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According to him, the occupancy rate of star hotel in 2013 only reached 56 percent and it decreased when com-pared to the occupancy rate in 2012 reaching more than 60 percent. Tourists visit in 2013 reached 3.279 million, while in 2012 only reached 2.892 million. This indicated the growth of hotel room in Bali was excessive.

“With the amount of tourist arrival reaching 3 million more to Bali, the occupancy rate can reach 65-70 percent. However, it happens on the contrary where the occupancy rate is only 50 percent. This means that hotel room growth exceeds the foreign tourist arrival,” he complained.

According to him, the growth in tourist arrivals to Bali reaching 10 percent was far exceeded by the growth of hotel room reaching 15 percent.

“By all means, the occupancy is low because the growth of hotel room exceeds the tourist arrival. Un-avoidably, this condition will automatically trigger a tariff war that will harm the government because the taxes paid will be smaller because the hotel profits di-minished,” he said.

He advised the government to immediately form a regional tourism promotion board to offset the growth of

hotel room. Existence of this institution was expected to improve the image of Bali tourism, increase foreign and domestic tourist arrival and increase tourist expenditure during their visit in Bali and evaluate the tourist arrival.

“With the number of rooms reaching over 80,000, ideally the tourist arrival reaches 4 million in order to cover the average occupancy of up to 70 percent. On that account, it is required to establish a tourism promotion board (BPPD) in this region,” he said.

Deputy Chairman of the Indonesian Tourism Industry Association GIPI) of Bali, Bagus Sudibya, admitted the hotel occupancy rate decline was not a new issue that happened in Bali. Even, this condition would continue to occur as long as the amount of supply and demand between the number of accommodation and tourist arrival was imbalanced. “The growth in the number of tourist arrival over 13 percent cannot pursue the growth in the number of room because the growth in the number of hotel room in Bali is very high,” he affirmed.

The photo shows villas built near the rice field at Bali Is-land. Decline in the hotel occupancy rate in Bali causes

a dilemma amid the rise of tourist arrival to the island. The Indonesian Hotels and Restaurants Association

(PHRI) of Bali claimed it happened due to uncontrolled accommodation development.

Occupancy rate slumps amid uncontrolled accommodation growth

Bali Post

MANGUPURA - Decline in the hotel occupancy rate in Bali causes a dilemma amid the rise of tourist arrival to the island. The Indonesian Hotels and Restaurants Association (PHRI) of Bali claimed it hap-pened due to uncontrolled accommodation development. “Low occupancy is indeed inseparable from the uncontrolled development of accommodation and illegal accommodation. The development of illegal villas, tourist inns and other illegal accommodation exceeds the growth of tourist arrivals,” said Deputy Chairman of PHRI Bali, IGN Rai Suryawijaya.

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The car, a 2005 Porsche Carrera GT, is notoriously hard to handle. “We’re looking at speed and speed alone,” a law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation told The Associated Press. The official was not authorized to speak publicly about the ongoing investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity.

The Nov. 30 crash also killed the driver, Walker’s friend and financial adviser Roger Rodas. Rodas, 38, and Walker, 40, co-owned an auto racing team. Rodas also was a professional driver who competed in 10 Pirelli World Challenge GTS races this year.

Investigators with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department have cal-culated a range of the speed at which they think the car was traveling, but they won’t disclose that number until Porsche engineers come to California next month in the hope of extracting information from onboard data collectors. The of-

AP Photo/Nick Ut

People stand around a roadway memorial at the site of the auto crash that took the life of actor Paul Walker and another man, in the small community of Valencia, Calif., Monday, Dec. 2, 2013.

Official: No mechanical issues in Walker car crashAssociated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — Investigators have found no evidence that the Porsche carrying actor Paul Walker had mechanical problems before it crashed, killing the “Fast & Furious” star. The investigation also has ruled out debris or other roadway conditions as causing the car in which Walker was a passenger to slam into a light pole and tree.

ficial would not disclose the current speed estimate. It is calculated through a formula that uses factors including the arc of tire marks from the scene and how well the tires would grip the road-way, said Chris Kauderer, chairman of the California Association of Accident Reconstruction Specialists.

The sheriff’s office has said speed was a factor in the one-car crash in an industrial park about 30 miles (48 ki-lometers) northwest of downtown Los Angeles. A spokesman on Wednesday had nothing to add.

Though the car exploded in flames, its three data recorders survived and may produce information to pinpoint the speed. If they produce usable data, the recorders would be able to tell investi-gators whether seat belts were fastened, air bags deployed and whether Rodas hit the brakes before impact. Because the car is so rare, investigators will need Porsche’s help to retrieve the data. A

spokesman for the car company declined to comment.

The official said sheriff’s investigators also have enlisted the help of California Highway Patrol accident reconstruction specialists, who tested the brakes on the wrecked car and found that at least one of the tires was made in 2004. The CHP did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The official told AP that the Porsche appeared to have negotiated a curve in the road successfully before crashing.

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KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaican singer Tessanne Chin just might moti-vate the government of her Caribbean homeland to fix the country’s chroni-cally rutted roads. Chin became the season five champ of “The Voice” TV show Tuesday, eliciting jubila-tion in Jamaica. Her performances on the NBC singing competition were a big topic on the island for weeks and politicians lost no time in congratulat-ing her.

When Chin won a car with the other show finalists, she quipped to host Carson Daly that “we have the worst roads” in Jamaica. National Works Agency Deputy CEO Earl Patterson said Wednesday that he got the mes-sage, telling reporters: “Certainly the point that Tessanne made that the roads could do with more investment, that point is noted.” However, he quickly added that the island’s fiscal constraints must be considered.

n this photo provided by NBC, Tes-sanne Chin sings during the season

five finale of “The Voice” on Tues-day, Dec. 17, 2013, in Los Angeles.

Chin was announced the season five winner.

‘The Voice’ champ quips about Jamaica’s bad roads

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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

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Calendar Event for January 1 through February 26, 2014

1 Jan Buda Kliwon Matal, Kajeng Kliwon And Tilem Sasih Kenam Pura Desa Sukawati SukawatiPura Pasek Gelgel Gelgel BebetinPura Maspahit SesetanPura Padharman Arya Kanuruhan Besakih

11 Jan Tumpek Kandang Pura Desa GianyarPura Luhur Dalem Sagening Kediri TabananPura Sang Hyang Tegal Tegalalang

15 Jan Purnama Sasih Kapitu Pura Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Kaja GianyarPura Puseh Manakaji Peninjauan BangliPura Taman Limut Pengosekan Mas UbudPura Benua BesakihPura Gunung Rena Sidemen KarangasemPura Pasek Gelgel Abadi KarangasemPura Pucak Gunung Mangun Kubu Karangasem

16 Jan Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan 17 Jan Hari Bhatara Sri 21 Jan Anggara Kasih Prangbakat Pura Bukit Buluh Gunaksa KlungkungPura Tirtha Sidamala Bebalang BangliPura Gunung Pangsong LombokPura Dalem Benawah GianyarPura Dalem Bitra GianyarPura Pura Hyang Haluh/Jenggala Besakih

Pura Tengkulak Tulikup GianyarPura Taman Sari UbudPura Penataran Badung

29 Jan Hari Siwaratri

30 Jan Tilem Sasih Kepitu Pura Buana Kawan BesakihPura Ulun Kulkul Besakih

31 Jan Kajeng Kliwon Enyitan

5 Feb Buda Kliwon Ugu Pura Dalem Tarukan Peninjauan Tem-buku BangliPura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah Bule-lengPura Kayangan Tiga Seririt BulelengPura Agung Gunung Raung Taro Tegalalang

6 Feb Pura Dalem Puri Besakih

14 Feb Purnama Sasih Kawulu Pura Dalem Batur BangliPura Ida Ratu Pasek BesakihPura Dalem Suci Sidemen KarangasemPura Buana Kawan Besakih

15 Feb Tumpek Wayang & Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan Pura Majapahit JembranaPura Panti Gelgel Pengembungan SesetanPura Pedarman Dalem Sukawati BesakihPura Pedarman Mengwi BesakihPura Pedarman Kaba-kaba BesakihPura Pedarman Dalem Bakas BesakihPura Pedarman Dinasti Dalem Besakih

Pura Penataran Giri Purwo Tegal Delimo BanyuwangiPura jala Sidhi amerta Juanda Surabaya

19 Feb Buda Cemeng Kelawu Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang KarangasemPura Melanting Camenggaon SukawatiPura Penataran ped Nusa PenidaPura Gaduhan Jagat Singakerta UbudPura Masceti Sanding Tampak SiringPura Penataran Batu Lepang Kamasan KelungkungPura Paibon Pasek Gelgel Kedonganan KutaPura Guwa BesakihPura Basukian BesakihPura Jati UbudPura Melanting UbudPura Dalem Peed Nusa PenidaPura Sad Kayangan Nusa PenidaPura Penataran Agung Gunung Karangasem

21 Feb Hari Bhatara Sri 25 Feb Anggara Kasih Dukut Pura Dalem Batuyang BatubulanPura Pasek Gelgel Mengening Kediri TabananPura Pasek Undagi Krambitan TabananPura Pucak Taman bedulu GianyarPura Puser Jagat Nusa PenidaPura Dalem Purwa Kawan BangliPura Desa Ketewel Gianyar

26 Feb Pura Agung Pasek gelgel Sibang Kaja Abian SemalPura Dalem Samprangan Gianyar

The bar is a free-standing space with comfortable seats to enjoy drinks through-out the day or watch Kuta’s famous

Sands Restaurant

A contemporary lounge by the beachIBP

Hotel Santika Premiere Beach re-sort Bali is delighted to announce the launch of Sands, a contemporary styled restaurant and outdoor lounge by the beach. This smart new venue is all about taking the time to unwind against a backdrop of inspiring ocean views. Sands has been designed to cap-ture the laid-back ambience of life in the tropics. The main dining room is a simple structure made from glass and timber. It blends seamlessly into the outdoors where decorative waterways and swaying coconut palms add an exotic touch to this relaxing setting. A series of open-air decks elevated at different levels create defined areas to wine, dine or just chill out.

sunset. There is also an ice cream counter strategically positioned to catch the pass-ing trade of guests strolling a long the beach pathway. Sands serves a refreshing menu to excite the palate. House specialties include a

signature hot stone cooking concept as well as an array of tasty tapas. There is also a separate children’s menu fea-turing favourite dishes with a healthy twist.

Sands has all of the appeal of an exclusive beach club.

It is a multi-functional venue available for private events and small functions such as a wed-ding celebration at sunset. The opening of Sands is the first of several new guest facili-ties intended to update Hotel Santika Premiere Beach Resort

Bali. The entire area along the beach is currently being trans-formed with a collection of private suites and a spa centre dedicated to personal rejuvena-tion. Sands opens for breakfast, lunch and dinner, 07.00 – 23.00 hours daily.

IBP/File PhotoThe Head of Jembrana Forestry, Fishery

and Maritime Agency, Made Dwi Maharim-bawa, recently said the issues faced by fishery farmers was price competition against the products from Java. Onslaught of the pond products from outside Bali was very detri-mental to ponds in Bali including Jembrana, chiefly a number of farmer groups due to competitive price. Selling price of fishery product from Java was cheaper because they got a cheaper feed price, not to men-tion the more competitive labor costs. “The production cost there (in Java) is cheaper, so it should be considered to protect the fish farmers in Bali and Jembrana in particular,” he explained.

On that account, there should be a strict control in the border by Fish Quarantine of-ficer. Besides, it was also needed a Certificate of Origin (SKAU) to ensure that the fish had clear origin. By that way, it could be known

the origin and be traced what caused the price to go down. “It is intended to get clear information about the origin of the fishery products, who knows it was stolen and then sold at cheap price,” he explained.

Existence of the freshwater and brack-ish water ponds managed by farmer groups was expected to boost the econ-omy. Currently, the fresh water farmers considered the price competition was quite striking, particularly the fishery product invasion from outside Bali. The selling price of fish such as carp was very competitive as the price of feed made from fish flour was expensive. Indeed, added Maharimbawa, with the current price in the market farmers could have reached the Break Even Point (BEP). Since the price ever exceeded the higher price than the present one, farmers still expected the price to return to normal. (kmb26)

Bali PostSINGARAJA - An official vehicle

owned by Bali government was wrecked after toppled over by electric pole on Jalan Raya Singaraja-Denpasar, precisely at milepost 15 at Gitgit village, Sukasada subdistrict, Wednesday (Dec 18). As a result of the incident, the traffic flow was jammed on the track about three hours.

Information at the location told that the incident happened around 12:30 a.m. At that time, the vehicle with red license plate DK 1532 was used by the Bali Envi-ronment Agency coming from Denpasar. The official vehicle was driven by Agus Krisna, 26, and carried three people. At that time, it was thickly foggy and the vehicle drove slowly. Once arrived at milepost 15, two electric poles unexpect-edly collapsed and one of them toppled over the vehicle. Suddenly the vehicle stopped and could not move.

As a result, the rear part of the vehicle was wrecked and the back door could not be closed. Luckily, no passenger

suffered injuries. However, a passenger named Nurhayati was shocked and had to receive light treatment at Sukasada Health Center.

A number of residents said that before the incident the power line at the milepost 15 was very low as buffeted by rain and strong wind. Before the fateful official passed, a tourist bus from Denpasar also passed on the street in front of it. When the bus passed, the power line had been caught at the air conditioner box on the rooftop of the bus. However, the bus forced itself to pass through the power line so the power line pulled the electrical pole to the ground.

Chief of Sukasada Police Traffic Affairs, Nyoman Adika, with his ranks directly arranged the traffic flows as it was jammed. Until 4:00 p.m. on Wednes-day, only private cars and four-wheeled trucks could pass, while buses and large size trucks could not. ”For a while, we apply an open and closed system,” he said. (kmb15)

IBP/File

The fishermen are waiting to go to the sea

Onslaught of fishery products from outside Bali harms pricesBali Post

NEGARA - Supervision against the fishery traffic is currently more tightened. It happens because there is an onslaught to the aquaculture products harming the pond owners in Jembrana. The senders of fishery products from outside the island dare to lower the price so as to make fishery farmers in Bali and Jembrana in particular oppressed.

Official car toppled over by electric pole leads traffic jams

IBP/File

The car which was damaged by a fallen electric pole

3Friday, December 20, 201314 InternationalInternational Bali NewsFashion Friday, December 20, 2013

Ironically, some locations in West Denpasar subdistrict hit by flood were new locations. Meanwhile, the efforts to anticipate the flood by widening the waterway in Mati River still had obstacle as hampered by land acquisition. Local residents whose land located around the river seemed to object if their land was used for public purpose. The Head of Denpasar Public Works, I Ketut Winarta, revealed the matter on Wednesday (Dec 18).

Winarta did not dismiss if the effort of widening the waterway in Mati River was still hampered by land acquisition. Meanwhile, the waterway normalization in Mud-ing River Denpasar whose water overflowed all this time and trig-gered the flooding on Jalan Gunung Talang and Jalan Tangkuban Perahu had been under process. It was said the cultivation of the project would begin in the fiscal year 2014. “Pre-viously, the activities at the location (Muding River—Ed) also faced dif-ficulty in land acquisition. However, after we socialized through the local village officials, hopefully in 2014 the expansion plan of waterway in the river can be realized,” he said.

According to Winarta, the nor-malization activities in Muding

Bali PostDENPASAR - Dog bite cases

afflicting a few people in Negara generate more awareness of ra-bies. On the other hand, when the bite cases in Bali are high enough, the stock of anti-rabies vaccine (VAR) runs thin. Even, Sanglah Hospital as one of the rabies cen-ters in Bali has run out of vaccine stock since two months ago.

According to an official, as long as the anti-rabies vaccine was empty, the treatment could be provided was only wound care. As for getting the vaccine, patients were suggested to go to other rabies centers or could purchase at a pharmacy providing the vaccine.

Responding to such condition, the Head of Bali Health Agency, Ketut Suarjaya, when contacted

on Wednesday (Dec 18) admitted the current stock of the anti-rabies vaccine was diminishing. “So far, the stock of anti-rabies vac-cine amounts to 9,000 vials and 200 vials of anti-rabies serum (SAR),” said Suarjaya. Although the unavailability or depletion of stock happened in some rabies centers like Sanglah Hospital and county hospitals, it could still be ordered to each Health Agency of the county/municipality through-out Bali. When it was urgent and could not wait until the vaccine stock was available, added Suar-jaya, people were given the option to purchase it at pharmacy that provided the vaccine or monitor the biting dog.

If within the span of two weeks the dog was still alive, it meant the victim was safe from rabies. “Pro-

curement of the vaccine stock will be made later this month as many as 41,000 vials,” he said.

Regarding the case of the dog biting a few people in Negara, according to Suarjaya, his party had handled it through the ad-ministration of anti-rabies vaccine and anti-rabies serum as well as the deployment of the district surveillance officer (DSO) to make observation against the victim bitten by rabies dog. Even though there was a bite of dog alleged to be positive to rabies, ac-cording to Suarjaya, the target of Bali Rabies-Free 2015 would not delay. The target of being Rabies-Free would only delay if within the period of two years there were casualties due to rabies. “The last death occurred in June 2013,” he said. (san)

IBP/Eka Adhiyasa

The efforts to anticipate the flood by widening the waterway in Mati River still had obstacle as hampered by land acquisition.

Anticipate flood

Waterway widening in Mati River hampered by landBali Post

DENPASAR - Denpasar still has a number of location points being very vulnerable to floods as happened at Padangsambian not long ago.

River denoting the tributary of Mati River indeed had been designed for a long time. The flood inundating the settlements all this time was caused by the constriction of waterway in Muding River.

“Normalization of Muding River is expected to prevent flooding in the area of Jalan Marlboro, Jalan Gunung Talang and Jalan Tangkuban Perahu Denpasar that all this time be-came regular victims of flood. If the project can be realized in the fiscal year 2014, it will be made a water-way widening up to seven meters in the upstream,” he said.

He added that similar plan would also be implemented in the water-ways of Mati River whose over-flowing water caused flood in the area of Padangsambian Klod as happened to Taman Wira Housing on Jalan Gunung Payung recently. At that time, dozens of people’s home were inundated. “We get instruction from the mayor to im-mediately normalize the Mati River considering the waterway condition at the location of flood was minimal and narrowed. Unfortunately, the activities are still constrained by land acquisition around the Mati River,” he said.

Based on the results of map-

ping, he said, the West Denpasar subdistrict was considered the most vulnerable area to flood during this rainy season. Some flood-prone areas in the region included the Jalan Gunung Talang 1 and 6, Jalan Tangkuban Perahu and Umadui

area. Other areas in this region being quite prone to flood were Jalan Imam Bonjol and Demak Temple area. Other locations con-sidered vulnerable to flood in North Denpasar subdistrict were such as Jalan Indrajaya Ubung Kaja, Jalan

Nangka Utara and the area of Anyar Market Batu Kandik. Meanwhile, the prone area in East Denpasar subdistrict was Jalan Kaliasem and then in South Denpasar subdistrict included Jalan Danau Tamblingan, Sanur. (kmb13)

IBP/Wira

The stock of anti-rabies vaccine (VAR) runs thin. Even, Sanglah Hospital as one of the rabies centers in Bali has run out of vaccine stock since two months ago.

Anti-rabies vaccine stock in Bali almost runs out

MICHELLE’S BANGS:

Nobody would call bangs a new trend, but when the first lady’s involved, things take on more significance. In fact, President Barack Obama actu-ally called his wife Michelle’s new hairdo the most significant event of his second inaugura-tion. Unveiled just in time for the festivities, the new hairdo made enough news to have its own (unofficial) Twitter account, FirstLady’sBangs, which issued alerts like “Just got a text from Hillary Clinton’s side-part.”

QUEEN OF THE RUNWAY, AIRWAVES AND EVERYWHERE ELSE:

By the time she appeared in a lovely Stella McCartney floral frock and high red leather pumps as a judge on “Project Runway,” it was clear: In the realm where Hollywood meets fashion, Kerry Washington is royalty. On her hit show, “Scandal,” playing professional fixer Olivia Pope, she was all professional Wash-ington — Washington, D.C., that is — but on the red carpet, she was glamour personified. Case in point: that Marchesa gown she wore at the Emmys, all cream and white and flower appliques, fit for a queen.

KATE MAKES US FEEL GREAT:

Much has been said about the fashion sense of the Duchess of Cambridge, aka Kate Middleton, but in 2013, it was something a bit different that caught our eye. Peeking out under her blue-

The pretty to the ugly: 2013’s key fashion momentsAssociated Press Writer

NEW YORK — It was a year for pixie haircuts, chunky flat shoes, bangs on our first lady and bare skin ... lots of it, on movie actresses and pop stars. Fashion always has its royalty, and this year, Kerry Washington was a queen. For real royalty, we had Kate Middleton, making the rest of us mortals feel a little better by flashing her mommy tummy. If Kate made us feel good, Lululemon didn’t, when its chairman appeared to blame women’s own bodies for problems with those popular yoga pants. A look back at these and other key fashion moments of 2013:

and-white polka dot dress as she emerged from the hospital post-childbirth was a pronounced “mommy tummy,” a normal de-velopment but something most celebrities keep under wraps, until their personal trainers have whipped them back into maga-zine-cover shape. Thanks, Kate!

LULULEMON, NOT SO MUCH:

Remember those popular yoga pants that had the unintended effect of being see-through? Well, ladies, turns out the ongo-ing fabric problems with those pants, including pilling, was YOUR fault. Or rather: the fault of YOUR THIGHS. Founder and chairman Chip Wilson of Lululemon Athletica noted in a TV interview that “Frankly, some women’s bodies just actu-ally don’t work” for the pants, because of thighs rubbing against fabric. Now Wilson just actually won’t be working as chairman of Lululemon; the company an-nounced his resignation from the post in December.

TAKING IT ALL OFF:

No thigh-rubbing problem for Gwyneth Paltrow, who was happy to show just how little cel-lulite she has when she appeared at the “Iron Man 3” premiere in a dress with sheer mesh panels on the sides, leaving little of her lower body and, er, posterior to the imagination. But we all nearly forgot about Gwyneth when we saw actress Jaimie Alexander at the “Thor” premiere, her black gown expanding the see-through effect to the midriff and upper regions. Let’s just say these actresses are saving money on underwear.

DESIGNER MOVES:

A Paris runway show full of mournful symbols — and lots of black — was designer Marc Jacobs’ somber goodbye to Louis Vuitton in October after 16 years in the influential post of creative director. Under Jacobs, who also has his own eponymous brand, Louis Vuitton became the most lucrative fashion house in the world, in part thanks to Jacobs’ creation of a ready-to-wear line. He was replaced by Nicolas Ghesquiere, formerly at Balen-ciaga.

TAKING DESIGNERS TO TASK:

Iman and Naomi Campbell are legendary supermodels, but this year they lent themselves to something different: promoting diversity on the runway, by call-ing out designers whose catwalks were almost completely white. The two women joined modeling agent Bethann Hardison in their Balance Diversity campaign. Explaining their purpose, Iman, now 58, said she was shocked to hear there were fewer black mod-els on the runway than when she stopped modeling in 1989.

LESBIAN COUTURE:

The message was unmistak-able: At the Karl Lagerfeld haute couture show in Paris, the design-er sent not one, but two brides down the runway for the finale. The brides walked hand in hand in their feathery concoctions, a clear vote of support by the de-signer for France’s gay marriage law. The show came only nine days after hundreds of thousands of people marched in Paris in op-position to the law.

FILE - This Nov. 4, 2013 file

photo shows actress Jaimie

Alexander at the U.S. premiere of “Thor: The Dark

World” in Los Angeles. Alexan-der wore a black Azzaro Couture

dress expanding the see-through

effect to the midriff and up-

per regions.

Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP, File

Bali News International4 Friday, December 20, 2013 Friday, December 20, 2013 13International RLDW

The United States, Britain, Aus-tralia, Canada and New Zealand - known as the Five Eyes surveil-lance alliance - supported the resolution after language that had initially suggested foreign spying could be a human rights violation was weakened to appease them.

The resolution does not name specific countries but comes af-ter former U.S. National Secu-rity Agency contractor Edward Snowden released details this year of a global spying program by the NSA, sparking international out-rage. General Assembly resolutions are non-binding, unlike resolutions of the 15-nation Security Council. But assembly resolutions that enjoy broad international support can carry significant moral and politi-cal weight.

After the resolution was adopted last month by the General Assem-bly’s Third Committee, which deals

with human rights issues, U.S. delegate Elizabeth Cousens told the committee: “We firmly believe that privacy rights and the right to freedom of expression must be re-spected both online and offline.”

Cousens said it was imperative that human rights and civil society activists be able to use the Internet freely and without fear of reprisal to protect “dignity, fight against repression, and hold governments, including mine, accountable.” The resolution notes “that while con-cerns about public security may justify the gathering and protection of certain sensitive information, States must ensure full compliance with their obligations under inter-national human rights law.”

It calls on states to review proce-dures, practices and legislation on communications surveillance and “to establish or maintain existing independent, effective domestic

oversight mechanisms capable of ensuring transparency, as appro-priate, and accountability for State surveillance of communications, their interception and collection of personal data.”

It also asks U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay to present a report to the U.N. Human Rights Council and the U.N. General Assembly on the protection and promotion of the right to privacy in domestic and extraterritorial surveillance and the interception of digital commu-nications and collection of personal data, including on a mass scale.

Brazilian President Dilma Rous-seff and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have both condemned the widespread spying by the U.S. Na-tional Security Agency. The NSA is accused of accessing tens of thou-sands of French phone records and monitoring phone calls by Merkel and Rousseff.

Reuters

NEW DELHI - Residents of the Indian capital woke on Wednes-day to a third day of thick gray smog in one of the worst episodes this year, which disrupted dozens of flights and train services and caused a rash of health complaints. New Delhi is among several Asian cities, including Beijing, that are suffering from toxic levels of pollution fuelled by industrial growth and a surge in the numbers of vehicles crowding their roads.

The cloak of fog draping much of north India forced dozens of flights to be diverted or canceled, disrupted train schedules and led to a doubling in the number of medical emergencies caused by breathing difficulty, officials said. Runway visibility has been drop-ping to as low as 50 m. (164 ft) in Delhi over the past few days.

“Both departures and arrivals were stalled,” said airport spokes-man Kapil Sabarwal, as planes hovered in holding patterns, wait-ing for conditions to clear. Two passenger trains were canceled on Wednesday, while 60 trains were running late and 25 had been rescheduled on the third straight day of disruptions, said railways spokesman Neeraj Sharma.

The fine particles suspended in the fog ranged as much as seven times beyond the concentration that India considers safe, to reach a level the United States Environmental Protection Agency calls “hazardous”. At that point, the agency urges that all outdoor physical activity be avoided and that victims of heart or respiratory ailments stay indoors, along with children and the elderly.

The fog mingled with high pollution was an extreme event “when the air quality goes from very poor to dangerous,” said Gufran Beig, a scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology.

Calm wind conditions and a smaller gap between extreme tem-peratures helped trap pollutants in the air, Beig said. The frequency and duration of such events have been rising every year since government records started in 2010, he added.

REUTERS/Lucas Jackson A United Nations flag flies at half mast in front of the UN headquarters in honor of the late Nelson Man-dela in New York, December 6, 2013.

United Nations calls for end to excessive electronic spyingReuters

UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday called for an end to excessive electronic surveillance and expressed concern at the harm such scrutiny, including spying in foreign states and the mass collection of personal data, may have on human rights. The call was included in a resolution drafted by Germany and Brazil which the 193-member General Assembly adopted by consensus.

REUTERS/Anindito MukherjeePeople cross railway tracks on a foggy winter morning in New Delhi December 18, 2013. Residents in New Delhi woke to the third day of thick grey smog on Wednesday, among the worst this year, with a forecast set to trigger emergency health warnings in the coming days.

Indian capital blanketed in thick smog, transport disruptedBali Post

DENPASAR - Bali government through the regional development planning board (Bappeda) invited a number of figures and elements, Wednesday (Dec 18) to arrange and establish the assessment team membership of the 11 National Tourism Strategic Areas (KSPN) in Bali following the pros and cons over the policy of the central government.

Unfortunately, the last meeting could not reach final result regarding the formation of the assessment team and the attendance was also mini-mal. The meeting only yielded the elements or institutions to be involved in the team and asked to send the names of their representative later.

“Establishment of the KSPN Assessment Team is not final. Right now, we are compiling a list of the elements or agencies to be involved in the team. We ask the agencies or elements established to be the team members to submit the names that will represent. When the names have been collected and agreed, it will be formally endorsed through a Gubernatorial Decree,” said the Head of Bappeda Bali, Putu Astawa, after the meeting.

In the meeting last Wednesday, the attending parties who provided inputs were also very minimal. Actually, the Bappeda Bali had invited nearly more than 20 elements or institutions related to the KSPN issues. Bali government was represented by the Head of Legal Bureau Wayan Sugiada, Bali Government Tourism Office, Culture Agency, Governance Bureau and others. Meanwhile, other elements attending the meeting consisted of the Dean of Tourism Faculty (Udayana University) Putu Anom, IB Negarayana from Bali Tourism Institute (STP) Nusa Dua, humanist Nyoman Gunarsa and the Head of Bappeda Karangasem Ketut Sedana Merta. In the meantime, elements of the Hindu Dharma Council of Indonesia (PHDI) and customary village general assembly (MUDP) were not present.

In the meeting was agreed the parties involved in the team consisting of the elements of the Bali government, Bali House, county/municipal government across Bali where the KSPN was located, academicians and elements of the Bali Rector Forum, religious leaders from PHDI Bali and county/municipality across Bali, customary leaders (MUDP, MMDP, MADP), elements of the mass media and journalists like the Indonesian Journalist Association (PWI) and Indonesian Journalist Alli-ance (AJI), environmental NGOs and Interfaith Communication Forum (FKUB). However, there was possibility of additional elements to be involved pursuant to the need of the assessment and aspiration. “For academician, we advise the Bappeda Bali to write a letter to rector forum in Bali, so they can determine the experts in this matter to be included in the KSPN team,” said the Dean of the Faculty of Tourism, Udayana University, Putu Anom.

The Head of Bappeda Karangasem, Ketut Sedana Merta, approved the establishment of the KSPN assessment team. The team would also be expected to inventory the KSPN input and issues surrounding it. “We agree to the formation of this team, but its output should also be clear. The team must also be completed with technical working group, supervision working group and other working groups. Do not let us be blamed in the county and province,” he explained.

In particular, he also asked to involve the customary village, temple priests and community leaders of Besakih in the team and be involved in the next discussion because the main problem was the KSPN Besakih, Mount Agung and surrounding areas. “We specifically ask to involve the chief of customary village and temple priests of Besakih because this team is not formed if there is no problem related to the KSPN Besakih,” he said.

The Head of Bappeda Bali, Putu Astawa, added the KSPN Assessment Team to be formed would be an independent team consisting of all the elements of both the pros and cons party so they could obtain a compre-hensive input. Within this week, his party would re-invite a number of community members to immediately set up a team and the team could immediately conduct a study. Later on, the results of the assessment team would be forwarded as a proposal to central government.

“We actually follow up the result of gubernatorial social gathering on November 5, 2013 to make an assessment team. But, we also need a fairly long time to establish this team because we want this team can be completely independent. So, there will be no impression if it will be pro to certain things. Having been agreed, the names will be included in this KSPN team. Though the decree on the establishment of this team is signed by the governor, this team will actually work independently. Obvi-ously, we are still committed to the provisions in the existing bhisama (stipulation) and Regional Bylaw No.16/2009 on Bali Spatial Plan and this team will work independently,” he concluded. (kmb29)

According to police chief, other than doubling the number of per-sonnel deployed at each post, his party also invited all people of Buleleng and Bali in general to make the security condition con-ducive. Moreover, many national and international events were held in Bali. “Well, let’s keep the repu-tation of Bali that has been trusted. Security responsibility is not solely the task of police, but also the re-sponsibility of all of us,” he said.

During the visit on Wednesday, Chief Benny Mokalu had been the inspector of rally in the courtyard of Buleleng Police Headquarters.

The rally was also participated by Chief of Buleleng Police Benny Arjanto, Regent of Buleleng Putu Agus Suradnyana and officials of the Buleleng leadership council.

Police chief emphasized that village police as the spearhead in the community should make more frequent interaction with the members of community ahead of the general election in 2014. “As the spearhead in the community, at least the village police can visit three houses each day. The more often they communicate, the better will be,” he said.

Besides, the ranks of county

leadership council were also expected to make more frequent communication and synergy with the ranks of county police. Ac-cording to him, in such informal communication could be dis-cussed about the matters relating to security and order condition in the respective region. After lead-ing the rally, police chief further conducted a face-to-face meeting with community leaders and po-litical parties. The entourage then headed to Seririt to inaugurate five subdistrict police command headquarters including the one in Seririt and Sawan. (kmb15)

IBP/FileThe police officers are wearing their uniform.

Secure Christmas and New Year, number of personnel doubledBali Post

SINGARAJA - Bali Police ranks would double the number of personnel to secure the celebration of Christmas and New Year 2014. If at one point was usually deployed four personnel, it would be doubled to eight personnel. It was revealed by Chief of Bali Police, Albertus Julius Benny Mokalu, during his visit to Buleleng, Wednesday (Dec 18).

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The Old Mask is one of the central figures in the performing art of the Pajegan Mask ritual. As the name implies, the Pajegan mask dance drama (pajegan or majeg mean-ing to buy up) is a single dancer performing a variety of characters. The main characters contained in the Pajegan mask dance drama consist of the pangelembar (hard mask and old mask), panasar, prince (king and chief minister) and bondres (folk) and ends with the appearance of the Sidakarya mask dancer.

According to a lecturer from the Faculty of Performing Arts, the Indonesia Institute of Arts (ISI) Denpasar, Tjokorda Raka Tisnu, the staging of the old mask was an integral part in the staging of Pa-jengan mask presented in religious procession in the innermost court-yard (uttama mandala) of temple and cremation ritual. By and large, the storyline presented originated in the chronicle history.

Performance of the Pajegan mask was begun with the presentation of figure with strong character. The mask had reddish dark color, bulg-ing eyes, and a pair of thick black mustache. Its movement was agile, elegant and having authoritative steps. Appearance of this character was followed by the appearance of the elderly character. Its hair, eye-brows and mustache turned white with slow motion but displayed wise eyes.

“In staging this Pajegan mask, the two figures performed first are called pangelembar masks. Move-ment of the old mask dance was en-tirely improvised where the dancer showed off its expertise at dancing and animating the character of the elder,” said Raka Tisnu, a figure known by the lovers of the art in Bali usually playing the antagonistic role as Duryudana and Ravana in ballet performance.

Raka Tisnu asserted, the old mask actually reflected the figure

of chief minister or a commander who served as adviser. It meant the old mask was actually a serious role with wise and prudent character. The dancers understanding about the role and position of the old mask as royal advisor would never ‘derail’ the wise figure into a farce intended to provoke laughter of the audience.

“Unfortunately, in the current development, there are a number of dancers that derail the old mask dance so that it no longer fits with the norms or character of a wise and authoritative chief minister. Lately, there are a number of dancers who dance by inserting jokes in the old mask dance like catching fleas and discarding snots indiscriminately. I think it is an excessive and improper improvisation by the artist. Such creativity is excessive and must be corrected. If there is indeed a chief minister behaving like that, he will be dismissed by the king because he does not reflect the behavior of a chief minister that should become a paragon,” he criticized.

Furthermore, this famous Bali-nese dancer from Singapadu village, Gianyar, reminded the Balinese art-ists not to make ‘wild’ improvisation and creativity that would ‘hurt’ the meaning, nature and function of the character that should be pre-sented seriously. Moreover, in the presentation of the Pajegan mask an artist was truly given the free-dom to improvise and develop the dance movement that could provoke laughter of the audience through the performance of bebondresan figures.

According to Raka Tisnu, the Old Mask dance in the past was a series of Pajegan masks where a dancer was demanded to expertly present all the existing characters and roles. In other words, a figure should be capable of playing the hard mask, old mask, penasar, king, bondres and the sanctified Sidakarya mask becoming the core in the staging for the sake of religious rites. (ian)

Mpu Kuturan then unified the nine schools or sects into Shiva-Buddha. After organizing a con-gregation in the Samuan Tiga Temple, it was born the concept

of customary village along with its trinity temple namely the Puseh Temple, Baleagung Temple and Dalem Temple. Pursuant to the concept of Tri Murti (trinity), each

family temple was equipped with three-chambered shrine. Since then, the social and religious life in Bali was getting organized and better. The chief of customary

village was called bendesa adat or uluampad. His responsibility was to lead the indigenous village related to religion and customary af-fairs. In carrying out the duties, the customary village was completed with by-laws in what the so-called awig-awig adat.

According to the book entitled Pemberdayaan Desa Pakraman (Empowerment of Customary Village) written by Prof. Dr. IB Gunadha, the by-laws regulated three key points namely harmoni-

ous relationship of human to God (Parahyangan), human to fellow humans (Pawongan) and human to its environment (Palemahan).

Meanwhile, based on the data of General Assembly Customary Village (MUDP) of Bali, there were totally 1,483 customary villages in Bali, where according to the data of Section Head of Customary Affairs of Bali Cultural Agency the custom-ary hamlet amounted to 3,200 in 2009. Today, it was estimated to reach 2,700. (kmb)

Customary Village in Bali

Exist since the time of Mpu KuturanIBP

DENPASAR - According to the lecturer of customary law of the Udayana University, Prof Dr. Nyoman Sirtha, the customary village in Bali was estimated to have existed since the presence of the sage Mpu Kuturan during the administration of Dalem Waturenggong. Earlier, in Bali lived and developed about nine schools of Hinduism that were worried to result in disharmony. The King Waturenggong asked Mpu Kuturan to take any measure to anticipate the matter.

Old Mask: Reflection on wisdom of a commander

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WASHINGTON - The US Sen-ate passed a compromise two-year budget accord Wednesday, marking a truce in the fiscal wars that have plagued Washington and reducing the likelihood of a government shutdown in January.

The measure, which passed 64-36 with the support of nine Republicans and the entire Democratic caucus, lays out top-line spending limits for 2014 and 2015, while erasing $63 billion in automatic spending cuts that were to kick in on January 1.

It is expected to be signed by President Barack Obama before he heads to Hawaii on Friday for his Christmas break.

The legislation was one of the final major accomplishments for Congress in 2013, which by all ac-counts has been a miserable year for US lawmakers.

Following the expected approval of a massive defense spending bill later this week as well as several executive and judicial nominations, the Senate heads to recess until early January.

Budget experts from the Senate and House of Representatives have until January 15 to craft a series of spending bills under the new limit, or risk another shutdown like the one that paralyzed Washington in October.

The bill increases the $967 billion cap for 2013 spending to $1.012 tril-lion next year and $1.014 trillion in 2015, and brings some normalcy to a process recently rocked by chaos.

Many Republicans including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell voted against the deal, arguing it slightly increases spend-ing, breaking the limits set in 2011 legislation.

But for others, there was a sense of relief that Congress managed to pass its first budget agreement in years.

“With passage of this compro-mise budget deal, we’ll replace $63 billion in non-strategic sequester cuts and prevent another govern-ment shutdown, restoring much-needed certainty to... our economy as a whole,” Senator Tim Kaine said shortly after passage.

“There is more work to be done to replace the remaining non-strategic sequestration cuts and address our long-term fiscal challenges, but Congress has now shown that we can work together in a bipartisan way, as the American public de-mands and deserves.”

The announcement that the bank will whittle down the scheme by $10 billion a month to $75 billion, while keeping interest rates at re-cord lows, sent US shares surging to new records.

Tokyo jumped 1.74 percent, or 271.42 points, to 15,859.22, Sydney rallied 2.08 percent, or 106.1 points, to 5,202.2 and Seoul was flat, edging up 1.02 points to 1,975.65.

Shanghai fell 0.95 percent, or 20.50 points, to 2,127.79 and Hong Kong lost 1.10 percent, or 255.07 points, to close at 22,888.75 on concerns about China’s economic outlook.

Shares in emerging economies -- which have been in turmoil at the prospect of an end to the bond-buying -- were mostly mostly

lower, surrending earlier gains.Manila fell 0.64 percent, or

38.43 points, to end at 5,923.12 while in the afternoon Bangkok lost 0.27 percent, but Jakarta was up 1.17 percent.

The Fed on Wednesday said it would reduce its bond-buying by a modest $10 billion to $75 billion a month from January, citing data indi-cating the economy is strengthening.

“In light of the cumulative progress toward maximum em-ployment and the improvement in the outlook for labour market conditions, the committee decided to modestly reduce the pace of its asset purchases,” the bank’s policy committee said in a statement.

It added that it would likely take “further measured steps at future meetings” if the economy

continues to improve.Policymakers also said they would

keep interest rates at record lows “well past the time” that the unem-ployment rate declines below 6.5 percent -- its previous cut-off point before tightening monetary policy.

While global markets have been falling on expectations of a taper, the relatively small reduction, and the likelihood of interest rates being kept ultra-low, provided a boost.

The Dow soared 1.84 percent and the S&P 500 jumped 1.66 percent, both hitting new records, while the Nasdaq rose 1.15 per-cent.

Edward Fung, investment ad-visory head at Kim Eng Securities in Hong Kong, told Dow Jones Newswires: “From how the US

market reacted, it seems to me that $10 billion tapering is nothing to investors compared to the Fed’s commitment to hold interest rates at a low level.”

Despite a late dip in their mar-kets, the news was also welcomed in developing countries, which have declined in recent months as investors repatriate cash back to the United States.

Bank Indonesia deputy gov-ernor Perry Warjiyo said: “The amount of tapering is slightly less than expected. More importantly, the announcement provides more clarity to the direction of Fed mon-etary policy. That will be positive for financial market stability.”

The dollar hit new five-year highs in New York after the an-nouncement. It peaked at 104.36 yen at one point -- up from levels below 103 yen earlier in Tokyo -- before settling at 104.13 yen. In afternoon Japanese trade Thursday it fetched 103.96 yen.

US Senate passes budget deal

AP PhotoInvestors talk next to the stock price monitor at a private securities company Thursday Dec. 19, 2013 in Shanghai, China. Asian markets were mixed Thursday after investors took the U.S. Federal Reserve’s decision to trim its stimulus as a vote of confidence the American economy is strengthening.

Asian markets mixed after Fed stimulus taper

Agence France-Presse

HONG KONG - Asian markets were mixed on Thursday after the US Federal Reserve said it would start cutting its stimulus programme next month, in a sign of confidence in the country’s economic recovery.

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The sentence is heavier than the previous verdict of 10 years in jail as had been decided by the Anti-Corruption Court. Djoko was charged with corruption in the procurement of Rp196.8 billion worth of simulators for driving licenses during his tenure as chief of the police traffic corps.

Apart from the jail sentence, Djoko is also under obligation to pay

Rp32 billion as compensation money to the state. In an event that he fails to do so, the court is authorized to seize all of Djoko’s properties and auction them to procure the compensation money.

According to the Jakarta Higher Court’s website, Djoko’s right to vote and to be voted to a public office is currently being revoked.

AntaraJAKARTA - Indonesia’s 2013 state budget is projected to

record a deficit of Rp225.5 trillion or 2.41 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) at the end of this year, Finance Minister Chatib Basri stated.

“This year’s deficit is still relevant to the target,” he noted in a meeting with the House of Representatives (DPR)’s Com-mission XI, here on Wednesday.

The projected deficit is slightly higher than the target of Rp153.3 trillion or 2.38 percent of the GDP set in the revised 2013 state budget.

Chatib explained that the deficit forecast is based on state revenues, which are projected to touch Rp1,411.7 trillion or 94 percent of the targeted Rp1,502 trillion, and on state expendi-tures, which are predicted to reach Rp1,637.2 trillion or 94.8 percent of the ceiling of Rp1,726.2 trillion.

As per November 29, state revenues were recorded at Rp1,224 trillion and state expenditures, at Rp1,386.8 trillion. The state revenues and expenditures account for 81.5 percent and 80.3 percent respectively, of the target or ceiling set in the revised 2013 state budget.

The minister also added that by the end of this year, the tax receipts are projected to reach Rp1,061.6 trillion, or 92.4 percent of the target of Rp1,148.4 trillion set in the state budget.

“The lower-than-projected tax receipts in 2013 will be the result of declining exports. However, the tax receipts can still offset the deficit,” he confirmed.

Until the end of November 2013, tax receipts had reached Rp936 trillion or 81.5 percent of the target, while tax receipts throughout last year had touched Rp980.5 trillion.

AntaraJAKARTA - President Susilo

Bambang Yudhoyono has stated that the cooperation between Indo-nesia and Malaysia has continued

ANTARA FOTO/Rosa Panggabean

The Jakarta Higher Court sentenced former Chief of Traffic Police Unit Inspector General Djoko Susilo to 18 years in jail for involvement in a corruption and money laundering case, accord-ing to the court’s official website.

Djoko Susilo sentenced higherAntara

JAKARTA - The Jakarta Higher Court sentenced former Chief of Traffic Police Unit Inspector General Djoko Susilo to 18 years in jail for involvement in a corruption and money laundering case, according to the court’s official website.

2013 budget deficit may reach 2.41 percent of GDP

Cooperation between Indonesia, Malaysia continues to progress

AP Photo/Dita Alangkara

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, left, is greeted by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono prior to their annual consul-tation meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2013.

to increase and has the potential to expand further.

“Our cooperation and partnership has improved year on year. We often do not realize that we have achieved

a lot. We should maintain this mo-mentum so that it further improves in the future,” stated Yudhoyono in his opening remarks of the bilateral meeting between the Indonesian and Malaysian delegations at Merdeka Palace, here on Thursday.

He added that the bilateral co-operation in the fields of trade, tourism and education should be further intensified based on mutual benefit.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak affirmed that Indonesia is very important and therefore he has visited the country five times on various occasions during 2013.

President Yudhoyono and Prime Minister Razak held a bilateral meeting on Thursday morning.

Among Indonesian ministers attending the meeting were Co-ordinating Minister for Political and Legal, Security Affairs Djoko Suyanto, Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Hatta Rajasa, Coordinating Minister for People’s Welfare Agung Laksono, Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro, Home Affairs Minister Gamawan Fauzi, National Police Chief Gen-eral Sutarman, and Chief of the Indonesian Defense Forces (TNI) General Moeldoko.

Thousands of Italians have marched in cities across the country over the last nine days in protests fuelled by falling incomes, unem-ployment above 12 percent and over 40 percent among people below 25. “The ruling class is made up of thieves and mafiosi, and they are destroying our country! We are bet-ter than this ... Out out out!” Danilo Calvani, a farmer who has emerged as one of the leader of the protests shouted to the cheering crowd in the Piazza del Popolo.

Attempts to address Italy’s eco-nomic woes have been held up by squabbling between the coalition partners since the left and right were forced into an awkward alliance to end a political stalemate in April. The wave of “pitchfork” protests, which began among a loosely orga-nized group of farmers in Sicily, has prompted President Giorgio Napoli-tano to warn Italy could be plunged into violent social unrest unless the government swiftly introduced re-

forms to help struggling citizens.About 3,000 people attended the

Rome rally, fewer than expected after some original leaders of the movement refused to endorse the event, saying they feared it could be infiltrated by violent protesters.

Ringed by police, the crowd waved Italian flags while leaders of the movement from around Italy gave angry speeches blaming the govern-ment for impoverishing the country.

EUROSCEPTIC

“We do not want to be ruled by this government anymore. They don’t represent us, they don’t listen to us, they only steal and that’s it. We want new elections,” said protester Valerio Lorusso, 41, a farmer from Foggia in southern Italy. The pitchfork protests have taken on increasingly Euroscep-tic tones, with some blaming Europe for years of austerity and economic hardship. The movement has won support from several far-right groups,

and several speakers and those in the crowd said Italy should abandon the euro.

One banner read “Dear old Lira, you were worth half but you went twice as far!” and several in the crowd said they wanted a return to Italy’s former currency.

“Never before have policies so impoverished the people. If it con-tinues like this we are finished with Europe,” said Daniele Iamilli, 42, a security guard from Rome.

Members of Casapound, a neo-fascist group whose deputy leader was sentenced to three months in prison for tearing down the EU flag from the European Commission headquarters in Rome on Saturday, were among those protesting in the square.

National data released this week showing almost one in three Ital-ians risk poverty or social exclusion underlined the scale of a crisis that has fuelled disillusionment with the government and state institutions.

Reuters

BEIJING - Retired U.S. basketball star Dennis Rodman said on Thurs-day he was not going to North Korea to talk about politics or human rights, despite political tension surrounding the execution of leader Kim Jong Un’s uncle. Rodman has visited Pyongyang twice before, spending time dining as a guest of Kim, with whom he says he has a genuine friendship.

His latest visit follows the rare public purge of Kim’s powerful uncle Jang Song Thaek, who was executed last week. South Korean President Park Geun-hye has described recent events as a “reign of terror”. The purging of Jang, considered the second most powerful man in the North, indicated factionalism within the secretive Pyongyang government.

“It has nothing to do with me. I mean, whatever his uncle has done, and whoever’s done anything in North Korea, I have no control over that. I mean, these things have been going on for years and years and years,” Rodman told Reuters at his hotel in Beijing on Thursday before he left for the airport. “I’m just going over there to do a basketball game and have some fun,” he said. The U.S. State Department has sought to distance the U.S. government from Rodman’s visit.

Ahead of the trip, Seoul-based North Korean human rights activist Shin Dong-hyuk said in an open letter in the Washington Post that Rodman should talk to Kim about human rights abuses in North Korea. Rodman said it was not his place to talk about such issues. “People have been saying these things here and there. It doesn’t really matter to me. I’m not a politician. I’m not an ambassador,” he said. “I’m just going over there to try and do something really cool for a lot of people, play some games and try to get the Korean kids to play,” he said.

“Everything else I have nothing to do with. If it happens that he wants to talk about it then great. If it doesn’t happen I just can’t bring it up because I don’t (want) him to think that I’m over here trying to be an ambassador and trying to use him as being his friend and all of a sudden I’m talking about politics. That’s not going to be that way,” Rodman said. Rodman is expected to provide North Korea’s national basketball team with four days of training during the trip.He also intends to return to Pyongyang in January with a team of fellow former National Basketball Association stars to hold basketball games on Kim’s birthday. Rodman’s trip was arranged by Irish bookmakers Paddy Power, which has a history of controversial advertising campaigns.

According to him, the increase in the number of rooms in Bali was very worrying. Many illegal villas or hotels were indeed allowed to grow without control. “I worry about the price war and it will eventually harm the local tourism industry. A lot of examples have happened where small local hotels should be closed down. Even, the more severe one is cannibalism that will happen in the tourism industry,” he said.

He hoped that government could take firm action pursuant to the policy. As happened in Bogor, local government had dismantled the illegal villas. “If it is prohibited, do not build any accommodation. When there are illegal or unauthorized villa, simply dismantle them and never give them exemption,” he said. (kmb27)

AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia

Demonstrators gather in Piazza del Popolo square to protest against Government’s austerity measures in Rome, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013. What started out as the so-called “pitchforks protest” by Sicilian farmers nearly two years ago is now a nationwide expression of citizen impatience over rising unemployment, stubborn recession and national lawmakers and gov-ernment.

Thousands demand Italian government resign in Rome rallyReuters

ROME - Thousands of protesters furious about high unemployment and a political class they regard as corrupt rallied in central Rome on Wednesday demanding the resignation of Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta’s government. With the highest debt burden in the euro zone after Greece, Italy - mired in its longest post-war recession - is closely watched by financial markets and European partners as a flashpoint for instability in the bloc.

Occupancy...

Rodman says he’s going to North Korea for fun,

not to talk politics

AP Photo/David Guttenfelder

North Koreans look down from a balcony as former NBA basketball star Dennis Rodman enters the Koryo Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea Thursday, Dec. 19, 2013.

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GIANYAR - Gianyar Regency is indeed the hub to watch barong dance, sculpture and other types of arts. However, one time try to enjoy its natural attractions because this region also retains many attractions highlighting the interest in nature. Tegenungan Waterfall, for instance, is one of them. The attraction located at Kemenuh Village offers a unique charm. Its natural aura can really be perceived. Once visiting this nature tourism will definitely make visitors addicted. Tegenungan Waterfall is different from any other waterfalls in Bali. Though it is not situated on a highland or mountain, it remains to offer beautiful natural scenery. Its height is about 4 meters and has very heavy torrents. Its crystal clear water is very suitable for bathing or just playing around. It is approximately 30 km from Denpasar or 13 km from the city of Gianyar.

Its scenery is so beautiful and enriched by lush tropical green trees grow-ing on the riverbank. Around the area, there are several bathing places with multiple showers coming out from natural springs. Surrounding residents frequently take bath and fetch water here for daily consumption. Similarly, travelers coming here often take advantage of the shower. By and large, they use it to cleanse their face or refresh the body.

At particular time, the shower located near the temple is crowded with local residents because they perform a melasti procession, a series of deva yajna ceremony held by the Hindus community in Bali. If you want to cap-ture an amazing picture, you should come in the afternoon or evening. This happens because the waterfall overlooks the west, so that it will be difficult to get an interesting photograph in the morning as disrupted by sunlight. To reach the waterfall from parking lot, you should go down some 150 stairs. Afterward, go along the banks of the Petanu River.

Tegenungan Waterfall

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Miami’s Dwyane Wade scored 32 points to help the Heat to a victory which moved them within one game of Indiana, which leads the Eastern Conference. LeBron James set up Allen for the 3-point-er that put Miami in front for good with 59.5 seconds left, capping a 10-0 run. Paul George scored 25 points for the Pacers but missed a 3-pointer that would have tied it with 4 seconds left.

Down by one, the Pacers saw their best chance go awry when George Hill turned the ball over on a bad pass with 14 seconds left. Allen made two free throws with 10.3 seconds remaining to put Miami up by three, and that capped a big comeback win for the two-time defending NBA champions. Minnesota’s Kevin Love had 29 points, 15 rebounds and nine as-

sists, powering the Timberwolves to a 120-109 win over Portland.

Nikola Pekovic had 30 points and nine rebounds for the Tim-berwolves, who led by 32 in the second quarter and held off a charge in the second half from the Blazers. Damian Lillard had 36 points, six assists and six rebounds for the weary Trail Blazers, who were completing a four-game road trip.

San Antonio’s Manu Ginobili scored 11 of his 24 points in the final 4-plus minutes, steering the Spurs to a 108-101 win over Phoe-nix. and San Antonio pulled away to snap Phoenix’s five-game win-ning streak. Tim Duncan added 17 points and 13 rebounds for the Spurs, who were without injured point guard Tony Parker.

Channing Frye scored 15 of his

22 points in the first quarter for the Suns, who had won their previous five games. They led 95-93 late but Ginobili led San Antonio on a 15-6 scoring run in the closing stages. Los Angeles’ Blake Grif-fin and DeAndre Jordan each had a double-double as the Clippers beat New Orleans 108-95.

Griffin had 21 points and 10 rebounds before fouling out with 4:05 left, and Jordan added 14 points and 20 boards in the Clip-pers’ third straight victory. An-thony Davis led the Pelicans with 24 points and 12 rebounds in his return from a broken hand. Austin Rivers, the son of Clippers coach Doc Rivers, had two points in a reserve role for the Pelicans. Houston made a big third-quarter run which set up a 109-94 win over Chicago.

AP Photo/Lynne SladkyIndiana Pacers’ C.J. Watson (32) shoots as Miami Heat’s Norris Cole (30) defends during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Wednes-day, Dec. 18, 2013, in Miami.

Heat finish strongly to edge Pacers 97-94

Associated Press Writer

MIAMI — Miami’s Ray Allen hit the go-ahead 3-pointer in the final minute as the Heat rallied from a late deficit to beat the Indiana Pacers 97-94 on Wednesday in a clash of NBA divisional leaders. The Heat-Pacers clash was the highlight of a day when Minnesota made a powerful start which overwhelmed Portland, San Antonio ended Phoenix’s winning streak, and father Doc Rivers got the bragging rights over son Austin Rivers as the Los Angeles Clippers defeated New Orleans.

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Boris Becker once shared a bit-ter rivalry with Ivan Lendl across the net and now the two former world number ones will try to out-wit each other from courtside after the German’s shock appointment as coach to Novak Djokovic. After Djokovic was named ITF World Champion for 2013, despite being overshadowed by Spain’s Rafa Nadal, Serbia’s world number two announced the first shake-up of his team since a short and unsuc-cessful spell with Todd Martin in 2009.

Djokovic’s decision to work with 46-year-old Becker means two of the current “Big Four” are now coached by former greats with Lendl helping Britain’s Andy Murray to the 2012 U.S. Open title and this year’s Wimbledon crown. “I am really excited to have the opportunity to work with Boris,” the 26-year-old Djokovic said in a statement on his website (www.novakdjokovic.com).

“He is a true legend, someone who has great tennis knowledge and his experience will help me win new trophies from the grand slams and other tournaments.

Becker is a great person, too, and I am sure he will fit in our team in the best possible way.”

Becker, like Djokovic a six-times grand slam champion, will replace the Serb’s long-time coach Marian Vajda, although the Slo-vakian will remain part of the team.

The last time Djokovic tinkered with his close-knit entourage he brought in former American player Martin but the relationship was terminated in 2010 after a less than fruitful year together. Becker will travel to all the grand slam tournaments with Djokovic, start-ing with next month’s Australian Open where the world number two is bidding for a fourth consecutive title, having twice beaten Murray in the final.

“I am proud Novak invited me to become his head coach,” Becker, the youngest player to win Wimbledon when aged 17, said in the statement. “I will do my best to help him reach his goals, and I am sure we can achieve great things together.”

ENTICING PROSPECT

Becker and Lendl in opposite

camps is an enticing prospect. The 22 matches they played in the 1980s and early 90s always contained an undercurrent of fric-tion, with the stony-faced Czech Lendl clearly agitated by the man nicknamed Boom Boom. While Lendl edged their rivalry 12-10 it was Becker who won the three grand slam finals they contested, most notably the 1986 Wimbledon final which Lendl had set his heart on winning.

Becker once accused Lendl of not being “mentally tough” while Lendl hit back saying Becker did not have the guts to say things to his face in the locker room.

The passing of years has mel-lowed both men but their competi-tive edges will return in a few weeks when the new season starts with the build-up to the Australian Open.

Djokovic will hope Becker has a similar impact to Lendl’s on Murray as he strives to regain the world number one ranking from Nadal who dominated 2013, win-ning the French Open and U.S. Open titles on the way to the top of the rankings. “My goal for 2014 is to play my best tennis and to get in shape for the Grand Slams and Masters 1000,” Djokovic said.

Novak Djokovic of Serbia plays a shot during his exhibition tennis match against Rafael Nadal of Spain in Buenos Aires

November 24, 2013.

Old rivalries resume as Djokovic hires Becker

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The match at Stoke was inter-rupted in the 29th minute because of hail with a delay of more than 10 minutes before Young scored a spectacular goal from the edge of the box in the 62nd following a 1-2 with Javier Hernandez. Evra then sealed the Red Devils’ win by curling home a right-footed strike in the 78th.

“Sunderland played well to beat Chelsea so anything can happen but we are really pleased to be in the last four,” Manchester United manager David Moyes said. “The conditions were a leveler and it was really difficult to play in tonight. It’s some of the worst conditions I’ve played or managed in. But once we got the first goal we felt confident. This club is used to winning trophies, it is business as usual.”

In the first match since Andre Villas-Boas’ dismissal on Mon-day - following a 5-0 home loss to Liverpool - Tottenham interim manager Tim Sherwood made six

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BARCELONA, Spain — Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid ad-vanced to the Copa del Rey’s round of 16 after dispensing with third-division opponents on Wednesday. Five-time cup winner Sevilla be-came the night’s only topflight team to be upset by a lower-division team when third-tier Racing Santander won 2-0 in Seville to overturn a 1-0 first-leg loss.

Madrid, which had been held to a scoreless draw by Olimpic Xativa in the first leg, scored twice in the first half to win 2-0 at the Santiago Bern-abeu. Asier Illarramendi put Madrid ahead in the 16th with his first goal since the midfielder transferred from Real Sociedad last summer. Jese Rodriguez set up Illarramendi to end Olimpic’s run of keeping a clean

sheet in nine consecutive matches.Angel Di Maria doubled the

advantage in the 28th with a pen-alty that goalkeeper Francisco Solar palmed off his post, only to see it trickle over the line. Madrid goal-keeper Iker Casillas had an awkward fall late but finished the game after team doctors examined his back on the pitch.

“We tried to score more goals but we couldn’t manage it,” said Madrid’s Pepe. “The important thing is that the team played well.” Madrid will face Osasuna in the next round in January. Defending champion Atletico needed a last-gasp header by defender Tobias Alderweireld to edge Sant Andreu 2-1, advancing 6-1 on aggregate.

After Alberto Carroza scored for Sant Andreu in the 15th, Adrian Lopez missed a penalty for Atletico

before he set up substitute Hec-tor Hernandez to equalize in the 79th.

The Barcelona-based side still seemed set to celebrate a surpris-ing draw at Vicente Calderon Stadium until Alderweireld flicked in Gabi Fernandez’s free kick three minutes into stop-page time. Atletico will face the winner of the tie between Valencia and Nastic Tarragona, who play on Thursday after 0-0 in the first leg. Sociedad, Alme-ria, and Real Betis also finished off lower-division opponents to advance.

Sociedad routed Algeciras 4-0 with goals by Javier Ros, Haris Seferovic, Antoine Griezmann and Carlos Vela, advancing 5-1 on aggre-gate. Griezmann has scored 13 goals in all competitions this season.

Associated Press Writer

MARRAKECH, Morocco — Raja Casablanca converted a late penalty kick to upset Ronaldinho’s Atletico Mineiro 3-1 Wednesday

and set up an unexpected encounter with Bayern Munich in the Club World Cup final. The Moroccan club will play the Champions League winner on Saturday after an improbable victory set off by captain Mohsine Moutaouali’s 84th-minute penalty, awarded when Atletico defender Rever was judged to have tripped Mouhssine Iajour inside the area.

Iajour had put the local favor-ite ahead in the 51st before more than 35,000 fans at the Marrakech Stadium before Ronaldinho equal-ized for the Brazilian team from an exquisite free kick in the 63rd. But stunned Atletico coach Cuca could only look on in silence as substitute Vivien Mabide put the result beyond doubt with a stoppage time goal.

Now the Moroccans must pull off an even bigger upset over Bay-ern. “Who would have believed we would come to this,” Raja coach Faouzi Benzarti said through a translator. Despite Ronaldinho’s equalizer, the Brazilian playmaker was the one leaving the field red-eyed after the Copa Libertadores champion’s unexpected loss.

Ronaldinho was mobbed by jubi-lant Raja players who competed for his jersey, some even untying laces to remove his shoes as a souvenir of

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MADRID - Barcelona are looking to extend their record run at the top of La Liga and sign off for the winter break with a win when they play at eighth-placed Getafe on Sunday but the modest Madrid-based club are eyeing an upset. Barca will travel to the Spanish capital without injured World Player of the Year Lionel Messi, who is continuing his recovery from a muscle strain in his native Argentina and is not due back

until the middle of January.Coach Gerardo Martino is also missing

in-form Brazil forward Neymar, who is suspended after picking up his fifth yellow card of the season in last weekend’s 2-1 win over Villarreal, and Getafe president Angel Torres believes the absence of the two for-wards boosts his side’s chances. Sunday’s game is the first of three meetings between Barca and Getafe over the next few weeks as they also clash over two legs in the last 16 of the King’s Cup early next month.

“Let’s see if we can get them this time, it’s a good moment for it,” Torres, whose side knocked Barca out of the Cup in 2007, told reporters at a charity event on Wednes-day. “Messi is the best player in the world and Neymar is coming into good form but it must be said that they have plenty of backup,” he added.

“We will have to play at 150 percent on Sunday as well as in the Cup. “We will have a go. We did it in 2007 and we will give it the best possible shot.” With Messi and Ney-

mar unavailable, the goal-scoring burden will likely fall on the shoulders of Alexis Sanchez, Pedro and Cesc Fabregas.

Spain forward Pedro has seven goals in La Liga this term, one more than Neymar, and scored Barca’s opening goal in Tues-day’s King’s Cup victory against third-tier Cartagena.

“Scoring always helps with your confi-dence,” he told reporters. “I am pleased with the goals I am bringing to the team and also for having a chance to play.”

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BERLIN - As Bayern Munich take a break from domestic action to pursue more silverware overseas, Bayer Leverkusen will be hoping to close within four points of the all-conquering Bavarians with a win over Werder Bremen ahead of the German winter break. Bayern will be aiming to claim a fifth trophy of 2013 when they face surprise package Raja Casablanca in the Club World Cup final in Morocco on Saturday and with their 17th league game put back to January, Leverkusen have a chance to cut their lead.

As third-placed Dortmund struggle for consistency, Leverkusen have emerged as Bayern’s main challengers for the Bundesliga title despite suffering a 1-0 defeat to Eintracht Frankfurt last week that halted a four-game winning streak. After clinching a Champions League knockout stage berth last week, they bolstered their squad with the loan signing of 20-year-old South Korean forward Ryu Seung-woo on Wednesday from FC Jeju for the second half of the season.

For coach Sami Hyypia’s team, the Bremen game on Saturday represents a last chance to turn on their attacking style before the winter break against a team with the joint worst defensive record in the league after conceding 37 goals in 16 matches. “Every time our opponent gets into the penalty area, it becomes extremely dangerous for us,” Werder sports director Thomas Eichin said of the 14th-placed side’s fragile defence.

Werder have conceded 14 goals in the last three games in the absence of injured central defender Sebastian Proedl and their 16 point-haul after as many matches represents their lowest Bundesliga tally in 39 years. Tensions have also risen off the pitch with captain Clemens Fritz involved in a scuffle with a team mate during training this week.

Werder coach Robin Dutt is well aware that another defeat fol-lowing the 7-0 drubbing at Bayern and a 3-2 loss at Hertha Berlin in the past two weeks could cost him his job.

“We are having a bad run, there’s no question about it,” Dutt told reporters. “But it does not do us any good to talk about the standings. I can read the table and there are not many teams behind us.”

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Real’s Angel Di Maria celebrates after scoring a penalty during a round-of-32, 2nd leg Copa del Rey soccer match between Real Madrid and third-division club Xativa Olimpic at the Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013.

Madrid, Atletico win to advance in Copa del Rey

Raja stuns Ronaldinho’s Atletico at Club World Cup

perhaps their most memorable night of football. The more than 10,000 Atletico fans left in a state of shock, many sobbing.

Atletico certainly did not look the expected class above Raja, which used its speed on the coun-ter to upset Atletico’s backline of Leonardo Silva and Rever, who was exposed throughout but es-pecially in the deciding spot kick.

Raja defender Zakaria El Hachimi celebrated the penalty by perform-ing ‘the worm’ along the grass.

“In every team there are some drawbacks, and I felt they were very slow,” said Benzarti, who has won all three games since taking over coaching duties just before the start of the tournament. “To score three goals against a great team is not a bad thing.”

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Raja Casablanca’s Mohsine Moutaouali, left, kicks the ball as Atletico Mineiro’s Victor dives during the semi final soc-cer match between Morocco’s Raja Casablanca and Brazil’s Atletico Mineiro at the Club World Cup soccer tournament in Marrakech, Morocco, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013.

Leverkusen primed to close on absent Bayern

West Ham United’s Modibo Maiga, low-er, celebrates his

goal against Totten-ham Hotspur with team-mate Matt Taylor during their English League Cup quarterfinal soc-cer match at White Hart Lane, London, Wednes-day, Dec. 18, 2013.

West Ham, Man United advance to League Cup semisAssociated Press Writer

LONDON — Shock therapy failed to produce the desired result at Tottenham as Spurs con-ceded two goals in the last 10 minutes to go out of the League Cup in the quarterfinals after a 2-1 home defeat to West Ham on Wednesday. Manchester United also advanced with a 2-0 win at Stoke courtesy of goals from Ashley Young and Patrice Evra. The Red Devils next face Sunderland, with a potential final against bitter rival Manchester City after the Blues were drawn against West Ham in the other semifinal.

changes as Emmanuel Adebayor enjoyed his first start of the sea-son.

Adebayor, who had played only 45 minutes this season after being ignored by Villas-Boas, put Spurs in front with a spectacular volley in the 68th but West Ham got back into the match when Modibo Mai-ga flicked the ball to Matt Taylor, who found Matt Jarvis before the winger scored with a clean finish in the 80th.

Maiga then jumped higher than the Tottenham defenders five min-utes from time and headed home past Lloris to silence the Spurs fans with his first goal of the season.

After West Ham secured a second consecutive win at White Hart Lane following a 3-0 victory in October in the Premier League, Sherwood said his immediate future at the club was still “up in the air.” The list of potential candi-dates touted to succeed Villas-Boas in the long term includes Fabio Capello and Glenn Hoddle.

“I don’t know if I’ll be Spurs manager, I haven’t spoken to the chairman,” Sherwood said. “We have to have a chat and see. It has to fit me and the club. The club have to make the right ap-pointment, as you can imagine the list is as long as your arm.” With Adebayor up front alongside Jermain Defoe, Sherwood also started Danny Rose, Vlad Chir-iches, Gylfi Sigurdsson and Andros Townsend.

Tottenham got off to a strong start, creating a first chance almost immediately as Aaron Lennon surged down the right flank before crossing the ball for Defoe, whose shot ended just wide.

With Tottenham applying con-stant pressure on the visitors, West Ham defender Joey O’Brien almost headed the ball into his own net as he struggled to cope with Lennon’s cross from the right in the 7th minute, moments before Adebayor sent a looping header wide.

Struggling to string passes

together, West Ham was forced to watch and rarely entered Tottenham’s half in the first 30 minutes. Looking uninspired, Sam Allardyce’s play-ers relied on basic tactics, unsuccess-fully sending long balls to Carlton C o l e . Lennon w e n t close af-ter the in-terval after West Ham’s defense failed to clear Rose’s cross, but the Spurs winger saw his deflected effort ending inches wide.

It was then Sigurdsson’s turn to miss a chance from close range before West Ham captain James Collins almost lobbed Lloris from 70 meters. Tottenham fi-nally got rewarded after a flash of genius from Townsend released Defoe on the left flank, with the striker sending a perfect cross that Adebayor converted with a fierce volley under the crossbar in the 68th.

Townsend limped off the pitch with a suspected hamstring in-jury soon after. Matt Taylor went close in the 75th, forcing Lloris to a good save to keep Spurs in command.

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The match at Stoke was inter-rupted in the 29th minute because of hail with a delay of more than 10 minutes before Young scored a spectacular goal from the edge of the box in the 62nd following a 1-2 with Javier Hernandez. Evra then sealed the Red Devils’ win by curling home a right-footed strike in the 78th.

“Sunderland played well to beat Chelsea so anything can happen but we are really pleased to be in the last four,” Manchester United manager David Moyes said. “The conditions were a leveler and it was really difficult to play in tonight. It’s some of the worst conditions I’ve played or managed in. But once we got the first goal we felt confident. This club is used to winning trophies, it is business as usual.”

In the first match since Andre Villas-Boas’ dismissal on Mon-day - following a 5-0 home loss to Liverpool - Tottenham interim manager Tim Sherwood made six

Associated Press Writer

BARCELONA, Spain — Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid ad-vanced to the Copa del Rey’s round of 16 after dispensing with third-division opponents on Wednesday. Five-time cup winner Sevilla be-came the night’s only topflight team to be upset by a lower-division team when third-tier Racing Santander won 2-0 in Seville to overturn a 1-0 first-leg loss.

Madrid, which had been held to a scoreless draw by Olimpic Xativa in the first leg, scored twice in the first half to win 2-0 at the Santiago Bern-abeu. Asier Illarramendi put Madrid ahead in the 16th with his first goal since the midfielder transferred from Real Sociedad last summer. Jese Rodriguez set up Illarramendi to end Olimpic’s run of keeping a clean

sheet in nine consecutive matches.Angel Di Maria doubled the

advantage in the 28th with a pen-alty that goalkeeper Francisco Solar palmed off his post, only to see it trickle over the line. Madrid goal-keeper Iker Casillas had an awkward fall late but finished the game after team doctors examined his back on the pitch.

“We tried to score more goals but we couldn’t manage it,” said Madrid’s Pepe. “The important thing is that the team played well.” Madrid will face Osasuna in the next round in January. Defending champion Atletico needed a last-gasp header by defender Tobias Alderweireld to edge Sant Andreu 2-1, advancing 6-1 on aggregate.

After Alberto Carroza scored for Sant Andreu in the 15th, Adrian Lopez missed a penalty for Atletico

before he set up substitute Hec-tor Hernandez to equalize in the 79th.

The Barcelona-based side still seemed set to celebrate a surpris-ing draw at Vicente Calderon Stadium until Alderweireld flicked in Gabi Fernandez’s free kick three minutes into stop-page time. Atletico will face the winner of the tie between Valencia and Nastic Tarragona, who play on Thursday after 0-0 in the first leg. Sociedad, Alme-ria, and Real Betis also finished off lower-division opponents to advance.

Sociedad routed Algeciras 4-0 with goals by Javier Ros, Haris Seferovic, Antoine Griezmann and Carlos Vela, advancing 5-1 on aggre-gate. Griezmann has scored 13 goals in all competitions this season.

Associated Press Writer

MARRAKECH, Morocco — Raja Casablanca converted a late penalty kick to upset Ronaldinho’s Atletico Mineiro 3-1 Wednesday

and set up an unexpected encounter with Bayern Munich in the Club World Cup final. The Moroccan club will play the Champions League winner on Saturday after an improbable victory set off by captain Mohsine Moutaouali’s 84th-minute penalty, awarded when Atletico defender Rever was judged to have tripped Mouhssine Iajour inside the area.

Iajour had put the local favor-ite ahead in the 51st before more than 35,000 fans at the Marrakech Stadium before Ronaldinho equal-ized for the Brazilian team from an exquisite free kick in the 63rd. But stunned Atletico coach Cuca could only look on in silence as substitute Vivien Mabide put the result beyond doubt with a stoppage time goal.

Now the Moroccans must pull off an even bigger upset over Bay-ern. “Who would have believed we would come to this,” Raja coach Faouzi Benzarti said through a translator. Despite Ronaldinho’s equalizer, the Brazilian playmaker was the one leaving the field red-eyed after the Copa Libertadores champion’s unexpected loss.

Ronaldinho was mobbed by jubi-lant Raja players who competed for his jersey, some even untying laces to remove his shoes as a souvenir of

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MADRID - Barcelona are looking to extend their record run at the top of La Liga and sign off for the winter break with a win when they play at eighth-placed Getafe on Sunday but the modest Madrid-based club are eyeing an upset. Barca will travel to the Spanish capital without injured World Player of the Year Lionel Messi, who is continuing his recovery from a muscle strain in his native Argentina and is not due back

until the middle of January.Coach Gerardo Martino is also missing

in-form Brazil forward Neymar, who is suspended after picking up his fifth yellow card of the season in last weekend’s 2-1 win over Villarreal, and Getafe president Angel Torres believes the absence of the two for-wards boosts his side’s chances. Sunday’s game is the first of three meetings between Barca and Getafe over the next few weeks as they also clash over two legs in the last 16 of the King’s Cup early next month.

“Let’s see if we can get them this time, it’s a good moment for it,” Torres, whose side knocked Barca out of the Cup in 2007, told reporters at a charity event on Wednes-day. “Messi is the best player in the world and Neymar is coming into good form but it must be said that they have plenty of backup,” he added.

“We will have to play at 150 percent on Sunday as well as in the Cup. “We will have a go. We did it in 2007 and we will give it the best possible shot.” With Messi and Ney-

mar unavailable, the goal-scoring burden will likely fall on the shoulders of Alexis Sanchez, Pedro and Cesc Fabregas.

Spain forward Pedro has seven goals in La Liga this term, one more than Neymar, and scored Barca’s opening goal in Tues-day’s King’s Cup victory against third-tier Cartagena.

“Scoring always helps with your confi-dence,” he told reporters. “I am pleased with the goals I am bringing to the team and also for having a chance to play.”

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BERLIN - As Bayern Munich take a break from domestic action to pursue more silverware overseas, Bayer Leverkusen will be hoping to close within four points of the all-conquering Bavarians with a win over Werder Bremen ahead of the German winter break. Bayern will be aiming to claim a fifth trophy of 2013 when they face surprise package Raja Casablanca in the Club World Cup final in Morocco on Saturday and with their 17th league game put back to January, Leverkusen have a chance to cut their lead.

As third-placed Dortmund struggle for consistency, Leverkusen have emerged as Bayern’s main challengers for the Bundesliga title despite suffering a 1-0 defeat to Eintracht Frankfurt last week that halted a four-game winning streak. After clinching a Champions League knockout stage berth last week, they bolstered their squad with the loan signing of 20-year-old South Korean forward Ryu Seung-woo on Wednesday from FC Jeju for the second half of the season.

For coach Sami Hyypia’s team, the Bremen game on Saturday represents a last chance to turn on their attacking style before the winter break against a team with the joint worst defensive record in the league after conceding 37 goals in 16 matches. “Every time our opponent gets into the penalty area, it becomes extremely dangerous for us,” Werder sports director Thomas Eichin said of the 14th-placed side’s fragile defence.

Werder have conceded 14 goals in the last three games in the absence of injured central defender Sebastian Proedl and their 16 point-haul after as many matches represents their lowest Bundesliga tally in 39 years. Tensions have also risen off the pitch with captain Clemens Fritz involved in a scuffle with a team mate during training this week.

Werder coach Robin Dutt is well aware that another defeat fol-lowing the 7-0 drubbing at Bayern and a 3-2 loss at Hertha Berlin in the past two weeks could cost him his job.

“We are having a bad run, there’s no question about it,” Dutt told reporters. “But it does not do us any good to talk about the standings. I can read the table and there are not many teams behind us.”

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Real’s Angel Di Maria celebrates after scoring a penalty during a round-of-32, 2nd leg Copa del Rey soccer match between Real Madrid and third-division club Xativa Olimpic at the Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013.

Madrid, Atletico win to advance in Copa del Rey

Raja stuns Ronaldinho’s Atletico at Club World Cup

perhaps their most memorable night of football. The more than 10,000 Atletico fans left in a state of shock, many sobbing.

Atletico certainly did not look the expected class above Raja, which used its speed on the coun-ter to upset Atletico’s backline of Leonardo Silva and Rever, who was exposed throughout but es-pecially in the deciding spot kick.

Raja defender Zakaria El Hachimi celebrated the penalty by perform-ing ‘the worm’ along the grass.

“In every team there are some drawbacks, and I felt they were very slow,” said Benzarti, who has won all three games since taking over coaching duties just before the start of the tournament. “To score three goals against a great team is not a bad thing.”

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Raja Casablanca’s Mohsine Moutaouali, left, kicks the ball as Atletico Mineiro’s Victor dives during the semi final soc-cer match between Morocco’s Raja Casablanca and Brazil’s Atletico Mineiro at the Club World Cup soccer tournament in Marrakech, Morocco, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013.

Leverkusen primed to close on absent Bayern

West Ham United’s Modibo Maiga, low-er, celebrates his

goal against Totten-ham Hotspur with team-mate Matt Taylor during their English League Cup quarterfinal soc-cer match at White Hart Lane, London, Wednes-day, Dec. 18, 2013.

West Ham, Man United advance to League Cup semisAssociated Press Writer

LONDON — Shock therapy failed to produce the desired result at Tottenham as Spurs con-ceded two goals in the last 10 minutes to go out of the League Cup in the quarterfinals after a 2-1 home defeat to West Ham on Wednesday. Manchester United also advanced with a 2-0 win at Stoke courtesy of goals from Ashley Young and Patrice Evra. The Red Devils next face Sunderland, with a potential final against bitter rival Manchester City after the Blues were drawn against West Ham in the other semifinal.

changes as Emmanuel Adebayor enjoyed his first start of the sea-son.

Adebayor, who had played only 45 minutes this season after being ignored by Villas-Boas, put Spurs in front with a spectacular volley in the 68th but West Ham got back into the match when Modibo Mai-ga flicked the ball to Matt Taylor, who found Matt Jarvis before the winger scored with a clean finish in the 80th.

Maiga then jumped higher than the Tottenham defenders five min-utes from time and headed home past Lloris to silence the Spurs fans with his first goal of the season.

After West Ham secured a second consecutive win at White Hart Lane following a 3-0 victory in October in the Premier League, Sherwood said his immediate future at the club was still “up in the air.” The list of potential candi-dates touted to succeed Villas-Boas in the long term includes Fabio Capello and Glenn Hoddle.

“I don’t know if I’ll be Spurs manager, I haven’t spoken to the chairman,” Sherwood said. “We have to have a chat and see. It has to fit me and the club. The club have to make the right ap-pointment, as you can imagine the list is as long as your arm.” With Adebayor up front alongside Jermain Defoe, Sherwood also started Danny Rose, Vlad Chir-iches, Gylfi Sigurdsson and Andros Townsend.

Tottenham got off to a strong start, creating a first chance almost immediately as Aaron Lennon surged down the right flank before crossing the ball for Defoe, whose shot ended just wide.

With Tottenham applying con-stant pressure on the visitors, West Ham defender Joey O’Brien almost headed the ball into his own net as he struggled to cope with Lennon’s cross from the right in the 7th minute, moments before Adebayor sent a looping header wide.

Struggling to string passes

together, West Ham was forced to watch and rarely entered Tottenham’s half in the first 30 minutes. Looking uninspired, Sam Allardyce’s play-ers relied on basic tactics, unsuccess-fully sending long balls to Carlton C o l e . Lennon w e n t close af-ter the in-terval after West Ham’s defense failed to clear Rose’s cross, but the Spurs winger saw his deflected effort ending inches wide.

It was then Sigurdsson’s turn to miss a chance from close range before West Ham captain James Collins almost lobbed Lloris from 70 meters. Tottenham fi-nally got rewarded after a flash of genius from Townsend released Defoe on the left flank, with the striker sending a perfect cross that Adebayor converted with a fierce volley under the crossbar in the 68th.

Townsend limped off the pitch with a suspected hamstring in-jury soon after. Matt Taylor went close in the 75th, forcing Lloris to a good save to keep Spurs in command.

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GIANYAR - Gianyar Regency is indeed the hub to watch barong dance, sculpture and other types of arts. However, one time try to enjoy its natural attractions because this region also retains many attractions highlighting the interest in nature. Tegenungan Waterfall, for instance, is one of them. The attraction located at Kemenuh Village offers a unique charm. Its natural aura can really be perceived. Once visiting this nature tourism will definitely make visitors addicted. Tegenungan Waterfall is different from any other waterfalls in Bali. Though it is not situated on a highland or mountain, it remains to offer beautiful natural scenery. Its height is about 4 meters and has very heavy torrents. Its crystal clear water is very suitable for bathing or just playing around. It is approximately 30 km from Denpasar or 13 km from the city of Gianyar.

Its scenery is so beautiful and enriched by lush tropical green trees grow-ing on the riverbank. Around the area, there are several bathing places with multiple showers coming out from natural springs. Surrounding residents frequently take bath and fetch water here for daily consumption. Similarly, travelers coming here often take advantage of the shower. By and large, they use it to cleanse their face or refresh the body.

At particular time, the shower located near the temple is crowded with local residents because they perform a melasti procession, a series of deva yajna ceremony held by the Hindus community in Bali. If you want to cap-ture an amazing picture, you should come in the afternoon or evening. This happens because the waterfall overlooks the west, so that it will be difficult to get an interesting photograph in the morning as disrupted by sunlight. To reach the waterfall from parking lot, you should go down some 150 stairs. Afterward, go along the banks of the Petanu River.

Tegenungan Waterfall

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Miami’s Dwyane Wade scored 32 points to help the Heat to a victory which moved them within one game of Indiana, which leads the Eastern Conference. LeBron James set up Allen for the 3-point-er that put Miami in front for good with 59.5 seconds left, capping a 10-0 run. Paul George scored 25 points for the Pacers but missed a 3-pointer that would have tied it with 4 seconds left.

Down by one, the Pacers saw their best chance go awry when George Hill turned the ball over on a bad pass with 14 seconds left. Allen made two free throws with 10.3 seconds remaining to put Miami up by three, and that capped a big comeback win for the two-time defending NBA champions. Minnesota’s Kevin Love had 29 points, 15 rebounds and nine as-

sists, powering the Timberwolves to a 120-109 win over Portland.

Nikola Pekovic had 30 points and nine rebounds for the Tim-berwolves, who led by 32 in the second quarter and held off a charge in the second half from the Blazers. Damian Lillard had 36 points, six assists and six rebounds for the weary Trail Blazers, who were completing a four-game road trip.

San Antonio’s Manu Ginobili scored 11 of his 24 points in the final 4-plus minutes, steering the Spurs to a 108-101 win over Phoe-nix. and San Antonio pulled away to snap Phoenix’s five-game win-ning streak. Tim Duncan added 17 points and 13 rebounds for the Spurs, who were without injured point guard Tony Parker.

Channing Frye scored 15 of his

22 points in the first quarter for the Suns, who had won their previous five games. They led 95-93 late but Ginobili led San Antonio on a 15-6 scoring run in the closing stages. Los Angeles’ Blake Grif-fin and DeAndre Jordan each had a double-double as the Clippers beat New Orleans 108-95.

Griffin had 21 points and 10 rebounds before fouling out with 4:05 left, and Jordan added 14 points and 20 boards in the Clip-pers’ third straight victory. An-thony Davis led the Pelicans with 24 points and 12 rebounds in his return from a broken hand. Austin Rivers, the son of Clippers coach Doc Rivers, had two points in a reserve role for the Pelicans. Houston made a big third-quarter run which set up a 109-94 win over Chicago.

AP Photo/Lynne SladkyIndiana Pacers’ C.J. Watson (32) shoots as Miami Heat’s Norris Cole (30) defends during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Wednes-day, Dec. 18, 2013, in Miami.

Heat finish strongly to edge Pacers 97-94

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MIAMI — Miami’s Ray Allen hit the go-ahead 3-pointer in the final minute as the Heat rallied from a late deficit to beat the Indiana Pacers 97-94 on Wednesday in a clash of NBA divisional leaders. The Heat-Pacers clash was the highlight of a day when Minnesota made a powerful start which overwhelmed Portland, San Antonio ended Phoenix’s winning streak, and father Doc Rivers got the bragging rights over son Austin Rivers as the Los Angeles Clippers defeated New Orleans.

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Boris Becker once shared a bit-ter rivalry with Ivan Lendl across the net and now the two former world number ones will try to out-wit each other from courtside after the German’s shock appointment as coach to Novak Djokovic. After Djokovic was named ITF World Champion for 2013, despite being overshadowed by Spain’s Rafa Nadal, Serbia’s world number two announced the first shake-up of his team since a short and unsuc-cessful spell with Todd Martin in 2009.

Djokovic’s decision to work with 46-year-old Becker means two of the current “Big Four” are now coached by former greats with Lendl helping Britain’s Andy Murray to the 2012 U.S. Open title and this year’s Wimbledon crown. “I am really excited to have the opportunity to work with Boris,” the 26-year-old Djokovic said in a statement on his website (www.novakdjokovic.com).

“He is a true legend, someone who has great tennis knowledge and his experience will help me win new trophies from the grand slams and other tournaments.

Becker is a great person, too, and I am sure he will fit in our team in the best possible way.”

Becker, like Djokovic a six-times grand slam champion, will replace the Serb’s long-time coach Marian Vajda, although the Slo-vakian will remain part of the team.

The last time Djokovic tinkered with his close-knit entourage he brought in former American player Martin but the relationship was terminated in 2010 after a less than fruitful year together. Becker will travel to all the grand slam tournaments with Djokovic, start-ing with next month’s Australian Open where the world number two is bidding for a fourth consecutive title, having twice beaten Murray in the final.

“I am proud Novak invited me to become his head coach,” Becker, the youngest player to win Wimbledon when aged 17, said in the statement. “I will do my best to help him reach his goals, and I am sure we can achieve great things together.”

ENTICING PROSPECT

Becker and Lendl in opposite

camps is an enticing prospect. The 22 matches they played in the 1980s and early 90s always contained an undercurrent of fric-tion, with the stony-faced Czech Lendl clearly agitated by the man nicknamed Boom Boom. While Lendl edged their rivalry 12-10 it was Becker who won the three grand slam finals they contested, most notably the 1986 Wimbledon final which Lendl had set his heart on winning.

Becker once accused Lendl of not being “mentally tough” while Lendl hit back saying Becker did not have the guts to say things to his face in the locker room.

The passing of years has mel-lowed both men but their competi-tive edges will return in a few weeks when the new season starts with the build-up to the Australian Open.

Djokovic will hope Becker has a similar impact to Lendl’s on Murray as he strives to regain the world number one ranking from Nadal who dominated 2013, win-ning the French Open and U.S. Open titles on the way to the top of the rankings. “My goal for 2014 is to play my best tennis and to get in shape for the Grand Slams and Masters 1000,” Djokovic said.

Novak Djokovic of Serbia plays a shot during his exhibition tennis match against Rafael Nadal of Spain in Buenos Aires

November 24, 2013.

Old rivalries resume as Djokovic hires Becker

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The sentence is heavier than the previous verdict of 10 years in jail as had been decided by the Anti-Corruption Court. Djoko was charged with corruption in the procurement of Rp196.8 billion worth of simulators for driving licenses during his tenure as chief of the police traffic corps.

Apart from the jail sentence, Djoko is also under obligation to pay

Rp32 billion as compensation money to the state. In an event that he fails to do so, the court is authorized to seize all of Djoko’s properties and auction them to procure the compensation money.

According to the Jakarta Higher Court’s website, Djoko’s right to vote and to be voted to a public office is currently being revoked.

AntaraJAKARTA - Indonesia’s 2013 state budget is projected to

record a deficit of Rp225.5 trillion or 2.41 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) at the end of this year, Finance Minister Chatib Basri stated.

“This year’s deficit is still relevant to the target,” he noted in a meeting with the House of Representatives (DPR)’s Com-mission XI, here on Wednesday.

The projected deficit is slightly higher than the target of Rp153.3 trillion or 2.38 percent of the GDP set in the revised 2013 state budget.

Chatib explained that the deficit forecast is based on state revenues, which are projected to touch Rp1,411.7 trillion or 94 percent of the targeted Rp1,502 trillion, and on state expendi-tures, which are predicted to reach Rp1,637.2 trillion or 94.8 percent of the ceiling of Rp1,726.2 trillion.

As per November 29, state revenues were recorded at Rp1,224 trillion and state expenditures, at Rp1,386.8 trillion. The state revenues and expenditures account for 81.5 percent and 80.3 percent respectively, of the target or ceiling set in the revised 2013 state budget.

The minister also added that by the end of this year, the tax receipts are projected to reach Rp1,061.6 trillion, or 92.4 percent of the target of Rp1,148.4 trillion set in the state budget.

“The lower-than-projected tax receipts in 2013 will be the result of declining exports. However, the tax receipts can still offset the deficit,” he confirmed.

Until the end of November 2013, tax receipts had reached Rp936 trillion or 81.5 percent of the target, while tax receipts throughout last year had touched Rp980.5 trillion.

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Bambang Yudhoyono has stated that the cooperation between Indo-nesia and Malaysia has continued

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The Jakarta Higher Court sentenced former Chief of Traffic Police Unit Inspector General Djoko Susilo to 18 years in jail for involvement in a corruption and money laundering case, accord-ing to the court’s official website.

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JAKARTA - The Jakarta Higher Court sentenced former Chief of Traffic Police Unit Inspector General Djoko Susilo to 18 years in jail for involvement in a corruption and money laundering case, according to the court’s official website.

2013 budget deficit may reach 2.41 percent of GDP

Cooperation between Indonesia, Malaysia continues to progress

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Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, left, is greeted by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono prior to their annual consul-tation meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2013.

to increase and has the potential to expand further.

“Our cooperation and partnership has improved year on year. We often do not realize that we have achieved

a lot. We should maintain this mo-mentum so that it further improves in the future,” stated Yudhoyono in his opening remarks of the bilateral meeting between the Indonesian and Malaysian delegations at Merdeka Palace, here on Thursday.

He added that the bilateral co-operation in the fields of trade, tourism and education should be further intensified based on mutual benefit.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak affirmed that Indonesia is very important and therefore he has visited the country five times on various occasions during 2013.

President Yudhoyono and Prime Minister Razak held a bilateral meeting on Thursday morning.

Among Indonesian ministers attending the meeting were Co-ordinating Minister for Political and Legal, Security Affairs Djoko Suyanto, Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Hatta Rajasa, Coordinating Minister for People’s Welfare Agung Laksono, Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro, Home Affairs Minister Gamawan Fauzi, National Police Chief Gen-eral Sutarman, and Chief of the Indonesian Defense Forces (TNI) General Moeldoko.

Thousands of Italians have marched in cities across the country over the last nine days in protests fuelled by falling incomes, unem-ployment above 12 percent and over 40 percent among people below 25. “The ruling class is made up of thieves and mafiosi, and they are destroying our country! We are bet-ter than this ... Out out out!” Danilo Calvani, a farmer who has emerged as one of the leader of the protests shouted to the cheering crowd in the Piazza del Popolo.

Attempts to address Italy’s eco-nomic woes have been held up by squabbling between the coalition partners since the left and right were forced into an awkward alliance to end a political stalemate in April. The wave of “pitchfork” protests, which began among a loosely orga-nized group of farmers in Sicily, has prompted President Giorgio Napoli-tano to warn Italy could be plunged into violent social unrest unless the government swiftly introduced re-

forms to help struggling citizens.About 3,000 people attended the

Rome rally, fewer than expected after some original leaders of the movement refused to endorse the event, saying they feared it could be infiltrated by violent protesters.

Ringed by police, the crowd waved Italian flags while leaders of the movement from around Italy gave angry speeches blaming the govern-ment for impoverishing the country.

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“We do not want to be ruled by this government anymore. They don’t represent us, they don’t listen to us, they only steal and that’s it. We want new elections,” said protester Valerio Lorusso, 41, a farmer from Foggia in southern Italy. The pitchfork protests have taken on increasingly Euroscep-tic tones, with some blaming Europe for years of austerity and economic hardship. The movement has won support from several far-right groups,

and several speakers and those in the crowd said Italy should abandon the euro.

One banner read “Dear old Lira, you were worth half but you went twice as far!” and several in the crowd said they wanted a return to Italy’s former currency.

“Never before have policies so impoverished the people. If it con-tinues like this we are finished with Europe,” said Daniele Iamilli, 42, a security guard from Rome.

Members of Casapound, a neo-fascist group whose deputy leader was sentenced to three months in prison for tearing down the EU flag from the European Commission headquarters in Rome on Saturday, were among those protesting in the square.

National data released this week showing almost one in three Ital-ians risk poverty or social exclusion underlined the scale of a crisis that has fuelled disillusionment with the government and state institutions.

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BEIJING - Retired U.S. basketball star Dennis Rodman said on Thurs-day he was not going to North Korea to talk about politics or human rights, despite political tension surrounding the execution of leader Kim Jong Un’s uncle. Rodman has visited Pyongyang twice before, spending time dining as a guest of Kim, with whom he says he has a genuine friendship.

His latest visit follows the rare public purge of Kim’s powerful uncle Jang Song Thaek, who was executed last week. South Korean President Park Geun-hye has described recent events as a “reign of terror”. The purging of Jang, considered the second most powerful man in the North, indicated factionalism within the secretive Pyongyang government.

“It has nothing to do with me. I mean, whatever his uncle has done, and whoever’s done anything in North Korea, I have no control over that. I mean, these things have been going on for years and years and years,” Rodman told Reuters at his hotel in Beijing on Thursday before he left for the airport. “I’m just going over there to do a basketball game and have some fun,” he said. The U.S. State Department has sought to distance the U.S. government from Rodman’s visit.

Ahead of the trip, Seoul-based North Korean human rights activist Shin Dong-hyuk said in an open letter in the Washington Post that Rodman should talk to Kim about human rights abuses in North Korea. Rodman said it was not his place to talk about such issues. “People have been saying these things here and there. It doesn’t really matter to me. I’m not a politician. I’m not an ambassador,” he said. “I’m just going over there to try and do something really cool for a lot of people, play some games and try to get the Korean kids to play,” he said.

“Everything else I have nothing to do with. If it happens that he wants to talk about it then great. If it doesn’t happen I just can’t bring it up because I don’t (want) him to think that I’m over here trying to be an ambassador and trying to use him as being his friend and all of a sudden I’m talking about politics. That’s not going to be that way,” Rodman said. Rodman is expected to provide North Korea’s national basketball team with four days of training during the trip.He also intends to return to Pyongyang in January with a team of fellow former National Basketball Association stars to hold basketball games on Kim’s birthday. Rodman’s trip was arranged by Irish bookmakers Paddy Power, which has a history of controversial advertising campaigns.

According to him, the increase in the number of rooms in Bali was very worrying. Many illegal villas or hotels were indeed allowed to grow without control. “I worry about the price war and it will eventually harm the local tourism industry. A lot of examples have happened where small local hotels should be closed down. Even, the more severe one is cannibalism that will happen in the tourism industry,” he said.

He hoped that government could take firm action pursuant to the policy. As happened in Bogor, local government had dismantled the illegal villas. “If it is prohibited, do not build any accommodation. When there are illegal or unauthorized villa, simply dismantle them and never give them exemption,” he said. (kmb27)

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Demonstrators gather in Piazza del Popolo square to protest against Government’s austerity measures in Rome, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013. What started out as the so-called “pitchforks protest” by Sicilian farmers nearly two years ago is now a nationwide expression of citizen impatience over rising unemployment, stubborn recession and national lawmakers and gov-ernment.

Thousands demand Italian government resign in Rome rallyReuters

ROME - Thousands of protesters furious about high unemployment and a political class they regard as corrupt rallied in central Rome on Wednesday demanding the resignation of Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta’s government. With the highest debt burden in the euro zone after Greece, Italy - mired in its longest post-war recession - is closely watched by financial markets and European partners as a flashpoint for instability in the bloc.

Occupancy...

Rodman says he’s going to North Korea for fun,

not to talk politics

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North Koreans look down from a balcony as former NBA basketball star Dennis Rodman enters the Koryo Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea Thursday, Dec. 19, 2013.

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The Old Mask is one of the central figures in the performing art of the Pajegan Mask ritual. As the name implies, the Pajegan mask dance drama (pajegan or majeg mean-ing to buy up) is a single dancer performing a variety of characters. The main characters contained in the Pajegan mask dance drama consist of the pangelembar (hard mask and old mask), panasar, prince (king and chief minister) and bondres (folk) and ends with the appearance of the Sidakarya mask dancer.

According to a lecturer from the Faculty of Performing Arts, the Indonesia Institute of Arts (ISI) Denpasar, Tjokorda Raka Tisnu, the staging of the old mask was an integral part in the staging of Pa-jengan mask presented in religious procession in the innermost court-yard (uttama mandala) of temple and cremation ritual. By and large, the storyline presented originated in the chronicle history.

Performance of the Pajegan mask was begun with the presentation of figure with strong character. The mask had reddish dark color, bulg-ing eyes, and a pair of thick black mustache. Its movement was agile, elegant and having authoritative steps. Appearance of this character was followed by the appearance of the elderly character. Its hair, eye-brows and mustache turned white with slow motion but displayed wise eyes.

“In staging this Pajegan mask, the two figures performed first are called pangelembar masks. Move-ment of the old mask dance was en-tirely improvised where the dancer showed off its expertise at dancing and animating the character of the elder,” said Raka Tisnu, a figure known by the lovers of the art in Bali usually playing the antagonistic role as Duryudana and Ravana in ballet performance.

Raka Tisnu asserted, the old mask actually reflected the figure

of chief minister or a commander who served as adviser. It meant the old mask was actually a serious role with wise and prudent character. The dancers understanding about the role and position of the old mask as royal advisor would never ‘derail’ the wise figure into a farce intended to provoke laughter of the audience.

“Unfortunately, in the current development, there are a number of dancers that derail the old mask dance so that it no longer fits with the norms or character of a wise and authoritative chief minister. Lately, there are a number of dancers who dance by inserting jokes in the old mask dance like catching fleas and discarding snots indiscriminately. I think it is an excessive and improper improvisation by the artist. Such creativity is excessive and must be corrected. If there is indeed a chief minister behaving like that, he will be dismissed by the king because he does not reflect the behavior of a chief minister that should become a paragon,” he criticized.

Furthermore, this famous Bali-nese dancer from Singapadu village, Gianyar, reminded the Balinese art-ists not to make ‘wild’ improvisation and creativity that would ‘hurt’ the meaning, nature and function of the character that should be pre-sented seriously. Moreover, in the presentation of the Pajegan mask an artist was truly given the free-dom to improvise and develop the dance movement that could provoke laughter of the audience through the performance of bebondresan figures.

According to Raka Tisnu, the Old Mask dance in the past was a series of Pajegan masks where a dancer was demanded to expertly present all the existing characters and roles. In other words, a figure should be capable of playing the hard mask, old mask, penasar, king, bondres and the sanctified Sidakarya mask becoming the core in the staging for the sake of religious rites. (ian)

Mpu Kuturan then unified the nine schools or sects into Shiva-Buddha. After organizing a con-gregation in the Samuan Tiga Temple, it was born the concept

of customary village along with its trinity temple namely the Puseh Temple, Baleagung Temple and Dalem Temple. Pursuant to the concept of Tri Murti (trinity), each

family temple was equipped with three-chambered shrine. Since then, the social and religious life in Bali was getting organized and better. The chief of customary

village was called bendesa adat or uluampad. His responsibility was to lead the indigenous village related to religion and customary af-fairs. In carrying out the duties, the customary village was completed with by-laws in what the so-called awig-awig adat.

According to the book entitled Pemberdayaan Desa Pakraman (Empowerment of Customary Village) written by Prof. Dr. IB Gunadha, the by-laws regulated three key points namely harmoni-

ous relationship of human to God (Parahyangan), human to fellow humans (Pawongan) and human to its environment (Palemahan).

Meanwhile, based on the data of General Assembly Customary Village (MUDP) of Bali, there were totally 1,483 customary villages in Bali, where according to the data of Section Head of Customary Affairs of Bali Cultural Agency the custom-ary hamlet amounted to 3,200 in 2009. Today, it was estimated to reach 2,700. (kmb)

Customary Village in Bali

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DENPASAR - According to the lecturer of customary law of the Udayana University, Prof Dr. Nyoman Sirtha, the customary village in Bali was estimated to have existed since the presence of the sage Mpu Kuturan during the administration of Dalem Waturenggong. Earlier, in Bali lived and developed about nine schools of Hinduism that were worried to result in disharmony. The King Waturenggong asked Mpu Kuturan to take any measure to anticipate the matter.

Old Mask: Reflection on wisdom of a commander

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WASHINGTON - The US Sen-ate passed a compromise two-year budget accord Wednesday, marking a truce in the fiscal wars that have plagued Washington and reducing the likelihood of a government shutdown in January.

The measure, which passed 64-36 with the support of nine Republicans and the entire Democratic caucus, lays out top-line spending limits for 2014 and 2015, while erasing $63 billion in automatic spending cuts that were to kick in on January 1.

It is expected to be signed by President Barack Obama before he heads to Hawaii on Friday for his Christmas break.

The legislation was one of the final major accomplishments for Congress in 2013, which by all ac-counts has been a miserable year for US lawmakers.

Following the expected approval of a massive defense spending bill later this week as well as several executive and judicial nominations, the Senate heads to recess until early January.

Budget experts from the Senate and House of Representatives have until January 15 to craft a series of spending bills under the new limit, or risk another shutdown like the one that paralyzed Washington in October.

The bill increases the $967 billion cap for 2013 spending to $1.012 tril-lion next year and $1.014 trillion in 2015, and brings some normalcy to a process recently rocked by chaos.

Many Republicans including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell voted against the deal, arguing it slightly increases spend-ing, breaking the limits set in 2011 legislation.

But for others, there was a sense of relief that Congress managed to pass its first budget agreement in years.

“With passage of this compro-mise budget deal, we’ll replace $63 billion in non-strategic sequester cuts and prevent another govern-ment shutdown, restoring much-needed certainty to... our economy as a whole,” Senator Tim Kaine said shortly after passage.

“There is more work to be done to replace the remaining non-strategic sequestration cuts and address our long-term fiscal challenges, but Congress has now shown that we can work together in a bipartisan way, as the American public de-mands and deserves.”

The announcement that the bank will whittle down the scheme by $10 billion a month to $75 billion, while keeping interest rates at re-cord lows, sent US shares surging to new records.

Tokyo jumped 1.74 percent, or 271.42 points, to 15,859.22, Sydney rallied 2.08 percent, or 106.1 points, to 5,202.2 and Seoul was flat, edging up 1.02 points to 1,975.65.

Shanghai fell 0.95 percent, or 20.50 points, to 2,127.79 and Hong Kong lost 1.10 percent, or 255.07 points, to close at 22,888.75 on concerns about China’s economic outlook.

Shares in emerging economies -- which have been in turmoil at the prospect of an end to the bond-buying -- were mostly mostly

lower, surrending earlier gains.Manila fell 0.64 percent, or

38.43 points, to end at 5,923.12 while in the afternoon Bangkok lost 0.27 percent, but Jakarta was up 1.17 percent.

The Fed on Wednesday said it would reduce its bond-buying by a modest $10 billion to $75 billion a month from January, citing data indi-cating the economy is strengthening.

“In light of the cumulative progress toward maximum em-ployment and the improvement in the outlook for labour market conditions, the committee decided to modestly reduce the pace of its asset purchases,” the bank’s policy committee said in a statement.

It added that it would likely take “further measured steps at future meetings” if the economy

continues to improve.Policymakers also said they would

keep interest rates at record lows “well past the time” that the unem-ployment rate declines below 6.5 percent -- its previous cut-off point before tightening monetary policy.

While global markets have been falling on expectations of a taper, the relatively small reduction, and the likelihood of interest rates being kept ultra-low, provided a boost.

The Dow soared 1.84 percent and the S&P 500 jumped 1.66 percent, both hitting new records, while the Nasdaq rose 1.15 per-cent.

Edward Fung, investment ad-visory head at Kim Eng Securities in Hong Kong, told Dow Jones Newswires: “From how the US

market reacted, it seems to me that $10 billion tapering is nothing to investors compared to the Fed’s commitment to hold interest rates at a low level.”

Despite a late dip in their mar-kets, the news was also welcomed in developing countries, which have declined in recent months as investors repatriate cash back to the United States.

Bank Indonesia deputy gov-ernor Perry Warjiyo said: “The amount of tapering is slightly less than expected. More importantly, the announcement provides more clarity to the direction of Fed mon-etary policy. That will be positive for financial market stability.”

The dollar hit new five-year highs in New York after the an-nouncement. It peaked at 104.36 yen at one point -- up from levels below 103 yen earlier in Tokyo -- before settling at 104.13 yen. In afternoon Japanese trade Thursday it fetched 103.96 yen.

US Senate passes budget deal

AP PhotoInvestors talk next to the stock price monitor at a private securities company Thursday Dec. 19, 2013 in Shanghai, China. Asian markets were mixed Thursday after investors took the U.S. Federal Reserve’s decision to trim its stimulus as a vote of confidence the American economy is strengthening.

Asian markets mixed after Fed stimulus taper

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HONG KONG - Asian markets were mixed on Thursday after the US Federal Reserve said it would start cutting its stimulus programme next month, in a sign of confidence in the country’s economic recovery.

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The United States, Britain, Aus-tralia, Canada and New Zealand - known as the Five Eyes surveil-lance alliance - supported the resolution after language that had initially suggested foreign spying could be a human rights violation was weakened to appease them.

The resolution does not name specific countries but comes af-ter former U.S. National Secu-rity Agency contractor Edward Snowden released details this year of a global spying program by the NSA, sparking international out-rage. General Assembly resolutions are non-binding, unlike resolutions of the 15-nation Security Council. But assembly resolutions that enjoy broad international support can carry significant moral and politi-cal weight.

After the resolution was adopted last month by the General Assem-bly’s Third Committee, which deals

with human rights issues, U.S. delegate Elizabeth Cousens told the committee: “We firmly believe that privacy rights and the right to freedom of expression must be re-spected both online and offline.”

Cousens said it was imperative that human rights and civil society activists be able to use the Internet freely and without fear of reprisal to protect “dignity, fight against repression, and hold governments, including mine, accountable.” The resolution notes “that while con-cerns about public security may justify the gathering and protection of certain sensitive information, States must ensure full compliance with their obligations under inter-national human rights law.”

It calls on states to review proce-dures, practices and legislation on communications surveillance and “to establish or maintain existing independent, effective domestic

oversight mechanisms capable of ensuring transparency, as appro-priate, and accountability for State surveillance of communications, their interception and collection of personal data.”

It also asks U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay to present a report to the U.N. Human Rights Council and the U.N. General Assembly on the protection and promotion of the right to privacy in domestic and extraterritorial surveillance and the interception of digital commu-nications and collection of personal data, including on a mass scale.

Brazilian President Dilma Rous-seff and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have both condemned the widespread spying by the U.S. Na-tional Security Agency. The NSA is accused of accessing tens of thou-sands of French phone records and monitoring phone calls by Merkel and Rousseff.

Reuters

NEW DELHI - Residents of the Indian capital woke on Wednes-day to a third day of thick gray smog in one of the worst episodes this year, which disrupted dozens of flights and train services and caused a rash of health complaints. New Delhi is among several Asian cities, including Beijing, that are suffering from toxic levels of pollution fuelled by industrial growth and a surge in the numbers of vehicles crowding their roads.

The cloak of fog draping much of north India forced dozens of flights to be diverted or canceled, disrupted train schedules and led to a doubling in the number of medical emergencies caused by breathing difficulty, officials said. Runway visibility has been drop-ping to as low as 50 m. (164 ft) in Delhi over the past few days.

“Both departures and arrivals were stalled,” said airport spokes-man Kapil Sabarwal, as planes hovered in holding patterns, wait-ing for conditions to clear. Two passenger trains were canceled on Wednesday, while 60 trains were running late and 25 had been rescheduled on the third straight day of disruptions, said railways spokesman Neeraj Sharma.

The fine particles suspended in the fog ranged as much as seven times beyond the concentration that India considers safe, to reach a level the United States Environmental Protection Agency calls “hazardous”. At that point, the agency urges that all outdoor physical activity be avoided and that victims of heart or respiratory ailments stay indoors, along with children and the elderly.

The fog mingled with high pollution was an extreme event “when the air quality goes from very poor to dangerous,” said Gufran Beig, a scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology.

Calm wind conditions and a smaller gap between extreme tem-peratures helped trap pollutants in the air, Beig said. The frequency and duration of such events have been rising every year since government records started in 2010, he added.

REUTERS/Lucas Jackson A United Nations flag flies at half mast in front of the UN headquarters in honor of the late Nelson Man-dela in New York, December 6, 2013.

United Nations calls for end to excessive electronic spyingReuters

UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday called for an end to excessive electronic surveillance and expressed concern at the harm such scrutiny, including spying in foreign states and the mass collection of personal data, may have on human rights. The call was included in a resolution drafted by Germany and Brazil which the 193-member General Assembly adopted by consensus.

REUTERS/Anindito MukherjeePeople cross railway tracks on a foggy winter morning in New Delhi December 18, 2013. Residents in New Delhi woke to the third day of thick grey smog on Wednesday, among the worst this year, with a forecast set to trigger emergency health warnings in the coming days.

Indian capital blanketed in thick smog, transport disruptedBali Post

DENPASAR - Bali government through the regional development planning board (Bappeda) invited a number of figures and elements, Wednesday (Dec 18) to arrange and establish the assessment team membership of the 11 National Tourism Strategic Areas (KSPN) in Bali following the pros and cons over the policy of the central government.

Unfortunately, the last meeting could not reach final result regarding the formation of the assessment team and the attendance was also mini-mal. The meeting only yielded the elements or institutions to be involved in the team and asked to send the names of their representative later.

“Establishment of the KSPN Assessment Team is not final. Right now, we are compiling a list of the elements or agencies to be involved in the team. We ask the agencies or elements established to be the team members to submit the names that will represent. When the names have been collected and agreed, it will be formally endorsed through a Gubernatorial Decree,” said the Head of Bappeda Bali, Putu Astawa, after the meeting.

In the meeting last Wednesday, the attending parties who provided inputs were also very minimal. Actually, the Bappeda Bali had invited nearly more than 20 elements or institutions related to the KSPN issues. Bali government was represented by the Head of Legal Bureau Wayan Sugiada, Bali Government Tourism Office, Culture Agency, Governance Bureau and others. Meanwhile, other elements attending the meeting consisted of the Dean of Tourism Faculty (Udayana University) Putu Anom, IB Negarayana from Bali Tourism Institute (STP) Nusa Dua, humanist Nyoman Gunarsa and the Head of Bappeda Karangasem Ketut Sedana Merta. In the meantime, elements of the Hindu Dharma Council of Indonesia (PHDI) and customary village general assembly (MUDP) were not present.

In the meeting was agreed the parties involved in the team consisting of the elements of the Bali government, Bali House, county/municipal government across Bali where the KSPN was located, academicians and elements of the Bali Rector Forum, religious leaders from PHDI Bali and county/municipality across Bali, customary leaders (MUDP, MMDP, MADP), elements of the mass media and journalists like the Indonesian Journalist Association (PWI) and Indonesian Journalist Alli-ance (AJI), environmental NGOs and Interfaith Communication Forum (FKUB). However, there was possibility of additional elements to be involved pursuant to the need of the assessment and aspiration. “For academician, we advise the Bappeda Bali to write a letter to rector forum in Bali, so they can determine the experts in this matter to be included in the KSPN team,” said the Dean of the Faculty of Tourism, Udayana University, Putu Anom.

The Head of Bappeda Karangasem, Ketut Sedana Merta, approved the establishment of the KSPN assessment team. The team would also be expected to inventory the KSPN input and issues surrounding it. “We agree to the formation of this team, but its output should also be clear. The team must also be completed with technical working group, supervision working group and other working groups. Do not let us be blamed in the county and province,” he explained.

In particular, he also asked to involve the customary village, temple priests and community leaders of Besakih in the team and be involved in the next discussion because the main problem was the KSPN Besakih, Mount Agung and surrounding areas. “We specifically ask to involve the chief of customary village and temple priests of Besakih because this team is not formed if there is no problem related to the KSPN Besakih,” he said.

The Head of Bappeda Bali, Putu Astawa, added the KSPN Assessment Team to be formed would be an independent team consisting of all the elements of both the pros and cons party so they could obtain a compre-hensive input. Within this week, his party would re-invite a number of community members to immediately set up a team and the team could immediately conduct a study. Later on, the results of the assessment team would be forwarded as a proposal to central government.

“We actually follow up the result of gubernatorial social gathering on November 5, 2013 to make an assessment team. But, we also need a fairly long time to establish this team because we want this team can be completely independent. So, there will be no impression if it will be pro to certain things. Having been agreed, the names will be included in this KSPN team. Though the decree on the establishment of this team is signed by the governor, this team will actually work independently. Obvi-ously, we are still committed to the provisions in the existing bhisama (stipulation) and Regional Bylaw No.16/2009 on Bali Spatial Plan and this team will work independently,” he concluded. (kmb29)

According to police chief, other than doubling the number of per-sonnel deployed at each post, his party also invited all people of Buleleng and Bali in general to make the security condition con-ducive. Moreover, many national and international events were held in Bali. “Well, let’s keep the repu-tation of Bali that has been trusted. Security responsibility is not solely the task of police, but also the re-sponsibility of all of us,” he said.

During the visit on Wednesday, Chief Benny Mokalu had been the inspector of rally in the courtyard of Buleleng Police Headquarters.

The rally was also participated by Chief of Buleleng Police Benny Arjanto, Regent of Buleleng Putu Agus Suradnyana and officials of the Buleleng leadership council.

Police chief emphasized that village police as the spearhead in the community should make more frequent interaction with the members of community ahead of the general election in 2014. “As the spearhead in the community, at least the village police can visit three houses each day. The more often they communicate, the better will be,” he said.

Besides, the ranks of county

leadership council were also expected to make more frequent communication and synergy with the ranks of county police. Ac-cording to him, in such informal communication could be dis-cussed about the matters relating to security and order condition in the respective region. After lead-ing the rally, police chief further conducted a face-to-face meeting with community leaders and po-litical parties. The entourage then headed to Seririt to inaugurate five subdistrict police command headquarters including the one in Seririt and Sawan. (kmb15)

IBP/FileThe police officers are wearing their uniform.

Secure Christmas and New Year, number of personnel doubledBali Post

SINGARAJA - Bali Police ranks would double the number of personnel to secure the celebration of Christmas and New Year 2014. If at one point was usually deployed four personnel, it would be doubled to eight personnel. It was revealed by Chief of Bali Police, Albertus Julius Benny Mokalu, during his visit to Buleleng, Wednesday (Dec 18).

Formation of KSPN assessment team not been final

3Friday, December 20, 201314 InternationalInternational Bali NewsFashion Friday, December 20, 2013

Ironically, some locations in West Denpasar subdistrict hit by flood were new locations. Meanwhile, the efforts to anticipate the flood by widening the waterway in Mati River still had obstacle as hampered by land acquisition. Local residents whose land located around the river seemed to object if their land was used for public purpose. The Head of Denpasar Public Works, I Ketut Winarta, revealed the matter on Wednesday (Dec 18).

Winarta did not dismiss if the effort of widening the waterway in Mati River was still hampered by land acquisition. Meanwhile, the waterway normalization in Mud-ing River Denpasar whose water overflowed all this time and trig-gered the flooding on Jalan Gunung Talang and Jalan Tangkuban Perahu had been under process. It was said the cultivation of the project would begin in the fiscal year 2014. “Pre-viously, the activities at the location (Muding River—Ed) also faced dif-ficulty in land acquisition. However, after we socialized through the local village officials, hopefully in 2014 the expansion plan of waterway in the river can be realized,” he said.

According to Winarta, the nor-malization activities in Muding

Bali PostDENPASAR - Dog bite cases

afflicting a few people in Negara generate more awareness of ra-bies. On the other hand, when the bite cases in Bali are high enough, the stock of anti-rabies vaccine (VAR) runs thin. Even, Sanglah Hospital as one of the rabies cen-ters in Bali has run out of vaccine stock since two months ago.

According to an official, as long as the anti-rabies vaccine was empty, the treatment could be provided was only wound care. As for getting the vaccine, patients were suggested to go to other rabies centers or could purchase at a pharmacy providing the vaccine.

Responding to such condition, the Head of Bali Health Agency, Ketut Suarjaya, when contacted

on Wednesday (Dec 18) admitted the current stock of the anti-rabies vaccine was diminishing. “So far, the stock of anti-rabies vac-cine amounts to 9,000 vials and 200 vials of anti-rabies serum (SAR),” said Suarjaya. Although the unavailability or depletion of stock happened in some rabies centers like Sanglah Hospital and county hospitals, it could still be ordered to each Health Agency of the county/municipality through-out Bali. When it was urgent and could not wait until the vaccine stock was available, added Suar-jaya, people were given the option to purchase it at pharmacy that provided the vaccine or monitor the biting dog.

If within the span of two weeks the dog was still alive, it meant the victim was safe from rabies. “Pro-

curement of the vaccine stock will be made later this month as many as 41,000 vials,” he said.

Regarding the case of the dog biting a few people in Negara, according to Suarjaya, his party had handled it through the ad-ministration of anti-rabies vaccine and anti-rabies serum as well as the deployment of the district surveillance officer (DSO) to make observation against the victim bitten by rabies dog. Even though there was a bite of dog alleged to be positive to rabies, ac-cording to Suarjaya, the target of Bali Rabies-Free 2015 would not delay. The target of being Rabies-Free would only delay if within the period of two years there were casualties due to rabies. “The last death occurred in June 2013,” he said. (san)

IBP/Eka Adhiyasa

The efforts to anticipate the flood by widening the waterway in Mati River still had obstacle as hampered by land acquisition.

Anticipate flood

Waterway widening in Mati River hampered by landBali Post

DENPASAR - Denpasar still has a number of location points being very vulnerable to floods as happened at Padangsambian not long ago.

River denoting the tributary of Mati River indeed had been designed for a long time. The flood inundating the settlements all this time was caused by the constriction of waterway in Muding River.

“Normalization of Muding River is expected to prevent flooding in the area of Jalan Marlboro, Jalan Gunung Talang and Jalan Tangkuban Perahu Denpasar that all this time be-came regular victims of flood. If the project can be realized in the fiscal year 2014, it will be made a water-way widening up to seven meters in the upstream,” he said.

He added that similar plan would also be implemented in the water-ways of Mati River whose over-flowing water caused flood in the area of Padangsambian Klod as happened to Taman Wira Housing on Jalan Gunung Payung recently. At that time, dozens of people’s home were inundated. “We get instruction from the mayor to im-mediately normalize the Mati River considering the waterway condition at the location of flood was minimal and narrowed. Unfortunately, the activities are still constrained by land acquisition around the Mati River,” he said.

Based on the results of map-

ping, he said, the West Denpasar subdistrict was considered the most vulnerable area to flood during this rainy season. Some flood-prone areas in the region included the Jalan Gunung Talang 1 and 6, Jalan Tangkuban Perahu and Umadui

area. Other areas in this region being quite prone to flood were Jalan Imam Bonjol and Demak Temple area. Other locations con-sidered vulnerable to flood in North Denpasar subdistrict were such as Jalan Indrajaya Ubung Kaja, Jalan

Nangka Utara and the area of Anyar Market Batu Kandik. Meanwhile, the prone area in East Denpasar subdistrict was Jalan Kaliasem and then in South Denpasar subdistrict included Jalan Danau Tamblingan, Sanur. (kmb13)

IBP/Wira

The stock of anti-rabies vaccine (VAR) runs thin. Even, Sanglah Hospital as one of the rabies centers in Bali has run out of vaccine stock since two months ago.

Anti-rabies vaccine stock in Bali almost runs out

MICHELLE’S BANGS:

Nobody would call bangs a new trend, but when the first lady’s involved, things take on more significance. In fact, President Barack Obama actu-ally called his wife Michelle’s new hairdo the most significant event of his second inaugura-tion. Unveiled just in time for the festivities, the new hairdo made enough news to have its own (unofficial) Twitter account, FirstLady’sBangs, which issued alerts like “Just got a text from Hillary Clinton’s side-part.”

QUEEN OF THE RUNWAY, AIRWAVES AND EVERYWHERE ELSE:

By the time she appeared in a lovely Stella McCartney floral frock and high red leather pumps as a judge on “Project Runway,” it was clear: In the realm where Hollywood meets fashion, Kerry Washington is royalty. On her hit show, “Scandal,” playing professional fixer Olivia Pope, she was all professional Wash-ington — Washington, D.C., that is — but on the red carpet, she was glamour personified. Case in point: that Marchesa gown she wore at the Emmys, all cream and white and flower appliques, fit for a queen.

KATE MAKES US FEEL GREAT:

Much has been said about the fashion sense of the Duchess of Cambridge, aka Kate Middleton, but in 2013, it was something a bit different that caught our eye. Peeking out under her blue-

The pretty to the ugly: 2013’s key fashion momentsAssociated Press Writer

NEW YORK — It was a year for pixie haircuts, chunky flat shoes, bangs on our first lady and bare skin ... lots of it, on movie actresses and pop stars. Fashion always has its royalty, and this year, Kerry Washington was a queen. For real royalty, we had Kate Middleton, making the rest of us mortals feel a little better by flashing her mommy tummy. If Kate made us feel good, Lululemon didn’t, when its chairman appeared to blame women’s own bodies for problems with those popular yoga pants. A look back at these and other key fashion moments of 2013:

and-white polka dot dress as she emerged from the hospital post-childbirth was a pronounced “mommy tummy,” a normal de-velopment but something most celebrities keep under wraps, until their personal trainers have whipped them back into maga-zine-cover shape. Thanks, Kate!

LULULEMON, NOT SO MUCH:

Remember those popular yoga pants that had the unintended effect of being see-through? Well, ladies, turns out the ongo-ing fabric problems with those pants, including pilling, was YOUR fault. Or rather: the fault of YOUR THIGHS. Founder and chairman Chip Wilson of Lululemon Athletica noted in a TV interview that “Frankly, some women’s bodies just actu-ally don’t work” for the pants, because of thighs rubbing against fabric. Now Wilson just actually won’t be working as chairman of Lululemon; the company an-nounced his resignation from the post in December.

TAKING IT ALL OFF:

No thigh-rubbing problem for Gwyneth Paltrow, who was happy to show just how little cel-lulite she has when she appeared at the “Iron Man 3” premiere in a dress with sheer mesh panels on the sides, leaving little of her lower body and, er, posterior to the imagination. But we all nearly forgot about Gwyneth when we saw actress Jaimie Alexander at the “Thor” premiere, her black gown expanding the see-through effect to the midriff and upper regions. Let’s just say these actresses are saving money on underwear.

DESIGNER MOVES:

A Paris runway show full of mournful symbols — and lots of black — was designer Marc Jacobs’ somber goodbye to Louis Vuitton in October after 16 years in the influential post of creative director. Under Jacobs, who also has his own eponymous brand, Louis Vuitton became the most lucrative fashion house in the world, in part thanks to Jacobs’ creation of a ready-to-wear line. He was replaced by Nicolas Ghesquiere, formerly at Balen-ciaga.

TAKING DESIGNERS TO TASK:

Iman and Naomi Campbell are legendary supermodels, but this year they lent themselves to something different: promoting diversity on the runway, by call-ing out designers whose catwalks were almost completely white. The two women joined modeling agent Bethann Hardison in their Balance Diversity campaign. Explaining their purpose, Iman, now 58, said she was shocked to hear there were fewer black mod-els on the runway than when she stopped modeling in 1989.

LESBIAN COUTURE:

The message was unmistak-able: At the Karl Lagerfeld haute couture show in Paris, the design-er sent not one, but two brides down the runway for the finale. The brides walked hand in hand in their feathery concoctions, a clear vote of support by the de-signer for France’s gay marriage law. The show came only nine days after hundreds of thousands of people marched in Paris in op-position to the law.

FILE - This Nov. 4, 2013 file

photo shows actress Jaimie

Alexander at the U.S. premiere of “Thor: The Dark

World” in Los Angeles. Alexan-der wore a black Azzaro Couture

dress expanding the see-through

effect to the midriff and up-

per regions.

Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP, File

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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

Friday, December 20, 2013

Calendar Event for January 1 through February 26, 2014

1 Jan Buda Kliwon Matal, Kajeng Kliwon And Tilem Sasih Kenam Pura Desa Sukawati SukawatiPura Pasek Gelgel Gelgel BebetinPura Maspahit SesetanPura Padharman Arya Kanuruhan Besakih

11 Jan Tumpek Kandang Pura Desa GianyarPura Luhur Dalem Sagening Kediri TabananPura Sang Hyang Tegal Tegalalang

15 Jan Purnama Sasih Kapitu Pura Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Kaja GianyarPura Puseh Manakaji Peninjauan BangliPura Taman Limut Pengosekan Mas UbudPura Benua BesakihPura Gunung Rena Sidemen KarangasemPura Pasek Gelgel Abadi KarangasemPura Pucak Gunung Mangun Kubu Karangasem

16 Jan Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan 17 Jan Hari Bhatara Sri 21 Jan Anggara Kasih Prangbakat Pura Bukit Buluh Gunaksa KlungkungPura Tirtha Sidamala Bebalang BangliPura Gunung Pangsong LombokPura Dalem Benawah GianyarPura Dalem Bitra GianyarPura Pura Hyang Haluh/Jenggala Besakih

Pura Tengkulak Tulikup GianyarPura Taman Sari UbudPura Penataran Badung

29 Jan Hari Siwaratri

30 Jan Tilem Sasih Kepitu Pura Buana Kawan BesakihPura Ulun Kulkul Besakih

31 Jan Kajeng Kliwon Enyitan

5 Feb Buda Kliwon Ugu Pura Dalem Tarukan Peninjauan Tem-buku BangliPura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah Bule-lengPura Kayangan Tiga Seririt BulelengPura Agung Gunung Raung Taro Tegalalang

6 Feb Pura Dalem Puri Besakih

14 Feb Purnama Sasih Kawulu Pura Dalem Batur BangliPura Ida Ratu Pasek BesakihPura Dalem Suci Sidemen KarangasemPura Buana Kawan Besakih

15 Feb Tumpek Wayang & Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan Pura Majapahit JembranaPura Panti Gelgel Pengembungan SesetanPura Pedarman Dalem Sukawati BesakihPura Pedarman Mengwi BesakihPura Pedarman Kaba-kaba BesakihPura Pedarman Dalem Bakas BesakihPura Pedarman Dinasti Dalem Besakih

Pura Penataran Giri Purwo Tegal Delimo BanyuwangiPura jala Sidhi amerta Juanda Surabaya

19 Feb Buda Cemeng Kelawu Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang KarangasemPura Melanting Camenggaon SukawatiPura Penataran ped Nusa PenidaPura Gaduhan Jagat Singakerta UbudPura Masceti Sanding Tampak SiringPura Penataran Batu Lepang Kamasan KelungkungPura Paibon Pasek Gelgel Kedonganan KutaPura Guwa BesakihPura Basukian BesakihPura Jati UbudPura Melanting UbudPura Dalem Peed Nusa PenidaPura Sad Kayangan Nusa PenidaPura Penataran Agung Gunung Karangasem

21 Feb Hari Bhatara Sri 25 Feb Anggara Kasih Dukut Pura Dalem Batuyang BatubulanPura Pasek Gelgel Mengening Kediri TabananPura Pasek Undagi Krambitan TabananPura Pucak Taman bedulu GianyarPura Puser Jagat Nusa PenidaPura Dalem Purwa Kawan BangliPura Desa Ketewel Gianyar

26 Feb Pura Agung Pasek gelgel Sibang Kaja Abian SemalPura Dalem Samprangan Gianyar

The bar is a free-standing space with comfortable seats to enjoy drinks through-out the day or watch Kuta’s famous

Sands Restaurant

A contemporary lounge by the beachIBP

Hotel Santika Premiere Beach re-sort Bali is delighted to announce the launch of Sands, a contemporary styled restaurant and outdoor lounge by the beach. This smart new venue is all about taking the time to unwind against a backdrop of inspiring ocean views. Sands has been designed to cap-ture the laid-back ambience of life in the tropics. The main dining room is a simple structure made from glass and timber. It blends seamlessly into the outdoors where decorative waterways and swaying coconut palms add an exotic touch to this relaxing setting. A series of open-air decks elevated at different levels create defined areas to wine, dine or just chill out.

sunset. There is also an ice cream counter strategically positioned to catch the pass-ing trade of guests strolling a long the beach pathway. Sands serves a refreshing menu to excite the palate. House specialties include a

signature hot stone cooking concept as well as an array of tasty tapas. There is also a separate children’s menu fea-turing favourite dishes with a healthy twist.

Sands has all of the appeal of an exclusive beach club.

It is a multi-functional venue available for private events and small functions such as a wed-ding celebration at sunset. The opening of Sands is the first of several new guest facili-ties intended to update Hotel Santika Premiere Beach Resort

Bali. The entire area along the beach is currently being trans-formed with a collection of private suites and a spa centre dedicated to personal rejuvena-tion. Sands opens for breakfast, lunch and dinner, 07.00 – 23.00 hours daily.

IBP/File PhotoThe Head of Jembrana Forestry, Fishery

and Maritime Agency, Made Dwi Maharim-bawa, recently said the issues faced by fishery farmers was price competition against the products from Java. Onslaught of the pond products from outside Bali was very detri-mental to ponds in Bali including Jembrana, chiefly a number of farmer groups due to competitive price. Selling price of fishery product from Java was cheaper because they got a cheaper feed price, not to men-tion the more competitive labor costs. “The production cost there (in Java) is cheaper, so it should be considered to protect the fish farmers in Bali and Jembrana in particular,” he explained.

On that account, there should be a strict control in the border by Fish Quarantine of-ficer. Besides, it was also needed a Certificate of Origin (SKAU) to ensure that the fish had clear origin. By that way, it could be known

the origin and be traced what caused the price to go down. “It is intended to get clear information about the origin of the fishery products, who knows it was stolen and then sold at cheap price,” he explained.

Existence of the freshwater and brack-ish water ponds managed by farmer groups was expected to boost the econ-omy. Currently, the fresh water farmers considered the price competition was quite striking, particularly the fishery product invasion from outside Bali. The selling price of fish such as carp was very competitive as the price of feed made from fish flour was expensive. Indeed, added Maharimbawa, with the current price in the market farmers could have reached the Break Even Point (BEP). Since the price ever exceeded the higher price than the present one, farmers still expected the price to return to normal. (kmb26)

Bali PostSINGARAJA - An official vehicle

owned by Bali government was wrecked after toppled over by electric pole on Jalan Raya Singaraja-Denpasar, precisely at milepost 15 at Gitgit village, Sukasada subdistrict, Wednesday (Dec 18). As a result of the incident, the traffic flow was jammed on the track about three hours.

Information at the location told that the incident happened around 12:30 a.m. At that time, the vehicle with red license plate DK 1532 was used by the Bali Envi-ronment Agency coming from Denpasar. The official vehicle was driven by Agus Krisna, 26, and carried three people. At that time, it was thickly foggy and the vehicle drove slowly. Once arrived at milepost 15, two electric poles unexpect-edly collapsed and one of them toppled over the vehicle. Suddenly the vehicle stopped and could not move.

As a result, the rear part of the vehicle was wrecked and the back door could not be closed. Luckily, no passenger

suffered injuries. However, a passenger named Nurhayati was shocked and had to receive light treatment at Sukasada Health Center.

A number of residents said that before the incident the power line at the milepost 15 was very low as buffeted by rain and strong wind. Before the fateful official passed, a tourist bus from Denpasar also passed on the street in front of it. When the bus passed, the power line had been caught at the air conditioner box on the rooftop of the bus. However, the bus forced itself to pass through the power line so the power line pulled the electrical pole to the ground.

Chief of Sukasada Police Traffic Affairs, Nyoman Adika, with his ranks directly arranged the traffic flows as it was jammed. Until 4:00 p.m. on Wednes-day, only private cars and four-wheeled trucks could pass, while buses and large size trucks could not. ”For a while, we apply an open and closed system,” he said. (kmb15)

IBP/File

The fishermen are waiting to go to the sea

Onslaught of fishery products from outside Bali harms pricesBali Post

NEGARA - Supervision against the fishery traffic is currently more tightened. It happens because there is an onslaught to the aquaculture products harming the pond owners in Jembrana. The senders of fishery products from outside the island dare to lower the price so as to make fishery farmers in Bali and Jembrana in particular oppressed.

Official car toppled over by electric pole leads traffic jams

IBP/File

The car which was damaged by a fallen electric pole

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According to him, the occupancy rate of star hotel in 2013 only reached 56 percent and it decreased when com-pared to the occupancy rate in 2012 reaching more than 60 percent. Tourists visit in 2013 reached 3.279 million, while in 2012 only reached 2.892 million. This indicated the growth of hotel room in Bali was excessive.

“With the amount of tourist arrival reaching 3 million more to Bali, the occupancy rate can reach 65-70 percent. However, it happens on the contrary where the occupancy rate is only 50 percent. This means that hotel room growth exceeds the foreign tourist arrival,” he complained.

According to him, the growth in tourist arrivals to Bali reaching 10 percent was far exceeded by the growth of hotel room reaching 15 percent.

“By all means, the occupancy is low because the growth of hotel room exceeds the tourist arrival. Un-avoidably, this condition will automatically trigger a tariff war that will harm the government because the taxes paid will be smaller because the hotel profits di-minished,” he said.

He advised the government to immediately form a regional tourism promotion board to offset the growth of

hotel room. Existence of this institution was expected to improve the image of Bali tourism, increase foreign and domestic tourist arrival and increase tourist expenditure during their visit in Bali and evaluate the tourist arrival.

“With the number of rooms reaching over 80,000, ideally the tourist arrival reaches 4 million in order to cover the average occupancy of up to 70 percent. On that account, it is required to establish a tourism promotion board (BPPD) in this region,” he said.

Deputy Chairman of the Indonesian Tourism Industry Association GIPI) of Bali, Bagus Sudibya, admitted the hotel occupancy rate decline was not a new issue that happened in Bali. Even, this condition would continue to occur as long as the amount of supply and demand between the number of accommodation and tourist arrival was imbalanced. “The growth in the number of tourist arrival over 13 percent cannot pursue the growth in the number of room because the growth in the number of hotel room in Bali is very high,” he affirmed.

The photo shows villas built near the rice field at Bali Is-land. Decline in the hotel occupancy rate in Bali causes

a dilemma amid the rise of tourist arrival to the island. The Indonesian Hotels and Restaurants Association

(PHRI) of Bali claimed it happened due to uncontrolled accommodation development.

Occupancy rate slumps amid uncontrolled accommodation growth

Bali Post

MANGUPURA - Decline in the hotel occupancy rate in Bali causes a dilemma amid the rise of tourist arrival to the island. The Indonesian Hotels and Restaurants Association (PHRI) of Bali claimed it hap-pened due to uncontrolled accommodation development. “Low occupancy is indeed inseparable from the uncontrolled development of accommodation and illegal accommodation. The development of illegal villas, tourist inns and other illegal accommodation exceeds the growth of tourist arrivals,” said Deputy Chairman of PHRI Bali, IGN Rai Suryawijaya.

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The car, a 2005 Porsche Carrera GT, is notoriously hard to handle. “We’re looking at speed and speed alone,” a law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation told The Associated Press. The official was not authorized to speak publicly about the ongoing investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity.

The Nov. 30 crash also killed the driver, Walker’s friend and financial adviser Roger Rodas. Rodas, 38, and Walker, 40, co-owned an auto racing team. Rodas also was a professional driver who competed in 10 Pirelli World Challenge GTS races this year.

Investigators with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department have cal-culated a range of the speed at which they think the car was traveling, but they won’t disclose that number until Porsche engineers come to California next month in the hope of extracting information from onboard data collectors. The of-

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People stand around a roadway memorial at the site of the auto crash that took the life of actor Paul Walker and another man, in the small community of Valencia, Calif., Monday, Dec. 2, 2013.

Official: No mechanical issues in Walker car crashAssociated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — Investigators have found no evidence that the Porsche carrying actor Paul Walker had mechanical problems before it crashed, killing the “Fast & Furious” star. The investigation also has ruled out debris or other roadway conditions as causing the car in which Walker was a passenger to slam into a light pole and tree.

ficial would not disclose the current speed estimate. It is calculated through a formula that uses factors including the arc of tire marks from the scene and how well the tires would grip the road-way, said Chris Kauderer, chairman of the California Association of Accident Reconstruction Specialists.

The sheriff’s office has said speed was a factor in the one-car crash in an industrial park about 30 miles (48 ki-lometers) northwest of downtown Los Angeles. A spokesman on Wednesday had nothing to add.

Though the car exploded in flames, its three data recorders survived and may produce information to pinpoint the speed. If they produce usable data, the recorders would be able to tell investi-gators whether seat belts were fastened, air bags deployed and whether Rodas hit the brakes before impact. Because the car is so rare, investigators will need Porsche’s help to retrieve the data. A

spokesman for the car company declined to comment.

The official said sheriff’s investigators also have enlisted the help of California Highway Patrol accident reconstruction specialists, who tested the brakes on the wrecked car and found that at least one of the tires was made in 2004. The CHP did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The official told AP that the Porsche appeared to have negotiated a curve in the road successfully before crashing.

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KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaican singer Tessanne Chin just might moti-vate the government of her Caribbean homeland to fix the country’s chroni-cally rutted roads. Chin became the season five champ of “The Voice” TV show Tuesday, eliciting jubila-tion in Jamaica. Her performances on the NBC singing competition were a big topic on the island for weeks and politicians lost no time in congratulat-ing her.

When Chin won a car with the other show finalists, she quipped to host Carson Daly that “we have the worst roads” in Jamaica. National Works Agency Deputy CEO Earl Patterson said Wednesday that he got the mes-sage, telling reporters: “Certainly the point that Tessanne made that the roads could do with more investment, that point is noted.” However, he quickly added that the island’s fiscal constraints must be considered.

n this photo provided by NBC, Tes-sanne Chin sings during the season

five finale of “The Voice” on Tues-day, Dec. 17, 2013, in Los Angeles.

Chin was announced the season five winner.

‘The Voice’ champ quips about Jamaica’s bad roads

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