district.

At least 20 families have been evacuated to a Sidareja military building due to the floods. Relief aids, such as instant noodles and mineral water, have been distrib-uted to the flood victims.

Nugroho reminded Indone-sian people, particularly those residing in East Java, West Java, Central Java and Lampung, to be on alert during January and February, which is the peak of the rainy season.

Meanwhile, floods had in-undated 1.6 thousand houses in Dayeuhkolot, Bandung district

in the West Java province, after the Citarum river breached its banks on Sunday.

“At least 1,600 houses were inundated in the Dayeuhkolot sub-district. We are still col-lecting information about the number of houses that have been flooded in Baleendah. There are at least three thousand resi-dences in Baleendah, who are vulnerable to flooding,” said the Coordinator for the Local Disas-ter Mitigation Team (Tagana), Dadang Wahidin, in Bandung, West Java, on Monday.

Dadang pointed out that at least 464 families had been evacuated to safer locations because of the floods.

He noted that nine evacuation shelters had been established to help people, namely at the Dayeuhkolot Administration building, the Pasawahan Hall, the Pasawahan 8 Elementary School building, the Al Amanah Mosque, the Al Hilal Mosque, the P.L.N. Mosque and the Dayeuhkolot Military Rayon office.

Heavy rains since Sunday have caused the Citarum river to overflow its banks, leading to floods in Dayeuhkolot and Baleendah.

Economy predicted to grow by six percent in 2014

AntaraJAKARTA - Vice President Boediono expressed optimism that

the Indonesian economy will grow by five to six percent in 2014, with controllable inflation and an improved food price index.

Overflowing Ciberem River floods 855 houses

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Andrea Ruth Waldeck, center, is escorted out of a holding cell by a police officer and a prosecutor after her trial hearing at Surabaya District Court in Surabaya, East Java, Indo-nesia, Monday, Dec. 16, 2013.

Prosecutor sought 16 years’ jail for Briton

Madsen said the fire destroyed the home of Big Sur Fire Chief Martha Karstens. “She left thinking that she was going to go protect other people’s homes,” Madsen said, “and it turns out that her own home has been consumed.” Offi-cials were hopeful that they could contain the blaze this week.

“This is a completely wind-driven fire,” Madsen said. “We’re cautiously optimistic that we’re going to pin this thing down within

the next couple of days.” The Red Cross set up an overnight shelter for people who have been displaced by the fire, Madsen said. Big Sur is a popular tourist destination along the Central California coast with high-end resorts and beautiful views of the Pacific Ocean.

Residences were scattered in the path of the fire that was being battled by 625 firefighters. Officials also brought in air tankers and he-licopters. Evacuations of the area

remained in effect as of 10:30 p.m. Monday. The cause of the fire was under investigation. A wildfire so late in the year is unusual but not surprising given that California is in the midst of the driest calendar year on record.

A lightning-sparked wildfire in 2008 forced the evacuation of Big Sur and blackened 250 square miles (650 square kilometers) before it was contained. That blaze burned more than a dozen homes.

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JUBA - Gunfire rang out again in South Sudan’s capital Juba late on Monday hours after President Salva Kiir said his forces had quelled an “attempted coup” by supporters of his sacked deputy. Kiir earlier said fighters loyal to former vice presi-dent Riek Machar had attacked an army base into the early hours of Monday morning, but the military was in control. He imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew.

After the streets emptied, and thousands of locals took refuge in U.N. compounds in Juba, diplomats and a U.N. official reported hearing fresh shooting from around 10 p.m. (1900 GMT) in the city’s Tomping neighborhood.

“We too have heard the gun-shots in Tomping. Really urging everyone to stay indoors and stay

safe,” the U.S. embassy in Juba said on its Twitter feed. Mobile phone networks were down across the capital. The U.N. official, who asked not to be named, told Reuters they had turned out the lights to avoid attracting attention. The gov-ernment has struggled to establish a functioning state since declaring independence from Sudan in 2011 to become Africa’s newest nation.

Kiir dismissed Machar after mounting public criticism at the government’s failure to deliver better public services in the oil-producing nation, which is the size of France but barely has any tarmac roads. The two men are from dif-ferent ethnic groups which have clashed in the past. Machar has said he wants to run for president.

Heavy gunfire and blasts first erupted late Sunday and into early morning, then appeared to die

down by midday, as government soldiers patrolled the streets and set up roadblocks, said witnesses. Kiir appeared on national televi-sion on Monday afternoon, flanked by ministers and wearing combat fatigues rather than his usual civil-ian clothes.

He said the fighting broke out after an unidentified person fired shots in the air near a ruling party conference.

“This was followed later by an attack at the SPLA (South Sudan army) headquarters near Juba University by a group of soldiers allied to the former vice-president Dr Riek Machar and his group. These attacks continued until this morning,” he said. “However, I would like to inform you, at the outset, that your gov-ernment is in full control of the security situation in Juba.”

Associated Press Writer

CAIRO — Egyptian security forces fought pitched street battles with dozens of university students outside their Cairo campus Monday, firing tear gas to disperse rock-throwing protesters and prevent their rally from reaching the nearby defense ministry. Security officials said 25 students were arrested for blocking traffic. A security official said one was carrying shotgun ammunition and a tear gas canister, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief reporters.

Dozens of students pelted the forces with rocks, some pick-ing up tear gas canisters and lobbing them back. Students, some wearing face masks, used metal bars and garbage cans to build barricades. The students were demonstrating Monday outside Ain Shams University in eastern Cairo as part of a spreading protest movement in universities against the cur-rent authorities.

Supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi have been staging near-daily protests since his removal from office in July, concentrating lately on universities. The pro-tests have often ended in violence, with police using tear gas, water cannons and shotguns to disperse demonstrators. Protests have intensified in the Islamic Al-Azhar University and the prestigious University of Cairo.

In response to the steady protests, authorities have passed a highly criticized law banning rallies without prior permits from authorities. It has caused an outcry from non-Islamist youth groups — many of whom were at the forefront of the 2011 uprising that forced longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak from power, as well as protests against Morsi and the mili-tary.

Authorities arrested two dozen of the non-Islamist protest-ers, including prominent activists, and have sent them to trial for violating the law by protesting it without prior permits in a sign they have little tolerance for any dissent.

In defiance of the law, hundreds of activists rallied Monday near Tahrir Square to commemorate bloody clashes between anti-military protesters and security forces two years ago when at least 17 protesters were killed. The demonstrators, largely secular and liberal groups, marched to the Cabinet building, where the clashes took place in December 2011, demanding that officials and police in charge at the time be brought to trial. The protesters asked for no prior permit for their rally, and authorities didn’t confront them.

The December 2011 clashes were one of the early harsh security crackdowns on post-Mubarak protests. Soldiers and police were filmed dragging women by their hair, stomping on the bare chest of one veiled woman, and lobbing rocks and furniture at protesters. At least 17 were killed in three days of clashes after security forces stormed a peaceful sit-in outside the Cabinet demanding an end to military rule.

At the time, Morsi’s group, the Muslim Brotherhood, stayed away from and criticized the protests which took place during parliamentary elections. The Brotherhood won a majority in those elections.

Raising white flags bearing the faces of those killed during the clashes, the protesters banging drums chanted: “Down with the regime!” “We are reminding the people that we got no ret-ribution for those killed since 2011,” said Abdullah Shabaan, a 24-year-old protester. “We also want to tell the authorities and (military chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah) el-Sissi that beating and repression will not silence us, or make us stay home.”

After less than an hour, some protesters pelted the police force guarding the Cabinet entrance with rocks— prompting a few rounds of projectiles that ended the rally.

Also Monday, security officials in the Sinai Peninsula said army troops killed a lead militant suspected of being behind the killing of 16 soldiers in a brazen attack in summer 2012.

Egypt students clash with police at university

Fire crews work to contain the fire atop Pfeiffer Ridge, Monday,

Dec. 16, 2013, in Big Sur, Calif. The wildfire burning Monday in the Big

Sur area of California destroyed at least 15 homes and forced

about 100 people to evacuate as it chewed through dry vegetation on

its way toward the ocean.

Big Sur fire destroys 15 homes, forces 100 to flee

Associated Press Writer

BIG SUR, California — A wildfire burning Monday in the Big Sur area of California destroyed at least 15 homes and forced about 100 people to evacuate as it chewed through dry vegetation on its way toward the ocean. No injuries were reported. The fire burned about 500 acres (200 hectares) in the Pfeiffer Ridge area of Los Padres National Forest near state Highway 1, with 0 percent containment, Los Padres National Forest spokesman Andrew Madsen said.

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Tihingan Village in Banjarangkan sub district is the center of gong gamelan production. Its pro-duction is start with crude work then expert work to synchronize the gong sound. This, the most important thing is the expertise to synchronize the gong sound. In Tihingan village there are 2 pande (expert) gong maker groups.

This Village is located in Banjarangkan sub district and can be reached with 2 wheels or 4 wheels vehicles. About 3 km go to the west of Semarapura city. The road to Tihingan is well enough.

The people of Tihingan village are very famous in Bali as they are expert of making gamelan instrument like Gong and other gamelan instru-ments.

The people in this village can make all kind of gamelan Bali, like Semara Pegulingan, Gender puppet, Kelentangan/Angklung and others, made of kerawang metal. Their expertise may descend-ed by their ancient from hundred years ago.

The gamelan has become famous in the world and many foreign tourists come to Tihingan and reserve Gong to be brought to their country.

Tihingan VillageBlake Griffin scored 27 points,

hitting 11 of 15 free throws, as the Clippers relished a return to Los Angeles following a seven-game road trip. Chris Paul added 23 points, eight rebounds and seven assists for the Clippers, who repelled several threats in the third quarter to maintain their lead.

Tim Duncan had 17 points and 11 rebounds for the Spurs, whose four-game winning streak ended. Detroit’s Josh Smith had 30 points to lead the Pistons to a surprise 101-96 win at Indiana. Greg Monroe finished with 13 points and 12 rebounds for Detroit, which had lost on its previous nine visits to Indiana.

Lance Stephenson had a season high 23 points for the Pacers, who had won their first 11 home games. The defeat left Oklahoma City as the only

team unbeaten at home with a 12-0 record. Indiana tied the score four times and got as close as 96-94 late in the fourth. Atlanta’s Kyle Korver sank three 3-pointers in a dominant third quarter which set up the Hawks’ 114-100 win over the Lakers.

Al Horford scored 19 points and grabbed 11 rebounds for the Hawks. Los Angeles’ Kobe Bryant made only 4 of 14 shots for eight points, with his game emblematic of his team’s poor shooting. Nick Young led the Lakers with 23 points while making five 3-pointers.

Miami’s LeBron James finished with 30 points, nine rebounds and nine assists despite sitting some of the second half after twisting an ankle, and led the Heat to a 117-94 win over Utah.

Dwyane Wade added 27 points

for Miami, which notched its 17th straight victory over a Western Conference opponent, the second-longest regular-season streak by an Eastern Conference team in NBA history. Boston won 20 straight over the West during a nine-month span of 1973. Alec Burks scored 31 points for the Jazz.

Boston’s Jared Sullinger had 24 points and 11 rebounds, including a tie-breaking 3-pointer with 2:22 left that helped the Celtics hold off Min-nesota and win 101-97.

Sullinger had 15 points and six rebounds in the fourth quarter, and Avery Bradley had 19 points for the game. Kevin Love had 27 points and 14 rebounds for Minnesota, which has not won in Boston since 2005. The Timberwolves went 8 of 29 from 3-point range.

Clippers relish home return, beat SpursAssociated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Clippers shone on their return home, cruising to an authoritative 115-92 victory over San Antonio in Monday’s clash of NBA divisional leaders. The Clippers performance was the highlight on a day when Detroit handed Indiana its first home-court loss of the season, Atlanta was too good for the misfiring Los Angeles Lakers, and LeBron James led Miami past Utah.

AP Photo/Jae C. HongLos Angeles Clippers’ Blake Griffin, center, goes up for a dunk as San Antonio Spurs’ Tim Duncan watches during the second half of an NBA basketball game on Monday, Dec. 16, 2013, in Los Angeles. The Clippers won 115-92.

Reuters

LONDON - A year in which a British man won Wimbledon, Roger Federer’s star began to fade and doping reared its ugly head was defined by the dominance of two players - Rafa Nadal and Serena Williams. Be-tween them they won half of the grand slam singles titles on offer, triumphed at 21 tournaments in total, collected more than 150 match wins and $25 million in prizemoney.

Not bad considering both have battled back from poten-tially career-ending injuries. Written off by some when his knee problems returned with a vengeance in June 2012, Nadal launched a comeback in Chile in February that was nothing short of extraordinary. Playing like a man on a mission Nadal won 10 titles, including the French Open and U.S. Open, and re-claimed the world No.1 ranking for the first time in more than two years.

The Mallorcan was expected to dominate again on clay, which he did, culminating in an eighth Roland Garros title when he beat countryman David Ferrer. But he reached new heights on the hard courts that had proved his

Achilles heel.After beating arch-rival No-

vak Djokovic on his way to the Rogers Cup in Toronto, Nadal claimed the Cincinnati crown before taking New York by storm, winning the U.S. Open for the second time with victory over Djokovic. The only blip in a season of 75 match wins and 14 finals from 17 tournaments was at a wildly unpredictable Wimbledon where he lost in round one to Belgium’s Steve Darcis.

WIPEOUT WEDNESDAY

Nadal’s defeat came in a first week that included Wipeout Wednesday, when seven-times champion Federer was spanked by 116th-ranked Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky and a host of top names pulled up lame, some blaming dangerous court condi-tions. Through the carnage Mur-ray rode like a knight in shining armour to finally deliver the men’s title for success-starved British fans after 77 years of waiting.

The Scot, reduced to tears by Federer the previous year after losing in the final, coped with the suffocating weight of expectation to beat Djokovic

in straight sets on a sun-kissed Centre Court. Djokovic did not do much wrong in 2013, beginning the year with a third consecutive Australian Open title and ending it on a 24-match winning streak including victory over Nadal in the ATP World Tour Finals.

It was the perfect response to Nadal snatching back the world No.1 ranking in October and keeping it into 2014. “We make each other better players. We make each other work harder on our games, especially when we play against each other. It’s always a huge challenge,” Djokovic said of a rivalry that looks set to continue into 2014 and beyond.

With Murray having under-gone back surgery and a fading Federer down at world No.6 having managed a solitary title, cracks are appearing in the so-called “Big Four” and Juan Mar-tin del Potro and Tomas Berdych will be sensing some grand slam opportunities next year.

As for the next generation, Poland’s Jerzy Janowicz, who scared Murray in the Wim-bledon semi-finals, Bulgarian Grigor Dmitrov and Canada’s Milos Raonic will hope to make a move.

REUTERS/Marcos BrindicciRafael Nadal of Spain plays a shot during his exhibition tennis match against Novak Djokovic of Serbia in Buenos Aires November 24, 2013.

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Tensions began to fray at San Siro and Milan coach Massimilia-no Allegri was sent to the stands, while captain Riccardo Montolivo was booked for dissent and will miss Sunday’s derby match against Inter Milan. Sulley Muntari res-cued a point for Milan 13 minutes from time. It was the first time Roma — which has the stingiest defense in Serie A — had let in two goals in a match all season.

“I talked to the fourth referee but I didn’t offend anyone,” Al-legri said. “I’m sorry I left the team on its own but fortunately the lads managed to equalize.

“We played better technically in the second half, we were braver and took the game more to Roma. Although we risked more and let them have more counterattacks so it was more dangerous for us.” Mi-

Reuters

LONDON - The World Cup finals are not taking place until the middle of next year but they cast a long and, at times, disturbing shadow over Brazil and the world of soccer in 2013. As countries battled to qualify for the fi-nals, Brazil was convulsed by protests in more than 100 cities about the vast amount of money being spent to stage the tournament.

Angry Brazilians targeted the Con-federations Cup warmup event in June to gain maximum publicity for their grievances about the paucity of govern-ment funds for health, education, public transportation and welfare while bil-lions were being spent on stadiums. The building of those stadiums has caused no end of problems too, falling behind schedule to cause more headaches for world governing body FIFA and Bra-zil’s World Cup organisers.

An accident which killed two work-ers in Sao Paulo in November means the stadium being used for the opening match in June will not be ready until April. Fan violence at Brazilian cham-pionship matches is another worrying development. The authorities are under no illusions about what could happen off the field next year, but what may happen on it will preoccupy the rest of the world.

Under Luiz Felipe Scolari, Brazil are emerging as favourites to win the World Cup for the sixth time. Victory on home soil would go some way to al-leviate the pain of what is still regarded as a national tragedy - failing to win in 1950, the last time the World Cup was held in Brazil. Scolari has spoken at length about how the crowds at the Confederations Cup inspired players

Reuters YANGON - Myanmar soc-

cer fans started fires, tore out seats and hurled rocks after their team was eliminated from the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games, the latest s tadium violence in a country once banned from 2018 World Cup qualifying because of unruly fans. Myanmar’s 1-0 defeat to Indonesia late on Monday angered spectators, who threw stones as disappointed players left the pitch in tears.

Some spectators invaded the pitch as others tore down

banners and destroyed plastic seats in the stadium in Yangon, video footage showed. Fans outside set ablaze billboards and SEA Games flags, hats and even their own T-shirts. Riot-ers threw stones at police, who huddled behind shields and re-sponded with water cannon.

Myanmar has a passion-ate soccer following but has gained an unsavoury reputa-tion for crowd violence. FIFA imposed a ban on Myanmar taking part in qualifying for the 2018 World Cup after fans hurled rocks and glass bottles at the referee and the Oman

team during a qualifier for the 2014 Asian Cup, held in July 2011.

The world governing body later lifted the ban on appeal but ordered the country to play all their qualifying home games on neutral territory. The SEA Games is the first significant multi-sport event Myanmar has staged in 44 years.

Monday’s rioting will cast a cloud over Myanmar’s host-ing of a tournament it hoped would showcase the enormous changes it has undergone since the end of five decades of bru-tal military rule in 2011.

Reuters Everton striker Gerard

Deulofeu will miss the Pre-mier League high flyers’ fes-tive fixtures after being ruled out for several weeks with a hamstring injury, the Merseyside club said.

The Spanish under-21 international, on loan from Barcelona for the season, suffered the injury in Saturday’s 4-1 win over Fulham, which moved Everton within four points of league leaders Arsenal.

Deulofeu was making just his second start of the campaign against Fulham after being rewarded for a brilliant equalising goal off the bench in the 1-1 draw at Arsenal the previous

week, his second strike of the campaign.

“Scans have now shown the extent of the soft tissue injury in his right hamstring, which is likely to keep him out for a few weeks,” Ever-

ton said in a short statement on Monday.

The Merseysiders, who are fifth in the league after 16 matches, travel to Swansea City on Sunday before hosting Sunderland (Dec. 26) and Southampton (Dec. 29).

They then travel to Stoke City on Jan. 1 before their FA Cup third round tie against Championship (second division) leaders Queens Park Rangers on Jan 4.

Associated Press Writer

VALLADOLID, Spain — Javi Guerra scored three second-half goals in heavy fog at Jose Zo-rilla Stadium on Monday to help Valladolid earn a much-needed 3-0 win over 10-man Celta Vigo. Valladolid’s second home victory of the season and first since August lifted it out of the Spanish league’s relegation zone and put it level on points with Celta.

Valladolid goalkeeper Diego Marino made a superb diving save to tap Charles’s header over the bar in the 33rd minute. And Marino then got the Celta striker sent off in the 56th when he craftily kicked the ball into Charles to draw a second yellow card for obstruction.

Four minutes later Guerra volleyed in a pass

from Patrick Ebert. He gently lofted a header over the reach of goalie Yoel Rodriguez in the 67th be-fore sidefooting home his third in the 86th.

The Valladolid striker has 10 goals in 16 rounds, tying him with Real Sociedad forward Antoine Griezmann as the third-leading scorer in the league behind Diego Costa and Cristiano Ronaldo with 17 goals each. “I’m having some luck with my goals and enjoying a good run,” said Guerra. “We were playing for a lot tonight. We needed these three points to get some confidence back. We are a humble team and now we can breathe easier.”

Valladolid’s win meant Almeria slid down into the drop zone along with Rayo Vallecano and bottom side Real Betis. Barcelona and Atletico Madrid lead the league with Real Madrid trailing five points behind.

In this Dec. 10,

2013 photo, construction

worker Cicero Nogueira de

Almeida plays with a ball at the

Arena da Ama-zonia stadium, in

Manaus, Brazil. The construction firm building the Arena da Amazonia

stadium which will host World Cup games in the jungle city of Manaus says a worker fell to his death Saturday from the stadium’s roof structure. The Andrade Gutierrez company says Marcleudo Ferreira fell some 115 feet.

World Cup finals cast long shadow over 2013like Neymar, Fred and Paulinho to take the trophy with a scintillating 3-0 victory over world champions Spain in the final at Rio’s Maracana. Spain will be back to defend the title they won in South Africa in 2010 and attempt to become the first European side to win a World Cup in Latin America.

Vicente del Bosque’s side qualified comfortably, coming through their preliminary matches unbeaten, and remained top of FIFA’s world rankings throughout the year. But Spain face tough competition from Brazil and the improving South American sides of Argentina and Chile, and also from much closer to home.

EMERGING GERMANS

This year’s outstanding European side were Germany who ended the international year on a high while Bayern Munich regained the European club title. Joachim Loew’s youthful squad cruised through their World Cup qualifying campaign, winning nine and drawing one of their 10 matches to raise expectations they can become world champions for the first time since 1990.

Ranked second to Spain in FIFA’s world list, Germany’s inventive mid-field boast attacking talents like Mesut Ozil, Mario Goetze and Thomas Mu-eller and are able to take the pressure off a sometimes less than impressive backline.

They ended the year with a 1-0 win over England at Wembley, the same venue at which Bayern beat Borus-sia Dortmund 2-1 in an all-German Champions League final full of drama and attacking football. The game had a twist in the tail as Arjen Robben, who

missed a penalty when Bayern lost to Chelsea in the 2012 final, scored his club’s late winner. Bayern, who also claimed the German title and cup, and Dortmund had emphatically proved Germany’s club superiority over Spain in the semis.

Bayern thrashed Barcelona 7-0 on aggregate while Dortmund beat Real Madrid 4-1 in the first leg to go through 4-3 on aggregate. Whether these results reflect a switch in the balance of Euro-pean power from Spain to Germany will be seen next year.

FERGUSON RETIRES

There was a shift in power at another of Europe’s great fortresses when Alex Ferguson retired after almost 27 years as Manchester United’s manager. In a career unlikely to be matched for the foreseeable future, Ferguson, who first came to prominence at Aberdeen in the early 1980s, won 49 trophies as a manager, including 13 Premier League titles and two Champions League suc-cesses.

Ferguson’s departure, after United were crowned champions, left former Everton manager David Moyes in charge and his first few months proved problematic as the Old Trafford club struggled to keep in touch with the Premier League leaders. Another exit from the English game could herald the start of a new era - at least that is what Real Madrid are hoping.

In August they paid a world record fee of 86 million euros ($117 million) for Tottenham Hotspur’s Welsh mid-fielder Gareth Bale who joined the pre-vious most-expensive player, Cristiano Ronaldo, at the Santiago Bernabeu. Real had lost out to Barcelona in the

La Liga title race and parted company with their manager, Jose Mourinho, as a result.

Lionel Messi of Argentina and Barcelona, who won the World Player of the Year award for the fourth time, and Portugal’s Ronaldo continued their battle to be regarded as the greatest of their generation, but another man surpassed their achievements.

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A Myanmar police office tries to extinguish the fire started by Myan-mar soccer fans after Indonesia defeated Myanmar in their 27th SEA Game, near Thuwunna stadium, in Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, Dec. 16, 2013.

Myanmar’s fans riot after Southeast Asian Games knockout

Roma held to 2-2 draw at AC Milan in Serie AAssociated Press Writer

MILAN — Roma was held to a 2-2 draw at AC Milan on Monday as it lost more ground on Serie A leader and reigning champion Juventus. Mattia Destro opened the scoring for Roma in the 13th minute with his second goal in as many matches but Cristian Zapata leveled on the half-hour mark. Kevin Strootman restored Roma’s lead in the 52nd minute from the penalty spot after substitute goalkeeper Gabriel had needlessly fouled Gervinho.

AS Roma for-ward Mattia De-stro celebrates

after scoring during the Serie A soccer match between AC Milan

and Roma at the San Siro stadium in

Milan, Italy, Mon-day, Dec. 16, 2013.

lan had several penalty appeals of its own turned down, notably when Mario Balotelli and Mehdi Benatia fell to ground in the area.

“I never comment on the refer-ees decisions,” Allegri added. “I think we played well. It’s a good sign that Balotelli doesn’t react after he is fouled, I think maybe it’s because he’s happier.”

Balotelli will again be talked about after the Milan forward wore boots decorated in the style of newspaper print with various headlines that have been writ-ten about him. Roma remained second but is five points behind Juventus.

“We had many chances so it was a pity we didn’t score a third,” Roma coach Rudi Garcia said. “We’re very ambitious but we need to win games, that’s why

we’re a bit disappointed here. We have to do everything to win the last match before the break, in front of our fans. It would be great to close the year with more than 40 points, it would mean we have had a great first half of the season. A team that hasn’t lost in 16 matches has a lot of quality.”

There was good news for Roma as talismanic captain Francesco Totti made his long-awaited re-turn after more than two months out with a hamstring injury. The forward replaced Destro in the 64th minute.

Milan’s injury woes grew. Already without Stephan El Shaarawy, Valter Birsa, Ignazio Abate, Robinho, Kevin Constant, Matias Silvestre and Marco Ame-lia before kickoff, goalkeeper Cristian Abbiati and Emanuel-

son had to be replaced during the match. Mi-lan was celebrating its 114th birthday and be-fore the match the Curva Sud unfurled a banner honoring its founder Her-bert Kilpin.

Allegri’s s ide was the only Italian team to make it through to the knockout stage of the Champions League but was languishing in mid-table after just one win in its past seven matches.

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Tensions began to fray at San Siro and Milan coach Massimilia-no Allegri was sent to the stands, while captain Riccardo Montolivo was booked for dissent and will miss Sunday’s derby match against Inter Milan. Sulley Muntari res-cued a point for Milan 13 minutes from time. It was the first time Roma — which has the stingiest defense in Serie A — had let in two goals in a match all season.

“I talked to the fourth referee but I didn’t offend anyone,” Al-legri said. “I’m sorry I left the team on its own but fortunately the lads managed to equalize.

“We played better technically in the second half, we were braver and took the game more to Roma. Although we risked more and let them have more counterattacks so it was more dangerous for us.” Mi-

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LONDON - The World Cup finals are not taking place until the middle of next year but they cast a long and, at times, disturbing shadow over Brazil and the world of soccer in 2013. As countries battled to qualify for the fi-nals, Brazil was convulsed by protests in more than 100 cities about the vast amount of money being spent to stage the tournament.

Angry Brazilians targeted the Con-federations Cup warmup event in June to gain maximum publicity for their grievances about the paucity of govern-ment funds for health, education, public transportation and welfare while bil-lions were being spent on stadiums. The building of those stadiums has caused no end of problems too, falling behind schedule to cause more headaches for world governing body FIFA and Bra-zil’s World Cup organisers.

An accident which killed two work-ers in Sao Paulo in November means the stadium being used for the opening match in June will not be ready until April. Fan violence at Brazilian cham-pionship matches is another worrying development. The authorities are under no illusions about what could happen off the field next year, but what may happen on it will preoccupy the rest of the world.

Under Luiz Felipe Scolari, Brazil are emerging as favourites to win the World Cup for the sixth time. Victory on home soil would go some way to al-leviate the pain of what is still regarded as a national tragedy - failing to win in 1950, the last time the World Cup was held in Brazil. Scolari has spoken at length about how the crowds at the Confederations Cup inspired players

Reuters YANGON - Myanmar soc-

cer fans started fires, tore out seats and hurled rocks after their team was eliminated from the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games, the latest s tadium violence in a country once banned from 2018 World Cup qualifying because of unruly fans. Myanmar’s 1-0 defeat to Indonesia late on Monday angered spectators, who threw stones as disappointed players left the pitch in tears.

Some spectators invaded the pitch as others tore down

banners and destroyed plastic seats in the stadium in Yangon, video footage showed. Fans outside set ablaze billboards and SEA Games flags, hats and even their own T-shirts. Riot-ers threw stones at police, who huddled behind shields and re-sponded with water cannon.

Myanmar has a passion-ate soccer following but has gained an unsavoury reputa-tion for crowd violence. FIFA imposed a ban on Myanmar taking part in qualifying for the 2018 World Cup after fans hurled rocks and glass bottles at the referee and the Oman

team during a qualifier for the 2014 Asian Cup, held in July 2011.

The world governing body later lifted the ban on appeal but ordered the country to play all their qualifying home games on neutral territory. The SEA Games is the first significant multi-sport event Myanmar has staged in 44 years.

Monday’s rioting will cast a cloud over Myanmar’s host-ing of a tournament it hoped would showcase the enormous changes it has undergone since the end of five decades of bru-tal military rule in 2011.

Reuters Everton striker Gerard

Deulofeu will miss the Pre-mier League high flyers’ fes-tive fixtures after being ruled out for several weeks with a hamstring injury, the Merseyside club said.

The Spanish under-21 international, on loan from Barcelona for the season, suffered the injury in Saturday’s 4-1 win over Fulham, which moved Everton within four points of league leaders Arsenal.

Deulofeu was making just his second start of the campaign against Fulham after being rewarded for a brilliant equalising goal off the bench in the 1-1 draw at Arsenal the previous

week, his second strike of the campaign.

“Scans have now shown the extent of the soft tissue injury in his right hamstring, which is likely to keep him out for a few weeks,” Ever-

ton said in a short statement on Monday.

The Merseysiders, who are fifth in the league after 16 matches, travel to Swansea City on Sunday before hosting Sunderland (Dec. 26) and Southampton (Dec. 29).

They then travel to Stoke City on Jan. 1 before their FA Cup third round tie against Championship (second division) leaders Queens Park Rangers on Jan 4.

Associated Press Writer

VALLADOLID, Spain — Javi Guerra scored three second-half goals in heavy fog at Jose Zo-rilla Stadium on Monday to help Valladolid earn a much-needed 3-0 win over 10-man Celta Vigo. Valladolid’s second home victory of the season and first since August lifted it out of the Spanish league’s relegation zone and put it level on points with Celta.

Valladolid goalkeeper Diego Marino made a superb diving save to tap Charles’s header over the bar in the 33rd minute. And Marino then got the Celta striker sent off in the 56th when he craftily kicked the ball into Charles to draw a second yellow card for obstruction.

Four minutes later Guerra volleyed in a pass

from Patrick Ebert. He gently lofted a header over the reach of goalie Yoel Rodriguez in the 67th be-fore sidefooting home his third in the 86th.

The Valladolid striker has 10 goals in 16 rounds, tying him with Real Sociedad forward Antoine Griezmann as the third-leading scorer in the league behind Diego Costa and Cristiano Ronaldo with 17 goals each. “I’m having some luck with my goals and enjoying a good run,” said Guerra. “We were playing for a lot tonight. We needed these three points to get some confidence back. We are a humble team and now we can breathe easier.”

Valladolid’s win meant Almeria slid down into the drop zone along with Rayo Vallecano and bottom side Real Betis. Barcelona and Atletico Madrid lead the league with Real Madrid trailing five points behind.

In this Dec. 10,

2013 photo, construction

worker Cicero Nogueira de

Almeida plays with a ball at the

Arena da Ama-zonia stadium, in

Manaus, Brazil. The construction firm building the Arena da Amazonia

stadium which will host World Cup games in the jungle city of Manaus says a worker fell to his death Saturday from the stadium’s roof structure. The Andrade Gutierrez company says Marcleudo Ferreira fell some 115 feet.

World Cup finals cast long shadow over 2013like Neymar, Fred and Paulinho to take the trophy with a scintillating 3-0 victory over world champions Spain in the final at Rio’s Maracana. Spain will be back to defend the title they won in South Africa in 2010 and attempt to become the first European side to win a World Cup in Latin America.

Vicente del Bosque’s side qualified comfortably, coming through their preliminary matches unbeaten, and remained top of FIFA’s world rankings throughout the year. But Spain face tough competition from Brazil and the improving South American sides of Argentina and Chile, and also from much closer to home.

EMERGING GERMANS

This year’s outstanding European side were Germany who ended the international year on a high while Bayern Munich regained the European club title. Joachim Loew’s youthful squad cruised through their World Cup qualifying campaign, winning nine and drawing one of their 10 matches to raise expectations they can become world champions for the first time since 1990.

Ranked second to Spain in FIFA’s world list, Germany’s inventive mid-field boast attacking talents like Mesut Ozil, Mario Goetze and Thomas Mu-eller and are able to take the pressure off a sometimes less than impressive backline.

They ended the year with a 1-0 win over England at Wembley, the same venue at which Bayern beat Borus-sia Dortmund 2-1 in an all-German Champions League final full of drama and attacking football. The game had a twist in the tail as Arjen Robben, who

missed a penalty when Bayern lost to Chelsea in the 2012 final, scored his club’s late winner. Bayern, who also claimed the German title and cup, and Dortmund had emphatically proved Germany’s club superiority over Spain in the semis.

Bayern thrashed Barcelona 7-0 on aggregate while Dortmund beat Real Madrid 4-1 in the first leg to go through 4-3 on aggregate. Whether these results reflect a switch in the balance of Euro-pean power from Spain to Germany will be seen next year.

FERGUSON RETIRES

There was a shift in power at another of Europe’s great fortresses when Alex Ferguson retired after almost 27 years as Manchester United’s manager. In a career unlikely to be matched for the foreseeable future, Ferguson, who first came to prominence at Aberdeen in the early 1980s, won 49 trophies as a manager, including 13 Premier League titles and two Champions League suc-cesses.

Ferguson’s departure, after United were crowned champions, left former Everton manager David Moyes in charge and his first few months proved problematic as the Old Trafford club struggled to keep in touch with the Premier League leaders. Another exit from the English game could herald the start of a new era - at least that is what Real Madrid are hoping.

In August they paid a world record fee of 86 million euros ($117 million) for Tottenham Hotspur’s Welsh mid-fielder Gareth Bale who joined the pre-vious most-expensive player, Cristiano Ronaldo, at the Santiago Bernabeu. Real had lost out to Barcelona in the

La Liga title race and parted company with their manager, Jose Mourinho, as a result.

Lionel Messi of Argentina and Barcelona, who won the World Player of the Year award for the fourth time, and Portugal’s Ronaldo continued their battle to be regarded as the greatest of their generation, but another man surpassed their achievements.

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A Myanmar police office tries to extinguish the fire started by Myan-mar soccer fans after Indonesia defeated Myanmar in their 27th SEA Game, near Thuwunna stadium, in Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, Dec. 16, 2013.

Myanmar’s fans riot after Southeast Asian Games knockout

Roma held to 2-2 draw at AC Milan in Serie AAssociated Press Writer

MILAN — Roma was held to a 2-2 draw at AC Milan on Monday as it lost more ground on Serie A leader and reigning champion Juventus. Mattia Destro opened the scoring for Roma in the 13th minute with his second goal in as many matches but Cristian Zapata leveled on the half-hour mark. Kevin Strootman restored Roma’s lead in the 52nd minute from the penalty spot after substitute goalkeeper Gabriel had needlessly fouled Gervinho.

AS Roma for-ward Mattia De-stro celebrates

after scoring during the Serie A soccer match between AC Milan

and Roma at the San Siro stadium in

Milan, Italy, Mon-day, Dec. 16, 2013.

lan had several penalty appeals of its own turned down, notably when Mario Balotelli and Mehdi Benatia fell to ground in the area.

“I never comment on the refer-ees decisions,” Allegri added. “I think we played well. It’s a good sign that Balotelli doesn’t react after he is fouled, I think maybe it’s because he’s happier.”

Balotelli will again be talked about after the Milan forward wore boots decorated in the style of newspaper print with various headlines that have been writ-ten about him. Roma remained second but is five points behind Juventus.

“We had many chances so it was a pity we didn’t score a third,” Roma coach Rudi Garcia said. “We’re very ambitious but we need to win games, that’s why

we’re a bit disappointed here. We have to do everything to win the last match before the break, in front of our fans. It would be great to close the year with more than 40 points, it would mean we have had a great first half of the season. A team that hasn’t lost in 16 matches has a lot of quality.”

There was good news for Roma as talismanic captain Francesco Totti made his long-awaited re-turn after more than two months out with a hamstring injury. The forward replaced Destro in the 64th minute.

Milan’s injury woes grew. Already without Stephan El Shaarawy, Valter Birsa, Ignazio Abate, Robinho, Kevin Constant, Matias Silvestre and Marco Ame-lia before kickoff, goalkeeper Cristian Abbiati and Emanuel-

son had to be replaced during the match. Mi-lan was celebrating its 114th birthday and be-fore the match the Curva Sud unfurled a banner honoring its founder Her-bert Kilpin.

Allegri’s s ide was the only Italian team to make it through to the knockout stage of the Champions League but was languishing in mid-table after just one win in its past seven matches.

Deulofeu to miss a few weeks, say Everton

Guerra nets 3, Valladolid wins to escape drop zone

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Tihingan Village in Banjarangkan sub district is the center of gong gamelan production. Its pro-duction is start with crude work then expert work to synchronize the gong sound. This, the most important thing is the expertise to synchronize the gong sound. In Tihingan village there are 2 pande (expert) gong maker groups.

This Village is located in Banjarangkan sub district and can be reached with 2 wheels or 4 wheels vehicles. About 3 km go to the west of Semarapura city. The road to Tihingan is well enough.

The people of Tihingan village are very famous in Bali as they are expert of making gamelan instrument like Gong and other gamelan instru-ments.

The people in this village can make all kind of gamelan Bali, like Semara Pegulingan, Gender puppet, Kelentangan/Angklung and others, made of kerawang metal. Their expertise may descend-ed by their ancient from hundred years ago.

The gamelan has become famous in the world and many foreign tourists come to Tihingan and reserve Gong to be brought to their country.

Tihingan VillageBlake Griffin scored 27 points,

hitting 11 of 15 free throws, as the Clippers relished a return to Los Angeles following a seven-game road trip. Chris Paul added 23 points, eight rebounds and seven assists for the Clippers, who repelled several threats in the third quarter to maintain their lead.

Tim Duncan had 17 points and 11 rebounds for the Spurs, whose four-game winning streak ended. Detroit’s Josh Smith had 30 points to lead the Pistons to a surprise 101-96 win at Indiana. Greg Monroe finished with 13 points and 12 rebounds for Detroit, which had lost on its previous nine visits to Indiana.

Lance Stephenson had a season high 23 points for the Pacers, who had won their first 11 home games. The defeat left Oklahoma City as the only

team unbeaten at home with a 12-0 record. Indiana tied the score four times and got as close as 96-94 late in the fourth. Atlanta’s Kyle Korver sank three 3-pointers in a dominant third quarter which set up the Hawks’ 114-100 win over the Lakers.

Al Horford scored 19 points and grabbed 11 rebounds for the Hawks. Los Angeles’ Kobe Bryant made only 4 of 14 shots for eight points, with his game emblematic of his team’s poor shooting. Nick Young led the Lakers with 23 points while making five 3-pointers.

Miami’s LeBron James finished with 30 points, nine rebounds and nine assists despite sitting some of the second half after twisting an ankle, and led the Heat to a 117-94 win over Utah.

Dwyane Wade added 27 points

for Miami, which notched its 17th straight victory over a Western Conference opponent, the second-longest regular-season streak by an Eastern Conference team in NBA history. Boston won 20 straight over the West during a nine-month span of 1973. Alec Burks scored 31 points for the Jazz.

Boston’s Jared Sullinger had 24 points and 11 rebounds, including a tie-breaking 3-pointer with 2:22 left that helped the Celtics hold off Min-nesota and win 101-97.

Sullinger had 15 points and six rebounds in the fourth quarter, and Avery Bradley had 19 points for the game. Kevin Love had 27 points and 14 rebounds for Minnesota, which has not won in Boston since 2005. The Timberwolves went 8 of 29 from 3-point range.

Clippers relish home return, beat SpursAssociated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Clippers shone on their return home, cruising to an authoritative 115-92 victory over San Antonio in Monday’s clash of NBA divisional leaders. The Clippers performance was the highlight on a day when Detroit handed Indiana its first home-court loss of the season, Atlanta was too good for the misfiring Los Angeles Lakers, and LeBron James led Miami past Utah.

AP Photo/Jae C. HongLos Angeles Clippers’ Blake Griffin, center, goes up for a dunk as San Antonio Spurs’ Tim Duncan watches during the second half of an NBA basketball game on Monday, Dec. 16, 2013, in Los Angeles. The Clippers won 115-92.

Reuters

LONDON - A year in which a British man won Wimbledon, Roger Federer’s star began to fade and doping reared its ugly head was defined by the dominance of two players - Rafa Nadal and Serena Williams. Be-tween them they won half of the grand slam singles titles on offer, triumphed at 21 tournaments in total, collected more than 150 match wins and $25 million in prizemoney.

Not bad considering both have battled back from poten-tially career-ending injuries. Written off by some when his knee problems returned with a vengeance in June 2012, Nadal launched a comeback in Chile in February that was nothing short of extraordinary. Playing like a man on a mission Nadal won 10 titles, including the French Open and U.S. Open, and re-claimed the world No.1 ranking for the first time in more than two years.

The Mallorcan was expected to dominate again on clay, which he did, culminating in an eighth Roland Garros title when he beat countryman David Ferrer. But he reached new heights on the hard courts that had proved his

Achilles heel.After beating arch-rival No-

vak Djokovic on his way to the Rogers Cup in Toronto, Nadal claimed the Cincinnati crown before taking New York by storm, winning the U.S. Open for the second time with victory over Djokovic. The only blip in a season of 75 match wins and 14 finals from 17 tournaments was at a wildly unpredictable Wimbledon where he lost in round one to Belgium’s Steve Darcis.

WIPEOUT WEDNESDAY

Nadal’s defeat came in a first week that included Wipeout Wednesday, when seven-times champion Federer was spanked by 116th-ranked Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky and a host of top names pulled up lame, some blaming dangerous court condi-tions. Through the carnage Mur-ray rode like a knight in shining armour to finally deliver the men’s title for success-starved British fans after 77 years of waiting.

The Scot, reduced to tears by Federer the previous year after losing in the final, coped with the suffocating weight of expectation to beat Djokovic

in straight sets on a sun-kissed Centre Court. Djokovic did not do much wrong in 2013, beginning the year with a third consecutive Australian Open title and ending it on a 24-match winning streak including victory over Nadal in the ATP World Tour Finals.

It was the perfect response to Nadal snatching back the world No.1 ranking in October and keeping it into 2014. “We make each other better players. We make each other work harder on our games, especially when we play against each other. It’s always a huge challenge,” Djokovic said of a rivalry that looks set to continue into 2014 and beyond.

With Murray having under-gone back surgery and a fading Federer down at world No.6 having managed a solitary title, cracks are appearing in the so-called “Big Four” and Juan Mar-tin del Potro and Tomas Berdych will be sensing some grand slam opportunities next year.

As for the next generation, Poland’s Jerzy Janowicz, who scared Murray in the Wim-bledon semi-finals, Bulgarian Grigor Dmitrov and Canada’s Milos Raonic will hope to make a move.

REUTERS/Marcos BrindicciRafael Nadal of Spain plays a shot during his exhibition tennis match against Novak Djokovic of Serbia in Buenos Aires November 24, 2013.

Nadal and Williams raise the bar sky high

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Agence France-PresseSURABAYA - An Indonesian prosecutor on

Monday sought a 16-year jail term for a Brit-ish woman who has admitted trafficking crystal methamphetamine into the country from China.

Andrea Waldeck, aged in her early 40s, was arrested in late April at a hotel in the city of Sura-baya with about 1.5 kilograms (three pounds) of the drugs.

Waldeck, who used to work with the British police, could receive the death penalty for traf-ficking that quantity of drugs into Indonesia under its tough anti-narcotics laws.

But on Monday prosecutor Deddy Agus rec-ommended a 16-year jail term, saying the judge should find Waldeck “convincingly and legiti-mately guilty of conspiracy to traffic drugs”.

Other than the 16 years in jail, Agus also said Waldeck should pay a two-billion-rupiah ($165,000) fine.

Waldeck, dressed in a white shirt, appeared calm after hearing the sentence recommendation but her lawyer said it was too severe since she was not a dealer and the drugs were not hers.

According to her indictment, Waldeck claimed

her boyfriend in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou asked her to traffic the drugs in ex-change for $5,000.

Despite the recommendation, she could still face the death penalty.

In the case of British grandmother Lindsay Sandiford, prosecutors sought 15 years in jail after she was caught trying to bring $2.4 million worth of cocaine into Bali, only for the judge to impose a death sentence.

Sandiford was sentenced to death in January and has lost two appeals against the decision.

Waldeck managed to get past security at Surabaya airport on Java island with the drugs concealed in four plastic packages inside her underwear, according to her indictment.

Two members of a drugs gang had been en route to the hotel to pick up the narcotics. But police knew about the plan and managed to get there first and arrest Waldeck, it said.

She had previously worked in southwestern Eng-land as a police community support officer, a part-time member of the force with limited powers.

The next hearing in her case will be on Janu-ary 6.

“I am optimistic about the economic growth next year, but we need to maintain a balance between economic stability and growth,” Boediono told several journalists and foreign diplomats at the Jakarta Foreign Correspon-dence Club on Monday.

The vice president forecast that the rupiah will become stable in 2014, amidst a stronger and tighter monetary situation.

Boediono noted that by the end of 2013, the inflation rate is predicted to reach eight percent

or more, as compared to the national average figure of four to five percent noted in the last few years.

“The eight percent inflation rate is triggered by several factors, including hikes in fuel oil prices and the rise in prices of non-rice food products,” he added.

Laying focus on economic growth and stability, the vice president stated that Indonesia is perceived by the international community as a country with good economic growth.

AntaraJAKARTA - Floods triggered

by incessant rains have hit the Cilacap district in the Central Java province, inundating 855 houses in six villages since Sunday.

The Ciberem River in Cila-cap had overflowed and caused the flooding, with water levels rising up to one meter, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, a spokesman for the National Disaster Miti-gation Agency (BNPB), said on Tuesday.

The flood-affected villages are Sidareja, Tegalsari, Sidamu-lya, Margasari, Tinggarjaya and Gunungreja in the Sidareja sub-district of Cilacap district.

At least 20 families have been evacuated to a Sidareja military building due to the floods. Relief aids, such as instant noodles and mineral water, have been distrib-uted to the flood victims.

Nugroho reminded Indone-sian people, particularly those residing in East Java, West Java, Central Java and Lampung, to be on alert during January and February, which is the peak of the rainy season.

Meanwhile, floods had in-undated 1.6 thousand houses in Dayeuhkolot, Bandung district

in the West Java province, after the Citarum river breached its banks on Sunday.

“At least 1,600 houses were inundated in the Dayeuhkolot sub-district. We are still col-lecting information about the number of houses that have been flooded in Baleendah. There are at least three thousand resi-dences in Baleendah, who are vulnerable to flooding,” said the Coordinator for the Local Disas-ter Mitigation Team (Tagana), Dadang Wahidin, in Bandung, West Java, on Monday.

Dadang pointed out that at least 464 families had been evacuated to safer locations because of the floods.

He noted that nine evacuation shelters had been established to help people, namely at the Dayeuhkolot Administration building, the Pasawahan Hall, the Pasawahan 8 Elementary School building, the Al Amanah Mosque, the Al Hilal Mosque, the P.L.N. Mosque and the Dayeuhkolot Military Rayon office.

Heavy rains since Sunday have caused the Citarum river to overflow its banks, leading to floods in Dayeuhkolot and Baleendah.

Economy predicted to grow by six percent in 2014

AntaraJAKARTA - Vice President Boediono expressed optimism that

the Indonesian economy will grow by five to six percent in 2014, with controllable inflation and an improved food price index.

Overflowing Ciberem River floods 855 houses

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Andrea Ruth Waldeck, center, is escorted out of a holding cell by a police officer and a prosecutor after her trial hearing at Surabaya District Court in Surabaya, East Java, Indo-nesia, Monday, Dec. 16, 2013.

Prosecutor sought 16 years’ jail for Briton

Madsen said the fire destroyed the home of Big Sur Fire Chief Martha Karstens. “She left thinking that she was going to go protect other people’s homes,” Madsen said, “and it turns out that her own home has been consumed.” Offi-cials were hopeful that they could contain the blaze this week.

“This is a completely wind-driven fire,” Madsen said. “We’re cautiously optimistic that we’re going to pin this thing down within

the next couple of days.” The Red Cross set up an overnight shelter for people who have been displaced by the fire, Madsen said. Big Sur is a popular tourist destination along the Central California coast with high-end resorts and beautiful views of the Pacific Ocean.

Residences were scattered in the path of the fire that was being battled by 625 firefighters. Officials also brought in air tankers and he-licopters. Evacuations of the area

remained in effect as of 10:30 p.m. Monday. The cause of the fire was under investigation. A wildfire so late in the year is unusual but not surprising given that California is in the midst of the driest calendar year on record.

A lightning-sparked wildfire in 2008 forced the evacuation of Big Sur and blackened 250 square miles (650 square kilometers) before it was contained. That blaze burned more than a dozen homes.

Reuters

JUBA - Gunfire rang out again in South Sudan’s capital Juba late on Monday hours after President Salva Kiir said his forces had quelled an “attempted coup” by supporters of his sacked deputy. Kiir earlier said fighters loyal to former vice presi-dent Riek Machar had attacked an army base into the early hours of Monday morning, but the military was in control. He imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew.

After the streets emptied, and thousands of locals took refuge in U.N. compounds in Juba, diplomats and a U.N. official reported hearing fresh shooting from around 10 p.m. (1900 GMT) in the city’s Tomping neighborhood.

“We too have heard the gun-shots in Tomping. Really urging everyone to stay indoors and stay

safe,” the U.S. embassy in Juba said on its Twitter feed. Mobile phone networks were down across the capital. The U.N. official, who asked not to be named, told Reuters they had turned out the lights to avoid attracting attention. The gov-ernment has struggled to establish a functioning state since declaring independence from Sudan in 2011 to become Africa’s newest nation.

Kiir dismissed Machar after mounting public criticism at the government’s failure to deliver better public services in the oil-producing nation, which is the size of France but barely has any tarmac roads. The two men are from dif-ferent ethnic groups which have clashed in the past. Machar has said he wants to run for president.

Heavy gunfire and blasts first erupted late Sunday and into early morning, then appeared to die

down by midday, as government soldiers patrolled the streets and set up roadblocks, said witnesses. Kiir appeared on national televi-sion on Monday afternoon, flanked by ministers and wearing combat fatigues rather than his usual civil-ian clothes.

He said the fighting broke out after an unidentified person fired shots in the air near a ruling party conference.

“This was followed later by an attack at the SPLA (South Sudan army) headquarters near Juba University by a group of soldiers allied to the former vice-president Dr Riek Machar and his group. These attacks continued until this morning,” he said. “However, I would like to inform you, at the outset, that your gov-ernment is in full control of the security situation in Juba.”

Associated Press Writer

CAIRO — Egyptian security forces fought pitched street battles with dozens of university students outside their Cairo campus Monday, firing tear gas to disperse rock-throwing protesters and prevent their rally from reaching the nearby defense ministry. Security officials said 25 students were arrested for blocking traffic. A security official said one was carrying shotgun ammunition and a tear gas canister, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief reporters.

Dozens of students pelted the forces with rocks, some pick-ing up tear gas canisters and lobbing them back. Students, some wearing face masks, used metal bars and garbage cans to build barricades. The students were demonstrating Monday outside Ain Shams University in eastern Cairo as part of a spreading protest movement in universities against the cur-rent authorities.

Supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi have been staging near-daily protests since his removal from office in July, concentrating lately on universities. The pro-tests have often ended in violence, with police using tear gas, water cannons and shotguns to disperse demonstrators. Protests have intensified in the Islamic Al-Azhar University and the prestigious University of Cairo.

In response to the steady protests, authorities have passed a highly criticized law banning rallies without prior permits from authorities. It has caused an outcry from non-Islamist youth groups — many of whom were at the forefront of the 2011 uprising that forced longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak from power, as well as protests against Morsi and the mili-tary.

Authorities arrested two dozen of the non-Islamist protest-ers, including prominent activists, and have sent them to trial for violating the law by protesting it without prior permits in a sign they have little tolerance for any dissent.

In defiance of the law, hundreds of activists rallied Monday near Tahrir Square to commemorate bloody clashes between anti-military protesters and security forces two years ago when at least 17 protesters were killed. The demonstrators, largely secular and liberal groups, marched to the Cabinet building, where the clashes took place in December 2011, demanding that officials and police in charge at the time be brought to trial. The protesters asked for no prior permit for their rally, and authorities didn’t confront them.

The December 2011 clashes were one of the early harsh security crackdowns on post-Mubarak protests. Soldiers and police were filmed dragging women by their hair, stomping on the bare chest of one veiled woman, and lobbing rocks and furniture at protesters. At least 17 were killed in three days of clashes after security forces stormed a peaceful sit-in outside the Cabinet demanding an end to military rule.

At the time, Morsi’s group, the Muslim Brotherhood, stayed away from and criticized the protests which took place during parliamentary elections. The Brotherhood won a majority in those elections.

Raising white flags bearing the faces of those killed during the clashes, the protesters banging drums chanted: “Down with the regime!” “We are reminding the people that we got no ret-ribution for those killed since 2011,” said Abdullah Shabaan, a 24-year-old protester. “We also want to tell the authorities and (military chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah) el-Sissi that beating and repression will not silence us, or make us stay home.”

After less than an hour, some protesters pelted the police force guarding the Cabinet entrance with rocks— prompting a few rounds of projectiles that ended the rally.

Also Monday, security officials in the Sinai Peninsula said army troops killed a lead militant suspected of being behind the killing of 16 soldiers in a brazen attack in summer 2012.

Egypt students clash with police at university

Fire crews work to contain the fire atop Pfeiffer Ridge, Monday,

Dec. 16, 2013, in Big Sur, Calif. The wildfire burning Monday in the Big

Sur area of California destroyed at least 15 homes and forced

about 100 people to evacuate as it chewed through dry vegetation on

its way toward the ocean.

Big Sur fire destroys 15 homes, forces 100 to flee

Associated Press Writer

BIG SUR, California — A wildfire burning Monday in the Big Sur area of California destroyed at least 15 homes and forced about 100 people to evacuate as it chewed through dry vegetation on its way toward the ocean. No injuries were reported. The fire burned about 500 acres (200 hectares) in the Pfeiffer Ridge area of Los Padres National Forest near state Highway 1, with 0 percent containment, Los Padres National Forest spokesman Andrew Madsen said.

AP Photo/Nic Coury

Gunshots ring out in South Sudan capital after ‘attempted coup’

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BEIJING — Apple Inc. might have a chance to pep up cooling iPhone sales in China if it finally can reach a deal with the world’s biggest phone carrier.

Once China’s must-have gadget, the iPhone has seen its explosive popularity squeezed as the market filled with lower-priced rivals from Samsung to am-bitious local brands. Some analysts say anybody who wants an iPhone and can afford it already has one.

That might change if Apple can gain access to China Mobile Ltd.’s network and a new pool of potential customers.

After a yearslong courtship, there are signs the two corporate giants might finally be edging toward a deal. The Wall Street Journal said it could be an-nounced as early as this week, though China Mobile spokespeople have said the companies were still talking.

On Monday, China Mobile’s website was taking orders for a mystery phone called “Ming Xing,” or Bright Star. It showed a handset silhouette like that of an iPhone but gave no brand name.

The timing looks right. Just as Apple’s sales growth in China cools, China Mobile received ap-proval Dec. 5 to start operating the world’s fourth-generation network and needs to market it.

State-owned China Mobile has more than 750 mil-lion mobile accounts. But its new 4G system — based on China’s homegrown TD-LTTE standard — is unfamiliar to demanding Chinese customers.

The iPhone’s glamor might help to win them over.

Forecasts of additional iPhone sales in China vary widely, from 10 million to as many as 40 mil-lion units. That would be on top of the 50 million iPhones analysts estimate have been sold in China in the past 2½ years.

Apple already has agreements with China’s two smaller state-owned carriers, China Telecom Ltd. and China Unicom Ltd. They have 180 million and 275 million mobile accounts, respectively. Almost anywhere else, that would make them the biggest national carrier. But together they are barely half of China Mobile’s total.

Customers who already own iPhones might switch to China Mobile for data as well as voice service, Bernstein said. That would mean a surge in business for China Mobile but little payoff for Apple.

“We could see an initial surge in iPhones follow-ing availability at China Mobile, but weaker sales going forward,” Bernstein said in a report.

Apple could use the boost. Two years ago, ea-ger buyers in Beijing waited overnight in freezing weather for the iPhone 4S. But that excitement had dissipated by this year’s September release of the latest update, the 5S. Customers who bought earlier iPhones said it offered too few improvements.

That is especially problematic because China is a key part of Apple’s growth plans. CEO Tim Cook told the official Xinhua News Agency in January he expects China will surpass the United States as its biggest market.

One quirky asset in China Mobile’s favor: Classic phone numbers.

In China, mobile numbers with the prefix “139” were the first issued in the 1990s. Today, they suggest the user is well-established enough to have been a customer back when a mobile handset cost several months of a laborer’s wages.

Mobile numbers are assigned in blocks to car-riers. Only China Mobile, the first carrier, has the “139” group.

Buyers who want both an iPhone and a classic number would have only one place to go: China Mobile.

US and EU trade officials re-turned to the US capital, where the talks began in July, to ham-mer out the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, an ambitious agreement to expand trade, investment and regulatory cooperation.

Announced by President Ba-rack Obama and EU leaders last February, the drive aims to further enhance the current trade relation-ship, which already averages low tariffs and is the world’s largest, accounting for nearly half of global economic output.

Both sides see opportunities to reduce non-tariff trade barriers in a bid to stimulate new businesses and job growth.

Transatlantic trade and in-vestment currently supports 13 million jobs on both sides of the Atlantic, and the US and the EU are continuing to suffer high un-employment in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis.

After last month’s second round of TTIP talks in Brussels, officials reported progress in discussions on services and investment.

The new five-day round should set the ground for a political stock-taking by EU Trade Com-missioner Karel De Gucht and US Trade Representative Michael Froman in early 2014, the EU said.

At stake are a range of issues, from food and aviation safety, to electric car standards and

energy.Among the major challenges

facing the working-level teams -- headed by EU chief negotiator Ignacio Garcia Bercero and his US counterpart, Dan Mullaney -- is market access for financial services, with the Europeans in particular pushing for greater har-monization on regulations.

The EU wants “a better frame-work for regulators to cooper-ate,” said an EU official who spoke recently on condition of anonymity.

The official said that nego-tiators have discussed energy, particularly gas imports, and the impact of hydraulic fracturing at every round so far, with the EU looking to ensure legal certainty with no restrictions on exports from the US to the EU.

The United States currently has a licensing regime for energy exports. The gas produced by the fracking revolution gives the US a potentially huge economic competitive advantage, the of-ficial said, insisting there was no reason for it to be reserved for US users.

The EU estimates a TTIP deal would bring annual benefits of 119 billion euros ($164 billion) for the bloc’s 28 member states and 500 million people, and only slightly less for the United States.

US and EU leaders have set their sights on completing an agreement by late 2014.

US, EU hold third round of free-trade trade talksAgence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - The United States and the European Union entered a third round of trade negotiations Monday in Washing-ton aimed at creating a powerful free-trade bloc to boost their economies and jobs.

AP Photo/Ng Han GuanA woman talks to a salesperson in front of an advertisement for iPhones at Apple’s retail store in Beijing Monday, Dec. 16, 2013.

Possible China deal could pep up iPhone sales

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A unique attraction is held during the proces-sion on the piodalan or anniversary of Samuan-tiga Temple, Bedulu, Gianyar. Local devotees perform a mass sacred cultural show called Siat Sampian or Sampian War. This attraction is a war performed in a playing atmosphere. The weapon used by participants is called sampian, a young leaf arrangement used in the ritual.

This war was carried out by women and men who have been in a trance designated by local deities or God Almighty through an initiation ceremony. Participants of the war will attack one another regardless of the opponents and friends. Such an attraction is held once a year, right three days after the ritual pinnacle falling on full moon of the eleventh month in Balinese calendar (around May).

Local people divide this attraction into two kinds, namely the one performed by women’s group is called Jro Permas, while the men’s group is called Parekan. Jro Permas has ap-proximately 35 members, while Parekan group has hundreds of people.

It is begun by Jero Permas and takes place from sunrise until midday. These women play-ers will dance or nampiog around the temple for 11 times clockwise. This activity is conducted in the middle courtyard by imitating the wave motion. All the players line up by holding the other’s hands, moving back and forth in front of the shrines.

Their movement looks like a fish catcher us-ing conical nets (juru pencar) and it is repeated again and again as well as followed by flying movement like birds while taking a sampian (arrangement of young coconut leaf) at certain shrine. Each player then takes a sampian and then holds a war. In the war, all the players do not distinguish which ones are friends or enemies. They will chase each other, hit each other or pull to one side. Such an attraction is accompanied by gamelan orchestra in a very dynamic rhythm.

If each Jro Premas has managed to beat an-other player up to three times, then the attraction can be ended. All the sampian weapons used will be returned to its original place.

The next battle is the turn of men’s group involving huge number of participants. At first, they move by imitating the movement of wave as practiced by Jro Permas. Afterward, they run around the temple for three times clockwise and then say prayers together.

Although the players already get possessed by the spirit of struggle, the Siat Sampian may not yet begin. This Parekan group should get around the temple for three times while holding sampian. Having done this, the atmosphere of war begins where participants no longer dis-tinguish the opponents, friends, uncle or other relatives. They wave the sampian like mace and spear. Happiness and excitement expression can be clearly seen on the participants. Every par-ticipant looks satisfied and pleased as they can devote something to their deities sincerely.

A lecturer at the State Institute of Hindu Dharma (IHDN) Denpasar, Dr. I Gusti Ngurah Sudiana, said that water in this life did not only exist in the universe, but also within the human body called toya or yeh. Function of water within the body had a close connection to the water in universe. Water in human body supported the entire body with a different name. Water as the source of life existing in human body was called amniotic fluid, tear, sweat, blood, mucus and other fluids. All the liquids were called apah where each had its own strength and god. “The entire water sub-stance in the universe and within human body can give life,” he said.

Universe without water would dry and die. Similarly, without water, the human body would heat up, tension rose and the body seemed aflame. In essence, if there was no water in the life, the universe would not exist.In the universe, there were five kinds of water substance always used by the Hindu community in any ceremony called Panca Tirtha. They consisted of honey, clear water, rice wine, palm wine and arrack, while the one within the body was called Pancha Toya.

Hindu community in Bali recognized 33 kinds of holy water. Therefore, people were required to maintain the presence of water by spiritual path. For example, sea water was maintained in a spiritual way through ceremony called segara kertih, lake (danu kertih) and forest (wana kertih). Water sources were purified because they were taken advantage to carry out the Melasti ceremony. The ceremony to usher in the divine effigies into the water sources was believed to become Tirtha Amrita (water of life) from the ocean. “On that account, the water sources are main-tained and made ceremonies and shrines (abode) of Lord Vishnu called bedugul,” he explained.

Well, to maintain the existing water in human body was also through spiritual path. For example, melukat or purifica-tory rite was carried out by holy water or bathing in the springs having been equipped with the offerings. Sudiana admitted that Hindu society had various types of ceremonies associated with the maintenance of water. It was clearly dis-cernible in various ceremonial activities undertaken by farmers through social organization known as subak. This ir-rigation system in Bali had the rules and respected the water.

One of the activities was welcom-ing water for irrigating their fields. Such sacred ritual made the paddy field sacred. Anyone should not be doing obscene things, disposing feces and doing other activities. “The philosophy

of water in the field is closely related to Goddess Sri denoting the shakti (con-sort) of Lord Vishnu,” he explained. Farmers also maintained the sanctity of water resources by holding ceremonies such as pakelem, melasti and nangluk merana. These ceremonies would not only purify the water, but also the place and surrounding areas. On that account, the Hindus dared not disturb the water source.“People that do not love water, they will lack of water and even it can cause death and disease. Therefore, water should be rigorously maintained. Where there is a water source or water flow, it is strictly prohibited to discard carcasses, urine, feces, toxins and waste,” he said.

Farmers in Bali believed that Lord Vishnu as the symbol of purusha (male) was associated with water and Goddess Sri as a symbol of pradhana (female) as-sociated with seeds/seedlings. “It is the element of water with the seeds creating the life,” he explained. Balinese people had the ways to maintain the sanctity and beauty of water resources. One of them was by providing mythology so that no one bothered the water. For example, people were not allowed to use water carelessly and rudely, but there were steps for people to take water and should not take it directly to the source. “When violated, they believe that they will get reprimand from God,” he said.

Hindu society did not dare to blas-pheme and uttered impolite words to water that had been sanctified. Otherwise, the efficacy of water would turn bad. Es-pecially, in Bali the clean and pure water were different. Clean water that had not got spells (mantra) was called toya ning, while holy water that had got spells or had been purified with mantra had different sacredness from the water that had not. “So, the water is really extraordinary and humans can survive for months only with water, but humans will overheat without drinking water during the day,” he said.

Another mythology was mention-ing that large trees located near water sources could not be cut down because it was very sacred. It was one of the reasons why many large trees could be found at water sources. Even, some were given the identity of sanctity as bound with checkered clothes, completed with shrines and consecrated. “Philosophi-cally, a tree symbolizes prosperity that holds the groundwater. Tree serves to supply water, so that it should be pre-served physically and spiritually. By spiritual manner, the tree is given ritual on Tumpek (Saturday Kliwon) Wariga,” added Sudiana. (kmb)

Preserving water from the eyes of HindusIBP

DENPASAR - Water is the most important element of universe, either for

supporting life in microcosm or macrocosm. In the concept of Hindu com-munity in Bali, water is highly purified because it belongs to the part in what the so-called apah in the Panca Mahabhuta or five great elements of nature. Water lies in the control of Lord Vishnu, serving as the operator. Balinese people believe the presence of water is not just for cooking, bathing and wash-ing clothes. Water is also a part of spiritual ceremonies to make tirtha (holy water). As mentioned in Old Javanese that tirtha or spiritually purified water is good for people who are still alive, the dead and the universe.

Cultural Attraction

Siat Sampian: A sacred attraction at Samuantiga Temple

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The shopping list is part of efforts by Abe to normalise the military in Ja-pan, which has been officially pacifist since defeat in World War II. Its well-equipped and highly professional ser-vices are limited to a narrowly defined self-defensive role. It comes with the establishment of a US-style National Security Council that is expected to concentrate greater power in the hands of a smaller number of senior politi-cians and bureaucrats.

Fears are growing in Japan over the rising power of China, with the two countries embroiled in a dispute over the sovereignty of a group of islands in the East China Sea, and the perennial menace posed by an unpre-dictable North Korea. New guidelines approved by the cabinet on Tuesday said Tokyo will introduce a “dynamic joint defence force”, intended to help air, land and sea forces work together more effectively.

Abe said the shift would allow Japan’s military to better shoulder its responsibilities on the global stage, through what he has promoted as “pro-active pacifism”. “We hope to make

further contributions to the peace and stability of the international commu-nity through proactive pacifism,” he said. “This shows with transparency our country’s diplomatic and defence policies.”

Spending will be raised to 24.7 trillion yen over five years from April 2014, up from the present 23.5 trillion yen over the five years to March 2014, but the figure could be trimmed by up to 700 billion yen if the defence minis-try can find savings and efficiencies.

New hardware will include three drones, 52 amphibious vehicles, 17 Osprey hybrid choppers and five submarines -- all designed to boost maritime surveillance and bolster defence of islands. The spending will also encompass two destroyers equipped with the Aegis anti-missile system and 28 new F-35 fighter jets, a stealth plane far superior to the F-15s that Japan currently has in service.

Analysts noted that much of this kit will replace obsolete equipment, but the shift in military priorities is evident. “The guidelines under-score a clear shift of Japan’s major

defence focus to the protection of its islands in the East China Sea,” said Hideshi Takesada, an expert on regional security at Takushoku University in Tokyo.

During the Cold War, Japan’s military was largely static, with the majority of resources in the north and east to guard against any invasion by Russia. But changing dynamics and in particular the rise of China -- where double-digit rises in defence spending are the annual norm -- mean that Japan’s armed forces need to be located further south and to be able to deploy to the country’s many far-flung islands.

“The guidelines show Japan’s readiness for practical defence if China’s bluff turns to be real military action,” Takesada said. Regional tensions were ratcheted up last month when China abruptly declared a new Air Defence Iden-tification Zone over the East China Sea, including over disputed Tokyo-controlled islands called Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese.

Associated Press Writer

RIO DE JANEIRO — National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden wrote in “an open letter to the Brazilian people” that he would be willing to help Brazil’s government investigate U.S. spying on its soil, but that he could do so only if granted political asylum.

In a letter obtained and published early Tuesday by the respected Folha de S. Paulo newspaper, Snowden said he’s been impressed by the Brazilian government’s strong criticism of the massive NSA spy program targeting Internet and telecommunications around the globe, including monitoring the mobile phone of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.

Brazilian senators have asked for Snowden’s help during hearings about the NSA program’s aggressive targeting of Brazil, an important transit hub for trans-Atlantic fiber optic cables that are hacked. “I’ve expressed my willingness to assist where it’s appropriate and legal, but, unfortunately, the U.S. government has been working hard to limit my ability to do so,” said the letter, translated into Portuguese by the newspaper. It didn’t make the English original available online.

“Until a country grants me permanent political asylum, the U.S. government will continue to interfere with my ability to speak out,” the letter added. Early morning calls to Brazil’s presidential office and to the Foreign Ministry rang unanswered.

Britain’s Guardian newspaper first published accounts of the NSA’s spy programs in June, based on some of the thousands of documents Snowden handed over to the Brazil-based American journalist Glenn Greenwald and his reporting partner Laura Poitras, a U.S. filmmaker.

Rousseff canceled an October visit to Washington that was to include a state dinner. She has joined Germany in pushing for the United Na-tions to adopt a symbolic resolution which seeks to extend personal privacy rights to all people.

Rousseff has also ordered her government to take several measures, including laying fiber optic lines directly to Europe and South American nations, in an effort to “divorce” Brazil from the U.S.-centric backbone of the Internet that experts say has facilitated NSA spying.

The Snowden letter was published one day after a U.S. district judge ruled that the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of millions of Americans’ telephone records likely violates the U.S. Constitution’s ban on unreasonable search. The case is likely to go all the way the Supreme Court for a final decision.

AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, FileFILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012 file photo, members of Japan Ground Self-Defense Force rappell down from a UH-60JA helicopter during the annual live-fire drill at the Higashi Fuji training range in Gotemba, southwest of Tokyo.

Japan invests in new military kit as China row simmers

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Tokyo - Japan announced Tuesday it will buy stealth fighters, drones and submarines as part of a splurge on military hardware that will beef up defence of far-flung islands amid a simmering territorial row with China. The cabinet of hawkish Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed to spend 24.7 trillion yen ($240 billion) between 2014 and 2019 in a strategic shift towards the south and west of the country -- a five percent boost to the military budget over five years.

AP Photo/The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, FileFILE - This June 9, 2013 file photo provided by The Guardian News-paper in London shows National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, in Hong Kong. Snowden wrote in “an open letter to the Brazilian people” published early Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013 by the respected Folha de S.

Snowden would help Brazil if given asylum

Bali PostDENPASAR - Legal action against people violating the smoke-free zone

(KTR) has begun to be implemented. A total of 35 smoking people were net-ted. They were netted at Sanglah Hospital (25 people) and Kapal Hospital (3 people). The smokers netted were directly undergoing a trial on Monday (Dec 16). However, of the 35 smokers successfully netted, only 25 people attended the trial while the remaining people did not.

The trial was held in the Polyclinic of Sanglah Hospital in cooperation with the Bali Municipal Police (Satpol PP), Bali Health Agency, Child Protection Institute and Tobacco Control Network. Action Division Head of the Municipal Police, I Ketut Gede Arnawa, explained that in accordance with the applicable law anyone found smoking in the smoke-free zone could be charged with three-month imprisonment or a fine of IDR 50,000. However, in the trial led by the judge on Monday, the 25 violators were sentenced to a two-month trial.

“When rediscovered smoking in the free-smoke zone, the violators can be sent directly to jail,” said Arnawa. With the inspection and instant trial, it was expected to direct more people to adhere to the rules and never smoke haphaz-ardly in the smoke-free zone. Meanwhile, an activist from the Tobacco Control Network, Titik Suariati, said that people were still not aware of the regulation regarding the ban of smoking in the smoke-free zone.

“It can be seen from the presence of many smokers netted in the hospital, whereas the hospital is one of the smoke-free zones,” she said. She suggested in order the inspection and trial could be increasingly disseminated so that people were progressively aware of the information on the Regional Bylaw regarding the Smoke-free Zone. One of the smokers undergoing the trial, Wayan Sudiana, claimed to know about the smoke-free zone but he did not know for sure wherever it was applicable. “As far as I know, the smoke-free zone is the area which is free from cigarette butts. I saw the cigarette butts and no notice mentioned the ban of smoking, so then I smoked,” said Sudiana who was caught smoking at Sanglah Hospital.

The Division Head of Legal and Public Relations of Sanglah Hospital, Putu Putra Widasa, explained that Sanglah Hospital had socialized the smoke-free zone by distributing flyers and billboards at some points at the hospital. “We have no authority to arrest the violating smokers. So, if people are caught smoking, we just reprimanded them,” he said. (san)

On Monday (Dec 16), the officers of the Quick Response Unit of the Gianyar Regional Mitigation Agency (BPBD) were seen to evacuate the avalanche and the fallen banyan tree of 30 meters high. At the location of the Beji Temple under the Gunung Merta grew a banyan tree and sat a spring usually used as the venue for melasti or purificatory rite for temple paraphernalia and effigies in every piodalan or anniversary of the Gunung Merta Temple. The banyan tree of some decades old had lush foliage. Due to the rain, the soil around the tree was estimated to turn unstable, so it then caused the

landslide and fallen banyan tree that toppled over the temple shrines.

Chief of Subak Gede, Wayan Pageh, said the damaged shrines were the guardian and chamber shrines. It had not been calculated about the losses caused by the natural disasters. “We will soon call the residents for a meeting to discuss about the matter,” he explained.

Avalanche and the collapse of banyan tree in the Beji Temple also resulted in the collapse of the irrigation channel. All this time, the channel was used by two subak groups. They were Subak Roras with the area of 6.5 hectares and

Subak Bunu Saba with the area of 4.5 hectares. Currently, the paddy plants at the two subak areas were 1-2 weeks old.

Secretary of the BPBD Gian-yar, Pande Supartha, when met at the location said the rain falling for a few days had made the soil condition unstable. The avalanche and fallen banyan tree incident as reported by local resident was esti-mated to happen around 4:30 p.m. The evacuation could have just been completed in the following day. Meanwhile, the calculation on the losses would be carried out by a survey team which would go down to location. (kmb16)

Bali PostGIANYAR - Existence of a number of villas whose location was difficult to

reach did not close the possibility to be taken advantage for the venue of drug party. This was confirmed by Chief of Narcotics Section of Gianyar Police, Eko Kurniawan, with permission from the Chief of Gianyar Police, Monday (Dec 16), on the press conference related to the arrest of the culprit known to keep drugs, Komang W. He was arrested due to possession of crystal meth weigh-ing 1.15 grams divided into six packs, last Friday. Komang W was a recidivist released in 2011 with a sentence of 4 years and 3 months.

Accompanied by the Spokesperson of Gianyar Police, Ketut Alit Sudarsana, Eko Kurniawan said the potential of drug trafficking in Gianyar during the New Year was a phenomenon. Moreover, the media mentioned that Bali was a paradise and target for the distribution of drugs. There was possibility if the New Year’s Eve would be taken advantage by people having less understanding to hold a drug party. “It is based on testimonies from a number of suspects,” he said. For prevention, his party had mapped and placed a number of personnel to take precautions as early as possible coupled with some operations such as the Social Disease Operation as well as Situation and Condition Operation. “We are preventing so that ahead of the New Year and the day of celebration can also be monitored intensively,” he said.

The obstacles faced in the preventive measures were related to geographical condition, information and location. Terrain obstacle, for instance, was related to remote location that could possibly be taken advantage for drug party by the owner or the lessor. Most villas alleged to have been used for the venue of drug party were located far away from the community. So, there was possibility of becoming the target of drug users to organize the party. “This condition makes the ranks of Gianyar Police Narcotics Section to improve their oversight,” he said.

Meanwhile, a total of 13 cases of crystal meth from 14 suspects could be revealed in 2013. And, within the past three months, five cases could be re-vealed. From the existing cases, they mostly involved the people from outside Gianyar. In the transaction, the culprits applied a cross system. For instance, people from outside Gianyar made transaction in Gianyar, and conversely, the Gianyar residents made transaction in Denpasar. (kmb16)

IBP/FileThe officers are cutting the tree that collapse and blocked the irigation channel in Gianyar

Avalanche and fallen tree

Topples over Beji Temple and collapses irrigation channelBali Post

GIANYAR - An avalanche and fallen banyan tree occurred after consecutive rains since Sunday after-noon. Both incidents afflicted the Beji Temple as sacred bathing place of Lord Gunung Merta and broke down the irrigation channel of Subak Sumita, Sumita village, Gianyar subdistrict. Two shrines, namely the guardian and chamber shrine existing in the Beji Temple complex, were badly damaged.

Villa turns vulnerable for venue of drug party

Smoke-free zone raided at Sanglah Hospital

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The three fishing boats were the KM God Bless II taken by captain Fiibadi having no operation seaworthy permit (SLO), KM Tawakal driven by Mukelar (no document at all) and KM Tirta Kencono without seawor-thy permit and sailing permit. The three fishing boats had anchored at the Nusantara Fishery Port (PPN) of Pengambengan for a day. The own-ers were asked to complete all the paperwork while sailing and allowed to sail again after completing those documents.

“On average, the owners of fishing boat in Jembrana have already com-plied with the rules, but now there are fishing boats from outside Jembrana that do not even bring along with document,” said the Head of Jembrana Maritime Affairs, Made Dwi Mahari-mbawa, accompanied by the Acting Division Head of Maritime Affairs, IGN Indrawan, Monday (Dec 16). The fishing boats from outside Bali were considered to have exceeded the catching zone and no the paperwork (illegal fishing).

The agency had also made coordi-nation with the province related to long process taken for submitting a fishing permit as complained by fishing boat owners. To shorten the licensing pro-cess, the authority was then handed it over to the Bali Investment and Li-censing Office. Of the 33 fishing boats proposing the new permit, all had been issued. Meanwhile, six fishing boats had not taken their permit yet.

Maharimbawa added that since this month other than controlling the waters, the team was also targeting a number of fishery businesses located in the coastal areas from Cupel to Gilimanuk. At least, the team could inspect five fishing companies such as ponds, ornamental fish business and pearl cultivation.

“All businesses have owned the permit and their levies have been paid in accordance with the Regional Bylaw No.13/2012 on Levies of Par-ticular Licensing,” he explained. This effort was to check the extent to which the regulation of maritime resources could have been applied. (kmb26)

Bali Post

DENPASAR - After vigorous raid into the night entertainment ven-ues, the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) of Denpasar is now targeting the police authority. Hundreds of cops from the Denpasar Metro Police un-derwent a sudden urine test, Monday (Dec 16). Aside from non-commis-sioned officers, all officers, including the Chief of Denpasar Metro Police, Djoko Hariutomo, and Deputy Chief I Gusti Kade Budi Harryarsana, should also take the test.

Such urine test was conducted to determine whether in each of the cops in the Denpasar Metro Police was found drug substance or not. Later on, if the urine test indicated a positive result in drug substance, the person-nel involved would be firmly taken action pursuant to prevailing rules.

Unfortunately, the test results could not be directly known on the same day. However, they should be waiting as the test involved 600 personnel.

When met amidst the urine test, Chief Djoko Hariutomo said his party deliberately did not tell the members about the urine test. It posed his ini-tiative in cooperation with the BNN Denpasar. “This (urine test) is my own initiative. If I inform this in advance, of course it is not an impromptu,” explained the highest-rank officer in the Denpasar Metro Police.

He explained there were at least 600 personnel required to undergo the urine tests. In addition to non-commissioned officers, all the officers in the Denpasar Metro Police and Subdistrict Police throughout Den-pasar were also involved.

It was carried out to find out whether there were cops using drugs.

If any indication showed a positive result, they would be surely imposed with decisive action. “We (police authority—Ed) have an ethical code of discipline. Yes, I will certainly take action pursuant to the rules,” he said.

After getting a briefing from the police chief, one by one of the cops directly underwent the urine test and gathered in the hall. They were re-spectively given a bottle to hold the urine and directly submitted to the BNN officer.

Meanwhile, Spokesperson of Denpasar Metro Police, IB Sarjana, admitted that his party had not yet received the results of the urine test of the members. “Until now (Mon-day afternoon—Ed), it has not been received. As involving too many personnel, the results will be given by the BNN,” he said. (kmb21)

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There are still many fishing boats from outside Bali operating in Jembrana waters and did illegal fishing.

Illegal fishing from outside Bali turns rampantBali Post

NEGARA - When the Maritime, Fisheries and Forestry Agency is actively instilling the awareness to fishing boat owners in order to complete themselves with paperwork and permits, in fact there are still many fishing boats from outside Bali operating in Jembrana waters and did illegal fishing. Three fishing boats weighing below 30 GT from Muncar, Banyuwangi, were recently caught red-handed by the Maritime Resources Monitoring Team when they were sailing and fishing without document.

IBP/Eka Adhiyasa

After vigorous raid into the night entertainment venues, the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) of Denpasar is now targeting the police authority. Hundreds of cops from the Denpasar Metro Police underwent a sudden urine test, Monday (Dec 16).

Breakthrough of BNN Denpasar 600 cop personnel undergo urine test

In the past, I’ve simply turned off my phone’s cellular connec-tions while abroad. But nearly three weeks in Thailand and Cambodia earlier this year proved too long to stay away from email, Facebook, Instagram, Foursquare and other time sinks.

If you’re traveling internation-ally, check with your carrier on whether your phone will even work with cellular networks abroad. If it doesn’t, you can still use apps through Wi-Fi connections at hotels and malls. Your phone company might even rent or loan a compat-ible phone.

— ASSESS YOUR NEEDS:

Will you make a lot of calls or texts? Before I left, Verizon told me that calls would cost $1.99 a minute in Thailand and $2.89 a minute in Cambodia. No, thanks. I’ll just text people instead. To

Tech Tips: Using a phone abroad without huge fees

Associated press Writer

BANGKOK — If you have a trip outside the United States coming up, one thing you’ll likely want to bring is your cell-phone. You might have heard warnings about how those phones can accrue international charges quickly through your U.S. wireless carrier. It doesn’t have to be that way.

avoid text charges, I signed up for three free services, WhatsApp, Line and Viber. The catch is that you can text only with those on the same service, so your contacts will also have to join.

Where international use can get expensive is in data charges. Veri-zon was charging $20.48 per mega-byte in either country. Just opening the Facebook app uses more than half a megabyte. Five minutes of scrolling through friends’ posts can eat up more than 10 megabytes, or more than $200. That’s before shar-ing a single photo. Bills can reach thousands of dollars in no time. The solution is to get a data plan.

T-Mobile’s main plans now offer free text and data in more than 100 countries. Speeds are adequate for sending email and checking Face-book, though you’ll need to pay for faster speeds. Other U.S. carriers offer affordable packages, too, if you plan ahead.

Start by monitoring how you use your phone. On Android, look for

“Data usage” in the settings. On the iPhone, go to “General,” then “Us-age” under the settings. Check back in a few days or a week to see how much data you have used. Android also will tell you what apps have been using your data. Owners of iPhones can get a free app called Onavo Count. Your cellphone bill might also have information on past data use.

Keep in mind you might use your phone more than usual because you won’t be checking from regular computers at home or work. Check if your hotel offers Wi-Fi, as that might help reduce cellular use. If there’s a daily charge for Wi-Fi, your phone might still be cheaper.

To reduce data use further, turn off automatic syncing for as many apps as you can. I also kept my phone on airplane mode most of the time and allowed connections only periodically. I monitored my data usage to spot data hogs early.

— YOUR OPTIONS:

Your phone company can tell you about their packages. Although Ver-izon quoted a $20.48-per-megabyte charge, it offered me 100 megabytes for $25 in Thailand if I signed up in advance. That’s 99 percent cheaper than $2,048. I’d still have to pay

regular prices in Cambodia. Weekly and monthly rates are sometimes available as well. It varies by carrier and by country, so it’s best to check before you leave.

You can also ask about calling and texting packages. In Cambodia, for example, I could have saved 60 cents a minute on calls by paying a one-time fee of $4.99. Because my visit to Cambodia was short, I got by with the hotel’s free Wi-Fi for data and made no calls or texts. Whatever your needs, don’t commit until you explore other options.

It will likely be cheaper if you buy a phone package at your des-tination. Local carriers typically have shops at airports. In Thailand, the True mobile company offered 3 gigabytes for less than $35. Had I used Verizon’s plan, I likely would have needed a second or third block of data for $25 each. True gave me much more for much less. One drawback is I must use a temporary phone number, not my regular one back home.

If you go this route, turn off data roaming on your phone before you leave so you’re not inadvertently charged. Leave the phone on air-plane mode until the local plan is set up. If you forget, some carriers will warn you by text, but some-times after you’ve started accruing charges.

AP Photo/Seth Wenig, FIle

FILE - In this Mon-day, Dec. 27, 2010, file photo, Kevin Fagan, from San Francisco, talks on his phone while an airplane sits motion-less on the runway at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. Travel-ing internationally can provide chal-lenges to cell phone users.

— THE CATCH:

You need an unlocked phone to use another carrier’s SIM card. U.S. phones are typically locked, but major carriers will unlock them upon request after your contract is up or the phone is paid off. Some carriers will also unlock it before international travel — if you ask. Third-party services also offer to unlock the phone for you, but the legality is dubious, and you risk disabling your phone permanently.

If you don’t have an unlocked phone, try borrowing or renting one. Telestial and Cellular Abroad offer phone rentals and international data plans. They are sometimes more ex-pensive than what your U.S. carrier offers, though. You can also try to rent one at the airport when you arrive.

If you travel a lot, consider buying a cheap unlocked phone, such as the $179 Moto G. The advantage of that is you don’t have to configure it with your favorite apps and contacts each time.

I have an unlimited data plan in the U.S., so I rarely pay attention to my consumption. Traveling made me realize how precious data allotment can be. It also made me realize how valuable an unlocked phone is. The biggest tip I can offer: Don’t get rid of your old phone when you upgrade. Get it unlocked so that you’ll have that for future trips abroad.

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

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

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

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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Calendar Event for November 2 through December 11, 20132 Nov Saniscara Keliwon Kuningan.Pura Taman Pule di Mas-Ubud.Pura Ularan di Takmung-Klungkung.Pura Bukitjati di Gulingan-Kawan Bangli.

6 Nov Buda Wage Langkir.Pura Tanah Lot Kediri Tabanan.Pura Bucabe Mas Ubud.Pura Puseh Desa Ganggang-Canggi Batuan.Pura Pasek Pertukangan Kediri-Tabanan.Pura Pasek Bendesa Gulingan Mengwi.Pura Masceti Desa Sanding-Tampak Siring.Puru Luwur Batur Pucangan Buahan-Tabanan.Odalan Alit di Pura Dalem Takuran di Cemeng-goan Sukawati.Odalan Ida Ratu Sundaring Jagat Penataran Agung Besakih.Mr. Pasek Gelgel Silakarang.Pura Dalem Bangun Sakti Kapal.Pura Dalem Bias Muntig Ped-Nusa Penida.

10 Nov redite Pon Medangsia.Pura Agung Pentilan Kesiman-Denpasar.Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kerambitan Tabanan.

11 Nov Soma Wage Medangsia.Pura Nataran Desa Getas Blahbatuh.Merajan Pasek Gelgel Aan-Klungkung.Pura Pasek Bakbakan Gianyar.

12 Nov Anggara Keliwon Medangsia.Pura Pesimpangan Geria Sakti Manuaba di Yogya-karta-Sumur Lampung Selatan.Pura Luwur Uluwatu Pecatu Kuta Selatan.Pura Penataran Agung Singakerta Ubud.Pura Andakasa Karangasem.Pura Gua Lawah Klungkung.Merajan Kawitan Arya Kubontubuh Gelgel Klungkung.Pura Taman Ayun Mengwi.Pura Suralaya Banda-Klungkung.Pura Dalem Senapati Bebalang-Bangli.Pura Gadung Blahbatuh Gianyar.Pura Pasek Lurah Tutuan.Pura Pasek Gadung Kerambitan Tabanan.Pura Dalem Tugu Gelgel Klungkung.Pura Dalem Banyuning Barat-Buleleng.Odalan Sepen di Pura Puseh.Pura Desa Cemenggaon-Sukawati.Pura Pusering Jagat Pejeng-Tampaksiring.Merajan Pasek Kubayan Mengwi.Merajan Pasek Tohjiwa Gegelang-Tabanan.Pura Geria Sakti (Dang Kahyangan) Tulikup Gianyar.Pura Dalem Dauh Ubud.

13 Nov Buda Umanis Medangsia.Pura Gede Perancak-Jembrana.Pura Dalem Dauma-Batuan Sukawati.Pura Nataran Kacangdawa-Klungkung.

Odalan Bhatara Gede Apol di Ubung Denpasar.Pura Puseh Brahmana Kamasan-Klungkung.Pura Kahyangan Jagat Dalem Purwa Denbantas Tabanan.Pura Dalem Sukehet Klungkung.Pura Dalem Muaspatih Guwang Sukawati.Pura Taman Tegalalang.Pura Desa Sanding-Tampaksiring.Merajan Pasek Tohjiwa-Batanbuah-Kesiman.Merajan Pasek Tohjiwa Basangkawan.Pura Sahab Nusa Penida.Merajan Agung Gorokgak Dalem Sukawati.

14 Nov Wraspati Paing Medangsia.Pura Ulun Swi Kediri Tabanan.Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Bitra-Gianyar.

17 Nov redite Keliwon Pujut.Merajan Pasek Tohjiwa Kekeran-Mengwi.

17 Nov Purnama Kelima.Aci-aci Penaung Bayu di Pura Batumadeg di Besakih.Pura Kentel Gumi di Batur Baangli.Pura Pedarman Agung, Satria Denpasar.Pura Pemerajan Agung - Pemecutan Denpasar.Ngusaba di Pura Kehen Bangli.Pura Desa Pemenang di Lombok.Pura Agung Pasek Gelgel di Sumerta Denpasar.Pura Pasek Gobleg di Kekeran Mengwi.Pura Suranadi di Lombok.Pura Puncak Bukit Tampak Siring.Pura Dalem Puri Agung Kintamani.Pura Dalem Agung Nongan Karangasem.Pura Dalem Ubung-Kupang Dukuh Penebel-Tabanan.Pura Dalem Balingkang Kintamani.Pr. Tampurhyang Pusat Kawitan Mahagota Catur Sanak di Songan Kintamani.Pura Dalem Pulasari Desa Bantas Sudaji Buleleng.Merajan Pasek Gelgel di Lebih.Merajan Pasek Gelgel di Tulamben.Pura Penyusungan Pasek Tohjiwa Selemadeg Tabanan.Pura Pasar Agung Besakih Sebudi Karangasem.Merajan Pasek Gelgel Tengkulak Kaja.Pura Suci Desa Tianyar Kubu Karangasem.Pura Bukit Mentik ring Gunung Lebah Desa Batur Kintamani.Pura Narmada di Lombok.Pura Segara di Ampenan Lombok.Pura Ularan di Seririt Buleleng.

24 Nov redite Paing Pahang.Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kekeran Mengwi.Pura Pasek Sandra Peguyangan Badung.

26 Nov Anggara Wage Pahang.Pura Batu Madeg (Meru Tumpang Sanga) di Besakih.Pura Hyang Tibha Batuan Sakah.

27 Nov Buda Keliwon Pahang.Pura Luhur Puncak Padang Dawa Baturiti Tabanan.Pura Silayukti Padangbai-Karangasem.Pura Aer Jeruk Sukawati.Pura Dangin Pasar Batuan-Sukawati.Pura Penataran di Batuyang-Batubulan.Pura Desa Lembeng Ketewel-Sukawati.Pura Pasek Bendesa Dukuh-Kediri-Tabanan.Pura Kawitan Dalem Sukawati Gianyar.Pura Kresek Banyuning-Buleleng.Pura Puseh di Bebandem-Karangasem.Merajan Pasek Kubayan-Gaji.Merajan pasek Gelgel Jeroan Abang-Songan.Merajan Pasek Subrata Temaga.Merajan Pasek Gelgel Bungbungan.Pura Sad Kahyangan Batu Medahu Swana Nusa Penida.Pura Buda Kliwon Penatih-Denpasar.Pura Penataran Dukuh Nagasari Bebandem Karangasem.Pura Pasek Bendesa Tagtag Paguyangan.Pura Pulasari Sibang Gede Abiansemal.Pura Batur Sari Ubud.Pura Penataran Agung Sukawati.

2 Dec Soma Keliwon Krulut.Pura Pasel Gelgel Kekeran Mengwi Badung.Merajan Pasek Subadra Kramas-Gianyar.

7 Dec Tumpek Krurut.Pura Pasek Gelgel Br Tengah Buleleng.Pura Dalem Pemuteran di Desa Jelantik Tojan - Klungkung.Pura Pedarmaan Bhujangga Waisnawa di Besakih.Pura Taman Sari Desa Gunungsari Penebel - Tabanan.Pura Dalem Tarukan di Bebalang Bangli.Pura Benua Kangin Besakih.Pura Merajan Kanginan (Ida Betara Empu Beradah) di Besakih.

8 Dec redite Umanis Merakih.Pura Parangan Tengah Banjar Ceningan Kangin - Lembongan Nusa Penida.Pura Dalem Celuk Sukawati - Gianyar.

11 Dec Buda Wage Merakih.Pura Bendesa Mas Kepisah - Pedungan - Denpasar Selatan.Pura Natih Banjar Kalah - Batubulan.Pura Desa Silakarang - Singapadu.Pura dalem Petitenget - Kerobokan - Kuta.Pura Dalem Pulasari - Samplangan - Gianyar.Pura Kubayan - Kepisah - Pedungan - Denpasar - Selatan.Pura Pasek gelgel Banjar Tanahpegat - Tabanan.Pr. Paibon Banjar Bengkel - Sumerta - Denpasar.Pura Pasek Lumintang - Denpasar.Pr. Panti Penyarikan Medahan - Sanding - Tampaksiring.Pr. Pasar Agung Banjar Dauh Peken - Kaba-kaba - Tabanan.

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Grand Kuta Hotel and Residence is located in the middle of tourist area Kerobokan, Seminyak, Legian and Kuta, Dewi Sri strategic location

of streets, Legian - Bali. Near from Ngurah Rai International Airport so you will not waste much time on the road and in front of Grand Kuta Hotel and Residence there is the biggest souvenir and gift shop Krisna Bali so it would be easier for you when you go to buy presents or gift for your family and colleagues. Various names of flowers destined for every place of meeting in this hotel, such as Dandelion, Amaryllis, Jasmine and Magnolia Café can be found in the area near the lobby. Carrying the concept of a modern minimalist Magnolia Café comes in shades that are able to make the visitors comfort-able, in the morning of the restaurant glass door can be opened so that guests can enjoy breakfast with the morning sunshine. IBP/File Photo

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KUTA - Grand Kuta Hotel and residence is a modern and trendy condotel conceptualized for vacationing couples, friends and families looking for good value, ideal for either short holiday breaks or long stay assignments.

In addition Grand Kuta Hotel and Residence also provides 3 swimming pools open room ideal and fun that can be used as a banquet dinner for family outings or with colleagues. With the concept of serving BBQ food and exciting entertainment treats can be prepared for companies who wish to hold private events. For the guests who stay and want to spend his time in the room can booking room service (room service) are ready to serve for 24 hours. We also provide free surf shuttle to facilitate the guests who want to visit tourist destina-tions and shopping centre.

Grand Kuta Hotel and Resi-dence each month is always pampering the guests by giv-ing attractive discounts for the use of room facilities, spa and food and beverages. WiFi and Internet Corner also greatly help the businessmen to still be able to create reports, company records on the sidelines of the vacation.

Such condition was delivered by Headman of Lembongan, Nyo-man Murta, Monday (Dec 16). He said the ice-ice disease had begun to attack the seaweed of farmers since the beginning of December. The situation made 95 percent of local residents comprising 1,616 families who worked as seaweed farmers restless. The disease at-tacked quickly to any part of the seaweed of farmers. “When it has been infected, the seaweed will surely rot. So, when having been found rotting, it should be sorted quickly so as not to invade the other parts,” he said.

Murta said the seaweed farm-ers at his village only anticipated the disease manually, namely by sorting the affected seaweeds and immediately disposed them away. Meanwhile, the ice-ice disease commonly attached to seaweed should be removed so as not grow-ing further.

Bali PostMANGUPURA - The fate of

Latu Market revitalization in Abi-ansemal is not clear. Revitalization of the market projected into the traditional art market is still not allocated in the Badung Regional Budget 2014. The dead faint of Latu Market has reaped another public criticism. A member of Commission C of the Badung House, I Putu Alit Yandinata, ques-tioned about the further details of the Latu Market revitalization into a traditional art market, Monday (Dec 16). So far, he considered the plan was unclear or obscure.

According to him, the Latu Market revitalization plan was

a good plan. However, he was disappointed because until now it had not been realized. Even, the stages towards the revitalization seemed stagnant.

Besides, he also questioned about the funding provided by PD Pasar Badung for the Latu Market worth IDR 300 million per year. The funding to assist the Latu Market was considered ineffective because the market did not contrib-ute significantly to the develop-ment. “I do not know what does it for. It is said if the assistance is intended for the employee salaries. Has the market already produced anything for the regional devel-opment? It is not clear,” said the

PDI-P politician from Abiansemal. Further, Alit Yandinata proposed the PD Pasar Badung to make a breakthrough to empower the Latu Market. For example, the location could be taken advantage for bird contest. In this case, the PD Pasar Badung as the management could team up with the bird lover com-munity.

“Reflecting from the previous experience, the bird contest in the Latu Market was quite successful. Many people are interested in following the event. Its potential can be developed. When neces-sary, it can be converted into the Latu Bird Market. Do not let it become a location of prostitu-

tion,” he said.When asked for his confirma-

tion separately, Managing Direc-tor of PD Pasar Badung, Ketut Golak, explained that revitaliza-tion of the Latu Market had not been included in the Regional Budget 2014. Nevertheless, his party remained in the original plan to realize the Latu Market revitalization into traditional art market.

“However, the revitalization plan of the Latu Market should still have to wait for the certifica-tion process of the land. The land is owned by local government, but the management is handed over to PD Pasar Badung,” he

said while adding that his party had proposed a budget worth IDR 36 billion to revitalize the entire market under the auspices of PD Pasar Badung.

Regarding the fund worth IDR 300 million for the Latu Market, Golak denied. He mentioned that in the fund management, the PD Pasar Badung applied a central-ized system. In other words, all the incomes of the market under the auspices of PD Pasar Badung were sent to the parent company of PD Pasar Badung. From the main cash, it was then taken in accordance with each market’s need including for the employee salaries. (kmb25)

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The seaweed farmer is harvesting his crop

Production drops

Nusa Penida seaweed attacked by ice-ice diseaseBali Post

NUSA PENIDA - Bad weather happening lately made sea-weed farmers anxious. Their seaweed began to be attacked by ice-ice disease. The disease caused their seaweed to instanta-neously rot. As a result, the seaweed production of Nusa Penida, particularly Lembongan village, sharply dropped by more than 20 percent.

There was no solution to handle the disease technologically or by using certain medication. On that account, if the disease had attacked, the seaweed farmers should also pre-pare extra energy to take the disease directly and separate them from other seaweeds.

The seaweed growing at Lembon-gan village was mostly belonging to cottoni species. Murta said that farmers usually harvested seaweed every 30 days on the cultivation area spreading across less than 100 square meters. However, as frequently at-tacked by ice-ice disease, farmers then harvested their seaweed early around 20 to 25 days. For one plot, farmers could earn 400 kg of sea-weed. However, due to the disease, their production dropped up to 20 percent more. The seaweed was commonly sold by farmers for IDR 8,000 per kilogram.

The Head of Klungkung Live-stock, Fisheries and Maritime Af-

fairs (KDP), I Gusti Ngurah Badi-wangsa, said on Monday the ice-ice disease was triggered by weather factors. He also confirmed the disease could not be dealt with technologically. So, what was the appropriate traditional handling? He asked the seaweed farmers to

sort sterile seeds, so they could grow well and did not rot. “Only by that way the disease can be suppressed, other than by pulling them directly from the seaweeds,” he said. Badiwangsa added the seaweed production in Nusa Penida was quite high. Throughout the year

2012, the production reached 1,106 tons per year.

Meanwhile, the price, he said, was often fluctuating. For Spinosum species was usually sold for IDR 6,000 per kilogram, while cottoni species was sometimes sold for IDR 12,000 per kilogram. (kmb31)

In a dead faint, revitalization unclear Management of Latu Market criticized again

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It was confirmed by the Head of Denpasar Public Works, I Ketut Winarta, accompanied by the Division Head of Highways, Putu Dirgayasa, in his office, Monday (Dec 16). In addition to the road under the authority of the municipality, Denpasar also had the road under the authority of provincial and central

government.He said that some of the existing roads in

Denpasar belonged to the authority of provin-cial government along 83.896 kilometers con-sisting of 17 road sections. Similarly, national roads in Denpasar reached 33.320 kilometers spreading across 17 road sections.

Related to the road under the authority of Denpasar Municipality, there were still several roads needing the attention for repairs. All this time, a total of some 100.66 kilometers of road were damaged in Denpasar. Those classified into damaged road had been scheduled for re-pair in 2014. Due to limited fund, the Denpasar Public Works would implement a priority in the handling. For the year 2014, the Denpasar Public Works had designed several quality improvement programs for road, drainage and bridge. For the programs handled by Highway Development, the Public Works had allocated a budget worth IDR 56.77 billion. Such a fund would be allocated for the improvement of road and other supporting facilities.

At least, the Denpasar Public Works had planned to carry out repairs and maintenance for the 16 roads in Denpasar. Other than roads, the drainage playing vital function in controlling floods in Denpasar also got the attention from the agency. From the empirical experience, the unavailability of good drainage would lead to a more rapid deterioration of the road. Thus, the road maintenance should be accompanied with the improvement of drainage beside it. Having been done well, the road and drainage function could be maximized, and prevented the faster damage to the road. Admittedly, the road dam-age was not only caused by the unavailability of drainage, but also by passing vehicles with excessive tonnage. (kmb12)

Motorists passed a damage road in Denpasar City, Bali Island. As an autonomous region and capital of Bali province, Denpasar still has bad roads. At least 100.66 kilometers of road section under the authority of Denpasar Municipality is still in dam-aged category.

Denpasar has 100.66 km of damaged road sectionBali Post

DENPASAR - As an autonomous region and capital of Bali province, Den-pasar still has bad roads. At least 100.66 kilometers of road section under the authority of Denpasar Municipality is still in damaged category. It ranges from minor, moderate to severe damage. The length of road under the authority of the Denpasar municipality comes to 1,591 roads with the length of 563.1 kilometers. Repair effort is carried out by degrees due to budget constraints.

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This year also marked first-time nominations for Hall and Oates, Ga-briel and Ronstadt. Kiss and Stevens, who have been nominated in the past, made the cut after being absent from the list for several years.

The Rolling Stones managers, An-drew Loog Oldham and Brian Epstein, will earn Ahmet Ertegun awards, a non-performing honor. Bruce Spring-steen’s E Street Band will earn the award for musical excellence.

N.W.A., one of the 16 nominees

announced in October, did not make the list. The iconic rap group includes Dr. Dre, who has launched successful solo albums and is the producer be-hind Eminem, 50 Cent and Kendrick Lamar.

More than 700 Rock Hall voters determined the 2014 class. The 29th annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will be open to the public. Tickets go on sale next month. The event will air on HBO in May.

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Nirvana, Kiss and Peter Gabriel will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next year. The Rock Hall announced Tuesday that Hall and Oates, Linda Ronstadt and Cat Stevens also will be inducted April 10 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Artists are eligible for induction 25 years after their first release. Nirvana won a nomination in its first year of eligibility and next year the band will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its debut, “Bleach.” The induction comes 20 years after frontman Kurt Cobain committed suicide at age 27.

AP Photo/Starpix, Amanda Schwab, FileFILE - This Oct. 11, 2012 file im-age released by Starpix shows, from left, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Eric Singer, Tommy Thayer of KISS as the band arrives at SiriusXM offices to promote their latest release “Monster,” in New York.

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — Simon Cowell is plotting changes for “The X Fac-tor,” including new judges and a new role for him. Cowell is the show’s producer. The British music industry executive told a teleconference Mon-day that he expects the singing con-test to return next season on Fox.

He says “X Factor” may be cut back to one night instead of two, and format changes are under dis-cussion to keep it fresh. Cowell says the judging panel probably will be different. Besides Cowell, the “X Factor” judges include Demi Lovato, Kelly Rowland and Paulina Rubio.

Cowell says he has recruits in mind, but he declined to identify them. He says he envisions what he called a “different kind of role” for himself, but he wouldn’t be more specific. The show’s ratings have dipped in season three. The winner will be announced on the finale Thursday.

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FILE - In this Dec. 22, 2011, file photo, television personality Simon Cowell poses on the red carpet at The X Factor Finale show in Los An-geles. Simon Cowell said Monday, Dec. 16, 2013, he is plotting changes for “The X Factor,” including new judges and a new role for him.

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