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NEW YORK — Linkin Park is canceling the rest of its U.S. tour after its lead singer injured his leg. Chester Bennington says he needs immedi-ate medical attention and it’s impossible for him to perform. Bennington hasn’t said how he injured his leg.

Linkin Park’s “The Hunting Party” tour kicked off last week. The rock band performed only three concerts. Bennington appeared onstage with crutches at the band’s Sunday concert in Indianapolis.

He said Tuesday he’s “disappointed” he can’t per-form and called the first few shows “magical.” Fans can seek refunds for the remaining 16 shows. The Grammy Award-winning band’s hits include “In the End,” ‘’Numb” and “New Divide.” (ap)

The 37-year-old star of “Zero Dark Thirty” implored those in at-

tendance to “stand together against homophobic, sex-ist, misogynistic, anti-Se-mitic and racist agendas,” leading Oprah Winfrey to mouth “wow” as Chastain concluded her speech.

Speaking to The As-sociated Press, Chastain acknowledged she was shocked by messages she’s received since the

ceremony - calling the reaction “strange.”“I’ve had really terrible

people who are racists comment on the speech and say really terrible things. I’m understanding that some people in this world, how much hate they can have,” she said.

However, she said, she has also been cheered by the amount of support from Hol-lywood insiders, including film producers and stars, who echo her beliefs on the lack of diversity within the industry.

Chastain accepted her MVP award on the evening of this year’s Oscar nominations, which were criticized by some for the ab-sence of black actors and directors.

“Some people had taken my speech and then made it about awards — like SAG Awards or Oscars. That’s not what my speech was about,” Chastain said. (ap)

LOS ANGELES — Comedy Central says Justin Bieber will be the vic-tim of its next roast. The channel said Tuesday that the pop star will face the music at a taping in Los Angeles on a still-unannounced air date.

In a posting on his Twitter account, Bieber said he’s long wanted to be roasted but was told by Comedy Central that he needed to provide more material — and he’s worked hard to do that, he said.

Among events that appear ripe for mockery: the egging of a neighbor’s house and the monkey he left in Germany.

Last weekend, “Saturday Night Live” took on his new Calvin Klein ad, with “SNL” cast member Kate McKinnon strutting as the underwear-clad, tattooed Bieber. James Franco was the subject of the last Comedy Central roast. (ap)

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In this Aug. 15, 2014 file photo, Mike Shinoda, left, and Chester Bennington of the band Linkin Park perform in concert during their “Carnivores Tour 2014” at the Susquehanna Bank Center in Camden, N.J.

Linkin Park cancels tour after lead singer injures his leg

Comedy Central to roast Justin Bieber

LONDON — Jessica Chastain said Tuesday she has received a barrage of abuse following her recent speech urging more diversity in Hollywood. The American actress, who was honored as Most Valuable Player at last Thurs-day’s Critics’ Choice Awards ceremony, used her time onstage to make a plea to

Hollywood executives and actors on the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Chastain shocked

Attacks following diversity speech

Results of the ITB study have yet to the county government or the regent. However, on Tuesday, Head of Gianyar Transportation, Communications and Informatics Agency, Cokorda Gede Agusna-wa confirmed that, “results of the research conducted by the ITB team will be officially presented in February”.

Another one of several points highlighted in the study on trans-portation development in Ubud, brought up the issue of where to build such a parking lot, espe-cially considering the high cost of land in the area and then whether the people of Ubud want such a parking lot or not.

Cok Agusnawa tha the ITB

study would be used as one of the references in the making of policy by leadership. After the presentation of the study by ITB to the county government and the existing forum, the local government will take measures to create transportation systems in Ubud that will help to dimin-ish congestion in this tourist

area.The need for central parking

in Ubud, has also been expressed by the Forum for Ubud Traffic Center (UTC). According to their concept, central parking spaces could be created in every village by using land owned by the customary villages. Even, through the forum of customary village chiefs across Ubud, such a system has been agreed upon, it may not work.

Meanwhile, according to Cok Agusnawa, Ubud village itself has designed a central parking lot. The parking area would be

built by using property owned by the local village. Meanwhile, the location of the parking lot would be at the central intersection to the north. “In the near future, the central parking lot will be created” he said. (kmb16)

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Tourists trying to cross over Dewi Sinta Road at Ubud, Gianyar. Crowdedness of traffic in Ubud needs a central parking lot to diminish the amount of illegal parking which causes congestion.

Ubud needs central parkingGIANYAR - At the end of 2014, the government of Gianyar, in collaboration with academ-

ics from the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) conducted a study on the development of transport in Gianyar, particularly in the region of Ubud. The study, which was completely at the end of December 2014, yielded the same results as what people had been saying -that is; Ubud needs a central parking lot in order to diminish the amount of illegal parking that causes so much congestion.

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

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

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

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

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Because the spa can act as relaxation means, he said, at least the concept of spa has to have a unique building, for example, the building of Taman Air Spa & Self Pamper-ing. When entering the venue, the guests will

be greeted with the concept of China-Bali building. Starting from the lobby, the eyes are pampered with a water pool complete with sounds of gurgling water. Reflection room is built with bamboo exterior design. It offers the impression of traditional and unique. “Pool water can be soothing atmo-sphere, while the gurgling sound of water can give the peace of heart,” he explained friendly.

This sport and travelling lover also af-firmed that, in addition to highlight the con-cept of the building, the quality spa therapists or human resources also will determine the spa result. A therapist must understand the anatomy of the body. They also must be able to serve guests wholeheartedly, polite and can provide comfort. “To improve their understanding of the spa therapist, I immedi-ately gave them training directly. Besides, I also bring a spa trainer to teach them,” said the man who has exploring spa since a long time ago. (ocha)

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It was conveyed by one of the traditional classical puppet painters of Kamasan style, Pande Sumantra, when met at his gallery at Kamasan village, Tuesday (Jan 20). This phe-nomenon was said to have occurred in recent years. Formerly, many painters of Kamasan classical style received children to be educated so as to preserve the tradition, but later almost no younger generations wish to learn it. He was concerned that such situation would increasingly cause the aspirants of the classical puppet painting to reduce. As an aspirant of tradition since his child-hood, he certainly hoped the tradi-tion rooting at Kamasan village and becoming the icon of Klungkung could be developed.

Definitely it needed the inter-vention of all parties, namely the aspirants of Kamasan classical

painting, tourism stakeholders and local government. To make it survive through the time, Pande Sumantra said that all this time the Kamasan classical painting con-tinued to experience growth. The orders from the local Bali or outside Bali kept coming. Even, the media of this classical painting continued to evolve. Aside from canvas, many orders also asked to be worked on traditional fans and wooden media. When entering the year 2015, he admitted to have received several orders from local residents of Bali and Jakarta.

Most orders came from local residents in the form of ordinary painting, painting for ider-ider shrine paraphernalia, headboard at sacred buildings and fan up to rerajahan or mystical scripts or pictures. As for the order from

BANGLI – Over the last two years, Singa-mandawa market has gradually been abandoned by merchant preferring to sell in village markets. If this trend continues, it is quite possible that this government-owned traditional market in Kintamani, will suffer the same fate the Amerta Gunung Sari market better known as the Yangapi market in Tembuku.

The decline in the number of traders at Singa-mandawa market was recognized by one of the staff of the local market ticket collector, Wayan Guntana, on Tuesday (Jan 20).

According to him, it has been two years since the Kintamani market has become increasingly deserted wit many stalls now empty. Despite not having an exact number, he figured that there was a 25% decline in the number of merchants selling at Singamadaya market.

He said that most of the merchants who

formerly sold at the Singamandawa market had moved to village markets at Sukawana, Penelokan, Bayung Cerik and some other vil-lage markets as well. “For instance, there used to be a chicken egg trader from Sukawana who sold at the Kintamani market. Now, he and other like him are selling in village markets,” he explained.

According to him, the relocation from the Kintamani market to smaller village markets has less to do with the condition of the market itself and more to do with the fact that it costs less to sell in smaller markets.

Meanwhile, the Division Head of Bangli In-dustry and Trade Agency, Wahyudi, confirmed that indeed some merchants prefer to sell in vil-lage markets. However, since it is their right to do so, his party is unable to prohibit them from moving to another market. (ina)

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Pande Sumantra, one of the artist in Kamasan Klungkung who still can make traditional paintings.

Interest of people to involve in Kamasan classical painting declines

SEMARAPURA - The interest of Klungkung community, chiefly the residents of Kamasan village, to get involved in the tradition of classical painting of Kamasan style seems to diminish by degrees. This condition is inseparable from the result of the globalization stream and development of technology keeping the current generation away from Balinese cultural roots. Actually, the classical painting of Kamasan style has experienced significant growth and becomes one of the tourist attractions in Bali. Even, it has also become the identity of Klungkung.

outside of Bali, he received painting orders in the form of wedding fans. Each order could amount to five to ten paintings where each painting valued at IDR 1.5 million to IDR 2 million, depending on the level of complexity. If the theme was easy, sometimes it was sold for IDR 500,000. Nevertheless, he still received many orders of paintings on canvas. To work on the customers’

order, Pande Sumantra was much as-sisted by his wife who had also long enough been getting involved in this tradition.

Foreign travelers also often came to his gallery to look for the Kamasan classical painting as Balinese typical souvenirs when making a visit to Ka-masan village. In addition, foreign col-lectors of classical Balinese paintings

also hunted for this classical painting. In other words, the development of Kamasan classical painting had its own place and sufficiently developed. However, today only few people were still getting involved in this tradition. Thus, according to him, it was neces-sary to provide coaching in stages to preserve the heritage having been known worldwide. (kmb31)

Merchants start to abandon Singamandawa market

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The Singamandawa Market

3Thursday, January 22, 201514 InternationalInternational Bali NewsHealth Thursday, January 22, 2015

MIAMI - The deadly Ebola virus is changing, and new genetic mutations that have arisen in the past four decades could thwart the experimental drugs that some pharmaceutical companies are developing, researchers said Tuesday.

There is no drug on the market to treat Ebola, and no vaccine to prevent it, but clinical trials were accelerated last year after the worst outbreak in history began sweeping West Africa, killing more than eight thousand people so far and infecting more than 21,000.

Until recently, drug companies had been reluctant to invest much in Ebola treatments, seeing little cash return from treating a virus that tends to strike sporadically in Africa.

Even though some drugs are now being fast-tracked, they were developed well over a decade ago, based on strains of Ebola that were identified when the virus first emerged in the 1970s.

Some of the most promising drugs bind to and target a piece of the virus’s genetic sequence.

Since viruses naturally mutate over time, that could mean the drugs will not work as well as hoped, said the study in the journal mBio.

“The virus has not only changed since these therapies were designed, but it’s con-

tinuing to change,” said lead author Jeffrey Kugelman, a viral geneticist at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.

Researchers from USAMRIID, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, found that about three percent of the genome of the current strain of Ebola virus in West Africa contained changes, called single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs, when compared to outbreaks of other Ebola variants in 1976 and 1995.

They also found 10 new mutations that might interfere with the actions of mono-clonal antibody, siRNA (small-interfering RNA), or PMO (phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomer) drugs currently being tested, according to the research.

Three of those 10 mutations appeared during the current epidemic which has struck mainly in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.

The researchers urged drug developers to check whether the mutations they found might affect their experimental therapeu-tics.

“Ebola researchers need to assess drug efficacy in a timely manner to make sure that valuable resources are not spent devel-oping therapies that no longer work,” said Kugelman. (afp)

This “lifestyle disease” epidemic “causes a much greater public health threat than any other epidemic known to man,” said Shanthi Mendis, the lead author of WHO’s Chronic Diseases Prevention and Management report. Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), like cardiovascular conditions, diabetes, lung disease and a range of cancers, killed a full 38 million people around the globe in 2012 -- 16 million of them under the age of 70.

“Not thousands are dying, but mil-lions are dying ... every year in their 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s, not in their 80s and 90s,” said Mendis.

“It’s beyond belief that it is seemingly invisible,” she told reporters ahead of the launch.

Most of the world’s 16 million prema-ture NCD deaths each year -- 82 percent -- occur in poor and middle income countries, and most of them could be averted with just small investments, the report found.

“The global community has the chance to change the course of the NCD

epidemic,” WHO chief Margaret Chan said in a statement.

Millions of lives could be saved if the world over the next decade invests just $11.2 billion each year, or $1-3 per person, on promoting healthier habits, the report found.

Today, some six million people die prematurely each year due to tobacco use, 3.3 million deaths are linked to alcohol abuse, 3.2 million to lacking physical activity and 1.7 million to eat-ing too much salt, according to WHO findings.

A full 42 million children under the age of five are considered to be obese, and an estimated 84 percent of adolescents do not get enough exercise, Mendis said, describing the situations as “extremely frightening.”

The international community has staked out nine global targets for shifting unhealthy habits with the aim of slash-ing premature NCD deaths by a quarter between 2011 and 2025.

Simple and inexpensive steps like banning advertising of tobacco and

alcohol products and taxing foods and drinks that contain high levels of salt and caffeine has already proven successful in a range of countries, WHO said.

In Turkey, for instance, an advertising ban on tobacco products combined with significant price hikes and health warn-ings has pushed smoking rates down 13.4-percent since 2008.

A move in Hungary to heavily tax unhealthy food and drink components has meanwhile led to a 27-percent drop in junk food sales, the report said.

But while some countries have made progress, most will fall short of the 2025 target, WHO said, warning that inaction would have far-reaching consequences.

“When people fall sick and die in the prime of their lives, productivity suffers, and the cost of treating diseases can be devastating,” the UN health agency said.

It has estimated that if nothing is done to improve the situation, prema-ture NCD deaths will suck $7.0 trillion out of the global economy over the next decade. (afp)

MIAMI - People who are hospitalized for pneumonia face a higher risk of heart attack or stroke in the following weeks and months, Canadian researchers reported on Tuesday.

The study in the Journal of the American Medical Association is the first to focus on pneumonia patients with no previous history of cardiovascular disease.

Researchers are still trying to figure out why the body may be more vulnerable after a bout of pneumonia, but said in the mean-time, hospitalization for pneumonia should be considered its own risk factor for future cardiovascular disease.

The study was based on records of more than 3,800 people enrolled in US community health studies.

One group was aged 45-64, the other was over 65.By comparing more than 1,200 pneumonia patients to some

2,500 control patients of the same age over a period of 10 years, they found the heart risks were highest in the first weeks and months after a bout pneumonia.

“In the group aged 65 and older, a pneumonia patient was four times more likely to develop cardiovascular disease in the first 30 days following the infection,” said the study.

“In the tenth year, they were a little less than twice as likely to develop cardiovascular disease.”

In the younger group, the risk of cardiovascular disease was 2.4 times higher in the first 90 days after hospitalization for pneumonia, but the risk was no longer significant after a period of two years.

The study “provides yet another reason to do everything we can to prevent pneumonia from occurring in the community, through vaccination and basic hand hygiene, for example,” said lead author Vicente Corrales-Medina, an infectious diseases physician and researcher at The Ottawa Hospital.

“Second, once pneumonia has occurred, physicians should de-velop a care plan understanding that these patients are more likely to develop cardiovascular disease in the weeks, months and years following their recovery from this infection.”

A total of 1.2 million people are hospitalized for pneumonia in the United States each year. (afp)

‘Lifestyle’ diseases kill 16 million prematurely

GENEVA - Diseases linked to lifestyle choices, including diabetes and some cancers, kill 16 million people prematurely each year, the World Health Organization said Monday, urging action to stop the “slow-moving public health disaster”. Unhealthy habits like smoking, alcohol abuse and consuming too much fat, salt and sugar have sparked an epidemic of diseases which together constitute the lead-ing cause of death globally, WHO said.

Pneumonia raises risk of heart disease, stroke

Ebola virus changes over time, may thwart drugs

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Soccer supporters hold a placard, during the opening African Cup of Nations Group A soccer match between Equatorial Guinea and Congo, in Bata, Equatorial Guinea, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2015. The deadly Ebola virus is changing, and new genetic muta-tions that have arisen in the past four decades could thwart the experimental drugs that some pharmaceutical companies are developing, researchers said Tuesday.

The bus stop built just three months ago has been covered with spray painted graffiti. The wall of the Setra Gandamayu public cemetery of Tabanan town is also covered with graffiti. Alleg-edly the graffiti was committed by flocks of teens mimicking the tagging style of big cities.

Visually, graffiti gives a slum like impression, but more seri-ously, the scribbles of these ir-responsible people, have targeted

a number of traffic signs.“If I’m not mistaken, this bus

stop was established three months ago. Originally, it was clean but it has been defaced by graffiti,” said Made Agus, one of the residents passing by.

He claimed to feel uncomfort-able when seeing the graffiti that defaces walls, public facilities and even a number of traffic signs. “The graffiti on the walls make them look dirty,” he complained.

AMLAPURA - On the new moon of January (sasih kapitu) the Ababi customary village held a ngejaga ceremony at Kedaton Temple, Ababi village, Abang Karangasem, Tuesday. The ceremony was filled with pe-caruan followed by scrambling to get ajengan takepan at nightfall. The ajen-gan takepan obtained would be sown into people’s yards at home in order to neutralize negative influences.

Chief of Ababi customary village, I Made Sudiarsa, revealed that on the

new moon of January, the Ababi cus-tomary villagers prepared the ngejaga ritual marked with the implementation of pecaruan or animal sacrifice. Hun-dreds of portions of ajengan takepan were prepared during the ceremony and divided into different wrap-pings. “The white ajengan takepan is presented for deities, while the black one to evil spirits,” he said amidst the ceremony.

Ajengan takepan packages consist of rice and pecaruan wrapped into one.

According to Made Sudiarsa, ajengan takepan serve to neutralize negative forces coming from the lower realm of the earth. By burying ajengan takepan, negative influences within the house compound would not reappear. “After the mecaru ritual, the safety of society, and especially for the people of Ababi village, will increase,” he hoped.

The Ababi communities took 15 days to prepare for this ceremony. More than two tons of rice were used to prepare for this ceremony for which

2,062 households in the traditional village communities of Ababi par-ticipated. The rice was used to make ajengan takepan, gibungan (shared meals) and a number of other ritual paraphernalia.

As in previous years, after the im-plementation of the ngejaga ceremony, the communities of Ababi customary village implemented the Nyepi (day of silence) for female residents.

The day of silence was specifi-cally devoted to all women at the

customary village. As Nyepi in gen-eral, people were obliged to abstain from work (amati karya), and from lighting lamps or fire (amati geni). Amati lelungan (traveling) was only permitted around the Ababi custom-ary village area. “Nyepi is intended to provide an opportunity for women in Ababi customary village to visit each other and socialize and forgive one and other. Some people call it a day to escort deities on a sightseeing tour”, he concluded. (dwa)

Vandalism detrimental to look of the town of Tabanan

TABANAN - Vandalism by ignorant hands is increasing in Tabanan as evidenced by the num-ber of public facilities that fallen victim to acts of vandalism. As a result Tabanan a number of areas in Tabanan, such as the Trans Serasi bus stop located to the west of the Tabanan regent’s office are looking quite shabby, Tuesday (Jan 20).

He hopes that relevant agencies could conduct surveillance, so as not to give the impression that the vandalism is being ignored. There is fear that the actions of these ignorant hands will continue if serious action is not taken.

The shabby impression that results from such vandalism was also deplored by Tabanan legisla-tor, Nyoman Wirama Putra. This Golkar politician questioned the seriousness of the local govern-

ment in maintaining existing infrastructures. “Someone simply needs to provide a space for these youth to channel their creative aspirations, so that they will not carelessly create graffiti in various places”, he said.

According to him, rampant acts of vandalism also occur due to lack of attention. “Probably, they ex-press their inspiration haphazardly in order to get a response from the officials”, he added.

Wirama hopes that the county government will provide strict supervision of the building assets, and in so doing let it be known that the vandalism is not going unnoticed.

In a separate location, Spokes-person of the Tabanan government, Putu Dian Setiawan, also lamented the vandalism. This former subdis-trict head of Marga called for indi-viduals who like to create graffiti to not do so carelessly, as they are sure to have sanctions imposed on them if caught in the act.

Besides, such actions are quite detrimental to the budget of the local government. The cost of cleaning off the graffiti could instead be allocated to infrastruc-ture. “Hopefully, all members of society can contribute to main-taining local government facili-ties though various means,” he concluded. (kmb28)

People scramble to get “ajengan takepan” in ngejaga ritual

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On the new moon of January (sasih kapitu) the Ababi customary village held a ngejaga ceremony at Kedaton Temple, Ababi village, Abang Karangasem, Tuesday. The ceremony was filled with pecaruan followed by scrambling to get ajengan takepan at nightfall.

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“We are fighting against time, and we’ll make an all-out effort and use every diplomatic route that we have developed to win the release of the two,” he said.

Abe said he was consulting with leaders in the region. A con-voy carrying a Japanese envoy, Vice-Foreign Minister Yasuhide Nakayama, left the Japanese em-bassy in Jordan’s capital Amman on Wednesday for an unknown loca-tion in the city. He was dispatched from Abe’s Middle East entourage to handle the situation.

Abe and other Japanese officials have declined to discuss whether

Japan will pay the ransom for the captives, 47-year-old freelance journalist Kenji Goto and 42-year-old Haruna Yukawa, the founder of a private security company. The Islamic State group demanded a $200 million ransom in a video posted online Tuesday that showed a knife-brandishing masked mili-tant standing over the two kneeling captives.

Government spokesman Yoshi-hide Suga confirmed that Japan believed the threat to be authentic. “Japan’s aim is not to kill the Mus-lim people, as the militant group claims it to be,” Suga said. “We

strongly urge them not to harm the two Japanese and release them im-mediately.”

Abe has limited choices, among them to openly pay the extremists or ask an ally like the United States to attempt a risky rescue inside Syria. Japan’s military operates only in a self-defense capacity at home.

Abe and other government offi-cials have not said directly whether Japan was considering paying the ransom. But they remain adamant that Japan will continue to provide non-military aid to the region. “We will never give in to terrorism,” Abe said. (ap)

DUBAI, United Arab Emir-ates — A man is given 50 lashes in a public square for “insulting Islam” on a liberal blog. Another is arrested for filming and uploading a woman’s public beheading. Two females are imprisoned and put on trial for writing on Twitter in sup-port of women driving.

These cases have thrust Saudi Arabia’s record on human rights back into the spotlight, with inter-national concern mounting over the limits of free speech in the Arab monarchy.

Human rights activists and law-yers say the cases are part of a sweeping clampdown on dissent that has intensified in Saudi Ara-bia since the region’s 2011 Arab Spring upheaval. They say acts that offend the country’s religious hard-liners or open up the kingdom to criticism — like the video of the execution of a woman convicted of murdering her stepdaughter — have landed people in jail as a warning to others.

The case of Raif Badawi, a 31-year-old father of three who was flogged this month, has attracted the most attention in recent days, particularly in the aftermath of the deadly attack in Paris against a satirical weekly that caricatured the Prophet Muhammad.

Badawi was arrested in 2012 after writing articles critical of Saudi Arabia’s clerics on his Free Saudi Liberals blog, which has

since been shut down. Hard-liners wanted him charged with apostasy, which carries the death sentence in Saudi Arabia, but he was instead found guilty of the lesser charge of insulting Islam.

He was sentenced in May to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes and was fined $266,000. He was scheduled for another round of 50 lashes last Friday, but the flogging was canceled to allow his wounds to heal, according to Amnesty In-ternational.

“If you say that what happened in Paris is an attack on freedom of expression, than you can say what is happening to Raif is an attack on freedom of expression,” said Amnesty’s Saudi researcher Sevag Kechichian.

Just days after the attacks in Paris, Saudi Arabia’s minister of state for foreign affairs took part in the huge march that was held there to support free speech and honor the victims. Two days earlier, Badawi was flogged in the Red Sea city of Jiddah.

Activists and lawyers say the kingdom’s strict application of Sharia law against dissent is part of an effort to appease the religious conservatives who are vital supporters in the country’s fight against Sunni extremists. Badawi’s arrest and flogging were “a gift, let’s put it that way, to the hard-liners,” Kechichian said.(ap)

AP Photo/Loujain al-Hathloul, File

FILE - This Nov. 30, 2014 image made from video released by Loujain al-Hathloul, shows her driving towards the United Arab Emirates - Saudi Arabia border before her arrest on Dec. 1, 2014, in Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia’s rights crackdown linked to war on terror

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This image taken from an online video released by the Islamic State group’s al-Furqan media arm on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015, purports to show the group threatening to kill two Japanese hostages that the militants identify as Kenji Goto Jogo, left, and Haruna Yukawa, right, unless a $200 million ransom is paid within 72 hours.

Japan’s Abe ‘fighting against time’ seeking to

free hostagesTOKYO — Japan is doing all it can to free two hostages the Islamic State group is threaten-

ing to kill within 72 hours, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Wednesday, vowing never to give in to terrorism. Abe returned to Tokyo from a six-day Middle East tour slightly ahead of schedule and convened a Cabinet meeting soon after.

SEMARAPURA - The rain flushing Klungkung area recently, in fact, started to cause adverse im-pacts on farmers. Tens of hectares of paddy plants owned by farmers that were ready to harvest fell down as submerged in rainwater. Even, this condition began to threaten the farmers’ rice because it could rot.

As seen at Subak Toya Hee, Gelgel, Klungkung, Tuesday (Jan 20), a number of lands belonged to local farmers containing ready-to-harvest rice collapsed due to rain and violent wind. Even, many paddy plants of local farmers were in poor condition and could no longer be harvested.

Such condition was also experi-enced by one of the local farmers, Made Murja. Met at subak loca-tion last Tuesday, Murja claimed to suffer losses due to bad weather conditions like today. His ready-to-harvest rice was not salable as sub-merged in rainwater. Besides, there were many paddies whose harvest time already expired where farm-ers should have harvested 20 days before. Since the rain continued to flush, farmers were unable to do harvest. As a result, a lot of paddy

plants fell down and broke.“Usually when the weather is

normal, we could sell grain as much as IDR 3.5 million per hectare. However, because the grains were in damaged condition, they were unsalable,” he said.

Similar opinion was revealed by Dewa Putu Suamba, another farm-er. This farmer from Jumpai village said that a lot of grains were wasted due to current floods. Suamba him-self was forced to take advantage of the remaining submerged grains for duck fodder. Even, to anticipate greater losses, he also admitted to cut rice planted prematurely. “Yes, if we do not immediately cut, the rice will turn red,” he said.

With the current conditions, Dewa Suamba expected the gov-ernment to respond to the issue by providing assistance. Moreover, it would not only affect the quality of the low rice planted. However, the harvest yields obtained by farmers was also very little. “We also expect the agricultural insur-ance by the government can be promptly resolved so that it can reduce the losses of farmers,” he said. (119)

Made Wisata, one of the fisher-men on Penimbangan Beach, said that has temporarily closed shop because the beach has been deserted since last week, not to mention the unpredictable weather at sea. “Sometimes the sea looks normal in the morning, then all afternoon the waves will rise and fall in giant wave patterns making a trip out to

sea quite risky. I prefers to play it safe and closes my canoe and rubber tire rental business until conditions improve”, he said

Meanwhile, marine tour guides on Lovina Beach, are also expe-riencing the impact of the bad weather in the waters of the North Bali. For the past few days, they have dared to raise the sales of their

traditional boats that are used to escort travelers out to see dolphins or go snorkeling, because of violent winds and big waves. They were therefore forced to cancel reserva-tions made by travelers and hotel managers in order to ensure every-one’s safety. As they wait for the weather to change they clean and maintain their boats. (kmb38)

Bad weather means few visitors to

Penimbangan BeachSINGARAJA - Penimbangan Beach is a popular Singaraja tourist attraction that is often

crowded, but only a few people have visited the now desolate beach, since the bad weather started at the beginning 2015. Even Monday night’s celebration of Sivaratri saw the beach empty. Usually after celebrating Shivaratri in the temple, devotees perform a ritual cleansing at sea. However, because tidal waves were hitting Buleleng waters, the rite was not performed this year.

IBP/Mudiarta

The Penimbangan Beach

IBP/Sri Wiadnyana

The paddy plants which was damaged by the flood in Klung-kung.

Dozens of hectares of paddy plants in

Klungkung submerged

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Emboldened by a stronger econ-omy and better approval ratings, Obama called for a new chapter in US history that ushers in a fairer economy with a better shake for the middle class.

“We are 15 years into this new century. Fifteen years that dawned with terror touching our shores; that unfolded with a new generation fighting two long and costly wars; that saw a vicious recession spread across our nation and the world,” he said.

“It has been, and still is, a hard time for many. But tonight, we turn the page.”

“The shadow of crisis has passed, and the State of the Union is strong,” Obama said, claiming credit for ending the “Great Reces-sion.”

He heralded the “growing econ-omy, shrinking deficits, bustling industry, and booming energy pro-duction” that have also helped revive his political fortunes as his time in the White House nears its end.

For six years Obama’s presi-dency was often subsumed by an economic crisis that stymied efforts to narrow inequality and put other liberal policy priorities on the back burner.

Appealing to Democrats deter-mined to retain the White House in 2016, Obama on Tuesday called for an increase in the minimum wage, equal pay for women and tax breaks for the middle class.

Drawing a stark contrast with tax-averse Republicans, he dared

his foes to oppose proposed tax hikes for the rich that would pay for middle class breaks.

“We have risen from recession freer to write our own future than any other nation on Earth. It’s now up to us to choose who we want to be over the next fifteen years, and for decades to come.”

“Will we accept an economy where only a few of us do spec-tacularly well? Or will we commit ourselves to an economy that gener-ates rising incomes and chances for everyone who makes the effort?” he asked.

Obama’s Republican opponents have branded such talk as little

more than class warfare and will use their majority in both houses of Congress to make sure the plans never become law.

Republican Senator Joni Ernst, who was tasked with rebutting Obama’s speech, said Americans are still suffering from “stagnant wages and lost jobs.”

She also decried Obama’s “failed policies” and a “stale mind-set” that led to “political talking points, not serious solutions.”

“We’ll propose ideas that aim to cut wasteful spending and balance the budget — with meaningful reforms, not higher taxes like the President has proposed.” (afp)

AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File

In this Feb. 4, 2014 file photo, visitors inspect cars on display at a Toyota gallery in Tokyo. Toyota Motor Corp. stayed at the top in global vehicle sales in 2014, but is pessimistic about this year.

Obama says ‘shadow of crisis has passed’WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Tuesday declared America has turned the

page on years of war and economic hardship, in a populist-tinged State of the Union address that set up the battle to succeed him.

TOKYO - Toyota sold 10.23 million vehicles last year, it said on Wednesday, outpacing General Motors and Volkswagen to remain the world’s biggest automaker, but a shaky outlook for 2015 could see it lose the title to its German rival.

The record worldwide annual sales figure beat Volkswagen, which logged sales of 10.14 million vehi-cles, and US-based GM, which said it sold 9.92 million cars last year.

But Toyota also said sales would decline this year to an expected 10.15 million vehicles, as demand

falls off in its home market.That will likely mean Toyota will

trail behind Volkswagen this year, as the German automaker rides momentum in emerging economies that could see it take the lead in global auto sales for the first time.

Toyota broke GM’s decades-long reign as the world’s top automaker in 2008 but lost the crown three years later as Japan’s earthquake-tsunami disaster hammered produc-tion and disrupted the supply chains of the country’s automakers.

However, in 2012 it once again

overtook its Detroit rival, which sells the Chevrolet and luxury Cadillac brands. Toyota boosted its fiscal year through March profit forecast to 2.0 trillion yen ($16.97 billion), and said revenue would come in at 26.5 trillion yen, as it saw strong results in North America while a sharply weaker yen inflated its bottom line.

But it earlier warned over a downturn in some other key Asian markets including Indonesia and Thailand, which has been ham-mered by political unrest.

There are also growing fears about the entire industry’s prospects in China owing to concerns about the health of the world’s number-two economy.

Toyota’s upbeat announcement on Wednesday comes despite the firm struggling to recover its reputation for safety after the recall of millions of cars around the world for various problems, including an exploding air bag crisis at supplier Takata.

The maker of the Camry sedan and Prius hybrid has frozen the building of new plants for the three

years until early 2016, and a Toyota executive at the Detroit auto show told AFP last week that the giant automaker is emphasising quality of sales rather than volume.

Among the moves, Toyota is pushing further into the fast-grow-ing market for environmentally-friendly cars, especially in China where officials are struggling to contain an air pollution crisis.

Toyota said this month it had been swamped by domestic orders for its first mass market hydrogen fuel-cell car, with demand in the first month nearly four times higher than expected for the whole year.

The company received more than 1,500 orders for its “Mirai” sedan since its launch in mid-December. It had planned to sell 400 in Japan over 12 months.

The company also announced plans to develop components for hybrid vehicles with two Chinese automakers in an unprecedented technology-sharing deal aimed at increasing green car sales in the world’s biggest vehicle market.

The deal marked a shift away from Japanese carmakers’ tradi-tional reluctance over such deals for fear of losing their competitive edge.

Previously, Toyota would make key components such as batteries and motors in high-cost Japan and then ship them to joint ventures overseas. But that drove up the price of models such as its Prius, which has seen sluggish sales in China.

Toyota shares slipped 1.15 per-cent to 7,571.0 yen in the afternoon, as the broader Tokyo market fell 0.89 percent. (afp)

World’s top automakerToyota sells 10.23 million vehicles in 2014

Jaja Batun Bedil, by the Hindu community in Bali, is often taken advantage for filling in the of-ferings presented to God. However, it is now also served in hotels for tourists. The cake in brownish red color looks like a bullet (Batun Bedil) and is a part of the Pitri Yajña ceremony. The tradition remains in practice up to these days.

In addition, the cake can also be enjoyed as a snack by farmers on the island. When working on their rice fields by involving many people (through mutual assistance), the cake is served for refresh-ment. They are accustomed to consume it after the first break or after lunch.

Served on banana leaves, farmers eat the cake with siu (spoon of leaf) and accompanied with cof-fee drink. Even though it belongs to a cheap cake, when enjoying it the farmers look calm, cheerful and full of gratitude. Unfortunately, such natural atmosphere is rarely found today.

Nevertheless, the cake is often sold in traditional markets. There are cakes still looking like bullets or rolling cakes in appropriate with the way to make it or looking like a ring. This type of tradi-

tional Balinese cake is usually sold in the morning.

To make the cake taste more de-licious, it can be made tradition-ally (manually). First of all, choose white rice. Furthermore, it is soaked for about 12 hours and then ground into flour. After that, fill with a little water and knead and steam. Once cooked, take out and shape them to resemble a bullet or roll to taste.

In the next process, the shaped batters are then put into boiling water filled with brown sugar, refined sugar, screwpine and a bit of starch to make the flour and sugar mix well. Having been cooked, take out and serve with grated coconut and sprinkled with a little salt.

Seeing the potential, the Regent of Buleleng, Putu Agus Suradnya-na, tried out to use the boat along with paddles and variations in the form of the lion statue. He expected the boat with the length of 16.5

meters could be taken advantage by visiting student travelers and local communities.

Regent Suradnyana said that his party gained the inspiration when receiving the award for successful

coral conservation in San Francisco, the United States, a year ago. Each long boat was able to accommodate 22 passengers with 20 paddlers and 2 conductors. It could sail in balanced and smooth condition in

the area of the clean-watered lake. “Lake Buyan must be developed differently by an implementing eco-friendly concept. Moreover, it was not allowed to use motorized boats. We will develop the Lake Buyan where one of which is by maximizing the use of eco-friendly dragon boat,” said the regent from Banyuatis.

Furthermore, Regent Suradnya-na told that his party would make some additional units of long boat in the near future. It was meant to increase the tourist visit to Lake Buyan, while utilizing the dragon boat to enjoy the atmosphere in the area of Lake Buyan. “People can use and practice to use the dragon

boat for free,” he said. (kmb34)

IBP/Dewa Kusuma

Lake Buyan is one of lakes that will develop the use of eco-friendly dragon boat.

Lake Buyan tourism

Buleleng government takes advantage of dragon boat

SINGARAJA - The development of Lake Buyan at Pancasari village, Sukasada subdistrict, by Buleleng government so far is considered less optimal. One of which it would like to exploit the potential of local lake water.

Jaja Batun Bedil, from ritual to hotel

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In return for promising to build a smelter in Indonesia to support the domestic economy, Jakarta in July exempted Freeport from paying a new tax introduced on the export of some unprocessed minerals.

But just days before that agree-ment is due to expire, Energy Min-ister Sudirman Said said progress on the smelter -- a “big item” in the negotiations -- had been slow and unsatisfactory. “I am not pleased. I am disappointed as there is no show of seriousness,” he told reporters in Jakarta.

He said if there was no progress by Sunday, the export permit would be suspended. Indonesia introduced

a raft of policies in early 2014 to ad-dress political concerns that foreign firms were allowed easy access to lucrative industries in Southeast Asia’s top economy.

The most controversial of these measures was a ban on the export of some unprocessed minerals and higher taxes on other resources shipped from the country. Copper concentrates -- one of Freeport’s major exports -- was exempted from the ban, but the mining giant refused to pay the hiked tax on shipments.

The agreement struck in July brokered a way forward for the two sides, with Freeport allowed to resume concentrate exports after a six-month

hiatus in return for committing cash to build a domestic smelter.

The memorandum of understand-ing for the deal expires on Saturday.

Said urged Freeport to find a way forward, saying he wanted the com-pany to operate in Indonesia because it was important for the economy. But he reminded Freeport -- whose giant cooper and gold mine Grasberg in In-donesia’s Papua province is one of the world’s largest -- that it still earned the lion’s share of profits when it came to its business. “Freeport has operated for 40 years so it’s time that there is a big-ger portion for Indonesia,” he said.

Freeport could not immediately be contacted for comment. (afp)

JAKARTA - An AirAsia plane that crashed into the Java Sea last month with 162 people on board had climbed at a speed that was higher than normal and then stalled, Indonesia’s transport minister said Tuesday.

“In the final minutes, the plane climbed at a speed which was beyond normal,” said Transport Minister Ignasius Jonan, citing radar data.

“The plane suddenly went up at a speed above the normal limit that it was able to climb to. Then it stalled,” he told reporters.

Flight QZ8501 crashed on December 28 in stormy weather, during what was supposed to be a short trip from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore.

Search and rescue teams have recovered the plane’s black boxes -- the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder -- and are analysing them.

Crash investigators have ruled out terrorism as a cause for the crash, and are focusing on possible human error or problems with the aircraft.

Divers have so far recovered just 53 bodies. (afp)

JAKARTA - Indonesia’s parliament backed direct elections for local leaders on Tuesday, reversing an earlier decision to scrap a key reform of the democratic era and giving a boost to President Joko Widodo.

The previous parliament voted in its dying days in September to end the system of mayors, provincial governors and district heads being chosen by the public in the world’s third-biggest democracy.

Instead, local parliaments were given the power to pick them -- a move widely criticised as an attack on the process of democratisa-tion started after the downfall of long-serving dictator Suharto in 1998.

It was also a blow to Widodo, who backed local polls, just weeks after he was elected Indonesia’s president from outside the politi-cal and military elites, and was seen as revenge by opponents still hurting from defeat in the vote.

Supporters of scrapping the elections argued that the hundreds of polls held every few years are enormously costly and in reality only allow the wealthy to win office.

Following the vote, outgoing president Susilo Bambang Yud-hoyono, who was criticised for allowing the bill to pass, issued a decree to reverse the decision.

That decree only stayed in force for several months. But on Tuesday, lawmakers in the lower house voted to make it a permanent law and maintain direct elections.

Home affairs minister Tjahjo Kumolo said the decision was aimed at “upholding sovereignty and the democratic spirit of the people”.

Analysts said that the decision was a boost for Widodo, who was elected in July and took office in October, and was a sign his coalition would be able to get much-needed reforms through parliament.

It was also seen as a sign the coalition that opposed Widodo at the election is falling apart, despite still having more lawmakers in parliament.

“It shows the ruling coalition has the upper hand,” said Tobias Basuki, a political analyst from Jakarta-based think-tank the Centre for Strategic and International Studies. (afp)

ANTARA FOTO/Sigid Kurniawan

Former national police chief, General Sutarman (left) held hand with Commissioner General Badrodin Haiti (right) who will become acting national police chief, after Sutarman sacked by President Joko Widodo and his replacement, Budi Gunawan, who endorsed by parliament, was asked to focus on his graft case.

AirAsia plane climbed at speed ‘beyond normal’ then stalled

MPs back direct elections in boost for Widodo

Indonesia threatens action against US miner Freeport

JAKARTA - Indonesia on Tuesday threatened to suspend Freeport-McMoRan’s export licence, with the energy minister accusing the US mining giant of failing to uphold its end of a bargain with the government.

The new security measures include increased intelligence-gathering on jihadis and other radicals, in part by making it easier to tap phones. Valls said Internet providers and social net-works “have a legal responsibil-ity under French law” to comply with the new measures.

Some 2,600 counter-terrorism officers will be hired, 1,100 of them specifically for intelligence services. Anti-terror surveillance is needed for 3,000 people with ties to France — some at home, others abroad, the prime minis-ter said. Since three police were among those killed by the Paris terrorists, Valls said improving officers’ weapons and protec-tive gear was among the top priorities. France will spend 425

million euros ($490 million) over the next three years for all the counter-terror efforts, he said.

France has repeatedly strength-ened its counterterrorism laws over the years, including a mea-sure passed in November that focused on preventing French extremists from joining fighters abroad. Another measure — expected to be activated in the coming weeks — would allow authorities to ask Internet service providers to block sites that glo-rify terrorism.

Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, head of France’s national data protec-tion agency CNIL, told reporters Wednesday her agency would insist that any additional snooping privileges for France’s intelligence services should only be allowed if

they are matched by greater protec-tions for personal data.

Falque-Pierrotin said the at-tack on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo — which had been under police protection due to threats before the Jan. 7 attack that left 12 dead — had come as a “particular shock” to CNIL’s staff because “the protection of personal liberty is our essence.”

Outlining a web of phone calls, shared keys and prison friend-ships, Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins said the four suspects given preliminary charges — all in their 20s, all arrested in the Paris region — will remain be-hind bars while the investigation continues. He identified them only as Willy P., Christophe R., Tonino G. and Mickael A. (ap)

WELLINGTON — Staying hid-den behind sea ice and large waves, sailors aboard a navy patrol boat from New Zealand sneaked up on three suspected poaching ships, then took photos and video of the fisher-men hauling in prized fish in banned nets from the ocean near Antarctica. Seemingly caught red-handed, the crews of the rusting vessels just kept on fishing.

Authorities say this month’s high-seas confrontations, and the detailed evidence collected, mark a first in Antarctic waters, where regulators have long suspected poaching ac-tivities but have found them difficult to police in an area that’s roughly the size of the continental United States.

It is a huge illegal business: Each of the ships could hold more than $1 million worth of Antarctic toothfish, marketed in North America as Chil-ean sea bass.

The three ships were encountered between Jan. 6 and 13, near Com-monwealth Bay and about 110 kilo-meters (70 miles) from the Antarctic coast. Each quickly hoisted a flag proclaiming it to be a fishing vessel from Equatorial Guinea, said Lt. Cmdr. Graham MacLean, the patrol boat’s commanding officer. When the navy demanded to board to check documentation, each of the three captains flatly refused, he said.

MacLean said he decided the 5-meter (16-foot) swells made it too dangerous to board the ships us-ing force, so the fishermen slipped away, carrying with them hundreds of Antarctic toothfish. The fish can grow to over two meters (6-foot-6) in length, weigh up to 120 kilograms (265 pounds) and sell for thousands

of dollars apiece.New Zealand hopes the confronta-

tions will mark a turning point in the pursuit of poachers. It has sent an alert to 190 countries through Interpol, a move it hopes will make it difficult for the three crews to unload their catches. And it’s trying to exert diplo-matic pressure on nations it suspects could be harboring poachers. “It’s the start of a lengthy process to try to stamp out such insidious activity,” said Murray McCully, New Zealand’s foreign minister.

Records show the three ships — the Kunlun, the Songhua and the Yongding — have repeatedly changed their names, country of registration, and ownership details in an apparent attempt to stay one step ahead of the law.

According to the Interpol sum-mary, the three ships are ostensibly owned by shell companies in Central America, under listings that reveal nothing about the “true beneficial owners” of the vessels.

The Kunlun has been called the Black Moon, the Galaxy and the Dorita, among other names, and has been registered in North Korea, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Panama, Indonesia and Equatorial Guinea. Despite the fishermen’s use of Equatorial Guinean flags this month, McCully said the central African na-tion’s foreign minister has told him the ships are not currently registered there.

The dozens of crew aboard the three ships point to the scale of the operation. Each ship ranges in length from 48 to 62 meters (157 to 203 feet) with the heaviest, the Songhua, weighing more than 1,100 tons. (ap)

AP Photo/Francois Mori

An anonymous art installation showing a broken pencil is displayed on the pavement near the Charlie Hebdo office in Paris, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015.

France to get better guns, more intel agents to fight terror

PARIS — France announced sweeping new measures to counter homegrown terrorism Wednesday, including giving security forces better weapons and protection, going on an intel-ligence agent hiring spree and creating a better database of anyone suspected of extremist links. The measures detailed by Prime Minister Manuel Valls came as four men were handed pre-liminary charges of providing logistical support to one of the Paris terror attackers — the first charges issued for three days of mayhem that left 20 people dead, including three gunmen.

AP Photo/ Royal New Zealand Navy

This Jan. 14, 2015 photo provided by the Royal New Zealand Navy shows the illegal fishing boat the “Kunlun.” foreground, in the Southern Ocean off the coast of New Zealand. Accord-ing to the Interpol summary, the Kunlun is owned by a shell company in Panama.

Brazen ships hauling fish near Antarctica ignore navy patrol

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GIANYAR - The name of this vil-lage is actually not so strange either for travelers or archaeologists. Yes, this ancient village of Bedulu is lo-cated in Blahbatuh, Gianyar County, or about 14 km away from Denpasar. This site stores a lot of historical rel-ics originating from the XI century. Various ancient and unique traditions remain to be preserved up to these days. Social life of the community is still beautiful and harmonious so it has its own charm.

Bedulu village was famous as an archaeological tourism village due to having many ancient relics.

Cliff Temple, for instance, posed a tourist attraction located at Tegall-inggah hamlet and had an ancient human relief which included in the archaeological site. This attraction was located on the banks of the Petanu River.

To get there, visitors must pass through paddy fields widely func-tioned as pond of shrimp, catfish and other fish. Although it has not been managed definitely, this historical attraction is frequented by travelers, especially students after attending their semester test.

Yeh Pulu relief also serves as

an interesting historical object. To achieve the relief, visitors must walk through the steps accompanied by the gurgling sound of water. As soon as coming into the split gates of the relief along 25 meters with a height of 2 meters, the aura of the site is increasingly felt. The relief depicts the daily life in the forest and community activities in the ancient times.

This relief was found in 1951 by a retainer of Ubud. Based on the style of sculpture, the relief comes from the fourteenth century AD. Yeh Pulu is located at Batu Lumbang hamlet.

Many travelers from China, Japan and Europe like to visit this site because they have been familiar to perform meditation in cliff caves.

The most unique relief and most-ly visited by travelers is the Goa Gajah or elephant cave. This relief was found in 1951 by the Dutch man named Krisjman. The cave has T-shape and a short inscription on the right side wall of the entrance written in Kadiri Quadrant script de-rived from the eleventh century AD. In front of the cave lies a pool and shower statue, where each of which consists of three showers. The water

flowing through the shower is very clear. It is considered as holy water. In one of the buildings is stored the Hariti statue (Mrs. Brayut and guard statue). Goa Gajah is the most fre-quently visited by travelers.

At the location also sits the as-cetic Arjuna temple that holds the archaeological remains in the form of dolmen, a miniature of temple and Ganesh statue sanctified as a medium of worship. Bedulu village formerly denoted the center of the kingdom so it has many ancient relics. Even, it is also found many stupas at people’s homes.

Bedulu, archaeological tourism village

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The nose design is one of the most obvious differences from the 2014 machine, and Williams chief technical officer Pat Symonds said the changes to the regulations gov-erning the front of the cars played a big part in the design process. “The change in regulations offered us a slight headache,” he said.

“The new front bulkhead and nose geometry had much more of an impact than we had initially anticipated and the effect on the aero was profound. “Although the aerodynamics of the [2014] car were impressive there is always room for improvement, particularly as we handle the new 2015 nose regulations.

“The team have worked hard on pulling back the deficit these regula-tions have made for us.”Symonds added that while last year’s car was very competitive in the hands of Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bot-tas, Williams has worked hard to identify its areas of weakness and

improve on them for 2015. 2015 Williams”The notion for the FW37 was to look closely at the FW36 and its performances,” he said.

“We then went about recognising what had worked well and identify-ing and resolving the areas that we felt needed to be improved.

“We felt we came up against design barriers in the FW36 and so took the opportunity to remove those barriers for the benefit of the performance.

“The FW36 carried a reasonable amount of ballast, so we were able to make alterations to the design for added performance without the fear of adding excessive mass.”

2014 DEVELOPMENT PUSHWilliams’s strong form last year

meant that the team continued developing the 2014 car until late in the season, but Symonds is ada-mant that it will not fall behind at the start of this season as a result. “The desire to beat Ferrari to third

place in the constructors’ champi-onship in 2014 meant we pushed our development through to late autumn,” he said.

“But the size of the team is now at a point where it was able to sustain this development while still working on the FW37.” Team principal Frank Williams stated that the main aim for this year is simply for the team to keep moving up the grid.

“After a very strong first year with Mercedes engines we are look-ing to further develop the relation-ship as we look for more podiums in 2015,” said Williams.

“The team had a fantastic season last year, we are aiming to replicate this development over the winter and to start the 2015 season in a strong position.

“We have an enormously talent-ed group of people here at Williams who produced a great turnaround in fortunes in 2014 and everybody has worked tirelessly to continue that climb up the grid.”(net)

Williams says 2015 Formula 1 car

nose rule change has big effect

Williams has admitted that Formula 1’s new nose regulations for 2015 had a bigger effect than expected on the design of its new FW37 contender. The team’s new car - revealed on the front cover of aUTOsPORT’s sister title F1 Racing - follows on from the FW36 that turned Williams back into a frontrunner last year.

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The new Williams car

MELBOURNE - The mystery affliction that affected a finger, or fingers, on Roger Federer’s right hand had still not been solved more than an hour after he saw off a spirited performance from Italian journeyman Simone Bolelli at the Australian Open on Wednesday. The 33-year-old Swiss had just been blasted off the court in the first set by the 29-year-old journey-man when he sought treatment on his hand.

Federer said it did not look like a blister and he had thought he may have been stung by a bee, but was still examining his hand after the 3-6 6-3 6-2 6-2 victory. “I don’t know what that thing is,” the 17-time grand slam winner told re-porters in a media conference while staring intently at the tips of his fingers. “It’s the weirdest thing.

“I feel it on the tip of my finger. Just felt really odd starting after the break, and for three, four games, it was the funniest feeling I have. “I feel like it’s numb and swollen.

“Actually it went away, but now I feel it again. I don’t know what the feeling is.” Federer declined to have the finger taped by medical staff because it would have just looked “bigger and weird”.

“You can’t see anything,” he said laughing while staring intently at his hand. “But it is definitely swol-len and it’s funny. I don’t know what it is. As long as it’s not getting bad, it’s okay.”

Federer and Bolelli had ham-mered away at each other in the first set, with the Italian seizing his one, and only, service break opportunity to seal it in 33 minutes.

The setback seemed to have galvanised Federer, who was never bothered on his own serve again and converted five of 11 opportuni-ties over the next three sets to run out a comfortable winner in the end and set up a third round clash with Andreas Seppi. “I’m happy I’m still in the tournament, because there for a while today it wasn’t looking very good because Bolelli was playing very well,” Federer said.

“It’s always a good feeling fight-ing your way out of a match, like now, and winning the last three sets convincingly and actually playing really positive tennis.

“I had to do some adjustments because he was doing things very well. By figuring things out, it’s a great feeling to have once you’ve got it (because) then you’re able to play consistently well.”(rtr)

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Roger Federer of Switzerland is assisted by medical staff dur-ing his men’s singles second round match against Simone Bolelli of Italy at the Australian Open 2015 tennis tournament in Melbourne January 21, 2015.

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That canceled out an 18th-minute penalty won and converted by Eden Hazard in the only shot on goal Chelsea produced in a defensive performance that saw the Premier League leaders outplayed at times, especially in the second half.

“They are a top side but I’m not sure they’ve had a game like that this season,” Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers said. “I thought the performance was a benchmark. There is absolutely no doubt we can go to the second leg and get the performance we need.”

Chelsea will be relieved to come away on level terms and is the marginal favorite head-ing into the return match at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday. After a slow start to the season, though, Liverpool has rediscovered its identity and intensity that almost took the team to the Premier League title last season. The Reds are unbeaten in nine games.

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho grumbled about his side’s poor distribution but that was due to the pressure being applied by Liverpool, which is seeking to extend its record of eight titles in the League Cup.

The visitors had only two shots in a game

played in light snowfall, one of which ended in the net when Hazard picked himself up after being fouled by makeshift defender Emre Can to send goalkeeper Simon Mignolet the wrong way from the spot.

After that, it was all Liverpool and only Courtois’ brilliance denied them a lead to take to London. He tipped Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard’s long-range strike over the bar in the first half and produced a string of fine saves af-ter the break — the best from a fierce strike by Adam Lallana that the Belgium international palmed away, right-handed. “Of course, after all the chances, we have to be happy with the result,” Courtois said. “They were dangerous and it was difficult for us.”

Gerrard, seeking one last appearance at Wembley Stadium before his summer move to Los Angeles Galaxy, struck the post with a left-footed curling shot as Liverpool came close to a second. Courtois was also lucky to escape without punishment when he carried the ball outside his area after sliding to collect a long pass.

The League Cup is one of four trophies Chelsea is chasing this season and probably

the lowest of manager Mourinho’s priorities. But the Londoners fielded their strongest possible lineup after playing weakened teams earlier in the competition.

“Of course after the all the chances we have to happy with the result. They were dangerous and it was a difficult for us. We were not at our best but a 1-1 score is good for the second leg.Tottenham plays third-tier Sheffield United in the other semifinal, with the first leg on Wednesday.”Thibaut (Courtois) has been doing this all season , s a v e a f t e r s a v e . H e showed w h a t a wor ld -c l a s s goa l -keeper he is.” (ap)

ROME — Roma beat Empoli 2-1 after

extra time to reach the Italian Cup quarterfinals on Tuesday

thanks to a very

conten-tious penalty.

Daniele De Rossi converted the spot kick five minutes from time, sending Empoli goalkeeper Davide Bassi the wrong way, after Piotr Zie-linski was harshly adjudged to have brought down Leandro Paredes.

“You can see that he takes his legs away, but it’s difficult to tell whether it was before or after he got the ball,” Roma coach Rudi Garcia said. “I think the referee was in a great position to judge.” Empoli almost equalized right at the end, but Roma goalkeeper Lu-kasz Skorupski pulled off a great save to deny Francesco Tavano.

Roma was jeered off the pitch by its own fans after a lackluster perfor-mance against a team struggling at the wrong end of the Serie A table, 22 points behind the capital club.

“I’m upset above all for my play-ers,” Empoli coach Maurizio Sarri

BRISBANE - Australia are tak-ing no chances ahead of their Asian Cup quarter-final against China on Thursday. Even the ball boy whose advice helped Chinese goalkeeper Wang Dalei save a penalty against Saudi Arabia is playing it safe. Ste-phen White, a 12-year-old Brisbane schoolboy, became an overnight hit in China during the group stages when Wang, facing a Saudi Arabia spot-kick, turned and asked the boy which way he should dive.

White guessed correctly, China went on to win the match and now they’re playing the host-nation in the knockout phase. But this time, White will not be patrolling behind the posts after his mother asked officials to place him at a different part of the ground. “There’d just be too much pressure on him if a penalty was awarded,” his mother Suzie told Brisbane’s Courier-Mail newspaper. “Everybody would expect him to pick the right away again.”

The Australian coach Ange Postecoglou said he is also prepar-ing for the possibility of penalties, and believes his team has an edge in fitness, so the longer the match goes, the better. “We were finishing pretty strongly in all the games, re-ally strong,” he said.

“From my perspective, we’ll be

confident if it goes to 90 minutes, 120 minutes or penalties. We have got fuel in the tank.” China’s French coach Alain Perrin was also worried about penalties, fearing the home supporters could have an impact on the match. “A lot of fans will come to the stadium to support them, Australian fans may be affecting the decisions of the referee,” he said.

“The referees are human beings. They may have some mistakes if they are under great pressure. I just tell my players to avoid stupid mis-takes.” Postecoglou said he remains supremely confident his team will beat China despite Australia’s loss to South Korea in the group stages.

He said that loss was irrele-vant because Australia had already booked their place in the quarter-finals and were without their captain Mile Jedinak, who will be back on Thursday after missing two matches through injury.

“Do I think we can win? Yeah, I think we can win and I believe we can win,” Postecoglou told report-ers before the team’s final training session. “We have had our captain missing for the last two games and not many people have mentioned it. “It’s a credit to our players. They have just got on with the job but it’s going to be great to have him back out on the park.” (rtr)

MALABO, Equatorial Guinea — Both the Ivory Coast and Camer-oon came into the day as big favor-ites at the African Cup of Nations, and both finished it happy just to avoid losing. The Ivorians got a late equalizer from Seydou Doumbia — shortly after Gervinho was sent off with a straight red card — to earn a 1-1 draw with Guinea on Tuesday at Malabo Stadium.

A short time later at the same venue, it was Cameroon that needed a late goal from Ambroise Oyongo to hold on for a 1-1 draw against

Mali. “We bounced back. It’s a good point for us,” said Ivory Coast captain Yaya Toure, who recently won his fourth African player of the year award. “We have a couple of games coming, and I hope we will do well in them.”

The draws leave all four teams in Group D with one point. On Satur-day, Ivory Coast will take on Mali and Cameroon will face Guinea. Gervinho had been Ivory Coast’s best player, or least the one with the best chances, until a scuffle with Baissama Sankoh during an off-the-

ball incident earned him a straight red in the 57th minute.

“With 10 men it was very hard,” said Ivory Coast coach Herve Renard, who led Zambia to the African Cup title in 2012. “I think the players did very well in the different organization (after the sending off).”

Doumbia, who came on in the 66th as the tactics changed, scored from in front of goal in the 72nd after a pass from Wilfried Bony. Toure was the one who started the play. Guinea had taken the lead

in the 36th when Ibrahima Traore crossed to Mohamed Yattara.

Traore then had a chance to double the lead in the 61st but his shot hit the crossbar. “We’re not happy, because we know we could win this game,” Traore said. “We’re going to keep working hard. At the end we will win and we will qualify, because as I said we are not afraid of anyone.”

In the second match, Oyongo latched onto to a long pass from Raoul Loe in the 84th and beat Mali goalkeeper Soumaila Diakite in a

fast-paced game that had several missed chances at both ends.

Sambou Yatabare had given Mali a surprising lead in the 71st, controling the ball with his chest and scoring from a tight angle after a free kick on the other side of the field.

“The manner we played this match, especially the second half, it was the manner to win the game,” Cameroon coach Volker Finke said. “The goal of Mali was a matter of concentration. The players were not concentrated.” (ap)

PARIS — Quevilly continued its tradition of producing French Cup upsets as the fourth-tier side beat top-flight Bastia 3-1 on penalties in the round of 32 on Tuesday, while Vin-cent Bessat’s hat trick gave Nantes a 3-2 win over league leader Lyon. With the teams level at 1-1 after extra time, Quevilly ‘keeper Dan Delaunay delivered a man of the match perfor-mance by saving three spot kicks to put the 2012 finalists through.

After a goalless 90 minutes, for-mer France striker Djibril Cisse had

put Bastia ahead in extra time with a header from close range after De-launay failed to clear the ball. Adama Sarr equalized for Quevilly, which also reached the semifinals in 2010.

At the Stade de La Beaujoire, the 29-year-old Bessat silenced his critics with a brilliant performance. Lyon took the lead after five minutes courtesy of Alexandre Lacazette’s goal but Bessat, who has struggled to make an impact this season, made it 1-1 with a shot into the bottom corner.

A good spell of pressure from the hosts was rewarded with another goal two minutes later, with Bessat giving Lyon keeper Anthony Lopes no chance with a neat left-footed finish.

The match looked set to head into extra time after Nabil Fekir showed his technical skills to level from Lacazette’s pass, but Bessat won it for Nantes with two minutes remaining with a left-footed volley. Elsewhere, top-flight Metz eased to a 3-0 win at third division side Avranches. (ap)

Fourth-tier Quevilly upsets Bastia in French Cup

Roma beats Empoli 2-1 to reach Italian Cup quarterfinals

AP Photo/Andrew Medichini

Roma’s Leandro Paredes, top, earns a penalty kick as he is fouled by Empoli’s Piotr Zielinski during an Italian Cup soccer match between Roma and Empoli at Rome’s Olympic Stadium, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015.

REUTERS/Edgar Su

China’s goalkeeper Wang Dalei prepares to train ahead of their Asian Cup quarter-finals match against Australia in Brisbane January 21, 2015. Australia will play China on Thursday.

Australia and China wary of penalties on Thursday

Liverpool’s Raheem Sterling,

top, collides with Chel-sea’s goalkeeper Thibaut

Courtois during the English League Cup semi-final first leg soccer match between

Liverpool and Chelsea at Anfield Stadium, Liverpool, England,

Tuesday Jan. 20, 2015.

Liverpool, Chelsea 1-1 after 1st leg of League Cup semi

LIVERPOOL — Raheem Sterling found a way past formidable Chelsea goal- k e e p e r Thibaut Courtois with an exquisite solo goal to earn Liverpool a 1-1 draw in the first leg of their English League Cup semifinal on Tuesday. It needed something special to beat Courtois at Anfield and Sterling delivered in the 59th minute, picking up the ball 40 meters from goal, turning and speeding away from Chelsea’s defense before applying a low finish.

Ivory Coast, Cameroon hang on for 1-1 draws at African Cup

AP Photo/Jon Super

said. “What did I think about the penalty? What everyone in the

stadium thought, but the club has asked me not to comment on anything, although the pic-

tures speak for themselves.“Garcia may say it could have been

a penalty, but not according to his play-ers. I spoke to two Roma players and they said it wasn’t a penalty.”

Roma got off to the perfect start as it took the lead with less than five

minutes on the clock after Douglas Maicon’s cross was flicked on to Juan Manuel Iturbe.

Empoli leveled 10 minutes from the end of normal time when Simone Verdi beat the offside trap to race past Davide Astori and round Roma goal-keeper Lukasz Skorupski before firing into the far corner.

Ashley Cole made his first appear-ance for Roma in nearly two months — after poor form had seen him dropped to the bench. But his return lasted barely 23 minutes before he was carted off following an accidental kick to his chin from Matias Vecino. Roma will next face either Fiorentina or Atalanta. (ap)

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That canceled out an 18th-minute penalty won and converted by Eden Hazard in the only shot on goal Chelsea produced in a defensive performance that saw the Premier League leaders outplayed at times, especially in the second half.

“They are a top side but I’m not sure they’ve had a game like that this season,” Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers said. “I thought the performance was a benchmark. There is absolutely no doubt we can go to the second leg and get the performance we need.”

Chelsea will be relieved to come away on level terms and is the marginal favorite head-ing into the return match at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday. After a slow start to the season, though, Liverpool has rediscovered its identity and intensity that almost took the team to the Premier League title last season. The Reds are unbeaten in nine games.

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho grumbled about his side’s poor distribution but that was due to the pressure being applied by Liverpool, which is seeking to extend its record of eight titles in the League Cup.

The visitors had only two shots in a game

played in light snowfall, one of which ended in the net when Hazard picked himself up after being fouled by makeshift defender Emre Can to send goalkeeper Simon Mignolet the wrong way from the spot.

After that, it was all Liverpool and only Courtois’ brilliance denied them a lead to take to London. He tipped Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard’s long-range strike over the bar in the first half and produced a string of fine saves af-ter the break — the best from a fierce strike by Adam Lallana that the Belgium international palmed away, right-handed. “Of course, after all the chances, we have to be happy with the result,” Courtois said. “They were dangerous and it was difficult for us.”

Gerrard, seeking one last appearance at Wembley Stadium before his summer move to Los Angeles Galaxy, struck the post with a left-footed curling shot as Liverpool came close to a second. Courtois was also lucky to escape without punishment when he carried the ball outside his area after sliding to collect a long pass.

The League Cup is one of four trophies Chelsea is chasing this season and probably

the lowest of manager Mourinho’s priorities. But the Londoners fielded their strongest possible lineup after playing weakened teams earlier in the competition.

“Of course after the all the chances we have to happy with the result. They were dangerous and it was a difficult for us. We were not at our best but a 1-1 score is good for the second leg.Tottenham plays third-tier Sheffield United in the other semifinal, with the first leg on Wednesday.”Thibaut (Courtois) has been doing this all season , s a v e a f t e r s a v e . H e showed w h a t a wor ld -c l a s s goa l -keeper he is.” (ap)

ROME — Roma beat Empoli 2-1 after

extra time to reach the Italian Cup quarterfinals on Tuesday

thanks to a very

conten-tious penalty.

Daniele De Rossi converted the spot kick five minutes from time, sending Empoli goalkeeper Davide Bassi the wrong way, after Piotr Zie-linski was harshly adjudged to have brought down Leandro Paredes.

“You can see that he takes his legs away, but it’s difficult to tell whether it was before or after he got the ball,” Roma coach Rudi Garcia said. “I think the referee was in a great position to judge.” Empoli almost equalized right at the end, but Roma goalkeeper Lu-kasz Skorupski pulled off a great save to deny Francesco Tavano.

Roma was jeered off the pitch by its own fans after a lackluster perfor-mance against a team struggling at the wrong end of the Serie A table, 22 points behind the capital club.

“I’m upset above all for my play-ers,” Empoli coach Maurizio Sarri

BRISBANE - Australia are tak-ing no chances ahead of their Asian Cup quarter-final against China on Thursday. Even the ball boy whose advice helped Chinese goalkeeper Wang Dalei save a penalty against Saudi Arabia is playing it safe. Ste-phen White, a 12-year-old Brisbane schoolboy, became an overnight hit in China during the group stages when Wang, facing a Saudi Arabia spot-kick, turned and asked the boy which way he should dive.

White guessed correctly, China went on to win the match and now they’re playing the host-nation in the knockout phase. But this time, White will not be patrolling behind the posts after his mother asked officials to place him at a different part of the ground. “There’d just be too much pressure on him if a penalty was awarded,” his mother Suzie told Brisbane’s Courier-Mail newspaper. “Everybody would expect him to pick the right away again.”

The Australian coach Ange Postecoglou said he is also prepar-ing for the possibility of penalties, and believes his team has an edge in fitness, so the longer the match goes, the better. “We were finishing pretty strongly in all the games, re-ally strong,” he said.

“From my perspective, we’ll be

confident if it goes to 90 minutes, 120 minutes or penalties. We have got fuel in the tank.” China’s French coach Alain Perrin was also worried about penalties, fearing the home supporters could have an impact on the match. “A lot of fans will come to the stadium to support them, Australian fans may be affecting the decisions of the referee,” he said.

“The referees are human beings. They may have some mistakes if they are under great pressure. I just tell my players to avoid stupid mis-takes.” Postecoglou said he remains supremely confident his team will beat China despite Australia’s loss to South Korea in the group stages.

He said that loss was irrele-vant because Australia had already booked their place in the quarter-finals and were without their captain Mile Jedinak, who will be back on Thursday after missing two matches through injury.

“Do I think we can win? Yeah, I think we can win and I believe we can win,” Postecoglou told report-ers before the team’s final training session. “We have had our captain missing for the last two games and not many people have mentioned it. “It’s a credit to our players. They have just got on with the job but it’s going to be great to have him back out on the park.” (rtr)

MALABO, Equatorial Guinea — Both the Ivory Coast and Camer-oon came into the day as big favor-ites at the African Cup of Nations, and both finished it happy just to avoid losing. The Ivorians got a late equalizer from Seydou Doumbia — shortly after Gervinho was sent off with a straight red card — to earn a 1-1 draw with Guinea on Tuesday at Malabo Stadium.

A short time later at the same venue, it was Cameroon that needed a late goal from Ambroise Oyongo to hold on for a 1-1 draw against

Mali. “We bounced back. It’s a good point for us,” said Ivory Coast captain Yaya Toure, who recently won his fourth African player of the year award. “We have a couple of games coming, and I hope we will do well in them.”

The draws leave all four teams in Group D with one point. On Satur-day, Ivory Coast will take on Mali and Cameroon will face Guinea. Gervinho had been Ivory Coast’s best player, or least the one with the best chances, until a scuffle with Baissama Sankoh during an off-the-

ball incident earned him a straight red in the 57th minute.

“With 10 men it was very hard,” said Ivory Coast coach Herve Renard, who led Zambia to the African Cup title in 2012. “I think the players did very well in the different organization (after the sending off).”

Doumbia, who came on in the 66th as the tactics changed, scored from in front of goal in the 72nd after a pass from Wilfried Bony. Toure was the one who started the play. Guinea had taken the lead

in the 36th when Ibrahima Traore crossed to Mohamed Yattara.

Traore then had a chance to double the lead in the 61st but his shot hit the crossbar. “We’re not happy, because we know we could win this game,” Traore said. “We’re going to keep working hard. At the end we will win and we will qualify, because as I said we are not afraid of anyone.”

In the second match, Oyongo latched onto to a long pass from Raoul Loe in the 84th and beat Mali goalkeeper Soumaila Diakite in a

fast-paced game that had several missed chances at both ends.

Sambou Yatabare had given Mali a surprising lead in the 71st, controling the ball with his chest and scoring from a tight angle after a free kick on the other side of the field.

“The manner we played this match, especially the second half, it was the manner to win the game,” Cameroon coach Volker Finke said. “The goal of Mali was a matter of concentration. The players were not concentrated.” (ap)

PARIS — Quevilly continued its tradition of producing French Cup upsets as the fourth-tier side beat top-flight Bastia 3-1 on penalties in the round of 32 on Tuesday, while Vin-cent Bessat’s hat trick gave Nantes a 3-2 win over league leader Lyon. With the teams level at 1-1 after extra time, Quevilly ‘keeper Dan Delaunay delivered a man of the match perfor-mance by saving three spot kicks to put the 2012 finalists through.

After a goalless 90 minutes, for-mer France striker Djibril Cisse had

put Bastia ahead in extra time with a header from close range after De-launay failed to clear the ball. Adama Sarr equalized for Quevilly, which also reached the semifinals in 2010.

At the Stade de La Beaujoire, the 29-year-old Bessat silenced his critics with a brilliant performance. Lyon took the lead after five minutes courtesy of Alexandre Lacazette’s goal but Bessat, who has struggled to make an impact this season, made it 1-1 with a shot into the bottom corner.

A good spell of pressure from the hosts was rewarded with another goal two minutes later, with Bessat giving Lyon keeper Anthony Lopes no chance with a neat left-footed finish.

The match looked set to head into extra time after Nabil Fekir showed his technical skills to level from Lacazette’s pass, but Bessat won it for Nantes with two minutes remaining with a left-footed volley. Elsewhere, top-flight Metz eased to a 3-0 win at third division side Avranches. (ap)

Fourth-tier Quevilly upsets Bastia in French Cup

Roma beats Empoli 2-1 to reach Italian Cup quarterfinals

AP Photo/Andrew Medichini

Roma’s Leandro Paredes, top, earns a penalty kick as he is fouled by Empoli’s Piotr Zielinski during an Italian Cup soccer match between Roma and Empoli at Rome’s Olympic Stadium, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015.

REUTERS/Edgar Su

China’s goalkeeper Wang Dalei prepares to train ahead of their Asian Cup quarter-finals match against Australia in Brisbane January 21, 2015. Australia will play China on Thursday.

Australia and China wary of penalties on Thursday

Liverpool’s Raheem Sterling,

top, collides with Chel-sea’s goalkeeper Thibaut

Courtois during the English League Cup semi-final first leg soccer match between

Liverpool and Chelsea at Anfield Stadium, Liverpool, England,

Tuesday Jan. 20, 2015.

Liverpool, Chelsea 1-1 after 1st leg of League Cup semi

LIVERPOOL — Raheem Sterling found a way past formidable Chelsea goal- k e e p e r Thibaut Courtois with an exquisite solo goal to earn Liverpool a 1-1 draw in the first leg of their English League Cup semifinal on Tuesday. It needed something special to beat Courtois at Anfield and Sterling delivered in the 59th minute, picking up the ball 40 meters from goal, turning and speeding away from Chelsea’s defense before applying a low finish.

Ivory Coast, Cameroon hang on for 1-1 draws at African Cup

AP Photo/Jon Super

said. “What did I think about the penalty? What everyone in the

stadium thought, but the club has asked me not to comment on anything, although the pic-

tures speak for themselves.“Garcia may say it could have been

a penalty, but not according to his play-ers. I spoke to two Roma players and they said it wasn’t a penalty.”

Roma got off to the perfect start as it took the lead with less than five

minutes on the clock after Douglas Maicon’s cross was flicked on to Juan Manuel Iturbe.

Empoli leveled 10 minutes from the end of normal time when Simone Verdi beat the offside trap to race past Davide Astori and round Roma goal-keeper Lukasz Skorupski before firing into the far corner.

Ashley Cole made his first appear-ance for Roma in nearly two months — after poor form had seen him dropped to the bench. But his return lasted barely 23 minutes before he was carted off following an accidental kick to his chin from Matias Vecino. Roma will next face either Fiorentina or Atalanta. (ap)

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GIANYAR - The name of this vil-lage is actually not so strange either for travelers or archaeologists. Yes, this ancient village of Bedulu is lo-cated in Blahbatuh, Gianyar County, or about 14 km away from Denpasar. This site stores a lot of historical rel-ics originating from the XI century. Various ancient and unique traditions remain to be preserved up to these days. Social life of the community is still beautiful and harmonious so it has its own charm.

Bedulu village was famous as an archaeological tourism village due to having many ancient relics.

Cliff Temple, for instance, posed a tourist attraction located at Tegall-inggah hamlet and had an ancient human relief which included in the archaeological site. This attraction was located on the banks of the Petanu River.

To get there, visitors must pass through paddy fields widely func-tioned as pond of shrimp, catfish and other fish. Although it has not been managed definitely, this historical attraction is frequented by travelers, especially students after attending their semester test.

Yeh Pulu relief also serves as

an interesting historical object. To achieve the relief, visitors must walk through the steps accompanied by the gurgling sound of water. As soon as coming into the split gates of the relief along 25 meters with a height of 2 meters, the aura of the site is increasingly felt. The relief depicts the daily life in the forest and community activities in the ancient times.

This relief was found in 1951 by a retainer of Ubud. Based on the style of sculpture, the relief comes from the fourteenth century AD. Yeh Pulu is located at Batu Lumbang hamlet.

Many travelers from China, Japan and Europe like to visit this site because they have been familiar to perform meditation in cliff caves.

The most unique relief and most-ly visited by travelers is the Goa Gajah or elephant cave. This relief was found in 1951 by the Dutch man named Krisjman. The cave has T-shape and a short inscription on the right side wall of the entrance written in Kadiri Quadrant script de-rived from the eleventh century AD. In front of the cave lies a pool and shower statue, where each of which consists of three showers. The water

flowing through the shower is very clear. It is considered as holy water. In one of the buildings is stored the Hariti statue (Mrs. Brayut and guard statue). Goa Gajah is the most fre-quently visited by travelers.

At the location also sits the as-cetic Arjuna temple that holds the archaeological remains in the form of dolmen, a miniature of temple and Ganesh statue sanctified as a medium of worship. Bedulu village formerly denoted the center of the kingdom so it has many ancient relics. Even, it is also found many stupas at people’s homes.

Bedulu, archaeological tourism village

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The nose design is one of the most obvious differences from the 2014 machine, and Williams chief technical officer Pat Symonds said the changes to the regulations gov-erning the front of the cars played a big part in the design process. “The change in regulations offered us a slight headache,” he said.

“The new front bulkhead and nose geometry had much more of an impact than we had initially anticipated and the effect on the aero was profound. “Although the aerodynamics of the [2014] car were impressive there is always room for improvement, particularly as we handle the new 2015 nose regulations.

“The team have worked hard on pulling back the deficit these regula-tions have made for us.”Symonds added that while last year’s car was very competitive in the hands of Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bot-tas, Williams has worked hard to identify its areas of weakness and

improve on them for 2015. 2015 Williams”The notion for the FW37 was to look closely at the FW36 and its performances,” he said.

“We then went about recognising what had worked well and identify-ing and resolving the areas that we felt needed to be improved.

“We felt we came up against design barriers in the FW36 and so took the opportunity to remove those barriers for the benefit of the performance.

“The FW36 carried a reasonable amount of ballast, so we were able to make alterations to the design for added performance without the fear of adding excessive mass.”

2014 DEVELOPMENT PUSHWilliams’s strong form last year

meant that the team continued developing the 2014 car until late in the season, but Symonds is ada-mant that it will not fall behind at the start of this season as a result. “The desire to beat Ferrari to third

place in the constructors’ champi-onship in 2014 meant we pushed our development through to late autumn,” he said.

“But the size of the team is now at a point where it was able to sustain this development while still working on the FW37.” Team principal Frank Williams stated that the main aim for this year is simply for the team to keep moving up the grid.

“After a very strong first year with Mercedes engines we are look-ing to further develop the relation-ship as we look for more podiums in 2015,” said Williams.

“The team had a fantastic season last year, we are aiming to replicate this development over the winter and to start the 2015 season in a strong position.

“We have an enormously talent-ed group of people here at Williams who produced a great turnaround in fortunes in 2014 and everybody has worked tirelessly to continue that climb up the grid.”(net)

Williams says 2015 Formula 1 car

nose rule change has big effect

Williams has admitted that Formula 1’s new nose regulations for 2015 had a bigger effect than expected on the design of its new FW37 contender. The team’s new car - revealed on the front cover of aUTOsPORT’s sister title F1 Racing - follows on from the FW36 that turned Williams back into a frontrunner last year.

IBP/net

The new Williams car

MELBOURNE - The mystery affliction that affected a finger, or fingers, on Roger Federer’s right hand had still not been solved more than an hour after he saw off a spirited performance from Italian journeyman Simone Bolelli at the Australian Open on Wednesday. The 33-year-old Swiss had just been blasted off the court in the first set by the 29-year-old journey-man when he sought treatment on his hand.

Federer said it did not look like a blister and he had thought he may have been stung by a bee, but was still examining his hand after the 3-6 6-3 6-2 6-2 victory. “I don’t know what that thing is,” the 17-time grand slam winner told re-porters in a media conference while staring intently at the tips of his fingers. “It’s the weirdest thing.

“I feel it on the tip of my finger. Just felt really odd starting after the break, and for three, four games, it was the funniest feeling I have. “I feel like it’s numb and swollen.

“Actually it went away, but now I feel it again. I don’t know what the feeling is.” Federer declined to have the finger taped by medical staff because it would have just looked “bigger and weird”.

“You can’t see anything,” he said laughing while staring intently at his hand. “But it is definitely swol-len and it’s funny. I don’t know what it is. As long as it’s not getting bad, it’s okay.”

Federer and Bolelli had ham-mered away at each other in the first set, with the Italian seizing his one, and only, service break opportunity to seal it in 33 minutes.

The setback seemed to have galvanised Federer, who was never bothered on his own serve again and converted five of 11 opportuni-ties over the next three sets to run out a comfortable winner in the end and set up a third round clash with Andreas Seppi. “I’m happy I’m still in the tournament, because there for a while today it wasn’t looking very good because Bolelli was playing very well,” Federer said.

“It’s always a good feeling fight-ing your way out of a match, like now, and winning the last three sets convincingly and actually playing really positive tennis.

“I had to do some adjustments because he was doing things very well. By figuring things out, it’s a great feeling to have once you’ve got it (because) then you’re able to play consistently well.”(rtr)

REUTERS/Thomas Peter

Roger Federer of Switzerland is assisted by medical staff dur-ing his men’s singles second round match against Simone Bolelli of Italy at the Australian Open 2015 tennis tournament in Melbourne January 21, 2015.

Is it a bee? Is it a blister? Federer doesn’t know

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In return for promising to build a smelter in Indonesia to support the domestic economy, Jakarta in July exempted Freeport from paying a new tax introduced on the export of some unprocessed minerals.

But just days before that agree-ment is due to expire, Energy Min-ister Sudirman Said said progress on the smelter -- a “big item” in the negotiations -- had been slow and unsatisfactory. “I am not pleased. I am disappointed as there is no show of seriousness,” he told reporters in Jakarta.

He said if there was no progress by Sunday, the export permit would be suspended. Indonesia introduced

a raft of policies in early 2014 to ad-dress political concerns that foreign firms were allowed easy access to lucrative industries in Southeast Asia’s top economy.

The most controversial of these measures was a ban on the export of some unprocessed minerals and higher taxes on other resources shipped from the country. Copper concentrates -- one of Freeport’s major exports -- was exempted from the ban, but the mining giant refused to pay the hiked tax on shipments.

The agreement struck in July brokered a way forward for the two sides, with Freeport allowed to resume concentrate exports after a six-month

hiatus in return for committing cash to build a domestic smelter.

The memorandum of understand-ing for the deal expires on Saturday.

Said urged Freeport to find a way forward, saying he wanted the com-pany to operate in Indonesia because it was important for the economy. But he reminded Freeport -- whose giant cooper and gold mine Grasberg in In-donesia’s Papua province is one of the world’s largest -- that it still earned the lion’s share of profits when it came to its business. “Freeport has operated for 40 years so it’s time that there is a big-ger portion for Indonesia,” he said.

Freeport could not immediately be contacted for comment. (afp)

JAKARTA - An AirAsia plane that crashed into the Java Sea last month with 162 people on board had climbed at a speed that was higher than normal and then stalled, Indonesia’s transport minister said Tuesday.

“In the final minutes, the plane climbed at a speed which was beyond normal,” said Transport Minister Ignasius Jonan, citing radar data.

“The plane suddenly went up at a speed above the normal limit that it was able to climb to. Then it stalled,” he told reporters.

Flight QZ8501 crashed on December 28 in stormy weather, during what was supposed to be a short trip from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore.

Search and rescue teams have recovered the plane’s black boxes -- the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder -- and are analysing them.

Crash investigators have ruled out terrorism as a cause for the crash, and are focusing on possible human error or problems with the aircraft.

Divers have so far recovered just 53 bodies. (afp)

JAKARTA - Indonesia’s parliament backed direct elections for local leaders on Tuesday, reversing an earlier decision to scrap a key reform of the democratic era and giving a boost to President Joko Widodo.

The previous parliament voted in its dying days in September to end the system of mayors, provincial governors and district heads being chosen by the public in the world’s third-biggest democracy.

Instead, local parliaments were given the power to pick them -- a move widely criticised as an attack on the process of democratisa-tion started after the downfall of long-serving dictator Suharto in 1998.

It was also a blow to Widodo, who backed local polls, just weeks after he was elected Indonesia’s president from outside the politi-cal and military elites, and was seen as revenge by opponents still hurting from defeat in the vote.

Supporters of scrapping the elections argued that the hundreds of polls held every few years are enormously costly and in reality only allow the wealthy to win office.

Following the vote, outgoing president Susilo Bambang Yud-hoyono, who was criticised for allowing the bill to pass, issued a decree to reverse the decision.

That decree only stayed in force for several months. But on Tuesday, lawmakers in the lower house voted to make it a permanent law and maintain direct elections.

Home affairs minister Tjahjo Kumolo said the decision was aimed at “upholding sovereignty and the democratic spirit of the people”.

Analysts said that the decision was a boost for Widodo, who was elected in July and took office in October, and was a sign his coalition would be able to get much-needed reforms through parliament.

It was also seen as a sign the coalition that opposed Widodo at the election is falling apart, despite still having more lawmakers in parliament.

“It shows the ruling coalition has the upper hand,” said Tobias Basuki, a political analyst from Jakarta-based think-tank the Centre for Strategic and International Studies. (afp)

ANTARA FOTO/Sigid Kurniawan

Former national police chief, General Sutarman (left) held hand with Commissioner General Badrodin Haiti (right) who will become acting national police chief, after Sutarman sacked by President Joko Widodo and his replacement, Budi Gunawan, who endorsed by parliament, was asked to focus on his graft case.

AirAsia plane climbed at speed ‘beyond normal’ then stalled

MPs back direct elections in boost for Widodo

Indonesia threatens action against US miner Freeport

JAKARTA - Indonesia on Tuesday threatened to suspend Freeport-McMoRan’s export licence, with the energy minister accusing the US mining giant of failing to uphold its end of a bargain with the government.

The new security measures include increased intelligence-gathering on jihadis and other radicals, in part by making it easier to tap phones. Valls said Internet providers and social net-works “have a legal responsibil-ity under French law” to comply with the new measures.

Some 2,600 counter-terrorism officers will be hired, 1,100 of them specifically for intelligence services. Anti-terror surveillance is needed for 3,000 people with ties to France — some at home, others abroad, the prime minis-ter said. Since three police were among those killed by the Paris terrorists, Valls said improving officers’ weapons and protec-tive gear was among the top priorities. France will spend 425

million euros ($490 million) over the next three years for all the counter-terror efforts, he said.

France has repeatedly strength-ened its counterterrorism laws over the years, including a mea-sure passed in November that focused on preventing French extremists from joining fighters abroad. Another measure — expected to be activated in the coming weeks — would allow authorities to ask Internet service providers to block sites that glo-rify terrorism.

Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, head of France’s national data protec-tion agency CNIL, told reporters Wednesday her agency would insist that any additional snooping privileges for France’s intelligence services should only be allowed if

they are matched by greater protec-tions for personal data.

Falque-Pierrotin said the at-tack on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo — which had been under police protection due to threats before the Jan. 7 attack that left 12 dead — had come as a “particular shock” to CNIL’s staff because “the protection of personal liberty is our essence.”

Outlining a web of phone calls, shared keys and prison friend-ships, Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins said the four suspects given preliminary charges — all in their 20s, all arrested in the Paris region — will remain be-hind bars while the investigation continues. He identified them only as Willy P., Christophe R., Tonino G. and Mickael A. (ap)

WELLINGTON — Staying hid-den behind sea ice and large waves, sailors aboard a navy patrol boat from New Zealand sneaked up on three suspected poaching ships, then took photos and video of the fisher-men hauling in prized fish in banned nets from the ocean near Antarctica. Seemingly caught red-handed, the crews of the rusting vessels just kept on fishing.

Authorities say this month’s high-seas confrontations, and the detailed evidence collected, mark a first in Antarctic waters, where regulators have long suspected poaching ac-tivities but have found them difficult to police in an area that’s roughly the size of the continental United States.

It is a huge illegal business: Each of the ships could hold more than $1 million worth of Antarctic toothfish, marketed in North America as Chil-ean sea bass.

The three ships were encountered between Jan. 6 and 13, near Com-monwealth Bay and about 110 kilo-meters (70 miles) from the Antarctic coast. Each quickly hoisted a flag proclaiming it to be a fishing vessel from Equatorial Guinea, said Lt. Cmdr. Graham MacLean, the patrol boat’s commanding officer. When the navy demanded to board to check documentation, each of the three captains flatly refused, he said.

MacLean said he decided the 5-meter (16-foot) swells made it too dangerous to board the ships us-ing force, so the fishermen slipped away, carrying with them hundreds of Antarctic toothfish. The fish can grow to over two meters (6-foot-6) in length, weigh up to 120 kilograms (265 pounds) and sell for thousands

of dollars apiece.New Zealand hopes the confronta-

tions will mark a turning point in the pursuit of poachers. It has sent an alert to 190 countries through Interpol, a move it hopes will make it difficult for the three crews to unload their catches. And it’s trying to exert diplo-matic pressure on nations it suspects could be harboring poachers. “It’s the start of a lengthy process to try to stamp out such insidious activity,” said Murray McCully, New Zealand’s foreign minister.

Records show the three ships — the Kunlun, the Songhua and the Yongding — have repeatedly changed their names, country of registration, and ownership details in an apparent attempt to stay one step ahead of the law.

According to the Interpol sum-mary, the three ships are ostensibly owned by shell companies in Central America, under listings that reveal nothing about the “true beneficial owners” of the vessels.

The Kunlun has been called the Black Moon, the Galaxy and the Dorita, among other names, and has been registered in North Korea, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Panama, Indonesia and Equatorial Guinea. Despite the fishermen’s use of Equatorial Guinean flags this month, McCully said the central African na-tion’s foreign minister has told him the ships are not currently registered there.

The dozens of crew aboard the three ships point to the scale of the operation. Each ship ranges in length from 48 to 62 meters (157 to 203 feet) with the heaviest, the Songhua, weighing more than 1,100 tons. (ap)

AP Photo/Francois Mori

An anonymous art installation showing a broken pencil is displayed on the pavement near the Charlie Hebdo office in Paris, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015.

France to get better guns, more intel agents to fight terror

PARIS — France announced sweeping new measures to counter homegrown terrorism Wednesday, including giving security forces better weapons and protection, going on an intel-ligence agent hiring spree and creating a better database of anyone suspected of extremist links. The measures detailed by Prime Minister Manuel Valls came as four men were handed pre-liminary charges of providing logistical support to one of the Paris terror attackers — the first charges issued for three days of mayhem that left 20 people dead, including three gunmen.

AP Photo/ Royal New Zealand Navy

This Jan. 14, 2015 photo provided by the Royal New Zealand Navy shows the illegal fishing boat the “Kunlun.” foreground, in the Southern Ocean off the coast of New Zealand. Accord-ing to the Interpol summary, the Kunlun is owned by a shell company in Panama.

Brazen ships hauling fish near Antarctica ignore navy patrol

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Emboldened by a stronger econ-omy and better approval ratings, Obama called for a new chapter in US history that ushers in a fairer economy with a better shake for the middle class.

“We are 15 years into this new century. Fifteen years that dawned with terror touching our shores; that unfolded with a new generation fighting two long and costly wars; that saw a vicious recession spread across our nation and the world,” he said.

“It has been, and still is, a hard time for many. But tonight, we turn the page.”

“The shadow of crisis has passed, and the State of the Union is strong,” Obama said, claiming credit for ending the “Great Reces-sion.”

He heralded the “growing econ-omy, shrinking deficits, bustling industry, and booming energy pro-duction” that have also helped revive his political fortunes as his time in the White House nears its end.

For six years Obama’s presi-dency was often subsumed by an economic crisis that stymied efforts to narrow inequality and put other liberal policy priorities on the back burner.

Appealing to Democrats deter-mined to retain the White House in 2016, Obama on Tuesday called for an increase in the minimum wage, equal pay for women and tax breaks for the middle class.

Drawing a stark contrast with tax-averse Republicans, he dared

his foes to oppose proposed tax hikes for the rich that would pay for middle class breaks.

“We have risen from recession freer to write our own future than any other nation on Earth. It’s now up to us to choose who we want to be over the next fifteen years, and for decades to come.”

“Will we accept an economy where only a few of us do spec-tacularly well? Or will we commit ourselves to an economy that gener-ates rising incomes and chances for everyone who makes the effort?” he asked.

Obama’s Republican opponents have branded such talk as little

more than class warfare and will use their majority in both houses of Congress to make sure the plans never become law.

Republican Senator Joni Ernst, who was tasked with rebutting Obama’s speech, said Americans are still suffering from “stagnant wages and lost jobs.”

She also decried Obama’s “failed policies” and a “stale mind-set” that led to “political talking points, not serious solutions.”

“We’ll propose ideas that aim to cut wasteful spending and balance the budget — with meaningful reforms, not higher taxes like the President has proposed.” (afp)

AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File

In this Feb. 4, 2014 file photo, visitors inspect cars on display at a Toyota gallery in Tokyo. Toyota Motor Corp. stayed at the top in global vehicle sales in 2014, but is pessimistic about this year.

Obama says ‘shadow of crisis has passed’WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Tuesday declared America has turned the

page on years of war and economic hardship, in a populist-tinged State of the Union address that set up the battle to succeed him.

TOKYO - Toyota sold 10.23 million vehicles last year, it said on Wednesday, outpacing General Motors and Volkswagen to remain the world’s biggest automaker, but a shaky outlook for 2015 could see it lose the title to its German rival.

The record worldwide annual sales figure beat Volkswagen, which logged sales of 10.14 million vehi-cles, and US-based GM, which said it sold 9.92 million cars last year.

But Toyota also said sales would decline this year to an expected 10.15 million vehicles, as demand

falls off in its home market.That will likely mean Toyota will

trail behind Volkswagen this year, as the German automaker rides momentum in emerging economies that could see it take the lead in global auto sales for the first time.

Toyota broke GM’s decades-long reign as the world’s top automaker in 2008 but lost the crown three years later as Japan’s earthquake-tsunami disaster hammered produc-tion and disrupted the supply chains of the country’s automakers.

However, in 2012 it once again

overtook its Detroit rival, which sells the Chevrolet and luxury Cadillac brands. Toyota boosted its fiscal year through March profit forecast to 2.0 trillion yen ($16.97 billion), and said revenue would come in at 26.5 trillion yen, as it saw strong results in North America while a sharply weaker yen inflated its bottom line.

But it earlier warned over a downturn in some other key Asian markets including Indonesia and Thailand, which has been ham-mered by political unrest.

There are also growing fears about the entire industry’s prospects in China owing to concerns about the health of the world’s number-two economy.

Toyota’s upbeat announcement on Wednesday comes despite the firm struggling to recover its reputation for safety after the recall of millions of cars around the world for various problems, including an exploding air bag crisis at supplier Takata.

The maker of the Camry sedan and Prius hybrid has frozen the building of new plants for the three

years until early 2016, and a Toyota executive at the Detroit auto show told AFP last week that the giant automaker is emphasising quality of sales rather than volume.

Among the moves, Toyota is pushing further into the fast-grow-ing market for environmentally-friendly cars, especially in China where officials are struggling to contain an air pollution crisis.

Toyota said this month it had been swamped by domestic orders for its first mass market hydrogen fuel-cell car, with demand in the first month nearly four times higher than expected for the whole year.

The company received more than 1,500 orders for its “Mirai” sedan since its launch in mid-December. It had planned to sell 400 in Japan over 12 months.

The company also announced plans to develop components for hybrid vehicles with two Chinese automakers in an unprecedented technology-sharing deal aimed at increasing green car sales in the world’s biggest vehicle market.

The deal marked a shift away from Japanese carmakers’ tradi-tional reluctance over such deals for fear of losing their competitive edge.

Previously, Toyota would make key components such as batteries and motors in high-cost Japan and then ship them to joint ventures overseas. But that drove up the price of models such as its Prius, which has seen sluggish sales in China.

Toyota shares slipped 1.15 per-cent to 7,571.0 yen in the afternoon, as the broader Tokyo market fell 0.89 percent. (afp)

World’s top automakerToyota sells 10.23 million vehicles in 2014

Jaja Batun Bedil, by the Hindu community in Bali, is often taken advantage for filling in the of-ferings presented to God. However, it is now also served in hotels for tourists. The cake in brownish red color looks like a bullet (Batun Bedil) and is a part of the Pitri Yajña ceremony. The tradition remains in practice up to these days.

In addition, the cake can also be enjoyed as a snack by farmers on the island. When working on their rice fields by involving many people (through mutual assistance), the cake is served for refresh-ment. They are accustomed to consume it after the first break or after lunch.

Served on banana leaves, farmers eat the cake with siu (spoon of leaf) and accompanied with cof-fee drink. Even though it belongs to a cheap cake, when enjoying it the farmers look calm, cheerful and full of gratitude. Unfortunately, such natural atmosphere is rarely found today.

Nevertheless, the cake is often sold in traditional markets. There are cakes still looking like bullets or rolling cakes in appropriate with the way to make it or looking like a ring. This type of tradi-

tional Balinese cake is usually sold in the morning.

To make the cake taste more de-licious, it can be made tradition-ally (manually). First of all, choose white rice. Furthermore, it is soaked for about 12 hours and then ground into flour. After that, fill with a little water and knead and steam. Once cooked, take out and shape them to resemble a bullet or roll to taste.

In the next process, the shaped batters are then put into boiling water filled with brown sugar, refined sugar, screwpine and a bit of starch to make the flour and sugar mix well. Having been cooked, take out and serve with grated coconut and sprinkled with a little salt.

Seeing the potential, the Regent of Buleleng, Putu Agus Suradnya-na, tried out to use the boat along with paddles and variations in the form of the lion statue. He expected the boat with the length of 16.5

meters could be taken advantage by visiting student travelers and local communities.

Regent Suradnyana said that his party gained the inspiration when receiving the award for successful

coral conservation in San Francisco, the United States, a year ago. Each long boat was able to accommodate 22 passengers with 20 paddlers and 2 conductors. It could sail in balanced and smooth condition in

the area of the clean-watered lake. “Lake Buyan must be developed differently by an implementing eco-friendly concept. Moreover, it was not allowed to use motorized boats. We will develop the Lake Buyan where one of which is by maximizing the use of eco-friendly dragon boat,” said the regent from Banyuatis.

Furthermore, Regent Suradnya-na told that his party would make some additional units of long boat in the near future. It was meant to increase the tourist visit to Lake Buyan, while utilizing the dragon boat to enjoy the atmosphere in the area of Lake Buyan. “People can use and practice to use the dragon

boat for free,” he said. (kmb34)

IBP/Dewa Kusuma

Lake Buyan is one of lakes that will develop the use of eco-friendly dragon boat.

Lake Buyan tourism

Buleleng government takes advantage of dragon boat

SINGARAJA - The development of Lake Buyan at Pancasari village, Sukasada subdistrict, by Buleleng government so far is considered less optimal. One of which it would like to exploit the potential of local lake water.

Jaja Batun Bedil, from ritual to hotel

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“We are fighting against time, and we’ll make an all-out effort and use every diplomatic route that we have developed to win the release of the two,” he said.

Abe said he was consulting with leaders in the region. A con-voy carrying a Japanese envoy, Vice-Foreign Minister Yasuhide Nakayama, left the Japanese em-bassy in Jordan’s capital Amman on Wednesday for an unknown loca-tion in the city. He was dispatched from Abe’s Middle East entourage to handle the situation.

Abe and other Japanese officials have declined to discuss whether

Japan will pay the ransom for the captives, 47-year-old freelance journalist Kenji Goto and 42-year-old Haruna Yukawa, the founder of a private security company. The Islamic State group demanded a $200 million ransom in a video posted online Tuesday that showed a knife-brandishing masked mili-tant standing over the two kneeling captives.

Government spokesman Yoshi-hide Suga confirmed that Japan believed the threat to be authentic. “Japan’s aim is not to kill the Mus-lim people, as the militant group claims it to be,” Suga said. “We

strongly urge them not to harm the two Japanese and release them im-mediately.”

Abe has limited choices, among them to openly pay the extremists or ask an ally like the United States to attempt a risky rescue inside Syria. Japan’s military operates only in a self-defense capacity at home.

Abe and other government offi-cials have not said directly whether Japan was considering paying the ransom. But they remain adamant that Japan will continue to provide non-military aid to the region. “We will never give in to terrorism,” Abe said. (ap)

DUBAI, United Arab Emir-ates — A man is given 50 lashes in a public square for “insulting Islam” on a liberal blog. Another is arrested for filming and uploading a woman’s public beheading. Two females are imprisoned and put on trial for writing on Twitter in sup-port of women driving.

These cases have thrust Saudi Arabia’s record on human rights back into the spotlight, with inter-national concern mounting over the limits of free speech in the Arab monarchy.

Human rights activists and law-yers say the cases are part of a sweeping clampdown on dissent that has intensified in Saudi Ara-bia since the region’s 2011 Arab Spring upheaval. They say acts that offend the country’s religious hard-liners or open up the kingdom to criticism — like the video of the execution of a woman convicted of murdering her stepdaughter — have landed people in jail as a warning to others.

The case of Raif Badawi, a 31-year-old father of three who was flogged this month, has attracted the most attention in recent days, particularly in the aftermath of the deadly attack in Paris against a satirical weekly that caricatured the Prophet Muhammad.

Badawi was arrested in 2012 after writing articles critical of Saudi Arabia’s clerics on his Free Saudi Liberals blog, which has

since been shut down. Hard-liners wanted him charged with apostasy, which carries the death sentence in Saudi Arabia, but he was instead found guilty of the lesser charge of insulting Islam.

He was sentenced in May to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes and was fined $266,000. He was scheduled for another round of 50 lashes last Friday, but the flogging was canceled to allow his wounds to heal, according to Amnesty In-ternational.

“If you say that what happened in Paris is an attack on freedom of expression, than you can say what is happening to Raif is an attack on freedom of expression,” said Amnesty’s Saudi researcher Sevag Kechichian.

Just days after the attacks in Paris, Saudi Arabia’s minister of state for foreign affairs took part in the huge march that was held there to support free speech and honor the victims. Two days earlier, Badawi was flogged in the Red Sea city of Jiddah.

Activists and lawyers say the kingdom’s strict application of Sharia law against dissent is part of an effort to appease the religious conservatives who are vital supporters in the country’s fight against Sunni extremists. Badawi’s arrest and flogging were “a gift, let’s put it that way, to the hard-liners,” Kechichian said.(ap)

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FILE - This Nov. 30, 2014 image made from video released by Loujain al-Hathloul, shows her driving towards the United Arab Emirates - Saudi Arabia border before her arrest on Dec. 1, 2014, in Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia’s rights crackdown linked to war on terror

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This image taken from an online video released by the Islamic State group’s al-Furqan media arm on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015, purports to show the group threatening to kill two Japanese hostages that the militants identify as Kenji Goto Jogo, left, and Haruna Yukawa, right, unless a $200 million ransom is paid within 72 hours.

Japan’s Abe ‘fighting against time’ seeking to

free hostagesTOKYO — Japan is doing all it can to free two hostages the Islamic State group is threaten-

ing to kill within 72 hours, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Wednesday, vowing never to give in to terrorism. Abe returned to Tokyo from a six-day Middle East tour slightly ahead of schedule and convened a Cabinet meeting soon after.

SEMARAPURA - The rain flushing Klungkung area recently, in fact, started to cause adverse im-pacts on farmers. Tens of hectares of paddy plants owned by farmers that were ready to harvest fell down as submerged in rainwater. Even, this condition began to threaten the farmers’ rice because it could rot.

As seen at Subak Toya Hee, Gelgel, Klungkung, Tuesday (Jan 20), a number of lands belonged to local farmers containing ready-to-harvest rice collapsed due to rain and violent wind. Even, many paddy plants of local farmers were in poor condition and could no longer be harvested.

Such condition was also experi-enced by one of the local farmers, Made Murja. Met at subak loca-tion last Tuesday, Murja claimed to suffer losses due to bad weather conditions like today. His ready-to-harvest rice was not salable as sub-merged in rainwater. Besides, there were many paddies whose harvest time already expired where farm-ers should have harvested 20 days before. Since the rain continued to flush, farmers were unable to do harvest. As a result, a lot of paddy

plants fell down and broke.“Usually when the weather is

normal, we could sell grain as much as IDR 3.5 million per hectare. However, because the grains were in damaged condition, they were unsalable,” he said.

Similar opinion was revealed by Dewa Putu Suamba, another farm-er. This farmer from Jumpai village said that a lot of grains were wasted due to current floods. Suamba him-self was forced to take advantage of the remaining submerged grains for duck fodder. Even, to anticipate greater losses, he also admitted to cut rice planted prematurely. “Yes, if we do not immediately cut, the rice will turn red,” he said.

With the current conditions, Dewa Suamba expected the gov-ernment to respond to the issue by providing assistance. Moreover, it would not only affect the quality of the low rice planted. However, the harvest yields obtained by farmers was also very little. “We also expect the agricultural insur-ance by the government can be promptly resolved so that it can reduce the losses of farmers,” he said. (119)

Made Wisata, one of the fisher-men on Penimbangan Beach, said that has temporarily closed shop because the beach has been deserted since last week, not to mention the unpredictable weather at sea. “Sometimes the sea looks normal in the morning, then all afternoon the waves will rise and fall in giant wave patterns making a trip out to

sea quite risky. I prefers to play it safe and closes my canoe and rubber tire rental business until conditions improve”, he said

Meanwhile, marine tour guides on Lovina Beach, are also expe-riencing the impact of the bad weather in the waters of the North Bali. For the past few days, they have dared to raise the sales of their

traditional boats that are used to escort travelers out to see dolphins or go snorkeling, because of violent winds and big waves. They were therefore forced to cancel reserva-tions made by travelers and hotel managers in order to ensure every-one’s safety. As they wait for the weather to change they clean and maintain their boats. (kmb38)

Bad weather means few visitors to

Penimbangan BeachSINGARAJA - Penimbangan Beach is a popular Singaraja tourist attraction that is often

crowded, but only a few people have visited the now desolate beach, since the bad weather started at the beginning 2015. Even Monday night’s celebration of Sivaratri saw the beach empty. Usually after celebrating Shivaratri in the temple, devotees perform a ritual cleansing at sea. However, because tidal waves were hitting Buleleng waters, the rite was not performed this year.

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The Penimbangan Beach

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The paddy plants which was damaged by the flood in Klung-kung.

Dozens of hectares of paddy plants in

Klungkung submerged

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MIAMI - The deadly Ebola virus is changing, and new genetic mutations that have arisen in the past four decades could thwart the experimental drugs that some pharmaceutical companies are developing, researchers said Tuesday.

There is no drug on the market to treat Ebola, and no vaccine to prevent it, but clinical trials were accelerated last year after the worst outbreak in history began sweeping West Africa, killing more than eight thousand people so far and infecting more than 21,000.

Until recently, drug companies had been reluctant to invest much in Ebola treatments, seeing little cash return from treating a virus that tends to strike sporadically in Africa.

Even though some drugs are now being fast-tracked, they were developed well over a decade ago, based on strains of Ebola that were identified when the virus first emerged in the 1970s.

Some of the most promising drugs bind to and target a piece of the virus’s genetic sequence.

Since viruses naturally mutate over time, that could mean the drugs will not work as well as hoped, said the study in the journal mBio.

“The virus has not only changed since these therapies were designed, but it’s con-

tinuing to change,” said lead author Jeffrey Kugelman, a viral geneticist at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.

Researchers from USAMRIID, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, found that about three percent of the genome of the current strain of Ebola virus in West Africa contained changes, called single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs, when compared to outbreaks of other Ebola variants in 1976 and 1995.

They also found 10 new mutations that might interfere with the actions of mono-clonal antibody, siRNA (small-interfering RNA), or PMO (phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomer) drugs currently being tested, according to the research.

Three of those 10 mutations appeared during the current epidemic which has struck mainly in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.

The researchers urged drug developers to check whether the mutations they found might affect their experimental therapeu-tics.

“Ebola researchers need to assess drug efficacy in a timely manner to make sure that valuable resources are not spent devel-oping therapies that no longer work,” said Kugelman. (afp)

This “lifestyle disease” epidemic “causes a much greater public health threat than any other epidemic known to man,” said Shanthi Mendis, the lead author of WHO’s Chronic Diseases Prevention and Management report. Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), like cardiovascular conditions, diabetes, lung disease and a range of cancers, killed a full 38 million people around the globe in 2012 -- 16 million of them under the age of 70.

“Not thousands are dying, but mil-lions are dying ... every year in their 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s, not in their 80s and 90s,” said Mendis.

“It’s beyond belief that it is seemingly invisible,” she told reporters ahead of the launch.

Most of the world’s 16 million prema-ture NCD deaths each year -- 82 percent -- occur in poor and middle income countries, and most of them could be averted with just small investments, the report found.

“The global community has the chance to change the course of the NCD

epidemic,” WHO chief Margaret Chan said in a statement.

Millions of lives could be saved if the world over the next decade invests just $11.2 billion each year, or $1-3 per person, on promoting healthier habits, the report found.

Today, some six million people die prematurely each year due to tobacco use, 3.3 million deaths are linked to alcohol abuse, 3.2 million to lacking physical activity and 1.7 million to eat-ing too much salt, according to WHO findings.

A full 42 million children under the age of five are considered to be obese, and an estimated 84 percent of adolescents do not get enough exercise, Mendis said, describing the situations as “extremely frightening.”

The international community has staked out nine global targets for shifting unhealthy habits with the aim of slash-ing premature NCD deaths by a quarter between 2011 and 2025.

Simple and inexpensive steps like banning advertising of tobacco and

alcohol products and taxing foods and drinks that contain high levels of salt and caffeine has already proven successful in a range of countries, WHO said.

In Turkey, for instance, an advertising ban on tobacco products combined with significant price hikes and health warn-ings has pushed smoking rates down 13.4-percent since 2008.

A move in Hungary to heavily tax unhealthy food and drink components has meanwhile led to a 27-percent drop in junk food sales, the report said.

But while some countries have made progress, most will fall short of the 2025 target, WHO said, warning that inaction would have far-reaching consequences.

“When people fall sick and die in the prime of their lives, productivity suffers, and the cost of treating diseases can be devastating,” the UN health agency said.

It has estimated that if nothing is done to improve the situation, prema-ture NCD deaths will suck $7.0 trillion out of the global economy over the next decade. (afp)

MIAMI - People who are hospitalized for pneumonia face a higher risk of heart attack or stroke in the following weeks and months, Canadian researchers reported on Tuesday.

The study in the Journal of the American Medical Association is the first to focus on pneumonia patients with no previous history of cardiovascular disease.

Researchers are still trying to figure out why the body may be more vulnerable after a bout of pneumonia, but said in the mean-time, hospitalization for pneumonia should be considered its own risk factor for future cardiovascular disease.

The study was based on records of more than 3,800 people enrolled in US community health studies.

One group was aged 45-64, the other was over 65.By comparing more than 1,200 pneumonia patients to some

2,500 control patients of the same age over a period of 10 years, they found the heart risks were highest in the first weeks and months after a bout pneumonia.

“In the group aged 65 and older, a pneumonia patient was four times more likely to develop cardiovascular disease in the first 30 days following the infection,” said the study.

“In the tenth year, they were a little less than twice as likely to develop cardiovascular disease.”

In the younger group, the risk of cardiovascular disease was 2.4 times higher in the first 90 days after hospitalization for pneumonia, but the risk was no longer significant after a period of two years.

The study “provides yet another reason to do everything we can to prevent pneumonia from occurring in the community, through vaccination and basic hand hygiene, for example,” said lead author Vicente Corrales-Medina, an infectious diseases physician and researcher at The Ottawa Hospital.

“Second, once pneumonia has occurred, physicians should de-velop a care plan understanding that these patients are more likely to develop cardiovascular disease in the weeks, months and years following their recovery from this infection.”

A total of 1.2 million people are hospitalized for pneumonia in the United States each year. (afp)

‘Lifestyle’ diseases kill 16 million prematurely

GENEVA - Diseases linked to lifestyle choices, including diabetes and some cancers, kill 16 million people prematurely each year, the World Health Organization said Monday, urging action to stop the “slow-moving public health disaster”. Unhealthy habits like smoking, alcohol abuse and consuming too much fat, salt and sugar have sparked an epidemic of diseases which together constitute the lead-ing cause of death globally, WHO said.

Pneumonia raises risk of heart disease, stroke

Ebola virus changes over time, may thwart drugs

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Soccer supporters hold a placard, during the opening African Cup of Nations Group A soccer match between Equatorial Guinea and Congo, in Bata, Equatorial Guinea, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2015. The deadly Ebola virus is changing, and new genetic muta-tions that have arisen in the past four decades could thwart the experimental drugs that some pharmaceutical companies are developing, researchers said Tuesday.

The bus stop built just three months ago has been covered with spray painted graffiti. The wall of the Setra Gandamayu public cemetery of Tabanan town is also covered with graffiti. Alleg-edly the graffiti was committed by flocks of teens mimicking the tagging style of big cities.

Visually, graffiti gives a slum like impression, but more seri-ously, the scribbles of these ir-responsible people, have targeted

a number of traffic signs.“If I’m not mistaken, this bus

stop was established three months ago. Originally, it was clean but it has been defaced by graffiti,” said Made Agus, one of the residents passing by.

He claimed to feel uncomfort-able when seeing the graffiti that defaces walls, public facilities and even a number of traffic signs. “The graffiti on the walls make them look dirty,” he complained.

AMLAPURA - On the new moon of January (sasih kapitu) the Ababi customary village held a ngejaga ceremony at Kedaton Temple, Ababi village, Abang Karangasem, Tuesday. The ceremony was filled with pe-caruan followed by scrambling to get ajengan takepan at nightfall. The ajen-gan takepan obtained would be sown into people’s yards at home in order to neutralize negative influences.

Chief of Ababi customary village, I Made Sudiarsa, revealed that on the

new moon of January, the Ababi cus-tomary villagers prepared the ngejaga ritual marked with the implementation of pecaruan or animal sacrifice. Hun-dreds of portions of ajengan takepan were prepared during the ceremony and divided into different wrap-pings. “The white ajengan takepan is presented for deities, while the black one to evil spirits,” he said amidst the ceremony.

Ajengan takepan packages consist of rice and pecaruan wrapped into one.

According to Made Sudiarsa, ajengan takepan serve to neutralize negative forces coming from the lower realm of the earth. By burying ajengan takepan, negative influences within the house compound would not reappear. “After the mecaru ritual, the safety of society, and especially for the people of Ababi village, will increase,” he hoped.

The Ababi communities took 15 days to prepare for this ceremony. More than two tons of rice were used to prepare for this ceremony for which

2,062 households in the traditional village communities of Ababi par-ticipated. The rice was used to make ajengan takepan, gibungan (shared meals) and a number of other ritual paraphernalia.

As in previous years, after the im-plementation of the ngejaga ceremony, the communities of Ababi customary village implemented the Nyepi (day of silence) for female residents.

The day of silence was specifi-cally devoted to all women at the

customary village. As Nyepi in gen-eral, people were obliged to abstain from work (amati karya), and from lighting lamps or fire (amati geni). Amati lelungan (traveling) was only permitted around the Ababi custom-ary village area. “Nyepi is intended to provide an opportunity for women in Ababi customary village to visit each other and socialize and forgive one and other. Some people call it a day to escort deities on a sightseeing tour”, he concluded. (dwa)

Vandalism detrimental to look of the town of Tabanan

TABANAN - Vandalism by ignorant hands is increasing in Tabanan as evidenced by the num-ber of public facilities that fallen victim to acts of vandalism. As a result Tabanan a number of areas in Tabanan, such as the Trans Serasi bus stop located to the west of the Tabanan regent’s office are looking quite shabby, Tuesday (Jan 20).

He hopes that relevant agencies could conduct surveillance, so as not to give the impression that the vandalism is being ignored. There is fear that the actions of these ignorant hands will continue if serious action is not taken.

The shabby impression that results from such vandalism was also deplored by Tabanan legisla-tor, Nyoman Wirama Putra. This Golkar politician questioned the seriousness of the local govern-

ment in maintaining existing infrastructures. “Someone simply needs to provide a space for these youth to channel their creative aspirations, so that they will not carelessly create graffiti in various places”, he said.

According to him, rampant acts of vandalism also occur due to lack of attention. “Probably, they ex-press their inspiration haphazardly in order to get a response from the officials”, he added.

Wirama hopes that the county government will provide strict supervision of the building assets, and in so doing let it be known that the vandalism is not going unnoticed.

In a separate location, Spokes-person of the Tabanan government, Putu Dian Setiawan, also lamented the vandalism. This former subdis-trict head of Marga called for indi-viduals who like to create graffiti to not do so carelessly, as they are sure to have sanctions imposed on them if caught in the act.

Besides, such actions are quite detrimental to the budget of the local government. The cost of cleaning off the graffiti could instead be allocated to infrastruc-ture. “Hopefully, all members of society can contribute to main-taining local government facili-ties though various means,” he concluded. (kmb28)

People scramble to get “ajengan takepan” in ngejaga ritual

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On the new moon of January (sasih kapitu) the Ababi customary village held a ngejaga ceremony at Kedaton Temple, Ababi village, Abang Karangasem, Tuesday. The ceremony was filled with pecaruan followed by scrambling to get ajengan takepan at nightfall.

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

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

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

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

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It was conveyed by one of the traditional classical puppet painters of Kamasan style, Pande Sumantra, when met at his gallery at Kamasan village, Tuesday (Jan 20). This phe-nomenon was said to have occurred in recent years. Formerly, many painters of Kamasan classical style received children to be educated so as to preserve the tradition, but later almost no younger generations wish to learn it. He was concerned that such situation would increasingly cause the aspirants of the classical puppet painting to reduce. As an aspirant of tradition since his child-hood, he certainly hoped the tradi-tion rooting at Kamasan village and becoming the icon of Klungkung could be developed.

Definitely it needed the inter-vention of all parties, namely the aspirants of Kamasan classical

painting, tourism stakeholders and local government. To make it survive through the time, Pande Sumantra said that all this time the Kamasan classical painting con-tinued to experience growth. The orders from the local Bali or outside Bali kept coming. Even, the media of this classical painting continued to evolve. Aside from canvas, many orders also asked to be worked on traditional fans and wooden media. When entering the year 2015, he admitted to have received several orders from local residents of Bali and Jakarta.

Most orders came from local residents in the form of ordinary painting, painting for ider-ider shrine paraphernalia, headboard at sacred buildings and fan up to rerajahan or mystical scripts or pictures. As for the order from

BANGLI – Over the last two years, Singa-mandawa market has gradually been abandoned by merchant preferring to sell in village markets. If this trend continues, it is quite possible that this government-owned traditional market in Kintamani, will suffer the same fate the Amerta Gunung Sari market better known as the Yangapi market in Tembuku.

The decline in the number of traders at Singa-mandawa market was recognized by one of the staff of the local market ticket collector, Wayan Guntana, on Tuesday (Jan 20).

According to him, it has been two years since the Kintamani market has become increasingly deserted wit many stalls now empty. Despite not having an exact number, he figured that there was a 25% decline in the number of merchants selling at Singamadaya market.

He said that most of the merchants who

formerly sold at the Singamandawa market had moved to village markets at Sukawana, Penelokan, Bayung Cerik and some other vil-lage markets as well. “For instance, there used to be a chicken egg trader from Sukawana who sold at the Kintamani market. Now, he and other like him are selling in village markets,” he explained.

According to him, the relocation from the Kintamani market to smaller village markets has less to do with the condition of the market itself and more to do with the fact that it costs less to sell in smaller markets.

Meanwhile, the Division Head of Bangli In-dustry and Trade Agency, Wahyudi, confirmed that indeed some merchants prefer to sell in vil-lage markets. However, since it is their right to do so, his party is unable to prohibit them from moving to another market. (ina)

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Pande Sumantra, one of the artist in Kamasan Klungkung who still can make traditional paintings.

Interest of people to involve in Kamasan classical painting declines

SEMARAPURA - The interest of Klungkung community, chiefly the residents of Kamasan village, to get involved in the tradition of classical painting of Kamasan style seems to diminish by degrees. This condition is inseparable from the result of the globalization stream and development of technology keeping the current generation away from Balinese cultural roots. Actually, the classical painting of Kamasan style has experienced significant growth and becomes one of the tourist attractions in Bali. Even, it has also become the identity of Klungkung.

outside of Bali, he received painting orders in the form of wedding fans. Each order could amount to five to ten paintings where each painting valued at IDR 1.5 million to IDR 2 million, depending on the level of complexity. If the theme was easy, sometimes it was sold for IDR 500,000. Nevertheless, he still received many orders of paintings on canvas. To work on the customers’

order, Pande Sumantra was much as-sisted by his wife who had also long enough been getting involved in this tradition.

Foreign travelers also often came to his gallery to look for the Kamasan classical painting as Balinese typical souvenirs when making a visit to Ka-masan village. In addition, foreign col-lectors of classical Balinese paintings

also hunted for this classical painting. In other words, the development of Kamasan classical painting had its own place and sufficiently developed. However, today only few people were still getting involved in this tradition. Thus, according to him, it was neces-sary to provide coaching in stages to preserve the heritage having been known worldwide. (kmb31)

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Results of the ITB study have yet to the county government or the regent. However, on Tuesday, Head of Gianyar Transportation, Communications and Informatics Agency, Cokorda Gede Agusna-wa confirmed that, “results of the research conducted by the ITB team will be officially presented in February”.

Another one of several points highlighted in the study on trans-portation development in Ubud, brought up the issue of where to build such a parking lot, espe-cially considering the high cost of land in the area and then whether the people of Ubud want such a parking lot or not.

Cok Agusnawa tha the ITB

study would be used as one of the references in the making of policy by leadership. After the presentation of the study by ITB to the county government and the existing forum, the local government will take measures to create transportation systems in Ubud that will help to dimin-ish congestion in this tourist

area.The need for central parking

in Ubud, has also been expressed by the Forum for Ubud Traffic Center (UTC). According to their concept, central parking spaces could be created in every village by using land owned by the customary villages. Even, through the forum of customary village chiefs across Ubud, such a system has been agreed upon, it may not work.

Meanwhile, according to Cok Agusnawa, Ubud village itself has designed a central parking lot. The parking area would be

built by using property owned by the local village. Meanwhile, the location of the parking lot would be at the central intersection to the north. “In the near future, the central parking lot will be created” he said. (kmb16)

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Tourists trying to cross over Dewi Sinta Road at Ubud, Gianyar. Crowdedness of traffic in Ubud needs a central parking lot to diminish the amount of illegal parking which causes congestion.

Ubud needs central parkingGIANYAR - At the end of 2014, the government of Gianyar, in collaboration with academ-

ics from the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) conducted a study on the development of transport in Gianyar, particularly in the region of Ubud. The study, which was completely at the end of December 2014, yielded the same results as what people had been saying -that is; Ubud needs a central parking lot in order to diminish the amount of illegal parking that causes so much congestion.

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