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Centurion Rooney scores as England beats Slovenia

Work starts in Ukraine to collect wreckage of MH17

The best film award went to thriller “Gone Girl” starring Ben Affleck as a husband accused of murdering his wife, played by Rosamund Pike.

Other British stars also had a good night, with those picking up prizes including Keira Knightley, Jack

O’Connell and Eddie Redmayne, for his portrayal of paralyzed physicist Stephen Hawking.

Cumberbatch was named best actor for his role as World

War II Nazi code-breaker Alan Turing in “The Imitation Game,”

with costar Knightley also earning best supporting actress.

“Oh my, oh my, oh my,” said the heartthrob “Sherlock” actor, accept-ing his prize at the Palladium theatre in downtown Hollywood, adding backstage that “this is just the begin-ning, so who knows?” when asked about the looming awards season.

Moore, a three-time Oscar nomi-nee for previous films, was named best actress for “Still Alice,” a heart-rending film about a linguistics professor stricken with Alzheimer’s Disease.

Best supporting actor went to Rob-ert Duvall for his title role in “The Judge” with Robert Downey Jr, who presented him with his prize.

The top ensemble award went to “Foxcatcher,” a rare dramatic outing for comic actor Steve Carell, in a real-life story centered on the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul.

Briton O’Connell was named best new Hollywood actor for his role in Angelina Jolie’s “Unbroken.” The actress-turned-director welcomed him on stage saying “Aye up me duck” -- a reference to his northern English vowels.

The awards, which have trade-

marked the term “The Official Launch of the Award Season,” were televised for the first time this year by CBS, rival to ABC which broadcasts the Academy Awards and NBC which airs the Golden Globes.

Industry journal Variety noted archly that the awards were “more mystery than suspense,” as it is unknown who actually votes for the winners, and may well be a small group of industry insiders.

Hollywood heavyweight producer Harvey Weinstein, known for his peerless command of awards season campaigning, said the Hollywood Film Awards were of growing im-portance.

“This year because it’s televised, it’s going to be super big. Very important awards tonight, very big indication of stuff,” he said on the red carpet.

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LOS ANGELES — Jenni-fer Aniston said she pushed her sex-crazed dentist char-acter as far as she could in in “Horrible Bosses 2,” but she’s willing to try again in a third installment.

Asked if another sequel is in the works, the actress replied, “I don’t know,” she said. “It’s up to you all.”

“Horrible Bosses 2,” the follow-up to the 2011 hit, opens Nov. 24. It stars Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day as amateur en-trepreneurs who get caught up in a kidnapping scheme when their business deal with a conniving investor, played by Christoph Waltz, goes awry.

The actors improvised a lot during filming, Aniston said in a recent interview, until it became a gross-out contest between the stars.

“This one went into a territory that I think just wasn’t even funny,” she said. “I couldn’t even make it dirty funny. It was just bad dirty.”

When it came to cre-ating her character, Aniston said she told the film-m a k e r s : “Jus t go as far as you can u n t i l s o m e -one ac-tually gets s i c k f r o m it.”

She feels like there’s more to do be done with Dr. Julia Harris.

“She’s hardly tapped out,” Aniston said. “We

all were a bit sad when this movie came to an end because I, for one, felt it was too soon to end Julia’s party.”

As Aniston promotes her new comedy, she’s also get-ting potential awards atten-tion for her dramatic turn in “Cake,” which is open in limited release. The 45-year-old actress said she tries not to get caught up in awards-season buzz: “It’s flattering, it’s humbling, it’s exciting, whatever, to even be in that conversation, so to speak, so I think that’s just a win in itself.”

She’s not ruling out a return to TV, either, though she didn’t hint at any specific plans.

“I’ve never said never to coming back to television,” t h e “ F r i e n d s ”

star said. “Televi-s i o n i s p r e t t y fantas-tic these days.”

Aniston ready for a 3rd ‘Horrible Bosses’ movie

Cumberbatch, ‘Gone Girl’ win Hollywood honors

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LOS ANGELES - Britain’s Benedict Cumberbatch and A-list veteran Julianne Moore took top honors Friday at the Hollywood Film Awards, billed as the official start of Tinseltown’s annual prizes season.

Benedict Cum-berbatch pos-

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Hollywood actor award at the Hollywood Film Awards at

the Palladium on Friday, Nov.

14, 2014, in Los Angeles.

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It does not necessarily blame on the businesses but it also needs the firmness of government regula-tion.

The Law No.41/2009 on Food Security has been made, but it

has not yet interpreted by local government into regional bylaw. It becomes a debate in meeting the food security in Bali.

An agriculture lecturer, Dr. Ni Luh Kartini, said the government

should immediately interpret the law considering that Bali was a small island and the land is con-tinuously converted into buildings. From the result of observation by her team in Tabanan, Klungkung,

Jembrana and Karangasem it was found that many lands that should be planted with paddy could not be worked on due to inadequate ir-rigation water, even the crops could not grow.

Five things should be considered in addressing this issue. According to her, natural resources of the agri-culture such as land, water and pro-duction facilities (seeds, seedlings, fertilizers and pesticides) should be considered. “When the land has

been converted, how farmers can farm,” she asked.

Rampant land conversion cou-pled with hostile climate makes food security and food sovereignty less strong. Moreover, Bali experi-enced water crisis that was exacer-bated by the agricultural condition. Availability of fertilizers was inad-equate. “When urea fertilizer is not available, farmers were screaming,” she explained.

Trader served buyer at traditional market in Kuta. Food security in Bali worrying because companies, hotels and society in general no longer meet their own needs with natural resources around them, but prefer to bring in food product from outside Bali and outside Indonesia.

Imported food increased, food security worrying

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DENPASAR - Food security in Bali worrying because companies, hotels and society in general no longer meet their own needs with natural resources around them, but prefer to bring in food product from outside Bali and outside Indonesia. One of their reasons is that the food quality of Bali is poor so that they bring in from outside.

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

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Calendar Event for November 7 through 20, 2014

7th Purnama Sasih KalimaTemple Festival at:Aci-Aci Penawung Di Pura Batmadeg-BesakihPr. Pande Bang- Ds. Camnggaon, Sukawati.Pr. Kentel Gumi- Ds. Batur, Kintamani.Pr. Pedharman Agung- Satria, Denpasar.Ngusabha Di Pura Kehen- Bangli.Pr. Segara – Br. Sasih, BatubulanPr. Desa Pemenang- LombokPr. Agung Pasek Gelgel-Ds. Sumertha, DenpasarPr. Pasek Gelgel- Ds. Kekeran Delod Sema, MengwiPr. Dalem Puri Agung – KintamaniPr. Dalem Agung- Br. Sekar, Nongan, KarangasemPr. Dalem Balingkang- Ds. Pinggan, KintamaniPr. Tampur Hyang Pusat/Kawitan Maha Gotra Catur Sanak- Ds. Songan,

KintamaniPr. Dalem Pulasari- Ds. Bantas, Sudaji, BulelengMr. Pasek Gelgel- Ds. Lebih, GianyarPr. Panyungsungan Pasek Toh Jiwa- Ds. Wanagiri, Selemadeg, TabananPamerajan Agung Pamecutan- DenpasarPr. Suranadhi- Lombok,Pr. Pucak Bukit- TampaksiringPr. Dalem Ubung Kupang- Ds. Dukuh, Panebel, TabananPr. Pasar Agung Besakih- Ds. Sebudi, KarangasemPr. Pasek Gelgel- Ds. Tengkulak Kaja, Kemenuh- GianyarPr. Suci- Ds. Tianyar, Kubu, KarangasemPr. Dadia Dalem Renon- Br. Kukuh, Kerambitan, Tabanan, Ds. Adat ,Andala Merta Ds. Kenangan /SP Sembilan

12th Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan/ Buda Kliwon Gumbreg

Temple Festival at:Pr. Pasek Gelgel- Ds. Kukuh,Marga, TabananPr. Pasek Gelgel – Ds. Kukuh, Selemadeg, TabananPr. Pasek Gelgel- Ds. Mambang, Selemadeg, TabananPr. Puseh+Desa- Ds. Guwang, SukawatiMr. Pasek Ketewel- Ds. Ketewel, Sukawati,Pr. Pangeran Tangkas Kori Agung- Jeroan SadingPr. Dalem Setra Batu Nunggul- Ds. Suwana Nusa Penida

17th Coma Kliwon Wariga, Temple Festival at: Pr. Gelap - Besakih

19th Buda Paing Wariga,Temple Festival at:Pr. Jati- Ds. BaturMr. Pasek Gaduh- Ds. Kayubihi,Bangli

“The Team at Anantara Seminyak Resort & Spa, Bali looks forward to welcoming you to our celebratory feasts and wishes you a joyous Christmas and prosperous New Year for 2015.Celebrate tradition this festive season in Bali, with an invitation to a rich variety of incredible dining experiences where Christmas and New Year tradition meets the incredible cuisine and culture of Southeast Asia and the indigenous dishes of Bali.” Said Clin-ton Lovell, General Manager of Anantara Seminyak Resort & Spa, Bali.

Throughout the holiday season, the resort’s restaurant Wild Orchid will offer unique festive celebrations.

- Christmas Eve Set DinnerCelebrate Christmas Eve with exquisite

fine dining in a sumptuous venue either indoors or on the deck for an appetising al fresco dinner, with magnificent Indian Ocean views. Guests can choose a 3-wine

or 5-wine pairing from the outstanding cellar, including a glass of bubbly, or cocktails with free flow drinks. Christmas carols and a live band will add a traditional festive flavour.

Venue: Wild Orchid RestaurantWhen: 24th December 2014Time: 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm

- Christmas Day Buffet BrunchAs a time-old tradition that family

and friends come together for a leisurely Christmas Day feast. Savour a wonderful variety of mouthwatering dishes from across the globe, looking out to the beau-tiful Indian Ocean, and dining on buffet delights that appeal to all tastes; with wine and cocktail free flow, including prosecco or champagne. Expect a visit from Santa with presents for all the children, as well as a performance from a local orphanage choir and a live acoustic set; all the in-gredients for an unforgettable Christmas

celebration.Venue: Wild Orchid RestaurantWhen: 25th December 2014Time: 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm

- New Year’s Eve Gala Buffet DinnerCelebrate New Year’s Eve with breath-

taking borderless ocean views, a veritable feast of Balinese and International flavours and performances that entertain you all evening, as you count down to 2015 and bring in the New Year in memorable style; the perfect ending to another year.

Neno and Band will provide the perfect atmosphere while you enjoy a sophisticat-ed buffet prepared by our talented Chefs, and after all the feasting, Massive Soul Band will invite you to dance the night away as you are saying goodbye to 2014 and ringing in the New Year.

Venue: Wild Orchid RestaurantWhen: 31st December 2014Time: 7:00 pm – 2:00 am

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Anantara Seminyak offers “Magical Festive Season of Dining Experiences”

Anantara Seminyak resort & Spa, Bali is inviting travelers to revel in the joy of the festive season with an unforgettable stay at Anantara in Seminyak - Bali. Highlighting the hotel’s ambiance will be an array of themed dining options, decorations, entertainment, and festive indigenous activities to enjoy the stay.

- New Year’s Day Breakfast-Brunch Welcome New Year in style with a glorious start to the day,

dining on a sumptuous breakfast-brunch looking out to the horizon across the sands. Rise early to make the most of New Year’s Day and enjoy a real morning feast or savour a leisurely start to 2015 with breakfast extended to include brunch, as you relax into the first day of a brand new experience.

Venue: Wild Orchid RestaurantWhen: 1st January 2015Time: 6:30 am – 1:00 pm

Such peaceful protest was packaged in a cultural parade. As the name implies, various art attractions were displayed amidst the oration. One of the cultural performances was the dance entitled ‘Rangda Teguh’ powered by the Kuta Struggle Forum (a member of ForBA-LI—Ed) by presenting the artist Gus Cupak and friends from Kerobokan, Badung.

Even, the performance was equipped with Rangda (played by an artist—Ed) and two ogoh-ogoh papier mâché de-mons. One of the ogoh-ogoh figures illustrated a mouse mounting a bulldozer symbol-izing the greed that wished to bury Benoa Bay. Another ogoh-ogoh was in human figure wearing black pants and white shirts whose body was covered in sheets of banknotes.

Before starting the dance, Gus Cupak expressed some jokes, but still criticized the Benoa Bay reclamation plan. He admitted to come as a representative of the native to Bali who loved Bali very much. According to him, the

reclamation plan touted to become the new tourism icon should not be undertaken con-sidering Bali itself had been rich in the art and culture. “Do not make a new icon, we just need to improve our cul-tural arts,” he said responded by boisterous applause and cheers from the masses of the ForBALI.

After completing his jokes, the artist dressed as Rang-da emerged and danced the ‘Rangda Teguh.’ It told the story about Hyang Giri Nata as the embodiment of the motherland doing a penance meditation to maintain the Island of Bali. After that, he felt to have been disturbed due to greedy people that continuously exploited Bali. The exploitation was commit-ted by undermining a piece of land to meet the insatiable appetite.

With anger, Hyang Giri Nata ultimately woke up from his penance and destroyed the snobbery of the treasure seekers. With a flick of white powerful cloth, he encouraged

Bali PostMANGUPURA - A package of

drug belonging to MDMA type was secured by Ngurah Rai customs of-ficer assigned at Renon main post office, East Denpasar, Monday (Nov 10). The package sent from Germany in the form of a folder containing white crystalline powder was a drug belonging to MDMA type weighing 57 grams.

The case was developed by Directorate of Narcotics of Bali Police and could catch the package recipient with the initials NSY in the area of Seminyak, Kuta. The

Chief of the Customs and Excise for Bali-NTT-NTB Region, Rahmat Subagio, said on Friday (Nov 14), the drug was stored in a transparent plastic wrapped in an aluminum bag. To ensure the item, the officers performed a preliminary examina-tion using narcotic test. As a result, it was declared the crystalline pow-der was a drug belonging to MDMA types weighing 57 grams gross.

Label of the package address mentioned the identity of the recipi-ent with the initials KAS living on Jalan Ken Dedes, Kuta, Badung. “We immediately make coordina-

tion with the Directorate of Narcot-ics of Bali Police for developing the case,” said Rahmat accompanied by Made Pakris representing the Chief of Bali Narcotics Agency (BNNP) I Gusti Ketut Budiartha.

Meanwhile, Subdivision Head 2 of Bali Police Narcotics Unit, Joni Lay, said that after receiv-ing the report on the discovery of the drug package, his party did reconnaissance at the scene. A few minutes later, a man with the profession as motorcycle taxi rider came to the scene and took the goods. However, the officers

did not immediately arrest because they wanted to reveal where the goods would be taken.

In fact, the motorcycle taxi rider met with a woman in Seminyak area. The woman was no other than the suspect NSY. After the package was handed over to NSY, police directly arrested her. Then, it was performed a search. In addition to securing the package, the officers also found 15 items of ecstasy in the bag of the suspect. Police immediately took the suspect to the package delivery address, namely on Jalan Ken Dedes, Kuta,

Badung, but they could not find anything.

“After we make further inter-rogation, in fact the suspect stays at a boarding house on Jalan Pulau Galang Gang Gunung Sari, Denpasar. Having been searched, we could secure 2 large enough packages of cocaine. In addition, there were also two small pack-ages of amphetamine. The suspect admitted the goods were not hers. Now, we are still making further investigation about this case,” said the former Operations Head of Badung Police. (kmb36)

Thwarted, smuggling of drug package from Germany

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Rangda Teguh performance during a rally against the reclamation plan

Rangda Teguh enlivens cultural parade on reclamation plan rejection

Bali PostDENPASAr - Demonstration is not merely a matter of

speech or anarchical action. The Balinese People Forum rejects reclamation (ForBALI) proved it when holding a rally to reject the Benoa Bay reclamation plan in front of the office of Bali governor on Saturday.

the motherland’s children and chil-dren of Varuna to unite in a holy struggle against the greed and ar-rogance in a single task to preserve

the motherland and help the Lord Varuna (sea—Ed). This symboliza-tion was showed when the Rangda was dancing to the center of the

ForBALI masses. Rangda moved towards the ogoh-ogoh standing among the masses and started to destroy them. (rin)

3Monday, November 17, 201414 InternationalInternational Bali NewsTraveling Monday, November 17, 2014

But now the wannabe city is Brooklyn. Every neighborhood with a critical mass of bearded hipsters, bike shops and vegan cafes calls itself “the new Brooklyn.” Ballard is the Brooklyn of Seattle. Glasgow and Melbourne both claim Brooklyn cool. And Oakland, California, has been called the Brooklyn of San Francisco so many times that Julia Cosgrove, editor of AFAR travel magazine, says she “can’t bear to read another story about it.”

There’s even a Brooklyn of Paris: the once-gritty suburb of Pantin. Its derelict, graffiti-covered warehouses have been taken over by galleries and artists, turning it into the hippest place in the City of Light. Just like in Brooklyn, real estate prices have shot up, and old industrial buildings now house luxury lofts.

“It may have a way to go before it’s on a par with Brooklyn, but I expect it will continue to develop, considering how much investment and risk-taking is going on there — alongside the natural flux of artists toward the area,” said artist Oliver Beer, who works both with a gal-lery in Pantin and with the Museum of Modern Art’s contemporary arts outpost, PS1, in New York City.

Other signs of what’s called the “Brooklynization of Paris” include gluten-free restaurants and juice bars popping up. “It used to be when young chefs studied under the great chefs, they wanted to open important restaurants or go to the countryside and get their Michelin star. Now they’re rejecting that model, they’re saying, ‘I’m going to do more back-to-the-roots, farm-to-table cooking in a small restaurant with a few tables,’” said Katherine Johnstone, a spokeswoman for Atout France USA, the French tourism agency in New York, describing a shift that some observers compare to Brook-lyn’s culinary scene.

Tourism folks in Asheville, North Carolina, say their city was once called the Paris of the South, but now they compare it to Brooklyn, thanks to artisanal food, indie entrepreneurs and a thriving music and arts scene. An emerging arts and entertainment district in Miami that will link to ar-eas like Wynwood, known for street art, is said by promoters to be “like Brooklyn in its nascent days” — an interesting thought, since Brooklyn was settled by the Dutch in the 1600s. And San Diego’s South Park-

Every city with hipsters wants to be a Brooklyn

Associated Press

NEW YORK — For more than a century, cities around the world have compared themselves to Paris. Many claim to be the Paris of the East: Bucharest, Prague, Istanbul, Beirut and Shanghai to name a few. There’s also the Paris of North America (Montreal), the Paris of South America (Buenos Aires) and the Paris of the Plains — Kansas City in the Jazz Age.

North Park neighborhood is called SoNo, but it would be a no-no to compare it to Soho. Instead it claims a mix of Brooklyn and Southern California vibes.

But cities that once compared themselves to Paris were evoking something much grander than cu-linary trends or gentrification. In the mid-19th century, the “narrow, labyrinthine streets” of medieval Paris were demolished, making way “for the massive boulevards and squares where restaurants, cafes, theaters and other centers of amuse-ment satisfied bourgeois taste,” according to Villanova University history professor Alexander Varias. Cultural capitals in many regions underwent similar redesigns, then called themselves the Paris of wherever to signal pride in their ar-chitecture, broad boulevards, parks, arts and even nightlife.

Meanwhile, Brooklyn’s emer-gence as a global symbol of all things trendy marks quite a turn-around for a place once mocked as Manhattan’s less sophisticated neighbor — even if the new Brook-lyn has new problems, like young professionals and affluent families pushing out the poor and working-class folks who populated Brooklyn for decades.

“We’ve become the epicenter of cool as cool is now defined,” said Marty Markowitz, 69, who was born and raised in Brooklyn in an era when it was better-known for ethnic enclaves, working-class culture and the Brooklyn Dodgers. Markowitz, who served as Brook-lyn borough president for 12 years and now works for NYC & Com-pany, the city’s tourism agency,

promoting all the boroughs, added: “There is no question that Brooklyn now serves as an example for other urban centers of how a community can transform itself into a hotbed of style.”

On Oct. 10, The Atlantic pub-lished a list of places The New York Times has compared to Brooklyn with headlines like “Brooklyn in Beijing” and “Brooklyn on the Hud-son.” Undaunted, a Nov. 6 Times headline read: “A Touch of Brooklyn in Ridgewood, Queens.”

And if Queens is the new Brook-lyn, there’s already a name for that, too: Quooklyn.

AP Photo/Thibault Camus

A man walks in a street of Pantin, east of Paris, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014. Pantin, a once-gritty Paris suburb, is sometimes compared to Brooklyn, New York.

AP Photo/Thibault Camus

This Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014 photo shows a view of the Thaddeus Ropac gallery, in Pantin, east of Paris. Pantin, a once-gritty Paris suburb, is sometimes compared to Brooklyn, New York.

AP Photo/Thibault Camus

A barge is seen on the Ourcq canal, in Pantin, east of Paris, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014. Pantin, a once-gritty Paris sub-urb, is sometimes compared to Brooklyn, New York.

AP Photo/Richard Drew, File

In this July 1, 2013 file photo, restaurants line the street ad-jacent to the Brooklyn Brewery, in the Williamsburg section of the Brooklyn borough of New York. Many neighborhoods around the world are comparing themselves to Brooklyn, where gritty, industrial neighborhoods have been gentrified and now attract hipsters, small businesses, artisanal food and the arts.

Besides, it was also found some shards of various forms such as jars, plates, bowls, jars and others. Ceramic is a type of object that does not easily destroy despite storied under the ground for hundreds of years. Now, this craft begins shifting due to globalization. Even, only a few people remain to make pottery denoting the profession handed down through genera-tions.

One of the potters at Batu-lumbang hamlet , Bedulu, is Made Muklin. During her glory, this 85-year old woman was a potter commonly made pasepan (place of incense), jug of water and paraphernalia of cremation ceremony, especially made from clay. “In the past, most of local residents at this village were deeply involved in the pottery

craft,” said Made Muklin when met at her home.

During her past glory, she ad-mitted to often get orders from the art shops in Ubud and Den-pasar at a large number. Even, a number of products were also exported. In addition to produc-ing earthenware, Made Muklin also taught about the making of pottery to travelers at several hotels in Ubud. “I was asked to teach travelers and the partici-pants reached dozens of people,” she said.

When physical condition of Made Muklin was still strong, she got a relatively large income from teaching about the making of pot-tery. Moreover, travelers often gave her many tips through their tour guides. However, everything had changed. Then, she never received an order of teaching on

the making of pottery. Ironically, due to injury on left hand Made Muklin could no longer rub clay for the making of pottery. “Prob-ably, travelers are already tired of learning to make pottery. In addition, since a few months ago I stopped making pottery because of falling down so that my hand must be treated with plaster cast,” she said.

Other than due to tired hands, one thing making Made Muklin sad was the absence of regen-eration in the making of pottery craft. Similarly, she did not deny the fact that today less and less people were interested to get involved in the making of pot-tery because the income was inadequate. “Formerly, my son-in-law also made pottery, but he had died,” she said while rubbing her chest. (nik)

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Be careful when traveling on kajeng kliwon (encounter of three-day and five-day week in Balinese calendar) particularly at nightfall and midnight. The kajeng kliwon falling every 15 days is believed by Balinese people to be sacred and filled with negative aura.

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Made Muklin showed how to make pottery craft in her home. Bedulu customary village was formerly known as the center of clay pottery producer. Even, the Batulumbang hamlet is estimated to be the location of potters since ancient Bali period. It is evidenced by the finding of pottery fragments.

Renowned since ancient Bali time

Pottery today only remains in memoriesBali Post

GIANYAR - Bedulu customary village was formerly known as the center of clay pottery producer. Even, the Batulumbang hamlet is estimated to be the location of potters since ancient Bali period. It is evidenced by the finding of pottery fragments. The findings are craft products of the community having been known since prehistoric times, namely from the time to settle and farming life.

Never have a promenade on Kajeng Kliwon

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Hindu women prayed during Kajeng Kliwon in their home and temple. The kajeng kliwon falling every 15 days is believed by Balinese people to be sacred and filled with negative aura.

Leak (black magic practitio-ners) commonly choose this day to study or practice their capabil-ity. The leak practitioners wor-ship and meditate at graveyard. They worship Goddess Durga to invoke a miracle. On that ac-count, people will not recklessly go out to have a promenade on the kajeng kliwon.

The priest of Dalem Sekebon

Temple at Sibang Kaja village, I Nyoman Miarta Putra, said that on that day people were usually reluctant to visit other people’s home, let alone visit the sick. At the time, the kajeng kliwon was believed to belong to auspicious day for bhuta kala (evil spirits) to do their activities.

For humans that were mentally and spiritually weak, their physic and non-physical aspect were very vulnerable to be possessed or hurt by this leak. On the kajeng kliwon, the bhuta kala, super-natural beings and other spirits rise to disrupt humans. “Kajeng kliwon is a very good moment to perform purificatory rite or me-lukat for sick people, especially those who are exposed to magic phenomenon,” he said.

All the spirits, he explained, were fo l lowers of Goddess Durga. On that account, kajeng kliwon has the meaning to re-mind Hindu people to always get closer to God. “In essence, do not do anything that might offend other people,” he said. To be freed from the target of bhuta kala (negative energy in nature), he explained, the Hindus usually delivered segehan oblation in five colors, a bhuta yajna (sacri-fice to the bhutas) at the smallest level. It was implemented by the

presentation of offerings in the form of ketipat dampulan rice bag on the shrine and segehan oblation on the ground,” he explained.

These oblations, explained Mangku Miarta, symbolized the human soul that was always faced with various obstacles in life in the form of good and bad as well as sad and happy mood. By that way, people’s spirit would become maturer and had divine qualities (good qualities). The tipat dampulan was presented to the gods (upper level of uni-verse). Meanwhile, the five-col-ored segehan oblation, the white was presented in the east, red in the south, yellow in the west, black in the north and mixture of the four colors in the center.

The segehan oblation was usu-ally presented under the shrine, courtyard of family temple, kemulan or shrine of the origin, home courtyard and in front of the house compound. It was presented to bhuta kala and the invisible supernatural beings. (BTN)

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Prime Minister Victor Ponta was favored on Sunday over the mayor of the city of Sibiu, Klaus Iohannis. Ponta led by 10 percent-age points in the Nov. 2 vote, and corruption probes of senior Ponta aides appeared not to have dented the 42-year-old former prosecutor’s chances.

Iohannis, 55, has promised an independent justice system if he becomes president. Election results are expected Monday, and the win-ner will replace President Traian

Basescu, who is stepping down after 10 years in office.

In Romania, the president is in charge of foreign policy and defense, and names key prosecu-tors and the chiefs of intelligence services.

After casting his ballot in Bucha-rest on Sunday, Ponta said: “I voted so that all mothers and our grand-parents can live in a better country. ... I voted so that all children have a better future here in Romania.”

Romanians living overseas must

vote at polling stations in the coun-tries where they are living, and thousands of expats protested after they had to stand in line for hours in cities such as Paris, London, Mu-nich during the first round. Some were unable to vote.

The government says it has improved the voting procedure this time at facilities such as Ro-manian embassies. Many expats are believed to oppose Romania’s center-left government.

Associated Press

BEIRUT — The Islamic State group released a graphic video Sunday in which a black-clad mili-tant claims to have beheaded U.S. aid worker Peter Kassig, who was captured last year. The militant was standing over a severed head, but it was not immediately possible to confirm that Kassig, 26, was pictured in the video. Family rep-resentatives were not immediately available for comment.

The video, which was posted on websites used by the group in the past, appeared to be the latest in a series of grisly messages to the U.S. warning of further brutality if it does not abandon its air campaign in Iraq and Syria.

“This is Peter Edward Kassig, a U.S. citizen, of your country; Peter who fought against the Muslims in Iraq, while serving as a soldier,” the militant says near the end of the nearly 16-minute video. He speaks in an audible British accent despite his voice being distorted to make it more difficult to identify him.

The video also shows what ap-pears to be the mass beheading of several Syrian soldiers captured by the group. The militants warn that U.S. soldiers will meet a similar fate.

Kassig, a U.S. Army Ranger, was providing medical aid to Syr-ians fleeing the country’s civil war when he was captured inside Syria on Oct. 1, 2013. His friends say he

converted to Islam in captivity and took the first name Abdul-Rahman. The video identifies the militant’s location as Dabiq, a small town in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo, near the Turkish border.

Previous videos have shown the beheading of two American journal-ists and two British aid workers. The latest video did not show the person identified as Kassig being beheaded.

Kassig formed the aid organiza-tion Special Emergency Response and Assistance, or SERA, in Turkey to provide aid and assistance to Syr-ian refugees. He began delivering food and medical supplies to Syrian refugee camps in 2012 and is also a trained medical assistant who pro-vided trauma care to injured Syrian civilians and helped train 150 civil-ians in providing medical aid.

The militant Islamic State group has beheaded and shot dead hun-dreds of captives -- mainly Syrian and Iraqi soldiers -- during its sweep across the two countries, and has celebrated mass killings in a series of slickly produced but extremely graphic videos.

The group has declared an Islamic caliphate in the areas un-der its control in Syria and Iraq, which it governs according to a harsh version of Shariah law. The U.S. began launching air strikes in Iraq and Syria earlier this year in a bid to halt the group’s rapid advance and eventually degrade and destroy it.

Graphic IS video claims US aid worker

beheaded

AP Photo/Courtesy Kassig Family, File

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Kassig Family shows Peter Kassig standing in front of a truck filled with sup-plies for Syrian refugees.

Romanians cast ballots in

presidential runoff

AP Photo/Octav Ganea, Mediafax

Wife of Romanian Prime Minister Daciana Sarbu comes out of a polling booth alongside her daughter, Irina before she casts her vote at a polling station in Bucharest, Romania, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2014.

Associated Press

BUCHAREST — A prime minister who has promised stability and a city mayor who has vowed to fight corruption squared off in Romania’s presidential runoff election on Sunday. Tens of thousands of Romanians living overseas hope it will be easier for them to cast ballots than it was during the Nov. 2 election that led to the runoff.

Information collected in the field on Friday (Nov 14) mentioned that reed bamboo was widely grown by farmers at Tigawasa village. They grew it at the edge of their garden functioned to maintain the land so that it would not be prone to land-slides. Since the drought struck, many reed bamboos denoting the plant resistant to heat ultimately died. Their green leaves finally

turned dark brown.Following many plants having

been dead, farmers still cut down the reed bamboo although it was not yet time to harvest. Craftsmen were forced to use their young reed bamboo. It was carried out to meet the demand of buyers from outside the area.

Made Suarjaya, one of the local bamboo craftsmen, when met at

his house last Saturday admitted if many reed bamboos at his village died as a result of prolonged dry season. The bamboo dying before harvested was still used to make woven bamboo wall.

Meanwhile, if it was used to make sokasi or food basket, the young bamboo was not a good. To that end, he was forced to bring in reed bamboo from Busungbiu

subdistrict. Even, the supply of reed bamboo from Java was often made as when relying only on the supplies from farmers at local vil-lage was not sufficient. A bunch of reed bamboo with the length of three meters was worth IDR 40,000. “Many of our bamboos are dead but can still be used to make woven wall. Unfortunately, it cannot be use to make sokasi because we were worried as the quality will reduce, so we bought reed bamboo from outside the area,” he said.

Other than difficulties in obtain-ing raw materials, added Suarjaya, his business was experiencing a more serious obstacle. When

entering the season of clove or coffee harvest last August, he was having trouble in finding weaving laborers. People having the skill to weave bamboo preferred to work as clove or coffee picker. As a result, many orders from outside the region could not be worked on. Following the end of the season of clove and coffee harvest, he no longer got difficulty to recruit weavers. “During the season of clove harvest, it is indeed very difficult to recruit laborer. Now, the weavers have started to come back and can receive the order of weaving craft. Actually, this condi-tion always occurs every year,” he added. (kmb38)

Bali Post

MANGUPURA - Inaugural President of the ICE Asia Pacific, Nigel Gaunt, suggested that Indone-sian government should distribute the MICE development evenly. All this time, the Meeting, Incentive, Convention and Exhibition (MICE) activities in Indonesia remained to be focused in Jakarta and Bali.

“MICE activity in Indonesia has been very nice, but just develops in Jakarta and Bali. Actually Indone-sia is an archipelagic country, so that many regions can still be devel-oped into a MICE destination,” said Nigel Gaunt in the ICE Conference in Kuta, Friday (Nov 14).

According to him, the Indone-sian government through Presi-

dent Jokowi and minister of tour-ism had been trying to develop the tourism in Indonesia. It was done by finding new destinations beyond Bali. “Indonesia is an archipelago, so that there will be many new destinations, including the ones used to support MICE activities in Indonesia in the fu-ture,” he said.

Nevertheless, he considered that Indonesia still faced the shortage of infrastructure in developing the MICE market. Thus, it would be difficult to develop the potential. “Actually the development of MICE destination in Indonesia is still hampered by infrastructural problem. If Indonesia does not im-prove the infrastructure, it will not be able to continuously develop its

MICE destination,” he said.He said the MICE market was

then becoming the focus of several countries in the world as it was considered to have a high potential for increasing tourism. China and Japan, for instance, were two coun-tries that were packing their country as a MICE destination.

“All the countries developing their tourism are competing to of-fer their MICE tourism potential. On that account, the MICE sector is not only developed in Bali and Jakarta, but also in all the countries developing their MICE activities,” he said.

Described, specifically for Bali it had been supported by new air-port and new roads, particularly in Southern Bali. The additional in-

frastructure should be continuously developed in Bali in line with the growth of the MICE activities.

Nigel Gaunt added that the government of Indonesia should invite the world MICE players to see the new tourism potential owned by Bali and other regions of Indonesian. The potentials could become the capital to develop the MICE tourism. “Development of MICE potential also depends on the effort increasing the infrastructure in the tourism areas in Indonesia,” he said.

Similar opinion was revealed by Chairman of the Indonesia Con-gress & Convention Association (INCCA) of Bali Chapter, I.B. Sur-akusuma. In the future, the infra-structure and facilities in Indonesia

needed to be developed to support MICE activities. The government was also obliged to pay attention to the promotion of MICE activity as it was still considered minimal. Through a credible promotion, it could further introduce the potential of tourism and MICE in Indonesia, especially in Bali.

“The meeting of world MICE players in Bali is very good for improving the MICE business throughout Indonesia. This ICE is indeed the first meeting in Bali. MICE players having a meeting in Bali are outstanding business people. Necessarily, the activity of the world MICE player meeting in Bali is fully supported by Bali gov-ernment and central government,” he concluded. (kmb27)

MICE must not only develop in Jakarta, Bali

Reed bamboo dies, webbing craftsmen at Tigawasa confused

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Bali Post

SINGARAJA - The supply of raw materials for distinctive bamboo matting craft of Tigawasa village, Banjar subdistrict recently faltered. It happened because many reed bamboos planted by local people died due to recent drought. Inevitably, the situation made the craftsmen at the village confused. Reed bamboo that died prematurely was then harvested by force to meet the order of buyers from outside the area.

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The pledge -- known as the Bris-bane Action Plan - will push their combined growth beyond the two percent they were initially targeting in the drive to rehabilitate sluggish global economies and generate jobs.

“This will add more than $2 trillion to the global economy and create mil-lions of jobs,” leaders including US President Barack Obama and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping said in a sum-mit declaration after weekend talks in Australia.

The communique also agreed to a global initiative to help address a $70 trillion gap in infrastructure needed by 2030 to improve productivity, by cutting red tape and matching private investment with capital projects.

A hub to coordinate the G20’s work on infrastructure by bringing together governments, the private sector, mul-tinational development banks and other international organisations will be headquartered in Sydney.

The world’s most powerful indus-trial economies also backed a global crackdown on tax avoidance by mul-tinational companies.

“The benefits of that growth will be felt worldwide, not just in G20 member nations,” Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, the G20 host, said of the 2.1 percent target.

“The Brisbane Action Plan and in-dividual country growth strategies and employment plans have been made public so people around the world can see our commitments, hold us to account and witness our progress.”

On Saturday in Brisbane, President Barack Obama said the United States cannot “carry the world economy” and that other G20 nations must do more to spur growth and create jobs.

In a report ahead of the G20 sum-

mit, the International Monetary Fund said the world economy faced stiff headwinds from sluggish growth in Europe and Japan and a slowdown in emerging economies.

It trimmed its global growth fore-cast for the year to 3.3 percent, from 3.4 percent, citing geopolitical tensions and volatility in financial markets.

IMF chief Christine Lagarde said the G20 this year had been “very productive”.

Agence France-Presse

NEW DELHI - India’s new government has launched a drive to promote the country’s ancient therapies as it seeks to cash in on the multi-billion dollar global market for holistic medicine.

India claims to have natural rem-edies for everything from cancer to the common cold, but ministers say it has failed to capitalise on its tradi-tions as the world has woken up to alternative medicine.

Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a teetotal vegetar-ian who practices yoga daily, has said he wants the world to make Ayurveda “a way of life” -- and in doing so expand India’s share of the

growing global market for holistic medicine.

Earlier this month he appointed India’s first minister for Ayurveda, yoga, naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and homeopathy -- known as the AAY-USH ministry -- and has also called for an international yoga day.

“Call it whatever -— Ayurvedic medicines or herbal medicines or traditional medicines –- the global market is estimated at about $100 billion today,” former health minis-ter Harsh Vardhan told a recent con-ference on Ayurveda in New Delhi.

Ayurvedic medicine -- which means the “science of life” in Sanskrit -- treats the physical and mental sources of illness through, for example, prescribing herbs in

conjunction with yoga or massage.Much of the knowledge has been

passed on through the generations by word of mouth and predates written records, but two volumes of remedies and prescriptions have sur-vived, called the Charaka Samhita and the Sushruta Samhita.

Critics say that Ayurvedic rem-edies have no proven curative prop-erties for disease, and instead work as a placebo.

“It’s like superstition -- it’s in your head that it helps. But in real life, you need actual pharma drugs,” said P.K. Goyal, a Delhi-based physician.

But Modi, who as a young man wandered the Himalayas on a spiri-tual quest, said Ayurvedic remedies should be seen as complementary

to modern medicine. “If a person adopts Ayurveda, he can protect himself against various infections,” said the 64-year-old.

In India, domestic companies such as Dabur, Emami and the Himalaya group have pioneered herbal prod-ucts, combining ancient traditional medicine with cutting-edge technol-ogy to make pills, creams and oils.

Ayurvedic centres and clinics have also sprung up in Europe and the United States in recent years, and global chain The Body Shop has created its own range of Ayurvedic products.

On Tuesday the new AAYUSH minister, Shripad Yesso Naik, said he would make promoting Ayurveda a “high priority” as he began his

newly-created role.According to the World Health

Organization, 65 percent of India’s rural population uses Ayurvedic remedies, mostly due to poor access to modern health facilities.

Modi has vowed to provide af-fordable healthcare to India, where nearly 25 percent of the population lives on less than $1.25 a day and more than 40 million people have been pushed into poverty because of the cost of medical treatment. His Hindu nationalist government, which swept to power in May on a promise to revive India’s flagging economy, has already announced plans to establish a state-funded Ayurvedic research centre and hospital.

India seeks to cash in on global demand for ancient remedies

Main Outcome of G20 Summit- Economic Growth

The leaders of the world’s most powerful industrial economies pledged to grow their combined economic output by an extra 2.1 percent -- or about $2 trillion -- over the next five years. This was above the 2.0 percent goal they were initially targeting. Their strategy to achieve this goal through domestic policy reforms will be known as the “Brisbane Action Plan”.

- Infrastructure InvestmentThe summit agreed to launch the Global Infrastructure Initiative

to unlock private financing for infrastructure investment worldwide, including the creation of a Global Infrastructure Hub based in Sydney to support best practices and coordination.

- Trade LiberalisationIncreased global trade will be a requirement if the G20 is to

achieve its growth target. The leaders committed to implement all elements of the Bali package and swiftly define a WTO work pro-gramme on the remaining issues of the Doha Development Agenda to get negotiations back on track.

- Tax and Financial RegulationG20 leaders agreed to complete by the end of 2015 an implemen-

tation plan on combating tax avoidance by multinational companies. They also vowed to strengthen financial institutions, protect taxpay-ers from having to fund bailouts of “too big to fail” banks and to make derivative markets safer.

- Gender EqualityThe summit won a commitment by each country to close the gap

between its male and female labour-force participation rates by 25 percent by 2025; this will bring an estimated 100 million additional women into the labour force by that year.

- EnergyThe summit had a session dedicated to global energy issues for

the first time and agreed that energy would now be at the heart of the G20’s agenda, with strong and resilient energy markets critical to economic growth. They asked energy ministers to meet and report back on options to take this work forward.

G20 leaders target trillions in new economic growth

AP Photo/Glenn Hunt,Pool

U.S. President Barack Obama and Britain’s Prime Minister Da-vid Cameron listen to Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel as they attend the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) meeting at the G20 the G-20 leaders summit in Brisbane, Australia, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2014.

Agence France-Presse

BRISBANE - G20 leaders representing the bulk of the world’s economy on Sunday commit-ted to reform measures to lift their collective growth by an extra 2.1 percent by 2018, despite evidence of a slowdown in some major nations.

IBP

TABANAN - Strains of its rhythm are heard melancholy. When people listen to it, the rhythm can hypnotize and make them dissolved in it. Its soft mel-ody strengthens spiritual nuance when a ritual is taking place. It is the selonding gamelan music. Such traditional music instrument is the native to Tenganan, Karangasem, but almost comes to extinction in Tabanan. Luckily, many young generations are starting to favor it lately. How is the condition? One of the Slonding gamelan troupes starting to exist is the Kembang Bali art studio at Tunjuk hamlet, Tabanan. Amid the onslaught of modern music, this slonding troupe remains to survive. Even, it receives many invitations for performance. On average, the gamelan players consist of teenag-ers. Though classified into begin-ner, they are quite skillful in play-ing the gamelan music resembling gambang xylophone.

“The gamelan players are the result of intense exercise in the past few months. As a result, they have been able to play it well,” said the group head of Kembang

Bali Slonding gamelan troupe, Suarjana, not long ago. The man claimed if the slonding gamelan belonged to him inherited through generations. Incidentally, his family had the blood of the art. However, such gamelan had been dormant because no generation wanted to play it. Due to perse-verance in inviting teenagers, Suarjana was able to revive the slonding gamelan troupe. Almost every month, his gamelan troupe received invitation to make per-formance. Though categorized into bizarre art, he did not want to set a particular tariff for the performance.

The strains of slonding gamelan music could become a comple-ment to any ritual. The slond-ing troupe under his direction was frequently invited to make performance outside Tabanan. According to Suarjana, preserva-tion of the traditional gamelan would be constantly continued. To engender new generation, his party began to teach children the way to play slonding gamelan. On that account, the typical Balinese gamelan would not disappear. With simple method, children could be easily taught to play the

slonding.In harmony with the passage

of time, the number of slonding instrument also increased. It was

adapted to situation. However, the core instruments remained to be preserved because they were essential spirit of the slonding

rhythm. Playing slonding, said Suarjana, needed a sense. Thus, the rhythm generated could touch the feeling. (kmb)

It was announced by head-man of East Duda village, I Gede Pawana, in Karangasem. He said that at East Duda such as Pesangkan hamlet, approximately 12 hectares of snakefruit plantation had long been converted into paddy fields. “Along the alternative road or by-pass road at East Duda, there were dense snakefruit plantations on the left and right side. Now, they have been transformed back into paddy fields. In the fertile paddy fields, we hold tug of war regularly in December after the rice harvest. It is made in the context of rural games where we all rejoice after getting successful harvest,” said Pawana doubling as the chief of headman forum across Bali.

In addition to Pesangkan ham-let, now at East Duda, precisely at Subak Kelaci, people are planning to clear and transform back dozen

of hectares of snakefruit plantations into paddy fields.

Now, farmers are preparing for the construction of dikes to drain the irrigation water. Formerly, it was the area of paddy field. Since it was transformed into snakefruit plantation, the irrigation channel was unkempt. Other than at Duda, at Sibetan and other villages for-merly cultivating snakefruit had also transformed their plantation for building or sold their soil for backfill.

Pawana said that snakefruit plantation on the Putung hill ranges of East Duda remained to survive. However, the harvest yield was only some few. Formerly, the hills with terraced paddy fields looked very beautiful, so that the Putung Hill was renowned in the world for its natural beauty. Due to beautiful views of paddy fields, a restaurant

and villa was built on the Putung Hill. However, when the paddy field disappeared, the beauty then disappeared as well. As a result, no travelers then visited the area and the restaurant was bankrupt, while the building could no longer be used

Now, it is difficult to be convert-ed back into paddy fields. It happens because the springs of the irrigation water at the bottom or cemetery val-ley at Duda village have dried up. Pawana claimed not to know why the large springs could dry up.

He was very quite concerned with the snakefruit farmers. Dur-ing harvest season, the price of snakefruit could slump to IDR 500 or IDR 1,000 per kg. Meanwhile at this point, long dry season with scorching temperature had caused the fruits small. The fruit had black color and frequently fall out. “It

only bears a few little fruits and they easily fall out. The selling price is very cheap. That is why, many farmers having snakefruit plantation eventually cleared and converted it back into paddy fields,” he said.

Pawana doubling as advisory head of the Duda customary village said that the owners of snakefruit plantation only grew rice for family consumption, not for sale. There-fore, the variety of rice planted also belonged to the good one so that it was nice to be cooked. “Now, many farmers consider it more beneficial to grow rice rather than planting snakefruit. Thus, many snakefruit plantations have been cleared to be transformed into paddy fields,” he said.

Meanwhile, his own snakefruit plantation could not be transformed into paddy fields because it was on highland and did not enable to do so. “Actually if there is water for irrigation, I also want to transform my plantation into paddy field. But at my garden, it is difficult for water to go up because it is far and located at the height,” he said.

On the other hand, a legislator of the Karangasem House, I Gede Dana, deplored the Regent of Karangasem I Wayan Geredeg from the central producer of snakefruit, Sibetan, as unable to find a solution for the problems faced by snakefruit farmers all this time. During harvest season, the price of snakefruit al-ways slumped and farmers did not get any profits. Actually, the exis-tence of snakefruit plantation had multifunction. Snakefruit plantation at Dukuh Sibetan could become a tourist attraction.

One day, a leader of Sibetan village requested the Karangasem government to set the minimal price of snakefruit at harvest time. Thus, farmers would not sell their crops at cheap price to traders or collectors. “Farmers should be given the attention, so that their welfare can be improved. It needs to find a solution or to make a rule so that the local agricultural products can be absorbed by hotels and restaurants in Karangasem. By that way, farmers can enjoy the impact of tourism development,” he said. (013)

Poor results, price slumps

Hectares of snakefruit plantation converted into paddy field

Bali Post

AMLAPURA - Hectares of snakefruit plantation at Duda village and East Duda village as well as other villages in Karangasem are cleared. The former snakefruit plantation was converted into paddy fields. It happened because every harvest, the price of snakefruit dropped even to touch IDR 500 per kg.

Slonding Gamelan of Tunjuk Village nearly extinct

IBP/File Photo

Strains of its rhythm are heard melancholy. When people listen to it, the rhythm can hypnotize and make them dissolved in it. Its soft melody strengthens spiritual nuance when a ritual is taking place. It is the selonding gamelan music.

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After having the bilateral meetings with the two leaders, President Jokowi is scheduled to observe a port in Bris-bane and return to Jakarta after the closing of the G20 meeting.

The G20 summit was officially opened in Brisbane on Saturday eve-ning highlighted with a traditional performance by the Traditional Owners, which groups the Torres Strait islanders and aborigine artists.

The meeting is held at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Center (BCEC). Jokowi arrived in the venue after the arrival of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Held on November 15-16, 2014, the G20 meeting is the first one attended by President Jokowi representing In-donesia.

Besides the official members of the

group, Australia as the host also invited the chairman of the Mauritania African Union, the ASEAN chairman, New Zea-land, Senegal, Singapore and Spain.

The G20 groups Argentina, Aus-tralia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, Britain, the United States and European Union.

Associated Press

JAKARTA — A strong undersea earthquake hit eastern Indonesia on Saturday, triggering a small tsunami and some panic but no casualties or major damage.

The 7.1 quake occurred west of Halmahera island, which is about four hours’ flight from the capital, Jakarta.

Indonesia’s meteorological agency said a tsunami wave of 9 centimeters (3.54 inches) washed onto the small island of Jailolo but caused no damage. The Pacific Tsunami Warn-ing Center later lifted its advisory for potential hazardous waves for coastal communities.

The quake was strongly felt in several cities in eastern Indonesia, sending many people to run from homes and other buildings, officials and residents said.

The world’s largest archipelago, Indonesia is prone to earthquakes due to its location on the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” an arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin.

In 2004, a monster quake off the tip of Sumatra Island triggered a tsunami that killed 230,000 people in a dozen countries. Most of the deaths were on Sumatra.

Agence France-Presse

SINGAPORE - An Indonesian man has been charged for stabbing a compatriot in Singapore’s banking district in a brazen attempt to rob him of more than US$600,000 in public, court documents showed Sunday.

The incident on Friday stunned a lunchtime crowd at Raffles Place, where major bank offices as well as large-scale moneychangers are located. Singapore is regarded as one of the world’s safest cities and public acts of violence are rare.

Court documents seen by AFP identified the suspect as 38-year-old Arun, an Indonesian citizen who goes by one name.

He was charged in court on Saturday with causing “grievous hurt” while committing the robbery, an of-fence punishable by a jail term of between two and 10 years, and at least 12 strokes of the cane.

The court documents identified the victim as Kang Tie Tie. The Straits Times newspaper said Kang is also an Indonesian.

Court documents said the victim was stabbed on his right hip and waist. He was carrying Singapore, Malay-sia, Brunei, and Indonesia currencies as well as three cash cheques worth more than US$600,000 in a sling bag, which the suspect ran off with.

But the victim gave chase and the suspect was subdued with the help of bystanders before police ar-rived.

Singapore, Southeast Asia’s financial hub, is known for its tough stance on crime. It retains the death penalty as punishment for serious offences while judicial caning can be imposed for some crimes including robbery.

Its overall crime rate fell to a 30-year-low in 2013, with 549 criminal cases per 100,000 people, according to official data.

REUTERS/Darren Whiteside

Indonesian Muslims attend a rally showing support for Palestinians and calling for the protection of al-Aqsa mosque outside the United States embassy in Jakarta November 16, 2014. Violence has flared in recent weeks over the compound, revered by Muslims as Noble Sanctuary, where al-Aqsa mosque stands, and by Jews as the Temple Mount, where their biblical temples once stood.

7.1 quake hits Indonesia, causes small tsunami

Indonesian man charged over stabbing in Singapore bank district

President Jokowi met German PM, French PresidentAntara

BRISBANE - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) met with German Prime Minister Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande on Sunday morning.

The operation is being car-ried out under the supervision of Dutch investigators and officials from the Organization for Secu-rity and Cooperation in Europe. The recovered fragments will be loaded onto trains and ferried to the government-controlled east-ern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. The investigation into the cause of the crash is being conducted there and in the Netherlands.

Alexander Kostrubitsky, the head of the emergency services in the rebel-held areas of Donetsk region, said at the site that gath-ering debris could take around 10 days. The debris is being sawn into smaller pieces to facilitate its transportation, Kostrubitsky said. All 298 people aboard the Boeing 777 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur were killed when it was shot down July 17 over a rebel-held area.

Efforts to conduct investiga-tions and recovery operations have been delayed amid con-tinued fighting between gov-ernment troops and separatist fighters. A truce was agreed in

September, but hostilities have raged on nonetheless. Ukraine and the West have blamed the downing of the MH17 flight on Russia-backed separatists using a ground-to-air missile.

Russian state television has released a satellite photograph it claims shows that a Ukrainian fighter jet shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. But the U.S. government dismissed the re-port as preposterous and online commentators called the photo a crude fake.

The photo released Friday by Russia’s Channel One and Rossiya TV stations purportedly shows a Ukrainian fighter plane firing an air-to-air missile in the direction of the MH17. The chan-nels said they got the photo from a Moscow-based organization, which had received it via email from man who identified himself as an aviation expert.

Several bloggers said the photograph was a forgery, cit-ing a cloud pattern to prove the photo dates back to 2012, and several other details that seem

incongruous.Some saw the photo as a pro-

paganda effort intended to deflect criticism over the tragedy that Russian President Vladimir Putin faced as he attended the Group of 20 summit in Brisbane, Australia. Putin was the first leader to de-part the summit Sunday. He told reporters that he left ahead of a final leaders’ lunch because he wanted to rest before returning to work.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has been particu-larly strong-worded in his criti-cism of Russia since the Malaysia Airlines plane was shot down. Abbott said he and Putin had engaged in a “very robust” dis-cussion about the situation in Ukraine.

“I utterly deplore what seems to be happening in eas te rn Ukraine,” Abbott said. “I de-mand that Russia fully cooper-ate with the investigation, the criminal investigation of the downing of MH17, one of the most terrible atrocities of recent times.”

Associated Press

LA PORTE, Texas — A federal agency that investigates chemical accidents has announced that it will send a team to a Houston-area indus-trial plant where a chemical leak killed four people. The U.S. Chemical Safety Board said Saturday night that it is sending seven people to the DuPont plant where the leak of methyl mercaptan killed four employees and hospitalized another.

The leak began around 4 a.m. Saturday and was contained about two hours later. The cause of the leak was not immediately clear. Du-Pont said the chemical was used at the plant to create insecticides and fungicides.

Several employees had responded to the leak when they were exposed to the chemical, plant manager Randall Clements said in a statement.

“There are no words to fully express the loss we feel or the concern and sympathy we extend to the families of the employees and their co-workers,” Clements said. “We are in close touch with them and providing them every measure of support and assistance at this time.”

A fifth worker was hospitalized and being held for observation. That worker’s condition was not immediately known, and none of the victims was immediately identified. Clements said DuPont would be cooperating with local, state and federal officials investigating the leak.

“As part of that investigation, we are conducting our own top-to-bottom review of this incident and we will share what we learn with the relevant authorities,” he said.AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov

Recovery workers in rebel-controlled eastern Ukraine load debris from the crash site of Ma-laysia Airlines Flight 17, in Hrabove, Ukraine, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2014, four months after the plane was brought down.

Work starts in Ukraine to collect wreckage of MH17Associated Press

HRABOVE, Ukraine — Recovery workers in rebel-controlled eastern Ukraine began to collect debris from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on Sunday, four months after the plane was brought down.

4 workers killed after Houston-area chemical leak

It could be replaced with organic fertilizers, but should be quickly dis-seminated. Water of all the lakes in Bali should be used for agriculture. But a new problem emerged where the silting occurred to some lakes in Bali.

Besides, Bali lost a large number of useful plants, especially for agriculture. Bali was supposed to have forest at least 30 percent, but in reality it only remained 22 percent. Then, farmers were also given less knowledge on conservation such as coffee plant to be planted as the preparation to face dry season considering it could produce water during dry season. “So, it does even utilize water,” she said. Bali had abundant natural resources and could be absorbed by the market. How-ever, it was required a policy of the government to utilize the natural resources of Bali.

For example, the hotels in Bali could be used as a ‘foster father’ of vil-lages, so that natural resources owned by the village could be channeled to the hotels. Here, the hotel management could team up with farmers economically, so that the community was able to maintain its nature. “With the current condition, farmers are difficult to meet their own needs, let alone take care of nature,” she explained.

The second problem faced was related to human resources. The current younger generation did not want to be a farmer. It could not be denied con-sidering the farmer’s market was unclear, mentoring to access the market was minimal and the government attention was a little, too. As a result, Balinese farmers were not able to compete against other farmers outside Bali and Indonesia. It could be given brainstorming since childhood, ranging from small things, but it was also less encouraged, so that when growing adult they ultimately did not know about the term of farming.

Thirdly, the shortage of assistance from both private and government sector providing appropriate technologies that could utilize the local resources. Later, the technology could also be utilized maximally. After harvest, farmers in Bali lacked for skills in terms of managing their crops. It did not got a touch from the government. “It should be encouraged again,” she said.

And the most crucial issue was that farmers could not compete con-sidering the long process from production to consumers. Proceeds of the farmers were channeled through middlemen, then to collectors, traders in the market, suppliers and finally consumers. This long chain made the price of agricultural products low, so that the welfare of farmers still became a problem. So, it was required to shorten the distribution channel of the agricultural products from farmers directly to consumers or hotel management or company, surely with the assistance.

Food security issues in Bali were not just a matter of buying and selling the agricultural products. However, it is also related to the fulfillment of daily people’s needs having to be bought from outside. Indeed, it is ironic but the real situation occurred today. (may)

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plored there. Besides several tourist attractions such as Puncak Mangu and Tukad Bangkung Bridge which called the highest in all of Asia, in this area there is also an area that can be used for tracking which of course will be very interesting for tourists who love adventure and

outdoor sports activities.The tracking path to be followed

is through the plantation where there are many different kinds of plants and crops that we can meet. In detail, the tracking activity begins at Banjar Kiadan pavilion to do breakfast or lunch depending on the time set to

start the tracking itself. Then proceed to the inn as a place to stay for the tourists. Not far from the inn, there is a building that is used to store coffee beans. If we go farther we will find the plantation that stretched wide variety of plants contained in them.

When we are entering the plan-tation, we will be greeted by some herbal plants arranged neatly, then passed to the area of chayote which grows fertile. Farther then we will arrive in an area with a majority of bamboo plants that are embedded.

Then spin a little bit we will find garden full of oranges and papa-yas. From that place, we will have two options, continue the tracking or back to the inn. If we want to continue then there are many more interesting things that we can find.

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Wawrinka’s nerve failed him when serving for the match at 5-4 in the third set and Federer conceded he could easily have been the one left to contemplate a semi-final exit. “I clearly got lucky tonight. There’s no doubt about that,” Federer said. “But you’ve got to keep believing that maybe there is a slight chance that you are going to be able to turn it around somehow.

“It’s hard on Stan,” the six-times Tour Finals champion added. “I think if he would have served a little bit better today he would have won.” Wawrinka was cramping up in the deciding tiebreak and both players looked out on their feet after a thrilling toe-to-toe battle.

“Hopefully he will recover from this fast enough, that would be good for both of us,” Federer told report-ers at almost 1 a.m. local time. “I checked on him immediately after the match to see if he was okay.”

Quite what Swiss Davis Cup

coach Severin Luthi would have made of it is anyone’s guess and he will hope Federer does not get too bashed up by Djokovic in their 37th meeting on Sunday.

France, their opponents in the Davis Cup final, would have en-joyed the sight of Switzerland’s two heavyweights digging deep into their energy reserves on Saturday night.

Wasted OpportunitiesWawrinka, who had won only

two of 16 meetings with his close friend, was the better player for most of the evening, yet when his chance came he found the last point impossible to win. Gambling on serving and volleying on his three match points at 5-4, he first saw Federer rifle a winning forehand past him, the second match point he dumped a feeble volley into the net.

On the third, a nervy volley sat

up and allowed Federer an easy pass into an open court. Another oppor-tunity came and went in the tiebreak before Federer coolly ended the contest. “Stan looked very good for a long time, I was able to win the second set somehow by hanging around,” Federer said.

Wawrinka said Federer’s experi-ence had been the difference in the end. “I had some big opportunities in the third set,” the Australian Open champion said. “I should have taken them, especially serving for the match with three match points.

“But when you play Roger, it’s never easy for me, for anybody. He’s been in that situation so many times.”

Federer said he would have to take his game to another level to end Djokovic’s 31-match indoor winning streak. “I hope I can maybe play a little better than I played to-day because I did feel the heat from Stan,” he said.

Associated Press

CLEVELAND — LeBron James scored 32 points and the Cleveland Cavaliers made their first 11 3-point attempts, including nine in the first quarter, to rout the Atlanta Hawks 127-94 on Saturday night. The Cava-liers became the first team in NBA history to go 9 for 9 or better from behind the arc in a quarter, according to information provided to the team by the Elias Sports Bureau.

James hit three 3-pointers in the period, while Kevin Love and Joe Harris had two apiece. Cleveland, which rallied from a 19-point deficit in the fourth quarter to beat Boston on Friday, needed no dramatics this time. The Cavaliers, who have won four straight, scored 41 points in the first quarter, including 11 by James in the opening 3:34.

Paul Millsap scored 16 points for the Hawks, whose four-game win-ning streak was ended. James, who didn’t play in the fourth quarter, was 13 of 20 from the field. Kyrie Irving added 20 points and six players reached double figures for Cleveland. In Sacramento, DeMarcus Cousins had 25 points and 10 rebounds, help-ing the Sacramento Kings beat the San Antonio Spurs 94-91.

The Kings, who had squandered leads of 24 and 26 points in losing their previous two games, ended a nine-game losing streak to the Spurs, who had won 21 of the past 22 meetings. Darren Collison had 19 points and Rudy Gay scored 18 for the Kings, who committed only

nine turnovers.Cousins sat out the entire second

quarter with foul problems, and left the game briefly after getting a cut over his left eye late in the third quarter. He was limited to just under 27 minutes. Manu Ginobili had 21 points, Kawhi Leonard and Danny Green scored 16, and Tim Duncan finished with 15 points and eight rebounds.

At Memphis, Tennessee, Marc Gasol scored 23 points, Zach Randolph added 17 points and 22 rebounds, and the Memphis Griz-zlies beat the Detroit Pistons 95-88. Mike Conley added 18 points and Courtney Lee had 12 for the Griz-zlies, who maintained the best re-cord in the NBA (9-1). Kyle Singler scored 21 points, going 5 of 7 from 3-point range to keep the Pistons close. Greg Monroe had 16 points and 11 rebounds for Detroit, while Brandon Jennings scored 14 points and Josh Smith finished with 11.

At Chicago, A.J. Price, Luis Scola and Solomon Hill all scored 21 points, and the injury-plagued Indiana Pacers beat the Chicago Bulls 99-90. Chris Copeland added 13 points for the Pacers, who were without six injured players. Jimmy Butler had 32 points and Pau Gasol finished with 12 points and six re-bounds for the Bulls, which played without the injured Derrick Rose.

Chris Paul scored seven of his 32 points in the final 2:56 and had nine assists, Blake Griffin added 19 points, and the Los Angeles Clippers beat the Phoenix Suns 120-107.

I was lucky, says Federer after

Wawrinka scrapReuters

LONDON - Days before Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka team up for a shot at Swit-zerland’s first Davis Cup title, they were tearing lumps out of each other at the ATP World Tour Finals in London on Saturday. Federer spent nearly three hours fighting off Wawrinka in an intense semi-final, admitting he was fortunate to save four match points before scraping through 4-6 7-5 7-6(6) and setting up a blockbuster season finale against Novak Djokovic.

REUTERS/Toby Melville

Roger Federer of Switzerland celebrates winning his semi-final tennis match against compa-triot Stanislas Wawrinka at the ATP World Tour Finals at the O2 Arena in London November 15, 2014.

AP Photo/Mark Duncan

Cleveland Cavaliers’ LeBron James (23) goes in for a dunk on Atlanta Hawks’ Jeff Teague in the first quarter of an NBA basketball game Saturday, Nov. 15, 2014, in Cleveland.

Cavs make first 11 3-pointers, beat Hawks 127-94

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The milestone match for Rooney at Wembley saw the England captain net his 44th international goal — canceling Jordan Henderson’s own goal — to go five behind Bobby Charlton’s record 49.

“It was tough because they took the lead and we had to show our character,” Rooney said. “It was a great reaction from the play-ers.” England surged six points clear of Slo-venia, Switzerland and Lithuania. The Swiss beat visiting Lithuania 4-0, with winger Xherdan Shaqiri scoring twice.

Before the game in London, Rooney col-lected his commemorative golden 100th cap from Charlton to cheers, but the atmo-sphere became subdued as England labored throughout the first half, looking disjointed. The game came to life 10 minutes into the second half when England finally found the target, with Phil Jagielka’s header saved by goalkeeper Samir Handanovic.

But at the other end, Henderson inadver-tently flicked Milivoje Novakovic’s free kick into his own goal when a headed clear-ance went wrong. Just as quickly, the action was back in the Slovenia penalty area, with

Rooney earning the penalty following Bost-jan Cesar’s challenge and scoring from the spot. Rooney is England’s joint-third highest goal-scorer alongside Jimmy Greaves.

“It was a fine piece of play by Jack Wilshere to set it up, but it was a very good run from (Rooney) into the box and that put us right back in the game,” Hodgson said. England’s fortunes had turned, and Welbeck punished Slovenia twice.

Adam Lallana cut in from the right and a deflected shot that was parried by Han-danovic, but Miso Brecko’s headed clearance went straight to Welbeck. His scuffed shot put England in front in the 65th.

It was a slicker build-up to Welbeck’s sec-ond goal. Kieran Gibbs played in Welbeck, who played a neat one-two with Raheem Sterling before knocking the ball into the net in the 72nd. England heads to Glasgow for a friendly against Scotland on Tuesday, although goalkeeper Joe Hart is being given time off, leaving Fraser Forster or Ben Fos-ter competing for the starting spot. Beaten by England and Slovenia to open the group, Switzerland has had back-to-back 4-0 wins

against San Marino and now Lithuania.

All the goals came in the second half, with vis-iting goalkeeper Giedrius Arlauskis gifting the first in the 66th minute by fum-bling a Shaqiri corner into his own net on a rainy night.

Defender Fabian Schaer finished neatly two minutes later after another Shqairi corner was not cleared, and the Swiss star scored with a header and flick from right-flank crosses in the 80th and 90th.

Associated Press

MILAN — Croatia

Reuters

MADRID - Young gun Isco scored the pick of

the goals as holders Spain strolled to a

3-0 home victory over Belarus that

still left them chasing lead-ers Slovakia in Euro 2016 q u a l i f y i n g

Group C on Saturday.

S p a i n domi-n a t -e d

f r o m t h e s tar t in H u e l v a and I sco fired them ahead in the 18th minute when he curled an exquisite shot into the top cor-

ner, the 22-year-old Real Madrid

midfielder’s debut goal for La Roja on his first start.

Sergio Busquets cracked in a second a minute later, Pedro made it 3-0 after a well-worked move 10 minutes into the second half and the Barcelona forward came close to a second late on when he struck an angled shot against the inside of a post.

Belarus hardly threatened the Spain goal and a shot from Pavel Nekhaychik 11 minutes from time was the only effort that even vaguely troubled keeper Iker Casillas.

Spa in coach Vicen te de l Bosque was pleased the two opening goals had come rela-tively early in the match and said it had been a “reasonable” performance but criticised his players for being over-elaborate. “We were able to go 2-0 ahead with some ease, although we then got too carried away,” he told a news conference.

“Isco played a good match but, like everyone else, he got a bit lost in this way of playing which is too virtuoso.” Spain are rebuilding after a poor showing at this year’s World Cup after which stalwarts like Xavi, Xabi Alonso and

Reuters

MILAN - San Marino, joint bottom of the world rankings alongside Bhutan, ended a run of 61 consecutive defeats in all com-petitions when they held Estonia to a goalless draw in their Euro 2016 qualifier on Saturday.

It was also the part-timers’ first point in the European Champion-ship qualifying competition since they began taking part in 1990.

Goalkeeper Aldo Simoncini was the hero as he kept Estonia at bay in the Group E game and helped San Marino keep a clean sheet for

only the third time ever.He denied Sergei Zenjov in the

first half before making an excel-lent stop from Artjom Artjunin’s header and then turning away Ilja Antonov’s strike after the break. San Marino had previously man-aged World Cup qualifying points against Turkey and Latvia.

They beat Liechtenstein 1-0 in a friendly in 2004 and had lost every match since then. Despite Saturday’s success,, they are still waiting for their first goal since Pierangelo Manzaroli replaced Giampaolo Mazza as coach in February.

Reuters

ATHENS - Greece named youth coach Kostas Tsanas as interim coach of the senior na-tional team on Sunday but there was no official confirmation yet of the sacking of Italian Claudio Ranieri. The country’s football federation (EPO) has effectively suspended Ranieri for the time being as both sides work out the financial settlement surrounding his 1.6 million euro (2 million US dollar) contract.

Ranieri, 63, was expected to stay on for Greece’s friendly with

Serbia in Crete on Tuesday but that is no longer the case.

“The Hellenic Football Fed-eration announces that the role of interim coach for the friendly match with Serbia with be Kostas Tsanas and Nektarios Pantazis,” EPO said in a brief media state-ment.

EPO chief Giorgos Sarris had made clear the organisation’s intentions to part company with Ranieri on Saturday following the humiliating 1-0 defeat to the Faroe Islands which left Greece bottom of Euro 2016 qualifying Group F.

Ranieri was appointed after the 2014 World Cup, taking over from Portuguese boss Fernando Santos on a two-year deal amid enthusiastic media hype.

Under the former Chelsea, Ju-ventus and Monaco boss, Greece showed incredibly poor form and a total lack of ideas in attack.

Greek media termed the na-tional team’s shock 1-0 home defeat by Faroe Islands as a “black night” for football in the country. Local media linked two Greek coaches -- Giorgos Donis and Angelos Anastasiadis -- with the post.

REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo

Spain’s Isco (2nd R) tries to control the ball in front of Belarus’ Sergei Balanovich (L) during their Euro 2016 Group C qualifying soccer match in Huelva November 15, 2014.

Isco shines as Spain ease past Belarus

AP Photo/Antonio Calanni

Italy coach Antonio Conte listens reporters’ questions during a press conference at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Saturday, Nov. 15, 2014, ahead of Sunday’s Group H Euro 2016 qualifying soccer match between Italy and Croatia.

Italy qualifier may be called offcoach Niko Kovac warned on Saturday that the quali-

fier against Italy will have to be called off if the pitch does

not improve. The 2016 European Championship qualifying match is scheduled to kick off on Sunday at 8:45 p.m. (1945 GMT) but Milan

has been hit by flash floods and torrential rain, forcing both teams to abandon their planned training sessions at the San Siro.

“If the pitch remains in these conditions, the game can’t go ahead,” Kovac said. “The ball doesn’t bounce, it would be like a game of waterpolo.” Italy and Croatia are level at the top of their group, having won their opening three matches. “Let’s hope the weather improves. For a good match the pitch has to be at its best,” Italy coach Antonio Conte said.

Conte has said the match will be a true test of how far Italy has progressed since he took over in July following a dismal World Cup, and Italy captain Gianluigi Buffon agreed.

“Tomorrow will not be a game like any other, because these groups are made up of prestigious teams and minnows,” the goalkeeper said. “It’s clear that this will be one of those matches which lights up interest. We are going into it with a certain curiosity to measure ourselves up against Croatia.

“We have a lot of humility but also a lot of ambition, because we are Italy and our football history

speaks for us. We want to impress tomorrow, and convince ourselves as well as the public that the Ital-ian team is still alive and kicking.” Despite Italy’s group exit in Brazil, hope is growing that the Azzurri can be realistic title challengers in 2016.

“We have to proceed carefully in every sense, because we’re coming off the back of a burning disap-pointment and we should never forget that disappointment because it will give us extra strength to move forward,” Conte said.

“We’re moving forward in steps. We should never lack ambition and we need to show that we have our feet firmly on the ground. We’ll qualify first and then in that month try and create a war machine.” Mario Balotelli withdrew from the Italy squad earlier in the day, along with Juventus defender Angelo Ogbonna. Balotelli had been called up for the first time under Conte, despite his poor form, but the Liv-erpool striker strained his lower back and adductor muscles.

“Mario had this inflammation in the groin and couldn’t train,” Conte said. “So it was useless to keep him with us. Yes, I liked him, like the others I hadn’t seen before.”

AP Photo/Bogdan Maran

England’s Wayne Rooney celebrates after scoring

against Slovenia, during their Euro 2016 Group E qualifying soccer match at Wembley Sta-

dium, London, Saturday, Nov. 15, 2014

Centurion Rooney scores as England beats SloveniaAssociated Press

LONDON — Wayne Rooney scored for England on his 100th appearance before Danny Welbeck’s double secured a 3-1 victory over Slovenia in European Championship qualifying on Saturday. As Roy Hodgson’s Group E leaders made it four wins out of four, San Marino earned a landmark 0-0 draw against Estonia, ending a run of 61 consecutive losses for world football’s lowest-ranked team.

Greece name interim coach ahead of Ranieri departure

San Marino end 61-match losing streak

David Villa retired from interna-tionals.

Some of the players coming through to replace them have taken time to make their mark and Del Bosque’s side slipped to a surprise defeat in Slovakia last

month that cost them top spot in the group.

With four matches played, Slovakia lead with 12 points after their 2-0 win in Macedonia on Saturday while Spain and Ukraine, who won 3-0 away to

Luxembourg, each have nine. Macedonia have three points and Belarus and Luxembourg one each. The next round of qualifiers are at the end of March, when Spain host Ukraine and Slovakia are at home to Luxembourg.

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The milestone match for Rooney at Wembley saw the England captain net his 44th international goal — canceling Jordan Henderson’s own goal — to go five behind Bobby Charlton’s record 49.

“It was tough because they took the lead and we had to show our character,” Rooney said. “It was a great reaction from the play-ers.” England surged six points clear of Slo-venia, Switzerland and Lithuania. The Swiss beat visiting Lithuania 4-0, with winger Xherdan Shaqiri scoring twice.

Before the game in London, Rooney col-lected his commemorative golden 100th cap from Charlton to cheers, but the atmo-sphere became subdued as England labored throughout the first half, looking disjointed. The game came to life 10 minutes into the second half when England finally found the target, with Phil Jagielka’s header saved by goalkeeper Samir Handanovic.

But at the other end, Henderson inadver-tently flicked Milivoje Novakovic’s free kick into his own goal when a headed clear-ance went wrong. Just as quickly, the action was back in the Slovenia penalty area, with

Rooney earning the penalty following Bost-jan Cesar’s challenge and scoring from the spot. Rooney is England’s joint-third highest goal-scorer alongside Jimmy Greaves.

“It was a fine piece of play by Jack Wilshere to set it up, but it was a very good run from (Rooney) into the box and that put us right back in the game,” Hodgson said. England’s fortunes had turned, and Welbeck punished Slovenia twice.

Adam Lallana cut in from the right and a deflected shot that was parried by Han-danovic, but Miso Brecko’s headed clearance went straight to Welbeck. His scuffed shot put England in front in the 65th.

It was a slicker build-up to Welbeck’s sec-ond goal. Kieran Gibbs played in Welbeck, who played a neat one-two with Raheem Sterling before knocking the ball into the net in the 72nd. England heads to Glasgow for a friendly against Scotland on Tuesday, although goalkeeper Joe Hart is being given time off, leaving Fraser Forster or Ben Fos-ter competing for the starting spot. Beaten by England and Slovenia to open the group, Switzerland has had back-to-back 4-0 wins

against San Marino and now Lithuania.

All the goals came in the second half, with vis-iting goalkeeper Giedrius Arlauskis gifting the first in the 66th minute by fum-bling a Shaqiri corner into his own net on a rainy night.

Defender Fabian Schaer finished neatly two minutes later after another Shqairi corner was not cleared, and the Swiss star scored with a header and flick from right-flank crosses in the 80th and 90th.

Associated Press

MILAN — Croatia

Reuters

MADRID - Young gun Isco scored the pick of

the goals as holders Spain strolled to a

3-0 home victory over Belarus that

still left them chasing lead-ers Slovakia in Euro 2016 q u a l i f y i n g

Group C on Saturday.

S p a i n domi-n a t -e d

f r o m t h e s tar t in H u e l v a and I sco fired them ahead in the 18th minute when he curled an exquisite shot into the top cor-

ner, the 22-year-old Real Madrid

midfielder’s debut goal for La Roja on his first start.

Sergio Busquets cracked in a second a minute later, Pedro made it 3-0 after a well-worked move 10 minutes into the second half and the Barcelona forward came close to a second late on when he struck an angled shot against the inside of a post.

Belarus hardly threatened the Spain goal and a shot from Pavel Nekhaychik 11 minutes from time was the only effort that even vaguely troubled keeper Iker Casillas.

Spa in coach Vicen te de l Bosque was pleased the two opening goals had come rela-tively early in the match and said it had been a “reasonable” performance but criticised his players for being over-elaborate. “We were able to go 2-0 ahead with some ease, although we then got too carried away,” he told a news conference.

“Isco played a good match but, like everyone else, he got a bit lost in this way of playing which is too virtuoso.” Spain are rebuilding after a poor showing at this year’s World Cup after which stalwarts like Xavi, Xabi Alonso and

Reuters

MILAN - San Marino, joint bottom of the world rankings alongside Bhutan, ended a run of 61 consecutive defeats in all com-petitions when they held Estonia to a goalless draw in their Euro 2016 qualifier on Saturday.

It was also the part-timers’ first point in the European Champion-ship qualifying competition since they began taking part in 1990.

Goalkeeper Aldo Simoncini was the hero as he kept Estonia at bay in the Group E game and helped San Marino keep a clean sheet for

only the third time ever.He denied Sergei Zenjov in the

first half before making an excel-lent stop from Artjom Artjunin’s header and then turning away Ilja Antonov’s strike after the break. San Marino had previously man-aged World Cup qualifying points against Turkey and Latvia.

They beat Liechtenstein 1-0 in a friendly in 2004 and had lost every match since then. Despite Saturday’s success,, they are still waiting for their first goal since Pierangelo Manzaroli replaced Giampaolo Mazza as coach in February.

Reuters

ATHENS - Greece named youth coach Kostas Tsanas as interim coach of the senior na-tional team on Sunday but there was no official confirmation yet of the sacking of Italian Claudio Ranieri. The country’s football federation (EPO) has effectively suspended Ranieri for the time being as both sides work out the financial settlement surrounding his 1.6 million euro (2 million US dollar) contract.

Ranieri, 63, was expected to stay on for Greece’s friendly with

Serbia in Crete on Tuesday but that is no longer the case.

“The Hellenic Football Fed-eration announces that the role of interim coach for the friendly match with Serbia with be Kostas Tsanas and Nektarios Pantazis,” EPO said in a brief media state-ment.

EPO chief Giorgos Sarris had made clear the organisation’s intentions to part company with Ranieri on Saturday following the humiliating 1-0 defeat to the Faroe Islands which left Greece bottom of Euro 2016 qualifying Group F.

Ranieri was appointed after the 2014 World Cup, taking over from Portuguese boss Fernando Santos on a two-year deal amid enthusiastic media hype.

Under the former Chelsea, Ju-ventus and Monaco boss, Greece showed incredibly poor form and a total lack of ideas in attack.

Greek media termed the na-tional team’s shock 1-0 home defeat by Faroe Islands as a “black night” for football in the country. Local media linked two Greek coaches -- Giorgos Donis and Angelos Anastasiadis -- with the post.

REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo

Spain’s Isco (2nd R) tries to control the ball in front of Belarus’ Sergei Balanovich (L) during their Euro 2016 Group C qualifying soccer match in Huelva November 15, 2014.

Isco shines as Spain ease past Belarus

AP Photo/Antonio Calanni

Italy coach Antonio Conte listens reporters’ questions during a press conference at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Saturday, Nov. 15, 2014, ahead of Sunday’s Group H Euro 2016 qualifying soccer match between Italy and Croatia.

Italy qualifier may be called offcoach Niko Kovac warned on Saturday that the quali-

fier against Italy will have to be called off if the pitch does

not improve. The 2016 European Championship qualifying match is scheduled to kick off on Sunday at 8:45 p.m. (1945 GMT) but Milan

has been hit by flash floods and torrential rain, forcing both teams to abandon their planned training sessions at the San Siro.

“If the pitch remains in these conditions, the game can’t go ahead,” Kovac said. “The ball doesn’t bounce, it would be like a game of waterpolo.” Italy and Croatia are level at the top of their group, having won their opening three matches. “Let’s hope the weather improves. For a good match the pitch has to be at its best,” Italy coach Antonio Conte said.

Conte has said the match will be a true test of how far Italy has progressed since he took over in July following a dismal World Cup, and Italy captain Gianluigi Buffon agreed.

“Tomorrow will not be a game like any other, because these groups are made up of prestigious teams and minnows,” the goalkeeper said. “It’s clear that this will be one of those matches which lights up interest. We are going into it with a certain curiosity to measure ourselves up against Croatia.

“We have a lot of humility but also a lot of ambition, because we are Italy and our football history

speaks for us. We want to impress tomorrow, and convince ourselves as well as the public that the Ital-ian team is still alive and kicking.” Despite Italy’s group exit in Brazil, hope is growing that the Azzurri can be realistic title challengers in 2016.

“We have to proceed carefully in every sense, because we’re coming off the back of a burning disap-pointment and we should never forget that disappointment because it will give us extra strength to move forward,” Conte said.

“We’re moving forward in steps. We should never lack ambition and we need to show that we have our feet firmly on the ground. We’ll qualify first and then in that month try and create a war machine.” Mario Balotelli withdrew from the Italy squad earlier in the day, along with Juventus defender Angelo Ogbonna. Balotelli had been called up for the first time under Conte, despite his poor form, but the Liv-erpool striker strained his lower back and adductor muscles.

“Mario had this inflammation in the groin and couldn’t train,” Conte said. “So it was useless to keep him with us. Yes, I liked him, like the others I hadn’t seen before.”

AP Photo/Bogdan Maran

England’s Wayne Rooney celebrates after scoring

against Slovenia, during their Euro 2016 Group E qualifying soccer match at Wembley Sta-

dium, London, Saturday, Nov. 15, 2014

Centurion Rooney scores as England beats SloveniaAssociated Press

LONDON — Wayne Rooney scored for England on his 100th appearance before Danny Welbeck’s double secured a 3-1 victory over Slovenia in European Championship qualifying on Saturday. As Roy Hodgson’s Group E leaders made it four wins out of four, San Marino earned a landmark 0-0 draw against Estonia, ending a run of 61 consecutive losses for world football’s lowest-ranked team.

Greece name interim coach ahead of Ranieri departure

San Marino end 61-match losing streak

David Villa retired from interna-tionals.

Some of the players coming through to replace them have taken time to make their mark and Del Bosque’s side slipped to a surprise defeat in Slovakia last

month that cost them top spot in the group.

With four matches played, Slovakia lead with 12 points after their 2-0 win in Macedonia on Saturday while Spain and Ukraine, who won 3-0 away to

Luxembourg, each have nine. Macedonia have three points and Belarus and Luxembourg one each. The next round of qualifiers are at the end of March, when Spain host Ukraine and Slovakia are at home to Luxembourg.

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Wawrinka’s nerve failed him when serving for the match at 5-4 in the third set and Federer conceded he could easily have been the one left to contemplate a semi-final exit. “I clearly got lucky tonight. There’s no doubt about that,” Federer said. “But you’ve got to keep believing that maybe there is a slight chance that you are going to be able to turn it around somehow.

“It’s hard on Stan,” the six-times Tour Finals champion added. “I think if he would have served a little bit better today he would have won.” Wawrinka was cramping up in the deciding tiebreak and both players looked out on their feet after a thrilling toe-to-toe battle.

“Hopefully he will recover from this fast enough, that would be good for both of us,” Federer told report-ers at almost 1 a.m. local time. “I checked on him immediately after the match to see if he was okay.”

Quite what Swiss Davis Cup

coach Severin Luthi would have made of it is anyone’s guess and he will hope Federer does not get too bashed up by Djokovic in their 37th meeting on Sunday.

France, their opponents in the Davis Cup final, would have en-joyed the sight of Switzerland’s two heavyweights digging deep into their energy reserves on Saturday night.

Wasted OpportunitiesWawrinka, who had won only

two of 16 meetings with his close friend, was the better player for most of the evening, yet when his chance came he found the last point impossible to win. Gambling on serving and volleying on his three match points at 5-4, he first saw Federer rifle a winning forehand past him, the second match point he dumped a feeble volley into the net.

On the third, a nervy volley sat

up and allowed Federer an easy pass into an open court. Another oppor-tunity came and went in the tiebreak before Federer coolly ended the contest. “Stan looked very good for a long time, I was able to win the second set somehow by hanging around,” Federer said.

Wawrinka said Federer’s experi-ence had been the difference in the end. “I had some big opportunities in the third set,” the Australian Open champion said. “I should have taken them, especially serving for the match with three match points.

“But when you play Roger, it’s never easy for me, for anybody. He’s been in that situation so many times.”

Federer said he would have to take his game to another level to end Djokovic’s 31-match indoor winning streak. “I hope I can maybe play a little better than I played to-day because I did feel the heat from Stan,” he said.

Associated Press

CLEVELAND — LeBron James scored 32 points and the Cleveland Cavaliers made their first 11 3-point attempts, including nine in the first quarter, to rout the Atlanta Hawks 127-94 on Saturday night. The Cava-liers became the first team in NBA history to go 9 for 9 or better from behind the arc in a quarter, according to information provided to the team by the Elias Sports Bureau.

James hit three 3-pointers in the period, while Kevin Love and Joe Harris had two apiece. Cleveland, which rallied from a 19-point deficit in the fourth quarter to beat Boston on Friday, needed no dramatics this time. The Cavaliers, who have won four straight, scored 41 points in the first quarter, including 11 by James in the opening 3:34.

Paul Millsap scored 16 points for the Hawks, whose four-game win-ning streak was ended. James, who didn’t play in the fourth quarter, was 13 of 20 from the field. Kyrie Irving added 20 points and six players reached double figures for Cleveland. In Sacramento, DeMarcus Cousins had 25 points and 10 rebounds, help-ing the Sacramento Kings beat the San Antonio Spurs 94-91.

The Kings, who had squandered leads of 24 and 26 points in losing their previous two games, ended a nine-game losing streak to the Spurs, who had won 21 of the past 22 meetings. Darren Collison had 19 points and Rudy Gay scored 18 for the Kings, who committed only

nine turnovers.Cousins sat out the entire second

quarter with foul problems, and left the game briefly after getting a cut over his left eye late in the third quarter. He was limited to just under 27 minutes. Manu Ginobili had 21 points, Kawhi Leonard and Danny Green scored 16, and Tim Duncan finished with 15 points and eight rebounds.

At Memphis, Tennessee, Marc Gasol scored 23 points, Zach Randolph added 17 points and 22 rebounds, and the Memphis Griz-zlies beat the Detroit Pistons 95-88. Mike Conley added 18 points and Courtney Lee had 12 for the Griz-zlies, who maintained the best re-cord in the NBA (9-1). Kyle Singler scored 21 points, going 5 of 7 from 3-point range to keep the Pistons close. Greg Monroe had 16 points and 11 rebounds for Detroit, while Brandon Jennings scored 14 points and Josh Smith finished with 11.

At Chicago, A.J. Price, Luis Scola and Solomon Hill all scored 21 points, and the injury-plagued Indiana Pacers beat the Chicago Bulls 99-90. Chris Copeland added 13 points for the Pacers, who were without six injured players. Jimmy Butler had 32 points and Pau Gasol finished with 12 points and six re-bounds for the Bulls, which played without the injured Derrick Rose.

Chris Paul scored seven of his 32 points in the final 2:56 and had nine assists, Blake Griffin added 19 points, and the Los Angeles Clippers beat the Phoenix Suns 120-107.

I was lucky, says Federer after

Wawrinka scrapReuters

LONDON - Days before Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka team up for a shot at Swit-zerland’s first Davis Cup title, they were tearing lumps out of each other at the ATP World Tour Finals in London on Saturday. Federer spent nearly three hours fighting off Wawrinka in an intense semi-final, admitting he was fortunate to save four match points before scraping through 4-6 7-5 7-6(6) and setting up a blockbuster season finale against Novak Djokovic.

REUTERS/Toby Melville

Roger Federer of Switzerland celebrates winning his semi-final tennis match against compa-triot Stanislas Wawrinka at the ATP World Tour Finals at the O2 Arena in London November 15, 2014.

AP Photo/Mark Duncan

Cleveland Cavaliers’ LeBron James (23) goes in for a dunk on Atlanta Hawks’ Jeff Teague in the first quarter of an NBA basketball game Saturday, Nov. 15, 2014, in Cleveland.

Cavs make first 11 3-pointers, beat Hawks 127-94

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After having the bilateral meetings with the two leaders, President Jokowi is scheduled to observe a port in Bris-bane and return to Jakarta after the closing of the G20 meeting.

The G20 summit was officially opened in Brisbane on Saturday eve-ning highlighted with a traditional performance by the Traditional Owners, which groups the Torres Strait islanders and aborigine artists.

The meeting is held at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Center (BCEC). Jokowi arrived in the venue after the arrival of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Held on November 15-16, 2014, the G20 meeting is the first one attended by President Jokowi representing In-donesia.

Besides the official members of the

group, Australia as the host also invited the chairman of the Mauritania African Union, the ASEAN chairman, New Zea-land, Senegal, Singapore and Spain.

The G20 groups Argentina, Aus-tralia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, Britain, the United States and European Union.

Associated Press

JAKARTA — A strong undersea earthquake hit eastern Indonesia on Saturday, triggering a small tsunami and some panic but no casualties or major damage.

The 7.1 quake occurred west of Halmahera island, which is about four hours’ flight from the capital, Jakarta.

Indonesia’s meteorological agency said a tsunami wave of 9 centimeters (3.54 inches) washed onto the small island of Jailolo but caused no damage. The Pacific Tsunami Warn-ing Center later lifted its advisory for potential hazardous waves for coastal communities.

The quake was strongly felt in several cities in eastern Indonesia, sending many people to run from homes and other buildings, officials and residents said.

The world’s largest archipelago, Indonesia is prone to earthquakes due to its location on the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” an arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin.

In 2004, a monster quake off the tip of Sumatra Island triggered a tsunami that killed 230,000 people in a dozen countries. Most of the deaths were on Sumatra.

Agence France-Presse

SINGAPORE - An Indonesian man has been charged for stabbing a compatriot in Singapore’s banking district in a brazen attempt to rob him of more than US$600,000 in public, court documents showed Sunday.

The incident on Friday stunned a lunchtime crowd at Raffles Place, where major bank offices as well as large-scale moneychangers are located. Singapore is regarded as one of the world’s safest cities and public acts of violence are rare.

Court documents seen by AFP identified the suspect as 38-year-old Arun, an Indonesian citizen who goes by one name.

He was charged in court on Saturday with causing “grievous hurt” while committing the robbery, an of-fence punishable by a jail term of between two and 10 years, and at least 12 strokes of the cane.

The court documents identified the victim as Kang Tie Tie. The Straits Times newspaper said Kang is also an Indonesian.

Court documents said the victim was stabbed on his right hip and waist. He was carrying Singapore, Malay-sia, Brunei, and Indonesia currencies as well as three cash cheques worth more than US$600,000 in a sling bag, which the suspect ran off with.

But the victim gave chase and the suspect was subdued with the help of bystanders before police ar-rived.

Singapore, Southeast Asia’s financial hub, is known for its tough stance on crime. It retains the death penalty as punishment for serious offences while judicial caning can be imposed for some crimes including robbery.

Its overall crime rate fell to a 30-year-low in 2013, with 549 criminal cases per 100,000 people, according to official data.

REUTERS/Darren Whiteside

Indonesian Muslims attend a rally showing support for Palestinians and calling for the protection of al-Aqsa mosque outside the United States embassy in Jakarta November 16, 2014. Violence has flared in recent weeks over the compound, revered by Muslims as Noble Sanctuary, where al-Aqsa mosque stands, and by Jews as the Temple Mount, where their biblical temples once stood.

7.1 quake hits Indonesia, causes small tsunami

Indonesian man charged over stabbing in Singapore bank district

President Jokowi met German PM, French PresidentAntara

BRISBANE - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) met with German Prime Minister Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande on Sunday morning.

The operation is being car-ried out under the supervision of Dutch investigators and officials from the Organization for Secu-rity and Cooperation in Europe. The recovered fragments will be loaded onto trains and ferried to the government-controlled east-ern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. The investigation into the cause of the crash is being conducted there and in the Netherlands.

Alexander Kostrubitsky, the head of the emergency services in the rebel-held areas of Donetsk region, said at the site that gath-ering debris could take around 10 days. The debris is being sawn into smaller pieces to facilitate its transportation, Kostrubitsky said. All 298 people aboard the Boeing 777 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur were killed when it was shot down July 17 over a rebel-held area.

Efforts to conduct investiga-tions and recovery operations have been delayed amid con-tinued fighting between gov-ernment troops and separatist fighters. A truce was agreed in

September, but hostilities have raged on nonetheless. Ukraine and the West have blamed the downing of the MH17 flight on Russia-backed separatists using a ground-to-air missile.

Russian state television has released a satellite photograph it claims shows that a Ukrainian fighter jet shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. But the U.S. government dismissed the re-port as preposterous and online commentators called the photo a crude fake.

The photo released Friday by Russia’s Channel One and Rossiya TV stations purportedly shows a Ukrainian fighter plane firing an air-to-air missile in the direction of the MH17. The chan-nels said they got the photo from a Moscow-based organization, which had received it via email from man who identified himself as an aviation expert.

Several bloggers said the photograph was a forgery, cit-ing a cloud pattern to prove the photo dates back to 2012, and several other details that seem

incongruous.Some saw the photo as a pro-

paganda effort intended to deflect criticism over the tragedy that Russian President Vladimir Putin faced as he attended the Group of 20 summit in Brisbane, Australia. Putin was the first leader to de-part the summit Sunday. He told reporters that he left ahead of a final leaders’ lunch because he wanted to rest before returning to work.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has been particu-larly strong-worded in his criti-cism of Russia since the Malaysia Airlines plane was shot down. Abbott said he and Putin had engaged in a “very robust” dis-cussion about the situation in Ukraine.

“I utterly deplore what seems to be happening in eas te rn Ukraine,” Abbott said. “I de-mand that Russia fully cooper-ate with the investigation, the criminal investigation of the downing of MH17, one of the most terrible atrocities of recent times.”

Associated Press

LA PORTE, Texas — A federal agency that investigates chemical accidents has announced that it will send a team to a Houston-area indus-trial plant where a chemical leak killed four people. The U.S. Chemical Safety Board said Saturday night that it is sending seven people to the DuPont plant where the leak of methyl mercaptan killed four employees and hospitalized another.

The leak began around 4 a.m. Saturday and was contained about two hours later. The cause of the leak was not immediately clear. Du-Pont said the chemical was used at the plant to create insecticides and fungicides.

Several employees had responded to the leak when they were exposed to the chemical, plant manager Randall Clements said in a statement.

“There are no words to fully express the loss we feel or the concern and sympathy we extend to the families of the employees and their co-workers,” Clements said. “We are in close touch with them and providing them every measure of support and assistance at this time.”

A fifth worker was hospitalized and being held for observation. That worker’s condition was not immediately known, and none of the victims was immediately identified. Clements said DuPont would be cooperating with local, state and federal officials investigating the leak.

“As part of that investigation, we are conducting our own top-to-bottom review of this incident and we will share what we learn with the relevant authorities,” he said.AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov

Recovery workers in rebel-controlled eastern Ukraine load debris from the crash site of Ma-laysia Airlines Flight 17, in Hrabove, Ukraine, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2014, four months after the plane was brought down.

Work starts in Ukraine to collect wreckage of MH17Associated Press

HRABOVE, Ukraine — Recovery workers in rebel-controlled eastern Ukraine began to collect debris from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on Sunday, four months after the plane was brought down.

4 workers killed after Houston-area chemical leak

It could be replaced with organic fertilizers, but should be quickly dis-seminated. Water of all the lakes in Bali should be used for agriculture. But a new problem emerged where the silting occurred to some lakes in Bali.

Besides, Bali lost a large number of useful plants, especially for agriculture. Bali was supposed to have forest at least 30 percent, but in reality it only remained 22 percent. Then, farmers were also given less knowledge on conservation such as coffee plant to be planted as the preparation to face dry season considering it could produce water during dry season. “So, it does even utilize water,” she said. Bali had abundant natural resources and could be absorbed by the market. How-ever, it was required a policy of the government to utilize the natural resources of Bali.

For example, the hotels in Bali could be used as a ‘foster father’ of vil-lages, so that natural resources owned by the village could be channeled to the hotels. Here, the hotel management could team up with farmers economically, so that the community was able to maintain its nature. “With the current condition, farmers are difficult to meet their own needs, let alone take care of nature,” she explained.

The second problem faced was related to human resources. The current younger generation did not want to be a farmer. It could not be denied con-sidering the farmer’s market was unclear, mentoring to access the market was minimal and the government attention was a little, too. As a result, Balinese farmers were not able to compete against other farmers outside Bali and Indonesia. It could be given brainstorming since childhood, ranging from small things, but it was also less encouraged, so that when growing adult they ultimately did not know about the term of farming.

Thirdly, the shortage of assistance from both private and government sector providing appropriate technologies that could utilize the local resources. Later, the technology could also be utilized maximally. After harvest, farmers in Bali lacked for skills in terms of managing their crops. It did not got a touch from the government. “It should be encouraged again,” she said.

And the most crucial issue was that farmers could not compete con-sidering the long process from production to consumers. Proceeds of the farmers were channeled through middlemen, then to collectors, traders in the market, suppliers and finally consumers. This long chain made the price of agricultural products low, so that the welfare of farmers still became a problem. So, it was required to shorten the distribution channel of the agricultural products from farmers directly to consumers or hotel management or company, surely with the assistance.

Food security issues in Bali were not just a matter of buying and selling the agricultural products. However, it is also related to the fulfillment of daily people’s needs having to be bought from outside. Indeed, it is ironic but the real situation occurred today. (may)

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The pledge -- known as the Bris-bane Action Plan - will push their combined growth beyond the two percent they were initially targeting in the drive to rehabilitate sluggish global economies and generate jobs.

“This will add more than $2 trillion to the global economy and create mil-lions of jobs,” leaders including US President Barack Obama and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping said in a sum-mit declaration after weekend talks in Australia.

The communique also agreed to a global initiative to help address a $70 trillion gap in infrastructure needed by 2030 to improve productivity, by cutting red tape and matching private investment with capital projects.

A hub to coordinate the G20’s work on infrastructure by bringing together governments, the private sector, mul-tinational development banks and other international organisations will be headquartered in Sydney.

The world’s most powerful indus-trial economies also backed a global crackdown on tax avoidance by mul-tinational companies.

“The benefits of that growth will be felt worldwide, not just in G20 member nations,” Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, the G20 host, said of the 2.1 percent target.

“The Brisbane Action Plan and in-dividual country growth strategies and employment plans have been made public so people around the world can see our commitments, hold us to account and witness our progress.”

On Saturday in Brisbane, President Barack Obama said the United States cannot “carry the world economy” and that other G20 nations must do more to spur growth and create jobs.

In a report ahead of the G20 sum-

mit, the International Monetary Fund said the world economy faced stiff headwinds from sluggish growth in Europe and Japan and a slowdown in emerging economies.

It trimmed its global growth fore-cast for the year to 3.3 percent, from 3.4 percent, citing geopolitical tensions and volatility in financial markets.

IMF chief Christine Lagarde said the G20 this year had been “very productive”.

Agence France-Presse

NEW DELHI - India’s new government has launched a drive to promote the country’s ancient therapies as it seeks to cash in on the multi-billion dollar global market for holistic medicine.

India claims to have natural rem-edies for everything from cancer to the common cold, but ministers say it has failed to capitalise on its tradi-tions as the world has woken up to alternative medicine.

Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a teetotal vegetar-ian who practices yoga daily, has said he wants the world to make Ayurveda “a way of life” -- and in doing so expand India’s share of the

growing global market for holistic medicine.

Earlier this month he appointed India’s first minister for Ayurveda, yoga, naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and homeopathy -- known as the AAY-USH ministry -- and has also called for an international yoga day.

“Call it whatever -— Ayurvedic medicines or herbal medicines or traditional medicines –- the global market is estimated at about $100 billion today,” former health minis-ter Harsh Vardhan told a recent con-ference on Ayurveda in New Delhi.

Ayurvedic medicine -- which means the “science of life” in Sanskrit -- treats the physical and mental sources of illness through, for example, prescribing herbs in

conjunction with yoga or massage.Much of the knowledge has been

passed on through the generations by word of mouth and predates written records, but two volumes of remedies and prescriptions have sur-vived, called the Charaka Samhita and the Sushruta Samhita.

Critics say that Ayurvedic rem-edies have no proven curative prop-erties for disease, and instead work as a placebo.

“It’s like superstition -- it’s in your head that it helps. But in real life, you need actual pharma drugs,” said P.K. Goyal, a Delhi-based physician.

But Modi, who as a young man wandered the Himalayas on a spiri-tual quest, said Ayurvedic remedies should be seen as complementary

to modern medicine. “If a person adopts Ayurveda, he can protect himself against various infections,” said the 64-year-old.

In India, domestic companies such as Dabur, Emami and the Himalaya group have pioneered herbal prod-ucts, combining ancient traditional medicine with cutting-edge technol-ogy to make pills, creams and oils.

Ayurvedic centres and clinics have also sprung up in Europe and the United States in recent years, and global chain The Body Shop has created its own range of Ayurvedic products.

On Tuesday the new AAYUSH minister, Shripad Yesso Naik, said he would make promoting Ayurveda a “high priority” as he began his

newly-created role.According to the World Health

Organization, 65 percent of India’s rural population uses Ayurvedic remedies, mostly due to poor access to modern health facilities.

Modi has vowed to provide af-fordable healthcare to India, where nearly 25 percent of the population lives on less than $1.25 a day and more than 40 million people have been pushed into poverty because of the cost of medical treatment. His Hindu nationalist government, which swept to power in May on a promise to revive India’s flagging economy, has already announced plans to establish a state-funded Ayurvedic research centre and hospital.

India seeks to cash in on global demand for ancient remedies

Main Outcome of G20 Summit- Economic Growth

The leaders of the world’s most powerful industrial economies pledged to grow their combined economic output by an extra 2.1 percent -- or about $2 trillion -- over the next five years. This was above the 2.0 percent goal they were initially targeting. Their strategy to achieve this goal through domestic policy reforms will be known as the “Brisbane Action Plan”.

- Infrastructure InvestmentThe summit agreed to launch the Global Infrastructure Initiative

to unlock private financing for infrastructure investment worldwide, including the creation of a Global Infrastructure Hub based in Sydney to support best practices and coordination.

- Trade LiberalisationIncreased global trade will be a requirement if the G20 is to

achieve its growth target. The leaders committed to implement all elements of the Bali package and swiftly define a WTO work pro-gramme on the remaining issues of the Doha Development Agenda to get negotiations back on track.

- Tax and Financial RegulationG20 leaders agreed to complete by the end of 2015 an implemen-

tation plan on combating tax avoidance by multinational companies. They also vowed to strengthen financial institutions, protect taxpay-ers from having to fund bailouts of “too big to fail” banks and to make derivative markets safer.

- Gender EqualityThe summit won a commitment by each country to close the gap

between its male and female labour-force participation rates by 25 percent by 2025; this will bring an estimated 100 million additional women into the labour force by that year.

- EnergyThe summit had a session dedicated to global energy issues for

the first time and agreed that energy would now be at the heart of the G20’s agenda, with strong and resilient energy markets critical to economic growth. They asked energy ministers to meet and report back on options to take this work forward.

G20 leaders target trillions in new economic growth

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U.S. President Barack Obama and Britain’s Prime Minister Da-vid Cameron listen to Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel as they attend the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) meeting at the G20 the G-20 leaders summit in Brisbane, Australia, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2014.

Agence France-Presse

BRISBANE - G20 leaders representing the bulk of the world’s economy on Sunday commit-ted to reform measures to lift their collective growth by an extra 2.1 percent by 2018, despite evidence of a slowdown in some major nations.

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TABANAN - Strains of its rhythm are heard melancholy. When people listen to it, the rhythm can hypnotize and make them dissolved in it. Its soft mel-ody strengthens spiritual nuance when a ritual is taking place. It is the selonding gamelan music. Such traditional music instrument is the native to Tenganan, Karangasem, but almost comes to extinction in Tabanan. Luckily, many young generations are starting to favor it lately. How is the condition? One of the Slonding gamelan troupes starting to exist is the Kembang Bali art studio at Tunjuk hamlet, Tabanan. Amid the onslaught of modern music, this slonding troupe remains to survive. Even, it receives many invitations for performance. On average, the gamelan players consist of teenag-ers. Though classified into begin-ner, they are quite skillful in play-ing the gamelan music resembling gambang xylophone.

“The gamelan players are the result of intense exercise in the past few months. As a result, they have been able to play it well,” said the group head of Kembang

Bali Slonding gamelan troupe, Suarjana, not long ago. The man claimed if the slonding gamelan belonged to him inherited through generations. Incidentally, his family had the blood of the art. However, such gamelan had been dormant because no generation wanted to play it. Due to perse-verance in inviting teenagers, Suarjana was able to revive the slonding gamelan troupe. Almost every month, his gamelan troupe received invitation to make per-formance. Though categorized into bizarre art, he did not want to set a particular tariff for the performance.

The strains of slonding gamelan music could become a comple-ment to any ritual. The slond-ing troupe under his direction was frequently invited to make performance outside Tabanan. According to Suarjana, preserva-tion of the traditional gamelan would be constantly continued. To engender new generation, his party began to teach children the way to play slonding gamelan. On that account, the typical Balinese gamelan would not disappear. With simple method, children could be easily taught to play the

slonding.In harmony with the passage

of time, the number of slonding instrument also increased. It was

adapted to situation. However, the core instruments remained to be preserved because they were essential spirit of the slonding

rhythm. Playing slonding, said Suarjana, needed a sense. Thus, the rhythm generated could touch the feeling. (kmb)

It was announced by head-man of East Duda village, I Gede Pawana, in Karangasem. He said that at East Duda such as Pesangkan hamlet, approximately 12 hectares of snakefruit plantation had long been converted into paddy fields. “Along the alternative road or by-pass road at East Duda, there were dense snakefruit plantations on the left and right side. Now, they have been transformed back into paddy fields. In the fertile paddy fields, we hold tug of war regularly in December after the rice harvest. It is made in the context of rural games where we all rejoice after getting successful harvest,” said Pawana doubling as the chief of headman forum across Bali.

In addition to Pesangkan ham-let, now at East Duda, precisely at Subak Kelaci, people are planning to clear and transform back dozen

of hectares of snakefruit plantations into paddy fields.

Now, farmers are preparing for the construction of dikes to drain the irrigation water. Formerly, it was the area of paddy field. Since it was transformed into snakefruit plantation, the irrigation channel was unkempt. Other than at Duda, at Sibetan and other villages for-merly cultivating snakefruit had also transformed their plantation for building or sold their soil for backfill.

Pawana said that snakefruit plantation on the Putung hill ranges of East Duda remained to survive. However, the harvest yield was only some few. Formerly, the hills with terraced paddy fields looked very beautiful, so that the Putung Hill was renowned in the world for its natural beauty. Due to beautiful views of paddy fields, a restaurant

and villa was built on the Putung Hill. However, when the paddy field disappeared, the beauty then disappeared as well. As a result, no travelers then visited the area and the restaurant was bankrupt, while the building could no longer be used

Now, it is difficult to be convert-ed back into paddy fields. It happens because the springs of the irrigation water at the bottom or cemetery val-ley at Duda village have dried up. Pawana claimed not to know why the large springs could dry up.

He was very quite concerned with the snakefruit farmers. Dur-ing harvest season, the price of snakefruit could slump to IDR 500 or IDR 1,000 per kg. Meanwhile at this point, long dry season with scorching temperature had caused the fruits small. The fruit had black color and frequently fall out. “It

only bears a few little fruits and they easily fall out. The selling price is very cheap. That is why, many farmers having snakefruit plantation eventually cleared and converted it back into paddy fields,” he said.

Pawana doubling as advisory head of the Duda customary village said that the owners of snakefruit plantation only grew rice for family consumption, not for sale. There-fore, the variety of rice planted also belonged to the good one so that it was nice to be cooked. “Now, many farmers consider it more beneficial to grow rice rather than planting snakefruit. Thus, many snakefruit plantations have been cleared to be transformed into paddy fields,” he said.

Meanwhile, his own snakefruit plantation could not be transformed into paddy fields because it was on highland and did not enable to do so. “Actually if there is water for irrigation, I also want to transform my plantation into paddy field. But at my garden, it is difficult for water to go up because it is far and located at the height,” he said.

On the other hand, a legislator of the Karangasem House, I Gede Dana, deplored the Regent of Karangasem I Wayan Geredeg from the central producer of snakefruit, Sibetan, as unable to find a solution for the problems faced by snakefruit farmers all this time. During harvest season, the price of snakefruit al-ways slumped and farmers did not get any profits. Actually, the exis-tence of snakefruit plantation had multifunction. Snakefruit plantation at Dukuh Sibetan could become a tourist attraction.

One day, a leader of Sibetan village requested the Karangasem government to set the minimal price of snakefruit at harvest time. Thus, farmers would not sell their crops at cheap price to traders or collectors. “Farmers should be given the attention, so that their welfare can be improved. It needs to find a solution or to make a rule so that the local agricultural products can be absorbed by hotels and restaurants in Karangasem. By that way, farmers can enjoy the impact of tourism development,” he said. (013)

Poor results, price slumps

Hectares of snakefruit plantation converted into paddy field

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AMLAPURA - Hectares of snakefruit plantation at Duda village and East Duda village as well as other villages in Karangasem are cleared. The former snakefruit plantation was converted into paddy fields. It happened because every harvest, the price of snakefruit dropped even to touch IDR 500 per kg.

Slonding Gamelan of Tunjuk Village nearly extinct

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Strains of its rhythm are heard melancholy. When people listen to it, the rhythm can hypnotize and make them dissolved in it. Its soft melody strengthens spiritual nuance when a ritual is taking place. It is the selonding gamelan music.

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Prime Minister Victor Ponta was favored on Sunday over the mayor of the city of Sibiu, Klaus Iohannis. Ponta led by 10 percent-age points in the Nov. 2 vote, and corruption probes of senior Ponta aides appeared not to have dented the 42-year-old former prosecutor’s chances.

Iohannis, 55, has promised an independent justice system if he becomes president. Election results are expected Monday, and the win-ner will replace President Traian

Basescu, who is stepping down after 10 years in office.

In Romania, the president is in charge of foreign policy and defense, and names key prosecu-tors and the chiefs of intelligence services.

After casting his ballot in Bucha-rest on Sunday, Ponta said: “I voted so that all mothers and our grand-parents can live in a better country. ... I voted so that all children have a better future here in Romania.”

Romanians living overseas must

vote at polling stations in the coun-tries where they are living, and thousands of expats protested after they had to stand in line for hours in cities such as Paris, London, Mu-nich during the first round. Some were unable to vote.

The government says it has improved the voting procedure this time at facilities such as Ro-manian embassies. Many expats are believed to oppose Romania’s center-left government.

Associated Press

BEIRUT — The Islamic State group released a graphic video Sunday in which a black-clad mili-tant claims to have beheaded U.S. aid worker Peter Kassig, who was captured last year. The militant was standing over a severed head, but it was not immediately possible to confirm that Kassig, 26, was pictured in the video. Family rep-resentatives were not immediately available for comment.

The video, which was posted on websites used by the group in the past, appeared to be the latest in a series of grisly messages to the U.S. warning of further brutality if it does not abandon its air campaign in Iraq and Syria.

“This is Peter Edward Kassig, a U.S. citizen, of your country; Peter who fought against the Muslims in Iraq, while serving as a soldier,” the militant says near the end of the nearly 16-minute video. He speaks in an audible British accent despite his voice being distorted to make it more difficult to identify him.

The video also shows what ap-pears to be the mass beheading of several Syrian soldiers captured by the group. The militants warn that U.S. soldiers will meet a similar fate.

Kassig, a U.S. Army Ranger, was providing medical aid to Syr-ians fleeing the country’s civil war when he was captured inside Syria on Oct. 1, 2013. His friends say he

converted to Islam in captivity and took the first name Abdul-Rahman. The video identifies the militant’s location as Dabiq, a small town in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo, near the Turkish border.

Previous videos have shown the beheading of two American journal-ists and two British aid workers. The latest video did not show the person identified as Kassig being beheaded.

Kassig formed the aid organiza-tion Special Emergency Response and Assistance, or SERA, in Turkey to provide aid and assistance to Syr-ian refugees. He began delivering food and medical supplies to Syrian refugee camps in 2012 and is also a trained medical assistant who pro-vided trauma care to injured Syrian civilians and helped train 150 civil-ians in providing medical aid.

The militant Islamic State group has beheaded and shot dead hun-dreds of captives -- mainly Syrian and Iraqi soldiers -- during its sweep across the two countries, and has celebrated mass killings in a series of slickly produced but extremely graphic videos.

The group has declared an Islamic caliphate in the areas un-der its control in Syria and Iraq, which it governs according to a harsh version of Shariah law. The U.S. began launching air strikes in Iraq and Syria earlier this year in a bid to halt the group’s rapid advance and eventually degrade and destroy it.

Graphic IS video claims US aid worker

beheaded

AP Photo/Courtesy Kassig Family, File

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Kassig Family shows Peter Kassig standing in front of a truck filled with sup-plies for Syrian refugees.

Romanians cast ballots in

presidential runoff

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Wife of Romanian Prime Minister Daciana Sarbu comes out of a polling booth alongside her daughter, Irina before she casts her vote at a polling station in Bucharest, Romania, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2014.

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BUCHAREST — A prime minister who has promised stability and a city mayor who has vowed to fight corruption squared off in Romania’s presidential runoff election on Sunday. Tens of thousands of Romanians living overseas hope it will be easier for them to cast ballots than it was during the Nov. 2 election that led to the runoff.

Information collected in the field on Friday (Nov 14) mentioned that reed bamboo was widely grown by farmers at Tigawasa village. They grew it at the edge of their garden functioned to maintain the land so that it would not be prone to land-slides. Since the drought struck, many reed bamboos denoting the plant resistant to heat ultimately died. Their green leaves finally

turned dark brown.Following many plants having

been dead, farmers still cut down the reed bamboo although it was not yet time to harvest. Craftsmen were forced to use their young reed bamboo. It was carried out to meet the demand of buyers from outside the area.

Made Suarjaya, one of the local bamboo craftsmen, when met at

his house last Saturday admitted if many reed bamboos at his village died as a result of prolonged dry season. The bamboo dying before harvested was still used to make woven bamboo wall.

Meanwhile, if it was used to make sokasi or food basket, the young bamboo was not a good. To that end, he was forced to bring in reed bamboo from Busungbiu

subdistrict. Even, the supply of reed bamboo from Java was often made as when relying only on the supplies from farmers at local vil-lage was not sufficient. A bunch of reed bamboo with the length of three meters was worth IDR 40,000. “Many of our bamboos are dead but can still be used to make woven wall. Unfortunately, it cannot be use to make sokasi because we were worried as the quality will reduce, so we bought reed bamboo from outside the area,” he said.

Other than difficulties in obtain-ing raw materials, added Suarjaya, his business was experiencing a more serious obstacle. When

entering the season of clove or coffee harvest last August, he was having trouble in finding weaving laborers. People having the skill to weave bamboo preferred to work as clove or coffee picker. As a result, many orders from outside the region could not be worked on. Following the end of the season of clove and coffee harvest, he no longer got difficulty to recruit weavers. “During the season of clove harvest, it is indeed very difficult to recruit laborer. Now, the weavers have started to come back and can receive the order of weaving craft. Actually, this condi-tion always occurs every year,” he added. (kmb38)

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MANGUPURA - Inaugural President of the ICE Asia Pacific, Nigel Gaunt, suggested that Indone-sian government should distribute the MICE development evenly. All this time, the Meeting, Incentive, Convention and Exhibition (MICE) activities in Indonesia remained to be focused in Jakarta and Bali.

“MICE activity in Indonesia has been very nice, but just develops in Jakarta and Bali. Actually Indone-sia is an archipelagic country, so that many regions can still be devel-oped into a MICE destination,” said Nigel Gaunt in the ICE Conference in Kuta, Friday (Nov 14).

According to him, the Indone-sian government through Presi-

dent Jokowi and minister of tour-ism had been trying to develop the tourism in Indonesia. It was done by finding new destinations beyond Bali. “Indonesia is an archipelago, so that there will be many new destinations, including the ones used to support MICE activities in Indonesia in the fu-ture,” he said.

Nevertheless, he considered that Indonesia still faced the shortage of infrastructure in developing the MICE market. Thus, it would be difficult to develop the potential. “Actually the development of MICE destination in Indonesia is still hampered by infrastructural problem. If Indonesia does not im-prove the infrastructure, it will not be able to continuously develop its

MICE destination,” he said.He said the MICE market was

then becoming the focus of several countries in the world as it was considered to have a high potential for increasing tourism. China and Japan, for instance, were two coun-tries that were packing their country as a MICE destination.

“All the countries developing their tourism are competing to of-fer their MICE tourism potential. On that account, the MICE sector is not only developed in Bali and Jakarta, but also in all the countries developing their MICE activities,” he said.

Described, specifically for Bali it had been supported by new air-port and new roads, particularly in Southern Bali. The additional in-

frastructure should be continuously developed in Bali in line with the growth of the MICE activities.

Nigel Gaunt added that the government of Indonesia should invite the world MICE players to see the new tourism potential owned by Bali and other regions of Indonesian. The potentials could become the capital to develop the MICE tourism. “Development of MICE potential also depends on the effort increasing the infrastructure in the tourism areas in Indonesia,” he said.

Similar opinion was revealed by Chairman of the Indonesia Con-gress & Convention Association (INCCA) of Bali Chapter, I.B. Sur-akusuma. In the future, the infra-structure and facilities in Indonesia

needed to be developed to support MICE activities. The government was also obliged to pay attention to the promotion of MICE activity as it was still considered minimal. Through a credible promotion, it could further introduce the potential of tourism and MICE in Indonesia, especially in Bali.

“The meeting of world MICE players in Bali is very good for improving the MICE business throughout Indonesia. This ICE is indeed the first meeting in Bali. MICE players having a meeting in Bali are outstanding business people. Necessarily, the activity of the world MICE player meeting in Bali is fully supported by Bali gov-ernment and central government,” he concluded. (kmb27)

MICE must not only develop in Jakarta, Bali

Reed bamboo dies, webbing craftsmen at Tigawasa confused

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SINGARAJA - The supply of raw materials for distinctive bamboo matting craft of Tigawasa village, Banjar subdistrict recently faltered. It happened because many reed bamboos planted by local people died due to recent drought. Inevitably, the situation made the craftsmen at the village confused. Reed bamboo that died prematurely was then harvested by force to meet the order of buyers from outside the area.

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But now the wannabe city is Brooklyn. Every neighborhood with a critical mass of bearded hipsters, bike shops and vegan cafes calls itself “the new Brooklyn.” Ballard is the Brooklyn of Seattle. Glasgow and Melbourne both claim Brooklyn cool. And Oakland, California, has been called the Brooklyn of San Francisco so many times that Julia Cosgrove, editor of AFAR travel magazine, says she “can’t bear to read another story about it.”

There’s even a Brooklyn of Paris: the once-gritty suburb of Pantin. Its derelict, graffiti-covered warehouses have been taken over by galleries and artists, turning it into the hippest place in the City of Light. Just like in Brooklyn, real estate prices have shot up, and old industrial buildings now house luxury lofts.

“It may have a way to go before it’s on a par with Brooklyn, but I expect it will continue to develop, considering how much investment and risk-taking is going on there — alongside the natural flux of artists toward the area,” said artist Oliver Beer, who works both with a gal-lery in Pantin and with the Museum of Modern Art’s contemporary arts outpost, PS1, in New York City.

Other signs of what’s called the “Brooklynization of Paris” include gluten-free restaurants and juice bars popping up. “It used to be when young chefs studied under the great chefs, they wanted to open important restaurants or go to the countryside and get their Michelin star. Now they’re rejecting that model, they’re saying, ‘I’m going to do more back-to-the-roots, farm-to-table cooking in a small restaurant with a few tables,’” said Katherine Johnstone, a spokeswoman for Atout France USA, the French tourism agency in New York, describing a shift that some observers compare to Brook-lyn’s culinary scene.

Tourism folks in Asheville, North Carolina, say their city was once called the Paris of the South, but now they compare it to Brooklyn, thanks to artisanal food, indie entrepreneurs and a thriving music and arts scene. An emerging arts and entertainment district in Miami that will link to ar-eas like Wynwood, known for street art, is said by promoters to be “like Brooklyn in its nascent days” — an interesting thought, since Brooklyn was settled by the Dutch in the 1600s. And San Diego’s South Park-

Every city with hipsters wants to be a Brooklyn

Associated Press

NEW YORK — For more than a century, cities around the world have compared themselves to Paris. Many claim to be the Paris of the East: Bucharest, Prague, Istanbul, Beirut and Shanghai to name a few. There’s also the Paris of North America (Montreal), the Paris of South America (Buenos Aires) and the Paris of the Plains — Kansas City in the Jazz Age.

North Park neighborhood is called SoNo, but it would be a no-no to compare it to Soho. Instead it claims a mix of Brooklyn and Southern California vibes.

But cities that once compared themselves to Paris were evoking something much grander than cu-linary trends or gentrification. In the mid-19th century, the “narrow, labyrinthine streets” of medieval Paris were demolished, making way “for the massive boulevards and squares where restaurants, cafes, theaters and other centers of amuse-ment satisfied bourgeois taste,” according to Villanova University history professor Alexander Varias. Cultural capitals in many regions underwent similar redesigns, then called themselves the Paris of wherever to signal pride in their ar-chitecture, broad boulevards, parks, arts and even nightlife.

Meanwhile, Brooklyn’s emer-gence as a global symbol of all things trendy marks quite a turn-around for a place once mocked as Manhattan’s less sophisticated neighbor — even if the new Brook-lyn has new problems, like young professionals and affluent families pushing out the poor and working-class folks who populated Brooklyn for decades.

“We’ve become the epicenter of cool as cool is now defined,” said Marty Markowitz, 69, who was born and raised in Brooklyn in an era when it was better-known for ethnic enclaves, working-class culture and the Brooklyn Dodgers. Markowitz, who served as Brook-lyn borough president for 12 years and now works for NYC & Com-pany, the city’s tourism agency,

promoting all the boroughs, added: “There is no question that Brooklyn now serves as an example for other urban centers of how a community can transform itself into a hotbed of style.”

On Oct. 10, The Atlantic pub-lished a list of places The New York Times has compared to Brooklyn with headlines like “Brooklyn in Beijing” and “Brooklyn on the Hud-son.” Undaunted, a Nov. 6 Times headline read: “A Touch of Brooklyn in Ridgewood, Queens.”

And if Queens is the new Brook-lyn, there’s already a name for that, too: Quooklyn.

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A man walks in a street of Pantin, east of Paris, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014. Pantin, a once-gritty Paris suburb, is sometimes compared to Brooklyn, New York.

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This Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014 photo shows a view of the Thaddeus Ropac gallery, in Pantin, east of Paris. Pantin, a once-gritty Paris suburb, is sometimes compared to Brooklyn, New York.

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A barge is seen on the Ourcq canal, in Pantin, east of Paris, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014. Pantin, a once-gritty Paris sub-urb, is sometimes compared to Brooklyn, New York.

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In this July 1, 2013 file photo, restaurants line the street ad-jacent to the Brooklyn Brewery, in the Williamsburg section of the Brooklyn borough of New York. Many neighborhoods around the world are comparing themselves to Brooklyn, where gritty, industrial neighborhoods have been gentrified and now attract hipsters, small businesses, artisanal food and the arts.

Besides, it was also found some shards of various forms such as jars, plates, bowls, jars and others. Ceramic is a type of object that does not easily destroy despite storied under the ground for hundreds of years. Now, this craft begins shifting due to globalization. Even, only a few people remain to make pottery denoting the profession handed down through genera-tions.

One of the potters at Batu-lumbang hamlet , Bedulu, is Made Muklin. During her glory, this 85-year old woman was a potter commonly made pasepan (place of incense), jug of water and paraphernalia of cremation ceremony, especially made from clay. “In the past, most of local residents at this village were deeply involved in the pottery

craft,” said Made Muklin when met at her home.

During her past glory, she ad-mitted to often get orders from the art shops in Ubud and Den-pasar at a large number. Even, a number of products were also exported. In addition to produc-ing earthenware, Made Muklin also taught about the making of pottery to travelers at several hotels in Ubud. “I was asked to teach travelers and the partici-pants reached dozens of people,” she said.

When physical condition of Made Muklin was still strong, she got a relatively large income from teaching about the making of pot-tery. Moreover, travelers often gave her many tips through their tour guides. However, everything had changed. Then, she never received an order of teaching on

the making of pottery. Ironically, due to injury on left hand Made Muklin could no longer rub clay for the making of pottery. “Prob-ably, travelers are already tired of learning to make pottery. In addition, since a few months ago I stopped making pottery because of falling down so that my hand must be treated with plaster cast,” she said.

Other than due to tired hands, one thing making Made Muklin sad was the absence of regen-eration in the making of pottery craft. Similarly, she did not deny the fact that today less and less people were interested to get involved in the making of pot-tery because the income was inadequate. “Formerly, my son-in-law also made pottery, but he had died,” she said while rubbing her chest. (nik)

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Be careful when traveling on kajeng kliwon (encounter of three-day and five-day week in Balinese calendar) particularly at nightfall and midnight. The kajeng kliwon falling every 15 days is believed by Balinese people to be sacred and filled with negative aura.

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Made Muklin showed how to make pottery craft in her home. Bedulu customary village was formerly known as the center of clay pottery producer. Even, the Batulumbang hamlet is estimated to be the location of potters since ancient Bali period. It is evidenced by the finding of pottery fragments.

Renowned since ancient Bali time

Pottery today only remains in memoriesBali Post

GIANYAR - Bedulu customary village was formerly known as the center of clay pottery producer. Even, the Batulumbang hamlet is estimated to be the location of potters since ancient Bali period. It is evidenced by the finding of pottery fragments. The findings are craft products of the community having been known since prehistoric times, namely from the time to settle and farming life.

Never have a promenade on Kajeng Kliwon

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Hindu women prayed during Kajeng Kliwon in their home and temple. The kajeng kliwon falling every 15 days is believed by Balinese people to be sacred and filled with negative aura.

Leak (black magic practitio-ners) commonly choose this day to study or practice their capabil-ity. The leak practitioners wor-ship and meditate at graveyard. They worship Goddess Durga to invoke a miracle. On that ac-count, people will not recklessly go out to have a promenade on the kajeng kliwon.

The priest of Dalem Sekebon

Temple at Sibang Kaja village, I Nyoman Miarta Putra, said that on that day people were usually reluctant to visit other people’s home, let alone visit the sick. At the time, the kajeng kliwon was believed to belong to auspicious day for bhuta kala (evil spirits) to do their activities.

For humans that were mentally and spiritually weak, their physic and non-physical aspect were very vulnerable to be possessed or hurt by this leak. On the kajeng kliwon, the bhuta kala, super-natural beings and other spirits rise to disrupt humans. “Kajeng kliwon is a very good moment to perform purificatory rite or me-lukat for sick people, especially those who are exposed to magic phenomenon,” he said.

All the spirits, he explained, were fo l lowers of Goddess Durga. On that account, kajeng kliwon has the meaning to re-mind Hindu people to always get closer to God. “In essence, do not do anything that might offend other people,” he said. To be freed from the target of bhuta kala (negative energy in nature), he explained, the Hindus usually delivered segehan oblation in five colors, a bhuta yajna (sacri-fice to the bhutas) at the smallest level. It was implemented by the

presentation of offerings in the form of ketipat dampulan rice bag on the shrine and segehan oblation on the ground,” he explained.

These oblations, explained Mangku Miarta, symbolized the human soul that was always faced with various obstacles in life in the form of good and bad as well as sad and happy mood. By that way, people’s spirit would become maturer and had divine qualities (good qualities). The tipat dampulan was presented to the gods (upper level of uni-verse). Meanwhile, the five-col-ored segehan oblation, the white was presented in the east, red in the south, yellow in the west, black in the north and mixture of the four colors in the center.

The segehan oblation was usu-ally presented under the shrine, courtyard of family temple, kemulan or shrine of the origin, home courtyard and in front of the house compound. It was presented to bhuta kala and the invisible supernatural beings. (BTN)

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

Monday, November 17, 2014

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Calendar Event for November 7 through 20, 2014

7th Purnama Sasih KalimaTemple Festival at:Aci-Aci Penawung Di Pura Batmadeg-BesakihPr. Pande Bang- Ds. Camnggaon, Sukawati.Pr. Kentel Gumi- Ds. Batur, Kintamani.Pr. Pedharman Agung- Satria, Denpasar.Ngusabha Di Pura Kehen- Bangli.Pr. Segara – Br. Sasih, BatubulanPr. Desa Pemenang- LombokPr. Agung Pasek Gelgel-Ds. Sumertha, DenpasarPr. Pasek Gelgel- Ds. Kekeran Delod Sema, MengwiPr. Dalem Puri Agung – KintamaniPr. Dalem Agung- Br. Sekar, Nongan, KarangasemPr. Dalem Balingkang- Ds. Pinggan, KintamaniPr. Tampur Hyang Pusat/Kawitan Maha Gotra Catur Sanak- Ds. Songan,

KintamaniPr. Dalem Pulasari- Ds. Bantas, Sudaji, BulelengMr. Pasek Gelgel- Ds. Lebih, GianyarPr. Panyungsungan Pasek Toh Jiwa- Ds. Wanagiri, Selemadeg, TabananPamerajan Agung Pamecutan- DenpasarPr. Suranadhi- Lombok,Pr. Pucak Bukit- TampaksiringPr. Dalem Ubung Kupang- Ds. Dukuh, Panebel, TabananPr. Pasar Agung Besakih- Ds. Sebudi, KarangasemPr. Pasek Gelgel- Ds. Tengkulak Kaja, Kemenuh- GianyarPr. Suci- Ds. Tianyar, Kubu, KarangasemPr. Dadia Dalem Renon- Br. Kukuh, Kerambitan, Tabanan, Ds. Adat ,Andala Merta Ds. Kenangan /SP Sembilan

12th Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan/ Buda Kliwon Gumbreg

Temple Festival at:Pr. Pasek Gelgel- Ds. Kukuh,Marga, TabananPr. Pasek Gelgel – Ds. Kukuh, Selemadeg, TabananPr. Pasek Gelgel- Ds. Mambang, Selemadeg, TabananPr. Puseh+Desa- Ds. Guwang, SukawatiMr. Pasek Ketewel- Ds. Ketewel, Sukawati,Pr. Pangeran Tangkas Kori Agung- Jeroan SadingPr. Dalem Setra Batu Nunggul- Ds. Suwana Nusa Penida

17th Coma Kliwon Wariga, Temple Festival at: Pr. Gelap - Besakih

19th Buda Paing Wariga,Temple Festival at:Pr. Jati- Ds. BaturMr. Pasek Gaduh- Ds. Kayubihi,Bangli

“The Team at Anantara Seminyak Resort & Spa, Bali looks forward to welcoming you to our celebratory feasts and wishes you a joyous Christmas and prosperous New Year for 2015.Celebrate tradition this festive season in Bali, with an invitation to a rich variety of incredible dining experiences where Christmas and New Year tradition meets the incredible cuisine and culture of Southeast Asia and the indigenous dishes of Bali.” Said Clin-ton Lovell, General Manager of Anantara Seminyak Resort & Spa, Bali.

Throughout the holiday season, the resort’s restaurant Wild Orchid will offer unique festive celebrations.

- Christmas Eve Set DinnerCelebrate Christmas Eve with exquisite

fine dining in a sumptuous venue either indoors or on the deck for an appetising al fresco dinner, with magnificent Indian Ocean views. Guests can choose a 3-wine

or 5-wine pairing from the outstanding cellar, including a glass of bubbly, or cocktails with free flow drinks. Christmas carols and a live band will add a traditional festive flavour.

Venue: Wild Orchid RestaurantWhen: 24th December 2014Time: 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm

- Christmas Day Buffet BrunchAs a time-old tradition that family

and friends come together for a leisurely Christmas Day feast. Savour a wonderful variety of mouthwatering dishes from across the globe, looking out to the beau-tiful Indian Ocean, and dining on buffet delights that appeal to all tastes; with wine and cocktail free flow, including prosecco or champagne. Expect a visit from Santa with presents for all the children, as well as a performance from a local orphanage choir and a live acoustic set; all the in-gredients for an unforgettable Christmas

celebration.Venue: Wild Orchid RestaurantWhen: 25th December 2014Time: 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm

- New Year’s Eve Gala Buffet DinnerCelebrate New Year’s Eve with breath-

taking borderless ocean views, a veritable feast of Balinese and International flavours and performances that entertain you all evening, as you count down to 2015 and bring in the New Year in memorable style; the perfect ending to another year.

Neno and Band will provide the perfect atmosphere while you enjoy a sophisticat-ed buffet prepared by our talented Chefs, and after all the feasting, Massive Soul Band will invite you to dance the night away as you are saying goodbye to 2014 and ringing in the New Year.

Venue: Wild Orchid RestaurantWhen: 31st December 2014Time: 7:00 pm – 2:00 am

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Anantara Seminyak offers “Magical Festive Season of Dining Experiences”

Anantara Seminyak resort & Spa, Bali is inviting travelers to revel in the joy of the festive season with an unforgettable stay at Anantara in Seminyak - Bali. Highlighting the hotel’s ambiance will be an array of themed dining options, decorations, entertainment, and festive indigenous activities to enjoy the stay.

- New Year’s Day Breakfast-Brunch Welcome New Year in style with a glorious start to the day,

dining on a sumptuous breakfast-brunch looking out to the horizon across the sands. Rise early to make the most of New Year’s Day and enjoy a real morning feast or savour a leisurely start to 2015 with breakfast extended to include brunch, as you relax into the first day of a brand new experience.

Venue: Wild Orchid RestaurantWhen: 1st January 2015Time: 6:30 am – 1:00 pm

Such peaceful protest was packaged in a cultural parade. As the name implies, various art attractions were displayed amidst the oration. One of the cultural performances was the dance entitled ‘Rangda Teguh’ powered by the Kuta Struggle Forum (a member of ForBA-LI—Ed) by presenting the artist Gus Cupak and friends from Kerobokan, Badung.

Even, the performance was equipped with Rangda (played by an artist—Ed) and two ogoh-ogoh papier mâché de-mons. One of the ogoh-ogoh figures illustrated a mouse mounting a bulldozer symbol-izing the greed that wished to bury Benoa Bay. Another ogoh-ogoh was in human figure wearing black pants and white shirts whose body was covered in sheets of banknotes.

Before starting the dance, Gus Cupak expressed some jokes, but still criticized the Benoa Bay reclamation plan. He admitted to come as a representative of the native to Bali who loved Bali very much. According to him, the

reclamation plan touted to become the new tourism icon should not be undertaken con-sidering Bali itself had been rich in the art and culture. “Do not make a new icon, we just need to improve our cul-tural arts,” he said responded by boisterous applause and cheers from the masses of the ForBALI.

After completing his jokes, the artist dressed as Rang-da emerged and danced the ‘Rangda Teguh.’ It told the story about Hyang Giri Nata as the embodiment of the motherland doing a penance meditation to maintain the Island of Bali. After that, he felt to have been disturbed due to greedy people that continuously exploited Bali. The exploitation was commit-ted by undermining a piece of land to meet the insatiable appetite.

With anger, Hyang Giri Nata ultimately woke up from his penance and destroyed the snobbery of the treasure seekers. With a flick of white powerful cloth, he encouraged

Bali PostMANGUPURA - A package of

drug belonging to MDMA type was secured by Ngurah Rai customs of-ficer assigned at Renon main post office, East Denpasar, Monday (Nov 10). The package sent from Germany in the form of a folder containing white crystalline powder was a drug belonging to MDMA type weighing 57 grams.

The case was developed by Directorate of Narcotics of Bali Police and could catch the package recipient with the initials NSY in the area of Seminyak, Kuta. The

Chief of the Customs and Excise for Bali-NTT-NTB Region, Rahmat Subagio, said on Friday (Nov 14), the drug was stored in a transparent plastic wrapped in an aluminum bag. To ensure the item, the officers performed a preliminary examina-tion using narcotic test. As a result, it was declared the crystalline pow-der was a drug belonging to MDMA types weighing 57 grams gross.

Label of the package address mentioned the identity of the recipi-ent with the initials KAS living on Jalan Ken Dedes, Kuta, Badung. “We immediately make coordina-

tion with the Directorate of Narcot-ics of Bali Police for developing the case,” said Rahmat accompanied by Made Pakris representing the Chief of Bali Narcotics Agency (BNNP) I Gusti Ketut Budiartha.

Meanwhile, Subdivision Head 2 of Bali Police Narcotics Unit, Joni Lay, said that after receiv-ing the report on the discovery of the drug package, his party did reconnaissance at the scene. A few minutes later, a man with the profession as motorcycle taxi rider came to the scene and took the goods. However, the officers

did not immediately arrest because they wanted to reveal where the goods would be taken.

In fact, the motorcycle taxi rider met with a woman in Seminyak area. The woman was no other than the suspect NSY. After the package was handed over to NSY, police directly arrested her. Then, it was performed a search. In addition to securing the package, the officers also found 15 items of ecstasy in the bag of the suspect. Police immediately took the suspect to the package delivery address, namely on Jalan Ken Dedes, Kuta,

Badung, but they could not find anything.

“After we make further inter-rogation, in fact the suspect stays at a boarding house on Jalan Pulau Galang Gang Gunung Sari, Denpasar. Having been searched, we could secure 2 large enough packages of cocaine. In addition, there were also two small pack-ages of amphetamine. The suspect admitted the goods were not hers. Now, we are still making further investigation about this case,” said the former Operations Head of Badung Police. (kmb36)

Thwarted, smuggling of drug package from Germany

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Rangda Teguh performance during a rally against the reclamation plan

Rangda Teguh enlivens cultural parade on reclamation plan rejection

Bali PostDENPASAr - Demonstration is not merely a matter of

speech or anarchical action. The Balinese People Forum rejects reclamation (ForBALI) proved it when holding a rally to reject the Benoa Bay reclamation plan in front of the office of Bali governor on Saturday.

the motherland’s children and chil-dren of Varuna to unite in a holy struggle against the greed and ar-rogance in a single task to preserve

the motherland and help the Lord Varuna (sea—Ed). This symboliza-tion was showed when the Rangda was dancing to the center of the

ForBALI masses. Rangda moved towards the ogoh-ogoh standing among the masses and started to destroy them. (rin)

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Romanians cast ballots in presidential runoff

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Centurion Rooney scores as England beats Slovenia

Work starts in Ukraine to collect wreckage of MH17

The best film award went to thriller “Gone Girl” starring Ben Affleck as a husband accused of murdering his wife, played by Rosamund Pike.

Other British stars also had a good night, with those picking up prizes including Keira Knightley, Jack

O’Connell and Eddie Redmayne, for his portrayal of paralyzed physicist Stephen Hawking.

Cumberbatch was named best actor for his role as World

War II Nazi code-breaker Alan Turing in “The Imitation Game,”

with costar Knightley also earning best supporting actress.

“Oh my, oh my, oh my,” said the heartthrob “Sherlock” actor, accept-ing his prize at the Palladium theatre in downtown Hollywood, adding backstage that “this is just the begin-ning, so who knows?” when asked about the looming awards season.

Moore, a three-time Oscar nomi-nee for previous films, was named best actress for “Still Alice,” a heart-rending film about a linguistics professor stricken with Alzheimer’s Disease.

Best supporting actor went to Rob-ert Duvall for his title role in “The Judge” with Robert Downey Jr, who presented him with his prize.

The top ensemble award went to “Foxcatcher,” a rare dramatic outing for comic actor Steve Carell, in a real-life story centered on the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul.

Briton O’Connell was named best new Hollywood actor for his role in Angelina Jolie’s “Unbroken.” The actress-turned-director welcomed him on stage saying “Aye up me duck” -- a reference to his northern English vowels.

The awards, which have trade-

marked the term “The Official Launch of the Award Season,” were televised for the first time this year by CBS, rival to ABC which broadcasts the Academy Awards and NBC which airs the Golden Globes.

Industry journal Variety noted archly that the awards were “more mystery than suspense,” as it is unknown who actually votes for the winners, and may well be a small group of industry insiders.

Hollywood heavyweight producer Harvey Weinstein, known for his peerless command of awards season campaigning, said the Hollywood Film Awards were of growing im-portance.

“This year because it’s televised, it’s going to be super big. Very important awards tonight, very big indication of stuff,” he said on the red carpet.

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Jenni-fer Aniston said she pushed her sex-crazed dentist char-acter as far as she could in in “Horrible Bosses 2,” but she’s willing to try again in a third installment.

Asked if another sequel is in the works, the actress replied, “I don’t know,” she said. “It’s up to you all.”

“Horrible Bosses 2,” the follow-up to the 2011 hit, opens Nov. 24. It stars Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day as amateur en-trepreneurs who get caught up in a kidnapping scheme when their business deal with a conniving investor, played by Christoph Waltz, goes awry.

The actors improvised a lot during filming, Aniston said in a recent interview, until it became a gross-out contest between the stars.

“This one went into a territory that I think just wasn’t even funny,” she said. “I couldn’t even make it dirty funny. It was just bad dirty.”

When it came to cre-ating her character, Aniston said she told the film-m a k e r s : “Jus t go as far as you can u n t i l s o m e -one ac-tually gets s i c k f r o m it.”

She feels like there’s more to do be done with Dr. Julia Harris.

“She’s hardly tapped out,” Aniston said. “We

all were a bit sad when this movie came to an end because I, for one, felt it was too soon to end Julia’s party.”

As Aniston promotes her new comedy, she’s also get-ting potential awards atten-tion for her dramatic turn in “Cake,” which is open in limited release. The 45-year-old actress said she tries not to get caught up in awards-season buzz: “It’s flattering, it’s humbling, it’s exciting, whatever, to even be in that conversation, so to speak, so I think that’s just a win in itself.”

She’s not ruling out a return to TV, either, though she didn’t hint at any specific plans.

“I’ve never said never to coming back to television,” t h e “ F r i e n d s ”

star said. “Televi-s i o n i s p r e t t y fantas-tic these days.”

Aniston ready for a 3rd ‘Horrible Bosses’ movie

Cumberbatch, ‘Gone Girl’ win Hollywood honors

Agence France-Presse

LOS ANGELES - Britain’s Benedict Cumberbatch and A-list veteran Julianne Moore took top honors Friday at the Hollywood Film Awards, billed as the official start of Tinseltown’s annual prizes season.

Benedict Cum-berbatch pos-

es in the press room with the

Hollywood actor award at the Hollywood Film Awards at

the Palladium on Friday, Nov.

14, 2014, in Los Angeles.

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It does not necessarily blame on the businesses but it also needs the firmness of government regula-tion.

The Law No.41/2009 on Food Security has been made, but it

has not yet interpreted by local government into regional bylaw. It becomes a debate in meeting the food security in Bali.

An agriculture lecturer, Dr. Ni Luh Kartini, said the government

should immediately interpret the law considering that Bali was a small island and the land is con-tinuously converted into buildings. From the result of observation by her team in Tabanan, Klungkung,

Jembrana and Karangasem it was found that many lands that should be planted with paddy could not be worked on due to inadequate ir-rigation water, even the crops could not grow.

Five things should be considered in addressing this issue. According to her, natural resources of the agri-culture such as land, water and pro-duction facilities (seeds, seedlings, fertilizers and pesticides) should be considered. “When the land has

been converted, how farmers can farm,” she asked.

Rampant land conversion cou-pled with hostile climate makes food security and food sovereignty less strong. Moreover, Bali experi-enced water crisis that was exacer-bated by the agricultural condition. Availability of fertilizers was inad-equate. “When urea fertilizer is not available, farmers were screaming,” she explained.

Trader served buyer at traditional market in Kuta. Food security in Bali worrying because companies, hotels and society in general no longer meet their own needs with natural resources around them, but prefer to bring in food product from outside Bali and outside Indonesia.

Imported food increased, food security worrying

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DENPASAR - Food security in Bali worrying because companies, hotels and society in general no longer meet their own needs with natural resources around them, but prefer to bring in food product from outside Bali and outside Indonesia. One of their reasons is that the food quality of Bali is poor so that they bring in from outside.